Special Events & Workshops
While these classes, workshops, events and series don’t count as your “included with membership” educational offering, these special events, classes and offerings, often offer discounts to our Root Members! Email admin@sacroot.com to get your code if you are an active member or patron.
Workshops with The Mama Coaches
Meet Your Instructors
Chelsea McMann and Kelly Beckham are Registered Nurses, Lactation Specialists, and Pediatric Sleep Consultants in private practice, proudly sharing The Mama Coach brand and mission: to make parenthood easier.
With nearly three decades of combined nursing experience, Kelly and Chelsea provide evidence-based education, personalized consultations, and actionable solutions. We specialize in guiding families through every stage of parenting—from prenatal care to newborn support, feeding and sleep challenges, and developmental milestones like potty training.
Using our nursing assessment skills and a heavy dose of empathy, we craft tailored plans rooted in medical expertise and practical strategies, ensuring families receive the individualized care they deserve.
Did you know that high-quality CPR can triple someone’s chances of survival?
Join Registered Nurses, Kelly and Chelsea, your local Mama Coaches, for an empowering and informative CPR, Choking, and AED Workshop at The Root. Designed to equip families with life-saving skills, this workshop is perfect for preconception through parenthood—and beyond.
Workshop Details:
Frequency: Offered quarterly, in-person
Who It’s For: Perfect for parents, family members, caregivers, and anyone interested in learning these essential skills
What to Bring: Wear comfortable clothing—the class is hands-on.
What You’ll Learn:
In this one-hour, no-pressure workshop, you’ll gain the skills to:
Recognize an emergency and that someone needs help
Activate the emergency team
Perform high-quality CPR
Use an AED
Identify the difference between gagging and choking and respond appropriately
You will leave with:
The knowledge and confidence to provide life-saving care
The empowerment to handle an emergency with competence and confidence
This is a no-test class, so there’s no stress—just practical, actionable learning. Babies in arms are welcome to join you! You’ll be taught the latest guidelines per the American Heart Association and get plenty of hands-on practice, helping you build both mental and muscle memory for life-saving techniques.
While you won’t receive a formal certification, you’ll leave this class equipped with the tools and confidence to save lives. Plus, you’ll receive an eBook for reference to keep these essential skills.
Investment: $100 Per Person (with 1 additional support person welcome to join at no extra cost)
Root Members get $10 off per person (email admin@sacroot.com for code!)
Upcoming Date:
November 13th, 05:00 - 06:15 PM
CPR, Choking and AED Workshop
Did you know that introducing solids safely can set the foundation for a lifetime of healthy eating?
Join Registered Nurses Kelly and Chelsea, your local Mama Coaches, for a workshop that essential starting solids guidance. Starting solids can feel overwhelming—there’s so much advice, and it’s hard to know what’s truly best for your baby. This workshop is designed to give you the confidence to start solids safely while also preparing you to handle emergency situations.
Workshop Details
Who It’s For: Parents, caregivers, family members, and anyone looking to learn essential safety and feeding skills.
Includes: The Mama Coach eBooks on Starting Solids to use as an ongoing resource, Time for Q&A to answer individual questions.
What You’ll Learn:
Starting Solids!
How to recognize signs of readiness to start solids
Feeding approaches: Baby-led weaning (BLW), purees, or a combination
Responsive feeding—helping your baby develop healthy eating habits
Introducing allergens safely and recognizing signs of an allergy
Incorporating cow’s milk into your child’s diet
Gagging Vs Choking- How to recognize true choking and how to respond
You Will Leave With:
✔ A clear, evidence-based approach to starting solids with confidence!
✔ A comprehensive Starting Solids and CPR and Choking eBook for continued guidance and to use as a resource!
✔ You’ll walk away with practical skills, trusted resources, and peace of mind—because keeping your
child safe and healthy shouldn’t feel overwhelming.
We can’t wait to support you through this exciting (and important) stage of parenthood.
Investment: $100 Per Person (with 1 additional support person welcome to join at no extra cost)
Root Members get $10 off per person (email admin@sacroot.com for code!)
Upcoming Date:
November 13th, 06:30 – 07:45 PM
Starting Solids Workshop
Struggling with sleep or wondering if your toddler is ready to start potty learning? With so much conflicting advice, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. Join Registered Nurses, Kelly and Chelsea, your local Mama Coaches, for a 2-hour workshop designed to help you confidently navigate both potty learning and toddler sleep challenges with science-backed strategies that actually work.
Who It’s For
Parents and caregivers wondering if their child is ready to start potty learning
Families experiencing resistance, accidents, or setbacks
Those navigating toddler sleep struggles, transitions, and milestones
Anyone looking for evidence-based, expert guidance
Workshop Details
Time for a Q&A session to answer your individual questions
Includes: eBooks, 9 Signs of Readiness Guide
What You’ll Learn
Potty Learning
When to start and how to recognize true readiness
Mindset and expectations—how to set your child up for success
Addressing fear and resistance to the potty
Managing constipation and accidents
Toddler Sleep
How milestones and development impact sleep
Strategies for managing fears and bedtime resistance
When and how to transition to a big kid bed
Creating a consistent, effective bedtime routine
You’ll Leave With:
A readiness assessment guide for potty learning
eBooks to use as a reliable resource moving forward
Confidence to tackle these stages!
Investment: $120 Per COUPLE*
Root Members get $10 off per person
Upcoming Date:
TBD, Fall 2025
*Other classes by the mama coaches are per person
Potty Learning and Toddler Sleep Workshop
Other Special Workshops & Events
Relax Baby Workshop
Relax, baby is a workshop for you, as parents, to learn about CFT (Craniosacral Fascial Therapy) and to practice these techniques on your babies! You will learn massage techniques that will aid breastfeeding difficulties, symptoms of colic, fussiness, sleep problems, body tension and suspected discomfort, oral tightness, gas, and digestive discomfort. Bring your baby to class and prepare to be impressed with the differences you see once you begin using these simple techniques on your baby.
Infant feeding, whether at the breast, bottle, or with solids, can be significantly impacted by tightness, discomfort, or weakness in your baby’s mouth and body. If feeding difficulties arise, a deeper evaluation may be necessary. Issues with suckling, swallowing, eating, and range of motion in the body can stem from positional abnormalities in utero or result from labor and birth trauma.
Taught by our regular instructor, Alicia Cukjati who is a International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and a Cranialsacral Fascial Therapy (CFT) trained therapist.
Upcoming Dates (all classes 12:00 - 2:00 pm unless otherwise noted)
November 8th
December 13th
Investment: $125/Couple
Prenatal Partner Yoga Workshop
This 75-minute prenatal yoga workshop is designed for parents-to-be. It is a great way to spend some quality time with your partner and celebrate your growing family.
Galina has prepared a fun and educational class that equally engages both parents with moves that are beneficial and safe for the pregnant body. This workshop was inspired by Galina`s own pregnancy journey and her husband's desire to be helpful during those months.
This is not a birthing class, it is a class that shows partners how to play an active role during pregnancy, especially the last bits of it, which typically are the hardest. Couples will leave with knowledge of yogic pain management tools, poses to target achy lower backs, shoulders, and sides of the body for better breathing and more.
No yoga experience required. Unless noted, all classes are from 10:30 - 11:45 AM.
Upcoming Dates:
October 12th
November 16th
December 21st
Investment: $40/Couple for non-members
$15 for Root Member couple (email admin@sacroot.com for discount code)
About the Instructor: Galina has been a yoga practitioner since 2007. For years she has relied on yoga to support her physical and emotional well being.
In 2015 Galina was going through major life changes and needed a fresh start. She took a trip to the Himalaya mountains with her local yoga community and stayed in a little village surrounded by a forest full of curious monkeys. For a month Galina worked through a deep body and mind cleanse at a local Ayurvedic clinic, and attended morning chants at an Ashram followed by yoga practice. That trip was truly transforming.
The planted seeds sprouted after Galina moved to California and took an opportunity to complete a 200-hour “LEVITYoGA” YTT taught by Peter Sterios in 2019. Her own teaching journey began shortly after with a weekly all level class at The Space yoga studio in Visalia, CA.
2023 was another year of change. Galina and her husband were expecting their first baby. During the pregnancy Galina completed Prenatal and Postpartum yoga teacher training and offered prenatal yoga workshops. After the baby boy arrived the family moved to the Sacramento area where Galina continues to teach prenatal yoga.
New Narrative in Sexuality: Talking to Kids about Body & Sexuality Class
About the Workshop:
When we think back to our childhood and how we were taught about sexuality and our bodies, not many of us have the best memories. We all know the importance of these conversations and how they can affect us. We can offer our children a new narrative even if ours wasn't what we wanted. In this workshop you will learn the steps onto how you can provide better for your own child/ren, while also creating ways to care for and offer yourself compassion. Join AASECT certified sexuality health educator, Kara Haug from Reframing our Stories for 90 min to gain tools, reflect, and to start writing a new narrative for your child/ren. There will also be time dedicated for questions.
Please bring a journal and pen. A handout will also be provided.
Cost: $45
Upcoming Date: October 30th
Reframing our Stories Workshops with Kara Haug
About Kara Haug:
Kara is the Co-founder of Reframing our Stories and an AASECT (American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists) Certified Sexuality Health Educator. She provides sexuality health education in SCUSD and other Sacramento area schools, in homes, and in community spaces. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Human Sexuality at Antioch University in Seattle.
Write it Down, Dance it Out
Anyone else feeling overwhelmed about life?
This is an hour dedicated to being in community with others to reflect and then to let it go. Kara Haug of Reframing our Stories LLC who is trained in Amherst Writers and Artist Method will lead you in some healing writing techniques. You don't have to be a writer to benefit from this time. We can hear from one another of the themes that are coming up for us and then we can move our bodies. You also don't have to be a dancer to benefit from this time. Just come and be and move with others.
Cost: $40
Upcoming Date: On Pause
Time: TBD
Wellness. Education. Community.
From prenatal yoga to childbirth classes to postpartum support groups, we help pregnant persons and new parents thrive during every stage of their journey.