An internal massage
So we’ve looked at sipping, squeezing, postures, resistance. Another benefit of this practice, and working with a Jade Egg, is that when it’s inside of you it massages your vaginal canal, which is important for a couple of reasons. Women tend to store a lot of trauma and suppressed emotion in their vaginal tissue – maybe from sexual abuse, unhealthy sexual experiences such as hard-and fast friction-sex, conditioning around sex and what it means to be a woman – and this trauma and emotion can create tension and desensitisation in the vaginal canal.
If you’re holding tension, this weakens the vaginal walls, which makes you more vulnerable to prolapse, it can also create imbalances in your cells, making you more susceptible to infections and cancer, and it can also stop the glans that run along the vaginal canal from working properly. It’s these glans that make us juicy. So if you’re having trouble getting wet for sexual intercourse, it’s because these glans need to be woken back up.
Because of the shift in hormones during menopause, often women who are moving through this phase of their life tend to dry up and find sex really painful, and that’s why they love this practice, because they’re able to massage those glans back to life, so they can easily lubricate in the lead up to intercourse. The internal massage also stimulates collagen production, essentially giving the reproductive organs an internal facelift.
There are also reflexology points in our vaginal canal, which directly impact the health of the organs such as the kidneys, the liver, the lungs, the spleen, the heart. In Taoist medicine it’s believed that these reflexology points are far more powerful than the points on our hands or feet. So in that way, by working with the Jade Egg – learning how to move it up and down the vaginal canal – we’re sending healing energy to the other important organs in our body.
As I mentioned, the vaginal canal can also become de-sensitised. You’ll know if you have a numb vagina if you find it difficult to experience vaginal orgasms, like G-spot and cervical orgasms. This is where using the egg to massage out tension and trauma can be really effective, in helping to re-sensitise the area so you can feel more pleasure. Marry that with the squeezes and releases, and you start to become very attuned to the sexual energy moving through your body, and how to move that energy, so it becomes possible to experience full body pleasure when you orgasm.
