Imagine a world where every person who gave birth was honored with ritual and ceremony.
Imagine if we cared for the people who gave birth in a way that celebrated their own reBirth.
Imagine how much healthier we would be, as a community, if we cared for women after birth.
We don’t need to imagine it - we can re-Create this reality.

In generations past we honored and celebrated the transition from maiden to motherhood. We surrounded people who gave birth with wisdom and witnessing. We gathered to support the birth giver with nourishing food, warming herbal remedies, and sacred listening. This ancestral wisdom lives in all of our bones and is hidden in all our DNA - Whole Body Pregnancy Postpartum Care Provider Training aims to wake up and revive our lost knowledge.

Through our immersive 4-day, in-person training we will lift the veil and rediscover the ancient wisdom of our past.

To honor ourselves.
To honor mothers.
To honor birth givers.
To honor families.

Whole Body Pregnancy Postpartum Care Provider Training is multi-dimensional - we learn healing modalities to help postpartum people, while simultaneously working on our own healing. Many of us who are called to this work are people whose identities have been pushed to the margins, we’ve been trained to make our voices quiet, to take up less space, to hide our shadows, our magic. Through our time together, I hope that we lean into our sacred purpose.

During our time together we will learn:
Creating Sacred Space
Creating Rituals and Ceremonies for Transformation
The Sacred Art of Listening
Pelvic Steaming
Closing the Bones
Physical Touch for Postpartum Healing(massage)
Moxibustion
Castor Oil Treatments
Creating Nourishing Meals
Belly Wrapping
Self-Care and Self-Love Practices for Birth Workers

After the four-day immersive in the Puget Sound we will virtually gather to cover the following topics:
Affirming Care for All Birthing People
Trauma-Informed CareRelationship Support in the Postpartum
Caring for People After Loss and Abortion
Supporting Partners, Non-Gestational Parents, and Siblings Postpartum
Starting Your Doula Business

Participants Should Expect to have a personal transformation and a clearer understanding of their “why” in birth work. Through our time together, both personally and virtually, we will explore who we are as individuals and how we come to this work. I will give you tools to continue to ask questions each cycle of the moon, and yearly cycle to help better understands the way we do this work, how we change in the work, and what we bring to the work. I expect that folks are curious about their shadow sides and gleaning what can be learned from our Shadows. I hope that folks are interested in shifting perspective and breaking cycles of patriarchy and white supremacy, and working through a more open, expansive, affirming, and collective lens. I’m interested in folks who are interested in curating their own unique gifts to create a postpartum model of care that mirrors their own needs as well as their communal needs.

How Do You Know If This Is the Right Training For You?

You’re ready to uncover traditional ways to help people who are postpartum.

You’re interested in caring for mothers and birth givers.

You want to help heal your community.

You understand the importance of ritual for times of transition and transformation.

You want to work more closely to sacred energy.

You understand the divine nature of all who hold life.

Whole Body Pregnancy is rooted in affirming, whole-istic, person-centered approach to learning about all aspects of people’s reproductive journey. This work is rooted in self-discovery and an intimate understanding of who we are as individuals; who are we? what do we believe? Whole Body Pregnancy believes that before working with people along with this incredible transition of becoming parents, that we as doulas need to do our own work. And understands that this work is evolving. This training asks the practitioner to do personal work. It asks them to hold a mirror up to themselves, to work with their shadow side, to stand in their beliefs. This is personal work. This is communal work.

Whole Body Pregnancy understands that each individual person comes to their fertility, pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum journey with their own lived experiences and hopes that practitioners (doulas) are able to honor each individual and family they work with with honor and respect.

This training is easy in that it allows us to sink into the knowing that lives in all of our bones. It’s hard because most of us have lost that knowing, are disconnected from that knowing. Through our time together we will explore the common traditions of postpartum that expands ethnicities and nationalities while encouraging folks to learn about their own people’s postpartum practices.

Therefore, Whole Body Pregnancy isn’t interested in having cookie-cutter replicas of birth workers, but instead wants practitioners who come through training to come out on the other side as their authentic selves. This means that doulas who have walked this path work with families and clients who are survivors, clients who are sex workers, clients who are queer, and clients who are undocumented to name a few.

If you are interested in forging your own path in the doula world to work with the communities that mean the most to you and who will be best impacted by you, this is the training for you. If you’re interested in being a doula for everyone - this is not for you.

This training is also about learning how to care for people in their postpartum; whether they give birth to a live baby they go home to or experience a pregnancy loss or have an abortion. This is not a baby or infant care training. We will discuss baby needs and development, but only as the pertain to the postpartum person.

What’s Included in the Price?

The price includes the 4-day learning intensive, lunches on all four days, color printed manual, recipes for postpartum nutrition, a small amount of postpartum pelvic steam herbs, access to the WBP digital community, and mentorship opportunities with me.

Airfare and lodging are not included.

Will You Be Offering Scholarships?

I offer scholarships as people donate to the scholarship fund. It is my hope to be able to offer 1-2 scholarship spots as I am able.

Can I take this training if I’ve never been trained as a doula before?

I absolutely LOVE when I am the first doula training folks have because it means that you will be learning birth work from a reproductive justice lens, from an anti-racism lens, and from people who are queer or of the Global Majority. This isn’t a training that has inclusion or diversity as a separate topic, this training is rooted in affirming care for all people who are postpartum. And frankly, all training should, but sadly they’re not.

Where Will The Training Be Located?

I will be welcoming folks into my home in the Pacific Northwest.

How many people can attend?

Because of space limitations, this training will cap at 10 people.

What happens if I can’t make it?

When we meet in August of 2024, this will have been training 4 years in the making and my second time hosting. I will be welcoming people into the home I share with my family on the land that I steward. We (my wife and I) will be feeding participants the food we have prepared with our hands. The herbs you take home will be herbs grown in my hard for participants to harvest (or herbs previously harvested because of the season). The manual each participant receives is the curriculum written by me, and the lessons and rituals I will take us through come from my blood, sweat, and tears.

Because of the time and commitment that will go into the curation of this training, there will be ZERO REFUNDS GIVEN. You are able to transfer the price towards digital/virtual training opportunities.

Please make sure this is the right training for you before committing.

So, dear one, are you ready to create the single drop that will ripple into unknowable concentric circles of healing, community, transformation, and witnessing?

If you’re ready to disrupt the idea that postpartum is 6 weeks
If you’re ready to create space to heal generations of wounds
If you’re ready to transform the way that we do postpartum work.

Join us in August

Investment Break Down
The full price for the training is $1600
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