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MotherCircle

Discover the arc of your motherhood journey

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MOTHERCIRCLE

MotherCircle Discover the arc of your motherhood journey

Live online classes & community

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MotherCircle is an 8 class online gathering created and led by Kimberly Ann Johnson for mothers who want to understand the unseen arc of their motherhood journey, move out of confusion, and into greater clarity and wisdom within a supportive community.

MotherCircle is an 8 class online gathering created and led by Kimberly Ann Johnson for mothers who want to understand the unseen arc of their motherhood journey, move out of confusion, and into greater clarity and wisdom within a supportive community.

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Do you need more support than you’ve ever needed but have less support available to you? 

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Are you still healing from your birth, loss, and/or early motherhood experiences and not sure what to do?

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Are you committed to living into a new archetype of womanhood and motherhood but confused about what that looks like?

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Do you need more support than you’ve ever needed but have less support available to you? 

Are you still healing from your birth, loss, and/or early motherhood experiences and not sure what to do?

Are you committed to living into a new archetype of womanhood and motherhood but confused about what that looks like?

Join MotherCircle today.

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Join a community of fierce mamas wrestling with many of the same big questions, challenges, struggles and triumphs.

MotherCircle is a place that I truly felt witnessed.

"And the act of witnessing others moved me to my core. I discovered a language for my experiences postpartum and in mothering, I found connection in stories shared that helped me make sense of my motherhood journey, for the first time in four years, I didn’t feel like there was something wrong with me."

Sasha Tepper-Stewart

Mothering is demanding, revelatory, complex and redemptive.

We think we are mothering our children; often we are re-mothering ourselves. Our children reflect our nervous systems, and we’re not sure where we end and they begin.

We are living at a time of renegotiation and re-labeling. New archetypes are emerging.

What is required of us as women and what we require of ourselves is totally NEW.
Women are finally getting honest about motherhood. There’s space in the culture for this formerly invisible experience. Our safety no longer depends on our perfection and our role-play.

At this time, we can define and redefine motherhood on our own terms…and that comes with its own challenges.

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Mothering is demanding, revelatory, complex and redemptive.

We think we are mothering our children; often we are re-mothering ourselves. Our children reflect our nervous systems, and we’re not sure where we end and they begin.

We are living at a time of renegotiation and re-labeling. New archetypes are emerging.

What is required of us as women and what we require of ourselves is totally NEW.
Women are finally getting honest about motherhood. There’s space in the culture for this formerly invisible experience. Our safety no longer depends on our perfection and our role-play.

At this time, we can define and redefine motherhood on our own terms…and that comes with its own challenges.

Join MotherCircle today.

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Mothering is one of the wildest journeys.

These past few years have brought most of us even more reckonings, more double binds, and more impossible choices.

Somehow we’ve arrived at this place – 2024.

We need time and space to metabolize everything we’ve been through.

To gather with like-hearted people who get what it means to be attuned, sensitive and deeply connected to what the earth is communicating. 

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of the wildest journeys.

Mothering is one of the wildest journeys.

These past few years have brought most of us even more reckonings, more double binds, and more impossible choices. Somehow we’ve arrived at this place – 2023.

We need time and space to metabolize everything we’ve been through.

To gather with like-hearted people who get what it means to be attuned, sensitive and deeply connected to what the earth is communicating. 

Start your MotherCircle journey
with this free class

Circle Practice as Culture Building: How to Lead a MotherBlessing

with KIMBERLY ANN JOHNSON and Jessica COnnolly

Start your MotherCircle journey
with this free class

Circle Practice as Culture Building: How to Lead a MotherBlessing

with KIMBERLY ANN JOHNSON and Jessica COnnolly

Start your MotherCircle journey with this free class

Circle Practice as Culture Building: How to Lead a MotherBlessing

with KIMBERLY ANN JOHNSON
and Jessica COnnolly

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What will the classes cover?

What will the classes cover?

MotherDive

Entering motherhood is an underworld journey often not seen and recognized by the outer world. Learn the arc of this journey, the tools to be present to it, and be witnessed as you locate yourself within it.

MotherCycle

Awareness of our cyclical nature can help us align with our innate wisdom as mothers.. Explore how being in rhythm with the cycles in and around us gives us more access to our wholeness and our power.

