9-Moon Womb Awakening

Apprenticeship Training

Internationally Recognised Certified Training.

9 months online,Women only training

January, 19th, 2026

Limited spaces.

Our 9 Moon Womb Awakening Apprenticeship
begins on the New Moon, January 19th, 2026.

Each year, beginning with the January New Moon, we gather in sisterhood for a nine-month journey in a modern-day Moon College. Together we immerse ourselves in the feminine mysteries, bringing healing, vision, ecstasy, embodiment, and renewal into our lives.

Through this deep, experiential immersion we journey through nine Wisdom Spirals of the Womb Mysteries – awakening and embodying the power of the Divine Creatrix in our lives, our bodies, our sexuality, our relationships, and our sacred vocation.

This program offers a comprehensive education in the Feminine Wisdom traditions, held within a nurturing modern mystery school. It is both a spiritual initiation and deep
embodiment journey — a pathway of personal healing and sacred vocation.
With thousands of women worldwide having walked this path, many describe this unique
feminine shamanic journey as “incredibly profound and life-changing.”

We are an approved training provider with the International Institute for Complimentary Therapists

Our Womb Awakening Program and Integrative Womb Hara Practitioner Training are fully certified and officially recognised modalities with IICT, one of the world’s leading complementary therapy organisations. Training with a Platinum Training Provider means your certification carries global recognition and allows you to access competitively priced insurance for your work — supporting you to confidently share this work worldwide.

The Institute Of Feminine Arts is committed to providing the highest standards of training & facilitation throughout your practitioner course.

Inside the Apprenticeship

The Womb Awakening Apprenticeship will take you on a profound inner journey of healing, awakening your Womb power, ancient remembrance, and the deep mysteries within. You’ll immerse in the wisdom of the feminine healing arts, open into the sacred union of your true Feminine and Masculine essence, awaken your soulful feminine lunar consciousness pathways, and reconnect with the Centre of Creation — the Universal Womb.

You will immerse in the secret feminine mystery teachings of an ancient Womb Cosmology, woven from many worldwide cultures, including Tibetan, Hindu, Buddhist, Tantric, Sufi, Mayan, Egyptian, and gnostic-Christian – threading together a coherent vision of wisdom traditions to birth a New Earth.

You’ll also receive the tools to mentor and assist others on their Womb Awakening journey.

Amongst many threads, we will:

~ Heal ancestral imprints ~
Vital for opening to conscious creation, and
healing our own epigenetic blueprint back to love.

~ Awaken the Mystic Rose of the Womb ~
Journeying through the Sacred Gateways of the Womb Medicine Wheel to sexually awaken the Divine Woman/Man.

~ Enter the Temple of Feminine Arts ~
Studying and experiencing Womb Awakening body prayers and practices from many sacred feminine priestess lineages.

The online Apprenticeship requires a daily time commitment of up to 1 hour per day
(or whatever your schedule allows). Internet access is necessary for downloading course materials; however, it also provides flexibility for offline practices once your course materials are downloaded.

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You Will Be Supported By:

* Membership to a private facilitated daily
online Apprenticeship Circle.

* Podcasts  for every Wisdom-Spiral. 

* 2 x Zoom calls per month (new and full moon) hosted by our
support facilitator for every Wisdom-Spiral.

* Extensive written, video, and audio materials to
support your learning.

* Weekly Womb healing body prayers and body practices that
reweave your energy field and body of light.

* Weekly audio-shamanic journeys, Ceremonies,
energy transmissions, and rituals.

* Monthly accountable  pod calls with sisters on the Apprenticeship.

* A comprehensive Ebook for each of the 9 Wisdom Spirals.

* Instructional videos for each Wisdom Spiral.

* All course materials are downloadable.

