lara kohn thompson

The following practices incorporate Massage Therapy, CranioSacral Therapy, Manual Lymph Drainage, Yoga, APOR®, APM®, HPC (™Tami Kent). These different modalities are complementary and can be combined within a session or a series of sessions. Click here to email for an appointment.
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Learn to support your changing body, to ground yourself physically, mentally, and emotionally in this time of great transition and change. Massage and CranioSacral therapies are used alone or in combination with movement and breath-centered practices to address specific restrictions, ease aches and pains, release tension, and support overall well-being. During pregnancy, you can also learn tools to support you through the process of labor and birth, as well as prepare for the postpartum period. Start to learn and practice techniques you can use in the early hours and days postpartum. Private sessions will be tailored to establish a practice that addresses your particular needs and goals, as well as focus on ways for you to integrate this practice into your daily life. 
These practices can be adjusted if you are required to be on bed rest.
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INDIVIDUALIZED POSTPARTUM PHYSICAL CARE AND TRAINING
Pelvic binding, bodywork, and movement therapies. Honoring the postnatal body.

Massage, CranioSacral therapy, and physical care can be combined with both postural assessment and practical exercises
to retrain, tone, and strengthen one’s core post-birth. This organic and intuitive approach combines a variety of modalities
opening up a gentle and supportive space for people to gain awareness, confidence, and strength. 
The practice of pelvic binding can be applied in the immediate days following birth.
Binding (or wrapping) will help you redefine your physical and emotional boundaries as well as settle the
nervous system after the intensity of labor and the early days and weeks postpartum.
Sessions include practical guidelines on how to incorporate these practices into one’s daily life. They will help you care for yourself while caring for your child and incorporate your recovery and well-being into your daily life and routine. The first weeks and months postpartum (also referred to as the fourth trimester) are fundamental to a person’s recovery from pregnancy
and birth and are an ideal time to support the body’s natural healing.

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Group practices - See class schedule

PRENATAL & POSTPARTUM YOGA

Practicing Yoga during pregnancy and postpartum will encourage relaxation, flexibility, and strength, helping you bring into balance both body and mind. Through physical practices, we will bring attention to posture and breath. Perinatal Yoga can be used as a tool to re-train the body and allow for changes in postural habits that cause stress and imbalance as well as help relieve many of the common discomforts of pregnancy and postpartum such as back pain, nausea, headaches, anxiety, joint pain, pelvic floor discomforts.
You will learn to use your practice to ground you physically, mentally, and emotionally in this time of great transition and change.
You will learn practical tools for labor, delivery, and the early postpartum, and find support and community from other expectant people. Classes are open to students at all stages of pregnancy and postpartum. 

POSTPARTUM YOGA THERAPEUTICS

Bring your specific questions or concerns regarding your postnatal physical recovery and retraining or join for general exposure to best practices for holistic self-care in the years following childbirth. This is a space for anyone in the postpartum period to come and get personalized care for challenges like pelvic floor issues, Diastasis Recti, and back pain, in a group setting. Each question will be addressed both personally and in group practice. Bring your baby or come solo! All group classes are open and ongoing.