Closing Ceremony

1:1 Closing Ceremony Apprenticeship

The art of holding women through life’s sacred thresholds

An immersion into Ritual and Rites of Passage.

Held at my home sanctuary in Cornwall

We once marked the thresholds.
We held the women.
We gathered where endings met beginnings.

Now we move alone —
bleeding, birthing, grieving, rising without witness.

This is a soul-led remembering
of how to hold a woman in the in-between —
no longer who she was,
not yet who she’s becoming,
her body howling for homecoming.

No certificate awaits you here.
You are initiated by ritual,
by the women you lay your hands on, rock and wrap,
by the unwavering gaze you hold,
by the sacred thresholds you lovingly witness.

This is the tender art of presence —
with all that is raw, messy, holy and real.

Threshold Tending

A Sacred Wrapping Ritual

For Thresholds, Transitions and Rebirth

This is not a traditional Closing of the Bones ceremony. I’ve never referred to what I offer as that.

I am a white woman from Celtic lands. This ritual did not come to me through a specific lineage, though I bow deeply to the cultures and peoples who carry these sacred traditions. We name and honour the origins of the tools we use — especially the rebozo, a woven cloth from Mexico. You will be encouraged to explore your own ancestral rituals.

What I share was birthed through soul remembrance; a thread from the ancestral field that asked to be woven through my hands. This ceremony draws from ancient midwifery gnosis — womb to tomb
from the wrapping of the dead
to the cocooning of the grieving
to the swaddling of the baby and the binding of the mother.

Across cultures and continents, women have always been wrapped, held and enclosed after major life transitions. Postpartum. Grief. Endings. Identity shifts.

The need to be witnessed and brought back to centre is universal and timeless.

Rites of Passage

Rites of passage honour the significant transitions and thresholds in our lives — moments when we move from one stage of identity or experience into another. These ceremonies help us process change, integrate transformation and receive witnessing and loving support.

Historically, rites of passage were woven into the fabric of community life. Every culture had ceremonies for birth, puberty, marriage, grief, initiation and death. These rituals held profound psychological, emotional and spiritual functions — helping individuals feel seen, held and guided through liminal space, where the old self dissolves and the new self emerges.

Today, many of these rites have been lost or diluted. We often move through life’s major transitions privately or without ceremony, missing vital opportunities for reflection, healing and belonging. Without these sacred markers, changes can feel disorienting, incomplete or isolating. This loss disconnects us from our deeper rhythms, ancestral wisdom and the support of our communities.

This is a body-led apprenticeship in the art of threshold tending.
Not just for postpartum but for all the moments a woman is rebirthed—
through loss, change, identity shifts, trauma, creativity.

This ritual offers a homecoming.

Restoring Rites of Passage

WHAT THIS APPRENTICESHIP OFFERS

This apprenticeship is not a step by step method. It is an intuitive, relational transmission; alive, responsive to the moment, rather than a fixed formula. Over three days, you will learn through your body-mind, through presence, through the alchemy of being both held and holding. You will be guided to listen deeply to the woman before you, honour your own lineage, work with sacred tools respectfully and embody ritual through presence.

You will be guided into:

  • Threshold tending — how to meet women in their raw, liminal spaces

  • Creating a ceremonial field for transformation — altars, opening sacred space and energetic hygiene

  • Whole body rebozo techniques: rocking, stretching and wrapping

  • Womb and abdominal tending — massage, moxibustion, fascial releases, Celtic womb blessing

  • Priestess presence — responding to the unfolding moment

You will leave with:

  • The embodied skill to offer this ceremony in a way that is safe, sacred and your own

  • A deeper trust in your hands, your body, your intuitive intelligence

  • The priestess art of tending to another’s becoming

  • “ I had a very traumatic birth and I felt that it was casting a dark shadow over my motherhood experience. There are no words for how incredibly healing the experience was. I was able to go into a mental state of profound healing. After the Closing Ceremony my life has completely changed. I'm enjoying motherhood which is what I always dreamed of before the traumatic birth took that away from me.”

