Body Wisdom Prenatal

Somatic Birth and Motherbaby Preparation

Our culture often teaches us that birth preparation means investing in things:

little wooden teethers, handwoven bassinets, thermometers, organic cotton onsies, and the perfect bedside bassinet.

What’s missing in modern prenatal care is this:

A practice — a cultivation — of getting to know yourself. Your physiological needs for birth. And an unshakable allegiance to your intuition.

An embodied pregnancy and birth is available to you.

Body Wisdom Prenatal

A program designed to help you trust your body, your baby and your deep inner knowing.

Do you feel the call to prepare for birth in a way that brings healing to yourself, your lineage and the earth?

This is more than a birth class. It’s a return to body wisdom and deep trust.

With this program you will learn to:

-Map your nervous system and cultivate consistent inner safety

-Access daily pleasure in your body

-Witness and reframe limiting beliefs as they arise

-Co-regulate with your partner and your children

-Establish and maintain healthy boundaries

- Connect to your inner creatrix through hands-on creative practices

-Understand the hormonal flow of conception, labor and postpartum

-Avoid harmful prenatal, birth & postpartum interventions

-Alchemize discomfort and pain in labor

-Recognize trauma-informed safety patterns that no longer serve you

-Intuitively nourish your body — through food, drinks, media, and material things

-Communicate your needs to your partner in a way that inspires his support for you and your new family constellation

-Plan for a restful, deeply nourished postpartum

-Honor your baby’s placenta with reverence and ceremony

-Embark on a confident, deeply bonded breastfeeding journey

-Attune to your newborn’s nervous system needs with love and presence

You’ve heard the stories…

that birth is something to endure. Painful. Scary. Out of your control.

But deep down you sense there’s another way.

Are you ready to prepare for birth that brings love, confidence and instinct to the forefront?

You can birth in safety, power and even joy.

You can invite healing to your lineage, connect deeply to your spouse and bring forth a new soul with conscious awareness.

This is Body Wisdom Prenatal.

For the mother who knows: there is another way.

Alexandra Durigan, RN, BSN, Medicine Woman, Founder of ORIGIN Pelvic Care

“Melissa holds one of my most highly recommended experiences for Mothers to be. Her offering, Body Wisdom Prenatal is something I pray every woman could experience within pregnancy. What Melissa teaches and leads here is equal parts sovereign, and holy, woven with deep science and empowering body wisdom. I cannot emphasize the impact of this experience for Mothers, birth, and families. If you want to connect to the sacred terrain of your body and birth, and trust the wisdom of your body in this most precious time, this is for you.”

Body Wisdom Prenatal

6 weeks of guidance and inspiration

  • Week 1 - The Autonomic Nervous System

    Learn to map and navigate your bodies innate intelligence system and understand how your body is wired for safety from conception to adulthood.

    Learn how early trauma impacts your current decision making processes and how to harness neuroplasticity to create the pregnancy, birth and postpartum you desire.

  • At Home - Somatic Exercises & Integration

    Somatic exercises to help you understand how your unique nervous system is wired. You are now beginning to tune into the wisdom of your body from gestation to the here and now.

    This at home practice is focused on integration of previous weeks material and body based exercises to bring you closer to your body, your baby and your spouse.

  • Week 2 - Nourish Your Growing Body

    Explore your relationship to food, posture and nourishment. Learn what body movements, foods, herbs and consumption patterns are optimal for growing tissue, organs and soul.

    Soul food, slow eating, breath and body movements for the long term health of your body and your infant’s body are all themes this week.

  • At Home - Somatic Exercises & Integration

    Somatic exercises to help you gain familiarity with your inner child. Resource yourself and feed you inner child’s desire for nourishment, creativity and movement.

    This at home practice is focused on integration of previous weeks material and body based exercises intended to bring allegiance to your own inner knowing.

  • Week 3 - Your Growing Body

    Connect to and understand your unique female anatomy from conception and pregnancy to birth and postpartum.

    Prepare for the flow of birth by understanding the cascade of hormones necessary for your body to birth optimally and in safety.

    Explore the role of the masculine in guarding birth

  • At Home - Somatic Exercises & Integration

    Somatic exercises to cultivate attunement and co-regulation. This is designed to facilitate a deeper connection to your spouse and those you choose to be present for your birth.

    This weekly home practice is focused on integration of previous weeks material and body based exercises for connection and attunement.

  • Week 4 - Immediate Postpartum & Breastfeeding

    From the role of vernix to placenta care to the immediate needs of a new mother and infant. Learn how babies regulate their most basic survival functions and how to establish healthy attachment.