MotherBody

Everything a new baby needs, a new mother also needs. Learn a powerful framework for assessing your physical and emotional wellness, and how to tend to what’s needed in your body no matter where you are at in your motherhood journey.

MotherJaguar

The predator - prey dynamic is present in our experience of birth and motherhood. Explore how this awareness and understanding of your nervous system can impact your everyday life and mothering.

MotherBirth

Birth is an initiatory experience that fundamentally changes us. We’ll explore ways to access and share this experience that locates the wisdom that it has to offer for our motherhood journeys

MotherLover

There is often a split between being a mother and being sexual. Learn how to connect with your ever changing sexuality as a mother and become more at home in your body and your sexuality.

MotherWorth

Motherhood changes how we relate to our work in the world. Explore the relationship between your worth and your value and anchor the things that nurture your worth as part of your mothering practice.

MotherCode

We have a powerful opportunity to imagine the legacy we’d like to leave. We are shaped by our motherline and the mothers around us, and we can choose what we want to carry forward. Together we’ll Identify the values that we want to guide our mothering and shape our lineage.

MotherDive

Entering motherhood is an underworld journey often not seen and recognized by the outer world. Learn the arc of this journey, the tools to be present to it, and be witnessed as you locate yourself within it.

MotherBody

Everything a new baby needs, a new mother also needs. Learn a powerful framework for assessing your physical and emotional wellness, and how to tend to what’s needed in your body no matter where you are at in your motherhood journey.

MotherCycle

Awareness of our cyclical nature can help us align with our innate wisdom as mothers.. Explore how being in rhythm with the cycles in and around us gives us more access to our wholeness and our power.

MotherJaguar

The predator - prey dynamic is present in our experience of birth and motherhood. Explore how this awareness and understanding of your nervous system can impact your everyday life and mothering.

MotherBirth

Birth is an initiatory experience that fundamentally changes us. We’ll explore ways to access and share this experience that locates the wisdom that it has to offer for our motherhood journeys

MotherWorth

Motherhood changes how we relate to our work in the world. Explore the relationship between your worth and your value and anchor the things that nurture your worth as part of your mothering practice.

MotherLover

There is often a split between being a mother and being sexual. Learn how to connect with your ever changing sexuality as a mother and become more at home in your body and your sexuality.

MotherCode

We have a powerful opportunity to imagine the legacy we’d like to leave. We are shaped by our motherline and the mothers around us, and we can choose what we want to carry forward. Together we’ll Identify the values that we want to guide our mothering and shape our lineage.

MotherDive

Entering motherhood is an underworld journey often not seen and recognized by the outer world. Learn the arc of this journey, the tools to be present to it, and be witnessed as you locate yourself within it.

MotherCycle

Awareness of our cyclical nature can help us align with our innate wisdom as mothers.. Explore how being in rhythm with the cycles in and around us gives us more access to our wholeness and our power.

MotherBody

Everything a new baby needs, a new mother also needs. Learn a powerful framework for assessing your physical and emotional wellness, and how to tend to what’s needed in your body no matter where you are at in your motherhood journey.

MotherJaguar

The predator - prey dynamic is present in our experience of birth and motherhood. Explore how this awareness and understanding of your nervous system can impact your everyday life and mothering.

MotherBirth

Birth is an initiatory experience that fundamentally changes us. We’ll explore ways to access and share this experience that locates the wisdom that it has to offer for our motherhood journeys

MotherLover

There is often a split between being a mother and being sexual. Learn how to connect with your ever changing sexuality as a mother and become more at home in your body and your sexuality.

MotherWorth

Motherhood changes how we relate to our work in the world. Explore the relationship between your worth and your value and anchor the things that nurture your worth as part of your mothering practice.

MotherCode

We have a powerful opportunity to imagine the legacy we’d like to leave. We are shaped by our motherline and the mothers around us, and we can choose what we want to carry forward. Together we’ll Identify the values that we want to guide our mothering and shape our lineage.

If you are drawn to the course, trust yourself.

"I wish all women knew and had this kind of awareness; and gentle/strong holding of space. I definitely feel that much more of this is needed; and hope to share with my nieces who recently have had babies; and have little ones."

Deborah Hart

MotherCircle is for...

