Pelvic Steaming with Tend to Your Center

Tend to Your Center With Pelvic Steaming

Pelvic steaming, also known as vaginal or yoni steaming, is a practice that has been done for many years, across many cultures, all over the world (check out the steam world map: vaginal steaming world map). Most commonly done during the postpartum period as a supportive measure for assisting healing and recovery from birth, pelvic steaming is a simple, nurturing and grounding self-care practice that can be done in the coziness and comfort of your home, throughout your life and cycle. When you are freshly postpartum, the portal of birth, of giving new life, has opened. You have not only brought a beautiful being to this Earth, but you have also birthed a new person: you, Mother. The postpartum period, becoming Mother, is a time of great physical healing from birth itself, but also, significantly, of emotional and spiritual opening, and becoming. Supporting yourself as a new Mother, no matter if this is your first time through matrescence, second, or fifth, is essential to your baby’s wellbeing. Self-care will indeed look different as a Mother, but it has to be made possible. Again, this is essential to your baby’s, and your family’s wellbeing. If we look at our healing through this lens, it becomes non-negotiable. It matters. The practice of pelvic steaming is the perfect accompaniment to your healing and becoming as a Mother. It may help aid in the physical healing of your uterus, vaginal canal, and perineum. It may help ease discomfort from tears, stretching, scar tissue, and hemorrhoids. It can nurture your uterine lining, as it does the hard work of rebuilding, after childbirth. And, it can help warm you, to your core, and soothe your soul and spirit, as you tend to yourself, to your center, during this sacred and intimate time. Kinship Midwifery is partnering with peristeam practitioner Katie, @tendtoyourcenter, to provide you with this postpartum care service, in a 1-hour home visit in the first week or so after birth. Katie will meet you during your pregnancy to share more about steaming, answer your questions, and give you an idea of what to expect during your postpartum steam. After you have given birth, Katie will come to your home with all supporting equipment to steam, including herbs, and set you up for a steam session in your cozy nest. Katie will teach you how to then continue the practice, on your own, throughout the postpartum period, and provide you with resources and recommendations for herbs, your steam set-up, stools/saunas, and more supportive womb care measures. Katie will be available to you by phone and email, to support you and your questions throughout your time steaming. This is a practice that you can carry with you for a lifetime. You can use these tools to care for yourself and your future menstrual cycles, and postpartum periods to come. You can familiarize yourself with this ritual to share with your own daughters, sisters, mothers and friends, so that this practice will continue to belong to us, as women, at home.

To read more about postpartum pelvic steaming, check out

https://fourthtrimestervaginalsteamstudy.com/.

Katie’s (@tendtoyourcenter) steam story

“I found out about vaginal steaming through a local birth doula, of whom I rented their steam sauna and was provided a consultation and herbs. At the time I was preconception, and conceived my baby shortly after beginning my steam practice, so I passionately bonded with the practice. I then steamed consistently postpartum with the guidance of my lovely midwife, who is also a steam advocate, which assisted my physical and spiritual healing during the transformation from maiden to mother. I had an incredibly dif icult vaginal birth, and have no residual physical trauma from the experience. I largely credit my steam practice for this. Steam is wonderfully healing, soothing, warming and grounding for the physical body and spirit. I believe all people should access this practice, in wellness or in healing.” Katie is a dedicated birthworker and RN who lives in rural Atascadero with her partner and toddler. She is currently serving San Luis Obispo County and Northern Santa Barbara County with in-home pelvic steam sessions, and virtual sessions to all. Please reach out to learn more about booking a session, and contraindications and alternatives to this practice, before beginning.

You can find her at:

@tendtoyourcenter (IG)

tendtoyourcenter@gmail.com

Text: (805) 588-0656

https://linktr.ee/tendtoyourcenter

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