Postpartum
Closing of the Bones Ceremony
Serving Seattle • Renton • Tacoma • Bellevue & Greater Puget Sound
Honoring your Postpartum Healing & Rebirth into Motherhood
Rooted in Heritage & Tradition
The beautiful women in the picture above are my family. A lineage of strong Mexican women whose warmth, resilience, and ways of caring for one another have shaped how I understand motherhood and postpartum care.
I carry that spirit into each Closing of the Bones ceremony, creating a space centered around you. A space to be warmed, wrapped, nurtured, witnessed, and honored as you move through the transformation of birth and motherhood.
A tradition of caring for the mother, carried forward with love and intention.
What’s a Closing of the Bones Ceremony?
A Closing of the Bones Ceremony is a sacred postpartum healing ritual that honors and acknowledges the profound journey of pregnancy, birth, and motherhood. Most commonly associated with traditional Mexican midwifery and rebozo practices, similar postpartum healing and wrapping ceremonies have also existed across many cultures throughout history as women were traditionally cared for and supported after birth.
The ceremony is often described as helping to “close the portal” that was opened physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually during pregnancy and birth. It offers space to slow down, be nurtured, and gently transition from your maiden self into this new version of yourself as a mother. The ceremony honors the woman you were before birth while also embracing and welcoming the person you are becoming.
Through warmth, intentional rest, bodywork, rebozo wrapping, meditation, herbs, and grounding practices, many women experience a deep sense of healing, reconnection, release, and renewal.
Closing of the Bones Ceremony
$400
An intimate 3–4 hour in-home postpartum experience
Each ceremony is thoughtfully created around you - your birth story, your healing, your intentions, and what you need in this season.
Your Ceremony can look like…
• Clearing & Preparing the Space
We begin by creating a calm, grounding environment using candles, herbs, gentle music, breathwork, or smoke cleansing to invite warmth, safety, peace, and intention into the space.
• Setting Intentions
Together we take time to slow down and reflect on your postpartum journey, your healing, and what you hope to release, reclaim, or step into during this season of motherhood.
• Honoring Your Birth Story
You are invited to share and process your birth experience in a supportive, nonjudgmental space. This portion of the ceremony acknowledges the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual transformation birth can bring.
• Emotional Support & Postpartum Processing
We gently explore emotions, thoughts, transitions, or experiences that may be arising during postpartum. This can include feelings surrounding identity changes, anxiety, overwhelm, grief, empowerment, softness, joy, or healing.
• Gentle Bodywork & Nervous System Support
Gentle bodywork, grounding techniques, and moxibustion (mother warming) helps restore warmth, encourage circulation, regulate the nervous system, and support postpartum healing.
• Rebozo Wrapping (Closing of the Bones)
Using traditional woven shawls called rebozos, the body is gently wrapped and held at different points of the body. Many women describe this experience as deeply comforting, grounding, supportive, and emotionally releasing.
• Reiki & Energy Healing
Energy work may be incorporated to encourage balance, grounding, emotional release, and energetic restoration during the postpartum period.
• Sound Healing & Guided Relaxation
Soft instruments, calming frequencies, meditation, or guided breathing may be used to encourage deep rest, nervous system regulation, and emotional integration.
• Herbs, Warm Teas & Nourishment
Warm herbal teas, nourishing support, and grounding herbs may be incorporated in the ceremony to encourage warmth, comfort, restoration.
• Closing Prayer & Blessing
The ceremony closes with grounding, reflection, prayer, blessing, or quiet intention-setting to honor your healing journey and welcome this new chapter of motherhood.
• Location & Loved Ones
Your ceremony is held in the comfort of your home, creating a familiar space for rest, healing, and care. You may choose to experience the ceremony privately, or invite one or two loved ones to be present, to witness, support, and honor you throughout the experience.
This is your time to receive.
You have spent so much of pregnancy and postpartum giving, holding, carrying, and becoming.
This ceremony creates space for you to soften, be supported, and be cared for.
Coming home to yourself. Honoring all you’ve carried. Welcoming the new you.
This ceremony is available weeks, months, or even years after birth. It’s never too late.
Interested in Care Beyond your Ceremony?
Closing of the Bones can stand beautifully on its own or become part of a more supported journey.
Explore Birth Doula Support, Postpartum Care, or Reiki to create care that meets you wherever you are.
