Womb Wonder
WOMB WONDER By Barbara Brewster
Maleny, Qld. – Saturday, 4 October, 2025
This is an article written by one of my dear clients, Barbara Brewster, who recently came to receive a restorative yoga and womb steam immersion. She is a proud woman of 85 years, and kindly wrote this article about the services and treatments I offer in collaboration with other women. It was published in ‘Holistic Bliss Magazine’ in October 2025.
Interesting—what an extraordinarily different energy I am today. Last night I attended something completely out of my “normal” radar: THE DEEP EXHALE—a three-hour sacred gathering, “Journey of Deep Rest and Feminine Restoration” for women in all phases of life. Facilitated locally by Stephy and Kimba, it wove together restorative yoga, Reiki, healing sound immersion, and the ancient practice of womb steaming—all held within the warmth of gentle ceremony. This soothing heart and womb opening journey became my entry into a whole new experience of “me”.
After gently meeting each-other, our group then gave ourselves over to deep rest - beautifully supported in a nest of bolsters and blankets, our bodies gently opening and releasing, while our subtle bodies received the healing balm that is Reiki.
The soothing vibrations of crystal singing bowls and native drums guided us into the cocoon of our feminine wisdom, where our bodies softened, our hearts opened and our nervous systems recalibrated. Tensions in our bodies dissolved.
And the BIG opening, for me, was entering into something I had never before heard of--let alone imagined—a cleansing and healing Womb Steam. Surprisingly, the steaming became a deeply emotional experience. It had never occurred to me to “care for”, let alone “honour”, my womb area. Western feminine life—especially in my teens and early twenties, had pretty much ensured relating to that part of me “carefully’, via embarrassment, “jokes”, hiding, not calling attention. Even growing up as a fairly forthcoming female with boyfriends and, later, two husbands, I’d never experienced this energy of honouring this part of me.
The cleansing and healing womb steam was done with nourishing herbs. For the women who weren’t able or who preferred not to steam - a luscious cup of intention-filled herbal tea and hot stones for their womb was the delicious alternative.
This event was, for me, energy-shifting.
During the steaming process of bringing forth attention, warmth, APPRECIATION(!), HONORING(!), GRATITUDE(!) for that female area, I felt a massive emotional opening. A complete flip from the ways I’d been indoctrinated to relate to it. A coming into, Wow, I respect--I am grateful for--this amazing WONDERFUL aspect of who I am.
The Morning After
What an extraordinarily different energy I am this morning. I am deeply “called” to simply sitting in the lounge room, with the outside trees swaying and the flaked-out-on-the-floor kitty as my space-holders. Meditating a long time. Feels wonderful. No tug to get up, leave, sort the day, handle “stuff.”
Feel so intensely present, non-distracted, no rushing to check off XYZ. Just the grace to rest cradled in this depth of peace/silence (despite the tinnitus roaring and ringing in my ears). The bliss of simply being, sitting and sensing---YESSSS---OKAYYYYY. THIS energy of total acceptance. HERE .... NOW .... Colours flood my inner—what? Mind? I’ve rarely before--except in nature—sat so still, so peacefully present, so touched, tears coming and going, total lack of interest in distractions--food, mobile, checking-off stuff...
All I can guess is that somehow in last night’s experience of the gentle womb honouring/cleansing, “something” got touched, felt different, softened. I have quite a sense of myself as –“okay”—without stepping forth to manage the day, lists, outcomes. There are messages to respond to. But they can wait. Seems so-so-so appropriate—necessary--to trust—to surrender into flowing within this deep state of Peace-Fullness.
It never occurred to me to care for my womb, let alone honour it. Oh, maybe a little awareness here or there. In last evening’s gathering, however, sharing and honouring my womb with other conscious women, was a very deep NEW experience—of a whole aspect of connection with myself, never before imagined, felt, recognized.
I’m so deeply grateful for this emerging new recognition, and that I have this peaceful morning to sit with it. To BE noticing, aware of me—Barbara—in a different way---finally--at age 80. How many women ever, ever, ever (tears flooding) experience deep, full, rich, appreciation of, reverence for, who/what we really are? Not according to our minds. According to our FEELING.
Yes, I’ve come together, of course, with women in multiple ways--singing, sound sharing, massaging, creating, expressing. But never before when we literally feel warmth, nourishment, honouring (huge tears streaming) of our unique physicality, which instead of being appreciated, embraced, celebrated and honoured—has been mostly judged, scorned, DIS-honoured, negated. And we all grew up non-consciously accepting that conferred identity.
This is, for me, anyway, HUGE. As a female in this life, it’s been totally “normal”, “expected”, to be, in the social picture viewpoint, diminished. To think it is “natural”—totally normal that in many circumstances I’m considered “less than”. Certainly, as I ‘ve navigated stuff and grown, I could realize that that “assigned” perception/identity is NOT true. It’s made up. And, I’ve been blessed to encounter and engage with both men and women who have “gone beyond” that expected identity. It is, however, a deeply ingrained BELIEF. And, of course, physical/mental/emotional etc symptoms/expressions appear—as Bruce Lipton eloquently shares in THE BIOLOGY OF BELIEF.
And I, experiencing, reading, learning about and “working with” these beliefs and programs for years, have never before found or allowed myself to become deeply immersed in the rich, “normal” emotional energy that has, of course—all along—been here within and around me.
It’s HUGE. I’m massively imbibing it. Not a time to ring folks, turn on computer or even go walking. GRATITUDE...to have attracted this awareness—while I still have time to LIVE it.
THANK YOU, STEPH & KIMBA