You will journey through

9 wisdom cycles:

Spiral 1. Heart Womb Alchemy

Spiral 2. Entering the Temple

Spiral 3. Womb Medicine Wheel

Spiral 4. Moon Blood Mysteries

Spiral 5. Journeying into Erotic Innocence

Spiral 6. Sacred Union Alchemy

Spiral 7. Sister Shadow & The Mother Wound

Spiral 8. Feminine Leadership & Mentorship

Spiral 9. Womb Shamanism

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This home-study immersion is a powerful dive into the Feminine Dimension and the inner shamanic realms of Womb Consciousness to reclaim your power and feminine light. You will journey through different aspects of the feminine mystery teachings to rebirth yourself in a new frequency of love. You will be invited to dive into 9 Moon Cycles scheduled over the 9 months starting on the January Dark Moon/New Moon.

~ This immersion is for those desiring ~

~ Personal healing, transformation and deep shamanic psyche work

~ An initiation into the power of the Womb Awakening teachings

~ Reconnection to your primordial inner feminine wisdom and light

~ To experience and embody the ancient feminine healing arts

~ To be a practitioner of this work, and work 1:1 with clients.

PAYMENT PLAN over 10–months

 

  • $888.00 AUD sign up fee, plus;
  • $488.90 AUD per month for 10 months  ($5777
  • plus GST for Australian residents

PREPAYMENT DISCOUNT full Payment

 

  • $5222.00 AUD upfront fee
  • Earlybird for paying in advance in a one-time payment
  • plus GST for Australian residents

The 9 Moon Apprenticeship training will take you on a deeply nourishing journey through many unique and ancient practices to meet and explore the sanctum of your innermost self. This training is impeccably held by the Institute’s founder; Natalie Zukerman.

Nat’s 27 years of experience are reflected in the deep wisdom she shares and the steady, down-to-earth support she provides.

The journey is deep, and the women who attended brought a beautiful diversity of life experience which enriched the group and truly led to a feeling of being part of an eclectic, global feminine mystery school. Nat will teach you new ways to connect to the sacred path of time-honoured women’s work, the practices will support you to heal and honour your womb and heart.You’ll learn new and exciting ways to connect with your creative essence and how to integrate your intuition, embody your womb-wisdom, awaken your magic, enjoy your sexuality, and listen to your deepest longings. The apprenticeship holds you safely and guides you gently as you commit to retrieving the gifts of self-love and awakening in wonderful company, with expert guidance, and in the loving embrace of the feminine.

Annie Klein

Nat creates an impeccably safe container for all sisters on the journey, and provides a rich foundation from which to explore the many undiscovered, forgotten and hidden aspects of the relationships with yourself, your ancestors, partner, family and world at large.

The 9 Moon Apprenticeship is a profound and magical journey that will awaken the mysteries within you.

This journey will take you into the depths of your being to reclaim and remember your power, wisdom and love in a deeply embodied way. Nat is an amazing mentor and space holder, always ready to receive us with arms & heart wide open, always willing to answer our questions. Her passion, expertise, love, care and devotion are deeply felt throughout all that she offers and will carry you throughout these 9 moons in a way that is so gentle yet deeply empowering.  THANK YOU Nat, again from the bottom of my heart for your loving space holding, you are an inspiration. I so appreciate you taking the time to respond to all my questions and  I look forward  to continuing learning from you.
With love & gratitude,

Tinne

Become A Certified Womb Awakening Facilitator

To graduate and become a Certified Womb Awakening Facilitator
requires that you complete the following training:

~ Womb Awakening 9 Moon Online Apprenticeship.
~ Womb Awakening 7-Day In-Person Retreat.
~ Descent into the Underworld – 30-Day Online course.

Once you have graduated you will:

~ Receive a globally recognised Certificate from The Institute Of Feminine Arts.

~ Be eligible to join IICT and get insurance for your Womb Awakening
events and work 1:1 with client sessions as a Womb Awakening Practitioner.

~ Be eligible to facilitate your own Womb Awakening Retreats, workshops and circles.

~ Be eligible to use resources from the Facilitator Training Program.

Discount available for returning Apprenticeship alumni students. We also offer 4 partial scholarships for every annual 9 Moons for those in need. These are handed out at the
end of October each year.  Please contact The Institute of Feminine Arts to apply.

The Path of Shakti is laying Rose Petals of possibility at your feet…. Will you join us?

