November 7 and 8, 2026 · Colton House · Austin, Texas
Womb Wisdom
An intergenerational weekend of traditional womb care
A two-day, multigenerational gathering created to bring women and girls together to learn, experience and continue these conversations. Come with your daughter, your mother, your sister or your grandmother, or come on your own.
“Y’all changed my life. I am forever forever grateful and here for you in any way I can be.”
For generations, women have cared for one another through the many transitions of living in a female body. This knowledge often moved through families and communities, between mothers and daughters, grandmothers, sisters, aunties, midwives and traditional practitioners who understood ways of tending the body through menstruation, pregnancy, birth, postpartum, loss, menopause and aging.
Some of these traditions remain very much alive. Others exist as pieces of knowledge we remember seeing our mothers or grandmothers practice without ever learning why. For many of us, the thread was interrupted altogether.
This weekend gives us an opportunity to become curious about what we have carried, what we were taught, what we were never taught, and what we want to pass forward.
You want to better understand your body and its changes.
You are seeking space to slow down and connect with your feelings.
You feel called to explore your roots and reconnect with traditions.
You want to make room for creativity and new possibilities.
“I think the consent-based way Monica and the team operate is really helpful and helps me feel safer in the space.”
One of the most important parts of Womb Wisdom is having different generations in the same room.
A girl beginning to understand menstruation and her changing body will have different questions from a woman who has experienced pregnancy or childbirth. A woman entering perimenopause may find herself wanting conversations she never knew to have with her own mother. A grandmother may remember traditions or stories that have not been spoken about in years.
Come with the women you consider family, or come on your own. This gathering is not only for women who grew up with these traditions. It is also for those who did not. We want to create a space where knowledge can move between generations again, while allowing each person to decide what she wants to carry forward.
“It also surprised me that after the retreat, people wanted to hang out… and, we could use the language that we used in the retreat but out in ‘the real world’ and it was seamless. I loved that.”
We will spend time learning the foundations of womb, or vaginal, steaming, including its traditional use, preparation, herbal considerations, temperature, duration, hygiene and the rituals that have surrounded the practice.
Just as importantly, we will talk about when steaming is not appropriate. Traditional use does not automatically mean that a practice is right for every body or every circumstance, and understanding safety is part of learning the tradition responsibly.
Womb steaming is not being presented as a treatment or cure for gynecological or reproductive conditions. Our purpose is to teach the practice, its traditional context and how to approach it with greater knowledge and discernment.
Our bodies communicate in ways we do not always notice. Stress, physical changes and lived experiences can affect our breath, posture, movement and the way we hold or guard different areas of the body. Through somatic movement and embodied awareness, we will explore the relationship between the breath, abdomen, hips and pelvic space. Rather than asking the body to perform or to arrive anywhere in particular, these practices encourage curiosity, sensation and listening to what is happening within.
“I liked the flexibility to participate in what you wanted to participate in and also take the time you needed.”
“I got to practice what I’ve been taught/learned and step away when I needed a moment.”
November 7–8, 2026
Doors open at 11:30 AM.
Sessions run from noon to 5 PM each day.
Traditional Womb Care & Community Steam
Arrival and check-in
Opening ceremony
Introduction to Womb Care with Carolina
Herbal Education
Steaming Preparation & Home Practice
Guided Community Steam on the Private Terrace
Daily closingIndividual practitioner sessions available afterward.
Movement & Integration
Arrival and check-in
Opening circle
Movement & Embodiment with Michaela
Reflection & Integration Circle
Closing ceremony
Lead practitioner · Freed Spirit Wellness, Chicago
Carolina is a Mexican-born sobadora with a decade of experience in Maya abdominal massage. She trained with Rosita Arvigo, Maestro Laurencio Núñez, and Maestra Rita Navarro. Through bodywork and monthly moon circles, she teaches traditional womb care with practical guidance and a close connection to community.
Lead practitioner · Sol Solace Studio
Michaela brings more than a decade of dance and embodiment experience to her work as a certified womb practitioner. Trained in Haitian and African Diaspora traditions and Reiki levels I and II, she has supported more than 150 people in individual sessions. She will guide movement and embodiment, inviting you to explore your body at your own pace.
Founder · Sol Solace Studio
Monica is the founder of Sol Solace Studio, a clinically trained massage therapist, and an apprentice of Maestro Laurencio Núñez in Oaxaca. Her work draws on her Mesoamerican family lineage and hands-on bodywork experience. She will support the circle alongside Carolina and Michaela throughout the weekend.
Director of operations · Sol Solace Studio
Rhiann is Sol Solace Studio’s director of operations, shaping the weekend with careful coordination and personal attention to each participant. A traditional medicine practitioner apprenticing in Curanderismo, she also draws on her Italian folk medicine lineage, which she has studied with author and herbalist Lisa Faizo.
Functional nutrition chef
Han brings functional nutrition to the table with thoughtful, nutrient-dense nourishment throughout both days. Her approach considers the changing nutritional needs of our cycles, offering another way to care for our bodies alongside the practices we explore together. Expect a nourishing grazing table available all day, rather than seated meals.
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Share the weekend with your mother, daughter, sister, or a friend.
$300 each
Your place in the circle.
One person
Early Bird, through September 30: $495 for one guest or $795 for two with a Legacy Ticket. Regular, October 1–17: $645 for one guest or $945 for two. Late Bloomer, October 18–31: $695 for one guest or $995 for two. Payment plans are available upon request. Registration closes October 31. Tickets are non-refundable; if your plans change, contact us.
Womb Wisdom is an educational and experiential wellness gathering and is not medical treatment. Our facilitators do not diagnose conditions or prescribe womb steaming, and the practices shared during the weekend are not intended to replace medical or mental-health care.
Traditional and ancestral teachings will be identified as such rather than presented as established medical fact. Safety, contraindications and informed consent are part of the workshop, and participants may opt out of any experiential practice.
All participants will be required to complete an informed-consent and liability waiver. A parent or legal guardian must provide consent for participants under 18.
The entire workshop takes place at the beautiful Colton House Hotel. Stay with us to make the weekend your own retreat, with time to relax and enjoy the hotel between our gatherings. Overnight stays are encouraged, but you can enjoy the full workshop experience without booking a room.
Our room block offers a group rate through October 7. Book directly through Colton House; your room is an additional cost, separate from your workshop ticket.
Room reservations and workshop tickets are booked separately.
To extend your stay a night before or after the block, or to upgrade to a larger room, book the dates shown and then email bdiaz@coltonhousehotel.com to make the change.
The group booking link will be available soon. Contact us for room reservation details.
Photographs of the hotel, courtesy of Colton House.
Colton House Hotel, 2510 South Congress Avenue, Austin.
11:30 AM each day for parking and check-in. Sessions begin at noon.
The hotel garage is on the basement level and holds fifty cars, shared with the coffee shop. Complimentary for the first two hours, $10 for two to six hours, or $30 overnight at our group rate. Overnight guests have priority, so allow time to find street parking if the garage is full.
Take elevator C to the Drawing Room. No key card is needed.
Our steaming terrace is reserved for the workshop and closed to the public.
Wear comfortable layers you can sit and move in. Chairs, cushions, and floor seating are available.
Your ticket includes a resort day pass with access to the pool, coffee shop, bar, and library.
Join us for two days of learning, connection, and care. There is a place for you in the circle.
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