Embodied Birth

Pregnancy has a way of bringing us home to our bodies in ways we’ve never experienced before. Through somatic practices and evidenced-based birth education, we can work together to feel safe at home in your changing body through all stages of pregnancy and postpartum.

Birth happens in the body, not the mind.

Begin to nurture your own voice of inner wisdom so that you can make informed decisions in a world laden with information, “shoulds & shouldn’ts” and right and wrongs.

  • Through a combination of cerebral and somatic practices (think reading, writing, yoga, art, and breathwork), we will gently tune your attention and locus of control inward.

  • Learning to feel the sensations and feelings in our body and trust in the messages it sends us is integral to the parenting journey. Gently exploring the parts of us we’ve ignored and the newly emerging aspects of Self is an incredible process for embodying your role as a newly born parent.

  • I am not a traditional doula or yoga teacher in the sense that I don’t see myself as your advocate or your guide. I am here to witness your pregnancy and birth journey as it unfolds, and hold space for you to explore your own body, mind and soul. I am not a midwife or doctor and therefore my services are not to be considered medical guidance.

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Essential Care

Sliding Scale: $320 - 480

4 x 2 hour sessions offered during pregnancy in both virtual and in-person settings. Equal parts education for the mind and body during each meet.

May include:

  • Uncovering your own story of birth and assumptions regarding labor

  • Understanding physiologic birth and the hormones involved in labor

  • Nervous system grounding practices

  • Pain management techniques for labor

  • Childbirth preparation for birthing partners

  • Yoga, breathwork, chanting

  • Emotional support

  • Birth mapping assistance

  • Referrals and resource recommendations

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Encompassing Care

Sliding Scale: $580 - 720

Essential Care package plus 2 x 2 hour postpartum sessions during early postpartum in both virtual and in-person settings.

Postpartum care may include:

  • Birth story listening

  • Grounding practices for nervous system regulation

  • Listening ear and emotional support

  • Herbal tea blend

  • Sitz baths and yoni steams

  • Herbal foot baths

  • Food preparation

  • Closing of the bones ceremony

  • Referrals and resource recommendations

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Prenatal Yoga

Movement, breathwork, and intentionality blend together to create a unique yoga practice to fit your needs.

Prenatal yoga is a wonderful tool to help feel comfortable in your changing body, regulate your nervous system, and lovingly prepare your body for birth and postpartum.

I utilize an embodyoga approach to yoga in which we allow our internal landscape to determine our outer expression of shape. Through various somatic practices within the framework of asana and pranayama, we will embark on a journey through the various layers of form, through the bones/tissues/fascia/lymph, down to the cellular level.

1-1.5 hour sessions are priced $40-90 on sliding scale.