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We teach caregiving skills for the first weeks after a baby is born.  Our focus is on the mother or birth giver, and supporting a whole path to healing including the body, mind, spirit and senses.  We honor this incredible life transition and all the ways that can look for families!  Our caregiving skills include daily routine and support tools for managing common postpartum issues, cooking and herbal support food preparation specific to postpartum nutritional needs, therapeutic body care skills for mothers or birth givers and babies, and much more!  Our background is from the Ayurvedic perspective and our program draws from these foundational principles.

Yes!  Hands on Training attendees get a special 42% discount on our online training and mentoring programs.

This is our Directory of postpartum caregivers along with our Membership Community.  Students and Alumni are forever members of this Collective and it is open to anyone who practices.  Features include a free directory listing, attendance to quarterly events such as Case Study Circles and Skill Share Workshops + a gorgeous Online Hub filled with exclusive learning content for postpartum professionals.

This is our professional mentoring program.  It is open to any of our graduates or graduates of other programs in postpartum care. It is designed to give you support, accountability, and feedback as you build your professional practice and begin working with clients in your community.  Learn more here!  It can be bundled with the Conscious Postpartum Caregiver Program when you select the Whole Path. 

There are 15 live class sections.  They occur approximately every other week.  Office Hours for Conversation and Student Support occur every other week in between the live class sections. Students may schedule with an instructor anytime if the set office hours do not work for them.  There are no live classes during the months of December, June and July.  Live classes are approximately 2 hours in length.  The live classes are designed to be interactive and participatory.  Students will be given a checklist of recorded lectures and supplemental materials to review before coming to each class.  We will base our activities and discussion directly on the course material from the checklist.  After offering live lectures for several years, we feel the best learning happens when we are engaging with students and actively learning together.  The live classes are important to attend though waivers can be given to students on an individual basis and recordings will always be available for everyone on the student website. Waivers will be given for time zone conflicts and unavoidable circumstances.  (We are extremely willing to work with your situation but we ask that you honor your studies and the commitment to participate.)  

Engagement with instructors and other students as well as completion of 4 final projects.  Each project is extremely doable and geared to be put into use as you begin practicing postpartum care with families.  There are no exams.

Live classes are dynamic and will always include open conversation and discussion about key areas of the curriculum.  They may include individual or small group activities, examples, case studies, special guests, workshop style learning and more.  Students should come to the live classes prepared to engage and having reviewed the pre-class checklist of content to watch and read.

You can start anytime!  We enroll students all year long.  You do not have to begin at Section One of the program.  This is a cyclical learning experience, and you may begin at the part of the cycle you enter at, and continue around the rotation of Course Sections.  While many will begin with Section One in January (or at the beginning of the cycle), we allow students to come in and journey at their own pace and timing. 

Once all requirements are met and tuition has been paid, students will receive a Certificate as a Conscious Postpartum Caregiver.  Your hours and areas of study will be designated on your Certificate.  The doula/caregiver field is not a licensed profession, therefore, professionals may call themselves by what resonates most with them within the non medical scope of the field.  (ex. Ayurdoula, postpartum doula, postpartum caregiver, Ayurvedic postpartum doula, etc.)

Yes!  Your Certificate will be sent once all above requirements are complete, and total tuition has been submitted.

We are accredited under IPHM, International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine based in the U.K.  We are Organizational Members of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association.  

We encourage students to set aside approximately 5 hours per week to devote to your studies.  Students get the most out of their program when they are able to plan ahead for when these hours will happen, identify what support they need in order to have that time, and know how they wish to spend that time.  

The live classes run approximately 2 times per month for 1 year.  Should a student wish to study ahead, all the teaching material is located on the student website and students may move at a faster pace if they choose.  The requirements remain the same whether someone completes the program in one year, 6 months, or 2+ years.  If a student needs additional time past the one year mark, they may purchase an extension or take advantage of our restart + re-energize opportunity.

Yes!  If all final projects are completed, tuition paid and engagement in the program has been active, a student can complete the program early.  Instructors will let students know if they need to schedule an exit interview in order to assess the student’s comprehension.  

No, the Hands On Training Retreat is encouraged as a way to experience the cooking and herbal support practices as well as the postpartum body work we teach.  It is an incredible retreat designed to have you experience sacred window care with all of your senses while you gain confidence in practicing the skills you will offer to others.  We recognize that travel is not always accessible to students.  The online training certification can stand alone.  Students who attend our Hands On Training will receive an additional Certificate from the Center for Sacred Window Studies. 

Forever!  Once you enroll in the Conscious Postpartum Caregiver Program, you will maintain access to the student website after your program is complete.

We offer a Study Scholarship Program for our Certification and Internship programs.  Scholarships are for ⅓ or ⅔ of tuition and students complete a checklist of projects to support the Center for Sacred Window Studies in exchange.  Learn more about the Work Study Scholarship Program Here.

Yes!  Should you wish to go through the live training again, alums have a special offer called the Restart + Re-energize fee, a HUGE discount and another opportunity to complete your Certification.

Our alums are very important to us!  As a student of the Center for Sacred Window Studies, you are a forever member of the Postpartum Care Collective.  We host member only events throughout the year such as Case Study Circles and Skill Share events.  Members have access to a huge online portal with an archive of professional and educational talks related to postpartum.  We highlight the practices of our members and give you paid speaking opportunities.  Our alums are invited to attend live all Guest Lectures presented after they graduate.  Alums can revisit their student website to access all the great material in your program.

You will have the foundational and practical knowledge to give hands on care to someone during the first weeks and months postpartum.  This includes a toolbox of support measures and helpful routines, nutritional principles and cooking skills, herbal support foods and routines, bodywork practices for mothers, birth givers and babies, and much more.  You are ready to practice!

Check out the Syllabus!

Students have access to a beautiful student website accessed directly from this website.  When logged in, students will be able to navigate directly to their course websites.  Each student will have access to both the Conscious Postpartum Caregiver Program website as well as the Postpartum Care Collective Membership Hub filled with additional postpartum resources.  The websites are easy to navigate and each section of your course has its own materials and activities to engage in.  Discussion pages are within each section for students to engage with each other while they explore the material.

Our live classes are the heart of the program.  They are designed to be thoughtful, engaging and fun.  The student website holds recorded video lectures, course notes, supplemental reading assignments, optional practicum assignments, journal prompts, discussion questions, recorded Guest Lectures, supplemental resources and more!  Students choose what combination of materials best supports their learning.  Not everything is required.  Prioritize the live classes, video lectures, office hours, meeting with your breakout study partners the discussion questions and the final projects.  Fill in with the supplemental materials.  You have forever access to this website, so you may return at any time.

We connect students by region as a way for you to meet others in the program and enrich your studies through exploration of the material together.  Some incredible friendships and partnerships have been formed through these groups!  They are optional and totally flexible.  They are a highlight of the program for many.

Your program is one year.  We give students 3 months post program to complete all of your 4 final projects and turn them in to your instructors.  If you need a 3 month extension, it is available for purchase.  If you would like to retake the program to complete your requirements, we give an amazing discount to our alums.