SoundBirth Retreat
February 9th-14th, 2025
For all people who feel called to the birth field
Birth.
Sound.
Trauma.
Nervous System.
Roots.
Dive deeper
Your nervous system as a healing tool: Let the essence of sound, the breath of life and the voice of the earth guide you on a unique, intense journey of self-awareness and deepening of your professional skills in your work with people.
You can expect a retreat of transformation – like a cocoon. A retreat delving into sound healing, trauma awareness, regulation of the nervous system, rites of passage and the spiritual roots of a safe space for pregnancy and birth. With healing for our birth fields between heaven and earth, deep into the cosmos as well as under the earth – into the roots of life. For you personally and for those working professionaly in the field.
We are Jaguar, Arweniel and Simone. We have been working as a team in the birth field for many years and combine our skills holistically for you. For you as a person, and for you as a professional companion in the deep life transitions of being human. Between birth and death.
WE ACCOMPANY YOU & YOUR JOURNEY
SoundBirth is Medicine for the Soul
The Healing Power of Sound.
Come into harmony with yourself. With yourself and your inner sound. And later help others to do the same. Together we will look at the unique, profound effect of sound, the effect of your own voice – always with a view to the benefits for the birth field.
What you can expect:
- Experiential Sound & Music Journeys
- Toning Circles
- Sound healing tools in the birth field
Sound therapy is a very gentle but effective method of treating the body and mind, restoring inner balance and health. It works on the nervous system, the tissues and the subtler energies of the body. It is deeply relaxing, immediately restorative and can provide long-term benefits.
Our nervous system is our interface with the outside world. An incredibly sophisticated and marvellous instrument that deserves good tuning. I’ll show you how to do it.
You will learn about the healing power of sound. You will experience it for yourself through experimental sound journeys, sound circles, insights into the nature of sound and its effects on us and the environment. With a conscious focus on the role that sound can play in supporting the birth field and our families, together we will explore the basics of using sound vibrations as supportive tools for the people you love and the people you support.
You will be introduced to the use of tuning forks for sound based bodywork. They are ideal tools for working with the nervous system to promote deep relaxation and coherence in the energy field. Sound affects us in many different ways. If we use it in the area of pregnancy and birth, both mother and child can benefit from it, because the sense of hearing already functions in the womb.
A holistic approach to sound work awaits you, integrating the many layers that connect us from the core of our being to the environment as a whole.
The spiritual connection to the birth field as a man, the role of the masculine in the spiritual birth field, holding space as a man for feminine processes – we will also look at all this together.
Simone’s contribution is in English and will be translated into German (if there is a need). The whole retreat will take place in both languages as needed.
The Breath of Life.
‘How can we influence energy through our breath alone?’
We dive deep into the topics of breathwork, EFT and trauma awareness in the birth field. The SoundBirth Retreat is about your self-awareness, but also about passing on deep knowledge.
What you can expect:
- Breathwork practices
- Trauma awareness
- Breathing tools in the birth field
- EFT sessions
- Energetic healing journeys & ritual work
Our life begins with our first breath and ends with our last… And there is so much in between: life, potential, possibilities – and also pain points.
Since time immemorial and in many traditions, we have known how the breath can change our entire inner world. I will take you on a journey to your breath and your potential, which harbours deep healing powers for you and the people you accompany.
Breathwork connects body, soul and spirit and is a key element, especially during labour. The breath helps the woman to connect with her centre, her womb space and her strength. The breath has the ability to invite in all levels of our body or emotions that may not have been accessible before. Through the breath, you can learn to positively regulate and strengthen your nervous system. Did you know that your own breath can make a huge difference in supporting pregnant women, parents and in the birth field? A deeply supportive field for families and those working with families.
And if we go one step further – and we will at the SoundBirth Retreat – you will be able to get in touch with, understand and heal your deepest inner worlds and traumas through the connected breath. We will teach you how to bring couples and pregnant women back to themselves by regulating breathing, how they can get in touch with the baby through breathing and how breathing will help them during labour.
