Childbirth Yantra

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This childbirth yantra should stimulate calmness, balance, stillness and peace in the body and mind, and help access intuitive knowledge.

I learned about this childbirth yantra from the sacred artist and doula Mavis Gewandt, USA. As I feel very attracted to labyrinths I instantly felt connected to this image.

Labyrinths are found in many cultures all over the Earth from the native Americans to the Indians and are one of the most ancient symbols from unknown times. Walking a Labyrinth is a literal as well as a symbolic and sacred process, representing our life-journey, transitions and process of inner transformation. The journey into the center symbolizes the letting go and death, and the journey from the center out represents the birth and rebirth.

This yantra symbolizes the way of the human being from her/his genesis in the eternal unconscious waters of creation to her/his first in-breath outside the maternal body. So during labor in some cultures this labyrinth is used as an inner map, as well as having a calming and easing effect, clearing the path of the child during the birth woes. The mother is breathing in to the center on its ebb and breathing from the center out during its flow. In that way the delivery goes smooth and less painful. Thus it is used as a tool for childbirth preparation, during labor and postpartum healing.

The colours I used are from this feeling of dwelling in the eternal unconscious waters of creation, the place from where we come and the place to which we return. I applied for it the “wash”-technique by the Tantric artist Harish Johari.