The Postpartum Circle became a woven portal for mothers stepping into the tender threshold of life after birth. Held at House of Now on May 5, May 19, June 2, and June 16-each Monday from 2:00 to 3:30 pm. This series created a sacred, intimate space where mothers gathered, exhaled, and were held.
Each session formed its own braid: stories were shared, emotions were witnessed, and identities were reclaimed while babies were held and passed around. Through ritual, meditation, gentle dialogue, and collective care, mothers moved together through the early postpartum landscape, honouring this time as a profound rite of passage rather than a transition to navigate alone.
Over the course of these four gatherings, community became medicine. Mothers found resonance in one another’s experiences, received emotional and spiritual nourishment, and reconnected with their whole being in body, mind, and spirit. Braiding Portal was a postpartum circle that offered a pathway back to themselves, woven in connection, softness, and ancestral remembering.
A participant’s experience:
” I felt such a sweetness in these intimate circles that was so different from what other mama groups or postpartum adjustment groups in the valley offer. The simple altar laid out at the center with a delicious and nourishing treat offered each week felt so special to receive. There was an extra quality in this offering that made me feel wrapped and held in a safe, gentle, and very needed way.
It permeated to a deeper layer of yearning and need in me as a new mother. The guidance of the hosts invited a quality of connection with spirit and the elements that allowed my nervous system to lean back and be held beyond the practical, and within the realm of essential. The reflection prompts and the circle sharing rounds invoked a tribal feeling in me, and the ancient mother archetype within me felt called forward during these circles. Particularly, the singing felt like it nourished my soul and filled my cup. I also remember the water ritual and the simplicity of this, and it has stuck with me all year as a self-care ritual, a reminder, and access to connect to spirit, nature, and an elemental archetype as support during this motherhood journey.
In the early days of tending wholeheartedly to a new baby, this gathering felt so deeply nourishing and anchoring for me. It offered guidance and companionship in the unseen realms of the journey, where I otherwise would have felt much more alone and ignorant.”
