Women’s Health

We help women with a range of hormonal imbalance symptoms like PMS, infertility, fatigue, anxiety, depression and hot flashes embody more vibrancy, balance and energy. As an integrative healthcare practice, we work alongside you with compassionate listening skills, individually customizing treatments based on your unique needs, clinical herbal and nutrition recommendations, mind-body healing, and teaching you practical self-care tools to live in optimal health.

Examples of health conditions that our Holistic Health, Clinical Herbal, and Ayurvedic services can support:

Benefits of our Ayurveda, Clinical Herbal, and Holistic Health services include: 

Natural Fertility

Receive highly customized support for balancing your hormones so that you optimize your chance of healthy, conscious conception. We provide clarity on common reasons for infertility, why so many people struggle with it, and how to take helpful steps so that you create a new trajectory for yourself and family. Learn how to prepare for this very important natural life transition with more support, resources, education and self-awareness. We give timeless holistic teachings on natural fertility so that you gain trust in your body and increased confidence on where to purposefully focus your time and energy toward optimal conception.

Our Revitalize, Renew, Restore: 6 Months to Naturally Balance Hormones, Alleviate Pain, and Build Vitality Natural Fertility Program benefits include: 

• Conscious prenatal preparation and education to prepare for optimal pregnancy, birth and postpartum experiences with grace

• Learn holistic tools to sustain your balance

• Receive loving warmth and positive social experiences in a compassionate, safe, supportive female group community 

• Grow in awareness and acceptance about who you are as a unique woman 

• Receive a package of three custom clinical herbal remedies carefully crafted for your needs

• Empower yourself through attending to your own self-healing to be a lighthouse for others Connect to your creative and feminine gifts as a woman 

• Improve and restore your health and well-being

• Step into your radiant feminine power!

• Deepen clarity in your life purpose, relationships, career and spiritual path

• Connect to and open your creative and feminine gifts

• Improve, restore and vitalize your health, energy levels and well-being

• Learn wisdom, knowledge and practical female reproductive balance education and lifestyle support

• Support your highest Self to blossom 

• Option to receive in-depth Ayurvedic cleanse facilitation, which is clinically indicated for infertility

• Learn how to deeply prioritize self-care

• Amplify your innate vitality 

• Increase your capacity to walk a path of purpose 

• Support for living in long-term, sustainable hormonal balance

• Receive the safe container of a caring support system combined with ancient and modern evidence-based holistic health education

• And more!

Natural Prenatal Care

Receive highly specialized holistic prenatal care to go through this delicate, critical rite of passage with more empowerment and support so that you are a healthy, balanced and confident mother. Move away from fear, self-doubt, lack of support, and lack of holistic knowledge that is holding you back from embodying the healthy pregnancy of your dreams in our caring, experienced, results-driven, and meticulously maintained perinatal practice. 

We provide a range of important perinatal services including natural lifestyle, clinical herbal, advanced nutritional, Wise Women and traditional cultural prenatal recommendations to support you to embody the healthiest pregnancy possible. Common prenatal health imbalances such as insomnia, back pain, constipation, low energy, morning sickness, overwhelm, anxiety and low iron levels are naturally supported with a highly effective and safe holistic approach to restore your balance and well-being.

At Four Seasons Harmony, we are a true integrative healthcare practice. This includes extensive experience since 2016 in crafting custom clinical herbal blends to support our pregnant women during this very delicate and sensitive time. Any of the support you receive in our healthcare practice can easily be combined with any other healthcare support that you choose. In fact, as a woman-owned and non-competitive practice, we encourage you to build a strong village of trusted providers to keep you in as vibrant and optimal of health as possible throughout your prenatal journey. We find this gives the best healthcare outcomes and is a win-win approach. Whitney will share with you any trustworthy referrals along your journey, such as a comprehensive Perinatal Community Resources Directory project that she led.  This project was inspired over many years after listening to an unmet need to help more families receive a village of great love, care and skill to go through the delicate rite of passage of pregnancy, birth and postpartum care in as great of health as possible. 

The directory includes the brief contact info of many trustworthy, skilled practitioners from a variety of specialties to support optimal maternal and perinatal health. The region of western Virginia in the USA is the focus for local practitioners listed, yet there are also many national and international organizations included for anyone living in another state or country.

Our Revitalize, Renew, Restore: 6 Months to Naturally Balance Hormones, Alleviate Pain, and Build Vitality Natural Pregnancy Program content includes: 

• Learn how to deeply prioritize self-care and protect your health during pregnancy

• Amplify your innate vitality 

• Increase your capacity to walk a path of purpose 

• Support for living in long-term, sustainable hormonal balance

• Receive the safe container of a caring support system combined with ancient and modern evidence-based holistic health education

• Step into your radiant feminine power!