  • Mothers with children of all ages
  • Women who want to be mothers
  • Mothers who want community with other mothers, and gather around meaningful topics and motherhood wisdom
  • Mothers looking to live into a new narrative, and redefine motherhood on their own terms
  • Women who care for mothers. (Childbirth educators, Birthworkers, Midwives, birth and postpartum doulas, OBGYNs, Lactation consultants, L&D nurses, Prenatal and postpartum yoga teachers and Somatic therapists)

MotherCircle is for...

  • Mothers with children of all ages
  • Women who want to be mothers
  • Mothers who want community with other mothers, and gather around meaningful topics and motherhood wisdom
  • Mothers looking to live into a new narrative, and redefine motherhood on their own terms
  • Women who care for mothers. (Childbirth educators, Birthworkers, Midwives, birth and postpartum doulas, OBGYNs, Lactation consultants, L&D nurses, Prenatal and postpartum yoga teachers and Somatic therapists)

Online class details

Each week includes live classes, meditations, exercises and discussion inside the MotherCircle private Facebook forum.

  • Eight live online calls on Tuesdays and Fridays at 11am PT | 2pm ET in the month of September.
  • Four BONUS live online classes led by guest teachers on Sundays at 5pm PT | 8pm ET in the month of September
  • Private Facebook group for connections + questions
  • Access to recordings if you miss a live call

Online class details

Each week includes live classes, meditations, exercises and discussion inside the MotherCircle private Facebook forum.

  • Eight live online calls on Tuesdays and Fridays at 11am PT | 2pm ET in the month of September.
  • Four BONUS live online classes led by certified MotherCircle facilitators on Sundays at 8pm in the month of September​
  • Private Facebook group for connections + questions
  • Access to recordings if you miss a live call

Join MotherCircle today.

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Guest Teachers

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Sil is a mother, a mother-daughter coach, a best-selling author, a workshop facilitator, and what lights her up the most is teaching mothers like you how to get smart and up your mothering game. You deserve to be supported.

She's the mother half of the mother-daughter dynamic duo who created the book Mothering & Daughtering almost 15 years ago.

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Tami is a women’s health physical therapist, founder of Holistic Pelvic Care™ for women, and author of Wild Feminine: Finding Power, Spirit & Joy in the Female Body, Wild Creative, and Mothering from Your Center. She's in awe of the potential in our female bodies and passionate about cultivating this vibrant energy that’s meant to run through all aspects of a woman’s life. She draws upon her's daily in mothering three gorgeous sons and making my way in the world.

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Panquetzani (she/her)(aka Indigemama) breathes life into ancestral traditions, offering time-tested wellness practices, honoring the 4,500 year-old traditions of her foremothers + integrating her lifetime of study into her private practice + daily life. 

Her book, Thriving Postpartum, is releasing  September 2024.

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Perdita is the co-founder, with her husband Clark Strand, of the feral fellowship The Way of the Rose, which inspired their book The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary.

In addition to extensive study with Zen masters, priests, spirit workers, and healers, she apprenticed with the psychic Susan Saxman, with whom she wrote The Reluctant Psychic. Perdita now teaches popular workshops on Getting to Know the Dead. She speaks widely on how to collaborate with those on the other side, on the urgent necessity of a new romantic animism, and on the sobriety that emerges when we claim the long story of our souls. 

SIL READ (formerly Reynolds)

Sil is a mother, grandmother, crone, coach, and co-author (with her daughter Eliza) of Mothering & Daughtering. What lights her up is guiding mothers to learn to trust that
they themselves are the experts that they have been looking for. She was a senior student of the Jungian analyst and author Marion Woodman, and acknowledges her as a teacher and a spiritual mother. Sil is in the process of writing a book about Woodman’s work entitled: The Lost Wise Woman: Discovering the Teachings of Marion Woodman

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TAMI LYNN KENT

Tami is a women’s health physical therapist, founder of Holistic Pelvic Care™ for women, and author of Wild Feminine: Finding Power, Spirit & Joy in the Female Body, Wild Creative, and Wild Mothering: Mothering from Your Center. She’s in awe of the potential in our female bodies and passionate about cultivating this vibrant energy that’s meant to run through all aspects of a woman’s life. She draws upon her’s daily in mothering three gorgeous sons and making my way in the world

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Panquetzani (aka indigemama)

Panquetzani (she/her)(aka indigemama) breathes life into ancestral traditions, offering time-tested wellness practices, honoring the 4,500 year-old traditions of her foremothers + integrating her lifetime of study into her private practice + daily life. 

