W O M B F I R E
A Festival Centered Around Music, Birth, Motherhood, Collective Healing &Ancestral Care
Hoping to come August/September of 2026
— WombFire Sisters
What is WombFire — Our Mission
WombFire is a living circle — a gathering where women, mothers, and families are held, healed, and celebrated across every season of life.
It is a festival, a retreat, and a village — created so that no woman feels alone in her journey through fertility, loss, pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and beyond. To nourish and hold the mothers, and those mothering the mothers. To every woman who has walked through life’s thresholds and for those who witness, hold and tend to them.
We are a community that remembers how to live in tribes, where the medicine is found in music, art, storytelling, and the weaving together of our lives.
We are here to honor mothers time after time, to provide proper nourishment, safe spaces, and healing care for every stage of the cycle and to those woman who never receive the medicine they offer.
WombFire is where women feel safe to shine in their own light, to be seen, to be heard, and to be mothered themselves.
It is a space that restores confidence, joy, and deep connection — a place that inspires women to leave feeling stronger, more authentic, and more true to themselves.
This vision is born from ancestral strength and carried forward by community.
It is for the women who have longed for their tribe, for those who crave vulnerability, raw honesty, and belonging.
It is a place of sacred ceremony, of storytelling, and of celebration.
At its heart, WombFire exists because we believe the gathering of women is the medicine the world needs — a fire that brings healing, prosperity, and peace into every home it touches.
My Story - Our Call
Womb Fire was born from a deep calling — a vision for collective healing, a place where we are held, seen, and supported not in isolation but in community.For more than a decade, this vision has lived and breathed in my journals, in prayers whispered under the moon, and in moments of tending others.
Hi — My name is Taylor DeMur, holder of Woven Wisdom Birthwork and now, WombFire.
I always felt the pull to create something bigger than myself — something that wove together my love of birth work, community care, and the sacred act of gathering.
The call grew clearer over time:
I always knew I was meant to serve women, to walk beside mothers through their thresholds, but over time, I understood that my calling was even broader:
To build spaces of belonging — To bring people back to the fire.
And I also saw the ache here, in this country — how so many mothers are left to navigate these sacred transitions alone, without the web of community that should surround them. I noticed how much of our cultural and ancestral medicine has been forgotten or fractured.
As a white woman in birth work, I’ve learned that while many of us long for deeper cultural connection, our black and brown sisters carry ancient traditions and embodied wisdom that have too often been hidden, dismissed, or made inaccessible. That truth breaks something open in me — because those ceremonies, those songs, those rituals are not just for some of us; they are for all of us.
Our culture has forgotten much of that wisdom. In America, we are a melting pot of traditions, yet so many mothers — especially white women — have become untethered from ancestral practices of care, while again, our black and brown sisters have carried this ancient, potent medicine that often goes unseen or inaccessible to them within this system.
I believe healing begins when we gather across those lines, with reverence and humility — when we listen, when we learn, when we share what has been lost and remember that none of us can rise alone.I have always been drawn to what happens when people gather around a shared purpose — from holding space for children at a rural woodland camp , where we created a circle of safety around spirituality, song, and wonder, to years spent traveling as a nurse and learning from other cultures about how they care for one another. In every corner of the world, I saw that true healing lives in togetherness — in ritual, in song, in tending each other’s hearts and bodies.I was meant not only to walk the path of birth and midwifery, but also to help rekindle the fire of connection — to create a space where women and families could remember what it feels like to live in community, to tend one another, to heal together.
Womb Fire is my way of helping to bridge that divide.
It is a place where black and brown women can share, lead, and be fully supported — and where white women can come to learn, listen, and be reshaped by what we learn together.
It is a place of reverence, not taking; a place of returning and repair.
This festival is only the beginning — the first spark of a larger vision:
To create a Birth & Women’s Wellness & Retreat Center — a living, breathing sanctuary for women and families to be nourished, educated, and healed. A place where black and brown women have access to culturally rooted care, and where white women can continue learning how to support, not overshadow — how to walk in right relationship with the lineages of care that came before us.
Through this festival, and through the circle it creates, I hope to gather the energy and resources to bring that center to life. WombFire is more than an event — it’s a movement toward remembering what it means to belong to one another.
This is for the mothers, midwives, birth tenders, doulas, and healers.
