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Jaydee Azavari

Executive Director & Therapeutic Facilitator

Phone:

828-298-6098

Email:

jaydee@appalachian-academy.org

A Bit About Me

Jaydee has worked in the realms of education, empowerment, and therapeutic transformation for the past 22 years. 

 

From 1999 - 2016 Jaydee focused her efforts on being an Independent Midwife, Midwifery Instructor, and Administrator of The Matrona, a holistic Midwifery School. Providing authentic, instinctual, spiritual perinatal support and education across North America.

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Beyond birth, Jaydee has spent time studying and offering herself as a Special Education & Home School Teacher, Raw Vegan Food Nutritionist & Caterer, and Board Member to Non-Profits such as Sacred Birthing, The Matrona Foundation, and The Global Leadership Network. In particular to education, she has co-created two Sudbury Community Schools and a Waldorf Homeschool Group. 

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In 2015 she founded the non-profit, Trimeria, with her partner Jay. Broadening her offerings into the realms of mental health and trauma care, specifically through becoming a certified Brainspotting Practitioner. 

 

Personally, Jaydee is a mom to five bio kids and one step-child. Four of her five children were born at home with midwives, while one was a home Freebirth!

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Jaydee is excited to be in the role of founding AATA! It has been a lifelong dream to begin a learning environment that is cutting-edge, holding the future of humanity at its highest.  

 

Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains, along with her partner and six children, she is working to uphold freedom and a future for generations to come.

Background

  • 2001-2007~ Midwifery Apprenticeship & Breastfeeding Training

  • 2004-2005~ DONA Birth and Postpartum Doula Trainings

  • 2009-2011~ Sacred Birthing Training & Board Member

  • 2009~ The Matrona's Midwifery Immersion degree as Holistic Midwife

  • 2011~ Bachelor of Arts and Science in Midwifery and Women’s Health, from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA

  • 2009-2016~ Instructor of Midwifery and Administrator at The Matrona

  • 2010~ Co-founder of SQUAT Birth Journal

  • 2012~ Childbirth Educator Instructor Certification 

  • 2013~ Registered Yoga Teacher credential through Wild Grace Arts

  • 2015~ Shiva Rea Prenatal & Postpartum Yoga Teacher Certification

  • 2017~ Death Midwifery Training & Certification

  • 2018~ Intuitive Eating Counselor Certification

  • 2018~ Health at Every Size registered practitioner

  • 2019~ Open Heart Meditation Shamatha Vipasyanna Certified Instructor

  • 2019~ Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Certification and Mindfulness Training

  • 2019~ Brainspotting Phase I & II Trainings, BSP Developmental Trauma Training- Certified Brainspotting Practitioner.

  • 2019~ WIC Breastfeeding Peer Counselor Certification

  • 2020~ These Are My Hours Trauma-Informed Childbirth Educator Training & Certification

  • 2020~ Perinatal Mental Health Counselor training through Postpartum Support International

  • 2020~ Lactation Counselor training and Certified Lactation Counselor (CLC) certification/credential through the Center for Breastfeeding/Healthy Child Project

  • 2020~ EMT Basic Course Completion through AbTech Asheville

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