Nourished Waters Birth

09/06/2023

Please help me spread the word! 🙏
PREPARE FOR BIRTH AND RECOVER POSTPARTUM!

My expertise helps
🦋open and balance pelvic floor and entire pelvis and body, and
🦋activate parasympathetic nerve response to facilitate ease in labor and recovery.

🦋Even years after birth, this work can help you recover pelvic floor function, heal diastasis, and reconnect with frozen parts of self- body and spirit.
The majority of my work can be done externally, thru a sheet, in a safely held container. I also offer internal work for those who need and want such work.

🤲🏻I’m a bodyworker and corrective exercise specialist with 15+ years of experience and specialized training in Neuro-structural Integration, Mayan abdominal therapy, visceral manipulation, Myofascial release, prenatal and postpartum corrective exercise, and more.
🤲🏻I am also a doula and student of midwifery, calling on my extended trainings in all things birth, which combined with my manual therapy skills, has immense potential to assist you prior to birth.

🦋🤲🏻I also do immensely helpful postpartum care, including manual therapies and corrective exercise training, and deeply soul nourishing closing the bones ceremony for physical and energetic portal reclamation. My goal is also to soon offer sweat lodge with these services.

I NEED to get this out there! I’m new(ish) to Asheville area and had my own last baby 8 months ago, so I’m just getting back into the swing of trying to build my clientele here.
Please share with mamas who you think may benefit from this work!
I strive to keep my rates reasonable and my work accessible and thorough. Deep transformation can happen in even a session or two.

Thank you for sharing 🙏 And reach out with questions, or visit my website for more @ www.nourishwellnesswithin.com

08/06/2023

Product hilight of the day 💗
Chyawanprash! My spin on the classic anyway…
Organic ghee and my 🐝 honey with raw herbs and extracts
I have four different ones with different planetary rulerships
🦋 Venus ~ for female hormones, aphrodisiac and heart opening in quality
🔥 Mars- can be used by men or women, will increase testosterone and thus energy, stamina and sexual potency, as well as having two herbs that are great adaptive a

🌝 Moon ~ For dreams and sleep, especially lucid dreaming or inviting a dream-like quality and nervine for daytime
🌞 Sun ~ A potent energy tonic for daily use by anyone who wants strong but steady, non-depleting source of energy and adaptogenic qualities of herbs to help your innate vitality

Many of them I only have large left $45
Medium is $20
Small $10
Ask what i’ve got in stock
Can ship anywhere for s/h

08/04/2023

The first step is always to check for tension. At least, this would be my preference if I could get every woman in to see me!
Of course, seeing a good can do wonders… but STILL some of them are recommending exercises to the woman with areas of major in her pelvic floor! Oh dear.

The truth is, yummy self massage, partner massage, or emotionally safe, clinically intelligent pelvic floor release work can be profoundly helpful for finding areas you are disconnected from. Because… disconnection is the key here.
We want to find our neurological connection again, releasing tension, but also finding sensation again.
Follow me as we dive deeper into all of this, especially on my reels. And you can always do the deep dive course into corrective exercise (and preventative measures) for pregnancy and postpartum pelvic floor and belly.

08/03/2023

Deep hip or butt pain? Sciatica? Back pain?
Men can be affected by imbalance, tightness, and weakness in the pelvic floor too!
And, sometimes kegels can be wonderful!
In yoga, it’s called the Mulabandha. Contracting the pelvic floor or ROOT chakra area, which for men looks like a**s, prostate area (perineum) and the base of the urethra.
But first:
🌀Make sure there isn’t underlying tightness causing weakness, or release that first with rolling on a ball, or manual release work
🌀Look at overall structural balance in the hips
🌀Consider also doing some deeper inquiry into the muscular balance of all the leg, butt, pelvic and abdominal muscles
🌀And, once underlying tension is addressed, then mulabandha away!

