MotherCircle is an 8 class online gathering 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 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.
Join MotherCircle today.
Starts Wednesday, April 5th
Join MotherCircle today.
Starts Wednesday
April 5th - Live online
Join the next round of MotherCircle.
Get on the waitlist to be notified when MotherCircle opens
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?
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 a community of fierce mamas wrestling with many of the same big questions, challenges, struggles and triumphs.
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.
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.
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.
Mothering is one
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
Matrescence: Understanding the Rites of Passage of Becoming a Mother
with KIMBERLY ANN JOHNSON
Start your MotherCircle journey
with this free class
Matrescence: Understanding the Rites of Passage
of Becoming a Mother
with KIMBERLY ANN JOHNSON
Start your MotherCircle journey
with this free class
Matrescence: Understanding the Rites of Passage of Becoming a Mother
with KIMBERLY ANN JOHNSON
Join MotherCircle today.
Starts Wednesday, April 5th
Join MotherCircle today.
Starts Wednesday
April 5th - Live online
Join the next round of MotherCircle.
Get on the waitlist to be notified when MotherCircle opens
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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...
MotherCircle is for...
Online class details
Each week includes live classes, meditations, exercises and discussion inside the MotherCircle private Facebook forum.
Online class details
Each week includes live classes, meditations, exercises and discussion inside the MotherCircle private Facebook forum.
Join MotherCircle today.
Starts Wednesday, April 5th
Join MotherCircle today.
Starts Wednesday
April 5th - Live online
Join the next round of MotherCircle.
Get on the waitlist to be notified when MotherCircle opens
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
$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.
$299
Full Program Price
This price includes your enrollment and support for those with financial need to access and benefit from this community.
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
Early Bird Investment
Save $100 and enroll before the early bird rate closes Midnight PT on Sunday, April 2nd!
$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.
$299
Full Program Price
This price includes your enrollment and support for those with financial need to access and benefit from this community.
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
Early Bird Investment
Save $100 and enroll before the early bird rate closes Midnight PT on Sunday, April 2nd!
$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.
$299
Full Program Price
This price includes your enrollment and support for those with financial need to access and benefit from this community.
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
"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
Got questions?
No problem at all.
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 60 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).
Become a certified MotherCircle Facilitator.
Kimberly will be leading her MotherCircle Facilitator Training Program after this April cohort of the MotherCircle course. It starts May 3rd. Visit here to find out more.
Have another question?
Should you have any additional questions, our support team are ready to assist.
Click here to send an email.
Should you have any additional questions, our support team are ready to assist.
Click here to send an email.
Join MotherCircle today.
Starts Wednesday, April 5th
Join MotherCircle today.
Starts Wednesday
April 5th - Live online
Join the next round of MotherCircle.
Get on the waitlist to be notified when MotherCircle opens
YOUR TEACHER
Kimberly Ann Johnson
Author, Sexological Bodyworker, and Somatic
Experiencing Practitioner
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.
YOUR TEACHER
Kimberly Ann Johnson
Author, Sexological Bodyworker, and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner
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.
Kimberly's Motherhood Journey
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.
Mothering well requires community, and the mirroring and witnessing that comes with it. Without it, we are constantly depleted, taking from our own reserves to feed everyone else.
Works by Kimberly Ann Johnson
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