Breast Massage Training
Upcoming dates:
September 22-16 ~ Virginia Retreat
October 8-12 ~ Puerto Rico Retreat
November 6-9 ~ Taos, New Mexico
~ Learn the art and skill of giving Therapeutic Breast Massage ~
This training is for...
Massage Therapists, Bodyworkers,
Healing Practitioners, Doulas / Midwives / Birthworkers, anyone in the field of Women's Health, and anyone who feels the strong call and is enthusiastic about supporting women in this way
The deep need for Breast Care...
In this modern day, most women walk around disconnected from their breasts. The breasts are often neglected, stuffed away in bras, and only receive attention during sex or breast feeding.
All the while, issues with the breasts have become a norm that many women struggle with.
Breast pain, breast tenderness, cysts, hardened tissue, congested lymph nodes, heaviness in the breasts, unidentified lumps, and challenges breastfeeding have all become commonplace within the realm of the breasts.
And actual breast care barely exists in the modern field of health and wellness! Often women only seek care when they are worried about a serious diagnosis. And often there are only extreme solutions, like surgery, for imbalances that are presenting.
I believe this epidemic of breast issues, and even of breast cancer, is partly due to our lack of touch, care, and communication with our breasts. And our lack of education of HOW to connect to our breasts in a way that is beyond them as sexual objects or a tool for feeding.
From my experience massaging hundreds of women’s breasts, I know that this can be one of the most tender and under-cared for areas of the body.
Yet, the breasts and whole chest area is a POWERHOUSE center of our bodies. It is where the most concentration of our lymph rivers are found, playing a massive role in our overall health and vitality.
Not to mention the breasts sit over our precious feeling hearts ♡ and literally nourish life into form through their milk.
Keeping these rivers clear, nourished and flowing is essential for optimal health, to prevent dis-ease and be embodied in our intuitive feminine channel.
This kind of breast massage I teach in this training is incredibly supportive at addressing the wide variety of issues that women experience in their breasts. Including breast pain & tenderness, cysts, congested lymph nodes, congested breasts, mastitis, fibrocystic breast tissue, scar tissue, heaviness in the breasts, muscle tension and constriction in the chest, a suspicious lump, a cancer diagnosis.
The foundation of this kind of Breast Massage is approaching the tissues with an Ayurvedic elemental lens. And utilizing the intelligent technology of our hands to sense what is going on in the tissues of the breasts. This allows lumps and issues to be identified and worked with. Then applying various techniques to support balance and prevent further dis-ease.
In this breast massage, we focus on moving, cleansing and nourishing the lymph in the breast & chest area. Sometimes we can go deep into clearing and creating change through dissolving blockages, moving congestion, softening scar tissue, draining cysts, and moving stuck pain.
This can also be a more gentle experience, of slowly opening the more channels of flow and offering nourishment to this area. It is ancient women's work to tend to each other's bodies in this way.
This kind of breast massage is also mapping the terrain of the breast tissue, so one can have a sense of what is actually going on in their breasts. This can be crucial to identify if there are imbalances that need tending, and also for someone to feel and become familiar with what their ‘normal’ is.
This is a deeply needed service in the realm of women’s health, and an exquisite offering to your community and the collective of women.
This is such a crucial piece of supporting our feminine flow, and full body health, yet it is still hard to find a practitioner in most places!
This is truly one of my most fulfilling services I offer.
As the breasts are craving this kind of nourishing touch and support.
Most sessions are incredibly impactful for those who receive them.
I am grateful to pass on this wisdom in the prayer that more women’s breasts and hearts receive the care and nourishment they need to stay healthy and flowing.
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~ What we will be learning ~
* The technique and full flow to be able to offer a therapeutic breast massage *
The Lymphatic System
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Known as Rasa or the "Rivers of LIfe" in Ayurveda. Learning how these lymph rivers flow through the body, what this system does and how it works.
Learning a flow of massage that supports optimal clearing & opening of the lymph channels.
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Basic Ayurvedic Principals
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Vata / Pitta / Kapha ~ their different qualities and presentations. Identifying these qualities in the tissue, different ways they may present, and what they feel like under your fingers.
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Remedies & bodywork techniques to address different elemental imbalances you may find
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Tools & Remedies
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Massage techniques for the breasts & various issues you may encounter.
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Ayurvedic care tools to support breast health. Some that can be used in a session, and some as recommendation continued at-home self-care support.
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Energy Medicine practices I have found very effective to support clearing & health in the breasts.
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Additional Support
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Discussing other factors that may be contributing to breast issues such as diet and relationships. We will touch on additional remedies that can support long term breast health, in the realm of lifestyle, diet, relationships, and other modalities
Attuned & Therapeutic Touch
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Somatic orientation for the practitioner, so you can offer attuned & grounded touch.
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Approaching the breasts with reverence and respect.
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Personal integrity in offering healing to others
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Energetic Hygiene for the practitioner
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Lumps
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Learning to identify different kinds of lumps & ways to tell what they are & what is going on in the tissues.
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How to address different kinds of lumps through massage techniques that support softening / draining / dissolving them
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Including ~ cysts, fibrous tissue (firbrocystic breasts), congested lymph, and dried & hardened lymph nodes.