08/03/2023

I have a Youtube channel! Would you do me a favor and click on the link, and like and subscribe to my channel?
Ananta's Well
The space for my podcasts on Youtube (also found on Spotify and other podcast apps, please follow me there as well!) as well as other video goodies I'll be sharing from time to time

Join me as I interview Whapio, the incredible midwife and teacher who created the Matrona online midwifery and doula programs. She is a powerhouse and channe...

08/02/2023

If the posterior (back) of the pelvic floor is tight, and you’re having a hard time connecting to the FRONT to get a good contraction there (feeling the front by the cl****is tuck under and lift when you do your kegel), try getting into a squat position when you do your kegels! This lengthens the back of the PF and helps you connect to the front!

07/31/2023

I’m REALLY excited to offer amazing BREASTMILK and BLOOD or Placenta jewelry 😍
This is my own piece I just finished:
Milk 🥛 Blood 🩸 and Honey 🍯
Breastmilk, First moon blood after having my final baby recently, and Honey…
She may have to wait till I’m done with an infant who tearsy jewelry off to be worn much,
But I’m DELIGHTED and I already have my first interested customer for a breastmilk necklace!

Would you like one too? I can do so many different types of molds with it, different sizes and so on.
Such a beautiful way to honor our feminine spirit and ma journeys 🙂 💗🙏

07/25/2023

I posted another episode this week on my podcast, Ananta’s Well ~The Sacred Thresholds Podcast.
This one is the first of four where I’ll be delving into my birth experiences.
Dive in to hear about the most primal birth you may ever hear of 😆 So far I’ve yet to witness such a thing… because frankly you aren’t likely to be present in a way that allows a mom to fully drop in in this way. Possible, yes. Probable, no.
There’s something in this story for us all, not just birth geeks. I, as always, delve into other subjects and discussion of thresholds and so much else.
Enjoy this recording with the pitter patter of rain… despite this and not expert level sound equipment used on this episode, I hope you’ll enjoy the transmission. 💗🙏

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3chHzLxmE4wsJ49zYLU8zf?si=Pi1PZwi6SfGCiR6f-dTtZw

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3chHzLxmE4wsJ49zYLU8zf?si=WkASAzd-RlGH-MINtOWnDg

07/20/2023

SEEKING BETA TESTERS NOW! 🦋
I would love to share with you all my online, super thorough and accessible pregnancy, birth and postpartum courses!
If you are birthing free or with a midwife or otherwise, these classes have EVERYTHING you could imagine needing:
💧Emergency skills quick guides for on the fly use, AND in depth discussion/guides as well
💧Empowered Birth Course including in depth knowledge for 3rd stage (placenta release) and Holistic Stages of Birth, Cardinal movements of labor, and how it all ties together with the Altered State Of labor
💧Podcast episodes
💧Herbalism, nutrition, and homeopathic knowledge
💧Informed consent for things like epidurals, vitamin K, etc
💧Next level understanding of the natural pain response and how we can move with labor more instinctually
💧Deep reverence for the wisdom of the mother and baby dyad and how we can get out of our own way
💧Pelvic floor and diastasis prevention and corrective postpartum exercise courses from a pro bodyworker and corrective exercise specialist
💧Newborn care basics
💧 Birth meditations
💧unassisted birth resources
And sooooo much more, along with its own APP for social media style discussion forums, and full ease of access to quick tutorials in case you end up in an emergency, etc

This thing is coming in HOT!
And… I’m seeking 25 Beta testers to join in at a deeeep discount, in exchange for simple feedback about the content and navigation!
Please share and get in touch if you’d like to join me on the Portal!
I’m SO excited to share this with mamas… this thing is my BABY y’all, it’s been gestating right along with my littlest one who is now 6 months old… and they’re both ready to MOVE! 😍

07/16/2023

Y’all…
I just added all the plans. Including the all access, private mentorship and remote birth support plan.
I’m geeking out over here.
I was born for this. Navigating veils and portals is my jam. Helping you navigate yours just as much so.
Just look 😍
https://nourishedwatersbirth.com

