Every woman deserves a chance to envision her birth and to experience this sacred passage in a way that brings healing to herself, her lineage and the earth.

Melissa has spent the last ten years traveling, studying, teaching yoga and returning to her innate intuition. She gave birth in North Europe with a midwife and left the experience with a deep knowing that there must be a more sacred, ceremonial way to bring life into the world and transition into mothering.

Three years later she did just that and birthed her baby into her home with just her partner present next to a bathtub of water filled with rose petals she gathered from her mothers garden. A ceremony. A pleasure. A return to herself and her divine sexuality.

What followed was an intimate 40 days rest that, coupled with her pleasurable birth, transformed her and her families life forever. After this experience, Melissa knew her calling was to work with women and families in an effort to re-culture the norms around conception, pregnancy, and postpartum in the West.

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Melissa now guides women through the transformational process of returning to the wisdom of the body and thus, innate intuition. Sessions with Melissa are integrative, trauma informed and include both virtual and in-person options. 

Melissa offers: 

Somatic Body Work- For fertility struggles, pelvic pain, and postpartum care and healing

Body Wisdom Prenatal - A transformational practice of getting to know ones self, ones physiological needs for birth and postpartum and a deep alliance with ones intuition. These sessions prepare you to birth in power, pleasure and connect deeply with your spouse and birth team.

Individualized Birth Services- Holistic birth and postpartum support from conception to 6 weeks postpartum and beyond.

Stepping Into Mothering - A powerful, three part journey for healing and integrating your unique birth experience.

Flower Essences, Salves, & Herbal Blends- Wild foraged and organically/regenerative grown, intended to support the bodies natural healing and the energetic bodies journey to awareness and highest potential. 

Prenatal and Motherbaby Yoga - With 10 plus years of experience teaching yoga and meditation, this transformational practice is woven into all Melissa’s offerings.

Melissa serves women and families online and in person from Southern Vermont where she lives rurally with her family. She has the joy and privilege of marrying her work as a mother, artist and bodyworker to her calling of preconception, birth and postpartum care all while surrounded and inspired by the beauty of nature.