Complimentary Therapies such as Reflexology and Cranio Sacral Therapies can help with the effects of pregnancy, infertility and women’s health in general. 

A unique treatment provided with a combination of therapies to bring about the best and quickest results for you.  You are unique and require a unique treatment to suit your needs. 

Trials have shown the many benefits of treating women during pregnancy.

It keeps the client balanced in a changing time of the body, mind and spirit.

It helps to keep mum’s body in the best condition for her to maintain her pregnancy.

A relaxing treatment thereby reducing stress, which will help with labour times

and with less intervention and complications.

Did you know that the UK has the highest number of premature births in Europe?

A recent report stated that women have more premature births in the UK than any other European country.

The early births are due to stress, poor diet and nutrition (vitamins and minerals), drugs and smoking.

In Canada they have set up a structure that helps women to receive fresh food. Nutrition advice together with free and reduced price vitamins and minerals.

Therapies have been made available – such as Reflexology to help mums relax, together with information and support to reduce smoking and drug addiction.

Since they have introduced this support the numbers of premature births have reduced dramatically.

It soothes the body, mind and spirit. 

Benefits of treating women during pregnancy.

• Improves morning sickness / general well being
• Reduces blood pressure
• Reduces the risk of Toxemia.
• Reduces anxiety, stress, insomnia and fatigue
• Relaxes muscles and cramps
• Reduces aches and pains
• Reduces Heartburn
• Helps to reduce constipation
• Reduces Oedema (swollen hands/ankles etc.,)
• Helps with general discomfort
• Calming and relaxing for baby as well as mum 

Also helpful with the following: -

Women’s health problems, Menopause, PMT, Dysenrrhoea (painful and irregular periods) hormonal imbalances, anxiety and stress, miscarriage, emotional trauma & Postnatal depression.

Cranio Sacral Therapy helps 

Pregnancy, infertility and birth can be very emotional and traumatic for parent and child.  Emotional trauma to the body creates blockages.  Cranio Sacral therapy helps with clearing energy blockages and is therefore able to help rebalance the body.

When energy (Chi) flows through the body unhindered, health and vitality are maintained. 

Cranio sacral therapy (CST) is a safe, simple, yet very powerful and effective body/mind therapy.  Small movements are made to the head and body to enable the body to realign by itself without trauma to the bones, tissues and ligaments.

It is safe and helpful for Mums during pregnancy and Post - natal dysfunctions - realigning the pelvis, clearing the effects from epidurals, post natal depression etc.,

It is relaxing and calming to the body (some even feel sleepy during treatment) providing relief from aches and pains, especially back pain, easing muscles, releasing diaphragms. 

*Babies and children can receive dysfunctions from forceps or suction delivery. CST helps to realign bones and tissues after a TRAUMATIC delivery.

It is also used for babies and children who have learning difficulties and traumatic births, Colic, distressed/crying children, learning difficulties, Dyslexia, Dysfraxia, and Autism.

For more information see 'CST for babies and children' section. 

*Joy trained in Cranio Sacral Therapy for Paediatrics

See other sections for more information - Reflexology, CST, MLD

INFERTILITY

Complimentary therapy is of interest to many people with infertility problems, especially when conventional medicine has not cured the problem and, in some cases has not found the cause. 

Complimentary practitioners claim most success with “unexplained” cases of infertility.  Trials have shown Reflexology has a high success rate. 

Stress, tension, and related bodily reactions are believed by many doctors to be factors in some infertility.

It does seem that hormonal changes affecting various aspects of reproductive systems – including ovulation and spasm in the fallopian tubes – may be stress induced. 

Most agree that reducing stress improves fertility.  Where therapies directly reduce stress, and treat the body holistically to improve general health, this may help the body to heal itself, and so improve fertility. 

• Clearing energy blockages
• Rebalancing energies
• Diet, nutrition and exercise also play a part to improve fertility 

 Infertility

 The inability to conceive can deeply challenge a couple’s emotional and physical health.  To overcome their problem they will need to take into consideration the many facets of their fertility problem and address their relationship and their needs. For the best possible chance of a successful conception, they can take an holistic approach that removes the boundaries between conventional and complementary care.

This approach utilises complementary therapies to improve the results of high-tech care or uses minimally invasive diagnostic techniques to improve the results.   Complementary and conventional treatments work well together.

It is very important to acknowledge and understand that the emotions and anxieties that arise when fertility is not as straightforward as it should be, can in themselves be detrimental to conception.  Infertility is recognised as being a major life crisis, which can cause enormous emotional pain.  Losing our fertility can be like losing our future.  We can lose confidence in ourselves, our self-esteem can hit rock bottom and we may feel incomplete as sexual beings – failures as men and women.   Life can lose its meaning and when IVF treatment is started a whole new set of stresses are faced.

Women suffer from all sorts of natural disorders throughout their lives.  Most of them will be hormonal fluctuations that place demands on the women’s bodies. 

Monthly hormonal fluctuations take place with unique demands on a woman’s body.   It is a delicate interplay of hormones, orchestrated between the ovaries, adrenal glands, uterus, pituitary gland and hypothalamus gland that all influence well - being, mood, energy, blood sugar levels, fertility and immunity. 

Causes of imbalance include over consumption of caffeine, sugar, too few healthy essential fatty acids in the diet and unhealthy dietary fat and salt.

In addition, medication including the birth control pill can contribute to nutritional shortfalls, notably Vitamin B6. 

Stress can have significant effects on the delicate balance of hormones in our body.   For decades women have looked to botanicals to provide unique natural elements to maintain a harmonious state of body and mind. 

Herbal products can be used, with ingredients that our ancestors discovered, such as red raspberry and chamomile.  With modern technology there are now state of the art products such as Phyto-soy, FC with Dong Quai and combination ingredients in Natural Changes that help with a women’s natural body adjustments to ageing.