pregnancy

Yummy Tummy 55 / 75 minutes

An Omega-rich facial for your tummy, because it's your tummy that needs the attention to maximise skin strength, health and elasticity. Combined with the luxury of an upper back, neck and head massage to ensure it is a full-on stress banishing treat.

Lighten Up 30 minutes

A mineral-rich foot soak, exfoliation and massage for lower legs and feet to help with poor circulation, water retention and the tiring affects of carrying an extra load. They don't call it maternity marathon for nothing.

Mellow Mama 55 / 75 minutes

A completely relaxing full body massage using our safe but effective pre-natal techniques and our award-winning Omega-rich oils to relax those specific lower back muscles that are carrying that beautiful bump.

4th Trimester Healing Hour 60 minutes

Your baby is here and you are in need of a little rejuvenation ? This restorative massage treatment helps your body realign as you remember how to be one person again. Sometimes new mothers need a little mothering too! This is the perfect present for new mamas.

THE POWER OF TOUCH

There really is no other time in your life when you can benefit more from a wonderful spa treatment than when you are pregnant. Your back hurts, your legs are achy and swollen, your tummy is the size of Everest (and you still have how many months to go?!). This is the time you need to care for yourself and let someone give you a little mothering before your waking and sleeping hours are taken over by the demands of a little squirmy chuckly miracle baby.You need to be under the hands of a trained therapist that is completely confident in caring for you, who understands what is happening to your body and how to help you feel relaxed, pampered and gorgeous.

We created our range of Mama's Touch Maternity Spa treatments our of total selfish need. Way back in the day when we were all popping out babes on an annual basis, we were struck by the lack of great treatments that focused on caring for you through the 9 months stretch and then to help you get your pre-baby bod back. If you were lucky, your regular spa or salon might have maternity massage in teensy faint print at the bottom of their spa menu. So we created a whole range of treatments that care for every stage and need, with specific training courses to ensure that every therapist will give you a wonderful and safe experience.

It's a cliche but Happy Mama = Happy Baby is really true. One hour of gorgeous relaxation, tight muscle release, soothing and mega-elasticising with our award-winning treatments and products is going to make you one very very happy mama.

A little thought for later. You may also want to explore learning a little about baby massage. The benefits for mum and babe are enormous and so rewarding for both of you. A true example of the amazing power of touch.

Key Burns

In her work, Key Burns combines multiple healing modalities with medical intuitiveness. Key is a Reiki Master in the Usui System of Natural Healing and Karuna schools and she has practiced and educated for the past 15 years. An extraordinary woman with extraordinary touch. Sacredness of Touch People often ask me why I became a massage therapist. I found it more a calling then a career choice. While in massage school I met many types of individuals pursuing careers in massage for various reasons. I found myself looking forward to the practice of massage on my classmates. The tissue and skin seemed for me to hold all of the memories and experiences of this individual. Be it good, bad, sad, joyous, it did not matter, what I found interesting about touching skin and the muscles beneath was the body holds all of our experiences, thought forms, and memories until given the opportunity to release them. Through working with many types of people coming from a variety of backgrounds I found the one constant to be the courage to allow another being to touch and change the texture and holding pattern in the body. I began to realize the enormous trust we put into our massage therapists and the true intimacy involved. As I work with people I am aware of the profound trust and courage this being in front of me is offering. I have come to understand and deeply appreciate that any being allowing us to touch them is worthy of profound respect. For me this is the basis of my work anything less then profound respect being offered compromises the relationship between therapist and client. The grace offered by massage is unmatched for me and when offered from a grounded, sacred and loving space I believe it can change both the therapist and the client in insightful ways.

Penny Bussell

Penny Bussell Stansfield has been a certified massage therapist and DONA International (Doulas of North America) Birth Doula and Doula Trainer since 1998. She is a prenatal massage instructor and teaches Mama Mio Mama’s Touch spa treatments for supermamas in the United States. A client of mine came every two weeks for a prenatal massage throughout her pregnancy. Every session, I would begin by placing my hands gently on her belly and I would talk to her and her baby in a gentle, soothing voice. I would suggest she took soft, full breaths and I would say: “picture your baby nestled in your body and imagine that as you breathe in, your breath gently touches him/her like a soft, loving hand, supplying all the oxygen and nutrients that he/she needs. As you breath out, see the caressing hand of your breath gently lift from him/her taking all tension with it”. This became a ritual at each massage therapy session. When my client went into labor, she would place her own hand on her belly for each contraction and play my soothing words in her head. This ritual kept her calm and focused throughout labor and she had a beautiful birthing experience.