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Embodied birth preparation, integration, and resources for parents and practitioners

Heart & Womb Bodywork Training

Class Details:
Heart and Womb, a heart- and belly-centered four day prenatal massage and bodywork training, is lovingly crafted for massage therapists and bodyworkers craving guidance in deepening or being initiated into the sacred work of perinatal touch. Registrations for Sept 2025 cohort coming soon!

Birth Classes

Class Details:
Extraordinary, embodied Birthing From Within® childbirth preparation as private classes for couples.

Bodywork

Session Details:
Invoke resiliency and radical self-love, heal shame, and restore balance and connection with your body, your baby, and yourself with an in-person bodywork/massage session. Offering Opening to Labor/Birth, Breech Body Balancing, Scar Tissue Remediation, and Pelvis Care Sessions for pregnancy and postpartum.

Mentoring

Details:
Work virtually or in person 1:1 or in small groups with Jamie to develop your skills as a bodyworker or birth-worker.  Parents or birth workers wishing to bring new understanding and help integrate a challenging birth experience can also schedule virtual or in-person Birth Story Listening sessions.

The Breech Release

Currently available as a printed, audio, and e-book.

Opening Pathways for Midwifery and Prenatal Bodywork.

The Breech Release is more than a series of techniques or maneuvers.  It is a process-based mindset that brings integrity, respect, and individualized care to those presenting breech at the end of pregnancy.

Blog
Force as Physiology
Force as Physiology

Through the lens of physiological and undisturbed birth we may adopt a rigid ideology to always be hands-off: that being hands-off is “better.” And, when might our hands and body and tools help maintain birthing physiology with their force?

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Fear As Sacred Visitor
Fear As Sacred Visitor

As birthworkers we are the protectors of the psycho-neuro-endorcine experience of the birthing people we serve and work with. So it makes sense there is a strong message in the birth culture that fear in the birth space is bad. That fear is dangerous. And maybe even a sign that we are not doing our job as birthworkers if our clients are saying or showing that they are scared. But does fear really deserve such vilification in birth?

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Trust and Birth
Trust and Birth

What exactly do we “trust” when we “trust birth?” How do we know to trust it?

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Consent is Relationship
Consent is Relationship

Embodied consent is a relationship. Informed consent is a dialog. It is not something that happens to or for someone, it is something that is participated in, a dynamic relational process. It is not a signed consent form, nor is it someone saying they consent to something with their words.

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In Defense of High-Pitched Birth Sounds
In Defense of High-Pitched Birth Sounds

Many of us as birth workers are dedicated to normalizing fierce embodied birth sounds from the clients we work with. Are we as birth workers perhaps inadvertently planting seeds of trauma in our clients when we prescribe a “right” way to make sounds in labor, either prenatally or during the process of labor itself?

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Touch From Within: Birthing From Within and Bodywork
Touch From Within: Birthing From Within and Bodywork

I am a bodyworker/massage therapist and educator. While I think I’m pretty good at the practical aspects of a bodywork session — do anything for a few decades and you probably get pretty good at it! — there’s something more to the work I do, something that comes from my Birthing From Within training.

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Bodywork and Massage: What's in a name?
Bodywork and Massage: What's in a name?

When I say “I practice prenatal bodywork” occasionally someone will ask if I do some kind of work on cars. More often they’ll simply ask if bodywork is like massage. I think it’s worth a little explanation because the language we use is important.

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The DANCES® approach to prenatal massage and bodywork demonstrates how anyone can offer touch to pregnant people in a holistic, embodied, and accessible way. Bodyworkers and massage therapists, birthworkers (doulas, midwifes, nurses), or partners/friends will learn specific prenatal touch techniques within a cohesive container of gentle guidance by long-time teacher and bodyworker, Jamie Mossay.

Join long-time teacher and bodyworker Jamie Mossay on this epic Nurturing Circulatory/Swedish Massage experience. Over three hours of detailed instruction and guidance, a "practice along" segment, and bonus video segments including additional "practice-alongs", and conversations around massage therapy.

Testimonials

  • “My partner learned a TON about how to communicate with and support me. He really enjoyed the classes and it brought us closer together. We got to see and talk about our own expectations of labor and birth in a warm and supportive environment.”

    BRENNA

  • “My partner and I have a better understanding of what each other expects and what might be actually helpful during the process of labor.”

    DENISE

  • “We now have an increased confidence in our ability to handle the intensity of labor. This course helped us talk, plan, and discover the deeper meaning of birth.”

    A PARENT

  • “We enjoyed the small, intimate setting, and open discussion of each others' feelings. This was a different approach to childbirth preparation, and very warm.”

    SHUYEN

  • “I loved being able to have a safe place to delve deeper into the mystical side of birth. I loved how Jamie conducted the class, there was a lot of room to ponder, listen, and ask questions. I thought the class was wonderful. It also really helped facilitate discussions and bring up areas of further exploration for me and my birth companion”

    KRISTI

  • "Your bodywork was incredible. Thank you for your time and skill. My body feels open and juicy."

    LD - BODYWORK CLIENT

  • Jamie has a way of putting you at ease and making you feel welcome on a subconscious level long before your body crawls onto the table. What makes Jamie's bodywork different than every other massage I've has I think is that her touch is very soft, but firm in a way that doesn't go against your energy. Somehow she is able to match your own energy flow and "encourage" the muscles to relax. Like coaxing or inviting my body to relax. You not only receive hands-on healing with Jamie, but a holistic sense of wisdom about your own body that carries with you long after you descend her massage table.

    BODYWORK CLIENT

  • "She has a wonderful ability to teach without making you feel unqualified. Even if she needs to point out a mistake to you she does it in such a manner you never feel criticized - you feel advised and mentored.”

    DANIEL - BODYWORK STUDENT

  • “Jamie's acceptance, acknowledgment and grace of how each participant showed up is the biggest gift she gave us. She is so lovely and genuinely loves this work and it permeates every aspect of the course. I appreciated the sensitivity to different identities."

    LOREN - MASSAGE THERAPIST AND YOGA INSTRUCTOR

  • “She is passionate about massage and knows what she is doing. She was always non-judgmental, extremely kind, and knows how to get back on track if someone got off track. She has a warm and loving energy about her teaching.”

    LATRYCE - BODYWORKER

Meet Jamie Mossay

I’ve been serving the San Diego community as a bodyworker and massage therapist for over 20 years, specializing in pregnant families. I was initiated into this work with my daughter's birth in 2007, and started supporting others as a birth companion (doula) in 2009. I'm the creator of the DANCES approach to prenatal bodywork and Birthing From Within's Touch From Within course, and co-author and illustrator of the book The Breech Release:  Opening Pathways for Midwifery and Prenatal Bodywork.

My approach to birth support and my own spiritual path transformed utterly when I discovered Birthing From Within® in 2013, and started mentoring childbirth classes soon after the introductory training. I have since had advanced training as a Birth Story Listener®, became a Certified Birthing From Within Mentor in 2016, and then a Certified BFW Facilitator in 2020.