Classes & Support Groups
Birthing Class
Labor Coaching Begins with Education
No matter how you choose to have your baby it should be a sacred and positive experience. Our classes cover the necessary tools to help you find reassurance from your partner, knowledge for the journey, and how to make informed decisions for your family.
Our classes are taught in smaller settings to allow for more hands-on training and last for a total of 6 weeks for 1.5 hours. Each couple will receive a student workbook and in-depth information on staying healthy and low risk, about pregnancy, labor and postpartum, the coaches role, choosing and communicating with your provider, study guides, assignments, rehearsals, birth plans, ways of handling pain, and more.
Due to the importance of your partner’s role, they are required to attend these classes with you. They are vital to your success and we want to make every effort to motivate and encourage them in supporting you.
What You Can Expect to Learn
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How to prepare physically and mentally for birth
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The stages and signs of labor
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Relaxation techniques
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Effective labor and birth positions
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Advanced labor comfort techniques
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Labor rehearsals
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Nutritional information and support
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What to do when complications arise
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The importance of informed consent
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Breastfeeding
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Postpartum care
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And many other topics
How Much Do Birthing Classes Cost?
Please call or email us to ask about cost. A $35 non-refundable registration fee holds your place. Total Cost is $350
How do I register?
Please email us and we will get you signed up for the next class!
When?
February, May, September
What Do I Need to Bring?
Please bring 2 pillows, a blanket, and whatever drink or snack you may need.
I look forward to meeting you and helping you on this incredible journey!
Homesteading & Sustainable Living Skills
Are you interested in learning how to live more sustainably? We would love to impart some of our knowledge about what we do on our farm. We teach one-on-one or group classes in skills ranging from planning and permaculture to farm repairs and implementing your dreams.
Sustainable Living Made Easier;
Enjoy a cup of a homemade tea and have a talk to discuss sustainable living. We will talk about simple techniques to incorporate ecology and permaculture into your landscape. We will also discuss appropriate technologies and which sustainable options you can take advantage of. Timing and planning are everything and getting a good idea of where to start, or continue is best done with a warm beverage and friends. Bring pictures of your property for personalized advice.
How much does it cost?
July, $30 (couples $55); 1 hour
How to Register?
Email us and we will get your registered!
Sacred Pregnancy Day
A time to connect, nourish, and honor your pregnancy in sisterhood! We offer this special and popular event around the Equinoxes each year.
During our time together we create a warm space to connect with our bodies, our babies, planning and creating consultation, setting up and creating a beautiful space, facilitation of the celebration, special ceremony contributions, i.e. foot bath, hair braiding, floral crown, birth flags, etc.
and each other through meditation, movement, dancing, and feasting. Event cleanup leaving you feel refreshed and honored. We work on an insightful project together to nourish your pregnancy and birth journey.
This is a time to celebrate your changing body and a time for creating sisterhood on our mama journey. Motherhood was not meant to be journeyed alone and in isolation. It was meant to be walked in community and with the support of our village. We hope you will join us in creating that “village”.
Lunch, drinks, and snacks will be served throughout our time.
This special day is lovingly facilitated by Amy Luebke. Amy is a mother, a midwife, and creator of Moon Phases Of Life. Her focus and forte for the greater part of two decades is to nurture and facilitate self-growth through motherhood and beyond.
How much does it cost?
$200
How to Register?
Email us and we will get your registered!
Sacred Baby
This time with your baby is sacred. Honor the journey, the good and the bad, with reverence and celebration. Sacred Baby for mama + baby is women coming together, with baby, to honor the sacred journey of motherhood.
Sacred Baby is an 8 week class series designed to continue the Sacred Pregnancy path, or to create a new path all on its own. We, along with baby, sit together in sacred circle to honor the rite of passage of bringing a baby earth side, whether it’s the transition from maiden to mother or the transition of adding another child. Empowered by the support of other mothers, we build our village during a time of challenge, beauty, and growth. Through the gifts of community, commemoration, celebration, and ceremony, we shine light on the many vibrant experiences of mothering those moments bursting with unbound love as well as the raw, vulnerable times.
Prior attendance of Sacred Pregnancy classes is not a requirement for joining Sacred Baby. This series is open to all moms, new and experienced, and their babies in the first year of life.
What you will learn?
Week ONE: Sacred Space
Forming sacred circle with other mamas and their precious babies, establishing sacred space and honoring the rite of passage of welcoming this being into the world.
Sister Project: sacred altar candles + sweet dream mobiles
Week TWO: Growing Pains
Honoring the 4th trimester, gathering your tribe, and connecting with baby through physical activity. Learn about Sacred Postpartum care.
Sister Project: learn baby yoga
Week THREE: Connection
Making deep connections with baby. Explore Sacred Milk, baby wearing, and tender touch bonding.
Sister Project: tender touch bonding + make a mama & baby teething necklace
Week FOUR: Honoring the Path
Recognition of our knowing as mothers. Gratitude + honoring for your personal journey.
Sister Project: explore baby’s star chart + create vows to baby
Week FIVE: Sacred Home
Talk about feeding a baby and the whole family with Sacred Ayurveda, and Sacred Essence. Discuss essential oils and the role they can play with Sacred Scent.
