The weeks and months after birth are a time of enormous change. Your body has just done something incredible, and recovery often happens while you are also caring for a newborn, adjusting to new routines, and navigating major emotional and hormonal shifts. Mama Jane Massage offers skilled, supportive care during this transition, helping your body rest, recover, and regain balance.

Did you know? Cea is a Certified Pediatric Massage Therapist (CPMT). They received their certification through LiddleKidz in 2024.

For ages 2 - 17, Pediatric Massage enhances your child's body awareness, supports range of motion, circulation & digestion, and encourages good communication around consent and boundaries surrounding their bodies. Touch is a vital part of the human experience and to the growth of a person at all stages of life, especially during developmental years.

In the early months of your baby’s life, connection, comfort, and communication are everything. Infant massage is a beautiful way to nurture all three—but like many parenting skills, it can feel a little intimidating at first. That’s where one-on-one infant massage instruction can make all the difference.

Bringing a baby into the world through a Cesarean birth is a major physical and emotional experience, and recovery doesn’t end once the incision heals on the surface. Beneath the skin, layers of tissue are also repairing, often forming scar tissue that can feel tight, sensitive, or even numb. One simple, effective way to support your healing is through scar massage.

Jaw pain can be surprisingly disruptive. Whether it shows up as a dull ache, clicking sounds, or tension that radiates into your head and neck, discomfort around the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) is something many people experience—but few fully understand. Fortunately, one simple and effective way to manage symptoms is through TMJ massage.

Myofascial Release (MFR) focuses on releasing muscle shortness and tightness, getting to the root of chronic pain. Although often overlooked, fascia is the only full body system that exists and it is very integral to how we feel in our bodies. A movable connective tissue that looks like a silky spider web, fascia surrounds and infuses every organ, muscle, bone, nerve, and blood vessel all the way down to its cellular level. It supports and protects the structures of the body by creating a separation and space between organs, bones, and muscles so that fluids and nerves can pass through your body.

Cupping therapy is an ancient traditional Chinese medicine practice that has been used since at least 400 BC. In cupping therapy, cups will be placed on the skin & create negative pressure using suction. The skin in the area will be lifted into the cup, allowing blood to flow to the areas of tension. There are multiple forms of cupping; wet, dry, fire, etc. At Mama Jane Massage we use the gentle, non-invasive approach: dry cupping.

Pelvic steaming – also known as “vaginal steaming” or “yoni steaming” increases blood flow, nerve flow and lymphatic drainage in the pelvic area. I choose to call it “pelvic steaming” to be gender inclusive. I sometimes recommend it as a complementary treatment for clients receiving Uterine & Reproductive Health Massage, but it is something most people can do.

Castor oil packs are something I often recommend for folks who come to see me for Uterine & Reproductive Health Massage, but can be used by other folks as well (but not if you’re pregnant).

It’s hard for me to believe, but it’s been ten years since I finished school and became a Licensed Massage Therapist! I’ve done thousands of massages, in many different kinds of venues. My education at Colorado School of Healing Arts was top notch, but nothing can compare to real life experience. When I started my list of “things I’ve learned” I had more than 20, but I pared them down to my top 10 list. 

Jaw pain can be surprisingly disruptive. Whether it shows up as a dull ache, clicking sounds, or tension that radiates into your head and neck, discomfort around the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) is something many people experience—but few fully understand. Fortunately, one simple and effective way to manage symptoms is through TMJ massage.

I often get asked why I named my business Mama Jane Massage, or sometimes I need to clarify when I get an email that starts “Hello Jane.” My mother’s name is Linda, but her middle name is Jane.

As we move into colder weather, nothing is quite as warm and cozy as a hot stone massage. Here are a few bits of info to convince you to schedule yours today!

A Hot Stone Massage is usually done using basalt stones, which are made from molten lava that has solidified under intense heat and pressure. 

The Gate Control Theory tells us that touch can override pain sensations in the body – sensations from touch reach the central nervous system faster than pain sensations.  We instinctively hold an area when we injure it to calm pain. Massage is a naturally effective technique to use during birth to soften and relax the body and diminish pain sensations. Touch stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system, which counteracts stress, fear and pain.

Prenatal massage helps to manage the aches and pains of pregnancy, increases quality of sleep, improves mood, decreases edema, releases hormones in the body that counteract stress, fear and anxiety, and it feels great for baby too! It can help pregnant bodies to maintain good balance and alignment in the pelvis which can encourage baby to have good positioning in the uterus. This has the potential to decrease the length of labor and facilitates quicker postpartum healing. Healthy tissues have better blood flow, stretch easier and heal faster.

As I’m taking a break from editing the June quarterly newsletter for the Colorado Doulas Association (as is my Publications Chair board duties), I’m reflecting on all the things I do as a doula that don’t involve being present at a family’s birth. Having only attended four births so far, I still find that every day I am doing something related to birth work or my doula & massage business.

Last weekend I took a class called Hydrostone at the Colorado School of Healing Arts, my beloved alma mater. It’s been five years since I took classes at CSHA and being there reminds me how much I love being in school – learning new things and being around positive, inquisitive energy.