The Spiral with Melissa Sanger

#55: Womb-Centered Living, Self-Touch & Healing The Feminine Body with Gina Frances

In this nourishing and expansive conversation, Melissa is joined by her dear sister and colleauge, Gina Frances, Whole Woman, Whole Pelvic Care Practitioner and Women's Mentor, for a grounded and embodied exploration of womb-centered living. Together, they speak into what it truly means to live with the womb at the center of your life, not as an etheric concept, but as a lived, daily, physical relationship with your body, cycles, fertility, creativity, and your deeper purpose. Gina shares her personal journey from hormonal birth control, depression, eating disorders and disconnection from her body into a path of reclamation, nourishment, and deep intimacy with her feminine form. This episode is both a remembrance and an invitation, back into the feminine body, the womb, and a way of living that is rooted, cyclical, and totally ecstatically alive! In this episode, Melissa & Gina explore… * Gina's journey from hormonal birth control and disconnection to womb-centered living * What it truly means to live with the womb at the center of your life * The connection between fertility, vitality, and overall well-being * How nourishment, lifestyle, and cyclical living impact the health of the womb * The transformative power of self-touch and daily body connection * The importance of safe, consensual, and attuned touch in healing * Ceremonial pelvic care as a pathway back to the body and nervous system safety * The connection between womb healing, creativity, and life purpose * How healing the womb can shift relationships, business, and identity * Rebuilding relationship with the masculine and healing sexual trauma * Why both self-touch and receiving hands-on care are essential * The role of self-compassion, patience, and grace on the healing journey This conversation weaves together the physical, emotional, and spiritual layers of feminine healing, reminding us that the womb is not separate from the rest of life, but deeply connected to how we live, love, create, and lead. Connect with Gina 🌹 Instagram: @rebelrosetemple [https://www.instagram.com/rebelrosetemple/]Free Telegram Channel [https://t.me/+yfD52Swxi0o5ZGNl]Email: contact@iamginafrances.com Gina offers Ceremonial Whole Woman, Whole Pelvic Care in Bali, and will be offering limited in-person immersions in New Jersey, USA in August 2026 and possibly October 2026. Stay connected with her IG and Telegram channel for most up to date details! She also works online privately through 1:1 Mentorship (application only via DM or email), and will be opening spaces in her Feminine Form Practice Group, a devoted space for hands-on/in relationship with the feminine body. Connect with Melissa 🌹 Melissa offers in-person womb & pelvic care, as well as practitioner training and mentorship for women stepping into this work. 2026 Womb Healer Training enrollment opening soon: A two-year practitioner pathway in holistic pelvic healing, including both hands-on modalities and business development for women who want to become wealthy womb healers. The Womb Healer Training Waitlist [https://www.melissasanger.com/thewombhealertraining2025] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iammelissasanger/ [https://www.instagram.com/iammelissasanger/] Website: melissasanger.com [http://melissasanger.com]Email: hello@melissasanger.com If This Episode Touched You… Please leave a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review, share this episode with a woman who would benefit, and tag Melissa and Gina so they can celebrate your reflections with you!

#54: Are You Delaying Creating Your First High-Ticket Offer or 1:1 Luxury Retreat? This Is For You.

In this powerful solo episode, Melissa speaks directly to the healer, coach, practitioner, or visionary woman who feels the pull to create her first premium offer, luxury immersion, or retreat…yet keeps delaying it. Many women know their work is meant for deeper spaces, higher-level containers, and more refined experiences for their clients. But when the moment comes to create that premium offer, fears arise. Who will actually pay for this?What if no one buys?What will people think?Am I really ready to deliver at that level? Melissa shares openly about her own journey from creating her first five-figure offer to building multiple six-figure and multi six-figure offers, and the identity expansion required to truly step into the premium space. This episode explores the emotional, psychological and strategic shifts required to move from playing small… to building luxury, high-impact containers that reflect the true depth of your work. In this episode, Melissa explores… • The common fears that arise when creating a premium or luxury offer • Why many healers delay going premium even when they feel the call • The financial and energetic cost of staying in lower-ticket offers • How premium containers create deeper transformation for clients • The identity shift required to step into luxury and high-level leadership • Why environment and mentorship play a powerful role in expansion • The marketing and messaging shifts needed to attract premium clients • How to structure and position a premium offer or luxury retreat • The importance of aligning your offers with your soul's calling and artistry • Melissa's VIP Business Mastermind Day in London for women ready to create their premium offer • Her six-month online mentorship for women who want support building a premium business from anywhere in the world • Why creating your premium offer can unlock your next level of impact, income, and leadership Melissa currently has two VIP Business Mastermind Day dates available in London for women ready to create and launch their premium offer in a deeply supportive luxury environment. For those unable to attend in person, Melissa also offers a six-month online one-to-one mentorship designed to help women create and launch premium offers from anywhere in the world. If you feel the call to create your premium offer or luxury retreat, you are invited to reach out via DM or email to explore working together. Email: hello@melissasanger.com [hello@melissasanger.com] Instagram: @iammelissasanger [https://www.instagram.com/iammelissasanger/] If this episode resonated with you, please leave a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review, share the episode with someone who needs to hear it, and tag Melissa on Instagram so she can celebrate your breakthroughs with you. Website: https://www.melissasanger.com/ [https://www.melissasanger.com/]

