EXERCISE:
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS ABOUT THE RECEIVER’S ROLE
Do you have any doubts or concerns about the guidelines, or is there anything you want to add to them?
Has anything gotten in your way in the past that prevented you from releasing old wounds and staying present during sexual experiences?
Giver, do you have any questions about the receiver’s role that you want to discuss?
CATHARSIS TRIGGERED
Though it’s unlikely, touching on severe wounding may trigger an emotional catharsis. This could take the form of long bouts of intense crying, irrational and overwhelming emotional outbursts, or even hyperventilation that causes numbness and tingling in the receiver’s hands.
We firmly believe that however difficult, strong, and explosive the immediate reaction may be, it’s better that the block has been contacted and the energy has begun to flow.
Remember, the tried and true therapy maxims:
The way out is the way through, and
What turns it on turns it off.
Many of our personal and professional experiences have confirmed the truth of these statements. If you can stay cool and keep the process going, whatever triggered the reaction will also discharge the energy.
Nevertheless, these upheavals can have an enormous impact on you. So, we want to offer you a pressure relief valve to bail out if you feel you need it.
SAFETY VALVES OR GROUNDING TECHNIQUES
If catharsis continues for more than ten minutes, consider using this safety valve process. When the giver judges that the receiver has processed as much pain as she can handle in one session, follow these steps:
1. Say “As soon as you’re ready, take a deep breath, and hold it.” This may take awhile and require multiple requests.
2. When she takes her breath, say “As soon as you’re ready, exhale, and take another deep breath in your belly.” Repeat if necessary.
3. When she begins to calm down, suggest gently but repeatedly that she relax and continue to breathe slowly.
4. Suggest that she let the energy drain out of her body and visualize it going into the earth.
5. Suggest she imagine that her spinal cord is energetically extending down into the earth and wrapping around a huge boulder. This visualization often creates a feeling of calm.
As giver, it’s important that you maintain intense presence and eye contact while you witness your beloved’s dramatic experience. Don’t push her to resume the healing right away but know that you’ll undoubtedly have to reconnect with the intense memory in another healing session. Most importantly, be certain that she will be okay. And giver, don’t forget to breathe slowly and deeply to stay grounded yourself. It can be emotional for you to watch someone you love experience such intense emotions.
EXERCISE:
CATHARSIS DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Receiver, do you have any concerns about the possibility of having a powerful emotional reaction?
Are there any issues of trust (of self or other) that need to be verbalized?
Giver, what do you understand is your response if your lover has a cathartic (emotional) reaction? If you have any doubt, review the sections above.
THE VAGINAL HEALING PRACTICE
DYNAMICS OF VAGINAL HEALING
The vaginal healing process itself is a simple touching practice that allows full consciousness to return to all parts of the vagina, especially the G-spot. The giver slowly and gently massages around and inside the vagina to reopen communication channels within the receiver.
The tissue of a healthy vagina should be soft, supple, and vibrantly alive with sensation. A healthy G-spot can produce amazing amounts of pleasure. When armored, however, the tissue hardens and loses its ability to flow sexual energy.
This vaginal healing massage returns that life simply by touching softly and pressing gently where armoring needs to be released, and this is often most intense around the G-spot. The real work is done by the receiver as she focuses her awareness wherever she’s touched.
The giver touches everywhere around and within the vagina, gradually approaching the G-spot and letting the receiver feel the life flowing to and from healthy tissues. Sometimes, the giver will contact a “hot spot” when the receiver reports some discomfort.
HOT SPOTS
A hot spot is an armored place that stores old energy, revealed by negative sensations when touched. Hot spots can be tense, sore, hard, tender, painful, numb, or — as the name implies — they may burn. Sometimes, the energy is so compacted that it feels like a hard nodule under the skin.
When a hot spot is found, the giver simply holds while the receiver breathes into the area until the negative energy dissipates.
Though this experience may be unpleasant, hot spots are a blessing. They provide an exact window into what needs to be healed to open the receiver’s channels to the unrestricted flow of sexual pleasure. After the stored energy is released, pleasure, orgasm, ecstatic states, and ejaculation are much more easily accessed.
