Honoring and Clearing the Mother Path Retreats ~ Upcoming 10/27/24 ~ Berlin,
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Come unpack some of the root imprints in our lifetimes and those of our ancestors that are connected with our current mothering issues. Heal the parts of ourselves that need repair. Clear our own, our children’s and our ancestors’ birth and parenting fields...the Mother Path.

For:
All who identify as people mothering or grandmothering. It is also open to people struggling with issues of motherhood, becoming a mother and in their relationship with their own mothers. It is open to all genders.

What: 
🪷 Take refuge in the  support of many loving wisdom beings through guided meditation. 🪷 Connect with your strengths through somatic practice.
🪷 Celebrate the gifts you have offered our world through dyad storytelling.
🪷 Experience a ceremonial meditation which supports healing of our paths of birth and motherhood, such as fertility issues; difficult labor and/or childbirth; relationships with your own parents; maternal longing; abortions and miscarriages.
🪷 Increase compassion for yourself, your family, and your ancestors by noticing the connections between your experience and their experiences on the mother path through meditation, worksheets and dyads.
🪷Develop a supportive, nurturing, and generative community through sharing with  kindness.

Mothers' Meditation Circle

If you want a place to:

Be Real
Connect with your Body
Connect with compassion
Connect with belonging
Experience a nourishing community
Cultivate your Meditation Practice

Then this Circle is for you!

​Meditation Practices:

"I have come to believe that an authentic human path of spirituality inevitably winds back to the body. There and only there will awakening occur" Lama Willa Blythe Baker, The Wakeful Body

I will be offering meditations from this book.
Each of the practices I am offering supports your experience as a mom, a person, a woman. By coming together in this circle to practice meditation you will  strengthen your personal renewal and mama wisdom while benefiting from the positive effect of building a trusting community.

What to Expect:
6 Live Online monthly 1.5 hour sessions
Meditation practice with  sharing and peer support

Time and Dates ~ Spaces Limited to 10
The second Thursday of every month x 6 months,
6:30pm - 8pm
If you are interested in this becoming a peer led group after 6 months, note that on your registration form.

Fee is $300/ 6 month series, non refundable

Facilitator:
Gena McCarthy RN, MFT is an EMDR certified Perinatal Psychotherapist and Educator. She is the founder and developer of the Birth Spirituality and Healing Network, the Contra Costa County Perinatal Depression to Wellness Network and the developer of two local HMO Perinatal Integrative Health Programs. She teaches Perinatal Professional Development Courses such as the Perinatal Ceremony Facilitator Training and Healing Birth Trauma with Bilateral Stimulation. She offers Honoring and Clearing the Mother Path Retreats at various Dharma Centers. She is the co-founder of the East Bay/ SF Peer Perinatal Professional Ceremony Circle. She has been trained in cross cultural shamanic and interfaith peace- keeping practices and perinatal psychology.