Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy for
Women’s Health

Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy for family planning and women’s healthcare offers an integrative and deeply supportive approach that honors the body, mind, and reproductive system across all life stages.

Key Benefits…

    • Ayurvedic yoga therapy supports the endocrine system, helping regulate estrogen, progesterone, and cortisol levels.

    • Gentle yoga postures, breathwork, and Ayurvedic routines can reduce PMS, painful periods, irregular cycles, and hormone-driven conditions like PCOS.

    • Supports healthy ovulation and luteal phase stability, key for conception.

    • Breathwork and restorative movement practices soothe the vagus nerve, reduce anxiety, and help process trauma—essential during fertility struggles, pregnancy, postpartum, or menopause.

    • Regular practice builds emotional resilience, reduces stress-induced hormonal imbalances, and cultivates calm during transitional phases.

    • Practices improve circulation to reproductive organs, increase prana (vital energy), and support healthy ovum and sperm production.

    • Enhances fertility naturally through dosha-balancing movement and digestion-regulating routines.

    • Yoga therapy encourages connection to the womb, preparing body and mind for intentional conception.Description text goes here

    • Adapted asanas and breathing techniques support pelvic space, digestion, circulation, and mental peace during pregnancy.

    • Postpartum-focused yoga therapy rebuilds strength, tones the pelvic floor, and calms Vata, aiding in physical and emotional restoration.

    • Promotes healthy menstruation without pain, stagnation, or mood disruption.

    • During perimenopause and menopause, it supports cooling, grounding, and regulating symptoms like hot flashes, insomnia, and dryness.

    • Incorporates somatic awareness, breath, and mindful movement to help release stored tension or grief (from miscarriage, birth trauma, abortion, etc.).

    • Encourages womb sovereignty—a deep reconnection with the intuitive, cyclical wisdom of the female body.

    • Grounded in both Ayurveda's doshic wisdom and yoga's adaptable therapeutic framework.

    • Focuses on prevention and long-term vitality instead of symptom suppression.

    • Each session is tailored to your unique constitution, cycle, history, and reproductive goals.

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Your Wellness Assessment

Your journey begins with a Wellness Assessment — a dedicated session to understand your unique mind-body constitution, current health patterns, and personal goals. Through time-honored Ayurvedic evaluations and yoga therapy insights, we’ll create a clear, customized plan to support your fertility, pregnancy, or overall wellness.

This is where your personalized path to balance and vitality begins.

What’s Included

  • Dosha evaluation

  • Health and lifestyle review

  • Digestive assessment

  • Goals assessment

  • Pulse diagnosis (nadi pariksha)

  • Tongue assessment

  • Personalized strategy with Ayurvedic and yogic recommendations

Required for: Fertility, Pregnancy, and Yoga Therapy services
Not required for: Postpartum care

Your body is unique. An assessment ensures every recommendation — from movement practices to nutrition and lifestyle — is tailored specifically to you

Rooted in tradition. Personalized for your motherhood journey.

Sacred Seed
Conscious Conception Care

Prepare your womb, body, and spirit for new life.

Services Include:

Ayurvedic Intake + Custom Fertility Plan: Detox, Ayurvedic Herbal & Nutritional Protocols

Yoga Therapy & Meditation

Somatic Womb Support

Pūrva Karma Pre-Cleanse:
• Basti, Fertility Marma Abhyanga, Pinda Swedana, Cupping, Herbal Take-Home Support

Partner prep & womb storytelling (optional)

75-minute session
*Requires a Wellness Evaluation

Radiant Womb
Pregnancy Support

Gentle, grounded Ayurvedic care through each trimester.

Services Include:

Trimester-Based Wellness Planning

Prenatal Marma + Abhyanga Bodywork
• Marma (vital energy point) Abhyanga, Gentle Belly Massage, Head, Face, and Foot & Leg Marma Abhyanga

Private Yoga Therapy, Breath, Meditation to Prepare for Birth

Ayurvedic Herbal & Nutritional Protocols:
• Meal planning and dosha-specific recipe guidance. Safe herbal allies for lactation support, hormone balance, digestion, sleep, and stress. Use of medicated ghee, teas, decoctions, and infusions to nourish tissue layers (dhatus) and restore ojas

60-minute session
*Requires a Wellness Evaluation

Sacred Restoration
Ayurvedic Postpartum Nourishing

42-day Ayurvedic sacred window restoration care for deep nourishment and healing.

Services Include:

In-Home Abhyanga + Marma Therapy
• Marma (vital energy point) Abhyanga, Gentle Belly Massage, Head, Face, and Foot & Leg Marma Abhyanga

Kansa Wand Facials

Lymphatic Care, Belly Binding, Herbal Baths & Custom Herbal Supplements

Ayurvedic Kitchen & Nourishment Support
• Agni (digestive-fire) supporting & nourishing food preparation & partner education.

