Learn Maya Abdominal Massage within an intact Ancestral lineage
A healing journey that
Realigns your centre
Transforms your life &
Deepens your ability to hold others
When you learn directly from an intact lineage
You're not learning a technique
Your reshaping the healer within you
The Weaving Within
Maya Abdominal Massage Retreat
Lake Atitlán, Guatemala
19th-26th April 2026
Step into the version of yourself who can offer real, life-changing support to others
In our modern world we’ve lost the ways of truly learning — through being held, through experiencing. Most women crave to return to sitting with elders and learning from a direct lineage. They’re yearning for this but don’t know how to find it.
This retreat provides that opportunity.
What you learn here is not a technique.
It’s a living lineage that you become a part of.
These practices:
• Restore the centre of the body physically and energetically
• Support menstrual and digestive health
• Prepares the body for conception
• Promotes postpartum healing for longterm wellbeing
• Brings clarity and alignment into your life
The way the Maya midwives hold you becomes the blueprint for the depth, integrity, and clarity you’ll offer in your own community.
You cannot hold another through deep healing until you have been held that way yourself.
You don’t just leave Guatemala with a healing modality.
You leave with a shift in your worldview and the capacity to support profound transformation in others.
What’s Included
• 45 hours of foundational Maya abdominal massage training
• Two Maya abdominal massages received from an experienced guide
• Traditional temazcal ceremony
• Medicinal plant teachings
• Herbal balm making
• Group yoni steam
• Mayan cosmology reading
• Daily ceremony and energetic protection practices
• Nourishing organic local meals
• 7 nights luscious lakeside accommodation at Casa Paloma, wake up to views of volcanos
• Guidance from experienced teachers Sarah, Mariu, and the Maya midwives
• Contribution to The Midwife Project
Bonus
You will be presented with your very own handwoven therapeutic faja woven by experienced weaver and traditional midwife Doña Dominga
$3999USD
Monthly payment Plans Available
As this retreat is taught directly by the Maya midwives, it can only run when they invite us to gather.
Spaces are almost full and we don’t yet know when the next opening will be.
Limited private rooms available, book now to secure
If you’re longing for embodied, ancestral wisdom you can carry into your life and work.
If you have searched for teachers direct from an intact lineage and to learn through authentic experience and ceremony...
Don't ignore the call and secure your place before this rare gathering fills.
Jamie's story of trusting the call
Cristina's authentic healing experience
This experience was so much more than a retreat or training.
It was an opportunity to connect with the healing arts in a way that transcends space and time...
It was a truly unique opportunity to listen and be taught through women who with deep intention and connection to the elements, spirit, and their ancestry have opened their hearts to give us a glimpse into their culture and generational practices. Supported by the intensity of Lake Atitlan, this was an experience of introspection, deeper awareness, spiritual connection, releases, and working with tools to better support us and the clients we work with. If you are a holistic-oriented practitioner this is an incomparable experience to deepen your personal life and practice. Where spiritual practices can often be superficial and diluted, this experience was deep and supported by authentic Mayan wisdom. I'm so grateful for Nana Reina, Nana Ixkik, Dona Dominga, and Mariu for trusting us to respectfully carry our experiences back to our homes. Also so much gratitude for Sarah in creating this space to share with us globally, for providing the bridge and container between these worlds, and for being an amazing space holder for the spectrum of experiences we all walked through. I felt fully held and supported through this experience and it is something I will carry graciously throughout my life. -Lila Bates
Hear Why women travel from all over the world for this retreat
Daniela’s deepening of connection
Mahalia & her family's Expansion
nicki found magic & healing
Vivian's Life has transformed
Meet your Guides
Your time in Guatemala is held with depth and integrity by women who have walked this path for decades. At the heart of your journey are Sarah and Mariu, experienced home birth midwives and bodyworkers who have supported hundreds of women through birth, healing, and transformation. They hold the container with steady hands, cultural respect, and a deep commitment to the lineage this work comes from.
You will also be guided by Nana Ixquik, Nana Reina, and Doña Dominga — revered Maya midwives with decades of experience and spiritual leaders who carry an unbroken lineage of traditional healing. Their teachings come from lived experience, ceremony, prayer, plant wisdom, and knowledge passed down through generations.
Learning directly from them is a rare privilege. This retreat honours the community who holds this medicine, creating a relationship rooted in reciprocity and respect, and helping ensure this ancestral wisdom continues to be supported and valued.
If you have hesitations — here’s what you need to know
What are the dates? Are there any other dates?
We begin on the afternoon of April 19th 2026 and finish in the later afternoon of April 26th 2026. We encourage you to stay locally the evening before and save travel plans for the day after the completion of the retreat.
Not at this stage. This retreat runs sporadically on the availability of the local midwives, and spaces are very limited.
Is it safe to travel to Guatemala? Is the retreat location secure?
We travel to areas that are considered safe. Self awareness is always required.
Yes. We stay in a private retreat space with trusted hosts and secure rooms with staff on-hand for assistance.
How do I get there? Do I need a visa?
Fly into La Aurora International Airport (GUA).
From there, take a private shuttle or shared transfer to Lake Atitlan. We provide clear directions and trusted contacts. We have started a WhatsApp group for you to co-ordinate travel with other attendees.
Most travellers do not need a visa for Guatemala, but you may need a transit visa if flying through the USA. Please check your passport requirements.
What is the food and accomodation like?
The food is local and intentional to compliment the work we are doing. Fresh, nourishing, and prepared on-site. Our meals are predominantly organic where possible, locally sourced, mostly vegetarian and GF, dietary needs can be supported.
We will be staying in the luxurious venue Casa Paloma. A beautiful lake side venue with volcano views. A mix of private rooms, or rooms shared with one other person. Private rooms are subject to order of booking and will be scured to those who book first.
What’s not included? Do I need travel insurance?
Flights
Visas or transit visas
Airport transfers
Accommodation before/after retreat
Travel/medical insurance
Personal purchases or additional treatments
Yes. We strongly recommend travel and medical insurance for international travel.
Is this course accredited toward professional development?
No. This retreat honours ancestral ways of learning, where knowledge is passed through experience, embodiment, and direct guidance — not through external certification systems. We choose not to align this work with formal accreditation, as doing so would compromise the integrity of how this medicine is traditionally shared.
Because women join us from many different countries, it would also be appropriate to fit this lineage-based learning into any single nation’s professional requirements.
What you receive instead is something deeper:
Embodied skill, direct transmission, and a practice grounded in lived wisdom rather than external approval.
Do I need prior experience? Is the retreat only for birth workers?
No, you don’t need any prior experience.
This retreat is designed for women at all stages — from complete beginners to experienced birth workers and practitioners. You’ll be guided step by step, through your own body first, so you can learn and integrate this work in a safe and embodied way.
And it isn’t only for birth workers.
Many women join simply for their own healing, clarity, and personal transformation. Others come to weave this practice into their work as midwives, doulas, massage therapists, or holistic practitioners.
By the end of the retreat, you’ll have the foundational knowledge and embodied understanding to begin sharing this work within your community — in a way that is respectful, grounded, and aligned with what you’ve received