Her book, Thriving Postpartum, is releasing  September 2024.

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Perdita FINN

Perdita is the co-founder, with her husband Clark Strand, of the feral fellowship The Way of the Rose, which inspired their book The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary.

In addition to extensive study with Zen masters, priests, spirit workers, and healers, she apprenticed with the psychic Susan Saxman, with whom she wrote The Reluctant Psychic. Perdita now teaches popular workshops on Getting to Know the Dead. She speaks widely on how to collaborate with those on the other side, on the urgent necessity of a new romantic animism, and on the sobriety that emerges when we claim the long story of our souls. 

Bonus classes with...

Panquetzani on Sunday, Sept 8th at 5pm PT | 8pm ET

Embracing la Cuarentena

What the traditional indigenous 40 day laying period looks like.

Tami Lynn Kent on Sunday, Sept 15th at 5pm PT | 8pm ET

The Medicine & Joy of Wild Mothering

Mothers are on the front lines of feminine repair as they give birth and care for their children. Just as the female body has medicine for pregnancy and birth, it is a source point for energy and joy to both guide and inspire the wild mothering journey. Join Tami Lynn Kent as she shares well-honed mothering medicine from her decades as a healer and mother to three beautiful (now young adult) sons. 

Perdita Finn on Sunday, Sept 22nd at 5pm PT | 8pm ET

The Magic of the Matri-Sphere: Collaborating with Our Ancestral Mothers 

To reclaim the magic of the “mother” from before patriarchy we will enter a more generous experience of belonging. We will take the straight lines of primacy and power that have brought so much violence to the earth and arc them back into the natural circles and cycles that hold us all through our soul’s long story through deep time. What if the whole world is nothing but mothers who have loved us, and loved us still? 

Sil Read (formerly Reynolds) on Sunday, Sept 29th at 5pm PT | 8pm ET

ReMothering: The Inner Work of Mothering Ourselves

In this class, Sil will teach about the psychological, spiritual, and archetypal map for a woman’s inner healing; a method which she learned from her Jungian mentor Marion Woodman. Sil was guided and inspired by this model and map as she remothered herself. 
 

SIL REYNOLDS

Sil is a mother, a mother-daughter coach, a best-selling author, a workshop facilitator, and what lights her up the most is teaching mothers like you how to get smart and up your mothering game. You deserve to be supported.

She’s the mother half of the mother-daughter dynamic duo who created the book Mothering & Daughtering almost 15 years ago.

KIMBERLY ANN JOHNSON

Kimberly is a Sexological Bodyworker, Somatic Experiencing practitioner, Structural Integration practitioner, postpartum advocate, retired yoga teacher and single mom. 

She is the author of Call of The Wild: How We Heal Trauma, Awaken Our Own Power, And Use It For Good and The Fourth Trimester: Healing Your Body, Balancing Your Emotions and Restoring Your Vitality.

For the past 12 years, she has been helping women recover from birth, gynecological surgeries and sexual boundary ruptures.

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TAMI LYNN KENT

Tami is a women’s health physical therapist, founder of Holistic Pelvic Care™ for women, and author of Wild Feminine: Finding Power, Spirit & Joy in the Female Body, Wild Creative, and Mothering from Your Center. She’s in awe of the potential in our female bodies and passionate about cultivating this vibrant energy that’s meant to run through all aspects of a woman’s life. She draws upon her’s daily in mothering three gorgeous sons and making my way in the world.

Special Appearances By:

KIMBERLY ANN JOHNSON

Kimberly Ann Johnson is a Sexological Bodyworker, Somatic Experiencing practitioner, Structural Integration practitioner, postpartum advocate, retired yoga teacher and single mom. 

She is the author of Call of The Wild: How We Heal Trauma, Awaken Our Own Power, And Use It For Good (HarperWave, 2021) and the early mothering classic The Fourth Trimester: Healing Your Body, Balancing Your Emotions and Restoring Your Vitality (Shambhala, 2017) published in seven languages around the world.

For the past 12 years, she has been helping women recover from birth, gynecological surgeries and sexual boundary ruptures.

Her work has been featured on the Goop! podcast, The New York Times, Forbes, Vogue, New York Magazine’s The Cut, Harper’s Bazaar, Today.com and many more. She is the host of the Sex Birth Trauma podcast with 750,000 unique downloads.

