CEREMONIAL WOMB MASSAGE
Ceremonial Womb Massage is a unique and powerful offering.
We will meet for approximately 3.5 hours.
My sessions give you the opportunity to be held in a devotional space and receive slow, gentle and loving touch.
In a world where most women have experienced too much, too fast and too soon at the hands of others, this is revolutionary and so deeply healing.
We’ll drop in together with breath, a guided womb meditation and intention setting before spending focused time being present with and nourishing the breasts, belly and womb space.
We’ll close with a closing of the bones ritual (cerrando los huesos), sound healing and time to integrate with tea and sharing.
Ceremonial Womb Massage is extremely supportive for releasing blockages, pain, stagnation and old wounds from the body and the pelvic space.
It is natural, as womb-keepers, to be storing personal and ancestral trauma in our pelvis. Without bringing loving care, awareness and attention to this, over time it can manifest as numbness, chronic pain, cycle imbalances, fertility issues and blockages to experiencing pleasure. Unfortunately western medicine and our modern society has normalised these kind of challenging symptoms and experiences, but they are not normal. It is possible to be liberated from the challenges you experience in your body + your womb space!
This is where Ceremonial Womb Massage (amongst other ancient and traditional healing modalities and practices) is revolutionary in helping women remember and trust in their body’s innate desire and capacity to heal and come back into balance.
In these sessions we get to do the deep and sacred work of healing and awakening the womb, remembering your inherent wholeness and returning to a sense of love and reverence for the body.
It my deepest honour to be able to share this transformational work.
Thank you to my own challenges and experiences, and to my teachers for guiding me onto this path and supporting my growth into being able to share these sacred tools for healing.
The Benefits of Womb Massage:
There are a multitude of benefits to be received from this practice. Some of which go beyond what I can even put into words. Each and every person will have their own unique experience, and I can say from my own experience that you are likely to receive far more than what you can expect or imagine.
Below are the benefits I feel are most important to share.
Relief from menstrual pain, and the potential to completely heal from this
Support healthy blood flow during menstruation
Encourage the arrival of your bleed in cases of missing or irregular menstruation
Heighten fertility by stimulating the womb and the ovaries
Help release chronic pain in the pelvis and womb
Re-sensitise areas of numbness
Open up new pleasure pathways and create the potential for deeper, more expansive orgasm
Help prepare the body + womb for a healthy pregnancy
Healing for postpartum mothers and supporting the transition into motherhood through physical holding + nourishment of the womb after birth
Support with processing grief, anger, longing and other deep emotions held in the body from past and traumatic experiences
Trauma healing from experiences such as baby loss, birth trauma, sexual trauma, medical trauma
Bring fresh blood flow and movement of energy to parts of your womb + pelvis that have been ‘frozen’ in a trauma response
Open up the voice and release blockages around the throat / speaking your truth
Perhaps the most important and understated benefit of this type of ceremonial womb massage is bringing loving touch, holding and consciousness to the body + the womb, something that many women have never received.
Bringing this kind of intentional and gentle touch can be so deeply healing. For many women, we have experienced too much, too fast, and with too much force. Be that in sexual, medical or intimate settings. Or just generally in how we have been expected and encouraged to live our lives. In many situations we may have gone against what has felt right, comfortable or acceptable, abandoning our boundaries and silencing our voices because it hasn’t felt safe to do otherwise. This is why my sessions are the length that they are, to give you and your body time to soften, unwind and open at a pace that feels authentic to you. From there we get to explore what arises together with love, curiosity and compassion.
My own personal experience with womb massage has been deeply transformational. Receiving from a variety of practitioners, and practicing my own self massage, helped to liberate stagnation in my womb and pelvis that was manifesting as missing and irregular periods, digestive issues, ovarian pain and ovarian cysts. Womb massage encouraged healthy blood flow in my pelvic area, and supported release of many old, stuck emotions and stories held in my womb space. Bringing loving touch to this part of my body also helped me heal my relationship with my body, and come into a celebratory and loving relationship with my belly, body and femininity. After years of feeling at war with my body, I can proudly say now that I feel at peace within myself and my body, have a regular and healthy cycle and now have a huge passion for sharing this transformational healing work with others.
Who is Womb Massage for?
