Prenatal Bodywork: Touch from Within

Meet your instructor.

Hello, I'm Jamie Mossay (she/her), Birthing from Within Mentor and Facilitator, and I’m honored to welcome you to the Birthing From Within community in our Touch From Within Course.

I’ve been serving the San Diego community as a bodyworker and massage therapist for over 20 years, specializing in pregnant, laboring, and postpartum families. I’m the creator of the DANCES® approach to prenatal bodywork and Birthing from Within’s Touch From Within course, a co-author (with Nicole Morales) and illustrator of The Breech Release: Opening Pathways for Midwifery and Prenatal Bodywork, and co-creator of the Spinning Babies Online Course Breech for Parents: which offers holistic support for navigating breech pregnancy for both parents and practitioners. You can learn more about my work at jamiemossay.com and thebreechrelease.com.

I first connected briefly with Pam England’s paradigm-shifting book, Birthing from Within, with the birth of my child in 2007. During my surprisingly intense labor experience I found such tender but boldly honest validation in those pages. I began birth work as a doula in 2009, but it wasn’t until years later that I was cracked open to the true power of this approach when I took my first training in 2013 and Pam’s compassionate questions planted deep seeds of healing and awareness around both my own and my clients’ birth experiences. I studied Birth Story Listening and certified as a Mentor in 2016, and as a Facilitator in 2020. This brilliant, compassionate, and loving approach to childbirth preparation and integration has permeated all areas of my work and life, including as a Spinning Babies Aware® Practitioner and Instructor (that includes bodywork practices to support restoration of space in the body/pelvis), as a Scar Tissue Remediation practitioner offering holistic pelvic care, and as an educator of bodywork and massage. You can read more about how BFW has influenced my bodywork and massage practice at the BFW blog: https://birthingfromwithin.com/birthing-from-within-bodywork/

I’m incredibly blessed to live and work in the San Diego area with such a vibrant community of storytellers, birth workers, my dear family, friends, and neighbors. Being in relationship with human and other-than-human beings, hearing a story, doing dream work, witnessing a client release shame, dancing and moving, conversing with plants in the garden, and honoring moments of ceremony in the setting of a table, the knitting of a scarf, drawing a pelvis, the simple power of touch…these are the things that nourish me most.

This path of mentoring is not an easy one. But as I’ve crossed so many thresholds Birthing from Within continues to hold me, to beat the drum for me as I meet the wild edge of the unknown in my bodywork practice, my birth work, and my ever-evolving and everwhole-ing sense of who I am in the world. May it do the same for you as we continue to transform birth in our culture one touch at a time.

As questions, struggles, and celebrations arise throughout the course you are welcome to post about it on our online forum, and also feel free to reach out to me directly: hello@jamiemossay.com. I welcome and cerebrate your honest feedback.