What is Yoni Steaming?
What is Yoni Steaming?
A yoni steam is sort of like a facial for your uterus. Yoni steaming is a powerful ancestral remedy that has been used for centuries by women worldwide to support deep womb wellness and self-care. Also known as vaginal steaming, chai-yok, or bajo, it is a holistic health practice in which a woman allows the warmth of herbal steam to gently permeate the exterior of her vagina. Yoni is a Sanskrit word meaning “vagina,” “womb,” “goddess” or “origin of life,” and yoni steaming is intended to support all these aspects of a woman. Respected by healers around the globe, yoni steaming is an opportunity to reconnect with your body and utilize the wisdom of plant medicine to heal your cycle. The tissues of the vagina are exceptionally porous and absorbent, and the warmth of the steam works to soften and open them. When the herbs are placed in the hot water, their medicinal properties, including volatile oils, are released, and carried to the surface of your skin, and to the inside of the vagina, where they are absorbed into the bloodstream and, ultimately, into to the uterus. The medicinal herbal steam increases circulation, thins mucus, and cleanses the entire reproductive system, allowing it to shed unnecessary membranes and build-up. In doing so, we support the uterus to function at its best, thus reducing the amount of work it must do, and therefore your discomfort. Vaginal steaming is an age-old remedy that has been tested and approved by generations before us, and its time has come in our modern culture. This ancestral treatment for women has stood the test of time, and today it has the incredible potential to significantly improve every woman's experience of her beautiful body.
On the physical level, womb steaming is the practice of squatting over a “pot” of steamed, carefully selected herbs, for 10 to 30 minutes. The steam from the pot then surrounds the outside of a female's vulva and enters the vagina and womb space. The herb-infused steam promotes circulation within the body and carries healing properties into the yoni. The healing prompted by the circulation and herbs creates a balanced yoni.
On a spiritual level, the steam brings awareness to the yoni, and with this awareness comes the connection to her root and sacral chakras, ancient wisdom, generational history, energies of past lovers, stagnate trauma and blockage. This awareness, connection, and support of the penetrative steam allows for breakthroughs in healing and an infusion of Divine Feminine Power.
On an emotional level, steaming helps to unlock stagnate trauma and energies, it will inevitably also unlock emotions. For some, steaming is a helpful practice for working through off course confidence, sexual trauma and feelings of shame and guilt that are often embedded in this intimate area of the body.
The Benefits of Yoni Steaming
- Significantly reduce pain, bloating and exhaustion associated with menstruation
- Decrease menstrual flow as well as reduce dark purple or brown blood at the onset or end of menses
- Regulate irregular or absent menstrual cycles
- Increase fertility
- Speed healing and tone the reproductive system after birth
- Reduce uterine fibroids, ovarian cysts, uterine weakness, uterine prolapse & endometriosis
- Postpartum healing, assist with the repair of a vaginal tear, episiotomy, or c-section scar, healing from miscarriage
- Assist with the healing of hemorrhoids
- Relieve chronic vaginal/yeast infections UTI, bacterial vaginosis, and works to maintain healthy scent balance
- Ease symptoms of menopause including dryness or pain during intercourse
- Detoxify the womb and remove toxins from the body
- Release stored emotions/trauma and tap into the energy that is our creative potential, deepen connection to your feminine essence
- Have stronger & more frequent orgasms, increase libido while you reignite sensual passion
IMPORTANT Information
If you are using birth control methods as an IUD vaginal steaming could cause a birth control failure (it can be released). It is not recommended unless you are okay with a backup form of birth control or you are not concerned about a possible pregnancy.
If you have a burning itch the warmth from the steam could be uncomfortable since there is already so much heat in that area. If you have an active infection (bacteria, yeast, herpes) it is best to follow your doctors prescribed therapy and steam 2 weeks after it has cleared as to not trigger symptoms.
Yoni steaming is magical and powerful, but it is not a miracle cure. It can aggravate some conditions and especially if there is a long-standing imbalance. It’s important to know when to yoni steam and when not to yoni steam.
When Yoni steams should be avoided:
- If you are pregnant or there is a possibility of pregnancy
- During or after ovulation if you are trying to conceive
- During menstruation
- Fresh spotting or spontaneous bleeding
- With any open wounds, sores, blisters or stitches
- If you have a vaginal infection or fever
- Piercings will need to be removed
- Birth control implant (Nexplanon, Implanon)
- Infection with burning
- Tubal Coagulation