August 2017 Retreats

Sacred Pregnancy
Sunday, August 27, 2017

Pansay Tayo, Sacred Pregnancy Facilitator

This retreat is a magical circle of women, who happen to be pregnant searching for connection, growth, release, and sisterhood. Join Pansay for this 1 day retreat in Catonsville, MD on Sunday, August 27, 2017 9am-6pm. Gather with women who are soul searching, seeking for meaning, honoring, and more. Here is a taste of what you'll experience.

sacred space

explore creating a personal sacred space at home, meditation practice + the benefits of journaling 

connection + expectations

explore connection to yourself, the baby and the pregnancy experience + discuss your pregnancy expectations 

relationships + romance

discuss relationship connection, romance and keeping the fire lit post baby.

fears

holding space to discuss all fears relating to pregnancy,

birth and motherhood. 

forgiveness

find the strength to forgive past hurts allow emotional space to open up BEFORE baby comes. 

honoring

discuss emotional nesting, mother blessings, henna and more. 

rite of passage + sisterhood

“going to the bowl”

spent in a sisterhood circle in deep reflection of the experiences shared together and going forward. 

Pansay Tayo is a professional Birth Doula, Certified Birth Assistant, Midwifery Student and Sacred Pregnancy Facilitator. A mother of two GEMS, her passion for her work stems from personal experiences of birth, loss and mothering without a mother. Determined to bring reverence to the sanctity of pregnancy and birth and reconnect women to our ancient traditions of circling to discuss physical, emotional and spiritual changes.

Pansay is more than ready for you in August. Here is the information you need to know. To connect with her for more information and to register, click here.

Sacred Pregnancy & Sacred Milk Instructor Training November 2017

Sacred Pregnancy & Sacred Milk

4 day live retreat

instructor training + certification

lead by Austin Rees & Jessie Bernstein

Photo Credit: Hayley Still Photography from our Sacred Pregnancy & Milk Retreat September 2016 at The Farm. 

Details

RETREAT DATES: November 1-6, 2017

ARRIVAL DATE: November 1, 2017

DEPARTURE DATE: November 6, 2017

REGISTER: Email for more information and to register for this life changing retreat!

BONUS! This retreat includes one full day of Sacred Milk training along with the Sacred Pregnancy training!

  

SPACE IS LIMITED. Register now if you're ready to attend this life changing retreat! Women around the world are circling together to learn about Sacred Pregnancy and change the conversation around birth. Join us now!

INVESTMENT: This is truly an investment in the overall health and wellness of yourself. It's also a skill and certification you will take back to your community to teach and enrich the lives of pregnant women you serve. If you are called to learn more about us you are called to be there! If you sign up and cannot come for ANY REASON, you will be issued a credit for what you paid for the retreat that is good for 1 year, but WE DO NOT ISSUE REFUNDS.

Retreats in June 2017

Sacred Pregnancy
June 24, 2017

Pansay Tayo, Sacred Pregnancy Facilitator

Here at Sacred Living Movement Maryland, we are proud to have Pansay Tayo as one of our newest Sacred Pregnancy facilitators. Pansay is a professional Birth Doula, Certified Birth Assistant, Midwifery Student and Sacred Pregnancy Facilitator. A mother of two GEMS, her passion for her work stems from personal experiences of birth, loss and mothering without a mother. Determined to bring reverence to the sanctity of pregnancy and birth and reconnect women to our ancient traditions of circling to discuss physical, emotional and spiritual changes.

Her first mini retreats are coming up in June, and she hopes to have you there with her. Here is the information you need to know. To connect with her for more information and to register, click here. To visit the June 24 retreat online, click here.