#53: Wild Pregnancy & Free Birth - with Bec Oakaiah

#53: Wild Pregnancy & Free Birth - with Bec Oakaiah In this raw and activating episode, I sit down with traditional birthkeeper Bec Oakaiah, The Jurassic Coast Birthkeeper, for a powerful conversation on wild pregnancy, freebirth and reclaiming physiological birth in a culture that has almost forgotten what women's bodies are capable of. This is a conversation for any woman who is dreaming of pregnancy, preparing for conception, already pregnant, or simply feels a quiet pull that birth could be more wild, more holy, and more hers than the stories she's been given. Together we dive into: * The true meaning of wild pregnancy and freebirth beyond the online controversy * How our own birth imprints become the first lens through which we experience life * How hospital environments, timelines and authority can interrupt physiology * The rising caesarean rates and why Bec believes this has "fuck all to do with physiology" * Using the menstrual cycle as monthly ritual to clear fear and prepare for future rites of passage * Why unpacking our birth stories, motherline and cultural conditioning matters long before labour * How unprocessed fears in pregnancy often surface in labour if they're never fully met * The importance of environment, food, rest, and who you invite into your birth space * Authority dynamics in medical systems, and why so many women feel they "had no choice" * Why no professional – midwife, doctor, doula or birthkeeper – is more of an expert on your baby than you are * Walking with death as a companion through pregnancy, and birth as death-rebirth for mother, placenta and identity * Postpartum as the true gestation of the Mother, and why postpartum planning is just as vital as "birth plans" * How long healing can really take, and why sensitivity in the body is a feature, not a flaw * Unpacking our relationship with authority as essential preparation if we choose to interact with the system at all * Why Bec believes physiological birth is on the cusp of extinction – and what it means to be part of its reclamation * Birth, miscarriage, abortion, postpartum and menstruation as one continuous feminine continuum of death–rebirth About Our Guest, Bec, The Jurassic Coast Birthkeeper Bec is a traditional birthkeeper rooted on England's Jurassic Coast. She midwifes the soul through holistic birth, death and all the thresholds in between. Her work centres on the liberation and protection of physiological birth, the remembrance of ancient and indigenous birth wisdom, and guiding women back to unshakeable trust in their own bodies, babies and inner authority. She walks with women – especially first-time mothers – who are called to wild pregnancy, freebirth and home birth, and also tends to the wider field of birthworkers through education, mentorship and community devoted to the reclamation of birth as a rite of passage. Connect with Bec Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/becoakaiah/ [https://www.instagram.com/becoakaiah/] Mother + holistic birthkeeper. remembering the ancient ways of sacred birth. Connect with Melissa Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/iammelissasanger/ [https://www.instagram.com/iammelissasanger/] Website — www.melissasanger.com [http://www.melissasanger.com] Fertility Care, Ceremonial Bodywork & Pelvic Massage, Womb Healing & Yoni Massage In Person Deluxe Retreats & 1:1 Online Mentorship For Women If This Conversation Touched You… Please leave a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review, share this episode with a sister, and tag Melissa & Bec on Instagram so they can feel your presence and celebrate with you. This episode is an offering to every woman who has ever bled, will one day birth, has birthed, has lost, or is simply remembering that her body was always designed for the wild, intelligent mystery of life moving through her.