It takes a village to raise a child,
and it takes a village to raise a mother.

This is that village.

MotherCircle

ONLINE CLASSES + COMMUNITY

Investment

$347

Regular Price

*payment plan available at checkout

JOIN THE CIRCLE

INCLUDES

8 Weeks (18 live classes)
Private Facebook community forum
Access to all recordings of the live classes
One-time payment or payment plan available

MotherCircle starts Wednesday, September 6th

MotherCircle

ONLINE CLASSES + COMMUNITY

Investment

Regular Price

$347

$347

Early Bird Price

$297

JOIN THE CIRCLE

*payment plan available at checkout

Save $50 and enroll before the Early Bird rate closes at
Midnight PT on Sunday, September 1st!

INCLUDES

8 Weeks (12 live classes)
Private Facebook community forum
Access to all recordings of the live classes

The MotherCircle course starts Tuesday, September 3rd

October Facilitator Trainers:
This course is included in your enrollment

Investment

$199

Community Support Price

This price includes enrollment for mothers who know they belong in this community and need additional financial support at this time.

JOIN THE CIRCLE

$299

Full Program Price

This price includes your enrollment and support for those with financial need to access and benefit from this community.

JOIN THE CIRCLE

$199

Community Support Price

This price includes enrollment for mothers who know they belong in this community and need additional financial support at this time.

JOIN THE CIRCLE

$299

Full Program Price

This price includes your enrollment and support for those with financial need to access and benefit from this community.

JOIN THE CIRCLE

INCLUDES

4 Weeks (8 live classes)
Private Facebook community forum
Access to all recordings of the live classes
One-time payment

MotherCircle starts Wednesday, April 5th

MotherCircle

ONLINE CLASSES + COMMUNITY

Investment

$199

Community Support Price

This price includes enrollment for mothers who know they belong in this community and need additional financial support at this time.

JOIN THE CIRCLE

$299

Full Program Price

This price includes your enrollment and support for those with financial need to access and benefit from this community.

JOIN THE CIRCLE

Author, Sexological Bodyworker, and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner

Save $100 and enroll before the early bird rate closes
Midnight PT on Sunday, April 2nd!

INCLUDES

4 Weeks (8 live classes)
Private Facebook community forum
Access to all recordings of the live classes
One-time payment

The MotherCircle course starts Wednesday, April 5th

I'm watching myself become so much more of who I have always known myself to be.

"You will never regret spending time or money to be in the same space as Kimberly. I am literally watching myself become so much more of who I have always known myself to be as a result of the learning and integrating I do in these courses."

Allison Goundry

MotherCircle is something I’ve been searching for a long time.

"I just want to thank Kimberly and Jessica from the depths of my heart and soul.
MotherCircle is something I’ve been searching for a long time and I’m so grateful that I get to share it."

Gemma

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Jessica Connolly

Your MotherCircle Co-Facilitator

Raising daughters has brought a fiery urgency to tend to my own healing, and to create a legacy of grounded wisdom for my daughters.

My world didn’t only turn upside-down after giving birth, it exploded into a million pieces and came back together looking like a different planet.

I am now the mother of four daughters, ages 6-16. It wasn’t until I gave birth to my first daughter at age 28 that I felt connected to my body and awakened to a deeper understanding of feminine wisdom.

I felt grief – I walked away from my career as a biologist to be with my babies.

I felt my broken lineage – where is the grandmother wisdom?

Raising daughters has brought a fiery urgency to tend to my own healing, and to create a legacy of grounded wisdom for my daughters.

I felt the isolation of motherhood and I felt the isolation of mothers all around me. I also felt an ancient pathway of truth close by, but I didn’t know how to access it. There was a quiet whisper in my bones, but outside of me was the all consuming, shouting demands of motherhood and no one was talking about what the heck was really happening – in my body, my heart and my spirit.

I knew there was a different story – a deeper story – to share with my daughters about womanhood and motherhood which meant that I had to go first. I would find the pathway and live it myself.

I became a birthworker, holistic coach, and eventually a circle leader committed to the practice and sharing of wisdom.

My years in spiritual community have given me extensive experience in leadership, group worship and the sharing and exchange of information in non-traditional ways which allows me to bring a depth of experience to circles, retreats and online classes at the intersection of ancient wisdom and modern science.

