From East to West

What is Ayurveda?

"Ayurveda is not only the ancient Indian science of preventative health and healing but also a philosophy of living. Rarely treating the symptoms. Ayurveda cures y removing the cause of disease. From the rich legacy left us by the Rishis, we learn what we are now coming to know again in the West: transgressions against nature's law, against our own inner wisdom, are the cause of all disease.

The disease may be either physical or karmic in origin. Physical diseases are due to engaging in excessive use of our senses, improper eating or ignoring the cycles of the seasons of our age. Karmic diseases result from incorrect actions performed in this or previous lifetimes. Around the eighth century in India, when rebirth became recognized as a truth, it became understood that the physical body was the only part of us that dies. Our psychic instrument, or antahkarana, which is composed of the intellect, mind, and ego, or ahamkara, travels with us lifetime after lifetime until we attain final liberation, or moksha".

Ayurveda : A Life of Balance : The Complete Guide to Ayurvedic Nutrition and Body Types with Recipes by M. Tiwari (Healing Arts Press, One Park Street, Rochester, Vermont, 1995).

Ayurvedic Nourishment

For individuals looking for better, wiser nourishment habits according to their dosha and current season.

$250

-Step 1: Initial Consultation (on site or online service)

-Step 2: Dosha Diagnostic and nourishment guide (on site or online service)

-Step 3: Three Ayurvedic Meals Treatment at Doula Family Center

Yoga & Martial Arts

What is Yoga?

Yoga is our intimate connection with the whole universe, with eternal realms even beyond the manifested universe, and with our own being’s endless capacity to love. "The original meaning of the word yoga is «the action of anointing or putting the yoke on the ox». In fact, the Castilian word yoke corresponds etymologically with Sanskrit yoga.

For Patañjali the word yoga does not has, therefore, the sense of union with the divinity or the universal spirit, as followers of the vedānta, but that of putting the mind under the yoke of yoga practice, in order to control it and purify it. In fact, one of the most common meanings of the word yoga is that of «application», and hence «resource, technique, method, practice, discipline». Yoga is therefore a specific practice or technique, a application of mind and body to a discipline to achieve a result. In Patañjali yoga, this result is not union with God, but quite the contrary, the isolation of the consciousness that is achieved by abolishing the identity between the spirit (puruṣa) and the primordial matter (prakṛti).

Yogasutra Patañjali (2020), file:///C:/Users/richard/Downloads/Yogasutras%20Los%20aforismos%20del%20Yoga%20-%20Patanjali.pdf

What are Martial Arts?

Yoga

For individuals looking for

-4 prenatal classes (2 hours each one

Postpartum Doula

As doulas we share accurate information, we accompany you and support you during your Motherhood/Fatherhood Initiation. We help you with Lactancy, nourishment, neonatal care, baby wrapping, massages, physical and emotional recovery after birth and during postpartum, light household chores, meals preparation, emotional support with alternative therapies and more!

$30 per hour

Postpartum Doula Duties:

-Meditation, breathwork, mindfulness and relaxing techniques

-Ayurvedic healing foods

-Oil massage for mom and baby

-Ayurvedic healing meals.

-Light household chores

-Rest for recovering

-Breastfeeding support

-Emotional support through Drawing Therapy, NLP Therapy, Vocal Toning, Tibetan Bowls, Conscious Maternity Tarot

-Baby care: diaper changes, bathing baby, safe sleep habits.

-Parenting tips and advices for mom and dad (with the service of Doula-Dad Bruno Frerard)

-Baby snuggling time

-Grocery shopping and healthy meals preparation

*Day visits are a minimum of 4 hours/ Night visits are a minimum of 8 hours

*Transportation to other cities includes an extra charge.

The First 40 Days

Since ancient time it's known the importance of the first 40 days after childbirth, both for mother and baby. These 6 weeks represent a beautiful time for developing the unique bond & attachment between you and your newborn, and it's when your child develop the first self perception and social skills, and the chemical functioning related to this, so important for the rest of life.

We offer you a 4 hours weekly visit for the first 6 weeks after delivery, and one extra day for planification and evaluation according to the services you'd like to have access during puerperium. We'll be available via phone, message or email to support you up to your baby turn 8-10 weeks old.

$670

Postpartum Doula Duties:

-Meditation, breathwork, mindfulness and relaxing techniques.

-Ayurvedic healing foods.

-Oil massage for mom and baby.

-Ayurvedic healing meals.

-Light household chores

-Rest for recovering.

-Breastfeeding support.

Emotional support through Drawing Therapy, NLP Therapy, Vocal Toning, Tibetan Bowls, Conscious Maternity Tarot

-Baby care: diaper changes, bathing baby, safe sleep habits.

-Parenting tips and advices for mom and dad (with the service of Doula-Dad Bruno Frerard).

-Baby snuggling time.

-Grocery shopping and healthy meals preparation.

*Day visits are a minimum of 4 hours/ Night visits are a minimum of 8 hours

*Transportation to other cities includes an extra charge.

Doula

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What is a Doula?

According to DONA International, a Doula is "a trained professional who provides continuous physical, emotional and informational support to a mother before, during and shortly after childbirth to help her achieve the healthiest, most satisfying experience possible".

Actually, the word "doula" is originally Greek and means woman caregiver. Deeply connected with the Feminine Wisdom, a doula nurture and provide continuous support to the birthing person throughout labour and birth, respecting mother's decisions and how she gives birth. A doula provides knowledge, skills and tools for mother, partner and the rest of family members present during pregnancy, labor, childbirth and postpartum stages. A Doula's goal is to help women have a safe, memorable, and empowering birthing experience.

What Does a Birth Doula Do?

Recognizes birth as a key life experience that the mother will remember all her life.
Understands the physiology of birth, and the emotions needs of a woman in labour.
Assists the woman and her partner in preparing for and carrying out their plans for the birth.
Stays by the side of the labouring women throughout the entire labour.
Provides emotional support, physical comfort measure, an objective viewpoint and assistance to the women in getting the information she needs to make good decisions.
Facilitates communication between the labouring woman and her partner and clinics care providers.
Perceives her role as one who nurtures and protects the woman's memory of her birth experience.

What Is a Postpartum Doula?

Provides care to a family with a newborn baby.
Gives evidence-based information, tools, skills to mother and family around about postpartum recovery, mother/father's current emotional stage and needs, baby care and needs, mom-baby bonding, mother's nurture & nutrition, mother's rest & pelvic recovery, infants needs (big brothers & sisters).

What Are the Benefits of Having a Doula?

Researches show that women who use a Birth Doula are:

Less likely to need Pitocin.
Less likely to have a cesarean birth.
Less likely to use any pain medication.
More likely to rate their childbirth experience positively.

What a Doula DOESN'T DO:

We do not perform clinical tasks such as vaginal exams or fetal heart monitoring.
We do not give medical advice or diagnose conditions.
We do not Speak to the staff on your behalf.
We do not make decisions for the client (medical or otherwise).
We do not project any of my own beliefs onto your experience.
We do not take over the role of the partner.