Mother’s Blessing
Instead of a Baby Shower, a Mother gets “Showered” in Love and Support
A Mother’s Blessing is a wonderful alternative to the classic baby shower, because not your baby, but YOU as the pregnant woman, are the center of attention. Women you love gather together, and with loving rituals, we strengthen and honor you as an expectant mother. This Mother’s Blessing will give you the power you need for your pregnancy, especially your birth, but also for adapting to your new role as a mother. To know, there are supportive women, that will hold you, no matter what is priceless.
As your doula, I will bring everything we need. Together we will craft beautiful remembrances and empowering items for your birth and conclude the Mother Blessing with a shared meal.
The Mother’s Blessing will take around 3 hours.
A “true” Blessing Way” is one of six big ceremonies (Blessing Ways, Holy Ways, Life Ways, Evil Ways, War Ceremonials, and Game Ways) from the Dine Navajo tribe. What I am doing here is not a Navajo ritual (which lasts usually two full nights). I want to distance myself very clearly from it, as it would be cultural appropriation to call it that way. Please use your discernment, and respect other cultures.
PRICING
€ 333,- incl. all materials, and a sweet treat
Ayurvedic meals can be booked additionally
Virtual Doula Session
This video call may bring you a step closer to the pregnancy, birth & postpartum support you Want
Do you want a more relaxing pregnancy, and need Ayurvedic guidance that may help you? Are you worried about your birthing options? Do you want to learn safe methods for pain management in labor? Are you confused about hormones at birth and during your postpartum time? Does your partner need some more tools to support you in your upcoming birth?
From birth planning to birth debriefing or postpartum planning, whether you live outside of Austria, or you need a more affordable doula option, this may be a great solution for you. These calls are whatever you need them to be. Whether it’s your third pregnancy or your first, I will support you during this transformative and vulnerable time.
PRICING
€ 130,- for 1-1,5 hours via video call
Placenta Art
Honoring the Placenta with Art
It can be incredibly beautiful to keep placenta art, if not for you, then for your baby.
A placenta print on canvas and paper is a priceless memory. Generally, these prints can be made on the day of birth, but also during a ritual after the 6-8 weeks of your sacred postpartum time (if freezing is possible).
A “placenta moon” is made from the placenta’s skin and can be beautifully framed.
Pricing
€ 90,- price for 1 canvas and 2 prints on paper, or for 1 framed placenta / amniotic moon
Single Postpartum Support Session
For recurring customers only
In the comfort of your home, I will support you, the newborn mother. I will share with you traditional fourth-trimester ways so you can rest, heal, and rejuvenate.
Postpartum requires a lot more support than most people believe, too often it is underestimated.
This deeply nourishing support also includes “small births” and “stillbirths”, as I do not like the term “miscarriage” for it implies that the mother has done something wrong. She has not, and she and her partner need extra support during this transition.
I will make you feel seen, understood, and validated during this vulnerable time.
In the comfort of your home, I will support you, the newborn mother. I will share with you traditional fourth-trimester ways so you can rest, heal, and rejuvenate.
I will come bearing gifts of nourishing, Ayurvedic meals, tea, and herbal remedies specifically for your needs, that you’ll love and be a shoulder to lean on or cry on. We can debrief the birth as often as you like, I can do small errands, or light housework, cook Ayurvedic meals, run you a soothing herbal bath, a gentle sitz bath, show you how to veshtanam (belly-bind), or yoni svedana (yoni steam). I can teach you how to do Ayurvedic baby massage, gentle baby exercises, or how to make Ayurvedic baby soap. I can show you relaxing techniques, offer soothing touch, postpartum womb abhyanga (warm oil application), or I can simply hold your baby so you can rest, heal, eat, shower, and connect with your partner.
By nourishing and nurturing you, while you care for your precious newborn, I will help ease this transition.
With my Psychology and Ayurveda background, together, we can look at what will bring you balance. Our sessions together are unique and will nourish your soul - we will personalize them to ensure you get the most out of your experience.
In this special time, it is good to know, that you are not alone. I am here for you.
PRICING
€ 333,- / about 2-2,5 hours in your home, incl. food that I prepare for you
Since postpartum is forever, this session can be booked any time after you have given birth, even years later, as a “Mama Relax Time” in your home.
Make sure to check out postpartum doula bundles
ADD-ONS
Postpartum abhyanga (1-1,5 hours Ayurvedic oil application with an herbal belly oil and herbal stamp/boli) in my practice € 108,-
Belly binding cloth to keep (daily belly binding supports a return of muscles, organs, and hormones to their place before pregnancy) € 50,-
Processing your birth by writing your baby’s birth story for you, adapting it with you, and framing it for you € 100,-
“Rebozo Closing Ceremony”
Half of my direct family is Mexican, and the other half lives in Austria (and other countries). But this does not entitle me to practice this ceremony, and it is really dear to my heart to shed some light on a very important topic, as we “Westerners” can be very naive.
If someone has not been initiated by a certain lineage, in this case, the traditional Maya lineage, then they should not spread nor apply any type of ceremony called “La Cerrada”, “Rebozo Closing Ceremony”, “Closing the Bones” or “Closing of the Bones” etc. It is cultural appropriation to call it this way. The nowadays encountered Westernized technique is actually very different from the original.
If you encounter someone outside of this tradition, applying it, you can be 100% sure that they are doing it wrong and that they can actually (yes, without knowing) cause harm to the physical and subtle bodies.
If you want to really experience this ritual, how it was intended to be, from an initiated wisdom keeper, you can write me here and I will connect you with a dear soul, an ancestral midwife, a traditional healer, and Maya spiritual guide (Ajq’ij).
But, please, have more discernment from who you learn, and ask them openly from which tradition they are coming.
Just because someone is from a Latin American, or any other “indigenous” country (from a European, or Westernized perception)… does not mean that they know the REAL traditions, nor does it mean that they are entitled to apply or even teach them.
Almost only midwives from the real Maya traditions are the keepers of this wisdom, and they are not the most famous Mexican women who travel the world to teach these rituals. Be careful, use your discernment, and honor the true wisdom keepers, who have been truly initiated.