About Jessica

Jessica Connolly - Founder

My world didn’t only turn upside-down after giving birth, it exploded into a million pieces and came back together looking like a different planet.

I am now the mother of four daughters, ages 6-16. It wasn’t until I gave birth to my first daughter at age 28 that I felt connected to my body and awakened to a deeper understanding of feminine wisdom.

I felt grief – I walked away from my career as a biologist to be with my babies.

I felt my broken lineage – where is the grandmother wisdom?

Raising daughters has brought a fiery urgency to tend to my own healing, and to create a legacy of grounded wisdom for my daughters.

I felt the isolation of motherhood and I felt the isolation of mothers all around me. I also felt an ancient pathway of truth close by, but I didn’t know how to access it. There was a quiet whisper in my bones, but outside of me was the all consuming, shouting demands of motherhood and no one was talking about what the heck was really happening – in my body, my heart and my spirit.


I knew there was a different story – a deeper story – to share with my daughters about womanhood and motherhood which meant that I had to go first. I would find the pathway and live it myself.

I became a birthworker, holistic coach, and eventually a circle leader committed to the practice and sharing of wisdom.

My years in spiritual community have given me extensive experience in leadership, group worship and the sharing and exchange of information in non-traditional ways which allows me to bring a depth of experience to circles, retreats and online classes at the intersection of ancient wisdom and modern science.

I felt the isolation of motherhood and I felt the isolation of mothers all around me.

I also felt an ancient pathway of truth close by, but I didn't know how to access it.

There was a quiet whisper in my bones, but outside of me was the all consuming, shouting demands of motherhood and no one was talking about what the heck was really happening – in my body, my heart and my spirit.

MOTHERCIRCLE CREATOR, FOUNDER, & TEACHER 

Kimberly Ann Johnson

Kimberly Ann Johnson is a Sexological Bodyworker, Somatic Experiencing practitioner, Structural Integration practitioner, postpartum advocate, retired yoga teacher and single mom. 

She is the author of Call of The Wild: How We Heal Trauma, Awaken Our Own Power, And Use It For Good (HarperWave, 2021) and the early mothering classic The Fourth Trimester: Healing Your Body, Balancing Your Emotions and Restoring Your Vitality (Shambhala, 2017) published in seven languages around the world.

For the past 12 years, she has been helping women recover from birth, gynecological surgeries and sexual boundary ruptures.

Her work has been featured on the Goop! podcast, The New York Times, Forbes, Vogue, New York Magazine’s The Cut, Harper’s Bazaar, Today.com and many more. She is the host of the Sex Birth Trauma podcast with 750,000 unique downloads.

MOTHERCIRCLE CREATOR, FOUNDER, & TEACHER 

Kimberly Ann Johnson

Author, Sexological Bodyworker, and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, MotherCircle Facilitator Creator & Trainer

Kimberly Ann Johnson is a Sexological Bodyworker, Somatic Experiencing practitioner, Structural Integration practitioner, postpartum advocate, retired yoga teacher and single mom. 

She is the author of Call of The Wild: How We Heal Trauma, Awaken Our Own Power, And Use It For Good (HarperWave, 2021) and the early mothering classic The Fourth Trimester: Healing Your Body, Balancing Your Emotions and Restoring Your Vitality (Shambhala, 2017) published in seven languages around the world.

For the past 14 years, she has been helping women recover from birth, gynecological surgeries and sexual boundary ruptures.

Her work has been featured on the Goop! podcast, The New York Times, Forbes, Vogue, New York Magazine’s The Cut, Harper’s Bazaar, Today.com and many more. She is the host of the Sex Birth Trauma podcast with 950,000 unique downloads.

My Motherhood Journey

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August 2007

Me and baby Cece in our Rio de Janeiro apartment where she was born. My biggest dream in life was fulfilled- I was a mother! Her dad was working nights and sleeping days. I knew something wasn’t healing right, but had no idea what to do about it. I was hungry most of the time because I wasn’t able to get to the grocery store and cook. Soon, I was struggling to figure out if I had enough breast milk. Everyone was telling me something different, and I felt totally lost.  I Google “alternative postpartum care”- all that comes up is hundreds of thousands of  postpartum depression entries. I feel depressed, but I know it’s not “me.”

