Breast Massage Trainings

Rose Temple, CA (Level 2) ~ Oct 16/17/18
Williams, OR ~ Oct 22-27
Asheville, NC ~ November 12-16
Florida ~ November 20 / 21 / 22

~ 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 ~

* This training will equip you with the technique, flow, and confidence to be able to offer therapeutic breast massage *

The Lymphatic System

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. Learn how to support the lymphatic system through hydration, mineralization, the organ systems, and detoxification.

Basic Ayurvedic Principals

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. A language for the terrain of the breast tissue & how to navigate what you find.

Remedies & bodywork techniques to address different elemental imbalances you may find

Tools & Remedies

Massage techniques for the breasts & various issues you may encounter.

Herbal, Dietary, Energetic, and Lifestyle care tools to support breast health. Some that can be used in a session, and some as recommendation continued at-home self-care support.

Energy Medicine practices I have found very effective to support clearing & health in the breasts.

Additional Support

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

Somatic orientation for the practitioner, so you can offer attuned & grounded touch.

Approaching the breasts with reverence and comfortability

Tools for energetic hygiene, setting up sacred space, and clearing & healing

Lumps

Learning to identify different kinds of lumps & ways to tell what they are & what is going on in the tissues.

How to address different kinds of lumps through massage techniques that support softening / draining / dissolving them

Including ~ cysts, fibrous tissue (firbrocystic breasts), congested lymph, and dried & hardened lymph nodes.

Cancer

Signs to look out for & what it may feel like.

Testing options & recommendations to move forward.

How to work around it & support someone while undergoing treatment.

Conversation around potential causes & preventative care.

Emotional Layers

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 in-person training, supervised & supported by me.

This will give you the chance to have a hands-on embodied experience of feeling different presentations of breasts and women.

This is a crucial part of the training and why this cannot be taught

solely online.

You will be receiving from other women practicing as well

(if you are open).

And you are welcome to book a 1-1 session with me for $160 if you

would like to experience a full private session with me.

~ Online Training ~

We will have 6 classes online ~ 3 calls before our retreat, and 3 calls afterwards. This will be more information based parts of the training.

So we can focus more on practice when we are in-person.

And to offer more training and support for preparation and integration.

(this is a newly added and improved part of the training!)

Time of these calls will be announced after June,

all will be recorded and posted to a group space.

Each will be about 2 hours long

~ 3 calls before the Retreat ~

~ 3 calls after the Retreat ~

Class 1 ~ SANCTUARY

How to create & uphold a safe & sacred space for this work. Honoring yourself, your energy, and the women you serve.

~ Integrity in this work and field

~ Approaching the breasts with reverence & comfortability

~ Personal energetic hygiene

~ Tools for grounding, clearing, healing

~ Layers & pacing for sessions

~ Space Set up

Class 2 ~ LYMPHATIC SYSTEM & BREAST ANATOMY

This class is the most foundational teaching for breast health. We will go over the lymphatic system, how the breasts are designed, and how to do a self breast massage that optimally nourishes lymph flow. So you can begin to embody the work & teach your clients at home care.

~ Breast Anatomy

~ Lymphatic System & how it flows in the breasts

~ Self Breast Massage Flow

~ Introduction to different massage techniques

~ Role of Organ systems in supporting lymph clearing & hormonal balancing

Class 3 ~ BREAST TISSUE ASSESSMENT

Here we begin to explore the breast tissue for in-depth assessment. We go a level deeper to get into the nitty gritty and fine tuned details of what we may find in breast tissue, learning about the different textures we may sense under our fingers. This is a skill we will practice in the training, and that will continue to open over time as you touch more women's breasts. This is also developing a language and reference for navigating the terrain of the breasts

~ Basic Ayurvedic / Elemental Principals

~ Mapping the terrain of the breasts

~ All the different textures you may find & what they mean

~ Identifying lumps & imbalances

~ Remedies for various presentations

~ What to look out for with cancer

~ Testing options

Class 4 ~ REMEDIES

Offering a variety of remedies for all the different imbalances that may be presenting in a woman's breasts.

~ Herbal & Oil Recommendations

~ Dietary shifts & food recipes

~ Lifestyle shifts for balancing

~ Ayurvedic & Venusian Rituals for various constitutions

~ Energetic Tending & Ritual

~ Detox recommendations

Class 5 ~ SHARING THIS WORK

Offerings on how to bring this work forward in the world. Supporting you in moving forward to create a practice or incorporating it into your current practice.

~ Legalities of Breast Massage / Sovereignty options

~ Advertising / Marketing / Wordings

~ Getting the word out, ways to effectively share

~ Education and teaching workshops

Class 6 ~ Q & A SESSION & INTEGRATION CALL

An opportunity to ask any specific questions, share with each other, and delve into specific topics.

~ Upcoming Dates ~

~ Exchange ~

$1,800

for full 3 day Training

+ online Training with 6 classroom calls

Some Trainings are extended retreats & residential,

so will be a higher cost. Check each unique page for details.

~ Testimonial ~

Your Guide, Abigail Hinds

My name is Abigail Hinds.

I have specialized in breast health for 9 years, giving over 1,000 hands-on breast massage sessions, and teaching workshops and trainings internationally.

Very few practitioners in the world hold this level of direct and in-depth experience with breast tissue.

Through years of clinical practice, study in Ayurveda and holistic health, and my own healing journey, I developed a Lymphatic Breast Tissue Restoration Method that creates real, visible change. In 2024 I founded Breast Health Sanctuary as a space to offer women this holistic care and solutions for their breast issues. I support women to heal and transform their breast tissue, to prepare for healthy breastfeeding, and to prevent cancer.

I have participated in many trainings and courses that contribute to this work and what I teach here. I have trained in multiple Ayurvedic Medicine Courses, Lymphatic Bodywork & Lymphatic Care, multiple Breast Massage / Breast Care trainings, including post-cancer & surgery care, Women's bodywork, Womb Massage, and Pelvic Care trainings. I have also trained in somatic, energetic and spiritual modalities that I weave into my body of work. Including deep body & intuitive movement, sound medicine, shamanic womb healing, and spiritual healing.

In addition to my studies and extensive practice, I bring an ancient feminine medicine to this work. As I know these ways of caring for the female body are from many places around the world that have since been forgotten, burned, buried and destroyed. The midwives, healers and medicine women across time and culture who tended to the female body knew these wisdom ways of nourishment and care for the breasts. I feel this in these sacred spaces, and I honor all of these lineages and women that may not be known today.

It is my great honor and joy 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?

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.