Bless Our Breasts
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The intention of this space is to offer tools and resources that support breast health and vitality. To offer effective and supportive solutions for the many issues that women experience in their breasts. And to support women to develop an embodied connection and loving relationship to their breasts.
In this modern day, most of us are not taught how to care for our breasts. We are not given adequate resources, or really any resources about breast health. Most women walk around completely disconnected from their breasts. They are stuffed away in bras, and only get attention during sex or breastfeeding.
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The best we are given is to “check our breasts for cancer”, yet without much knowledge of what cancer may even feel like. This also orients our touch to towards that of fear, of finding something wrong. And this is not doing anything to prevent cancer from developing in the first place.
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And there is so much emphasis on the sexualization of the breasts ~ comparing how they look, what shape and size they are, how attractive they are. This breeds criticism and self hatred towards them, all while neglecting their true needs.
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From my extensive experience in the field of breast care, I have found that there is so much we can do to support our breasts to be healthy. So much we can do to prevent cancer. So much we can do to create a more loving relationship with our bodies.
This is a space to empower us to move towards that which creates more health and love within out bodies. To take our health into our own hands and relate with our life giving breasts with reverence.
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At Bless our Breasts, we are shifting the narrative from one of fear and self-loathing, to one of connection and care. We are breaking the curses that have been placed on our chests and opening to a way of blessing this life giving terrain of our bodies.
Welcome to this sanctuary space for all things breast care!
Founder & Breast Care Specialist
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Abigail Hinds
The birthing of this sanctuary space to bring blessing and nourishment to our breasts, comes from my 8 years of devotion to this field of breast care. Through giving hundreds of breast massages over the years, my hands have become deeply intimate with the terrain of the breasts, my heart attuned to the many layers and patterns of ancestral and cultural story that live here.
I have come to see how powerful and sacred this part of our body is. I have come to see how much heaviness we can hold here, how much constraint has been placed here, and how disconnected we collectively are from these mountainous extensions of our hearts.
I have come to see just how impactful and empowering it can be to reclaim this territory with our own hands.
I am passionate about sharing this wisdom on breast care so that women can live from a place of healthy and flowing connection to their breasts. So they can walk in connection to the sacredness and magic they carry in their chests.
My story & qualifications ~
My breast journey began in 2016 at the Women's Herbal Symposium in California, when I won a raffle ticket for a free breast massage. It was my first breast massage ever, and to my absolute awe, multiple women spent over an hour working on my breasts, slowly opening the channels of flow, and eventually squeezed a cyst out of my nipple. (Yes, the nipples are part of the excretory system, and can have all kinds of fluid from the lymph and breasts flow out of them!)
I didn’t even know I had a cyst at the time. And I certainly didn’t know it was possible to drain it out of the nipple! I proceeded to take the introductory workshop on breast health and realized there was a whole lot I had never been taught about my breasts.
I wondered, why have I never heard of this before? Why didn’t I learn this in middle school? It seemed like such basic information about how my female body functions and flows. Yet somehow left out of my educational curriculum. It felt very similar to when I learned about the phases of my womb cycle and natural fertility tracking.
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I could feel on a deep level how important this breast health wisdom was, and was drawn to learn more and study within this field.
There was not a specific breast health course, so I dove in and took a 9 month Ayurvedic Foundations Course at the Dhyana Center, under DeAnna Bartdorff. DeAnna is a powerful healer, and the woman who founded the Areola, which is a group of women who give free breast massages and share breast health education at the Women's Herbal Symposium. I eventually went on to study Ayurvedic Lymphatic Bodywork under her, and learned breast massage as part of that. I apprenticed giving Breast Massages at the Women's Herbal Symposium in California, and did many hours of apprenticeship / supervised practice of Ayurvedic Bodywork and Breast Massage at the Dhyana Center.
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This gave me an elemental and therapeutic foundation to breast health & breast massage. I have come to see that in the realms of breast care, this elemental, Ayurvedic approach is incredibly helpful for tissue analysis and being able to map the terrain of the breasts to support greater flow and balance.
I began offering monthly by-donation Breast Clinics in Berkeley, CA to continue to get hands-on experience. I also began offering breast massages as part of the Areola for Spirit Weavers Gathering. It was through this hands-on experience of touching many different women's breast tissue, that I really deepened my capacity in this field of breast care. I honed my skills, found my own style, and got to witness just how much is going on in our breasts, how under-cared for they are, and how incredibly supportive breast massage was.
In the past 8 years of offering breast massages, I have massaged hundreds of women's breasts. As well as many queer folks and men's chests. I am grateful for all of the women who opened their hearts and breasts to receive care from me, as they have also been my teachers, continually opening me to deeper layers within the realms of breast care, and how I can best be of support.
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Over time, I have incorporated many other fields of study and healing into the Breast Massage I offer and teach about today. As I have found other practices and tools to be incredibly important and supportive for holistic breast care and the emotional, spiritual, and sensual realms of breast health.
I incorporate Sound Healing, Herbal Medicine, Somatic Movement, and Venusian Temple Arts ~ that nourish the soul and spirit. I find the sensitive nature of the breasts respond well to subtle medicine.
I have found that my extensive studies in Deep Body Model and Intuitive Movement and Dance with Stefana Seraphina has has a huge impact on this work, in supporting my capacity to help women to make a direct and personal connection to their breast and heart center through guided movement and embodiment practices.
have offered Breast Massage with the Areola Tent at Spirit Weavers gathering for both Sun & Moon sessions in 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, and 2024. I offered Breast Massage and taught a Breast Health Class at Origins Women's Gathering in 2023. I offered Breast Massage and co-taught a Breast Care Class at Matriarch Rising Festival in the summer of 2023. (photo above) I am sharing a class on Breast Health at Medicine Woman gathering in the UK this July 2024.
I have been teaching workshops on Breast Health and Self Breast Massage for the past 6 years, and guiding somatic embodiment journeys to support women to connect to their breasts in a deeper and more embodied way. I have offered these at gatherings such as Spirit Weavers, Origins, Northwest Permaculture Convergence, and private venues across the country and in the UK.
I also trained in the Spurgeon Method of Breast Massage that is more specialized in working with women who have had breast cancer and are recovering from treatments and surgeries. Or who are actively going through it and undergoing medical treatments.
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I have also learned a lot from Aubrey Lesicki of Breast Remedy Seattle ~ she is another wisdom keeper in the field of breast care.
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I finally want to acknowledge that these feminine care practices are ancient and from many places in the world that have since been forgotten and buried. The healers and medicine women across time and culture who worked in the realms of the female body knew these wisdom ways of nourishment and care for the breasts. This is innate and in our bones. I honor all of the lineages of breast care that are unknown to modern times.
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May the way for healthy and free flowing breasts continue to be created for all women interested and for the future ones to come.
