Loving the Mother and Celebrating Womanhood

Imagine an extraordinary gathering of women awakening to their full potential and acting as powerful and co-creative agents for change. Explore womanhood, sexuality, and your life purpose.

A 10 day  total immersion workshop with

         

Midwife and CNN Hero Robin Lim,

Esalen®  Massage Guru Ellen Watson,

Best-Selling Author and Doula Giuditta Tornetta,

and Permaculture Goddess Rachel Love

 Itinerary:

4 days in Ubud

• Arrival on October 12, transport to hotel/resort welcoming ritual open yourself up to a re-birthing experience. Giuditta will  guide you through a re-birthing meditation and welcome ritual.
• October 13th through 15th the journey begins learn about your own entrance into this world (your birth) get in touch with your unique gifts meant to heal not only your soul but the entire world. Using hypnosis, ecstatic dance, massage, guided meditation, advance doula and midwifery techniques (with Ibu Robin Lim) you will be ushered into the art of birthing…a new life…a new self…a new you.

• Plus meet with Ketut Liyer, the traditional Balinese healer and shaman featured in the book “Eat Pray Love” by Elizabeth Gibert

 

     

Followed by….

6 days at the drop dead gorgeous  Mimpi Resort with natural spring water hot tubs, and delicious organic food.

             

Explore womanhood, sexuality, and your life purpose. Align your chakras to birthing a new self, learn advanced midwifery and doula techniques, with Ibu Robin and Giuditta)  become an expert in side-lying massage. Explore the depths of your womanhood. Discover the natural gifts of Mother Earth and learn how to recognize food and healing herbs in the wild. Sublime pampering with spa treatments and massage (available as extra). Rachel Love writes  “Sitting or lying with our bodies connected to Mother Earth, we’ll begin with a guided meditation connecting us to the earth, our lineage of wise women and activating the healing in our hands and our dna within us that holds the wisdom of healing.  Then we will walk bare foot, listen to the earth, ceremoniously gather herbs, make medicines infused with prayer and do partner giving and receiving energy work on each other.  Additionally, we’ll learn how to get the most vital nutrients from wild and cultivated local plants and discover plant allies to help us with many common ailments.”

We will also have amazing guest teachers on: cranial sacral modalities, and watsu  and poetry who will help you refine your purpose and life appreciation. In Mimpi will will pamper Ibu Robin and be cuddled by her poetry and her husband’s music.

 Following completion of this workshop you may volunteer at Bumi Sehat, Ubud, Bali, and explore the art of helping women give birth gently and naturally (births attended at this location can be used for certification purposes.)  Also you will be able to obtain 10 CEUs valid for re-certification through DONA international.

This workshop includes:

• Rooms  in both location choose between shared standard accommodation or deluxe room with private pool and spa (extra charge for deluxe room)
• Two meals – Plus smoothie breakfast – 90 % organic food  offering both vegetarian and healthy protein
• Workshops and guest speakers
• Transportation from Ubud to Mimpi

Not Included:

• Airfare from country of origin to Bali (we will let you know once you have reserved your space about the amazing discount fares that will come up occasionally during the year)
• Visa (entrance and exit required)
• Transportation to and from airport to Ubud. We cannot coordinate this due to the different arrival of guests from different countries.  We can however help with organizing individual or group transportation
• Excursion to the Town of Ubud, snorkeling, massage or spa days (we do however offer a special pampering package for those who would like to enjoy the spa in Mimpi with our expertly trained Esalen®  Massage therapists.  Pleas ask for details.

     

Early Bird special ONLY $1,800 ($500 non-refundable deposit required to reserve space)

To receive the Early Bird Special you must pay in full by April 1, 2012.

 

Click the ‘Register Now’ Button to fill out and return a registration form and workshop contract (required) and to make a $500 Deposit (required). The deposit can also be made from the purchase button, however you will need to fill out and return a registration form and participation contract.

 

Click the ‘Purchase Now’ Button to make a $500 Deposit or Pay in Full ($1800 until April 1st, Then it goes up to $2000).
This is the participants purchase button, (assistants see below). Participants, when you get to the shopping cart choose either the  ‘Non-Refundable Deposit’ option OR the ‘Early Bird Full Payment’ option. Ignore the ‘difference after deposit’ option as it will be removed shortly.

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For Assistants Only: Special  Opportunity

There are 4 spots open for those who wish to be an assistant during the workshops. This includes assisting facilitators with set-up/breakdown and any other needs they have during the 10 days. Assistants price is $1200 Paid in Full (no exceptions). Pay early as there are only 4 spots available for this opportunity.

