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Run by experienced practitioners this clinic offers acupuncture treatment for women at different stages of life.

15/11/2023

Coming up this Friday 17th November.

A one day workshop '9 months + 40 days: Preparing for the Fourth Trimester'.

This workshop is an opportunity to prepare thoroughly for the beginning to motherhood and parenthood.

The day will be underpinned by embodied practices (exploring movement, breath, & felt-sense awareness (feeling)) that support our movement towards an increased sense of security and safety.

It is an opportunity to tune in to your inner cues and practice flexing the muscles necessary for both movement and vocalization, so that you can establish your boundaries and identify your wishes with more clarity and confidence for pregnancy, birth and early parenthood.

More info via the linktree.

05/11/2023

The sacred window - confinement - sitting the month - the fourth trimester are just some of the descriptions that emphasise the crucial importance of the time after birth.

When a baby is born, the vital resources that enable that child to survive and thrive are the warmth, nutrients and interdependent bond with its mother / primary caregiver.

In Chinese Medicine the fourth trimester is understood to be a time of vulnerability for a human animal.

It is understood to be a time when a mother is undergoing a hormonal and energetic initiation and at a potential crossroads in their health.

Pregnancy is a time when the body is in an abundance of Qi (energy) and in an abundance of Blood (in pregnancy blood volume can increase by between 30-50%, the body is host to an additional organ and growing a human being - abundance is palpable).

When birth takes place, an imminent shift (physical, mechanical, visceral, chemical and hormonal) takes place. It is this shift that leaves a human system more vulnerable to the invasion of external pathogens.

It is widely understood that preparing for birth is important.

It needs to be far better understood that preparing for postpartum is of potentially even greater importance.

Postpartum is the vital ground where recovery and bonding concurrently take place.

While we are in this intricate, tender and intimate process of recovery - we are also faring the early days of creating the most precious of bonds.

Postpartum is a crucial window. A sacred window.

On Friday 17th November I am running a one day workshop at my home for those who are in their second or third trimester who want to prepare well and in an embodied way for their fourth trimester.

Details via the link in my bio.

25/10/2023

This Saturday you are warmly invited to join me to breathe and move with a focus on the pelvis.

We will walk ourselves around the pelvic anatomy with our hands, hold our bones, and breathe awareness and life into the tissues.

The pelvis is our root, our hinge point, the place where a being decides to curl in and make themselves smaller or open out and make themselves bigger. Is it a hub where we let go and excrete. It is here on the anatomical map that we have a pleasure centre.

It is a place and relationship to give time to.

A question that often guides my hands on work is:

What happens if instead of focusing on pathology we hold the health in the body?

When we make contact - through movement, awareness, breathwork etc with our entire living system and recognize where there is movement, where there is vitality and allow this to become a focal point of our awareness, something unfolds differently.

Illness and imbalance is an integral of human experience. How we orientate to the body in the midst of ‘pathology’ is crucial.

There is always health, there is always vitality inside of us.

Working with bodies in both the depths of illness, and in their dying time, I’ve felt that the body can always show us where its resilience and aliveness lies.

Something remarkable happens when we give the body the opportunity to nurture its aliveness. Not fireworks going off or winning the lottery remarkable, but a firefly in the night sky remarkable, the reflection of the moon on the body of the ocean remarkable, bright golden autumn leaves remarkable.

As human animals, we are wired to orientate towards survival.

Join me to orientate to the aliveness in your body. To explore the life inside the breath, to feel what aliveness feels and tastes like.

Saturday 28th October from 10-1pm, in person in my studio in East Oxford.

Photo credit - Elle Narbrook

26/09/2023

Before we are born, in the days we spend in the waters of the womb, our body forms a knowing of attachment and an understanding of belonging.

Subsequently shaped and tended by the moments, hours, days, and months following birth when our mother, parents, primary care givers attune to our calls for comfort and nourishment.

How we engage with and feel belonging later in life is intricately related to the the early map of belonging that we first got to know, how we first made sense of being seen.

When we bring a baby into the world, we are being guided by this map.

9 months + 40 days is a one day workshop - an opportunity to nurture the voice of your inner cues so that you can establish your boundaries and identify your wishes with more clarity and confidence for pregnancy, birth and early parenthood.

Accessing what we are feeling in our body gives us an understanding of our authentic experience and scope therefore to respond to it.

In Chinese medicine and culture the first month to forty days after birth is significant.

The time is referred to as ‘confinement’ or ‘sitting the month’. The phrase is a clear ear marking of the post partum time and the change in pace required therein. It is understood as a time for recovery, replenishment, building resources and sustenance. It is also a window of opportunity to reset existing patterns in the body.

Come and join me for a day to prepare and plan for this important time.

Friday 6th October 10am until 4pm. This workshop will be held in my studio in East Oxford.

11/09/2023

Oxford NCT Home Birth Group - Monday 11th September from 7pm until 8.30pm.

This is an in person event taking place in East Oxford.

Address

34 Cowley Road
Oxford
OX14HZ

Website

http://www.emilycarson.co.uk/

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The Women’s Clinic

The Women’s Clinic came into being in 2014. At the time Emily and Jess were both working in Eau de Vie - a beautiful integrative healthcare centre in Oxford.

Both working with a special interest in women’s health they wanted to offer a low cost community clinic that worked specifically with working with women.

We are currently in the process of re-establishing a home for the clinic. We hope to keep you posted soon with where The Women’s Clinic will next manifest.

In the meantime you can find us practicing independently from our clinic spaces in East Oxford.