In EFT sessions (Emotional Freedom Technique), we will introduce you to an approach for your work with which you can support women in tracking down and sustainably releasing their beliefs. There is a deep connection between past experiences (reptilian brain) and the new perspective (new brain and limbic system). ETF is a technique that is activated and released using the energy axes and meridians. This technique has been recognised for several years and is known for its brilliant results in dealing with negative imprints and traumas.
It is important to know that we are not our trauma, but that a part of us is traumatised. We therefore focus on emphasising existing strengths and strengthening resources so that the trauma can be dealt with.
Arweniel’s contribution is in German and will be translated into English.
The Voice of the Earth.
We move between the earth and the cosmos. We are deeply rooted in seeing, understanding and embodying the cycles of life. Shamanic aspects place your connection to inner and outer nature at your feet.
Your cocoon process begins.
What awaits you:
- Inner journeys to facets & abilities
- Accompaniment of rites of passage
- Embodiment of deep wisdom
- Medicine singing & shamanic approaches
I would like to bring you closer to the topic of ‘threshold’ to a new intensity. The transition and the phase between beginning and end. Between the end and the beginning. Here we touch deep earth wisdom, because these cycles live within us, through the earth and through the cosmos. In the SoundBirth Retreat, we recognise deeper access to the connection of our earth and birth, of the cycles of the earth and the cycles of birth. Of our cycles deep within us.
Indigenous ways and wisdom live in my blood. They are a significant part of my life journey. So in the SoundBirth Retreat, I get to bring in medicine singing, earth journeys and cocoon processes that bring us into contact with mystical levels of birth at a soul level. These aspects are often overlooked in modern midwifery, but they work!
If we give them more attention, mindfulness and space, more healing and less trauma are often possible. Voice is a fundamentally empowering part of many indigenous birth cultures and here too we can encourage people to connect and use their voice as a support to birth. After many years of experience, I am also very focused on trauma prevention in the birth field. I am very interested in providing those who care and support for others with more resources and tools for their own center.
We will experience ritual and ceremonial work together to really feel these aspects and bring them to life in you – or simply to remember that they have always been there.
Dive deep, with us at your side.
Be part of the SoundBirth Retreat 2025 and get in touch with us. For questions, for your registration – for your transformation journey.
SOUNDBIRTH RETREAT TEAM
In a trio for your depth
Arweniel Hürlimann
I work as a spiritual birth companion, women’s companion and trainer. My heart’s desire is to uncover natural access points within us, to release imprints and painful experiences for healing. In the SoundBirth Retreat, I create pathways for this by initiating you into transformative Breathwork and EFT practices.
Simone Vitale
I am a Sound therapy practitioner and teacher, visionary composer and musician.
In the SoundBirth Retreat, I bring all the experience, knowledge and wisdom I have gained in more than 15 years of working in the fields of sound-based bodywork and vocal yoga and more than 30 years in music, music production, and sound design.
Jaguar Star
I have been working professionally in the birth field since 2007. My professional journey since 2005 has focussed on the deeper themes of femininity and the connection of wisdom with body and soul. In the SoundBirth Retreat I bring in my shamanic roots and connect the worlds of birth, breath and sound with the roots of the earth.
OUR HOLISTIC VIEW OF THE BIRTH FIELD
The Role of the Masculine
We have been working together in the birth field for many years. Each of us has been deeply called and guided in a special way. We have given many years to contribute to the establishment of a healed and further healing birth field.
One thing we have noticed on our journey together:
Rarely are men consciously and actively included in this spiritual field.
It is rarely acknowledged that men are born just like women and all human beings. The power of men and the different colours of being male outside of the female birthing power are too often not seen. Because it takes both and even many different energy fields to give birth to life on this earth and in this earth.
The SoundBirth Retreat aims to address male professionals in particular, who work lovingly and wholeheartedly in the birth field (naturopaths, osteopaths, physiotherapists, gynaecologists, male midwives, etc.), but also fathers and other people who feel touched here:
We see you, we feel and appreciate you.
We want to support and invite you.
Simone has been creating a very special space in our work together for more than 10 years, in which he – often invisibly – holds incredibly healing space for many deep women’s issues, female processes and above all for the topic of birth. Through our past years, our journey, we have realised more and more that we would like to consciously give more space to this facet of the birth world: the place of men, your magic and your work in supporting women and children. You are very welcome!
