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Womb Awakening | Womb Hara Massage Associate Teacher

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🪶Womb Hara Massage
🪶Womb Awakening
🪶Associate Teacher @theinstituteoffemininearts
🪶MASSAGE sessions - click on link to see times/dates

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WOMB AWAKENING

4 Week In-Person Beginners Guide

🔻This is a beginners 4 week immersion connecting to the wisdom of our womb, beginning a journey of inner healing and self-discovery. We will journey together to reconnect to our deep, intuitive wisdom that resides within our womb space, honouring the profound power of our feminine essence.

🔻Each week will build upon the previous, allowing for a beautiful and grounded exploration. You will leave feeling more and more connected each week.

🔻Your commitment to the entire series will enhance your experience and deepen your connection to your feminine spirit, and the power of sisterhood.

🔻The spaces are limited spaces so that we can keep the sanctity of this journey together.

This journey is for women who:

🔻Sense of disconnection to our feminine self.
🔻Wish to experience ancient womb practices and rituals.
🔻Feel that there is a power held within our womb.

You will feel:

🔻Empowered, grounded and peaceful.
🔻Feel more connected to your womb wisdom.
🔻Confident in your creative potential.

This is not about becoming someone new, but reclaiming who you are.

If you no longer have your physical womb, you still carry her energetic imprint.

We will join each Friday 7-9:00pm

Supported and nurtured in the warm and inviting space of @sister_and_soul in Urmston, Manchester

9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th October

The first 3 women to book will receive a discount, this is aimed at women who would love to join but maybe struggling financially.

Please comment AWAKENING so I can send you details.

So much love Joanna

#wombawakening #wombwellness #wombwisdom #wombpower by @joannakbarnes

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I have the great honour of being the Associate Teacher for the Institute of Feminine Arts, here in the UK & Europe. @theinstituteoffemininearts

I support them in teaching

✨Integrative Womb Hara Massage Practitioner Training ✨

🔻Womb Hara Massage is a sacred feminine healing massage, offering a unique and rich blend of ancient bodywork, womb & abdominal massage, Chi Nei Tsang, and womb awakening techniques.

🔻Their practitioner training is officially certified and internationally recognised, providing you with insurance coverage to practice Womb Hara across the globe. Once certified you will feel fully resourced in starting your journey to support women in your local community.

🔻For those feeling the to call to learn this sacred massage I have listed the training dates for 2026 across UK & Europe below, along with their dates for the rest of the world.

🔻Spaces are limited for each training, please comment “womb” below for more info❣️, or head directly to
@theinstituteoffemininearts for more details.

🔻We also have one space left on our upcoming Glastonbury Retreat, Dec 1–6 2025 - if you are interested please DM me ❤️

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✨Manchester . Mar 1 – 6 (3 spaces)
✨Glastonbury . Nov 30 – Dec 5

𝐄𝐔𝐑𝐎𝐏𝐄
✨Netherlands . Jun 2 - 7
✨Ireland Sept 25 - 30

𝐀𝐔𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐀
✨Feb 28 – Mar 5
✨May 30 – Jun 4 ✨Nov 7 – 12 
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✨Utah . Apr 20 – 25 
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✨Bowen Island . Oct 2 – 7 by @joannakbarnes

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As I watch the season change so to does the shift in awareness, becoming a time of deep reflection 🌳🪶

The shifts, shedding and the cycle of death and rebirth within nature calls us to traverse our awareness inwards, to discover our own death and rebirth.

Within Womb Awakening we are asked to bravely look at all the deeper layers of ourselves 🌳🔻

In order to ascend and rise, we must first look at the darker layers of ourselves, not to release them but to view them, observe them and to hold them in love 🔻🪶

Throughout our lives we create disconnections, separation within ourselves in order to distract ourselves from wanting to truly look at how we relate to relationships, friendships, and how we move in the world.

Womb Awakening is to “know ourselves” fully, she is our very own therapist, held with the container of our psyche 🔻🌳🪶

This isn’t always pretty, it can feel raw, confronting, but when we hug ourselves in love we can discover our patterns, the way we hold ourselves back, the way we guard our true selves, leading us further away from who we truly are 🧡

When we lead with love and a willingness to look fully, we can begin to blossom and bloom, living through our true feminine nature, no longer afraid to move with the ebb and flow of life.

How are you feeling in this shift in season? 🌳🦌 by @joannakbarnes

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We’ve just wrapped up our Ireland and Canada Womb Hara Massage trainings, immersed in the magic of the land and the beauty of sisterhood.