    Selene

  • "Held, nurtured, rocked and listened to. Honoured Spaciousness to BE. To unfurl. To go to the places, the nooks and crannies deeply embedded into not just my cells by my soul. Amy intuitively went to the hard to reach places - the caves where all the secrets reside. And she woke up the stories that lay quite happily taking up my space! Wake up! Time to rise! Out you come, we've some new dreams to form. It felt good to have those parts rocked awake, not to sleep."

    Siobhan Kelly

  • “I have never felt so safe in a healing session. For the first time in my life I truly believed and felt my body to be a temple worth tending too. I feel like life was breathed into me from head to toe - it's hard to articulate the magic that Amy weaves but I look different, I feel different, like a huge weight was lifted from me. I feel such gratitude for Amy holding me in my vulnerability and creating such a precious space for healing and integration. Thank you goddess."

    Laura Charlotte Taylor

  • "Dropping beyond time to be receptive for the deeper body work to occur. So many timelines merged as I was transported in her loving arms. There are few words for the ineffable states of consciousness reached. For the ancestral healing of returning to the circle of belonging and re-memberment in my being.”

    Laura Hart Swann

  • "I felt like I had entered a temple and been initiated into the ways of ancient and forgotten practises at the hands of a wise, ancient priestess. It was beautiful. When you lifted my eye mask I felt like I was in front of a golden arched doorway and walking through it I entered a new life, a brighter view. Since your treatment I literally feel stronger, happier, sexier at peace with myself and proud of who I am."

    Nicki

  • "Amy made me feel glad to be in a women's body. She made me feel loved, strong and beautiful. I can see why she labels her therapies 'devotional bodywork'. She does just that. For the time youre with her she is entirely devoted to you and your body"

    Bryony

  • "I floated out feeling so full of wonder and love. It was so joyous to feel a connection to my sexuality and sensuality. My whole body feels alive and loved. The areas I am more slow to love, my tummy, my hips...feel whole and wonderful, and utterly deserving of love. And overwhelmingly, I feel powerful! A devoted-on Queen who has stepped back into her power!"

    Julie

  • “Being held in ceremony with Amy was a threshold moment to letting go of the past and opening up the portal to the next chapter of my life. I felt held, seen and honoured throughout. Amy has a very special gift supporting women to return to their power that every woman should experience."

    Natalie Miles

  • “A beautiful, potent experience that has imprinted deeply in my heart. She gave me most nurturing experience lve ever had with a therapist, possibly with another human, certainly with another woman. She left my body feeling so soothed, yet awakened. I felt deeply connected to source, and my felt womb get alive in ways it seldom does. I'm eternally grateful for the space Amy held, and holds with deep integrity. Her presence, work and sincere devotion is incredible to behold.”

    Beth

The Gifts of a 1:1 Apprenticeship

This is an intimate container - crafted entirely around you.

This is a highly personalised, hands on approach where you will:

• Receive full presence, direct guidance and honest feedback from me
• Engage in intensive hands-on practice, both giving and receiving
• Be supported to self-initiate into your own unique, embodied, devotional touch

My full presence is devoted to you throughout the immersion. I respond to your body, nervous system and learning style. You receive bespoke guidance shaped by your experience, questions and edges, rather than being asked to fit into a fixed curriculum.

This is a living apprenticeship shaped through relationship.

Held as a fully immersive,

residential apprenticeship.

For the duration of our time together, there is nowhere else to be and nothing else to hold. You stay in my home sanctuary, are nourished with organic, homemade meals and are guided through a spacious rhythm that allows the work to land in your body rather than rush through.

By removing daily travel, distractions and external demands, this 1:1 apprenticeship creates the conditions for real embodiment, deep transmission and integration.

THE JOURNEY

Each day will run 9-4pm

Day One | Receiving the Ritual, Rites of Passage

The morning invites you to receive the Closing Ceremony — not as a student but as an initiate; allowing the ritual to imprint in your body, your bones, your soul.

