Beautiful Breasts

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Breasts are sacred. Every woman intuitively knows it. An aperture of woman's heart, conduits through which she expresses her heart energy, whether it's nourishing her baby with 'liquid gold', nurturing her lover, or beaming her love and (com)passion to the world, as the embodiment of love. Breasts are also the antennas of perception; through them she 'listens' to her heart, and guards the 'upper gate' of her sexual energy, most important to her true self.

Woman's bosom is a place of profound power and yet subject to deep vulnerability. In their receptivity they are sensitive to both internal alchemy & external environment, perceiving inputs beyond physical on more subtle levels, responding to hormones, feelings, emotional states, stressors, toxins and non-sinuous energies visible and invisible.

Caring for breasts is neither vanity or luxury; it's a strong stance of honoring one's body, feminine embodiment, and nurturing one's health & emotional wellbeing. Healthy breasts should be soft and pliable, not lumpy and bumpy (most lumps and bumps are benign, but some can be of become dangerous. Truly, there's no need for any of them to be there). In ayurveda we love energies to flow smoothly and sinuously: that's what the heart energy is about.

In today's world when breast dis-ease claims the happiness (and lives) of too many women, I feel honored & empowered to offer Ayurvedic Breast Massage to positively affect my sisters' health & wellness.

So, why breast massage? Yes, prevention is the key (but many not-too-serious issues may be resolved there). The benefits are many, and there's listed just a few...

Breast massage supports lymphatic drainage (stagnant lymph = stagnant energy in Ayurvedic terms, and stagnant energy eventually leads to dis-ease...). Breast tenderness around the times of hormonal flux (ovulation/PMS/peri/meno/inmoon...pregnancy & breastfeeding have their special places), improves circulation and nourishment of the breast tissue. It helps soften fibrosis (dense/fibrocystic breasts), many lumps and bumps may simply resolve while energy moves, with the help of 'magic buttons'(marma points that facilitate energy movement). The benefit on woman's hormonal and nervous system can be wondrous too. Breast massage stimulates parasympathetic response (lettin go, relaxation), supports oxytocin (orgasmic/bliss hormone) release and delightful sensations of happiness and quiet, open-hearted joy of womanhood, feeling often so much yearned for not only in our stressful lives but also in times of hormonal transitions, when nothing seems 'right'. Stored emotional tension from recent and long ago can be released through gentle, loving therapeutic touch (emotions are welcome and honored in my practice).

Let's not forget about breath and posture: breast massage helps to release tight chest fascia that instantly makes you taller and stronger, breasts feel more lifted and fuller (small ones) and perkier. Such posture emanates radiance and confidence, commanding respect, welcoming abundance and all things good into your life. Facing the world with and open-chest invites giving and receiving wholeheartedly, making one's life so much fuller and deeply feminine. No more collapsed, rounded shoulders! And, yes, the breath...prana...life force. Deeper, fuller breathing then comes with more lifted, open chest happens almost effortlessly (do you know that most of us only inhales only about 1/7 lung capacity = 1/7 of aliveness!).

The spiritual aspects of breasts massage can be also profound: a gateway of her getting in touch with her innermost self, the place of her feminine soul being, the voice of truth. When the heart opens (earlier we said how breast & heart chakra are connected) it's like a curtain has been lifted; a whole new perception of reality pours in. A new power and strength can be found in this place. She stands in a new light, the light true feminine radiance (especially when the heart-womb connection is in place - more about it next time!).

To conclude this incomplete list: I feel blessed to commune with woman's very precious heart-breast space for healing purpose. I also love to empower her in nurturing an intimate relationship with her sacred mounds/and body through teaching her how to massage her breasts at home, together with simple Tantra practices that increase her overall health & radiance.

One thing to remember: where energy freely flows, health & happiness goes.

 

 

 

PS: Breast massage (with permission) can be an integral part of a whole-body treatment or specific/combined with other modality.

 

 

 

Namaste,

Shakti