Celebrating and Empowering Women in Birth
Welcome to BirthEssence
Hi I’m Charlotte Kanyi, founder of BirthEssence, a service facilitating powerful healing and transformation in the realm of childbirth and motherhood through bodywork and 1:1 sessions.
With BirthEssence I work to heal and transform your experience of pregnancy, to ease you in your new role as mother and to offer relief and support to other birthworkers. I aim to honour and celebrate you as a woman at a time of ultimate power and creative expression.
I do this using a powerful combination of luxurious, restorative Reiki and Massage to support your body physically and emotionally and you spiritually, and powerful 1:1 sessions that aim to clear out any underlying worries or fears you may have about birth and allow your natural innate birthing ability to rise to the fore and shine. The techniques I use in my 1:1 sessions are simple yet profound and these sessions blend together all the tools I have found most helpful during my own experiences of pregnancy and birth.
About Me - Charlotte Kanyi
My work at BirthEssence is a natural culmination of a rich and varied set of life experiences including from many years before I would even think about becoming a mother. In my early 20s I had spent much of my life vaguely searching for direction and purpose, enjoying adventures and fun as I went. I worked in a variety of jobs. I learnt to ski, travelled and worked in Australia, cycled and tramped round the wilderness of New Zealand. Looking back I see that I was unconsciously learning all the skills I would use in BirthEssence without realizing.
During an extended period of carefree traveling. I spent months learning Thai massage and Reiki, practicing meditation techniques and enjoying yoga retreats. Back home a personal healing crisis and family illness led me to The Journey. Transformed and liberated I trained as a Journey Practitioner. Healing the more challenging circumstances surrounding my own entrance the world awoke in me the first whispers of the ideas that crystallized into BirthEssence after I became a mother myself. Inspired by this healing work I sought out more; spending two years attending Graceful Change Workshops, and a year learning Holistic Oil Massage. The deceptively simple yet utterly transforming tool that is NPA changed my life further, opening me up to more flow and ease. I also deepened in my 1:1 explorations and healing with Samantha Nolan-Smith and DakiniGrace . Read my full bio >>
BirthEssence Bodywork
Ideal for improving your physical health, realigning your energy systems and rejuvenating your spirit- Are you stressed, tired, or overwhelmed as you juggle a busy life with preparing for pregnancy or birth?
- Do you long for ease from the physical aches and emotional rollercoaster common in pregnancy?
- Do you just want to switch off, giving yourself a real break as you reconnect to your inner essence and enjoy stillness, peace and calm?
If you answered yes to any or all of these questions then bodywork may help you. Bodywork is a wonderful way to nurture and support you during your journey to motherhood. Specifically, I offer Holistic Oil Massage and Reiki to pregnant women, mothers and birthworkers.
What is special about BirthEssence bodywork?
Each treatment with me is unique, tailored to suit you, thanks to a confidential consultation in which I listen carefully to how you are and what you desire.
I approach the treatment as a way of honouring your entire being on every level. I see you as complete and beautiful exactly as you are.
This fosters a sacred environment of safety and trust in which all tension and stress is able to melt away. You may enter a state of deep restorative relaxation in which you are free to experience the essence of who you are.
And who you really are is a powerful strong creative woman, a spiritual being in a physical body. This is the space and energy that I hold in my awareness throughout your treatment. I believe in you as a birthing woman and this confidence, grounded in my own direct experience, opens a pathway for you to connect to this inner Truth for yourself.
I believe that in such a nurturing, supportive environment our bodies and beings are masters of their own healing. I simply use the massage and energy techniques to facilitate the body’s natural healing ability and encourage a return to its natural health and harmony on all levels, the physical, emotional and spiritual.
I have also created The Reiki Box. Everyone who has had a bodywork or 1:1 session with me has their name placed in The Reiki box for one week. I send regular Reiki to the box to benefit all those whose names are contained within. This helps with integration and ongoing support.
Benefits of Massage
The skin is the largest organ in the body and registers touch which is relayed as electrical impulses by the nervous system, impacting all the interconnected systems of the body. The growing embryo in the womb enjoys touch as the first of the senses to develop and touch has been shown to be fundamentally important to our basic health. Thus the benefits of massage are deep and wide ranging. They include:- Satisfies our human need for caring, nurturing touch
- Stimulates physiological body systems helping them to function optimally
- Stimulation of circulation, helping to distribute nutrients and fluid to the vital organs of the body including the placenta.