Healing for men in the feminine field.
SoundBirth Retreat 2025 – all the details for you
Date & Location
Sunday to Friday
9th – 14th February 2025
- Sunday 9th Arrival from 17:00
- Friday 14th Departure from 13:00
Sampurna Seminarhaus, 65388 Schlangenbad Deutschland
Price
Retreat – 750€ (Plus VAT 19 %)
Upon registration – 200€, the rest in January 2025
Accommodation and catering – will be charged separately. Please contact us directly for more information.
Retreat prerequisites: ‘Is this retreat suitable for me?’
We invite all people who would like to immerse themselves more deeply in the birth field, personally or professionally.
The retreat is not suitable as basic training for professional beginners. We require good mental stability, a willingness to learn in a group context and the ability to remain regulated in group fields. This work is not suitable as intensive therapy and should not be attended by people who are primarily concerned with overcoming their own trauma.
We would like to explicitly invite all professional groups in the birth field as well as all those in related professions such as: midwives, doulas, gynaecologists, doctors, physiotherapists, psychotherapists, psychologists, counsellors, yoga teachers, hypnobirthing trainers, alternative practitioners, osteopaths, women’s support workers, maternity nurses, babywearing consultants, breastfeeding counsellors, paediatric nurses, remedial teachers, social pedagogues, educators, nurses, nannies, childminders, maternity nurses, as well as all mothers/fathers and carers/support staff and people from other related professions.
Dive deeper into the field of birth
Feel. Sense. Perceive.
Experiencing our inner world.
This is not ‘just’ about knowledge.
It’s also about your inner being.
We go deep into your feelings. This is where hidden resources lie dormant, just waiting to be utilised and refined by you. Sensing, feeling and perceiving are valuable inner abilities that we can bring into the birth field as companions and experiencers.
We sometimes forget how precious our inner feelings are and what contribution they can make to complex decisions. Over many years of dedication, we have developed special ways to accompany people into particularly deep levels of the birth world and the connection between body and soul. At the SoundBirth Retreat 2025, we will explore with you the tangible connection of everything between earth and cosmos… of sound, breath, roots, inner worlds – and the deepest layers of the ocean of birth.
Testimonials
Experiences from retreats with Jaguar, Simone & Arweniel
Margit Huemer
‘This field that you are opening up for the world and for us humans is an unearthing of a treasure that has been kept hidden for a long time.
A field that is buried deep in our bones and now wants to be explored, felt and above all lived again in order to preserve the earth for our children. Many THANKS for your BEING’
Larissa Israel
‘Jaguar is a very special woman full of love and wisdom for the elemental forces of femininity and birth.
In a tender and powerful way, she connects heaven and earth and helps the soul to anchor itself joyfully in the world.
Light and playful, profound and wise at the same time, it brings in its glow and opens up fields for inner growth – a colourful sea of flowers full of starry magic.
If you want to connect deeply with the hidden powers of your feminine essence, I can heartily recommend working with Jaguar.’
Katharina Erdmann
‘The depth of this training is difficult to put into words. It touches extensively and deeply on the levels of our humanity, in the first step in relation to ourselves, the learners, and in the second step in relation to the professional application in women’s accompaniment.’
Erika Schlichenmaier
‘I would like to take this opportunity to thank Jaguar, Simone and the whole team from the bottom of my heart: for your dedicated, valuable, authentic service and work in the educational field of the soul body, in the field of femininity, for female intuition, for self-empowerment and for the embodiment of one’s own inner wisdom.’
Sophia Scholz
‘I am grateful to have met so many great women who are full of vision and work together with me in this field!
This training is full of knowledge and wisdom, it touches me deeply and imparts holistic, well-founded knowledge about pregnancy, birth, postpartum and femininity in general.’
Ura Sabrina Gruber
‘So many different qualities were given space, so much power and incredible depth was possible and so much pure love was involved.
For me personally, it reached a depth that I rarely experience with other people.
I am grateful to have discovered and explored these depths. I have been able to uncover so many treasures. I can still unpack so many treasures – piece by piece and integrate them into my life. It continues to have an effect and may continue to do so.
