Loving Hands Whole Body Health

03/26/2020

My main goal with expecting moms is preparation, confidence, and a well-positioned baby. Much of this work is done by mom at home. I'm offering zoom bodywork sessions that provide all of this and more! If you're bummed you can't come in and see me for my pregnancy preparation, spinning babies bodywork..fret no more! I can sooooo help you in the comfort and safety of your home. All pregnant moms need this information. Looking forward to helping our pregnant community virtually! 💜🤰🙌🥰
970-224-4845 💜

01/12/2020

12/30/2019

Pregnant mom came in 5 hours ago with sciatic pain, groin pain, and feeling down. After her first two-hour bodywork session with me she feels totally better, relaxed, positive, and already did the stretches/30 min walk I recommended and hugely thanked me. I LOVE that I can help moms so quickly!!!💞 I love what I do!!!! 🙌 Update: tingling down leg is gone and she's determined to encourage her care provider to refer me because she was originally told to just "stay off her left side." She also wants more moms to know about my work. 💞

12/09/2019

Just heard from a mom who came in two weeks ago with a breech baby presentation! "Hi Heather... Just had our ultrasound... BABY IS HEAD DOWN!!!! We cannot thank you enough!" I highly recommend that every pregnant mom come in to see me between 28 and 32 weeks so we can encourage baby to get in the best position. But when I receive an un-optimal positioned baby I do my best and give mom helpful tools. YAY!!! 🎉👍💓🤰

11/10/2019

DID YOU KNOW that just stretching to create more pelvic space is an old school way of thinking and not accurate? Rather, using a wise approach to optimize the pelvis, the core, the pelvic floor, proper alignment and breathing is a formula that yields better results for pelvic space. LovingHands bodywork AND Sacred Pregnancy DanceYoga WILL give you all of these approaches and MUCH more! Next class December 22! Befreehealing.com 💗🤰🧘‍♀️

11/06/2019

It's never too late to decide to have a birthing center birth!!! I HIGHLY recommend. 💗

11/03/2019

AMAZING three-day training with Dr. Carol Phillips. Level IV BABY Craniosacral Dynamic Body Balancing. So much more than just working with the cranials to help babies unwind birth trauma and help to restore balance. I'm so excited and honored to be participating in this work. Helps with physical and emotional unwinding, sleep issues, traumatic birth, digestive issues, latching, locked fists, you name it. A very important thing to do for any new baby and it totally compliments chiropractic 👍🙏🙌. I'm so excited to help more families 💗🙏🌠🙌🐣

10/22/2019

Such a beautiful client compliment today! 🎈🎉🌸🙏💆‍♀️🤰🌠
Today, I enjoyed the intuitive and relieving hands of long time Prenatal Massage Specialist-Doula-Fairy Heather Stanley!
She is local! She is Divine! She is dynamic! She made me feel so loved and comforted as she released the tight fibers of my pelvis (and everywhere else) to relieve some long time tensions. Her knowledge of the body and of the natural flow of childbirth was a gust of fresh air!
If you need any body work, prenatal massage, Doula work, Spinning Babies Sessions, cranial sacral or other modalities check out this Fort Collins Queen!
Thank you Heather! So much love and good stuff!
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09/06/2019

So thankful to have completed another four-day ADVANCED Spinning Babies Aware Bodywork Practitioner seminar. Having even more tools to help breech and transverse presentation feels so hopeful. Such a gift to have trained with Nicole Morales, Rachel Shapiro, and Jamie Mossay as well as celebrate my roomie Leslie Kremer's birthday! 🎈🎁🎉 Yay for over 80 hours of Spinning Babies training experience! YES!!💜

06/21/2019

This mom texted me an hour after her 90- minute massage/lifecoach session. I SO LOVE WHAT I DO! 💜💜💜

Heather - I feel lighter than air and strong as ever - thank for your care and guidance!! I also smell AMAZING ;) see you soon!

03/10/2019

We do work hard!!! 💗 And I love it!

