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 fifteen years traveling, studying, teaching yoga and returning to her innate intuition. She first gave birth eight years ago 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 deeply healing for her sexuality.
What followed was an intimate 40 days rest that, coupled with her transformational birth, impacted 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.
Melissa continues to train in modalities annually that support this mission. Her third pregnancy and birth was self directed and inspired her to create a program teaching mothers and spouses how to truly receive transformational, life giving, life saving care during the entire birth continuum — Body Wisdom Prenatal: Somatic Birth & Motherbaby Preparation.
Sessions with Melissa are integrative, trauma informed and include both virtual and in-person options.
Melissa offers:
Hands On and Hands In Pelvic Care- For fertility struggles, pelvic pain (including painful intercourse), diastasis recti, scar tissue remediation for postpartum care and healing.
Body Wisdom Prenatal - A transformational program designed to get to know your whole self, your physiological needs for birth and postpartum and develop a deep allegiance with your intuition. These sessions prepare you to birth in power, wisdom and connection so that you may usher in a new soul with conscious awareness and embark on your new mothering and parenting journey with confidence and a deep understanding of physiological birth and postpartum.
Individualized Birth Services- Holistic birth and postpartum support from conception to 6 weeks postpartum and beyond.
Birth Integration Sessions - A powerful journey of 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 15 years of experience teaching yoga and breath work, this transformational practice is woven into all Melissa’s offerings.
About my trainings
200H Yoga Teacher Training
Asheville Yoga Center, May 2014
The Deep Roots School of Foraging and Herbal Medicines
Foundations in Wild Foraging and Family Herbalism, 2021
Uncovering Birth Doula Training
Uncovering Birth with Eyla Cuenca, 2022
Perinatal Mood Disorders: Components of Care
Postpartum Support International, 2023
Perinatal Mental Health Advanced Psychotherapy
Postpartum Support International, 2023
When Survivors Give Birth
Selena Shelley, MA, LMHC, CD, LCCE
Introduction to Cranial Sacral Therapy
Kate Klemer, Divine Structure School
Introduction to Infant Craniosacral Therapy Protocol and Fascia Release Techniques
Lori Hendrickson, 2024
STREAM, Pelvic Care Specialist
Ellen Heed Phd, 2025
Childbirth Educator
Uncovering Birth Method, Eyla Cuenca, 2024
Physiological Baby Care
Innate Traditions, Rachel Seliga CPM, 2023
Guardians of Birth: The Art of Birth Care
Seed to Body Traditions, Aya Maria CPM, 2024
I receive continuing education bi-annually.
I am under mentorship and guidance in order to keep my skills up to date, trauma informed and have support for when a new case presents itself that I need support understanding and resolving.