Day-retreat
Soul Nourishment for Birthworkers
April 18 10am-4pm CANTON, GA
Hey beautiful birthworker,
I'm inviting you to a very special Day-Retreat
Saturday April 18
10am-4pm
Includes lunch by Sam Martin
Canton, GA
$65
*yes, refunds are given for birth-related absences
THE MAGNOLIA HOUSE
Sharing, laughing, learning, grounding
This is a day about you.
Throughout the day, we will move between teaching, embodied practice, and receiving. You will be invited to soften into your own body: to breathe more deeply, to feel your feet on the earth, to deepen your connection to your healing hands and your spirit.
We will practice simple grounding and energy-clearing tools you can use before and after births, and we’ll make space for honest conversation about the invisible weight of this work—the grief, the awe, the responsibility, the love. This is an intimate circle where your stories are welcome, and your sharing is encouraged.
I will be teaching wisdom and skills that I've synthesized from 20 years of midwifing, nd because it involves some bodywork and energy work, you will be on your hands and knees practicing embodied movement, placing your hands on each other and sensitizing what you can feel in your hands and practicing your intuitive knowing.
-Crystal
Who is this for? Birthworkers who know the sleepless nights, the meals skipped, the texts answered at all hours, the way your nervous system waits on edge even when you are "off call".
Join Us
Crystal Bailey
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Amanda Garrison
Sam Martin
MEET THE hosts
Midwife host: Crystal Bailey
I'm a Nurse Midwife, Doctor of Naturopathy and Certified Feminine Embodiment Coach.
I'm proudly a hands-on midwife in a freebirth era and advocate for keeping the timeless skills of birthworkers to participate in making birth better. I've done trainings in massage and fascia work and combine many techniques to accomplish what sometimes is needed-- like releasing babies releasing from breech, opening sacrums for birthing, energetically getting contractions to surge, & stopping bleeding without meds.
I believe we are powerful participants in something deep and beautiful and I love to teach it.
Doula Co-host & Sound Healer:
Amanda
My dear friend Amanda Bilyeu-Garrison will be blessing us with sound healing... but not without first teaching about how we can use sound in labor and birth prep.
She's actually the first doula I ever met! We go back 20 years to a birth center in Tennessee and she's an unending flow of passion for birthwork. She leads childbirth education for Diana Health, attends birth as a doula, is a sound healer and founder of the birth prep method "Birthing Rhythms."
LUNCH
Ayurvedic Postpartum Chef: Sam Martin
"The Shire Mother"
Sam will create some beautiful food to nourish us. She'll share about how we can be nourishing our bodies better for birthwork and our recovery afterwards. When all the postpartum attention is given to the mother, birthworkers can fail to honor their own energetic and physical recovery. This perspective, and sharing of recipes, will hopefully help us take better care of our post-birth self.