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Massage Therapist Hildenborough

Pregnancy & birth

20 Nov

Your Local Holistic Massage Therapist Hildenborough

Pregnancy Massage £50

Pregnancy is a time of major physical and emotional change. It an intense season in your life and I feel that every woman should treat her body with the tender and loving care she will undoubtedly give to her baby in abundance.  Taking time out for yourself is an important part of self care and very grounding. Reiki and massage provide a wide range of  benefits to your body, mind and soul during all trimesters of your beautiful pregnancy. Massage and Reiki can:

  • Alleviate stress on joints
  • Help remedy muscular pains and cramps
  • increases blood circulation and helps to maintain good blood pressure
  • Soothes and relaxes the nervous system which releases endorphins. this is great for relaxation and aids sleep
  • Promotes relaxation and is a stress reliever.

The safe, relaxing and nurturing space I provide you with offers the ideal support, loving touch and balancing energy that’s just perfect to support you through this transition into your 4th trimester.

4th trimester

The postnatal period is often very overlooked. I aim to honour the amazing birth you have experienced and your journey into motherhood by honouring all of you.

Sacred postnatal mother roasting is the care of the new mother focusing on the total health and gentle recovery of a woman as she embarks on this journey into motherhood. It is the tender wrapping up of the healing soul, warming of the body and binding the mother through gentle loving arms of a sister. Reclaiming the traditions of postnatal care my mother roasting service will offer all you need to seal your birth and ease you lovingly into motherhood with healing foods, sacred baths, warming and binding bellies and massage, tinctures, oils, teas, loving hands and an open heart is all available to you.

Every woman deserves to be welcomed into mothering through gentle and loving care

Sacred postnatal package £475

this package aims to lovingly care for you during the first 6 weeks after your birth. I will visit you once a week at your home with a food box (menu will be sent to you before), herbal/ floral bath and belly bind. I will offer a warm oil rub down with full body massage including closing the bones and tuck in with gentle meditation.

While you are tucked in I prepare the herbal bath, while you are bathing I can prepare a dish from your food box, the cleansing broth is always good after a treatment and a pot of herbal tea with lactation cookie. Before you sit to eat I bind your belly which can be left for a week until I next visit or however long is comfortable for you.

I will hold baby if needed while you are tucked in, bathing or simply want to enjoy your tea and food with two hands! I will also wash the dishes and rinse the bath out if needed and so that after I leave you can just relax and enjoy the feeling of post treatment bliss.

If you would like to extend the 6 weeks additional treatments can be discussed.

 

Birth goddess package £95

 

this healing mother goddess package welcomes you into motherhood with open arms and gentle loving care.

Warm oil rub down

I begin by smudging and cleansing our sacred space and preparing a beautiful alter.

I will then offer you a warm oil rub down with hot stone tummy press

Closing the bones sealing massage

traditional, warming closing of the bones and full body massage with tuck in. This traditional and ceremonial massage adds a moment of stillness, meditative peace and reflection. The rocking and wrapping with the rebozo shawl is deeply relaxing and feels safe. The full body massage is warming and releases tension, bringing our attention back to the body.

Milk and honey bath

 

I will leave you tucked in with a gentle meditation, body blessing

And prepare your milk and honey/ floral or herbal bath

Bengkung belly binding

This important part of recovery and healing  is traditionally used to comfort, support and hold that womb space. This can feel like a real spiritual closure of your pregnancy, it looks and feels amazing too!You are left in the belly bind either overnight or for 3 days, however long feels comfortable.

End this experience with a food box at a  a discounted price of just £40

 

Loving hands massage and Reiki

One who works with the hands is a labourer.

One who works with the hands and head is a craftsman.

One who works with the hands and the head and the heart is an artist.

St Francis of Assisi 

I cannot stress enough the importance of massage and loving human touch for our whole well-being.

I am passionate about massage and dedicated to helping people feel good in their bodies. Using my heart, hands and head as I do with all of my work I aim to provide loving touch using techniques and approaches developed over centuries of body work. Training with the Jing institute of massage in Brighton gifted me with their wonderful fusion of east and west and the power of an informed touch.

Reiki healing £45

We are energy, that’s just a fact. Our busy and sometimes chaotic lives can disrupt healthy energy flow which affects our whole being. I believe that if we do not protect, balance and care for our energy then we will suffer for it and become unbalanced. I found that when I was led to train in Reiki I found a balance that I had been searching for.

