A Love Letter to My Mother
A Love Letter to My Motherby Liz Martin I often get asked why I named my business Mama Jane Massage, or sometimes I need to clarify when I get an email that starts “Hello Jane.” My mother’s name is Linda, but her middle name is Jane. My sister likes to come up with cute nicknames […]
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Reflexology FAQs
Five Reflexology FAQs By Liz Martin If you’re thinking about getting a reflexology session, you might have some questions about what to expect! Here I’ve answered the most common questions about reflexology. What is reflexology? It is a form of bodywork where the entire body – organs, glands and body parts – are reflected in […]
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Arvigo Techniques of Mayan Abdominal Therapy® – An Introduction
Arvigo Techniques of Mayan Abdominal Therapy® – An Introduction by Liz Martin WHAT IS IT? ATMAT® is based on ancient Mayan techniques of abdominal massage, an external non-invasive bodywork that repositions internal organs that have shifted, thereby restricting blood, oxygen, lymph, and nerve flow. The Arvigo® techniques have a long and rich heritage based on the apprenticeship […]
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Liz’s Birth Story, Part 2
Liz’s Birth Story, Part Two If you read the first part of my birth story, you know that I had a fairly straight forward birth, up until I had a postpartum hemorrhage – you can read my birth story here. After being treated for my hemorrhage, I had to stay one night at the hospital. […]
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Seven Ways Being a Doula Prepared Me for My Birth
Seven Ways Being a Doula Prepared Me for My Birth By Liz Martin I gave birth in September 2017, about five years after I became a doula. I had a low-risk pregnancy, so was able to have a low-intervention and unmedicated birth at Baby+CO, a free-standing birth center run by nurse midwives. Click here to […]
Read MoreTeaching Labor Massage to Doula Clients and Birth Partners
By Liz Green, CD (toLabor), LMT, CR The Gate Control Theory tells us that touch can override pain sensations in the body – sensations from touch reach the central nervous system faster than pain sensations. We instinctively hold an area when we injure it to calm pain. Massage is a naturally effective technique to use […]
Read MoreThe Benefits of Massage During Pregnancy
By Liz Green, CD (toLabor), LMT, CR Prenatal massage helps to manage the aches and pains of pregnancy, increases quality of sleep, improves mood, decreases edema, releases hormones in the body that counteract stress, fear and anxiety, and it feels great for baby too! It can help pregnant bodies to maintain good balance and alignment in […]
Read MoreMama Jane Massage Updates Spring 2014
This year has been super busy for Mama Jane Massage! I am booked with clients until July. In addition to my full-time massage practice at Natural Balance, I am doing two prenatal appointments and one or more postpartum appointments, plus additional massages as needed, with my doula clients. Every family’s birth is beautiful and difficult […]
Read MoreWhat Birth Work Is…
As I’m taking a break from editing the June quarterly newsletter for the Colorado Doulas Association (as is my Publications Chair board duties), I’m reflecting on all the things I do as a doula that don’t involve being present at a family’s birth. Having only attended four births so far, I still find that every […]
Read MoreStone Massage for Pregnancy
Last weekend I took a class called Hydrostone at the Colorado School of Healing Arts, my beloved alma mater. It’s been five years since I took classes at CSHA and being there reminds me how much I love being in school – learning new things and being around positive, inquisitive energy. What I learned from […]
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- Birth and New Mom Affirmations - Free Printables
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- How To Massage Your Baby--wish I had learned how to do this with my first. But he was so squirmy, not sure it would have worked...
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- [10 YOGA BASICS FOR PREGNANCY] Try these 10 yoga basics for pregnancy, even if you've never done yoga! For full instruction and free prenatal yoga online visit: www.stretchandglow.com.au
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- Pregnancy and Birth Affirmations
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- <3 HypnoBirthing Affirmations <3 - "My body will grow a baby that is the perfect size for me to birth"
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