For the artists, musicians, and medicine carriers.
For the women who give and the ones who are ready to be held.
For all of us who are remembering that healing is not a solitary act —
it is a circle.
Before you meet the hands and hearts helping to bring Womb Fire to life, I want to bow in deep gratitude.
This vision could not exist on my own breath alone. It lives and grows because of the women who have stepped forward to tend the flame beside me — the dreamers, organizers, artists, and mothers who pour their time, energy, and wisdom into this creation.
Each of them carries a medicine that strengthens the whole: one brings structure, another brings song; one carries the logistics, another carries the prayer. Together we are weaving something much larger than ourselves — a living reminder of how community birth works, how it has always worked.
These are the women standing at the heart of Womb Fire — the founding circle, the first to say yes to this vision, and to anchor it into reality with love, devotion, and fierce belief in collective healing.
Our Founding Circle
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Taylor DeMur
FOUNDER
Taylor walks in devotion to the sacred circle of womanhood — a student midwife, birth and Ayurvedic postpartum doula, nurse, ceremonialist, and a prenatal yoga teacher devoted to mothering the mothers. Rooted and guided by a reverence for natural medicine, culture, and ceremony, she tends to mothers and families with creativity, intuition, and care. WombFire is her prayer and her purpose — a living expression of community, connection, and the remembrance of women’s wisdom.
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Lauren Rosa
SOUL Keeper
Lauren Rosa, Integrative Women’s Health Practitioner
Founder of Lauren Rosa Wellness
Lauren Rosa is an Integrative Women’s Health Practitioner devoted to comprehensive, holistic care for women at every stage of life. She weaves together evidence-based medicine and traditional wisdom to help women understand their bodies, balance their hormones, and heal from the root.
Her work centers around fertility and hormone health, holistic postpartum recovery, motherhood and womb care, and the transitions of perimenopause. Lauren believes in care that honors the full spectrum of womanhood — body, mind, and spirit.
A mama of two, Lauren experienced her first homebirth — a journey that deepened her devotion to supporting women through the cycles of birth and becoming. She brings her clinical knowledge, intuition, and lived experience into every encounter, creating a space where women feel seen, heard, and empowered to thrive.
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Katelynn Carpenter
SOUL Keeper
Katelynn Carpenter is a licensed clinical therapist, reiki master, and shamanic healing practitioner has a passion for bringing women together in safe, trauma-informed spaces to facilitate community, connection, and healing. Katelynn is a community-based mental health clinician who has experience working with survivors of adversity and trauma. She has a strong passion for working with children and families, and most recently as a first-time mother herself has discovered a passion for supporting mothers in pregnancy through postpartum. Katelynn has worked in many roles serving her community including community mental health, outpatient therapy, child welfare, and crisis. She has completed training in Reiki, shamanic healing, and somatic based therapies. Spirituality has always been a grounding force in her life. Her experiences through postpartum have inspired her to hold space for women and mothers in search of community and healing.
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Thays Kasprzak
SOUL Keeper
Born on Brazilian ground to a mixed family with Native blood, Thays was shaped by the wisdom of her ancestors. Her grandfather healed with herbs and prayer, teaching her that healing is physical, emotional, spiritual, and deeply ancestral.
At 16, she entered the world of healthcare, and for two decades she served in patient advocacy, community health, OBGYN, pediatrics, and primary care — in both direct care and hospital administration. Wherever she worked, her focus was always on creating equal access, dignity, and support for every family.
Through her own births, spiritual practices, and years of inner healing, the vision for All About Her Wellness emerged — a home where clinical knowledge, intuition, and ancestral wisdom could come together.
Today, as a birth and postpartum doula and Reiki practitioner, Thays offers grounded, soul-centered care that honors motherhood as a sacred rite of passage. She holds space for the beauty, the shadows, and the raw truth of becoming.
WombFire is where her soul feels at home — a sacred space where the dark and the light are honored, and where the raw pieces of womanhood are welcomed, not hidden.
Her prayer is simple:
That no woman walks her journey alone,
and that every mother remembers the wisdom she already carries.
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Maddie Arcangeli
HEARTH Tender
Hey everyone! My name is Maddie, I’m a mother of two small boys and am so grateful to be on the Womb Fire team!
Beyond motherhood, I’m a caring and compassionate member of your community looking to help change the narrative of women’s wellness.
