Any woman walking the brave path of healing and feminine embodiment will eventually cross paths with these two archetypes:

The toxic feminine woman and the spiritual f*ck boy.

The Modern Spiritual Illusion

On the surface, they appear aligned, wearing the same mask of “empowerment” and “healing.” But underneath, both uphold the very power structures they pretend to be dismantling.

They’re the wish.com version of feminine embodiment, cheap imitations of what real feminine power is meant to be.

In this blog, we’ll look at:

• What makes a toxic feminine woman

• What defines a spiritual f*ck boy

• Why they’re the same villain in disguise

• What true feminine embodiment actually feels like

Authenticity vs. Performative Spirituality

How can you tell if someone is genuinely spiritual, or just performing spirituality for attention, validation, or gain?

Sometimes it’s ego-driven. Sometimes it’s profit. And sometimes it’s pure image, a bid to be seen as “enlightened” on TikTok.

As the saying goes:

“The devil is in the details.”

When you slow down and really observe - especially accountability, emotional maturity, and how they handle conflict - the illusion cracks.

My Experience in the Wellness Scene

When I first dove into my own healing journey, I was in Thailand, a literal sea of healers, teachers, and facilitators.

At first, I believed that anyone who could speak the spiritual language or had a certification must be conscious and embodied.

I attended everything: rebirthing sessions, women’s circles, yoni healing workshops. It was intoxicating, and honestly, I was naive.

Over time, I realized that some of the most unhealed people I met were in that same scene. People fluent in the language of “healing” but disconnected from their own shadows.

Let’s break down what I eventually learned to see beneath the mask.

What Is Toxic Femininity?

Toxic femininity can exist in anyone, but here we’re talking about women who weaponize “feminine” qualities, using them for validation, power, or performance rather than healing.

She’s often seen teaching yoga, leading circles, or posting goddess content online while avoiding her own unresolved pain.

Common Behaviors of the Toxic Feminine Woman:

• Self-abandonment: Suppressing her needs to appear peaceful or agreeable.

• People-pleasing: Over-giving to gain validation, followed by resentment or passive aggression.

• Weaponizing softness: Using victimhood or fragility to manipulate and avoid responsibility.

• Policing other women: Shaming others who don’t conform to her “goddess” ideal.

• Passive aggression: Avoiding direct communication, especially around conflict.

• Performative femininity: Cosplaying as “divine feminine” with flowy dresses, sensual photos, “goddess” language while being disconnected from true embodiment or activism.

True feminine energy runs deeper.
It’s not about looking a certain way, it’s about feeling everything from grief to rage to joy.

What Is a Spiritual F*ck Boy?

He’s the self-proclaimed “conscious man” who preaches presence but practices avoidance. He talks about “ego deaths,” “twin flames,” and “alignment”, but it’s all surface-level.

You’ll find him in yoga classes, drum circles, or wellness podcasts, often using spiritual language as a flirtation tactic.

Common Behaviors of the Spiritual F*ck Boy:

• All talk, no embodiment: His daily actions contradict his supposed values.

• Performative vulnerability: Talks about feelings but lacks real emotional availability.

• Spiritual bypassing: Hides behind “good vibes only” to avoid accountability.

• Avoids depth: Uses “raising my vibration” as an excuse to disengage from real-world issues.

• Exploits feminine spaces: Gains validation or sexual access through women’s healing communities.

True masculine consciousness isn’t about performance, it’s about accountability and empathy.

Two Faces, One Energy

After years in spiritual spaces, I realized the toxic feminine woman and the spiritual f*ck boy are the same archetype in different bodies.

Both crave validation.
Both hide behind performative mindfulness.
Both reject true embodiment.

It’s the same script, different costume.

And at their core, both perpetuate patriarchal, avoidant, and disconnected behavior patterns.

What Real Feminine Energy Feels Like

Feminine energy is embodied, not performed. It’s felt through your body, intuition, and emotions.

