Hi, I’m brandy oswald.
I’m a certified fertility awareness educator, menstrual cycle educator, birth doula, and prenatal & postnatal yoga instructor.
I have 13+ years of experience teaching women around the world how to transition off of hormonal birth control & the copper IUD, use fertility awareness method (FAM method) as natural birth control & to get pregnant when they're ready, and better understand their menstrual cycles so that they can stop worrying about what hormonal birth control is doing to their bodies, have better periods, & celebrate their menstrual cycles as the superpower that they truly are.
I have a special focus on helping women use fertility awareness method as birth control during perimenopause, fertility awareness method as birth control with PCOS & irregular cycles, and using FAMs cycle tracking to spot hormonal imbalances that can cause heavy periods, pms, irregular cycles, and more.
I also work with pregnant people as a birth doula and teach weekly yoga classes.
My background
I am an internationally trained fertility awareness educator (FAM Educator) who trained with the Natural Family Planning Teachers Association (NFPTA) and have 13+ years of experience using fertility awareness methods as natural birth control.
I have clients in 6+ countries across 3 continents and have reviewed thousands of client charts over my many years in practice.
I am also a featured FAM Educator with the Read Your Body app - the only cycle tracking app approved by FAM Educators and their training schools to use as a birth control tracking app.
Yoga
I am a 500 hour certified yoga instructor with over a decade of yoga teaching experiences who specializes in vinyasa yoga, ashtanga yoga, and prenatal and postnatal yoga. Check out my yoga class schedule here.
doula work
I have participated in three birth doula trainings and specialize in Spinning Babies & optimal fetal positioning techniques. I attend both hospital and home births. Learn more about my birth doula work here.
My approach
Everything I do is rooted in the believe that we were all born wild + free and that our menstruating bodies are a superpower, not a curse. I know, but hear me out.
Our menstrual cycles feel like a curse because we’ve never been taught how to live in alignment with them, only to grind against them. Our menstrual cycles need us to live cyclically and release the daily routines. When we do this our cycles can thrive and we can move beyond painful periods, heavy bleeds, pms, and irregular cycles. Modern periods feel like a curse because we’ve never been taught how to truly nourish them.
Our fertility feels like a mystery - whether we’re trying not to get pregnant OR trying to get pregnant - because we’ve never been taught how our fertile menstrual cycles actually work. We’ve never been taught that daily cervical fluid and temperature tracking provide us with a built in birth control method. We’ve never been taught that we can only conceive on MAX 6 days per cycle or that we need cervical fluid to make that happen. When we know how our cycles actually work we can harness them as the superpower that they are.
And when it comes to being pregnant, birthing a human into the world, and navigating the choppy postpartum waters I have never been more convinced that we are, in fact, super heroes. Our bodies can do what should be impossible. Every single human that is currently living or has ever lived, every person you have ever met, is here because someone had a menstrual cycle - because a menstruating human made them. That is incredible.
And so, I am here to celebrate you and all that your body can do. I am here to teach you how to harness the true power and potential of your menstruating body so that you can finally feel confident, free, and empowered in your beautiful body.
