Hi, I’m Jasmine Rose!

I am a mother to two, surrogate carrier to one, cancer survivor, doula, educator, and in my early years of adulthood I wore many other hats that support the work that I do now.

I began my multi-passioned career in health and wellness by leaving my home in Southern California to become a Natural Chef at Bauman College Holistic Nutrition and Culinary Institute in Berkeley, California. My focus was initially in preparing nutrient-dense foods for cancer patients, but I soon began to look at pre- and post-natal nutrition instead. My education there and the apprenticeship at Three Stone Hearth, a Weston A. Price Foundation kitchen, would become cornerstones in rebuilding my strength and vitality after giving birth as well as my own cancer and bone marrow transplant recovery. (Interesting how we sometimes think we are serving others but really gathering our own medicine.)

After finding myself pregnant at 20 years old and giving birth to a premature baby girl just after my 21st birthday, I struggled with postpartum depression and the transition to motherhood. It was my desire to have a different, empowering experience that led me to learn more about my cycle, different styles of parenting, energy work, and eventually consciously conceive my second daughter which resulted in a full term pregnancy and incredible birth experience. I took that energy and excitement about birth and channeled it into teaching prenatal yoga and crafting meals for the postpartum period.

As my love for pregnancy, the pelvic floor and parenting grew, so did my passion for teaching and in 2017 while pregnant as a surrogate, I took my birth and postpartum doula training with Doula Trainings International. It was then that everything in my life seemed to fall into place.

Unfortunately, as the momentum and my excitement grew in my new career path, I had a new obstacle to overcome. At 28 years old I was diagnosed with acute meyloid leukemia, a fast-acting blood cancer that needed to be treated right away. I was hospitalized and put in isolation for over a month (the first of 4 hospitalizations and isolation periods) to treat the cancer. I spent that year losing my hair and all sense of control, but gaining a new clarity in my path, my vision, my strength and my love for my family. By the end of that same year, I was in remission with brand new stem cells.

We moved to Oregon in 2019 where I now reside with my husband, two kids, and a small petting zoo of animals. I believe strongly in the power of connection and collaboration, and since moving to Eugene have begun to connect to like-minded birth professionals and agencies that support me in my continued growth and the work that I do.