Conception and pre-natal support

Support for the new mother

Women in life transition

Women can meet life challenges with the support of individualized bodywork sessions. Setting her own personal goals, a woman can receive help for conception, for birth prepartion, post-partum and mothering, in career and family changes, through menstrual cycles, menopause and aging, and for life losses.

 

 

 

During the everyday miracle of being human, we have the capacity to create life within ourselves and to bring ourselves and our babies into the world. Yet, at times, we respond to stress by constricting or by collapsing.

Through somatic therapy, we can have freedom of more choices. We can experience the intrinsic well-being of our cells, our dynamics systems and our whole self. We can move into healing relation with ourselves and our loved ones.

Somatic therapy of resonant touch and developmental movement is uniquely relevant for babies and mothers. MamaBebe draws on developmental movement as the wellspring of body and mind integration for all humans. Women find they deeply connect with their babies in developmental movement for birth and mothering.

 

Childbearing Women

Support for conception  •  Preparation for natural birth

Women can prepare for conception by clearing old emotional and physical restrictions. In fostering her own earthy spirit, a woman opens to receive the vital spark of new life.

Pregnant women can receive gentle, effective support for the challenges of pregnancy and to prepare for natural birth. A woman may work one-on-one, or may work together with her partner or her birth team.

Sessions may include movement, touch, sounding, body-based imagery or finding release in physical or emotional challenges. Deeply held beliefs, feelings and physical symptoms that are inter-related may be released in private sessions.

Through movement and mindfulness, we can deepen in trust and in healing relation with ourselves, our partners and the processes of childbearing. In loving attention and non-judgement we can intimately know ourselves and our beloved ones.

 

A woman can connect with the baby and herself:

A woman can relieve pain and discomforts of pregnancy:

Sample private session activities

Settling into pregnancy

  • Breath opening through body awareness
  • Integrate inner rhythms and cues
  • Softening into the organs to ease into third trimester
  • Energizing through qi gong and toning
  • Toning into the glands for alignment & hormonal resource
  • Practice compassionate attention
  • Star body – root body guided meditation
  • Deep internal connection through developmental movement
  • Fluidity for change through physiological rhythms

Moving into intensity of labor

  • Yoga modified for pregnancy & labor
  • Practices for working with intensity and for opening: toning, breath and movement
  • Move with power and ease
  • Release energy through the body into the earth
  • Opening body through awareness of internal connections and parallel structures
  • Increase confidence in the ability of mother and baby to birth well together

Emotional release

  • Working through anxieties and fears of pregnancy and birth
  • Resolve old emotional trauma
  • Release limiting patterns such as self doubt, fear of uncertainty, need to control, lack of trust

    • Connecting as a couple

    • Birth team develop shared birth vision
    • Heart to heart to heart connecting breath and pulse with each other and the baby
    • Partner supported activities and positions for labor
    • Giving and receiving compassionate attention

    Connect with baby in pregnancy
    & baby as active partner in birth

    • Baby's developmental movements in utero
    • Fluid rhythms and connections
    • Baby’s capacities for birth
    • Baby’s birth journey

    Heart to Heart to Heart

    Full day private session for couples and birth attendants.
       

    Comments from a participant
    This class gave me confidence I needed to go into labor. By using vocal tones, I was able to focus on pushing and not be distracted by pain. My childbirth assistant said that I probably reduced my labor time by 6-10 hours because of my willingness to try different movement, yoga postures and sound during labor.         -Theresa Flynn

    More statements from pregnant women and couples at Comments on individual and group sessions

    Support for the new mother

    Mother’s Post-partum Recovery

    Birth and mothering are profound life changes for women. Mothers can meet the physical and emotional challenges of childbearing, childrearing and post-partum recovery with gentle support of craniosacral and somatic therapies.

    After the baby is born, a woman may recuperate and find help for nursing and parenting.

     

    Women can find balance in the entwined relationship of mother and baby. Through deeply integrating body-mind movement and release activities, stresses of the body and mind can shift into ease and action.

    Catherine can help mothers recuperate with restful or energizing acitivities for:

    Women can design private sessions for themselves based on personal goals. Sessions may include restful craniosacral therapy, movement, touch, sounding, body-based imagery or finding release around physical or emotional challenges.

    Sample sessions for new mothers

    Women in Life Transition

    Women's lives are marked by major transitions in every aspect of our lives. Our evolving roles in relationships and in the world affect our bodies and minds.

    Whether big changes are taking place around us or within us, gentle touch therapies can help us adapt fluidly to life just as it is.

    Women can design private sessions for themselves based on personal goals. Sessions may include restful craniosacral therapy, movement, touch, sounding, body-based imagery or finding release around physical or emotional challenges.

    Biography of Catherine Burns.

    Inquiries
    Call Catherine Burns at 612-332-7459
    E-mail: Catherine@MamaBebe.org

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