Pregnancy Massage in Berlin-Mitte
MamiSpa®
Pregnancy, and the months that follow birth, are a season of their own. The body keeps its own rhythm, and much of what changes is hard to put into words. There is a name for this passage: the anthropologist Dana Raphael called it matrescence in 1973. A transition as profound as adolescence.
At Inanna we accompany this time without hurrying it. Every visit begins with a quiet conversation and an attentive look at your skin and body that day. Only then does the treatment itself begin. Nothing follows a fixed script; everything is composed around the moment and how you feel.
This is the heart of the Inanna Method®: the person before the method, calm before pace. Our treatments are intended to complement your medical care, in close agreement with your midwife or doctor. We work in English and in German. Privacy here is a standard, not a promise: you are undisturbed, and the time is yours.
Care through pregnancy and the months after birth
Our offering follows the natural course of this time rather than a list. During pregnancy, from the thirteenth week, a gentle pregnancy massage is available. So is a facial composed for pregnancy, individually and as you wish. Manual lymphatic drainage has its place only later, in the time after birth.
What would otherwise take four addresses in Berlin happens under one roof. A facial with Biologique Recherche®, bodywork in the tradition of Esalen® massage, manual lymphatic drainage in the Dr. Vodder® method, gentle accompaniment of the pelvic area, and care for the caesarean scar. Accompanied by the same Meisterin des Hauses, who already knows your story.
In the fourth trimester, we accompany your recovery with care. Once your midwife or doctor confirms safe healing, the path widens. The possibilities range from a facial through bodywork and manual lymphatic drainage to a gentle, very private accompaniment of the core and pelvic area. If you wish to walk this arc as a whole, you find it in MamiSpa® Couture. The program carries Renew, Restore, and Recover through the fourth trimester, in the same hands.
Every treatment begins with a conversation. Pressure, pace, and positioning follow your trimester, your stage of recovery, and your sensitivity that day. Comfortable, secure positioning is supported by the Elsa® Swiss side-sleeping pillow.
From which week is a pregnancy massage possible?
At Inanna, pregnancy massage begins from the thirteenth week, with the second trimester. Through the first trimester we deliberately hold back. That restraint is widespread professional practice, and we follow it without exception. From the thirteenth week onward the massage remains possible late into pregnancy. The position changes with each trimester, and the pace is set by how you feel that day.
Which areas are not massaged during pregnancy?
The belly is not massaged, and neither is deep tissue. We set aside strong pressure and pointed techniques for the whole of pregnancy. During pregnancy we also set aside radiofrequency entirely. The manufacturer names pregnancy an absolute contraindication, at every stage. That holds even when the abdomen is not treated. It is used only after birth, and then with care. Before that, your midwife or doctor confirms that healing has safely progressed. What remains is a great deal: back, shoulders, legs, and feet. With adapted pressure, in a secure side-lying position.
How do you lie during a pregnancy massage?
From the second trimester we work in a supported side-lying or semi-reclined position. In the third trimester, side-lying only. Lying flat on the back can place weight on the vena cava late in pregnancy, so we avoid it. Positioning is supported by the Swiss Elsa® side-sleeping pillow and further cushions. A pillow between the knees eases the pelvis and lower back. Side-lying is, in fact, a recognized element of Esalen® massage, not a workaround. We work with a dry oil that absorbs fully during the massage itself. Afterwards you dress as you arrived: no shower, no film, no trace on your clothing.
When is lymphatic drainage possible after birth?
Within MamiSpa®, manual lymphatic drainage in the Dr. Vodder® method has its place only after birth. We begin once your midwife or doctor confirms safe healing. During pregnancy itself we deliberately do not offer it. Our Meisterin des Hauses learned the method at the Dr. Vodder Academy in Walchsee. Günther and Hildegard Wittlinger founded the school in 1971, after instruction from Emil Vodder himself. The academy authorizes its application within preventive whole-body care. That is exactly how we practice it: as quiet support for recovery, not as medical treatment.
What applies in the postpartum weeks, and what is the 3-3-3 rule?
The Wochenbett, the postpartum confinement, spans roughly the first six to eight weeks after birth. The 3-3-3 rule is a midwife's rule of thumb. About three days in bed, three days on the bed, three days around the bed. That is how slow this time is allowed to be. What your own midwife advises always comes first. Our work accompanies the care of midwife and doctor; it does not replace it. A first full-body treatment usually finds its place from around the second week, at the rhythm your body sets.
How is the caesarean scar accompanied?
