Experience
Despite the insane amount of time I’ve spent learning through other people’s courses, I also think it’s important to mention my personal experience.
I was born via C-section for coming down at a wonky angle and my mom not dialating past 1 cm after 20 hrs of back labor (it’s our birth story, I get to count it, ha!).
I’ve had one planned vaginal homebirth in 2010, one miscarriage, one planned vaginal hospital birth in 2018, and one planned hospital birth turned accidental vaginal home birth in 2020.
I’ve had the chance to birth babies and parent over the course of a decade and watch trends ebb and flow. I’ve breastfed two babies into their second year of life, and exclusively pumped for 17 months for my middle child who was born with a cleft lip and palate.
I’ve mothered a baby who needed three intense craniofacial surgeries in his first year of life.
I’ve run my private bodywork business since 2012.
I’ve charted my cycles since 2015 for hormone health, birth control, fertility/conception, birth control while breastfeeding, and usually out of pure fascination and sanity to see what my body was trying to tell me.
I’ve helped hundreds of women ease their painful periods, conceive after years of fertility struggles, prepare for birth, and re-integrate themselves into their bodies after all types of birth and the chaos that happens to your nervous system from parenting.
I’ve also helped a lot of babies successfully breastfeed and bottlefeed after struggling from fascial tension.
Education
NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY: 2007-2012
Bachelor of Science: Sociology of Liberal Arts with a minor in Anthropology.
INSTITUTE OF NATURAL THERAPIES: SEPTEMBER 2007- MAY 2008
706 hours of study and 100 hours of internship of Massage Therapy.
GRACE OF THE MOON:JANUARY 2016-DECEMBER 2017
Two year program dedicated to hormonal, sexual, reproductive health, teaching to chart and record primary and secondary signals for birth control, conception, overall health, and empowerment.
CAROL GRAY, 2016-2017
May 2016: Subtle Hands Skills
July 2016: Craniosacral Therapy for Infants - 36 hrs
November 2017: Craniosacral Therapy for Pregnancy, Birth, & Postpartum - 36 hrs
September 2018: Yoga Prescriptions for the Pregnant Body
REGINA CALLAHAN: APRIL 2014
Orthopedic neck massage
BIOENERGY INSTITUTE: OCTOBER 2013- 2016
Level 1, Level 2, Level 3, Level 4, Level 5
Energy medicine to balance the physical/etheric, mental, emotional, and spiritual bodies within a person.
INSTITUTE OF INTEGRATIVE NUTRITION: MARCH 2015- MARCH 2016
736 hours holistic health coaching program looking at 100 different dietary theories, our environment, relationships, and careers for a better life.
BRANCH REFLEXOLOGY INSTITUTE: OCTOBER 2011- 2012
150 hours Reflexology program focused in a clinical setting.
HOLISTIC PELVIC CARE, SEPTEMBER 2015, AND again in May 2023
Level 1: 27 hours theory and practice of female internal pelvic work with Tami Kent.
Level 2: Energetic patterns of the female pelvis
INNATE TRADITIONS: POSTPARTUM CARE, MAY 2016, AND AGAIN IN 2020
Emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual education on how to care for the postpartum woman.
ARVIGO INSTITUTE, AUGUST 2013 - 2017
August 2013: Self Care
May 2014: Professional Care
October 2016 : Certification
October 2017 : Advanced Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy in Pregnancy, Birth, & Postpartum
INSTITUTE OF BIRTH HEALING,
January 2018 : Holistic Treatment of the Pregnant Body
December 2022: Holistic Treamtnet of the Postpartum Body
SPINNING BABIES 2018-2019
Jan 2017: Spinning Babies Workshop w/ Tammy Ryan
May 2018: Spinning Babies Workshop w/ Gail Tully
May 2018: Aware Practitioner; Integral Touch of Birth
July 2019: Aware Practitioner; Breech Body Balancing
BODYMIND COACHING 2021-2022
An intensive 9 month coaching program for massage therapists to help clients connect the dots in their body and bring awareness and embodiment to their lives.
BODY READY METHOD 2021-2022, and again in 2022-2023
A phenomenal movement program to assess patterns in the pregnant body to prepare them for an optimal unmedicated vaginal birth and healthy recovery.
INFANT MASSAGE TEACHER EDUCATION 2021
A program designed to encourage healthy, safe, connection and bonding between babies and their parents or physical, emotional, and mental health and growth.
CONSCIOUS CAREGIVER PROGRAM 2021
A postpartum doula program taught through the scope of an ayurvedic lens to encourage healing in growth based on the individual mother, baby, and family as they embark on parenthood.
NEWBORN MOTHERS 2019
A postpartum doula program to support postpartum parents as they emerge into this new identity and life.
RESTORE YOUR CORE TEACHER TRAINING SEPTEMBER 2022 - jANUARY 2023
A movement program designed to restore your core and pelvic floor by correcting movement patterns and strengthening new patterns.
Not bodywork, movement, or birth work, but classes I’ve taken around life and business that are worth sharing:
