Get certified, beachside!
4th Trimester Fitness® Method
Training Retreat
March 20-23, 2025
Atlantic Beach, FL
Room rates are valid for 3 days prior and 3 days post retreat!
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!
+ 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!
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
Looking for a payment plan? Click Here to checkout with 6 monthly installments.
3 Days
$3,000
Postpartum Recovery Certification (2 days)
Business Development Day (1 day)
Total CECs: NASM 1.5/AFAA 15. ICEA 15.75
Looking for a payment plan? Click Here to checkout with 6 monthly installments.
2 days
$2,500
Prep4Partner Certification (1 day)
Business Development Day (1 day)
CECs provider applied for.
Looking for a payment plan? Click Here to checkout with 6 monthly installments.
Build up your birth, fitness, or perinatal education business by becoming a certified 4th Trimester Fitness® Method Instructor!
Here’s an early Business Day training tip -
This Retreat is a tax deduction for educational training!
Itinerary
Room rates are valid for 3 days prior and 3 days post retreat!
Prep4Partner™ Certification
Thursday, March 20th 2025
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, March 21st 2025
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
Saturday and Sunday,
March 22nd - 23rd
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!
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What’s it like being a 4TFM 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.”
Alyssa Ramage, 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.”
Kelly Kolb, 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!
FAQs
On-site lunch and all day coffee/tea and snacks will be provided each day of training, and 4TFM will host 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!
What is included in the cost of this retreat?
What is my return on this investment?
Our average cost of online certification from 4TFM is $1,500. Most of our instructors will make back the cost of training in their first 10 registrants. The cost of training at the unperson retreat is higher due to additional costs of meals, hotel conference rooms, etc.
Are they CECs offered at this training?
Yes! We provide CECs from ICEA and NASM/AFAA.
Prep4Partner™ has ICEA 6.0
Postpartum Recovery® has NASM 1.5/AFAA 15. ICEA 15.75
Can I sponsor the retreat?
Yes! Click here for our sponsorship proposal.
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.
Is my investment refundable?
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!
What is a training with 4TFM like?
How do I travel to the training retreat?
Travel to One Ocean is convenient! Simply fly into Jacksonville International Airport (JAX) and grab a quick ride to get to the hotel. Hotel rooms in our block sart at $249. 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.