Teaching, sharing and building bridges
Women's health improves when professionals learn from each other. Joana teaches, trains and collaborates in Portugal and across Europe.
Workshops
Hands-on training for professionals: the pelvic floor in pregnancy and postpartum, movement-based birth preparation, an integrative approach to pelvic pain.
Talks
For schools, associations, companies and conferences: pelvic health across the lifespan, talking openly about taboo subjects, the postpartum body.
Training therapists
Mentoring and training for physiotherapists and other therapists who want to work in women’s health with an integrative approach.
Art of Birth Workshop Europe
An international workshop in Portugal with world-renowned midwife Naolí Vinaver, organised by Joana Alves, for midwives, doulas, physiotherapists and everyone who supports women in birth.
- Midwives, obstetric nurses and doulas
- Pelvic health physiotherapists and osteopaths
- Birth educators and perinatal professionals
- Venue and dates to be announced
Referring a patient
Gynaecologists, obstetricians, midwives, paediatricians and GPs are welcome to refer patients. With the patient’s consent, we send a summary of the assessment so that care stays joined up.
Pelvic health
Incontinence, prolapse, pelvic pain, dyspareunia, postnatal and post-surgical rehabilitation.
Pregnancy
Lumbopelvic pain, perineal preparation, birth preparation.
Babies
Feeding difficulties with a mechanical component, tension after birth, asymmetries and torticollis.