Fertility Support
Trying to conceive can take over everything. The tracking, the waiting, the appointments, the two weeks that feel like six. It is a long road and it is rarely a straight one.
Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine may assist with stress, fatigue and sleep through that time. Tanya’s sessions are unhurried — the kind of appointment where you are not being assessed, and nobody is waiting on the result. For many women, that is the point.
She can talk you through cycle charting so you read your own patterns rather than guessing, and she works alongside your GP or fertility specialist rather than around them.
Traditional Chinese Medicine assesses patterns in the body in relation to the theories of Qi and Blood, Yin and Yang. Within that framework, acupuncture is used to work with what is identified as deficiency, blockage or stagnation. It is a traditional way of understanding the body, and it sits alongside your medical care rather than in place of it.
ART and IVF Support
IVF and ART offer real hope, and they are also physically, emotionally and financially demanding. Most women describe the same thing: a process that takes over your calendar, your body and your headspace for months on end.
Acupuncture during that time is about you, not the protocol. An hour where nothing is being measured and nothing is being asked of you. Tanya works with stress, sleep and pain — the things that make a long process harder to carry — using gentle Japanese-style needling, including shallow and non-insertion technique, so treatment stays calm even when your body already feels thoroughly handled.
Many women come fortnightly through a cycle, and more often around transfer. Tanya is glad to coordinate with your fertility specialist and will work around your clinic’s schedule, not the other way around.
Acupuncture is not a treatment for infertility. Nothing here replaces advice from your GP, obstetrician or fertility specialist.
Acupuncture and Pregnancy Care
Pregnancy can be a wonderful experience, and it is also demanding on the body. Acupuncture, along with massage and moxibustion (a warming technique using mugwort), may assist with pain, stress and fatigue through pregnancy.
In the later weeks, sessions tend to focus on comfort – aches, sleep, and feeling more settled as you get closer.
Tanya uses doTERRA essential oils in the treatment room.
Tanya has trained in Spinning Babies techniques and is happy to incorporate them on request (allow an extra 30 minutes). Spinning Babies is an approach to comfort and positioning in the later weeks, built around what they call the Three Sisters of Balance – Rebozo sifting, forward-leaning inversion and side-lying release. Some of these have contraindications, so please check with your midwife or obstetrician first and let Tanya know what they say.
Tanya uses pregnancy cushions designed for mums-to-be, so you can lie face down and properly relax. They comfortably accommodate women up to 37 weeks and often beyond, depending on the size of your bump.
Acupuncture & Postnatal care
Once your little bundle has made his or her entrance it can be a time of great joy, but also of great exhaustion and tumultuous emotions.
Pregnancy and birth are very taxing on a woman’s body, and the weeks after are their own kind of demanding — broken sleep, a body that has been through a lot, and very little time in which to recover.
Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine may be of assistance with fatigue, stress and sleep through this period. An hour lying down with someone looking after you counts for more than people expect in those first months.
Mayan Abdominal Massage
Tanya’s sessions incorporating Mayan Abdominal Massage work gently with the pelvis and abdomen — with organ positioning, fascia and ligaments, and the flow of blood through this area.
About this holistic treatment:
- Tanya incorporates Mayan Abdominal Massage into all her treatments as required, however her 3 Hour Deep Dive sessions allow the modality its full scope.
- Combining acupuncture and moxibustion with yoni steaming, Mayan Abdominal Massage and Mercier therapy, alongside sound and essential oils where called for — chosen for you on the day rather than run to a set formula.
- In the Mayan tradition, physical and emotional strain, scar tissue and adhesions, the position of the uterus and cold held in the body are all taken into account as part of this session.
Southern Gold Coast QLDNorthern Rivers & North Coast NSW
Clinic
Co-Habitat
(Nirvana By The Sea building)
Shop 2 / 1 Douglas Street
Kirra QLD 4225
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