Labour of Love Birth Work and Body Work

Labour of Love Birth Work and Body Work Pregnancy & Postnatal Yoga, Birth Preparation, Womb & Abdominal Massage, Scar Tissue Work, MFR Birth work and body work.

As a birth worker I support parents through pregnancy, birth and beyond in Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole, New Forest and surrounding areas. As a body worker I offer treatments in Womb & Abdominal Massage, Myofascial Release, Scar Tissue Work, Postnatal Recovery Massage and Biomechanics for Birth. Other than the Biomechanics for Birth, these treatments are suitable for any stage of life and any age.

We're back on this week with a full schedule of classes and treatments and I'm really looking forward to seeing everyone...
04/01/2026

We're back on this week with a full schedule of classes and treatments and I'm really looking forward to seeing everyone whether you're new to Labour of Love or returning!

🤰🏽 Dreamy pregnancy yoga classes to help you relax, soften, stretch, move, practice positions for birth, breathe, bond with your unborn baby and make new friends.
Suitable from 14 weeks to full term, no yoga experience needed.

At the moment there's just 1 space in Ringwood, more spaces in Mudeford and Charminster

🤱🏻 Postnatal yoga and baby massage classes - nurturing sessions to stretch, strengthen, restore, breathe, bond with baby and connect with other new parents.

Suitable from 6 to 8 weeks postpartum (depending on your recovery) to when baby is crawling.

2 spaces available in Southbourne, Ringwood is full.

🐣 Birth preparation workshops - interactive and practical sessions to help you and your partner feel confident, informed and prepared for birth. Recommended from around 28 - 30 + weeks.

January's session is full. New dates to follow for February onwards

1-2-1 sessions are available for pregnancy yoga, postnatal yoga & birth preparation

💆‍♀️ Holistic treatments:

🌹 Womb & abdominal massage to help with fertility, difficult periods (heavy, painful, irregular), menopause, abdominal and womb health, scars, fibroids, prolapse, endometriosis.
🌹Womb & abdominal massage for pregnancy and postpartum to help with baby positioning, balance, aches, comfort, backache, pelvic discomfort
🌹Closing The Bones (Postpartum ceremony - womb & abdominal massage, being rocked and wrapped in rebozos, option to include pelvic steaming. Wonderful to receive anytime postnatally whether 6 weeks or 6+ years later)
🌹Scar Tissue Work to relieve tightness, pain, numbness, restore function and helps reduce post caesarean 'pooch' (can be combined with womb and abdominal massage)
🌹Myofascial Release for the pelvis in pregnancy - gentle hands on treatment to relieve pain and discomfort, balance and make space for baby to get in an optimal position for birth (can be included in other pregnancy treatments)
🌹Biomechanics for Birth / Spinning Babies - a collection of techniques to make space and balance the pelvis to encourage baby into an optimal position for birth (can be included in other pregnancy treatments

Limited spaces remaining for January

❤️ Details for everything are on my website or please get in touch to ask about any of my offerings

🧚‍♀️ Only 2 spaces remaining for my next sets of postnatal yoga & baby massage classes in Southbourne! (Ringwood is full...
02/01/2026

🧚‍♀️ Only 2 spaces remaining for my next sets of postnatal yoga & baby massage classes in Southbourne! (Ringwood is fully booked) 🧚‍♀️
These sessions are designed for your wellbeing as well as your baby's and encourage meaningful connection and bonding.
Sessions include -
🧘🏽‍♀️Postnatal yoga based movement
🤱🏽Baby massage
🧘🏽‍♀️Pelvic floor work
🧘🏽‍♀️Breathing & relaxation
🤱🏽Parenting support
🐣 Suitable from 6 to 8 weeks postpartum (depending on your birth and recovery) till baby is crawling.

Friendly, welcoming and relaxed classes, no expectations, no need to be on time, no yoga experience needed.

For booking details please email info@labouroflove.me.uk or DM
Rosa ❤️(It might be possible to join part way through if baby is too young at the start).

