Blessing Way
A Blessing way, or as it is sometimes called, a Mother’s Blessing, is a ceremony that celebrates pregnancy and the passage into motherhood. It derives from a Native American tradition in which the expectant mother and her closest friends gather to support, nurture and empower an expectant mother. The ceremony is a natural and comfortable one in which the “sisters” create a circle for an expectant mother, blessing the journey ahead for her into motherhood.
Different from a baby-shower, it focuses more on the expectant mother and can have many rituals, one of which is stringing a “Labour of Love” necklace for the mother-to-be to wear or hold during labor. Each woman brings a bead or trinket of special meaning, and while stringing it on the cord, offers ‘beads’ of advice or support. The beads can be healing stones known for specific properties, charms or trinkets nostalgic of a special memory or bond of friendship or simply be beautiful adornments of love.
Below are a selection of some of our favorite beads for making a Blessingway Labour of Love necklace. Click on the product descriptions to learn more about how these stones and symbols relate to a Blessingway ceremony.
Garnet Round Bead, 8mm
Goldfish Ojime Bead, 26x14mm
Mermaid Ojime Bead, 22x24mm
