Addressing Fertility Challenges With EFT Tapping: Ease the Emotional and Physical Stressors Surrounding Fertility

3 week series
Mondays, March 16, 23, 30
5-6:30 pm
$75 Sign Up Online

Come learn to utilize EFT tapping, a highly effective technique known for resolving difficult emotions and physical symptoms around conceiving. With Emotional Freedom Technique, or EFT, you can navigate the stress associated with fertility challenges, develop greater emotional resiliency and increase physical well-being.

This simple and well-researched therapeutic tool involves working with the mental, emotional and physical bodies to access the source of emotional pain, clear the targeted issue, and restore your body to balance.
This group is a safe space to find support, meet others who are going through fertility challenges, reduce stress, and cultivate greater peace and well-being.

ABOUT KATHILYN

Kathilyn is an accredited advanced EFT practitioner (since 2003) and a tapping trainer and mentor, as well as writer and editor. Her 8th book, Tapping Into Wellness: Using EFT to Clear Emotional and Physical Pain and Illness, is due out this fall (Llewellyn).

Healing from her own chronic physical illness led Kathilyn to become an EFT practitioner. Her experience allows her to be effective and caring while helping others navigate deep, vulnerable emotional and physical hurts to find relief. Kathilyn draws inspiration and support from her deep love and connection with the earth. She is grateful to be the mother of an amazing 16-year-old who continually surprises and delights her. The opportunity to work with people on their fertility and pregnancy journey is deeply meaningful to Kathilyn.

Gentle Yoga For Fertility Series

4 Week Series
Sundays, April 12, April 19, April 26, May 3
6pm–7:15pm
$65 Sign Up Online

The path to fertility can be a lonely one, but it doesn’t have to be. Become part of a small group of women on a similar journey and connect deeply with yourself and others to relieve stress and anxiety, find support, and consciously create the experience you seek. Using a yogic approach to fertility, we will explore gentle and restorative yoga postures, breath work, relaxation, visualization, meditation, and intention to clear stagnant energy, balance hormones, increase circulation, reduce stress, improve overall health, and move toward balance between action and surrender. Find community, safety, support, strength and connection in this fertility promoting movement and awareness series. No prior yoga experience necessary.

ABOUT JAIME:

Jaime is a writer, teacher, yogi, mama, and owner of Santosha Birth and Wellness. Jaime has practiced yoga for 17 years and believes deeply in the practice’s restorative, healing and rejuvenating powers. She is a certified yoga teacher (RYT 200-hour), a certified teacher of restorative yoga, and is trained as a birth doula.

Jaime loves how the physical aspects of yoga serve as a conduit to the deeper mental, emotional and spiritual gems this rich tradition offers. Jaime is influenced by yogis Swami Satyananda Saraswati, T.V.K. Desikachar, Judith Lasater, and Max Strom, energy practitioner Tami Lynn Kent, and restorative exercise maven Katy Bowman, among others.

The Sensual Womb—Movement For Healing and Joy

6 Week Series
Fridays, March 20th to May 1st (No class on April 3rd)
5:30pm–7:00pm
$150 Sign Up Online

Relax, strengthen, empower and rejuvenate yourself through a unique, gentle, and breath-centered movement practice. Based in sensual dance, Pilates, feminine Qi Gong, and other healing movement practices, this series will help open our creative channels, safely open to ourselves and others, and find pleasure and calm in the deep femininity of our movement, free of mental chatter. We create safe place in the body for healing and stabilizing emotions surrounding our sexuality. Bring comfortable clothing to the first class, and a small notebook and pen.

ABOUT LOEY

Loey Colebeck is a movement instructor, an accredited professional Bach Flower Therapist (SEDIBAC – Catalonia Society for the Study and Diffusion of Dr. Bach’s Therapy), and translator. She has given therapeutic dance workshops for over ten years to women of all ages. She has extensive training in Bach Flower Therapy, including areas related to sexuality, psychotherapy, grief and trauma, family systems, and Chinese Medicine. She lectured at the 4th bi-annual SEDIBAC congress about her work integrating Movement, Sexuality and Bach Flower Therapy, has published articles in the SEDIBAC quarterly, and is translating Pablo Noriega’s book, Chinese Medicine and Bach Flower Therapy. She is passionate about helping women fully inhabit their bodies and lives, and to gain access to all their strength.

Shaolin Cosmos Qigong for Maximizing Fertility

12 Week Series
Mondays, March 30 to June 22 (no class on 5/11)
7:00pm–8:00pm
$360 Sign Up Online

Come learn how to enhance your health and fertility using traditional Qigong. This simple but profound practice can dramatically enhance your health and fertility in only 15 minutes a day, twice a day. Shaolin Cosmos Qigong uses effective and powerful qigong patterns to improve health and attain a clear, focused mind.

The series of qi gong exercises offered in this class not only support and nurture the body’s fertility, but also allow you to overcome chronic pain, relieve stress and depression, strengthen your immunity, enhance energy, achieve mental clarity and optimize your well-being. Students will learn all the tools needed to practice regularly at home to enhance their lives. Qigong is an excellent complement to acupuncture and herbal treatment. No prior experience necessary.

ABOUT MOLLY

Sifu (or teacher in Cantonese) Molly Sorensen is an inner-chamber disciple of Grandmaster Wong Kiew-Kit and a fifth generation successor of the Venerable Jiang Nan of the Southern Shaolin Temple. Molly became interested in qigong and kungfu through a love of learning the Chinese language. Molly has been practicing these arts for 15 years and has been training under Grandmaster Wong for nine.

