How my journey began
~Cherezade Aanya~
Ultimately this path leads to embodying our divine Sovereign selves, Alchemizing all shadows and wounds back into the highest expression of love and walking upon this earth deeply anchored into our hearts and Wombs/haras. Where we hold dominion over ourselves and our bodies, living deeply from our own vessel- conscious, present, and embodied.
The teachings of the Womb and Hara I carry forth come through apprenticing with Azra & Seren Bertrand authors of the well known and beloved book ‘Womb Awakening’. However, beyond the formal training I have received, my own Womb has been the grandest initiator and teacher.
My childhood was rife with dysfunction and abuse on all levels. As a childhood survivor of both sexual and physical abuse I spent most of my adolescence and early adulthood living in a constant state of dissociation and abusing substances.
Near the end of 2010 I had a profound mystical experience that sparked my spiritual awakening and this ushered me on a journey of deep healing. I entered into rehab for my substance addiction and began a commitment to myself to heal from the trauma I had been coping and running from. I made a commitment to never abandon myself again. And I am so joyous to share that I have remained true to that promise for the past 10 years.
Over the past 10 years I have been spiraling on a deeply committed path of healing and self-development. My personal healing has always been my number one priority, but this has only brought me to where I am standing today, sharing the codes of the path that liberated me and which has brought me into the depths of my own being.
The Womb Mysteries are in fact a GRAND mystery. The great Cosmic Womb that has birthed all things of this universe, lives within us too. Every journey back to the womb or hara is unique. My story is no different. This medicine will reach out to you (or rather you will feel the deep womb call) when you are ready. If you are reading this now, I can guarantee she is beckoning you forth.
She called me forth through the triggering of deep wounds around an abortion and miscarriage I experienced early in my recovery. For the 5 years after my abortion I lived in a constant state of anxiety and pain, my menstrual cycles were excrutiating and I went to the emergency room twice for the pain. I was shut down sexually, and even more so, intimately. Although I continued my own healing and therapy (while also studying to be a therapist myself) I was still so deeply disconnected from my own body. Through a series of events that I can only describe as divinely guided, I came across the Womb Awakening path just as the deep wounding around my previous abortion and miscarriage started to surface.
I began this journey with the intention of my own healing, and from what I thought was the deep trauma around the abortion and miscarriage I experienced. As I spiraled deeper and deeper within my womb I came upon ancient repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse that had been locked away to protect me. THIS, I now knew, was what my womb truly was initiating me into.
Although I have had to face and feel some very terrible and overwhelmingly terrfying things, this has only led me to a more regulated nervous system, the deepest connection to my body I have ever known, the ability to truly surrender and open to love, to experience immense orgasmic potential, and most of all the courage and tenacity to continue to face my life with my heart and womb anchored and open.
I truly walk the Path of the Rose, living the Beauty Way, and in utter devotion and service to the Sophia-Christos. A living embodiment of the Magdalena.
This body is my sacred text, this body is my sacred hymn. It is the altar I adorn and come to daily, it is the prayer of my sacred life. And no amount of pain or trauma could ever distort the truth of the sanctity of my home. My body, My Womb. ~Cherezade Aanya
What People Are Saying
Words cannot begin to describe the transformative session I had with Cherezade.
She not only was a sacred witness to my unfolding but created a container to which I was able to feel safe within myself to breathe deeper symbolically and literally within my own being and womb space.
Cherezade’s facilitation and energetic presence hold the utmost integrity of the medicine she embodies and shares with others. I personally feel her trauma-informed framework infused with this beautiful breathwork medicine allows others to explore aspects of their being from a place of compassionate curiosity, safety, and autonomy.
On behalf of my own journey with my breath into my womb, I was amazed at my body’s wisdom and how much I was not breathing appropriately. For me, it was a felt sense of unlocking esoteric remembrance and activation of my soul’s magnificence, while simultaneously providing physical cleansing of my personal human journey.
As I have come to learn that healing is not linear, perfect, nor an overnight process; this experience (and being that it was my first time) taught me the importance of sacred breath, inherent bodily wisdom, and jump-starting a sacred embodied relationship with self. Thank you wholeheartedly for bringing this remembrance back into my life and for this medicine that will breathe enriching life force into all those it will come across!”
—Ana M. (Honolulu, HI)
(In reflection of in person ‘Womb-Breathwork Ceremony’)
Cherezade's background puts her in a unique position to deliver this essential material for all those who have - or have had - a womb in this lifetime.
She is truly able to professionally guide and hold space for ANYTHING that comes up. Because so much trauma is held in the womb, I believe this is an essential component for teachers of this work.
