DEVOTIONAL TREATMENTS
Where prayer meets poetry through ritual touch.
Through ritual, bodywork and attunement to the subtle layers of self, we drop deeply, de-armouring heart & womb, listening to the whispers of soul and tending to ancestral energies we may be carrying, so that the wisdom of our lineages may emerge.
“Ceremony to my body, the memoir.
Deeply attuned with the priestess that is Padmini Healing Arts, never have I experienced hands as an extension of the heart like I did with Leela’s touch. Slow, trusting, listening hands. Every movement intuited, unlocking and unfurling on a cellular level under their reverent prayer.
The experience of giving yourself the permission to slow right down and then to be held with such loving, deep presence in each of those moments is the kind of healing that reconnects us with our quiet truths.
The whispers of the soul that get drowned out by the incessant chatter of mind. My wish is for everyone to find a way to slow down and be held and witnessed by another. For your body to be an altar and your soul a prophecy. To feel the subtlety of an embodied yes.. the truest sense of consent and safety. For your grief to be witnessed, your joy to be shared and your breath to be the meandering road.
Holy holy holy. Deep bow to you Leela” - Sunni Hart
These devotional treatments are bespoke to your needs and responding to the emergence of the moment.
This work is centred around slowness, presence and reverence for the body.
These sessions are an interplay of various modalities I have studied, and the wisdom I have been able to uncover through tending to hundreds of women and their wombs - that continue to be my greatest teachers, held in a co-created space with ritual, devotion and safety at the core to support you in diving, whilst also moving at the rate of the slowest, tenderest part of you that may normally be used to being overridden or overlooked.
This is a container to show up exactly as you are, no masks, no agenda, no expectations on what our healing has to look like.
A ceremonial space where your grief is welcome, your joy is celebrated & your radiance invited to be fully embodied.
There are a variety of tools in my kit that I weave between in sessions depending on what is presenting as we explore the work.
My sessions are an integration of the following tools as well as my own deeply intuitive bodywork and ritual practices that I have been initiated into.
Some of the modalities I incorporate include Craniosacral Therapy (Nourishing Tides), Holistic Pelvic Care™ (Tami Lynn Kent), Fertility Massage Therapy™ (Clare Blake), Heart De-Armouring (Heart Touch Institute), Pregnancy Zenthai Massage (Merryn Jean), Holistic Yoni Massage (Mangala Holland), Doula Training (Celebration of Birth Academy), Natural Birth & Postpartum Care with Mexican midwife Naoli Vinaver and Innate Wisdom Postpartum Care™ with Rachelle Garcia Selega.
Craniosacral Therapy:
This subtle and profoundly healing modality supports the nourishment and release of tension in the craniosacral system, including the sacrum, pelvis, and skull whilst also supporting the cerebrospinal fluid to flow with more ease and vitality.
It is a deeply nourishing practice for the central nervous system, supporting regulation, reduction of anxiety and stress, and bringing more chi and vitality. to the whole body physically, emotionally and spiritually, thus helping client’s to connect to a profound sense of embodied safety that can help in healing some of our deepest wounds that have never felt held or safe before.
In the words of my teacher Alani Klein “Craniosacral Therapy can open doors to both our hearts and soul giving opportunity to profoundly change our lives”.
Craniosacral Therapy is an incredible modality for maternal wellness. It is a gentle and safe modality for pregnancy and deeply restorative in the postpartum period for restoring musculoskeletal reintegration, emotional balance and pelvic health.
Womb & Fertility Massage Therapy:
Womb & Fertility Massage Therapy is a deep, yet gentle, abdominal and sacral therapy focussing on bringing more chi, blood, nerve and lymph flow and circulation to the abdominal organs. This non-invasive modality also focuses on supporting the shedding of both emotional and physical tension around the sacral that may have been inherited from our ancestors, picked up from collective energy or our own life experiences that have left us feeling disempowered, disconnected or cold in our uterus, ovaries, sacrum and pelvic bowl.
When we have to tend to this space, clearing out what doesn’t serve us and allowing our sacral energy to be vital and radiant, it becomes a source of infinite creative potential that we can utilise in our lives, whether we are want to call in a baby or actualize a creative dream.
By nourishing this space, we can help more life-force flow freely, regulate our menstrual cycles, improve our fertility for conception and creation, support our gut health and immunity, release stagnation and tension in the body and connect to our deep womb wisdom.
Body De-Armouring:
Body armour is a result of stressful, traumatic or painful experiences in which the body contracts on both a physical, energetic and emotional level leaving behind an imprint in the body. It is a natural mechanism to feeling unsafe, therefore we need safety and tenderness in order to heal it.
Amouring can block us from fully allowing life in, however instead of bombarding past our defence mechanisms it is vital to approach these parts of ourselves with reverence, as armour is an intelligent protective mechanism that the body has developed to help us feel safe at some point in time. In meeting it with honour, listening to its needs and allowing any underlying emotions that are bound up in it, it can often start to let go of its tight grip, and where there was contraction, stagnation or numbness before can suddenly start to fill with life force energy.
Gentle de-armouring processes can be done anywhere on the body, with a focus of bringing more presence and vitality and sensation to this part of us. De-armouring work supports us to attune to, honour and soften spaces where before we felt blocked, numb, dissociated from or pain in, and can be done anywhere from the heart, the belly, womb or pelvis.
MOTHER-CENTRED BODYWORK RITUALS
I firmly believe that when we care for the mothers, we are caring for humanity itself.
My work continues to guide me towards its own innate longings and in listening to that calling most of my work consists of mother-centred offerings, sessions oriented towards nourishing, holding space for and tending to the deepest parts of the mothers in my community, whether they have birthed 1 week or 10 years prior.
So while these healing sessions are oriented towards those on any journey of motherhood they are not limited to that path. However they are particularly poignant for those wanting to improve fertility, clearing their root and womb to prepare for conception, physical, energetic and emotional care during pregnancy, preparation for birth or postpartum healing.
This is also potent work for women who may have experienced miscarriages, abortions, stillbirths or may have felt disempowered by their birth experience. Creating sacred space for grief is one of my biggest passions, as I believe that when we can truly grieve for what has been lost, both personally and collectively, deep planetary healing is possible.
I have recently moved onto Wurundjeri land;
I acknowledge the elders past, present and emerging of these lands, and understand that this always was and always will be Aboriginal Land.
I primarily offer this work from Warrandyte but frequently travel to the Byron Shire and Sydney for sessions - so I can always add you to a waitlist for these places.
For pricing and session bookings send an inquiry below.
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