It’s about time you connected with other pregnant people
Get community support in your birth preparation.
breathe in. breathe out.
If you hear another traumatic birth story you might just lose it…
Imagine, you’ve just had another woman tell you her cousin’s neighbor’s brother’s traumatic birth story in great detail while in line at the grocery store (and now you’re seriously considering that Instacart membership). You get into your car feeling frazzled, on edge, angry, sad, scared, and unsure of yourself.
Then you remember the golden armor meditation we practiced together. You close your eyes, notice your breath, and begin to imagine yourself donning spectacular armor to protect your energy from others.
In this community we don’t just talk about these challenging experiences, we practice methods that can protect our mental and emotional energies from these types of interactions. Nervous system awareness is a cornerstone of our community care and we practice various ways to set yourself up for steadiness, stability, and ease in these types of interactions. Whether it’s with your care provider, friends, family, or strangers.
Right now, you feel stuck somewhere between justifying your birth choices and managing other’s fears around birth.
and you just want to connect with people who get it
You’re spending way too much time watching instagram birth videos and commenting but what you really want is community.
But is there a community that focuses on birth as a normal life event without dogmatic romanticization?!
You find yourself thinking…
“there’s got to be a better way to be in community!”
Well, that’s because we weren’t meant to connect by watching videos and commenting on them. We were meant to converse, to feel, to connect inward, to reflect on our stories, and embrace the mystery of our bodies in circles with others who are pregnant.
Community matters during pregnancy…
Providing pregnant women with high levels of emotional support from close social networks is a protective factor for reducing the levels of postpartum anxiety concerning infant safety and welfare.
There is “a significant relationship between low social support and the risk of developing mental health problems (i.e. depression, anxiety, and self-harm) during pregnancy.”
The relationship between social support and mental health problems during pregnancy
Stop what you’re doing and ask yourself:
How would my life change if I could regularly connect with people who just get it?
Right now, the people around you don’t understand you.
You want the birth of your dreams yet you feel like the world doubts you, is afraid of birth, and generally don’t support or understand your vision.
you’re not alone
Gathering
Within this community, we gather each week, on Wednesday mornings at 10am EST / 9am CST to chat about what’s on our hearts and minds.
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Membership Includes:
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Live Weekly Discussions & Practices
We meet each Wednesday at 10am EST for 30 minutes of conversation and 30 minutes of yoga practice to suit everyone’s needs that day.
Sometimes it’s a meditation, sometimes it’s a strong and sweaty movement practice, sometimes it’s gentle and restorative. But it always weaves in themes and wisdom for birth preparation.
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Self-Paced Courses & Live Workshops
Each month I lead a live workshop on reproductive health. Whether it is to prepare for birth, support menstruation/ovulation, or healing postpartum. All members get 50% off of the monthly workshop.
There is also a library of courses available to members! This includes:
Yoga for Your Cycle -- Breath, Pelvic Floor, and Pushing — Rebuilding Your Core & Pelvic Floor -- The 3 R’s of Childbirth -- The 4th Trimester Yoga Therapy -- A Library of Prenatal & Postnatal Yoga Practices
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Build Your Birth Plan eBook
Building your birth plan means giving yourself the power to say what you want, to navigate the twists and turns of labor, and to feel confident in your choices.
This book is a step-by-step process of envisioning the birth you want (people, environment, interventions, etc), how you plan to make hard choices, questions to ask your provider, and basic information about birth
It is an essential piece of birth preparation, for EVERYONE (from freebirth to elective cesarean).
The Weekly Gathering
Heartful Community
In The Gathering, we center each other’s experiences and provide thoughtful support and validation. We allow our conversations to lay the foundation of our somatic yoga practice, weaving in the themes of our chat into our movement so that we can embody, metabolize, and connect to our internal experience.
We gather every Wednesday at 10am EST | 9am CST
The Self-Paced Courses
Childbirth Preparation
Birth preparation isn’t just knowing the stages of birth, where you’re giving birth, and if you want the epidural or not… Birth preparation is a mind, body, and spirit experience.
Self-Paced Courses Include:
Breath, Pelvic Floor, & Pushing
The 3 R’s for Labor & Birth
Library of Prenatal Yoga Classes
Postpartum Wellbeing
Whether it’s deeper connection to yourself and baby, nervous system regulation, or pelvic floor and core rehab, we have a self-paced course for that.
Press play to try one of my favorite nervous system balancing breathwork practices.
Self-Paced Courses Include:
Fourth Trimester Yoga Therapy
Rebuilding Your Core & Pelvic Floor
Library of Postpartum Yoga Classes
Menstrual Wellness
Knowing how to move and breathe with your cycles is a key practice to incorporate into your daily life. Let’s try this together!
This video is a sweet meditation practice to support your connection to yourself no matter where you are in your reproductive health journey.
You’re going to love the Yoga for Your Cycles self-paced course
The eBook
Building your birth plan means giving yourself the power to say what you want, to navigate the twists and turns of labor, and to feel confident in your choices.
This ebook is essential to planning birth. It not only helps you conceptualize your ideal birth but it helps you plan for when birth unfolds in a variety of ways.
Enrollment is $39 until November
Enrollment is $39 until November
✺ Frequently asked questions ✺
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We would love to have you! While this community centers birthing outside of the hospital system, it is still an open community and is full of excellent information for those planning unmedicated hospital births as well!
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Each weekly gathering will be recorded and shared within the membership portal. And we’ll have other monthly gatherings that members can come to for free or at a discounted rate
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Yes! You are welcome to be here and join with us! There will be many people with a variety of religious practices.
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This group is for pregnant and postpartum people! You are welcome no matter your gender identity.
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Yes! The Dominican Republic has a lower cost of living than the US. Please send me a message to connect about receiving a discount - itsjess@jessgruber.com
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A sense of sisterhood with the other participants, connection and confidence in your bodily experience, and a sense of softness around yourself and your expectations.
But why join The Gathering?
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You could keep watching IG birth videos and connecting with people via social media...
But that kind of connection tends to stay shallow and can prevent us from getting into the deep offerings available to us…
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You could keep talking to the people who don't get why you want this type of birth...
But you’re missing out on the deep connection you have with others who are making similar choices as you, who understand you, and who can stand beside you when you experience the inevitable doubts and fears.
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You could join another pregnancy circle that is open to all birthing people...
But you’d be missing out of connecting with others who are making a similar choice as you, who understand how different birth prep is for an out of hospital setting. This kind of support matters!
You get it all
✅ Weekly yoga community gatherings (worth $20 each)
✅ Discounted monthly workshops (worth $75 each)
✅ A library of classes & courses to support your childbearing year and beyond (worth over $300)
✅ Build Your Birth Plan eBook (worth $20)
$415 of resources for $39/month
