Treat yourself to a massage for pregnancy, postpartum, or anytime, available right here at Brookhaven with therapist Sophia Dallair. Massage and somatic therapy sessions available Tuesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday by appointment. Open to non-Brookhaven clients.
Call or text Sophia at 434-227-7917 for scheduling and pricing.
Sophia is a guide to your innate blueprint of wholeness. Her services weave touch therapy, trauma imprint repair, and somatic tools to bring trust and ease to the nervous system. Sophia offers self-care education to women through workshops, sacred circles, & dance. She has studied and applied GNM biological sciences, Pre & Peri-Natal sciences, and somatic movement for 15 years. Sophia has practiced massage therapy for 20 years, she is a Reiki Master teacher, and an initiated Medicine Woman-Womb Keeper of the Sacred Woman School.
Massage Therapy is well known to decrease muscle tension, improve circulation, and promote relaxation. Pregnancy specific massage techniques can greatly improve your pregnancy, for both you and your baby. To highlight some of the many benefits, you may find that a prenatal massage will:
Additionally, when specific techniques and trigger points are incorporated into the massage at full-term, massage can help to induce labor.
The postpartum period is also a great time for a massage, to help the body readjust and rejuvenate. A postpartum massage can help to:
Consider treating yourself to a postpartum massage at three days postpartum, and throughout the next few months. Newborns are welcome to come along and be present, and to nurse as needed. However, some moms find it more relaxing to bring a “helper” along, to assist with the baby as needed.