Reiki means universal life force energy, it is a gentle laying of hands while channelling healing energy through the body. Reiki works on 4 levels, physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.

Reiki is a gentle treatment and safely compliments any other therapy while promoting health and well being. It can be used during any stage of life and is wonderfully balancing for transitions. Reiki during pregnancy and the 4th trimester is perfection!

The wonderful thing about a treatment is that Reiki will travel where it is needed. If you are feeling tired then you will feel refreshed, if you are anxious then you will feel calmer, if you are distressed then you will feel comforted. It balances at every level.

The treatment should last around 45 mins, as with all my treatments allow a little longer for your first visit.

 

Postnatal Massage Therapist Hildenborough

Postnatal goddess massage £60

Full body postnatal massage blended with the traditional Closing the bones.  A treatment that is loving, warming, healing and celebrating your AMAZING postnatal body. With hand made warming oil and wrapping inspired by the Mayan tradition.

This massage goes beyond the physical benefit and has amazing spiritual and emotional benefits too. Visit the dedicated website for more information on the losing the bones element of this treatment visit Closing the Bones Massage.

This treatment should take around one hour, allow longer for your first visit.

Full body woman worship massage £50

This is a full body honouring and worship of your amazing body! Tender and loving of course. Great for releasing tension, soothing those aches and stretching out that stiffness, relaxing and comforting.  45 mins to 1hr allow longer for your 1st visit.

 

“It was so comforting to have my hips and stomach touched in such a loving way. I hadn’t even looked at my body since giving birth 2 weeks ago. I feel so held and special thanks to those magic hands!”

 

‘I felt so relaxed after just one treatment. I didn’t expect my back and shoulder pain to improve so quickly. Gemma has such a natural and reassuring touch, I will definitely be going back!’ 

Contact – contact@thebirthgem.co.uk

07545061535

 

 

