Pulling Down the Moon

10/27/2025

⭐️ Try for FREE on 10/28! ⭐️

Celebrate the joys of safe, gentle movement. Each 60-minute prenatal drop-in class is designed to help you adapt to your changing body and revel in its most amazing feat. You’ve come a long way. Now it’s time to nurture yourself and baby.

Our prenatal yoga classes focus on specific yogic wisdom to help you manage stress, relieve aches and pains, prepare your body for delivery, and ease into the next exciting phase of your fertility journey.

Registration encouraged as space is limited. Bring your yoga mat. Blocks and straps are available to support/modify all poses.

Questions? Let us help at: 312-321-0004.

10/26/2025

Super-charge your fertility & see why we say “community is our sacred sauce!” 🧘‍♀️

Each 60-minute drop-in fertility yoga class is a journey into the healing powers of yoga. Discover how this ancient practice can help calm the mind, heal the body, and lighten the heart. Participants will learn a series of yoga postures designed to improve fertility by increasing blood flow into the pelvis, releasing stress and anxiety, and balancing life energy flow in the body.

In addition to this physical practice, we’ll explore teachings from yoga philosophy that help frame the fertility journey in a way that reveals our personal strengths, reinforces the joy of everyday life, and empowers us to create the family we are meant to have. Registration encouraged as space is limited. Bring your yoga mat. Blocks and straps are available to support/modify all poses.

Research shows our class can reduce fertility-related anxiety by 20% or more!

Questions? Let us help at: 312-321-0004.

10/09/2025

10/06/2025

Pulling Down the Moon acupuncturist Jen Fockler shares about acupuncture for pain including fertility!

10/05/2025

09/30/2025

Thank you to CCRM Fertility and Dr Amanda Adeleye for hosting a Yoga for Fertility Community class for patients at your new clinic! 🧘‍♀️

09/26/2025

It's important to acknowledge the impact that sleep has on fertility. When we get back into our regular routines this season, sleep is an important piece of this puzzle to support your journey!

A recent review in the International Journal of Molecular Science outlines recent key findings that clearly show that disruptions in our circadian rhythms caused by stress and other lifestyle factors severely scramble the intricate hormonal and metabolic networks that orchestrate our ability to conceive.

Here are some tips for restoring your body clock:
1. Light disrupts our body clock so it’s important to sleep in a dark room and avoid electronic devices before bed.

2. Eating too close to bedtime can cause a higher-than-usual spike in insulin levels. This can disrupt metabolic function in ways that lead to lighter, more disrupted sleep.

3. Create a sleep and meal schedule. Be consistent with your mealtimes and bedtime to support good sleep hygiene.

Acupuncture, yoga, nutrition, and massage are also useful for regulating circadian rhythms. These modalities work in a number of ways, from reducing circulating levels of cortisol to training our body to initiate the relaxation response. Join the Fully Fertile community to find support and resources on your fertility journey today!

09/21/2025

Please join us in welcoming Saundra to the Pulling Down the Moon Massage Team!

Saundra D. Underwood became a licensed massage therapist through Cortiva Institute nearly ten years ago, and has gone on to become fertility massage certified through the Integrative Care for Fertility Institute. Prior to her career in massage, Saundra obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology, and went on to earn her Juris Doctorate from Capital University Law School. 📚

Saundra D. Underwood’s passion for health and wellness is evident by her desire to give one hundred percent to her clients, co workers and the massage industry. Saundra has trained staff and lectured on the benefits of receiving regular massage, specialized in massage for maternal health, and created her own line of natural skincare products as an extension of her passion for holistic health.

Prior to her extensive career in massage, health, and wellness, Saundra worked in many industries to satisfy her ubiquitous curiosity for learning – worldwide travel as a flight attendant, trainer, substitute high school teacher, legal researcher, writer and fashion/hair model. 👩🏾‍🏫

Saundra’s hobbies include walking, biking, hiking, reading, writing poetry and short stories as well as caring for exotic house plants. 🪴

Modalities: hot stone, prenatal massage, reflexology, lymphatic drainage, trigger point therapy, rapid tension relief, low back and headache relief, oncology massage, fertility massage 💆🏾‍♀️

09/20/2025

Please join us in welcoming Tessa to the Pulling Down the Moon Massage Team!

Tessa became a licensed, clinical massage therapist through The Soma Institute in downtown Chicago, and has gone on to become fertility massage certified through the Integrative Care for Fertility Institute.

Tessa’s passion for supporting individuals on their fertility journey and beyond comes from her belief in the healing power of touch to bring balance, peace, and growth into daily life, especially during times of transition and preparation for new beginnings.

Her path to massage began with a deep desire to help others—with a background in art and a deep interest in art therapy, that same love for creativity, hands-on connection, and mind–body awareness now guides her work as a massage therapist. 🎨

Tessa’s practice is trauma-informed, LGBTQIA+ friendly, and welcoming to all identities. She strives to help clients feel safe, at peace, and deeply connected within their own bodies.

Outside of the clinic, Tessa enjoys walking dogs, crafting jewelry, journaling, and grabbing a coffee before thrift store adventures with her closest friends. Creativity and connection bring her joy, and she loves weaving that same energy into her work with clients. ☕

Modalities: swedish massage, hot stone massage, cupping, sports massage, deep tissue, trigger point therapy, myofascial release, trauma-informed care, fertility massage 💆🏼‍♀️

She is available on Saturdays at our Chicago location. Schedule your self-care today at: 312-321-0004! 📅

09/13/2025

Tomorrow is dedicated to raising awareness about celiac disease, which is an autoimmune disorder triggered by gluten consumption that damages the small intestine.

While celiac disease can certainly cause fertility problems and pregnancy complications, getting diagnosed and treated for the condition can improve outcomes. In fact, 85 percent of those women who suffered miscarriages with celiac disease did so before the disease had been properly diagnosed and treated. Once the disease was treated with a gluten-free diet and extra attention to additional nutrient supplementation, rates of fertility and healthy pregnancy outcomes improved.

If you struggle with frequent gastrointestinal distress symptoms, talk with your doctor about getting a blood test that can tell you whether you have celiac disease or some other condition that could be complicating your efforts to get pregnant and carry a healthy pregnancy to full term.

The more you know, the more power you have to make progress in your fertility journey. Join our community at Fully Fertile today and learn more about how nutrition and holistic healthcare can support you!