How to Stay Rooted in Actual Feminine Energy:

• Do your shadow work: Feel your pain instead of projecting it.

• Welcome every emotion: Let sadness, anger, and joy coexist.

• Set boundaries: Speak truth instead of pleasing others.

• Practice embodiment: Breathwork, movement, nature, womb connection… these bring you back home.

• Engage consciously: A truly embodied woman faces societal realities - such as sexism and racism - instead of bypassing them.

When you live from your body and truth, you’ll naturally see through performative spirituality.

Final Thoughts: Moving Beyond the Illusion

The toxic feminine woman and the spiritual f*ck boy make spirituality look fake, but don’t let that turn you away from the real thing.

Authentic feminine energy isn’t curated or commercial.
It’s about feeling everything.

I’m sending you love to do your shadow work, rediscover your body, and reclaim your authentic feminine power.

And when you’re ready, come home to yourself and embody your feminine.

Thanks for listening,
Joss Frank | Yoga Therapist C-IAYT

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What Is Womb Healing?

Womb healing is a holistic, body-based practice that helps women reconnect with their pelvic space, regulate their nervous system, and release stored emotional and physical tension from the womb, sacral chakra, and surrounding tissues.

The “womb” in womb healing refers not just to the physical uterus, but to the entire energetic and somatic centre of the feminine body — including the pelvis, hips, lower belly, sacrum, and the emotional and spiritual energy held there.

For many women, this area has been a site of pain (period pain, pelvic tension, endometriosis, PCOS), shame, trauma, or simply years of disconnection, from hustle culture, stress, or being taught to override the body’s signals.

Womb healing practices and rituals create the conditions for that tension to soften, the nervous system to settle, and a woman to feel (often for the first time) genuinely safe and at home in her own body.

Why Does Womb Healing Matter?

Most women I work with come to me saying some version of the same thing:

“I feel like I’m always on edge.”

“I can’t switch off.”

“I’m exhausted but I can’t rest.”

“I feel completely disconnected from my body, and from my sexuality.”

This isn’t a personal failing. It’s just what happens when the nervous system has been in survival mode for too long, and the body (particularly the womb space) has learned to brace, protect, and guard.

Research increasingly supports what women have known intuitively for centuries:

The body stores what the mind can’t process

The pelvis and womb space are particularly sensitive to emotional stress, trauma, and chronic tension, and that stored tension can show up as period pain, hormonal imbalance, low libido, pelvic floor issues, and a sense of being disconnected from yourself.

Womb healing doesn’t fix you, because you’re not broken. It returns you to yourself.

The Benefits of Womb Healing:

Women who engage consistently in womb healing practices and rituals often experience:

• Relief from chronic pelvic tension and period pain

• A more regulated nervous system (less reactive, more grounded)

• Improved relationship with their menstrual cycle, pre/post natal body, peri-menopause, and menopause

• Release of stored emotional tensions like shame, guilt, and fear

• Improved libido and a healthier relationship with their sexuality

• Greater body trust and intuition

• Hormonal balance through reduced stress load

• Deeper self-connection and emotional resilience

What Does a Womb Healing Practice Actually Look Like?

Womb healing isn’t a single experience or exercise, it’s a collection of practices that work together to support the mind, body, and nervous system.

In my work as a certified yoga therapist, I guide women through what I call the Release → Rediscover → Reclaim framework.

1. Release

Before anything else, the body needs to feel safe enough to let go. This phase uses nervous system regulation, breathwork, somatic awareness, and gentle yoga therapy to help the body release bracing, tension, and protective holding patterns in the pelvic space.

2. Rediscover

Once there’s more safety and softness in the body, we begin to reconnect: with sensation, with the menstrual cycle, with the emotions and wisdom held in the womb space.

This is where practices like womb healing meditation, yoga nidra, and cycle awareness come in.

3. Reclaim

This is where embodiment becomes a lived reality, not just something you do during a meditation, but something you carry into your life. Boundaries, pleasure, creative expression, and fully inhabiting your feminine energy.

