Our Calendar

Join us for a variety of fun, educational, and ceremonial opportunities to connect live with our founder, Emilee Saldaya, and the other luminaries of Free Birth Society. We host workshops, live Q&As, retreats, masterclasses, and an annual women's gathering every summer solstice in North Carolina. Check out everything happening in the coming year here.

Festival Tickets Go Live

Matriarch Rising Tickets Available January 3rd

Tickets are available for Matriarch Rising Festival! Imagine dancing under the stars, surrounded by your sisters, barefoot and free, completely immersed in the here and now… Join us June 17th-22nd, 2025 in the Blue Ridge Mountains, NC.

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The Initiated Woman:

Free Live 3-Part Ceremonial Gathering

January 11th | 18th | 25th

Join Nancy Lucina, Kristin Hauser, and Emilee Saldaya for a free, live series of 3 ceremonial sessions to re-initiate yourself into womanhood with reverence, honor, and maturity.

February 3rd, 2025

The Blood Mysteries School Begins

Enter a transformative 8-week container to learn the sacred secrets of womanhood. Coming to know these mysteries will support you in reclaiming your womb wisdom, in the form of sovereign cycle wellness, radical fertility, menstrual power, rite of passage shamanism, and how to translate your wisdom into supporting other women.

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MatriBirth Family Begins

Course Begins March 3rd, 2025

Join Emilee and Yolande in an intimate container where they teach their signature Sovereign Childbirth Education for women and couples.

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Free Masterclass

Wednesday, April 4th at 3 pm EST

Don't miss our only FREE masterclass for future Radical Birth Keepers this year.

Join Emilee & Yolande in this free masterclass for aspiring and disillusioned doulas, where you will learn about beginning in birth-work outside of the system. Bring your questions and curiosity. This class will be recorded and emailed to those who register.

School Begins April 14th, 2025

The Radical Birth Keeper School Begins

Free Birth Society's signature 8-week foundational program on birth-work beyond the system. Learn from Emilee Saldaya and Yolande Norris-Clark in this groundbreaking program for women embarking on the path of sovereign birth-work.

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Matriarch Rising Festival

June 17th - 22nd, 2025

The Matriarch Rising Festival is an exclusive women-only event that cultivates a sanctuary for mothers, daughters, and sisters to celebrate womanhood year after year here in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

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The MatriBirth Midwifery Institute

School Begins Fall 2025

The MatriBirth Midwifery Institute is the first of its kind. We are the only midwifery school that fuses independent midwifery, holistic health & healing, a full childbirth education curriculum, birth-coaching and trauma debrief training, and a transformational self-mastery program, all in the context of a high-level business catalyst.

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