Sarah founded The Well School of Body Literacy in 2011. Though Sarah continues to be a primary facilitator at The Well, the school, program, and curriculum are upheld and taught collaboratively.
Our team includes co-facilitator and teacher Majida Sa’ida Al-Husaam, a fantastic group of mentors and a whole host of guest speakers. Please read on to get to know the FAEs and other professionals that make The Well so deep.
Majida SaidA
Al-Husaam
Faculty & Co-Facilitator
A lifelong advocate for sexual-reproductive sovereignty through mind-body-spirit literacy and connection, Majida has received certifications in the areas of yoga, massage therapy, nutritional therapy, doula support, financial trauma, various meditation and energetic healing modalities, and clinical hypnotherapy.
Majida is a graduate of The Well's School of Body Literacy under the mentorship of Sarah Bly. As a Fertility Awareness Educator (FAE) and Holistic Reproductive and Sexual Health Educator (HRSHE), Majida is passionate about serving women and female-bodied individuals in growing and healing through tapping into the ancestral wisdom of body literacy as an empowering practice for self-love and self-care.
Additionally, Majida graduated from Northwestern University’s Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program. Her clinical and research focus include sex therapy, financial therapy, reproductive psychology, somatic therapy, trauma-informed counseling, epigenetics and intergenerational trauma, and clinical applications of psychoneuroimmunology. Majida is passionate about providing solidarity-oriented, integrative, multiculturally-informed mental health and wellness services in the areas of sexual-reproductive trauma and financial stress for women.
Majida is also a member of the American Counselor Association (ACA), the Financial Therapy Association (FTA), the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT), the International Association of Interpersonal Hypnotherapists (IAIH), and the Association for Fertility Awareness Educators (AFAP).
She lives in Central Georgia with her supportive hubby and two ginger kitties.
Mentor Team
Mary Aline
Mary Aline (she/they) has been teaching folks how to track their cycles since 2020 after she completed Sarah Bly’s Two Year Teacher Training Program through The Well.
Mary Aline’s passion for reproductive health and justice is also reflected in her work as a board member of the Association of Fertility Awareness Practitioners. Mary is passionate about being a part of a new paradigm of reproductive health- one that offers informed choice, empowers the individual, is nurturing, honors our wisdom, and supports our planet.
Mary mentors 2nd Year students during their internship phase, and also occasionally steps in to substitute teach classes in the Two Year Teacher Training Program.
Christine Camilleri
Christine is a Healing Arts Practitioner guiding women into remembering their innate wisdom and power through bodywork, education and sacred circles.
She holds special interest in empowering women who are on a fertility or chronic health journey, become their own healers. To hold an embodied understanding of the intelligence within their cycles, bodies and psyche with nature and the cosmos as a guide.
Her offerings include Fertility Awareness Education, Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Spiritual Healing, Sound Healing, Women’s Sacred Circles, workshops and retreats.
Monica Frayne
Monica Frayne is a Certified Doula, Student Midwife, and Certified Fertility Awareness Educator and Sexual Reproductive Health Educator living in Mid-Missouri, in the unceded ancestral lands of the Osage, Otoe, and Missouria, to name a few.
She graduated from The Well in 2021, and now mentors 2nd year students during their internship phase. She loves supporting students as they step into becoming Educators! In her own practice, she sees a range of clients, from people who are trying to conceive, practicing FAM for contraception, and people who are interested in increasing their body literacy and better understanding their hormonal health. She also teaches Body Literacy to youth from ages 8-14 in a nature and arts-based curriculum. All of her work is grounded in inclusivity as well as social and environmental justice.
Becki Lanham
“It is an incredible honor and source of gratitude to journey alongside others on their paths toward becoming FAM Educators. With nearly two decades of experience as a bodyworker, birth and bereavement doula, FAM and Sexual & Reproductive Health Educator, Arvigo Practitioner, and teacher for the Arvigo Institute, my passion lies in empowering others to find healing with themselves and embrace personal autonomy.
Beyond my role with The Well, I find great joy in serving my local community through my holistic practice nestled among the serene mountains of Virginia. When I step away from the office, you'll likely catch me in the company of my husband, our wonderful son, three pups, and happy flock of free-ranging chickens. Together, as a family, we wholeheartedly embrace sustainable living, which led us to embark on a fulfilling labor of love—building our energy-efficient home on our cherished little homestead.”
Katinka Locascio
BA, LMT, FAE
Katinka began her charting journey in 2001 when she met and studied with Katie Singer, author of the Garden of Fertility, igniting a passion for fertility awareness and its role in reproductive health.
Over the past 2 decades she has incorporated charting into her work as massage therapist, doula, osteopathic manual practitioner and within the herbal community. She has taught individuals, large groups, and herbal practitioners about the usefulness of charting.
