YONI STEAMING

Yoni steaming is an ancient feminine self-care practice used to restore and maintain a healthy womb as well as to provide cleansing, revitalization, and balance to menstrual cycles.

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Yoni steaming, vaginal steaming, bajo, or chai-yok is an ancient feminine self-care practice used to restore and maintain a healthy womb as well as to provide cleansing, revitalization, and balance to menstrual cycles. Yoni (योनि) is Sanskrit for vagina and womb, it can be translated as the origin of life and is the symbol of the Hindu Goddess Devi. This nourishing self-love practice involves sitting over a bowl of steam with medicinal herbs (just using water is also an option) and allowing the steam to absorb into the exterior tissue of the vagina also known as the vulva. This highly absorbent tissue intakes the oils from the medicinal herbs and carries them into the inner reproductive systems as well as the uterus. The steam increases circulation and loosens tissue build up, allowing for a natural, gentle release and healing of stagnant membranes, old blood, or scarring.

This serves for a balanced, natural, and radiant menstruation as well as an overall rejuvenated well-being inside and out. Aside from the herbal benefits, the practice serves to deepen one’s connection to the sacred energy of the womb and use that energy for creativity, abundance, and wisdom in one’s life.
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WHAT IS YONI STEAMING?


YONI STEAMING BENEFITS:

  • Reduce period pain

  • Regulate irregular or absent menstrual cycles

  • Improve fertility

  • Increase circulation and blood flow

  • Decrease bacterial and yeast imbalances

  • Increase healing and tone the reproductive system after childbirth

  • Cleanse the uterine lining of old blood

  • Treat uterine fibroids, ovarian cysts, uterine weakness, uterine prolapse & endometriosis.

  • Improve period bleeding that is brown or black in color

  • Relieve symptoms of menopause including hot flashes and vaginal dryness.


PREPARING THE STEAM

Boil 3 cups of water (distilled or purified preferred). Add 1/4 to 2/3 cups of medicinal herbs to the water. Boil altogether for 5 minutes, turn off heat, then let steep for another 5 minutes covered. Test out the steam with the palm of your hand to gauge whether it is a comfortable temperature before using. Be sure it’s not too hot; it should be a delicious and comfortable process.
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HOW TO STEAM

There are several ways to yoni steam, all can be done in the comfort of your home. Use socks to keep your feet warm and a towel or blanket to cover the bottom portion of your body during the process. Listen to soothing music, frequencies, meditations, or use the time to journal, reflect, and set intentions for your self and body. It is encouraged to stay warm and continue to rest after your steaming.

Option 1: Squat in frog pose over a bowl of steaming herbs. Find an area that is carpeted or use a rug/towel. Place the bowl of hot water and herbs on the floor. Undress from the waist down. Squat in frog pose over the bowl comfortably and safely expose your vaginal area to the steam. Cover the bottom portion of your body to keep the steam insulated. Steam for 20 minutes. Offer the water and herbs back to Mother Earth in gratitude for her gifts.

Option 2: Use two chairs separated enough to create an opening in the middle of them. Undress from the waist down. Place the bowl between the two chairs and sit above the bowl safely and comfortably exposing your vaginal area over the steam. Cover the bottom portion of your body to keep the steam insulated. Steam for 20 minutes. Offer the water and herbs back to Mother Earth in gratitude for her gifts.

Option 3: Sanitize your toilet. Turn the water pump off and flush so that it is empty. Or just add your hot water and herbs to the water already in the toilet. Undress from the waist down. Cover the bottom portion of your body to keep the steam insulated. Steam for 20 minutes. Offer the water and herbs back to Mother Earth in gratitude for her gifts.

Option 4: Use an already built Yoni Steamer chair specifically made for yoni steaming.

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WHEN IT IS BEST TO YONI STEAM?

  • 2-3 times a month between your menstruation period

  • Before your menstrual cycle - Unless you desire to become pregnant. If you desire to become pregnant, do not steam after ovulation. If you do not know your ovulation cycle, learn the Fertility Awareness Method (FAM). You can also get the Eve APP which helps you track your ovulation cycles.

  • After your menstrual cycle

  • Before/After love-making

DO NOT YONI STEAM:

  • While pregnant or think you may be

  • During menstruation

  • If you have an acute vaginal infection, open wounds, sores, or blisters

  • If you have an IUD (Intrauterine Device)

  • If you have a genital piercing. Remove all genital piercing before use


I hope this information was useful and insightful for more powerful ways to approach health and naturally healing the body and sacred womb space.

Herbals are not regulated by the Food & Drug Administration and so any herbal treatment or product on the market has not been evaluated by the FDA and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any medical condition and any information listed is not intended to replace or substitute for medical advice. As always, consult a health practitioner before using herbals. In the case of pregnancy, lactation, pre-existing medical conditions, or contraindications with other medications, please make sure to clear with a health practitioner before use.

User assumes all risk when using yoni steams.

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YONI STEAM ADD ON

Yoni steaming can be added as an additional treatment when booking Womb healing session with Daniela.

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ABOUT DANIELA RIOJAS

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Daniela Riojas is an initiated curandera, educator, medicine keeper, musician, and artist originally from the border of Texas and Mexico, currently based in Topanga, CA. Her Indigenous ancestry is connected to The Coahuiltecans of northern Mexico. As a curandera, she communes with Mother Nature and a lexicon of plants, animals, and energies through ancestral practices of channeling and meditation. She has undergone extensive trainings and Amazonian Master Plant dietas of a wide variety of plants, trees (Palos Fuertes), and flowers with Indigenous elders who have initiated her into the sacred practice of facilitation and healing in ceremonial space.

She has been under the guidance of elders in Nayarit Mexico (Richie and Xochitl of Nawake Bucerias) as well as elders and curandero/as of the jungles of Peru who are Cocama - Gran Maestra Aime Vargas Davila, Shipibo - Maestra Bawan Kate, Ashaninka - Maestro Miguel Charini and Mestizo - Maestro Camarampi Shirampa. For years, Daniela has been traveling extensively throughout North and South America facilitating plant and animal medicines, and creating ceremonial healing spaces
for communities in diverse countries and lands.

Her facilitation consists of sharing traditional and directly received icaros through her diets with Master Plants, within the lineage of Cocama curanderismo. Within this practice is a weaving of Quechua and Spanish icaros, which carry the consciousness, resonance, and energy of the doctoring plant spirits from her Master Plant dietas.

Daniela’s voice carries a high vibration of divine love, joy, and nurturing Mother energy, while bridging the worlds of the Earth’s deep resonance. She calls on a wide spectrum of Earth’s cosmology and higher dimensional spaces, with the clear intention of maintaining a balance of strength,
groundedness, and elevation. A variety of instruments are utilized including, shakapa, crystal bowls alongside icaro, Native American flutes, clay ocarinas, and medicine songs with a team of trusted facilitators. She also utilizes tobacco in the form of sopla extensively, which she has studied with her teachers and a variety of specially prepared perfumes and agua floridas within ceremonial space.

Daniela Riojas is the founder of Intikhana Medicina, which provides ceremonial healing rooted in Indigenous and Earth-Based practices.
The mission at Intikhana is to provide gateways of health and well-being through Indigenous knowledge, plants, animals, music, frequencies, education, and connection to all of the medicine that this beautiful Mother Earth provides. Intikhana Medicina specializes in providing containers of integrity and safety for comprehensive ceremonial healing.

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