Root Down Healing Arts

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Tuesday Offerings are in-home only, and available starting July 1, 2024

[By invite only from May 21 - Jun 25]

Spirit Mending

Folk Medicine Space Clearing

Similar to a healing bath for the body, a space clearing helps to revitalize the home with the use of copal, plants, water and prayer (detached from dogma). It inspires fresh beginnings, neutralizes negative energy, liberates any stagnation within the house and the perimeter around.

This practice of space clearing is from the Maya lineage, learned over courses in Belize with Dr. Rosita. Space clearings ultimately invite positive potential within the home, family and oneself. Often times, a person will receive a space clearing and a spiritual bath in one session so that the space and folks within benefit simultaneously.

Healing Bath (Spiritual, not a water bath)

The Maya see what we think of as emotional disorders as spiritual ailments. They use plant allies, prayer (to whatever higher power one believes or faith in the body and its' wisdom), and water to heal the root of disharmony. e.g. PTS.

Most cultures have some form of a healing bath to support and nourish the spiritual aspect of ourselves. This work is the thread mending body, mind, emotions and spirit into one cloth.

The process is similar to that of hypnosis in that through these baths we bypass the conscious mind (that may or may not be in a cycle of drama or trauma) and work directly with the subconscious to release the stories held on the cell level in the body. Stories that inhibit us from fully embodying our lives are let go, & we my move freely, unblocked.

Dr. Rosita meditation

The Blue Door & Uterine Meditations, each about 40- 50 mins in duration, are guided meditations by Dr. Rosita. A comfortable space is created for client to be while listening to one of the two meditations. Whether it be the uterine meditation or the blue door meditation the client will be led to unwind & see what bubbles up & how the parasympathetic system calms in the unwinding. I’ll be there to hold space with some craniosacral, subtle body work, or in another room if client prefers to be a solo listener.

Ritual Foot Bath

Water, medicinal plants, prayer FemiMist salt scrub. Soak feet in salts, RMB Magical Mg brine, flowers & receive reflexology, marma points.

Plant Medicine + Healing Arts

Pelvic Steam

Steams consist of Rusty Moon Botanicals 8 herbal blend (+ dulse when individual is experiencing PCOS, endometriosis, cysts) & water.

Pelvic Steams create a grounding cord, release trauma, encourage micro circulation, guide hormonal harmony, boost moisture, support optimal cervical fluid; esp great for fertility & peri menopause/ menopause, allow old blood to be softened & more easily released in next cycle; esp benefits painful menstrual cycles & more. Receive a steam &/or learn how to set up & prepare your steam for future self care at home.

Pelvic Oiling - Guidance

Pelvic Oiling is a tradtion from Ayurveda. Benefits every body but especially folx who are doshas of vata (air/ether) & pita (water/fire). This is internal oiling of the pelvis with warm oil. Some healing effects are increased circulation, increased awareness of pelvis~ reengage & reclaim, restores & renourishes, hormonal harmony, feel more centered, softened, relaxed. We’ll discuss what oils, how to prepare & perform for oneself as a self care tool for home.

Working with Plant Medicine

Might look like any of these things:: What plants might be of interest/ benefit you. Assisting in creating a garden, alley foraging to transplant in garden, your local neighborhood plant walk~ see what we find. How one might apply plants in their everyday routine. Creating a rhythm both within daily life & seasons. Where to optimally keep plant medicine remedies for shelf life & for the “daily grab,” daily use.

Making Plant Medicine

Boiled down how- to tutorials on creating tinctures, when to create & pour off (decant) & keep, medicinal oils, elixirs, syrups. vinegars, oxymels herbal salts.

Post-Natal & Infant

Moxibustion Box

Wooden box filled with Chinese Mugwort gently smokes in a wooden box & is placed on a towel directly over the uterus & sacrum during postpartum phase. Has a cumulative effect.

