A practitioner standing at the healing table, hands resting over her own womb

Level II · The Whole Womban Healing Academy

Whole Womban
Healing Practitioner

A six-month practitioner journey into the art, responsibility and sacred practice of holding another woman.

Six monthsOne night in MuriwaiApplications opening

Level II is where Whole Womban Healing moves beyond the self.

Over six months, you will learn how to hold women through an integrated approach to healing that honours the physical, emotional, energetic and spiritual dimensions of their experience. This is not the memorising of a sequence of techniques. It is the knowledge, presence, discernment and intuition required to meet the woman in front of you.

You will study the female body, the nervous system, emotional holding, energy work, sacred practice, intuitive development, practitioner ethics and the Whole Womban Healing Method. The journey culminates in an intimate one-night luxury practitioner retreat in Muriwai, where you receive your Level II sacred attunement and practitioner symbol, and complete your initiation into the modality.

The shift

From healing yourself to holding another.

Level I begins with the woman herself. Level II asks something different.

  • How do you meet another woman without trying to fix her?
  • How do you listen deeply without projecting your own story?
  • How do you work intuitively while remaining grounded?
  • How do you create a space where the physical body, emotional world, nervous system, energetic field and spiritual experience can all be welcomed?

This is a training in both skill and presence. The quality of a healing session is not simply determined by how many modalities a practitioner knows. It is shaped by who she is while she is holding the space.

How we practise

You are not the healer

Meet rather than fix.Listen rather than assume.Support rather than rescue.

The role of the Whole Womban Healing Practitioner is not to become the source of another woman's healing. It is to create the conditions in which she can hear herself more clearly.

To listen. To witness. To support. To work with the body, breath, energy and emotional world with care. To honour intuition without turning it into certainty. To understand when to continue, and when another professional is better placed to help.

Whole Womban Healing is ultimately built around the sovereignty of the woman receiving it.

The journey

Six months, six movements

Month One

The Practitioner

Presence, Ethics & The Art of Holding

Sophia seated in stillness, hands resting over her womb

Before learning how to perform Whole Womban Healing, we begin with the practitioner herself.

Core questionWho am I when I sit beside another woman's healing?

  • The philosophy of Whole Womban Healing
  • Practitioner presence and deep listening
  • Creating safety
  • Boundaries, consent and confidentiality
  • Power dynamics, projection and saviour patterns
  • Practitioner ego and intuitive discernment
  • Ethical spiritual practice
  • Professional scope, referrals and record keeping
  • The responsibility of holding another woman

Month Two

The Physical Womban

Body, Womb & Nervous System

An anatomical model of the female pelvis held and filled with peonies

This month grounds the work in the physical female body.

The intentionGrounded and educational, without becoming clinical.

  • Female reproductive and pelvic anatomy
  • The womb and the menstrual cycle
  • Pregnancy, postpartum and fertility foundations
  • Perimenopause and menopause
  • The nervous system, breath and the diaphragm
  • The pelvic floor relationship and fascia
  • Body awareness and safe touch
  • External abdominal and womb-centred practices
  • Contraindications, red flags and when to refer

Month Three

The Emotional Womban

Story, Nervous System & Deep Listening

A woman's hands resting in the water at a river's edge

How practitioners safely hold emotional experience without stepping outside their scope.

Core teachingYou do not need to have the answer to hold someone deeply.

  • Trauma-aware practice
  • Emotional regulation and co-regulation
  • Grief, shame, anger and identity
  • Motherhood, relationships and birth experiences
  • Reproductive grief and inner child themes
  • Sexuality and boundaries
  • Compassionate inquiry and holding silence
  • Avoiding interpretation and retraumatisation
  • Recognising when psychological support is needed

Month Four

The Energetic Womban

Sacred Womb Energy, Channelled Healing & the Unseen Body

This month introduces the energetic foundations of Whole Womban Healing, a modality Sophia has developed and channelled through years of practice, study, intuitive work and direct healing with women. You will begin learning to work with Sacred Womb Energy, a living healing current that draws on universal energy and the elemental forces of Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Spirit, becoming a clear and grounded channel for it rather than directing it.

The deeper practiceYou are learning how to become a practitioner whose body, intuition and energetic field can listen, so that a woman's own body, womb and energy can respond.

