practice the medicine.
train
the hand.
Learn the body.
Now in our third cohort
Thirty days of in person immersion
A faculty of working practitioners
Two years
Become a Certified Womb Continuum Practitioner
Ma school is the first complete education for women’s health practitioners - the hands, the medicine, and the movement of women’s care, across every stage of a woman’s life.
Women’s care back in women’s hands
That knowledge was never lost. It is a Living Lineage — carried hand to hand, from the traditional curanderas Andrea apprenticed with for a decade, through the hundreds of births Mandy has attended, and the knowledge passed down from many more teachers, into the women who train here. Ma School exists to place that lineage — joined with modern clinical science — back into women’s hands. Your hands.
The midwife.
The sobadora.
The herbalist.
The woman whose hands knew.
For most of human history, women’s health lived in women’s hands.
One continuum.
One medicine.
Continuum Medicine is caring for all of it: the hands-on, hands-in bodywork that resolves what lives in her tissues; the nutrition and herbal medicine that tends her chemistry; the movement and strength that make healing hold.
Modern healthcare split the woman into specialties. Continuum Medicine puts her back together. Ma School is where it’s taught.
Continuum Medicine is caring for all of it: the hands-on, hands-in bodywork that resolves what lives in her tissues; the nutrition that tends her chemistry; the movement and strength that make healing hold.
Modern healthcare split the woman into specialties. Continuum Medicine puts her back together. Ma School is where it’s taught.
WE never found a training that taught all of this in one certification.
so we built it.
Trainings in nutrition, in birth work, in movement.
Trainings in scar tissue.
There are trainings in pelvic bodywork.
we collected the pieces. you get the whole cloth.
Ma School bridges them all: the disciplines, the lineages, one certification.
Traditional Mexican Midwives carry a rebozo — one woven cloth that does a thousand things: carries the baby, supports the labor, closes the mother after birth. One cloth, many threads, a whole life of uses. This education is woven the same way. Ma school weaves three main threads, held in one education path, across every stage of her life.
one weave.
Biomechanics, strength and movement for the female body, taught by a dedicated movement educator with over 15 years of experience. Because healing that doesn’t hold under load doesn’t hold.
The Movement
Metabolic health, the deep chemistry that determines how a woman heals, cycles, carries and ages. Nutrition, hormones and lifestyle understood as one living system, for every stage of the continuum. The psyche, nervous system and subtle body, because what she has lived shapes how she heals. Your care reaches what touch alone cannot
The Medicine
Palpation. Fascial and visceral work. External and internal pelvic work. Scar tissue. Breast work. Bones. Pregnancy and postpartum specialized bodywork. Trained the only way Intelligent Hands can be trained, on real bodies, supervised, across thirty days of immersion.
The Hands
I went from the energetics of a girl, and graduated as a woman; embodied in my womb, confident as a state of being, and skilled at the practice of listening with my hands. I began a Womb Continuum practice that is now thriving and fully supports me financially. My marketing is simply word of mouth, because the skills that you learn support bodies so much that people can’t help but talk about you.
This school brings you into relationship with the most hidden parts of your body and your psyche so you may hold loving acceptance as you guide your clients to go there as well. It is medicine work, necessary, holy, and meant for the women who are willing to step fully into their power.
- Jax
Two years.
Three Units.
Three Retreats.
One certification.
Each unit is taught live online — three classes per month — and ends in a ten-day retreat where those exact techniques go into your hands. Theory first, hands second, real practice third. Your scope opens after the first retreat and widens after each one.
The Curriculum
unit 01
unit 01
The Practitioner's Ground
How to be a practitioner: how to touch a woman, hold the room, work with what surfaces on your table, and know your scope, your ethics, and when not to work.
The Living Matrix
Fascia, connective tissue, and alignment. How the body holds itself together, compensates, and tells you what it's doing before you lay a hand on it.
