MAKING WAY FOR THE MOTHER
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PREPARATION DURING PREGNANCY
In the season of pregnancy, it is vital to take time to anchor into the sacred milestone of gestation as you prepare not only to birth and nourish a new baby, but also step into a new version of yourself. In this significant time of release and expansion, my intention is that you have space to express and be seen in order to enter or journey further into motherhood with coherence and a deeper connection to yourself. Bringing in the lens of perinatal psychology and imprints, our work together may include processing elements of your own birth story, childhood, and/or your relationship to the role of the mother, or continuing to move through a previous labor and birth experience as you prepare for the next. We can also prepare for the fourth trimester well before your baby arrives to deeply understand the physiological, energetic, and practical needs that are present in the early postpartum time and create a mother-centered plan that feels right for you. In our initial consultation and on-going work together, we can determine how you will best be supported.
75 Minute Sessions (virtual) — $140/session or a package of three for $400 / or package of 6 for $750
NURTURING THE MOTHER
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HANDS-ON POSTPARTUM CARE
These in-home sessions are intended to deeply honor the rite of passage a woman moves through to become a mother - providing presence and connection that allow for integration into the postpartum period to take shape. With time, energy, and attention devoted to the mother to both process the experience of pregnancy and birth and receive hands-on postpartum care, the design is that you can more ease-fully move through your recovery and toward thriving. Each session together is oriented to your specific and evolving needs as you move through the early postpartum time and can include guidance and practical support surrounding:
Birth Story Reflection :: Space and Holding to Process Your Experience
Lactation Counseling :: Practical Support for Breastfeeding / Newborn Feeding
Warming Therapies :: Teas, Vaginal Steams, Sitz Baths, Red Light Therapy, & Moxibustion
Therapeutic Body Work :: Entry Level Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and Gentle Massage
Guidance with Postpartum Healing :: Nourishment, Breathwork, & Movement
Guidance with Newborn Care :: Based in both Physiology and Developmental Psychology
Baby-Wearing :: Education and Assistance with Wraps and Carriers
And overall tending to the mother’s sanctuary to create a rhythm to rest, receive, and nourish your baby.
2 Hour Sessions (in-home) — $250/session or a package of three for $700 / or package of six for $1350
VAGINAL STEAMING SESSIONS
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TENDING TO THE WOMB
This offering is a form of supported ritual. Each session is personalized to your own unique needs, desires, and intentions in relationship to your womb health - tending to both the energetic and the physical, and the connections between. With the modality of the yoni steam at the center, we will engage in an organic process that includes verbal processing - being witnessed and reflected back to, guided meditation/visualizations, and embodied movement. This work is for any woman desiring to release elements of what has formerly been stored within the pelvis and renew a connection to her own natural power held in this space. Those who may feel drawn to receiving this care are often journeying through imbalances/pain in the pelvis (including endometriosis, pcos, & pid), recent and/or past miscarriages or abortions, infertility, postpartum, or recent break-ups/separation. The medicine of the steam is held within the distinct healing properties of the herbs paired with the warming element of the water - increasing circulation to the area to cleanse, nourish, and tonify the vaginal and uterine linings. Through the support of the chosen plants*, the four elements, and deeply attentive presence, a restored relationship to the root of your body can be welcomed and explored.
*We will communicate briefly beforehand to share pieces of what you are experiencing, in order to hand select herbs tailored to you. Or if you have herbs that you already work with or are feeling called to connect with, we can incorporate them.
90 Minute Sessions (in-home) — $220/session or a package of three for $600.
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COMING HOME TO YOURSELF
SUPPORT FOR EMBODIED LIVING
This is an invitation into inner-work that is rooted in the reality that no one can teach you, “how to be embodied”, but that through reflection and resonance with another being, a deep remembering can occur within you. While we will engage the mind through verbal processing to better understand your patterns, behaviors, and overall lived experience, the intention here is that we put a pause to the mind being the primary filter and lean into practices that bring you back into feeling and sensing - back into the body. The various somatic practices we will draw from include guided movement/dance, breathwork/vocalizations, meditations, and gentle hands-on body work (entry-level Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy). We will work through the full spectrum of the human experience: from grief to joy, from the shadow side to the conscious, honoring the cyclical nature of life and what arises in the process. As we acknowledge the imprints and programming you have collected throughout your life and engage in practices to release what is no longer serving you, a return to your original blueprint/true essence is brought forward. When the body enters clearer states of being, new connections are made within your entire system, making way for you to experience life in profoundly new ways.
75 Minute Sessions (virtual) — $140/session or a package of three for $400
75 Minute Sessions (in-home) — $175/session or a package of three for $500
ENTERING THE BIRTH PORTAL
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BIRTHKEEPING SUPPORT PACKAGE
Within the human experience, the story of pregnancy and birth are a sacred invitation into personal and familial transformation. The birth support I offer is integrative — weaving together the design of physiologic birth, evidence-based knowledge, and your own individual lived experience in your body, mind, and soul. In our prenatal sessions, we will work with the many layers you are moving through in the potent season of gestation, while covering education on phases of labor, coping techniques, and ultimately how to engage your intuition and instinct throughout your labor and birth experience to come. As you move through your labor, my role as a birth-keeper is to guard your process as you ride the waves of contracting and opening, and meet you emotionally, energetically, and physically throughout the portal of the birth process.
Birth Support Package Includes:
Three prenatal meetings to get to know one another and intentionally prepare for your birth
Connection and resources throughout your pregnancy as needed
On-call status for labor support beginning at 36 weeks
Continuous support throughout the duration of your labor, birth, and golden hour(s)
One in-home postpartum visit within the first few days after birth, including lactation support
Referrals to other perinatal professionals as needed
*I am only taking on home birth clients at the moment
Birth Support Package $3300
CELEBRATING THE MOTHER
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HOLDING A BLESSINGWAY
A Mother’s Blessing is a communal ceremony that invites a woman’s village to hold and celebrate her in the becoming of a mother. Gathering in circle together is a potent way to anchor the personal experience of gestating and birthing a baby. It also invites a woman’s community to witness her in the transition from maiden to mother or further into motherhood. It is through ceremony that we remember where we have come from - honoring our maternal lineage and both the collective and individual paths that have brought us to this moment in time. Both in the intention of the gathering and the elements/activities offered, this ceremony can be tailored to you and your circle of women to allow for your own authentic expression and desires to come through. It is an honor to facilitate these circles and I do it in partnership with fellow birthworker, Sophia Medina. When you book a consult to inquire further, you will be able to meet with us both to learn more about what this offering entails.
Ceremony Preparation & Facilitation (in-home) $880