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Nurturing New Life - Little Steps. Beautiful Beginnings:

Supporting maternal and infant wellbeing for over 20 years. When a baby is born so is a parent.

Infant Massage Classes & Trainings 🌻 Doula Support 🌻 Yoga for Pregnancy, Postnatal & Menopause 🌻 Baby Yoga 🌻 Life Coaching 🌻 Emotional Wellbeing Programmes for Kindy & Primary Tamariki 🌻 Helping you to thrive not just survive 🌻 IAIM NZ Infant Massage Trainer & Instructor – Doula Tuesdays – Baby-led spaces to rest, connect, and grow. Because nurturing touch matters

P-J is passionate about the first 1000 days from conception and the wellbeing of parent and baby and believes her alternative and holistic practices are a preventative measure towards PNA, PND and PTSD. She understands the ups and downs of being pregnant and also the challenges as a newborn parent, how this can affect them emotionally, mentally, physically, spiritually, and how important it is for the parent to rest and heal whilst getting to know their newborn. Those first 42 days after birth sets the pavestone for the next 42 years!!!! P-J's practices are run term by term either online or in-person, so ensure you look up the events on the page to see what is happening or pm me if you can’t find anything. Planning ahead is vital as there are limited spaces for each class. Pregnancy and Postnatal yoga classes - no experience is needed as these classes are specifically run to support the pregnant and postpartum body. Pregnancy is one of the biggest transformations a parent can go through. Support and guidance is necessary. Enrolling into a weekly pregnancy yoga class will help to support you on your journey into parent hood, the birthing journey and beyond for mind, body and spirit. Partner Yoga sessions - in-person - a wonderful way for parents to connect, honoring this time, connecting with baby, whilst giving a role to the partner to help support the mama as they lead up to the impending birth. These yoga poses can be used in the birthing journey and beyond. Infant Massage and gentle yoga movement classes - a 5 week IAIM infant massage programme, now run in over 100 countries - learning about baby's behavioural states and cues, promoting the bond and connection through the art of infant massage. Once we understand babies behavioural states and cues then we can begin to include a massage which will help to release tension and promote health and wellbeing for mind, body and spirit. Babies thrive on physical connection. Skin to skin is a wonderful way for babies to help self regulate. Come and join in on a community class. If you work in maternal and infant mental health why not become a Certified Infant Massage Instructor yourself by attending a 4-Day IAIM NZ Training - visit www.infantmassagenewzealand.org for more information. Postnatal and Baby Yoga classes - a great lead on from from the infant massage class to bring balance to both for mind, body and spirit. Ayurvedic and Traditional Moroccan Postpartum Doula support and Birthing Doula support is available. Re-igniting the digestive fire to provide optimal balance from the birthing journey. Helping to nurture and nourish the parent so they can nurture and nourish their baby. For more about this PM me. Holistic Life Coaching is also available - staying true to yourself - be the authentic you - for you are fearfully and wonderfully made - be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

07/10/2026

You didn’t think I’d leave Maui my teaching doll behind, did you? 🤭✈️💚

Today we’re setting off for Italy, where I’ll be representing Aotearoa as the IAIM NZ Trainer and Chapter Representative.

Between 10–21 October, I’ll be in Florence for our five-day Trainers’ Meeting, a workshop, Chapter Representatives’ Day and General Assembly - learning, sharing and reconnecting with our international infant massage whānau.

After more than 26 years in this work, there is still so much to learn and so much to love.

At the heart of it are the moments I get to witness: a parent noticing their baby’s cues, growing in confidence and finding their own way to connect. That’s what I carry with me, and why I keep learning. 🌱

Come along for a few glimpses of this adventure - with a little Florence beauty along the way!

Send us a wave as we head off 👋🇮🇹

29/09/2026

✨ Another IAIM training completed…🌱🌻

Over four Fridays, I’ve had the privilege of guiding another group through their IAIM Infant Massage Instructor Training.

As the IAIM NZ Trainer, I’m humbled to help carry this work forward in Aotearoa - supporting professionals who work with parents and pēpi to become Infant Massage Instructors and weave this 5-week programme into their existing services - for babies 0-1 year old and up to 7 for those with special and additional needs.