As a woman with a womb, I have lived my entire bleeding life feeling like I have been in battle with my own body. I've had an embodiment practice, and a meditation practice for the last twenty years. I spent over a decade in talk therapy. I have studied Biology, nutrition, energetic healing, and learned the foundations of Chinese Medicine. Yet, somehow, my understanding of my own female body, was still so unbelievably limited!
And worse than that, there was a feeling of disconnection from my womb. A sense of betrayal. As if my own body were against me. Through this work, years of that compounding shame have started to finally unravel. I can honestly say that I love my womb now, and I am so grateful for the healing of this relationship, particularly as I approach the end of my Sacred bleeding years.
I highly recommend this 5-week workshop, and indeed any and all work with Cherezade. I can't wait to learn more from her, she is a true healer and keeper of the feminine mysteries. I am so thankful to know her."
— Miranda Murphy Goll, (Southern California)
Cherezade is a powerful Womb Priestess. She embodies the energy and the teaching wherever she goes.
In her sessions and workshops she facilitates a healing and transformational experience. It feels as though Cherezade is holding us in the womb allowing us to be reborn, to remember the power of the divine feminine and to reharness that power for ourselves.
I have had the opportunity and honor of experiencing two different cohorts of Cherezades Womb Awakening experiences. When I first started working with Cherezade and connecting with my womb as the powerful life force of creation that it is, I felt very disconnected from my own womb. At times, my womb felt like a crotchety old lady, abused by me and the world.
As I went deeper with Womb Awakening work, I truly started to feel things awaken inside of me. I shed old layers of judging myself and trying to change myself to be what I thought others needed. And instead started stepping more into my own power.
Awakening my womb helped me step more fully into my divine feminine. Stepping more fully into my divine femine helped me step more more fully into my divine masculine. My stepping more fully into my own divine masculine and feminine, is helping me to empower others to do the same within themselves.
It's a powerful healing journey.
—Cassandra H. (Seattle, WA)
Words cannot explain my gratitude for this journey. I knew it was going to be transformational on a soul level, but I didn't grasp to what extent.
Over the course of this journey, my relationship with my yoni, self-image, mother, and son all shifted in major ways. Of course there is still more work to do, there always is.. but I credit the deep healing of my womb and shift in understanding of my soul and core wounds and relationships to Cherezade and this journey.
I recommend this to anyone who is looking for deep healing around sovereignty, empowerment, sexuality, sexual abuse, and more. This is a missing link to our collective healing, and I'm eternally grateful for the experience.
— Ella A. (Atlanta, GA)
Cherezade created such a safe healing space even virtually. I find sharing in front of groups to be really difficult, but I was able to share vulnerably because of the care that she took in creating the space.
Through her teaching and guidance, my relationship with my womb has started to grow into a loving one. I had begun on a journey to dissolve shame around my moon blood related to childhood memories for a few months leading up to this workshop. Cherezade has helped me immensely on this path. Beyond shame, I am even finding pleasure and connection in my bleeding. I have found deeper pleasure in intimacy as well.
This is work that not only was my own spirit calling out for, but also those of my ancestors. I have had many somatic confirmations throughout Cherezade’s teaching that I am on the right path. Maybe you feel a tug too. If you do, I encourage you to follow that, for yourself and for your ancestors.
—Nicole W. (Seattle, WA)
(In reflection of ‘Awakening the Womb’ online course series )
Cherezade is a compassionate, educated and fearless healer who is grounded in a formal degree in Psychology and carried along by her passionate willingness to go deep into the human experience where it meets the divine to heal many traumas of the body, mind and spirit.
I can attest to the power of these healing experiences to not only heal the self, but the DNA imprint that is scientifically proven to be passed through your lineage both forward and backward in your genetic history.
While in a sacred space during one of Cherezade’s extended classes, we performed a womb healing. When I left the class and took my phone off airplane mode, I had messages from my daughter asking what I was doing because she was feeling strong physical symptoms in her own womb.
With Cherezade, you are in the most blessed and capable hands. You can heal yourself and that heals the world.
—Donna Lou Holloman (Seattle, WA)
(In reflection of in person ‘Awakening the Womb’ course series)
My Womb Breathwork Ceremony with Cherezade was the most potent and healing ceremony I have ever experienced in my life.
She made me feel so incredibly safe, held, and nurtured from beginning to completion. She was very clear in explaining everything to expect and how to prepare. She also allowed me to process in the ways I needed during the ceremony as she held space and guided me through everything I was experiencing.
Afterwards, she held space for me and allowed me to speak and process until I felt safe and grounded to end the ceremony. The womb breathwork was such a beautiful and transformational experience and facilitated so much purging of energy that I have been holding onto for A LONG time, that I have been unable to let go of on my own.
The breathwork was extremely powerful, cleansing and healing. And Cherezade has the most beautiful, grounding energy and is so supportive! It was such an amazing experience and I am very excited to continue this healing work with her.
