Célia Ponzo

• Comprehensive Lifespan Nutrition: Provide evidence based, personalized nutritional counseling for women across all life stages including pregnancy, postpartum, breastfeeding, weaning, and childhood developmentto establish foundational health.
• Gut-Brain & Emotional Balance: Optimize the gut microbiome to improve systemic inflammation, support the nervous system, and restore emotional equilibrium.
• Chronic Inflammatory & Metabolic Conditions: Design targeted nutritional interventions to manage non-communicable diseases.
• Family & Pediatric Wellness: Educate and support parents on optimal nutrition for childhood growth, preventing metabolic disorders, and managing dietary needs in school environments.

• Mind-Body Birth & Postpartum Care: Provided hands on physical, informational, and emotional support during labor and the postpartum transition, helping mothers regulate their nervous system and process the birth experience in a calm space.
• Childbirth Education & Emotional Prep: Facilitated empowering, evidence-based preparation sessions, equipping expecting couples with the mental and physiological tools to approach birth with confidence.
• Lactation & Infant Nutrition Support: Guided mothers through the emotional journey of breastfeeding, easing anxiety and building strong bonding and feeding connections.
• Maternal & Infant Wellbeing: Provided postnatal guidance focused on the mother's emotional recovery, along with techniques to soothe, calm, and deeply connect with their children.
• Integrative Nutrition & Lifespan Health: Delivered personalized, evidence-based nutritional guidance for fertility, pregnancy, and postpartum recovery while tracking physical metrics to ensure vitality.
• Childhood Nutrition Transitions: Supported families through the gentle introduction of solid foods, focusing on gut microbiome health and positive lifelong eating habits.

• Women’s Wellness & Renewal Retreats: Curated immersive, restorative retreats designed to help women process life transitions, release stress, and restore nervous system equilibrium.
• Somatic & Breathwork Healing Retreats: Facilitated specialized journeys focusing on nervous system regulation, using deep breathwork and somatic release to alleviate anxiety and restore mind-body balance.
• Expectant Couples' Preparation Retreats: Facilitated tranquil, evidence-based retreats focused on emotional and physical birth preparation, strengthening the connection between partners.
• Hypnobirthing & Mindful Birth Retreats: Guided expectant mothers through deep relaxation and breathing techniques to foster calm, confident, and physiological birth experiences.
• Family Bonding & Parenting Journeys: Hosted supportive retreats focused on early childhood development, positive parenting, and techniques for calming and connecting with infants.
• Nutritional Therapy & Gut Health Immersions: Designed focused wellness retreats centered on the mind gut connection.

• Somatic Release & Trauma-Informed Healing: Conducted specialized sessions to help clients release stored emotional and physical tension, working with the nervous system to process and heal the impact of trauma held within the body.
• Rebirthing Mastery & Breathwork Journeys: Facilitated transformative mastery classes and workshops utilizing intentional breathwork to release deep-seated stress, clear blockages, and restore nervous system equilibrium.
• Integrative Meditation & Mindfulness: Guided both groups and individuals through meditative practices designed to calm the mind, enhance self awareness, and foster deep emotional balance.
• Nervous System Regulation: Combined somatic awareness with restorative breathing techniques to help clients transition out of chronic stress and survival states, building lasting emotional resilience.

Prenatal yoga course designed to complement the growing needs of women's pregnant bodies in all three trimesters. Allowing for movement, stretching, deep breathing and mental entering.

Pelvic Floor course designed course catering to women of all ages experiencing pelvic floor problems.

Training for students Instructed yoga students on the basics of birth anatomy and physiology

• Empowering Childbirth Education: Facilitated comprehensive, evidence-based preparation classes for expectant couples, equipping them with the knowledge and confidence to approach birth with agency and calm.
• Hypnobirthing & Anxiety-Reduction Courses: Guided pregnant individuals through specialized hypnobirthing techniques, replacing fear with confidence to foster gentle, serene, and physiological birth experiences.
• Luxurious Hypnobirthing Retreats: Curated exclusive, immersive retreats for expectant couples at L'Escale Resort, blending deep relaxation practices with mindful preparation for parenthood.
• Pregnancy Breathwork & Calming Sessions: Designed specialized breathwork classes to help mothers regulate their nervous systems, reduce pregnancy related anxiety, and connect deeply with their growing babies.
• Nurturing Postpartum Lactation Support: Provided compassionate, hands-on guidance and evidence-based lactation support, easing the transition into motherhood and strengthening the bond between parent and infant.

• Integrative Nutritional Counseling: Provided personalized, evidence-based dietary therapy to help clients manage and reverse chronic inflammatory diseases, including obesity, Type 2 diabetes, Crohn’s disease, and IBS.
• Mind-Body Behavior Change: Developed empathetic, insight driven behavior change strategies that help clients uncover the emotional and psychological motives behind their eating habits to achieve lasting wellness.
• Maternal & Infant Health Initiatives: Promoted early life health by developing and implementing the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative within maternity units, strongly advocating for early initiation and exclusive breastfeeding.
• School Nutrition & Preventive Policy: Spearheaded the development and implementation of comprehensive School Nutrition Policies across all local schools in Seychelles to combat the high prevalence of childhood obesity, diabetes, and hypertension.
• Diabetes & Metabolic Health Workshops: Conducted engaging, preventative workshops and educational sessions designed to empower young children, families, and adults to manage blood sugar and prevent metabolic diseases.
• Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) Policy Development: Drafted high level public health frameworks and policies aimed at the primary prevention and reduction of non-communicable diseases within the community.

• Anthropometric Nutritional Surveillance: Monitored and analyzed anthropometric studies across the West and Central African regions, utilizing data driven insights to improve child nutrition and growth outcomes.
• Maternal & Child Project Oversight: Led rigorous monitoring and evaluation of community projects, ensuring every initiative prioritized the health, safety, and empowerment of women and children.
• Advocacy for Children's Rights: Actively protected and promoted the fundamental rights, safety, and wellbeing of vulnerable children in diverse communities.
• Grant Writing: Authored impactful grant proposals and funding frameworks, securing resources for programs specifically designed to uplift women and children.