Infant massage is about so much more than massage strokes.

Babies thrive on nurturing, responsive and predictable interactions. Through the rhythm and consistency of infant massage, parents have an opportunity to slow down, observe their baby, recognise their cues and respond.

These repeated moments of connection and responsiveness help nurture the relationship between parent and pēpi and support the foundations of secure attachment.

When a baby experiences their parent as a safe and secure base - someone who notices, responds, comforts and connects - they can gradually develop the confidence to explore their world, knowing they have that safe place to return to. 🌱🌻

Woven throughout the IAIM programme are four areas of benefit:

🌱 Interaction - bonding, communication & connection
🌻 Stimulation - supporting growth & development
🤲 Relief - helping soothe common discomforts
🌿 Relaxation - creating opportunities for calm & rest

One of the most valuable parts of our training is welcoming parents and pēpi.

I’m incredibly grateful to the families who joined us so our students could share a small part of what they had been learning.

You were part of their learning. ❤️

You gave our students the opportunity to move beyond practising with their dolls and experience what this work is really about - supporting the relationship between parent and pēpi.

To our parents and pēpi - thank you. 🙏

And to our students - your four training days are complete, but your journey continues: working with families, completing your assignments and taking their next steps towards becoming Certified Infant Massage Instructor

06/09/2026

Today we celebrate the dads and father figures who bring their own special magic to parenting. 💙

The laughter.
The strength.
The playfulness.
The reassurance.
The arms that say, “You are safe with me.”

Infant massage creates one more beautiful way to connect - slowing down, sharing calm and being completely present together.

It’s a powerful co-regulation tool for the parenting kete and a connection that reaches far beyond words.

Whatever fatherhood looks like in your whānau, today we honour those who nurture, encourage and lovingly walk beside our pēpi and tamariki.

Happy Father’s Day. 🌿💙

Little Steps Beautiful Beginnings

31/08/2026

🧠✨ What happens when your baby’s brain “lights up” through connection?

Every time your baby looks at you, moves, makes a sound or gives you a little cue - and you notice and respond - something important is happening.

Their developing brain is building and strengthening connections.

Through these beautiful back-and-forth moments, baby begins to learn:

💛 I am safe.
💛 I am heard.
💛 My communication matters.
💛 Someone responds to me.

These early experiences help lay foundations for communication, emotional wellbeing, relationships and learning.

And this is one of the beautiful things about infant massage.

It gives us time to slow down, notice, wait, respond and connect.

Your baby doesn’t need something to be wrong.

Connection itself is doing something wonderful. 💛

27/08/2026

🌿 5 PARENTS + BABIES WANTED THIS SEPTEMBER 🌿

Would you love to learn infant massage from the warmth of your own whare? 💛

I’m looking for 5 whānau to join us for 3 complimentary ONLINE Parent & Pēpi Infant Massage sessions during our September IAIM Instructor Training.

These sessions give our trainee instructors the opportunity to share what they are learning with real parents and pēpi -while you receive a beautiful introduction to the 5-week International Association of Infant Massage programme.

✨ Just 1¼ hours a week for 3 weeks (Fridays)
✨ Join from home
✨ Learn nurturing massage, baby cues, communication and connection
✨ No pressure - we follow baby lead

Baby asleep? Use a teddy or doll and practise. 🧸
Baby needs a feed? Feed them.
Baby needs cuddles? Cuddle them.

All we ask is that you can attend all 3 sessions, so each student has the opportunity to teach.

👶 For babies birth–1 year, ideally before crawling
🌈 For children with special or additional needs, we can also welcome children up to 7 years where appropriate

If you live in Dargaville or Te Kōpuru, I can drop off some infant massage oil as a little thank you. If you attend Tangowahine School, I can leave your oil there for collection.

And the gorgeous photo? 💛
That’s Jodie and Indi enjoying infant massage from home - taken a few years back now ❤️🌱🌻

Infant massage is not a fad. It is an ancient practice of nurturing touch - creating time to slow down, notice, listen and connect with your little one.