 

Assistants ONLY. Assistants must pay in full (no exceptions). There is no deposit for assistants. There are no refunds for assistants after April 1. Do not wait until April 1 to reserve your spot, they will fill up quickly.  To pay, click on ‘purchase now’ from the shopping cart choose the ‘Assistants Price’ option.

 

Ellen Watson, Giuditta Tornetta, Robin Lim, and Rachel Love

This workshop is designed for everyone especially for those who want to birth a new self and understand their womanhood from a visceral and ancestral point of view. By loving ourselves and Mother Earth as well as our own mother and ancestors we can become a better instrument of God’s healing to this world. Of course this workshop is also perfect for Doulas, Midwives and midwives in training 10 CEUs from DONA are available for those seeking continuing education credits.  

Your retreat leaders, Giuditta & Ellen, are committed to creating a safe and welcoming environment using hypnosis, journal writing, massage, movement (i.e. belly dance and ecstatic dance designed to keeping the pelvis open,) and guided imagery. Each of us will have the opportunity to recall our lives while in the womb, and re-experience our own birth.

A space will be held for you to have a shift in consciousness from “Life is happening to me” to “I am the creator of my own life.” As you birth a new self, you will be given the tools needed
to facilitate people of all ages resolve and redesign prenatal and birth trauma impressions. Watch a video to find out more about the style of massage you will be introduced to click

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This workshop is designed for a wide range of professional backgrounds and skills including: body workers, nurses, medical doctors, midwives, doulas, childbirth educators, infant massage therapists, regular and special education teachers, counselors, and psychologists.

Facilitators

Robin Lim: 2011 CNN Hero  is a mother, grandmother, author, poet, midwife and educator who lives in Bali with her husband and children. Ibu (mother) Robin is a Certified Lay Midwife, with the North American Registry of Midwives and Ikatan Bidan Indonesia. She is a founder and executive director for Yayasan Ibu Bumi Sehat Birth Center in Bali. Lim splits her time between the birth center and the Tsunami Relief Clinic in Samatiga Aceh, Sumatra. Along with receiving babies, Ibu Robin is an author. Many of her articles, stories and poems have been published in Midwifery Today magazine and The Birthkit newsletter. Lim has been given the Alexander Langer International Peace Award. robinlimsupport.org

Ellen Watson: Ellen Watson is celebrating her 25th year on staff at Esalen Institute, where she studies, practices, and teaches various modalities of moving meditation practice. A licensed minister, Ellen believes that the core of all healing begins in the realm of the heart and the Spirit. Among her great pleasures are opening the door for people to dance, to sing and play and pray, to touch and be touched. She is passionate about spreading the good news about how waking up can heal and transform the mind, body and soul. Ellen is a teacher of Esalen® Massage, Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms™, Holotropic™ Breathwork, SpiritDance, The Art of Essential Touch, and Your Body is a Musical Instrument. From 1984 through 2003, Ellen developed and administered the Movement Arts Program at Esalen. In 1996, she founded MovingVentures™ School, a 501c3, whose mission is education in the somatic arts, focusing on women and men in developing countries, and the southern USA. MovingVentures™ faculty offer workshops, retreats, and trainings at Esalen, in Bali, and at other inspiring locations around the globe. For more information on Ellen visit MovingVentures.org

Giuditta Tornetta: Giuditta is a certified birth doula, a certified lactation educator, a certified clinical hypnotherapist, and a certified shiatsu therapist. She is the author of the bestselling book Painless Childbirth: An Empowering Journey Through Pregnancy and Birth. Giuditta practices clinical hypnotherapy and a method of natural childbirth that uses hypnotic techniques to reduce stress and fear during labor and delivery, alleviating discomfort and making the birth experience positive and enjoyable. She also teaches infant mental, emotional, and cognitive health and development.  She has worked in hospital labor and delivery rooms, and home environments, attending and assisting with hundreds of births. For more information on Giuditta visit Joy in Birthing.

Rachel Love is here on mother earth to serve by inspiring and empowering others to live passionately, authentically, to activate their full potential, and to bring people together in common-unity for the greatest good…and fun.  She lives in Bali, the land of her father’s ancestors where she co-founded an artist’s community and Soma café, which serves organic high vibe foods that are truly food as medicine. She loves to share her passions of permaculture/sustainability, holistic healing & nutrition, preparing living foods, gardening, singing, dancing, poetry, conscious relationship and women’s circles with her community. Nearly six years ago, her son was born in the water with Robin Lim with a painless, completely natural full lotus birth. As a permaculturist, she considers herself a disciple of mother earth and is humbled by the intelligence of the plant realm. Her prayer is that all beings live in harmony connected to the earth.

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