Every wise womban knows that the New Moon represents a powerful, beautiful time for connection, rest and womb healing.

Before we dive into the scientific and sacred practices that you’ll learn today, 

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And with that invitation, let’s start diving into the three ways to work with your womb on the New Moon.

1. Creating a ritual for yourself

The first way to work with your womb on the New Moon is to set up a ritual for yourself. And, when I say ritual, I mean start to build a self-practice where you’re prioritizing your relationship with yourself.

Start with 5 to 10 minutes daily, with the sole intention to connect with your body and your womb. Your womb is like our best friend. If you’re constantly checking in with your friend every single day, they’re going to let you know their secrets. They’re going to look out for you because they feel connected to us.

Your womb is like your best friend who will pull you aside and whisper in your ear: Something isn’t right – you need to pay attention to this.

And your womb will communicate that through painful periods, irregular cycles, PCOS, through fibroids… There’s so many different ways that the womb pulls us aside to alert us that the health of our overall body might be imbalanced and needs support.

But just like a friend, if you’re not texting your friend every day, if you’re not returning their calls, if you’re distant for months at a time, then the next time you connect with that friend, it might be a little bit awkward, right? You may need to do some repair to that ruptured connection before you can continue an easy flow of conversation and communication.

So, connecting with your womb every single day, especially during the New Moon, is really powerful.

Now, here’s what this will look like…

2/3  days leading up to the New Moon, take a timer on your phone and set it for 5 to 10 minutes. And then ask yourself:

• Do you want to journal about how your day has been, and how you’re feeling in your body?

•  Do you want to take your left hand to your heart, right hand to your womb, perhaps close your eyes if that’s comfortable, and breathe and communicate to your body that it is welcome to let you know anything that needs to be seen or tended to? Make this YOUR practice. You get to choose.

And on the New Moon, you’re prioritizing what you need. Feel grounded, connected, and centred in your day, and then staying curious to what arises for you.

Maybe you thought that you were really energized, and then you do your practice and you figure out that actually you’ve just been running on stress hormones. So, be curious and pay attention to the messages that your body might be sending you in various ways. That’s the first way to connect with your womb on the New Moon.

Turn off your electronic devices at least two hours before going to sleep

The second way to connect with your womb on the New Moon is a little bit more sciencey and nerdy – science nerds unite with me here!

During the New Moon, we’re offered an opportunity to access a really deep state of rest, and here is why: Light is one of the most powerful stimulants to the brain. That’s one of the reasons why you might be having a hard time sleeping when the Full Moon is out.

That’s because light – any kind of light, whether it’s natural and it’s from the sun or the moon, or whether it’s artificial and it’s from our phones or computers or our TVs – any kind of light stimulates the hypothalamus. This stimulation of the brain sends messages to our body to stay awake, and inhibits the release of melatonin, which really influences our ability to drop into sleep.

So, during the New Moon time, take advantage of this opportunity to sleep deeper by turning off your electronic devices at least two hours before you go to sleep.

That means you’re setting an alarm on your phone, you’re turning it on airplane mode, or you’re powering it down. That means you’re shutting down your computer, you’re turning off the TV – all of the sources of artificial light that have become so normalized in our world, turn them off at least two hours before you sleep.

If you have blackout curtains, put those up so the street lights don’t come in your window, and take advantage of this opportunity with less natural light in the sky. You could sleep deeper tonight, and here’s why this is important: Most adult women think that they need around six to seven hours of sleep at night. But in fact, eight to 10 hours of sleep is optimal for those of us who have cyclical bodies in order to fully reset and regenerate the energy of our adrenals – which play a major role in the production of our hormones, and our menstrual cycle.

This is super important, and you can start creating this rhythm for yourself during the New Moon time when there’s less natural light in the sky. And by reducing your exposure to artificial light, you’ll also help with the production of melatonin and help your body start to sleep.

3. Right nostril breathing

Last but definitely not least, I’d like to share with you a practice that I’ve never taught before. I learned it from one of my Ayurvedic teachers, Maya Tiwari. I’m so grateful for her teachings and the immense impact they had on my life. Thank you.

This practice focuses on harnessing the solar energy that’s available to us by focusing on breathing in and out through our right nostril. And when we focus on bringing solar energy into our body, according to Yogic and Ayurvedic Sciences, we support our body in detoxing, assimilating and processing. We support our digestive system.

The fire of our digestive system not only helps burn and assimilate nutrients, but in that assimilation and metabolization, there also has to be an excretion, a downward moving energy that takes place so that we can release what we no longer need and make space for the new energy that we’re bringing into our body.

According to the yoga sciences, we have over 72,000 nadis in our bodies, one of them being our pingala nadi, represented by the right nostril. You might think of nadis like the meridians. For some people, the meridians are more familiar terminology, but depending on who you talk to, the nadis might have come first.

What you need to know about both nadis and meridians is that they’re channels for energetic cosmic energy to move through our body. And depending on what lineage you come from, this might be prana in Ayurveda and yoga, or this might be Qi in Traditional Chinese Medicine.

So when we breathe in through our nostrils, we’re bringing in lunar energy on the left, and solar energy on the right. And when we breathe in through our right nostril, what we’re doing is we’re clearing our pingala nadi and clearing the way for solar energy to move in.

Which in turn activates and balances apana prana, downward moving energy. And this downward moving energy is the energy that rules our menstrual cycles. In order for you to release your blood from your body, in order for that blood to move down through the uterus and out through the vagina, it needs to be supported by this detoxifying pathway.

It’s also the energy of birth. So in order for the baby to engage in the pelvis and open up the cervix and spiral down through the vagina, the same thing needs to happen. This downward moving energy takes control. So when we breathe in and out through our right nostril, this supports us in gathering up any pieces of energy, parts of tissue in our uterus, or any emotions we no longer need.

For every night, three nights before the New Moon and on the New Moon, I recommend that you do this practice for two to five minutes. And as you’re breathing in and out, you’re imagining that you’re gathering everything in your womb that you want to let go of, and that you’re preparing your body to release it. The inhale is the gathering of that energy, and the exhale is the downward moving releasing of that energy.

These are the three practices to work with your womb on the new moon

The first, create a ritual for yourself, five to 10 minutes minimum. That’s all it takes to prioritize yourself.

Second is to reduce your exposure to artificial light. Two hours before you go to sleep, so that you can take advantage of deeper sleep during the New Moon portal.

And the third is to breathe in and out through your right nostril, your solar nadi, your pingala nadi, and activate downward moving, detoxifying, cleansing energy in your body.

If you want to learn more practices like these that feel tangible and easily accessible, then I warmly invite you to join me of a FREE online Womb reclamation training on Wednesday 1^st February 2023 at 8.30PM 

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