Teen doula explore class as well...My original post - I made an error - so want to correct something. If you are interested in our birth doula or postpartum doula classes or teen explore doula - we do take payment plans on the sale pricing - just put down around $100 - however, I can do special circumstances and $50 every 2 weeks or something like that also works. We want to make it easy for you to start training as a doula!
We also have a new teen doula explore class. Now, we do expect the parents to cover the fees of the class. This is a great class for homeschoolers. It will meet 6-7 times for the semester and offer mentoring up to 14 weeks to help the student finish the class. There will be an option for the teen to opt-in for full birth or postpartum doula certification for more. Go here to get info about teen doula explore! Next we are offering a business doula class again - this one is through our new Doula Money Group - so go to www.doulamoney.com to learn more about the class. We will meet up 1-2 times depending on class size and rest will be business modules sent to you. This class is low cost - but if you need a little boost - just message us about the class at catholicdoulaprogram@gmail.com We are going to still offer our herbal class again - we are working on an immediate download idea - so if you want this class before we have it in the birth shop - just message us and we can invoice you for it. Note: Birth shop items will be slightly more because of Square charging extra fee. If you prefer to do a "friends only" payment via PayPal or check let me know. The herbal class will also go on sale soon - so look for that. I wanted it to have a small discount. Thank you. This is also a great time again - to just study to be a doula - we think 20% savings is a great deal and really good if you are choosing mentorship options! Thank you!
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Confession and Queen Mary... Sometimes you need a good knock on the head when going to confession. Today I was reminded of Our Lady Queen to bring all our troubles too. We are in the land of exile - so we should turn towards Mary our Queen to ask her for help. She will help us in our state of life. If you are married, the Sacrament of Matrimony graces are not just for you - they are for the whole family esp. your husband. And the husband's graces are meant for you. So, perhaps you feel that you need some of those extra graces - then pray for your husband (if married).
So, what does this have to do with doula work? Mary is here to help us spiritually as a mother to cover her Mantle over us. She is here to show us the way... as a doula or mother - or whatever we are doing. That's in a way why I called my personal doula site "Our Lady's Mantle doula" - I want to be her handmaid and also she offers the "Mantle of Love" to us. I one time had a dream of Mary covering me with her mantle and today I am reminded that from the fruits you shall know them - today's Gospel (Latin Mass). So, the fruit of our doula work is helping mamas from pregnancy to postpartum. I hope you will find the clients you need for your doulaing. So, we are offering our business class again - you get in at the lower rate if you enroll by August 10th. We will plan at least one time to meetup and maybe more - if I have more students we may meet up 2 times. This will be determined after August 10th. The modules for business will be sent to you right away (and I may upload to the birth shop or email to you). After we gather how many will be in this class, I'll set up time(s) to meetup with the group to discuss the modules a little bit more. So, here's more information at the Business Page. So, August 10th is not the day we meet - but will just be our early bird deadline on entry to our summer business program. We will decide on meetup within a week after that probably after August 15th. Thank you. *Note: We will take late entries to the business class - you will be expected to pay slightly more. Thank you. What to do for the summer? If you are like me, I am tired of the heat or hot weather. I hear it is supposed to rain some locally. I hope you get cooled off this summer too. So, what if you are a new doula starting out and want to get some business ideas this summer? Great - I am planning to do is offer another business class for early August. We are now doing it this way - you get self-pace doula modules as soon as you enroll - (will be available August 1st) and then we will have 2 meetups if I have 2-3 people signup together or in early August. We will meet up to discuss business tips and set up and things like that. We can send you a CEU certificate if so desired if needed for DONA or for Catholic Doula program students. We are working on offering this for you to just get your doula business going more! Dates to be decided - since we are flexible for the live portion. Business page will be updated to reflect information soon. Thank you. Other business - we will be putting on sale our mama herb class soon and probably a website wide sale for 'back to school'. Perhaps you are a busy mother or single person over this summer and looking forward to kids being back in school and having more time on your hands? Great - then maybe this fall would be the perfect time to set up your doula studies!! We will be putting on sale the self-pace class and have options for live class if we have enough interest. Look for that sale soon! We will probably make it available soon for those who want to pay in full the sale will be available. We are not going to be able to offer payment plan sale at this time. Thanks for understanding. However, we may offer a sale for live class and that one will will make payment plan reflect a sale price. One final event coming up - Birth Ball Rebozo - we hope to offer in middle of August or late August - look for announcements later on that event! Thank you.  Our Birth shop has.... We finally getting our Birth shop up and running. We just uploaded postpartum doula contract and birth doula contract to purchase and since we are just launching our shop - we are putting everything on sale. We have one pink rebozo up for grabs as well! Note: We can order more if more than one person wants a pink rebozo!