Womb Healing Modalities: What Tools Are Used?

A complete womb healing practice may draw from:

• Womb healing meditation: guided visualizations that bring loving awareness into the womb space

• Womb Yoga: trauma-informed yoga which targets the pelvis, hips, pelvic floor, and sacrum

• Yoga Nidra: deep relaxation that bypasses the thinking mind and allows the nervous system to genuinely rest

• Pelvic Floor Breathwork: to build connection to pelvic muscles for improved pelvic health

• Cycle or Moon-Phase Tracking: working with the four phases of the menstrual cycle as a healing map or the moon phases to align with feminine energy

• Somatic Journalling: body-based reflection that surfaces stored emotions gently

Who Is Womb Healing For?

Womb healing is for any woman who feels called to it, but it’s especially supportive for women experiencing:

• Menstrual pain, endometriosis, PCOS, or hormonal imbalance

• Pelvic tension, tightness, or pelvic floor dysfunction

• Low libido or disconnection from their sexuality

• A sense of being numb, checked out, or ‘not in their body’

• Chronic stress, burnout, or nervous system dysregulation

• Emotional pain around reproductive health, pregnancy loss, or fertility

• A longing to feel more feminine, embodied, and alive

You don’t need to have experienced trauma to benefit from womb healing.

If you’re a woman living in a modern world: navigating stress, pressure, and a culture that rewards output over rest, your nervous system and your womb space will benefit from this kind of care.

Frequently Asked Questions About Womb Healing

Do I need a uterus to practice womb healing?

No. Womb healing works with the energetic and somatic centre of the feminine body: the pelvic space, sacral chakra, and the emotional patterns held there.

Women who have had hysterectomies or other reproductive surgeries can still benefit fully from womb healing practices.

How long does womb healing take?

It’s not a one-and-done. Womb healing is an ongoing practice, not a destination. That said, most women begin to notice a shift within 2-4 weeks of consistent practice, a greater sense of calm, more body awareness, less reactive stress response.

Is womb healing the same as pelvic floor therapy?

They’re different but complementary. Pelvic floor therapy is a physical, clinical intervention targeting the pelvic floor muscles.

Womb healing is a broader, holistic practice that includes the somatic, emotional, energetic, and nervous system dimensions of pelvic health. Many women benefit from both.

Can I practice womb healing if I have endometriosis or PCOS?

Yes, and many women with these conditions find it deeply supportive, particularly for pain management, stress reduction, and improving their relationship with their cycle.

As a certified yoga therapist, I always recommend working within your scope and checking with your healthcare provider if you have specific concerns.

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About the Author

Joss Frank is a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) and E-RYT 500 specialising in women’s pelvic health, womb healing, and feminine embodiment.

She is the founder of Wild Womb and has supported hundreds of women in moving from survival mode to genuine embodiment through her online courses, 1:1 yoga therapy sessions, and guided meditations.

This free womb-centred meditation was created by me, Joss Frank, a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) specialising in womb healing and feminine embodiment.

I've used this practice with hundreds of women who came to me feeling burnt out, shut down, and like strangers in their own bodies.

It works because it doesn't ask you to think your way back to yourself. It brings you back through your body.

Free Guided Meditation for Women

For when you want to come home to your body, womb, and emotions

What This Meditation Does

This is not a generic relaxation practice. It's a womb-focused guided meditation that takes you through three layers:

Body awareness

Slowing down and actually feeling what's happening in your body, without trying to change it. For women who spend most of their time in their head, this alone can feel like coming up for air.

Womb connection

Bringing gentle, compassionate attention to your womb space (or sacral chakra if you don't have a physical womb).

This is the energetic centre of feminine power, creativity, and emotional flow — and most women have learned to ignore it completely.

Visualisation

A guided feminine energy visualisation to help you release what's heavy and reconnect with your natural sense of flow, confidence, and self-trust.

The whole practice is 15 minutes. It's gentle, beginner-friendly, and designed to be used daily.

