Breast Massage
Training & Retreat
~ Williams, OR ~

October 29 - November 3
@ Private Cabin on Land

A beautiful opportunity to learn how to give breast massage, and up level your skills as a practitioner, in sisterhood retreat space in the wild forests of Oregon

This is a residential retreat where we will all be staying together at a beautiful private cabin, nestled on gorgeous land with forest walks, and a pond.

In addition to learning the art & skill of breast massage, we will be sharing meals, practicing movement, dancing, singing, making herbal medicine, and sharing in ritual space.

This retreat will also feature a Drum Weaving Ceremony, where you each get to weave your own medicine drum to take home with you.

All to support you to be embodied practitioners and spaceholders as you share these feminine arts.

~ Learn the art and skill of giving Therapeutic Breast Massage ~

This training is for...

Massage Therapists, Bodyworkers,
Healing Practitioners, Lactation Consultants, Doulas / Midwives / Birthworkers, anyone in the field of Women's Health or Women's Body Rituals, 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 breastfeeding.

All the while, issues with the breasts have become a norm that many women struggle with.

Breast pain, tenderness, cysts, challenges breastfeeding, hardened tissue, congested lymph nodes, heaviness in the breasts, and unidentified lumps have all become commonplace within the realm of the breasts.

And there are not many helpful answers and solutions out there. Actual breast care and education barely exists in the modern field of health and wellness! In the mainstream medical world, 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. As well as our lack of education of HOW to care for our breasts in a way that supports their long term health.

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. There can be a lot of stagnation and congestion that builds up here. Often our breasts are not getting any care, yet are deeply needing it.

Our breasts are powerful. The whole breast & chest area is a main central part of our bodies and immune system. It is where some of the most concentration of our lymph rivers and nodes are found, playing a massive role in our overall health and vitality.

It is where mother's produce milk that nourishes a little baby into form. Not to mention the breasts sit over our precious feeling hearts ♡

Keeping these rivers clear, nourished and flowing is essential for optimal health, to be able to breast feed our babies, to prevent dis-ease and be embodied in our intuitive feminine channel.

The 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, issues breastfeeding, 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 breasts first with reverence and care. Acknowledging the power and tenderness of this place. Then we can get deeper into the tissues and understanding what is going on through an elemental lens. Utilizing the intelligent technology of our hands to sense what is going on and what kind of imbalances are present. 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 and hold space for all that is processed through our heart centers.

With this kind of breast massage, we can also map 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. We can offer tools and take home practices so a woman can continue to support her breast health and nourishment.

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.

💗

Breast Massage Training
~ What you 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 & Breast Anatomy

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 Elemental 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, dense tissue, 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.

~ 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 ~

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

~ 3 calls after the Retreat ~

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.

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.

~ Drum Weaving ~

Be held in a prayerful container as you
Weave your own Medicine Drum

Drumming is in our bones,

the rhythm singing through our blood
Awakening the songs, of our heart's deepest love

May this drum bring you closer to the pulse of the earth and open the authentic rhythm of your heart's song.

Together, we will weave these medicine drums into being,

your hands flowing as extensions of your heart’s intentions.

These ancient instruments connect us to the heartbeat of Mother Earth.

They open a whole realm of sound and rhythm, pulse and prayer.

They also open a relationship with the spirit of the animal that is woven into the drum.

This is a full day experience filled with song, prayers, herbs, blessings, cacao,

and your unique initiation with your drum.

All to support you in opening to creativity, deep connection, and inspiration,

as you weave the sacred intentions of your heart into your drum

We will birth our drums together on the land, and then sing with them together!

Additional Experiences & Teachings

Full Body Lymphatic Tending & Ayurvedic Care Practices

We will be extending the Ayurvedic Practices & Lymphatic Care to our entire bodies, and womb space. We will practice in these self-care ways together, so you can anchor the experience and feeling in your body. These are amazing practices that support full body wellness & vitality. That you can use for life.