Are you pregnant and looking for a class where you can safely move and stretch?My pregnancy yoga classes offer that and ...
01/01/2026

Are you pregnant and looking for a class where you can safely move and stretch?
My pregnancy yoga classes offer that and so much more. In these sessions you will also find:
🤰🏻 Guidance with birth positions, breathing and getting baby in an optimal position for birth
🤰🏿 Connection with other expectant mamas
🤰🏻 A place where you can talk about your worries and feel supported
🤰🏿 Dedicated time for yourself where you can retreat from the demands of everyday life
🤰🏻 Peace and quiet where you can connect with your unborn baby

All of this in the deeply nurturing, peaceful and welcoming space I create for you. Come as you are and leave feeling restored, relaxed and ready for a great night's sleep.

❤️ Suitable from 14 weeks to full term, no yoga experience needed, no need to be fit or flexible. All classes resuming from week beginning 5th January.
🌹 For full details, bookings and any questions, please email me (Rosa) info@labouroflove.me.uk or send a DM

📷 Looking through my camera roll makes me realise I really don't have many photos that represent my work but I do have a...
31/12/2025

📷 Looking through my camera roll makes me realise I really don't have many photos that represent my work but I do have a lot of my dog!

I'm not one for making a big thing about the new year, seasonally we're still in deep hibernation mode and if it were possible I wouldn't emerge until the end of January. However I have lots of wonderful clients (new and returning) booked in for classes and treatments from next Monday 5th January 2026 and I'm really looking forward to seeing everyone so I'm slowly transitioning back to the world.

❤️ Heartfelt gratitude to everyone who has come to me in 2025 for classes and treatments, I appreciate every booking and it's true that they make me do a little happy dance but no, I will not be capturing that on camera or posting it on here! 🤭
So here's to another year of supporting you at Labour of Love 💃🏻

❄️ That's a wrap for Christmas!⛄It's been a full and wonderful year 💕Thank you to everyone who has joined me for classes...
24/12/2025

❄️ That's a wrap for Christmas!⛄

It's been a full and wonderful year 💕

Thank you to everyone who has joined me for classes and treatments. It's always an honour and privilege to do this work at Labour of Love and to have you put your trust in me.

I'm having a break over the next few days and will reply to messages again from the 29th but please allow a little longer than normal for me to get back to you.

I'm open again for treatments (womb & abdominal massage, scar tissue work, biomechanics for birth, myofascial release for the pelvis and closing the bones) from the 2nd January and pregnancy yoga and postnatal yoga and baby massage classes start again week beginning 5th January. 

Only a few spaces left in most of the classes and treatment spaces are also filling up!

🎄Wishing you all a happy and relaxing Christmas, a peaceful New Year and much love 🌟

🎄Loved seeing the beautiful mamas and gorgeous babies in their Christmas outfits and colours over the past couple of wee...
12/12/2025

🎄Loved seeing the beautiful mamas and gorgeous babies in their Christmas outfits and colours over the past couple of weeks at my postnatal yoga and baby massage classes! ⛄

Sadly over half the class couldn't come to the last Southbourne session due to illness etc and they were very much missed 😔.

Since starting some of the babies are now rolling, sitting up, laughing, babbling, chatting and one is almost crawling and making very fast progress moving around the room! (Some are also still snoozing a lot and very content to not be moving much yet).

As always there are some mums and babies I need to bid a fond (but reluctant) farewell to as the babies are getting too mobile for the class. A few have been with me for the whole year starting at pregnancy yoga last January and it's hard to say goodbye 🥹.

💕 I'm delighted that some are joining again in January and I look forward to seeing all their changes along with welcoming some new mums and babies who previously came to pregnancy yoga and everyone else coming for the first time.

❄️ There are just 4 spaces remaining in each of my next 5 week sets. 

🎄 We're in the busy pre Christmas time now and it's easy to get swept up and overwhelmed so get in touch soon to reserve your space while they're still available!

Sessions include -
🤱 Postnatal yoga based movement
🐣 Baby massage
🤱 Pelvic floor work
🐣 Breathing & relaxation
🤱 Parenting support
Suitable from 6 to 8 weeks postpartum (depending on your birth and recovery) till baby is crawling.
Friendly, welcoming and relaxed classes, no yoga experience needed.

