Maya Abdominal Massage – what it can do for you
One session of therapy with the Arvigo techniques of maya abdominal massage will change your life. You will leave equipped with tools to continue yourself at home and with 5 or 10 minutes a day you can heal your female anatomy. We can recover from the many traumas to the body.
Women endure significant physical traumas, such as vaginal birth, especially when multiple births occur in quick succession. We are often taught to take care of others while sacrificing our own needs and this is a perfect example of that. In the hospital women are often pressured into making choices that are “right for the baby”. The implication being that what is right for mama and what is right for baby are mutually exclusive when nothing could be further from the truth. Similarly having to hold in your pee, having to push through your period without respite or enough sleep, and having sex forgetting to check in with your body to see how she feels. All are traumas that we inflict on our own bodies.
The physical practice of the self-care is only one aspect as there is an element of prayer and plant medicine that involves water and specific herbs and flowers. A spiritual bath is another element of this self-care practice as our self-talk and how we treat ourselves mentally influences the efficacy. There is an excellent you tube video by Dr. Kim D’Eramo on youtube that demonstrates a basic self-care massage that I really like and recommend as a starting point to familiarize yourself with it. In her video she shares about her healing journey from incontinence from what sounds like a prolapsed uterus.
Maya Abdominal Massage is also helpful for women experiencing PMS, irregular periods, cramps, headaches, insomnia, fatigue, backache, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fibroids and constipation. All of these symptoms can be linked to a particular positioning of the uterus. In my case I was suffering from irregular periods for most of my life and I never paid much attention to the fact as they started to become regular after having children. I see now that they forced me to slow down my hyperactive 5 hours a day of working out because of my commitment to fitness. I didn’t ever see it as an option to stop during my period because I had never been given any reason why I should.
Even so, my uterus became out of alignment while working at one gym inside of a hospital where the flooring was basically a slab of flooring over concrete. It was very stuck leaning back against my colon and causing constipation during menses when I went to my practitioner training in Taos, NM last summer. The teacher confirmed my self-diagnosis, and we took a deep dive into the mystery of the womb. I learned the element of grace that is present with this matter and that even if we are doing seemingly all the right tangible steps, we must stay humble. I know that in my career as a competitive gymnast for example I never paused for my period. It never really occurred to me that lifting heavy objects, exposing my uterine ligaments to the brunt of repeated falls to my coccyx bone and essentially ignoring the messages from my body was a problem.
While I think that this knowledge should be taught in schools for young women’s sex education there are many women happy to accept the outcome of a hysterectomy, pharmaceutical drugs, prolapse years down the line and maybe don’t even see the problem. Western medicine says that the uterus is a disposable empty organ. It stands to reason that there are people willing to accept this over-simplified thesis instead of fighting the current. Very few are those who swim across without the drugs, interventions and major surgeries because of the amount of effort it requires not to mention sheer strength. As women we are not taught about the sacredness and the mystery of our uterus.
The uterus is the first thing to start developing in an unborn fetus. And as a woman you carry every single egg within that uterus that you will ever have while still in Utero. What that means is that first off you were at one point inside of your grandmothers’ womb. What it also means is that we don’t know when we were first conceived of as a thought. Where did all the atoms come from for example. None of these atoms that form the rough matter of our bodies is new. So where did they come from?
Science likes to put everything into a compact formulation of expensive words. Women must now go within and validate their own selves as much as we have proven ourselves as good as (or in some cases better) than men. You will never see a woman bragging about her uterus the way a man loves his penis which is quite laughable. And until recently women were taught that their periods should be kept hidden as though shameful. We just aren’t taught to pay much attention to our uterus or the moon time as a sacred opportunity to go within.
Women need to be free to choose consciously for themselves. If you want to wait for problems to arise and then have a doctor fix them that is one choice. Here is presented an ancient system of healing the body that is proactive and requires no waiting. If you already have a fibroid the size of a melon it is not within my power to shrink that down, but we can stop it from growing. If you have caught an imbalance in your body very early than we have better chances of avoiding invasive surgeries. That is why this information needs to be made available to our youth and women of all ages need to celebrate every single stage of their life. Why should beauty only be seen in youth – there is beauty within every part of the lineage if we can just remember that we are more than our bodies in this narcissistic culture of instant gratification.
“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face” Victor Hugo
