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Herbal Womb Ritual

$303

for Workshop Guests

$430

for Day Pass Visitors

90 minutes

One Person

Location

You will meet your practitioner outside the bookstore 10 minutes early to be guided to the location for your session.

This session offers the support of herbs, flowers, warm herbal poultice abdominal massage, and reflective listening to somatically tend to your physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing. It includes everything that you’d experience in our Herbal Clearing Ritual, with an in-depth focus on womb-related issues. This session is ideal for support postnatally (even years after giving birth), or at any time after miscarriage, trauma, loss, abortion, for womb health, fertility support, or return to sovereign loving connection with your own creative center, in harmony with the earth, supported by the elements and the plants.

This session supports:

  • Emotional release
  • Energetic clearing
  • Grounding and integration
  • Earth-supported sovereignty

Practitioners

Micha Merrick

Micha believes the key to health and happiness lies in discovering ourselves as free and natural beings. She teaches herbalism, meditation and ritual as a heartfelt communion with our living ecosystem. Micha is an Esalen experiential faculty member and botanical altar artist. As a birth doula and practitioner of embodied herbal practices, her clients find sanctuary and grounding in connection with the earth. She has studied with WatPo Royal Medical School, Bumi Sehat Natural Birth Center, Kripalu School of Yoga and personal mentorship with traditional midwives, botanical healers and folk herbalists in Bali, Thailand, Vermont, and California.