Weed Wanderings Herbal eZine with Susun Weed : Feature Article
June 2003
Volume 3 Number 6

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Feature Article... My Sacred Yoni by shaUna Owlsong

Yoni (yõnee) is a Sanskrit word that translates as “womb”, “origin”, “source”, and “vulva”. Our yoni is our entire genital system, our uterus, our passage (I choose not to include vagina in my vocabulary, it translates as “sheath for a sword”), and our vulva. Using the word yoni offers us the opportunity to reclaim the sacredness and power of our sexuality as women, as goddesses.

A woman’s yoni has been worshipped all over the world. In India the yoni is worshipped as the sacred symbol of the Divine Feminine, the Great Goddess, the source of life, the Universal Womb. There are entire sects based on the worship of the yoni, also called Yoni Puja.

Yoni Worship:
Build an altar to your yoni. Use red flowers, yoni art, red candles, soft and furry items, ocean water, and rose incense. Practice your yoni exercises (see below), chant, dance, and make offerings.

Yoni Meditation:
Our yoni’s are our center…the place from which we feel and sense the world around us and within us. We feel the pain and the joy of our sisters, our brothers, and the earth mother through our yonis. We manifest our intentions through our yonis.

Close your eyes and place your hands upon your womb. Breathe, grounding your feet into the earth like tree roots.

Breathe into your vulva, allowing the energy to flow through your passage into your womb. Breathe. Feel the energy in your womb.

Breathe this energy out of your womb as you exhale and slowly move your hands off of your womb, radiating your intentions of manifestation (may be peace, love, power, beauty, etc.).
Inhale and bring your hands back to your womb and breathe deeply, receiving what you need and allowing your energy to flow freely throughout your body, grounding into the earth.

Yoni Exercise:
This is a very important and often overlooked aspect for yoni health. These are two exercises I practice as regularly as possible to keep my yoni in shape.

Pelvic floor exercises (aka Kegels): The muscles that you use when you stop the flow of urine when peeing are called pelvic floor muscles. Contract these muscles for a count of ten, and release. Repeat. If you cannot do it for a whole count of ten, that is ok. Work your way up to ten. Then contract for only one count, release, and repeat. You can practice these exercises as much as you choose, whenever and wherever…because no one will know you’re doing it!

Orgasm: My all time favorite exercise! It is important on many levels to have regular orgasms. The clitoris makes up most of our external genitalia, including our passage. So having regular orgasms tones the muscles, blood vessels, and nerves of the yoni. Orgasm is also stress relieving and enlightening…heightening our senses and our joy.

Yoni Herbs:
I can’t stress enough the importance of a whole foods diet rich in heathy fats that are high in essential fatty acid, like butter and sardines. Here is a great nutrition article by Susun http://www.susunweed.com/Article_Nutrition.htm.

Slippery foods are especially nourishing to our yoni’s. These include flax seeds (freshly ground and baked into muffins or bread), seaweed, mallows (all species in the mallow family are edible), and comfrey leaf infusion.

Drink a variety of herbal infusions, including nettle, red raspberry, comfrey leaf, oatstraw, and red clover blossoms. Nettle and red raspberry tone and strengthen the uterus.

Motherwort tincture (up to a dropperful a day) tones the uterus and helps keep our passage walls think and moist.


The Beauty of the woman,
is the beauty of the heart,
is the beauty of the yoni,
is one.
- Chant by Marie Summerwood


Blessed is the yoni through which we all come to be.
Blessed be.

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