Live and Pre-Recorded Classes
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We have many classes planned for 2025, including a return of our abortion support training, Nourishing Networks of Care, in Spring 2025 (more info and sign-up link to come). If you haven’t already, we suggest signing up for the newsletter so you don’t miss any announcements. In the meantime, if you’d like to continue learning, we offer pre-recorded, learn-at-your-own pace courses - please scroll down to find more information.
Coming up: Nourishing Networks of Care
This 4- week course will be a comprehensive online training for abortion support people and doulas. This interactive, online course will take place in March and sign-ups will begin early next year. This course will be offered on a sliding scale with the full price of $370 - scholarships will also be available. Please check back here for more information and to register soon!
What to expect with Holistic Classes
Cross-professional trainings
As clinically trained herbalists, many will attest to the lack of education around abortion and miscarriage within herbal certification programs, despite 1 out of 3 people with the capacity to become pregnant will have a pregnancy that ends in termination. Additionally, many birthworking professionals (from doulas to midwives to clinicians) get no education on herbal medicine. Healthcare for most people is a combination of allopathic and more traditional, or alternative methods. Trainings from Holistic focus on bridging these knowledge gaps for people working within reproductive healthcare structures.
Succinct + Accurate
Classes distill ancestral knowledge, current research, and evidence-based protocols into introductory classes and resources meant to teach the general population. Our goal is to provide accurate, well organized and easy to understand education to help practitioners, individuals and collectives to increase their bodily autonomy and community resiliency.
Practical skills
People leading workshops through Holistic Abortions have varying levels of clinical experience, community training, and actual lived experience. We know how to center and care for people getting abortions because we get or have had abortions.
We are not doctors or lawyers (except when we feature those who explicitly say they are!)
We are not giving medical or legal advice. Courses and training materials are to educate people, so they can make informed decisions about their bodies and their reproductive health.
Cross-disciplinary knowledge
While evidence-based protocols coming from peer-reviewed research plays an important role in building best practices and medical care models, there are serious shortcomings to relying exclusively on their materials. They often exclude the collective knowledge held by marginalized groups without the access or ability to create large bodies of research. Plant medicine, especially when applied to pregnancy, is inherently hard research to get approved, funded and carried out. Our materials and trainings uplift and value many types of knowledge: research, stories, embodied from all types of professionals and experts.
From Past Students
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"I am a student midwife, and I am SO pumped to have found your page. Thanks for fighting for reproductive freedoms, educating on our horrific history, and fighting for equity within the us."
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• "I am a student midwife, and I am SO pumped to have found your page. Thanks for fighting for reproductive freedoms, educating on our horrific history, and fighting for equity within the us." •
Learn at your own pace courses
Available for you to digest at whatever pace, in whichever place, and whatever time makes the most sense for you.
HERBAL ABORTION:BUILDING STRONG FOUNDATIONS
This 80 minute discussion is all about foundations and having a solid framework to build into. "Building Strong Foundations: Herbal Abx 101" is crucial for us to ground into the land and the plants through understanding how we got to this moment. We also discuss common misconceptions around safety, research and efficacy.
BRINGING DOWN THE MOON: CYCLE CHARTING + HERBAL ALLIES
Cycle Charting and Herbal Allies with FAM educator Cera Merrick and Holistic Abortions creator, daena horner. An introduction to cycle charting combined with when and how to use herbs as part of your fertility management. There are in depth explorations of fertilization, ovulation, and herbal applications.
MISOPROSTOL-ONLY ABORTIONS AND HOLISTIC SUPPORT
Presently in the United States more than half of all abortions are induced with medication. Typically in a clinic that includes a combination of two medications: mifepristone and misoprostol. While politicians and corporations and judges continue to create ways to control our bodies, we know abortions won't stop.
This class covers the fascinating story of misoprostol, miso-only protocols and holistic support and safety.
Andrea (they/she)
“I didn't know what to expect with the Herbal Abortion 101 course, but left with my expectations far exceeded and my heart full. It is a class that doesn't offer rote information, but rather an embodied inquiry that shifts the frameworks we use to work with herbs generally, and pregnancy termination more specifically. The storytelling format along with numerous breakout sessions create a refreshingly connective online experience, and I left the class with a vision of what my own contribution to the movement can look like as part of a greater effort of community care.”
Student Testimonials
-Alex (Intimate Wellness Practitioner)
“Change and growth starts with you, me, and a conversation and being active in your learning and truth. These classes will teach you so much about your body and the connections we need to rebuild with ourselves and communities. The slides are so beautiful and the energy and knowledge is so tender and empowering! This is the kind of connections and care we need to share and relearn together!”
