What exactly is Yoni Steam?
Yoni steams offer us to restore the disconnect from our female body, yoni/uterus, whether that be from birth, unsatisfying intimate experiences, trauma, abuse, surgeries, or just cultural disconnect. It's a practice to restore health and balance to your physical feminine cycles, ease the transition through life phases, unlock the intimate magic of your womb, and release toxic emotions such as stress, tension, and stagnation. Between menstruation, sexual intercourse, and childbirth, the vagina withstands a lot. Yoni steams can bring deep healing, moisturizing, and warmth to your pelvis. Yoni steam is a powerful ancient self-care practice used by women worldwide to support deep wellness, women's wisdom, herbal medicine, and feminine power. They are holistic self-care practices in which a woman allows the warmth of herbs steam to permeate the exterior of her vagina gently.
Choose herbs that are delicate enough for your eyes and mouth such as:
Calendula~ antiseptic and soothing to irritated tissue. It helps ease and teat cramping and heaviness.
Chamomile~ Helps to relieve cramping, tension, and pain
Dandelion~ helps to improve endocrine ad reproductive health. It helps rid excess estrogen, sugars, and toxins from the body.
Lavender~ antiseptic, anti-bacterial herb with soothing and powerful cleansing properties for a healthy vaginal environment.
Lemon Balm~ antiviral herb that helps with relieving itchiness.
Peppermint~ energizing, stimulating, and restores the yoni.
Rosemary~ antiseptic, helps with circulating old fluids and blood. Purifies and stimulates the yoni and reclaiming or remembering lost parts of oneself.
Yarrow~ infection fighter, great for wound care, tender, bruised, stitched tissues.
Herbs that support urinary and reproductive organs~ raspberry leaf, motherwort, peony, damiana, oregano, and basil.
Herbs that are townifying, tightening, and drying~ witch hazel, yarrow, rose, and juniper.
Herbs that soothe moisturize~ comfrey, marshmallow, and plantain.
How to Yoni Steam
~Set up in a safe, private, and pleasant area.
~Start a pot of 3-4 quartz of water to boil with a lid.
~Once you have a rolling boil, turn the heat down, and add 1 cup dried herbs.
~Simmer for 5-10 minutes and let steep for another 10 minutes with the lid on.
Meanwhile, gather a sheet, towel, and blanket to drape around you as you sit.
~Transfer the herb pot to under the open seat of the chair. Adjust the heat and use the draping to allow in fresh air, if needed.
~Relax, meditate, read something inspiring, have music playing, connect with your womb, your vagina, your pelvis, and receive what your body has to communicate.
It is best to steam for about 2-30 minutes. Listen to your body. Repeat as desired. Use the steam throughout your cycle, focusing on the week before bleeding. Do not use during bleeding or postpartum. Postpartum and newly post menopause are ideal times to steam to facilitate cleansing of the uterus.
What to expect after a yoni steaming
You may feel extremely relaxed, emotional, or tired. Remain wrapped in the warm blankets and rest in a warm bed for the night. The yoni herb bath will continue to work on your reproductive system as you sleep, allowing you to wake up feeling pampered, nurtured, and loved.
In the days following, you may experience, changes in your cycle, lighter periods, the release of dark blood, clots, and heightened feminine awareness. This may be experienced immediately or subtly.
Possible benefits of yoni steaming
~regulate irregular menstral cycles, reducing painful periods, bloating, and exhaustion associated with menstruation.
~decrease menstral flow.
~may promote fertility.
~postpartum recovery by aiding in the repair of vaginal tears, episiotomy, or c-section scars.
~pain with intercourse
~heal from emotional or sexual trauma.
~reduce uterine fibroids, PCOS, uterine weakness and prophase, and endometriosis.
~assist with healing hemorrhoids
~relieve chronic yeast infections and UTI.
~ ease menopausal symptoms including dryness or pain during intercourse.
~detoxify the womb and remove toxins from the body.
~release stored emotions.
~stronger and more frequent orgasms.
~tap into our creative potential, art, projects, service and soul work.
~increase libido and reignite sensual passion.
~ deepen connection to your feminine essence.
~act of self love and self care.
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