REGULATION BEFORE FAMILY CREATION
The Baby-Making Experiment
Learn how stress may shape your body, your relationships, and the family life you are preparing to build.
The Baby-Making Experiment is a six-week live virtual regulation experience designed to help participants recognize how pressure may show up before deeper partnership, pregnancy, parenting, and family responsibility.
You will learn practical language for understanding stress, body awareness, communication, recovery, and daily regulation.
WHY THIS EXPERIENCE EXISTS
The Baby-Making Experiment is not just about making a baby.
It is about the state you are in before you build a relationship, grow a family, lead a household, or become responsible for someone else.
Stress does not only live in your thoughts. It may show up in your breathing, posture, digestion, sleep, patience, energy, communication, intimacy, and ability to recover.
Many people move toward love, pregnancy, parenting, or family creation without first understanding what their bodies have been carrying.
The Baby-Making Experiment helps you notice those signals earlier and begin practicing regulation before pressure becomes your normal pattern.
This experience provides education, guided reflection, practical tools, and supportive conversation. It is not fertility treatment, pregnancy care, therapy, medical advice, diagnosis, or a promise of any relationship, pregnancy, or health outcome.
How The Workshop Works
The workshop runs live on Zoom for:
Six Mondays in a Row
Each Monday begins at 7:30 p.m.
Every Live Session Includes
30 minutes of guided education
Live question and answer time
Up to 100 minutes total depending on Q&A
Replay access if you miss the live session
Pre-recorded support material
Lifetime access to recordings
You may participate from home and move through the material at a pace that supports your schedule.
The 6 Episodes
Episode 1:
Why Most People Are Running On Stress Without Knowing It
Learn how stress may begin in the body before you fully recognize it.
Episode 2:
How Stress Shows Up In Your Body
Understand how breath, posture, tension, digestion, fatigue, and emotional load may reflect stress patterns.
Episode 3:
Why Pushing Through Makes It Worse
Explore why ignoring body signals may increase the pressure you are carrying.
Episode 4:
How To Regulate Yourself In Real Time
Learn breath, reset, release, and body awareness tools for real-life pressure.
Episode 5:
How Your State Affects Everything Around You
See how your regulation may influence communication, intimacy, parenting, leadership, and family life.
Episode 6:
The Reset Starts With You
Build a personal regulation reset you can continue using after the workshop.
THE NEXT LEVEL OF SUPPORT
After The 6 Weeks: VIP Full-Day Intensive
Ten days after the final Monday session, the VIP Full-Day Workshop Intensive begins.
The VIP experience brings all six episodes into one in-person day with deeper support, three meals, guided education, body awareness, breathwork, movement, integration, and a 3-hour somatic restoration session.
VIP workshops will be offered in this order:
Pennsylvania → New Jersey → New York
Each state will host 4 VIP days in a row:
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
Each VIP day is limited to 12 participants only.
That means each state has only 48 total VIP seats available.
VIP Experience Includes
Full-Day Support
One full-day, in-person VIP experienceSmall-group learning environmentGuided education and integrationAccess to all six virtual workshop sessions
Somatic Regulation
Three-hour somatic restoration experience
Breath, movement, and body-awareness practices
Vagus nerve-informed regulation education
Optional, consent-based hands-on support within practitioner scope
Hospitality and Community
Three meals during the VIP daySupportive community accessBonus educational resourcesTime for reflection, questions, and personal integration
Optional wellness or cosmetic services may be offered when qualified providers, appropriate screening, consent, and availability are in place. These services are separate from the educational purpose of the workshop and are not guaranteed.
VIP PARTICIPANT BONUS
Retreat Upgrade Bonus
Eligible VIP participants may receive a complimentary VIP-level upgrade for a future Regulation Over Content Retreat registration.
The retreat upgrade is currently valued at $3,000.
To receive the upgrade, the participant must complete the VIP experience and separately register for an eligible retreat.
The upgrade may be used within one year after the participant’s VIP workshop date.
The retreat registration, transportation, lodging terms, available dates, and any remaining costs are separate. The upgrade has no cash value and remains subject to availability and the final retreat terms.
Educational Safety Note
This workshop is educational. It is not medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, therapy, fertility care, pregnancy care, or a replacement for healthcare.
For pregnancy concerns, postpartum complications, severe symptoms, chest pain, shortness of breath, dizziness, numbness, tingling, swelling, trauma, unexplained pain, or high-risk medical conditions, seek support from a qualified healthcare professional.
Is This Experience Right for You?
The Baby-Making Experiment may be a good starting point for people who want to:
Better understand how stress may affect the body
Recognize patterns before entering deeper family responsibility
Develop more awareness around communication and connection
Learn practical regulation tools
Prepare for partnership, pregnancy, parenting, or family life with greater intention
Participate in structured education without beginning with an intensive retreat
Explore whether deeper virtual or in-person support is right for them
You do not need to be pregnant, married, or actively trying to conceive to participate.
You only need a willingness to learn, reflect, and practice.
Choose the Level of Support That Fits Your Season
You may begin with the virtual workshop or select a pathway that includes deeper support.
Episode 1:
Why Most People Are Running On Stress Without Knowing It
Learn how stress may begin in the body before you fully recognize it.
Episode 2:
How Stress Shows Up In Your Body
Understand how breath, posture, tension, digestion, fatigue, and emotional load may reflect stress patterns.
Episode 3:
Why Pushing Through Makes It Worse
Explore why ignoring body signals may increase the pressure you are carrying.
Episode 4:
How To Regulate Yourself In Real Time
Learn breath, reset, release, and body awareness tools for real-life pressure.
Episode 5:
How Your State Affects Everything Around You
See how your regulation may influence communication, intimacy, parenting, leadership, and family life.
Episode 6:
The Reset Starts With You
Build a personal regulation reset you can continue using after the workshop.
Additional Learning + Research
If you’d like to go deeper into this work, you can explore more of our approach to nervous system regulation and how it’s applied in real-life settings.
Learn more about our core philosophy and methods here: System
Explore how this work is experienced in a retreat setting: Retreat
Understand the mission behind why this matters: Mission
See how these practices support teams and organizations through corporate wellness experiences: Wellness
This practice is informed by research on how the nervous system responds to stress, safety, and body-based awareness. You do not need to study the science to benefit from this work, but these resources can give you deeper insight into how the body regulates, why stress may show up physically, and how gentle awareness may support regulation and recovery.
If you would like to explore further, you can review Cleveland Clinic’s overview of the nervous system, Harvard Health’s education on stress and the body, and introductory material on Polyvagal Theory by Dr. Stephen Porges: Cleveland Clinic’s overview of the nervous system, Harvard Health on stress and the body , and introductory material on Polyvagal Theory by Dr. Stephen Porges .