Vittoria Palazzi is a Licensed Massage Therapist focusing on Bodywork & Energywork for Women. She offers Prenatal, Postpartum, Massage for Women and Maya Abdominal Massage for women of all ages. She’s a Childbirth educator, teaching Hypnosis for Childbirth (Hypnobabies), as well as a Certified Instructor of Infant Massage. She is also a yoga instructor specializing in Prenatal & Postnatal yoga and Women's Health. She has been practicing yoga for 19 years and has an eclectic background. Her main teachers that have influenced her teaching are Ana Forrest and Erich Schiffmann.
Vittoria currently lives and teaches in Portland, Oregon with her husband Todd Williamson, also a yoga teacher. They own a yoga studio, Om Base, in Hillsdale, SW Portland, where they have created a thriving community of people of all ages that come together in the mutual desire to feel better, but especially to find more meaning in their lives.
"My focus is to work with women at any stage of their lives, but particularly during the pregnancy and postpartum stage. My classes and teaching include Hypnobabies, which is a childbirth education course for pregnant women & their partners. I also teach Infant Massage classes for parents, Women's Yoga classes and a Prenatal Yoga Couple Labor Prep workshop which is very popular! The prenatal yoga classes on Saturday morning are one of my all time favorites....as well as postnatal yoga where I get to see all the babies!
When I moved to Portland with my husband Todd in 2000 I enrolled at East West College of the Healing Arts. Other studies over the years include Spiritual healing courses, pregnancy massage courses, craniosacral Therapy for adults & infants, Postpartum Doula training, Reiki I & II, as well as personal studies in herbs , nutrition and aromatherapy.
I became a Certified Instructor of Infant Massage with Kalena Babeshoff of the Foundation for Healthy Family Living in 2002, and a Certified Hypnobabies Instructor in 2005. I also studied Maya Abdominal Massage with Rosita Arvigo in 2008 and I incorporate those techniques into my massage practice.