Joy Lymph Flow
Would you like to increase your immune system? Clear out stagnant areas of your body and it's filtration system with this class. Release tired dense fascia improving your skin's tone and flexibility. Open to a refreshed and revitalized you! Join me Friday's at the Rockaway Beach Community Center (or private classes through health coaching)
8:30-9:30 23rd & 101N - $10 drop in. Classes coming soon to Sea Dream in Nehalem!
Women's Wellness Day
Focus on healthy breast care
Includes: Joy Lymph Flow class, skin brushing and breast massage instruction (self administered with instruction)
plus the following:
Kelp clay mask to take home for breast and face care
Calendual body oil with or without essential oils
Breast Friend essential oil blend in roller bottle - refill if you've received a bottle already.
Herbal teas and light refreshments promoting women's breast/hormonal health of course!
Come, enjoy a day of wellness focused on yourself!
$80 - $125 per person sliding scale, pay what you can :)
+$25/Breast Friend essential oil ready-to-use roller optional
Also coming to Sea Dream:
Reflexology and the art of the foot bath workshop
Fasting and plant forward eating support circle
Infant massage workshop
Tai Chi Flow at NCRD Tuesdays & Thursdays 11:00 -12:00 in the gym
Tai Chi began as a martial art form and is practiced now due to the health benefits it proved to demonstrate. Tai Chi keeps the body stable, flexible and balanced as we move through yin and yang energies. Movements are gentle and coordinated with breath. I bring a focus on the 5 element movements supporting our body's optimal functioning within each season. It's like getting a tune up bringing our bodies into natural rhythm and alignment.
Dancing For Birth™
Dancing For Birth™ is changing the way people give birth worldwide with our evidence-based childbirth method based on gravity, movement and instinct. It’s scientifically proven to decrease labor pain, improve birth satisfaction and improve baby’s well-being at birth.
- Private classes (you and 1 additional support person)
$360/3, 90 min. classes - Group classes coming soon to Sea Dream in Nehalem, OR Zoom attendance available
Please reach out if you're interested in having me come to your neck of the woods (in person or via Zoom) to teach a private class, a pregnant group of parents/friends or a group training for birth professionals. 14 CEU's available for birth professionals including nurses!
In Dancing For Birth™ class you will feel completely welcomed and accepted for who you are as an individual. Please share your pronoun and your role in the birth and/or with the baby. If you have any special customs for pregnancy, birth and postpartum we’re happy to help you incorporate them into your experience. Dancing For Birth™ is committed to diversity, inclusion, and cultural awareness and we advocate for human rights, birth rights and parenting rights, including anti-racism and pro-LGBTQIA.
Visit www.dancingforbirth.com for more information and a list of wonderful benefits these classes provide.
(Premera insurance holders and others:
check with your policy provider, you may be able to receive reimbursement for prenatal/postnatal fitness classes!)
Certified DFB™ Instructor & Trainer: Elizabeth Golden has worked in maternity care since 2000 including 25 years as a maternity specialized bodyworker.
"Don't wonder how much birth will hurt, birth in a state of wonder!"
~ Stephanie Larson, Founder of Dancing For Birth™
"Birth doesn't ask you to be fearless, it asks you to be brave."
Enjoy the moves that allow you to embody confidence.
"Every time women gather in circles with each other, the world heals a little more..." Let's dance!
Cultured Foods for Vital Health - Building community and immunity...
Humans have been fermenting foods and reaping the benefits for ages. It's only in the last 100 years or so we moved away from them. We now understand that's not a good idea as our bodies rely on these microbes for balanced health. In fact, microbes out number our human cells 10 to 1 and they like it when we feed them well. Learn the basics of natural pickling a.k.a "fermentation" and get cultured! These foods are essential to human health. For those in their childbearing years, who are often told to not consume foods that aren't pasteurized, these are not a concern, in fact quite the opposite. We discuss how to slowly incorporate these foods into anyone's diet*. I've been culturing foods around 15 years and am trained as a Master Food Preserver through Seattle Tilth. As an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, I love helping others reap the myriads of benefits of cultured vegetables, these golden keys to good health. *People with candida concerns should avoid fermented foods until they've completed a thorough candida cleanse.
Typical seasonal ferment classes may look like the following but are flexible:
January: Beet Kvass
February: Sauerkraut with beets and ginger - perfect pink pickled watermelon radish!
March: Sauerkraut with caraway seed/essential oil and prebiotics
April: Using Beet Kvass to make pickled eggs, Sauerkraut with carrot, dandelion and prebiotics
May: Pickled preserved lemons
June: Gingered beets and coleslaw kraut
July - Cultured Condiments: Ketchup / Mayonnaise - Reduce hidden sugar in your diet, add probiotics and all the flavor!
July: Something from my CSA farm box. Ferment what is abundant and ideally local!
August: Something from my CSA farm box.
September: Something from my CSA farm box.
October: Fall Sauerkraut / Pumpkin ferment
November: Fall Ferment / preserved citrus
December: Kimchi
Other classes coming soon:
The Art of the Foot Bath Includes understanding the different salts, clays, essential oils and their unique benefits, amounts for blending your own with reflexology and acupressure tips for common wellness needs with room for you to ask your specific questions. Class will have option to purchase a foot bath basin and supplies if you don't already have your own.
Acupressure and qigong for general and seasonal wellness Enjoy the power of different points within each season of the year for easy self care. You'll learn a simple routine with just a *handful* of points. Includes education on combining essential oils with the points for another layer of benefit.
Below classes are available for private sessions
The Loving Hands Art of Infant Massage / Private classes offered / $125 in-home - $100 online Zoom - includes packet and resources (mailed if Zoom class) with starter infant massage oil.
See scheduler to register for a private class
In this class you'll learn:
- a full body massage for baby
- natural body oils and essential oils for baby
- soothing environment and healthy caregiver body mechanics
- acupressure and reflexology techniques to support wellness and promote good sleep
How to bring healing for infant woes such as:
- colic and digestive issues
- teething
- coughs, ear infections, conjunctivitis
- torticollis
Class includes info. packet for home study/reference.
Class can be taken prenatally (if you want to be familiar with the routine before baby arrives, you can practice on a doll/teddy. This way, you'll be more confident with the moves and you can begin to trace the movements with your baby from the beginning) or you can do with baby postnatally in the early mos. Thank you!
Deepen your bond and communication with baby using pleasurable rhythmic, intelligent touch. Parents and caregivers report feeling deeply calmed themselves by the ritual with more confidence in their ability to provide wellness care for their little ones. And, if you're curious about infant pottying, this is a great time to ask questions about it as we're observing baby closely and tuning into baby's signals.
Infant Pottying This practice deepens communication with baby and helps parents reduce their eco-footprint and save money by reducing diaper use! Also called Elimination Communication, it builds trust and a solid communication foundation. Another name for it is Natural Infant Hygiene and still it is wet and messy at times, but, so are diaper changes! In fact cleaning up a potty poop vs. diaper poop is way nicer ;) Be green, build trust & meet your baby's need to eliminate away from their body - naturally. This practice does take focus early on and requires all care givers to be on board, but it eliminates the need for potty training later on which has been a dream for my family. In this class, you'll learn the techniques and tips you'll need to get your family "going" from the beginning.