Having been successful in overcoming her own chronic back pain, allergies, and depression, Molly is passionate in her teaching of qigong to help others achieve health and happiness. Molly has a Master’s degree in Oriental medicine and practices Chinese medicine in St. Paul.

Supporting A Calm And Healthy Pregnancy: Resolving Fears And Other Emotions With EFT Tapping

3 week series
Mondays April 6, 13, 20
5-6:30
$75 Sign Up Online

Pregnancy is an amazing time of life. Knowing that a little being is developing inside you is profound. However, pregnancy can also be a time of physical discomfort and emotional intensity, uncertainty, worry, anxiety and fear.
EFT, or Emotional Freedom Technique, is a simple and well-researched therapeutic tool that can help you resolve whatever emotions are getting in the way of fully enjoying your pregnancy. This group is a safe space for pregnant women to receive support, resolve difficult emotions, and experience relief, peace, and well-being.

ABOUT KATHILYN

Kathilyn is an accredited advanced EFT practitioner (since 2003) and a tapping trainer and mentor, as well as writer and editor. Her 8th book, Tapping Into Wellness: Using EFT to Clear Emotional and Physical Pain and Illness, is due out this fall (Llewellyn).

Healing from her own chronic physical illness led Kathilyn to become an EFT practitioner. Her experience allows her to be effective and caring while helping others navigate deep, vulnerable emotional and physical hurts to find relief. Kathilyn draws inspiration and support from her deep love and connection with the earth. She is grateful to be the mother of an amazing 16-year-old who continually surprises and delights her. The opportunity to work with people on their fertility and pregnancy journey is deeply meaningful to Kathilyn.

Gentle Yoga For Pregnancy Series

4 Week Series
Sundays, April 12, April 19, April 26, May 3
4:15pm-5:30pm
$65 Sign Up Online

Pregnancy offers us a tremendous opportunity to connect with the feminine, receptive and reflective aspects of our being amidst the outward, achievement oriented nature of our doing-focused world. Come find space to connect deeply with yourself and your baby, honor your pregnancy experience, reduce stress, and go within to find all the resources you need for your mothering journey. This class helps you find peace, calm and connection through gentle and restorative yoga, breath work, mantra/sound, meditation, visualization, and intention. No prior yoga experience necessary.

ABOUT JAIME
Jaime is a writer, teacher, yogi, mama, and owner of Santosha Birth and Wellness. Jaime has practiced yoga for 17 years and believes deeply in the practice’s restorative, healing and rejuvenating powers. She is a certified yoga teacher (RYT 200-hour), a certified teacher of restorative yoga, and is trained as a birth doula.

Jaime loves how the physical aspects of yoga serve as a conduit to the deeper mental, emotional and spiritual gems this rich tradition offers. Jaime is influenced by yogis Swami Satyananda Saraswati, T.V.K. Desikachar, Judith Lasater, and Max Strom, energy practitioner Tami Lynn Kent, and restorative exercise maven Katy Bowman, among others.

HypnoBirthing Childbirth Education

SUNDAYS April 12-May 17 (no class on 5/10)
1pm–3:30pm
$300, includes a copy of HypnoBirthing, The Mongan Method, relaxation disc, and weekly handouts. Sign Up Online

Come and experience the original HypnoBirthing® method of childbirth preparation. Through this simple, comprehensive approach you will learn deep relaxation, self hypnosis, breathing techniques, visualizations, and affirmations to help you during your birthing time. Pre-birth practice allows you to expel fears and anxieties about childbirth, and to forge an invaluable bond of love, trust, and communion with your body, your baby, and your birth partner. Whatever type of birth you are planning, in whatever setting, HypnoBirthing® will help you to feel more calm and confident. Other subjects covered include creating a birth plan, healthy nutrition during pregnancy, and breastfeeding.

ABOUT NATASHA

Natasha Reilly is a HypnoBirthing Certified Educator, Internationally Board Certified Lactation Consultant, and Placenta Encapsulator. Natasha has a Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics, and has worked with women and infants for over 13 years. She currently lives in Chanhassen, MN, with her husband, 3 children, and kitten. Natasha believes couples deserve to have the birth of their baby be a joyous, calm occasion. She enjoys supporting women so they have a gentle start to motherhood.

Four Paths to a Deeper Connection with Your Child

4 week series
Tuesdays, March 17-April 7
6:30-8:00pm
$120 Sign Up Online

Life moves quickly. Taking time to assess the quality of your relationship with your child is not always top priority, but when your connection is strong you not only enjoy greater closeness, but things go more smoothly: communication is easier, cooperation is the norm, tantrums and outbursts lessen, and family stress is lower. Putting effort into the quality of your relationship now also creates a solid foundation for adolescence when you really want those communication lines to be open.

Come and gain tools for making transitions a more enjoyable part of the day. Learn ways to deepen your bond through choice of words, body language, and outlook. Find the energy you need and the things you crave to be the parent you want to be. Focus your thoughts where it will have the most positive impact for your family. This class is appropriate for parents with children 1-12 years old.

ABOUT MARY

Mary Upham is the happy mama of three delightful girls ages 20, 14, and 11. She is a PCI Certified Parent Coach® and Parent Educator with a private practice in Northfield. Mary has a Master’s degree in Early Childhood Ed and Parent Ed and has been working with families for over 25 years. Helping parents to find the values, tools, and attitudes to increase the joy in their family life is her mission.