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Postpartum somatics

There is a version of your body that feels really, really good to live in.

The Postpartum Ritual Deck box.

Not the one from before. A new one, underneath the exhaustion, waiting to be listened to.

This is the way in. One card a day. One small movement. Minutes, not hours.

See what's inside

Charged today. First Edition ships October 1. Free shipping across Europe.

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The rituals are drawn from years of postpartum somatic movement training, then refined with a midwife, an after-birth nurse, and a doula.

Women do not need fixing. They need remembering.

Postpartum somatics

You have not exhaled all the way in months.

The lifting, the feeding, the holding, the nights. Even standing still, you are holding.

It does not have to stay this way. The first full exhale is closer than you think. It costs about a minute, and it changes the minutes that follow.

There is no before to return to.

There is only the woman who is here, and the way back inside her.

A card on the floor in the middle of the night. Standing at the counter while the coffee goes cold. It meets you there. No preparation. No right mood. Nothing to perform.

The ritual

What the ritual is.

You open the box. You pull one card without choosing it. You put your phone down. Two minutes, wherever you are standing. The card goes to the back of the deck. Tomorrow the next one is waiting.

  • Forty-four cards
  • Three-minute practices
  • For the months after birth
  • Midwife reviewed
The deck

Forty-four cards.
Built for the body.
One way back to yourself.

Vol. 01. The first printing is numbered. We are making it slowly, on purpose. Forty-four doors back into your own body, and every one of them opens from the inside.

Root category card from the TUNED Postpartum Ritual Deck, shown from the front.
Archetype category card from the TUNED Postpartum Ritual Deck, shown from the front.
The five practices

Five practices, in the order the body actually follows.

  • 01

    Root

    Where it begins.

    The heartbeat slows. The breath deepens. The shoulders come down.

  • 02

    Breath

    The most direct lever you have on your own state.

    Four breaths in the dark, and the body answers.

  • 03

    Flow

    Movement returning.

    Not exercise. Your hips remember before you do.

  • 04

    Rise

    The slow return to standing.

    Weight through both feet again.

  • 05

    Archetype

    Beyond recovery.

    Not the woman you were. The one standing here.

The first five minutes

Start tonight. Free.

Five days. Five practices. Five minutes each, in your inbox, in Liz's voice. Doable one-handed, at the sink, this evening. No account, no app, nothing tracked. By Friday you will have felt something shift, and you will know it can shift further. The door does not lock behind you.

Is this for you, or for someone you love?

The companion

The digital counterpart to your deck.

It starts with a thirty second check in. You name what is actually true in your body right now, depleted, touched out, tender, rageful, bright, and how much time you have. From there it hands you one card from the deck, the printed card itself, with its practice, its words and its integration. No feed, no streak, no advice column. One thing to hold, chosen by the body rather than the head.

  • Check in with the body

    Eleven honest states written for the postpartum year. The check-in routes you to a single card matched to your state and the time you have.

  • Pull today's card

    One card a day when you want the deck to choose for you.

  • The full deck

    All forty-four cards, the real printed artwork, front and interior, readable on a phone.

  • Help me ask

    Ready written, bounded requests for the moments when what you need is another person, not another practice. Six needs: Time, Hands, To be heard, Space, Care, Reassurance. Edit it, then copy or send it.

  • Professional support

    Direct routes to emergency and crisis lines in the Netherlands and the US, a device-only care team so your own huisarts or OB is one tap away, and a search for urgent care near you.

No account. No cloud. Your data stays on your device, where your body's business belongs.

It installs to a phone home screen like an app. Offered as an add-on when you reserve your deck.

Every breath a bridge. Every movement a prayer. Embodied intelligence, in the pocket.

Reserve

Forty-four cards.
Five practices.
One way back to yourself.

€49

Vol. 01. The first edition of the deck.

Charged today. Ships October 1, 2026. Not a waitlist.

30-day money-back guarantee

Keep the deck for thirty days. If it does not feel like yours, send it back for a full refund. No forms, no explanation needed.

Free shipping in Europe

We ship within Europe only. First Edition ships Oct 1, 2026. Arrives 5 to 7 business days after dispatch.

