Blessingway
Deriving from a traditional ceremony of the Navajo tribe of Native Americans, the Blessingway is an auspicious ceremony performed in the moments of transition, as well as pregnancy in the approaching birth.
Together with a colleague I organize this ceremony, adapted to our cultural context. The Blessingway includes a preparatory consultation with the mother in which her needs, desires and fears are identified. Your closest friends will be invited about a month before the event. In this way we rediscover an ancient knowledge that belongs to us as women and that in the mother awakens feelings of sisterhood, empathy, presence and competence towards herself, towards other women and towards the unborn or unborn child!
The selected environment will be decorated ad hoc for the Blessingway, which will last approximately 3 hours. There will be elements of surprise that will help the mother and the participants to overcome their fears and to use their inner resources regarding the moment of birth and after birth. The friends undertake to provide support during the birth and in the delicate phase after the birth. In this way a web of support is created that helps the mother. We spend a morning/ afternoon or evening together that forms a supportive network for the mother, pampering her with culinary gifts, relaxing herbal teas, small symbolic or useful gifts, with comforting phrases and stories of positive experiences of the birth and the time after the birth. At the end of the ceremony we will eat and drink together to consolidate the different steps of the event.