Some benefits:: nourishes spleen energy which often gets easily depleted in postnatal phase due to lack of sleep, chest/brestfeeding, helps to "close the gate," TCM (the pelvis), the intense heat of moxa, impulses the nerve endings of the skin and causes dilation of capillaries; increasing blood & lymph circulation to entire body, moxa aids in blood & immune building.

According to TCM Moxa builds qi/chi and blood. Recent medical research shows that white blood cell counts immediately increase after moxa treatment. Red blood cells (hemoglobin~ 70% of body's iron found in RBC) gradually increase & reach peak levels following 8 weeks of treatment

Rebozo / Closing of the Bones

A physical treatment that works along the lines of the body from head to toe. Specifically “closing the bones” of the hip/pelvis, providing the preparation for next phase of either another child down the line, or menstrual cycle & eventual menopause. And engages in energy conservation once complete because grounds spirit in body.

Infant Craniosacral

Craniosacral is similar for infants as it is for adults in that its’ light touch & effective. As a CST practitioner we notice things from the outside- inward by gentle hands- on contact (although sometimes this work is performed off the physical body). Through non-invasive touch CST practitioners sense where adhesions might be by assessing craniosacral flow & the layers of the body~ tissues & membranes. CST supports to heal::

Infant Intra/Oral Craniosacral

Ideal for tongue tie, craniosacral is used pre & post tongue tie release, speech articulation, improved tongue mobility, more comfortable chest/breast feeding time for both birth parent & baby. With gloved hands, when baby is ready, an index finger or pinkie is placed in baby’s mouth & with gentle touch we create space where there is little by releasing restrictions in fascia.

Kitchari Kit

Indigenous Science of East India, kitchari is made of mung beans (gently cleansing) & basmati rice (easily digestable) with specific spices. I create & will show you a digestive kitchari recipe benefiting both reproductive & digestive organs by warming, toning & rebuilding stamina through mineral rich nutrients & antioxidants, supports agni (digestive fire). Ghee is traditionally used but may substitute if vegan.

Subtle Body Manual Therapy

Simple Birth Parent Massage - Hand and Feet

We’ll choose from 2- 3 Rusty Moon Botanical medicated oils to use according to our focus. Hand & Foot massage emcompasses both reflexology & some Ayurvedic points called marma points, where life force energy is said to be concentrated.

With Table Provided (see notes below) ~
ATMAT, post-natal ATMAT, pre-natal ATMAT, nurturing therapeutic

Tuesday Offerings are folk medicine arts brought to your home (sans massage table). Happy to provide Maya Abdominal Therapy from the linage of Dr. Rosita Arvigo & additional subtle body/ manual therapies when table is provided by client. Meaning, client provides the table, table set up & break down is the responsibility of the client. I’ll provide sheets & oil.

At the free 15 minute phone/ video consultation, we’ll discuss table placement within the home~ which room. This is to ensure spaciousness for both the table itself & practitioner (me) to move around the table for bodywork.

Intra/Oral Craniosacral

Similar to baby intra/ oral craniosacral hands are gloved & when client is ready an index figure is placed in areas of tension to release restrictions & create more space. Often clients report feeling release of jaw, face, neck, shoulders, reduced headache frequency to no headaches, less jaw clenching/ teeth grinding. When gentle work is done at the jaw, the dural tube (spine) is positively impacted, so people may also feel relief from pain or discomfort in the low back, & pelvis, even the feet.

Craniosacral

Craniosacral (CST) is a gentle, hands- on approach for evaluation and enhancing the functioning of craniosacral system, a physiological system surrounding the brain and spinal cord. This system influences the entire body by affecting the brain and spinal cord.

A treatment will often include palpation of head bones, spine and low back to locate patterns and gently influence corrections if need be. The work can be done anywhere on the body. The effect of craniosacral can be felt throughout the whole body via the nervous, lymphatic, endocrine and circulatory systems. CST profoundly assists; TMJ pain, headaches of all kinds, head traumas, low back and neck pain whiplash injuries, chronic fatigue, chronic pain, PTS, pre and post surgery, neurological support

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