Who This Is For

This meditation is for you if:

• You feel more comfortable doing than being. You override tiredness, push through pain, and only stop when you absolutely have to.
  
  

• You feel emotionally numb, or the opposite — overwhelmed by your emotions with no idea how to move through them.
  
  

• You've lost touch with your body — maybe after illness, trauma, difficult periods, or just years of not listening to what it's telling you.
  
  

• You want to feel more like yourself again, but you're not sure where to start.
  
  

• You don't need to be spiritual, experienced with meditation, or have a womb. You just need 15 minutes and a willingness to slow down.

Already enjoyed by 1,000+ women reconnecting with their body, womb, and emotions

Why Guided Meditation for Feminine Energy Actually Works

Most women are not taught how to connect with their feminine energy.

Women are taught to perform, produce, and push through. Over time, that disconnection shows up as stress, numbness, low libido, and a feeling of being a stranger in your own body.

Guided meditations are a way to work directly with the nervous system and womb to reverse that.

Through body awareness, breath, and gentle visualization, it creates the conditions for your feminine energy to soften, open, and return.

You don't need to do anything except lie down and listen.

Why Womb-Focused Meditation Works Differently

Most meditation apps guide you to focus on your breath or clear your mind. That's useful — but it doesn't address what's actually driving disconnection in most women's bodies.

The womb space and sacral chakra are where the body holds stress, shame, creative energy, and emotional memory.

When we bring conscious, compassionate awareness there — through body-based meditation rather than purely mental focus — something different happens. The nervous system softens. The pelvic floor releases. Emotions that have been stuck start to move.

This is the foundation of everything I teach at Wild Womb.

And this free meditation is the gentlest possible place to start.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this meditation free?

Yes, completely free.

You'll download the audio and also receive the Wild Womb newsletter with weekly self-care and womb healing support. You can unsubscribe any time.

Do I need experience with meditation?

No. This practice is designed for beginners and women who have never tried womb meditation before. All you need is 15 minutes somewhere quiet.

Do I need to have a womb to do this?

Not at all. The meditation works with the womb space as an energetic centre — also known as the sacral chakra — which everyone has regardless of anatomy.

What's the difference between this and a YouTube meditation?

The free download is an uninterrupted audio file you can save and return to any time. The YouTube versions include an intro and guidance before the practice begins.

Both are free — the download is simply the cleanest listening experience.

How often should I listen?

Daily if possible, even just a few times a week.

Consistency is what builds a new relationship with your body — one session helps you feel good, regular practice creates lasting change.

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Thanks for being here,
Joss | Certified Yoga Therapist C-IAYT | Wild Womb

About The Author

Joss Frank is a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) and E-RYT 500 specialising in women’s pelvic health, womb healing, and feminine embodiment.

She is the founder of Wild Womb and has supported hundreds of women in moving from survival mode to genuine embodiment through her online courses, 1:1 yoga therapy sessions, and guided meditations.

The good news is that most women can improve pelvic floor weakness naturally, without surgery or devices. But the approach matters. It's not just about doing more Kegels — it's about breathing properly, releasing chronic tension, and reconnecting to your womb space with loving awareness.

As a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) specialising in pelvic health, here's exactly what works.

What Is Pelvic Floor Weakness?

Pelvic floor weakness, also known as hypotonic pelvic floor dysfunction, is a condition in which the pelvic floor muscles are overly lengthened at rest, have reduced strength, and may not respond well to voluntary contractions. As a result, they may be unable to adequately support the pelvic organs or maintain bladder and bowel control.

When they’re not functioning properly, it leads to a wide range of symptoms that many women dismiss or normalize.

