My Services for Women
Belly Goddess Circle
£22/session
Once a month, we meet to sit in circle in my studio in Raynes Park. We share, laugh, cry, celebrate and enjoy each other’s company. This is a space for women to come as they are and share stories, wisdom and food. Includes medicinal drink, wholesome organic snacks and herbal ointments.
Closing Ceremony
£250/session
This is a ceremony to mark the closure of your journey through conception, pregnancy and birth. It can be done anytime after your postpartum bleed (lochia) has stopped, traditionally 40 days after birth. It can also be very beneficial years later, or after a miscarriage or abortion.
The Closing the Bones / Cerrada ceremony has its origins in Mexico, but there are similar practices in many other traditions. I have no Mexican heritage and don’t claim to do it the Mexican way, but rather apply what I have learned from Nicola Mahdiyyah Goodall (Red Tent Doulas UK).
In the ceremony, we work with rituals and herbs that are most true to my, the facilitator’s, and your, the client’s, cultural roots. Before the ceremony, we can connect through a call and discuss how to make it just right for you. We can use herbs from your garden and songs you know from your childhood, for example.
This is how I generally do the Closing Ceremony:
I arrive at your home and we have a chat over a hot beverage that I will bring. It would be great if you had 1-2 family members or close friends to be part of the rituals, but I can do it alone with you if you wish.
You are invited to share your pregnancy and birth story and anything else you would like to say, and your intention for the closing.
Then I will prepare the space and run you a warm herbal bath (if you don’t have a bathtub, we can do a shower plus foot bath instead). Your friends/family members and I will gently pour water over you – it’s like bathing a baby! You can be naked or clothed, however you prefer.
After your bath, you are invited to lie down on the floor, where I will have prepared a bed of Rebozo scarves and mats. There we will massage you together and shower you with our prayers and blessings.
After the massage, we will wrap you tightly in the rebozo scarves, focusing on your head, shoulders, hips and legs. The wrapping feels like a warm cocoon around you, a bit like swaddling a newborn. It’s supposed to close your body to its balanced state after it has widened and loosened to make space for a growing baby and their birth. We leave you in your cocoon for a while while we play music, drum, sing or sit in silence, depending on your preferences.
Then we slowly open the wraps and welcome back the new baby, which is you!
You will probably be glowing with Oxytocin by then.
We have another cuppa and close the ceremony with more time to connect and share before I pack up my things and leave.
My visit will take 2.5-3 hours. I can come to you if you live up to 1 hour from Raynes Park station (by public transport).
Menstrual Cycle Support 1 to 1 (in person or online)
1 session: £66 | Block of 3: £180 | Block of 7: £385
Come into my Raynes Park studio or connect via video call to talk about your menstrual cycle — anything regarding your physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing connected to your womb. Topics include irregular cycle, pain, too much or too little blood, trying to conceive, menarche and perimenopause. Includes one custom made herbal remedy per session.
If you book a bundle of multiple sessions, we can work together more comprehensively and get to know each other better, which can lead to even better results!
Before booking a session/bundle, you can book a free 20 minute exploration call with me, so we can find out if we are a good fit.
Childbearing Year Support Hour 1-1 (in person or online)
1 session: £66 | Block of 3: £180 | Block of 7: £385
Come into my Raynes Park studio or connect via video call to talk about your pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum concerns. Includes birth plan making, postpartum care planning and more. Passionate about home births and physiological birthing, but happy to support hospital and birth centre births too. Includes one custom made herbal remedy per session.
If you book a bundle of multiple sessions, we can work together more comprehensively and get to know each other better, which can lead to even better results!
Before booking a session/bundle, you can book a free 20 minute exploration call with me, so we can find out if we are a good fit.
Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate, and their pack. They are experienced in adapting to constantly changing circumstances; they are fiercely stalwart and very brave.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
I felt warmed, held and cared for
Franzi cared for me after the birth of my second child. My beautiful daughter was birthed at home in peace, but I had a little more than expected blood loss so Franzi prepared nourishing postpartum meals for me that were tailored to support my healing. Franzi’s postpartum herbal preparations, creams and postpartum treatments were just what I needed in those first days. I felt warmed, held and cared for and especially felt as though I had someone knowledgeable who I could reach out to.
— Laura H, Morden