Babies are born through movement

 
4-Day In-Person Professionl Training

 

Exploring the Biomechanics of Birth and Well-Woman Care.

 

Sebastopol, California

June 26-29, 2025

10am - 5pm

Birth has always asked everything of us.

It brings us face to face with the limits—and the brilliance—of our own design. And while we can’t control the mystery of it, we can learn to support the process with more clarity, more precision, and more respect for how the female body actually works. This training is for those ready to look at birth through a biomechanical lens. Because when tissues are mobile, when bones can move, when load is well-distributed—birth tends to work.

 This intensive is for birth professionals (midwives, doulas, OBGYN's), movement therapists, massage therapists,  myofunctional therapists, chiropractors, and mothers alike- the more involved we all are in our birth culture, the better our birth culture becomes.

 

Add it to your self-directed prenatal care kit, your midwifery skills, your movement + bodywork practice, or your rightful knowledge as a woman. 
During this intensive you will learn:

  • In-depth uterine + pelvic anatomy and physiology through the pregnancy + birth continuum.

  •  How to mobilize the pelvic inlet, mid-pelvis, and the outlet in preparation for birth.

  • Prenatal postural patterns + the connection to fetal positioning and birth patterns.

  • Whole-body, dynamic biomechanical preparation for birth during pregnancy.

  • Introductory manual therapy + craniosacral techniques for mobility of the inlet, midpelvis and outlet and addressing pain patterns in pregnancy.

  • Skills for palpating + working with the psoas, anterior + posterior pelvic ligaments, sacrum, and pelvic bowl.

  • Specific origins + movement practices for common pain patterns including SPD, sciatica, SI joint + back pain, heartburn, and more.

This workshop includes lectures, movement practices and individual posture assessments.

You will receive a certificate of completion.

Credit towards CEUs available.

 
This is an invitation to deepen your understanding of the female form—not through abstraction, but through the tissues themselves. You’ll leave with a clearer map of what you’re seeing and feeling, and a more grounded sense of how to support women from the inside out.

Meet Your Instructors

Adelaide Meadow and Mandy Verghese bring a rare depth of experience and embodiment to their teaching — rooted in reverence for the female body and decades of hands-on work in the field of well-woman care. 

 

Adelaide is a female physiology academic, movement teacher, bodyworker, and homebirth attendant. For more than a decade, she has studied and taught at the intersection of women's health, biomechanics, and physiological birth. Her work is rooted in the belief that physiological birth depends on physiological womanhood — and that the genius of the body is most powerful when it is trusted. She is a sought-after teacher, leader, and speaker on women’s health and women's culture.

Adelaide Meadow and Mandy Verghese bring a rare depth of experience and embodiment to their teaching — rooted in reverence for the female body and decades of hands-on work in the field of well-woman care. 

Adelaide is a female physiology academic, movement teacher, bodyworker, and homebirth attendant. For more than a decade, she has studied and taught at the intersection of women's health, biomechanics, and physiological birth. Her work is rooted in the belief that physiological birth depends on physiological womanhood — and that the genius of the body is most powerful when it is trusted. She is a sought-after teacher, leader, and speaker on women’s health and women's culture.

Mandy is a mother, midwife, Womb Continuum Care provider, and folk herbalist. She has supported hundreds of women through every phase of the childbearing continuum over the past 15 years, from remote unassisted births to busy international hospitals. Her work is grounded in a deep belief in the body’s capacity to change — and in practices that support that change through physiologically informed movement, hands-on care, and midwifery wisdom.

Together, Adelaide and Mandy share a deep devotion to restoring reverence for the female body. Their work blends science and tradition, structure and lived experience — in service of women’s well-being, and the future of women’s care.

A Few Things to Note for This Training: 

  1. This event will only run with a minimum of 15 participants confirmed by June 5th. If the threshold isn’t met, we’ll notify you and provide a full refund. We hope to see you there! Early bird ends June 1st.

  2. This purchase is non-refundable; however, we understand that birth workers will be in attendance, many of them on call. In the event that you were called to a birth, we are able to offer a prorated refund of $300 for each day missed. In the event that you miss the entire workshop while actively attending a birth, you will receive a full refund minus $300.

  3. Please come with slant boards, and a ball, and anything you need for comfortable floor sitting. In addition, please bring writing implements if you are interested in taking notes. Dress for easy mobility.

  4. Meals are not provided, but we will break for one hour for lunch daily. Please pack a lunch or enjoy food from the Onsite Cafe. 

  5. We offer a certificate of completion with 24 hours of instruction that you can submit to your unique licensing board for continuing education units.

  6. Handouts will be provided for you to take notes and to keep as a reference for your work.

  7. This training will be held in Sebastopol, California In the Temple Loft at Soft Medicine Sanctuary. 

  8. We have no other training scheduled for 2025 but we are always interested to hear from women that are eager to host a professional training in a city near them. You can apply to be a host here.

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✨ This event will only run with a minimum of 15 participants confirmed by June 5th. If the threshold isn’t met, we’ll notify you and provide a full refund. We hope to see you there! Early bird ends June 1st.