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Nicole Stratis 🌹 Beloved Vessel Bodywork

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🌹Ceremonial Bodywork, Abdominal Massage, and Craniosacral Therapy
🤲🏻At-Home Ayurvedic Postpartum Care
📍Newburyport, MA sanctuary

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A special opportunity to receive your first session in the new office at a discounted rate. Open to new and current clients. Valid through the end of November 2026. Use code: NEWBURYPORT10 when booking online ⬆️

I am looking forward to welcoming you into the sanctuary 🤲🏻

#newburyportma #biodynamiccraniosacraltherapy #abdominalmassage #postpartumdoula by @beloved.vessel

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Ceremony is an invitation to slow down, listen deeply, and reconnect with yourself, your community, and the unseen sources of wisdom that support your life. This nourishing cacao beverage is made from the same bean used to make chocolate, but grown and processed in a very different, and ceremonial way. Cacao has an ancient history of being an integral and sacred part of the Central & South American traditions. Connecting with Cacao gently invites us to become more present, open-hearted, and available for connection with ourselves and one another.

Many traditions honor this specific time of year as a threshold between realms, a season of remembrance, intuition, and inner listening. Together, we will create space to bow to the path behind us, receive the wisdom within, and bring forward what is ready to emerge.

📍RISEilience Yoga in Amesbury, MA
🕰️ 2:30-4:30pm

Advance registration required. Please find the link at www.riseilience.org under “Events.”

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Personally, Cacao has continued to change my life over the past 7 years by expanding me into my voice, bringing me to many communities, unleashing creativity, heart healing, and embodied connection to spirit. I recognize that this a life long path, and I’m grateful to continue walking it within mentorship and community. Thank you @florencia.fridman and @janesa.velazquez for guiding this next step with Cacao Leadership Lab 🤎

Love,
Nicole by @beloved.vessel

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All of this work is sacred to me, and I see it all as ceremony, as communion with your inner wisdom, body intelligence, earth’s healing apothecary, and Creator’s weaving. Learn more here about my main offerings right now. Thank you so much. May all bodies be nourished, all hearts listened to, and all spirits free. Lots of love, Nicole 💗 by @beloved.vessel

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To ground us into the botanical nature of cacao and our human interaction with its harvest, here is a mini lesson before our ceremony November 1st.

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I am looking forward to being in circle with you all soon to connect with the physical and spiritual nature of this special plant in order to connect more deeply with ourselves.

Link in bio with details. by @beloved.vessel

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This was my favorite breakfast from my postpartum doula training with @sacredwindowstudies which featured both a sweet and savory option (I tried both!) plus an herbal chai.

We supported hands-on in the kitchen learning the intricacies of these beautiful meals. In some ways the cooking is simple, aiming to be liquidy and warming so that it is easy to digest and hydrating in the early days of postpartum.

Each meal we assessed our own digestive fire to see what additions or subtractions were needed to balance our own constitution. After eating, we noted how we felt physically and energetically. Even though none of us students were in early postpartum, we still benefited from this way of cooking because it helps during any time of transition in life.

This is a peak into what kind of nourishing care mothers can expect to receive in at-home postpartum care. Imagine this after a warm, gentle massage 🙏

#postpartumdoula by @beloved.vessel

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“The organs find their natural position by the massage creating space for them - there is rarely a need for force. With that being said, the massage is precise and specific with intention and purpose. If there is a depth that calls, we go there together in a partnership with your body’s pace…”

Read on in my blog post linked above ⬆️

In this brief article, I also share more about who this work is for and the aftercare.

#abdominalmassage #wombmassage by @beloved.vessel

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Rainy day vibes ☔️

#abdominalmassage #craniosacraltherapy #ceremonialbodywork #newburyportma by @beloved.vessel

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First post: “What happens during an abdominal centered massage?” published today!

“The abdomen is a vulnerable and intimate area of the body. It houses most of our major organs and is home to our sacred sacral region. It is the center of our being. We receive our first sense of nourishment here, as an embryo through the umbilicus, and this forms our first connection, our first intimacy…” 🔗 in bio to read on!

🤲🏻 I hope that this answers some of the questions you have surrounding this work.

#abdominalmassage #wombhealing by @beloved.vessel

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This summer I completed my studies at @sacredwindowstudies in their Conscious Postpartum Care Provider training. The 9-month slow, deep-dive into nourishment awakened my heart to the possibility of tender care that families can receive in this precious window of time. We focused on cooking, bodywork, herbalism, ceremony, community building, and compassionate listening. This weaves beautifully with the offerings I already have, and I’m here to support people in understanding what support is needed for their specific family.

What was special about this program is that it was all through the Ayurvedic lens, which is the ancient healing wisdom that was born from India and translates to “The Science of Life.” It is a living science that works to balance all of the elements within oneself and one’s environment. For example, during postpartum the elements of ether and air are elevated due to the space created after giving birth. That is why we focus on slowly increasing (digestive) fire with warm and nourishing foods, growing in complexity overtime.

Please keep me in mind for friends that are growing their families. Ideally I connect with a client during pregnancy, however I’m happy to support at any point during the first year with at-home care. I travel up to an hour from Haverhill, MA.

Email to learn more:
connect@nicolesheastratis.com

🔗 website above with more information
Www.nicolesheastratis.com

May all families be nourished during their sacred window 🙏

#postpartumdoula #ayurvedicpostpartumcare by @beloved.vessel

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🌚 Blessed New Moon. It was a beautiful first day working in the new office.

#abdominalmassage #craniosacraltherapy #postpartumdoula taken in Newburyport, Massachusetts by @beloved.vessel

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Sometimes you just need a little help from your friends! Thank you @jamie_mackenzie_ for the artistic eye getting the Newburyport sanctuary ready for clients this week 🦋 by @beloved.vessel

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There are seasons within seasons. To be able to hold the seeds of new life while honoring the passing of what was is a dynamic dance. As womb-carriers we embody this cycle every (moon)th. Each phase is nuanced, each person holding different stories of how they relate to their creativity, release, and longing. I receive stories as the sacred, and I’ve been honored to hold space for a wide range through abdominal centered massage. And I always remind myself that I’m only hearing parts of someone’s story. I zoom out and orient to the wholeness. People aren’t symptoms. We are stories within stories, seasons within seasons. We are living creations; we don’t need to be torn up anymore by a label of diagnosis. Many times people come to me because of that - feeling dismembered into different pieces of health or illness, when in reality we are each a whole being experiencing the fullness of life.

So I welcome your wholeness, and I recognize that of course it is important to have labels to describe what we are facing. There is definitely a place for that.

I have welcomed women that come to me to support their journey with:

Reconnection to her body
Fertility challenges
PMS & PMDD
Endometriosis
Miscarriage
Abortion
Post-trauma
Eating disorders
Body dysmorphia
Reclaiming pleasure & embodiment
Postpartum care
Uterine prolapse
Bladder prolapse
Post-surgery
Digestive/gut disturbance
And..genuine curiosity & pure care for oneself 🌹

Thank you for those that have trusted their stories and bodies in my care.

If you’d like to learn more, DM me to find a time for a connect call.

I have one more session available this Saturday at my new office. Online booking linked above.

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📷 @kate_donovan_photography thank you for the beautiful new photos by @beloved.vessel

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