Announcing....

The Co-Creative Birthing Circle

Online Natural Childbirth Education Classes for 21st Century Parents

at the Maia Institute of Co-Creative Healing

 

The Co-Creative Birthing Circle is a new, multi-media, comprehensive, online childbirth education class for expecting parents. This comprehensive class features an additional Birth Story Collection and Birth Circle Forum. The Deluxe Birth Circles includes private email and phone birth consultations, essential birth books, and a free bonus gift.

Learn to co-create the best birth possible for you and your baby with nature and spirit. Discover proven ways to natural ease labor pain. Empower yourself with traditional birthing wisdom and evidence-based maternity care research. Trust in birth, your body, and your baby.

 

The Co-Creative Birthing Circle features: 

• Natural Childbirth Education 24/7
• 7 Multi-Media Online Lessons
• Articles, Pictures, Videos, & Resource Links
  
• Over 40 videos on birth and natural parenting
• More than 150 links to the best articles and resources on natural pregnancy & birth
• Recommended Activities
• Birth Circle Discussion Forum
  
• PLUS: Birth Story Library
• PLUS: Birth Humor

The mission of Co-Creative Birthing is to create healthy mothers, babies, and families worldwide through trust and love for Birth, Nature, & Spirit.

Co-Creative Birthing Circle Facilitator Training & Sage Femme: Women's Healing Arts Circle coming soon!

Thanks to Hooping.org Magazine for featuring me as their hooper of the week! You can read the interview here and find out more about my love of hoopdancing and hoopyoga, how I got into this movement art, and why it is so great for the body, mind, and spirit.

Last weekend I drove up to Seattle to attend a workshop on The TARA Approach for Self-Care. This was a wonderful class in which we learned to apply the art of Jin Shin Tara to our selves and others for the healing and resolution of shock and trauma. Jin Shin Tara is the art of applying gentle touch to 26 points on the body to balance the meridians and energetic systems of the body.

The TARA Approach for the Resolution of Shock and Trauma integrates the energetic medicine of Jin Shin Tara, therapeutic dialogue and resourcing, craniosacral therapy, and pre- and perinatal psychology to create a whole system for the healing of the body, mind, emotions, and spirit. http://www.tara-approach.org/

I really enjoyed the emphasis on Self-Care as I believe the source of all real healing is within our selves. Caring for our self, is creating sustainable health, and it is essential to have healing resources available in case of crisis. As on person in my class remarked, self-care is like the protocol for oxygen masks on a plane. In times of distress, if the masks were to fall down, you put on your own mask first, so then you can assist with others.

I feel that is amazing that with gentle touch of ourselves, or others, we can transform our bodies and our lives. I look forward to integrating this work into my craniosacral bodywork and birth-assisting practice. I also hope to continue with my training in the TARA Approach in the very near future.  

I am thrilled and excited to be teaching and attending at the Hoop Convergence in Carrboro, North Carolina in April!

The Hoop Convergence is the first national hooping conference. It is unique from any other hoop conference for it is a dynamic community collaboration of hoopdancers, teachers, and performers from many different regions and cities, who are creating an inspiring array of workshops, forums, discussions, and jams. 

I will be presenting on the topics of "HoopYoga", "Hooping as a Healing Art", and "Hooping Mamas: Spiraling through Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum".

Click on the logo below for the Hoop Convergence website and more info on this incredible conference! 

 

CranioSacral Therapy (CST) is a gentle, non-invasive, and effective bodywork modality that is beneficial for whole body health, treats a multitude of conditions, and is effective for infants, children, and adults. Craniosacral Therapy can be deeply healing physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.

The CranioSacral System (CSS) consists of the brain and spinal cord, the meninges which completely surround it, the CranioSacral fluid within the membranes, and the cranium, spine, and sacrum. The dura mater is the tough outer meninge that connects to the cranium and sacrum. The CSS is a closed hydraulic system with a slow gentle rhythm that resonates throughout the entire body.

Through gentle soft-tissue release the practitioner works with the CranioSacral Rhythm to release tension in the fascia and balance the ligaments, muscles, and bones. The CranioSacral Rhythm can be felt through subtle palpation through contact with the cranium, spine, and sacrum - as well as throughout all the muscles, bones, and cells of the body. If there is not movement or expression of the CranioSacral rhythm and tide throughout the body’s tissues, then restriction, dysfunction, and pain settles into the body.

The CST therapist assesses the body for restrictions and uses a very light touch to encourage expansion, mobility, and healing. CranioSacral effectively creates deep change through gentle touch by addressing issues at the core of the body’s health. In CranioSacral therapy the practitioner uses no more pressure than 5 grams (the amount needed to hold a nickel) to assess, resolve, and prevent restrictions in the body. The treatment is deeply relaxing and often recipients experience a timelessness or “stillpoint”.

Unique from other systems of the body, the CranioSacral System actually slows down and enters into stillpoints. These times of rest are a therapeutic time of revitalizing for the CSS – similar to rebooting a computer. After facilitating a CranioSacral stillpoint, the individual’s CSS functions stronger and is better coordinated, and the body is utilizing its own innate intelligence for healing.

Regular CranioSacral therapy sessions can maintain health, wellbeing, and immunity, as well as ward off depression, musculo-skeletal dysfunction, and stress. CranioSacral is recommended for all pregnant and postpartum women and new babies – as well as for all ages and stages of life!