Birth Love Tribe presents the first annual Birth Love Family Fest in Bolton Valley featuring Myra Flynn!

Attend inspirational birth and parenting workshops with local professionals, stretch to yoga with Susan Cline Lucey, and build your community of family and friends. The festival offers dynamic kids activities with SunCommon bounce house, breastfeeding room with Vicki Rich, IBCLC, local non-profit and vendor village with information and services to enhance the family experience, and a delicious organic cafe. All workshops, performances, and activities are included in the ticket price!!

$20 Early Bird through August
$25 General
$15 Teen
Kids 12 and under free
tickets available at FLYNNTIX.ORG

After party with live music by Conscious Roots and pizza at Bolton Valley’s Fireside Flatbread! Thanks to our participating organizations Let’s Grow Kids, Bolton Valley, Main Street Alliance and SunCommon. Please scroll down to view our lineup, schedule, and festival FAQs.

2017 BIRTH LOVE FEST LINEUP:

Live Music:
-Song for Family + Special Performance with Myra Flynn
-West African Drum and Dance with Seny Daffe and Friends
-Conscious Roots' Kids' Dance Party (After Party)

Workshops:
-Birth Choices Panel with Kipp Bovey, CNM (Copley Hospital), Laureli Morrow, CNM (Homebirth Midwife), and Rachel Stadfeld, CD (Labor Doula)
-Breastfeeding with Vicki Rich, RN, IBCLC, RLC, CCE, CD
-Birth and Family Culture + Book Reading with Dr. Matt Rushford, author
-Mindful Parenting with Maris Rose (Maris' Tree House at All Souls Interfaith Gathering)
-Postpartum Care with Beth Kruger, CYT, CBE, CLC (Prenatal Method Studio) and Sabrina Leal, MSW
-Maternal Mental Health with Sandy Morningstar, MA, author
-Brain Science Training for Early Childhood Development with Jessica Barquist (Let's Grow Kids)
-Nutrition with Solenne Thompson, RN

Yoga:
-Pre/Postnatal Yoga with Susan Cline Lucey (Evolution Prenatal and Family Yoga)
-Family Yoga with Flyway Yoga at Bolton Valley Ski Resort
-Hoop Yoga with Pippa Dorfman, CYT

Support Circles:
-Birth Story Sharing with Julia Alter, LICSW (Birth Love Tribe)
-Fathers' and Mens' Circle with TBA
-Grief and Loss with Sabrina Leal, MSW and Pippa Dorfman, CYT
-LGBTQ and Family with Julia Alter, LICSW

Kids Activities:
-SunCommon Bounce House
-Music with ReTribe
-Circle Games with Pippa Dorfman, CYT
-Arts and Crafts Zone

Partnering Organizations, Non-Profits and Vendors:
-Bolton Valley
-SunCommon
-Main Street Alliance (Family Leave Act)
-Let's Grow Kids VT
-Stowe Craft Gallery
-Green State Creative
-Elmore Mountain Therapeutics (sponsor)
-Tulsi Tea Room
-Little Artsy Faces
-Fiona Griffin, LCMHC
-VT's Mother & Baby Expo

SCHEDULE:

(Main Workshop Area)
9 - 9:55 AM: Birth Choices Panel
10 - 10:45 AM: Pre/Postnatal Yoga
10:45 - 11:05 AM: Announcements
11:10 - 11:45 AM: Rites of Passage for Families
11:50 AM - 12:20 PM: West African Drum and Dance Circle
12:30 - 1:30 PM: Song for Family + Performance with Myra Flynn
1:40 - 2:10 PM: Parenting Mindfully
2:15 - 2:45 PM: Birth and Family Culture + Book Reading
2:50 - 3:30 PM: Family Yoga
3:35 - 4:20: Postpartum Care
4:25 - 5: Maternal Mental Health
5 - Close: Brain Science Training

(Kids)
Bouncy House throughout Day
10 AM: Circle Games
10:45 AM: Nature Walk
11:45 AM: Drum and Dance
12:30 PM: Song for Family
1:45 PM: Music with ReTribe
2:50 PM: Family Yoga
3:30 PM Lego Games
4:30 PM Art Project
5:15 PM Nature Walk

(Breastfeeding Room)
1:30 PM: Breastfeeding Q&A
2:45 PM: Nutrition Q&A

(Studio Area)
10 AM: Fathers and Mens Circle
1:45 PM: Birth Story Sharing
4 PM: LGBTQ & Family
5:15 PM: Grief & Loss

For more information, please see the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1723664941007542/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%222%22%2C%22ref_d[...]%7D

Hosted by Birth Love Tribe - www.birthlovetribe.com

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