COMMUNITY OFFERINGS & EVENTS
Fostering confidence and connection through education
At Manos Sagradas, we believe the childbearing year is best experienced with support, connection, and education. From Village Prenatals to Childbirth Education, our programs provide spaces to nourish your body, expand your knowledge, and build community with others on the same journey.
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Can’t make it to our gatherings? Come visit us at the next wholistic mercado! We’ll have organic herbal tinctures, creams, and oils to support your body through pregnancy and postpartum, and we’d love to connect with you in person.
Our Current Offerings
Village Prenatal
Free Monthly Gatherings for Connection, Nourishment & Childbirth Education
Looking for a warm, friendly space to share your pregnancy journey with others? Come join our Village! On the first Sunday of each month, we’ll explore a new creative activity over tea and homemade soup, while supporting your preparation for the birth of your baby with meditation and mindfulness exercises. This is a nurturing space to reflect on your thoughts and feelings about pregnancy, birth, and beyond. It’s the perfect place to learn, connect, and grow together. Village Prenatals take place in our cozy home, in the heart of El Paso.
During Each Monthly Village Prenatal, We:
Map bellies: Check baby’s heart tones and learn how to self-identify your baby’s position
Enjoy nourishing meals and tea together
Share birth stories: Celebrate and learn from each journey
Learn traditional wisdom: Receive guidance for pregnancy, birth, and postpartum from a midwife and an herbalist
Share local resources: Access information for pregnancy and postpartum support
Connect with other mothers walking similar paths
This is a space to remember that birth and motherhood are not meant to happen in isolation—it is through community that we find healing.
Childbirth Education
“Thresholds: Preparing for Birth & Beyond”
$250, 4 Classes Lasting 2 Hours Each
Thresholds is an intimate, four-week childbirth education series designed to prepare parents to give birth in awareness, whatever the outcome or setting. Rooted in the Birthing From Within philosophy, this class honors birth as a profound rite of passage, not simply a medical event.
Through storytelling, art, discussion, movement, and hands-on practice, families explore both the science and the mystery of birth. The small class size allows time and space for deep discussion, reflection, and genuine connection.
Parents are supported in preparing for any birth path that may be right for them. Together, we acknowledge that birth can bring the unexpected, and we focus on developing inner resources for coping, flexibility, and self-compassion.
Partners learn to be truly present and to offer loving, effective support, while birthing parents strengthen trust in their bodies and intuition. Each session invites active, creative self-expression and cultivates confidence in meeting birth and parenthood as transformative thresholds.
Families leave with practical tools, a deeper connection to their intuition, and a renewed sense of confidence in their body’s natural design.
Families are encouraged to attend our series between 20 and 30 weeks of pregnancy. The series is hosted by Nourish Chiropractic on Wednesdays from 6:00 - 8:00 pm, and include a nourishing soup dinner with fresh sourdough bread.
Each session centers on a key theme:
Session 1: “Unconscious Preparation for Birth: Unpacking What We Carry”
Session 2: “Reclaiming Intuition: The Body Knows the Way”
Session 3: “The Physiologic Design of Human Birth: Connecting to Your Inner Mammal”
Session 4: Honoring and Preparing for the Fourth Trimester
Ceremonial Postpartum Care
Closing of the Bones Ceremony
$300 2-3 Hours, held in your home
Birth is a powerful threshold, an opportunity for women to complete a cycle and open a new one. It opens the potential to release held trauma, not just from our own bodies, but from our ancestral lineages. When this process is interrupted, women can be left feeling untethered or unresolved. The Closing of the Bones ceremony offers a path to healing and wholeness.
Having learned directly with traditional midwives from Guatemala, Katie honors the wisdom holders of these sacred practices. The Closing of the Bones Ceremony supports women in fully integrating their birth experience, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
We begin with grounding meditation and breathwork, followed by a personalized yoni steam with herbs tailored to your birth or postpartum journey. We then move into the earth-based closing ritual using handmade rebozos from my Mayan teacher. Through loving touch, warmth, and intentional wrapping, we gently “close” what was opened, honoring your transformation.
This offering is for anyone navigating postpartum, loss, or a major life transition. There is no set timeline—receive this work whenever you feel called.