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Additional topics to be covered:

.✔️ Shamanic Ceremonies taking place in your own sacred space

✔️ Womb of Creation Energy Transmissions received in your sacred space

Daily practices from the feminine mystery traditions, including:

✔️ Shamanic Womb Journeying

✔️ Guided Journeys, Meditations & Body Prayers

✔️ Womb Awakening Feminine Breathwork

✔️ Quantum Feminine Healing Techniques

✔️ Sacred movement & Sacred Sound Immersions

✔️ Feminine Prayers & Sacred Incantations

✔️ Self-Care & Feminine Embodiment Techniques

✔️ Sacred Union Teachings from the Path of Love

✔️ Core Wound Mapping, Collective and Ancestral Healing

✔️ Journey into the Womb & Sacred Feminine Medicine Wheel

✔️ Reclaiming the Voice of the Womb and Feminine Power

✔️ Sacred Sexual Healing & Awakening

✔️ Lunar and Menstrual Mysteries & Rituals

✔️ Feminine Leadership & Ethics

✔️ Opening the Heart & Activating Shakti

✔️ Womb Grid Meridian Awakening & Solar/Lunar Alchemy

✔️ Womb of Gaia and Cosmic Womb Activations & Cosmology

✔️ Lost Feminine Shakti Teachings of the Ancient Womb Shamans

The benefits of Womb Awakening:

* Feeling safe in your body and empowered to express yourself.

* Activating your feminine dragon power.

* Trusting the voice of your womb and your inner knowing.

* Improving relationships and healing sexuality.

* Awakening the power of feminine softness.

* Opening to receive deeper pleasure in the body and in life.

* Healing deep heart wounds opening to forgiveness.

* Bringing old wounds out of denial for love and healing.

* Reconnecting with your soul essence and the magic within.

* Reigniting your passion for life and its blessings.

* Connecting deeply with your body and soul, coming alive!

* Bringing fire and passion to your soul purpose and the confidence
to live it wholeheartedly.

* Opening to life’s abundance and the bounty of the universe.

* Tapping into your inner wellspring of creativity to manifest magical opportunities.

* Healing your relationship with yourself and coming into sacred union within your own body mind and soul.

* Deepening intimacy and sacred relationship with your partner.

* Enriching relationships with friends and family through the deepening of intimacy or establishing healthy boundaries.

* Opening your psychic capacities and supernatural senses through cerebellar consciousness.

* Healing your body, releasing neural tension and regulating the nervous system.

* Opening the pathways of pleasure and shakti to flow through our yoni as inner armouring and muscle tensions release.

* Restoring health and the harmonious functioning of cells within your womb space and her energy field.

* Plugging back into the essence of love and living from this place.

* Remembering that life is a gift filled with joy, wonder and pleasure.

About the 9-Moon Apprenticeship

For our Certified Womb Awakening Program, we highly recommend the groundbreaking and life-changing book:
Womb Awakening: Initiatory Wisdom from the Creatrix of All Life. You can find it here:
~ Womb Awakening Book ~

The apprenticeship was originally created back in 2011 Dr Azra and Seren Bertrand, authors of the
Womb Awakening book, and founders of The Fountain Of Life.

Natalie became their lead teacher and Facilitator for The Fountain of Life and facilitated the 9-Moon Apprenticeship for them for some years. In 2017 Seren and Azra Bertrand decided to let go of The Fountain Of Life and they gave Natalie their blessing to continue to bring forward the 9-Moon Apprenticeship.

Natalie has kept it true to the lineages and to its roots, she is a Custodian, honouring the sanctity of the work.
Much of Natalie’s learnings and spiritual education have been derived from her 17 years of global travels where she lived with many Indigenous Tribes and Elders and devoted these years to learning their ways.

Natalie has also weaved a lot of her own life experience, embodiment and
knowledge into the Apprenticeship, she facilitates the 9 Moon program and holds a safe and sacred
space for all participants involved.

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We are an approved training provider with the International Institute for Complimentary Therapists

Our Womb Awakening Program is fully certified and is listed as an officially recognised modality with IICT, one of the world’s foremost complementary therapy organisations. Training with a Platinum Training Provider means that your certification carries weight worldwide and that you can access competitively priced insurance for your work.

