Community Closing Of The Bones

About this event

Birth is a threshold that touches every part of a woman’s being. Yet in our culture, this profound rite of passage is rarely given the time, care, or ceremonial recognition it deserves. Mothers are often expected to move quickly forward, without being the opportunity to land back into their bodies, and integrate the medicine birth and early postpartum offers us.

Drawing on the traditional Closing of the Bones ceremony and adapted through years of offering this work, our Community Closing of the Bones creates space to honor this passage with intention, held within community. Marking the “before” and “after” of this foundational threshold is crucial for fully stepping into our roles as Mothers.

This ceremony offers a modified version of our full Closing of the Bones ritual- weaving together warming practices, song, birth-story-witnessing, and traditional wrapping to help you land more deeply into your body and show up more fully to the work of motherhood. We will close our container by sharing a warm meal provided to us by Moonlight Kitchens.

Offering this ceremony in community allows us to remember that mothers were never meant to cross these thresholds alone. We need to be witnessed in who we are now, on the other side of the threshold of birth- which irrevocably changes us in ways we might still be discovering. Each woman is individually witnessed and tended within the warmth of a shared ceremonial space.

This ceremony is open to mothers at any stage of postpartum. Your birth may have been weeks ago, months ago, or many years ago. You may come with a story that feels beautiful, painful, complex, unfinished, or many things at once. There is no particular kind of birth or postpartum experience required, and nothing needs to be resolved before you arrive. Come as you are.

From The Village Aunties