Matrescence Moves

A Pelvic Floor Physio’s Guide for Pregnancy, Postpartum, and Beyond

YOU’RE NOT ALONE MAMA!

Are you hoping for a positive birth experience?
Is the fear of tearing weighing on your mind?
Is the thought of labor pain keeping you up at night?
Feeling lost in a sea of conflicting advice?

As a pelvic floor physiotherapist and mama, I intimately understand the rollercoaster of emotions that comes with pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. These are times when feelings of vulnerability, anxiety, and countless worries can overwhelm even the strongest among us. But amidst this, there lies an incredible opportunity for courage and strength. When it comes to birth, you deserve more than just to get through it; you deserve to understand how your body works, to feel confident in your birthing abilities, and to manage your fears constructively. Picture a birth experience where you’re not just present but in control—managing your labour sensations, minimizing risks effectively, and making informed decisions. My goal is for you to feel powerful, assured, and proud, even before your baby arrives. Together, we will transform your birth experience into one where you feel fully prepared, supported, and inspired.

It's not just about the external shifts; it's a deeply internal process of self-discovery and resilience, and I think that warrants more attention. That's why I created Matrescence Moves—a program designed to support others on this transformative journey. Rooted in a pelvic floor physio's approach, it acknowledges the emotional and physical complexities of pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period. Matrescence Moves recognizes that every individual's experience of Matrescence is unique. It strives to empower you to better understand yourself and how that understanding can impact your pregnancy, birth, and postpartum experience. Every pregnant person deserves to feel empowered and supported in a way that's tailored to their needs as they navigate the transformative journey of Matrescence.

matrescence
[noun] [mæˈtres.ənts]: the profound journey of transformation that every pregnant person embarks on, encompassing physical, psychological, and emotional changes as they transition into motherhood.

An intro to Matrescence

DO YOU WANT TO?

Tackle your Matrescence feeling strengthened, rested, and clear minded?

DO YOU WANT TO?

Transition with grace - move from pregnancy to parenthood with a sense of joy and discovery?

DO YOU WANT TO?

Prioritize your mental health during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum?

What’s Included?

  • Learn

    ✓ Pelvic floor anatomy and function
    ✓ Helpful hormones of birth and how to tap into them
    ✓ Understand and navigate labour pain: dive into theory and build your story
    ✓ C-sections
    ✓ Strategies to minimize risk of complications (i.e. tearing)
    ✓ Develop your birth preferences

  • Move

    ✓ Third trimester movement practice
    ✓ Integrate birth prep and movement in one place
    ✓ 148 exercises
    ✓ Guided birth ball, pelvic floor, and relaxation exercises into daily workouts
    ✓ Three week blocks so you can learn, familiarize, and then embody
    ✓ 3 movement sessions per week
    ✓ 1-3 pelvic floor + brain prep sessions per week (you decide based on how you are feeling)
    ✓ Guided journal prompts if you’re that way inclined!

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Matrescence Moves: your empowered birth and postpartum path

Hear Their Stories: Customer Testimonials

  • As someone who had a difficult pregnancy, preparing for birth mentally, physically and spiritually was really important to me. Matrescence Moves offered a holistic approach that covered all these areas in an informative and easy to digest way, all with empathy and inclusivity at the heart. Everyone's pregnancy journey and birth experience is unique and Emily provides knowledge, frameworks and tools to allow you to optimise you in a meaningful way that will really make a difference to your pregnancy and birth experience. I've taken what Emily taught me into post partum too - for example breathing techniques, regulating my nervous system and effective c section recovery. I couldn't reccomend Matrescence Moves more!

    E.L. First Time Mama

  • Emily’s program helped me feel confident and in control of my pain (and fear) while birthing my second child - things I didn’t feel the first time. She is so knowledgeable and helpful when it comes to preparing our amazing bodies and minds for all the steps of childbirth - before, during & after.

    D.C - Second Time Mama

  • Matrescence Moves: Learn covers important topics that is often overlooked in the traditional process of pregnancy. Personally, the concepts discussed throughout were ones that have not been discussed or brought up with my OB at all. 5/5 would recommend to another pregnant person!

    A.K. - First Time Mama

  • It’s pretty amazing - I found it to be the most helpful thing for me during my second pregnancy, Matrescence Moves takes a really unique approach including pain education, deconstructing fear, and how to break that down and at a certain point you realize you are going to go into labour, it is physical, and it is going to hurt - you only can hear ‘just breathe through it so much’ but that only helps so much. No one talks about pain, and how we process that, and how the body experiences that. This was really incredible for me and it was pretty transformative.

    R.R. Second Time Mama