Sanctify
Birth
Bringing ritual & reverence to your birth continuum.
A mosaic of time-honoured tradition for the sacred window.
Welcome…
traditional birth Attendance • Nourishing Postpartum •
Ritual& ceremony • Placenta Alchemy
My name is Lily,
I am a Full Spectrum Birth Doula offering a variety of modalities, ceremonies and support for your birth continuum.
On Gumbaynggirr Country - Bellingen NSW.
Traditional Birth Attendance
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Prenatal sessions intended to connect,
Birth attendance and support, with an intuitive and non-invasive approach while you traverse the threshold and initiation of birth. Holding you in whichever way you are needing through each moment as you voyage the cosmos to meet your baby.
Ceremony and ritual to celebrate the rites of passage you are traversing, through both pregnancy and your postpartum journey. Weaving sanctity through every milestone and honouring your transition on this transcendental path of matrescense, including mother blessing ceremony and closing ritual after birth.
Nourishing, hearty homecooked meals, including elixirs, herbal supports and snacks, specific to postpartum healing and digestion during your first 40 days.
Bodywork and treatments during postpartum, including moxa, belly binding, yoni steaming, massage and more, with a deep focus on warming, holding, nourishing and nervous system regulating.
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4 Sessions During Pregnancy
Birth Attendance
6 Sessions Postpartum
2 Ceremonies - before or after birth
6x Ayurvedic Postpartum Meal Packages
Copies of my collection of eBooks and online tutorials for the birth continuum
Ceremony
I offer ceremony and ritual to celebrate the rites of passage you are traversing, through both pregnancy and your postpartum experience. Weaving sanctity through every milestone and honouring your transition on this transcendental path of matrescense, including mother blessing ceremony, placenta ceremony and closing ceremony after birth.
In Devotion to the Mother
As a full spectrum doula I believe in honouring the sacred rite of passage of pregnancy, birth and postpartum. I walk beside women and their families with holistic, grounded and heartfelt care, so that women may begin their journey into motherhood feeling held, supported and seen.
Postpartum care is cross-cultural, and I draw upon multiple lineages of wise women who I have been honoured to sit at the feet at to provide devotional care to birthing mothers.
Through deep connection building, nourishing foods, traditional therapies for postpartum, and ritual to acknowledge each woman’s profound journey, I sit at the altar of birth and womanhood.
eBooks & Guides
Based on Ayurvedic principles of postpartum nourishment, this meal plan details meals, snacks, teas, tonics and herbal foods best suited to postpartum care.
You will receive information on each of the stages of postpartum nourishment, phases of repair and how to nourish yourself using tastes, qualities and textures based upon Ayurvedic principles.
Perfect to share with family, friends, doulas, meal trains and your community to help them support and care for you during your sacred postpartum window.
This guide includes:
An explanation of postpartum digestion (Agni), and how to nourish and rebuild a postpartum body during each of the phases of recovery post birth, from an Ayurvedic perspective
Breakfast, Morning Snack, Lunch, Afternoon Snack, Dinner & Herbal Foods / Teas meal plan for 21 days (weeks 1, 3 & 5) for each of the postpartum healing phases
29 vegetarian Ayurvedic recipes, designed especially for postpartum nurturing
Your guide to bringing ritual and reverence to your placenta through ceremony. Includes practical rituals, step-by-steps, ceremony scripts, mantras for invoking your placenta, placenta ceremony Spotify playlist and a rebirthing meditation.
Intended for mamas, doulas, midwives and rites of passage facilitators, to help guide this sacred passage and hold space for placenta ceremony.
Contents:
Cultural Significance of the Placenta
Placenta Cleansing
- Energetic Cleansing
- Physical Cleansing
Placenta Prayers
- Casting the Circle
- The Placenta Blessing
- Mantra for the Placenta
Placenta Poetry
Placenta Burial & Scattering
- Choosing the Vessel to Bury Your Placenta
- Burying Your Placenta
- Ceremonial Placenta Dust
- Scattering Your Placenta
Placenta Mandala
Placenta Ritual
- Cord Burning Ceremony with step-by-step instructions
- Crochet Umbilical Ties
- Lotus Birth with step-by-step instructions
Tree of Life: Rebirthing Meditation
Includes:
Explanation of a Lotus Birth
Supplies needed for a Lotus Birth
Instructions for your Lotus Birth
Placenta Burial Ceremony for after Lotus Birth
Placenta Blessing (script to guide you)
Contents:
Belly Binding & Ayurveda
Honouring the Lineage
Benefits of Binding
Contraindications for Binding
Warming Womb Paste Recipe
* please note that this eBook does not include instructions of how to bind, it is intended to be educational for the history, benefits and art of belly binding.
A practical guide to facilitating a Mother Blessing.
For birthworkers, sisters, and anyone who may hold ceremony space for a blossoming mumma or family.
Includes:
💫 20 RITUALS with practical instructions to bless the mother 💫 + 3 rituals for fathers
blessing as birth preparation
honouring the lineage
crafting a flower crown (practical how to)
setting the ceremony
mama blessing brew recipes
tending to the altar
structuring the circle
opening the circle
ceremonial songs to sing (with Spotify playlist)
heart meditation
community co-creation
Mother and father blessings
Including Men in ceremony
Fatherhood rituals for the men & joint rituals
closing the ceremony
An educational guide to support and empower you with the wisdom of natural fertility and contraception.
