Alycia Two Bears is a member of Mistawasis Nêhiyawak First Nation who calls Mohkinstsis home. A mixed blooded iskwew; her mother Karen Hines is a white settler of Swedish descent and her father is Keith Head, also a member of Mistawasis Nehiyawak First Nation.

A single mother to five children, she is an advocate for home births, midwives and access to the best birth options for every birthing body. Alycia, a Birth Keeper, is an aspiring midwife who practices Birthing as Ceremony. Raised in the late Sharron Proulx-Turners Sweat lodge, the teachings received in a Two Spirit, female led and focused community are near and dear to their heart; The safest place to grow spiritually, particularly as a bisexual iskwew. She believes supporting pregnant and birthing bodies is one of the greatest actions we can embrace to grow strong, healthy, viable communities.

Alycia works within several community endeavors to bring teachings around Moon Time, Sexuality, Prenatal, Pregnancy, and Birthing to the urban community. Alycia co-created the Moon Time Bag Project in Calgary in 2021. The project strives to meet the need of bleeding bodies who are currently navigating houselessness in Calgary. Through monetary and physical donations, volunteers and Alycia put together kits of underwear, pads, liners, tampons, chocolate, deodorant in the summer, hand/feet warmers in the winter, chapstick year round, chocolate and teas to soothe the womb.

This project encourages the youth to provide free supplies in their high school bathrooms, to reduce the potential of petty theft charges to Indigenous youth, simply meeting a body need. It also encourages us to continue the care bodies need when they are bleeding; rest, warmth and tenderness.

Alycia’s academics lay in early childhood education. They received their first degree, Bachelor of General Studies, minor in Canadian Studies, from the University of Calgary in 2006. She then went on to graduate from the University of Calgary’s Masters of Education program, with a Bachelors of Education, with the focus on early childhood education, in 2008. Alycia trained through DONAs Birth Doula course to formally enter into the birth realm. She has since learned under Raeanne Madison, taking her PostPartum Healing Lodge Training, to support postpartum bodies and families.

Alycia just recently completed Aya Maria’s Guardians of Birth offering. Learning how to disrupt ancestral stories rooted in trauma and step further into her role as a Birth Guardian, a role gifted to her from birth and the stars. She completed The Indigenous Center of Midwifery’s, Childbirth Educator Course in the summer of 2024. Through The Breathe Method, Alycia completed their 80 hours of prenatal yoga teacher training in 2018 under Amy Martin. She then went on to complete the 200 hours yoga teacher training under Lacey Smith and Chris Rurka, in 2019. Finally, she completed her 45 hours of Yin Teacher Training under Laine Knox in 2019. Bringing together her Lodge teachings from Sharron, through the Breathe method, she created the Land Based Yoga workshop. Creating a space to connect breath to the body, held by the safety of the mat and land. She has offered this workshop and regular classes to youth, adults, pregnant and postpartum bodies and those in post detox/addictions treatment.