Founder / CEO
Hi! I'm Denawa Deniece
+ this is the long version...
I feel like I have to lead with the fact that I am 41 years young. That number is important to me; it feels seasoned + gives a layer of lived experience + expertise. I can be honest here right? When I was a young girl, I absolutely couldnt wait to be a lady in my 40’s (Golden Girls was BIG in my childhood home). So now I like to lead with the age + the wisdom that has come with it. Ive lived in NC for my entire life +I am the mother to Khyra (my now young adult), my living proof that I knew how to love before I even knew how to love + take care of myself. Im an TiTi, sister, friend, doula, teacher, plant lady, tennis player, aerialist- what can I say I LOVE a good hobby + wear many hats. Most of all in 2026 I am a Black Woman who is radiating joy on purpose, because my ancestors worked too hard for me not to. And Im all about honoring my lineage every chance I get.
I am a Full Spectrum Doula + Holistic Hormonal Lifecycle Educator. I work with women through every hormonal tranistion of their lives. From cycle awareness + conception, through pregnancy + birth, into postpartum, onward into perimenopause + beyond. The WHOLE arc. That my business + thats where I bring folks to thrive. Most women have never been given the full map + thats what Im here to do.
This is how I got here.
How I came to this Work
Like all great beginnings there wasn’t just one single moment that brought me to my doula work.
This work came together intentionally piece by piece.
I use to teach Power Vinyasa Yoga’ you know the vibes 101+ degree room, 1 breath per movement, very vigorous.
Pregnant women started showing up to my class + I instantly had some discomfort in not knowing how to cue them. My personality type does NOT enjoy not knowing how to do something, so I went to further my education by taking a prenatal yoga teacher training so I could serve from a place of knowledge.
There was the smallest section on birth + doula work that legitimately altered my brain chemistry.
By this time I had already had Khyra, had been through pregnancy, labor + delivery. And yet sitting in that prenatal yoga training, learning about the maternal disparities for Black + Brown women in this country, made me reflect on my own birth story honestly for the 1st time ever.
I had to convince the hospital staff that I was in labor. I labored mostly alone. People talked at me instead of to me. My needs were dismissed + I ended up in a c-section that was NOT warranted or needed.
I didn’t have any support, no advocate, no one in that room that was there for me.
Empowered by the importance of movement to connect and restore the body, mind and spirit, Denawa is here to guide
I was sent home 2 days after delivery + was home with my baby for 7 days until Khyra + I was admitted back to the hospital for weight loss.
We spent 14 days there. 10 days with her in the NICU on machines, fed through tubes + 4 days in a regular room.
The experience of those first 21 days as being a mom has never left me + when I sat in that prenatal yoga training almost 12 years later I realized there was a name for what I had needed, a role for the person I had been missing + I absolutely knew I could be that person for others.
This was my true beginning.
What I Do Now
Today, the work spans WAY past birth.
I serve women through the entire hormonal lifecycle. Cycle awareness + literacy. Conception + Fertility. Pregnancy + Birth. Postpartum + the 4th trimester. Perimenopause + beyond.
The chapters connect. What happens in one chapter shapes what happens in the next + most women have been taught to think about their bodies in pieces and/or phases that are separate from each other. I teach women how to see the whole + how they connect.
The work shows up in three places:
QCity Doula is my service identity. Birth, postpartum doula support, herbalism, placenta encapsulation, childbirth education + house management. Local to Charlotte + the surrounding area. This is where the 1:1 client work lives.
Double Dose Wellness is the parent brand + the home base (my OG). Products, courses, books + everything else under the Rooted in Ritual umbrella. Clycle Fluent lives here. The Sitz Soaks lives here. Everything I’m bulding starts + lives here.
Rooted + Rising is my Substack publication. Truth, depth, transformation essays + blogs. The thought leadership work. Where all the writing lives first + where longer conversations happen.
All three are me. Same voice, same values, same woman, 3 paths in.
What I Believe
I believe women’s health has been deprioritized by a patriarchy that benefits when we don’t understand our own bodies.
I believe lifestyle medicine is liberation. That cycle literacy, nervous system care, herbalism, ancestral wisdom + rest are not luxuries. They’re tools. They are our birthright.
I believe Black + Brown women in particular deserve an education that was actually built for us. Not retrofitted. Not translated from somebody else’s body. Built for us, named for us, taught by people who look like us.
I believe in joy as resistance. In rest as productive work. In specificity over generic affirmations. In speaking plain.
I believe life doesnt have to slow down in your 40s. That midlife is not the beginning of the end, it’s the beginning of the next thing + that women deserve the tools to biohack their own biology + live long, full lives.
I believe the work I do is part of a bigger shift in how women understand + care for themselves across the entire arc + that I am one of many leading the shift.
What Im Building
A body of work for women, by a woman, rooted in lived experience + clinical-adjacent training.
A Substack that becomes a book. A course library that becomes a curriculum. A product line that becomes an apothecary. Speaking that becomes a stage. And most importantly Doula work that becomes legacy.
A future where I am pouring back into my community in real large scale ways. Funding the kind of philanthropy that actually moves the needle for women.
That is the long-game vision. Everything, every piece is part of a bigger picture + everything Im building is in service of getting there.
IF YOU'RE STILL READING....
Guess what buttercup? We are already in conversation!
The thing I want most for you, especially if you have made it this far, is for you to feel really seen. I also want you to walk away with something useful. Whether if its a course, essay, a session or even a piece of writing that finally puts language to what you’ve been feeling or just the knowing that somewhere out here, a woman with tons of lived experience is doing this work + she sees you.
That is the ultimate goal, every single time.
Welcome!!!!!