Maya Abdominal Therapy
This soothing bodywork restores gentle balance and flow to the body, supporting conception, a peaceful pregnancy and graceful healing after birth
Maya Abdominal Therapy techniques are used to support the restoration of the body to a state of wholeness where chu’lel (a Maya word for life force energy/Qi) can flow freely.
Maya Abdominal Therapy is a gentle, hands-on practice rooted in the ancient wisdom of the Maya people. Focusing on the abdomen, pelvis, uterus, and surrounding structures, it supports optimal alignment, circulation, and nerve and lymph flow, promoting reproductive and digestive health. This therapy nurtures the body, enhances pelvic function, and encourages balance and well-being, supporting women through fertility, pregnancy, postpartum recovery, and overall health at every stage of life.
“If a woman’s uterus is out of balance, she will be physically, emotionally and spiritually out of balance.”
— Don Elijio Panti
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Trying to conceive (naturally or with assisted reproductive technologies)
Maya Abdominal Therapy gently prepares the body and mind for conception. Through soft, grounding touch, it brings balance to the uterus and pelvis, enhances circulation, and encourages hormonal harmony. This nurturing therapy can ease menstrual pain, bloating, and pelvic tension, while releasing emotional and physical blockages that may affect fertility. It also pairs beautifully with IUI and IVF treatments—helping calm the nervous system, support uterine receptivity, and create a peaceful, welcoming environment for implantation.
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Safe in pregnancy weeks 0-40+
Maya Abdominal Therapy offers gentle, nurturing support for the changing body during pregnancy. This work helps relieve morning sickness, acid reflux, digestive sluggishness, and the aches and pains that come with a growing belly—especially in the low back, hips, and round ligaments. By encouraging balance in the uterus and pelvis, it allows more comfort, spaciousness, and ease for both mother and baby. Our work together will encourage a smoother labor and birth, faster placenta delivery, and can help prevent future issues such as prolapse and incontinence. After birth, it helps the body realign, release tension, and recover naturally.
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Once you are cleared by your doctor…
Maya Abdominal Therapy gently nurtures the body after birth, supporting healing and balance in the uterus, pelvis, and abdomen. It can help the uterus return to its pre-pregnancy position, relieve lower back, hip, or pelvic discomfort, reduce tension in the pelvic floor, and encourage overall vitality. This therapy provides a grounding, restorative experience—helping the body recover gracefully and regain strength after pregnancy and childbirth.
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For general health, including perimenopause and menopause, Maya Abdominal Therapy supports hormonal balance and eases common symptoms such as hot flashes, night sweats, pelvic heaviness, bloating, digestive discomfort, and lower back or pelvic tension. By restoring alignment, improving circulation, and releasing tension in the pelvic and abdominal organs, it helps women feel grounded, vital, and more comfortable in their changing bodies.
Pregnancy & Postpartum Maya Abdominal Therapy
Now Available!
Supports comfort, alignment, and healing for pregnancy and postpartum wellness.
More on Maya Abdominal Therapy…
Maya Abdominal Therapy, also known as “Arvigo Maya Abdominal Massage” or simply “abdominal massage,” is a gentle, non-invasive, hands-on technique that helps realign the uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes, and other organs that may have shifted, creating areas of stagnation and restricted flow of blood, lymph, nerve, and Qi (life force energy). This deeply nurturing therapy works to restore pelvic and uterine alignment, improve circulation, and bring balance to the body both before and after birth. It supports faster postpartum healing, promotes optimal uterine recovery, and helps prevent common concerns such as prolapse and incontinence. By harmonizing the sacrum—the energetic “plug in the wall” of the pelvic bowl—Maya Abdominal Therapy allows the entire system to function with greater ease, vitality, and overall well-being.
Essentially, this type of massage, in addition to acupuncture, helps to improve blood flow and circulation to your reproductive and digestive organs. Men, however, can also benefit from this type of therapy, even without a uterus, because they have a prostate and other interior reproductive ducts and tissues, which are located all in the same general area. Abdominal massage can help improve male fertility challenges, as well, whether the gentleman has sup-optimal sperm parameters or just wants to enhance fertility and optimize sperm quality and quantity.
In our sessions, together we will…
Discuss what your concerns and goals for healing are.
Create an actionable plan that supports your goals for fertility and/or overall wellness.
Learn about herbs, essential oils, nutritional therapy, and much, much more that will support your body in the healing process
Experience the gentle hands-on techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy on the anterior (front) and posterior (back) of the body.
Improve blood flow and circulation with your abdominal massage which may include additional, non-invasive therapies such as castor oil packs, hot stones, and/or low-level-light therapy.
Learn about self-care practices and massage techniques to continue at home in between our sessions.
Every Maya Abdominal Therapy session is completely tailored to your wellness journey and overarching health goals.
What our patients are saying…
“I recently had a session of Arvigo Maya abdominal massage from Monica Dayanand, DAOM, L. Ac. at Fertile Moon Integrative Medicine… I found the session to be very powerful and thorough. The work was quite deep and I felt my entire abdominal region was met. Monica’s focus was very intense and I felt areas of congestion, some of which I had been aware and others of which I was unaware, beginning to dissolve and relax. During the session I felt intense heat rising in my body on two occasions. This was followed by an overall warming and deeply relaxing feeling. I was most pleasantly surprised that Monica included a teaching session at the end of the session so that I could learn to do this work for myself...”
Gayle Condon, L. M. T.
“I have been going to Dr. Monica since November 2021 on a weekly basis, at first for acupuncture treatment after a radical hysterectomy. I wanted a holistic approach for my recovery. Dr. Monica was from the first visit very attentive to my needs and symptoms and eventually proposed I considered the Arvigo Maya Abdominal Massage. Trusting her common sense, I agreed to give it a try, and can honestly say that had it not been for this technique of healing massage, I would have slowly but surely fallen into depression. This gentle yet powerful manipulation of my abdomen right away gave me a sense of connection to my body and my mind. I couldn't hold back the tears the first time, with a strong sense of gratitude as she pressed her hands with a confident touch around the long incision scar I used to dread looking at. The Arvigo Maya Abdominal Massage is a treatment I so recommend now after any abdominal surgery actually. It's an hour I give to myself every fortnight, walking off with a renewed zest for life!"
Giovanna