Roots of the Feminine
Unearthing Sacred Wisdom
Date and location TBA
A 2 day in-person circle to Remember and Embody traditional womb practices
Honouring women’s wisdom and carrying it forward through your hands
Have you been craving a Returning to the Roots?
Where women gather in Ceremony and storytelling to Awaken the Wisdom Within?
In a world that often pulls us away from our instincts, it’s easy to feel disconnected—from our bodies, our cycles, and the wisdom that has guided women for generations. Our rites of passage—first bleed, pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and menopause—are powerful transitions, yet they are often met with uncertainty, outside noise, or a lack of true support.
Birth workers, too, carry the weight of holding space for others, sometimes without a strong foundation for themselves.
This 2 day in-person circle offers a space to return to wisdom that is already within you.
Through hands-on experience, storytelling, and time-honoured traditional practices, you’ll learn skills that can support you (and the women you hold) at every stage of womanhood. You’ll leave feeling more confident, rooted, and resourced, able to trust your body and your instincts in a way that ripples into every part of your life.
What awaits you
From attending this 2 day in-person circle, Sarah, experienced home birth midwife and birth worker mentor, will guide you to:
Feel deeply connected to your body and intuition - so you can move through your work and life with more trust, confidence, and ease.
Gain hands-on skills to serve your community - through womb massage, working with plants, belly binding, and rebozo techniques—so you can weave these sacred practices into your care for others (and yourself).
Be held in a circle of like-minded women - so you walk away feeling resourced, supported, and deeply rooted in shared wisdom.
This 2 day circle isn’t just about learning—it’s about
Remembering. You’ll return home with practical skills, a deeper connection to your body, and a renewed sense of trust in your path.
The roots are calling, inviting you to return, to gather in ceremony, to walk once more in the lineage of women’s wisdom
Your place in the circle awaits
The Weaving of Cloth and Ceremony.
Carried by the warmth of ceremonial cacao—gifted to us by the sacred lands and caretakers of Guatemala—we open our hearts into the dance of the weave. The rebozo becomes our teacher: showing us how to hold, rock, and honour the body in pregnancy, in birth, and in healing. Each movement is a thread in the tapestry of women’s care, restoring what the modern world has forgotten.
From here, the cloth weaves us into the art of belly binding. This ancient practice supports alignment, recovery, and balance—not only in the postpartum period but through life’s many transitions. You will leave not just with techniques, but with a felt sense of confidence and reverence for how these tools can support both your own journey and the women you nurture.
Event discounts on Rebozos and Fajas—Artisan woven traditional cloths that have long supported women through menstruation, pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
Questions to do
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Not at this stage. This retreat runs sporadically on the availability of the local midwives, and spaces are very limited.
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We travel to areas that are considered safe. Self awareness is always required.
Yes. We stay in a private retreat space with trusted hosts and secure rooms with staff on-hand for assistance.
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The food is local and intentional to compliment the work we are doing. Fresh, nourishing, and prepared on-site. Our meals are locally sourced, mostly vegetarian and GF, dietary needs can be supported.
We will be staying in the luxurious venue Casa Floresta. A beautiful lake side venue with volcano views.
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Fly into La Aurora International Airport (GUA).
From there, take a private shuttle or shared transfer to Lake Atitlan. We provide clear directions and trusted contacts. We have started a WhatsApp group for you to co-ordinate travel with other attendees.Most travellers do not need a visa for Guatemala, but you may need a transit visa if flying through the USA. Please check your passport requirements.
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Flights
Visas or transit visas
Airport transfers
Accommodation before/after retreat
Travel/medical insurance
Personal purchases or additional treatments
Yes. We strongly recommend travel and medical insurance for international travel.
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No. This retreat honours ancestral ways of learning, where knowledge is passed through experience, embodiment, and direct guidance — not through external certification systems. We choose not to align this work with formal accreditation, as doing so would compromise the integrity of how this medicine is traditionally shared.
Because women join us from many different countries, it would also be appropriate to fit this lineage-based learning into any single nation’s professional requirements.
What you receive instead is something deeper:
Embodied skill, direct transmission, and a practice grounded in lived wisdom rather than external approval. -
No, you don’t need any prior experience.
This retreat is designed for women at all stages — from complete beginners to experienced birth workers and practitioners. You’ll be guided step by step, through your own body first, so you can learn and integrate this work in a safe and embodied way.And it isn’t only for birth workers.
Many women join simply for their own healing, clarity, and personal transformation. Others come to weave this practice into their work as midwives, doulas, massage therapists, or holistic practitioners.By the end of the retreat, you’ll have the foundational knowledge and embodied understanding to begin sharing this work within your community — in a way that is respectful, grounded, and aligned with what you’ve received
The Wisdom of the Womb
The womb is more than anatomy—it is the centre of our power, the keeper of cycles, intuition, and deep knowing. Through touch, story, and sacred practice, you’ll be guided to reconnect with this place within you and to tend to it through every season of life—menstruation, pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and beyond.
Alongside this, we will walk with the medicines of the Earth: herbs that nourish and protect, remedies that hold us through transitions, and the ancestral knowledge of how to use them with reverence.
This is more than learning—it is a Responsibility.
To enter this circle is to take your place in the lineage of women who have carried these practices for generations. If we do not learn and hold them well, they risk being forgotten. But when we do, the wisdom of the womb remains alive, vital, and embodied—for ourselves, for the women we support, and for the generations yet to come
Join the waitlist
Roots of the Feminine, my two-day womb wisdom circle, will be gathering again. Leave your details and you’ll be the first to hear when the next dates and location are announced.
Your guide, Sarah, brings more than a decade of wisdom gathered from the hands and hearts of midwives around the world.
She is an experienced home birth midwife who has shared these ancient practices to nearly 1000 women, sharing the knowledge and skills that help birth workers feel confident in their practice while honouring the traditions that came before us.
From the Ceremonial roots of Guatemala and Mexico to the vibrant midwifery practices of India and Australia, Sarah has woven a tapestry of knowledge that bridges ancient traditions with modern understanding. Her teachings are deeply rooted in respect for cultural wisdom, offering birth workers and women alike a space to reconnect with practices that nourish, heal, and empower.
By joining Sarah at Roots of the Feminine, you will step into a lineage of wisdom that has guided women for generations.