Mother and Birth as Initiation
Honoring the Sacred Rites of Women
Forest and Village 2024, photo by Dania Trejo
Welcome, Mama.
What a journey it’s been.
It’s been a powerful, unique to you journey and one that deserves great honor, recognition, and holistic nourishing support.
Traditional well-woman care for Mothers (whether it’s your first or fourth baby) has always included honoring birth as an initiation as an essential way to work with the energy, emotion, and profound changes that come in this sacred window of time.
Most of us are missing this vital link, which puts our vitality, joy, and long-term health at risk, and that is why we’re reweaving this work here for all stages of the Mothering journey.
Becoming a Mother is an initiation - we are impacted on every level - physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. Our bodies, spirit and minds need tending in very specific ways that we can see from long-standing cross-cultural traditions worldwide.
It is through core support, closing ceremony, and recognition that a true rite of passage is complete.
Few of us in our modern mode have this kind of support and recognition.
When this passage is left untended and incomplete, Mothers are left open to deep depletion, anxiety, disorientation, disconnect, and unprocessed grief or rage (depressive symptoms).
Having the space and support to work with this initiation and rite of passage is key to vibrant health and maternal/family wellness. And it’s been missing for too long.
We need to remember that in becoming Mother, you are primed for a potent connection to your innate wisdom, vitality, and sovereignty.
We’re changing the way together.
Reweaving Women’s Sacred Rites
Details
In our sessions together, we’ll work with a rich blend of traditional wisdom, healing, ceremony and holistic tools so you receive the support you deserve to feel rooted, connected and exalted in this life-changing role - no matter where you are in your Mothering Journey. This is for Mothers in early postpartum through Mothering early adults (or later).
Common themes we tend -
life cycles + initiations/rite of passage
integration + innate wisdom
vitality + deep nourishment
boundaries + self-trust
anchoring + connection/attachment
grief + loss
Common rite of passage or closing tools we might use:
Birth story and integration
Healing arts + ritual
Woman’s Wheel of Life
Closing of the Bones ceremony
Mother ceremony
3 Sessions
each session is 60 minutes
in-person in Vermont OR online
once you purchase sessions, you’ll receive an email with a link to schedule sessions
*This work is aimed toward Mothers in any / every stage of the Mothering journey, if this work speaks to you and resonates with you, you are most welcome to step in no matter what stage of Mothering you’re in.
It’s never too late to receive the nourishment, witnessing, and honoring you crave or wish you’d had.
Whenever we honor the Mother, we fortify family, community, and Life.
“Whenever we honor the Mother, we fortify family, community, and Life.”
— Tish Linstrom, Wise Woman Roots