Areas of discomfort shift from session to session and from time to time within each session. It’s as if blockages are fluid enough to hide from the light of touch and resurface elsewhere. So, approach each
healing time as a unique moment without expectation or plan. Just accept what’s there, and deal with it as it arises.
Though it might happen of its own accord, vaginal healing isn’t about getting excited or having an orgasm. It’s about rediscovering and awakening a woman’s capacity for G-spot pleasure and ejaculation.
Below is the full instruction for the vagina healing practice.
PRACTICE:
VAGINAL HEALING
1.
PREPARE WITH THE FIVE S’S
Supplies, Showering, Setting, Stretching, and Settling.
Discuss Partnering Questions — desires, concerns, boundaries — in the moment. Agree on any signals or alert words.
2.
HEALING MASSAGE
Giver, direct heart energy to your hands. Give your beloved a soft, slow, sensuous massage to bring her more into her body, relax her, and open her sensual energy channels. Tenderly attend to her whole body. Encourage her to give suggestions about what feels best. You can use oil for anything external if she would like.
Before moving on, be sure to work the tissues surrounding the vagina. Massage as deeply as the receiver is willing to experience, loosen the muscles and tendons around her genitals, working her PC wherever you contact it, including her butt, thighs, and pelvis.
3.
IS THE VAGINA READY?
Pay attention to your beloved’s breathing, sounds, hip movements, and vaginal lubrication to determine when the vagina is ready to be approached. You may also ask her directly.
This is the best time to check your preparations. Do you have all of your props handy? Do either of you need to empty your bladder or bowels again? Are you in the best position for G-spot massage? (See the G-spot massage chapter if you’ve forgotten.) Do you have enough towels underneath her in case she ejaculates?
4.
APPROACH THE VAGINA
Ask something like “May I touch your vagina?” When she answers “yes,” begin by placing one hand over her vagina, the other hand on her heart, and looking deeply into her eyes. This is a wonderful time for verbally admiring her beauty, including her vagina, and professing your love.
Approach her vagina with love and respect, gently stroking the vulva. When she’s ready, stroke her clitoris as well. Soft and slow is your aim, especially at first. If she wants, let the receiver take your hand and demonstrate how she likes her mound, lips, and clitoris stimulated.
Hopefully, this vulva massage will be pleasurable and awaken her sexual juices, but your aim is not to continue until orgasm.
5.
ENTRY
Giver, ask if she’s ready for you to enter her vagina by asking her directly. Assure her that you’re there for her at all times by maintaining frequent eye contact without looking away.
When you have permission, wipe any oil off the hand you plan to use inside. Put on a latex glove now, if needed. Liberally douse your fingers with lots of water-based lubricant. Starting with the third finger is a non-threatening beginning.
Place your fingertip inside the vagina’s inner lips without penetrating. Just hold at first. Then, say “Let’s try up and down,” and slowly and gently stroke the vagina’s lips. Next, say “Let’s try circles,” and move your fingertip around the inner lips without any sudden, jarring or jabbing motions. There’s no hurry!
6.
PROBING
Now, warn your beloved that you’re going deeper, and gently insert your finger inside the vagina’s mouth halfway to the first finger joint. Just rest a moment. Then, press upward gently into the tissues and ask, “Do you feel my finger?” Increase the pressure gradually until she does, and then ask, “How does it feel there?” Remember, you’re probing, not arousing.
As long as there’s no discomfort from your finger, continue exploring the vagina’s tissues in the same way, stopping at the hour positions of the clock. (12:00 means up toward her belly, 6:00 means down toward her butt.) Step-by-step, rotate one way as far as you can and then the other. You may need to move your body or even smoothly switch fingers to reach each of the 12 positions. Don’t forget to alert her before you make any major movements.
7.
HEALING
The core of vaginal healing is to discover any “hot spots,” tissues inside the vagina that need healing. You’ll recognize them when the receiver reports tension, numbness, tenderness, soreness, pain, burning, or a bruised feeling. The giver may feel throbbing, heat, or a hard nodule.
Giver, when you contact a hot spot, stop probing and hold with a steady pressure. Go just deep enough for your partner to feel the soreness or numbness. Don’t try to force old energy out of the tissue by pressing or squeezing as hard as you can.
