ABDOMINAL BODYWORK
Reconnect, recover, and return to your center with hands-on abdominal healing in Portland, Maine.
Rediscover your center
There's a deep intelligence within each of us — a core that knows what's right, what's wrong, and who we are even when our mind feels scattered. For many, early experiences may have disrupted this connection, leaving the body and nervous system out of balance.
Abdominal bodywork offers a holistic, hands-on approach to reconnect with your belly, restore ease and mobility, and bring sensation, movement, and life back to your core. Drawing on visceral and abdominal therapy techniques, this work supports digestive health, pelvic balance, emotional integration, and long-term wellbeing.
Personalized Healing Sessions
Your session at K’intu Healing Arts in Portland, Maine is crafted from a combination of expert modalities, designed to support support physical, emotional, and spiritual alignment.
Lineages of Support
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Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy® is rooted in ancient Maya healing traditions. Developed by Dr. Rosita Arvigo under the mentorship of Maya H'Men (healer) Don Elijio Panti, it combines gentle external abdominal manipulation with herbal knowledge, nutrition, and emotional and spiritual healing.
This tradition views the abdomen as the center of physical and spiritual health. When the uterus, digestive organs, and surrounding tissues are in alignment, life force energy flows freely — supporting reproductive health, digestive wellness, and emotional balance.
I am honored to carry this lineage in my practice at K'intu Healing Arts in Portland, Maine.
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Visceral Manipulation (Barral Institute) addresses restrictions in the fascia and connective tissue surrounding the organs. Through gentle, attentive touch, this work supports organ mobility, improves posture, and enhances the body's internal communication and function.
I continue to deepen my training in this approach, integrating it where appropriate within sessions.
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Visionary Craniosacral Work® brings a unique dimension to abdominal sessions — bridging the belly and the cranial rhythms to release tension held in both the core and the cranium simultaneously. This integration supports nervous system regulation, deepens the body's own healing response, and creates a whole-body coherence that neither approach achieves alone.
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Anatomy Trains Structural Integration (ATSI) brings a structural dimension to abdominal work that goes beyond the belly itself. Because the fascial lines of the body run continuously — from foot to skull, jaw to pelvis — tension held in the abdomen is rarely isolated. It ripples outward, affecting posture, spinal alignment, breathing, and how the whole body organizes itself around a restricted core.
By incorporating ATSI principles into abdominal sessions, we can address not just what's happening in the belly, but why — tracing restrictions back through the fascial network and releasing patterns that would otherwise keep returning.
Healing Benefits of Abdominal Bodywork
Abdominal and visceral therapy can support:
Reproductive health: fertility, menstrual conditions, endometriosis, fibroids
Digestive health: GERD, IBS, Crohn’s, constipation, adhesions & scarring
Structural & musculoskeletal alignment
Nervous system regulation and emotional healing
Prenatal and postpartum support
Chronic pain, migraines, fatigue, and postural issues
This work also draws on the Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy® — a traditional healing practice rooted in ancient Maya medicine that works with the spiritual and energetic dimensions of the belly. In this tradition, supporting the free flow of chu'lel (life force energy) through the body promotes embodiment, trauma release, and a return to wholeness.
Tierra mi cuerpo, agua mi sangre, viento mi aire, fuego mi espíritu
Reconnect with your center, restore balance, and bring life back to your body. Book now to experience holistic abdominal, visceral, and craniosacral therapy in Portland, Maine.