Full of gratitude and love’
Sian Petra Lang
‘The retreat opens up a field full of love in which I can be completely (myself). In which the sides of my soul that have been hidden since my childhood can finally show themselves.
The space is protected and safe and the pace is adapted to the high intensity and depth of the work. The needs of the participants are lovingly and attentively respected and the process is adapted to what is alive in us women at the time.’
Julia Neumann
‘The retreat was a gentle, subtle and profound experience for me. I felt deeply nourished on multiple levels.
Connecting with other women to share such an authentic space and explore aspects of the feminine in a way I hadn’t before was truly eye-opening.
Jaguar holds the space with wonderful gentleness, clarity, ease and compassion.’
Natalie Bidmon
‘I still feel inspired …
As if I had met myself for the first time after all this time … It feels as if my soul can now communicate directly with me via my heart and I can now also perceive it. It is indescribable for me to put into words what is going on inside me (and all around me). How my self-image has changed … from judgement to such a loving feeling. Without a guilty conscience – HEAVENLY!’
Amandine Martin
‘A very special retreat for women who feel called to the new paths of women’s professions. Wonderful tools are taught that can be used in everyday life. The whole thing felt like a rebirth, I felt afterwards ‘like a snake that has shed its skin’.
This experience was the right path at the time, one of the most transformative processes a woman can go through to find herself again.’
Laurie Reinke
‘Jaguar’s teachings have enabled me to mentor women with a heightened awareness and sensitivity to their vulnerability, to possible past trauma and to the challenges they face within the paradigm of modern society.
Supporting women by offering them a safe space to delve deeper into their soul’s needs, strengthening communication with their inner voice and empowering them to make their own choices and find their own solutions has become possible through Jaguar’s knowledge and teachings.
Thank you, Jaguar!’
Testimonials
Experiences from the Sound Therapy Training with Simone
Wendy Adaska
“I have been a practitioner in the healing arts for 27 years, during which I have taken a variety of seminars, courses and trainings. Most of them have been good, a few have been great and a couple have been unsatisfactory. This Sound Therapy course has been extraordinary!”
“In addition to equipping me with a new and fascinating skill set, this profoundly deep and comprehensive training has completely altered the way I perceive and interact with the world around me. It has added a whole new dimension to my being.
Simone’s finely tuned presentation of the vast amount of information covered in the course was clear, well presented and thoroughly explained. Signing up for this sound therapy practitioner training was the best decision I’ve made in years.
Thank you, Simone.”
“This training is far more than I expected! I came in with some knowledge about sound healing, and used this modality as part of my healing practice. As a result of this course, I now offer healing sound sessions without mixing other healing modalities.”
“If you want to get deep into the knowledge and practice of sound, this is definitely the training to take. I have been studying and practising Sound Therapy on my own for many years and I felt that I had a pretty vast knowledge of it already, but I was floored by everything that I learned from Simone.”
“Simone’s workshop on Sound Healing was even better than I imagined. He has a beautiful presence and he delivers his many years of experience with eloquence, generosity and passion. I came away feeling very inspired.
AMAZING”
Let’s bring valuable ancestral knowledge
back to the surface…
Working in the birth field is about bringing our strengths together for the birth – our knowledge, our love and all the magical accesses given to us by Mother Nature. We have often forgotten how to utilise all these power resources and this creates a pressure that is not helpful in the birth field. There are incredibly beautiful and powerful ways to strengthen and enrich the birth field. Be it the sound that resonates deep within our cells and that was already there before the words, the scent, the flavour. Be it the connection to the heaven we come from, or to the earth we have chosen, or even at the level of intuitive instincts.
Birth was a deep primal knowledge passed down from generation to generation of wise women, but this is fading more and more in our modern world. We therefore see it as our task and gift to bring this knowledge and primal wisdom back into consciousness. Because the knowledge of birth goes beyond the act of birth! Birth is a principle by which we humans are positively influenced throughout our lives. Every process and every rite of passage carries the knowledge of birth within it, and it is only when we are connected to birth that we understand the wisdom of life.