5 Womb Healing Rituals – For When You Feel Disconnected From Your Womb

We live in a time where our wombs are screaming for our attention.

With so many of us taught to suppress our menstrual cycles, our symptoms and our bodies’ natural cycles – it’s perhaps no wonder that more women than ever are experiencing painful periods, and womb / hormonal conditions such as endometriosis, fibroids, PCOS… the list goes on.

Where womb was once our most powerful oracle, and our deep connection with Mother Earth, womb has now become over-medicated, reduced to a surgical organ (and often an inconvenient one at that to the male-centric medical system) and is ignored.

It has been my personal experience (and journey) that so often, womb now has to get our attention, and wake us up, by developing physical symptoms…. to tell us that all is not well…

Womb is trying to get (y)our attention. The womb healing rituals I offer below are a way in.

Disclaimer: This website does not offer health advice, and I am not a health practitioner. The following womb healing practices are based on my own lived experiences and on my shamanic womb healing training and do not replace medical advice or your own intuition!

Healing Disconnection from your Womb

When I first embarked on my journey of deep descent into healing my womb, the advice I was given over and over by healers, was “connect with your womb”.

The only problem?

I had no idea how to connect with my womb. I could not feel her.

I had a vague sense of where she would be – but when people told me “ask your womb” – I felt and heard nothing. Silence.

And I know that I wasn’t alone in feeling this numbness.

If you are at the beginning of your womb healing journey – know that womb takes time. She cannot be rushed, sped up or hurried. She holds her own wisdom which is revealed on her own timing.

She needs you to show up consistently for her. To be in daily devotion and listening to her. Even if that means days of hearing or feeling nothing.

In this article, I’ll share 5 simple rituals to help you deeply connect with your womb – so that you can reopen the door to her wisdom and magic.

5 Simple Womb Healing Practices to Reclaim the Power of your Womb

Please note, if you no longer have a physical womb, you can connect with your womb space (the space between your mound of venus and your belly button where you womb would be), where her energetic imprint remains. If you no longer have a menstrual cycle, you can skip to #3.

1. Start Tracking your Cycle, and Notice…

If you don’t already, starting with tracking your cycle and recording it in a journal is the first place to start.

Day 1 is the first day of your bleed, the first spots of blood, and an “average” cycle lasts 27-30 days from bleed to next bleed.

Make a ritual practice of noting in your journal daily:

• What day of my cycle is it today?
• How is my mood and my energy levels? How do I feel?
• What phase and sign is the moon in? (The moon’s cycles are deeply linked to our menstrual cycles)
• How is my body asking me to nourish her today?
• What would my womb like to share with me today?

Over the months, notice the patterns in how you feel and what you need depending on where you are in your cycle.

If you are on hormonal birth control – you are not experiencing a cycle (it’s a synthetic cycle). Please check in with your body to see if it is alignment for you to be taking that – the same if you have an IUD as even copper IUD’s have been shown to be linked to Estrogen Dominance and a range of uterine conditions.

There are several apps that are available for cycle tracking, however there are data privacy concerns about some of them. For that reason, I like pen and paper best!

2. Offer Your Menstrual Blood to the Land

One of the simplest and easiest womb healing practices to start with if you are still bleeding, is to start offering your menstrual blood to the land.

Not only is our womb blood is rich in stem cells and precious nutrients – so offering it to the earth is a gift that brings the blessings of these powerful nutrients to the earth and plants, but in doing so we help to reconnect our wombs back to the original mother: Gaia, the Earth.

Offering your blood to the earth is all about intention and doesn’t have to be complicated. If you have a particular tree or place in nature that you like to go to, that’s a great place to start with making offerings. And if you don’t have nature near you, you can also start with offering your blood to your house plants or in your garden/yard.

Since menstrual blood is highly potent, it’s recommended to dilute it with water before offering it to the earth. You can easily collect your blood if you use a menstrual cup, or if you use tampons/pads, you can soak them in a small bowl of water and squeeze out the blood.

3. Womb Anointing / Self – Massage

Anointing is the ancient art of blessing the body with Holy Oils (very high frequency essential oils), and this can be a beautiful practice to support you in connecting with your womb – which is the beginning of healing. There are also many beautiful types of womb massage available — such as Mayan womb massage if you have a practitioner near you.