  • The energetic anatomy of the feminine body
  • The womb as an energetic centre and field
  • Sacred Womb Energy and universal life-force energy
  • The energetic qualities of Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Spirit
  • Learning to channel rather than direct energy
  • Intuitive sensing through the hands and body
  • Hands-on and hands-off energetic healing
  • Energetic clearing, release and distance womb healing
  • Sound, voice and breath as energetic healing tools
  • Opening, closing and sealing sacred space
  • Practitioner preparation, clearing and grounding
  • Working with sacred symbols and receiving intuitive information
  • Discernment: intuition versus projection

Month Five

The Spiritual Womban

Lineage, Land & Sacred Practice

A woman in linen with a flower crown, arms raised to the sky in an open field

The deeper spiritual dimension of the modality.

How we hold itA Whole Womban practitioner learns to work with spiritual experience without imposing her own cosmology onto a client.

  • Ancestral connection and maternal lineage
  • Shamanic journeying
  • Land and elemental consciousness
  • Sacred feminine wisdom and Sophia consciousness
  • Dragon energies, fae and nature intelligences
  • Spiritual allies
  • Ritual, prayer and ceremony
  • Intuitive messages and symbolic language
  • Ethical spiritual work and spiritual discernment
  • Respecting each client's beliefs and worldview

Month Six

The Whole Womban Healing Method

Integration, Practice & Embodiment

The hands of many women resting together in a circle

The final month brings everything together. Practitioners learn how to hold an entire Whole Womban Healing session.

IntegrationEverything you have learned, gathered into one held session.

The Whole Womban Healing Method

How a session is held

In the final month, everything gathers into one held session, moving through five movements. Within them there is no rigid sequence, only the woman in front of you.

  1. 01

    Arrive

    Prepare yourself. Prepare the space. Begin the conversation, create safety, establish consent and understand why she has come.

  2. 02

    Listen

    Listen to her words, body, breath, nervous system, emotional state, energy and intuition, without assuming that everything you sense is fact.

  3. 03

    Meet

    Respond to the woman in front of you. A session may weave conversation, grounding, breath, embodiment, touch, womb work, energy healing, sound, guided journey, ritual or silence. There is no rigid sequence.

  4. 04

    Integrate

    Return to the body. Ground, reflect, and allow meaning to emerge without forcing interpretation. Offer practical integration.

  5. 05

    Close

    Complete the session clearly. Close the energetic space, offer appropriate follow-up, make notes, and clear yourself as practitioner.

Practice & supervision

You do not become a practitioner by watching videos

  • Supervised practice
  • Healing exchanges
  • Case studies and client sessions
  • Reflective journalling
  • Practitioner feedback
  • Group supervision
  • Live teaching and question-and-answer sessions
  • Observed or submitted practice
  • A final practitioner assessment

Certification is not based purely on attendance. Women completing Level II are expected to show they can hold Whole Womban Healing with care, integrity and competency.

Certification

What certification asks of you

  • Completion of all six months
  • Attendance at the required live sessions
  • An ethics and scope-of-practice assessment
  • Foundational anatomy knowledge
  • Completion of case studies
  • Reflective and supervised practice
  • Practitioner feedback and a final practical assessment
  • Completion of the Muriwai practitioner retreat
  • Receiving the Level II sacred attunement
  • Signing the Whole Womban Practitioner Covenant

On completion

Certified Whole Womban Healing Practitioner

The Practitioner Covenant

A practice built on integrity

  • I honour the sovereignty of every woman.
  • I do not position myself as the source of her healing.
  • I practise only within the boundaries of my knowledge and training.
  • I refer when another practitioner is better placed to help.
  • I hold what is shared with me with confidentiality and care.
  • I honour consent as an ongoing conversation.
  • I distinguish intuition from certainty.
  • I do not impose my spiritual beliefs upon another.
  • I remain committed to my own healing, supervision and learning.
  • I carry Whole Womban Healing with integrity.

These principles become part of the ethical foundation of the modality.

What is included

Six months of being deeply resourced

  • Six months of guided practitioner training
  • High-quality prerecorded modules
  • One substantial live teaching and integration call with Sophia each month
  • Guest specialist teachers
  • Anatomy and women's health education
  • Practitioner ethics
  • Emotional and nervous system education
  • Energetic healing teachings
  • Spiritual and intuitive development
  • Guided practices and case study support
  • Healing exchanges and supervision
  • A private practitioner community
  • Downloadable resources, workbook and session templates
  • Certification assessment
  • A one-night luxury practitioner retreat in Muriwai
  • The sacred Level II practitioner attunement
  • Your private Level II practitioner symbol
  • Practitioner initiation and certification ceremony

Guest faculty

World-class teaching, woven together by Sophia

Whole Womban Healing brings together worlds that are too often taught separately. Sophia holds the philosophy and methodology of the training, while carefully selected guest teachers bring depth to specialist areas. The programme stays deeply spiritual and intuitive while remaining grounded in thoughtful, responsible education.

