Body Balancing Sessions

Softening and balancing your muscles and tissues can help you have an easier pregnancy and create space for your baby. During a body balancing session, I will customize the work I do on your soft tissues that surround and hold the uterus.

For the Balancing Session you remain fully clothed. I will teach you how to do your own Belly Mapping® to determine your baby's position. Then, using the Spinning Babies® approach, different techniques will be done including releasing ligaments, muscles, and facia. I will teach you techniques you can continue to do after our session.

Contraindications for a balancing session in pregnancy include:

  • Signs of preterm labor
  • High blood pressure or glaucoma will limit positions that are safe for you

 

Through different positions, stretches and touch, we will work together to bring balance to your pelvic space, which can help with:

  • Baby’s position (including a “sunny side up” baby, breech, and twins)
  • Preparing for labor
  • Body aches (back, hip etc.)
  • Swelling
  • Pubic bone discomfort
  • Shortness of breath
  • Heartburn

If meeting in Lansing is prohibitive for you, 

Contact me

to discuss options for inhome service.

pregnancy bodywork

Body Balancing Session

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These sessions are ideal for any pregnant person who is at least 20 weeks for pregnancy aches and pains and preparing for labor.

COST: $125 (90 minutes)

breech baby balancing

Breech Body Balancing

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If you are experiencing a breech baby at 34 weeks of pregnancy or beyond, this session is for you. If your provider suggests an External Cephalic Version (ECV) to turn the baby, a session before the procedure may assist with softening the tissues, creating more space for the procedure to be successful. The session ends with the “breech tilt” position and optional moxibustion for you to take home with instructions.

COST: $150 (120 minutes)

What Families Are Saying

"It’s hard to say what I appreciate more – Tammy’s care and consideration, or her expert understanding of the complicated musculoskeletal stuff that happens to a body growing a baby. Her session was relaxing and comforting, and she’s an excellent communicator. She made sure I understood exactly what treatments/movements she had planned and why, emphasized consent, and took all her cues from me in terms of appropriate pressure, extent, intensity, etc. And it was immediately helpful.

My hips and low back showed improvement right away, and I felt a lot of relief from tension I hadn’t been fully aware of. Plus she left me with exercises to maintain healthy balance and myofascial release, and she showed me how to determine the baby’s position, which was a lot of fun. I’m pretty sure the baby was a fan too. I noticed a sort of settling in and settling down in the hours following the balancing session. I’m already planning another session. Like every service Tammy offers, it was empowering, informative, gentle, attentive, and truly effective. If only all maternal health caregivers took Tammy’s approach."

  Autumn Faulkner, she/her

If you are pregnant, you NEED to meet Tammy! I was in my third trimester and developed debilitating hip pain. Working and having other children at home I had no idea how I was going to function. Thankfully I found Tammy! I saw her for a Body Balancing session. She came to my house on a Sunday. Not only did she treat me with the utmost respect and professionalism but she also completely cured my pain! Tammy is so knowledgeable and walks you through all the manipulations/adjustments/movements she does. It was all very comfortable. In addition, as a physician, I was familiar with ‘Spinning Babies’ methodology. I was super excited to find a practitioner well-versed in this. I ended up seeing Tammy another time before I delivered (and would have seen her more if I found her earlier in pregnancy). I had a smooth easy delivery and I truly believe that seeing Tammy and the exercises she provided facilitated appropriate baby positioning and helped with delivery! I cannot recommend Tammy enough - please treat yourself and your baby

Dr. Lauren Parvin