Bodywork for Women's Health & Birth
Individual healing sessions offer specialized bodywork to support women across all seasons of life, including pregnancy, postpartum, and beyond. Sessions may include abdominal and pelvic manual therapies, guided by your body’s needs in the moment and offered with presence, precision, and care.
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My primary area of specialization is Holistic Pelvic Care (HPC) — a gentle internal manual therapy designed to unwind tension, awaken strength, and restore healthy circulation of blood, lymph, and nerve signaling within the pelvic bowl. This work supports balance, vitality, and connection within the pelvis, helping the body reorganize with greater ease and integrity.
Results and Benefits Women Have Found with HPC
⫸ Restore pelvic muscle balance and engagement
⫸ Support full sensation in the pelvic bowl
⫸ Support organ health, alignment & prolapse
⫸ Relieve pelvic pain
⫸ Support sexual health, libido, orgasm
⫸ Prepare for pregnancy & support fertility journey
⫸ Postpartum mothers find this therapy incredibly helpful in speeding physical & emotional recovery from childbirth
⫸ Support healing after miscarriage
⫸ Heal after sexual trauma
⫸ Support transition to menopause
⫸ Support healing after any pelvic surgeries or procedures
Specific Symptoms/Diagnoses That Can Be Addressed by HPC
⫸ Postpartum pelvic pain
⫸ Urinary or bowel incontinence (leakage), IBS, other bladder & bowel issues
⫸ Interstitial cystitis, painful bladder syndrome
⫸ Painful intercourse, vaginismus, dyspareunia, difficulty with orgasm
⫸ Pelvic heaviness/fullness, cystocele, rectocele, pelvic organ prolapse
⫸ Endometriosis, adenomyosis, painful menstrual periods
⫸ General pelvic pain, vulvodynia, nerve pain, scar pain
Prenatal Massage + Holistic Pelvic Care for Birth Prep
To support and soothe the profound physical, energetic, and emotional transformations of pregnancy, strengthen confidence in your body, demystify the birth journey, and deepen your connection with your baby.
My hands, seasoned through over 25 years of bodywork practice and midwifery experience, listen and lead the way.
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A Bodywork for Birth session may include prenatal massage, guided visualization, focused breathwork, and belly and baby massage to relieve ligament tension, encourage uterine balance, and assess your baby’s position. When desired and appropriate, gentle internal release work may be offered to unwind deep tension patterns within the pelvic bowl and support space, alignment, and ease as your body prepares to welcome your baby.
Postpartum Rehab
A Holistic Pelvic Care session supporting healing and reconnection with your postpartum body.
In a Postpartum Rehabilitation session, we gently support the pelvic organs and tissues as they return toward balance and alignment after birth. This work may include addressing prolapse (uterine, cystocele, and rectocele), supporting healing after perineal tears, episiotomy, or cesarean birth, softening scar tissue, and restoring healthy pelvic floor recruitment — important after both vaginal and cesarean deliveries. Sessions also attend to continence concerns, sexual health, diastasis recti assessment, and the gentle reorganization and strengthening of the core, always guided by your body’s needs and readiness.
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This early check-in can be profoundly preventative, often sparing years of discomfort, compensation, and uncertainty. The window around five to six weeks postpartum is an ideal time to begin, allowing initial tissue healing while restoring balance before patterns become ingrained — though this work is beneficial at any stage of the postpartum journey. It is never too late to tend the body with care.
Frequently Asked Questions
⫸ What can I expect in a HPC session?
After reviewing your history and intentions, we'll begin with setting up some quick and profound energetic support that will maximize the impact of our session. You can be clothed from the waist up (warm cozy socks are also encouraged) and after my treatment hand is placed, you will be re-covered so you won't be exposed for the duration of the session. The hands-on treatment portion of a session is generally around 45 minutes in both initial & follow-up sessions. Every session includes gentle intravaginal fascial unwinding, trigger point release, guided breathwork, and visualizations tools, as well as self-care instructions, personalized teaching, and follow-up plan.
⫸ What effects will I notice after a session?
Women describe immediate effects including feeling more relaxed and centered, a greater sense of support, increased strength in their pelvic muscles, and sometimes very heightened sensitivity/access to your full feminine range. When blood, energy and lymphatic flow is restored to the pelvic bowl the benefits and improvement in undesired symptoms will continue to improve over time. Think of your session as an initiation of healing. Also, please schedule in some downtime after your session to maximize the effects and minimize the chance of feeling overwhelmed by your healing journey.
⫸ Is HPC like pelvic floor PT?
Yes and no. My passion and understanding of pelvic floor health comes from my training and experience as a bodyworker, midwife, and mother. I am not a physical therapist, though I have completed several pelvic floor trainings through Herman and Wallace (advanced physical therapy training institute). I like to think of HPC as the midwifery model of pelvic floor PT.
⫸ Is HPC painful?
It should never hurt. Your tissues' response will guide the depth and direction of my hands-on work.
⫸ Can I receive pelvic work during my moon time/on my period?
Yes! As a natural time of release, it is a wonderful time to "unpack" the pelvic bowl.
⫸ What if I don’t have any symptoms?
The goal of HPC is to empower you to inhabit your pelvic space and occupy your feminine ground physically, energetically, emotionally and spiritually. Our root/pelvis serves us in so many ways and yet receives little direct care. Regardless of symptoms, the benefits of reconnecting with this sacred space will be deeply profound, creative, and leave you with an honest sense of well-being.
⫸ Can I come in for a HPC session if I'm not ready or unsure about receiving internal (intravaginal) therapy?
Absolutely. There are many ways we can address your pelvic symptoms and/or heal from traumatic events without going inside the pelvic bowl. Visceral Manipulation, Craniosacral Therapy, Arvigo Therapy, guided visualizations, and general healing bodywork are wonderful when internal work is too painful, contraindicated, or when it's just not the time.
Add Ons
Vaginal Steam
20 minute herbal steam before your hands-on healing session. Steaming is contraindicated during menstruation, postpartum bleeding, and pregnancy. Beautiful locally crafted cedar steam stools are also available for purchase.
Castor Oil Pack + Abdominal Massage
Warm reusable castor pack + abdominal massage/scar remediation incorporated into your healing session.
Please be sure you can commit to your appointment time before booking. Appointments canceled/changed (by phone or email) with less than 48 hours notice will be charged a $50 fee, missed appointments will be charged the full amount.
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