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JULY 2008

Unable to get support and figure out how to understand what was happening to me (why my lower back was in constant pain, fecal incontinence, painful scar tissue in my vagina), I moved back to the US with Cece- to Colorado, where I had lived before Brazil. Didn’t want to “run home to my parents.”

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JANUARY 2009​

Moved home with my parents. I don’t have any pictures of myself at this time. (Guess I wasn’t super accustomed to the selfie yet) I also felt totally lost, too injured to work, not enough money for childcare and the market crash devastated my parents. Cece in my mom’s closet.

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MAY 2009​

Divine providence steps in and Sara Avant Stover calls to see if I can teach a yoga teacher training in Thailand that starts in a couple weeks. I say “yes.” We go to stay at Tao Gardens. I meet Lucas Rockwood who becomes my first business coach helping me build a website and attach an email list. Ellen Heed come to teach anatomy and tells me about a postpartum scar tissue research study she’s doing and asks me to be a part of it. The training pays for me to have childcare, and for the first time I can receive bodywork to help me heal. I find Aviva Romm’s book Natural Healing After Birth. I decide to stay for a few months to have help, eat good food and get bodywork, as well as deciding that I need to treat my calling as a career, or I will need to find a career- realizing I will be raising Cece on my own.

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2019 - 2014

Carried by the audacity of friends (Jenny McLaughlin), I take a risk and rent the floor of a beautiful house and turn the front room into my yoga and bodywork space. We have dance classes, motherblessings, prenatal yoga and community, daylong urban retreats. I make everyone chai and cookies. Cece often comes to deliver the cookies and chant OM to end class.  I travel to SP, Recife, Belo Horizonte. I teach yoga trainings and hold circles about Women’s Sexuality and Spirituality. I help ex-pats find the births they want and help do some medical translation. I lead retreats. I train in Somatic Experiencing. We have a true community and Cece is carried by love of the neighborhood. Our friends are our family. Lots of Carnavals.

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JUNE 2014

I need to move out of my home, which is also my office and studio. Cece starts 1st grade and it’s from 1-5:15. She’s spending an hour and a half a day in traffic. It’s expensive and now I have even less time to work. Starts to be clear that I have to leave Rio, and Cece asks to live closer to my family. I turn 40 and move back to the US and live with my parents.

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2016

Some former yoga students offer for me to live with them and not pay rent so I can write and see clients- Cece and I live in a grandma flat with no stovetop and a half fridge. I deliver the book and my practice is full. I am late most days to pick up Cece from school. Seeing a 9, 10:30, 12 and 1:30 client.

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2018

Some former yoga students offer for me to live with them and not pay rent so I can write and see clients- Cece and I live in a grandma flat with no stovetop and a half fridge. I deliver the book and my practice is full. I am late most days to pick up Cece from school. Seeing a 9, 10:30, 12 and 1:30 client.

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SEPTEMBER 2019

We drive from San Diego to Brooklyn in a 22 foot truck. I am single and want to be with other single women and different kinds of families and people from all over the world.

MAY 2020

2 months into the pandemic starts, Val leaves, I have a book deadline. I come back to San Diego. I think it’ll be for 3 weeks, and realize we’re gonna need to stay where Cece can go to school in person.

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JUNE 2021

I’m parenting a teenager now. She’s in a band. She’s writing zines, and she’s decided she doesn’t want to move any more. For now.

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DECEMBER 2022

We got a puppy this summer for her 15th birthday. Seemed impossible to add anything else at all into the single parent/solopreneur equation. But it finally seemed like there might be a tiny window and Stevie (Stevland after Stevie wonder) came into our family. And now Cece’s a podcast guest.

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JULY 2023

I got married. Our family became three. We’re still waiting for Tiago to come and live with us. Cece spoke at our wedding and sung to us at our gathering the next day. 
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AUGUST 2024

It’s the summer before Senior year. Cece has a job and a driver’s permit. We’re still waiting for Tiago to get here. I am acutely aware that this is our last year together in the way that we have been. One child. One parent. She’s about to spread her wings, and I am savoring every single second of this time. 
 