So, our Level A rebozo workshop is on Saturday and we would love to have you attend. If you are a mama looking for a technique or two to help you with labor time - then come on over - rebozos have a way of taking away the pain!! To register go here: https://rebozo.weebly.com/rebozo-workshop-level-a.html#/ Late register fee is waived - so you get in for our lowest price! Now, we are working on the "on-demand" rebozo class as well and hope to have that ready in early August along with a mini-aroma class too. Herbs for mamas class is open for registration - go here to get the scoop... Go to our Mama Herb Page. We are no longer using an outside link for this class right now. Thank you. We accidentally put the wrong thing in a different post - so decided to delete that post. OK, so our Mama Herbal class will be a summer available course starting now thru July 31st! The class is self-pace-like a masterclass but you can do it on your own. If we get 3 mamas to signup, I'll do a live time slot with you all sometime in late July or early August! I also have other videos available that I'll send you, etc. Get more info at Our Lady's Mantle site - click here! Next - we are having a Birth shop now - there will be freebie items you can grab plus low cost items - and we will also put our rebozo shawls that are available. Please note: Rebozo shawls will also have shipping attached to that. Some of the other shop items will be downloads you can purchase for instance doula contracts! Mamas will be able to get affirmation cards and things like that. So, our Birth shop will be stocked as we have time - check out the Birth Shop and bookmark it! Doula Circle - so we are hoping to get this started soon - please check back on Tuesday for announcement on when we will do this month's free circle. Also, we are offering a Rebozo Level A live workshop on July 16th - so please come on over to that if you are interested - live online class via zoom! Get registered here today! Our Birth shop will also feature our pay in full courses as we would like to use Square payments instead of PayPal more often. PayPal is supporting evil and I finally figured out how to get Square to work. Also, you may request hand invoicing for payment plans with Square as I have figured out how to do invoicing via Square payments! Note-extra fee will be added on Square to the full price to offset the fee we pay to them. Thank you. So, the PayPal on here is for auto payments (which they only give me option to call subscription - same thing) - so the auto payments are for anyone who prefers that method. If you find that you do not know how to go through all the steps for payment on Square - just contact us and we will be glad to invoice you to save on any steps. We want to make things simple. Thank you. God Bless.
Become a Fertility doula in the new year... I think my favorite thing to do is to create courses; however, I have never been that great at marketing - however, we are looking into finding someone to help with that part. For now, we are happy to announce that our Fertility Doula Course is getting into shape and we will also be able to offer a separate breakout Fertility Nutrition class or you can combine it all together! This Fertility Doula class is great for helping couples obtain pregnancy and more. We do have a brief overview about NFP as well. This Fertility class leaves out all that IUD, IUI, etc. talk - we are all for a more natural approach! This class will be hosted at the Magnificat Childbirth site under Magnificat Fertility Doula course! This class is priced at $300 - but we may offer a short special deal - by the way this is a pilot cost and we anticipate pricing higher after we have the first set of pilot students. https://magnificat-childbirth.thinkific.com/courses/Magnificat-fertility-final Note; please do not enroll till the class is uploaded all the way - we are still working on the uploading sections! _______________________________________________ Next on our agenda for this post: New Discover Doula Mini-Course - we are creating a mini-course that will go through a little bit of all we offer - so this mini-course is going to include: *Birth doula info *Postpartum doula info *Bereavement doula info *Fertility doula info *Magnificat Childbirth Educator *B.O.O.B. Breastfeeding info This mini-class will have a special guarantee with it - whatever we decide on the price of our mini-class - you get that amount off the full course cost of one of our other classes (sorry cannot combine with any other discounts) - so if you decide to enroll in the Postpartum course for instance - then you get $amount off from your postpartum course! Also, you may decide to take more than one course - if you decide to take 3 courses - we will offer even a special discount for that - so if you want this mini-class please let us know - email us at catholicdoulanews@gmail.com - so we know of your interest in this special class. We will probably have the mini-class "on special" sometime in the early new year - so look for that! Next ; We are working on our New St. Zélie Doula School links - the school is our new updated birth and postpartum courses - they will be posted on Thinkific site under this name. Also, we hope to update the bereavement class into a new Hannah's Tears Bereavement for post-abortive support to tie into the Sorrowful doula class. We are also considering an End of Life Doula class - this one will be very simple - we are not going to do any medical stuff - so it will be more of a supportive of the dying or ill person. Lastly, we are hosting our find the roses contest - so please enter - find the red rose on the pages listed or find the gold rose somewhere else - please put in where you found the roses on our front page form! Those who entered before we had the form may still be entered in the contest. Thanks so much! This contest will end around January 6th or so - Epiphany - so feel free to enter until then. God Bless.
