Yoni steaming, also known as vaginal steaming, “v-steam”, is an alternative health treatment in which you sit, squat or kneel over steaming water that contains herbs with health benefits. Steaming can be done at home or with a trained professional.
Depending on the herbs used, yoni steaming can be tailored to your individual needs. Some of the benefits include:
- Regulate your menstrual cycle, decrease painful periods, decrease bloating and exhaustion commonly associated with your period
- Decrease the flow of menstrual blood
- Promote fertility
- Reduce pain associated with intercourse
- Assist in healing emotional and sexual trauma
- Wonderful tool to help with postpartum recovery, aids in repair of vaginal tears, episiotomy or c-section scars)
- Reduce uterine fibroids, ovarian cysts and PCOS
- Aid in healing hemorrhoids
- Helps with chronic yeast infections and UTI’s
- Detox the womb and remove any toxins
- Can increase libido and better orgasms
Other benefits:
- Balancing the Menstrual Cycle
-Steaming on certain days affiliated with your cycle can regulate your menstrual cycle. Long periods shorten, can bring back a missing period, reduce fatigue and lengthen a period that is too short. - Pain Free Periods:
– Stagnated blood is the root cause of cramps and lower back pain. The uterus contacts to release stagnation. If you can eliminate the stagnation, the uterus has no reason to contract. Stagnated blood is the brown blood you experience during your period. While it is very normal, it is not optimal. Yoni steaming can help you achieve 3-4 days of fresh, pain free blood. - Fertility
-Put simply, a healthy cycle results in optimal fertility. Yoni steaming supports balance within your uterus which is often one of the main causes of infertility. Steaming can act as a cleanse for insemination, ivf or iui.
Note: Steaming should only be done BEFORE not during insemination. - Fibroids and Cysts
-Steaming is a nonsurgical option to remove fibroids/cysts by liquifying and releasing them. - Menopause and Post-Menopausal support
-Yoni steaming can alleviate vaginal dryness by adding moisture back into the body. Cooling herbs can release excess heat trapped in the body thus reducing hot flashes.
-Western culture dictates that a women is worth less once she can no longer bear children. By yoni steaming with intent, you can begin to reclaim power over your womb, and in turn of your life. - Sexual Well-Being
-Steaming can increase natural vaginal lubrication, increase libido and lead to better orgams. - Holistic Health
-Yoni steaming, like most holistic health alternatives, is a wonderful tool in emotional and spiritual healing. As women, we often feel like we are at war with our own bodies. Starting at such an early age with our periods, our bodies seem to betray us with a host of symptoms that impair our daily lives. We are strong and resilient, so we carry on. But the sense that our bodies are complicating our lives stays with us. By taking part in sacred practices that exist to serve us, we allow ourselves the space to be one with our bodies. Taking time that is solely for us is a beautiful way to reclaim our body and connect with our highest self.
When NOT to steam:
- If you are ovulating or actively trying to conceive
- You are or may be pregnant
- You have an IUD
- Any active internal infection (cervical, uterine or ovarian)
- You have any open herpes sores/blisters; you can steam once the area has fully healed
- You are menstruating
- You are prone to or experience spontaneous bleeding, you bleed between periods or have 2 periods per month
- If the weather is extremely hot
Burns are one of the main concerns when it comes to yoni steaming. To have a safe session, first make sure you test the temperature of the water. If you feel any discomfort, no matter how minor it may seem, listen to your body. If at any point, even after you have tested the water, the steam causes you any discomfort stand up.