Honouring our Births

Honouring the Birth of Our Life

Placenta honouring is beautiful work, rich with the ancestry of maternal lineage, full of the tapestry of that which feeds us as we step out into our lives in this moment, taking our first cautious breaths in this curious new world of our future.

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As we leave the safety of the times that have been, we can assist how we are birthed into new life.

 

I have experience holding in-person gatherings connecting with the Spirit of Mother in our lives. If you would like me to hold a Spirit of Mother circle with your group please contact me so we can discuss feasibility. Within these events we are connected to the ancestral blood and bones of Mother Earth, to the umbilical cord that roots us to Earth and Stars. We re-engage with the placenta that nourished us when we ourselves were a foetus many years ago. Through drum journeying, creative activity and ceremony there is opportunity to honour our own lives as much as to honour our mothers.

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A Ceremony is also offered for you to Honour your own Birth and all smaller births of your life. A ceremony you can carry out in your own time and space. 

 

See below to contact me if you are drawn to this work.

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Placenta – who are you?

Standing on a pin between birth and death, a placenta is an extraordinary organ. We take it for granted. As a culture we usually disregard it, neither honouring or releasing it with thanks.

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This organ of both mother and foetus is somehow more within its own right. Some indigenous cultures see the placenta as a guardian spirit of the growing child, others see it as a relative. Many rites and ceremonies have been and sometimes still are practiced around the world. For many there is an absolute respect for this mother-organ of connection and nourishment. 

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An energetic bond with our placenta ripples through the sea of our auric and ancestral fields. For nine months it throbs as a womb-heart within the mystery of generation upon generation. Both breath and pulse of existence itself, embedded deep within the womb-cave, a cellular web of pulsing life with-in and with-out the threads of our being. Essentially and practically it is a nutrient-rich pool of life.

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If you have ever stood with a midwife after a birth you will likely have witnessed her wash the placenta; seeing with her hands and eyes the way it lies, the fatty deposits, the flow and colour of tissue. The health of all three - placenta, mother and baby - are encoded in this massive mammalian flower of life.

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Yet the placenta is also a filter, a saviour protecting the one to be born from death. Entrapping toxins within its web it ensures that only that which will nourish and sustain this little budding one will be fed through the umbilical cord. 

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Woven in as always, is a thread to remind us that the gift of life is not only to receive, it is also to know about boundaries so we accept only that which will sustain us.