Celebrate Halloween in a Catholic way... As Catholics, should we celebrate the “devil’s holiday,” so to speak, by dressing up as witches, devils, demons, or even “innocent” characters from movies or books? If this day is evil, why do we celebrate Halloween? This is a controversial subject at best this time of year. Some say this day has pagan origins, but we are going to focus on the Catholic side of things. The real name of Halloween is “All Hallows Eve,” and it is the day before All Saints Day in the Catholic Church. Traditionally, an eve of a feast is a day for penance, not dressing up like werewolves! All Hallows Eve is also the pre-cursor to the “Day of the Dead,” All Souls Day – now November 2 in the Catholic Church. Catholic News Agency reported: Halloween “is not as innocent as dressing up as a witch and creating jack-o-lanterns with scary looking faces.” Father Joan Maria Canals of the Committee on the Liturgy of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference told La Razon that the problem with Halloween is its connection to “occultism and anti-Christianity.” Parents should “be conscious and channel the meaning of the day towards that which is good and beautiful instead of towards terror, fear and death itself,” he added. (Catholic News Agency) So, as parents we can allow our children to celebrate, but we can define the celebration of “All Hallows Eve” by encouraging our little ones dress up as saints. Now, if you are from a Mexican descent as I am, you may also want to celebrate the “Day of the Dead.” This is done by honoring the loved ones that have passed from our families. Here are some articles on this celebration if you wish to research further: Day of the Dead (Catholic.org) Why do Catholics celebrate Day of the Dead? (Aleteia.org) Celebrating All Hallows Eve in a Catholic way First, have your child choose a saint they like the most. Perhaps it is St. John of the Cross or St. Rose! Then they should dress up like their favorite saint. St. John would need a cross or crucifix – perhaps make a special one for him to carry. St. Rose should dress in white and wear a crown of roses and perhaps add in a black veil, as she was a Dominican tertiary. Next, think of a party theme idea! I have been to various All Saints parties – there are many ways to do this. One way is to have a March of the Saints and maybe a guess the saint game! First of all, have all the “saints” march together, down your street if you are hosting a party, or if at a church, go around the block and come back to the church hall. Then, if you have priests in attendance, they can guess the saint. If you have nuns in your chapel, maybe they could be the ones guessing. Anyway, this will take some time; the other partygoers can have snacks while the guessing game is going on. If you have a church where you have classrooms, you can decorate the doors with particular saints if so desired and then hand out candy at each door – or the candy can be handed out in the hall or at your home. Other games can be played as well, such as a ring toss. Use your imagination! If you need ideas, read the book Saints and Seasons of the Liturgical Year from Catholic Heritage. There is also another tradition called “Soul cakes” where you pray for a person that has passed soul. The name of the person is put on candy or food (like if the host makes cupcakes or donuts – you can attach a name of a departed person on a card or sticker) – then the person eating the food must also remember to pray for that soul that has passed! I really like this tradition as it ties the Catholic All Souls Day to All Hallows Eve, and you are tying a much-needed prayer for the Holy Souls that have passed from this life. End your party with singing some songs about saints and holy souls! Now, that you know how to properly host a All Hallows Eve party - yes, Catholics can definitely celebrate Halloween in this wonderful way! Will you host your own party this year or find a way to celebrate as a saint? What saint will you be? Can you guess the saints below?
