WÂMBA KERDÂ
WOMB PILGRIMAGE
ANCESTRAL LAND JOURNEYS + HANDS ON CEREMONIAL WOMB CARE IMMERSIONS.
WÂMBA ~ Proto-Celtic for Womb
KERDÂ ~ Proto-Celtic for Pilgrimage, Journey, Sacred Trail
Proto-Celtic is the 5,000 year old Ancestral Mother Tongue of Europe, spoken by our Bronze Age ancestors.
Journey with me along ancient pathways of blood, bone and belonging.
WÂMBA KERDÂ- Is a pilgrimage of both body and land. Nourishing our relationship with the land and our wombs is ancestral medicine. It is a remembering older than writing, a way of being that our ancient grandmothers once lived as daily reality. The deeper we root into our own tissues, the more we feel the pulse of the earth beneath us, the voice of our bloodlines singing through song lines of the earth. And the more we walk prayerfully upon the land in reverence to the sacred places our ancestors once revered, the more our wombs and bodies feel held, met and remembered home unto our belonging.
To tend Womb & Land, in this reciprocity we remember who we are, women of earth, walking prayers of soil and stars, carrying the medicine of our lineages in our hands.
WÂMBA ~ WOMB
Regenerative Hands on Womb Care
Ceremonial BodyWork to call you back to your blood, flesh and bones.
This care is not simply a Womb massage.
Regenerative Womb Care is a bodywork that supports full Feminine vitality and the regenerative capacity of our bodies.
Our bodies are innately oriented to heal and regenerate. When we listen, when we approach with slowness and no agenda, when we touch with reverence the old stories held in our tissues begin to stir and speak.
Hands on care is how we remember ourselves home.
Through attentive touch we say: i am here, i am listening, i am safe, i am held. This is not touch to fix or force, but touch to meet, to soften, to invite the body back from dissociation into warmth and inhabitation. In placing our hands on belly, womb, heart, bones, we reclaim our right to feel, to sense, to be at home in our bodies.
When we come back into relationship with our tissues, we make space for the wisdom our bodies carry. In that space, memories can surface, sensations can move, emotions can find space, shape and breath. What was frozen begins to thaw. What was silenced finds voice. The body does not rush, it asks for gentleness, attune-meant, for time, for being met again and again with loving awareness.
In this meeting grief can be metabolised, not as story alone, but as felt experience that moves through the body, flesh, blood and back into life.
WOMB CARE WEAVES :
Hands on Womb massage, Abdominal massage, Uterine alignment, Uterine ligaments & Psoas muscle work
Traditional Bone Holding
Cranio-Sacral
Relaxing and restorative massage
Regenerative + Ceremonial bodywork
Grounding and rooting practices
Somatic work, Breath and embodied awareness
Rest + intergration
Connection with ancestral feminine bloodlines
Grief tending
Attuned caring touch
Feminine ritual
We enter the feminine mystery together,
Listening and following the gnosis of the body.
Our session will be approximately 4 hours, and it can extend into 6 hours if the body desires.
Here the pilgrimage turns inward, we enter the Rose Cabin nestled in a private birch woodland. We enter a slower more intimate space of hands-on ceremonial bodywork. A space for deep listening to the body. For tending, for receiving, for integration , for reconnecting to the centre of yourself. This is held as a ceremonial space, i create an environment where we you can soften, breathe, rest and receive.
This is for the woman who…
Longs to return to the wild intelligence of her body and remember the wisdom that has always lived within her.
Feels the tenderness, grief, pain, or unspoken stories held within her womb, breasts, belly, or womanhood, and longs for a safe place to meet them.
Desires a bone-deep, ceremonial and physiological container for healing, restoration, and the reclamation of her body.
Wants to know her anatomy not simply through diagrams and clinical language, but through felt experience, sensation, presence, and connection.
Longs for a woman-centred space where she can be deeply supported, witnessed, held, and tended to.
Is ready to reconnect with her Sacred Roots ~ the body, the earth, the cycles, the ancestral wisdom, and the deep inner knowing that can guide her home to herself.
KERDÂ - THE PILGRIMAGE
The sacred trail, journey to your ancestral roots…
This journey is far more than a retreat, it is a sacred pilgrimage into your inner and outer landscape.
Allowing the wisdom of the land to be a companion in your journey of remembrance and renewal.
Re~Weaving yourself into relationship with your ancestral land is a coming home, a rooting into yourself, your path in this life, each footstep answering the prayers of your ancestors. Whether you hold Celtic ancestry in your bloodlines or not, connecting to the ancient and powerful lands of Scotland is nothing short of transformative.
For those that have Celtic ancestry, that may be of the generations of Diaspora. Reconnecting to your ancestral homelands is a powerful journey of coming home, re~weaving yourself into the tapestry of belonging.
It is a process of remembering that we inherently known in our bones, that we are of the land and our ancestral land holds the medicine we seek.
THE SACRED TRAIL -
We begin the day/days on the land.
In the geographical heartland of Scotland, Highland Perthshire. My ancestral land where my family have been rooted from over four generations. A land that is steeped in folklore, rich in Neolithic sites of worship, ancient yew trees, holy wells and standing stones. A land with potent magic and beauty pouring from everything.
Together we walk along ancient ley lines, song lines and pathways of pilgrimage. Sites of ancestral significance and ancient ritual.
We move gently on the landscape, in ceremony and prayer. There is space to pause beside the trees or water. to place your hands and body upon ancient stones, to make offerings, to speak prayers, to listen to what the land may awaken within you.
Our ancestors lived intimately with these landscapes, they understood the earth as living relationship, a source of nourishment, ceremony and belonging.
This pilgrimage offers space to reconnect with the land, to listen to what is alive in body, bones and earth.
WALKING THE ANCESTRAL LAND - WE WILL MEET:
Pictish holy wells and sacred springs
Neolithic age standing stones, cup marked stones and stone circles aligned with the solstice’s and equinoxes
Ancient Yew Trees - visit the oldest yew tree in Europe (5,000 years old)
Waterfalls, rivers and secret spots of natural beauty
Sacred sites of pilgrimage across Scotland
Meeting sites connected with the Rose Line and lineage
Meeting ancestral plant kin, communing with plant spirits and bio-regional folk herbalism rooted in the Celtic tradition
Hear and learn Gaelic song, poetry & prayer
Experience live traditional celtic music
Immerse yourself in ancestral craft such as wool spinning and weaving
Meet my beehives and connect with the medicine of the honeybee
& much much more.
PRIVATE EVENING SAUNA ON THE LOCHSIDE
WITH WILD EMBER BOTHY.
FIRE ~ HEAT ~ WATER ~ REST
OPTIONAL FOR DAY GUESTS & RESIDENTIAL
As dusk rolls in across the stunning loch tay, we arrive at the private wood fired sauna just minutes from the rose cabin.
We gaze out at the powerful Loch Tay as our bodies are nourished by the warmth and herbal steam.
A space for deep rest and integration, held in the woodland on the shores of a highland loch.
There is space to sit around the cosy fire pit outside the sauna after a bathe in the loch’s wild waters, space to drink nourishing herbal tea, receive the medicine of Gaelic song or prayer around the fire as we close our time together.
Letting the days experience settle into your bones.
The sauna is entirely optional, you may also desire to simply rest, walk in the local beautiful nature or retire early to your space.