In 2018, she completed Grace of the Moon’s (now The Well’s) Teacher Training program. She currently lives and practices in New York City, NY.
Whitney Miley Price
Whitney is a Certified Fertility Awareness & Reproductive Health Educator with over a decade of cycle charting experience.
She offers instruction in both the Symptothermal Method and the Billings Ovulation Method, supporting clients at every phase of the cycling years including postpartum and perimenopause.
Whitney teaches online and in-person in the Metro Atlanta area, offering private consultations and group classes.
Tamara Rubin
“I’m Tamara Rubin, a Fertility Awareness and Sexual and Reproductive Health Educator certified by The Well in 2016. I see private clients individually and teach group classes in-person in New York and online. I’ve been a mentor at The Well since 2019 and started seeing clients on the Maven platform in June 2022. I am an active member of the Association of Fertility Awareness Professionals where I’ve had the privilege of working with a diverse group of highly credentialed, wise women dedicated to empowering all humans through body literacy and access to respectful care. I’ve also completed DONA doula training, the Pregnancy Options Workshop at All Options, and studied western herbalism with Jon Carlson. Before beginning this deeply meaningful work, I had a long career in educational publishing and, with my loving husband, raised three sons now in their twenties. They all know more than they ever dreamed could be known about cervical fluid.”
Jessa Youngs L.Ac., FAE
Jessa Youngs L.Ac. FAE is a holistic health practitioner and cycle & pelvic health educator dedicated to helping reclaim the inherent vitality & nourishment of the menstrual cycle by merging Chinese medicine with functional medicine and essential feminine wisdom.
She is delighted to provide FAM mentorship for graduating interns at the Well.
When not serving in her clinical practice, Embodied Wholeness, online and in-person in Fort Collins, Colorado, you’ll find her singing, dancing, gardening, cooking, gathering in sister circles and soaking in the beauty of the earth with her husband in their ‘78 VW bus.
Regular Guest Teachers
Each round of the program we bring in around a dozen guest teachers and speakers to cover various topics related to our work. Below I would like to introduce you to a few core collaborators whose contributions are essential to our program.
Karen O’Dougherty
Karen O’Dougherty has been a puberty educator for 24 years. She believes all youth have the right to accurate, direct and honest information in regards to their changing bodies in a safe and playful environment with their peers.
For over 3 years Karen has brought puberty education to the students in the certification programs The Well.
She is currently certifying people to be ‘Body Basics and Beyond’ educators across the country.
Check out her work here: www.bodybasicsandbeyond.com
Cera Merrick
Cera is a Vegas-born plant lover. They practice as a clinical herbalist, medicine maker, abortion doula, and fertility awareness educator based on Ohlone land in the East Bay of CA. They humbly walk with the plants on a path toward collective liberation and reproductive autonomy. They enjoy crocheting, cooking ancestral foods from scratch, and sharing the plant wisdom passed to them to those who are interested in deepening with the plants. They offer fertility awareness education layered with plant wisdom to support those in every phase of their life. They specialize in supporting people through abortions and miscarriages. You can learn more about their offerings on IG @cera_wisewinds or via their website wise-winds.com
Victor Warring, MA
Victor is an Erotic ReWilder, Somatic (body-centered) Sexuality Educator, Mentor, Coach and also an Erotic Activist. He is passionate about supporting people in discovering the truth of their erotic sovereignty and removing any self-imposed, internalized or socially imposed blocks that interfere with the expression of their erotic brilliance. Using a full spectrum of supports, from counseling to experiential movement practices to sexological bodywork to partner surrogacy; Victor offers permission and a safe container for clients and communities to “normalize the normal” human desire of erotic wholeness.
Victor is also a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) educator and works with people in understanding the intersections where the body, sexuality, inclusion, oppression, racism, white supremacy and decolonization are interwoven.
To see more about his work or to make inquiries visit him online: www.rewilderos.com
Instagram: @bonobo_man
Jon Carlson
(JULY 27, 1966 – NOVEMBER 16, 2022)
Jon was a regular guest teacher, colleague, collaborator and deep inspiration for many parts of the curriculum at The Well.
His work will forever guide Sarah’s teaching and inevitably and positively impact future students.
About Jon:
Jon began his studies of western herbalism, clinical nutrition, and Chinese medicine in 1991. He established his own clinical herbal practice in 1999 and founded the Vitalist School of Herbology in 2003. He received his formal training from the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine (with the late Michael Moore) and the Acupressure Institute in Berkeley, CA, as well as completing a 3-year apprenticeship in 5-element acupuncture. Blending traditional practices and modern research perspectives, Jon’s teachings are heavily influenced by functional medicine, Chinese 5-Element Theory, and principles of permaculture.
Jon, you are deeply appreciated and dearly missed.
