With a focus on the cross cultural principles of rest, warmth, nourishment, bodywork, spiritual companionship and community care, Natalies offerings are focused around truly holding the mother. TCM and Traditional Womens Medicine and Care Practices inform Natalieʼs philosophy of care. Planning for and supporting postpartum is a particular area of interest for Natalie. Many cultures acknowledge this sacred window has the potential for deep healing when held with the reverence it deserves.

Natalie works with women throughout the child bearing continuum, from pre conception, through to postpartum. With options from fertility support, birth and postpartum planning sessions, to full spectrum postpartum care. Care may include warming and supportive therapies, birth story listening, TCM inspired postpartum nourishment, preparation of herbal supports, bodywork and more. Mother Blessings and Closing Ceremonies may be included on application.

Note that full spectrum care availability is limited. Natalie works with a small number of women/families at a time, ensuring she can provide the highest standard of care. Birth planning and preparation are available, however Natalie is not currently attending births.

An often invisible and misunderstood experience, the journey of pregnancy loss and postpartum that follows requires a softness quite unlike anything else. The care for women in this space is close to non existent. Every pregnancy results in birth, and all births are followed by postpartum. Natalie dreams of a world where all women are cared for in every pregnancy, birth and postpartum.

There are many different circumstances surrounding early births. From choosing to end a pregnancy, through to the loss of a much longed for baby. The spectrum of experiences is vast. All deserve to be witnessed and supported with tenderness.

Applying postpartum care principles, Natalie tends to women traversing the often complex landscape of loss. Traditional Womens Medicine and Care Practices serve to hold women through their experience. At times collaborative care with specialised practitioners may be recommended and can be coordinated by Natalie.

Ritual and Ceremony

Please contact Natalie to discuss how this offering may serve you.

Rites of Passage from Menarche through to menopause and beyond, deserve to be acknowledged and celebrated. Ritual and Ceremony serve to support us in honouring these transitions. This can allow us space to sit with what was, what is and what may be. The closing of chapters and opening to the ones yet to be written.

As the saying goes ʼwhen a baby is born, so is a motherʼ. A closing ceremony that honours the Rite of Passage that is pregnancy and birth, can be performed at any stage of life. This serves to fully witness a woman in all she has been through. Forever changed, celebrating the new role of mother is the final stage in this Rite of Passage. Embracing the opening and expansion that motherhood demands of you. Appropriate after all births including in a postpartum of loss, this can be particularly powerful and healing in acknowledging the enormity of a woman’s experience.

Significant life events and experiences such as loss, changes to relationships, careers and life circumstances are also important to witness. Honouring these anchors can support us to move through them with more ease and grace.

With tenderness and reverence, Natalie allows these Rites of Passage to be witnessed, honoured and celebrated in ways that are meaningful to you.