Working with Sarah
As the founder and CEO of The Well, Sarah has been teaching cycle charting and various women’s health topics in the USA and internationally since 2001. Sarah is currently focusing primarily on her certification program and is no longer offering her annual class series for body literacy and fertility awareness education. Instead, she is referring all those interested in a class series, to her current interns.
Sarah does see a limited number of clients for private consults. She enjoys working with seasoned or new charters needing help with interpretation, those struggling with cycle health challenges and hormonal imbalance and those with the intention to conceive who could use some extra tools and support. She works integratively; including cycle chart interpretation, lifestyle and nourishment support and emotional and spiritual practices to bring her clients closer to their intentions. Sarah’s work takes over where DIY and social media learning leaves off, by exploring the intricacies of your personal journey and offering truly client centered, empowering care that meets each person where they are rather than using prescriptive methodologies. Sarah has decades of experience working with complex cases and guiding clients through education and simple self care and reflective processes. Please reach out to her directly to schedule or use the scheduling link below.
Sarah also considers requests to travel and teach in other locations. She offers the following classes at conferences and retreats as well as to privately organized audiences. Complete class outlines and objectives available upon request.
Taking Back ‘Our Rites’
This is a weekend nature immersion experience that offers a chance to reflect on the very life experiences inherent for those of us with wombs. Birth, menarche, childbearing/creating, menopause and death. We will spend time contemplating on the thresholds and life transitions we have already walked through, and imagine those to come. We will reflect on how they have been held (or not held) by society, ourselves, our families… The weekend's activities will offer an opportunity to find resolution or completion with past stories; a chance to rewrite an experience, to hold each other in creating new narratives for these transitions… as well as an opportunity to envision and create intentions for the passages ahead of us. The ultimate goal is to step away more whole, more prepared to be who we are here on the planet to be, having accessed the physical source of our power and creativity. For those already in the field of women’s health, you will leave more skilled to support clients through their own rites of passage. We will reach these goals by connecting and listening to nature, to our bodies and to each other.
Clinical Applications of the Fertility Awareness Method
Fertility Awareness Based Methods for tracking biomarkers of fertility and gauging hormonal health have too long been misunderstood and associated with ineffective, simplistic and/or religious-only models of family planning. This lecture is designed to educate healthcare practitioners about the current climate of fertility awareness, a self-care practice that benefits both practitioners and clients immensely. Come and learn how this charting practice can profoundly change someone’s understanding of their body, their health care choices and their relationship to their fertility. As healthcare practitioners you will learn to use this valuable tool for collaborating with clients to meet their fertility, health and family planning needs, decrease use of exogenous hormones, more easily diagnose endocrine pathologies and be witness to a profound empowerment.
The Cycle Show
This is not a lecture but rather an interactive ‘play’ designed to celebrate and educate on the female cycle. You will be led through the physiology and phases of the cycle, as well as the corresponding social and psychological aspects. You will receive an opportunity to creatively experience the ‘story’ of the phases of your cycle and to more deeply integrate them in your life.
A Holistic Approach to Contraception Options/ Family Planning
This lecture and presentation offers a holistic and non-judgemental exploration of contraception options available today. We explore the pros and cons of various practices, the health and emotional consequences, the costs, the availability and much more.
Preparing for Conception
Receive tips for how to prepare physically, mentally, & emotionally for pregnancy & breastfeeding. Understand the key indicators for fertility on cycle charts and directions for optimizing hormonal health for conception as well as guidance whilst experiencing challenges in conceiving. Class will also include ideas for collaboration with assisted reproduction technologies.
The Permaculture of the Female Body
This lecture highlights how to align ourselves with the natural design of our female physiology via self-care, nature connection and deep listening practices. It offers tips for practical and action oriented lifestyle and dietary changes to support a healthy endocrine system. Ideas include sleep habits, blood sugar balance, connection with nature, stress cycles, thyroid and adrenal support and much more.
Coming Off the Pill (and other hormonal contraceptives)
After working with dozens (if not hundreds) of clients who are fed up with losing their health and fertility, their bodies and their happiness, to pharmaceutical contraceptives, I created a class to educate and empower those ready for a different option. This informative powerpoint presentation will explain how the pill and other hormonal contraceptives are affecting our health; how to gracefully transition to other forms of contraception and get your body and cycles back to optimal.
