When I first began this path, there were very few womb massage trainings available.
I didn’t learn about healing the womb through training or textbooks. I learnt through my own body and energy field.
Years ago, I experienced the debilitating womb disease of endometriosis that left me hollowed out, physically and spiritually. What began as pain and grief opened the door to something much deeper: a remembering.
As I listened to the pain in my womb, I began to unravel layers of ancestral trauma, unspoken stories, and feminine wisdom.
This was the beginning of what would one day become the Shamanic Way of the Womb. The massage techniques taught in the Sanctuary of Sophia were born not just from knowledge, but from my lived experience, from healing myself first.
I share my story, and the medicine that healed my womb in My Shamanic Way of the Womb Book.
Here at the Sanctuary of Sophia, our Shamanic Womb Massage Training Course offers a comprehensive, grounded, and accessible path for holistic practitioners to step into this potent work.
Whether you’re a massage therapist, energy healer, doula, yoga teacher, or simply feel called to support women’s health, this womb massage course offers both practical and profound tools to deepen your practice. All we ask is you have a current massage qualification and are insured to practice. Our training is add-on, a specialist CPD. To get insurance to cover womb massage you already need a basic massage training.
What Is Shamanic Womb Massage?
My Shamanic Womb Massage is a fusion of physical bodywork, intuitive healing, and shamanic energy principles. It involves working gently but effectively on the lower abdomen, womb space, and sacral area to release held tension, trauma, and energetic blockages.
The incredible process is deeply somatic: my clients can access altered states of awareness through touch, breath, and presence, allowing for emotional release and nervous system recalibration.
Unlike conventional abdominal massage, the techniques I weave are taught with full respect for the emotional and energetic intelligence held within the womb as a portal of energies within itself.
Taught now by my incredible Assocaite teachers Kiki and Rhia, this training integrates anatomy and physiology with shamanic trance techniques, giving practitioners a skillset that is both grounded in science and expansive in its healing potential.
A Grounded Introduction to Theta Trance States and Shamanic Healing
So how does this work?
Shamanic Womb Massage uses theta brainwave states to support clients in accessing the subconscious, where many imprints of trauma and belief are stored.
This is an art but successful to all. For practitioners unfamiliar with shamanic work, it’s helpful to understand that trance states are neurologically measurable.
Theta states (4–8 Hz) occur naturally during deep meditation, REM sleep, and moments of creative flow. My clients enter these states spontaneously due to the safety of the session, the focus on the wobspace held in the pelvic bowl (a key storehouse for memory and emotion), and the rhythm of the touch.
When women (who are naturally visionary) enter this space, they may experience vivid sensations, visions, or emotions arising. With our grounded presence, these can be safely processed and integrated.
Combined with the intuitive skills taught in the Sanctuary of Sophia womb training, practitioners learn how to hold this space with confidence.
Why Womb Massage Training Is Needed
The feminine is in crisis. Many of us can feel the womb pulse of change needed to heal not just women, but Mother Earth.
There is growing awareness of the need for trauma-informed and womb-centred healing. Women are seeking more than symptom relief; they want to reclaim power, pleasure, and connection to their bodies.
Womb massage offers an embodied pathway for:
- Releasing trauma from the pelvic bowl
- Supporting menstrual and fertility issues
- Relieving chronic pelvic tension and pain
- Cultivating body literacy and emotional healing
Our womb massage course is particularly powerful because it integrates the missing piece in many holistic practices: the womb. So often ignored in mainstream healthcare, this centre holds physical, emotional, and energetic significance.
Practitioners trained in Shamanic Womb Massage are able to offer a complete approach to healing that respects the body as a map of memory.
Techniques and Physical Benefits of Womb Massage
While I won’t reveal the full curriculum just yet, it’s important to know that this is a hands-on training with strong foundations in practical skills. Practitioners will learn techniques to:
- Gently manipulate the fascia and muscle around the lower abdomen
- Address tension around the uterus, ovaries, bladder, and digestive tract
- Release adhesions and scar tissue from surgeries (e.g., C-section, hysterectomy)
- Work with the sacrum and pelvic alignment
- Support circulation to the reproductive organs
This work is energetic and deeply emotional, and yet we also work with blood flow, nerve function, and hormonal balance.