Motherhood has been my greatest teacher, and through my own experiences with pregnancy, birth, and postpartum I realize how much our society truly lacks in supporting women through this sacred transition.
As portals of life and vessels of creation, no matter where you are on your journey, women should be deeply cared for, nurtured, held, and celebrated. This powerful movement is underway, the flame is burning bright, and I’m eager to witnesses how many lives it will touch.
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Michaela Battistoni
HEARTH Tender
Beautiful angels—My name is Michaela, and I’m so grateful you’re here. Ever since I was a little girl, my dream job has always been to be a mom. On my path to motherhood, I was led down many different avenues—each one teaching me more about who I am, what lights me up, and how I can show up as authentically as possible. Following each gentle nudge from the universe, I completed my birth and postpartum doula training as well as my yoga teacher training.
Today, I am a mama to two beautiful boys, tending to my own family while also feeling deeply called to support other mothers as they step into their own journeys. I believe motherhood is a sacred quest—one that unfolds step by step—and it is my honor to hold space for you as you ease into it. Together, we create a container of care, compassion, and support so that no mother ever has to walk this path alone.
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Angela Vargas
HEARTH Tender
Angela is a Colombian mother, wife, birth and postpartum doula, childbirth educator, newborn care specialist and more who feels deeply passionate about supporting people throughout their perinatal journey. Angela's own birth and postpartum experience has shaped her vision of life and the world, turning her into a more compassionate and caring individual who understands the real meaning behind the "it takes a village" saying and dreams with a world where every person who has given birth, does indeed have a village."
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Davin Kennedy
HEARTH Tender
Davin is a mother and doula as well as a Marriage and Family Therapist in training. She approaches her own family, as well as her work with others, through a holistic and deeply relational lens. She is committed to honoring community and offering support in a time when many families are struggling with the lack of both in our culture.
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Geena Leis
DREAM weaver
Hello Beautiful Souls! My name is Geena and I walk the path of the hedge witch—My work is rooted in the ancient knowing that life, birth, and spirit are deeply entwined.
As a doula, I hold space for the sacred passage of birth—the first threshold we ever cross. I believe birth is not a medical event to be managed, but a spiritual initiation into life itself. We were made for birth; it is as natural and divine as breath, blood, and moonlight.
Through tarot and intuitive baby name consultations, I help souls and families attune to deeper meaning—These sessions weave together the practical and the mystical, helping you choose names that carry deep resonance and spiritual alignment.
As a Reiki practitioner, I weave gentle energy healing into all I do, nurturing balance, grounding, and renewal for body and spirit alike.
My calling is to help others remember what their bones already know: birth is sacred, the body is wise, and every threshold is a portal to transformation.
Resourcing the Future
This gathering is not just about coming together — it’s about resourcing the future.
WombFire is the first of its kind, a hopeful annual festival - raising funds for local women and families, and in time, will extend its reach to global birth work and community wellness initiatives.
Our next step is the creation of a Community-Based Birth and Women’s Wellness & Retreat Center — a sanctuary that honors the full moon of the feminine journey:
• Fertility • Pregnancy & loss
• Labor & birth
• Postpartum and the fourth trimester
• Reproductive health, hormones, and menstrual balance
• Menopause
• Mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual wellbeing
A space where thresholds are tended, where the fourth trimester is honored, where no one is alone, and where care is abundant, alive, and accessible.
The Experience .
WombFire is an experience of remembrance. Our circle will pulse with live music, ancestral ceremony, workshops, food, art, and sacred rest.
A glimpse of what you’ll find:
• Healing tents led by midwives, herbalists, and birth keepers
• Sound baths, drumming circles, and guided movement
• Family and children’s spaces honoring the next generation
• Sacred storytelling, ceremonies, and community
Nourishment, education, resources and a space to be seen, heard and held
Everything at Womb Fire is designed to nourish the body, awaken the spirit, and restore the village.
It’s a festival of belonging, devotion, and embodied joy — a remembrance that when women are resourced, the whole world heals.
WombFire Festival — Inquiry Form.
If you feel called to bring your medicine, craft, nourishment, sound, etc. to WombFire, we welcome your light.
This form is a space to introduce your offering — so that together, we may weave a tapestry of beauty, healing and connection.
There are no upcoming events at this time.