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WHAT: 10-day somatic meditation residential retreat - Womb Clearing - The Most Important Work You’ll Ever Do
WHEN: May 8-17, 2026
WHERE: Maitreya House, Lower Maescoed, Herefordshire HR2 0HP United Kingdom
CONTACT: Jonathan Clifford
From the first spark of connection we grow in our mother’s womb - the ground of our being. Leaving the comfort and bliss of her womb behind is our first rite of passage. The journey from the womb to birth is one of the earliest imprints on our bodies and consciousness, for every single one of us.
These early memories are stored in our body, waiting to be triggered by feelings, emotions, senses and thoughts. In this retreat, we explore the four stages of the birthing experience - comfort, interruption, journey of difficulty and emergence (new life).
These stages mirror those we go through in anything we do, in work, relationships and generally in life. We often have a tendency to get stuck in one of these stages.
Through somatic exploration and with the teacher’s guidance, we build on the ground-breaking work of Namgyal Rinpoche. In clearing the womb experience we can choose how we respond to life‘s events and let go of emotionally held tension.
We can free ourselves of what holds us back.
WHO: Led by Dharma Teacher Catherine Pawasarat has trained daily with Achariya Doug Duncan since 1998 in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that is rare in the modern West. She received lay ordination from Namgyal Rinpoche in 2003.
In addition to Buddhist philosophy and its applications to daily life, Catherine also draws on generative living and the arts, she is the author of ‘The Gion Festival’ and co-author of ‘Wasteland to Pureland, reflections on the path of awakening’. Also with Doug ’ Qapel’ Duncan - she is co-founder of Clear Sky Retreat Centre in the BC Rockies.