    Learn why new mothers need so much rest and rejuvenation after childbirth and the consequences of not receiving correct postpartum care.

  • At Home - Somatic Exercises & Integration

    Somatic exercises to gain confidence in attuning to your bodies needs for rest and rejuvenation after giving birth.

    Create your postpartum recovery plan including your spouse and community. Discover ways to honor you and your babies placenta.

  • Week 5 - Attunement With Your Newborn

    Understand the universal needs of a new mother so that she is resourced to attune to her newborn.

    What does a newborn truly need? What are the consequences of unmet needs of a newborn? How does a newborns needs and a mothers needs intersect? Discover and explore answers to all these questions!

  • At Home - Somatic Exercises and Integration

    Wrapping up our 5 weeks together by sharing a somatic exercise related to guarding and rest. Gather traditional materials to prepare for your birth and postpartum.

    This last week of home practices will focus on integration of the entire program and body based exercises for rest and healing.

  • "Melissa's Body Wisdom Prenatal course was a healing and insightful journey into wholistic birth and postpartum care. I especially appreciated the weekly somatic exercises that helped me to be a better communicator with my partner and to gain awareness of how/why my body reacts in different scenarios that can be helpful in birth. I am pregnant with my 3rd baby, and found her class healing, affirming, and insightful even having already experienced 2 natural births."

    Odell Bouchard- Postpartum Doula, Student Midwife

  • "Extremely thorough, thoughtful and valuable course! Melissa is grounded and informed, accessible and enjoyable! I loved her gentle yet bold approaches, weaving in resources from indigenous cultures and more recent scientific understandings of optimal pregnancy, labor and postpartum support."

    Malka Friedman-Rosner, Brattleboro Vermont

  • "Melissa’s course was so informative. The way Melissa teaches really makes the topics click for you, she explains everything so well and in a simple way for you to understand. The exercises she had us do were a great way to come into our bodies and be more comfortable with ourselves and our partner (or whoever will help with birth). Whether you decide to birth at home or the hospital it’s so important to be educated about pregnancy & birth to make the best decisions for yourself and baby. With Melissa’s class I was able to be more confident in my decisions and was well informed with how I wanted my future pregnancies and births to look like. "

    Stephania Barrios, New Jersey

  • "I would recommend it to any pregnant friend. It is a great revisit for women who have had children, and especially informative for anyone who is having their first child. Many women feel alone in our society while pregnant and I think a class style like this is perfect for support on every level."

    Sara McCosker, Vermont

Victoria Eden, UK

  • 6, live ZOOM calls every week, beginning Friday June 6th, 3PM EST

  • Group and 1:1 chat via Telegram for 6 weeks to connect with other students from class, integrate the information from the live calls and receive answers to questions 1:1

  • Somatic exercises for healing, growth and embodiment

  • Co-regulation exercises for establishing safety and healing with another

  • Yoga postures and exercises for a nourished body and nervous system

  • Prenatal meal plan

  • A postpartum package that includes: a postpartum meal plan, weekly grocery list and a class to share with your support team/family on how to care for a new mother

  • A BONUS breastfeeding class taught my Alexandra Durigan from Origin Pelvic Care

  • Special guest call with Rebecca Beck sharing her wisdom and experience working with women and families for 30 + years as a home birth midwife.

  • Early Bird purchase includes: A wild craft kit including: a herb bundle for burning, a flower essence bottle, and a yoni steam/sitz bath blend designed for postpartum healing (international shipping applies)

  • Early Bird purchase includes: A one of a kind pair of wool/alpaca blend socks handmade from family in Estonia.

What is included

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Dear Ones,

I remember the deep knowing I felt after giving birth for the first time. There must be a more sacred, ceremonial way to bring life into the world and transition into mothering.

Years later, I discovered that deep inner knowing was true and gave birth to my daughter in peace and joy.

The experience forever changed my life. I made it my mission to learn as much as I could about the wisdom of conception, birth, and postpartum as well as how environment, our origin and relationships impact the continuum of precious life on Earth.

I am overwhelmed with how this mission has brought me in contact with so many amazing women and families changing the world, in birth.

Returning to the wisdom of the body is my life’s work and my offering to you.

Body Wisdom Prenatal: Somatic Birth and Motherbaby Preparation

Join the waitlist today! We begin June 6th 2025

6 weeks of guidance and inspiration

6 live zoom calls | weekly group chat for integration and home exercises | recordings available

*Attending live is encouraged, class recordings are available for those unable to attend live

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