What Have We Been Up To

What's Happening in April & May

April has been an incredible month so far for us, and we're still ramping up for the remaining week and a half. We are grateful to reflect on the past month and half with you. On March 5th we celebrated a beautiful afternoon of sisterhood with Maidens to Crones, oh! what an honor! With 40 women in attendance, the abundance of magic was palpable from the moment you entered the space. We are thrilled that we were able to host our event at Barrevolution, once again, and thankful for all of our goodie bag contributors. The weekend of April 7-9th we held a beautiful weekend retreat in the gorgeous countryside of Darlington, MD. These women did some really deep work, released, let loose, and created beautiful gifts for each other. Don't take our word, read what one attendee wrote. "This retreat is something I am going to suggest to every woman I know. It's truly a magical weekend that fills and cleanses your soul in ways you don't even know you need. It opened up the flood gates of empowerment, self love, confidence, support and true sisterhood. It changed me, FORVER. My life will never be the same because of every single moment and person involved in this retreat. The weight of world was lifted off my shoulders and I now I'm in a state of constant euphoria. Everyone EVERYONE I come in contact with comments on how beautiful I look or how happy I am or that I am glowing. I have noticed strangers smiling just from watching or looking at me. I would give up every penny I have and even more to experience this. I feel like I truly started living, I broke free now I am me and I'm eternally grateful for that!" ~C We are planning more retreats for this summer, including more for Sacred Pregnancy- weekend and one day events, I AM Sisterhood- a variety of one day events with different themes. We continue to support the Goucher College campus in building community within their students and faculty, together. We're looking forward to their finals week and bringing the sacredness of this movement into the academic side, as well. We know this is a bit long, but this last piece is important. We have a very dear Sacred siSTAR in Frederick County who has come up with a truly beautiful gift to other mothers. Her son is being treated for cancer at Children's National Medical Center, and the 2 of them wanted to support others in honor of Mother's Day. They are creating magical gift bags with all sorts of goodies donated from so many incredible people. Our local Sacred Living Movement Maryland community is helping with this project. We are gathering on two dates to create Mother's Day cards for the moms on the oncology inpatient unit at the hospital. Click here for more information. We are also raising funds to purchase 35 Sacred Motherhood books for each of the gift bags, as well. We hope you will support us in making this possible. Hope to see you at our first gathering this Thursday, April 20. There is still one spot left for the Sacred Brotherhood Retreat coming up in a couple weeks here in Maryland, if you know someone who might be interested, send them the link. With love and gratitude, Sisters in Unity

Save The Date! I AM Sisterhood

Join us for the I AM Sisterhood Retreat

April 7-9, 2017, join us on a magical journey through the 5 elements. Dig DEEP into your authentic self while being embraced in the arms of SISTERHOOD. 

Part One: *I AM* creator of my LIFE’S PATH

Part Two: *I AM* sister in a true SISTERHOOD

Part Three: *I AM* my PASSIONS

Part Four: *I AM* Delightfully ABUNDANT

Part Five: *I AM* DEFINED

We will gather together and spend a weekend away from home to explore ourselves, connect with other sisters, and engage in igniting our passions.

We will host this remarkable retreat about 30 miles outside of Baltimore city out in the gorgeous country side of Darlington, Maryland where we have full view of the moon, access to water, and a fire pit.

PRICE: $325. Includes lodging, all food, all materials, SURPRISES, and a gorgeous gift bag! We require a deposit of $50 to hold your space. If you pay the entire balance up front, you will receive a DISCOUNT of $50, not combinable with additional offers. Full payment is due by April 1, 2017.

To register, please complete the registration form so we can get you all of the additional information needed for our weekend together. Feel free to email us at sacredpregnancybaltimore@gmail.com with any questions.

Photography Credit: Heartlove Photography

Sacred Living Movement Offerings in Maryland

With So Many Programs, Here's What Is Being Offered Locally

Sacred Pregnancy 

Photo Credit:
True Feathers Photography

Your Sacred Pregnancy is a journey. We are hell bent on changing the birth conversation as Sacred Pregnancy classes bring back the age old tradition of women sitting with one another during pregnancy and birth, getting EMPOWERED, witnessing each others process and BEING there for one another during an incredibly power-FULL rite of passage…becoming mothers. Sacred Pregnancy classes are a special place for pregnant women to gather together, for 8 weeks early on in their ‘pregnancy journeys’ and come back later with their partners for a 4 week ‘birth Journey’ course. Each week is spent exploring pertinent topics that naturally arise for most women as they walk down their pregnancy paths and encourage deep sharing, exploring ART, expression, laughter, honoring and CELEBRATION. Pregnancy is one of the DEEPEST DRINKS life has to offer, and should always and in all ways be treated as S A C R E D. Each woman’s pregnancy pot gets stirred with various emotions and we all need a safe place to process those tides and sip some sanity from the community cauldron. We want to take the pregnancy + BIRTH conversation through winding unsure roads, down unbeaten paths, out on adventures, for a slow dance, get sexy BEAUTIFUL with it, down and bloody with it, cram it with herbs, tears, passion, love and FRESH PERSPECTIVE, crack it open for new rays of sunlight to shine down and help enlightened visions grow, and mostly have fun pouring over all this juicy goodness together, in the new sisterhood we are creating! We are going old school in order to meet women where they need to be met! The Sacred Pregnancy movement is blossoming because of two things: 1. women are calling for change + 2. biz as usual isn’t enough! WE WANT MORE, WE DESERVE MORE, WE CRAVE MORE... and we are waking up to how to GET MORE! And what is this MORE I speak of? 

