Our Part Two Training is a 7 day immersion to focus on integration and embodiment supporting both the practical and sacred aspects of this work.

Please email us at hello@sumistouch.com with questions, asks, anything!

I have been dreaming up this “training” for years now. I say “training” because truly it is so much more than that. This is a ceremony, an initiation into authentic traditional sovereign birth work. You will arrive on June 5th so that you can have time to travel, get settled, and rest. The following morning we will begin our 7 day journey of introspection. The cornerstones of this ceremony are the 4 pillars: The Art of Holding Space, Tactile Support, Ceremony, and Herbs & Nutrition. We will focus on each pillar and move through the self, pregnancy, birth, and postpartum throughout our time together. 

The learning environment is engulfed in the elements. [Please check out this video to see the amazing land and space hosting us.]
It is an intentional container that cultivates a safer space for people to feel nurtured within their learning process. This is a space for you to feel held and explore what it feels like to listen to your self and meeting your needs. This is a space for our hearts to open up and soften up to get inspired to spark our creative nature. 

Your flight, having your own fund money/emergency fund money, navigating currency exchange cash, toiletries, transportation before or after the dates.
 

You are responsible for your own actions and energy during the retreat. We be in a group setting and it is your responsibility for you to take care of your own needs so you can be present and show up as your most authentic self. Please keep in mind that we will be covering topics that may be activating and stimulating and unlike within our online training we will be witnessed and witnessing in the presence of "strangers." This may bring up moments of feeling extremely vulnerable so please be mindful of your tools, your capacity and your resources.  You are also responsible to respectfully communicate any needs that come up before or during the retreat. Please note that we are curating an experience for the collective, this means that we will be working together to unsure that everyone feels safe, heard and seen. It is our highest intention that we also move with integrity, compassion and understanding.

We have selected accommodations that invite rest and reflection, yet are still close enough to the city so that you may explore on your own and access the things that allow you to feel supported and inspired.

When you invest in yourself, you are investing in the collective. The deposit is non-refundable because your monetary commitment is an act of devotion to the abundance, prosperity and intentional living that we are affirming for healers, wisdom keepers, and sacred entrepreneurs of all kinds. Your investment sustains the Sumi’s Touch Team (mothers of color, healers and creatives) and facilitates conscious discernment around where we are hosted, who is pouring their energy into our food, providing safe passage, etc.

If for some reason you are not able to attend the Part 2 Immersion you have selected due to unforeseen circumstances or you are more than 7 days late on a payment, your reservation will be given the next person on the waitlist. Up to $500 of any additional installments can be applied to a Sumi’s Touch Offering within one calendar year according to our discretion.

Just like in birth, when you know, YOU KNOW and divine order unfolds to support that knowing. We as birth workers prepare for a multitude of possibilities in holding the container of birth, so please consider the following as you commit to this act of healing and expansion for yourself:

• Passport: is it up to date and clear of expiration for 2024 for you and loved ones traveling with you?
• Visa + air travel: we have a travel agent for ease of consultation, but if you decide to book these on your own, please be mindful of what is required.
• Once you pay your deposit (50% of the total) we can adjust the payment plan to suit you. We encourage you to make a simple flier on Canva, including ways folks can send you money and share your ask on social media and personal networks. If you choose a GoFundMe, Kickstarter, or some other platform, please calculate the fees associated with it and build that into your grand total ask.

:: arrive via carpool

:: welcoming ceremony/ introductions
:: altar building  
:: itinerary overview  
:: listening to our inner beings and intuition  
:: boundaries and self-preservation  
:: shame, vulnerability, and trust  
:: grounding, smudging, cloaking  
:: intuitive movement flow 

:: prenatal inquiries, consultations, and prenatal appointments  
::  consent and trauma informed care  
:: herbal infused massage oil
:: prenatal massage  
:: the blessing way

:: we will spend the day until lunch time at a sacred body of water, Laguna Creek & the Pacific Ocean 
:: rest and integration 

:: comfort measures  
:: herbs and homeothapy for labor
:: non-cervix based care and space holding  
:: birth as a ceremony  
:: reading the energetics of labor 

:: Birth story debrief, story weaving/ integration
:: prepared postpartum  
:: feeding fundamentals  
:: the postpartum container
:: postpartum herbs and homeopathy  
:: postpartum massage 

:: moxa  
:: abdominal wrapping  
:: pelvic steam  
:: postpartum bath  
:: postpartum closing of the bones 

:: Final Reflection

:: Blessing of the hands  

:: Departure