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Belvedere Integrated Healing Arts: Relief, Recovery, Resilience
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 Prenatal, Postpartum and Baby Bodywork


Prenatal and Postpartum Massage

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Massage therapy during the childbearing year helps relieve tension and reduce stress.  For the pregnant mom, BIHA offers prenatal massage, prenatal bonding, birth preparation, and somatic approaches to help heal difficulties from previous births. Postpartum massage is especially beneficial in helping relieve tension from birth, reduce stress, increase a sense of security and well-being, and settle women into their new role as mother.

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​Healing from Difficult Births

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Having a baby can be a time of joy and transformation, and it can also be stressful.  If your birth does not go as well as you had planned, feelings and thoughts can naturally arise.  Many women who experience overwhelming birth experiences seek resolution through feeling better in their body. Kate is trained in prenatal and perinatal patterns associated from overwhelming birth experiences.  Gentle touch helps reorient the experience to the present time.  Approaches include massage, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and Somatic Experiencing®.


Birth Preparation

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Starting in 2017, BIHA offers an integrative approach to birth preparation that includes comprehensive education about birth patterns, prenatal bonding, massage support, and more

Craniosacral Therapy and Bodywork for Infants
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Craniosacral Therapy is a safe and gentle therapy that uses very light touch to ease areas of tightness or restriction in the connective tissue of the body. The treatment restores mobility and creates more space in places in the body where there are stuck places. This promotes optimal shape, movement and function of the head, spine and body. 

Bodywork and massage is an excellent way for you to help your baby.  Experienced therapists will teach you how to work with your baby with your hands, your touch.  



Sensational Baby:  Baby Massage Instruction

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Baby massage is offered as a class to teach parents how to massage their babies.  Baby massage and communication with your newborn. For precrawling babies only. 
  • How your baby self-regulates
  • Nonverbal cues from your baby
  • Techniques to calm a fussy baby
  • Handouts on soothing and sleep
Bodywork for parent and baby is more than just a good idea.  It can really make a difference physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually and has foundations in science to prove its efficacy.
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 "I brought you a baby with failure to thrive who was probably headed toward a feeding tube. She had dropped to the 3rd percentile in weight and was a tense little person whom I didn't seem able to soothe. You helped her open up. She has fat rolls now and she giggles. She can turn her head both directions and isn't drawn up into a little ball. She can nurse well enough to grow and she trusts me. I think what you do is incredible and fascinating and really, really valuable. Thank you for everything!" ~ Bethany Rose, Stanton

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103 Caty Lane
Charlottesville, VA 22901
434-996-2002


katercst@gmail.com

Member ABMP
Licensed in Virginia
Nationally Certified in Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork

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"I tried for many years to locate a massage  therapist that could work in tandem with my osteopathic doctor. There is a big difference in the way that Kate works. Her approach is holistic and encompasses an incredible realm of skills." ~ K.L. in Charlottesville, VA

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"We loved working with Kate. She has a wonderful, intuitive way with children and babies . . . I wish that all babies and mothers could benefit from the therapies that Kate has to offer.”" S.R. a mom in Charlottesville, VA

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