#52: Abortion As A Rite Of Passage - with Jasmine Alicia Carter

In this raw, deeply intimate and important episode, I sit down with menstrual artist, feminine embodiment mentor, and founder of Sacred Woman, Jasmine Alicia Carter, for a profound conversation that lives at the intersection of the womb, death, rebirth, grief, power and feminine initiation. Both myself and Jasmine experienced conscious abortions within the last two years. This episode is a rare and necessary dialogue, one that dissolves taboo, unravels shame, and opens a doorway into the spiritual, emotional, energetic and physical dimensions of abortion as a rite of passage. This is a conversation for any woman who has walked this path, loves someone who has, or desires to understand the deeper feminine mysteries that live within the threshold between life and death. Together we dive into: * The untold emotional, spiritual and psychic landscape of conscious abortion * How abortion can initiate a descent into the dark feminine, shadow, and underworld * The difference between cultural guilt and true inner knowing * Listening to the body's wisdom through pregnancy, grief, and choice * How to navigate the polarity, projections, and judgments from family, culture, and community * The mystical dimension of womb consciousness and feminine spiritual awakening * Meeting death through the womb and returning to the mystery * The role of ritual, prayer, blood offerings, and conscious completion * How grief cycles through the womb over months and how to process it safely * Why abortion is often the gateway that brings many women home to their womb for the first time * Post-abortion care: nourishment, womb massage, steaming, sisterhood, ritual, and tending to the cervix * How to relate to the spirit of the child with reverence, closure, and connection * The importance of support, from partners, sisters, and bodyworkers, in healing the emotional and spiritual layers of the experience * Abortion as an initiation into the maturity, depth, and power of the feminine * How to reconnect with God, intuition, and personal truth through the process * Why both Melissa and Jasmine see abortion, miscarriage, birth, and menstruation as part of the same feminine continuum About Our Guest, Jasmine Alicia Carter Jasmine is a menstrual artist, feminine embodiment mentor, mother, wife and founder of Sacred Woman, a global brand devoted to empowering women to return to holistic balance, womb-centered living, and embodied feminine truth. She is also the creator of the Menstrual Art Movement, a nonprofit with thousands of women worldwide, and the owner of Sacred Woman Boutique, offering tools for sexual sovereignty and feminine awakening. Connect with Jasmine Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/jasminealiciacarter/ [https://www.instagram.com/jasminealiciacarter/] Sacred Woman Website — www.sacredwoman.com Menstrual Art Movement — @menstrualartmovement Sacred Woman Boutique — @sacredwomanboutique Abortion PDF: https://omniform1.com/forms/v1/landingPage/63ca7ff4243dfa1cf3aa6bde/68fb2eee2d00685cde953df8 [https://omniform1.com/forms/v1/landingPage/63ca7ff4243dfa1cf3aa6bde/68fb2eee2d00685cde953df8] Connect with Melissa Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/iammelissasanger [https://www.instagram.com/iammelissasanger] Website — www.melissasanger.com [http://www.melissasanger.com]Fertility Care, Ceremonial Bodywork & Pelvic Massage, Womb Healing & Yoni Massage 🌹 In-Person Deluxe Retreats & 1:1 Online Mentorship For Women If This Conversation Touched You… Please leave a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review, share this episode with a sister, and tag Melissa & Jasmine on Instagram so they can feel your presence and celebrate with you! This episode is an offering to every woman who has ever held life, released life, grieved life, or discovered herself through the womb's deepest mysteries.

#51 Yoni Massage For Healing Sexual Trauma, Numbness & Shame (& Awakening Orgasmic Pleasure!) - with Sasha Lotus

In this delicious and deep conversation, Melissa is joined by her dear client, sister and fellow devotee of sacred sexuality, Sasha Lotus, for a sensual and soulful exploration of the link between sexuality and spirituality. Sasha had just completed a one week 1:1 immersion with Melissa – 6 days of receiving Ceremonial Womb & Yoni Massage, aswell as womb healing work and somatic sexual healing with Melissa as her guide. Together they dive deep into the energetic and physiological wisdom of the yoni, cervix, womb, and ovaries, and how pleasure becomes a pathway to God. Melissa shares her experience of touching divine oneness through orgasm, plant medicine, and meditation, while Sasha opens up about her own sexual awakening and multidimensionality as a woman. The two discuss Yoni Massage, pleasure awakening and how sacred touch can faciliate deep healing in the female body. In this episode, Melissa & Sasha explore... * The mystical intersection of sexuality, spirituality, and God-union * How pleasure and orgasm open the doorway to oneness and divine remembrance * The spiritual anatomy and consciousness of the womb, cervix, ovaries, and Yoni * Kundalini activation, energetic pleasure, and the multi-dimensional body * The power of Womb & Yoni Massage for healing sexual trauma, grief, numbness, and shame * The physiological and energetic benefits of cervical activation * How the heart–womb connection shape female pleasure * The importance of self-pleasure, self-massage, and loving devotion to the body * The energetic and emotional intelligence of the feminine body Connect with Melissa & Sasha Instagram — @iammelissasanger [https://www.instagram.com/iammelissasanger] Instagram — @iamsashalotus [https://www.instagram.com/iamsashalotus]Website — www.melissasanger.com [http://www.melissasanger.com/] Purchase Melissa's guided yoni massage (self) practice: https://www.melissasanger.com/product-page/yoni-de-armouring-guided-ritual [https://www.melissasanger.com/product-page/yoni-de-armouring-guided-ritual] If this episode touched you, please leave a ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ review, share it with a sister, and tag Melissa & Sasha on Instagram so they can celebrate with you!