Preconception & pregnancy wellness
Healthy children from healthy mothers
Pregnancy Alchemy prepares your body, mind and emotions for the most important work of your life, from the months before you conceive through to the day you meet your baby.
Why I do this work
My story began before I was born
When my mother was sixteen, she found out she was pregnant. Nobody around her wanted the baby, and she was told she would have to end the pregnancy. Frightened, and feeling she had nowhere to turn, she tried to take her own life.
Her brother got her to hospital in time. She survived, and so did the baby she was carrying.
That baby was me.
I have always known how close neither of us came to being here. It has left me with a deep respect for what women carry through pregnancy, often in silence: the pressure from other people, the fear, and the feeling that the choices are not really yours to make.
My mother went on to have sixteen pregnancies, and four of us were born. As her first child, and as someone who has always felt other people’s emotions keenly, I lived alongside her through the losses as well as the births. I saw how much a woman’s emotional world shapes her pregnancy, and how rarely anyone asks about it.
That is why I do this. Whatever your circumstances, I want you to have the support my mother never had, so that you and your baby can begin from the strongest possible place.
Loukas
If anything on this page touches something painful for you, PANDA’s perinatal helpline is on 1300 726 306, and Lifeline is on 13 11 14 at any hour. In an emergency, call 000.
How it began
From the gym floor to a calling
For many years I worked as a personal trainer in Melbourne. Without ever setting out to, I found myself training some of the city’s most accomplished professional women: senior barristers, leaders of professional bodies, executives and senior managers.
Many of them came to me carrying the same quiet hope. They wanted to become mothers, and several had been trying for some time. We worked on strength, recovery, stress, and the emotional weight of trying to conceive. Again and again, I watched these women go on to have their babies.
That is when it came together for me. My experience as a trainer, my care for children not yet born, and my connection to my mother’s story were all pointing in the same direction. Pregnancy Alchemy is the result.
What makes it different
Your body, your feelings and your world, all at once
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Care
You are treated as a whole person, not a set of symptoms or a due date. Every session starts with how you actually are.
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Understanding
Every woman arrives with her own history: a long road to conception, an earlier loss, family pressure, a demanding career. Nothing is judged.
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Emotional awareness
How you feel matters to your pregnancy. Stress, fear and old grief get as much attention as your body does.
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Your environment
Home, work, relationships, sleep, food and routine. The world around you shapes your pregnancy, so we look at that too.
The Pregnancy Alchemy package
Nine months to prepare. Nine months to carry.
The full program runs for eighteen months, one-to-one with Loukas. The best time to begin is before you are pregnant, while there is time to build your strength, settle your nervous system and clear what you do not want to carry into motherhood.
Months 1 to 9
Before conception
Preparing your body and mind to welcome a baby.
- Personal training to build strength, fitness and resilience
- Mental and emotional recalibration to release stress, fear and old patterns
- An honest look at lifestyle and environment: sleep, food, work and relationships
- Breathwork, qi gong and yoga for a calmer nervous system
Months 10 to 18
During pregnancy
Support through every trimester, and preparation for birth.
- Trimester-specific prenatal training, adapted as your body changes
- Ongoing emotional support through each stage
- Hypnobirthing preparation for a calmer, more confident birth
- Practical comfort for back pain, pelvic pressure and fatigue
Already pregnant? You have not missed out. We begin where you are, and the program is shaped around how far along you are.
Background
Two decades of training, therapy and care
Everything here is grounded and practical, and works alongside your GP, midwife or obstetrician rather than in place of them. Loukas brings together training and experience in:
- Personal training
- Pre and postnatal training
- Rehabilitation training
- Holistic lifestyle coaching
- Hypnobirthing
- Strategic psychotherapy
- Clinical hypnotherapy
- Qi gong
- Yoga
Already pregnant?
The Pregnancy Wellness Program
Eight self-paced video modules of trimester-specific movement, stress relief and birth preparation. Start today, on any device, and keep it for life.
from $149 USD
See what is insideWhatever your circumstances, you do not have to do this alone
Tell Loukas where you are: trying, planning, or already expecting. He reads every message himself.
St Kilda East, Melbourne, and online wherever you are.