Services
Services
Welcome to our comprehensive range of services designed to support mothers-to-be and mothers both new and seasoned throughout every stage of their journey.
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Childbirth Classes
Are you interested in a birth education and preparation class that will not only prepare you for labor but help you and your partner find the beauty of birth? Do you think an intimate class where a specialized, certified coach who is teaching with your best interests in mind is appealing? What about learning not just about the birth event but also about what to expect during your postpartum period, how to care for your newborn in a naturally minded way, and support with postpartum mood and anxiety disorders? Join us for an 8 week course where you will learn all about pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum from a certified childbirth educator!
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Restorative Yoga
These sessions are all about creating space to release and let go. In Restorative Yoga we use props like bolsters and blankets to support the body and fully let go moving into the parasympathetic nervous system allowing the body to find full rest and digest. This allows deep healing to take place. We will focus on Breathwork, Restorative Shapes with hands-on assists. Class will end with a nice yoga nidra and sound healing. Prenatal and Postnatal welcome. No experience necessary. This is a wonderful class for mother-baby, allowing mom to create a calm space for herself and environment for the baby.
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Gentle Flow (Pre/Post Natal)
These sessions will help you get centered while melting away tension in the body. Beginners and Prenatal welcome.
We will focus on breathwork, Gentle Movement and Stretching as well as building strength and working on balance. Sessions will finish off with Yoga Nidra and Sound Healing with sound bowls or/and tuning forks.
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Tween/Teen Girls Yoga
Teens can fully benefit from yoga by releasing stress and tension. Learning tools to cope with stressful and overwhelming situations. We will work on breathwork to get centered and grounded, then move through a flow to open up and release tension in the body. Class will finish off with a guided yoga nidra for deep relaxation and sound healing with sound bowls and tuning forks.
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Healing Sangha (max 14 people)
In this 90 min workshop we work on creating a space for deep healing. Starting with breathwork for grounding and releasing tension and tightness in the body. We then move into Restorative Yoga Shapes of choice. (seated on a chair is also an option).
Each student will receive hands-on assist, marma as well as Reiki for about 5 to 8 min depending on size of class). We will close class with a long Yoga Nidra, Sound Bowls and Tuning Forks.
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Massage Therapy
Experience relief and deep relaxation while reducing pain, stress, and inflammation. Countless benefits will follow this highly specialized treatment. Susan’s training in massage techniques of both eastern and western medicine, cranial sacral, lymph drainage coupled with EFT and Functional Nutrition help the body to function at its best. It’s a treatment that works not just to support, but to educate the patient on what’s going on in their body, what factors may have contributed to their current condition and how to make uniquely targeted diet and lifestyle modifications that help them meet their goals.
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Acupuncture
Acupuncture is an ancient healing modality and only one of the five branches of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the others being herbal remedies, food as medicine, massage, and moving meditation (Tai Chi)
Acupuncture is the insertion of fine, sterile, single use, hairlike needles into specific areas of the body to increase circulation, or in acupuncture talk, the flow of Qi and Blood to relieve pain, decrease inflammation and calm the mind.
Acupuncture has evolved over the centuries and has made its way around the world. But how does it work?
There are theories about how acupuncture works, such as reorienting the water molecules in the fascia to effect changes throughout the body. Acupuncture needles acting as a conductor to enhance positive and negatively charged ionic exchanged. But, the truth is, no one knows for sure.
Memorial Sloan Kettering performed many brain imaging studies with the application of acupuncture points vs sham acupuncture points before they introduced acupuncture into their integrative medicine department. They found that specific brain activity was recognizable and repeatable when using classical acupuncture points as opposed to sham acupuncture points. They found that acupuncture was safe and effective, but said that our technology does not go deep enough to understand exactly how it works.
How can acupuncture help you?
Studies have shown that acupuncture points are rich in arterioles, nerve endings, and mast cells. They also have high electrical conductivity and low electrical resistance. It's been observed that acupuncture helps release our bodies natural pain relieving neurotransmitters, endorphins, enkephalins, and cytokines to provide an analgesic and anti-inflammatory effect. Because acupuncture improves circulation, macrophages, a white blood cell helps clearing cellular debris through phagocytosis. Overall, acupuncture modulates the peripheral and central nervous system to achieve homeostasis or balance in our bodies.
Often times, acupuncture is a treatment modality of last resort for some people when they have tried everything else without the hoped for results. But, acupuncture should be part of your "go to" tool box to help us all achieve and maintain health and wellness.
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Breathwork
Life can cause us to not breathe correctly, and it can have an impact on our entire physiology. Often, our breath is shallow, labored, and taken through the mouth. We may be over-breathing or chest-breathing without even realizing it because we think of our breath as automatic and involuntary.
Breathwork is breathing with your full attention and breathing with intention, or consciously breathing. When we take conscious control over our breath, we can help to regulate the nervous system, release emotion, stress and trauma from the body, think clearer, expand awareness, feel lighter, calmer, more joyful, happier and healthier! In an Elemental Rhythm Breakthrough Experience session we will use movement to stir up this energy in the body, then breath to build the energy, a guided mediation to move the energy to experience a breakthrough and then we will let the energy settle.
You will be guided the entire session by breathworth specialist, Lisa Hastings, who will hold space and facilitate a transformative experience for you.
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Sound Therapy
Sound healing techniques have been practiced for thousands of years, from times when the lapping of ocean waves was considered a source of healing to the chantings of Tibetan monks.
This type of therapy has recently gained popularity in western medicine as a result of studies conducted on its therapeutic value and people looking for alternatives to modern medicine.
Sound Healing has been practiced in all known cultures in one form or another. The ancient healing traditions of the Aborigines, Tibetans, Indians, Egyptians and Greeks all used sound as a powerful medicinal therapy. Indigenous people all over the planet were aware of the relationship between sound and healing and how it can be used to access higher states of consciousness.
As sound passes through you, it balances your body, mind and spirit by clearing blockages in the energy flow and helping your body to release tension and stress. Some people have a feeling of well-being after a sound healing session. Others may feel like they need to drink water and rest.
Sound therapy is not just an alternative treatment; it is a valid means of addressing a wide range of conditions. Many people have found that it helps them overcome stress, anxiety, depression, pain, and even addictions. It is also useful for those who are dealing with chronic illness or disease.
Experience sound therapy with a certified master sound healer and feel the difference.
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Postpartum Moms Support Circle
Find support and connection in the postpartum period in our doula-led support circle. We will discuss a new variety of topics each week focusing on postpartum self-care and newborn and infant development as well as find support for one another.
Moms with their infants 0-6 months welcome!
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Workshops, Special Events
Events including mother/daughter bonding, full moon and new moon circles, thermography screening special events, art events, multi-modality healing workshops, tea tastings, and more...!
