Soon to be parents bodywork + preps for baby
Tailored for your changing body. Sessions promote relaxation, boost circulation, and ease discomforts while preparing you for motherhood and baby feeding.
This is a custom bodywork session paired with lactation/feeding baby preps.
Tailored for your changing body. Sessions promote relaxation, boost circulation, and ease discomforts while preparing you for motherhood and baby feeding.
This is a custom bodywork session paired with lactation/feeding baby preps.
Therapeutic Breast Massage
Nurture your well-being after childbirth! Experience emotional and physical relief with Therapeutic Breast Massage in Lactation (TBML).
Julee offers gentle techniques for engorgement, mastitis, and more.
Pediatric massage
Pediatric massage
Nurturing touch benefits children with a variety of health conditions; some of which include ADHD, Autism, sports related injuries or muscle pain, sleep challenges, digestive ailments, and headaches. A gentle massage can help ease your child's discomfort.
CranioSacral- CST (UpLedger Institute)
Craniosacral therapy is particularly helpful for treating newborns and infants to help with difficulty nursing, lip and tongue ties, colic, and reflux - but is safe and recommended for all ages (newborn to adult)
Healing touch
A biofield therapy that is noninvasive and clears, energizes and balances the human energy fields. It is safe for all ages (newborn to adult) and can help reduce pain, fear and anxiety, and promote well being.
Reflexology
Reflexology is a type of bodywork that focuses on applying pressure to the specific areas as maps of the body on the hands, feet, ears, face. Julee even works with reflexology and touch points in the mouth!
These treatments are particularly impactful for the feeding and swallowing challenges of the people of all ages that often seek out her care.
Reflexology is not just a foot or hand massage. It is recognized as a separate treatment modality aiming to harmonize entire body systems.
According to reflexology, every part of the human body is mapped in
the feet, face, hands and ears and mouth. Julee shows you the points that will work for you and/or your baby.
Easily incorporate touch points into your daily wellness routine.
Reflexology treatments have been found to be highly effective for a myriad of conditions impacting eating, feeding, swallowing, sleeping, relaxation, enhanced circulation, energy movement and release of stagnation, stress reduction, heightened wellbeing and rejuvenation.
Often really great sessions for babies and mommies to share joyful time together
New Parent + Caregiver Massage
Therapeutic bodywork services for parents and caregivers.
Mixed massage modalities during prenatal, postpartum and taking care of children time.
These sessions provide rest and relaxation plus examples of ways to incorporate this care at home.
When a child isn't eating, sleeping or growing well, their parents also could really use some supportive help.
Schedule your guided coaching + bodywork session. Review of what is working, establish a parent wellness routine while experiencing reflexology, aromatherapy, hot stone, and other healing modalities to support you as you give extra care for your little one.
These services aim to provide relaxation, reduce muscle tension, relieve stress, and support overall well-being. especially for the parent with a little one needing lots of extra special care and attention.
Parents who are soon to be having baby come home from the NICU. this is great session for you!
Grandparent/Caregiver Massage
Massage designed to meet the specific needs of those who are carrying, rocking and helping with the care and development of a baby.
Maintaining your overall health and flexibility might be even more important to you as you care for this new baby!
Regain certain physical functions that have been reduced, remember you are still strong! These sessions can also be a time to talk over any of the feeding challenges going on for you, to update on the care for the baby you are helping through whatever feeding challenge or difference. Rest and rejuvenate.
Ready to take care of this baby and yourself in new ways! Massage and therapeutic touch can help alleviate symptoms of loneliness, depression, pain, stiffness and tension.
Marma Chikitsa- Ayurvedic Accupressure
Marma Chikitsa- Ayurvedic Accupressure
The use of pressure on the body's "marma points"—specific pressure points, a component of Ayurveda Marma Chikitsa, an ancient Indian therapeutic method. According to popular belief, these points are crucial energy nodes that link the subtle energy body and the physical body. It is claimed compromised flow of energy can be cleared by gently pressing or massaging certain areas, enhancing general health and wellbeing. Marma Chikitsa is frequently used in conjunction with other Ayurveda therapies since it is thought to help with pain management, stress reduction, sleep improvement, and enhancing the body's inherent healing capabilities.
Mouth, Face, head and Neck myofascial release and for voice, speech and swallowing
Fascia is the connective tissue that surrounds muscles, nerves, and organs, and it tightens and hardens over time in response to trauma. (Kelly 2008).
Manual therapy (MT) involves skilled passive movement of joints and soft tissue to restore range of motion.
Myofascial Release is a manual therapy that can help with speech, dysphagia, TMJ, breath support/respiration, voice disorders, tongue and lip tie release, among others.
This therapy is gentle and effective. Julee blends myofascial release (MFR) into her treatments to help soften and move adhesive tissue, gaining optimal length, decreasing pain and tension, breaking up any adhesions and helping to improve function.
Impacts of scar tissue formation, immobility impacting functional swallow and oral motor function are addressed. Use of MFR may be part of the comprehensive protocols for eating, feeding, swallowing, oral motor differences and disorders Julee uses to develop effective and custom tailored treatments for each patient.
Energy Work
Energy Work
Therapeutic touch and the points of Marmani, vibration, sound healing and others.
Vibration/Sound Healing
A type of therapy making use of vibration and sound waves to encourage health and wellbeing.
Also known as “Accupuncture without needles”. The foundation of this therapy is the idea that everything including our bodies are composed of vibration and energy. These treatments balance the body's energy economy and encourage healing utilizing sound frequencies such as tuning forks, gongs, mechanical tapotement and ultrasound. These treatments incorporate ideas from many fields, including psychology, physics, therapeutic touch, the arts, and East Asian medicine.
Therapeutic and Healing Touch™
Classified by the National Institutes of Health as a biofield therapy and nursing intervention, Healing Touch may be used to address the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA-1) diagnosis of “Imbalanced Energy Field.”
Healing Touch is a collection of standardized, noninvasive techniques that clear, energize, and balance the human and environmental energy fields. It is safe for all ages and works in harmony with, is complementary to, and may be integrated with standard medical care.
You and your baby are worth it!
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