If you are new to self massage, keep it simple. Choose which essential or anointing oils you feel called to work with, and create a restful, quiet, sacred space for you to connect with your womb. Always dilute essential oils with a carrier oil like jojoba or coconut oil before placing them directly on your skin. Place the oil on your hands and hold your hands gently over your womb (between your belly button and above your mound of venus). You can continue just placing your hands here, letting your womb feel your attention and love. You can also make gentle strokes, following what you feel called to do – such as anticlockwise spirals around your belly button – trust your intuition and what movement / touch your womb is asking for.

Essential oils that can be beneficial for womb healing: Rose Geranium (self -love and forgiveness), Rose (unconditional love), Frankincense (master healer), Clary Sage (hormone balancer), Tangerine (creative joy), Jasmine Sambac (dancing & movement), Ylang Ylang (moving stuck energy & awakening kundalini) — and many more, again – trust your intuition and which ones you are drawn to. Use organic oils if you can from small, reputable providers (avoid the multi-national pyramid schemes). You can find my teacher’s exquisite anointing oils here.

4. Yoni / Womb Steaming

This has been one of the most powerful and healing practices in my own womb healing journey. I initially had resistance to it as the setup felt complicated, and it felt like a lot of effort. However, since I have been steaming regularly, my periods have become less painful and smoother, and I have come to look forward to these moments of nourishing and caring for my womb.

Benefits include bringing nourishment and softening to tight fascia, to vaginal & womb tissue. It can help with balancing hormones, and healing from irregular periods, PMS, fibroids, endometriosis, and other conditions.

Yoni or Womb steaming involves sitting over a bowl of steaming herbs, boiled in water. You can find many full guides online on how to do womb steaming step by step. People work with different setups – and you can invest in a special handcrafted yoni steaming stool and pot if you feel called to. You also want to check for any contra-indications before trying this.

However, what has worked best for me is to use a large bowl (not plastic!) which I place inside my toilet, pour the steamed herbs and water into that, and then you can simply sit on your toilet for 10-20 minutes with a towel wrapped over your legs to stop the steam escaping too quickly. I have found this to be much safer and less anxiety-inducing than any methods of trying to crouch over a bowl! I love to listen to healing Solfegio Tones music as I steam.

Choose your herbs according to your intention for your womb – there are many custom blends available online, or you can buy individual herbs to make your own. Some of my favourites include Motherwort, Mugwort, Rose petals/buds, Red Raspberry Leaf, Lavender and Chamomile.

The best times for steaming are the days immediately after your bleed, and the 3 or so days preceding the arrival of your bleed. Do not steam while you are bleeding or if you are pregnant.

5. Sit with your Womb to Hear her Truth

All of these rituals carry the intention of slowing down to honour and be with your womb.

But in truth, the most powerful ritual of all that you can do does not require any elaborate setup – it is simply you sitting with the intention to connect with your womb, to share your gratitude and love with her, and to practice listening to her.

I like to talk to my womb as I go about my day – asking her what she wants to eat, does she want x or y to drink, etc, does something feel aligned, or not…

If you’re getting started, I recommend taking time to slow down and sit or lie, placing your hands on your womb and taking time to be with her. This is a relationship that takes – honestly – a lifetime to build.

And if you’re in the place where you try to connect with your womb but feel nothing – keep going. Notice what sensations come up, what emotions. When we first connect with our wombs and start listening, it is normal for grief to come up. There is deep, ancestral, lineage and personal grief here. We do not need to process all of it. But, we can witness it. Allow it to rise and fall, like the ebb and flow of the tide.

This is how we break the pattern: By saying to your womb – I’m here now. And I’m here to honour you and listen.

Going Deeper

Your womb is the way in. She is the portal to your truth – and yet it can be so hard to hear her.

If you are standing at a crossroads, in a passage of deep transformation, that perhaps your womb is guiding you through.. this is the work I support women through in my Soul Midwifing. I help you connect to your own truth, so that you can navigate through thresholds with clarity and more ease.

Find out more about my 121 Soul Midwifing sessions and offerings here.