Precious Time: Sweet Ways To Be With Your New Baby
April 14 – May 26
Tuesday Mornings at 9:30
The first year of a new family’s life is poignant and important. This six week class will facilitate experiences for parents with bonding, communication, connection, soothing, sleeping, and just being with their new baby.
Birth on the Continuum: An Exploration of Birth Stories
Sponsored by Four Seasons Midwifery and MotherCare VA
Raising Awareness about the prenatal period, birth and postpartum.
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Time: 6:30 – 8 pm
Body Mind Spirit
923 Preston Avenue, Charlottesville, VA
While birth is often a powerful event for women, many come away from the experience feeling confused and stressed. This talk will present birth on a continuum from uncomplicated to those that can be very difficult with heroic stories where women have overcome obstacles to have healthy babies.
*note: Free Range Neighborhoods has been postponed until Fall 2009
Free Range Neighborhoods: Designing Everyday Natural Places to Motivate Children’s Outdoor Play
Friday, Feb 6 8AM-5PM, Cost: $95
How can design professionals and developers create streets, residential spaces, childcare centers, schoolgrounds, trails, parks and playgrounds, and all the elements of neighborhood form to facilitate children’s independent mobility and connection with nature?
Some outstanding speakers are expected including Robin Moore and Nilda Cosco of the Natural Learning Initiative, Tim Beatley of the University of Virginia, Tim Gill of the UK (author of No Fear: Growing Up in a Risk Adverse Society); and Richard Dolesh of National Recreation and Parks Association. Following the speakers will be a design charette for the featured local neighborhood, Belvedere. The Symposium will be held at the Charlottesville Community Design Center on the downtown mall.
Breakfast and Lunch are included in the ticket price.
Click to register for the workshop.
We hope you can join us!
January is “Discover my practice” month. I am offering 10% off of all services, and during the week of Jan 5 - 9 I am offering $40 massage and craniosacral sessions.
