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Everything Placenta: The Amazing, Essential Organ for Pregnancy + Postpartum

Sierra Massey
She/Her
teaches on the placenta's role during pregnancy + birth, its cultural significance + options for use after birth.

Lessons include:

🌳 What is the placenta? What role does it play during pregnancy, birth + postpartum?

🤰🏾 What can I do with my placenta after birth + how do I need to prepare if I want to use it?

🌎 What is the cultural significance of the placenta around the world?

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Educator Bio

Sierra Massey
She/Her
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was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. After attending Cal State Northridge unsatisfied with the curriculum and faculty she moved to New York at age 19. Sierra spent a year getting her teaching certification in Afrikan yoga, doing grassroots community work surrounding health and wellness, and focusing on her self development mentally, physically, and spiritually. In 2018 she moved back to South Central LA to open her own business becoming a full time entrepreneur. In 2019 as she expanded her business she started to dive deeper into birthwork and herbalism, all while teaching yoga classes in her community. In 2020 she attended two Black led birthworker trainings, enrolled into midwifery school, and began apprenticing with Kindred Space LA. During 2020 she assisted in the opening of a Black and Woman owned birth center in South Central LA while attending to birthing woman within the community. Currently she is still attending midwifery school and apprenticing at Kindred Space LA while providing her services as a birthworker and community health advocate.

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What's the difference between on-demand classes and workshops?
On-demand classes are pre-recorded courses with optional live Q+A sessions available throughout the year. Workshops are one-time live classes that may/may not become available again.

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TEB classes and workshops are available for purchase/RSVP on a sliding scale. We know that the classes we've co-created with our educators have tremendous value, and our educators deserve fair and substantive compensation. We also know that addressing financial accessibility is a critical part of creating an equitable community for parents and/or repro health workers.

So we leave it up to each person to determine whether they will pay on the lower or higher end of the sliding scale — to make our work more accessible, and/or to pay-it-forward and help fill the gap for our educators and our team. There's no form to fill out, no process to go through. You choose. :]

Are classes included in TEB membership?
No. Our classes are co-created by the TEB team and the educators who bring their course and/or course idea to us and we split the proceeds of ticket orders. As such we only offer classes for purchase outside of the TEB membership. TEB members and patrons, however, can get early access to order and/or sign-up for classes and workshops.

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