APPA Faculty and Staff

Kirrah Holborn is thrilled to be the first Australian to join the APPA staff. She has a Bachelors Degree in Clinical Science (major in complementary medicine) and has been involved in birth work for nearly a decade. As the owner of Placenta Wisdom, she was the first person to offer placenta encapsulation in the Northern Rivers area and was the first encapsulator in the state of New South Wales to become certified with APPA. When she’s not busy encapsulating placentas, you’ll find her teaching Birthing From Within prenatal classes, attending births as a doula and massaging pregnant women and new mothers. She lives on a rural property with her husband, fifty chickens, and three horses. In her spare time, she enjoys yoga, horse riding and reading. Kirrah enjoys raising awareness of placentophagy and is passionate about raising the bar of professionalism and safety in placenta encapsulation.

Christi Trimble is the owner of Luminosa Wellness & Birth Services, LLC in Colorado Springs, CO. She has earned her Holistic Health Counselor and Master Aromatherapist credentials from American College of Healthcare Sciences, and graduate with Honors in both. In addition to being a placenta encapsulator she is a Birth & Bereavement Doula® certified through Stillbirthday. Her passion for placentas & birth began at an early age working with horses. In high school she brought a horse placenta into her high school Honors Anatomy & Physiology class and gave a demo on it. She's been infatuated with placentas and birth ever since! Christi is a military wife, mother of three and is originally from South Jersey. When she's not giving classes on essential oil safety or processing placentas you can find her hiking around Colorado Springs with her family, or drinking tea and reading the Outlander series.