Please note to receive your full certification to facilitate the Womb Awakening work that it is required to complete the 9-Moon Womb Awakening Apprenticeship, the 7-day in-person Womb Awakening Facilitator Retreat and the
30-day online Descent into the Underworld course. You can sit these courses in any order, there
are no pre-requisites, though they do need to be completed to receive certification.
You have 2 years to complete the certified training.

The Institute Of Feminine Arts is committed to providing the highest standards of training &
facilitation throughout your course.

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NATALIE

ZUKERMAN

Natalie is an intuitive Womb Priestess and Spirit Keeper of the Feminine Mysteries. She is the Founder of the Institute of Feminine Arts and has guided thousands of women through the 9-Moon Womb Awakening Apprenticeship. Natalie is a Womb Awakening and Feminine Arts Teacher Trainer and the Founder of Integrative Womb Hara Massage, facilitating in-person trainings, retreats, and workshops worldwide.

She is a Master Clinical Hypnotherapist, Master NLP Practitioner, Trauma Therapist, and holds a Diploma in Modern Psychology. As a bodyworker, Womb Hara Therapist, Kahuna, and Chi Nei Tsang practitioner, she specialises in Shamanic Healing and journeying, with 27 years of experience in modalities that create profound change at the level of the unconscious mind.

Natalie spent 17 years traveling the world, learning from Shamanic tribes and elders in Colombia, Tibet, Mongolia, and the Indian Himalayas. She studied with Nagual Lujan Matus, the Kogi and Arhuacos, and immersed herself in yoga, meditation, and shamanic practices while living in the Himalayas for seven years.

Dedicated to her path and the remembrance of the Sacred Mysteries, Natalie works deeply with women who have experienced trauma, abuse, and fertility challenges, guiding them toward feminine empowerment, spiritual growth, and the awakening of sacred feminine energy. She also supports men and women in integrating the masculine and feminine into conscious union.

Through her retreats and certified trainings worldwide, Natalie helps people align with their highest potential, releasing limitations, blockages, and ancestral patterns to step fully into their embodied power.

Joanna

Barnes

Joanna is the Lead Support Facilitator on the 9-Moon Womb Awakening Apprenticeship. She is also an
Associate Teacher for the Womb Hara Massage Practitioner Training with the Institute of Feminine Arts
in the UK & Europe.

Joanna has created and curated over 4 UK festivals and 15 yoga retreats, bringing together more than 100
facilitators and experts in holistic health, women’s health, and menopause.

A trained intuitive bodyworker and facilitator, Joanna weaves together Womb Hara Massage with studies
in Womb Healing, Priestessing, Womb Wrapping, Yoni Steaming, and
Womb Awakening through the 9 Moon Apprenticeship.

Specialising in feminine embodiment and sacred life force energy, Joanna offers an experiential approach
that opens pathways for transformation. With a playful, curious heart, she bridges the everyday with the magical, creating spaces of safety, joy, and depth for the feminine spirit to flourish.

“This blessed Womb Awakening journey brought me to a deep and powerful connection with my womb gnosis, and ultimately changed me in a way that is impossible to describe in words. I felt a colossal shift in my experience of being a woman, into embodying my innate femininity and masculinity in balanced, wombic ALL-ness.. It is a true moon-womb mystery school – a method of re-learning and re-membering what is so innately feminine. This immersion changed my life – my eternal gratitude to Nat, and to ALL the womb sisters who, in their deepest love, guidance, authenticity and acceptance, know not the strength and wisdom they bestowed upon me.”

Nicola Vella

“Thank you for this beautiful journey, Nat. It was an honor for me to be part of it and words cannot express how grateful I am to you for holding this space for 9 whole months. It was such a spectacular ride full of magic, initiations to new dimensions of consciousness, diamond discoveries in shadowy realms, joyful moments, and mind-blowing revelations, but mostly it was a journey back to Love!”