—Andia K. (California)
(In reflection of online ‘Womb-Breathwork Ceremony’)
Cherezade embodies this work with a power, grace, and beauty that is astonishing to behold.
I have to admit that I was more than a little freaked out before my Womb Breathwork Ceremony with Cherezade. I knew there was a lot of pain inside that place in my body, and I was afraid it might all come out. When I first saw Cherezade appear on my screen, I felt immediate ease and relief in my body. Her presence is radically nurturing, accepting, and powerful, and after just a few minutes, I knew with certainty that she would be able to hold me with whatever arose in our session.
I had never done breathwork before, and she guided me through the process with clarity, ease, and so much love. In it, I was taken on a journey of deep remembering. I felt my soul purpose communicated directly into my body in a way I've never experienced before. It was like every bone in my body resonated with the song of who I am, and why I'm here. There was no second-guessing anymore. This feeling has remained within me, and I am more committed and motivated than ever before to living my whole truth.
Cherezade embodies this work with a power, grace, and beauty that is astonishing to behold. She has personally walked through fires of the deepest pain to be reborn, again and again, from the ashes. She is living alchemy. I had complete confidence that she could hold powerful space for the greatest intensity, and also nurture me in my most tender moments of vulnerability.
—Catherine L. (Shoreline, WA)
Cherezade is a gifted healer and facilitator, particularly with the deep scary dark tender things that tend to lurk in the womb space.
I have worked with Cherezade on two occasions. The first time was through her Womb Awakening group series, and the second was an individual Breathwork and womb healing session. All of my work with Cherezade has led to profound shifts in my energetic body and ability to be present with myself and in the world.
Cherezade is a gifted healer and facilitator, particularly with the deep scary dark tender things that tend to lurk in the womb space.
She also has helped me begin the healing process with my womb as a non-binary/trans person who has spent most of their life resenting the organ of creation housed in their body because of what the world says it means.
If you have a womb, regardless of your gender, Cherezade can hold space for you. I am grateful for the continued healing I get to experience as a benefit of working with this beautiful being.
—Nica Selvaggio (Honolulu. HI)
Every human would benefit from deep healing work like this, it truly does shake up the pain and make way for the light to come through.
First of all, I want to start by saying what genuine kind hearted soul Cherezade is. Even when I was writing my email to her, I told her a few things that I don’t tend to share with anyone out of avoiding judgement. But I just had a complete feeling of comfortability to share. When we met over zoom for the session, we went deeper into a few things I had mentioned regarding trauma in the womb and I felt so supported, there was no judgement just pure understanding.
I was guided into the ceremony and given freedom and space to work through my emotions and with anything that came up, It was a very safe and held container. It has taken me a long time to acknowledge my womb and I was able to release some pain and even have a little giggle to myself.
In the few days to follow it was brought to my awareness some damage within my root and sacral chakra which had been well hidden and I believe the ceremony brought it to the surface to be looked at.
Every human would benefit from deep healing work like this, it truly does shake up the pain and make way for the light to come through. It was like a wave allowing the energy to circulate and release.
When we finished the session, I felt in a state of bliss and I couldn’t say much so we had a check in a few days later. I am going to continue my work with Cherezade as I must say it is an addictive feeling when you start to let go of old baggage and find the freedom within. I truly can’t wait to continue this journey.
—-Nadia V. (London, England, UK)
I had the honor of having an immensely healing, soul rejuvenating, blissful womb clearing session with the High Priestess Cherezade, from whom I experienced a warmful embrace such as one feels for an old friend/soulmate/life companion!
Firstly, her energy and spirit are a service in and of themselves. She truly has a gift of divine compassion and illuminated things to me in such a kind, gentle yet effective way - I am so beyond thankful. For example, when discussing what was currently alive for me I brought up tensions I felt in my personal relations and in how I felt my loved one’s were learning unconditional love, albeit in a sometimes hurtful way, through their relation to me. She expressed to me something I will never forget, which was: perhaps my presence is healing to my parents + family (who have all faced their own personal traumas). Perhaps they are learning as much as I am. Perhaps we all are. Her grace and compassion allowed me to look at my dear ones with more grace and compassion. Her wisdom took me out of my human situation and allowed me the grace to see from an exalted perspective of a wise sage. This is just one example of many in which she held space for me and reflected divinity back to me as a sacred mirror in our short time together! I cannot count the many ways she allowed me to emerge and to be. I cannot express the lightness that I felt after and STILL feel. I cannot express the alchemy, the transformation or the metamorphosis that was seeded. I cannot express in words her soulful magic but I can say do yourself a favor, and book with Cherezade!
