Yoni and Lingam Healing: Reconnecting Within
The spring season is upon us and her energy is dancing around and within us. Spring is the season of awakening, of transformation and rebirth, of innocence and play. It’s the season of tuning into our senses and our Eros, the aliveness that lives within the body (it’s ever-present, despite how connected we feel to it). Eros runs through the whole body, but is considered to be awakened in the Yoni and Lingam.
Yoni is a Sanskrit word for ’sacred opening and temple’. This is all encompassing of the entire female gentials: vulva, vagina, female prostate (g-spot), uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes & cervix: physically, emotionally and energetically. The connection is accessible regardless if physical organs are present or not.This is the center that supports creativity, flow, fluidity and love. A woman’s yoni is her inner sanctum, a place to access her wisdom, her intuition, her power, her creativity, her vitality, her sexuality and sensuality.
Lingam is the Sanskrit word for penis and translates to "wand of light." The lingam is respected as a channel for sexual energy and pleasure. The Lingam energy travels through the solar plexus (center of empowerment), heart and up into the crown of the head, connecting to wisdom and intuition.
Over the course of life, people can experience body armoring, which is a process whereby past traumatic experiences are stored in the body’s tissues. The body’s tissues harden, which create tension and block energy in the area where there has been trauma. The body’s armoring intention is to protect itself from pain and vulnerability. But within the armoring process, it can reduce the capacity for pleasure and trust and safety within the body. Body armoring is living in a constant state of contraction, which reduces the energy flow of vitality and radiance.
Both women’s and men’s sexual organs are prone to body armoring due to negative imprinting from childhood, emotions and beliefs around the body, sexual trauma, shaming around self-pleasure, sexual intercourse without sufficient foreplay, pressure of ‘performance’/goal-oriented sex, which can carry shame and guilt, as well as other depleting emotions; and disrupt and interfere with connections and relationships.
For women, armoring can also be caused by miscarriages, abortions, c-section births, hysterectomy, the emotional challenges of infertility, health challenges and surgeries (including removal of organs).
Body armoring manifests as lack of sexual turn-on, tightness, stiffness or numbness that inhibits someone from being present in their body to feel pleasure and energy, numbness, disassociation, inability to change and feel ‘stuck’ or ‘frozen’ in the trauma
Healing through De-armoring
De-armoring is a process that allows the body to move back into a place of wholeness. This is a process that allows the body to access and release stored trauma, stress and emotions. It allows the body to release emotions and let them move up and out of the nervous system.
De-armoring is a process that integrates presence, compassion, safety, love and acceptance into the healing process.
De-armoring is a self-healing process.
Resourcing places of safety, love and presence in the body are the main ingredients in the process. This creates a deeper sense of wisdom, self-awareness and self-responsibility within the body.
My favorite and most respected healing tools for body de-armoring are yoni/lingam steaming, breathwork, somatic based practices to support the nervous system, self-pleasure and self massage practices. These are tools that are integrated in my client practice to support cultivating body awareness to welcome in presence and intention into the body.
Interested in learning more about this topic?!
Explore some of my other blogs around these practices here:
https://www.sunshinekates.com/blog//tending-to-the-men-and-the-art-of-lingam-steaming
https://www.sunshinekates.com/blog/the-art-of-yoni-steaming
Interested in learning more about tools to support your healing journey? Let’s connect!