Margarita Veselinova

“The Apprenticeship has been one of the most profound journeys of my life.
It helped me truly know myself and remember the ancient wisdom within me.
I discovered that inside my womb lies a powerful creative portal — a sacred
space where I can access guidance and truth for my own path.

Through the practices of Womb Awakening, I began to see with clarity how much of my life I had been living behind
masks, trying to always please, to be accepted, to appear smarter or ‘ good enough.’ During this
journey, those masks gently began to fall away, and I returned to the woman I really am.

This training created a shift deep in my cells, pulling out the pain and imprints of fear I had carried. I am no longer the same woman who began this Apprenticeship, I feel transformed on every level. Now, my sense of self-worth, confidence, and soft power are anchored within my womb and my body. I finally feel safe to be me, to speak my truth, and to hold clear boundaries with love.

Thank you, Nat, for guiding me with such wisdom, support, and devotion on this sacred path.”

Melita Rupnik

“The 9 Moon Apprenticeship has been a life-changing journey for me, offering an immense wealth of knowledge, wisdom, healing, and compassion. It has deeply enriched both my inner world and my connection to the outer realms.

I am deeply grateful for this work—it awakened my inner Dragon and unveiled the essence of who I truly am. My heart overflows with love and devotion for the Womb Awakening work, it’s given me so much more than I ever anticipated. It’s because of this course that I no longer feel the need to search or rationalize. I’m exactly where I need to be, guided by the Universe. I’m at peace, and for this, I extend my deepest gratitude to you Nat. This course has changed my life in the best of ways.

Ina M

It is through sitting the 9 Moon Womb Awakening Apprenticeship that my soul has found what it was longing for.
I no longer have to continue hiding in the shadows because I have heard the call, now I know who I am. This has been the
most profoundand transformational journey of my life and has awakened the deep mysteries within me!
Thank you so much! I highly reccomend this journey for all women, through all stages of life.

Camila Cabas

“This journey has been a true rebirth — a reclamation of my innocence and a sacred union within myself. I now see the world
through my womb-heart, and it feels magical, beautiful, deeply interwoven, and connected. I feel more open, softer, hopeful, grateful, and fully activated. Joy and pleasure flow through everything I do in a way I had never experienced before. Thank you for sharing this powerful work, it’s opened my heart and truly changed my life.”

Francesca Pangani

Thank you, oh so deeply, for guiding me on this incredible journey into the feminine mysteries. The shamanic journeys, the sacred practices, the course books, the Zoom calls, and most of all, your constant loving presence within and beyond the circle, held me in such a profound way. Through this training, I feel as though I’ve birthed a new version of myself. I’m lighter, freer, more grounded, and more whole.
It feels as if a heavy veil has been lifted from my eyes, my mind, and my shoulders all at once. I see life differently now —
with clarity, strength,and a deep sense of belonging to myself and to the feminine.

Over these nine months, I have gathered so much magic and wisdom, treasures I will carry with me forever. I truly believe
every woman deserves to experience this Apprenticeship. It is life-changing.”

Rahma Jd

“The 9 Moon Womb Awakening Apprenticeship has helped me release so much shame — layers and layers of it that I didn’t even realise I was carrying. This journey has awakened in me a sense of wonder and the ability to meet life with curiosity instead of judgment.

Nat, your teachings shook me to my core, challenging me in ways that were often uncomfortable but profoundly necessary.
I’m forever grateful for this journey. I can see and feel the immense growth and transformation I’ve gone through.
I stand at the end of this journey with a completely new perspective — deeper, clearer, and so much more alive.”

Chelsey Power

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is the apprenticeship online or in-person?

The Apprenticeship is an online training. You can attend from anywhere in the world. You need to be able to log in to your student account to download your course materials.

Are there any prerequisites to enrol in the apprenticeship?

No, there are no prerequisties required, you only need to fill out the application form and register.

How long is the Apprenticeship?

The Apprenticeship is a 9-month online training. Throughout the journey, we’ll move through 9 different spirals, each exploring a unique modality. Each week, you’ll receive a new somatic body practice and shamanic journey to work with, and all course materials are downloadable for you to keep. We also offer a daily facilitated online circle, which is optional but available for ongoing support, connection, and integration.

