Instructor
Christine Sciortino
Multidisciplinary artist, educator, coach, birth doula & RYT
About me
Hi, I'm Christine,
Struggling to keep up in a world that wasn't designed to honor your body? I've been there too.
Just 6 years ago I was working full-time (~60-70 hour weeks!) on film and television sets as a makeup artist and hair stylist. It was all I ever wanted to do - I was living my dream; I had "made it."
So why was I still so tired?
For over a decade I pushed myself through cramps, migraines, mood swings, and near-debilitating brain fog and fatigue to show up on set.
By age 30, I was burnt out. My health was failing.
I'd lived in an apartment with mold toxicity, I'd developed dozens of food sensitivities, I had chronic aches and pains, my mental health was in the gutter, and my menstrual cycles were a nightmare.
In February 2019, I finally had my wakeup call: I survived a major car accident that changed my life.
Over the next 2 years, I had 3 surgeries and was forced to focus on my health full time.
After several years of full-time recovery, I continued my recovery as I started to shift my focus to helping others. I did my training as a Reiki Master, a birth and postpartum doula, and a yoga teacher. It's been an enlightening journey as I began to support others while still unraveling my own trauma, nervous system health, and healing. I've learned more about the human body than I ever thought I would know, and have developed a passion for biohacking, female health, nutrition, and holistic wellness.
It's been my great honor to support women in my community as they birth their babies, transition to new parenthood, and explore their fertility journeys. It became clear to me that our reproductive hormones, our unique physiology - whether we choose to give birth or not - is a the core of our health, happiness, and how we interact with the world.
As I supported others, I began to gain more awareness of my own cycle, and over time realized my own symptoms were consistent with PMDD (a severe form of PMS). In 2023, I received an official PMDD diagnosis after months of intense cycle tracking and information-gathering. Knowing that my body doesn't react well to medications, I decided to find holistic ways to make my cycles easier and decrease my symptoms. I became determined to learn even more about the menstrual cycle and how to support it.
I can now proudly say that I haven't had a panic attack in over a year and a half, and that I counted only 5 bad nights of sleep in all of 2024 - none of which were PMS-related (2 following pet loss, 2 post-op, and 1 while staying at a friends house) My mineral levels on my blood and hair tests have greatly improved. My hormones have balanced. I take time off during my period to rest and I leverage the energy I have during other phases of the cycle - a practice that has helped me get in touch with myself on a deeper level. I've done all of it without medication - simply with lifestyle changes - and many of my clients have too.
I've seen both in my clients, and first-hand in my own life how vastly one's quality of life can change by nurturing their menstrual cycles, not ignoring them as we've been taught to do.
I'd love to show you how.