Shamanic Womb Massage
Womb Healing with Sobada
Sobada, also known as womb or abdominal massage, is a gentle, nurturing practice rooted in traditional indigenous Mesoamerican traditions. It focuses on the abdomen, womb, and sacral area, where physical tension, emotional experiences, and energetic imbalances may be held.
The nurturing abdominal and womb massage encourages circulation, releases tension, and supports balance within the reproductive system. Spiritually, it helps awaken the sacral chakra, release stored emotions, and reconnect you with your feminine energy, creativity, and inner wisdom. This is a sacred journey back to your womb and to yourself. Sobada is an energetic form of healing transmitted through oral tradition and through lived experience.
Sobada restores balance in the womb caused by emotional wounds, energetic imbalances, or ancestral imprints. After the session, body mind, and spirit are brought back into balance, and the body and the soul start remembering their natural order.
Working the Cycle
Working in a series of 3 sessions between the bleeds follows and reflects the natural cycle of the womb: opening, clearing and restoring. After the 3 healing womb sessions the body can return to its natural state of balance.
Sobada Healing Womb Massage
Through intentional touch and rhythmic massage techniques, Sobada encourages relaxation, supports healthy circulation, and helps soften tension in the abdominal and pelvic regions. The purpose of the treatment is to nurture the womb, restore a sense of balance, and deepen the connection within.
On a spiritual level, Sobada may support the awakening and balancing of the sacral chakra, the energetic center associated with creativity, sensuality, emotions, relationships, pleasure, and feminine power. The healing session creates a sacred space to reconnect with the womb, release emotional heaviness, and cultivate greater self-love, grounding, and inner awareness.
Potential Benefits
Sobada womb massage may help you:
Encourage healthy blood and lymphatic circulation
Reconnect with the womb space
Relax tension in the abdomen and pelvic area
Support digestive and reproductive well-being
Promote deep relaxation and nervous system regulation
Increase body awareness and connection with the womb
Release emotional and ancestral imprints held in the sacral area
Balance and awaken the sacral chakra and feminine creative energy
Support creativity, sensuality, and feminine vitality
Create a greater sense of grounding, harmony, and wholeness
Who is it For?
Sobada may be supportive for women who feel disconnected from their womb or feminine energy, experience stress or tension in the abdominal area, or wish to deepen their emotional and spiritual healing. It can also be a beautiful self-care practice during times of transition, creative renewal, fertility preparation, or after emotionally challenging experiences.
The womb massage gently supports the natural alignment of the uterus while encouraging healthy circulation, and energy flow throughout the pelvic area. By promoting greater balance within the reproductive system, it may also enhance fertility.
Important Preparation and Aftercare
Sobada may be supportive for women who feel disconnected from their womb or feminine energy, experience stress or tension in the abdominal area, or wish to deepen their emotional and spiritual healing. It can also be a beautiful self-care practice during times of transition, creative renewal, fertility preparation, or after emotionally challenging experiences.
The womb massage gently supports the natural alignment of the uterus while encouraging healthy circulation, and energy flow throughout the pelvic area. By promoting greater balance within the reproductive system, it may also enhance fertility.
The Womb Massage is NOT recommended
-During menstruation
-During pregnancy
-In the days prior to menstruation. Wait 1-2 days before and after menstruation
-For 6 weeks after vaginal birth
-For 3 months after a cesarean or any abdominal surgery
-For women with IUD
This complementary wellness practice is not a substitute for medical diagnosis or treatment, and individual experiences and benefits may vary.
Please bring a shawl or wide scarf to wrap the womb area after the session.
Sobada is a sacred invitation to slow down, listen to the wisdom of your womb, and receive nurturing care on physical, emotional, and spiritual levels.
An offering that, on its own, is a great place to begin-
Like any other practice, a single massage can be very nurturing; however, if you have a specific intention, I recommend doing the full set of 3 massages and then continuing as needed. This is a journey of self-discovery back to your true essence and connection with the divine feminine energy that lives and flows through you. I have clients that have bought 4 massage trios because they are still working on reclaiming their sensuality or self-love.
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‘Sobada’ ≈ ‘To rub’
Womb massage also known as fertility massage or abdominal massage, is an ancestral and therapeutic practice that was developed in the Central and South America. Other names are Fertility massage or ‘Sobada de Matriz’ in Spanish.
Sobada is a sacred ancient healing practice that honors the wisdom and power of the womb. Through gentle massage techniques, we work to release stored emotions, tensions, and energetic blockages, allowing for greater flow, balance, and vitality within the womb space.
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In shamanic practices it is believed that when a woman carries unresolved emotional burdens, the energetic imprint gets passed down through generations, from one egg to another. This pattern will repeat until a woman in that lineage will perceive the call to bravely confronts the pain, transmutes the energy, and heals the generational trauma, including her own.
By doing so, she's choosing to heal herself but also to heal and empower every woman who came before. Accessing the wisdom of the womb can be a journey of self-discovery, unconditional self-love and the reclamation of our true nature and empowerment.
Most common discomforts addressed by this technique:Constipation, bloating, Digestive problems
Alleviate menstrual discomfort
Unblocking the blood flow
Enhance fertility and support reproductive health
Releasing accumulated tensions in the abdomen
Releasing accumulated emotional tensions in the sacral area
Painful or irregular periods
Ovarian and breast cysts
Ovulation problems
Fibroids, heavy bleeding
Endometriosis
Pelvic infections and inflammation
Migraines
Helps release energy from past partnerships
Pre-menopause/ Menopause
Frequent urination
Cooling of the uterus
Amenorrhea
Pain during penetration
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Three Womb massage appointments
Over the course of three appointments, you will receive a massage of the lower sacral/abdominal area and lower back/sacrum using organic sesame seed oil infused with Mugwort (Artemisa Vulgaris). Each appointment will be tailored to your unique needs and intentions, allowing for deep healing and transformation.
Our appointments are held in a safe and nurturing environment, allowing you to relax, unwind, and fully surrender to the healing process. You'll be supported every step of the way as you journey inward to reconnect with your womb's innate wisdom and power.
In addition to the massage, you'll receive empowerment tools and practices to support your ongoing healing journey. These may include self-care rituals, and journal prompts to deepen your connection to your womb and cultivate a sense of wholeness and empowerment.
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During appointment you will be fully clothed at all times. Only exposing your pelvic area from the pubis bone to ribs area and sacral area of your back.
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No, womb massages are only received between menstrual cycles, when you are not bleeding. Please wait one or two days after your last cycle before getting your womb massage.
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A shawl or scarf will be needed to wrap around you, and it's important to keep the area as warm as possible for the rest of the day. After the massage, your pelvic area and sacral region will feel very warm.
Practitioners
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Eleonora Berenyi