Across various cultures, the postpartum period is treated with reverence and devotion. Practices are used to assist with healing, as well as recognise the immense shift in the mother's emotional and mental state. My offering to you is this ceremony, adapted from the Ecuadorian and Mexican tradition - "Closing of the Bones." I acknowledge the sanctity and ancient roots that this practice comes from, and hold so much gratitude for this healing ritual.

After growing and birthing a baby, the body is open energetically, physically, and emotionally. The mother is often left feeling  “out of her body” as during birth she leaves to retrieve the soul of her baby. The postpartum massage I offer is deeply sacred, and enables you to integrate your birthing and postpartum experience. It acknowledges the immense transition that is undergone and brings you back into your body.
 
What is involved?

The ceremony begins with your birth story. We debrief your birth and set any intentions.
I prepare a nourishing herbal yoni steam with gentle herbs that cleanse your womb space before massage and rebozo. Warm oil is then lovingly massaged into specific areas, with it bringing awareness and blood flow. The areas that may be focussed on include the sacrum, upper back, abdomen and womb space. I intuitively feel which space needs more time and devotion to best serve your healing journey, but lots of love is given to the hara and womb, the home of your baby. My intention is to bring warmth and fire back into your body, as the body is in a predominantly vata (air and ether) state after birth. Physically, your entire pelvic region is stretched and elongated following pregnancy and birth, and so this restorative treatment works to strengthen and bring the hips back into place.

A Rebozo (Mexican shawl) is used to rock your hips and gently guide them back into alignment. This is deeply nourishing and honours the work they have done. Finally, you will be wrapped head to toe in rebozo, as if in a cocoon, before emerging feeling deeply connected and embodied. While you are wrapped, I may do energy work to retrieve your spirit as it is believed in many cultures that the mother leaves her body to collect the soul of her baby from the cosmos/universe.