The Birthing Dance
I saw this post go by on Facebook during the week and saved it to share, because it would make a nice mother blessing poem to share with a pregnant mama: The Birthing Dance Come to me, My Child Secret...
View ArticleGuest Post: Spring Sugar Scrub Recipe
I’ve been making my own body care products for quite a few years and I enjoy sharing recipes and ideas with other women. I used to teach classes in making “salves and scrubs” and “lotions and potions”...
View ArticleWomenergy (Womanergy)
The day before my grandma died, my dad came over and said he’d coined a new word and that I could have it: Womenergy. He said he’d googled it and didn’t come up with anything. I googled it later though...
View ArticleRites of Passage… Celebrating Real Women’s Wisdom
“Woman-to-woman help through the rites of passage that are important in every birth has significance not only for the individuals directly involved, but for the whole community. The task in which the...
View ArticleNew Baby Ritual (Plus Maruti Beads Review!)
One of my good friends recently had her family’s eighth baby. I’ve had mother blessing ceremonies for her with past babies and I meant to do so for this baby as well, but our unexpected trip to...
View ArticleBirth Spiral Chakra Blessing
Birth spiral. Energy feel it spin throughout your body. Beginning in your core, unfolding, unfolding, spiraling upward into a peak and release Every part of you opening making space making room for...
View ArticleLento Tempo
“Invite the inner woman to speak in her language of poetry, bones, clouds, dreams, red shoes, fairy dust, ravens, and fissures of the heartland. She who dwells in the wild within will help to navigate...
View ArticleTuesday Tidbits: Birth Blessings, Life, and Community
“I wish for you a life full of ritual and community.” –Flaming Rainbow Woman Last week we created some sweet, simple little birth spirals by request for a Sacred Pregnancy retreat in Illinois. After...
View ArticleSacred Pregnancy Week 4: Honoring, Sealing, & Postpartum Care
“I am the strength of all women who have ever birthed a baby and I am ready to join that tribe.” –Anni Daulter (Sacred Pregnancy) Me to my husband last night: “so, I know I might look like I’m just...
View ArticleGoddess Cookies!
You know you have people in your life who really love you when they make cookies like this for your mother blessing ceremony and carry them to you all the way from California! What a beautiful...
View ArticleSacred Postpartum, Week 2: Ceremonial Bathing
My Sacred Postpartum class began last week, though this is my first post about it. One of the assignments this week was to prepare a ceremonial bath. Despite the deceptively simple sound of the...
View ArticleMother Blessings and the Power of Ritual
You are the most powerful intelligent inspirational Woman Close to my heart. You continue to become exponentially more amazing. Always giving others the step UP. Force of the cosmos connecting the Web...
View ArticleFrom Mother Blessings to Red Tent Circles: What comes after a Sacred Pregnancy?
In 2008, a small postcard at the local Unitarian Universalist church caught my eye. It was for a Cakes for the Queen of Heaven facilitator training at Eliot Chapel in St. Louis. I registered for the...
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