The importance of the womb for most women is reduced to the moment of pregnancy, or experiencing gynecological problems....

...What if I told you that for thousands of years this area of the female body has played a much more significant role? 

The center of women's power and creation.

How many of us don't even know we have womb space?

Of course, probably every woman is aware of the uterus as an organ she has in her body. Many of us are mothers who have given birth to children from the aforementioned womb space. Our perceptions do not preclude us from overlooking the presence of this part of our body... but how many of us have any idea of the power this part of us has and why it matters? 

The womb space is two fingers above the pubic bone and about 3 fingers down from the navel. Your bladder is in front of it, and your anus and sacrum are behind it.

The average uterus measures 7x4x2.5 cm, with a non-menstrual volume of 30-60 ml, doubling its mass to 60-120 ml during menstruation. 

The position of the uterus in the pelvis is referred to as inverted - leaning forward or backward. The normal position for the uterus is a slight forward tilt. If brown/dirty blood occurs during the menstrual cycle, this is due to the accumulation of old blood in the bent uterine space. The uterus can bend and invert.

Painful periods NO are normal! Painful relations NO are normal!

These are signals from our womb.

The number one contributor to pressure, spasm and discomfort in the pelvis?

Stress. Yes. That's what it is.

This wave of profoundly unpleasant physical symptoms and the much more serious reproductive system complications and problems that have been initiated are the result of decades of oppression and tension caused by our body's constant fight or flight response.

(Spoiler: this is why Womb Massage works! It creates space and relieves structural tension and spasm in the pelvic muscles and ligaments, allowing natural movement, repositioning and increased blood flow - meaning oxygen and nutrients - to the uterus, ovaries and fallopian tubes).

Womb-mind-body connection

Wondering what women react to with pelvic stress?

Unfortunately, the question should be: "what do women NOT respond to with pelvic stress?".

Memory traces in the limbic system from the prenatal and early years of a girl's life and her role in this world versus that of a boy. Early transmission of information from the family about what girls are "allowed" to wear or "allowed" to do. When a little girl is forced to wear a frilly dress to a school picture day, she experiences stress. When a little girl is told she can't play with her brother's blocks because they are "toys for boys," she experiences stress. When, as a teenager, she is bullied for the appearance of her body, she experiences stress. When, as an adult, she is deprived of her sense of dignity during obstetric or gynecological visits, when she experiences pressure from society, when she goes through a traumatic birth, she experiences stress. There are as many examples as there are life stories. 

When a woman's emotional body perceives a threat, her brain responds with a cascade of stress hormones (cortisol and adrenaline) to prepare the physical body for a fight or flight response. The physical discharge of hormones or the fight or flight response does not normally take place, and the trauma-induced chemistry is absorbed in the body: in the highly innervated sacrum, tailbone, buttocks, inner thighs, diaphragm, solar plexus, abdomen and womb space.

Our pelvis protects our femininity both physically and energetically throughout our lives. We need to protect ourselves from abusers, bullies, aggressors. We clash with partners we shouldn't sleep with - those we regret refusing. We carry the stigma of unplanned penetration, unplanned ejaculation, unplanned pregnancy. Women, being the biological recipients of sex, have lived through millennia of the trauma of forced rapprochement, forced pregnancy, forced relationships, forced servitude.​

A woman's womb is like a sponge storing all our mental pains related to a disturbed sense of femininity, unspoken fears, feelings of betrayal and trauma accumulated throughout our lives.

But let's go back to the world before patriarchy-to the time of ancient medicine and matriarchal cultures: the evolution of Egyptian medicine from prehistoric, then Chinese, Babylonian and Indian medicine.
The medicine of the time honored energy, well-being, proper nutrition, movement and natural rhythms of connection to the earth.

Energetically, the uterus is connected to our second (sacral) chakra. It is the most powerful energy center of a woman, the seat of our creativity, creation, pleasure, passion, self-esteem.

When patriarchy had to take the reigns from matriarchal life, the womb space became a taboo subject. Women's sexuality began to be silenced and shamed. Women were systematically, meticulously disconnected from their womb space over time. Strong women and strong female archetypes were written out of children's stories. History was rewritten to honor men, and women were rewritten as their aloof, soft, gentle and obedient "slaves" - as mere producers of their children and food.

So why the womb?

Because it is time to reclaim our true selves from the shadows we have been pushed into.

It's time to reclaim the connection to our womb space-an energetic creative center of creative life force and feminine energy in the body from which all our magical potential can be born; whether it's birthing children, realizing projects, ideas and everything we want to create in the world. 

​The time has come to ruthlessly take control of our pleasure and our feminine rights to emotion, nature, psychic energy, intuition and community.

​Recovered women cannot be controlled. They cannot be tricked by telling them they are "too fat," "too wrinkled" or "too pale."

Recovered women cannot be abused because they know their worth and will not settle for anything less than the magic and power they know they deserve.
Recovered women are connected - to the universe, to the soul, to Mother Earth, to each other, to themselves.

When a woman reclaims the space of her womb, first physically and then energetically - she becomes the center of her power and becomes initially unmoved by negative outside influences.

As she reclaims the space in her womb, she sheds light on the shadows of generations of abuse, trauma and grief she carries from her mother's lineage. She heals herself, the women before her and all the women yet to come into this world.

When she reclaims her womb, she reclaims her pleasure, her sexuality, her pursuit of what makes her feel stimulated, invigorated and in control of her life.