Embodied motherhood is
Dedicated to serving, supporting, and celebrating women in their transition to Motherhood- before, during, and after birth. Offering services as a birth and postpartum support, bodywork treatments, as well as "Embodied Motherhood" (E/M) workshops in dance and movement. E/M strives to guide mothers into their expanding role, empowered and fully embodied.
Meet Alysha
Alysha is a mother of two beautiful kids. Her personal experience with two of the best midwives in Los Angeles has given her a great and deeply lived education in pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and the innate birthing process. Her experience having a home birth with her son as well as birth in the hospital setting after complications with her first pregnancy has given her great perspective on the birthing process in all its possibilities. She has been trained twice as birth doula, through CAPPA and with the Long Beach Birth workers of Color Collective. Her approach to birth work is to use deep intuition and to help guide the mother to her most empowered self, affirming her needs and helping to work through blocks that may impede the birth process. Alysha Higgins is also a dance artist and teacher, dance ethnologist, substitute teacher, and Fulbright scholar. She views all that she does through the art of healing. She believes deeply that movement and intention is healing. Her Indo-Trinidadian roots influence her dance but also her roots as an LA native. Alysha is also a strong advocate for mothers and new mothers- their need for support not only during the birthing process but also during the postpartum period and beyond. She believes in communal care and centering the transition and rite of passage into motherhood as a time to joyously celebrate the rise of the mother into her new role. She strives to help mothers reclaim themselves, and evolve and expand into their next level selves. An INNATE postpartum care practitioner, she offers vital postpartum education classes for pregnant clients or community members. She is currently training as an Ayurvedic Postpartum Conscious Caregiver with The Center for Sacred Window Studies. As part of her postpartum support, she offers bodywork treatments and is trained as a lomi lomi practitioner through her Kumu Jeana Naluai of Ho'omana Spa. Her specialty includes hapai (pregnancy massage), opu (stomach) massage, postpartum healing weaving closing of the bones and other warming therapies including moxa or hot stones, as well as basic abhyanga massage and instruction for mother and infant.
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Birth Doula
As your birth doula, I provide 3 prenatal visits to discuss 1) birth & postpartum education
2) birth plan 3) postpartum plan |
Postpartum Care
UPCOMING January 2022! INNATE Postpartum Care: Planning for the Fourth Trimester Course 5 class series offered through Pacific Birth Collective, taught by Alysha and Eden Flynn of Somasister Email : [email protected] OR [email protected] for more information |
E/M Dance Workshops
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