Meet Danae

Danae Birth Doula

Danae is an accomplished birth professional based in Sydney, Australia. She has built expertise working with more than 650 women and families through pregnancy, birth and postpartum with a blend of emotional, physical and evidence based support. Her experience includes working in hospitals, home-birth and private midwifery settings with a wide range of births including VBAC, vaginal twins after 2 caesarean sections, breech and twin homebirth.

Danae’s deep understanding of movement, breath, and peak performance, shape her distinctive prenatal yoga style. Her experience confirms pregnancy, birth and postpartum outcomes improve radically when your body and mind feel prepared, familiar, capable, confident and ready for flow state.

At the core of Danae’s work is a deep respect for physiological birth combined with practical, evidence-based preparation. She is Sydney’s first Optimal Maternal Positioning (OMP) Educator, a specialised approach that focuses on pelvic biomechanics, fetal positioning and maternal movement to support labour progress and reduce unnecessary intervention. This reflects Danae’s ability to translate complex birth mechanics into clear, empowering guidance for parents.

She supports women in their own unique journey to meet their baby, with more than a decade of experience teaching instinctive birth movements, breath-led movement, self regulation techniques, nervous system imprinting, working through the tendency of your mind and how to focus it.

Alongside her work supporting families and women to birth, Danae is an accomplished educator and mentor. She regularly delivers sold-out workshops for expectant parents and birth professionals, and is the creator of Doula Mastery, workshops and training program designed to support emerging and experienced doulas in developing confidence, skill, and professional sustainability.

A passion for Homebirth model of care with Private Practice Midwives inspired interviews with Sydney Homebirth midwives called ‘Midwife at your door’.

Danae is also a long-standing prenatal yoga teacher with over 15 years of teaching experience. She has delivered more than 1000 online yoga and birth-preparation classes, integrating movement, breath work, mindset training and embodied awareness to prepare women physically and emotionally for birth.

Through her workshops, mentoring, yoga programs and hands-on birth support, Danae has built a reputation for calm authority, depth of knowledge and compassionate care — supporting women not just to give birth, but to feel informed, capable and deeply supported throughout the process.