Calmly, and only after medical clearance. MamiSpa® Scar gives the caesarean scar a short session of its own. Gentle care of the surrounding tissue with INDIBA® radiofrequency. Carefully measured, in a protected setting. We promise the scar nothing; we give it time, attention, and care that follows how you feel. Many women experience this attention as soothing. Its place is in the months after birth, in agreement with midwife and doctor.
How do we accompany the intimate area and pelvic floor after birth?
With gentle radiofrequency warmth, unhurried time, a clear frame, and exactly three applications, nothing more. MamiSpa® Recover works with INDIBA® Intimate External and INDIBA® Intimate Internal. External care is given to the intimate area, the labia. The internal application works in the vaginal canal, with a slender, body-warm applicator. And as a third field of its own: pelvic health. The pelvic floor is the muscular layer that carries the most through pregnancy and birth. We accompany the pelvic floor with the same mild warmth, in the same calm frame. What is training remains training and belongs to your Rückbildung: we accompany, we do not exercise. The warmth at 448 kilohertz is mild, and most women experience it as pleasant. The work begins after medical clearance, in NiSV-certified hands and in a protected room. You remain covered, and every step is explained and taken only with your consent. Your pace decides. The care asks no pause of your daily life. Complaints belong in medical hands. Our work stands beside that: quiet, dignified care for an area rarely spoken about.
Can a MamiSpa® visit be given as a gift?
Yes, and it happens often. A friend, a partner, or one's own mother wants to give a new mother something that is hers alone. A MamiSpa® visit can be given, dedicated to a treatment and valid for twelve months. We prepare it personally addressed and send it at a moment of your choosing. Or you present it yourself. The easiest way to begin is a short message to us. What serves a mother in the postpartum weeks is rarely an object: it is time that belongs only to her.
The house behind the care
Pregnancy changes the skin, the body, and how everything feels, and none of it on schedule. The house meets this time as it meets everything: with accuracy over intensity. Before the first treatment come the conversation and the reading of skin and condition on that day. Only then a recommendation. The Inanna Consult® is the calm first step.
This work is carried by the Meisterinnen des Hauses, whose craft stands in documented lineages. From the Esalen® tradition to Kobido® training at the Institut Takumi Finch in Paris. The hand leads, the technology follows.
Our bodywork follows the tradition of Esalen® massage. It began in 1962 at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. Founded by Michael Murphy and Richard Price. Its long, flowing strokes and quiet, continuous rhythm invite the body to settle. From the second trimester, we adapt it to pregnancy with careful positioning and gentle pressure. Side-lying is a recognized element of Esalen® massage. It is taught at the Esalen® Institute in Big Sur as continuing education carrying 21 hours of EMBA credit. For its pregnancy work the house commissioned a dedicated training of its own. Taught in Berlin by Ingrid May, assisted by Nina Ottenheym. Both are listed in the official EMBA directory as Esalen® massage teachers for Germany. Five teachers are listed there in total.
Manual lymphatic drainage in the Dr. Vodder® method goes back to Emil and Estrid Vodder. The Danish couple developed it in the 1930s and first presented it in Paris in 1936. Its soft, rhythmic movements follow the natural path of the lymph. Our Meisterin des Hauses learned this method at the Dr. Vodder Academy in Walchsee in Tyrol. The Wittlingers founded the school in 1971, after personal instruction from Emil Vodder. It preserves the method in its original form to this day. Within the MamiSpa® program we offer it only after birth, once healing has safely progressed.
Where technology joins the work, it stays in the service of the hands. INDIBA® began in Barcelona in 1983 and works with a gentle radiofrequency at 448 kilohertz. We use it with care, only in the time after birth, and never during pregnancy. Dermalux® LED phototherapy, from the United Kingdom, works without heat. It is suited to facial care throughout pregnancy. Skin analysis with Canfield VISIA® serves only as orientation. It remains secondary to the observation and judgment of our Meisterinnen des Hauses.
Our facials work with Biologique Recherche® from France. The house has developed its formulations since the late 1970s. Each formulation, free of fragrance, is matched to your Skin Instant® that day.
The house is named by others: World Spa Awards, Best Day Spa Germany 2024 and 2025; the only CIDESCO-certified house in Berlin; portrayed in Vogue Italia in 2025.
Care includes its boundary. The postpartum weeks belong to your midwife and your Rückbildung class. Both come first. Where something belongs to a doctor, we do not treat; we ask you to see your doctor or midwife first. Our work stands beside that care, never in its place.
Inanna is a house for non-medical, device-supported and manual care. We make no diagnoses and treat no conditions. In the end it is neither the device nor the method that matters. It is the person, accompanied calmly and without haste. The calm first step is the Inanna Consult®, and whenever you wish, you can reach us here.
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