07/12/2023

Shadow work… We all have heard of it by now eh?
But what the f is it really? And how do we *do* it?
Recently I did a podcast episode all about shadow work as part of the birth world. The real deep, dark underbelly we face in birth politics- where everyone is afraid of death. And it got me thinking, AREN’T we all afraid of death and living our days avoiding the things that might push on that fear? Because death could be anything. It’s the Portal. And, well, ain’t that why I named my new birth education online mystical school a Portal?
Because Portaling is what we do when we give birth. When we let something in us die and be reborn. When we become the phoenix and literally 🔥 ourselves to the ground to begin again. When we face the most excruciating truths of our inner and outer world. When we face all those darkest feelings and imaginings and even our outer enemies.
It took me a long time to see how this is not to be synonymous with having no boundaries or forcing myself into uncomfortable damaging situations to learn. But it has everything to do with how I remove myself from such scenarios with my own psyche intact. I’ve been into some dark portals in my life. I’ve faced immense fears and harrowing experiences. And I watched my psyche nearly get ripped apart. But it’s the archetypal story we tell ourselves about this Portal and our hero’s journey within it that allows us to move through and beyond the story and lesson, to integrate, metabolize, and rectify the purified Sulfur of our spiritual essence into the red lion of Realization. It doesn’t mean we won’t ever be afraid again. Just like every time you give birth, you’re back in it. It’s still intense. It still threatens to rip you apart. But with wisdom you know that you will arrive at the other side. You know your soul will be rectified. That’s the essence of accepting the crucible for what it is and knowing it’s not always going to be fire and brimstone. Sometimes you gotta let that s**t burn. And like the phoenix, revive some part of your Self that ever was and ever will be.

07/12/2023

I’m so pleased to be bringing my new podcast to you all… Ananta’s Well ~ The Sacred Thresholds podcast. Follow me on Spotify or other podcast sites!
But for now…
Have you met Whapio?
I recently had a wonderful chat with Whapio Diane Bartlett of The Matrona, and we got into some awesome layers around the threshold of birth, the future of midwifery, collective shadow work and homeopathy. And as always, it was just an epic exchange between our two hearts and minds. We always have the best conversations, and I just HAD to bring one to you all!

Enjoy the audio here https://www.buzzsprout.com/2215078/13182238-episode-3-whapio-and-the-matrona.mp3?download=true

And if you enjoy the visual experience, see our Zoom chat here!
https://us06web.zoom.us/rec/share/cs9ONlzgMrzin70Y5JwG2UtEi3ZC90lhqd45uebMcBWlLqHEgM3fMSgAVbNYvjO0.uYWB-Os-f5NC9Kzd
Passcode: 1tANRV!2

07/08/2023

I’m over the 🌙 to be able to share this incredible resource with you all!
I’ve created the most incredible, all inclusive resource of
🦋courses, including the main Empowered Birth course
🦋informed consent,
🦋emergency skills,
🦋prenatal and postpartum body wisdom including corrective exercises for diastasis and pelvic floor,
🦋podcast episodes,
🦋meditations, and so much more.
All within your very own app, with social media style community forum as well!
Free resource library is available as well with some incredibly valuable information for planning your pregnancy and birth, finding the right provider, and more.
I’m SO excited to be able to bring this to more mamas! Please do spread the word. This is one INVALUABLE resource.

Find me at nourishedwatersbirth.com or download the Mighty Networks App and look for Nourished Waters Birth Portal
🙏💗🙏

06/19/2023

Fathers hold the charge for birth, as my teacher Whapio always says. He is the archangel of birth. Those of us who have been fortunate to have our baby’s daddy with us during birth, that can be a truly life-changing gift. Their Presence makes the difference and can be the strongest ally, advocate, and healer in the birth space.
My partner hasn’t always been what I wanted in my births… in fact one of these photos was seconds before he ran off to poop… just as I was about to push out our baby🙄😆 But he returned just in time, and that’s what matters. We shared some yummy kisses. We’ve had 3 powerful, amazing and different birth experiences together. And I give homage to he who helped me bring these 3 of my 4 children into this world… imperfections and all.