What are the Four Baskets?
The Four Baskets is a concept introduced to Catherine during time spent at a small spiritual school in India, and are based on ancient Vedic teachings about the primal foundation for life - the timeframe from conception through six hours after birth. Vedic wisdom says, “The root of all dysfunction, disease and disorder of humanity can be traced to disruption in one of these baskets.”
Building upon this concept, Catherine has integrated other life experiences - as mother, midwife, and student of psychology and nature - to birth the Four Baskets Healing Process and Four Baskets Facilitator Training.
As the primary foundation of life, the Four Baskets hold our primal experiences; experiences that leave a lasting imprint and form the core ‘lens’ through which we perceive the rest of our life. The Four Baskets create a template for how we will be in relationship with ourselves, our parents, our partners, our children, and our world. By bringing awareness to these connections, deep healing and transformation can and do happen. The Four Baskets timeframes are:
1st Basket - conception (embryonic period)
2nd Basket - gestation (fetal development)
3rd Basket - birth (labor and birth)
4th Basket - first 6 hours (immediate postpartum)
The Four Baskets Healing Process is a supported journey of self-discovery to bring the light of awareness to your earliest experiences in this life - a time that is often veiled in mystery and chalked up to being forgotten.... but this is far from the truth. Our earliest experiences are encoded within us and we can learn ways to unlock access to them. Your first step is to join the Four Baskets Digital Course Companion.
When we illuminate our earliest experiences in the womb and in the world we have the opportunity to heal our first basic disconnect, which allows us access to our blueprint, the unified field of pure potential that we come from ~ a Return to Wholeness ~ where we can deepen our connection to ourselves, Mother Earth and restore our oneness with all beings.
“Four Baskets is dedicated to unveiling the consciousness that begins before birth. By illuminating our primal blueprint and the imprints that shape our perceptions of life, we guide personal and collective healing, and nurture a return to coherence and wholeness.”
Resources
Catherine’s Four Baskets presentation at the Opening Ceremony for APPPAH’s Birth Psychology Month Webinar
Hear Catherine discuss the Four Baskets on AvniTouch podcast
'Four Baskets' refers to the timeframes of conception, gestation, birth and the first hours after birth- this is the primary foundation for our lives. All of our experiences in the Four Baskets create the lens through which we perceive the rest of our lives.