wavework

the first initiates · founder's pricing ends monday, november 16 at 11:59 pm eastern · 4 days left

for every woman rewriting the codes of birth

birth will ask you to die to who you were. the portal code is where you learn to cross awake.

the portal code is a ten day master teaching on what birth actually is: one video code a day, a short practice in your body, and a workbook where you map how your mind meets the threshold.

$111 for the first opening

until monday, november 16 at 11:59 pm eastern, then $149

begin here, and your full $111 carries into wavework after your ten days, $249 total

4 days · 4 hours left

for the women who want me beside them: thirty one to one threshold readings, a personal deep dive into your signature with everything included, $497 · 21 of 30 remain

what's inside

ten codes, one a day

ten video teachings, one a day, each between eight and twenty minutes: what a wave actually is, what your cervix is doing, why your reality shifts at the crest, and why the woman who begins labour can't be the one who finishes it

a practice in every code

each code closes with a short practice in your body and an imagining, so you feel your way toward the crest

the threshold map

your workbook, where you mark what you find on the rings, until you hold your mind's map of your threshold signature

yours for life

self-paced, with lifetime access, for women carrying, women looking back on a birth they've lived, and women who hold others through theirs

the portal code is for you if

for every woman rewriting the codes of birth, and especially for you if:

you're carrying

you want to know how your mind will meet the crest, and walk toward birth with a true language for what's happening, however your baby arrives

you've birthed before

some part of that birth is still living in your hips, your breath, your sleep, and you want to understand what you lived

you hold women

as a doula, midwife, nurse or birth professional, you want to read the threshold from the inside, beginning with your own

and if you feel a threshold rising in your own life, the codes meet you there too.

birth is how you learn it, because physiological birth turns your pattern up loud enough to read. once you can read it there, you meet it everywhere: in birth, in postpartum, in the room where you hold women, in any threshold life asks you to cross.

“that anxiety is gone now. it came from resisting dropping in.”
a wavework mother · first birth

there is a pattern your body has been running long before you ever conceived. and it is the very pattern that will meet you at the crest of birth. you are simply too close to it to see it yet.

karissa walking with the birth ball across the studio floor

a note before you enter

the women i've watched cross birth awake all carried something underneath them before labour ever began, a language for what was happening to them and a felt sense of their own pattern as the intensity climbed.

the portal code is that language. it is where my deeper teachings begin, ten codes i have been reading in birthing bodies for a decade, now gathered into one descent.

i'm opening it first to the women who find it now, at a price i won't offer again, because i want the first initiates to be the ones who carry this new understanding of birth out into the world with me.

i'll meet you inside the first code.

with you in the wave, karissa

different births, different symptoms, the same thresholds underneath

across ten years and thousands of women, i've watched the same few thresholds rise again and again, wearing a different face in every body.

one woman believes she needs a better birth plan. another is certain her pelvis is too narrow. another is still carrying the imprint of her first birth, somewhere deep in her hips and her breath.

what if all three are standing at the very same edge?

for ten days, you move through the portal code and find where your threshold lives, what it has been protecting, and what it needs from you before the next wave comes.

so the intensity that once felt like something happening to you becomes something you can read, meet, and move through.

the master teaching

karissa walking through the church, past the tall windows

the portal code is where my deeper teachings begin, ten codes that rewrite how you understand birth: what a wave actually is, what your cervix is doing, why your reality shifts at the crest, and why the woman who begins labour cannot be the one who finishes it.

each day, you receive one code. i show you the lens i use when i watch a woman meet a single wave, what i'm reading for, which signals matter, and what is easiest to misread.

then you turn that lens on yourself. through reflection, imagination and a short practice that closes every code, you begin to see your own pattern, how your mind believes you will meet the intensity of birth.

the codes teach you to see:

  • pressure: how your pelvic floor, sacrum and fascia respond as force moves down and through you
  • charge: where held emotion lives in your tissue, and whether it tightens around you or ripens into openness
  • frequency: what happens to your breath and your awareness as your state begins to alter
  • instinct: whether your body trusts its own rhythm, sound and movement once thinking falls away
  • your threshold signature: the pattern that rises when intensity rises, and what it is asking of you right now

two maps of the same threshold

the portal code gives you the mind's map, how you imagine you will meet the crest, drawn from reflection, story and the felt sense of the codes. wavework gives you the lived map, how your body actually meets intensity when the wave rises in rehearsal.

lay the two side by side and something extraordinary shows itself. the space between what your mind believes and what your body does is exactly where your becoming lives, and it's the most precise place to rehearse from.

you'll leave with a new understanding of birth living in you, and your mind's map of your threshold signature, ready to carry into your body.

