THE INITIATORY PATH OF THE EMBODIED MEDICINE WOMAN

2026 Cohort schedule & availability

Phase 1 Cohort 4: Trauma-Educated Practitioner Apprenticeship in Womb-Led Healing, Shamanic Studies, Ceremonial Somatic Breath Work & Intuitive Energy Medicine

  • Registration Opens January 22nd, 2026
  • 6 Spaces Available
  • September 1st - December 15th, 2026: Virtual Classes/Private Mentorship
  • November 1st - 15th, 2026: In-Person Intensive - Sedona, AZ

trauma-educated practitioner apprenticeship

A womb-led initiation into embodied healing, ceremonial leadership, and ethical practitioner foundations.

Phase I of the Athera Collective is an immersive apprenticeship for women who feel called to walk the path of healing—not as performance, not as bypass, but as lived devotion within the body.

This is not a certification mill.

This is not surface-level trauma “informed” work.

This is a slow, reverent, nervous-system-honoring initiation into practitioner consciousness.

this apprenticeship is for you if:

You feel called to womb-led healing, not conceptually, but somatically

  • You desire to work with others without bypassing your own healing

  • You know that ceremony requires integrity, containment, and skill

  • You are ready to learn trauma education through direct embodied experience

  • You feel the call to hold space, but refuse to do so from unhealed wounds

  • You are willing to slow down, listen, and let your body lead the work

This container welcomes both those who intend to practice professionally and those who feel called into this work as a lifelong path of embodied service.

WHAT TRAUMA-EDUCATED MEANS HERE

This apprenticeship goes beyond “trauma-informed” language.

You will learn:

  • How trauma lives in tissues, breath, fascia, womb, and nervous system

  • How dissociation, collapse, and activation show up in real time

  • How plant medicine, breathwork, and ceremony can harm when held without skill

  • How to recognize when not to intervene

  • How to work with the body without retraumatization

This work is grounded in nervous system literacy, somatic awareness, and ethical responsibility.

Core PILLARS OF PHASE 1

  • ✧ Womb-Led Healing

    The womb as an energetic, emotional, intuitive, and ancestral center

    Listening to the body as primary intelligence

    Healing held through sensation, not story

  • ✧ Shamanic Studies (Grounded & Ethical)


    Energy awareness and discernment

    Ancestral listening without projection

    Ceremonial preparation and closure

    Understanding altered states safely

  • ✧ Ceremonial Breathwork

    Breath as medicine, not force

    Somatic dialogue and containment

    Integration-led breath journeys

    Recognizing when breathwork is contraindicated

  • ✧ Intuitive Energy Medicine

    Developing intuition through regulation, not dysregulation

    Boundaries, consent, and ethical sensing

    Clearing vs. holding vs. witnessing

    Learning to trust subtle information without bypass

  • ✧ Trauma-Educated Somatics

    Window of tolerance

    Top-down and bottom-up approaches

    Resourcing, pacing, and titration

    Recognizing freeze, fawn, collapse, and overwhelm

THE STRUCTURE

Phase I is a multi-month apprenticeship experience that includes:

  • Curated live group teachings

  • Embodied somatic practices

  • Ceremonial breathwork journeys

  • Partner and peer practice

  • Integration guidance between sessions

  • Private mentorship touchpoints

  • Clear practitioner boundaries and agreements

This phase is designed to stabilize your nervous system, deepen self-trust, and establish a strong internal foundation before holding others.