❄️ Wednesdays 10.30 to 11.45am in Ringwood starting 7th January
❄️ Thursdays 10.30 to 11.45am in Southbourne starting 8th January
For booking details please email info@labouroflove.me.uk or DM
Rosa ❤️
     

❄️ There's still lots going on at Labour of Love this December! 🎄🤰🏽 Dreamy pregnancy yoga classes that are really embrac...
05/12/2025

❄️ There's still lots going on at Labour of Love this December! 🎄

🤰🏽 Dreamy pregnancy yoga classes that are really embracing the peaceful and quiet pull of the season. They are a wonderful way to relax, soften, stretch, move, practice positions for birth, breathe, bond with your unborn baby and make new friends. 

Suitable from 14 weeks to full term, no yoga experience needed. Just the Ringwood sessions are on in December. Mudeford and Charminster resume first week of January.

🐣 Birth preparation workshops - interactive and practical sessions to help you and your partner feel confident, informed and prepared for birth. Recommended from around 28 - 30 + weeks.

We cover pain coping and breathing, positions for labour and birth, techniques to help baby get well positioned for birth, birth hormones, comfort techniques for pregnancy and birth and more. There's still time to book on my next workshops - 14th December and 18th January. I also have 2 slots available in December for 1-2-1 birth preparation sessions. 

🤱🏻 Postnatal yoga and baby massage classes - nurturing sessions to stretch, strengthen, restore, breathe, bond with baby and connect with other new parents. Just 1 week left of my current sets but bookings are open for my next sets starting Wednesday 7th January in Ringwood and Thursday 8th January in Southbourne - 4 spaces available in both. 

Suitable from 6 to 8 weeks postpartum (depending on your recovery) to when baby is crawling.

💆‍♀️ Holistic treatments: 

🌹 Womb & abdominal massage for teenage and adult women

🌹Womb & abdominal massage for pregnancy and postpartum 

🌹Closing The Bones 

🌹Scar Tissue Work 

🌹Myofascial Release for the pelvis in pregnancy

🌹Biomechanics for Birth / Spinning Babies

(See comments for info on treatments)

❤️ Details for everything are on my website or please get in touch to ask about any of my offerings

Are you experiencing discomfort, pinching, pulling, tightness or other symptoms from your caesarean scar?I offer Scar Ti...
03/12/2025

Are you experiencing discomfort, pinching, pulling, tightness or other symptoms from your caesarean scar?

I offer Scar Tissue Work which is a gentle treatment to help improve pain, numbness, restrictions, function and resolve adhesions caused by scars. From 10 weeks postpartum for caesarean births / around 10 weeks post surgery for other types of scars. There's no time limit and 10+ years later this is still beneficial to receive.

Scar Tissue work can be a stand alone treatment or received along with womb & abdominal massage for a deeper working and nurturing treatment

I've still got a few spaces left for treatments this month and improvements are often felt after just 1 session so you may be feeling better in time for Christmas!



     

🧚‍♀️ Last few spaces remaining for my next sets of postnatal yoga & baby massage classes! 🧚‍♀️These sessions are designe...
03/12/2025

🧚‍♀️ Last few spaces remaining for my next sets of postnatal yoga & baby massage classes! 🧚‍♀️

These sessions are designed for your wellbeing as well as your baby's and encourage meaningful connection and bonding.

Sessions include -
🧘🏽‍♀️Postnatal yoga based movement
🤱🏽Baby massage
🧘🏽‍♀️Pelvic floor work
🧘🏽‍♀️Breathing & relaxation
🤱🏽Parenting support
🐣 Suitable from 6 to 8 weeks postpartum (depending on your birth and recovery) till baby is crawling.

Friendly, welcoming and relaxed classes, no expectations, no need to be on time, no yoga experience needed.

🌹Wednesdays 10.30 to 11.45am in Ringwood starting 7th January
🌹 Thursdays 10.30 to 11.45am in Southbourne starting 8th January
(It might be possible to join part way through if baby is too young at the start).
For booking details please email info@labouroflove.me.uk or DM
Rosa ❤️

🌹 It was such a privilege to honour this beautiful mama with a Closing the Bones ceremony. See how relaxed she looks as ...
23/11/2025

🌹 It was such a privilege to honour this beautiful mama with a Closing the Bones ceremony. See how relaxed she looks as she's rocked, massaged, held and nurtured. How her body and being is soaking all of this in.

