Top 10 Lowie Row (USA/Thailand)

1/ You need to educate yourself (and your partner) about your birth options. 

2/ Trust yourself, it’s the best start for parenting. Know that birthing will give you a strong feeling of accomplishment. God has designed your body, 

he has created it so that it can give birth. You have to learn to make the process more enjoyable, having the father in the room is a unique experience.

3/ Find a doctor that will respect your wishes, find a birthing place where you can fell safe, where they also have equipment to step in if it’s ever needed.

4/ You should take very good care during pregnancy. Be well nourished, hydrated and rested.

5 / Enjoy the process of pregnancy. Many women have not been able to be pregnant so enjoy the process! 

6 / Frustration = Expectations minus Your reality so Be flexible! Never say ‘it will be like that’. There are many things that we cannot project… You can have wishes but don’t hold on to them. If things are not going the way you had imagine, let go and find out how to have what is important to you in another way. For exemple, you may not be able to do ‘skin to skin’, but dad may be able to. The goal here is to not come out frustrated. 

7/ Breastfeed 6 to 7 weeks at least it may not alway be smooth but it is important, so persevere. 

8/ Have support when the child arrives

9/ Expect that you may have post-partum depression, adjustments that are not always easy to make. It’s normal. 

10/ Find joy in each day with your child: new born day are so fast - they dont seem on the spot but they are!!

 

Mindfullness with the Monks

I am mindful of my breath, breathing in and breathing out. 

Slow, fast, deep in the navel or raising from the abdomen.

It is telling me how I am feeling today.

Thoughts pass by like motocycles on the highway 

Some of them louder than others 

Same stories, same people, same feelings over and over but moving. 

I love when a old friend comes, the memory of a place or a moment that I enjoyed.

It’s not always beautiful, it can be the image of a bad dream… but Iet it be, far from judgment. 

Then finally it’s quiet.

The mind is ready to receive, the door of the palace is wide open. 

Body is no limitation anymore, mind expands, the universe responds.

A feeling of calmness and infinity.

Creation.

Birth. Rebirth.

I want to stay there forever, explore the colors, the sounds and the sensations.

There is no sun, moon, stars or planets, only warm lights dancing.

I won’t open my eyes. 

Pure nothingness arise.

Power of life can be felt.

VIPASSANA MEDITATION

I’ve been in a Wat Pa Tam Mwa Forest Monastery (Meong Son) for 7 days, meditating with the monks in their peaceful paradise. Imagine a luxury resort but everyone dressed up in white, eating vegetarian food, in bed by 10pm and awake at 5am every day. During sitting meditation, Men are in front, women behind. 

« no touching or no massage » is part of the guide of conduct of the monastery. 

So here I am, enjoying the beauty of Vipassana with people from pretty much everywhere around the world. I feel i know the teacher since forever. The master is always laughing, his hobby is to watch foreigners and guess what animal they were in their past incarnations. 

Satipatthana is the Buddha’s most systematic explanation of the practice of mind training for realization of truth. It has complex guidelines. In the temple they teach us the basic first step of meditation, which is already quite a challenge, it’s called anapanasati-bhavana, the cultivation of mindfulness with breathing. Understanding and getting to know our breathing, which can change from long to short, fast or slow helps gaining mastering over the body and the mind. If our breathing is calm, the body will be likewise which leads to happiness and joy. « I will meditate diligently. May tranquility grow in my mind to bear the fruit of insight and wisdom. Now I will breathe mindfully. Breathing in, I will be mindful, breathing out I will be mindful. Breathing in I will say to myself ‘BUD’, breathing out I will say to myself ‘DHO’». BUD DHO means the enlightened one. 

I am doing my best and every day I feel more space in my head, like if the clouds where fading away. The stories rarely stop but I get to watch them and mindfully let them be, not judging them... the medicine here is to look at the thoughts and just don’t care, as if I was going to die the following second and it was my last breath.

The magic of this work is that on the other hand, everything that's in the matrix becomes important, every little detail of life is the entire universe. Flowers are more beautiful that they were before, only because now I truly observe them. I move around the place slowly enjoying each of my steps, trying to avoid the eyes of my friend Ronaldo who makes me laugh so much, that’s probably the hardest part!

 

 

 

Rituel du REBOZO

Le rituel du Rebozo est un soin proposé à quatre mains, deux femmes entrent dans un rituel précis et intime avec pour seul objectif: prendre soin de la femme comme de la plus belle pierre précieuse de l'univers.

Le soin dure environ quatre heures. 

Vous sentirez un jeu de couvertures digne des rituels japonais, un modelage aux huiles, un bain chaud ou un hammam, et enfin un envelopment et un resserrage du corps avec le tissu rebozo en sept points clés.

Une tisane de plantes spécifiquement adaptée est servie tout au long de la séance pour accompagner la montée en chaleur du corps.

Ce soin s'adresse à toutes les femmes, pour célébrer un évènement joyeux de la vie ou pour fermer la porte sur un chapitre terminé.

Il est répandu pendant la période postnatale. La femme qui a accouché a besoin de chaleur, de se reposer et de retrouver son centre énergétique. (Il n'y a pas de limites dans le temps, certaines femmes le font juste après la naissance, d'autres plusieurs mois voir un ou deux ans plus tard.) 

Ce soin est également proposé aux femmes ayant vécu un deuil, une fausse couche, un avortement ou tout simplement qui ont besoin de recentrage pour accueillir le nouveau. Il peut être offert au moment des premières lunes (règles), avant un mariage ou avant de commencer un nouvel emploi.

Le rituel rebozo fait parti de la vie des femmes mexicaines et ce transmet de générations en générations. 

Pour prendre rendez-vous, merci de me contacter par mail laurelene.chambovet@gmail.com ou téléphone 06.48.17.00.77 ou via ma collègue Erica https://www.ericamrit.org/
4h de soin, le matériel, les plantes médicinales et deux masseuses - 300 euros

Si vous cherchez d'autres practiciennes près de chez vous:  Ecole Française de Rebozo: http://www.rebozoaufeminin.fr/

"Merci pour ce moment merveilleux aujourd'hui, réalisé pour passer dans une nouvelle ère dans ma vie. Merci pour cette belle énergie, douceur et force à la fois, qui me donne l'impulsion et l'accompagnement dont j'avais besoin pour m'ouvrir à moi même."  A.