Exploring Life & Business with Jaimie Lindsay of Roots to Bloom Women’s Wellness

Today we’d like to introduce you to Jaimie Lindsay.

Hi Jaimie, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
My story with emerging families and the birth world began when I became a mother. I was fortunate to have joined La Leche League and a New Mom ‘s Network. I felt such gratitude for the community that I found alongside other mothers that I became an LLL leader and facilitated meetings in my community for years. After the unmedicated birth of my 2nd child, I was inspired to support mothers in their births as both a child birth educator and a birth doula. I did my training at the local city hospital with Penny Simpkin, while working as a certified nursing assistant on the Women’s Unit. I spent some years working the evening shift assisting mothers postpartum, including a lot of hands on breastfeeding and birth help. I had always wanted to pursue bodywork and movement for mothers and birth but no school was available where I lived at the time. Fast forward a decade and I’m back in Arizona, a newly single mom in a brief moment as a home birth midwife apprentice when I realized it was a great time to go to massage school to have as part of my future midwifery practice. I went in with the intention of specializing in perinatal care and women’s wellness, and came out with a business plan for my own massage practice because I had nerded out and fallen in love with the work! That was 12 years ago and I’m still going, still nerding out, and loving this path of over 25 years alongside women from all walks of life. It’s been so deeply soul satisfying to do the work that matters to me.

Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
The work and growth has been somewhat smooth in the respect that I absolutely love what I do! However, there have definitely been struggles with being self employed, with challenging work environments, and learning good work/life boundaries. Covid was also a huge challenge; there was a time I was not sure I would be able to go back to doing what I love. I used the time off to complete movement certifications and add a pelvic floor and core recovery and menopause strengthening program to my offerings. Burn out used to be a challenge when I was in a more crowded work setting. I’ve used these wisdom years and the words of my elders and spiritual teachers to get quiet and learn about spiritual hygiene and energy work, why I came to this work, and how my own trauma informed my motivation. Now, my need to save everyone and everything is no longer a driver. I understand how this comes up for me and I take care of myself before anyone else so that I show up with clarity, curiosity, and emotional sobriety.

We’ve been impressed with Roots to Bloom Women’s Wellness, but for folks who might not be as familiar, what can you share with them about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
Roots to Bloom offers specialized bodywork, movement, and wisdom from the roots of the embodied feminine experience, so you can bloom. We offer passionate and knowledgeable full spectrum support through all life stages and essential movement strategies from the roots: your core and pelvic floor. Wisdom is offered through trusted community and resources. We happily support prenatal bodywork from conception to birth without restriction. Knowledge and experience back this practice! This practice is gratuity free.

In addition to being the “go to” for prenatal massage over the last decade plus, I am also known for using SMRT (Spontaneous Muscle Release Technique) with perinatal and all bodywork that I offer. This is a positional release technique, a version of strain/counter strain, that affects the tissues deeply without pain and bruising pressure, and gets excellent results. This style of technique is very common in medical massage and outcome based offerings. Not only is SMRT great for perinatal, but also anyone with scar tissue, lymphatic issues, and post surgical care. I welcome anyone in pain to my practice.

I am most proud to have never wavered from specializing in my niche, and to have brought my decades of experience into a practice that I created for myself in support of women, who are still ignored and underserved in their medical concerns. I am also proud to have done this without the seduction of a social media presence. Running my business or my life for the algorithms is not for me. I am committed to making the work accessible, and I am known for always being a gratuity free practice, and offering sliding scale whenever possible.

What matters most to you? Why?
Community is something that matters greatly to me. Community is a verb. Gathering services for mothers/parents under one roof is not necessarily community; it’s commodity. Being a trusted resource, making *all* resources available (rather than saying I have an “exclusive resource list”) to emerging families, and offering opportunities for parents to engage and meet without the “storefront” is my jam. My why is simple: we need each other. Now, more than ever.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.prenatalmassagetucson.com
• Other: https://share.google/TxS9kKEMetos1VXQ9

Image Credits
Olivia H.
Jade Beall Photography