Rebozo Ceremony
Also known as Closing of the bones, rebozo massage or "cerrada de cadera".
I have designed this service as a ceremony with learnings from my female ancestors and hybrid knowledge and practices.
This service is offered to postpartum women as a nurturing way to thank their bodies for the work during pregnancy and giving birth.
Any woman can benefit from, but specifically women who are moving from one stage of their lives to another (some examples are: moving houses, miscarriages, separation, divorce, death of a parent/relative/friend, ending of studies, menopause, or any other emotionally and physically/physiologically intense or important moment).
We grow and change through any of these life events, including birth of course, and this massage/ceremony helps us to re-gather ourselves, reconnect with our centre and source, incorporate this life event into our new being, and feel more content to keep on going with life.
This massage/ceremony is based on the indigenous (pre-colonial) understanding of health I learnt from my mother, grandmothers, aunties, other chosen family members and friends. Most of indigenous communities have passed on this knowledge from generation to generation, and it is embedded in mestiza families like my own and many others in Mexico. In this way of understanding health, we place conditions and sickness in two categories: hot and cold. When this is unbalanced we get sick (either physically, emotionally or spiritually). Some life events may weaken our bodies' defensive strength that protect us from letting in “coldness” into our bodies.
Pregnancy is believed to be a hot condition (think of a cooking oven). When the door of life is opened to welcome a new human being through a woman's body, some vital heat is lost, and as the bodies (yes, bodies: including physical, emotional, energetic and spiritual) take time to get back again to be “closed”, cold can easily get in.
This massage/ceremony is meant to aid the receiver's bodies to recover some of the “hot” lost in the birthing process, and it is also believed it helps the bodies with the closing process. Among the many benefits attributed to this practice are a faster postpartum body and mind recovery and it is believed it prevents postnatal depression.
The ceremony/service I offer is based on my personal learnings, family knowledge and life experiences as a Mexican mestiza woman - I do not claim this to be an essentially indigenous ceremony from an specific ethnic group.
It is composed of 3 key momentos: 1. a heating massage, 2. a herbal hot bath, and 3. the rebozo wrapping.
The length is +/-3 hours, with baby-feeding breaks as needed.
You can invite up to 2 people to be part of this.
The cost is £200.
A deposit of £50 is required for booking a date.
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If you are interested in booking or need more information, please contact me here.