Sister Project: make baby food, homemade projects using essential oils
Week SIX: Release
With this tiny human, completely dependent on us for her every need, fear often finds it’s way to the surface. We acknowledge our deepest fears, shine light upon them and release them as to allow ourselves to parent from our highest selves.
Sister Project: releasing fears + mala gifting
Week SEVEN: Honoring Mama + Baby
Mother + Baby Blessing, Sacred Bath from Sacred Self Love, tea ceremony, and animal spirit path.
Sister Project: self care projects + blessings
Week EIGHT: Celebration
Celebration & ceremony of this time together, this time with baby and our intentions for the future.
Sister Project: flower crown honoring + despacho ceremony + going to the bowl
How much does it cost?
$200, with $40 non refundable deposit, deposit will go towards fee.
When?
Class is one Thursday evening, 6:00-8:30pm
How to Register?
Email us and we will get your registered!
A Birthing Refresher
Have you given birth before, but feel like a short birth class that hits all the high points would be helpful? Then we've got you covered! Along with comfort measures, this class reviews what to expect during labor, how subsequent labors differ from first labors, and allows for connection with other parents.
What we will cover:
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refresh on the physiological processes of labor and birth
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fine-tune their birth vision
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create intentional space for processing previous birth experience(s) while looking ahead to this birth
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re-familiarize the birthing person and support partner on active birth support roles and opportunities
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be empowered and prepared to navigate choice-making in labor
And much, much more!
Refresher childbirth education is offered in a single evening class with time for individualized input and feedback.
We recommend you complete these classes prior to the completion of 36 weeks of pregnancy. No refunds are available for cancellation or non-attendance of any class taken after 36 completed weeks of pregnancy (36.0 weeks).
How much does it cost?
$150 (includes pregnant mother and partner)
When?
Class is one Thursday evening, 6:00-8:30pm
How to Register?
Email us and we will get your registered!
Support Groups
Sacred Women's Circle
Dear divine women!
The power of women’s circles used to be known and felt throughout the world.
Feminine wisdom used to be passed down from one generation to the next. Grandmother to mother to daughter to granddaughter and so on.
Instead of God Mothers and God Fathers, there were Goddess Mothers who would also take on the wise woman role. These women would guide their Goddess Daughter on the path of feminine wisdom.
But the witch trials in particular were a period in time where women began to distrust one another.
Forced to turn each other in, out of fear of having the finger pointed at themselves, this persecution created devastating rifts, pain, and trauma through entire communities of women.
All of that trust, sisterhood, and wisdom, was lost.
This is why there’s a deep rooted mistrust that can still be found and felt amongst groups of women today. This is the origin of the cattiness, gossiping, and backstabbing that we have all been both victims and perpetrators of.
Our inner patriarch tells us not to trust other women, and often we don’t even know where this has come from.
But when we rise above this, and come together as women, we become the strength and support we are all craving in our hearts.
This is one of the reasons why I choose to host and lead sacred women circles
The effects reach far beyond that of an ordinary group, it’s a sacred sisterhood.
The sacred power of women’s circles
It’s a safe and supportive space for women to come together, share their truth, and be witnessed and heard; without any shame, guilt, or judgement.
We come together to share, learn, laugh, cry, connect, heal; to feel deeper than we ever have, and to simply be our authentic selves, and be celebrated for that.
I’ve been witness to women in circle committed not only to their own healing, but the healing of the women sat beside them, too.
I’ve watched women show up to groups as total strangers, and leave as close friends with incredible bonds that have the power to last a lifetime.
This is the power of circle.
When we show up and sit in sacred space with women, we are met with a mirror to the deep, inner wisdom we hold within ourselves. And in turn, we can be a mirror for others.
This is where you’ll have the biggest ah-ha moments, be reminded of who you truly are, and the woman you came here to be.
Women’s circles are an enchanting way of celebrating true connection between women of all ages and backgrounds. We drop our sometimes conflicting roles as partners, mothers, daughters, professionals, seducers, caretakers, to simply be ourselves.
I’d love to share with you this delightful experience of sisterhood. Bring a flower, a friend and an open curious heart!
Dancing naked and howling at the moonlight aren't required!
Please register 5pm the day before the session starts. You will a email prior to the first session.
New Parents
The first months of parenthood are magical and intense. They can also be very isolating. This group will give you the space and time to come together with other new parents to get and receive support. We will explore the emotional and physical changes you are going through as a parent and provide you with tools to support your baby's development and growth. In addition to having time for open discussion.
Please register by 7pm the day before the session starts. You will receive zoom link by email prior to the first session. The group is limited to 10 participants
Death Cafe
A Death Café is a safe and relaxed place to gather with people, often strangers, to discuss topics related to death and dying. We believe in the power of supportive companioning throughout birth, death & grief. The silence surrounding death needs to be broken.
The objective is to engage in interesting, thought-provoking and life-affirming conversations. It is not a counselling or bereavement session, rather an opportunity “to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives.”
Death Cafe is a group directed discussion of death with no agenda, objectives or themes. It is a discussion group rather than a grief support or counselling session.
Our Death Cafes are always offered:
- In an accessible, safe, respectful and confidential space
- With no intention of leading people to any conclusion, product or course of action
So grab a cup of warm tea, bring that huge piece of cake and join us
Register online to reserve your spot
Please register by 7pm the day before the session starts. You will receive zoom link by email prior to the first session.