Ceremonial Womb Massage is for those who are ready to deepen into connection with their bodies and their wombs, liberate themselves from challenging symptoms and experiences, and feel a greater sense of peace, trust and acceptance in themselves. It is for those who are ready to take the step in awakening into deeper womb wisdom, remember their wholeness and embody their truest essence.
The womb is a space of holding, and it is therefore natural that over time we will accumulate stories, emotions, experiences and trauma in the pelvic space. This accumulation may show up as physical pain, cycle imbalances, numbness, repeating patterns and other symptoms that have unfortunately been normalised by our modern world and western medical system.
The intention of this type of ceremonial womb massage is to cultivate a healthy flow of energy throughout the body, supporting you in clearing stagnation, releasing blockages and healing trauma held in the body + the womb. Through this process we will also be re-sensitising the lost parts of yourself both physically and emotionally, expanding your capacity to feel, receive and rest inside the container of your body.
Ceremonial Womb Massage is for you if you:
Are experiencing cycle imbalances, heavy or painful periods, absent or missing period (amenorrhea), issues with regular ovulation, PCOS, PCO, endometriosis, cysts, fibroids
Desire to connect with your womb + body in a deeper way, come into a more loving + reverent relationship with your body + cycle and generally feel more peaceful + liberated in your experience of being a woman
Would like to strengthen your boundaries + trust in yourself, improve the quality of your relationships + intimacy, embody more self worth + self love, cultivate more confidence in your authentic expression, find more creative flow and increase clarity
Have recently come off hormonal contraception and/or are healing from side-effects of hormonal contraception
Are experiencing ‘unknown’ fertility issues
Desire to conceive in the future
Are a postpartum mother
Are perimenopausal or menopausal
Have experienced miscarriage, abortion, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth
Have never experienced or have difficulty experiencing orgasms and/or would like to expand your capacity to hold and experience pleasure in your body
Have witnessed or experienced sexual assault or physical/emotional abuse and are ready to heal around this
Would like to explore ancestral womb healing
There are a few contraindications to receiving womb massage. You can hit the button below to read more about these. If any of these apply to you, but you feel a call to this work, please get in contact with me and we can discuss how we can tailor and adapt an experience to meet your needs and desires.
What you can expect from a Ceremonial Womb Massage.
A Ceremonial Womb Massage with me is around 3.5 hours. The format of this type of massage is designed to be deeply nourishing and restorative. Giving your body time and space to open, unwind and unravel at a pace that feels authentic to you.
Arrival + opening, grounding together, checking in and sharing, intention setting, expressing fears/doubts, simple guided practices to drop into the body + the womb (45 mins).
2 hours of devotional massage; journeying from head (focusing on the jaw) to breasts, belly and finally to your womb.
We will close the massage portion with a closing of the bones ritual (cerrando los huesos) and sound healing.
Integration, we will drink a nourishing herbal tea together and there will be space for sharing, grounding, emotional release, resting and whatever else you need before we close the space (30 mins).
I will check in with you the day after the session and share personalised resources to support you in your integration. I will be available for any questions, reflections and shares that come up for you in the days following your massage.
The feminine craves slowness, softness and spaciousness. And to be held in a space like this provides such a beautiful and expansive potential for healing and transformation. This is why the sessions are the length they are, and perhaps you’ve never been held in this way. My intention is to hold and guide you through each and every moment in a way that feels caring, supportive and sustainable. Giving you the opportunity to completely rewrite and rewire how you relate to your body, and how you experience being in your body. Whilst also having the space to explore any edges you may meet. Emotions and memories from the past may arise as we work with your tissues and descend into the womb. I will hold the space for you to process, transmute and integrate. Your body is the guide, and together we will be in the practice of deeply listening to her. I will also encourage you to use your voice to express how you feel and what you need at any time. Communication, consent and checking in are key throughout.
It is normal to feel resistance, uncertainty and sometimes even fear before and even during a session. It is an incredibly intimate and vulnerable space, and I encourage you to share exactly how you are feeling with me so I can support you before, during and after in the ways that you need.
Each person’s experience will be totally unique. You are invited to come with intentions, desires and an openness to explore. Whilst leaving any expectations at the door.
It is an honour to guide you.
If you are feeling the call to explore this work, please fill out the form below to express your interest. I look forward so much to hearing from you, and embarking on this deeply transformational and powerful healing journey with you.
I am currently based on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia, Canada and offering in person sessions here.