Fertility Awareness and Body Literacy Education
Ready to take an empowered approach to your cycle?
Then fertility awareness is what you’ve been searching for. Whether you’re here for natural birth control, support for a mindful conception, more insight into your menstrual cycle health, or a deeper connection with your body, I can promise you will get so much more that what you’re looking for!
As a fertility awareness educator, my goal is to help my students feel empowered to take their reproductive health into their own hands. I teach The Well’s method of fertility Awareness. This is a sympto-thermal method with a focus on body autonomy, empowerment, and connection to the natural world
How to Learn
Group Classes
Whether you’re brand new or looking to deepen your fertility awareness practice, this class will provide everything you need to feel confident in your cycle charts, and have the tools to use fertility awareness no matter what your goals are
Individual Sessions
Learn in a more intimate setting! Work with me one on one or with friends for a more individualized education. Choose from a range of packages including a full education and/or chart review.
Cycle Charting Meetups
These virtual meetups are for anyone who is currently practicing fertility awareness, or interested in learning more. Meetups are held the last Monday of every month via Zoom. Join the next one to be part of this amazing community of women!
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Is this the rhythm method?
No! While it is based on the same concepts as the rhythm method - that anyone who cycles is only fertile for an average of six days per cycle - it is quite different than the rhythm method. Fertility Awareness methods rely on cues that your body is giving you on a day to day basis, as opposed to calculations, averages, and assumptions. This makes them much more reliable and effective than the rhythm method because it accounts for normal and healthy variation among cycles and cycling people.
Can I use it if my cycles are irregular?
Absolutely yes! Fertility Awareness actually plays a very important role in the lives of those with irregular cycles, because it provides a window into what your body is doing throughout your cycle. This allows you to know when your period is coming and if it is truly “late.” Having irregular cycles myself, supporting people with variation in their cycle lengths is a specialty that I offer.
Is there evidence supporting Fertility Awareness Methods?
Yes and no. While admittedly there is a lack of solid research behind the methods, there is one very well done study that shows that Fertility Awareness Methods can be as effective as 98% when properly implemented. Click here to read the study yourself. These methods are also based on known facts about the menstrual cycle and human reproduction such as the circumstances under which sperm can stay alive, when the egg is available for fertilization, and what needs to happen in the body in order for ovulation and fertilization to occur. You can learn all of this and more in my six week class.
What is involved?
The Well’s method is a sympto-thermal method. This means that it uses observations of cervical fluid (fluid that is produced in the cervix and is observed at the vulva) and basal body temperature (your temperature taken as soon as you wake up in the morning), as well as other optional secondary fertility signs. These signs are put onto a chart, that when interpreted properly gives a picture of what our bodies and hormones are doing throughout the menstrual cycle. Learning to track these signs takes time, but as it becomes second nature, the overall practice takes about 5-10 minutes per day.