Could you benefit from a yoni massage?
As discussed previously, yoni is a Sanskrit word meaning “womb”, “uterus”, “vagina”, “sacred space,” “sacred temple,” etc, and is associated with the Hindu Goddess Shakti and the Divine Feminine. A yoni massage, as recognized in the tantra, regards the female genitalia as a sacred temple. Yoni massage can be conducted for several reasons, including healing and releasing tension and stress held in the yoni, cervix and uterus from either trauma or suppressed sexuality or sexual energy, or for learning about owning one’s sexuality Other reasons can include creating pleasure, learning how to orgasm, healing pain or numbness, removing blocks that limit sexual pleasure and orgasms, develop a deeper awareness of yoni, as well as learning how to ejaculate. It should be noted that although a yoni massage can often result in an orgasm (and some women report intense, full body orgasms to boot), it does not always happen nor should one necessarily enter with that as the total expectation. However, when an orgasm does occur during yoni massage, it can often be more encompassing, thorough, and satisfying than any others. Essentially, it is done to connect a woman to her inner core or goddess essence overall.
What occurs during a yoni massage?
During a yoni massage, emotions (both positive and negative) can be released due to the stored up tension being released, as often the emotion connected with traumatic or other such events remains in the body until released. Also during the massage, receivers and givers must build trust and the giver must not expect anything in return for the treatment other than allowing and helping the receiver to fully enjoy, release and relax. As the session goes on, both individuals will find they connect to a higher energy and women may gain a greater understanding of and connection to their bodies. Men, when present or giving the massages, can increase their reverence for the female body as well.
Who should do a yoni massage?
Practitioners should be fully trained in Yoni Healing and Tantric rituals, and must maintain a space of sacredness and respect for themselves and the receiver at all times. A yoni massage session can be viewed as a healing method, but some say that women with serious unresolved issues related to sexual trauma may not want to start with this as a treatment. It is also not a medical treatment, and should only be conducted on healthy individuals.
A whole body experience that touches on emotions and the spirit as well
According to Eyal Matsliah, “Yoni massage is a whole body experience that includes touching, arousing and massaging the whole body, focusing on the neck and shoulders, buttocks, breasts, hip-joint, and finally the outside and then inside of the yoni, while occasionally massaging the rest of the body…(it) is meant to work on and involve all the chakras (energy centers), elements (air, water, etc.), and on the physical, energetic, emotional, mental and spiritual levels/aspects. Yoni massage is recommended and beneficial for nearly all women (and it) can be done by itself and for itself, or as part of tantric love-making, either before during or after the sexual act; it can be done between same-sex or opposite-sex friends, between lovers or with a therapist.”
Three Main Aspects of the Yoni Massage
Matsliah elaborates, explaining that there are “three main aspects of yoni massage, (in his professional experience, which are) pleasure, therapy, and spirituality.” By these, he means that, “You can not expect to learn how to give a yoni massage just for pleasure and orgasms, as some men do, and some resources focus on. When a woman experiences deep arousal, there will be pleasure and then sometimes physical or emotional pain will arise; A man needs to support the woman and facilitate her process of accepting and releasing the pain and emotions. Therapy involves facilitating pleasure to dissolve the pain. Pleasure is therapeutic. Deep orgasmic states are a spiritual experience, and both you and your partner need to learn how to let go of the pleasure or the physical body in order to facilitate and support the woman in opening to these elevated realms of consciousness and existence.”
While a woman should not necessarily expect orgasms from the experience, Matsliah reports that most women can (eventually) begin to learn how to experience not only orgasms, but multiple orgasms, different types of orgasms, and even an “orgasmic state.”
It sounds worth a try, if you’ve got a trained practitioner available. But as always, with all my articles, please consult your physician to be sure you’re healthy enough and ready for this type of treatment before doing it yourself.
