The closing of the bones has been used in different forms across the world to support women in integrating their birthing experiences - whether they had empowering births or more difficult ones, whether they have undergone a termination, experienced an early or still-birth - this practice is incredibly nourishing, grounding and integrative. It is also amazing on a physical level to support a mother’s pelvis to go back to it pre-pregnancy positioning, as well as bringing any leaky energy back into her body.

This practice is a beautiful ritual for honouring a mother’s experience of birth and the postpartum time, and is deeply impactful for women that have birthed years prior, or those that are just emerging from their postpartum cocoon. 

These are two hour+ sessions where we start with some grounding bodywork before moving into the closing ritual that I offer from my space or can come to you to do this beautiful work in your own space.

Learning el cerrado de los huesos in Chumbec, Mexico with my teacher Doña Rafaella.

These sessions are not just potent for mothers but for all of those moving through big initiatory processes- whether that is of grief/loss, heartbreak, life-changes, pregnancy loss, marking the end of a chapter to create the space to call in new trajectories… I have supported friends entering new decades, clients leaving jobs, people who have lost parents etc. all with this ceremony…

The closing of the bones, combined with bodywork, offers a a space for honouring initiation in its many forms in our life- wherein we might be asked to grieve, to invoke, to go inwards and re-group, to feel connected to our centre, our wisdom, our beauty.

I am grateful for my teachers Doña Rafaella & Maria from Yucatan, Mexico for sharing this ancestral practice with me, as well as other teachers I have studied the closing of the bones with including Rachelle Garcia Seliga & Jenni Blythe & the Parteras Catarticas of Oaxaca, Mexico