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Reweaving: A Return to Remembering

A podcast about bodies, culture, & transformation. November 2025 Schedule with me this week. Not your average massage — this is full-body alchemy. Using the strength and sensitivity of the feet, barefoot massage delivers deep waves of pressure that reshape tension from the inside out. Schedule here. 2025 has been a year of intense transition. Save this email series so you can search "Reweaving" Introducing: The Grounding Spell This is some of the most important work that I tend to: Caring for...

A podcast about bodies, culture, & transformation.

November 2025

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Schedule with me this week.

Not your average massage — this is full-body alchemy.

Using the strength and sensitivity of the feet, barefoot massage delivers deep waves of pressure that reshape tension from the inside out.

Schedule here.

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2025 has been a year of intense transition. Save this email series so you can search “Reweaving”

Introducing: The Grounding Spell

This is some of the most important work that I tend to:

Caring for mothers is caring for the earth.​
Caring for mothers is caring for the future.​
Caring for mothers is how we repair what has been broken.

And even if you’re not a mother or plan to, this work still directly applies to you.

Birth and Postpartum

It’s a sacred threshold: a time when the body opens to repair, the heart stretches to include new life, and the nervous system longs for slowness, warmth, and witness.

My training and care weaves together the ancient and the modern, the practical and the ceremonial.

This is a space for remembering what was once known: that mothers and birthing people are meant to be held within community, not left to navigate early motherhood alone.​
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​The Grounding Spell $1190

3 Prenatal Visits

To prepare for your postpartum period, name your true needs, and gently unravel the cultural conditioning that makes receiving support difficult. Together we create a plan for deep rest and nourishment.

3 Postpartum Home Visits​
In-home care that includes 30 minutes of grounding massage, warm conversation, and practical support for your healing journey.

Bekung Belly Binding​
A traditional practice offered after massage to bring containment, alignment, and energetic coherence back to your center.

3 Days of Nourishing Meals​
Delivered during home visits, from a healing menu designed to replenish your body and balance digestion.

Herbal Teas & Infusions​
Custom herbal blends to soothe the nervous system, support lactation, and nourish your blood and spirit.

6+ Hours of Postpartum Support​
Flexible tending time that may include light household care, baby holding, organizing, or overnight rest support*

*Overnight care is available but needs to be worked out separately.

Mother Circle​
Free access to communal space offered twice a year, available to mom after 6 weeks postpartum. Mother Circle is story, repair, and reweaving connection among mothers.

My belief about Postpartum Care

Postpartum includes miscarriage, live birth, still birth, abortion care, adoption and probably other iterations that I haven’t come across yet.

When we tend to the Mothers, we repair the world.

This work is about more than care, it’s about remembering.
Remembering that you were never meant to do this alone.
Remembering that birth and mothering belong to the whole village.
Remembering that when we center mothers, we center life itself.

By de-centering the isolated nuclear family model and returning to shared tending, we begin to rebuild the roots of our culture. I see a culture where care, reciprocity, and relationship are the foundation for thriving families and communities.

Postpartum care, in this way, becomes a seed for cultural repair.

A small, sacred act of remembering how to be human together and in an increasing world of disconnection, being human is something worth remembering.

Modern postpartum care often ends at delivering meals. Postpartum time is an opportunity for REPAIR. Imagine your postpartum experience becoming a space for healing and renegotiation of past moments where care was needed but forgotten or unavailable

Mainstream culture encourages mothers to “do it all,” yet offers little structure for rest, nourishment, or true community.

This work stands in quiet rebellion to that.

Rooted in the Innate Traditions Postpartum lineage and guided by Kimberly Ann Johnson’s 5 Universal Postpartum Needs:

extended rest,

nourishing food,

loving touch,

presence of wise women, and

contact with nature/spirit

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The 5 universal postpartum needs are a guide for a good life. When those needs are met, whole and more healed humans ripple out into healthier families and more compassionate communities.

With me, the mother’s well-being is the measure of thriving. Not her diagnosis, not productivity, not speed, not independence.

Here, care is the medicine.
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There is a cost. And while I wish we could remember more systems of community tending and I didn’t need to charge anything for what I know to be true care. For now, the cost is $1190. And if you want to support the quiet tending of this kind of care, I strongly encourage you to support the Patreon as a way to move the needle more toward this kind of support.

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Thank you for being here.

Sara Newberry is a devoted bodyworker, mother, and founder of Somatic Sole Massage in St. Louis, MO, where she blends ancient wisdom with modern nervous system science to support holistic well-being. Specializing in Mind Body Coaching—a bottom-up approach that centers the body’s intelligence rather than the mind’s agenda—Sara offers a deeply intuitive, trauma-informed space for healing and transformation. Through barefoot massage, somatic practices, and sacred motherhood care, she guides clients in reconnecting with their body’s natural rhythms and resilience.

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