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Pie is one of the most perfect postnatal meals to Pie is one of the most perfect postnatal meals to gift. So much goodness can be encased in a buttery pastry crust! 
One of today’s pies is 
💖Scandi inspired salmon pie 
Ingredients:
400g - 500 salmon fillet cubed 
1tsp, pepper, salt, fennel seed, caster sugar
3rsp fresh chopped dill
120 Pearl barley cooked 
1 small diced red onion
Juice of lemon 
150g wilted spinach leaves 
100g chopped sundried tomatoes 
140g creme fraiche 
2tsp whole grain mustard 
1 pack puffed pastry or homemade 
💖 Method 
Put diced salmon in bowl with pepper, salt, fennel, sugar, half the dill. 
Cook and strain the Pearl barely and wilt the spinach, set aside. Put the onion in a bowl with the lemon juice. 
Mix the creme fraiche with the mustard and rest of the dill. 
Combine the diced tomatoes and the rest of the ingredients with the creme fraiche mix and transfer to a pie tin. Roll out the puff pastry and brush with egg white. Lay out Over the tin and roll and press the sides with a fork trimming the excess. With the excess I cut a heart shape and brush on with more egg white. 
💖 Bake for approximately 30/40 mins at 180 or freeze until needed. 
This is good warm from the oven and just as good cooled with a salad. 
The other pie pictured is chicken, squash and wild mushroom pie. It’s a little more faffy but just as nourishing! 
#fooddoula #postnatalnourishment #thefourthtrimester #thefirst40days #whofeedsyou #postnataldoula #doulasupport #motherhood #ahealthybabyisnotallthatmatters
💖Creativity is tool for connection⁠ As I sat 💖Creativity is tool for connection⁠
As I sat and planned some gentle Mothercraft ideas for a new client today I was struck by how much more I have come to value and cherish craft during lockdown life. ⁠
Making things with our hands awakens and deepens our awareness of the beauty and value of them. The slowness, the rhythmic and patient nature of creating something has always been so comforting in what is often a fast paced and loud existence, the comfort and value has grown so much more  during the past 11 months or so. I feel that no matter how simple the craft, how 'non artistic' a person deems themselves, creating and gifting yourself something beautiful always has value and we are ALL born creative, all born an artistic with the ability to create beautiful things with our amazing hands and souls, it's just the value in craft is often lost as we age. For me it's all in the intention, the rhythm of devotion, it's about how it makes you feel. Ultimately in your craft you have birthed something beautiful into the world that didn't exist until you created it and that's just gorgeous isn't it! Consider the preciousness of heirlooms, in the very word itself you feel the sense of a precious thing, though it's value will often be of the heart rather than coin! This embroidery for instance, who poured her love and time into this sweet scene? How much we value a hand made card, a hand written letter. Our precious strings of wooden beads, pressed leaves, pom pom garlands, painted scraps of wood and scruffy hand stitched blankets and rag dolls. Our own Works of art and works of heart matter the, process as much as the result.⁠
#workofheart #mindfullness #creativityforconnection #handcraft #slowliving #mothercraft
Love is all, love is all, love is all. A mantra t Love is all, love is all, love is all. 
A mantra that has served me very well over the past 11 months! 
If serving at the altar of birth and motherhood has taught me anything it’s that the most natural things can be the hardest. Keeping a soft yet strong and open heart is one of those things for me these days. A heart can hold so much and mine feels full to bursting often. It’s sometimes been hard to find love and compassion for myself, accept it from others, find love for others especially those that are hard to love! 
It’s been a struggle to to stay soft and strong on the corona coaster but I continue to remind myself to work and live from the heart.
I believe with all of me that Love is our original state of being, a baby is born to love, born from love, into love and this reminds me all the time that love is all, love is all, love is all 💖
#loveisall #loveisallornotatall #wearelove #doulalove #loveisourtruth #youarelove #softandstrong #motherlove #howmuchaheartcanhold
❤️leading from the feminine 🎶~ liquid bloo ❤️leading from the feminine 
🎶~ liquid bloom, sacred blessing ~
I don’t know about you but during this lockdown finding time alone has been most rare and in those rare moments my time of stillness has often been punctuated by requests for food, answers to questions and you tube videos and memes thrust in to my eye-line! 
❤️Yesterday I was gifted just a couple of hours of breathing space, an empty home, silence and sweet stillness, just a little sacred blessing. As is often our way I quickly slipped into that familiar patriarchal habit of feeling that we must keep active and appear to be ‘productive’ at all times, doing, doing, doing and guilt for not doing enough. I caught myself rushing about cleaning and tidying then felt a little nudge, a call from my heart space to be still and to be led by the feminine. I gave myself a little shake, shook off the doing and became still. I took my Rebecca Campbell oracle cards, sacred feminine incense and connected with my feminine wisdom and surrendered to this sweet time of stillness and those gentle reminders from the cards. How will you gently love yourself today even for just a minute? 
#workyourlightoracle #sacredfeminine #soulenquiry #theeverunfoldingrose #risesisterrise #nourish #motherhoodunplugged #motherhoodrising #leadfromthefeminine
🌕Life is all about enjoying the small pleasures 🌕Life is all about enjoying the small pleasures these days. Sitting down after a morning workout for a pot of herbal tea with a book is one of my favourite little rituals. Today is EXTRA special though because the book I am about to open is one I have had the rare honour to follow the progress of over the years and written by my beloved doula sister @eva_shamanic_doula! 
