Nurturing Moves Peaceful and Playful Wellness and Therapeutic services for pre/postnatal women, children, and families

Nurturing Moves, developed by Michelle Maniaci, PT, is an integrative-multiple systems approach to wellness, holistic exercise, rehab, healing, play, and birth preparation that unites the evidence-based science of physical therapy, therapeutic yoga, massage, and mindfulness meditation with the wisdom of belly dance, Pilates-Feldenkrais movement principles, and vibrational medicine. Individuals learn how to safely and effectively activate their inner resources for optimal health, well-being, and integration of self-healing. Nurturing Moves heighten self-awareness of how the body-brain-breath harmonize, function, and facilitate self-healing. Practicing Nurturing Moves results in strengthening the experience of your True Essence/Oneness, which is peace and love (the opposite of ego, fear, and stress). Allow Michelle to guide you on your journey inward to live your dance of life to the fullest with Your nurturing moves.

Highly specialized physical therapy, yoga, and belly dance based exercises are available during pregnancy and postpartum. Women learn the art of Being while also releasing tension, staying fit, and having fun with baby. Services prepare women for a healthy birth experience and speedy postpartum recovery while also preventing common complaints such as neck, shoulder, and lumbo-pelvic pain, fatigue, incontinence, prolapse, muscle tension, depression, anxiety, and stress which makes for a happier and healthier mother and baby.

Parenting Enrichment, Infant Massage, and Developmental Play Workshops educate and empower therapists, teachers, and caregivers to inspire our children to cultivate inner peace, love, and optimal health by activating their inner resources. Inner ME Adventures and Mother-Daughter Danceyoga are innovative and therapeutic exercise programs that enhance the lives of special needs children, women, and families.

Workshops raise the level of scientific integrity and effectiveness to the teachings of yoga and belly dance. Health care professionals learn how to integrate holistic movement therapies with current evidence based practices to enhance functional outcomes and improve patient compliance, and motivation.

Allow Michelle to guide you on the most exciting journey in your life... your inward journey back to your wholeness and celebrating the most amazing being in your life... the Inner You (of which we are all a part of). From this place, we can begin to truly co-create a more peaceful, conscious, educated, empowered, and healthy world.