What is Yoni Steaming?
Yoni steaming is a sacred, womb-centred ritual rooted in traditions around the world. It uses warm herbal steam to gently support the physical tissues, energetic flow, and your relationship to your womb space. More than herbal medicine, it’s a pause, a breath, a homecoming inside yourself.
Yoni steaming is not a new trend. It is a global ancestral practice that has been passed down through generations in many cultures around the world—each with their own traditions, language, and sacred relationship to the womb.
It has been used by:
Mayan and other Mesoamerican communities for postpartum healing and spiritual cleansing
Indigenous African lineages, including the Dagara people of Burkina Faso, as part of womb care and rites of passage
Traditional Chinese and Korean medicine, such as “Chai-yok” in Korea, used for circulation, warmth, and restoring balance
Ayurvedic medicine of India, as part of yoni prakshalana and cleansing rituals
Indigenous North American communities, where steaming and herbal bathing were used for healing, grounding, and ceremony
Ancient Greece and Egypt, where vaginal steaming and fumigations were used in early gynaecological practices
This practice belongs to no one lineage alone, but rather to a vast remembering of how to care for the womb as a sacred centre of life, intuition, and transformation.
We offer this practice with deep respect to the cultures that have carried it, and with ongoing commitment to honouring its origins through education, sourcing, and intentional use.
Benefits
Stimulation & Release – Helps improve circulation, ease menstrual or postpartum heaviness
Emotional Clearing – May assist with energetic release and ancestral healing
Tissue Support – Herbs like raspberry leaf and marshmallow nourish uterine tissues
Rooting & Nurturing – Especially during times of transition or reintegration
Full Moon vs New Moon Blend
Full Moon – Lunar Release
Encourages flow, release, creative reawakening
Includes yarrow, calendula, rosemary, raspberry leaf, lavender, rose, mugwort*
Use when feeling stuck, postpartum, before your cycle
New Moon – Womb Root
Grounds, softens, prepares for inner seed planting
Includes chamomile, oatstraw, lemon balm, thyme, rose, marshmallow, motherwort*
Use to connect inward, rest, vision, or womb preparation
*Herbs marked with a star are not intended for use during pregnancy or while actively trying to conceive.
Create the Space
Prepare a clean, sacred space without distraction – candles, tea, music or soft silence
Prepare where you will steam - if you do not have a steaming stool, use what you have. Gather pillows, roll up blankets and towels, use a chair to rest against.
Gather water & boil 4–6 cups, then steep 1/3 cup herbs for 5–10 minutes
Pour into a heat-safe bowl. Pro tip: wrap a towel around the bowl to ensure that your skin does not touch the bowl directly.
Lie draped over it, enclosing warmth with blanket or towels, wearing socks to keep feet warm as well
Steam for 15–20 minutes, breathing and holding presence
Rest afterward, keeping the body warm - hydrate, journal, meditate, or lightly move
Precautions
Not for use during pregnancy, when trying to conceive, during menstruation, or with active infection
Always test water first – it should be comfortably warm, never burning
Can be used as a foot soak or full-body sitz bath if yoni steaming isn’t accessible
Listen to your body - it may feel
Ritual Integration
While there are physical benefits, the emotional and spiritual connection are very potent during a yoni steam. Treat each steam as a ceremony, a ritual, a sacred time of connection with your womb space. Speak intention to your herbs, revere in the warmth and give thanks to the release. Emotional sensitivity is common after a steam, give yourself time & grace to integrate your release.
Yoni steaming invites you into embodied care, offering time to pause, honour, and empower your inner wisdom. These blends are handcrafted with local and ancestral earth medicine, created to help you reconnect, release, and remember your inherent strength.
As with anything - use with caution, discernment, and your intuition. There are many healers who teach about this practice - seek out more information, connect with the herbs you are using, and explore blends that may best serve you.