Life-long Health for Birthing Folks

“Postpartum Care is a necessity and not a luxury for LIFE-LONG health and well-being.”   –Rachelle Garcia Seliga, CPM

The Postpartum phase is honoured in cultures around the world as a crucial laying-in period for family bonding and the health of the new birthing parent. The Fourth Trimester is marked by ancient traditions and rituals to support a time of extended  rest, bringing warmth to parent and baby, providing nourishment through healing foods, and providing bodywork to support overall healing and well being.

Postpartum Pelvic Care Sessions support healing and recovery after birth and pregnancy. Fabulous for healing from any birth experience, but especially important for recovering healing energy after a challenging birth journey, pregnancy loss, cesarean birth, vaginal tear, or if you are experiencing pelvic and low back pain, vaginal heaviness, urinary leakage, painful sex, or difficulty taking deep breaths.


Postpartum Bodywork Sessions

  • Realign the pelvic bones, muscles and organs after birth,

  • Remediate scar tissue from cesarean birth or vaginal tearing,

  • Stabilize pelvic floor muscles and re-establish core engagement,

  • Mobilize pelvic organs for optimal alignment after pregnancy,

  • Energetically rebalance the pelvic space after a challenging birth journey,

  • Alleviate painful intercourse, heaviness and pressure vaginally, pelvic and low back pains, leaky bladder, or difficulty taking deep breaths.

  • Remedy symptoms of Diastasis Recti, Prolapse and Incontinence

More Postpartum Offerings

  • Holistic Pelvic Care and Pelvic Energy Sessions

  • Birth Story Listening support to gain a new understanding for integrating and embodying the pregnancy and birth experience

  • Belly binding to support uterine ligaments while providing warmth and grounding to the nervous system

  • Coaching on nourishing foods and herbs that build blood, assist lactation, and ease digestion

  • Moxibustion treatment on the abdomen or low back to bring warmth, blood flow and healing to the uterus

  • Vaginal steams and herbal sitz baths offering warm moist heat directly to pelvic floor muscles to promote healing

  • Scar tissue remediation with castor oil on the perineum and abdomen to prevent fascial adhesions

  • Bone-Closing Ceremony to close the birth portal and honor the profound opening and expansion required of birth or releasing a pregnancy

 

Full Spectrum Services  

These Root Medicine offerings are a combination from trainings with Rachelle Garcia Seliga (INNATE Postpartum Care),Tami Lynn Kent (Holistic Pelvic Care), Lynn Schulte (Institute for Birth Healing), and Kimberly Ann Johnson (The Fourth Trimester). 

Full-Spectrum Service means that anyone in the birth spectrum, including those that have experienced miscarriage, abortion, stillbirth or other pregnancy loss, should be able to receive the care they deserve. Your body still needs tending, with or without a partner, family, etc. You deserve space to grieve, to be nurtured, and to heal.

 

Postpartum Ceremonies

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POSTPARTUM SEALING CEREMONY
A rebozo closing, also known as "Closing of the Bones", is a postpartum healing ceremony to honor and close the journey the birthing person took through pregnancy and birth. It allows the parent to feel nurtured and celebrates her new passage into parenthood. The "Closing of the Bones" Ceremony is designed for birthing parent from 6 weeks postpartum and beyond. The Ceremony is open to all birthing folk at any time who wish to find some closure for themselves and wish to take part.
 

"CLOSE THE GOLDEN GATE" CEREMONY
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the “Golden Gate” or “Life Gate” opens at birth to allow the passage of the baby. During postpartum, this gate must be closed for proper healing and renewal of a strong life force. This Ceremony incorporates Moxabustion herbal treatment to support womb health and assist in the closing of the gateway.


HEALING FROM PREGNANCY LOSS CEREMONY
The Ceremony helps to bring healing to those who have experienced loss through miscarriage, abortion, stillbirth or other pregnancy loss. Often this postpartum time goes unacknowledged in our culture and birthing folk are left to grieve in silence. This ritual honors the Blessing received from this intimate womb encounter.


BIRTH STORY HEALING CEREMONY
Bring healing to traumatic or unexpected birth experiences. This Ceremony is for Mothers & birthing folk who are feeling troubled about some aspect of their birth or are having difficulty transitioning in the postpartum period or connecting with their child. 

"Ayurveda, the ancient 'science of life' of India, teaches the principle 'forty-two days for forty-two years,' which claims that the way a mother is nourished for the first six weeks after birth can determine how successfully she gives her light to the world for her next four decades.” 
–The First Forty Days: The Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother, Heng Ou