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Heidi Bracher Pelvic Health Specialist/ Abdominal Massage
Heidi Bracher Pelvic Health Specialist/ Abdominal Massage

I’m a student and lifelong practitioner of Maya Abdominal Therapies, trained in the lineage of Dr. Rosita Arvigo, and continually deepening into craniosacral work, spiritual healing, and grounded mystic practices.

Since 2001, I’ve worked with spiritual bodywork, massage, and energy medicine—guided by the belief that touch is an essential language of community, a pathway to connection, healing, and deeper awareness.
My travels and love of learning from diverse cultures have shaped my approach to the healing arts, infusing it with curiosity, humility, and reverence.

My Work Focuses On:

  • Childbearing years: fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, and menopause

  • Pelvic health: including organ prolapse, scar tissue healing (post-birth & post-surgery)

  • Infant & adult craniosacral therapy: especially for supporting the birth parent & baby dyad

  • Visceral & intraoral craniosacral therapy, Maya Abdominal Therapy, healing touch, and more

Modalities & Techniques I Work With:

  • Craniosacral therapy (including intraoral work)

  • Visceral manipulation

  • Maya Abdominal Therapy

  • Postnatal care (Certified Innate Traditions practitioner)

  • Big Island Lomi Lomi

  • Hot stones from Alaska foraged with love off Homer spit

  • Acutonics

  • Reflexology

  • Reiki & subtle energy work

  • Herbal support with Rusty Moon Botanicals: hand-crafted plant medicine from wild-foraged, garden-grown, & reputable, socially equitable + conscious sources

Ongoing Studies & Passions

I’m deeply committed to continuing my learning, especially around:

  • Plant medicine & folk healing

  • Wild & alley foraging, mushroom identification, and native plant cultivation

  • Spiritual nutrition—what feeds the soul as well as the body

  • Neuroscience & trauma—how generational patterns imprint the physical and emotional body

  • Gemstone & earth wisdom, ritual practices, and nature-based magic

A Little More About Me

I live in South Seattle, where I tend a garden, wander in the plant world, and find renewal in the sea.
My animal companions—Lilu, Bambina, and Rocky the cats, and Tapiwa dog—keep life playful and grounded.
I love documentaries, camping, and time in nature, where I return again and again to the rhythms that guide all healing.

Heidi Bracher Pelvic Health Specialist/ Abdominal Massage/ Wild Forage/ Plant Medicine

Certifications

The Scherer Institute of Natural Healing
Santa Fe, NM
Massage and Bodywork License: ma00015963
2001

NCBTMB
National Certification Board Therapeutic Massage Bodywork
300175-00
2001

AMBP (Associated Bodywork + Massage) & ASCP (Associated SkinCare Professionals)
670424
2001

Washington state Licensed Massage Therapist
MA 00015963
2001

Hawaii state Licensed Massage Therapist
MAT 7234-0
2003

Hawaii Community College
Honokaa, Hawaii
Nurses Aid
2003

The Euro Institute of Skin Care
Renton, WA
Aesthetics License: 81379
2009

Maya Abdominal Therapy~ lineage of Dr. Rosita, Don Elijio Panit, Miss Hortence Robinson
San Ignacio, Belize
Certified Maya Abdominal Practitioner + Spiritual Healing lineage of ancient traditional medicines
2010- 2016

Cedar Mountain Herbal School
Skagit Valley seasonal spring, summer, fall wild foraging, local plant identification & creating medicine with Love & honoring sustainable harvesting
2016- 2018

Certified INNATE Traditions Postpartum Care Provider
Caring for birth parents, baby, non gestational parent in the indigenous science tradition of 40 days & 40 nights of centering birth parent with extended resting periods, warming therapies, bodywork, warm foods & community. When we center birth parent, we radically care for the collective.
2017

Gyan Yog Breath, Rishikesh India
200 hr Hatha Yoga Teacher Training
+
Reiki Level I & II
2018

Heidi Bracher Pelvic Health Specialist/ Abdominal Massage/ Wild Forage

Coursework

Craniosacral Braun Method with Phyllis Braun, Santa Fe NM, 2001
Pregnancy Massage, Santa Fe NM, 2002
Breath Works, Big Island HI, 2002/ 2003
Dynamic Energetics, Santa Fe NM, 2003
Lomi Lomi, Big Island HI, 2003/ 2004
Hands on Healing, Waimea Big Island, 2004
Maya Abdominal Massage self care, Vashon WA, 2010
BioTherapeutics Skincare CEUs, Seattle WA, 2010- 2014
Maya Spiritual Healing, San Ignacio BZE, 2011
Maya Abdominal Massage Professional, Loveland CO, 2011
Maya Spiritual Healing, San Ignacio BZE, 2012
Jade Reiki, Level I, Seattle, 2013
Craniosacral Braun Method with Phyllis Braun, Yellow Springs OH, 2013
Maya Abdominal Massage Certification, San Ignacio BZE, 2014
Craniosacral Braun Method with Phyllis Braun, Yellow Springs OH, 2014
Maya Spiritual Healing Wisdom Circle, San Ignacio BZE, 2015
Maya Abdominal Massage for Pregnancy, Greenfield NH, 2015
Craniosacral Braun Method with Phyllis Braun, Yellow Springs OH, 2015
Spirit Work, Training in Power, Seattle WA, 2015
Latest Massage Research, Micheal Hamm, Seattle WA, 2015
Love Your Guts Seminars, Marty Ryan, Bellingham WA, 2016
Innate Traditions Postpartum Care Provider Certified, Seattle WA, 2016/ 2017
Craniosacral (CST) Carol Gray:: Subtle Hands On Skills, Portland OR, 2015
CST Carol Gray:: the Basics, Portland OR, 2015
CST Carol Gray:: Beyond the Basics, Portland OR, 2015
CST Carol Gray:: Pregnancy Birth & Postpartum, Portland OR, 2021
CST Carol Gray:: Infant Craniosacral, Portland OR, 2021
CST Carol Gray:: Supporting Emotional Release, Portland OR, 2022
CST Carol Gray:: Infant Craniosacral, Portland OR, 2024
Ethics Courses with Brain Utting, Seattle WA, biennial

Heidi Bracher Pelvic Health Specialist/ Abdominal Massage/ Pelvic Steam/ Pelvic Oiling/ Pelvic Health

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