“it's not about coping anymore. it's about being with it. and that has only come because of wavework.”
a wavework mother · second birth
the portal code · a master teaching · ten codes. one descent.

the ten day descent

ten days. ten codes. one descent into your own threshold.

ten codes, each one closing with a short practice in your body, so you leave each day having read one layer deeper into yourself. self-paced, together in timing.

  1. day 1

    birth doesn't happen to you, it happens through you

  2. day 2

    your body enters birth already holding a story about it

  3. day 3

    a wave begins as communication long before it's felt as intensity

  4. day 4

    your body is living geometry

  5. day 5

    your cervix is an organ of space and time

  6. day 6

    birth changes your access to reality, the original psychedelic

  7. day 7

    the woman who begins labour cannot finish it

  8. day 8

    what you do after the crest matters as much as how you meet it

  9. day 9

    your body speaks in sensation before it speaks in words

  10. day 10

    birth is a spiral

your portal code workbook

the threshold map

the threshold map, a portal code workbook, by karissa, creator of the wavework method
the four rings of the threshold map: i grip, i flood, i leave, i reach, with breath at the centre

every code closes with a short practice and an imagining, where you feel your way toward the crest and notice what you would reach for, where you would go, what would tighten and what would open. you mark what you find on the rings of your threshold map, one code at a time.

by the tenth day the rings hold your mind's map of your threshold signature, in your own hand, ready to lay beside the lived map your body draws in wavework.

by the tenth day you hold your mind's map of your threshold signature, and you know what it is asking of you for birth.

“a pathway of safety, not a coping tool. it just completely changed the frequency of it.”
a wavework mother · home birth

your body already knows how to cross. the portal code gives your mind the language for it.

what birth education used to mean.

memorise the stages. learn the terms. write the plan. hope the information holds when the intensity comes.

what the portal code gets to mean.

remember what birth actually is. see your own pattern clearly. carry a living understanding that meets you at the crest.

understand the threshold first, so your body has a language for what it's meeting.

“it doesn't have to be hell, it gets to be heaven on earth.”
a wavework mother · first birth

from the women who have crossed

“the midwives said that it was the most controlled breathing they've ever seen from a first time mum.”
a wavework mother · first birth
“by simply understanding the work you do, i managed to have the most connective birth experience ever.”
a wavework mother · home birth
an email from a woman who birthed her fifth child at home, present and not dissociative, and had the most connective birth experience ever
a wavework mother · home birth
a post from a woman whose second birth ran from 01:15 to 03:37, who felt her baby's head and lifted her onto her chest herself, calling the course a spiritual journey
a wavework mother · second birth
a report from a woman whose hospital birth with pitocin still left her grateful that wavework prepared her for the liminal space
a wavework mother · hospital birth
a message from a woman who arrived at the hospital seven centimetres dilated and held her baby four hours later, remembering the spiral of the womb
a wavework mother · hospital birth
a message from a first time mum whose midwives called her breathing the most controlled they had seen, no pain at the birth, just pressure and breath
a wavework mother · first birth
a message from a woman in germany describing her unmedicated, pain free water birth of her fourth baby
a wavework mother · water birth
a post from a woman whose nurse and midwife called it one of the most peaceful births they had witnessed, very different from her first
a wavework mother · second birth
a message from a woman whose water broke and who birthed on the bathroom floor an hour later, connecting to the push breath and staying relaxed
a wavework mother · unplanned birth
a post from a woman four weeks after her unmedicated home birth, whose first birth was an epidural in bright hospital lights, saying wavework helped her long before birth
a wavework mother · home birth
a message from a woman a month out from birth, working through the course and feeling it melt a lot of the fear she was carrying into it
before birth
a message from a somatic practitioner calling wavework a gift to the birth world and recommending the course to her pregnant friends
somatic practitioner
a message from a birthworker seeing the shift in her clients, four births in seven days, two unmedicated and one vbac, all feeling empowered and sovereign
birthworker

swipe to read them all →

every woman's experience is her own.

your guide: karissa

show me one wave and i can already see the threshold. i see where she braces, where she leaves her body, where the breath catches high in her chest, and where her own instinct is reaching to take over if she would only let it.

and i'm just as attuned to what lives underneath all of that: the story her body walked into birth already holding, and the woman she has been who must be released so the next one can be born.

that's why this work weaves together biomechanics, emotional alchemy, altered states and primal intelligence. for ten years i've walked alongside thousands of women as a birth educator, physiologist, guide for altered states and dancer, specializing in the pelvic floor and the chemistry of birth, so that every woman can become her own midwife.

