A Cerrar las Caderas: Herb and Rebozo Postpartum Traditions
In Mesoamerican medicine, the postpartum woman is considered a warrior back from battle. During this sacred rite of passage, the family and entire community support the mother/baby duo, focusing on warmth and womb healing.
"A Cerrar las Caderas" includes 11 hours of instruction on using traditional rebozo techniques, sobadas (traditional massage), herbal teas, vaginal steams, and more. Support, heal, educate, help transition, and hono...
A Cerrar las Caderas: Herb and Rebozo Postpartum Traditions
In Mesoamerican medicine, the postpartum woman is considered a warrior back from battle. During this sacred rite of passage, the family and entire community support the mother/baby duo, focusing on warmth and womb healing.
"A Cerrar las Caderas" includes 11 hours of instruction on using traditional rebozo techniques, sobadas (traditional massage), herbal teas, vaginal steams, and more. Support, heal, educate, help transition, and honor new mothers during the hours and months postpartum using Mexican folk healing, energy work and Mesoamerican medicine.
Through fun activities, dialogue, group work, hands-on guidance, narratives, and a sobremesa (table top), you will become wise to:
~Techniques for closing the hips (crucial healing ritual in Mesoamerican medicine);
~Abdominal binding traditions; aligning the new mother using the rebozo, grounding; releasing birth trauma; using herbs with rebozos; relaxing ligaments and tendons; releasing tension; enhancing circulation, vitality, and well-being all using the robozo.
~Hierbas- Herbal recipes and how to create healing postpartum massage oils using herbs
~Perform a postpartum baño vaginal (vaginal steam bath), healing compresses, sitz baths, , herb-infused oils, and traditional postpartum teas.
~Traditional baños (herbal slap-bath) for healing, spiritual bathing, decreasing inflammation and promoting healing
~Energy work: clearing birth trauma, recovering the energetic body, and tools for the practitioner to protect, ground and empower herself
~Gentle abdominal massage to warm the uterus 40 days postpartum
~The true history and significance of el rebozo in Mesoamerican medicine and culture
~How to naturally care for, cleanse, identify and acquire an authentic rebozo, safe for baby wearing, and how to acquire herbs.
~How to teach new mothers rebozo techniques for self-care and baby wearing/baby soothing
Receive:
*11 Hours of hands-on guidance
*Your 20+ page instructional PDF, including back-stories and narratives for inspiration as you carry on this vital work
*Your certificate of completion (MUST complete all 11 hours)
*an opportunity for further learning, apprenticeship and certification as an Indigemama postpartum companion (information provided in class)
Payment Options:
Payment Option 1:
EarlyBird
PAY $100 deposit (Non-refundable) by FEB 17TH- https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=VCYH7GQBTXUWQ
Then $200- CASH at the door
(MUSTt be paid upon entry on 3-28-2015)
Total= $300- ($50- savings)
Payment Option 2:
PAY $100 deposit (Non-refundable) by March 20TH- https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=VCYH7GQBTXUWQ
Then $250- CASH at the door.
(MUST be paid upon entry on 3-28-2015)
Total= $350- investment
Location:
Ditmas Park, Brooklyn (address will be emailed upon confirmation of enrollment)
Lunch is on your own (one hour break)
Indigemama@gmailDOTcom for more information
This seminar is for:
-Anyone with a wife, sister, daughter, friend, or community they would like to support after birth
-ANYONE interested in traditional healing practices, natural or holistic healing modalities
-Professionals- Midwives, nurses, doctors, healers, community health educators, doulas, holistic health counselors, wellness coaches, herbalists and other birthing professionals
-Students
-Expectant parents, women of reproductive age
Two Days long, 11am-4:30pm Saturday 3/28 and Sunday 3/29
Participants will have hands-on practice with each other, which requires a sense of trust and the ability to relax. Please email me at the time of enrollment if you are uncomfortable being physical with or receiving touch from others.
Indigemama: Ancestral Healing helps families attain optimal health through complete wellness coaching, womb healing and holistic pregnancy coaching. Using traditional modalities, Indigemama offers direct services and women’s health education to improve overall health, childbearing, relationships, quality of life, and parenting.
Instructor:
Panquetzani first learned rebozo techniques and Mesoamerican healing modalities as a four year old girl, through role playing games and stories. Tucked away in her abuelitas bed, after their ritual herbal tea, Panquetzani listened to her grandmother's postpartum experiences of birthing in US hospitals naturally, eight times, then receiving traditional postpartum care. After birthing her two boys naturally, Panquetzani breathed new life into her abuelita's stories and decided it was her turn to share the magic. Panquetzani envisions today's families having the inspiration, tools, and knowledge to enrich, honor, and maximize the sacred postpartum experience.
2 partial scholarships available, EMAIL for details.
Note:
This is a child-friendly space. Mothers are encouraged to work out childcare or mutual support via this FB invite.