It is with great pleasure that we share the daylong virtual retreat with Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam and Gena McCarthy, Healing Birth in the Embrace of the Great Mother on Saturday, October 8.
Gena McCarthy RN, MFT is an EMDR certified perinatal psychotherapist. She is the founder and developer of the Birth Spirituality and Healing Network, the Contra Costa County Perinatal Depression to Wellness Network and developed two local HMO Perinatal Integrative Health Programs.
She co-founded the East Bay/ SF Peer Perinatal Professional Ceremony Circle. Gena is a long-time Tara Mandala sangha member. She has been trained in cross cultural shamanic, Buddhist, Cherokee peacekeeping practices and perinatal psychology.
Healing Birth in the Embrace of the Great Mother
With Magyu Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam and Gena McCarthy RN, MFT • October 8
This retreat is open to anyone who wants to bring insight and healing to the path of birth and motherhood, such as difficult: births of your own or your children, relationships with your mother or mothering, abortions and miscarriages. We gather as a community for a Healing Birth Ceremony nourished by compassion practices and teachings on the Great Mother, Prajna Paramita, somatic resourcing and elemental meditations. We weave together a supportive and generative community that allows us to bring healing and transformation to some of our birth imprints … Read more »
May we gather together cultivating the wisdom and voices needed to honor our children and our births, to heal our relationships to our ancestors, and to dream a future for all.
~With Blessings,
Tara Mandala
