Product Description

Different from a baby shower, where gifts are lavished upon the soon-to-be-born child, a blessingway ceremony honors the mother-to-be and creates a circle of support that will cradle her as she prepares to give birth. Surrounded by the most important women in her life, she can explore the challenges and joys that lie before her, gaining a sense of power and confidence that will help her rise to motherhood. MOTHER RISING shows women how to organize and personalize a blessingway for the expecting friends and family—an experience that will give the mother-to-be the best possible gifts of deep happiness, serenity, and abundance of love.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #393137 in Books
• Published on: 2006-05-01
• Released on: 2006-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Review
"I have long awaited a book that can guide any woman into the sweet depths of sacred ceremony..." -- Suzanne Arms, internationally acclaimed author, founder and director of Birthing the Future®

"I love this book! Absolutely brilliant and original...[Mother Rising] is a treasure chest, an cyclopedic cookbook for Blessingways..." -- Pam England, midwife and author of Birthing from Within

"Indeed, [Mother Rising] will help our culture gestate a better way to welcome life and thus transform us all." -- Jeannine Parvati Baker, midwife and author of Prenatal Yoga & Natural Childbirth, Hygieia: A Woman's Herbal and Conscious Conception: Elemental Journey Through the Labyrinth of Sexuality

"Mother Rising helps women remember the power and support they can give each other. It speaks to a woman’s soul." -- Christiane Northrup, MD, author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause

"Mother Rising is exactly the step-by-step gorgeous, loving resource mothers-to-be and those who love them are hungry for...Highly recommended." -- Jennifer Louden, author of The Pregnant Woman's Comfort Book and creator of www.comfortqueen.com

From the Publisher
* A resource for planning and hosting a blessingway ceremony—a woman-centered celebration of the journey into motherhood. * Ideal gift for or from an expectant mother who wants a more meaningful and transformational experience than the traditional, gift-focused baby shower. * Outlines the five stages of the blessingway ritual, from establishing a safe and sacred space to honoring and pampering the mother-to-be. * Finalist in both the 2004 Independent Publisher Book Awards and Foreword magazine’s Book of the Year Awards. * Features sidebars, inspirational quotations, resources, and checklists.

From the Author
Birth is a key life passage for women. But modern America has become preoccupied with the arrival of the baby-to-be, and lost touch with birth's profound impact on the mother-to-be herself. While our most common birth preparations focus on getting women physically ready to give birth, the blessingway ritual helps a woman to prepare mentally, emotionally, and spiritually for the work of birthing–freeing her to open to instinctive abilities that will guide her as she steps into motherhood.

Customer Reviews

Best book EVER for Blessing ways
This is such a helpful book and is easy to read. If you are planning on throwing a blessingway at your house....this is the best book to make sure it is a success!!

Full of ideas!
I created a unique and beautiful blessingway for my dear friend with this book. It lists several ideas for different stages and types of blessingways. It gives a little history as well. What I liked best about the book is that it left the blessingway up to me to plan, there was no rigged 'this is the way it must be done'. It also was written for any religious belief system to create a blessingway, honoring your guest of honors' beliefs is easy with this book!