Moxa

A moxa session-moxabustion (moxa) is an external heat therapy that is applied on or over an acumoxa point of an affected site. It is made from the herb Mugwort. This therapy assist’s with postpartum healing by warming the abdomen, stops pain, moves Qi, circulates the blood, safeguards health, facilitates a speedy recovery and energizes you.

Note that this session produces smoke from burning the herb. A room with good ventilation is required. Don’t worry, it doesn’t smell bad or linger in the room after we're done.

Meals

You are provided with a menu to choose 3 homemade and lovingly prepared meals. Each meal has been specially selected based on nutritional research into foods that support:

decreasing inflammation, healing the gut lining, nourishing a healthy microbiome, and contributing to a sense of well being.

Pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding tax our inner resources- eating well supports building these back up to healthy levels. 

Postpartum and Prenatal option 

Yoni Steam

Your bathroom is transformed into a herbal steam room. Yoni steams bring heat to the womb. The use of specific herbs work in combination to nourish, tone, heal, bring in fresh oxygenated blood, promote cleanings, and shrink the swollen vaginal and uterine tissues after pregnancy and childbirth. The moist heat opens the tissues, and unlocks the medicinal properties of the herbs. The vapour carries these properties to the tissues of the body and they are absorbed into the blood stream having a direct healing affect on the reproductive system. You will also receive a bundle of fresh herbs for your next vaginal steam and instructions to facilitate it yourself.

Postpartum only service.

Extra Visit

Book an extra visit. Meetings are used to deepen your prenatal practice and/or to nourish in postpartum. Unique and tailored to your particular needs at the time.  

Prenatal and Postpartum use 

Thai Yoga Body Theraphy

This is an amazing body therapeutic intended to nourish the body, mind, and spirit, release tension, improve circulation, and bolster your bodies natural healing capacity. Often called, ‘lazy-wo/mans’ yoga Birthwyse Inc. will guide your body through gentle yoga postures while simultaneously palming and thumbing along the Sen lines (energy lines) and palpating the Marma points (similar to acupuncture points) of the body. This thumbing, palming, and gentle stimulation of the body supports your innate healing capacity. This therapy combines elements of cranial sacral, mama chikitsa, energy work and pranayama to leave you feeling nourished, calm, restored, and grounded.

Prenatal and Postpartum use :$120+gst/2 hr. session  

Hot Stone Belly Massage

A hot stone abdominal press uses hand selected heated river rocks to help relive tense muscles, begin to break down stubborn pregnancy body fat, improve circulation, and promotes faster shrinking of the womb after the great expansion of birth. The abdomen is massaged with nourishing castor oil and the heated stones while you close your eyes and absorb. This session also includes a gentle yogic pelvic and hip alignment/adjustment to support the readjustment of the hips and pelvis after birth.  (this makes a lovely addition to a moxa session :))

Postpartum only: $120+gst/2hour session

Yoga Theraphy 

Yoga is fabulous at helping your body open, calming your nervous system, and helping you to move/breath with sensation. Integrative yoga supports you in connecting with your body in uniquely mindful ways. It’s focus on balance and alignment, facilitates ease of movement, stability from the core, and remedies your bodies mis-alignments.In these one- to- one sessions, we explore the connection between your mind and body, unravel places of tension, and strengthen. 

Prenatal or Postpartum use: $120+gst/2 hr. session

Mindfulness Based Workshop 

A deeper look at how to use mindfulness for birthing and beyond. It builds on practices from prenatal meetings (or establishes you in a practice, if this is your first time) by adding in a variety of ways to establish an ‘anchor,’ work with ‘pain,’ and extend the practices into daily life and parenthood. You’ll discover the key to finding space amongst compression and compassion amongst pain. A very mind/body connecting practice with wide reaching benefits.

Prenatal or Postpartum use (2 hr session)

After Birth Meal Tree

A postpartum gift organized and designed during the prenatal period. You provide the names and phone numbers of your friends and family members that are in town, about 4 weeks before your expected date of birth. With these people, I will arrange a 2 week food train where you will receive home cooked meals delivered to your door! You will provide me with your food preferences, allergies, and requests and I will arrange that you receive nourishing food so that you can focus on your baby and still eat a healthy nourishing diet.

Prenatal service used in postpartum 

Due Date Pampering

A kind of blessing -way ceremony, where I gather together some of your favourite women friends to sit in circle, share food, inspire and anoint you for your upcoming birth. This is an all about you session! Plan to receive this early in the month of your expected date of birth. You provide me with the names and pick the date, and I arrange the rest. It is intended to surprise and nourish you in the most beautiful way, with gifts, affirmations, positive support, and pampering. 

Prenatal use (2 hours facilitated- limitless with your mates afterwards)

Trauma Minimizing Education for Birth and Postpartum with Nattalia

Private in home 3 hour experiential childbirth information session. Working form a somatically sensitive and trauma informed perspective, together we develop your skills set for how to:

listen to your babies needs, listen to your bodies needs, cultivate a calm and compassionate mind state, speak and act from your heart in birth and parenthood

these skills provide the opportunity to birth with more kindness and to parent with more gentleness

Prenatal use    

Binding the belly is a traditional practice used postpartum to aid the body in a quicker recovery time. A belly bind provides a new mamas body with all around support to assist the abdominal wall muscle retraction, improve posture, stabilize loosened ligaments, and provide support to the torso while vital organs return to their pre-pregnancy size and position. A benefit of this style of binding if that this bind moves and shapes to your body unlike other binding options. This is intended to help your body move back to its pre- pregnancy state, help remove the build up of excess fluids in the body, and bring heat to increase the bodies natural healing process.

Belly Bind & Mini Tutorial  $90.00 + gst (postnatal only service)

A hot stone abdominal press uses hand selected heated river rocks to help relive tense muscles, begin to break down stubborn pregnancy body fat, improves circulation, and promotes faster shrinking of the womb after the great expansion of birth. The abdomen is massaged with nourishing castor oil and the heated stones while you close your eyes and absorb. This session also includes a gentle yogic pelvic and hip alignment/adjustment to support the readjustment of the hips and pelvis after birth.  (this makes a lovely addition to a moxa session :))

Hot Stone Abdominal Press $200 +gst (postnatal only service)

Your bathroom is transformed into a herbal steam room. Yoni steams bring heat to the womb. The use of specific herbs work in combination to nourish, tone, heal, bring in fresh oxygenated blood, promote cleanings, and shrink the swollen vaginal and uterine tissues after pregnancy and childbirth. The moist heat opens the tissues, and unlocks the medicinal properties of the herbs. The vapour carries these properties to the tissues of the body and they are absorbed into the blood stream having a direct healing affect on the reproductive system. You will also receive a bundle of fresh herbs for your next vaginal steam and instructions to facilitate it yourself.

Yoni Steam $100.00 +gst (postnatal only service)

Ceremonial bath (milk + honey or floral malay)- celebratory and herbal bath ceremony intended to welcome you to mother hood and release the past. Intended to help you find a small oasis in your new mother schedule. Includes a guided relaxation meditation and a warming oil/balm rub down. This is followed by a hot flax lavender packs sealing ceremony where your body rests and is wrapped to encourage a deep inner relaxation. This is a restorative process which helps you ‘seal‘ your birth and embrace motherhood

 Ceremonial bath $300 + gst (postnatal only service)