3- Hour Visit
*Grocery costs are not included

Full Spectrum Package
Sacred Seed | Radiant Womb | Sacred Restoration

A deeply supportive Ayurvedic journey through the full cycle of conception, pregnancy, and postpartum care.

• Wellness Assessment
• Sacred Seed - 3 Sessions
• Radiant Womb - 3 Sessions
• Sacred Restoration - 3 Sessions

*Customized based on needs, timeline, and frequency of care

Fundamentals: Yoga Therapy & Ayurvedic Care

Yoga Therapy for Women’s Health

Yoga therapy is a powerful, individualized tool that supports women throughout the entire arc of motherhood—from conscious conception to postpartum healing. For fertility, yoga therapy helps regulate the nervous and endocrine systems, reduce stress hormones, and improve circulation to the reproductive organs, creating optimal conditions for conception. It supports emotional processing of fertility challenges or past trauma and cultivates a deeper connection to the womb space.

During pregnancy, yoga therapy gently adapts to the changing body, promoting pelvic stability, breath awareness, and digestive ease. It helps reduce common discomforts such as back pain, insomnia, anxiety, and swelling—while preparing the mind and body for labor through relaxation and resilience-building practices.

In the postpartum period, yoga therapy focuses on Vata balance, nervous system restoration, and pelvic floor re-integration. It offers a compassionate pathway back into the body—honoring what’s been transformed and supporting deep healing after birth. Through every phase, yoga therapy nourishes not just the physical body, but the emotional and energetic landscape of motherhood.

Ayurveda & The Modern Model

Ayurveda, the 5,000-year-old holistic medical system of India, is based on the principle that health arises from harmony between the body, mind, spirit, and environment. Far from outdated, Ayurveda is highly adaptable and increasingly embraced in modern wellness for its emphasis on prevention, lifestyle medicine, and personalized care.

In contemporary life, Ayurveda offers a counterbalance to fast-paced, stress-driven routines by guiding individuals toward seasonal alignment, mindful nourishment, daily rituals (dinacharya), and self-awareness. Its tools—like herbal therapies, abhyanga (therapeutic oil massage), yoga, meditation, and dosha-based nutrition—help people manage chronic stress, digestive imbalances, fatigue, and emotional overwhelm with grace and intention.

Pregnancy in the modern world often unfolds amidst overstimulation, isolation, and pressure to “bounce back” quickly. Ayurveda offers a nurturing alternative rooted in time-tested wisdom, while remaining incredibly relevant to today’s maternal needs.

Scientific Parallels & Benefits

Ayurvedic practices like abhyanga, breathwork, and warm herbal teas activate the parasympathetic nervous system—lowering cortisol, supporting immune health, and promoting emotional regulation. These benefits mirror research on stress and birth outcomes, which links high cortisol levels to premature labor and low birth weight.

Ayurveda’s focus on agni (digestive fire) supports microbiome balance—now known to be critical in pregnancy, birth, and the infant’s lifelong immune development.

Anti-inflammatory herbs and Vata-reducing rituals help mitigate common pregnancy symptoms such as insomnia, anxiety, constipation, and joint pain—validated by research connecting inflammation with complications like preeclampsia and gestational diabetes.

The Ayurvedic “sacred window” (first 42 days postpartum) aligns with current maternal mental health guidelines emphasizing adequate rest, community support, and nutrient-rich foods. Warm meals, herbal sitz baths, and oil-based massage help regulate hormones, rebuild tissues, and support lactation.

Empowering Ancient Wisdom in a Modern Framework

Rather than relying solely on clinical interventions, Ayurveda re-centers the mother as the source of intuition, strength, and balance. It empowers women to listen to their own rhythms, honor rest as medicine, and restore trust in natural processes like conception, birth, and postpartum recovery.

By integrating Ayurvedic principles into modern maternity care—whether through daily rituals, supportive foods, bodywork, or emotional processing—women are not only supported physically, but reconnected to the ancestral wisdom of their bodies and lineage.

Heather Todd Franklin is a passionate Ayurvedic counselor, yoga therapist, and postpartum caregiver, bridging ancient wisdom with modern support.

  • Certified Ayurvedic Counselor & Yoga Master

  • Trained Marma Point & Ayurvedic Bodyworker

  • Vata-Balancing Nourishment & Meal Prep Trained

  • Postpartum Belly Binding & Herbal Steaming

  • Instructed in Infant Abhyanga

  • Pre & Postnatal Yoga Certified

  • Yoga Therapy for Women’s Health

“My approach was born from personal experience. After the birth of my daughter, I experienced profound Vata imbalance—dehydration, insomnia, anxiety, and emotional overwhelm. Through Ayurvedic postpartum healing, I found my way back to balance. It became my mission to help other mothers receive what I didn't: structured, nurturing, integrative support.”

