Pregnancy & Bodywork Podcast

Today I talk with Raquel Lemus about Vaginal Steaming. Raquel is a Licensed Midwife based in Los Angeles. She has worked with families since she was 16 years old and has been a birthworker and uterine health specialist since 2012. Raquel serves the LA community as a Full Spectrum Midwife, Peristeam Hydrotherapist, Placenta Specialist, Yoga Instructor, and Educator. It is her goal to connect people back to the known wisdom and intelligence of their uterus in order help them experience more joy and alignment with their life purpose! More info on Raquel you find on www.raquellemus.com More info on vaginal steaming you find on the highly inspiring and extremely extensive website www.steamychick.com

Suzanne Yates is founder and principal teacher at Wellmother in Bristol. Her school offers a holistic approach based on supportive touch, for women, babies and families preparing for pregnancy, during the maternity period and beyond. She discovered Shiatsu over 35 years ago and is still amazed by the power and simplicity of touch. Suzanne wrote a book on massage and bodywork during pregnancy, labor and postpartum. She offers online birth preparation courses for parents, as well as face-to-face and online courses for bodyworkers, midwives and doula’s. Check it out at www.wellmother.org

Noam Tyroler is a Thai Massage practitioner from Israel. He is the founder of the Thai Massage department at the Reidman international college, which is the largest college for holistic medicine in Israel and one of the largest in the world. Noam has worked a lot with pregnant women, and did an extensive study regarding the safety of Thai Massage and acupressure in pregnancy and published a book on that. If you would like to get a better idea of what Thai Massage during pregnancy can look like, watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYTMUijQPhM&t=552s Very useful for bodywork practitioners as well! More information on Noam and his work you find on www.thaiacu.com.

Join us for an enlivening conversation on the psoas during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum! Liz Koch is an international educator, author, and creator of CoreAwarenessTM focusing on awareness for developing human potential. With 43 years experience specializing in the psoas, Liz is recognized in the somatic, bodywork, and fitness professions as an authority on the psoas. Both nationally and internationally published, her works include The Psoas Book, Unraveling Scoliosis CD, Core Awareness; Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise & Dance, Psoas & Back Pain CD, Mother, Maiden, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist. and Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence (North Atlantic Books 2019) More information on Liz Koch and her work: www.coreawareness.com

Bushra Finch has been working in women’s health since for 25 years. She was a doula before doulas had a name, being part of a community where women traditionally support each other through birth and post natal healing. Bushra trained in abdominal massage with Rosita Arvigo 16 years ago before discovering a wide range of abdominal massage techniques from traditional healing. She then went on to develop a new form of healing, Mizan Therapy, and first began training others in 2014. There are now practitioners all over the world. Nearly all traditional medicine promotes womb health, the knowledge being handed down from mother to daughter. The Arabic word for womb comes from the same route as Mercy, and Bushra believes it is a blessing and an honour to have a womb, which we hold in sacred trust. Bushra has four “children” of whom she is intensely proud, ranging from 35 years down to 20. Bushra has been Chair of Doula UK, facilitated Nurturing Birth Doula preparation courses for five years, been featured in a range of magazines, radio programmes, television news and has spoken at several conferences. She has also studied TIBB natural medicine with the renowned Hakim Salim Khan. www.mizantherapy.com www.wombspace.co.uk www.mizanaustralia.com.au