Traditional fertility, birth and postpartum care from a vitalist lens

Fertility

Briana’s fertility sessions begin by assessing your current capacity to receive and produce. From there, we tend to the most visible and accessible blockages to vitality. We continue to build trust and safety with one another and allow your body and womb to guide us.

This offering is not about having a baby although it can be supportive to the conception journey. This offering is about living a more embodied truth from which you can create with grace.

Session Principles

  1. Womb is compass

  2. Everything is connected

  3. Stories can be rewritten

  4. Magic and miracles are an essential part of life

  5. We are not broken

“Slow down. Practice not doing. Peace doesn’t grow in the vortex of your anxiousness. It grows in the meadow of your stillness. Even a moment of nothingness is a gift that leaves you new. Your thoughts will be okay without you. Rest.”

— Jaiya John

Fertility Session

  • My approach

    There are many ways to address disharmonies presenting in the reproductive system. Most approaches promise the desire outcome of “baby” or “no menstrual pain” by following a prescriptive set of rules around food, supplementation and lifestyle. While this approach is valid and productive, I’m devoted to truth which is not always the same as the desired outcome…

    It’s my practice to bridge a deeper, life giving connection with the parts of ourselves and Nature that are in discordance. This bridge building takes time and courage and is certainly not a one size fits all approach. Every step of the process is a sacred one that will be remembered and felt for years to come.

  • Who I serve

    Menstrual Cycle Dysregulation
    Women who are experiencing irregularities in their menstrual cycle, transitioning off of a hormonal contraceptives and or calling back in their cycle postpartum.

    Womb Connection
    Women desiring a deeper understanding of and connection with their womb.

    Conception Journey
    Women wanting to prepare spiritually, mentally and physically for conception. While some aspects of conception are out of our control, there is often space for the mother and family to evolve certain beliefs, memories and dis-ease in the body. This new alignment can heal generations, past, present and future.

  • Our tools

    Nourishment
    Understanding how you nourish yourself and why you nourish yourself this way. From there, we make space for more ways to achieve nourishment both with food and in life.

    The Unconscious
    A step into the room of less conscious ideas, beliefs and memories. Here we work with tools like meditation, touch, visualization, smudge, mantra, archetypes and more.

    Plants
    We open to plants that are wanting to be a part of your journey and choose applications that will offer you gentle support and encouragement.

Work with Briana

Birth

My beginnings

I began my studies of traditional birth practices in 2020. I had become disillusioned in the array of medicine spaces I was in and was looking for something different.

It was in a plant medicine ceremony, that I saw where so much of humanity’s deepest wounds were formed; before, during and after birth.

I recognized patterns in attachment, challenges with nourishment and deep reliances on outside authority as attempts to rewrite our births and rebuild our bonds with our mothers and our belonging.

I studied and continue to study perinatal psychology, intergenerational healing, traditional birth and fertility keeping, traditional postpartum care and the history of birth and obstetrics.

I bring my studies, years of being in and curating sacred spaces and my herbalism practice to each and every preconception, birth and postpartum visit. It is my truth to support mamas, and the new life coming to this earth with traditional noninvasive care.

First and foremost, my approach is always evolving as I learn and grow with the women that I care for.

Being born is the first experience a human has with the world, with safety, with warmth, with nourishment, with trust. I have seen and experienced a growing amount of disintegration of birth due to medicalized risk assessments and fear. While emergencies and unexpected outcomes do occur, I believe how we approach and witness them can alter the lived truth that forms for everyone involved.

Each family has their own birth story, some of which we can design and some of which has a greater design that we cannot explain or foresee.

If you choose to work with me, I will devote myself to attuning to the hopes in your heart, inform you and your family of your options, be present for emerging circumstances, and utilize tools for the mind, body and spirit to align with a holy, undisturbed birth.

  • Emotional and energetic support during birth, immediate postpartum aftercare and post birth clean up and organization.

    *Briana is not a licensed healthcare provider nor does she desire to operate as such. Please reach out to her for more clarification on expectations for care.

  • Weekly, biweekly and or monthly in-person support that includes, womb therapies (vaginal steaming, moxa therapy, castor packs, sitz bath and pelvic floor practices), emotional + energetic support, herbal remedies (topical and internal applications), cooking and or food prep, daily cleaning, bodywork for mama, relationship and familial coaching, and organizing care for friend and family support

  • Processing pregnancy, birth and postpartum, utilizing Jungian techniques and practical womb therapies. Sessions can happen in-person or virtually (requires me mailing you herbs and tools to be able to apply womb therapies before and after our sessions).