Last week I posted about a virtual mother blessing for Molly Westerman of the blog First the Egg. Tuesday, I emailed her a “blessingway in your inbox” containing the words of birth energy, thoughts, and encouragement emailed by her friends and family as well as a recording of the blessingway chant, “Woman Am I,” that [...]
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Virtual Mother Blessing, Part 2
Posted in birth, ceremony, friends, mother blessing, mothers, pregnancy, women, women's circle on April 18, 2012 | 3 Comments »
A Virtual Mother Blessing for Molly Westerman!
Posted in birth, birth art, Birth Thoughts, friends, giving birth, homebirth, mother blessing, mothers, pregnancy, women, women's circle on April 10, 2012 | 7 Comments »
In 2007, I started blogging for Citizens for Midwifery and one of my favorite blogs was a little gem then called Feminist Childbirth Studies. The blog’s author, Molly Westerman, later became more public with her blogging identity and began writing her current blog, First the Egg, a feminist resource on pregnancy, birth, and parenting. I [...]
If birth were a temple
Posted in birth, giving birth, mother blessing, Neat stuff, poems, quotes, readings, spirituality, women, women's circle on April 8, 2012 | 1 Comment »
If birth were a temple If birth were a temple my body is religion, and this small form twisting out of me, is prayer my cries reach birth’s vaulted ceilings, arching like my back over holy waters, crystal clear salt of amniotic my womb–a blessing bowl releases her treasure. –Nane Ariadne Jordan I came across [...]
Circles Writing
Posted in birth, mother blessing, self-care, women, women's circle, writing on January 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
each time we pose pen or pencil to paper we connect with who we are who we were who we want to be we are circles of women writing together apart in dialogue alone we write: wherever we are when we’re overwhelmed to clear our minds to express our anger, to clarify our thoughts when [...]
Midwife’s Invocation
Posted in ceremony, midwifery, mother blessing, mothers on December 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m currently taking a class based on Karen Armstrong’s book Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life. One assignment was to find a reading articulating a spiritual perspective/teaching on compassion. I turned to one of my new books, Sisters Singing, in which I had immediately marked a prayer called A Midwife’s Invocation. As a birth educator [...]
Blessingway Poem: A Prayer for One Who Comes to Choose This Life
Posted in babies, birth, Birth Thoughts, ceremony, friends, mother blessing, poems, readings, women's circle on November 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A Prayer for One Who Comes to Choose This Life By Danelia Wild May she know the welcome of open arms and hearts May she know she is loved by many and by one May she know the circle of friendship that gives and receives love in all its forms May she know and be [...]
More Readings for Women’s Programs
Posted in ceremony, mother blessing, quotes, readings, Resources, spirituality, women, women's circle on October 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I absolutely love collecting these kinds of things (almost as much as I love collecting quotes) and I figure that as long as I’ve bothered retyping or saving them, I might as well share them via my blog—that way more people can possibly benefit from or enjoy them! Invocation: Mother of the Medicine Wheel (from [...]
Moon Salutation Yoga Series for Blessingway or Women’s Gathering
Posted in ceremony, mother blessing, Neat stuff, pregnancy, prenatal yoga, women on October 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »
At my blessingway with my second son, my mom led us through a moon salutation together outside and then we all entered the blessingway space via a “birth arch” made with the women’s arms (think London Bridge only all in a row making a channel of arms to pass through). This weekend, we had a [...]
Mother Blessing Quotes
Posted in babies, birth art, Birth Thoughts, friends, giving birth, mother blessing, mothers, quotes, women on July 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
For the mother blessing ceremony I wrote about recently, I also went through my birth quotes collection (which is becoming quite extensive!) and picked out some special quotes that reminded me of things I wanted to share with the birthing mama-to-be. “For each of us as women, there is a deep place within, where hidden [...]
The Blessingway Connection
Posted in babies, birth, ceremony, mother blessing, mothers, pregnancy, pregnancy loss, women on July 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Last weekend, I attended a mother blessing/blessingway* ceremony for a dear friend. I have mentioned her here before, because she is on a pregnancy-after-loss (PAL) journey after having given birth to a tiny boy after 16 weeks of pregnancy last July (my own Noah was born at 15 weeks in Nov., 2009). My friend’s baby [...]
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