Signs of a Weak Pelvic Floor

A weak pelvic floor can show up in subtle or intense ways. Common signs include:

• Urinary incontinence (especially when laughing, sneezing, or exercising)
  

• Pelvic pressure or a feeling of heaviness
  

• Pain or lack of sensation during sex
  

• Lower back or sacral pain
  

• Pelvic organ prolapse (bladder, uterus, or rectum shifting downward)
  

Pelvic floor weakness is commonly associated with childbirth and often becomes more pronounced after menopause due to hormonal changes and the natural aging of muscle and connective tissue.

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What Causes Pelvic Floor Dysfunction?

While childbirth and menopause are major contributors, other causes include:

• Chronic constipation or straining on the toilet
  

• Poor posture and habitual pelvic tucking
  

• Shallow chest breathing
  

• High-impact exercise without core support
  

• Long-term stress affecting the nervous system and hormonal balance
  

This condition is common but it’s not inevitable. And the best part? You can improve it naturally without any other form of treatment.

Can You Fix a Weak Pelvic Floor Naturally?

Absolutely. While there are medical and surgical interventions, many women can reverse or significantly improve their condition through natural, non-invasive methods.

In fact, pelvic floor exercises without other treatment can improve 70% of women by 70% (Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, author of Yoni Shakti).

Natural Healing for Pelvic Floor Weakness

If you’re curious to get started improving your pelvic floor health, start here. These are holistic ways to improve your pelvic floor, without surgery or devices.

1. Posture Awareness (The Foundation)

Christine Kent of The Whole Woman teaches that positive posture is the first step in healing. It’s very common to tuck the tailbone in, this is called called a posterior pelvic tilt. In fact, we are instructed to tuck in yoga classes and pilates. But this actually weakens the pelvic muscles over time. Instead, align more with an anterior pelvic tilt, this ensures the pelvic organs are supported by the pubic bones properly.

When I first practiced womb yoga, I realized I’d been totally disconnected from my womb and pelvic floor my entire life. Learning to stop tucking my tailbone in and how to breathe with my pelvic floor muscles was transformational.

2. Pelvic Floor Breathwork & Yoni Bandhas

Instead of doing endless Kegels (which does not connect your breathing with the pelvic diaphragm), learn to breathe with your pelvic floor. On your inhale, your pelvic floor softens. On the exhale, gently lift and engage.

In yoga therapy, we call this the mula bandha breath, a subtle, energetic and physical lift of the pelvic floor coordinated with the breath. This helps retrain your nervous system and muscles together.

3. Womb Meditation & Somatic Connection

Healing the pelvic floor isn’t just physical, it’s also emotional. The womb and pelvic space often hold trauma, shame, and fear.

Daily womb meditations can help you reconnect to this part of your body with love. When you bring presence and intention to your pelvic healing, the results are deeper and longer-lasting.

Want to learn how to heal your pelvic floor naturally — in just 45 minutes?

Conventional (More Invasive) Options

If your condition is advanced or you’re seeking a diagnosis, I recommend to book a consultation with a pelvic floor physio.

If pelvic floor weakness is advanced, you may be required to start more invasive treatments:

• Vaginal pessary: A silicone device inserted into the vagina to support pelvic organs—commonly used for prolapse or incontinence.
  

• Pelvic Organ Prolapse Repair Surgery: Surgical repositioning of pelvic organs that have shifted due to weakened support.
  

• Pelvic Floor Electrical Stimulation (EMS): Uses mild electrical currents to activate and strengthen pelvic floor muscles.
  

• Vaginal Cones (or Weighted Vaginal Cones): Small, weighted devices inserted into the vagina and held in place using pelvic floor muscles. Over time, they help improve strength and muscle control—similar to resistance training.
  

But don’t skip natural methods, especially as a first step.

Many women avoid surgery entirely through daily holistic care. If you think you might have pelvic floor weakness, book a consultation with a pelvic floor physio. From here, explore 1-1 yoga therapy to improve your condition.

What to Do Next: Your Daily Pelvic Floor Routine

If you're asking, “Should I start pelvic floor exercises?” — the answer is YES.

