Your nervous system is your child’s first playground. May we attune to and invest in a sturdy foundation.
What to expect?
Craniosacral therapy offers a gentle approach that supports the body’s natural ability to relax and restore balance, ease tension, improve alignment, and enhance comfort throughout all stages of pregnancy. Sessions offer attunement, orientation, and stabilization to each phase of pregnancy while supporting a grounded and compassionate connection with your body and baby. As a result bonding, perception, and clarity become foundational and is developed in utero while supporting overall wellbeing. Each session is client-led and co-created allowing for a safe, calming, and deeply supportive experience for both parent and baby.
Pregnancy and Craniosacral
Later in pregnancy, craniosacral therapy is especially beneficial as it increases mobility of the bony pelvis, abdominal organs, and the ligaments of the uterus. Babies who have room to grow and move during gestation are less likely to develop conditions like torticollis and as a result, positional plagiocephaly, as well as other strain patterns. Needless to say, cultivating time to connect with your body and baby fosters an attuned relationship where bonding and physical wellbeing grow, igniting a resourced nervous system during pregnancy and beyond—gifting the mother to be both capacity and a resilience for the threshold of birth.
Love shapes the brain. Touch shapes the nervous system. Nurturing the nervous system is an act of love generations will feel.
Postpartum/La Cuarentena
During the fourth trimester, postpartum sessions are offered in-home. Scheduling a craniosacral session for you and your baby during the first 3 - 9 weeks is recommended as it aligns with developmental milestones, attunes to primitive reflexes, and supports organization around feeding, digestion, and sleep. The earlier the care, the sooner you and your baby receive integration, attuned touched, and support that aids in the release of restriction and tension patterns.
Sessions center the family as a whole. Each session offers an opportunity to support from the center and ripples out. What this looks like is offering primary support to the birthing parent and baby honoring their needs, pace, and depth of care. Once stability is reached which looks like latching and feeding with ease, digesting with mild support, ability to settle into rest and sleep, all while activating neurorecptors through a calm yet enriched environment where appropriate stimulus aids in the integration of baby’s primary reflexes. From there, my care branches out to the mother’s spouse, partner, or birth support as their presence is equally impacted, influential and needed for the wellbeing of the whole. Extending out further, I offer pediatric services for siblings in home.
While supporting baby’s arrival is vital, it is critically important to continue nurturing parents when most of their energy is spent nurturing a newborn while recovering from the threshold of birth. A postpartum treatment focuses on supporting lymph and blood flow as well as structural realignment of the spine and pelvis and rehabilitation of the muscles and other structures overworked or weakened during pregnancy. It facilitates healing, especially for those who had unplanned birth interventions. In addition, my practice has seen steady success with supporting mother’s with their milk supply, lactation, and subtle yet profound integration of their birth experience. I offer my clients guidance on how best to support their recovery, strength, and balance in body, mind, and spirit.
Postpartum and Craniosacral
BCST attunes to postpartum discomforts associated with nurturing and tending a newborn while metabolizing and recovering from pregnancy and birth. It includes guidance in optimizing supportive body mechanics for your longevity and wellbeing.
Understanding birth is a rite of passage and a dynamic one, my practice holds space for those who have experienced a complicated birth, which can hold emotional and/or physical trauma. Sessions provide the conditions where grieving the loss of the birth experience one had planned for, may unwind toward a process of integration that is gentle and meets the client, while co-creating the conditions for parents to remain present for their newborn.
BCST may support with the following:
Realignment of spine and pelvis
Rehabilitation of muscles
Cesarean recovery
Postpartum depression
Anxiety/ overwhelm
Mother/child bonding
Nursing
Rest and digest
Torticollis or plagiocyephly
Shoulder dystocia and more