PREREQUISITES: The Foundational Workshop + 3 Months Post Workshop Experience
Spinning Babies® Approved Trainers are hosting Integration Workshops worldwide. Find and register for the nearest event to continue your path toward certification and transformational birth support.
Jul. 10, 2025 – Jul. 17, 2025
Spinning Babies® Approved Trainer Rachel Shapiro
Advanced Learning for Birth Professionals
This one-day (or two-day) Spinning Babies® Integration Workshop strengthens your foundation and expands your understanding:
After Completing This Workshop You Will
This Integration Workshop Is For You If You
By the end of this training, you’ll be equipped to combine all your Spinning Babies® knowledge into confident physiological birth care.
After You Complete the Integration Workshop: Final Steps Toward Certification
After your Integration Workshop, you are eligible to apply for certification. Complete your online learning modules and assessments, pay your annual certification fee, and get the recognition you deserve for your expertise in physiological birth.
Proven Impact of the Spinning Babies Approach:
*Preliminary results of a web-based survey with birth workers in Brazil that use Spinning Babies® in their practices (Takemoto, Menezes et al)
Detailed learning outcomes:
In just one or two days of in-person, hands-on learning guided by Spinning Babies® Approved Trainers, you'll gain confidence to:
The Integration Workshop is for professionals who have completed the Spinning Babies® Foundational Workshop and are looking to build on that knowledge with advanced skills and preparation for becoming a Spinning Babies® Certified Birth Professional.
The Integration Workshop is 7 hours total contact time that takes place in one day.
In the Integration Workshop, you will deepen your understanding of key advanced techniques related to fetal positioning, labor support, and pelvic balance. You’ll gain greater confidence in your ability to assess and address common labor challenges using the Spinning Babies® approach. The workshop will build on the foundation of knowledge from the Foundational Workshop, providing hands-on experience with advanced strategies for optimizing fetal positioning, enhancing labor progress, and preventing interventions. Additionally, you’ll refine your skills in guiding laboring parents, balancing intervention with intuition, and ensuring smoother, more comfortable birth experiences. This course will also prepare you for certification, equipping you with the expertise necessary to become a Spinning Babies® Certified Birth Professional. By the end of the course, you’ll feel more empowered and confident in your ability to support physiological birth in any setting.
You can refer to yourself as a Spinning Babies® Certified Birth Professional and display your digital badge on all public facing platforms. You will not be permitted to teach other birth professionals Spinning Babies® material.
Yes, the Integration Workshop is designed specifically for those who have completed the Spinning Babies® Foundational Workshop. To ensure the best learning experience, we ask that participants complete the Foundational Workshop at least three months prior to attending the Integration Workshop.
The Integration Workshop prepares you for certification, but you will need to complete the full certification process to become a Spinning Babies® Certified Birth Professional. To achieve this status you must complete the online learning and assessments and pay the annual certification fee!
The Foundational Workshop introduces our core principles and techniques, while the Integration Workshop is for those that have been implementing the approach and want to deepen their understanding, discuss challenges they’ve faced in their implementation of the approach and become more confident on what to do when and why.
Spinning Babies® Approved Trainers host Integration Workshops worldwide. Click here to find the course closest to you and click “Spinning Babies® Integration Workshop” from the dropdown.
Yes, the Integration Workshop provides 7 ANCC Continuing Education (CE) credits for eligible professionals.
No. The Integration Workshop is an in-person, hands-on workshop. We believe this work cannot purely be taught online and that hands-on practice under the supervision and guidance of a Spinning Babies® Approved Trainer is essential to connect to our own and others’ physiology.
You can register for an Integration Workshop by clicking the registration link on our website to secure your spot in the nearest workshop.
The Integration Workshop is taught by Spinning Babies® Approved Trainers who are birth professionals highly experienced in the Spinning Babies® approach, trained directly by Gail and have extensive backgrounds in birth work. These trainers are experts in fetal positioning, labor support, and physiological birth practices. They bring a wealth of knowledge from real-world experience, ensuring you receive high-quality, practical instruction that you can immediately apply in your practice.
Both the Integration Workshop and Birth Skills Training are advanced programs for birth professionals. The Integration Workshop is specifically designed for those who have already completed the Spinning Babies® Foundational Workshop. In contrast, the Birth Skills Training is a four-day retreat-style course open to all birth professionals who attend births, regardless of prior experience with the Foundational Workshop. Both courses provide in-depth, hands-on learning of the Spinning Babies® approach, with a focus on techniques for labor progression and fetal positioning. Upon completion of either course, participants are able to move forward to the online modules, leading them toward certification as a Spinning Babies® Certified Birth Professional.
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