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The Postpartum Ritual Deck

Feel really, really good in your body after birth.

The Postpartum Ritual Deck box.

44 cards for the fourth trimester and beyond, made by a mother for mothers. One card a day, one small movement, under three minutes.

“I'd never found anything quite like it.” Gabi, mother of two

In stock. Ships within 5 to 7 business days. Free shipping across Europe, €22 to the United States with duties included, €18 to Canada.

Ritual deckMidwife and nurse refinedUnder 3 minutes

Created by Liz Gray, mother and former professional dancer. Every practice refined with a midwife and a postpartum nurse.

  • Forty-four cards
  • Three-minute practices
  • For the years after birth
  • Midwife and nurse refined

The remembering happens in the body.

Why the body first

One full exhale is closer than you think.

Your body has been carrying a lot, and it already knows how to soften. It only needs an invitation.

That invitation costs about a minute, and it changes the minutes that follow.

The deck

Forty-four cards.
Built for the body.
At home in the body you have.

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

Root category card from the TUNED Postpartum Ritual Deck.
Breath category card from the TUNED Postpartum Ritual Deck.
Flow category card from the TUNED Postpartum Ritual Deck.
Rise category card from the TUNED Postpartum Ritual Deck.
Archetype category card from the TUNED Postpartum Ritual Deck.
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, in the body you have.

    Not exercise. Your hips know before you do.

  • 04

    Rise

    Slowly, to standing.

    Weight through both feet.

  • 05

    Archetype

    A second birth.

    The woman you are becoming.

In their words
  • Having been through pregnancy and postpartum twice, I'd never found anything quite like it. A simple reminder to take even just five minutes for myself every day, to breathe, move, and recenter. … It's like having someone who truly understands what you're going through.

    Gabi, mother of two

  • Nothing complicated, nothing that needs a yoga mat or a free hour. Just small rituals that meet you where you are and make you feel more like yourself afterwards.

    Shaunté Symone, women's coach, Google review

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. Decks ship within 5 to 7 business days, 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.

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.

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. It meets you wherever you are, at any hour. No preparation. No right mood. Nothing to perform.

The companion app

A check-in for your phone.

The Companion is a nervous system check-in that guides you to the right card for what is true in your body and the time you have. It also includes a library of all forty-four cards. It is a separate add-on, not included with the deck.

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

Add it at checkout. Access arrives by email.

The deck

Forty-four cards.
Five practices.
Three minutes at a time.

€49

Vol. 01. The first edition of the deck.

In stock. Ships within 5 to 7 business days.

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, €22 to the US with duties included, €18 to Canada, UK coming soon

We ship across Europe, the United States, and Canada. Orders ship within 5 to 7 business days. Delivery takes 5 to 7 business days after dispatch in Europe, and 7 to 14 in the US and Canada. In the UK? Join the waitlist on our shipping page.

Each practice refined with a midwife and a postpartum nurse.

You can complete the set at checkout with The Second Birth e-book and The Companion app.

Embodied Intelligence

For any kind of day.

The practices are short because your time is real. They are physical because the body is where you are reached, not the mind. Anthropologist Dana Raphael gave this passage its name in 1973: matrescence.

Archetype card from the Postpartum Ritual Deck.
Breath card from the Postpartum Ritual Deck.
Root card from the Postpartum Ritual Deck.
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 the way I had commanded it my whole career, and I herniated a disc. That was the lesson. A postpartum body cannot be commanded. 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 and a postpartum nurse, 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.

  • Under three minutes. One card, one practice, done before the kettle boils. 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
In stock · Ships in 5 to 7 business days