Closing the Bones
Closing the Bones restores energetic integrity to the new mother. Ancient cultures would have understood that the physical act of opening your body would have left you open energetically too.
This is why you see in postpartum traditions from around the world, the mother is kept safe, she is protected, fed nourishing foods and her womb wrapped until she is ready to rejoin her community but this time as an honoured mother.
You also see a glimpse of this in the bible, where women are segregated but the reason given for this is being "unclean". People used to believe that the new mother was vulnerable to demons, I believe this is to do with the susceptibility to negative influences and perceptions when you are fresh out of the birth portal.
Closing the Bones brings completion to the birth journey. The mother has everything the baby had - she is rocked, swaddled, sung to. She is gently massaged. Then she remains in a liminal space, processing and integrating her journey to becoming a mother until she is ready to emerge from her cocoon.
Women cry, laugh, have profound realisations. Women who are energetically sensitive really enjoy having their vitality restored to them in this space.
Once we have restored the integrity of the energy centres the woman is able to move forward with greater discernment as she mothers her child and the whole world.
It's never too late to give yourself what you wish you would have had. We are always postpartum and it's my pleasure to offer this ceremony no matter how long ago you had a baby.
Every woman is her own oracle
Within every woman is her own inner oracle and sacred space.
When we live from the womb we live life from the bottom up, knowing our deepest wisdom comes from our centre and not from our "rational minds".
Everything that wishes to be birthed from the heart comes from the energetic womb, every woman's direct connection to the cosmic womb and the mysteries of creation.
As a womb guide I delight in women remembering they have always had all the answers within them, a well of wisdom that they can revisit again and again. I'm not here to have all the answers, I am here to guide you back to your own inner knowing.
I've been guiding women for ten years now through the mysteries of the womb, their birth and motherhood journey, healing from trauma and abuse and reclaiming their joy and sovereignty over their own lives. You can work with me through my online courses, virtual shamanic womb healing, or in-person at my cosy hearth in South Wales.
You can also learn how to become your own oracle at my womb healing workshop on 26th October. There are a couple of spaces left ❤️
The well maidens
Long ago, you could find a well maiden at every holy well in the British isles. She would offer a weary traveller a bite to eat and a drink of water from the well to nourish them physically and spiritually for their journey ahead.
In those days, the king of the land was in a sacred contract with the earth, the mother Goddess, to be a steward and protect the body of the mother and all her children. This stewardship was not ownership, it was a duty of service to be undertaken by the worthiest of men.
Then there came a king who violated the sacred contract, who did not respect the mother and the feminine. When he came upon a well maiden and she offered him sustenance, instead he took her body against her will. Taking the lead from their king, his men then violated every well maiden around the country.
It it said that the goddess then departed from the world, rendering it a wasteland where the feminine force was hidden deep underground. They say the king still lives in this wasteland now, bleeding from his thigh, waiting for the one who will come and say - what ails thee?
The well maiden's chalice is a womb symbol, the sweet water of life that lives within every woman where nourishment is dispensed graciously. When we reclaim the chalice of the womb we reclaim the legacy of the well maidens. We know very well what is ailing the king, he has abused the gifts of the feminine, taken more than he ought and tossed her aside, and now all are suffering.
As women we are the chalice bearers and we rise up, remembering that we are where life comes from. We hold all of creation cradled in our wombs. We are the well which never runs dry, the life/death/life mysteries of the universe that keep the wheel turning, as souls are born and return to the cosmic womb for rebirth, as bodies are birthed and returned to the earth womb to nourish the soil.
Lyrics by Ajeet Kaur.
You can work with me through my online offering Sacred Womb Journeys and shamanic womb healing and I also offer in-person women's healing retreat days, massage, ceremony and workshops in South Wales.