Women's healthPelvic healthMidwiferyPsychology or counsellingNervous system and trauma-aware practiceBreathworkAnatomySexualityAncestral workSoundCeremonial practice
The west coast landscape at Muriwai

The Practitioner Initiation Retreat

One night in Muriwai

After six months of learning, practising, questioning, stretching and becoming, we leave the online space and gather in person. For one night, the cohort comes together in Muriwai for an intimate luxury practitioner retreat. This is where everything begins to land in the body: a pause between learning the work and carrying it into the world.

The open shala looking out to the coast
The west coast from the Muriwai land
The homestead at the Muriwai property
A warm gathering lounge inside the homestead
One of the bedrooms at the property
Women gathered together on the land
  • Arrival and grounding
  • Cacao and ceremonial opening
  • Practitioner reflection
  • Advanced healing exchanges
  • Practical sessions and group energy work
  • Land connection, breath and sound
  • Sacred ritual and working with the Level II symbol
  • The practitioner attunement and covenant
  • Shared meals and integration
  • The certification ceremony

The retreat culminates in the sacred Whole Womban Practitioner Attunement and certification ceremony.

The Level II attunement

The Devotion

I SERVE

  • I meet rather than fix.
  • I listen rather than assume.
  • I honour the sovereignty of every woman before me.

During the Muriwai retreat, Sophia will transmit the Level II Whole Womban Practitioner Attunement through a sacred ceremonial process. You will also receive the Level II practitioner symbol and teachings for how it is used within the modality. The symbol itself is never displayed publicly.

The initiation is not a declaration that the practitioner has all the answers. It is a commitment to service, integrity, continued learning and the sacred responsibility of holding another woman.

Who this is for

This training may be for you if...

  • You have completed Level I of the Whole Womban Healing Academy
  • You feel called to work with women professionally
  • You want a healing practice that honours body, emotion, energy and spirit together
  • You want stronger foundations in practitioner ethics and safe holding
  • You are drawn to intuitive and energetic healing but also value grounded education
  • You want to deepen your relationship with the womb and feminine body
  • You are ready to practise rather than only learn
  • You understand that becoming a practitioner also requires continued personal work
  • You feel called to carry this work into your community

Level II is not designed for women seeking another qualification to collect. It is for women who feel a genuine responsibility to embody and carry the work.

Entry

Before you apply

  • Completion of Level I, Whole Womban: The Return
  • Completion of the Level I initiation
  • An application for Level II
  • Willingness to complete case studies and assessments
  • The ability to attend the in-person Muriwai retreat
  • A commitment to the ethical standards of the modality

Level II builds directly on the personal work of Level I, The Return. Applying is a considered step rather than an automatic next purchase, and every practitioner trained in this method has walked her own return first.

Sophia Cataldo sitting in meditation on the rocks above the sea

Your teacher

Learning from a woman who continues to walk the path

Sophia created Whole Womban Healing from the meeting place between her personal healing journey, years of study, spiritual practice and her experience holding women. Her work draws from womb healing, coaching, psychology studies, breathwork, nervous system awareness, ritual, energetic healing, shamanic practice, intuitive development and years as a Reiki Master Teacher.

Level II is not about becoming another Sophia. The intention is to give each practitioner a grounded framework within which her own presence, intuition and medicine can emerge.

The method provides the roots. The woman brings herself.

Investment

$4,950

NZD, for the complete six-month Level II practitioner journey, including the Muriwai initiation retreat

Choose the payment rhythm that works for you. Pay in full, or spread your investment across 6 or 9 months.

Pay in full

$4,950

NZD

6 monthly payments

$825

NZD per month for 6 months

12 monthly payments

$412.50

NZD per month for 12 months

Choose the payment pathway that allows you to enter the training with steadiness and commitment.

Questions

Before you apply

The pathway

Level I

The Return

3 months

Personal healing and initiation

Level II

Whole Womban Healing Practitioner

6 months + Muriwai retreat

Professional practitioner training and initiation

Level III

Master Womb Healer

6 months + advanced retreat

Coming later

Carry the work

This work was never intended to remain with one woman. Whole Womban Healing Practitioner is for women who feel called to carry it beyond themselves. Into healing rooms. Into homes. Into circles. Into communities. One woman sitting beside another with presence, knowledge, intuition and care.

The work begins with you. Then it moves through you.