Here’s what a good daily routine should include:

• Pelvic floor breathwork (with full body awareness)

• Gentle yoga therapy for pelvic health

• Pelvic floor breathing practices (with breath, not force)

• Womb meditations

• Positive posture practices

These practices aren’t just for fixing a problem, they’re preventative care for every woman, at every stage of life.

Final Thoughts: Don’t Wait Until It’s a Problem

Pelvic floor weakness can feel overwhelming, but with the right support, it’s incredibly manageable. Whether you're postpartum, approaching menopause, or simply feeling disconnected from your body, this is your invitation to begin womb healing.

You don’t need to live with discomfort, embarrassment, or disconnection from your womb.

You just need a daily self-care routine, professional support, and the trust that your body always wants to progress to healing.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the signs of a weak pelvic floor?

The most common signs are urinary leakage when laughing, sneezing, or exercising, a feeling of pelvic heaviness or pressure, lower back or sacral pain, pain or reduced sensation during sex, and pelvic organ prolapse.

Many women normalise these symptoms for years without realising they can be improved.

Can you fix a weak pelvic floor without surgery?

Yes — most women can significantly improve pelvic floor weakness naturally.

Research shows that pelvic floor exercises without other treatment can improve symptoms in around 70% of women.

The key is using the right approach: breath-led, somatic movement rather than just Kegel repetitions.

Are Kegels enough to fix a weak pelvic floor?

Kegels alone are often not enough, and for some women they can make things worse by adding tension to a pelvic floor that's already overworked.

Coordinating breath with pelvic floor movement — inhaling to soften, exhaling to gently lift — is far more effective and sustainable.

How long does it take to heal a weak pelvic floor naturally?

Most women begin to notice improvement within 6-8 weeks of consistent daily practice.

Deeper healing typically unfolds over 3-6 months. Consistency matters far more than intensity.

Can stress cause a weak pelvic floor?

Yes. Chronic stress keeps the body in a state of sympathetic activation, which creates habitual tension and bracing in the pelvic floor over time. Addressing the nervous system alongside physical pelvic floor practice is essential for lasting results.

Ready to start healing your pelvic health?

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About The Author

Joss Frank is a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT, E-RYT 500) and founder of Wild Womb, a women's wellness space focused on womb healing, pelvic health, and nervous system regulation. She works online with women worldwide.

This is a question so many women quietly carry. It often arises from a collection of symptoms that feel disconnected but are anything but: irregular periods, low libido, overwhelming mood swings, exhaustion that sleep doesn’t fix, and stress that never fully releases.

Women of all ages experience these signs of hormone imbalance, and they’re often overlooked, dismissed, or put down to “just being a woman.”

If any of this sounds like you, your body is trying to tell you something. And there are gentle, natural ways to begin supporting your hormonal health, starting today.

I’m Joss Frank, a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) specialising in women’s health and nervous system regulation.

In this guide, I’ll walk you through the most common signs of hormonal imbalance in women, why they happen, and exactly how to begin healing naturally.

The First Step: Recognizing the Signs of Hormone Imbalance

Your body is incredibly wise. It sends signals when something is out of balance, and learning to listen to those signals is the foundation of natural hormonal healing.

Here are the five most common signs of hormone imbalance in women:

1: Irregular or Missed Cycles:

Changes in your natural hormonal rhythm — missed periods, unusually heavy or light bleeding, or shifts in timing — are often a sign that your hormones are out of balance. This includes menstrual cycles as well as shifts experienced during perimenopause and menopause.

2: Mood Swings, Anxiety, or Depression:

Hormones like estrogen and progesterone directly influence neurotransmitters, so when they’re out of balance, emotional instability follows. This is a physiological response.

3: Fatigue and Low Energy:

Persistent tiredness even after a full night’s sleep is often a sign of thyroid or adrenal hormone dysregulation, both of which are directly impacted by chronic stress.

4: Weight Gain or Difficulty Losing Weight:

Hormones regulate metabolism. Imbalances in insulin or cortisol in particular can cause weight fluctuations, especially around the belly, even when diet and exercise haven’t changed.