I’m not ashamed to say a few proud tears came when this book arrived. What an inspiration she is and how happy I am that these beautiful thoughts and teachings are out in the world in book form, I know without a doubt that the contents of this book are part of who she is and come from her heart and soul. I’m looking forward to loaning this to my clients who feel drawn to working with the moon in a deeper way during their pregnancy. In anticipation of this book I prepared and saved a special tea for this very occasion! I picked the herbs for drying on the Harvest moon too which feels so special and appropriate. 
As I start to read I can hear her voice and am sending right back to her the brightest of moon beam blessings! ( yes Eva I flipped right to the last pages to read acknowledgements etc first!) 
So today’s simple pleasure has really been a massive one! 
#pregnancybythemoon #moonbeamblessings #sacredpregnancy #doula #doulauk #pregnancybook #doulasisters
❤️ Nourishment ❤️ I love nurturing and nou ❤️ Nourishment ❤️
I love nurturing and nourishing new born mothers. For 10 moons or so she has nourished her baby & will continue to give so much of herself body and soul, it always feels so right to truly nourish her in return. 
True nourishment is about so much more than just filling an empty belly, it’s more than a delicious cookie but can definitely start with one! It’s really about meeting her most basic needs with love, feeding, truly caring for and seeing her. Food made with love and intention nurtures and nourishes in such a special way and on a deep level. You don’t have to have the skills of a trained chef in my opinion, just loving intention. Something simple, intuitive, warming and comforting. A jar of soup, container of cookies or herbal tea left on a doorstep or handed to a partner carries with it so much more than its nutrients, this action is one of the most ancient and heartfelt ways we have of sharing love and appreciation without words during a most tender and open time. 
In a time like this one where physical connection is quite limited sharing the gift of simple nourishment is the perfect way to send deep sister love to a newborn mother. 
#postnatalnourishment #thefourthtrimester #postnatalfood #madewithlove #nursingcookies #foodheals #feedingthemother #motherhood #doula
A moment of deep love ⁠ What an honour it was t A  moment of deep love ⁠
What an honour it was to witness this sweet moment. I had arrived in time to be with the birthing mother while her husband got some much needed rest after a night of supporting her through early labour. Resting safe in the knowledge that his love was receiving the gentle support she needed. He returned and they connected in such a beautiful moment of sweet surrender that only your love can offer. ⁠
A concern that comes up often when considering hiring a doula is that the doula might replace the role of the birth partner. ⁠
Unless this is the plan then absolutely not.  If I’m asked this by a potential client my answer is always similar. If you intend on being an involved birth partner then it’s my job and my pleasure to support you in being that. I may be experienced in birth but you are experienced in the birthing mother, no one in the birth space shares the deep connection you have and this connection is invaluable. A good doula takes nothing away from your connection or role in birth, she prepares you to birth together if this is your wish and actually frees up space so that you can be what you need to be during this most precious journey. ⁠
The role of the birth partner begins in pregnancy,  you may feel that 10 moons is a long time especially if you have busy lives but take time to think about what kind of birth partner you really wish to be for her so that you can meet your baby together in the most loving way possible. What can your doula do to prepare you to birth together and  help make space for this experience? Help you build a birth plan, hold space, be on food and water duty, teach you massage and comfort techniques, even fill and empty the pool and tidy afterwards so that you can enjoy your time together after birth? There is so much a doula can do for you to take the pressure off of what it can be to be the sole birth partner. This support and preparation is more vital now than ever when we know that you will likely be sole birth partner in a hospital or birth center setting. ⁠
#birthpartner #birthwithlove #birthdoula #sacredbirth #birthingtogether #birthpartnertips #birthpreperation #antenatalsupport ⁠
For me this dish is the height of comfort! After For me this dish is the height of comfort! 
After a long and busy week and a bit of a chaotic and much longer than expected placenta remedy delivery this morning on an empty stomach all I could think about was a bowl of ramen! 
A good bowl of ramen for me is all about the broth. I often opt for ginger chicken broth with fennel seed as I make a big batch of it every week. 
Ginger chicken broth is one of my most popular dishes and actually one of the most simple. Today’s was ready in under 10 minutes. If you want a simple and versatile dish to cook for a new mother or yourself of course here is today’s quick fridge grab creation! You can use whatever greens and other veg you have available, leftover rice and other grains even. This can also be made with a stock cube but home made or fresh broth is the best! 
💖I heated the chicken broth with a slice of lemon, grated ginger, rice wine vinegar, splash of soy sauce and teaspoon of fennel seed. In a separate pan I hard boiled an egg and set to one side. 
💖 Once the broth was simmering I added a nest of fine egg noodles, sliced mushrooms and kale, when the noodles just softened I removed them and the veg with a slotted spoon  and arranged the pretty in the bowl. 
💖 Still gently simmering I added a few itsu vegetable dumplings for 3 mins, arranged them pretty too. 
💖 Lastly poured over the broth, added sliced egg, chopped fresh chilli, coriander, spring onion and sprinkle of sesame seed on the kale. 
I then sat with my warm huggable bowl of goodness and enjoyed for longer than it took to make slurping the leftover broth at the end! 
Hooray for one pan meals. 
#ramenbowl #goddessbowl #onepanmeal #doulauk #douladay #postnataldoula #doulacook #comfortfood #broth #nourishment #fooddoula

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