Prenatal Massage Therapy

Prenatal Massage Support throughout pregnancy has many benefits. With so many changes happening in your physical and emotional body in a relatively short amount of time, massage can offer the needed support. Aches and pains soothed away, less swelling and puffiness are just some of the benefits. Circulation support, reducing pelvic pain, stress reduction all help Mother and baby prepare for an easier transition through labor, birth and postpartum.

Schedule a prenatal massage with any of our Certified Massage Therapists. All of our providers work with (when possible), “The Body Cushion” which allows for optimal positioning for growing bellies of ALL sizes! All of our providers have been trained by Pilar in her methods of prenatal massage.

Julia Jones is our talented LAc. She has a passion for supporting women in pregnancy and has worked along side many midwives throughout California, Colorado and Oregon! She offers support throughout all stages of pregnancy and Labor prep treatments.

Your Prenatal Wellness Visits with Pilar include more thorough support

Experienced and practiced in multiple forms of prenatal massage, and has advanced training as an Arvigo Prenatal Therapist as well being an experienced Doula, Ayurvedic Women’s Health Specialist and Certified Arvigo Abdominal Therapist. She can offer you support throughout all stages of your pregnancy. To schedule this type of appointment book a Holistic Women’s Health Initial Appointment or a Follow Up.

Some benefits of working with Pilar during pregnancy:

  • Improved digestion with better absorption of nutrients and elimination of waste

  • Relief from pain and discomforts of pregnancy

  • Improved blood flow to pelvic floor muscles

  • Improved blood flow to baby

  • Increased oxytocin during massage to suppress fear and cultivate love

  • Reduced tension and anxiety

  • Increased oxytocin receptors for birth

  • Decreased congestion due to fluid stasis

  • Decreased first trimester nausea

  • Improved alignment of pelvic bones decreased pain from sciatica or hip misalignment

  • Increased circulation of blood and lymph to sacrum

  • Improved potential for the sacrum, “magic bone of fertility”, to oscillate during labor

  • Increased nerve conduction through the sacrum to improve communication to uterus and cervix

  • Heal past traumas due to the window of opportunity provided by the relaxin

  • Improved craniosacral rhythm, i.e., motility

  • Improve joint flexibility with L5, i.e., mobility

  • Protection of uterine ligaments from exaggerated stretching

  • Improved fetal positioning for birth; provides baby the optimal easy way out

During Labor and Birthing

  • Increased efficiency of labor from active labor to birth

  • Increasing confidence for mother by increasing oxytocin

During the Postpartum Period

  • Improves healing for diastasis recti

  • Involution occurs more efficiently and quicker

  • Helps to realign pelvic bones, sacrum and tailbone

  • Improves tailbone pain

Surgical Intervention

  • Multidimensional healing for women desiring VBAC

  • Reducing excessive scar tissue; first loving touch to uterine scar

  • Spiritual healing for surgical birth, especially in case of emergency and birth trauma

*All appointments with Pilar require an Initial Wellness appointment.