Closing of the Bones is a cross-cultural postpartum ritual that honors the transformation from maiden to mother. It is a gentle tending of the body, heart, and spirit — a way to acknowledge all that you have opened, given, and become through birth.

Rebozos, handwoven Mexican shawls, softly wrap and hold your body. You are swaddled with intention and this loving containment helps to close the physical bones and energetic birth portal — inviting your energy back into yourself and restoring your vitality. A shedding of old skin and coming home to yourself in your new form : as Mother.

Many women choose to receive this ritual at the end of the sacred postpartum window — around the first 42 days — though it can be offered anytime you feel ready. Weeks, months, even years after birth. It can also be a profoundly healing ceremony for mothers grieving spirit babies whose journeys were brief yet deeply meaningful.

While traditionally offered in the postpartum season, Closing of the Bones is beautiful for any life transition. I have held this ceremony to support pregnancy release, loss, and grief, healing after sexual trauma, separation after a long relationship, and to honor a young woman’s first menstrual cycle or journeying into menopause.

Whenever life has opened you, this ritual offers a gentle and loving way to close, integrate, and begin again.