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Portland, OR - Spinning Babies® Birth Skills Training w/ Nikki Zerfas & Kelly Dungan - October 21-24, 2025

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location_on 1355 Southwest 2nd Avenue, Portland, OR, USA

Registration

Training + Double Occupancy Room ($3,095.00)

Ticket includes full training and lodging of a double-occupancy room shared with one other attendee.
Training + Single Occupancy Room ($3,695.00)

Ticket includes full training and lodging of a non-shared room.

Registration


This 3.5 day training offers a certification pathway to become a Spinning Babies® Certified Birth Professional. There will be many opportunities to collaborate, connect, and network with other birth professionals from across the disciplines that support birth. As well as covering the foundations of the approach, we allow time to discuss how we bring positive change into our communities. We will feel what it is to receive bodywork, discuss new protocols, and to disentangle from the fear and rush of today’s maternity system. 

  

 At the end of hands-on learning, you’ll be able to:

  • Match the progress of the baby through the pelvis with cardinal movements to track the key rotations for reassurance or to prevent or overcome labor dystocia.
  • Create a pregnancy routine to activate physiology in the pregnant body.
  • Demonstrate advanced neurophysiological techniques (body balancing) to facilitate a vaginal birth. Become proficient in The Three BalancesSM.
  • Assess fetal position according to your Scope of Practice. Be less dependent on ultrasound and more connected to the baby.
  • Gain confidence in physiological care and identify situations requiring medical interventions.
  • Describe embodied consent and live it in your practice.
  • List anatomical imbalances that impact fetal position and labor progress.
  • Know the signs of imbalances (Invitations to Act) in pregnancy and birth.
  • Demonstrate positions or techniques for each of the five levels of the pelvis for labor progress and to reduce childbirth pain.
  • Be confident in resolving labor dystocia due to posterior presentations or asynclitism.
  • Support non-separation after birth to increase attachment behaviors, when possible.
  • Develop a plan of implementation of Spinning Babies® in your own professional care.
  • Grow. Our bodies can hold and they can release stress and trauma. Maintaining respect for your own beliefs, learn to include the clues of physiology as a guide to living.

Pre-training materials will be available starting June 2025. 


The registration fee includes:
  • Your hotel stay is included in the cost of registration. This includes a 4 night stay in a shared or double occupancy room at the Porter Hotel.
  • If you prefer a single occupancy room, there is an increase in the ticket price.
  • Breakfast and Lunch will be provided on days 1 - 3 of the Training. Day 4 will only include breakfast, as it is half day. (See the food & refreshments section above for more details.)

 

Registration Timeline:

  • Early Bird Registration Rates end on June 23, 2025: $3,095 double occupancy / $3,695 single occupancy
  • Standard Registration Rates will begin on June 24, 2025: $3,695 double occupancy / $4,295 single occupancy
  • Registration closes on September 18, 2025.


Over three and a half days, you'll be immersed in the renowned Spinning Babies® approach, learning how neurophysiology, body balancing, and fascia can enhance spontaneous birth and mother-baby bonding. Designed by our founder, Gail Tully, and her incredible team, this hands-on training is filled with the signature techniques and insights that have made Spinning Babies® a worldwide movement.

 

By joining this training, you will:

  • Become a Spinning Babies® Certified Birth Professional and gain unparalleled expertise in physiological birth.
  • Earn 25 Continuing Education (CE) credits through the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) and/or CME credit with the American Academy of Family Physicians.
  • Join a global community dedicated to shifting the birth paradigm.

Go back to birth with "new eyes." Identify issues before fetal distress of a loss of morale—the birthing person's, the team's, and your own. Match labor dystocia to which anatomy needs freedom and learn how to release hidden tensions in muscles and fascia. And most importantly, hear your clients say, "I did it!"


This training is designed for those actively attending births. If you are one of the following professions, then this training is for you:
  • Midwife
  • Labor and delivery nurse
  • Doula
  • Obstetrician
  • Family practice physician
  • Birth Attendant

We are committed to providing Equity Seats for Black and Indigenous Birth Professionals. If you’re a BIPOC professional, apply for a complimentary seat to this transformative training. Priority is given to applicants within driving distance of the event.
You can apply for the Birth Skills Equity Seat here.  The deadline to apply is 6/23/2025. We will notify all applicants of the decision by 7/15/2025.


Breakfast and Lunch will be provided by the Porter Hotel on Days 1 through 3 of the training, and on Day 4, only breakfast will be provided. Dinner is on your own each day. There are several lovely restaurants within walking distance!


  What to wear and/or bring:

  • Wear comfortable clothes that you can freely move in, like sweats or knit pants.
  • Avoid buckles, rivets and laced shoes.
  • This training will be a combination of lecture and hands-on teaching so any equipment to take notes.
  • You are welcome to bring phones and laptops.
 


Spinning Babies®
programs@spinningbabies.com


Cancellation Policy

Early Bird: 4/23/2025-6/23/2025 - $200 cancellation fee on or before June 23, 2025.

Regular Registration: 6/24/2025 to 8/21/2025 - $400 cancellation fee on or before August 21, 2025.

No Refunds on or after August 22, 2025. 



Participants are responsible for their own travel, accommodations, and related expenses outside of the ticket price, and Spinning Babies® is unable to refund or reimburse for these expenses.


Kelly Dungan

Kelly Dungan is a registered nurse, community midwife, and perinatal clinical nurse educator. Passionate about translating physiologic principles for the hospital setting, she offers restorative retreats for birthworkers, online learning, and mentorship. She considers herself a lifetime student of the transformational power of birth. Learn more at: kellydungan.com


Nikki Zerfas

Nikki Zerfas is an experienced Labor & Delivery nurse. She actively participates in the orientation and mentorship of new staff and works to bring educational opportunities to her colleagues, with emphasis on implementing physiology-based birth practices, continuous labor support, and emphasizing breastfeeding-friendly care of new families. She is especially focused on supporting physiological birth in complex medical situations. Nikki maintains her certifications in Electronic Fetal Monitoring and as an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant.

She continues to work as a bedside nurse and enjoys bringing birth workers of all disciplines together in the goal of improving the care and outcomes of new families.


Maternity House Publishing dba Spinning Babies® is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation and CME credit with the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Successful participants will be awarded 25 continuing education hours.


Completing a Spinning Babies® One-Day Workshop is a prerequisite for taking Spinning Babies® Integration Workshop, the Spinning Babies® Certified Parent Educator Training for childbirth educators, or the Spinning Babies® Aware Practitioner Workshop for those professionals offering pregnancy bodywork.


See our Spinning Babies® online course catalog for a current list of virtual workshops and trainings.


This workshop does not provide a certification in Spinning Babies®️ only a document of attendance. Participants will not be able to use the name Spinning Babies® to describe their services, such as offering Spinning Babies®️, sessions, or saying “trained in Spinning Babies” after registering for or attending this workshop. Participants may use concepts and techniques introduced in the workshop in the participant’s practices. Further training is available for eligible participants which does lead towards a contractual relationship for listing or certification and use of Spinning Babies®️ brand and name.


If you are associated with an organization that is tax exempt, you will be able to indicate this on the payment page. If someone from your organization has submitted a tax exemption form to Spinning Babies®️ previously, please contact your organization to use a tax exemption form code. Otherwise, you can upload a .pdf version of your tax exemption form on the payment page and will be required to pay tax at time of purchase, but will be refunded if/when your form is accepted by Spinning Babies®️.