How will I be supported throughout the training?

You’ll be held in a safe, supportive and sacred container throughout the entire 9-month journey — not only by the facilitators, but also by the loving circle of sisters walking this path alongside you.

  • We hold a daily facilitated online sharing circle, where you’re invited to bring your questions, reflections, and experiences. All voices are welcome and lovingly witnessed.

  • You’ll receive a comprehensive Ebook for each spiral, along with shamanic journeys, ceremonies, transmissions, and womb awakening body practices to support your embodied integration.

  • A monthly calendar provides structure and rhythm, guiding you through each week’s practices with clarity and intention.

  • We gather twice a month on live Zoom calls during the new and full moons (2 hours each). These are spaces for sharing, support, and integration, beginning with a recap of the current spiral.

  • You’ll be placed in small pod groups to deepen your experience through intimate connection, peer support, and accountability.

  • The strength of this container is amplified by the sisterhood itself—a collective of women journeying together, offering reflection, encouragement, and deep presence.

  • If you’re seeking more personalised guidance, private mentoring with one of our lead teachers is available as an optional add-on.

You will be fully supported, through community, structure, wisdom teachings, and sacred connection, as you move through each spiral of the Apprenticeship.

Is this course certified?

The 9 Moon Womb Awakening Apprenticeship on its own is not a certified course. Certification comes when you complete the full training pathway, which includes the 9 Moon Apprenticeship, the 7-day in-person Womb Awakening Facilitator Training, and the 30-day online Descent into the Underworld. You’ll have up to two years to complete these steps and receive your full certification, allowing you to embody and share this work with confidence and integrity.

Can I pay by payment plan?

Yes, we do offer a payment plan.
You can select this option when you register – just click the registration tab or payment link and choose “Payment Plan.” You’ll also find it available through the “Shop” page on our website.

Can I practice this work after the training?

The 9 Moon Apprenticeship is first and foremost a deep personal embodiment journey. By completing it, you’ll not only receive profound transformation for yourself, but also gain the experience to bring into your 1:1 client work. You’ll be able to step into a mentoring role, guiding women on their own personal journeys, while continuing to deepen your embodiment of this lineage. Once you are certified, you’ll be supported with faciltator resources, including specific scripts, practices, training and workshop layouts to integrate this work into your own 1:1 sessions, circles, workshops, and retreats.

How much time do I need to create in my day to embody the teachings in the Apprenticeship?

The online Apprenticeship requires a daily commitment of up to 1 hour. This gives you the space to engage with the practices and truly embody the teachings. There’s flexibility to move at your own pace, and you can do the practices at any time of day or night that suits your rhythm.

Are there mentors available to support me throughout the Apprenticeship?

Yes. You’ll receive a list of mentors you can reach out to for 1:1 private support. In addition, our facilitated circle offers daily contact where you can ask questions, share your experiences, and receive feedback and guidance from our lead teachers and mentors.

Do you offer refunds?

Deposits are non-refundable, as they secure your place in the training. Since you receive access to downloadable course materials upon payment, all payments are also non-refundable. However, we understand that life can bring unexpected changes. Depending on your circumstances, we may be able to offer a transfer of your payment towards another course or a future training, if that feels like a better fit for you.

Will I be able to connect with women on the Apprenticeship?

Yes. Our daily facilitated circle is a safe and sacred space where you’ll journey alongside a group of sisters. Within this container, deep connections naturally form and you’ll be held in a loving, supportive sisterhood. You’ll also connect live on Zoom calls and in smaller private pod calls each month throughout the Apprenticeship, walking this path together with other women.

How do I pay for my deposit?

To begin, you’ll need to complete an application form. Please get in touch with us using the contact form below to request one. Once we’ve received your request and reviewed your application, we’ll send you a confirmation email along with an invoice for the deposit to secure your place in the training.

Do I need any previous experience to enrol?

You don’t need any prior experience to enrol. This course is for women of all ages, meeting each woman at the threshold she finds herself in, whether she’s beginning, unraveling, returning, or rising.

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