Cancer
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Signs to look out for & what it may feel like.
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Treatment options & recommendations.
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How to work around it & support someone while undergoing treatment.
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Conversation around potential causes & preventative care.
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Emotional Layers
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The deeper emotional layers of personal, collective, and ancestral wounding. you may encounter in the breast tissue.
Hands - on Practice
Each of you will also have the opportunity to do multiple practice sessions during the training, supervised & supported by me.
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This will give you the chance to have a hands-on embodied experience of feeling different presentations and different breasts.
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This is a crucial part of the training and why this cannot be taught solely online.
~ Upcoming Dates ~
~ NW Virgina ~
Special Training + Retreat
(see separate page for details)
September 22-26
@Private Cabin on Land
September 22 afternoon arrival
Sept 23-26 : 4 Full Days
Sept 27 morning departure
~ Puerto Rico ~
Special Training + Herbal Medicine Retreat
October 8-12 : 5 full days
Residential Retreat on gorgeous land by the ocean
https://www.blessourbreasts.com/puerto-rico-training
~ Taos, New Mexico ~
November 6-9
special Adornment & Tea Breast Retreat
~ Exchange ~
~ Amount Varies ~
see specific retreat pages
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Pay in Full
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deposit to secure your spot
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(The remaining can be paid in installments
and must be complete 2 weeks before the training begins)
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Please reach out for payment plan options
You are also welcome to pay through Venmo if that is easier for you
@AbigailHinds
~ To Complete Registration ~
Once you have sent in your payment, please send an email to: abigail@wombweaving.com with the subject "Breast Training"
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Let us know what training dates + location you plan to come to, a bit about your experience in the field of women's health, and your intentions for coming to this training.
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We look forward to hearing from you!
Your Guide, Abigail Hinds
Abigail is a Breast Care Specialist, Healing Practitioner, Weaver and Vocalist. Her offerings are in devotion to nourishing the life-giving creative powers of our beings.
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Abigail supports women to come home to the sanctuary of their bodies and essence. She is the founder of Bless Our Breasts, a sanctuary space that offers Breast Health Education and Breast Massage to women, so their breasts can be healthy and vital, free flowing in love for the future generations. She travels around the world offering trainings, education, and hands-on care.
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Abigail has been in devotion to serving women's breast health for 9 years now. She has massaged hundreds of women's breasts, as well as many queer folks and men's chests. She has sat in countless circles teaching self - breast massage, and hearing women's stories of their journey with their breasts.
It was through this hands-on experience, and the privilege of hearing from so many women's personal experiences that she deepened in this field of breast care, honed her skills, and opened to see just how much is going on in our breasts! ​
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Abigail trained in Ayurvedic Medicine, and Lymphatic Bodywork at the Dhyana Center, which served as a foundation and elemental lens to offer therapeutic breast massage & breast care practices. She has trained in other modalities that she weaves into her female care practices such as herbal & flower medicine, deep body & intuitive movement, sound medicine, and spiritual healing. As well as training specifically to support women who have gone through cancer treatments and mastectomys.
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From being immersed in this field, Abigail also knows that these feminine care practices are ancient and from many places in the world that have since been forgotten and buried. The midwives, healers and medicine women across time and culture who worked in the realms of the female body knew these wisdom ways of nourishment and care for the breasts.
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It is her great honor to share this medicine with other women, and to support these innate practices of hands-on care to be remembered and revitalized.
I am honored to share this body of
wisdom with you.
It has truly been one of the greatest blessings of my life to practice in these ways and hold this space for women's breasts and hearts to come alive, to be nourished and tended as they need.
Have any questions?
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Feel free to send them over through email.
I am also happy to connect for a 20 min call to connect and see if this training is a good fit for you!
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Email me at ~ abigail@wombweaving.com
A note on certification...
​You will receive a Certificate of Completion for going through this training. You will receive the full training and transmission to be able to give therapeutic breast massage to others. You will absolutely be ready to go home and offer this to a friend or sister. Though, to offer this as a paid service, you will most likely need more hours of practice and experience.
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Even if you are super new to this modality, simply giving a lymphatic breast massage is nourishing and supportive. Though it may take much more time and practice to be able to skillfully identify what different kinds of lumps are, and therapeutically support someone to move through blockages and issues.
Each person will likely have a unique set of skills and areas of expertise coming into the training. So how much practice you need afterwards will depend on where you already are. For example, if you are already practicing bodywork from an elemental lens, either through Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine, or something else, this training will likely land well, and easily be able to be integrated into the offerings you already practice.
If you are completely new to bodywork or women's healing, it may require you invest many more weeks and months into hands on practice.
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I was more new to bodywork when I learned this, and though I found it came naturally to me, I invested 2 + years of offering by-donation sessions and working at women's gatherings before charging full price.
We will speak more about all of this in the training. The main intention is to be in integrity with yourself and your capacity as a healer, and with this modality as an offering.
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Also to note, that some places in the US, giving breast massage is technically illegal. Some places it requires a special kind of additional training. This does count as additional training you would need to offer Breast Massage. We will speak about this more in the training.