Pelvic & Womb Care (Melbourne & Online)
Core, Floor & Restore: Progressive, personal and holistic video programs to restore and strengthen your core and pelvic floor (Online)
Fiona Hallinan: offering Internal Pelvic Release work, body orientated birth preperation and Spinning Babies workshops (Clifton Hill)
Lisa Brown: Holistic Physiotherapist (Mooroolbark)
Fertile Ground: Specialist services include acupuncture IVF support, naturopathic fertility treatment, pregnancy massage and osteopathy for babies (Collingwood)
Michaela Rinkel: Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine Practitioner (Richmond & Fitzroy North)
Rachael West: Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine (Mt. Evelyn)
Jeevan Singh: Somatic Pelvic Healer & Embodiment Coach (USA & Online)ople’ by Mary Mahoney
Womb School: A pleasure-forward seasonal membership rooted in the womb continuum, guided by the earth and moon.
Fertility Awareness & Cycles
(Book) ‘Queer Conception: The Complete Fertility Guide for Queer and Trans Parents-to-Be’ by Kristin L Karli
(Book) ‘Taking Charge of Your Fertility: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health’ by Toni Weschler
(Book) ‘The New Essential Guide to Lesbian Conception, Pregnancy and Birth’ by Stephanie Brill
(Book) ‘Awakening Fertility: The Essential Art of Preparing for Pregnancy’ by Heng Ou
(Book) ‘Wild Power: Discover the Magic of Your Menstrual Cycle and Awaken the Feminine Path to Power’ by Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer and Alexandra Pope
‘Moon Lists: A Guided Journal: Questions and Rituals for Self-Reflection’ by Leigh Patterson
(App) Fertility Friend: A fertility tracker, BBT chart and calendar (free app)
Bloody Hell: A collaborative non-profit zine about people's experiences with menstruation. It aims shift the discourse around a subject often considered taboo.
What’s all the fuss about free bleeding, and why does it matter?
My Beautiful Cervix: provide accessible information about fertility and menstrual cycles and showcase photographs documenting changes in the cervix and cervical fluid throughout the cycle.
Personal & Collective Wellbeing
Community Groups & Organisations
Gaia Archer (Doula) Monthly Pregnancy & Mother circles for connection and community, based in Melbourne.
Birth For Humankind: Provides & advocates for respectful maternity care for women and birthing people experiencing disadvantage. For eligible families, birth and postpartum doula care is available.
Black Rainbow: social network for Indigenous people who identify as LGBTIQ+, sistergirl or brotherboy.
LGBTIQ Community Services and Organisations: A comprehensive, state-by-state list of community services and organisations available.
Small Beyond: Facilitates practices, spaces and stories that encourage people to build embodied and adaptive relationships with themselves, their community and their environment.
Collective Being: Radical, embodied resources for personal and collective wellbeing.
Wellbeing, Trauma Support & Therapeutic Practice (Melbourne & Online)
Centre For Perinatal Psychology: Evidence Based parent and infant wellbeing tools and resources
Mia Muse (Vanessa Muradian): Sexologist, Educator & Yoga Teacher
Artery Therapeutic Arts: Art therapy service aimed at creating therapeutic spaces for people of colour.
Nisha Gill: Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Trauma Informed Birth Worker and Bodyworker.
(Book) ‘When Survivors Give Birth’ by Penny Simkin
(Book) ‘Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection’ by Deb Dana
(Article) My Experience of Perinatal Depression and Anxiety
Harm Reducation and Drug & Alcohol Supports
(Article) What is Harm Reduction?
(Webinar) Eliminating Stigma: harm reduction, and how it saved my life.
DirectLine: Confidential alcohol and drug counselling and referral in Victoria 1800 88 236