—-Cyn Bahati (San Antonio, TX)
In simply deciding to attend the Womb Clearing with Cherezade Aanya it began for me. It started in my dream state where my mother and I soul gazed for the first time and I said to her “your womb is sacred”
This dream felt like a quantum turning point in my lineage of Mothers.
The clearing itself- two days later, felt like the Divine Mother anointing me with the cellular remembrance “my womb is sacred” and activating a codex within me that births heavenly realities from the awareness that my womb is a Holy Sanctuary of intelligence and creativity. The day after the clearing I felt immensely energized, high and clear within my self.
I honor Womb Priestess Cherezade Aanya for the space she holds which felt gentle, safe and powerful. I felt guided and empowered. Held and heard. The links between her offering and the depths I am illuminating within my womb psyche are evident. And so for the rose womb heart wisdom which you share with the world I say Asé. Mahalo
—-Simran Shakti Kaur (Big Island, HI)
This 5-week course I decided to take on has been more than life changing for me.
I’ve been more in tuned with both my feminine/masculine energy as well being able to be more grounded and present in the moment. Being able to do some inner work, learning to drop my ego and open up my heart. I’ve been able to be freer and in rhythm to dancing, posing and just being myself. Has opened new gateways in multiple areas of my life. From having a supporting girlfriend with a healthy/ spiritual relationship to sexuality and being comfortable in my own skin to people I attract in my life to my workplace and even finances. My girl has even mentioned from our initial meet she has noticed a difference in our relationship and the loving/sensuality that has peaked through. Being able to give her more time devoted to her.
This work has paid off for me so much. I feel freer and more rejuvenated. It’s like a new me. That I’m still getting used to myself. I’m more confident in many of my abilities as well as manifestations. It’s taken me to a new level. I even work 3 jobs but just making the time at the end of the day to do something for yourself that I know would help heal me and better my overall lifestyle. Mind, body, & soul! I know that life is continuously progressing and there is never enough to learn. This kind of work I want to keep digging deeper and continue to embrace throughout this lifetime. I know this is just the beginning of so much more beauty to enter into my life. I’m ready to embrace and just being an open book to what next for me. I can’t thank Cherezade enough for being able to put together a group not only devoted to men but forming a brotherhood. Where we can share experiences and be open without being judged. We’re all going through the same battle, some of us are just at different stages in the battle. Thank you Cherezade for shining this light and changing my life. I greatly appreciate everything and how you’ve made an impact in my life.
-Christian Diaz | Tampa, Florida-
(In Reflection of ‘Awakening the Hara’ Program)
Learning about the deep wounds of the masculine and being able to understand more about the relationship between how we view strength and power ,vulnerability and sensitivity in ourselves as men was my most important lesson I walk away with.
The men who showed up for not only themselves but for us all as a collective was empowering for me to feel seen and to provide sanctuary for my fellow divine masculine brothers.
Cherezade was such a beautiful facilitator and space holder. Not only did she allow us to have moments of individuality as men working through our wounds and process. She was highly attentive to us as a whole group and also individually.
Hara cleansing was a beautiful experience for me as a man who struggled significantly as a child to accept myself for who and what I am as a man who is as sensitive as he is powerful. I was misunderstood a lot growing up and that left me with many misconceptions of my masculinity. After clearing my Hara I was able to deeply appreciate myself and expose more wounds I had not realized were not healed yet. From there I have been spending more time meditating and learning myself more than ever before and it has been a blessing in so many ways.
Cherezade is a phenomenal facilitator I am thankful and blessed to have been able to participate in this beautiful and healing program.
Lingam Ceremony is one of the most important lessons that stands out for me and embracing my creative life energy in new ways and honoring myself in ways I hadn’t known before.
My life has truly undergone a complete rebirth since going through the course. Now moving forward in life I have implemented new behavior and perspectives in the ways I create connections with others and myself. Life has truly never been better for me I am truly blessed and thankful to have the life I live and blessed to see where life has yet to take me on this beautiful journey.
-Kainoa H. | Honolulu, HI-
(In Reflection of ‘Awakening the Hara’ Program)
Training Certificates & Licensing
MA Counseling Psychology (Bastyr University) c/o 2018
Gottman Couples Therapy Level 1 Clinical Training
Womb Awakening 9 Moon Apprenticeship (Fountain of Life)
Womb Awakening Facilitator Training (Fountain of Life)
The Oracle Training: Quantum Energy & Multidimensional Field Work (Emily Harris)
Breathwork Facilitator Training (Sacred Breath Academy)
‘Future Womb’ Quantum Energy Certification (Nicole Gayle)
The Womb leads us inside to the vast space of the universe within…it allows us to rebirth ourselves into the truth and majesty of our own being and what we are here to do in this life
~Anaiya Prakasha
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