The Womb Wellness Center will have a booth (and our massage chair!) at the upcoming Chagrin Valley Community EXPO. The Chagrin Valley Chamber of Commerce is hosting a free event to highlight the local Chagrin Valley Chamber members and their businesses.  By stopping by the EXPO and telling your friends about this event you are showing your support to your own local business community.

We invite you to join us, stop by our booth to say hello and receive a FREE 5 minute chair massage and enter to win a Womb Wellness Center gift certificate!

First of all, I can't even begin to put into words how excited I am about the upcoming Spinning Babies workshop in Cleveland. Eeeks! My inner birth nerd is totally geeking out. Gail Tully is doing amazing work for birthing mamas. She is know for being the "Spinning Babies" lady who teaches women how to create optimal fetal positioning. She teaches belly mapping so mothers can figure out the positions of their child in the womb. She has exercises to help women prepare their body for birth and to turn breech babies. She also has tools to help birth doulas or their care providers recognize labor signs of a mispositioned baby and what to do turn him or her in labor. Her website www.spinningbabies.com is for both expecting mothers and birth professionals and it has a wealth of information. Each time I visit her website I learn new tools for my massage and doula clients.  I have passed along her website countless times to expecting mamas. I encourage you to explore her site or join me at her workshop!

The Spinning Babies workshop is on Thursday May 1st or Friday May 2nd from 8:30-5:30pm. You can visit her website to register http://spinningbabies.com/classes/calendar-of-events.

The Womb Wellness Center is hosting another Baby Clinic on Friday March 21st from 10:00-3:00pm. Nancy Weidner will be offering infant treatments. The recommended donation is $15-$30 for a session. Crainosacral therapy is a gentle effective massage modality that is helpful for infants and children as well as adults. If possible, it is recommended for infants to receive treatment soon after birth. This can help to aid in health and well being as well as to reduce the repercussions of a difficult birth.


Craniosacral Therapy for Infants Can Help:
-fussy, hard to sooth babies
-babies who seem uncomfortable in their bodies
-babies who have digestive or elimination difficulties
-reflux
-colic
-spitting up
-babies who have a difficult time breastfeeding with latching, favoring one side or position
-babies who favor turning their heads to one side
-babies who seem overly sensitive
-babies who hate tummy time
-teething babies
-non-sleeping babies
(information from Carol Gray www.carolgray.com)


 

We will be hosting our first Women's Circle in Cleveland at the Womb Wellness Center on Saturday September 21st from 4:30-5:45pm. A few of our Maya Abdominal Therapy clients have expressed interest in experiencing the Uterus Meditation to deepen their healing journey. We hope that hosting a Women's Circle is a favorable way to experience this meditation.

Maya Women's Circle: Awakening the Voice of Your Uterus

We will be guided through Rosita Arvigo's Uterus Meditation and then circle to honor our unique experiences. This powerful 40 minute guided uterus meditation is designed to help you tap into your body's inner knowing, unlock any old patterns that do not serve you, and awaken you to your womb wisdom.

Date: Saturday September 21st, 2013
Time: 4:30-5:45pm
Location: The Womb Wellness Center
                30539 Pinetree Rd, 236
                Pepper Pike, OH 44124
Cost: $15.00
To Register: Reserve your space now by registering online for this workshop
Registration limited to 5 women.

If you have been to the Womb Wellness Center recently many of you have noticed that Jolynn is expecting her first child! She is due with a sweet baby boy at the end of November. She is feeling great and will continue to provide massage therapy services until sometime in November. She will out of the office from the end of November through January 2014. Jolynn will return to offer massage and doula services after maternity leave but we will have to keep you posted as to when her official maternity leave dates will be.  As far as doula services, she has decided not to take on any new clients with due dates before Spring 2014. If you or anyone you know is due before March 2014 and is interested hiring a doula we would be happy to pass along our doula referral list.

The Womb Wellness Center is a vendor at the Big Red Wagon Maternity and Kids Consignment Sale on the East Side of Cleveland this Weekend. Stop by the Womb Wellness Center's vendor booth to say hello! We are offering chair massage, raffling off a FREE 60 Minute Massage, and selling Womb Wellness Center Gift Certificates for 30% off.
August 15th, 16th, and 17th, 2013
Thursday from 9am-8pm
Friday from 9am-8pm
Saturday 9am-1pm

Location:
27627 Chardon Rd
Willoughby Hills, OH 44092

Five Benefits of Receiving a Chair Massage Session
1. Chair Massage boosts your energy, alertness, and even productivity
2. Receiving Chair Massage reduces pain and muscle tension
3. Relaxes and Rejuvenates
4. Chair Massage helps to reduce emotional stress
5. Receiving massage assists in preventing repetitive stress injuries

We will be offering Chair Massage at Ewes d'bleu, Yarns of Distinction!

Our friendly neighbors at Ewes d'bleu, the Yarn shop in our building, have invited us to offer chair massage during their open knitting nights. Please join us if you are the crafty type or need a quick last minute massage we will be offering chair massage at the shop on Thursday July 25th and Thursday August 15th from 6-8pm.

You can choose from the following options:

Heavenly Hand Massage: Take the time to treat yourself to a soothing hand massage. Our treatment increases circulation to relieve aching fingers and hands, alleviate wrist soreness and increase joint flexibility. This ten minute therapeutic hand massage will leave you feeling relaxed and refreshed. 
$15.00

Upper Body Wellness Massage: Give yourself the gift of a rejuvenating upper body massage. During this massage we will focus on your neck, shoulders, arms, and hands. This twenty minute deeply relaxing and therapeutic soft tissue massage can help you connect with your body, release restrictions, and restore your sense of wellness within.
$25

Ewes d'Bleu Yarns of Distinction 30559 Pine Tree Road Suite 206 Pepper Pike, OH  44124
www.ewesdbleu.com

Often this is one of the first questions I get when I meet someone and tell them about my work: Do you have to be pregnant to get a massage at your studio?  Do you massage Men? Do you massage women who are past childbearing years? I am not even thinking about having children will you work on me?

Yes of course! While I am passionate about working with fertility, pregnancy, and birth, I have been practicing massage for over 7 years and enjoy working on all types of people, both men and women, young and old. I have massage therapy training in sports massage, trigger point massage, injury massage, structural integration and connective tissue massage and incorporate these massage techniques into both wellness and deep tissue massage.  Our intention for The Womb Wellness Center is to be a place for you to come to relax, tune into your body, and to heal. We want to be a place of refuge for you on your wellness journey. Wellness massage, Deep Tissue Massage, and Maya Abdominal therapy are all wonderful modalities for those of you who are not in your childbearing years. Receiving regular therapeutic massage is an effective treatment to reducing stress, pain and muscle tension.

Take advantage of our July Summer Special. Purchase one massage session at full price and receive $20 off your second massage during the month of July. We are looking forward to seeing you soon!

-Jolynn

Hannah Scotese, a rehabilitation and medical massage specialist is now offering Rehab massage at The Womb Wellness Center.  Rehabilitation massage focuses on and helps to relieve specific pain or injury in the body. Many times clients come to us with chronic, long term discomfort that impacts their quality of life. Whether your specific ailment is from an injury, overuse, or surgery, a few regular sessions of Rehabilitation massage may drastically improve your condition. The therapy targets your specific problem area and focuses on reducing muscle tension, muscle spasms, and inflammation in that area. Rehab massage also helps to increase your range of motion and your overall sense of well-being. We encourage you to try it out and see if Rehabilitation Massage can help you.