This Is Not…

  • A fast-track to facilitation

  • A place to perform spiritual identity

  • A container for uncontained trauma processing

  • A plant-medicine-forward training without preparation (graduates of Phase 1 may apply for the Phase 2 Plant Medicine Woman Apprenticeship)

This is a place to learn how to be with what arises—in yourself first.

topics of study

Ancestral Exploration

Self Health History Breakdown

Core Wounding

Energy Healing & Your Personal Medicine

Nervous System & Psycho Somatic Modalities

Poly Vagal Theory / Vagus Nerve Support

Energy Centers / Medical Trauma

Trauma Educated Topics in CPTSD / Attachment Theory /

Parts Work in Shamanic Spaces vs IFS

Sexual Trauma & Womb Healing

Wounded vs Embodied Healing / Facilitation

Shamanic Studies in Elemental Work, Intuitive Medicine, Plant Medicine

virtual

Opening Ceremony / Blessing of the Hands

Rose Dieta

Workshops:

  • Sacred Tools & Modalities

  • Consent in Hands On Facilitation for Trauma Release

  • Altar Creation

  • Ceremonial Creation

  • Protection / Energetics

  • Herbal Teachings & Hands on Creation

  • Sacred Fan Making

  • Plant Medicine: Hape, Sananga, Mapacho

  • Prepping Your Client / Somatic Dialogue Practice Sessions

  • Mock Movement Practice Session

Ceremonial:

  • Kambo

  • Trauma Release & Activation Breath Work

  • Womb Activation & Reclamation

  • Group Practicums

  • Private Facilitation Practicums

  • Rose Anointing

  • Partner Ice Bath

  • Land Journey

  • Embodiment Photoshoot

  • Yin Yoga

in-person

phase i schedule

VIRTUAL SCHEDULE

  • Tuesdays September 1st - December 15th

  • All calls are held at 11:30am Arizona Time (average 2 hours per call)

IN-PERSON HEALING INTENSIVE - SEDONA, AZ:

  • November 1st - 15th, 2026

1:1 PRIVATE MENTORSHIP SCHEDULE WITH PATRICIA

  • September / October / December: 2 60 minute consultative support calls

  • November: 1 60 minute consultative support call

  • All private calls will be scheduled by the end of August. All meetings have the opportunity to be discussion based or somatic therapy based dependent upon your needs.

  • Private Mentorship component is to support your physical health during this spiritual and emotional healing process. Business support is available as well.

  • Details

    • If you miss any class calls, it is required to catch up with the call and any scheduled partner work before the next scheduled class.

    • At home practice breath ceremonies due by December 8th

the initiation of phase 1

completion & continuation

Phase I is not about becoming someone new.

It is about removing what interferes with your ability to listen.

As your body softens, your intuition sharpens.

As your nervous system stabilizes, your capacity expands.

As your womb is honored, your medicine becomes clear.

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Completion of Phase I prepares you for:

  • Deeper practitioner pathways within the Athera Collective

  • Advanced ceremonial training (Phase II)

  • Continued mentorship and in-person intensives

  • Ethical pathways into client support, if and when appropriate

This phase stands alone and serves as the gateway to advanced work.

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an invitation

If you feel your body respond as you read this—

If something in you exhales—

If you know this work must be done slowly, carefully, and with reverence—

You may be ready.

Applications are required.

This container is intentionally small and carefully curated.

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Athera Collective –

Trauma-Educated Practitioner Apprenticeship

Inclusive of:

$16, 595 - Payment plans are listed on the application

16 Week Virtual Small Group Training (6 Women max per cohort)

2-Week In Person Intensive Training in Sedona, AZ (accommodations included)

  • All Workshops, Experiences, & Ceremonies

  • Full Embodiment Photoshoot for your business + professionals photos of your facilitation and experiencing

16 Week Full Time Private Mentorship with Patricia inclusive of:

  • Seven 1:1 Consultation Calls with Patricia

  • 4-Month Voxer Mentorship Container (emotional, spiritual, physical, business support)

  • Psychosomatic support, Deeply held trauma-informed somatic/shamanic work

  • Herbal support for physical , emotional, and spiritual support

Certificate of Completion to practice

Purchasing practitioner tools are also on the application.

These tools are purchased at wholesale to support your needs and are optional.

*You are responsible for flight/transportation to and from the training house.

You are responsible for your own meals.

Patricia will support with logistical information when you are ready to book.

Apply to Phase 1