Coming Home to Your Instincts

Written By Morgan Parker

A 3-week mother-and-baby series on touch, connection, and attunement

A 3-week mother-and-baby workshop on touch, connection, and tuning into your instincts. Guided by a craniosacral therapist and speech-language pathologist, this series teaches you how to understand your baby’s cues, use gentle touch and oral play, and build confidence in the natural bond between you. Includes immediate access to the Tune In ebook.

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Motherhood begins in the body—through breath, touch, and the instinctive ways we respond to our babies. But in a world full of noise, advice, and pressure to perform, it’s easy to lose trust in what we already innately know.

Coming Home to Your Instincts is a 3-week, in-person workshop for mothers and babies that brings you back to connection—through guided touch, oral play, nervous system awareness, and baby-led communication for moms with littles under 3 months.

Each session is co-led by:

  • Vidhi Shastri, PT, MS, CFMT – holistic physical therapist specializing in craniosacral, visceral, and somatic touch

  • Morgan Parker, SLP, M.Ed. – speech-language pathologist specializing in infant feeding, early development, and the mother–baby bond

And includes hands-on practice, education, reflection, and space to be held.

You’ll also receive a complimentary copy of Morgan’s ebook Tune In.

What You’ll Experience

Each 90-minute session includes:
1. Guided bodywork + touch techniques for bonding, regulation, and tension identification
2. Guided oral play and facial touch to support feeding, comfort, early communication, and connection
3. Tools for co-regulation, baby cues, and attunement
4. Time for questions, connection, and integration

Week 1 — Foundation of Connection is Attunement

Theme: Attunement begins with self-awareness.

  • Ground into your own body and emotions through guided awareness tools

  • Introduction to baby cues + timing responses to decrease baby’s crying, tension, and frustrations

  • Gentle exterior facial touch

  • Understand comfort as a biological need

Week 2 — Touch is Co-regulation and Communication

Theme: Nurturing touch as a language of love and safety

  • Learn types of touch that comfort and connect

  • Read and respond to baby’s cues through guided touch

  • Practice gentle, responsive touch to the abdomen, diaphgram, and feet

  • Guided oral play for feeding + sensory awareness

  • Tools for connection: presence, mother’s ease, and keeping baby close

Week 3 — Attunement & Integration

Theme: The baby’s body and face speak volumes — and you can learn to listen.

  • Recognize key nonverbal signals (engagement vs. disengagement).

  • Practice mirroring and gentle vocal attunement

  • Guided interior oral play: cheeks, palate, tongue

  • Tools for co-regulation through closeness

You’ll learn how to

Read your baby’s nonverbal cues with confidence to decrease crying and frustration

Support calming and connection through touch and responsiveness

Use playful oral touch to support feeding, comfort, and development

Practice using other tools for connection to nurture ease (babywearing, mothers ease, etc)

Build trust in your own instincts—even when things feel uncertain

Why It Matters

This is not a class about doing more, performing, or perfecting motherhood.
It is about returning to what has always been true—that you and your baby already know how to communicate, connect, and thrive when given space and presence.

Details

📍 Location: Rooted Wellness Community, Hoboken, NJ
📅 Dates: December 1, 8, 15
🕚 Time: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
💛 Early Bird Tuition: $250 (until November 24)
💛 Standard Tuition: $300
👶 Designed For: Mothers with infants 0–3 months (babies attend with you!)
🎁 Includes: A free copy of Morgan’s ebook Tune In

Bring your baby, a soft blanket, and anything that helps you both feel at ease.

Meet Your Guides

Morgan Parker, SLP, M.Ed.

Speech-language pathologist and founder of Rooted, specializing in infant feeding, early development, and the mother–baby bond. Through her work, Morgan helps mothers understand their baby’s biological needs and cues while building trust in their own innate wisdom.

Vidhi Shastri, PT, MS, CFMT

Holistic physical therapist and founder of Retrain Physical Therapy. Vidhi blends evidence-based treatment with craniosacral, visceral, and functional manual therapy to support whole-person healing—specializing in chronic pain, trauma, and the perinatal period for both mothers and babies.

This Is For You If:

  • You want to feel more confident reading your baby’s cues and needs

  • You’re longing for calm, body-based tools to feel connected—not overwhelmed

  • You believe bonding is something felt—not taught, timed, or scheduled.

  • You want gentle guidance from practitioners who trust mothers, after all you are your baby’s best expert!

Ready to come home to your instincts?

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Included: A Digital Copy of Tune In

When you register, you’ll receive immediate access to Tune In, Morgan’s gentle guide to understanding your baby through presence, responsiveness, and connection.

This ebook is designed to support you before the series begins, giving you a foundation in:

  • Why your baby’s cues matter—and how to begin noticing them

  • How connection and communication start from birth (without words)

  • The mother–baby dyad: why you are your baby’s safest place

  • The power of responsiveness, attunement, and trust in your instincts

  • How to build bonding through everyday moments—not perfection or schedules

You’ll get instant download access after signing up, so you can begin your journey before our first session together.

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