motherculture | Becoming Mama

motherculture
a full day retreat for mothers

We are preparing the circle for YOU.

Meet Your Hosts

Erin Boje

A prenatal yoga instructor, former NICU RN, newborn care educator, mother coach, and mother - Erin is passionate about ALL things mothering. Erin has had two wildly different and beautiful birth experiences, ranging from a conventional hospital birth to a natural and supported home birth. These experiences have led her to become extremely passionate about the importance of birth and postpartum doulas, and leaning on the support and wisdom of other mothers as we navigate great challenges and transitions. Mothers are truly sacred, and the wisdom we need to navigate every stage of motherhood is within us. Through fostering community, connection, movement, and healing Erin supports women in mothering intuitively and tapping into their inner wisdom.

Victoria Weber

Victoria is an Ayurvedic Nutrition Doula, and the Co-Founder of Marma Health. Victoria is also the founder of Nettle + Honey, serving the Kansas City area through Ayurvedic Nourishing Meal Delivery and Postpartum Doula Services

After the cesarean birth of her first son, Victoria dove deep into the birth world to better understand her experience and emerged as an expert for birthing mothers. She has since supported thousands of women through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum as a doula, certified holistic nutrition coach, and perinatal yoga instructor. She is also an Ayurvedic Chef, and the founder of an organic meal delivery service designed for supporting postpartum families.

Meet Your Speakers

We have an amazing team of speakers and collaborators facilitating this day-long retreat. We think you will find wisdom and inspiration from everyone in the circle. Meet your headline speakers:

Founder of Womb Medicine

Kristin Hauser

Kristin Hauser is a mother, acupuncturist, herbalist and somatic sex educator supporting women to create lasting hormonal resilience,
fertility through postpartum. Her work is inspired by the ancient wisdom of Chinese Medicine, the modern understanding of hormonal physiology and a deep reverence for the innate intelligence of the body. As the founder of Womb Medicine, she offers online consultations, courses and workshops, as well as TCM inspired herbal medicinals. Kristin is also the co-facilitator of The Blood Mysteries School, a 4 month journey through the menstrual cycle as a path of nourishment, agency and healing for every woman.

Kristin will be leading us as we deep dive into The Power and Pleasure of Motherhood:

This will be a space for mothers to sit together sharing in the possibility of resilience and joy in motherhood. Here we can release narratives that motherhood is “hard” and depleting and re-weave the truth of female physiology. Motherhood is an opportunity to claim more pleasure and resilience. We will discuss nervous system regulation, birth as a psychedelic state and the hormonal imprint of early mothering. You will have the opportunity to deepen your capacity to let the good of motherhood in, in real time with other mothers.

Founder of The Empowering Doctor

Carissa Stanton, MD

Carissa Stanton, MD is a holistic pediatrician on a mission to empower families to improve their mind, body, spirit and environment! She started The Empowering Doctor to help families with the knowledge and logistics to live healthier and happier lives.

She has a diverse training in nutrition, pediatrics, and integrative medicine. But her best training has been her own healing journey and living a holistic lifestyle with her family. This led her to focus on foundational medicine for her clients: improving sleep, stress management, nutrition, and reducing toxin exposure. She wants to pass this know-how onto you!

She enjoys spending time with her family on her homestead in Kansas with her husband, daughter, 2 step-daughters, and animals (including 10 chickens). She loves to garden, cook, take her dogs for a walk, meditate, and practice yoga.

Carissa's mission is to help mothers realize that taking care of themselves is taking care of others. She will present tools and knowledge to improve your health foundation using her Steps to Wellness: simple and natural ways to get back to the basics of restorative sleep habits, stress management, basic nutrition and supplements, and lower toxin exposures. This will help both you and your family.

What else is included?

There are so many amazing parts of this day-long retreat. You will leave this retreat nourished, empowered, and revived.

Yoga with Erin Boje

We will begin our day with a nourishing, gentle, and invigorating yoga flow. Incorporating breath/body/spirit, this will be a grounding and connecting yoga class. Open to all levels of yoga experience, and prenatal/postpartum safe - plenty of modifications will be offered, this class will be safe for all bodies. We will meet you where you are on your mat to center, ground, and prepare our bodies and hearts for the nourishing day ahead.