Each practice reviewed by a postpartum midwife.

You can complete the set at checkout with The Return and The Companion.

Embodied Intelligence

Not only for the hard days.

TUNED is built on Embodied Intelligence, the understanding that the self you are looking for is not stored in your thoughts. It is stored in your body. Sensation offers another way to stay connected to yourself, beyond thought alone. The practices are short because your time is not abstract. They are physical because that quiet part of you is reached through the body, not the mind.

Anthropologist Dana Raphael gave this passage its name in 1973: matrescence. As real as adolescence. We did not make the word. We intend to help make it common speech.

Some women come to it on demanding days, needing something gentle that asks almost nothing of them and gives back a little ground to stand on. Others come to it steady, wanting a few minutes inside their own body for no reason beyond that it feels like home. It holds both, without asking which kind of day you are having. There is no right state to arrive in, no mood you have to be in, no version of yourself you have to perform.

Over time it becomes a way of staying in contact with yourself, not a repair for a body that is broken, because it is not broken, but a practice for living in one that is still changing.

For the 2am hour

Some of this work happens at night.

One card stays out on the nightstand. When the house is finally quiet and you are still awake, it asks nothing of you. No screen, no login, no light. You do not have to hold yourself up. The floor is already doing it.

I made the thing I needed. Small, physical practices that help the body remember itself, two minutes at a time.

Liz Gray, Founder

For life's thresholds

The book for the woman you are quietly becoming.

The Return is the written companion to your TUNED deck. Short readings for the tender, changing year after birth.

Your deck moves the body. The book steadies the mind. It names what is actually happening, in plain language. The hormone shifts. The changing relationship with your body. The tenderness, intensity, grief, love, and becoming that can exist side by side.

Built for the way you live now. One page between feeds. One line in the dark. Open anywhere. Read what you can. Nothing in here keeps score.

€25digital edition

You can add it to your deck at checkout.

Get The Return · €25

Delivered to your inbox the moment you order. Read it tonight, in bed, with one hand.

What's inside
  1. 01

    Forty-four short readings, one for every card in your deck.

  2. 02

    A small somatic practice on every page. One breath, one movement, or one honest question.

  3. 03

    A single closing line for the nights you can only read one sentence.

  4. 04

    A plain, caring guide to when a hard week is something more, and where to turn.

How it works with your deck

Pull a card. Open to the movement it belongs to. The cards give you the practice. The book gives you the permission. Together, they are how you find your way back.

Who it's for

The woman who is newly postpartum. The one a year in who still feels unlike herself. And anyone buying a gift that says, I see this. You are not alone in it.

A gift

Most postpartum gifts are for the baby. This one is for her.

A partner, a sister, a friend who does not know what to say can hand her this and have said it. First Edition decks ship October 1, wrapped, with a card for your own words.

Send it as a gift

Ship directly to her with a handwritten note, or to you first.

A woman sitting on the floor of a quiet room in warm afternoon light, one hand resting on her chest.
Origin

I made the thing I needed.

I spent fifteen years being paid for what my body could do. I danced for Usher and Beyoncé, for Katy Perry and Ciara, on arena stages and film sets. Then I had my daughter, and in the early weeks that body went quiet. Numb. Offline. The instrument I trusted had stopped answering.

I tried to command it back the way I had commanded it my whole career, and I herniated a disc. That was the lesson. A postpartum body cannot be commanded back. It has to be met.

I went looking for something that would meet me there. Not a fitness plan. Not another list to complete. Something that worked through the body first, because that is where the disconnection actually lives.

I built this with a midwife, an after-birth nurse, and a doula, the people who meet a mother at the threshold. TUNED is somatic movement, breath, and attention for the body, not a prescription or protocol.

Liz Gray with her daughter, the child's face blurred for privacy.

Liz Gray

Founder, TUNED MVMNT

Questions

What you might be wondering.

  • One card takes two to five minutes. You do not need a quiet hour, a clean house, or a plan. Pull a card while the baby sleeps, while the coffee brews, or at the edge of the bed. The deck is built for a body with no spare hours.
The Postpartum Ritual Deck
Charged today · Ships Oct 1, 2026