Meet the team
About Shakirah Sabira
Founder & Director
Shakirah Sabira entered the world of healing as a traditional birth worker and doula, after witnessing her first birth at the age of 18, it became clear that her work would be with women as part of this rite of passage. Shakirah completed her doula studies with Amani Birth and later began her midwifery studies with the world-renowned midwifery school of Indie Birth.
She is also trained as a womb steaming practitioner, Hijama practitioner, and womb moxibustion practitioner. She brings all of this into her work as a spiritual womb custodian and shares it with other women through teaching and workshops. She attained her Mizan therapist practitioner training under the founder Bushra Finch in Marrakesh. Since then, she has completed several practitioner training in various healing methods, following her desire to learn and increase her knowledge and skills in womb work.
She founded Barakah’s Womb in 2018 and has organized and run international retreats for women designed to embody this relationship with the womb for the past 3 years. Her work has been shared through various pieces of writing, guest workshops, and podcasts.
Coming from mixed ancestry that has prioritized the pursuit of knowledge, she grew up sitting with beautiful teachers and their communities in the UK. Shakirah grew up in Damascus and studied at the world-renowned Jamia Abu Nour where she also completed her drumming/duff certification. During this time she was able to sit in the presence of great scholars like Sheikh Abd al-Rahman al-Shaghouri and Sheikh Ahmad Habbal.
During this time she received ijazah for several Islamic sciences - including the 40 hadith of Imam Nawawi, the burdah, Arabic grammar, and various books of renowned scholars including Imam Al- Ghazali and Imam Al-Haddad.
She is also a graduate of the Al Fajar Institute of Cairo and studied at Dar Al Zahra in Tarim, Yemen, and the Mauritanian desert.
She continues her pursuit of knowledge and brings this into the spaces she holds for women to connect to and heal their wombs. Most notably, drawing the connection between the womb and Islamic spirituality.
About Aamirah Patel
Executive Partner
Aamirah Patel is a trained in naturopathy from the Unani medicine tradition. She runs workshops and retreats through wholistically.rooted, focusing on holistic well-being sessions and addressing lifestyle balance through natural medicine. Interested in reviving the remedies and medicine passed on through the women in her family through the kitchen, she works with herbs in this tradition to make teas, salves and other natural medicines to treat imbalances in the body. She is keen for individuals to understand their different internal seasons and how this affects their temperament.
Coming from mixed ancestry that has prioritized the pursuit of knowledge, she grew up sitting with beautiful teachers and their communities in the UK. Shakirah grew up in Damascus and studied at the world-renowned Jamia Abu Nour where she also completed her drumming/duff certification. During this time she was able to sit in the presence of great scholars like Sheikh Abd al-Rahman al-Shaghouri and Sheikh Ahmad Habbal.
During this time she received ijazah for several Islamic sciences - including the 40 hadith of Imam Nawawi, the burdah, Arabic grammar, and various books of renowned scholars including Imam Al- Ghazali and Imam Al-Haddad.
She is also a graduate of the Al Fajar Institute of Cairo and studied at Dar Al Zahra in Tarim, Yemen, and the Mauritanian desert.
She continues her pursuit of knowledge and brings this into the spaces she holds for women to connect to and heal their wombs. Most notably, drawing the connection between the womb and Islamic spirituality.