 

Kimberly's Motherhood Journey

August 2007
July 2008
January 2009
May 2009
2009 - 2014
June 2014
2016
2018
September 2019 | May 2020
June 2021
December 2022

Me and baby Cece in our Rio de Janeiro apartment where she was born. My biggest dream in life was fulfilled- I was a mother! Her dad was working nights and sleeping days. I knew something wasn’t healing right, but had no idea what to do about it. I was hungry most of the time because I wasn’t able to get to the grocery store and cook. Soon, I was struggling to figure out if I had enough breast milk. Everyone was telling me something different, and I felt totally lost.  I Google “alternative postpartum care”- all that comes up is hundreds of thousands of  postpartum depression entries. I feel depressed, but I know it’s not “me.”

Unable to get support and figure out how to understand what was happening to me (why my lower back was in constant pain, fecal incontinence, painful scar tissue in my vagina), I moved back to the US with Cece- to Colorado, where I had lived before Brazil. Didn’t want to “run home to my parents.”

Moved home with my parents. I don’t have any pictures of myself at this time. (Guess I wasn’t super accustomed to the selfie yet) I also felt totally lost, too injured to work, not enough money for childcare and the market crash devastated my parents. Cece in my mom’s closet.

Divine providence steps in and Sara Avant Stover calls to see if I can teach a yoga teacher training in Thailand that starts in a couple weeks. I say “yes.” We go to stay at Tao Gardens. I meet Lucas Rockwood who becomes my first business coach helping me build a website and attach an email list. Ellen Heed come to teach anatomy and tells me about a postpartum scar tissue research study she’s doing and asks me to be a part of it. The training pays for me to have childcare, and for the first time I can receive bodywork to help me heal. I find Aviva Romm’s book Natural Healing After Birth. I decide to stay for a few months to have help, eat good food and get bodywork, as well as deciding that I need to treat my calling as a career, or I will need to find a career- realizing I will be raising Cece on my own.

Carried by the audacity of friends (Jenny McLaughlin), I take a risk and rent the floor of a beautiful house and turn the front room into my yoga and bodywork space. We have dance classes, motherblessings, prenatal yoga and community, daylong urban retreats. I make everyone chai and cookies. Cece often comes to deliver the cookies and chant OM to end class.  I travel to SP, Recife, Belo Horizonte. I teach yoga trainings and hold circles about Women’s Sexuality and Spirituality. I help ex-pats find the births they want and help do some medical translation. I lead retreats. I train in Somatic Experiencing. We have a true community and Cece is carried by love of the neighborhood. Our friends are our family. Lots of Carnavals.

I need to move out of my home, which is also my office and studio. Cece starts 1st grade and it’s from 1-5:15. She’s spending an hour and a half a day in traffic. It’s expensive and now I have even less time to work. Starts to be clear that I have to leave Rio, and Cece asks to live closer to my family. I turn 40 and move back to the US and live with my parents.

Some former yoga students offer for me to live with them and not pay rent so I can write and see clients- Cece and I live in a grandma flat with no stovetop and a half fridge. I deliver the book and my practice is full. I am late most days to pick up Cece from school. Seeing a 9, 10:30, 12 and 1:30 client.

I make a huge stretch and find Val, a family friend and Brazilian au pair. She arrives to light up our family and give me some much needed support. We take our first vacation that is not attached to work (I do work on the Fourth Trimester cards and teach once a week).

September 2019
We drive from San Diego to Brooklyn in a 22 foot truck. I am single and want to be with other single women and different kinds of families and people from all over the world.

May 2020
2 months into the pandemic starts, Val leaves, I have a book deadline. I come back to San Diego. I think it’ll be for 3 weeks, and realize we’re gonna need to stay where Cece can go to school in person.

I’m parenting a teenager now. She’s in a band. She’s writing zines, and she’s decided she doesn’t want to move any more. For now.

We got a puppy this summer for her 15th birthday. Seemed impossible to add anything else at all into the single parent/solopreneur equation. But it finally seemed like there might be a tiny window and Stevie (Stevland after Stevie wonder) came into our family. And now Cece’s a podcast guest.

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We’ve had hundreds of women take this course, and very few were able to come to each live webinar (and some couldn’t attend any live, because of work and other commitments).

The videos in this course are meant to be watched sometime during the week—you’ll get a replay of each video within 24 hours of the live call.

You’ll receive information and experiential exercises in each video that you can work with all week. 

The classes will be 75 minutes long, and we’ll give you some experiential exercises and meditations to incorporate into your daily life during the week. All-in-all you’ll be spending about two hours on course material per week (plus whatever you fold into your daily interactions).

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