Who’s up for it? Email for your spot 👉[email protected]
Subject: “Book me in - September Infant Massage”

Only 5 family spaces available 🌱🌻

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Passionate about supporting maternal and infant mental health and wellbeing

24/08/2026

A huge thank you to everyone who helped make the DHS Ball such a special experience for Coleman and Angela. It really does take a village - and we are so grateful for ours. ❤️

To Adam and Mandy, who brought out their beautiful Ford Galaxie 500 XL, picked up Coleman and then Angela, chauffeured them to the Lighthouse for photos and delivered them to the Ball in style - thank you.

And to George, who helped organise this right back when Coleman attended his very first Ball, and to the family who didn’t even know Coleman then but have continued to support him over the years - your kindness means more than you know.

To Jo and the team at DHS, thank you for giving Coleman and Angela the space, trust and independence to attend the Ball and enjoy their evening.

And then there was the outfit!

To everyone who bought Coleman’s beeswax wraps and helped him save enough to purchase his very own Warblers jacket - thank you.

And to Tre, who completed the look with a very stylish Sebastian-inspired haircut. If you know Coleman, you’ll understand exactly why this was the outfit! He is still hopeful that one day DHS might start a Glee Club… just planting that little seed. 😄

He has one more school Ball to go in 2027. Goodness knows what he has planned for the grand finale!

Having a child with special or additional needs invites you to see the world through a different lens. There are challenges, but there are also extraordinary moments of kindness, connection and community.

Much of my own life and work is spent supporting others - as a mum, caregiver, doula, prenatal and postnatal yoga teacher, infant massage instructor, baby yoga teacher and life coach. And it is lovely to be supported too.

Sometimes we all need someone to quietly say, “We’ve got you.”

And if you are beginning your own journey with a wee baby or child with a diagnosis or additional needs, please reach out. You don’t have to have all the answers.

Infant massage can also be one beautiful tool in your kete - a beautiful way to slow down, connect, support relaxation and create moments of peace together.

Little steps. Beautiful beginnings 🌱🌻

17/08/2026

Feeling a little tired, touched-out, or like you’ve been giving to everyone else? 🌱🌻

Tomorrow morning, Wellspring of Motherhood is simply a place to come as you are.

The heaters will be on, the kettle will be ready, and there’ll be something nourishing waiting too.

Come and pause for a little while.
Learn a little infant massage.
Gently stretch your body.
Perhaps get creative.
Sit with a warm cuppa.
Let someone else hold the space while you fill your own cup.

You don’t need to have been before.
You don’t need to know anyone.
You don’t need to arrive feeling organised.

Just come as you are.

📍 St Peter’s Anglican Church Hall, Te Kōpuru
🕙 Tomorrow | 10am–12noon

Please RSVP so I know who I’m preparing for 🌱🌻

10/08/2026

🌿 Come join me… 🌿

Sometimes the hardest part of trying something new is simply walking through the door.

So tomorrow morning (Tuesday), Wellspring of Motherhood is open again - a space for mamas and pēpi to pause, breathe, connect and be nourished too.

Come as you are.

🌻 Come if you’re tired.
🌻Come if pēpi hasn’t slept.
🌻Come with your older children.
🌻Come even if you don’t quite know what you need right now.

There may be some infant massage with pēpi, simple yoga movements to help release the tension that comes from carrying and caring, a little time to breathe and settle through meditation, a warm cuppa and something nourishing to eat.

Nothing is compulsory.
Everything is an invitation. 💛

🌿 Wellspring of Motherhood
📍 Te Kōpuru
🕙 Tuesday's | 10am–12noon (until September 15th)

If you have a couple of adult-sized towels, bring them along - I’ll have the massage oil here.

And if another mama comes to mind while you’re reading this, send this to her and simply say:

“The door is open… come in and join me" 💛

Sometimes that little invitation is all someone needs.

A place to pause, nourish and reconnect.

Address

Kaipara
Dargaville

Opening Hours

Monday	11am - 2:30pm
Tuesday	9:30am - 1:45am
Wednesday	10:30am - 11:30am
Thursday	11am - 2:30pm
Friday	9am - 2:30pm

Telephone

+64212440101

Website

https://littlestepsbb.wixsite.com/my-site, https://www.infantmassagenewzealand.org/

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