Are you feeling called to work with pregnant women? Are you a massage therapist, prenatal yoga teacher or doula? Maybe you are pregnant yourself or dreaming of having a baby soon and want natural, yogic tools to support your journey? Join us for our four day women's training retreat in the French countryside. Let yourself be nurtured as we explore the power of healing touch to support mothers through pregnancy, birth and beyond!
In this course we will share a daily practice of nurturing women's yoga, for fertility, pregnancy and self-awareness. You will learn to offer supportive and effective Pregnancy Thai Massage, including techniques to ease common discomforts of each trimester, ways to encourage deep relaxation and energetic flow, massage and movement for labor and a special herbal massage treatment for postnatal abdominal healing. Gain energetic and anatomical insight into your own body to support your work with new mothers. Enjoy the sweet experience of sharing massage and yoga with a circle of caring women as you learn.
Our retreat is located in Longeval, accessible from Lyon by public transportation. Surrounded by rolling hills, forest and gardens, it's the perfect setting to connect with a group of amazing women and nurture yourself as you learn to share this sacred healing art.
Your training includes healthy local organic vegetarian meals and comfortable shared or single accommodations.
Course is taught in English with translation in French.
Sample Schedule:
Sunday:
Lunch
Opening circle Yoga Practice
Open the pelvic bowl: prenatal-thai half reclining position
Dinner
Evening Program
Monday:
Morning Yoga
Breakfast
release the pelvis: side position
Lunch
free the rib cage: side position
Dinner
Birth Massage: flow with the energy
Tuesday:
Morning Yoga
Breakfast
connecting heart, spirit & baby: left lateral tilt position
Lunch
practice, review with pregnant ladies (potentially)
Dinner
Wednesday:
Morning Yoga
Breakfast
Herb Gathering & post natal herbalism
Lunch
Postnatal massage: Herbal Compress for abdominal healing & breastfeeding support
Dinner
Thursday:
Morning Yoga
Breakfast
Final massage exchange: nurturing each other
Lunch
Departure
Facilitator:
Micha Merrick is using techniques from yoga and Thai Massage to help women deliver babies naturally. Time and again, she’s seen the wild strength and fluid grace of feminine nature first hand, creating circles of support for women through song, dance, herbs and massage.
She is an internationally certified Birth Doula who served as a prenatal yoga teacher at Bumi Sehat Birth Center in Bali Indonesia. Micha practices Thai massage in the lineage of Ashokananda and combines wisdom from traditional women's healers, folk herbalists and shamanic hill tribe midwives in Thailand and Bali. Currently based in Big Sur, California.
Organization & support:
Alessa has recently moved to Lyon from Barcelona where she has studied and shared yoga for the past nine years. She is a vinyasa, yin, prenatal & postnatal yoga teacher. She is also a certified in Ayurvedic yoga massage, Thai and herbal massage having studied and supported Micha in her past two trainings.
Caroline met Micha through her passion for Thai massage and the world of birth. Beyond her various trainings (Thai and Ayurvedic massage, yoga, doula), it is her experience of a natural birth and motherhood that feed her accompaniment to women.
** français**
Ressentez-vous le désir de travailler avec les femmes enceintes ?
Vous êtes masseur, professeur de yoga prénatal ou doula ? Vous êtes enceinte ou vous rêvez d'avoir un bébé bientôt et vous voulez des outils naturels et issus du yoga pour vous accompagner dans cette aventure ? Rejoignez-nous pour une retraite de 4 jours dans un cadre bucolique à proximité de Lyon. Offrez-vous un moment ressourçant tout en explorant le potentiel guérisseur du toucher pour soutenir les mères pendant la grossesse, l'accouchement et au-delà !
Durant cette formation, nous proposerons une pratique quotidienne de yoga spécifiquement adaptée aux femmes, pour favoriser la fertilité, accompagner la grossesse et développer la connaissance de soi. Vous apprendrez à offrir un massage thaïlandais qui procure un réel soutien à la femme enceinte. Nous enseignerons des techniques pour soulager les inconforts les plus courants de chaque trimestre de grossesse, nous montrerons comment encourager la relaxation profonde et la circulation de l’énergie, mais également quel type de massage et quelles positions peuvent aider durant la phase de travail et l’accouchement. Nous verrons enfin comment réaliser un soin de la région abdominale en post-natal à l’aide de plantes. Ce sera l’occasion d’affiner vos perceptions énergétiques et anatomiques afin de vous aider dans votre travail avec les mères en devenir.
Venez-vous connecter à l’énergie bienveillante d’un cercle de femmes avec lesquelles vous partagerez des moments de massage et yoga.
Notre retraite se déroulera en Longeval France, à la campagne. Le lieu est accessible en transports en commun. Entouré de collines, de forêts et de parcs, c'est le cadre idéal pour rencontrer d’autres femmes merveilleuses et prendre soin de vous tout en apprenant cet art sacré de guérison.
Votre formation comprend des repas végétariens sains, biologiques et locaux et ainsi qu’un hébergement comfortable en dortoir, en chambre individuelle ou partagée.
Le cours est enseigné en anglais et sera, si besoin, traduit en français.