In the afternoon we journey into the heart of ritual and rites of passage. We will explore the cycles, seasons and wheels of womanhood and the art of holding women at their thresholds.

Day Two | Womb Tending, Rocking & Wrapping

We explore weaving a container and how to shape a ceremonial flow from its opening breath to its closing seal.

You will learn the language of the rebozo with whole-body rocking and wrapping.

We then move into the chalice of the womb. I will share comprehensive womb tending techniques: moxibustion, abdominal and womb massage, fascial and accupressure releases, Celtic womb blessing.

We attune to the energetic contours of sacred space — exploring the invisible threads that hold ceremony.

Day Three | Offering and Integration

This is your day of sharing all that you have received. You will offer the full Closing Ceremony to me.

In the afternoon we reflect and integrate. We tend to the soul threads this work has woven within you.

We will explore pre-and post-ceremony client care and the importance of tending to your vessel to be able to offer this work.

We also open the conversation around your relationship to money and receiving for this sacred work. I will offer my insights on how to effectively and authentically share and market this medicine work.

Closing Ceremony Investment: £2222

This investment includes:

✦ Three full days of my dedicated guidance, teaching and presence
✦ Four nights accommodation in my beautiful guest room with private en suite bath
✦ Three organic, homemade, high vibrational meals per day

The Closing Ceremony is held as a fully immersive experience. Everything is taken care of around the learning so you can arrive, soften and devote yourself fully to the work.

Ceremonial Tools

To offer the Closing Ceremony, seven rebozos are required.

Rebozos are ancient ceremonial allies, woven prayerfully by women in Mexico across generations. They are essential tools within the Closing Ceremony bodywork sequences and rites of passage practices.

I can source authentic rebozos directly from Mexican weavers at £50 each, totalling £350.

Booking and Payment

A £555 non-refundable deposit is required to secure your dates.

Payment plans are available for the remaining balance, with full payment completed prior to our work together.

To enquire, please email me and I will share an application form so we can discern whether this work is aligned. If it is, I will then invite you to a connection call. As this work is held 1:1, my availability is extremely limited. I am typically booked 3-6 months in advance.

Closing Ceremony

  • Journeying through the ALTAR and Closing Ceremony Apprenticeships with Amy has been life-changing on so many levels. Receiving these offerings and being lovingly guided through the initiation of sharing my own devotion has given me clarity on how I wish to show up for myself and others moving forward. This experience has not only taught me the practical skills and framework for tending to others, it has also invited me to journey deeply into my own authentic expression of presence and service. Amy didn’t hand me a formula to follow. She was a midwife, supporting me to birth these offerings for myself — celebrating my aliveness, intuition and self-trust every step of the way. I was learning and remembering all at once; witnessing the death and rebirth within me that was initiating me into the heart of these teachings. The depth, reverence, wisdom and care Amy offers allowed me to feel held, nourished and witnessed in a way I have never experienced before. These apprenticeships restore rites of passage for women. They are empowering, reverent spaces that hold us as we release what no longer serves and receive what is needed to step into the next chapter of who we are here to be. They help us return to centre. They help us come home. This is medicine for women, for our families, our communities and our world. I feel deeply honoured to carry this work forward.

    Jenna

  • The level of pre-care, care during the journey, and aftercare was exceptional. From the moment I arrived, I felt deeply held. Amy’s presence was the most warm, loving and grounded support I could have wished for. From receiving the ceremony, which was profoundly transformational, to being guided into the giving of it, every aspect was held with deep reverence. I felt genuinely nourished throughout. The wisdom woven into this work comes from the heart, a true gnosis, a remembering that landed deep within my bones. I’m so excited to carry and share this deeply transformational work with other women.

    Amy W, Sacred Sounds

  • I am honoured to receive these sacred teachings from Amy. Her wisdom around the Closing Ceremony was shared with such depth, clarity, and integrity. Amy shared not only teachings, but lived knowledge, practical guidance, and embodied insights. The time spent with her enriched my understanding of ceremony, thresholds, and the importance of closing chapters with reverence and intention. I am deeply grateful for her openness, her hospitality, and the many useful insights she so generously offered. This teaching will stay with me, continuing to shape my ceremonial work.