This was just shared in a group of brithworkers that I am in.

*shared with permission.

Thank you for your support

03/02/2019

So honored to be part of this wonderful Pregnancy and Postpartum retreat!! If you haven't signed up, you just might want to 💞

We are starting our “provider profiles” this week! I am super excited to share my colleague and friend with you, Heather Stanley 💗. Heather has been happily working with pregnancy for 20 years. She started as a certified Pregnancy Massage Therapist and Birth Doula as well as a mentor of Inner Wisdom Childbirth Classes (based on her training with Pam England of Birthing From Within). As time progressed, but lots of labors didn't, she wanted to make an even bigger difference in moms' bodies and their labor journeys. Since then, she has become a Certified Spinning Babies Aware Bodywork Practitioner specializing in bodywork that creates more space for babies, encouraging moms to feel better in their bodies, and babies assuming more desired positions for an easier and shorter labor. She is also an Advanced Birth Recovery Specialist helping moms to reclaim their birthing bodies by encouraging "the birthing" pelvis to close, organs to rest back in their proper places, circulation to flow in the reproductive organs, diastasis recti to be assessed and treated, and helping melt away challenging emotions from birth and postpartum. Her work encompasses healing on all levels of body, mind, and emotion for optimal health and care for women. 💗 ⠀
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Heather is one of two massage therapists to be doing a full body massage for all of our attendees of the retreat who would like one. We are so excited for you to hear more about Heather, so we are interviewing her on Monday evening live on Facebook. Tune in and hear all about what it means to be a spinning babies aware practitioner or an advanced birth recovery specialist. Most importantly, you’ll learn that you want Heather in your life. 😉. You can check out her social media pages and meet her and all our practitioners at the on July 20th 💛. . More information at nocobirthessentials.com/retreat

03/02/2019

Definitely an important thing to think about 💞

Over half a dozen large-scale peer-reviewed studies from countries around the world confirm that planned home birth is as safe or safer than hospital birth.

02/09/2019

I absolutely agree. Women from the beginning have been birthing with other women for support, encouragement, ideas, dance, love... Why do so many in this culture birth alone in a place that doesn't feel like home? Let's reconnect with our roots and birth the way that feels best.. With womanly support. 💗

To many, doulas represent a certain type of bourgie luxury. According to a new study, however, the health benefits of hippie-style birth coaching are biggest for low-income women.

02/01/2019

‘She wasn’t going to go off duty, she was there for me.’

02/01/2019

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01/26/2019

Ask Anne Question: I’ve heard all these wonderful things about the Haakaa pump that almost sound too good to be true. So does it really work? Answer: I like to keep current with what’s going in the breastfeeding and attachment parenting world, so I follow a lot of mommy groups on Facebook. Over ...

01/26/2019

A new study offers reassurance for women who want to have a water birth. In fact, having a water birth might help avoid an epidural.

01/26/2019

A few months ago my two year old daughter and I were driving home from dinner with friends, and as we pulled onto our street a lump formed in my throat and big tears began to stream down my face—I realized that tonight was our last night ever just the two of us to do my daughter's bedtime routine....

01/26/2019

Home births increased 20 percent over four years, according to new government statistics. Less than one percent of women give birth at home, but clearly there's a trend toward natural births at home -- even though doctors' groups warn against it. Former "Blossom" star and "Big Bang Theory" actress M...

01/26/2019

For better birth outcomes, the U.S. should rethink maternity care

01/26/2019

Seems simple enough doesn’t it. 💙 Don’t forget to take time for yourself momma. Your family will benefit from it too.

01/25/2019

Hospital stops telling women to lie on their backs and “push” during childbirth, reduces instances of severe vaginal tearing from 7% to 1% Nine in ten women suffer some form of vaginal tearing during childbirth. In severe cases, they are left to suffer from incontinence and lifelong nerve proble...

01/24/2019

Say the word postpartum and most people think depression. And in the U.S., the lack of support for new parents is a wholly depressing situation—e...

01/24/2019

We all need to go for more walks!