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The Postpartum Ritual Deck

A few minutes back inside your own body.

The Postpartum Ritual Deck box.

Rituals for your postpartum return. No preparation, no right mood, nothing to perform.

See the 44 cards

First Edition Pre-Order · Expected shipping October 1, 2026

€49 · Free shipping across Europe · 30-day money-back guarantee

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Forty-four cardsThree-minute practicesFor the months after birthMidwife reviewed

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

Liz Gray, Founder

A woman in soft light, her hand resting on her belly, with quiet brand line work.
The part no one talks about

You did everything right and still feel like a stranger to yourself.

Not because you failed.

Your body is no longer responding to the same language, and no amount of thinking has reached it.

The workouts, the journaling, the apps. Still off. Still not quite at home in yourself.

That isn't a willpower problem. It's a body problem. Which means there's a different way in.

The Deck

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

TUNED is built on Embodied Intelligence, the understanding that the self you lost after birth is not stored in your thoughts. It is stored in your body. You reach it the same way you lost it, through sensation, not analysis. 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.

Forty-four cards, moving in the order the body actually follows.

A look inside

One card. One small movement. One breath closer to yourself.

Each card gives you a single practice, the reason it changes your state, and one sentence to carry into the day. You do not study it. You draw from it. Minutes, not hours. No mat, no app, no getting it right.

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Earth Beneath You

Settle. Land. Be held.

Front of the ROOT category card for the practice Earth Beneath You.

Your body has been carrying a lot. The weight of interrupted sleep, of constant readiness, of being needed before you have fully arrived in the day. The body stays braced, holding tension you may not notice until something asks you to put it down. The earth beneath you has been holding bodies like yours since before memory. Feel where your body meets a surface. Press into it. Feel the earth press back. You do not have to hold yourself up.

WisdomYou do not have to earn support. It is always with you.
MantraI let myself be carried.
IntegrationPress one part of your body deliberately into the surface beneath you. Feel the earth press back. Hold for five slow counts.
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In practice

Not only for the hard days.

Some women come to it emptied out, needing something that asks almost nothing 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.

You pull a card on the floor in the middle of the night, or standing at the counter while the coffee goes cold, and it meets you there. 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.
The five practices

Five practices, in the order the body actually follows.

  • 01

    Root

    Where it begins.

    Practices that bring the nervous system out of protection and back to ground.

  • 02

    Breath

    The most direct lever you have on your own state.

    Small shifts, felt immediately.

  • 03

    Flow

    Movement returning to the body.

    Not exercise. Relationship.

  • 04

    Rise

    The slow return to standing.

    Strength and agency, recovered one breath at a time.

  • 05

    Archetype

    Beyond recovery.

    Who you are becoming on the other side of this threshold.

The e-book

The book for the woman you are quietly becoming.

The Return is the written companion to your TUNED deck. Short readings for a tired mind, in the year nobody warned you about.

Your deck moves the body. The book steadies the mind. It names what is actually happening, in plain language. The hormone shift. The rage that surprises you. The 3 a.m. wakefulness. The grief sitting next to the love. The slow, real return of yourself.

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

€15 when added to the deck at checkout. Save €9 with the Complete Set.

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

What's inside
  1. 01

    Fifty-one 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.

The world knows how to celebrate a new baby. It is less certain how to care for the person who gave birth. The TUNED Postpartum Ritual Deck is a gift created with her in mind. For the woman holding everyone but herself. Not flowers that wilt by the weekend. Something she returns to for years. Not one more thing to do. A few minutes that are finally hers. Not advice about how she should feel. A return to how she actually feels.

Send it as a gift

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

A postpartum woman sitting on the edge of an unmade bed in soft morning light, one hand resting on her chest, a folded muslin blanket beside her.
Portrait of Liz Gray, founder of TUNED MVMNT, in soft natural light.
Origin

I made the thing I needed.

I spent fifteen years touring as a dancer. In the later years the work narrowed to somatic movement, and I got closer to my own body than I had ever been. I could feel the smallest shift in it. I trusted it completely.

Then I had my daughter, and in the early weeks that body went quiet. Numb. Offline. The instrument I knew better than anything had stopped answering.

So I went looking. I brought in the people who work at this exact edge: perinatal mental health specialists, midwives, postpartum nurses, the ones who sit with a woman in the first hours and the first weeks.

What I found became TUNED. Not one voice claiming to know everything. Somatic movement and nervous system regulation, built on the care of the people who meet a mother at the threshold.

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 deck

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

€49

Vol. 01. The first edition of the deck.

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 across Europe

First Edition ships Oct 1, 2026. Arrives 5–7 business days after it ships.

Each practice reviewed by a postpartum midwife.

At checkout, add The Return, the e-book companion to the deck, for €15. Or the Audio Companion at €9 a month, first month free.

The Postpartum Ritual Deck
First Edition · Ships Oct 1, 2026