Held - Cloth & Bone

Devotional ceremonies to hold, rock, and honour your physical vessel.
for anyone in need of holding

These ceremonies are offered to anyone who is in need of holding, rocking, containment. To return to oneself, find stillness, quiet. To be cocooned and wrapped.

I offer this holding to not only mothers, but to the grieving ones with tender hearts, to the ones navigating inner and outer identity shifts, to those who need holding, to the sensitive ones, the ones who need to re-find the edges of their body, to the ones who are stressed and need deep rest.

I completed my Closing the Bones training in March, 2024 with Sophie Messager. Closing the Bones has its lineage in Ecuador, Mexico, and other parts of Central and South America. It is traditional ceremony that supports mothers postpartum on a physical, emotional, and energetic level. The ceremony includes being held, rocked, and wrapped by rebozos (Mexican scarves) to support expectant and birthing women.

I feel so incredibly moved by this ceremonial work and I am weaving these teachings with my work in earth-based ritual, grief-tending, rites of passage, and the path of the Priestess. This work is in my body, it feels like deep remembering of what has always been. I feel full of reverence for this work.

This ceremony is 2-3 hours long and includes:

Intention setting & listening
earth + body connection
Abdominal massage and/or anointing with oils
Rocking your body with rebozos/scarves
Wrapping your body as you sink into loving holding
Energy work/reiki, prayer, and sound
Integration time at the end with herbal teas to support

If you're longing to be held, nurtured, and supported, I'd be honoured to hold this space for you...
You can book below, or email me at rootedinreverence@gmail.com

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I bow to you, at your beautiful temple of creation & change

I kneel at the altar of heart and bone,

in service to all transitions of your body and soul

Woven arms reach out to meet you, rock you, hold you.

Cocooned in cloth of prayer,

wrapped in devotion, held in love

I am gifted these hands to serve

With grace and care

A path of devotion my heart longs to share

Held, rocked, cradled, swayed, pressed, squeezed, felt, heard. Closing Bones offered me a opportunity to lay an anchor into the heart of my body.

Willow was gentle, compassionate, understanding and intelligent in her offering. Her energetic attunements and active listening invited me to lean in and trust, which was so healing and special to receive. She was careful and considerate of my specific needs and preferences, meaning I was able to relax and soak in the feeling of being embraced and nourished.

I could hear the ancient lineage of the practice through Willow's transmission, brought home to the womb tomb, vast and unique in it's way of supporting the body to find recovery and love. I felt revered in my womanhood, as well as seen and accepted. Closing Bones with Willow invited me to rest in the nature of wholeness and gravity, to open into my femininity and connect with ancestral remembrance.

This way of handling healing bodies seems incredibly innate and I’m excited to know that Willow is continuing the lineage of this ceremony. I shan’t forget being wrapped up in sacred cloths and squeezed with love as my vision and limbs sunk into the vast blackness. The richness of love and tenderness Willow devoted to our session truly touches my heart.

Alice