The Breech Release
Midwives, prenatal bodyworkers, and other birthworkers:
Learn counseling and bodywork to support your breech clients with creativity and compassion in pregnancy and beyond.
Transform Your Relationship with Breech
Transform Your Relationship with Birth
“The Breech Release” is an embodied in-person two-day workshop for birth attendants and prenatal bodyworkers based on our book The Breech Release: Opening Pathways for Midwifery and Prenatal Bodywork. Transform your relationship as a practitioner integrating breech and birth!
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Cost: $775 for the two day workshop, which includes preparation materials. Being familiar with the book ahead of time might be useful in spiraling your understanding and intent. The audiobook might be a good adjunct.
Prerequisite: Be an experienced birth or bodyworker of at least one year.
Scholarships:
A limited number of scholarships are available for each workshop. Please inquire about a scholarship here.
This unique course includes:
- Introspective orientation of the participant to breech
- The Historical context of breech in birth
- Advanced Anatomy for Pregnancy
- Review of relevant elements of the nervous system
- Experiencing potent positions for change
- Practicing the power of Validation and Solution-Focused Dialog.
- Crafting and adapting various breech body balancing sessions
- Art, storytelling, and self-reflection
- Learning to cultivate your own relationship to anatomy and bodywork
- Exploring bodywork techniques by integrating the slant board and the Placeholder Technique (as described in The Breech Release)
- Skills for ECV counseling, referral, preparation, integration, and follow-up
- 14 hour course: 7 CE hours through CA Board of Registered Nursing, 14 CE hours through MEAC Continuing Professional Development, and 15 CE hours through NCBTMB Continuing Professional Development
Upcoming Workshops
Workshop Instructors:
Nicole Morales LM, CPM is a homebirth midwife, Spinning Babies® Trainer, breech mom, author, storyteller, and mentor.
Jamie Mossay CMT is a birth and bodyworker, Spinning Babies® Aware Instructor and Birthing From Within Trainer, mother, and mentor.
Emma Moreland LM is a homebirth midwife, bodyworker, Spinning Babies® Aware Instructor, mother of 5, and mentor.