The Art of Postpartum Wrapping
A 20-hour seminar within a biodynamic, body-centered framework — exclusively for women. This seminar is dedicated to supporting women during one of the most vulnerable transitions of their lives: becoming a mother. More broadly, it contributes to shaping a contemporary tradition of postpartum care rooted in understanding, acceptance, and gentle, grounded support. It creates a space of sisterhood — care from woman to woman, from mother to daughter, based on trust and equality.
Who It’s For
This course is designed for women in helping professions and is open at any stage of their professional journey. It is also relevant for any woman who wishes to support another — be it a friend, sister, daughter, or mother.
What We Explore
Participants engage with the postpartum period from multiple perspectives — from historical and cultural contexts to physical and emotional recovery, including specific needs following cesarean birth.
The birth of a child is one of the most emotionally powerful events in a woman’s life. It reshapes not only her daily reality, but also her body, her sense of self, and her inner landscape — even when the birth is remembered as joyful. And even more so, when it was difficult.
Postpartum wrapping offers a safe, embodied way to hold and integrate this experience. It helps ease discomfort and pain, and supports a renewed sense of safety and connection in the body.
Program Overview
The seminar combines theoretical learning and embodied practice. Participants will explore and develop skills in the following areas:
Cultural and social dimensions of the postpartum period. Why postpartum care matters. Trauma-informed awareness. Ethical foundations of care.
The principle of non-invasiveness in contact. The quality of presence. Working with family members. Navigating tension in the body and in space.
What happens to the uterus, ligaments, and body. When and how to begin recovery. Lying down or getting up? Reorganizing care and attention after birth.
Points of contact and quality of touch. How women who are not doctors or therapists can offer meaningful support. What women need during this time.
Wrapping after a C-section and many years after birth.
Their potential benefits and risks. The biodynamic and osteopathic perspectives.
The subtle burnout of caregiving. How to restore yourself after supporting another woman.
The core principles of postpartum wrapping: warming, softening, holding with fabric. Working with herbs, aromatic oils, and spices. Bath rituals. Wrapping and fabric-based techniques (using a sling, long towel, or rebozo). Gentle touch, massage, and soft tissue work. Partner practice and skill integration. Safety. Returning to embodied boundaries and integrating the experience.
Format
This 20-hour seminar weaves together learning, practice, presence, and shared experience. It is held in a warm and respectful atmosphere, grounded in the same values as the postpartum practice itself: woman-to-woman care, transmission through lived experience, and working as equals — without roles of expert and novice.
A dedicated focus is placed on how postpartum wrapping can be used more widely within the biodynamic framework — to support women through transitions, crises, and life after birth.
Participants are invited to stay connected through a shared circle of mutual support, exchange, and continued learning.