Boost your doula biz and equip families for birth and beyond!
4th Trimester Fitness® Method is hosting its first ever training retreat! Spend four days in sunny Atlantic Beach, FL with us and you’ll have the opportunity to be trained and certified in two foundational classes to bring to your clients:
Prep4Partner™ - a brand new class offering from 4TFM!
Postpartum Recovery® - tried and true favorite!
PLUS gain access to an exclusive Business Development Day with some of our favorite business brains!
*For the doulas in the group, this is the perfect addition to elevate your services by offering a prenatal class and a postpartum class to your doula contract. Your clients will love being so well prepared for their birth and their postpartum experience!
4th Trimester Fitness® Method
Training Retreat
September 26th - 29th
Atlantic Beach, FL
This training retreat will be held over a long weekend (Thursday September 26th - Sunday September 29th) at the beautiful One Ocean Resort & Spa in Atlantic Beach, FL. Just imagine how blissful you’ll feel during a sunset walk on the beach after a day of enriching training designed especially to enhance your doula practice or wellness business offerings!
Create your own retreat!
Remember those ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ books we used to read in school? This is your chance to choose which certification option is perfect for you! We highly recommend our 4 day experience, as you’ll come home with two 4TFM certifications and a full day of business training from our favorite businesswomen!
4 Days-$4,000
Prep4Partner Certification (1 day)
Postpartum Recovery Certification (2 days)
Business Development Day (1 day)
Total CECs: NASM 1.5/AFAA 15. ICEA 15.75
3 Days-$3,000
Postpartum Recovery Certification (2 days)
Business Development Day (1 day)
Total CECs: NASM 1.5/AFAA 15. ICEA 15.75
2 days-$2,500
Prep4Partner Certification (1 day)
Business Development Day (1 day)
CECs provider applied for.
Early bird pricing flies away July 1, 2024. General ticket prices after August 1st will be $2,800 for 2 days, $3,250 for 3 days, and $4,300 for 4 days.
Build up your birth, fitness, or perinatal education business by becoming a certified 4th Trimester Fitness® Method Instructor!
REturn to your home ready to teach!
Curriculum, marketing, instructor gear, business training and a great instructor family all in one setting!
Be ready to teach as soon as you get home! Most of our instructors have a ROI after their first 10 registrants (depending on what they decide to charge). Coming to train with us in-person means that you will complete the entire certification process at once. You will leave your training ready to teach and earn income. PLUS, during this weekend one day will be entirely dedicated to building up your business so you can walk away ready to go!
Prep4Partner™ Certification - Thursday, September 26th
Get trained on how to teach this brand new class from 4TFM! A couple's guide to a better birth through teamwork, this childbirth class is specifically tailored to giving partners actionable tools and information to use during pregnancy, labor, birth and postpartum.
Learn how to teach the Birth Partner:
The mechanisms of labor
How the pelvis moves in birth
Positions to promote labor progression
Comfort measures
Advocacy and strategies to implement for the “what-ifs” of birth and postpartum
Managing pregnancy and postpartum expectations
and more!
You’ll be trained and certified to give parents the tools to prepare their bodies for birth in this engaging and evidence-based class!
Business Development Day - Friday, September 27th
You don’t have time for boring biz trainings that you struggle to put to use! Join us for a hands-on business development day. You’ll be practicing what you learn in real time! We often get the same business questions from doulas over and over and over again. So let’s make a day of it!
You’ll learn the basics of business from 6 industry experts! Together, we’ll walk through such topics as:
Marketing
Social media
Website Development
Branding
Legal considerations
Accounting
& Expanding your offerings
The BEST part is this day will conclude with a formal group dinner at the hotel! Network with each other, pick the brains of our speakers, and reset yourself for the next two days of training ahead!
Postpartum Recovery® Certification - September 28th - 29th
Complete this training to become a certified 4TFM instructor in one of our signature courses: Postpartum Recovery®. If you are looking for the perfect post-birth class to teach to your birth doula clients or fitness clients, this is the one that keeps them IN your client cycle.
After this two-day training you’ll be fully certified and able to teach our 6-week evidence based series. This course is a game changer for your postpartum participants. They bring their baby with them to class and begin the journey to recovery after birth.
You will learn:
Physiological changes and challenges of the postpartum participant
Evidence based, goal oriented programs to teach each week for 6 weeks
Specific functional movement patterns to build body awareness, strength, and confidence.
Exercise modifications and progressions for all abilities, including return-to-running-readiness protocols
Common experiences of the postpartum populations including: the truth about Diastasis Recti, pelvic floor dysfunction, forward head, new mom’s thumb, and more.
Classroom management skills, marketing your classes, how to continue to build community before, during, and after your classes to increase your following and registrations.
This sounds amazing!
I’m totally in!
⬆️ Psst! This ticket is the best value for your investment!
What’s it like being a 4TFM Instructor?
Alyssa Ramage, 4th Trimester Fitness® Method Instructor
“Emily’s teaching style is like a breath of fresh air.
She is the Bill Nye The Science Guy of the birth world and is clearly dedicated to helping empower birthing women all over the country through her enthusiasm, kind words, and ability to explain difficult physiological birth processes.
Her teaching goes beyond the classroom and she makes the genuine effort to not only know and care for all of the instructors but encourages us (instructors) to get to know and care for everyone on the team as well.”
Kelly Kolb, 4th Trimester Fitness® Method Instructor
“I love Emily's teaching style because she makes sure instructors understand multiple ways to explain information and techniques to our students, common mistakes they may make and how to correct them, and provides information in multiple ways such as images, video, and text to meet the needs of all sorts of learners. I love how personally invested Emily is in her students' success and inspiring them as they build their businesses and parenting communities.”
Frequently Asked Questions
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Travel to One Ocean is convenient! Simply fly into Jacksonville International Airport (JAX) and grab a quick ride to get to the hotel. One Ocean is a beachfront property and within walking distance to amenities such as: Publix, CVS, Walgreens, and the best little coffee shops and yummy restaurants.
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On-site lunch will be provided each day of training, and there will be a group dinner Friday evening. You will be responsible for your transportation, lodging, and some meals. There is a group lodging rate available at One Ocean!
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This training investment is not refundable because we are 100% certain you will walk away with immense value! We do provide online, on-demand certifications if traveling to this in-person retreat is not possible.
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Our average cost of certification from 4TFM is $1,500. Most of our instructors will make back the cost of training in their first 10 registrants.
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You can expect a healthy mix of lecture, demonstration and lots of hands-on practice. All attendees will receive clear, beautiful, and accurate manuals and handouts!
“Atlantic Beach is my own little slice of paradise!
This place inspires me as a doula and business owner.
I can’t wait to share my favorite spots with you!”
Emily Wannenburg, DNDM, CLC, AdvCD(DONA), CBE
4th Trimester Fitness® Method Founder