THE RITUAL OF STEAMING

Peri-Steam Hydrotherapy (aka Vaginal Steaming, Yoni Steaming, V-Steam, Bajos, Chai-Yok) is the synergistic combination of herbs and steam used medicinally for the enhancement of female pelvic and uterine health. Indigenous Healers around the world have been using this natural and non-invasive treatment for centuries to enhance physical, emotional, and spiritual healing. Steaming helps cleanse the uterus and pelvis of blood congestion and stagnation, relaxes the pelvic floor muscles, and is an effective treatment for many difficult uterine and pelvic conditions.

SUGGESTED HEALING STEAM RITUAL

GIVING THANKS

• When the herbs have cooled, please return them to the Earth, giving Thanks for their support in your healing.

COMMON STEAM USES AND RITUALS

Regardless of age, gender identity, physical health, or emotional state, steaming offers a beautiful opportunity to connect with the body. While sitting in mindfulness warmed by a cloud of aromatherapy, we allow each herb to offer us its own medicine. Carefully designed herbal blends work synergistically to support the body in healing a variety of ailments. We love to steam simply as an intimate self-care ritual, but have listed several other common reasons to steam. This is not an exhaustive list, and we encourage everyone to widen their knowledge of this ancient practice through additional research. 

Moontime Cycle Care

Prepare for a more easeful moon time (ie. bleeding phase) by stimulating pelvic stagnancy, easing pre-menstrual discomfort and regulating imbalances. Herbal blends can clean and nourish the vaginal canal and uterine membrane, reduce clots, release stagnation, and help the blood return to its ideal vibrant red color. Some herbs help reduce discomfort from cramping, bring about more regularity, or lengthen unnaturally short cycles. 

1. Optional Mantra– “May I be like the Blessed Air: light, open, inspired, essential.”

2. How Often– 1 week prior and/or 1 week after your cycle

3. Suggested Root Medicine Blend– HARMONY (see description below)

Self-Pleasure Care

Herbal blends can nourish the vulva, stimulate a deeper connection for arousal, or encourage conception. Enhance your own sexuality and creativity by calling in the Divine Feminine with a juicy herbal steam. Bring abundance and fertility into the body by inviting the power of the flower into your own sacred rose. Show yourself a little love by soothing and relaxing the pelvic muscles, releasing any holding or tightness, and creating a loving connection with your feminine center.

1. Optional Mantra– “May I be like the Blessed Fire: warm, radiant, tended, wild”
2. How often– 1-2 times per month for maximum benefits or when needed.
3. Suggested Root Medicine Blend– VIBRANCY (see description below)

Healing Loss Care

Allow Mother Earth and her sacred plant children to heal the body after experiencing loss from miscarriage or abortion. Feel her support while breathing love and kindness into the womb. When ready, steaming can encourage the release of emotional and physical attachments that may become stagnations in the body. Steaming can also nurture the process of healing by offering a sacred space to grieve, practicing acceptance, and find reconnection. 

1. Optional Mantra– “May I be like the Blessed Water: flowing, clear, life-giving, free.”
2. How often– Only begin steam rituals after bleeding has stopped. 
3. Suggested Root Medicine Blend– PURIFY (see description below)

Postnatal Womb Care

Bringing a child into the world is an incredible offering, and new moms deserve to be taken care of and nurtured. Steaming will help keep her warm, bring heat into the body, release fluids, and shrink the womb. (Postnatal, Post DNC or Miscarriage)

1. Optional Mantra– “May I be like the Blessed Earth: growing, nourished, blossoming, grounded.”

2. How Often– 1 to 3 times per week following birth to aid in healing.

3. Suggested Root Medicine Blend– NURTURE (see description below)

Wise-Woman Care (Peri-menopause and Menopause)

As we transition out of the cycle of fertility and into the next chapter of life, we give gratitude to our body and its process. Steam rituals instigate much needed circulation and encourage physical and emotional releases. The warmth of steaming brings relief to vaginal dryness and offers an opportunity to connect with the womb during this time of transformation.

1. Optional Mantra– “I love myself. I accept myself. I am love.”

2. How Often– 1-2 times per month for maximum benefits or when needed.
3. Suggested Root Medicine Blend– SERENITY (see description below)

Feminine Self-Care

Steaming is a beautiful option for those suffering from anxiety, pelvic pain, pain during intercourse, and tightness from chronic holding or shallow breathing. To maximize the healing benefits of your steam ritual, work with deep breathing. Relax and soothe your pelvic muscles while practicing forgiveness, and letting go. 

1. Optional Mantra– “I release control. I surrender to my soul.”

2. How often– 1-2 times per month for maximum benefits or when needed.

3. Suggested Root Medicine Blend– SOOTHE

Balanced Flora Care

What would a woman do 400 years ago when struggling with discomforts from fibroids, cysts, endometriosis, yeast infections, BV, and other pelvic disruptions? She would look to nature for relief and healing- which is exactly what we had in mind while designing our powerful Remedy Blend. This dynamic herbal blend cleanses the womb, restores balance, and helps to eradicates contaminates and undesirable odors. 

1. Optional Mantra– “I bring balance and harmony in all areas of my life.”
2. How Often– For cysts, prolapse, pelvic pain, fibroids, endometriosis, steam 2 – 4 x per week, 10 min per steam
3. Suggested Root Medicine Blend– REMEDY

After Pelvic Surgeries or Hysterectomy Care

After the initial healing from an invasive surgical procedure, the emotional and physical body may seek additional guidance and support. A holistic approach to healing may include steaming, scar tissue therapy, massaging with oils, and bodywork. Individually or together, these various healing modalities are helpful for reconnection, encouraging us to remember that this is your core, your center. A steaming ritual may be deeply supportive and healing after your body has undergone a radical physical or anatomical transformation.

1. Optional Mantra– “All that I am, and all that I do, is enough.”
2. Suggested Root Medicine Blend– SERENITY

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