It’s been such a nourishing time, sharing our stories, laughing, crying and holding one another, giving and receiving this loving touch. We all left with full hearts and soulful connections I know will continue to blossom.

The ancestors of the land held us as we opened to embody and receive the medicine of this sacred massage.

Celebrating our new Womb Hara Therapists! I’m so excited for you to bring this womb healing work to your communities 💗🙌

A big, heartfelt thank you to @chels1976 and @kufuka.rising for your beautiful support throughout the training.

I love Canada so much that I’ve already booked to return for October 1 to 6, 2027. Ireland dates will be coming soon too.

We have one space available for our upcoming Australia training and two spaces for Glastonbury. If you feel called to join us, send me a DM and I’ll send you some info ❣️

@theinstituteoffemininearts

#wombharamassage #wombhealing #womenswellness #wombhealth #pelvichealth by @joannakbarnes

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Our bodies and wombs ask for devotional time to relax, respond, time to regulate the nervous system and allow the body to enter its own journey of healing.

We live in a fast paced culture, where we feel that we can fix or change things in one go, and yet the feminine body is ritualistic and memory based, so when we gift and tend to ourselves in a devotional way we can see long lasting shifts, changes and personal transformations, on a physical, emotional and energetic level.

Giving ourselves space allows us to tune into our wombs & bodies wisdom.

Womb Hara Massage can be seen as a journey and a dance back into sacred relationship with our womb and body.

Of course one session can be just the right medicine, but what if we allowed ourselves to go deeper, what if we tuned into our intuition and understood that change comes from devotion?

#wombhealing #womb #wombwellness #wombwisdom #wombcare by @joannakbarnes

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As women we rarely give ourselves space, or time to sit and feel our emotions, be with them fully.

We compress and suppress what we feel, thinking that if we connect with them, we will feel worse. So we close ourselves down, we carry on, numbing ourselves to all that we are.

From a place of numbness we gradually disconnect from our womb centres and hearts. We store unresolved emotions as imprints expressing as physical and mental discomfort, and sometimes as a disruption with our reproductive health.

Our wombs can reveal what our hearts do not.

Yet the feminine nature in us wishes to heal, to be free, she wants to surge with creative essence and love.

When we are numb we close ourselves off to our creative spirit, our life-force.

To feel is to heal, helping to heal the burdens of old patterns, experiences, and ancestral imprints.

When we allow ourselves to feel, we open, stepping into our fullest expressions of ourselves, we can begin to step truly into our feminine power!

Creating space is a necessity.

Space to breathe, to awaken our creativity, our passion, our health and our aliveness to life.

Join me for a 4 week Beginners Womb Awakening Class staring 9th Oct in Manchester.

Please comment “awakening” and I will send you details

#wombhealing #wombwisdom #wombawakening #wombwellness #wombblessing

@willierunte still love our shoot together by @joannakbarnes

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Did you know your womb has a natural capacity for movement?

She’s held within the pelvic bowl by a network of ligaments, fascia and connective tissue that support her position while allowing her to move naturally within the pelvis.

Her position can be influenced by pregnancy and birth, changes within the pelvic tissues, the menstrual cycle, posture and the structures that hold her in place. Tension and patterns of holding in the surrounding tissues can sometimes affect how she sits within the pelvis, which can lead to discomfort in the lower abdomen, pelvic bowl and lower back.

Our womb is more than a physical organ. She’s the centre of our creative energy, a place of deep instinct, feeling and primordial wisdom.

Womb Hara Massage works physically, energetically and emotionally, gently releasing tension and patterns of holding to support the womb into greater balance, encouraging circulation, clearing stagnation and restoring the flow of Chi.

When we create more space and ease around the womb, we can begin to feel more space and ease within ourselves.

We have two spaces remaining for each of our upcoming Ireland and Canadian trainings.

Kilkenny, Ireland | Sept 26–30
Bowen Island, BC, Canada | October 2–7

If you’re interested and would like more information or to register, DM us and we’ll send you all the details ❣️

@theinstituteoffemininearts

#wombharamassage #wombhealing #womenswellness #wombhealth #pelvichealth by @joannakbarnes

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Womb Awakening 🔻

A place of deep understanding.

An evolution of self.

An understanding of our relationship to self, to others, to our sisters, to the world, to the other worlds.

An internal therapy.

