Sex and the Sacred Girl
by Lisa Sarasohn
Author of The
Woman's Belly Book
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Unleashed in 1962, Helen Gurley Brown's Sex and the Single
Girl helped launch a revolution in women's sexuality. The book
declared that women have the right to seek sexual pleasure for
ourselves. The "sexual revolution" continued into
the '70s, opening the field for women's self-expression even
further.
Now's the time to take the revolution to another turn: understanding
that women's sexual energy is sacred.
"Sacred"—what does that mean?
What's sacred is what's necessary for our survival.
From the beginning, humanity's survival has depended upon women's
sexuality. Every tribe's survival has depended upon women's
capacity to give birth, to bear healthy children into the next
generation.
Our ancestors understood women's birth-giving power as kin
to the Power of Being that creates, sustains, and transforms
the world. Their images and icons of the Sacred Feminine celebrate
women's awesome ability to regenerate life. In woman's body,
the Great Goddess becomes manifest.
Lovemaking is a ritual that celebrates the Goddess, an erotic
dance of give-and-take drawing masculine and feminine into union.
Eros is the power of attraction that tempts polarities together,
embraces the universe, lures us toward life.
Your sexuality is one expression of your erotic life force,
your core life energy. The source of this energy is your body's
center, what the Chinese call the "Gate of the Mysterious
Female." When you activate your body's center with movement
and breath, you ignite your inner source of vitality. You amplify
your life energy as a whole.
As one woman reflects, "I'm claiming my wholeness as a
woman that I’ve never had before. Energizing my belly
has enabled me to gain an openness and release of sensual, sexual
energy and healing. I feel increased connectedness to the feminine."
This life we live is a grace. Our sexuality is a sacred trust.
As we fully own our sexual energy as a generous gift, we can
understand it as pro-creative power in the largest sense. Our
sexuality is not only our capacity to bear children. It is,
as well, our power to promote creation in any dimension we choose.
In these times, humanity's survival depends less upon the capacity
to bear children and more upon the conditions into which our
children are born. Survival depends upon women birthing new
ways of being and doing that promote peace, justice, and sustainable
economies on our planet.
How do we start?
With movement and breath, we cultivate the pro-creative power
seeded in our "Energy Garden," our body's center.
We know ourselves as sacred beings and respect our sexuality
as a sacred force of nature.
We realize that we're sexy—at our juiciest—as we
express the truth of who we are.
And, we direct our pro-creative power not only for sacred pleasure
but also for personal and planetary healing.
Spice Up Your Sexual Pleasure
Drawn from The Woman's Belly Book: Finding Your Treasure Within,
this breathing pattern helps connect your body-centered source
of vitality with your sexual energy center, the second chakra
in the physiology of yoga.
"A majority of women prefer reading a good book to having
sex." As I recall it, that's what one survey discovered.
When I mention this finding to friends, they nod with a knowing
look.
With all the responsibilities of work, home, and family, many
women are exhausted by the time they finally get to bed. More
women than you might imagine mourn the loss of their interest
in sex.
What is sexual pleasure? It's the play of sexual energy, one
expression of your life energy as a whole. When you have more
energy, you experience more pleasure.
Your belly is your powerhouse, your life-energy generator.
Energizing your belly with movement and breath ignites a healthy
delight in the pleasures of sex.
1. Sit or stand comfortably. Or lie on your back with a pillow
under your knees to ease your lower back. Give your belly room
to breathe by loosening your belt, unzipping your zipper. Rest
your palms lightly upon your lower abdomen.
2. Feel the gentle rhythm of your breath, allowing your belly
to expand as the breath enters in, allowing your belly to sink
back toward your spine as the breath travels out.
3. Locate your belly center, the point a few inches below your
navel and in toward your spine. As you breathe, picture the
breath entering your body through the crown of your head, flowing
down into your belly center and brightening the globe that’s
glowing there. Stay with this image for five to ten cycles of
breath.
4. Continue breathing in through the crown of your head, directing
the breath down to your belly center, now breathing out through
the center front and back of your lower abdomen.
5. Stay with this image and pattern of breathing for ten to
twenty cycles of breath. Experience the sensations occurring
in your body.
6. Gradually return your attention to your whole body and to
the present moment.
Lisa Sarasohn is a yoga and bodywork therapist, author of The
Woman's Belly Book: Finding Your Treasure Within and the instructional
Honoring Your Belly video, both available for order here
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