The Terrain
Anatomy and physiology in depth: bones, muscles, organs, nerves, not as parts, but as systems that work on each other.
The Pelvic Bowl
The deep anatomy of the pelvis, from structure through pathology.
retreat 01
Retreat 01
Foundation
1st in-person retreat
Body readings, fascial work, belly, womb and breast work — every technique practiced on real bodies with teachers beside you. You leave with your Foundation scope and begin practicing.
unit 02
unit 02
AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL
The chemistry underneath everything: how hormones, blood sugar, digestion, and metabolism decide how a woman cycles, heals, and ages.
TIDES AND CYCLES
The crossings — menarche, fertility, menopause — and what a woman needs at each one.
THE UNSEEN BODY
The layers that touch reaches but anatomy doesn't name: energy, fluid, emotion, and what the tissue is holding on their behalf.
The Pelvic Bowl
Deepening into the anatomy, physiology and pathology of the pevic bowl.
THE TERRAIN
Deepening into Anatomy and Physiology
retreat 02
Retreat 02
EXPANSION
2nd in-person retreat
Review, expanded fascia work, bone work, advanced techniques, vulva & vaginal work. Your scope expands to match.
unit 03
unit 03
Through
The Terrain
Pregnancy as a structural event: what changes, what needs to adjust, and what your hands can resolve.
Carrying - PREGNANCY
Postpartum care and the work of putting a woman back together after birth.
The Crossing - BIRTH
Birth: the physiology, the pelvis in motion, and what happens when it doesn't go the way it should.
Closing the Mother - Postpartum
Completing the map of the body. Hysterectomy, cesarean, laparoscopy, episiotomy, and birth tears — the surgical histories most women carry, and the scar work that follows them.
TIDES AND CYCLES
Menopause, the last great turn of the continuum.
retreat 03
Retreat 03
FULL CONTINUUM
3rd in-person retreat
Pregnancy and postpartum work. Head and neck, intraoral work, anal work. You leave with the full certified scope: a Certified Womb Continuum Practitioner.
Monthly mentorship and case study calls for the full two years. Between retreat you bring your real cases to the circle - the women on your table, the questions in your hands. The Rounds don’t close at certification: graduates keep meeting with us as they build their practices. We are not training students. We are training colleagues.
The Rounds
Biomechanics, movement and strength for the female body. Classes will run once a month during the second year of the program.
The Body in Motion
70 women trained from more than 15 countries
Founded in 2023
Three years in, this is no longer a claim.
Some of you have worked with women for years and know your hands could be doing more. Some of you are done raising your children, or done with a career that never fit, and what's left is the thing you've always known: you are meant to work with women.
You are the bodyworker ready to specialize in women's health. The midwife, the doula, the birth worker who wants trained hands for pregnancy, birth and postpartum. The nurse or practitioner seeking the women's education you never received. Or you have no title yet — only the call.
You don't need to arrive with any experience. You need to arrive ready.
Upon registration a $2,000 usd retreat deposit is due and will be applied to the retreat fees for the final retreat. This makes the total registration deposit $3,000 usd.
Retreat fees are paid separately and range between $4,000 - $5,000 USD. Travel costs are not included.
retreat investment
$1,000 deposit upon registration + remaining amount due February 2027
1 payment
$22,000
$1,000 deposit upon registration +
8 quarterly payments starting February 2027
8 x payments
$2,650
$1,000 deposit upon registration +
24 monthly payments starting February 2027
24 x payments
$895
online program investment
Taught by a faculty.
No one woman can hold all of this. Ma School is a faculty - different hands, different lineages, different wisdom, one standard: Intelligent Hands, fully trained.
