Fourth Trimester Skills Intensive
A training for new and experienced postpartum professionals interested in deepening their traditional offerings.
Discover the ancient practices of postpartum care in this hands-on, transformative training designed for practitioners who are ready to expand their skills and deepen their impact. Whether you’re a doula, midwife, nurse, massage therapist, physical therapist, or other birth or postpartum professional, this training will empower you to integrate traditional healing techniques into your work with confidence and integrity.
Training Details
Dates: May 30 - June 1, 2025
Location: TDB in the Boulder area
Limited Spots: Only 10 participants for an intimate and focused experience.
What You’ll Gain
This immersive weekend is designed to give you practical skills, cultural insights, and hands-on experience in traditional postpartum healing practices. By the end of this training, you will:
Learn psycho-spiritual trauma-informed techniques for holding space for birth stories and supporting emotional and spiritual recovery.
Master practical tools you can use immediately, including:
Bengkung Belly Binding
Postpartum Abhyanga Oil Treatments
Postpartum Mayan Abdominal Massage
Postnatal Closing Ceremony (often referred to as “closing of the bones”)
Herbal Sitz Baths
A variety of additional techniques to comprehensively support postpartum parents
Understand contraindications for complex postpartum scenarios, including belly births (C-sections).
Understand how to energetically attune to the postpartum client.
Leave empowered to adapt and share these techniques within your own practice, honoring your unique approach and the needs of your clients.
Receive a curated bag of tools, including your own Bengkung belly bind, to help you get started.
Deepen your practice and expand your reach in the postpartum field.
Potential contractor collaboration opportunities.
Why This Training?
Postpartum care is often overlooked in modern healthcare, yet it’s a crucial time for healing—physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Many of us that work in the postpartum realm are familiar with the idea of the “first 40 days,” and while this time period is critical for a woman’s healing, the postpartum realm extends far beyond this. This training will prepare you to understand the energetic and physical concerns of postpartum. It honors time-tested traditions, blending them with a trauma-informed approach to meet the diverse needs of today’s parents.
You’ll not only gain skills but also connections. For those new to the postpartum field, this training offers opportunities to build relationships and even potential contracting opportunities with me or other participants.
What to Expect
This training is highly interactive and hands-on. It will be an initiation into this work - not just a skills based training. You will leave with an embodied understanding and be empowered to grow these skills outside of class. While there will be lectures and demonstrations, much of the weekend will involve practicing these techniques on real people, ensuring you feel confident and competent in your skills. You will leave with a better understand of how to attune to the new parent and exactly which tools you can offer in support.
[Caitlin] made sure that we not only worked on the physical practice, but made sure we were ready to practice emotionally and spiritually. We worked on all areas of ourselves and checked in with ourselves throughout the process… I will use the practices I learned for the rest of my life. You can also tell that [Caitlin has] so much love for what [she is] teaching and that reflects in [her] work. This class was completely life changing.
-Past Student Testimonial
Pricing Options
I’m committed to making this training accessible while honoring the value of this transformative work.
What’s included:
3 days of hands-on, directly applicable training
One-on-one feedback session with one of your teachers after the course to prepare you for offering this work in the world
Bengkung belly bind, oil, and other goodies
Early Bird Pricing : $1500
Regular Registration : $1800
Partial Scholarships will be available for those experiencing financial need.
Through this training not only gain skills but also connections. For those new to the postpartum field, this training offers opportunities to build relationships and even potential contracting opportunities with me or other participants.
If you come with a friend, I am offering a $200 discount to each of you! Let me know in your application!
Who Is This Training For?
This training is ideal for:
Doulas
Midwives
Nurses
Massage Therapists
Physical Therapists
Other professionals supporting postpartum clients
Those feeling called to sacred postpartum work, but not sure where to start.
While we will cover practical tools and techniques, the focus is on traditional methods of tending to new parents holistically—physically, emotionally, and spiritually. This is not a detailed anatomy or massage certification, though it complements those modalities beautifully.
Certificates for continuing education can be provided upon request.
“Because of Caitlin, I was able to heal a lot quicker than usual after pregnancy and Cesarean Birth. She has essentially helped to put me back together…. My body (uterus and tummy,) spirit and mind are so much stronger & calmer because of this service. Her nurturing & healing touch provided me with a break from worrying about my baby and helped me to focus on myself for a few moments.
- Jane, past postpartum client
About your Facilitators
Caitlin Arce, L pC
Hi, I’m Caitlin Arce. I’ve been a trauma-informed, somatic-based psychotherapist since 2012. My journey into traditional postpartum healing began in 2013 when I started studying Ayurvedic healing techniques. In 2016, I apprenticed under masters trained in these sacred postpartum practices and womb healing, and since then, I’ve offered hands-on care to postpartum clients, alongside my work as a holistic psychotherapist.
In 2021, I experienced my own postpartum challenges following a traumatic birth and my baby’s NICU stay. This deeply personal experience reaffirmed my passion for helping others navigate the postpartum period with care, compassion, and effective support. I’m honored to share this work through my private practice, Embody the Temple Healing Arts (formerly Hundred Leaf Healing Arts.)
My teaching style tends to be relational, playful, and embodied, for a comfortable, relatable class where you get to know your classmates and yourself on a deeper level through the content learned and practiced. If you have questions about my work or the training, I’m always open to schedule a one-on-one, so don’t be shy. I love to connect.
Brittany Adele LaBauve, LmT
Hi, I’m Brittany Adele LaBauve, LMT—Prenatal Massage Specialist, Birth Worker, and founder of Brittany LaBauve Birth and Bodywork. As a licensed massage therapist with over 20 years of experience, I’ve had the privilege of training and mentoring many other LMTs in perinatal and postpartum bodywork. My work is dedicated to helping practitioners refine their hands-on skills, deepen their understanding of postpartum healing, and build confidence in working with new parents.
I believe that the body holds wisdom—physically, emotionally, and spiritually—and that skilled, attuned touch is a powerful tool for postpartum recovery. In my teaching, I emphasize effective, intuitive, and trauma-informed techniques that help LMTs and birth workers provide meaningful, body-literate care for postpartum clients.
My training background includes: Prenatal & Postpartum Massage Therapy with Carole Osborne, BA, CMT, Birthing From Within Doula & Mentoring, and Touch From Within Training, among a host of others as a life long student of the body.
I’ve spent much of my career teaching and mentoring other LMTs, and I’m excited to bring that experience to this intensive. My goal is to help practitioners feel confident, skilled, and deeply attuned to the needs of postpartum clients.
Apply For Your Spot Today
This training is only offered to a small group to ensure an intimate and impactful experience. Don’t wait—spots are filling fast, and this offering won’t return to Colorado until late 2025.
Click below to apply and secure your place in this unique training.
I can’t wait for us to start this journey together!
