The Sacred Practice of Closing the Bones

Closing the Bones is a sacred postpartum practice with roots in traditional maternal care, including practices found in Mexican and Moroccan communities. Traditionally offered during the fourth trimester, it creates space for the mother to be mothered after being broken open through birth.

Birth opens the body, mind, and spirit from a deep place as a new soul enters the world. This ceremony offers warmth, wrapping, nurturing, and intentional care to honor the mother's transition and invite her back home to herself.

It is a moment to pause and say:

You gave birth, but something within you was also reborn.

While deeply connected to postpartum, Closing the Bones can also be offered as a rite of passage for women moving through other significant transitions. Sometimes we need a sacred moment to acknowledge what has ended before fully embracing what is beginning.

Transition may look like becoming a mother, experiencing pregnancy loss, ending a relationship, moving through grief, entering a new spiritual season, releasing an old identity, or simply recognizing that the woman you once were no longer fits who you are becoming.

Who is this ceremony for?

- Mothers entering or moving through their fourth trimester

- Women navigating a major life or identity transition

- Women who have experienced miscarriage, stillbirth, or abortion

- Women seeking womb healing and deeper connection with themselves

- Women ready to honor what was and welcome what is becoming

Come home to yourself.
Schedule your ceremony and begin your rebirth.

Benefits & Perfect Timing

Closing the Bones is a sacred practice for women experiencing postpartum, loss, transition, healing, or rebirth. Although traditionally associated with the fourth trimester, the ceremony can be received months or even years after birth or during another season when you feel called to reconnect, release, and come home to yourself.

Through warmth, intentional wrapping, nurturing touch, rest, and ceremony, we create space for the body to feel gathered, the nervous system to settle, and the woman to be deeply cared for.

Physical + Restorative Benefits

~ Provides gentle support and compression around the pelvis and body
~ Supports the body as the uterus and abdominal organs naturally shift during postpartum recovery
~ Encourages circulation and warmth to recovering tissues
~ Promotes deep relaxation and nervous-system regulation
~ Provides comfort to tired muscles and the changing postpartum body
~ Encourages body awareness, grounding, and a feeling of being physically gathered again

Emotional + Spiritual Benefits

~ Creates sacred space to process emotions and experiences
~ Offers an intentional sense of closure after birth, loss, or transition
~ Creates space to release what has been carried
~ Encourages reconnection with your body and womb space
~ Honors your changing identity and the woman you are becoming
~ Allows you to be nurtured, witnessed, and poured back into

For the postpartum mother, this is a moment to

receive after giving so much of herself—to be mothered after becoming a mother.

For any woman in transition, it becomes a sacred declaration:

I honor what has been. I return to my center. I welcome what is becoming.

Dr. Soul's Closing Process

This ceremony takes 2-3 hours in the comfort of your home or my space. You will be able to process, meditate, and release anything that is needed from your previous chapter coming into this new one. We will be establishing a safe space ensuring you are able to express your self unapologetically and allow space for anything subconsciously hidden to reveal itself. Often mothers use this time to process their pregnancy

and birthing experience. Other times woman use this sacred time to address and release womb trauma. Below I describe what this ceremony looks like, any areas that you are not comfortable with can be taken away. I am only here to cater to your needs.

How much is this sacred exchange?

Closing the Bones — $275
Healing-room ceremony.

Closing the Bones: In-Home Rebirth Experience — $333
Includes travel + blessed herbal bath.

Creation of Sacred Sanctuary

The area of ceremony is cleansed and blessed as we open the circle for sacred exchange & soulful healing. Once the environment is set, we have a heart to heart identifying your intentions for the ceremony. Followed by a guided meditation to revisit the door we are closing.

Yoni Steam

Next, you’ll be invited into a 20-minute yoni steam, using gentle herbal warmth to create a soothing space for connection with your womb and intimate body. The warmth encourages relaxation, circulation, and a sense of restoration as you settle deeper into the ceremony.

During this time, you’ll have space to slow down and reflect on whatever emotions, memories, or messages may arise.

Bless Herbal Bath

Directly following the yoni steam, you’ll be welcomed into a warm herbal bath for another layer of cleansing, softening, and renewal. Because of the intimate nature of this portion of the ceremony, the herbal bath is only offered when your ceremony takes place in your home.

Once settled into the warming herbs, you are gently bathed and cared for—inviting you to surrender and simply receive.

The bath symbolizes a return to the womb: warm, protected, nourished, and held. Emerging from the water represents rebirth and stepping forward renewed. Many women describe this part of the ceremony as an opportunity to soften deeply, almost returning to a childlike state where, for once, you are the one being cared for.

Sacred Touch

Next, you will receive reiki in the form of a full body massage, rebozo hip massage, & womb massage. This sacred touch has the intent of providing energetic clearing and blessings as you become swaddled during the closing bones process.

Ceremonial Closing

Lastly, we will conclude by engaging in automatic journaling, enjoying herbal tea and light snacks, followed by a conversation to discuss your experience and next steps for integration.

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