Drum Weaving Workshop

One of the days, we will all be making our own medicine drums! I will guide us in a full drum weaving ceremony, infused with prayer and song and beauty. I am so excited to integrate this into the retreat, so you have a beautiful instrument you crafted with your own hands to leave with and utilize in your practice.

If you would like to read more about drum weaving you can take a look here: www.whalewombweaving.com/drum-workshop

Fire Prayer Ceremonies & Song Sharing

We will share in songs and drumming together on the land, and around a sacred fire. I will share some songs that you can learn and take home with you, or share in sessions. Song sharing and prayer speaking for all will be welcome from all.

Herbal Medicine Making

We will be crafting our own herbal Breast Tallow that you can use on yourself and in sessions. We will also craft a flower essence from the land that carries the medicine our time together and of the flowers.

Nature Connection time

There is a gorgeous pond and many acres of land we can explore and connect with. There will be spaciousness for connecting and silence for dropping in with the land and beings all around us. And our space will be immersed in these energies!

Somatic Movement & Dance Practices

We will be tending our lymphatic channels and bodies by keeping our waters flowing! These will be guided and intuitive movement sessions ranging from qi-gong to dance to yoga. This is an opportunity to ground deeper into your body, access your soma, and keep our energy flowing throughout our time together.

Sound Medicine Ceremony

A very special offering of feminine medicine. An opportunity to receive deep healing frequencies and prayer spoken and sung into your being. This will support us in the healing we'll be moving through during the retreat, and in attunement to the sacred heart of this work.

~ Exchange ~

$2,880

PAY IN FULL

Price of full retreat + online training

(price of accommodations separate)

~ see below ~

PAY IN FULL

~ Payment Plans ~

$1,470 x2

$600 x5

5 payments of $600

2 payments of $1,470

Payments through Venmo

are also welcome

@AbigailHinds

~ To Complete Registration ~

Once you have sent in your payment, please send an email to: abigail@wombweaving.com with the subject "Oregon Breast Training"

Let us know a bit about your experience in the field of women's health, and your intentions for coming to this training.

I will let you know what accommodations are available, and get you all

set with which room / space is best for you.

We look forward to hearing from you!

You can also contact Abigail through WhatsAapp with questions

+1 650-308-6755

Spaces are limited for this retreat as we are all staying in a sweet cabin and on private land together.

Price Includes ~

~ Full Breast Massage Training in-person

~ 6 online classes for Training & Integration

~ Training Handbook & Resource Packet

~ 5 nights on land & retreat together

~ Nourishing, organic, high quality & healthy meals each day plus tea & snacks (plus Dinner Thursday eve and Breakfast Tues morning)

~ Guided Movement Practices

~ Full Drum Weaving Workshop

~ Herbal Medicine Creations

Price does not include ~

~ Transport to our location

~ Any extra snacks you'd like to bring

~ Lodging is an additional $240-360

~ Private Land in Williams, OR ~

We will all be staying onsite together,
gathering in the spacious main room for our class time,
and in the wilderness surrounded by trees and water.

This will be an intimate group of 10-16 of us total,
as that is what the space can hold, and will allow for
the experience to be personal and deep.

~ Accommodations ~

There are multiple room options in the cabin ~ one private queen room, and the rest shared rooms with 2 separate beds.

Once you register, I will connect with you privately about
which room you would like to book.

Price ranges from:
$240 to $360
for cabin beds inside for the entire 5 nights

This is an additional cost to the retreat payment.

~ ~ ~

I am still waiting to hear if camping on the land is available.
If so, there would be space for an additional 4 women who could use the indoor showers / bathroom facilities. It would be a reduced rate of just $100 for the whole retreat.

You are also welcome to come in your camper van and stay there instead of indoors. You would not need to pay any extra fee for housing in this case.