The Art of Sacred Postpartum

Photo Credit: Katy Leet
Photography

Crossing the threshold from maiden to mother is a massive undertaking that not only needs to be recognized and ceremonially honored, but deeply necessitates a healing touch that can welcome the new mama with open arms. As a Postpartum Mother Roaster, we are charged with holding space for women on the other side of birth, we are reminded of being reverent with service to her, and blessed to be her witness as she starts feeding her baby milk, heals her body, and begins to seal the rawness of her birth experience. We are there to wrap her in a blanket of loving care, warm her insides, massage her, create herbal tinctures for her, feed her soups, and give her Mother Roasters are CAREGIVERS that nurture new mothers after BIRTH while supporting their RECOVERY + JOURNEY into motherhood; as EVERY women deserves to be welcomed into MOTHERHOOD through GENTLE + LOVING + CARE. 

Sacred Beginnings

Sacred Beginnings is an 8-week class series designed to continue the Sacred Pregnancy path. We, along with baby, sit together in sacred circle to honor the rite of passage of bringing a baby earth-side, whether it’s the transition from maiden to mother or the transition to more than one child. Empowered by the support of other mothers, we build our village during a time of challenge, beauty and growth. Through the gifts of community, commemoration, celebration and ceremony, we shine light on the many vibrant experiences of mothering - those moments bursting with unbound love as well as the raw, vulnerable times. Prior attendance of Sacred Pregnancy classes is not a requirement; this series is open to all moms, new and experienced alike.

Sacred Milk

Photo Credit: Kalamina Photography

Sacred Milk is a movement inspiring women to trust their bodies, their baby’s and their Milk. Our mission is to nourish the wholeness of each mothers journey and shift our culture to see Milk as a holistic practice, rather than simply a feeding choice. In the last century our culture has been saturated by marketing that has conditioned us to see breasts as sexual and human milk as just a food source. The Journey to Milk program is focused on opening space for women to remember their innate wisdom and then surround themselves with a supportive community. Milk is instinctual, natural, normal, necessary. That doesn’t mean it’s easy or filled with bliss. Milk is not something that can be fully learned from a book or taught on the internet. Milk can not be told. Milk must be modeled, supported and nourished in community because it is a way of living not just a way of feeding. 

Sacred Sweeties

This is a very special SUMMER CAMP FOR LITTLE GIRLS THEIR MOMS. Girls ages 8-14 + their moms can come and enjoy a very special retreat together with us. What we are going to do? 

* Your little sweeties will circle together with mom + without + will connect with nature + learn the importance of creating sacred connections with each other
* The little girls will spend time in sisterhood circles together creating art / learning about the wise ways of sisterhood medicine. They will pair up with each other to do self-esteem raising beauty way fun projects and will meet and make great friends!

*Topics for Sacred Sweeties* - morning meditation + centering + cleansing
- beauty way living + sacred space
- sheros + girl power
- inspirational treasure hunt + nature bundles
- moon magic + crystals + PINK tent wisdom
- body image + body painting + cooking
- setting positive intentions + vision board making
- mala making for mama
- kind speech
- honoring each other with a natural spa day (the girls will make a bunch of awesome edible spa products) + flower crown making
- connect with nature in a special way + create a flower essence
- going to the bowl

*Topics for Mamas* - morning meditation + centering
- empowering sacred motherhood 

- kind speech and outside influences
- letting go and allowing your girls to fly 

- story making + journal creation
- building peace tent with the mamas for the sacred sweeties
- wild woman nature dancing + nature bundles
- moon magic + crystals + RED tent wisdom 

- finding your inner GODDESS + body image + body painting + cooking
- setting positive mothering intentions + vision board making
- mala making for sacred sweetie 

- connect with nature in a special way + create a flower essence + honoring the little girls
- going to the bowl

*Extra Fun Stuff*
- midnight smoothies + movie night 

- smores by the fire
- swimming in the lake
- hot tubbing
- dance parties
- pj pancake breakfast
- late night giggles 

I AM Sisterhood

Photo Credit: Barefoot Blessings

I AM SISTERHOOD breaking F R E E to become ME Women are NATURAL born Creators...They give birth to babies, visions, ART, beauty, dreams and sisterhood! Sometimes we need to get INSPIRED to get on our RIGHT PATH...sometimes we need a sister to say YES! I see you and HONOR you for your choices. Sometimes we need help diving deep within to FIND our soul’s purpose and PASSION. Sometimes we just need a friend. If you are a woman and want to join our Sacred Circle Sisterhood, then this retreat is for you personally. The unique aspect of this retreat is that all you need to be to join is a WOMAN! You will gain so much personal insight, have fun, laugh and cry throughout this journey we will take together. 

Photo Credit: Perfect Chance Photography