Meet Your Course Facilitators
Meet Your Course Facilitators
Throughout this course you will interact with and learn from a team of mentors here to support you. You can read more about our current team here.
In addition, you will meet prior co-owners and facilitators of Birthing from Within, Nikki Shaheed and Erika Primozich, who appear on video throughout the course.
Nikki Shaheed has guided hundreds of families across the threshold of birth as a Birthing from Within Mentor and Doula since 2012. She enjoys offering informative and heart-opening classes for expectant parents to cultivate resilience, connection, and self-compassion. Her classes help parents feel better prepared for the intensity and unpredictability of birth. Nikki is also Certified Birth Story Mentor, Professional Certified Life Coach, and author of Heart Centered Pregnancy Journal. Her offerings include private and group childbirth classes, birth story healing, training and mentoring for birth professionals, coaching, Heart Centered Pregnancy Journal, Heart Centered Pregnancy Deck
Erika Primozich (she/her), has been mentoring expectant parents in Birthing From Within classes in Boulder, Colorado, since 2002. An active member of the larger Birthing From Within community, she has served as a Facilitator and Advisor to aspiring childbirth educators for almost two decades.
While raising her three children, Erika attended many childbirth educator trainings and workshops led by Pam England. These trainings, as well as the hundreds of families she has worked with over the years, provided Erika with the framework, inspiration, and dedication to continue growing her role as a facilitator within the BFW organization, and in her work with parents.
In addition to Birthing From Within, Erika has also completed trainings with and been inspired by Resmaa Menakem, Rev. Angel Kyodo, Valerie Kaur, Brene Brown, and Pema Chodron.
Erika brings to the Birthing From Within community a solution-focused mindset, an open heart, and a belief in life as an opportunity for continued learning and expansion. She has an innate appreciation for ritual, ceremony, storytelling, personal inquiry, and growth. Erika has a wholehearted vision for Birthing From Within to be an inclusive community that is actively working to bring its magic and gifts to ALL birthing people. As a facilitator and mentor, Erika brings decades of experience with Birthing From Within's philosophy and practices to meet folks where they are with the goal of acting as a witness and guide to their personal growth and discovery.
