Bodywork
Update
I am no longer seeing clients in studio. My bodywork offerings are available in home, on a limited schedule. Want to book something? I would love to hear from you! You can shoot me a text, schedule a clarity call, or send me an email. See contact info in footer, or book a call here.
My focus right now is in Birth Circle, my Midwifery Apprenticeship, and Birth and Postpartum Doula services.
Feel free to reach out with questions, and sign up for my newsletter if you want reminders about Birth Circle and other offerings.
Prenatal
Prenatal bodywork with me is more than just massage. I offer nourishing movement practices for you to take home that are specific to your alignment and movement patterns. A quick assessment at the start of a session also guides the bodywork. This comprehensive and personalized support is what makes my work unique and effective.
This quality of bodywork during pregnancy can relieve pain and discomfort, prepare your body for labor, encourage optimal positioning for baby, and help us tap into the messages your body has to offer when we listen. You will leave my office more connected to yourself and your baby and empowered to feel good every step of your journey.
“Each massage was so much more than that - it was an emotional emptying out, a near psychedelic journey through my body, a place to share and be heard, and a deeply relaxing experience. She brings such a powerful ceremonial element to everything she offers, which I appreciate. I can’t say enough good things about Paeonia and her work - she is so gifted”
Bodywork is an essential pillar of postpartum care across the globe. Your body is as open and your heart as wide as it will ever be, requiring sensitive and careful attunement from your practitioner. The postpartum body has a story to tell. I have years of experience working with new moms and a reverence for the watery, liminal and primal place all mothers traverse in this sacred window.
Postpartum bodywork facilitates the return of your pelvis, womb and other organs into proper alignment, allowing your body to unwind from the patterns of pregnancy and birth. This sets you up for a more easeful transition and recovery.
Bodywork can be initiated as early as the first few days, regardless of how you birthed. I do encourage mothers to stay soundly within their nest until they are ready to Close the Bones (a ritual therapy described in detail on my birthwork page) and emerge from their sanctuary. Please reach out to me personally to discuss bodywork sessions in your home.
Postpartum
Womb Care
Womb care is soul, body and mind care. By addressing alignment of bones, muscles, ligaments, fascia and other organs throughout the core of the body, we make space for the womb to occupy its place with balance and flow. In addition to the physical benefits, womb care facilitates self connection, reconnection to source, to intuition and to personal power.
Misalignment of the womb may be the result or cause of imbalance in the surrounding structures. It may be emotional or energetic. Whatever the origin, misalignment is associated with painful cycles, PMS, disrupted digestion, hormone imbalance, fibroids, ovarian cysts, pelvic congestion, yeast and bacterial infections, UTI’s, and may even impact fertility. Sometimes a single session can transform symptoms. Often, it takes consistent and diligent work to unwind patterns and establish a new order.
Which is why I offer womb care, not just womb massage. Womb care includes consultation on supportive therapies specific to your body, healing goals and needs that may include a self care massage sequence, recommendation for herbal remedies, ritual prescription, pelvic hydrotherapy, castor oil application, and dietary and lifestyle transformation.
This work is profound when practiced as an aspect of after care from surgery, birth, miscarriage, and abortion and as an aspect of healing with fibroids, cysts and other fertility challenges. The work is practiced with great sensitivity and care, with a deep love for exactly where you are and what your body is telling us.
“Paeonia has a deep gift for holding a safe & nurturing container for her clients. During my session she intuitively picked up on an old injury, and I was invited to clear a lot of stuck energy and bring my empowered presence back into the space where I had been holding onto the trauma. I couldn't have done that without the love, safety, & energetic attunement that she provided. I highly recommend her healing sessions, whether you have a womb or not!!!! Thank you so much Paeonia!”
-Lizzy Z
“As a body worker myself I can say that Paeonia is an exceptional practitioner in multiple ways. Presence is her greatest gift and I playfully think of her energy field as a powerful subwoofer that steadily soothes even the most disregulated nervous systems. I can also confirm that she is a true wise woman- who leads with her heart and listens form the depths of her soul.”
— Emilia T
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