womb time to Birth | The Age of EMERGENCE
A 2-DAY in-person Immersion
10 & 11 October 2026, 9am-4:30pm | $750 AUD (payment plans available) | LIMITED TO 13 WOMEN
VENUE: 151 Boundary Rd., Bardon, BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA (Bardon Counselling & Natural Therapies)
The birth threshold signals the first call to initiation. But this journey begins well before we personally enter the world and take our first breath.
We are threaded to a greater cosmogony that is manifest in our mother’s womb, and woven back through our parents’ egg and sperm, back through the wombs of our grandmothers and their mother’s … webbing us into multitudes of others who share in our ancestry, woven through evolving cultural contexts across time and space, to the origins of the world, and humans from history.
What did your face look like before your parents were born?
In the Womb Time to Birth Immersion, women will explore the themes of this Age of Emergence as Passage Work — reconstructing the rites of this first and most primordial threshold:
seed, egg, ancestry, karma, origin story, beginning, creation, original face, fate and destiny, genius, gestation, incubation, cocoon, threshold, emergence, going through, first breath, nascent, new life
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Across the two days women will explore the themes through personal myth, cultural myths, body, creativity and imagination.
This is not a rebirthing experience but a revisitation of this first archetypal passage and threshold.
Women will experience old and new material through skin, flesh and bone memory. The Immersion experience in totality will help each women bring greater context and detail to this Passage, to restory their origins, and reconstruct the rites for initiation.
There will be ritual, movement, stillness, breathwork, trance, storytelling, art making, dialogue, role play and enactments, and a cleansing and arrival ceremony on the last day.
Active engagement and collaboration with others through dyads, small groups and the whole group is integral.
This is very intentional work.
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Opening rituals
Direct teaching, e.g. 13 Passages overview, Myth, Psychological, Depth or Symbolic exploration
Morning tea (provided)
Dialogue, Respond, Question.
Morning Practices - exercises, experiments, e.g. trance, dyad work, art making, active imagination, breathwork.
Lunch (communal - bring your own small plate to share)
Movement e.g. simple yoga, BMC, energy medicine
Afternoon Practises, exercises, experiments, e.g. trance, dyad work, art making, active imagination, breathwork.
Afternoon tea (provided)
Dialogue, Respond, Question.
Closing ritual. On the last day, ceremony
[an example outline, subject to change]
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Responsibility. You’re responsible for your own experiences, responses and what you take away.
No advice-giving. We’re here to explore, and collaborate, not solve problems for each other.
Cross-pollination. Responding to each other, and building on what’s being shared is encouraged. This is different to advice giving, where experiences can be interwoven, not supplanted.
Perspective-widening. Your experience offers something that might shift how others see. We can’t know the value in advance.
Participation is essential. It is ok to be quiet, take some time to retreat, and regather. But this immersion requires presence and active involvement.
Confidentiality. It’s ok to share your experiences in the outside world while personal details remain protected.
10-11 October 2026 | 9am - 4:30pm
In person: 151 Boundary Rd., Bardon, BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA (Bardon Counselling & Natural Therapies)
The birth threshold signals the first call to initiation. But this journey begins well before we personally enter the world and take our first breath.
*A discount will be offered for the Immersion for anyone who purchases the Crossing the Threshold course. If you’ve already purchased the course, have previously participated in Initiated Woman Gatherings, or are a paying subscriber on Substack, you will also get a discount for the immersion.
The Rites of the Birth Passage toward Initiation
For this primordial time of pre-language, pre-memory, pre-thought, this immersion will be embedded in experiences of the myth, mythic imagination, body-centred experience, and symbolic and creative exploration.
At the same time, each woman carries a personal womb-time and birth experience, and a personal-familial-cultural history that helped shape how she enters the world.
The wounded-traumatised narrative of therapy culture has encouraged a well-articulated, well-rehearsed story about who we are, where we come from and why we are how we are, ever circling the why-and-how-do-I-heal inquiry.
Instead of rehashing this narrative form, we go into the centre and expand the origin stories, discerning historical fiction from the individual myth.
Each woman re-stories this passage by placing it in the vaster transpersonal space that exists beyond the edges of our skins and within the social and environmental space.
Sharing and having experiences within the group serves the work of collaborative restorying and reconstruction of the rites for initiation, which helps each woman learn to live in this new skin and bring that into her communities.
The Larger Arc: Entering the Work
Womb-time to birth is the first of 13 Passages that girls and women will move through across the arc of their life. As the first Passage, it is the most primordial, acting as the tap root from which each subsequent Passage emerges.
The Crossing the Threshold online course* is a practical offering to help prepare for Passage Work.
This online course can be helpful if:
Rites of Passage work is new to you,
you are unsure and want to build confidence and gravitas to engage in an experiential and collaborative workshop experience, or
you want to establish or reestablish the foundation of themes and practices from my apothecary to help establish your own.
Related Substack Articles
If you want to do other explorations, the following articles will help you orient to Passage Work and become familiar with the framework of the 13 Passages:
Passage 1 - WOMB TIME ~ BIRTH: The Age of Gestation
Renaming the container: spiral storytelling, why Betwixt?, and concocting passage work together
The Uninitiated Woman: Darling, you're not crazy, you're going through a thing