* There is one pull out couch sleeping option in the 2nd living room. This would be at no additional charge, as you do not have a private space. So perfect for someone who is
looking to save money *

Finally, price could be reduced & split if women want to share a queen bed in one of the rooms.

~ Schedule of Retreat ~

~ Thursday October 29 afternoon arrival ~

First Dinner together

Sound Journey / Landing in Evening

Friday ~ Saturday ~ Sunday ~ Monday

October 30 - November 2

4 full days of training, practice, and activities

2 robust meals / day provided plus snacks and drinks

breaks and nature time each day

~ Tuesday Nov 3 ~

last breakfast together

depart the land & head back home!

(you are also welcome to leave the eve of the 2nd if you prefer)

Your Guide, Abigail Hinds

Hello beauty. My name is Abigail and I am delighted you are interested in this retreat! I am a Breast Care Specialist, Healing Practitioner, Weaver and Vocalist. My offerings are in devotion to the sacredness of women's bodies, and to nourishing the life-giving powers within our beings.

I support women to come home to the sanctuary of their bodies and essence. I carry a medicine that is grounded and sensual, spacious and deep. At my retreats we are never in a rush, and move at the pace of beauty and presence.

I am the founder of Breast Health Sanctuary, a space that offers Breast Health Education and Breast Massage to women. The prayer is that women's breasts can be healthy and vital, free flowing in love for the future generations. I travel around the world offering trainings, education, and hands-on care. My base in in my ancestral homelands of Scotland.

I have been in devotion to serving women's breast health for 9 years now. And even longer serving womb health & healing, and being in the realms of holistic wellness. I have massaged hundreds of women's breasts, as well as many queer folks and men's chests. I have also had the great privilege of sitting 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 hearing from so many women's personal experiences that I deepened in this field of breast care, honed my skills, and opened to see just how much is going on in our breasts, and just how much they are wanting our loving care.

I have participated in many trainings and courses that contribute to this work and what I teach in these trainings. 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 and Pelvic Care trainings. I have also trained in many other energetic and mystical modalities that I weave into this female care, such as herbal & flower medicine, deep body & intuitive movement, sound medicine, Venusian Arts, womb healing, and spiritual healing.

From being immersed in this field, I 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.

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 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.

Our Support ~ Courtney Noel

My deep love for breast care originated from witnessing the profound healing within my own body. I worked 1:1 with Abigail and was able to experience firsthand how powerful this work is. My breasts used to be very dry and fibrous. The tissue felt stagnant and I had a layer of disconnect due to sexual trauma. Through this work, I have evolved into embodying a true love for my breasts and the healing they offer me. Feeling connected to my breasts has allowed me to connect to my heart in deep ways.

My passion for breast healing inspired me to further my education and offer this to Women. In may 2023, I completed Abigail’s Breast Massage training. Since then, I had the honor of offering breast sessions at the Aerola Tent at SWG, the Healing Village at G Fest & Temple of Belonging. I have also supported women in 1:1 sessions throughout the PNW - currently located in Portland, OR. My favorite thing about offering breast massage is that the breast tissue is so responsive. Witnessing women light up and walk away more embodied after just one session is a true testament of the healing that happens. This work is truly revitalizing.

In addition to offering Breast Sessions ~ I am an embodiment coach, truth teller, container creatrix and postpartum doula. I host ceremonies and workshops in Portland, OR. I feel most aligned when supporting Women through initiatory thresholds - Saturn return, birth, loss, grief and inner child reparenting.I My prayer is that all women can feel safe enough in their bodies to experience their full spectrum of emotions and life. Through powerful practices such as somatic movement, parts work, breath, energy work, primal sound and release techniques I support women as they move through layers of healing, together leading to profound transformation.

Have any questions?

Feel free to send them over through email. Or I am happy to connect for a 20 min call to answer any questions 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.

Breast Massage Training & Retreat ~ Williams, OR ~

October 29 - November 3 @ Private Cabin on Land