Sacramento, CA - Spinning Babies® Foundational Workshop w/ Nikki - September 17, 2026

This hands-on workshop with an approved trainer offers real-time learning, personalized guidance, and confident skill-building in a supportive environment. You’re not just observing—you’re practicing, asking questions, and receiving immediate feedback from a trainer who has met rigorous standards and brings deep, practical experience to the work. This kind of immersive learning builds clarity, confidence, and competence, ensuring you leave not only informed, but truly prepared to apply what you’ve learned in the real world.
If you are a staff member and should be registered under the organization, please register using the private "Staff" ticket shared with you or contact the organizer at the information listed above for more assistance.
Improve labor outcomes with a Spinning Babies® Foundational Workshop. Learn our physiological techniques that offer a complete system of birth preparation and labor ease concepts to improve labor with the baby's position.
Spinning Babies® begins with fetal rotation to reveal the lesser-known physiology of birth anatomy. Your passion, our approach. Start seeing solutions in labor progress with this new lens on childbirth.
After this workshop you will be able to:
-Facilitate comfort in pregnancy and ease in childbirth for your clients
-Improve fetal position without manipulation of the fetus
-Identify issues faster; gentle actions to shorten a long labor or avoid a cesarean
-Use less (or no) force to resolve malposition and labor dystocia
And much, much more!
Spinning Babies® Three Principles SM, Three Balances SM, and Pelvic Levels Solutions SM offers the world’s first complete system of birth preparation and labor ease concepts using baby’s position. Physiological techniques change the effective size of the pelvis through the body’s own innate capacity to resolve or prevent labor dystocia.
Completing a Spinning Babies® Foundational Workshop is the prerequisite for our Spinning Babies® Integration Workshop and advanced training programs.
Who May Attend
We welcome all professionals who serve people in their pregnancy and birth. Ideal for midwives, nurses, nurse practitioners, doulas, and childbirth educators. Also attended by obstetricians, family medicine doctors, prenatal yoga instructors, chiropractors, acupuncturists, massage therapists, perinatal case managers, and community health workers. Recommended for people new to Spinning Babies®, as well as those who have been practicing it for years.
CEs are available for some participants, as noted in the Continuing Education section.
Food and Refreshments
Snacks, coffee, and tea will be provided. We will take a 60-minute lunch break. Bring a lunch or go out with new friends.
Special Notes
Dress comfortably as we will be moving around and practicing techniques with each other.
Please contact the organizer if you are able to supply a massage table for the workshop.
Hosted By
Nikki Zerfas
[email protected]
Cancellation Policy
If you will miss this workshop due to attending a birth, you must notify the organizer before the workshop begins. Refunds will not be granted without prior notification. If you need to cancel for other reasons, please contact the organizer.
About the Trainer - Nikki Zerfas
Nikki Zerfas is an experienced Labor & Delivery nurse. She actively participates in the orientation and mentorship of new staff and works to bring educational opportunities to her colleagues, with emphasis on implementing physiology-based birth practices, continuous labor support, and emphasizing breastfeeding-friendly care of new families. She is especially focused on supporting physiological birth in complex medical situations. Nikki maintains her certifications in Electronic Fetal Monitoring and as an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. She continues to work as a bedside nurse and enjoys bringing birth workers of all disciplines together in the goal of improving the care and outcomes of new families.
Continuing Education
This workshop provides seven (7) continuing education contact hours with American Nurse Credentialing Center (ANCC). Maternity House Publishing dba Spinning Babies® is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Advanced Offerings
See our Spinning Babies® online course catalog for current list of virtual workshops and trainings.
The Spinning Babies® Workshop is the prerequisite for taking Spinning Babies® Integration Workshops, the Spinning Babies® Certified Parent Educator Training or Spinning Babies® Aware Practitioner Workshop. You can attend a Resolving Shoulder Dystocia and Breech Basics Workshops before you have attended a Spinning Babies® workshop, but we recommend you attend the Spinning Babies® workshop workshop first.
Terms of Use
This workshop does not provide a certification in Spinning Babies®️ only a document of attendance. Participants will not be able to use the name Spinning Babies® to describe their services, such as offering Spinning Babies®️, sessions, or saying “trained in Spinning Babies” after registering for or attending this workshop. Participants may use concepts and techniques introduced in the workshop in the participant’s practices. Further training is available for eligible participants which does lead towards a contractual relationship for listing or certification and use of Spinning Babies®️ brand and name.
Tax Exemption
If you are associated with an organization that is tax exempt, you will be able to indicate this on the payment page. If someone from your organization has submitted a tax exemption form to Spinning Babies®️ previously, please contact your organization to use a tax exemption form code. Otherwise, you can upload a .pdf version of your tax exemption form on the payment page and will be required to pay tax at time of purchase, but will be refunded if/when your form is accepted by Spinning Babies®️.