Little Seed Holistic is a welcoming, inclusive, and nurturing practice, perfectly placed in the vibrant town of Manchester in the beautiful mountains of Southern Vermont. Founded by bodywork and perinatal specialist, Rachel Krauss. Offering sports & therapeutic massage, pregnancy massage, pregnancy yoga, post-natal exercise recovery programs, birth story healing, breastfeeding counseling, and tongue-tie assessment.

With fourteen years of experience, passion, and research into this space, Rachel brings intuition and deep understanding to your needs in each session. Her ability to immediately create a comfortable and safe atmosphere means you get to relax and receive the much-needed care, support, and healing you deserve.

“You are the greatest expert on you. No one else knows your needs, your fears, and your dreams better than you do. The hard part is giving yourself permission to receive.” - Rachel

Before founding Little Seed Holistic, Rachel worked in the UK as a Psychotherapist, Sports & Therapeutic Massage Therapist, and Yoga Teacher. She worked extensively in bodywork and therapeutic support, including with universities, charities, schools, and private clients. Specializing in sports massage with sports teams and athletes at first, her practice then moved toward helping those experiencing long-term (chronic) pain. Noticing the link between physical and mental health and seeing the support her clients needed, Rachel trained as a Psychotherapist, specializing in working with trauma and undertaking her post-graduate studies to focus on children and young people. She worked in schools as well as in private practice with both adults and children, alongside offering bodywork for chronic pain and injury. In 2019, Rachel completed training to become a yoga teacher and pre and post-natal yoga teacher, adding another element to her holistic practice. She has since gone on to train as a Certified Lactation Counselor (CLC) and Specialist Tongue-Tie Assessor and offers pre and post-natal breastfeeding advice and support. Rachel is a Post Natal Exercise Specialist, focussing on recovery from Diastasis Recti, as well as returning to exercise postpartum.

In 2020, Rachel became a mom, and her passion for offering specific care throughout the perinatal period grew. Experiencing firsthand the incredible changes that women’s bodies make during this time, and the mental and emotional shifts that occur as the journey through pregnancy progresses, Rachel saw the importance of high-quality, perinatal care. A strong desire to offer services that could provide other women and parents with the support and tools to find a more confident, comfortable, and joyful experience in pregnancy was ignited. Little Seed Holistic is proud to offer excellent perinatal care utilizing Rachel’s expert knowledge in bodywork, trauma, breastfeeding, and yoga to provide an incredible package of support to pregnant people, their partners, and new parents.

Rachel arrived in Vermont in the summer of 2021, with her daughter Lily and husband Sam. Returning to Sam’s home state and surrounded by the beauty of nature, Little Seed Holistic was created. Rachel is currently expecting her second baby and will be taking a short break from work in the summer of 2024.

Little Seed Holistic is a proudly inclusive business. Pregnancy and postpartum services are available to all parents.