A Placenta Print is original artwork I offer to every client seeking placenta processing. I utilize edible, vegan food coloring to essentially "paint" the placenta and then transfer onto watercolor paper. Each print is unique and special, with different colors that sometimes come to me during the birth (if I was their birth doula) or appear when I think of the mother or the baby this placenta supported. Sometimes the colors are simply inspired by what the trees are doing during that particular season. Before I start working with a placenta, I take a few moments to center and ground myself, to leave my emotions and baggage at the door, and to honor the special organ before me- for it is the true giver of life- a "tree of life" or "forgotten chakra". Just as I began praying over this special placenta, a song by Trevor Hall, "Yirawala," came on and just felt right on so many levels. Enjoy!
Yirawala
Sailing on high
Story told papa's eyes
Know your land
Know where you came from
Know your land now
Know your song and the sands it sang from
Know your song and pass it down
Dreamtime unfold
Star tribe we roam
Know your blood
Know who gave birth child
Know your blood now
Know the earth
Know who came first child
Know the earth and pass it down
If you cut that tree
We're never going to be... Free
Yirawala painter of the dreaming
Dear mama come and start your healing
We call all the generations
Aho gathering of nations
Spirit bird fly into the heartland
I offer everything in my hands
Dream lining all of the directions
Offering protection
If you cut that tree
Were never going to be.... free
Songwriter: Trevor Hall
Yirawala lyrics copyright Baba S Banket Publishing, Baba's Blanket Publishing
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