Ask the receiver, “Describe the sensation. Breathe into it. Is any image, memory, or emotion coming up?”
Receiver, focus on the sensations in your vagina, and imagine your breath flooding them. Do your best to stay with your feelings while reporting to your giver as they change.
Giver, encourage the receiver to continue by saying things like, “Good job; continue” and “You’re doing great.”
Remember to be patient. Do your best to avoid distractions and interruptions to the clearing process. Just allow the energy to discharge.
She may need to yell, scream, or make other loud sounds to encourage the energy to move. As it dissipates, the vagina’s tissue may feel hot, even burning. While this continues, which may be two to five minutes until a full release takes place, continue holding and breathing. You can tell when the hot spot is discharged because the sensations will subside, and the area will feel lighter. Usually, the receiver will feel great afterward.
Giver, you may want to explore the vicinity of the initial hot spot to clear out related sensitive areas.
When a hot spot is cleared and the sensations are gone, continue probing the other clock positions. Spend some time enjoying the pleasurable places that you contacted. Remember to focus on the ultimate goal of the whole experience — pleasure.
8.
DEEPER
Once you’ve probed the 12 hours of the clock just inside the vagina’s mouth, it’s time to go deeper, warning her each step of the way.
Giver, insert your finger all the way to its first joint. Probe the clock positions as you did before, stopping and healing any hot spots you contact.
Then, go deeper into the vagina, half a finger joint at a time. If you both like, test a straight versus a crooked finger, different fingers, or more than one finger at a time, as well as other strokes from the G-spot massage chapter.
The G-spot often holds the most intense resistance. As you go deeper, be especially alert for hot spots between 11:00 and 1:00 o’clock, where you feel the urethral sponge swell and roughen. If the receiver feels the urge to empty her bladder, stop, and breathe together until the sensation subsides.
As you reach deeply enough to feel bones from the inside, press against her tailbone, sacrum, and pubic bone while testing for hot spots. Don’t forget to probe behind the pubic bone and on all sides of the cervix. If your fingers aren’t long enough, you may need to use a sex toy to reach everywhere inside the vagina.
If you discover hot spots holding a great amount of pain, don’t try to release them all in one session. Continue only as long as the receiver remains comfortable. Then, come back for more healing later.
9.
PLEASURE DOWN
When you agree that you’ve done enough clearing for one session, consider ending on a high note. Since pleasure is your ultimate aim, it’s wonderful to fill the energy vacuum that hot spots can leave behind with good feelings.
Giver, ask your beloved, “Would you like to shift our attention to pleasure in preparation for ending?” If she answers “yes,” begin focusing on the most pleasurable areas of the vagina. Use G-spot massage strokes, and include clitoris stroking if she desires.
Encourage the four cornerstones of supreme bliss to cleanse her energy channels and spread the ecstasy throughout her body. Orgasm is a sweet way to seal the entire vaginal healing experience, but it isn’t necessary or essential, especially if she isn’t in the mood after an intense healing experience.
Giver, when you sense your beloved has had enough, warn her with “If it’s okay with you, I’m going to withdraw my hand from your vagina.” Then, do so slowly. Don’t break the connection suddenly.
Smoothly cover the vulva with your hand right after exiting. Maintaining eye contact, place your other hand on your beloved’s heart, and breathe together. Giver, cover your partner with a blanket. If she wants, lie in each other’s arms, spoon, hug, comfort, or cradle her body. Lie together in silence, or sweetly share the experience while holding each other.
10.
CLOSING
When you’re ready to end the practice, close your sacred space. You can discuss what happened if the two of you prefer, or you can wait until later after things have settled.
You can also bathe together, but be sure to drink lots of water. We encourage the receiver not to run off and do something right away. Relax, and allow the process to unfold of its own accord.
AFTERTHOUGHTS
It’s possible that the first healing session may reveal little. Maybe during the second or later session, the receiver will be relaxed enough to allow her hidden traumas to be experienced through vaginal healing massage. This is an intuitive call. If she believes additional sessions may be useful, go with it, but never try to talk her into it or out of it. If you run into reluctant hot spots, the following practice provides a powerful method for addressing them.