The Sacred Window:
A Traditional Approach to Postpartum Healing
The Art of Nurturing and Nourishing Mothers
Your have now birthed your baby and have embarked on your journey into motherhood, a rite of passage that deserves careful tending and honouring of the new mothers needs.
We as mothers, no matter what culture we come from, share some deep, common roots in how our bodies need to be nurtured and nourished in our postpartum periods. We as mothers share common threads of intelligence and instinct in how we mother our new babies.
This time is completely focused on the thriving of the mother-baby dyad, deeply respecting the weeks after your birth as a time to heal your body and develop a strong bond with your baby.
How can I support your sacred postpartum
Mother-Centred physiological Care
Honouring Mother and Baby as a unit
Deep nourishing and blood building through nutrient dense food and herbs
Massage and energy healing
Space held for all emotional transitions
Breastfeeding support
Cauldrons of rich soups and cups of fragrant herbal infusions
Although each woman will have their own preferences for how they wish to be nourished, there are ancient common threads that connect the wisdom of many traditions around the world when it comes to providing nutrition for new mothers.
Allowing the new mother to rest, retreat and cocoon herself and new baby as much as she feels is necessary, feeling fully supported and provided for is a vision I hold dear. Despite our ‘modern’ constricts around getting a woman up and on her feet ‘in no time’ it is not a philosophy that best serves the physiological needs of mother and baby.
In reclaiming the wisdom of traditional postpartum care, the new mother and baby will have a foundation set to really land earthside and re-enter back out into the world. The mental, physical, emotional and spiritual bodies are all tended to in a holistic way.
Breastfeeding as perfect design
Establishing a seamless breastfeeding experience really starts in pregnancy with nourishing the body. As your body works hard to grow and nurture your baby, you are also creating the foundation and healthy breast tissue and fluid that will nourish your baby after birth.
Although providing breastmilk for your baby is built into the innate wisdom of a new mother’s body there can be great benefits to incorporating practices to aid in developing a healthy and joyful long-term breastfeeding experience.
Ayurvedic techniques of breast massage, milk-inducing herbs and breastfeeding positioning support can greatly aid in your transition into motherhood.
