Cycle Tracking & Natural Birth Control

Join herbalist Elaine Sheff for this informative workshop recording. Elaine is a certified instructor of Fertility Awareness and Natural Family Planning Methods and has taught these methods for over 35 years.

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Become empowered by learning to understand your cycle.

Tracking our cycle can help us get to know our bodies and figure out how our diet, lifestyle, stress levels, etc. impact our health and well-being.

Befriend your fertility instead of seeing it as something to be afraid of.

Once you understand your cycle, this class will help you learn how to support your reproductive health and well-being with herbs.

A stone mortar and pestle holds many fresh herbs including raspberry, feverfew, rose hyssop and yarrow

Join Registered Clinical Herbalist Elaine Sheff for this transformative and inspiring workshop, where you’ll learn to track your cycle to avoid or achieve pregnancy–naturally! 

What You’ll Learn

  • The Fertility Awareness Method (FAM) is a scientifically proven method of tracking your menstrual cycle and identifying fertile and infertile days. It can be used to prevent pregnancy, achieve pregnancy, and monitor overall reproductive health.

    Learn the basics of the Fertility Awareness Method and how it works so that you can use it for natural birth control or to achieve pregnancy.

    Together with Elaine, you’ll bust the common misconceptions and myths about FAM.

  • Learn how to track your menstrual cycle and identify your fertile window so that you can prevent or achieve pregnancy.

  • Learn the different fertility signs and how to interpret them and how to use the menstruation and fertility cycle to assess health.

    What does healthy menstruation look like? Get to know your body and how your lifestyle, diet, stress, etc., play a role in your cycle.

  • Once you understand your cycle, you can learn how to support your reproductive health and well-being with herbs.

    Herbal protocols will be addressed, and Elaine will go over her simple “Menstrual Map” tool used to address health-related issues such as painful or excessive menstruation, hormone balancing, phytoestrogens, reproductive tonics, infertility, progesterone support, and PMS.

    Want to learn more? Check out this article on Natural Birth Control.

Please note that this class is a self-paced online program designed for individuals, herbalists, and other healthcare professionals. 

Advantages of Fertility Awareness

  • Highly effective, with a 99.3% effectiveness rate when used correctly.

  • Can be used throughout all phases of reproductive life including breast/chestfeeding, perimenopause, or with irregular cycles.

  • Totally safe with no side effects.

  • Reliable: based on sound scientific knowledge and research.

  • Inexpensive to use.

Fertility Awareness is an extremely useful tool for individuals and healthcare professionals to assess hormonal balance and aid in fertility management.

Ready To Dive In?

Want to know more? Check out our Frequently Asked Questions. Or you can contact us to set up a free phone call.

  • Printable workbook

  • Printable sample charts

  • Printable blank charts

  • Additional resources, articles, and links

  • The Menstrual Map: a printable herbal cycle chart.

  • Downloadable materials - LIFETIME ACCESS!!

What’s Included?

Meet Your Instructor

ELAINE SHEFF, CO-DIRECTOR, CLINICAL HERBALIST, RH (AHG)

Elaine is the Co-Director of Green Path Herb School, located in Missoula, Montana, where she strives to inspire and empower students and clients to remember their connection to the earth, the plants, and their healing process. She is a professional member of the American Herbalist Guild and teaches workshops at national and international conferences. As a certified Instructor of Natural Family Planning and Fertility Awareness Methods, Elaine has helped many couples avoid or achieve pregnancy naturally.

Fertility Awareness can be an amazing tool to work with health issues such as irregular cycles, heavy bleeding, painful periods, PCOS, miscarriages, mid-cycle bleeding, amenorrhea, perimenopause, cyclic migraines, hypothyroidism, PMS, chronic yeast infections, and hormonal acne. 

Ready To Dive In?

Want to know more? Check out our Frequently Asked Questions. Or you can contact us to set up a free phone call.

  • The course proved to be incredibly well presented, crammed full of information and very valuable learning. Elaine has so much experience in this area and weaves together the different strands of information and ‘case study’ examples seamlessly and in a most accessible manner. She is a very gifted and generous teacher with the capacity to make dense information and large amounts of knowledge understandable and enjoyable to learn.

    Nikki Darrell, Herbalist and Dirtector of Veriditas Hibernica Herb School

  • I took the natural family planning class with Elaine many years ago. I have tracked my cycles ever since, and then as a midwife went on to teach many other women about their own cycles & fertility through the years. What a wonderful enlightening experience for me when first attending college. This class was a sweet, important, & feminine touch during such a memorable time of blossoming into a young woman.

    Charlotte Creekmore

  • This great class, taught by an open and knowledgeable teacher such as Elaine, is so empowering! It really is a step in the right direction for women looking to learn more about their bodies and fertility cycles and take their reproductive health into their own hands. Elaine helps women reclaim the wise woman within us all.

    Justene Sweet

FAQ

  • Fertility awareness and cycle tracking is right for you if…

    • You are a cycling person or the partner, ally, parent, or health provider of cycling people.

    • You want to understand more about your body and the fertility cycle.

    • You want to avoid getting pregnant without taking any hormones like the pill or putting anything foreign, like an IUD, in your body.

    • You want to be able to get pregnant with ease by learning your daily fertility patterns to reduce the time to conceive.

    • You want to explore the possible root causes of infertility, understand your unique fertility markers before IUI/IVF, and explore a non-invasive alternative to IUI/IVF.

    • You want to understand the link between cycle health and hormonal imbalances such as irregular cycles, heavy bleeding, painful periods, PCOS, miscarriages, mid-cycle bleeding, amenorrhea, perimenopause, cyclic migraines, hypothyroidism, PMS, chronic yeast infections, and hormonal acne. 

      You want to support your partner, teen, or loved one in their reproductive health and wellness.

  • Beause it is the most effective, I teach the symptothermal method, which uses the basal body temperature, cervical fluid, and position and texture of the cervix (optional). Thes three fertility signs are combined when charting and specific rules are applied to each sign.

    • Individuals and couples can use this class as a tool to prevent or achieve pregnancy.

    • Practitioners can use this method to assess hormonal balance and aid in fertility management.

    • Everone learns at their own rate, but for most people, it takes 3-4 weeks to learn the method and a few cycles for you to learn own pattern and rhythms.

    • If you are learning this method for contraception, I recommend to practicing, with your partner if possible, for at least 3 months before using this method as your sole form of birth control / contraceptive.

    • Be very cautious about using an app to decide when you are fertile. Relying solely on an app is a good way to possibly wind up pregnant as they don’t track enough information to make them reliable.

    • Each cycle is unique and an app cannot predict how your cycle will be affected by your daily life. Our cycles are impacted by stress, illness, changes in exercise, staying up late, diet, travel, changes in routine, new supplements, new lovers, etc., which is why some of your cycles are longer than others (ovulation is being delayed).

    • With Fertility Awareness, you use real-time bodily signs to decide whether or not you are fertile, this is much more effective than using a predictive app.

  • Yes! This is the exact same program that I have taught my in-person students and individual clients for many years, with the bonus that you can re-watch the videos whenever you choose.

  • You are welcome to contact me to set up a private consultation to look over your personal charts or ask any questions you might have.

  • We provide a PDF workbook for the class containing sample carts, blank charts, method rules, and more. You will also get suggested readings and links to additional articles. You will need to purchase a basal body thermometer.

  • Yes! Many students value rewatching the videos of our classes. Once you have purchased the class, you will have lifetime access, so you can review the materials and videos as desired.