Rebozo & Closing the Bones - CURRUMBIN, QLD, AUSTRALIA

Rebozo techniques for pregnancy, birth & postpartum

Mexican Postpartum: The ritual of closing of the bones

4 day workshop covering rebozo techniques for pregnancy, birth and postpartum, and the traditional Mexican closing ceremony.

Mexican postpartum traditions and rituals have been celebrated for centuries and are dedicated to caring for new mothers with the purpose of uplifting and soothing her body as well as her spirit. The rituals offer a new mother the opportunity to come back to herself, massaging, cleansing, purifying, relaxing and closing her body in a soothing and special way, with gratitude towards her as the source of life that she is.

Naoli’s Mexican Postpartum workshop is designed for all birth providers, offering understanding on both traditional and contemporary Mexican cosmology regarding the postpartum period as well as an in-depth practical hands-on opportunities to experience, learn and apply the different aspects of this care, as it is practiced in Mexico by rural midwives.

This workshop will prove specially interesting to birth professionals such as midwives, doulas, massage therapists, body workers, childbirth educators and any other person who may wish to offer this special and effective care for women in the postpartum period.

• Understanding Mexican Traditional Postpartum care
• The opening and closing of birth energies and their sequence
• Anatomy of the bony pelvis, the pelvic muscles, ligaments and their interrelation with birth
• The postpartum needs of women
• The postpartum ritual in Traditional Mexico and its different steps
• Postpartum massage
• Postpartum Temazcal, herbal steam baths and sits baths
• Herbs used in postpartum care and their practical preparation
• Teas for the postpartum
• The postpartum sweat
• The Closing of the bones with the Rebozo
• What every woman should know regarding the first 40 days postpartum
• Unveiling mysteries of postpartum

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