Mother Circle
Mothers supporting Mothers
This is the mission of Mother Circle
Women circling is the oldest code.
Ancient wisdom and modern research tell us that
when women gather, their mental health drastically improves.
And when mothers thrive, communities thrive.
-Kimberly Ann Johnson
Mother Circle is an 8 class gathering for mothers who want to understand the unseen arc of their motherhood journey, move out of confusion and into greater clarity and wisdom within a supportive community.
What will classes cover?
Class 1- MotherDive
Entering motherhood is an underworld journey often not seen and recognized by the outer world. Learn the arc of this journey, the tools to be present to it, and be witnessed as you locate yourself within it.
Class 2- MotherCycle
Awareness of our cyclical nature can help us align with our innate wisdom as mothers.. Explore how being in rhythm with the cycles in and around us gives us more access to our wholeness and our power.
Class 3- MotherBody
Everything a new baby needs, a new mother also needs. Learn a powerful framework for assessing your physical and emotional wellness, and how to tend to what’s needed in your body no matter where you are at in your motherhood journey.
Class 4- MotherJaguar
The predator - prey dynamic is present in our experience of birth and motherhood. Explore how this awareness and understanding of your nervous system can impact your everyday life and mothering.
Class 5- MotherBirth
Birth is an initiatory experience that fundamentally changes us. We’ll explore ways to access and share this experience that locates the wisdom that it has to offer for our motherhood journeys
Class 6- MotherLover
There is often a split between being a mother and being sexual. Learn how to connect with your ever changing sexuality as a mother and become more at home in your body and your sexuality.
Class 7- MotherWorth
Motherhood changes how we relate to our work in the world. Explore the relationship between your worth and your value and anchor the things that nurture your worth as part of your mothering practice.
Class 8- MotherCode
We have a powerful opportunity to imagine the legacy we’d like to leave. We are shaped by our motherline and the mothers around us, and we can choose what we want to carry forward. Together we’ll Identify the values that we want to guide our mothering and shape our lineage.
MotherCircle is for...
Mothers with children of all ages
Mothers who want community with other mothers, and gather around meaningful topics and motherhood wisdom
Mothers looking to live into a new narrative, and redefine motherhood on their own terms
Women who care for mothers. (Childbirth educators, Birthworkers, Midwives, birth and postpartum doulas, OBGYNs, Lactation consultants, L&D nurses, Prenatal and postpartum yoga teachers and Somatic therapists)
Maximum participation- 10 women.
Wednesdays, February 19-April 9
5:30-6:45pm
Synergy Wellness in Canandaigua
$200
It takes a village to raise a child,
and it takes a village to raise a mother.
This is that village.
The current Circle is Filled.
WHO IS THE FACILITATOR?
You will be fully guided by certified MotherCircle Facilitator, Toni Shama
Trained by Kimberly Ann Johnson, Author of the book The Fourth Trimester, Toni was in the founding cohort of MotherCircle Facilitators from all over the world and is the only person offering this curriculum in upstate New York.
Toni brings her own unique experience as a guide, she has been involved in mother-centered work since 2017 when she was pregnant with her first child. Now a mother of three, she is also a certified Birth and Postpartum Doula, Prenatal Yoga Instructor, and is in training to become an Informed Beginnings Childbirth Educator.
She also hosts Mother Blessing Ceremonies, intimate gatherings and group/private yoga classes in Geneva, NY.
“Mother Circle is a place that I truly felt witnessed and the act of witnessing others moved me at my core. Toni helped guide me to a language for my experience postpartum and in mothering that I hadn’t had before. I found connection in stories shared that helped me make sense of my motherhood journey, for the first time in four years, I didn’t feel like there was something wrong with me.”
