Spinning Babies®
Aware Practitioner Training
This unique training is designed for hands-on prenatal and birth professionals dedicated to enhancing their skills in supporting physiological childbirth.
San Diego, CA
March 27-30, 2025
Join the movement:
Transform how you approach prenatal bodywork
Welcome to Spinning Babies® Aware Practitioner Training
This path is designed for bodyworkers and midwives, doctors and nurses who seek deeper knowledge of prenatal bodywork to support fetal positioning and address pregnancy-related pain from a Spinning Babies® perspective. By becoming a Spinning Babies® Aware Practitioner, you’ll gain specialized skills to help alleviate discomfort and optimize fetal position.
Prerequisite: Spinning Babies® Foundational Workshop.
- Gain advanced skills to support your clients
- Transform your awareness of how you come into relationship with your clients
- Earn 25 Continuing Education (CE) credits through the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) and National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB).
- Join a global community dedicated to shifting the birth paradigm
What to Expect
- Four Full Days of Hands-On Learning: Dive deep into practical techniques and gain confidence through extensive hands-on practice.
- Access to Online Course Material: Benefit from online resources available before and after the training to reinforce your learning.
- Extensive Workshop Manual: Receive a detailed manual, including client evaluation forms you can use in your practice.
- Pelvic Level Solutions℠ for Labor: Master pelvic level solutions to support optimal labor progress.
- Head to Toe Fascial Release Work: Discover techniques for full-body fascial release to enhance comfort and mobility and increase the space available for baby.
- Practice Each Technique: Experience and practice each learned technique in one-on-one groups, building confidence with your skills.
- Group Collaboration: Engage in collaborative learning with attendees from around the world, sharing insights and experiences.
- Post-Training Benefits: After successfully completing the training, you have the option to be listed on the Spinning Babies® website directory and add Spinning Babies® Aware Practitioner to your credentials.
- A Life-Changing Experience: Transform your practice and join a new paradigm in birth work with this life-changing training.
Who is this Training for?
This training requires a scope of practice, in which hands on therapy can be provided:
- Midwives (traditional, out-of-hospital, & hospital-based)
- Chiropractors
- Physical therapists
- Massage therapists
- Nurses
- Physicians
Training Location
San Diego is a vibrant city with plenty to offer. Enjoy the beautiful beaches, world-class dining, and attractions like Balboa Park and the San Diego Zoo.
Participants are responsible for their own travel, accommodations, and related expenses. Spinning Babies® is unable to refund these expenses.
We encourage our guests to use the training’s private Facebook Group to connect with one another before the event and explore different options for sharing lodging and travel considerations.
- Dates: March 27-30, 2025
- Location: 1936 Quivira Way, San Diego, CA 92109
- Time: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM Daily
Registration Information
- Early Bird Rate: $1796 (Ends November 15, 2024)
- Standard Rate: $2196
- Finance Options: Register before November 15, 2024 to use our payment installment option, allowing you to divide your registration fee into 6 payments.
- Seats Available: 36
- Registration Closes: March 11, 2025
Cancellation or substitution accepted under restricted conditions.
- $100 USD fee for cancellations before November 15, 2024.
- $300 USD fee for cancellations before March 11, 2025
- NO REFUND ON OR AFTER March 12, 2025.
Meet Your Instructors
Emma Moreland
Emma Moreland is a birth worker and body worker based out of San Diego, CA. After the births of her five children and facing a lack of representation, Emma decided she would pursue a career in midwifery. Emma works to create a safe space and community for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color who are seeking birth and body services as well as information and support, working specifically to reduce the Black perinatal and infant mortality rates in the US. On her path to becoming a midwife, Emma has studied birth work, body work, Birthing From Within, and craniosacral therapy. Emma graduated from Nizhoni Institute of Midwifery in 2020 and is set to take the licensing exam in the fall of 2021, after which she will be a Licensed Midwife. As a Spinning Babies® Aware Practitioner and Spinning Babies® World Confluence speaker, Emma has committed herself to the education about and implementation of embodied consent in birth and body workers, as well as clients.
Nicole Morales
Nicole Morales is a Spinning Babies® Aware Instructor and Practioner as well as a Spinning Babies® Approved Trainer and homebirth midwife. She integrates her skills into her practice in advocating for breech as well through prenatal, birth, and postpartum care. She is co-author of The Breech Release: Opening Pathways for Midwifery and Prenatal Bodywork and spends her time thinking more deeply about the birthworker community uniting over physiology! You can also find her workshops for mentorship in the Spinning Babies online course catalogue for Breech for Pregnant Parents and Breech Pregnancy for Practitioners.
Jamie Mossay
Jamie Mossay (she/her) has been serving the San Diego community as a massage therapist/bodyworker for over 20 years and started attending births as a doula in 2009. She is a mother, Birth Story Listener®, Certified Birthing From Within® Mentor and Facilitator, and a Spinning Babies® Aware Practitioner and Instructor. Jamie has studied, practiced, and taught numerous modalities working primarily with pregnant, laboring, and postpartum people and their families and those who serve them. She is the creator of the DANCES® approach to prenatal bodywork and Birthing From Within’s Touch From Within course, a co-author (with Nicole Morales) and illustrator of The Breech Release: Opening Pathways for Midwifery and Prenatal Bodywork, and co-creator of the Spinning Babies® Online Course: Breech for Parents which offers holistic support for navigating breech pregnancy for both parents and practitioners.
Frequently Asked Questions
Please bring a water bottle, a full or twin size fitted sheet, and any items that would enhance your comfort and learning experience.
Light refreshments and snacks will be provided daily. There are many restaurants within walking distance of the training location, and delivery options are available as well.
Upon registration, you will receive a detailed welcome packet containing information on nearby airports, Airbnb options, hotels, local lodging options, local attractions, a link to the training’s private Facebook group, login information to access your pre-training materials, contact information for support before and after the training, and an outline for each training day. Additionally, an invoice and a contract will be emailed to you, which you must complete before accessing your pre-training materials.
Yes, you can earn continuing education credits through ANCC and NCBTMB upon successfully completing the training.
We offer a BIPOC Equity seat awarded to a selected applicant. The deadline to submit your application is November 15, 2024. Apply Now
Register before November 15, 2024, to take advantage of our payment installment option, allowing you to divide your registration fee into six payments.
The registration deadline is March 11, 2025. We encourage early registration as there are only 36 seats available.