support partners, older children and primary caregivers

Working with the Center for Sacred Window Studies has been the most wonderful experience. I remember learning about them when I was studying Ayurveda and I felt just a calling and pull to get closer. I visited the website for weeks before I decided to reach out to Christine and find out about the work-study option. I'm so glad I did! Not only did studying with SWS take me deeper into Ayurveda, but it also touched places within me that truly needed healing. It awakened a fire within me that longed for the village, the community, and the nurtured care that I craved so deeply but didn't receive during my postpartum window. It encouraged me to share this passion with the world. I believe that the Center for Sacred Window Studies is doing transformational work for humanity. This is a community of way-showers who are shifting humanity's current skewed perception of what becoming a mother means. It's so much more than just having a baby. It's beginning a new life... for the baby and the mother. It's mending generational wounds. It's raising the next generation of strong leaders. This is the power of the work we do inside the Center for Sacred Window Studies. 

I wanted to share a little on my reflections as a midwife, and learning afresh and anew through this postpartum care course. The concept of the beginner's mind has been revolutionary for me. This course has awoken a new beauty for me around the postpartum window. I have always felt and known that this time is sacred. However since I have started this course, it has just dropped to a whole new level for me. I haven't only felt my practice shift and change in the postpartum time. My energy at births and at antenatal visits has shifted too. I have also been noticing unfolding with new eyes and a new heart. Partly I feel it's because Ayurveda has reignited my commitment to care for self and in turn has inspired me to inspire and support the women and people around me to do the same for themselves. I have added sesame and castor oil to my midwifery bag. I am mixing more herbs and I am listening and seeing on a deeper level. It has been hard too as I have reflected on my own sacred windows and my 3 beautiful children and can totally see correlations between the then and now. I have shed tears and felt certain losses, however I am so clear that judgement of that time is not going to help or support myself or my children and where we are now. Through these experiences, I can support those going through their sacred window now with felt holding, compassion and love. The practices shared in this course of getting to know myself more intimately is so beautiful and so fortifying and such a testimony that my ability to care for myself becomes the quality of how I can care for those around me. Thank you all at Center for Sacred Window Studies. With gratitude and love.