Abdominal Massage Therapy

Your abdomen is the center of your hormonal, digestive, and reproductive health.

Abdominal Therapy is a gentle, hands-on technique rooted in traditional Mayan medicine that works to restore optimal positioning, circulation, and flow within the body. By supporting the uterus, digestive organs, and surrounding tissues, it helps improve function, relieve congestion, and create the conditions for the body to heal and rebalance naturally.

What is Abdominal Therapy?

Abdominal Therapy is founded on an ancient Maya technique of abdominal massage. This technique is performed externally using intuitive folk massage techniques combine with anatomy, physiology, and other focused learning. This technique gently guides and supports organs back into their optimal position, allowing for improved functioning for optimal health and wellness.

Abdominal Therapy is best known for addressing misalignment or congestion in the reproductive organs of both men and women, as well as many common digestive disorders.  The techniques effectively alleviate tissue congestion and organ constriction to improve the vital flows of energy, blood, lymph, and nerves in the abdomen.  It addresses and can release emotional and energetic tension from the abdomen.  This assists to prevent the progression of chronic disease symptomatology while improving the body’s ability to self-repair and balance.

Conditions and benefits

By stimulating the circulation of blood, lymph, and qi as well as helping to guide internal organs into their optimal position, Abdominal Therapy can ease a range of digestive, reproductive, and musculoskeletal issues including:

For Women:

• Fertility

• Gynecological Pain

• Menstrual Disorders (painful/ irregular periods)

• Pre-Conception through Postpartum

• Discomforts of Pregnancy (starting at 20 weeks)

• Birth Preparation

• Healing from c-section/hysterectomy (starting at 12 weeks post-surgery)

• Menopause

• Pelvic Organ Congestion (endometriosis, cysts, fibroids)

• Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)

• Chronic bladder/yeast infections

• Pelvic organ prolapse

For Men:

• Early stages of BPH (Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy)

• Prostatitis (mild)

• Impotence

• Erectile Dysfunction

• Fertility Enhancement

For Everyone:

• Digestive disorders (Crohn’s, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Gastro-Esophageal Reflux Disease, Gastritis, Constipation, Indigestion, etc.)

• Muscular Tension

• Urinary System (incontinence, frequent urinary infections, etc.)

• Varicose Veins

• Post-Surgical (scar tissue, recovery, etc.)

Best time to receive Abdominal Therapy:

If you are a woman actively trying to conceive this cycle (natural / IUI / IVF): schedule a session in the window of time that falls after your menses and before your ovulation. For many women, this will mean cycle days 4-14.

If not trying to conceive this cycle: Any time you are not actively menstruating (actively bleeding, but spotting is okay)

Men: Anytime

Contraindication and Modifications

At Blue Ova, we offer Abdominal Therapy in combination with Acupuncture for deeper, more integrated care.

In this 60–75 minute session, we begin with a brief intake, then move into abdominal massage followed by acupuncture—creating a deeply restorative treatment designed to support circulation, alignment, and overall well-being.