JoJo Hogan
Founder of Slow Postpartum Movement
Jojo Hogan is a postpartum doula, maternal massage therapist, and founder of The Slow Postpartum Movement
. With over 20 years of experience supporting families through the tender transition into parenthood, Jojo is passionate about reclaiming postpartum as a time of deep healing, rest, and transformation. Drawing on traditional care practices, bodywork, and the principles of slow living, she works to educate both parents and professionals on how to create more nourishing and supportive postpartum experiences — for the benefit of mothers, babies, and entire families.
Beyond Birth: Supporting the Postpartum Body & Mind
Saturday Sep 20th: Breakout Room
10:30 – 11:10
Jojo Hogan—postpartum doula, massage therapist, and founder of the Slow Postpartum Movement™—invites bodyworkers to rethink how we support clients after birth. Drawing on over 20 years of hands-on experience, Jojo shares how the weeks following birth—seen by many cultures as a sacred window of healing—offer a unique opportunity for deep restoration and transformation. You’ll explore how to bring traditional wisdom, nervous system regulation, hands-on techniques, and trauma-informed care into your bodywork practice.
Three key principles you’ll take away:
✨ Slow is healing – Why a ‘slow postpartum’ is so beneficial for new families. How to honour rest and rhythm in the weeks after birth while resisting the pressure to ‘bounce back’.
🍲 The Five Tenets of Postpartum Care – how traditional cultures view the postpartum period, and how we can weave these practices into our work.
💛 The body remembers – how to support emotional and physical integration, and what not to say to a mother after a difficult birth.