- Aids lymphatic drainage and elimination of toxins from the body
- Helps reduce oedema (swelling due to fluid accumulation in joints such as the ankles common in pregnancy)
- Releases tension held in the muscles
- Helps realign muscles and posture
- Aids digestive systems helping avoid constipation
- Reduces stress and aids relaxation
- Creating a supportive environment for the body to heal naturally of its own accord
- Alleviates sleeplessness helps regulate sleep patterns
- Helps to lower heart rate and blood pressure
- Improves blood circulation and movement of lymph
- Softens skin and helps to prevent stretch marks
- Encourages the release of oxytocin
- Skin is enriched and moisturized by the massage oils
- When pregnant, baby benefits too
These benefits are of enormous value during pregnancy, a time of a time of great change, in your body and in your lifestyle as you prepare for a new baby. Massage emotionally and physiologically supports you and your baby also benefits as endorphins experienced by the mother during massage are passed onto the baby. The baby often responds well to massage and can be felt moving around. Regular massage can help you become more in tune with your body and its natural cycles. This greater awareness and appreciation for your body can help you relax during labour. Finally massage during pregnancy is a lovely opportunity to rest, relax and spend time enjoying your first connections with your baby whilst being nurtured yourself.
Benefits of Reiki
Some of the benefits of receiving Reiki are:- Natural, non invasive form of healing
- Relieves physical discomforts
- May help reduce blood pressure
- Induces a calm relaxed state in which the body regenerates
- Reduces and releases stress
- Promotes peaceful and harmonious feelings
- Baby and mother may benefit simultaneously
- Supports and assists in other treatments you may be receiving
- Can be used to help manifest positive outcomes in different situations
- Helps facilitate emotional release and restore balance
BirthEssence 1:1 Sessions
Clearing out clutter to gently uncover your inner essence as a wise powerful birthing woman.
Who are these sessions for?
You may be a first time mother who knows she would like to experience a positive empowering birth, yet is feeling unsure, nervous or overwhelmed.
You may be looking forward to motherhood… once you get the labour over with.
You may be wanting to do things differently after a previous difficult birth experience and be worried that history may repeat itself.
You may be struggling with fertility and/or conception issues and wishing to clear out any inner blocks that may be preventing pregnancy.
You may simply wish to be as clear and free as possible during your journey to motherhood.
Whatever your individual situation, BirthEssence 1:1 Sessions aim to celebrate you as a woman and bring to life your dreams and desires for your own birth experience and life as a new mother.
How do you do this?
Each session is different as it is guided by what situation or issue you bring to the session. I choose intuitively from a range of therapeutic techniques including talking therapies, Journeywork, NPA and guided visualizations.
We use these techniques together to clear out the clutter that is impeding your bodies’ natural functions and ability to birth well. We release the fear consciousness that clouds your own intuition and prevents connection to and trust in your true self. We explore and let go of limiting beliefs and myths surrounding your health and birth that no longer serve you. We shift stuck energy bringing flow to areas that were stagnating and creating new, fresh possibilities. We encourage your natural wisdom to speak and voice your desires. We anchor your vision, dreams and desires into your being and celebrate you. We adapt the techniques for your unique situation examining your specific context be it for planning pregnancy, desire for empowered birth or adjusting postnatally.
In addition you will learn simple self help tools that you can use at home. It is not expected that you will live in a vacuum, a bubble of bliss that nothing can touch. Rather that if, and when something unexpected happens, you will have an inner confidence in yourself and some simple tools to help yourself move through that will help you to remain in an empowered state.
BirthEssence 1:1 Sessions aim to gently and quickly bring you to this place of possibility and freedom. They aim to bring clarity and simplicity, helping you to uncover the greater truth of who you are and to birth from this truth.
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Treatments for the postnatal period
Adjusting to life with a newborn can feel overwhelming whether it’s the steep learning curve of your firstborn or balancing the needs of your new baby with an older child or children.
I offer a range of treatments to honour you during this special time, supporting your recovery from the birth and helping to ease you through the changes to your life. The sessions are designed so that your baby can be near you at all times which helps you to bond with your baby and encourages the flow of the oxytocin.
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Call Charlotte on 07850756114 to fnid out more about her services, or to book your first consultation.
Service Categories
Energy Healing, NLP, Pregnancy Massage, Reiki, Womens Health
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