We Were Never Meant to Mother Alone
Founded by Mothers for Mothers
Created by two mothers—Sarah Persitz, a Somatic practitioner and spiritual midwife and Ashlie Yair, Full Spectrum Doula, and Parenting Coach —Motherswell is a monthly circle for connection, reflection, and collective nourishment.
Each gathering invites us to slow down, ground, and come together in the realness of motherhood. Here, you’ll find a space to be seen, to be heard, and to be held.
We move with the seasons and the energies of the year, exploring themes of matrescence such as identity and selfhood, relationships and partnership, power and voice, longing and loneliness, love and loss, body and belonging. Through conversation, ritual, and embodied practice, we weave a community where what feels heavy can be shared, what feels hidden can be named, and what feels sacred can be honored.
Monthly Gatherings
A Hands On Training for Parents + Caregivers
Sunday, October 25 | 10 AM–12 PM
Kingston/Woodstock area · Exact location shared with registration
$85 per person
Knowing what to do in an emergency is something we hope we’ll never need, but as parents and caregivers, it can bring enormous peace of mind to feel prepared.
Join Motherswell for a hands-on Infant + Child CPR & First Aid training led by Rebecca of CPR Ed, an experienced CPR and first aid instructor and American Heart Association Authorized Training Provider.
This two-hour class is designed specifically around the emergencies parents and caregivers are most likely to encounter with babies and young children. We’ll cover infant and child CPR, choking response, and essential first aid skills, with plenty of opportunity to practice and ask questions.
This is a practical educational training rather than a certification course—perfect for parents, grandparents, babysitters, nannies and anyone regularly caring for little ones.
Space is limited to 25 participants.
Finding Ground: Tending to Our Nervous Systems
Motherhood asks us to navigate constant change, stimulation, emotion and responsibility — often within a culture that offers far less support than mothers were ever meant to have.
In this circle, we’ll turn our attention to our nervous systems: how our earliest experiences and families of origin shaped the ways we respond to stress, what happens in our bodies when we become activated or overwhelmed, and how those patterns show up in motherhood.
Together, we’ll explore what helps us find our way back to ourselves — through practical nervous system tools, breathwork and embodied practice, as well as connection, spirituality, and meaning. Not as another thing to get right, but as a way of understanding ourselves more deeply and discovering what genuinely supports us.
Our December circle will be held on December 13th, 4–6 pm in Kingston.
Partnership + Intimacy in Motherhood
Motherhood changes our relationships in undeniable ways; sometimes in ways we expect, and often in ways we don’t.
In this circle we’ll make space for an honest conversation about partnership and intimacy: shifting roles and responsibilities, resentment and disconnection, changes in our bodies and desire, the mental load and the challenge of finding one another when so much of our attention is going elsewhere.
Rather than trying to get back to the relationship we had before, we’ll explore what it means to tend partnership, intimacy and connection within the reality of the lives we have now.
Our November circle will be held on November 15th, 4-6 pm in Kingston.
Contact Us
If you have questions, need support registering for a circle (including joining at no cost if finances are a barrier), or are reaching out for additional support - please reach out and we’ll be in touch soon.