Upcoming Workshops
Workshop Descriptions
Healing the Root: Learning to Support Vibrant Healthy Wombs
Pelvic Floor work can be an entryway into profound physical, emotional and spiritual healing for our patients. Join Kathryn Kloos ND, LMT to learn how to competently hold space for women in healing uterine and pelvic floor imbalance.
Foundations in Healership for the Women’s Healthcare Provider
In this class you will learn how to hold a healing container for women as you are accessing their most vulnerable and powerful center through pelvic floor therapy. In this weekend we will explore what we are holding within our own roots so that we can come from a place of informed experience when holding space for others. The emphasis of the class is on self-exploration and healing. Please be prepared to look within yourself to explore what needs healing within your own root. Topics include:
Learning about energetic boundary setting using visualization
How create a safe container for emotional release
Plant allies of the Pacific NW to address energetic imbalances
Tapping into ancestral belief systems held within the root
Exploring how to connect with your own energetic root
Yoga exercises for pelvic floor strengthening and relaxation that will be what you prescribe to your patients
Vaginal Steaming practices
Bedside manner, energetic boundaries and facilitating emotional release
The use of jade eggs for pelvic floor strength and energetic presence
Guided visualizations to help tap into your lower chakras
Self Uterine and Ovarian Massage
Pelvic Floor and Uterine Myofascial Release Techniques
Learn how to use myofascial release and energetic techniques to address pelvic floor conditions. NDs have the unique qualifications to provide medical diagnosis as well as perform therapeutic bodywork with our patients. In this class you will learn how to diagnose and treat common pelvic floor conditions coming from a place diagnostic skill, energetic awareness and deep listening.
Benefits of pelvic floor therapy
Palpation skills to identify pelvic floor structures
Diagnosis and treatment of common pelvic floor dysfunction such as: cystocele, rectocele, pelvic organ prolapse, muscle spasms.
Trigger point therapy, muscle energy technique and strain/counterstrain of pelvic floor muscles
Myofascial release of the uterus
Emotional and somatic holding patterns in the womb and pelvis
Deep listening and uterine un-winding
Addressing trauma
Case studies
Dark Moon Rising Workshop
A journey using plant allies to explore feminine archetypes through ceremony, meditation, song and art
Led by Kathryn Kloos and Ashlie Hempstead
One familiar version of the story of Persephone is that she was a captive of the Underworld, but this is not the original myth. The story of Persephone, and her mother Demeter, is a revered story of feminine strength and rule over the Underworld.
In this ceremonial space:
Re-learn the Pre-Hellensitic myth that continues to live inside of us and wants to be remembered and retold.
Identify what inside of us needs tending to during the darkness of winter.
Reclaim our personal power by shedding what is no longer serving us.
Find nourishment within the darkness.
Give voice to our stories which need to be re-written.
We will use the wisdom and teachings of plant medicines to find the stillness of winter inside us and to re-vitalize our power for spring. The first plant we will use will be Black Cohosh. Ruled by Pluto, Black Cohosh has the ability to take us into deep, dark places where the stillness abides.
The second plant we will use will be Aralia, ruled by the Moon, who shows us how to be unwavering in our feminine strength.
Astrologically we are supported in the month of November, which is the time of Scorpio and the time of death, re-birth and deep self-exploration.
Each woman is invited to share story and experience within dedicated circle time, while your two guides, Dr. Kathryn Kloos and Dr. Ashlie Hempstead, will bathe you in song, guided meditation and craniosacral support.
Blankets, pillows, light snacks and tea are provided.