Includes:
Key Markers of Fertility
Taking your Temperature
Interpreting your Temperature
Troubleshooting Inconsistent Temps
Charting your Cervical Fluid
Example Chart with Detailed Annotations - Interpreting your Cervical Fluid
Your Fertile Window
Understanding your Chart
Example Chart with Detailed Annotations - Interpreting your Temperatures
Learning the art and science of Fertility Awareness is a life changing key for all women. Understanding our bodies in such an intimate and detailed way is incredibly empowering and insightful. This practice changed the way I understood myself and my body, it empowered me within my intimate relationships and I hope it will do the same for you.
Fertility awareness can be used for both the intentions of avoiding pregnancy or calling in a pregnancy. This eBook is geared towards using the method for contraception, but the principles can very easily be applied to conceive a pregnancy as well.It is my deepest belief that this wisdom should be passed down to our daughters, empowering them to deeply know their own bodies, to understand their cyclical rhythms and to stay connected to their cycles without ever disrupting them with synthetic hormones.
May this wisdom encourage a journey of healing within our lineages as women. Our fertility is sacred and this knowledge is powerful.
The information in this guide is for educational purposes only. Please research carefully and be self responsible for your fertility.
Lotus Birth Kits
Contains:
Hemp Lotus Birth Bag
Herbal Rock Salts
Instructional Lotus Birth Guide to Download
Traditional Postpartum Bodywork
Mayan Abdominal Massage • Womb Basti • Belly Binding • Womb Moxibustion • Abhyanga • Yoni Steaming • Herbal Baths • Loving touch
Womb Basti
Womb Basti is the pooling of warm sesame oil within a dough encasement over the womb. Basti treatments balance and nurture Vata dosha, using heat to heal and oil to nourish.
Our wombs crave warmth, especially during the Vata Apana Vayu (downward moving energy) time of our bleed or postpartum.
The qualities of Sesame Oil warms, nourishes, smoothes and soothes — it helps to tonify and aid in relaxation and rejuvenation, balancing Vata.
This artform is so sacred and healing, and it is such an honour to hold space for such ancient traditions.
The sacred and ancient modality of Womb Basti is rooted in traditional Ayurvedic alchemy — supporting warmth and increasing blood circulation to the womb. Used to soothe during menstruation, support fertility & nourish during postpartum
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“The sesame oil heated up just has to be the most magnetic and delicious aroma the world has ever known! I was so intrigued by Lily’s healing craft; how she sculpted the ouroburros bridge to hold the oil over my womb, and the beautiful blankets & pillows on her massage table. All of my senses felt truly engaged and pampered. Having my first baby just weeks before, this hot oil over belly and gentle massage around hips helped bring much needed heat back to my core. I had a few stretch marks and a muscle in my abdomen that felt torn and honestly after the womb basti I felt all better! My stretch marks felt hydrated and supported and the pain in my abdomen just seemed to go away!” - Alicia
Featured Offerings
Your baby’s umbilical cord will be cast in clear resin, woven amongst dried flowers, crystals and gold leaf, to create a beautiful and unique piece of art from the cord that connected you and your baby in the womb.
Available Australia-wide for dried cord keepsakes of any age.
Available in 2 sizes:
Small - for bellybutton cord stumps - 8cm circumference
Large - for full length cords - 14cm circumference
Existing cord keepsakes must fit these dimensions to be eligible.
Orders for existing cord keepsakes will receive postage instructions via email, to send keepsake to Placenta Temple for casting.
For multiple floral colour / crystal combinations please message @placenta.temple on instagram. You are welcome to include any special beads, crystals, dried flowers or mementos of your own to be cast with your cord xx
Gathering in circle to receive the support of your sisterhood during this sacred time is a beautiful ritual as you transition into motherhood and prepare for birth. Be held by the wisdom, guidance and blessings of your circle as you are nourished through ceremony to honour this sacred rite of passage.
Mother Blessings are an important dimension of spiritual and emotional birth preparation, to feel acknowledged and supported by your community and empowered for your birth.
This ceremony will help to establish your support network to nourish and deepen your connections leading into postpartum and beyond.
We will move through a range of rituals, ceremonies and sacred activities to celebrate and honour you.
Blessing Ceremonies are able to be tailored to your preferences to ensure this day is as nourishing and supportive to you as possible. We will chat before your ceremony to guide how the day might best look and feel for you.
Belly Binding is the sacred and traditional practice of wrapping the belly post-birth, to provide support to your pelvic bowl, internal muscles and abdominal wall as you recover postpartum. The art of belly binding is traditional to Malaysia (known as Bengkung), Japan (known as Sarishi), Indian Ayurvedic practices (known as Veshtanam) and Ancient China.
Service includes wrapping of the belly / application of the belly bind & hemp belly bind to keep (value of $70.00).
Option for warming womb paste application for beneath the bind.
Warming Womb Paste includes:
Bentonite Clay, Calendula, Cloves, Ginger, Turmeric, Black Pepper, Cinnamon +
Please note that the warming womb paste may stain the fabric of your belly bind.
Let’s Connect
If you would like to meet before booking to feel if I’m the birthkeeper for you, I would love to connect over a cup of tea. Complimentary meetups are available in Bellingen, Gumbaynggirr Country.
I honour the Traditional Custodians of the Gumbaynggirr land on which I work, live, love and birth; and recognise their continuing connection to land, water and community. I pay respect to Elders past, present and emerging, and acknowledge that this beautiful country always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.
I honour and acknowledge that the rituals, modalities, practices and ceremonies I offer are rooted in ancient and sacred cultures and places.
It is with deep reverence that I share these modalities, and with huge gratitude to the teachers who have passed down the thread of their wisdom.
May these practices continue to honour the mothers that have been, the mothers that are, and the mothers who are yet to become.