The Closing the Bones (CtB) ceremony, is a nurturing treatment that focuses on postnatal treatment and abdominal massage. We incorporate Rebozo massage techniques for the entire body (abdomen, shoulders, torso, back, hips, full arms & legs) and that finishes with you being wrapped or swaddled in 8 rebozos. It's beneficial for lymph draining, blood flow increase and hormonal release. Beyond the physical aspect of closing the bones, there is a deeply spiritual aspect to the ceremony, which provides a safe space for the mother to feel nurtured and release emotions associated with the birth and motherhood, even many years after the birth itself.
The Closing the Bones is not just a postpartum practice, this ceremony can nurture women (and men and children) in a vast array of settings and circumstances.
This work is only offered at The Happy Body Project in Wilstead.
When is Closing the Bones work offered?
- during the postpartum (and the closing work can be done years or decades later still too)
- after baby loss, miscarriage, stillbirth, abortion
- in cases where a hysterectomy is suggested (it can often prevent the need for one) or after a hysterectomy
- with fertility problems
- to help with breastfeeding challenges
- to mark the end of a breastfeeding journey
- to honour milestones (e.g. 1 year post-birth)
- to honour the menarche (a girl's first period)
- around the time of a miscarriage
- to assist in the perimenopause or mark a women's menopause
- to help with loss such as experienced in divorce, loss of a job, loss of a loved one,
- to mark important changes or events (for anxiety, shock).
- for ADD, autism or to help people with overwhelm or sensory overstimulation
- to help with endometriosis, PCOS, painful periods, prolapse, diastasis
- for healing (physical, sexual, emotional, domestic) abuse and trauma
- for ancestral trauma, or trans-generational wounding,
- for women who have suffered female genital mutilation
- for women who have been trafficked
- for terminally ill people, so they can create a goodbye ceremony with loved ones as rite of passage.
For more information and an interview from the practitioner I trained with see podcasts below.