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Blessingways
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Teresa can support you during times of transitions in the form of blessing rituals, or blessing ways.
- Fertility – Inviting Your Baby Blessingway
- Pregnancy Blessing Way
- Baby Blessings and Baby Naming
- Menopause Blessing Way
- Divorce Transiton, or any other "New Path" Blessing Way
What is a Blessingway?
Read more! Ezine Archive "Walking in Beauty" September 9, 2008
Ezine Archive "Blessingways" January 8, 2009
A blessingway is a native American ritual celebrated during rites of passage. Traditional passages include menarche (a young women’s first menstrual period); before a wedding; before the birth of a child; and in pregnancy, before giving birth.
I have also attended blessingways for friends – pre hysterectomy, or to mark their menopause passage.
I have heard of women also creating blessingway ceremonies as they chose to open up their lives to becoming a mother. This includes women choosing adoption as pathway to becoming a mother.
Some of these ceremonies have included men, the majority have been women only gatherings.
You are probably saying, well a blessing way sounds a lot like a shower. It may sound like a shower but it is more than a shower.
Yes, in our culture we have showers to mark most of these occasions. I would describe a blessing way as a shower with a strong nourishing spiritual aspect, which fully engages each participant with her mind, body and spirit. Blessing ways are one way to feed this deep need we all have as women to sit with each other and deeply connect.
It has always been my experience, that everyone who shares in such a gathering leaves feeling connected and fulfilled. There is an intrinsic gift in sharing your admiration and blessing to a friend within a small group. This witnessing within a safe container amplifies the sentiments, and all are nourished.
Having grown up on the East coast, this has not been my experience of attending showers.
Teresa has helped guide me through several inflection points in my life by showning me how to access my own inner resolve and strength and to allow me to identify and freely follow my own unique path in my own space and time.
Concrete “homework” and steps to take intertwined with spiritual touchstones have also assisted me with my journey I put into practice in my everyday life the grounding and other spiritual techniques/resources Teresa has given me to add peace to my world.
Teresa guides in a gentle yet firm manner, helping me to viscerally discover and understand/internalize the process Teresa’s guidance and help has changed my life!
– Tricia