    Kasia

Meet your guide

Welcome sister. I am Amy Rose.

I serve at the altar of womanhood, walking the spiral path of Earth, Blood, Womb and Soma.

I walk beside women through the great initiations of life, holding and witnessing their reclamation, their rage and their radiance. I tend the fires of transformation and welcome women home to remembrance and liberation.

My work invites women to ignite the priestess within, to remember the feminine temples that live in their hearts and hands and to seed this wisdom back into their communities.

My gift is attunement. I see you.

Women come to me to be deeply met and guided back into their embodied authority, sensuality and eros.

I midwife what is ancient, embodied and ready to return.

Ancient earth wisdom lives in my Capricorn bones and the heart-fire of the lioness pours through all my offerings.

I was born on Mother’s Night, deep in the womb of winter, a time of darkness, gestation and rebirth. This is the womb of my work.

I am a rooted woman of the Earth and a channel for the Goddess… fully human and fully divine.

FAQs

Where is the apprenticeship held?
The apprenticeship is held in my beautiful, modern home sanctuary in Newquay, Cornwall. I live beside the Gannel Estuary, which opens out to Crantock Beach. The land and water here are part of the medicine of this work.

How do I get there?
The nearest airport is Newquay Airport. The nearest train station is Newquay. There is on site parking available if you are travelling by car.

Is accommodation included?
Your investment includes four nights in my beautiful kingsize guest room with a private en suite bathroom and bath. You will arrive the evening before our first day and depart the morning after our last day.

Are meals included?
You will be nourished with three organic, homemade, high vibrational meals per day, prepared in my home.

Do I need prior bodywork or massage experience?
No formal qualification is required to undertake the Closing Ceremony apprenticeship. This work is rooted in presence, devotion and embodied transmission rather than certification. Everything you experience in the apprenticeship will deepen and enhance any existing bodywork, healing or ceremonial practices you already offer.

Is this a certification or accredited training?
The Closing Ceremony is an apprenticeship and self-initiation. Mastery and authority in this work is earned through practice, integrity and devotion rather than a paper certificate.

Is this work physically demanding?
This work is embodied and physical. You need to be comfortable squatting, kneeling and working close to the body for extended periods of time. It asks for strength, suppleness and good body awareness.

The apprenticeship is held with care and you will be guided to work with your body intelligently rather than push beyond your limits. If you have injuries or physical considerations, these can be discussed prior to booking so we can assess suitability together.

What should I bring?
Once your dates are confirmed, you will receive guidance on what to bring. Everything essential for the apprenticeship itself is provided, minus the set of 7 rebozos.

What support is offered after the apprenticeship?
Integration is woven throughout the immersion. You will be added to a WhatsApp group of Closing Ceremony alumni. Further 1:1 mentorship sessions with me are available at additional investment.

This Path is for Women Who…

☉ Feel called to tend sacred thresholds — birth, grief, identity shifts, endings and rebirths

☉ Are ready to kneel beside a woman in her full-spectrum unravelling and hold space for her becoming

☉ Know the power of ritual, sacred touch and presence to guide another home to herself

☉ Want to offer ceremonies that are felt in the bones

☉ Desire to bring soul, reverence and ancient remembrance into their healing work

☉ Are birthkeepers, bodyworkers, ceremonialists, space holders, healers or women who walk beside others in the tender in-between places

This Apprenticeship is Not for You if…

☉ You are seeking a scripted method or step-by-step formula

☉ You are uncomfortable with intimacy or emotional depth

☉ You are not physically mobile or able to kneel, rock, wrap — this work requires strength & flexibility in your body

☉ You have no intention to offer this work in the world — it is meant to be shared

We live in a world that is…

☉ Touch-starved

☉ Intimacy-starved

☉ Connection-starved

Women are longing for safe, sacred spaces where they can be held, honoured and deeply received. These spaces are rare and highly needed.

You are being called to create these spaces.