These are experts in the use of plants for medicinal purposes. They have extensive knowledge of herbs, their therapeutic properties, and how to prepare and administer them safely. They may provide personalized herbal remedies, tinctures, teas, and capsules.

Flowers carry vibrational messages that can help us come into greater alignment with our inner truth. These remedies are so beneficial, sustainable and supportive and one of my favorite ways to support people! This can be powerful for mood support during times of transition or postpartum.

For centuries, across cultures and species, new mothers have ingested their placenta after delivery- some for ritual purposes and some spiritual; all replenished much- needed nutrients, mainly iron and protein. In addition to the above, consuming the placenta post-birth may help:

• Regulate hormones in the body

• Encourage oxytocin release

• Encourage nutrient- rich breastmilk production and flow

• Decrease the probability of developing postpartum depression

• Increase energy

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This relaxing and gentle external massage to your abdomen and back normalizes blood, lymph, nerve, and energy flow through the core of the body while inviting the “tipped” or prolapsing uterus back to its normal, happier midline position in the pelvis.

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It is a defining characteristic of our doula role to support birthers to explore intentionality in the transformation that occurs after the birth of our babies. In postpartum, we seek to thank the body for its work in pregnancy and birth. By doing so we reach a stage of completion in the cycle of being initiated into motherhood. Commonly referred to as the “closing of the bones,” this retreat provides a time out for the new parent to be witnessed in their transformation from maiden to mother while having their body “closed.” By sequentially wrapping the body with a long scarf - which literally feels like a big hug from head to toe! - we close the body after having been portal to new life-gestation-and-then-coming into the world. While at one point in time variations of the closing of the bones was known and used worldwide, today this practice has been kept in tact and taught primarily by Indigenous Peoples of Latin America.

For those of us who identify as white birth keepers who have been severed from our origin traditions, we honor the teachers who have gifted us this ceremonial integration work (Rachelle Garcia Seliga). It continues to be our charge to be remembered into our eastern and western european lineages of earth based spirituality, reclaiming where our own ancestors were cut off wisdoms.

Other elements of the visit may include: tea and intention setting, space clearing, moxa treatment, herbal pelvic steaming, realignment of the birth energy field, bodywork, herbal spiritual bath, a nourishing snack and/or a prepped meal.