karissa guiding two women through a practice on the studio floor

you don't rise to your affirmations in birth. you fall to the level of your nervous system patterns. so we rehearse.

the ripple of wavework

wavework holds a paradigm shift at its core, and the belief that every woman has access to this work if she feels called to it.

so every woman's yes opens the door to it for women without the resources to reach it. that is the ripple. your yes is part of it.

choose your way in

every path begins with the map. how deep you go from there is yours to choose. the gate closes monday, november 16 at 11:59 pm eastern, with payment plans available on every option.

the portal code is $111 in this first window only. this price is not offered again. after november 16, the portal code becomes $149 and the readings close.

the first initiates

the portal code

$111

founder's price · then $149

ten days. ten codes. one descent.

a master teaching in ten codes, a new understanding of birth
a short practice closing every code, your first taste of wavework
the portal code workbook, mapping yourself as you move through the codes
your mind's map of your threshold signature
lifetime access to the codes

payment plans available on every option

after ten days, you hold your mind's map of your threshold signature and you understand what it is asking of you in birth. from there, you can carry it into full rehearsal through wavework, if you choose.

become a founding initiate

self-paced, together in timing. not a group program. no live calls.

the full method

wavework

$249

total · payment plans available on every option

the method. the map, then the full rehearsal in your body.

the full wavework method across four waves:

wave one: conduct pressure through your pelvic floor, fascia and sacrum

wave two: emotional alchemy, where the charge in your tissue becomes safety and pleasure-based openness

wave three: altered states and the cervical frequency, anchoring trance with your breath

wave four: primal intelligence and self-midwifery, through rhythm, sound and instinct

the rehearsal suite
the shared nervous system module, so your partner knows how to support your rehearsal
the portal code, included free
the wavework community
the 7-day drop, included for founding initiates (a $97 value): seven days of guided audio descent, an immersive companion to wavework

begin with the portal code, and after your ten days a private invitation arrives with your full portal code credit toward wavework, open for 72 hours.

enter wavework

self-paced, with community alongside. not a live group program. no live calls required.

threshold reading

$497

30 readings only · payment plans available on every option

one to one with me. seventy five minutes, virtual, and held all the way through.

you move through the ten codes first, at your own pace, and draw your mind's map of your threshold signature
then we meet, you and i, for 75 minutes, virtually, just the two of us
this time is yours: bring your birth, your questions, whatever you are carrying, and we work with all of it together, for integration, guidance and whatever your threshold is asking of you
your threshold signature anchors the session: we read it together, where it lives in your body and what it is asking of you as birth comes close
if your birth is close and the codes aren't finished, we map your threshold together on the call
afterward, a follow up from me, written for you, walking you through your journey from here and the shape your way into wavework takes
includes the portal code, and your portal code credit toward wavework arrives after your ten days

i keep thirty of these and no more, because this is not a call i can give half of. the women i sit with get my full presence and my energy for the whole crossing, and that is only honest at this number.

this is a session held around you, anchored in your signature and the codes you have moved through, and open to whatever you bring.

after you pay, you will get a booking link to choose your time from early december onward.

claim your reading

the portal code is self-paced and yours first. then we meet for 75 minutes, one to one and virtual, from early december onward.

seats: 9 of 30 held · 21 remaining

founder's price $111 · the gate closes november 16

all offers are self-paced, not live group programs, except the threshold reading, which is one live 75 minute session, virtually, one to one.

all sales are final. every offer here is downloadable digital content with lifetime access, for your own use, and may not be shared.

entry

when the gate opens, and when it closes

  1. monday, november 9

    the gate opens

    $111 for these few days only, with thirty threshold readings held under it and payment plans available on every option.

  2. monday, november 16

    the gate closes

    at 11:59 pm eastern. after that the portal code becomes $149 and the threshold readings close.

  3. tuesday, november 17

    access opens

    the ten codes unlock, one a day, each one closing with a short practice in your body.

  4. early december, or sooner if your birth is close

    readings begin

    if you chose the threshold reading, this is when you book it. seventy five minutes together, virtually, one to one.

self-paced, together in timing. these dates are the only thing that changes from one cycle to the next, and the codes stay yours with lifetime access.

questions women have asked me

the crest will come whether you have read it or not.

founder's price $111 · the gate closes november 16

begin with the portal code. ten days, one descent, and you will hold your mind's map of your threshold signature before birth asks it of you. the gate closes monday, november 16 at 11:59 pm eastern.

wavework

the portal code by wavework · the first initiates

a master teaching in ten codes. a new language for birth.

the gate closes monday, november 16 at 11:59 pm eastern. after that, the portal code becomes $149 and the threshold readings close.