Closing Ceremony
The closing ceremony is a loving and special time to honour you as a mother or as a parent; It’s a time when you can finally let go, be held, receive, rest, and be extra loved.
The ritual facilitates the woman into the process of reconnecting with their new mother’s /parent’s body and soul, and it serves their physical and energetic body.
It is a traditional South American ritual in which a Mother is honoured, massaged, blessed, held, and wrapped with a Manta or rebozo (a traditional piece of long fabric) after childbirth. This ritual is performed many times during the 40 days after birth by the wisest woman in the community. It is a way to take care of new mothers.
It can be done after pregnancy and childbirth at any time, after days, months or even years, and it is a way of healing after miscarriages or stillbirth and even in cases of fertility problems. It can be done at any point in your life if you wish to close something else in your life.
The mother’s/parent’s spirit and soul during labour are known to be travelling in the universe to find and collect her baby’s soul and then give birth together.
During the Closing ceremony, your spirit is called back to your body.
You have travelled between worlds. Birth is a rite of passage, a deep transformational journey that continues into motherhood. Of course, the way you have birthed your baby doesn’t matter.
The ritual encourages to close energetically:
The journey of pregnancy and birth can be energetically challenging. The focus of these phases is opening and making space for a new baby in your body, in your life, in your soul, and in your heart. It is a natural process, but sometimes it can be challenging.
A lot happens after birth, you have been cracked open, you are sharing and giving to this new life and now is the time to Close and connect with your own “new” body.
It is common and normal to feel empty at this time, and love and care are needed to process letting go of what you used to be.
The hips are known to be the area of the body where unresolved emotions and trauma are held, this causes blockages of energy’s channel and sometimes pelvic instability and lower back pain. Closing the bones can help to release these emotions.
What to Expect
Creating a sacred space, cleansing and blessing the space and the mother.
Even if you don’t have any religious background, the ceremony provides an experience that our mind and our rational brain interpret as something meaningful and can be transformative and bring about healing.
A Ceremony can include some of these aspects: setting intentions, releasing fears, rebirth bath, intuitive drawings, burning special cleansing herbs, smudging, and tea ceremony,…
The ritual commences with shifting and rocking your hips with a rebozo and continues with a hands-on massage on your belly, around the pubic bones, the belly button, the solar plexus, and the hips.
This will bring your energy back to your creative centre, awakening and activating the lower body chakras.
Body energy work, such as reiki and craniosacral therapy, can also be incorporated into the ceremony.
In the end, you can experience being wrapped and gently swaddled using the rebozos all around you. Here is when the healing and all the energy work done can be processed, and you can rest for as long as you need.
You can decide what is best for you during this ceremony,
It can be as spiritual and sacred as you desire; you can have the all-in package or just keep it simple.
My intention will always be to bring love, healing and extra care to you.
closing ceremony
The intention of closing the bones is to hold the space for the NEW you and facilitate the transformation and the healing of your “bones” on many levels.
I feel very connected to this ritual, and I love it. It merges many of my passions: energies, sacred rituals, and the journey of motherhood and parenthood. When I offered this ritual, I felt whole and connected to the healing mothers as I had never before.
Ceremonies help us create a connection between mind and soul: a ceremony is a way to enter our soul and honour it. Life is sacred, and so is a mother/ parent and her baby and their journey together.