Meet Your Ayur-Doula
Heather Todd Franklin C-YM, AC

Prana Mamas Mission Statement

At Prana Mamas, I am committed to living in balance and peace, honoring the same principles I offer to my clients. My mission is to guide women toward a deeper understanding of their true nature, helping them explore the roots of their suffering and cultivate tools for restoration and resilience.

Within the scope of my practice, I strive to relieve suffering through techniques grounded in the timeless wisdom of Yoga and Ayurveda. Every offering is centered on easing discomfort, restoring harmony, and empowering each client to reclaim her innate balance.

As a Yoga Therapist, I integrate the wisdom of the five koshas, three doshas, and three gunas of the mind, applying these frameworks to bring balance and ease to body, mind, and spirit. My work is rooted in personal experience and discipline in asana, pranayama, self-study, devotion, and meditation.

As an Ayurvedic Practitioner, I draw upon the knowledge of the doshas and sub-doshas, agni, gunas, malas, and nadi to create individualized care plans. These may include food and lifestyle guidance, Vedic practices and rituals, dravyology, vastu, jyotish, marma therapy, energy therapy, and manas (mind) support.

Through these practices, I aim to hold space for women in every season of life — fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, menopause, and beyond — offering care that is as restorative as it is empowering, and as rooted in ancient wisdom as it is relevant to modern life.

Ayurvedic Principles

Rooted in your cultural culinary & caregiving traditions

Ayurveda is not just "Indian food" or a prescribed list of exotic herbs—it’s a universal system of healing that invites us to look to our own cultural roots for nourishment, rhythm, and balance. At its heart, Ayurveda teaches us to live in harmony with nature and to use food as medicine—guided by the seasons, the elements, and the needs of our unique constitution.

While its classical language and recipes originate in India, Ayurveda is adaptable to every geography and lineage. Its principles—like eating with the seasons, warming and grounding the body during times of depletion, or using spices to ignite digestion—can be expressed through your own family’s recipes, ancestral herbs, and time-honored kitchen rituals.

Through Ayurveda, we reconnect not only to our bodies, but also to the cultural culinary and healing traditions passed down through generations. It reminds us that wellness is not outsourced—it’s woven into the food we cook, the care we give ourselves, and the blessings of our own lineage. This approach makes wellness not just accessible, but personal and empowering.

A gentle ritual for rest, renewal, and deep nourishment.

Perfect for postpartum gifting, birthworker referrals, or your own sacred window of rest, the Mini Sacred Restoration Kit brings the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda into the hands of modern birthers. This thoughtfully crafted set includes small-batch, herbal preparations designed to soothe the body, calm the nervous system, and support vital replenishment in the days and weeks following birth.

Discover the remedies your body remembers—crafted for your sacred journey.

Nourish, Restore, Rebirth

Meet your Mini Sacred Restoration Kit

Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy for EveryBody

Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy blends the time-tested wisdom of Ayurveda with the healing tools of yoga to support deep, personalized transformation—physically, emotionally, and energetically. This practice recognizes that no two bodies are the same, offering customized guidance rooted in your unique constitution (prakriti) and current imbalances (vikruti).

Using breath-centered movement, restorative postures, seasonal routines, and Ayurvedic self-care protocols, this therapy supports:

  • Pain management for conditions like joint stiffness, menstrual discomfort, pelvic pain, and tension-related imbalances

  • Emotional resilience through nervous system regulation, breathwork, and trauma-informed mindfulness

  • Hormonal harmony, digestive health, fertility support, and postpartum recovery

Each session may include dosha-specific yoga sequences, pranayama, marma point therapy, guided meditation, and lifestyle support designed to meet you exactly where you are.

Whether you're seeking grounding, renewal, or a return to wholeness, Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy offers a gentle, effective path to healing from the inside out.

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Books We Love to Bring Your Healing Home

Ayurveda for Women: The Power of Food as Medicine

By: Emily L Glaser, RN, C.Ay

Eat to heal! This accessible Ayurveda book for women taps into the ancient wisdom and power of food as medicine with recipes, menus, and culinary remedies for dosha imbalances and common ailments.

Birthing Mama: Your Companion for a Holistic Pregnancy Journey

by Corinne Andrews

Birthing Mama is an invitation to experience pregnancy, birth and motherhood as a spiritual practice.​

Ayurveda & the Feminine

By: Monica Groover, BAMS

A mini practical guide to ancient rituals and practices of Ayurveda, Vastu, mantras, meditation and creation of altars to invite healing and balance to a woman's life.