• Hormone balancing herbs, lifestyle & dietary support for the unique woman

• Customized herbal tea, powder and flower essence formulas shipped to your home at the beginning as well as 3-month mark of the program based on extensive clinical experience with fertility, prenatal and postpartum clients

• Holistic stress management tools

• Guided meditations 

• Overview of the female reproductive system from traditional and modern knowledge Meditations and mantras to prepare for a positive conception, birth experience and journey into motherhood

• Advanced holistic nutrition 

• Vitamin recommendations, such as a high quality natural prenatal multivitamin 

• Special feminine balancing recipes to support a healthy pregnancy for both the mother and growing baby

• Yin and yang hormonal balance teachings

• Powerful mindfulness teachings around food and lifestyle

• Herbal home pharmacy and aromatherapy education 

• Self-Acupressure techniques, such as to alleviate body pain 

• Come exactly as you are! You will be welcomed with loving, open arms.

We also give comprehensive birth and postpartum planning support that is ideal to prepare for in advance during pregnancy. For example, special food-based herbs, called galactagogues, significantly support optimal breast milk quality and quantity. They are best introduced during the third trimester before labor to ensure as smooth and healthy of a breastfeeding journey as possible, as well as continue throughout postpartum.

Postpartum Doula Care

Our offerings including safe and carefully formulated clinical herbal blends for your customized health needs, galactagogue herbs to support optimal breast milk quality and quantity, breastfeeding support, bellybinding instruction, specialized restorative abhyanga or massage therapies at your home (offered only during the first 42 postpartum days), meal planning, herbal sitz bath blends, important healing recipes and a cookbook to support your unique birth experience and the first critical 42 postpartum days, infant massage instruction, emotional support and education for the mother and entire family, extensive Closing of the Bones ceremony for family and friends to attend and other supportive recommendations. Indigenous, Ayurvedic and Traditional Asian Medicine holistic health systems from around the world inform our postpartum work. Our owner is a highly experienced perinatal clinical herbalist who individually prepares each custom clinical herbal blend for your unique health constitution and needs to support this very delicate and sensitive time that can easily be combined with any other health support that you choose.

In Ayurveda, one of the major holistic health systems that informs our postpartum work, the postpartum time is a critical time for the mother to heal and restore her body’s tissues and systems for 42 days, starting with day one of the birth. Ayurvedic physicians say that by taking this needed care during the postpartum time, the mother’s health will be positively impacted for the next 42 years. We 100% respect and work with any type of birthing environment that you personally choose, including home births, natural birth centers and hospitals. Several different postpartum doula package options are available.

Infant Massage Instruction 

A series of 3-4 parent education sessions in a private or group setting that by the end teaches the family skills to give their infant an entire full body massage. This sequences is beneficial from day one after birth and all development stages through adulthood. Based on family strengths that promotes the physical and emotional well-being of babies and young children, infant massage has many positive evidence-based benefits that help encourage secure attachment, bonding and communication between parent and baby, and facilitate long-term positive emotional development. Infant massage is now the most researched form of massage therapy with extraordinary results, including a 98% relief of colic rate and 47% increased growth rate. Please visit www.infantmassageusa.org to learn more and read further about the multitude of evidence-based benefits.

Included in our Women’s Holistic Fertility, Prenatal and Vitality Program. Private and group sessions are ongoing throughout the year.  Please contact us for current group session availability.     

Closing of the Bones Postpartum Ceremony

The Closing of the Bones ceremony is a deeply restorative, universal practice for any family and community. An esteemed and beautiful ancient Mayan ritual, it is also referred to as Cerrar la Cadera, La Cerrada or La Manteada. Pregnancy and birth expand the mother's physical body and energy field significantly to usher in new human life. Hence, one of the core aspects in many traditional postpartum care practices involves helping to “close" women up. Several of the many physiological expansions during pregnancy include:

·     Increases in the hormone relaxin
·     Blood volume increases by on average of 50%
·     Diastasis recti expansion in 100% of women
·     Pelvic opening during birth to allow for the baby's passage
·     Emotional, psychological and spiritual expansions are numerous as well and unique to each mother

The cross-cultural Closing of the Bones ceremony is a powerful way to aid in closing the mother’s physical, emotional, spiritual and mental bodies so she can reconnect with herself and be fully present. Benefits include:

·     Abdominal work to help bring the fascia and muscles closer together for more effective pelvic floor and core contractions
·     Stress and pain relief
·     Facilitate the important process of closing the pelvis after birth
·     A break for deep rest, self-care and nourishment
·     Sharing the mother’s birth story
·     Giving a small closing ceremony with family and friends

Ayurvedic Pregnancy Oil Addition to Infant Massage Instruction and Consultations: very safe, supportive blend mostly used after the first trimester with eight herbs, six oils, and a blend of essential oils to further reduce aches and pains, prevent stretch marks, and strengthen muscles.

CONTACT US TO APPLY FOR A COMPLIMENTARY BREAKTHROUGH SESSION and learn more about our unique Revitalize, Renew, Restore: 6 Months to Naturally Balance Hormones, Alleviate Chronic Pain, and Build Vitality programs!