To return to the womb and her wisdom time and time again, is a remembering, a devotion and dedication.

Back to the feminine way of knowing.

Knowing ourself.

A place where everything exists, the full spectrum of life.

A place were trust and surrender comes from the body.

A place where we believe in more than our fixed thoughts.

A place where the norm is deep knowing, where intuition, creativity, a dream, a vision is not questioned, it’s seen as truth.

❤️ by @joannakbarnes

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Womb Hara Massage 🔻

The power of sacred touch.

To be held in sacred touch does not require us to give anything in return, it allows us to surrender, and to be held in a cocoon of love.

Through touch we are not trying to fix anything, we are allowing the wisdom and memories of the body to be stirred, heard and released.

Touch allows us to be fully present in our bodies, listening to where we carry tension, store emotion, sense disconnection.

We can tune into our nervous system, dissolve into softness and flow with our energy.

Our daily lives take us out of our body and into our minds, with many of us not feeling like we are being heard, understood or held, deeply held enough to feel supported and connected.

Sacred touch is unconditional, deeply nurturing and nourishing, held in the arms of the love of a mother, not just in physical but that of the universal mother.

Through touch we can return to a place of grounding and supported by life.

Touch is powerful and healing.

#wombhealing #womb #wombwellness #wombhealth #wombmassage by @joannakbarnes

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Integrative Womb Hara Massage Practitioner Training

✨We are excited that our next training taking place in Europe

26-30 Sept in Ireland 🔻

As the Associate teacher for the @theinstituteoffemininearts I will be guiding you in this rich and comprehensive week.

✨Womb Hara helps to support the release of stored trauma, emotional imprints, and energetic blockages held within the tissues, fascia, organs, and deep cellular memory stored within the body.

✨This is a deeply intuitive massage. As a therapist you will learn to help other women to understand their bodies, opening their energetic pathways, connection them to their feminine centred empowering them.

No previous bodywork experience is necessary.

✨Womb Hara massage is an embodied practice and a way of learning that invites you to work intuitively, guided by the art of sacred touch.

The training will be held at @theyogabarnkk amidst the lush Kilkenny countryside surrounded by big trees, and big skies.

The training includes: 🌿 2-Hour Womb Medicine Massage 🔥 Moxibustion for the Womb 🕊️ The Sacred Art of Body Wrapping 🌸 Feminine Soul Retrieval 📜 A Globally Recognised Certification 🌍 Access to International Insurance for Professional Practice

Only 2 spaces remain.
 If you feel called to support women, step into feminine leadership, expand on your 1:1 work, and embody you own healing journey, please get in touch.

Comment WOMB below to receive details

Payment plans are available upon request.

#womb #wombharamassage #wombhealing #wombwisdom #wombcare taken in Kilkenny, Ireland by @joannakbarnes

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Feeling deep gratitude for the ancestors of the land, and for the lineages that walked beside us on our Womb Awakening Facilitator Retreat.

There was such deep holding over these seven days. Powerful medicine revealed itself, and I know its gifts will continue to ripple through our lives. Our Temple was filled with love, sisterhood, laughter, tears, and profound moments that words can never quite capture.

A big thank you to @joannabarneswomb and @wright_approach_wellness for all your loving support and all that you brought to our temple.

My heart is full as I celebrate each woman who said yes to this journey. Thank you for your presence, devotion, and willingness to descend into the depths with so much courage and trust, meeting yourselves, one another, and the mysteries within.

May the medicine continue to unfold through your lives, into your sacred vocation, and into the hearts and wombs of the women you serve ❣️

@theinstituteoffemininearts

Footage by @justravelynn

P.s Our Womb Awakening Facilitator Training dates for next year are confirmed for July 26 - August 1st.
DM us for more info or to register ✨

#wombawakening #wombhealing #wombwisdom #priestesspath #womensretrea feminineleadership by @joannakbarnes

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I am deeply grateful and in awe of the opportunity to support @theinstituteoffemininearts on their Womb Awakening Retreat & Womb Hara Massage training in Bali.

I’ve been searching for the words to explain the depth and magnitude of my experience. So many wonderful lessons, so much love and connection with all the incredible women that I met, hugged, loved and sat beside as we journeyed together into the magical portal of the feminine womb mysteries.

My cup feels full in being able to continue to support this incredible work.

It’s a true gift to my life 🧡

In love and gratitude @theinstituteoffemininearts

❤️ by @joannakbarnes

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