 Should Catholics Celebrate Halloween?Technically the proper name for Halloween is "All Hallows' Eve" and yes it is OK to celebrate it in the Catholic tradition of things. We should be celebrating saints that have died - since the next day is All Saints Day! Secondly, in the Traditional Latin Mass calendar, Christ the King Feast day happens to land on Halloween this year - so maybe trade in the idea of ghosts and goblins to being Knight or a King! Christ is King of our Hearts and this is a great feast day to celebrate!
One of these days I may just make a class just for information about the traditions and feast days of the Catholic Church. Our Bereavement course sale ends on November 1st - so get in for good deal for only $77.00 - go here to learn more! Anyway, so what's on the menu for end of October or November at Catholic Doula? Well, first of all we are working on the Magnificat Doula Certification for fertility doula class - and I made a page where you can signup for the waitlist. So, if you want to do that please go here. https://mailchi.mp/b8c33a0bc763/magnificatdoula1 Then we are still hosting our herbal course - we have decided to do a live over 2 nights and then the rest of the class is your modules and you make one herb. I may also send you some mini videos extras as bonus! Plus, I put it on sale for less only $77. So, go here to signup!! November we are going to do business doula class and rebozo classes - so look for that information here for business and here for rebozo classes!! We hope you will join us on one of those dates!! I also may do herbs again in December if we have enough interest. I am considering offering GIFT CARDS for Christmas time - a Gift card could be purchased for $50-$200 to go towards a small class or big class.
October is usually a busy month for everyone -but let's hope you can make time for a Doing Business the Doula webinar - we set up 2 dates for our live class - they both will make if we have someone signup - choose October 13 or October 22nd. Be prepared for 2 hour with break class! Learn more about the doula business class here! November we are offering our fall herbal class (2-3 class meetings) - enroll early for a special bonus herb to be sent to you!! This herbal class will also include a replay of our mini-belly binding class from our postpartum class. Read more here about the herbal class and how to enroll! Bereavement class is currently still self-pace and we are considering an update of the course for us to add it to Magnificat Childbirth Educator Thinkific platform. So, we are discounting the current class from October 2nd-October 15th in honor of bereavement doula month - become a certified sorrowful doula! Learn more at this link about the course! December we will probably be taking some time off - usually it is our slowest month - however, self-pace classes will always be available. And we may still run a surprise sale ! We look forward to serving you again in the new year. We may even have something around Epiphany (Jan. 6th) live class - so look for details on that later on in this year! Want to be on our mailing list and are not getting Sacred sisters doula news or Marian Mother's news? Email us here and say "add to newsletter" - get specific if you want. Marian mother's news has items more aimed at mothers and parent classes while Sacred Sisters has info for doulas! Also, since today is St. Therese's feast day - it is time to start a novena to her - so here's the novena link. Ask her to send you a rose - I am for sure!! God Bless! Oh, in our next blog we will announce more about Rebozo workshop most likely for mid or late October!   Rebozo class is coming!! Yeah, we are going to offer 2 levels on September 6th - we will do Level A and Level C - fun!! For now it is $65 a person - Want to get a discount? Please signup with a friend for $50 a person - tell us friend's name or pay for your friend's signup! Email us for enrollment info!
Update on Postpartum course got delayed so we are starting next Wed. September 1st. If interested in live birth class we will start that up in October (date to be announced). More on Rebozo class - The Level A is our simple and easy fun class to learn the basics - open to anyone who wants to learn rebozo (can be parents, doulas, midwives, etc.) Level C - prefer some experience but anyone can come - Level C will cover our postpartum bone closing ceremony, postpartum pushing, mini-rebozo massage for baby, and some licensure opportunity to teach locally (first come first serve for areas ). You need to do all levels in order to get the licensure agreement going. Want to register for rebozo class or get into postpartum? Email us now!! |
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