Many women report improved menstrual cycles, reduced pain, increased libido, and emotional lightness following treatments.
The Shamanic Way of the Womb Medicine Wheel: A Roadmap for Transformation
At the heart of the Sanctuary of Sophia’s Womb Massage Course, and in fact all my teachings, lies a powerful framework: The Shamanic Wheel of the Womb.
This unique 8-gate medicine wheel is the foundation for all of our shamanic womb healing trainings and offers a deeply intuitive, structured path for both practitioners and clients to access the inner landscape of the womb.
The wheel draws inspiration from the Womb Awakening teachings of Seren and Azra Bertrand, weaving together ancient feminine wisdom, archetypal psychology, elemental alchemy, and shamanic journeying.
It maps the cyclical nature of the womb space through eight womb gateways, each corresponding to a phase in the feminine lifecycle or a core elemental energy.
These include:
- The Archetypal Gates of Maiden, Mother, and Crone
- The Elemental Gates of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water
- And the final gate: The Void – the place of cosmic potential, death and rebirth, and deep soul surrender.
Each womb gateway is associated with specific goddesses, animal allies, crystals, and colour frequencies. In our practitioner training, you’ll learn how to guide clients into these gateways through shamanic trancework, bodywork, and presence, unlocking profound emotional release, ancestral remembrance, and embodied empowerment.
Rather than following a linear protocol, this wheel empowers you to meet each woman where she is, offering a trauma-aware, spiritually potent, and somatically grounded approach to womb healing.
You’ll learn how to identify imbalances or blocks within the wheel, and how to support your clients to journey through each wombgate as part of their own cyclical healing process.
Whether your client is navigating fertility challenges, menstrual pain, grief, or spiritual awakening, the Shamanic Way of the Womb Medicine Wheel provides a rooted and expansive tool for lasting transformation.
Who This Womb Massage Course Is For
If you feel the call to be sacred space holder for women, you are on the edge of a great movement, an awakening of healing. This training is designed for holistic professionals who are:
- Curious about deepening their healing work
- Interested in supporting women’s health more holistically
- New to shamanic or energy-based modalities but open-minded
- Already working with massage, and bodywork
- Looking to expand their offerings with a trauma-informed, high-integrity modality
You do not need to be a shaman or have a background in spiritual work.
The Sanctuary of Sophia teaches from a place of grounded wisdom and embodied experience. Every practitioner is welcomed where they are, and given the tools to grow with safety and support.
The Importance of Trauma-Informed Practice
This training goes beyond technique. You’ll learn how to:
- Create safe, consensual spaces
- Recognise trauma responses and know how to respond
- Hold space for emotional release without overstepping
- Work with the body’s natural intelligence for integration
As more practitioners recognise the limitations of talk therapy or surface-level healing, modalities like womb massage provide a vital alternative for those ready to work somatically.
The Sanctuary of Sophia Approach
Founded by Angie Twydall, The Sanctuary of Sophia has trained hundreds of practitioners in sacred, trauma-informed women’s healing modalities.
The womb massage training is held over 3 days, with ongoing support and mentorship available. Students receive hands-on instruction, guided trance journeys, peer feedback, and sacred tools to incorporate into their work.
You’ll come away with skills that can be integrated into massage, holistic therapy, energy healing, or your own self-healing journey.
Personal Transformation Through Training
Many students report that attending this womb massage training course is life-changing. As you learn to work with others, you also clear your own stories held in the womb space. The process is both deeply professional and profoundly personal.
This healing ripples out to your family, community, and future clients. Practitioners often feel more confident, intuitive, and aligned with their purpose.
Why Train With Sanctuary of Sophia?
- UK-based and one of the first pioneering trainings of its kind
- Accredited and trauma-informed
- Small, intimate groups for deeper learning
- Ongoing support after training
- Rooted in both scientific understanding and ancient wisdom
Ready to Train in Womb Massage?
If you’re ready to offer your clients something deeply needed and powerfully healing, join us for our next Shamanic Womb Massage Training Course.