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| Moon centers Yogini Anatomy for Self-Care & Tantric Partnership compiled by Mary Ceallaigh Incorporation of the Moon Centers self-care in women's daily practice as well as partnership rituals begins with simply bringing mental awareness to all these areas in your daily attunement (sadhana). For lifelong self-care, self-massage & pelvic floor work for the 11 Moon Centers is of benefit at least once a week. For lovemaking with a partner, it is important to teach your partner to be attuned to the pathway of your internal moon energies. Typically, partners need to be taught to slow down and value the power of their hands. The attunement of a woman’s Moon Centers greatly impacts her capacity to experience her full tantric relaxation, receptivity, and ecstasy in intercourse. This Moon Centers practice guidance is sourced in Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan, and presented in Sacred Sexual Bliss by Sada Sat Kaur Khalsa, as well as explored in Tantric Orgasm for Women by Diana (Puja) Richardson. All additional yogini-midwifery information is contributed by Mary Ceallaigh. The 11Moon Centers: 1. hair line 2. eyebrows 3. upper cheeks 4. lips 5. earlobes 6. back of the neck 7. breasts 8. navel or the correlating area of the spine 9. inner thighs 10.clitoris 11.vaginal membranes Moon Centers and Sexual Partnership: There is an order in which these centers need to be touched by your lover during lovemaking, using any technique he wishes. First, the breasts, then neck, lips, cheeks ears, hairline & eyebrows, spine, thighs, clitoris, vagina. This fulfills full engagement of sexual polarity, sexual healing, and multi-level unity. Actual intercourse is centered in simply being fully present and relaxed in the aroused genitals, and when practiced correctly, with stillness and gentle rhythms, recharges the couple rather than exhausts them. The most sensitive of all these Moon Centers are the hairline and eyebrows! It is important that the partners fingers walk along the woman’s skull & hairline. The partner needs to massage and kiss her eyebrows (like when they first started making out). These two areas, along with the ears, are known as the “advancing sexual centers” and they give sexual stability for the Yoga of intercourse. The internal moving moon is on a 28-29 day cycle. In the pre-modern female body, the moon energy would move every 2 ½ days to a different center in the body… modern women may experience it move jerkily and much more quickly, especially when travelling by air or working nights. By paying attention to what she feels and how she thinks, a woman can pinpoint where the Moon energy is in her body at any given time. Moon Centers, the Lunar Cycle, and Menstruation: During the dark side of the actual moon, a woman’s Moon Center moves down the inner thighs to her knees, calves, and feet, and her partner needs to stimulate those areas. Also, during the first heavy day or two of a period. Women who live off the electric grid, cycle with the moon – bleeding in the dark moon, ovulating in the full, like all ancient women. They are spared the common extra bout of heavy moon energy that modern women have. Moon Centers, Pregnancy, and Drug-Free Labor & Birth: During pregnancy the moon centers are more sensitized. During natural labor, the Moon Centers are extremely sensitive – and ALL of them need self-nurturing or nurturing from the partner and environment. During orgasm and natural birth, the energies of the Moon Centers reveal the source of light itself. Just as the moon reflects the sun, the moon energies in a woman’ s body actually reflect her relationship to receive universal light when she expands in ecstasy and birthgiving. And, as Ina May Gaskin has noted, women who also incorporate the 10th and 11th Moon Centers via orgasm during non-medical labor do not tear their tender tissues when the baby emerges. In Spanish, to give birth is to “Dar a Luz:” to Give Light. The Kundalini energy pulses the spine in natural labor and rises as a woman's Moon Centers open and her cervix blooms in full dilation. As Jeannine Parvati has written, a laboring yogini will find her internal eye focus is most helpful when centered at the navel (rather than the usual brow point) during the passionate rhythm of established labor. The risen spinal energy shifts her awareness in deep labor and becomes a sweetly altered consciousness (with the help of endogenous opiates, endorphins), that is a downward-flowing energy (Apana Vayu) through all her Moon Centers. Due to the patriarchal nature of the Yoga tradition over the last 5000 years or so, very little has been written on these yogini matters, though in various locations in North Africa and India and at various times, yoginis have been busy living them as lovers, midwives, doulas, and mothers, often sharing the information verbally, and through oral tradition in puberty rites and gatherings of women at births, bridal blessings, and oases! |