Andrea Terrones
Andrea is the founder and lead teacher of Ma School and of Ma, her women's health and bodywork practice based in Valle de Bravo, Mexico, and working with women worldwide. Her work rests on one conviction: the female body is wise. Nothing it does is a mistake — it adapts, it remembers, and it reorganizes when it is met with the right kind of attention. She left medical school to find a medicine that could hold the whole body. This work began in her own, with a cycle that went silent for nearly two years after a decade on birth control, a body gone numb, and a search that no textbook could answer. What followed was more than a decade of apprenticeship with traditional midwives, sobadoras, and curanderas across Mexico, a path that led her back to the matriarchal lineage of Juchitán, Oaxaca, that she comes from through her grandmothers. She paired it with formal training in pelvic bodywork and functional medicine.
She works with the body as one system, bringing together hands-on work in the pelvis, womb, and abdomen, functional nutrition and lab work, somatic practice and ceremony. Becoming a mother of two was the initiation underneath every other training she has received.
She has spent twenty-five years studying the body, and ten years teaching and leading retreats. Ma School is what she built from all of it. She teaches the way she was taught, hand to hand, and she holds her students to the standard her own teachers held her to. Now in its fourth year, the school exists to train the practitioners who carry this work forward, so that women’s care returns to women’s hands.
Mandy Verghese
Mandy is a mother, bodyworker, herbalist and professionally trained midwife. She has spent the last 16 years attending hundreds upon hundreds of births across the full midwifery care continuum, from remote homebirths to busy international hospitals in urban settings.
Her career has been shaped by a continued pursuit of what best supports innate female physiology, a thread that has led her into advanced training in prenatal and breech-specific abdominal bodywork, craniosacral therapy, Womb Continuum Care, scar remediation, and herbalism for women's health. She has also studied female movement biomechanics and strength training and their influence on posture, pelvic health, and fetal positioning.
As a teacher, Mandy has a gift for translating complex physiological concepts into language that's precise and immediately usable, for practitioners and the women they serve. She has a unique ability to marry science, biological reality, culture, intuition, and felt sense in her role as a health educator and guide. Her life’s work led her to develop Wombspace training for prenatal bodywork, co-create Born Through Movement, and join Ma School as a co-teacher.
Mandy's calling is to grow the skills of birth attendants and bodyworkers, and to carry the wisdom of physiological womanhood forward for the next generation.
She currently lives on the west coast of Canada.
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These principles do not end at the classroom door. From the moment student practice opens after Train the Hands I, they govern every session a student offers — at every tier of practice, with every woman on her table.
- Our goal is always to support women to have a safe, consensual, and embodied experience.
- Consent and choice are actively and continually practiced — by teachers and students alike.
- Boundaries come first. They are always discussed before any hands-on, hands-in work begins and are adhered to throughout the session. Respecting boundaries includes stopping touch at any moment the student or client requests it.
- Any form of intimate or sexual interaction between teachers and students, or between students, is strictly not allowed for the duration of the training. There are no exceptions.
- Teachers and students share responsibility for following proper hygiene protocols and taking precautionary measures against the transmission of communicable disease and infection.
- Alcohol and drugs — including cannabis and all other psychoactive plant medicines — are not used during training. Students will not give or receive bodywork while under the influence of alcohol, recreational drugs, or psychoactive plant medicines.
- Teachers and students respect the privacy of every individual at the training and adhere to the confidentiality agreement.
- We know the edges of this work. When a woman needs care beyond our scope, we say so, and we refer her.
- Practitioners must stay aware of the gratifications this work can offer — power, authority, sexual pleasure — and never draw on them. This awareness is what keeps the space clean
Our work begins with creating a space for women to remember their wholeness. Wholeness is our original physiological blueprint, and we are devoted to holding space that is fully contained for that remembrance to begin.
We as teachers and our students commit to our inner work: you can only hold space for others to the degree that you have held space for yourself. Our own care — physical, emotional, mental, sexual, spiritual — shapes how we hold and offer this work.
ethics statement
Before a single hand is trained, every student learns scope, consent, boundaries and contraindications - and commits to her own inner work, because you can only hold space for others to the degree you have held it for yourself.