Complimentary bodywork, as well as nourishing food provided throughout the day

We will have a station of bodywork and therapies that you can take advantage of throughout the day, at no additional cost. Services that will be included:

Massage Therapy

Craniosacral Therapy

Aromatouch Therapy

Holistic Integration Therapy, Energy Healing, and Brainspotting with Tara Haddon, LSCSW, LCAC, founder of The Awaited Journey

A nourishing lunch, herbal teas, kombucha, and light snacks will be provided by Victoria Weber, co-founder of Marma Health and owner of Nettle + Honey. We want you to leave this day-long retreat feeling nourished in body, mind, and spirit.

Ceremonial Dance/Rhythm and Rootz with Jenna Bodensteiner

Yes, we will be dancing together! We will dance in community, connect to one another through rhythm, and connect to our roots through movement. Through dance we unveil the intelligence held in our roots, connect to our ancestors and each other, and refine our relationship with nature. And we will definitely have fun! Dance is for all of us - no experience necessary. Gradual & repetitive movements provide the comfort needed for everyone to access the purpose of this practice.

Sound Bath and Mother Blessing Ritual to close the circle

We will enjoy a lovely sound bath led by Alejandra Biers-Brown with Weaving Sounds as we experience a Mother Blessing Ritual to close our circle. This beautiful ritual will honor our sacred identity as mothers, unite and connect us, and leave us feeling completely relaxed and renewed in body/mind/spirit as we close out the retreat and head home to continue our motherhood journeys.

Additional Details to Note

This full-day retreat will take place at The Hardy House OP, a small restored farmhouse in the heart of Downtown Overland Park. We will gather in this central location that is accessible to all - no additional travel time required for local KC residents. Follow @thehardyhouseOP for more details on the space. This retreat will take place mostly outside, so dress with removable layers to your comfort level according to the weather. Just come as you are.

Every mother will be honored and treated with reverence and respect in this circle. All are welcome. And every mother will receive a motherculture gift bag to take home, with an overarching theme of holistic wellness and nourishment for our bodies, minds, and spirits.

Cost:

$195 for Early Bird Pricing (until April 8th)

$250 for Regular Pricing (after April 8th)

Space is limited to maintain the intimacy of the circle, so don't wait to register and reserve your spot!

Additional Collaborators

Tara Haddon, LSCSW, LCAC

Founder of the Awaited Journey

Owner of The Awaited Journey, LLC and The Human Coach, LLC, Tara Haddon believes in the beneficial properties of integrative, alternative and holistic modalities of treatment while on one’s healing path. Tara created these business avenues to offer holistic support, therapy, and

coaching that guides and empowers others to reach their goals. Tara is a Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Clinical Addiction Counselor, and Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapist in her mental health private practice The Awaited Journey, LLC. Tara also

provides Reiki and Life & Spiritual Coaching through The Human Coach, LLC, helping guide others to find and be their most full and authentic human ‘be-ing’ selves.

Jenna Bodensteiner

Founder of Rhythm and Rootz

Rhythm and roots is the physical manifestation of the evolution of my relationship to dance, music, culture and Earth. As an indigenous Colombian woman who was adopted as an infant, who grew up in white western culture, I felt an undeniable connection to my indigenous identity. As a child I could never articulate or identify what this feeling actually was. I was sure, I was quiet, I was observant. It was a kind of knowing. A grounding or feeling of reassurance and safety. Music was my spirit’s first reminder. Once I heard music from Africa, the Caribbean, Central and South America it lit a spark that has now turned into a full on flame.

Rhythm & Rootz is a ceremonial dance practice. The objective in the way I guide this ceremony is for us all to first firmly ground ourselves into the music through listening, feeling, breathing and being inspired to set an intention. We will hold on to that intention throughout the experience and dance knowing that every ounce of effort we pour into our physical body has the ability to align with our intention and make a powerful connection to body, mind, and spirit. A powerful and ancient ritual meant to lift our celebrations and sorrows as a commUnity. When we dance in commUnity the collective energy has the ability to influence the way we move through life and therefore impact that which we desire and refine our relationship with Earth and each other. Dancing with a purpose. Ancient intelligence. It is all connected. Armonía (Harmony)

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motherculture a full day retreat for mothers