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Irving, TX - Spinning Babies® Birth Skills Training w/ Gail Tully & Kristen Hosaka - April 4-7, 2025

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location_on Omni Las Colinas Hotel, Las Colinas Boulevard East, Irving, TX, USA
Lakewood Room

Registration

Training + Double-Occupancy Room ($3,495.00)

Ticket includes full training and lodging of a double-occupancy room shared with one other attendee.
Training + Single-Occupancy Room ($4,095.00)

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 January 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 and delivered 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).
  • 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.  


Breakfast and Lunch will be provided by the Omni 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 a number of lovely restaurants within walking distance!


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 Omni Las Colinas 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 January 15, 2025: $2,995.00
  • Standard Registration Rates will begin on January 16, 2025: $3,495.00
  • Registration closes on February 26, 2025

 

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


Early Bird: 10/1/24 to 1/15/2025 - $200 cancellation fee on or Before January 15, 2025.     
Regular Registration: 1/16/2025 to 2/26/2025 - $400 cancellation fee on or Before February 26, 2025.     
No refunds after February 26, 2025

Participants are responsible for their own travel, accommodations, and related expenses and Spinning Babies® is unable to refund these expenses.


Kristen Hosaka

Dr. Kristen Hosaka, Chiropractor, Spinning Babies® Aware Practitioner and Dynamic Body Balancing Instructor for Dr. Carol Phillips, brings her remarkable knowledge of the birthing body and how to support birth function including balancing soft tissues and the bony pelvis. Dr. Kristen shares her research on nuchal hands (up by the neck and head). Her creative problem solving focuses on prevention and restoration. She teaches the soft tissue secrets of fetal positioning, psoas minor, and decodes the mysteries of nuchal hands and compound presentations at birth.


Gail Tully

Gail Tully, a midwife and the visionary founder of Spinning Babies®, revolutionized the global birth landscape with her innovative approach to physiological childbirth. For over 40 years, Gail has helped change practice in birth centers and hospitals around the globe. 
 
Attending births as a CPM in Minnesota for over 30 years, Gail was also a doula and doula trainer (DONA) since the 1990's, learning the doula model directly from Penny Simkin. Gail coordinated her local Hennepin County Medical Center's Doula Program, facilitated training for Turtle Women at The American Indian Family Center, and the first Somali Doula cohort at University Medical Center (Fairview Riverside.)


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.

Successful participants will be awarded 25 continuing education hours.

Birth Skills Training Application for CME credit has been filed with the American Academy of Family Physicians. Determination of credit is pending.


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 current list of virtual workshops and trainings.


Participants of this training can incorporate the concepts and techniques they learn into their personal practices. However, attending this workshop alone provides only a document of attendance and does not grant certification in Spinning Babies®️. Participants may not use the Spinning Babies®️ name to promote their services - such as advertising “Spinning Babies® sessions” or claim they are “trained in Spinning Babies®️” based solely on this training.
To use the title Spinning Babies®️ Certified Birth Professional, a birth professional (e.g., midwife, doula, labor nurse, physician) must complete the 3.5-day Birth Skills training, apply for certification, and maintain it.


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®️.