🌹 The treatment begins with grounding and settling, then the body is rocked with rebozos which feels wonderful for the pelvis and lower back.
This is followed by a deeply nurturing 1 hour massage of the womb, abdomen, low / mid back and pelvis.

🌹 After the massage the pelvis is rocked again before being wrapped in a rebozo. The head is also gently rocked before being wrapped. You can choose to be fully wrapped - head, shoulders, ribs, pelvis, legs and feet or just partially - the head, pelvis and feet / or just the pelvis on it's own. For the head wrapping the rebozo can be over the eyes or just over the forehead.

💆‍♀️ This mama chose to be fully wrapped and was then covered in warming blankets and guided into relaxation and nourishing rest.

📷 A family member was on hand to take photos and videos and I've kindly been given permission to share them.

💖 Closing The Bones is for anytime postpartum whether 2 weeks, 2 years, 20 years later or after a loss. It can also mark the completion of a time in your life such as when you've had your last baby or after you've been through menopause.
       

Sundays (or any day!) are a great time to book in for pregnancy yoga, setting yourself up for the highlight of your week...
09/11/2025

Sundays (or any day!) are a great time to book in for pregnancy yoga, setting yourself up for the highlight of your week in pregnancy.

As well as a space where you can safely move and stretch in pregnancy you will also find:
🤰🏻 Guidance with birth positions, breathing and getting baby in an optimal position for birth
🤰🏽 Connection with other expectant mamas
🤰🏿 A place where you can talk about your worries and feel supported
🤰🏼 Dedicated time for yourself where you can retreat from the demands of everyday life
🤰🏾 Peace and quiet where you can connect with your unborn baby
All of this in the deeply nurturing, peaceful and welcoming space I create for you where you'll leave feeling ready for a great night's sleep.
❤️ Suitable from 14 weeks to full term, no yoga experience needed, no need to be fit or flexible.

Choose from:
* Mondays 6 to 7.15pm in Mudeford
* Tuesdays 6.15 to 7.30pm in Ringwood
* Thursdays 7.20 to 8.35pm in Charminster

🌹For full details, bookings and any questions, please email me (Rosa) info@labouroflove.me.uk call or DM. Always happy to chat and see if my classes are right for you ❤️

🧚‍♀️ Lots of bookings coming in for my next sets of postnatal yoga & baby massage classes! The current sets filled quick...
09/11/2025

🧚‍♀️ Lots of bookings coming in for my next sets of postnatal yoga & baby massage classes! The current sets filled quickly so let me know soon if you'd like to come 🧚‍♀️

These sessions are designed for your wellbeing as well as your baby's and encourage meaningful connection and bonding.
Sessions include -
🧘🏽‍♀️Postnatal yoga based movement
🤱🏽Baby massage
🧘🏽‍♀️Pelvic floor work
🧘🏽‍♀️Breathing & relaxation
🤱🏽Parenting support
🐣 Suitable from 6 to 8 weeks postpartum (depending on your birth and recovery) till baby is crawling.
Friendly, welcoming and relaxed classes, no expectations, no need to be on time, no yoga experience needed.

🌹Wednesdays 10.30 to 11.45am in Ringwood starting 7th January
🌹 Thursdays 10.30 to 11.45am in Southbourne starting 8th January
(It might be possible to join part way through if baby is too young at the start).
For booking details please email info@labouroflove.me.uk or DM
Rosa ❤️

Address

Bournemouth, Ringwood, Christchurch
Bournemouth

Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 9:30pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 9:30pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 9:30pm
Thursday 8:30am - 9:30pm
Friday 8:30am - 9:30pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 11am - 5pm

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+447837218374

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Hi, I’m Rosa Davies and I’ve been running my classes and working as a Doula for 13 years. I have loved working with so many pregnant women and their partners over the years and supporting new mums. I don’t know the exact number of parents who I’ve supported but well over 1000!

My classes encourage you to trust yourself and feel powerful in your body, help you bond with your baby, take time out for yourself and enjoy some nurturing during pregnancy and postnatally. I also offer treatment to support you through pregnancy, the postnatal period and beyond.

In recent years I have been drawn to working with women of all ages and helping them in their quest for health and healing. This led me to train in Mizan Therapy and Myofascial Release. I feel privileged and honoured to be doing this work.