5: Sleep Disturbances:

Trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, or waking up unrefreshed is common with fluctuating hormone levels, particularly during the luteal phase, perimenopause, and menopause.

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Hormonal Imbalance in Women: Why It’s Not “Just Part of Being a Woman”

When your hormones are out of balance, the signs can range from subtle to overwhelming.

Irregular or painful periods, mood crashes before your period, bloating, breakouts, low libido, brain fog, a constant sense of being “off”, these are all signals that something deeper is happening in your body.

You might find yourself wondering: “Why am I so tired?” or “Is this normal or is something wrong with me?”

These symptoms are routinely dismissed as “just part of being a woman.” But you are not meant to suffer like this. Your body is trying to signal a need for deeper support, rest, and balance.

The menstrual cycle isn’t meant to be a monthly inconvenience, it’s considered by many practitioners to be your fifth vital sign. It provides valuable, real-time information about your hormonal health and overall wellbeing.

The truth is, hormonal imbalance is far more common than most women realise — and it doesn’t always require medical intervention to begin healing.

The Real Root Cause of Hormone Imbalance: Stress and the Nervous System

I spent nearly a decade stuck in a frustrating cycle of irregular periods, anxiety, depression, low energy, and poor sleep.

I had no idea that all of these symptoms were connected — or that they were signs of hormonal imbalance.

Even more importantly, I didn’t realise that unmanaged stress was the root cause threading everything together.

Stress doesn’t just live in your mind, it rewires your brain and body.

Your limbic system, the part of your brain that processes emotions, plays a central role here.

When something stressful happens — even something small — your brain shifts from logical thinking to emotional reaction, activating your HPA axis (your stress hormone system) and setting off a hormonal chain reaction throughout the body.

Over time, if stress keeps triggering this system, it weakens the immune system, increases inflammation, and disrupts the hormonal cascade that regulates everything from your cycle to your mood to your metabolism (McEwen, 2006).

At the time, I had very little body awareness. I didn’t know how stress felt in my body — muscle tension, shallow breathing, digestive issues, a racing heart had all become my normal.

I wasn’t just ignoring my stress; I genuinely didn’t know how to regulate it.

Instead I relied on quick fixes: medication for anxiety, sleeping pills, and hormonal contraceptives to stop my period entirely. I was blocking and resisting the signals of my body instead of listening and healing — and eventually, the tension built up to a point I couldn’t ignore anymore.

That’s when I turned to Eastern medicine and somatic healing, and everything changed.

Why I Stopped Suppressing Hormonal Symptoms and Started Healing Naturally

When I realised how deeply stress was affecting my hormones — and how little support I was getting from conventional medicine — I felt called to explore a different path.

I was tired of feeling like a zombie: disconnected from my body, numbed by medication, my cycle suppressed. I wanted to feel like myself again.

What I found was surprising: there were evidence-based, research-backed tools I could use from home. Simple somatic practices that didn’t require prescriptions. Practices that worked with my body’s natural rhythms instead of against them.

The shift I experienced moving through Release → Rediscover → Reclaim — first releasing the stored stress and tension, then reconnecting with my body and cycle, then reclaiming my energy and hormonal health — is now the framework I use with every woman I work with.

Ready to stop suppressing symptoms?
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7 Natural Ways to Balance Your Hormones

These are the practices I use in my yoga therapy work and in my own life. They work best used consistently and in combination — even just 10 minutes a day creates real change over time.

1: Breathwork

Specific breathwork practices directly regulate the nervous system and support hormonal balance. Two of the most effective for hormone health are extended exhale breathing — exhaling twice as long as your inhale, which activates the parasympathetic nervous system — and Bhramari pranayama, which research shows effectively reduces heart rate, blood pressure, and sympathetic activation (Pramanik et al., 2010).

2: Meditation

Meditation is more than a moment of calm, it’s a powerful, natural tool for hormonal health. Evidence shows that regular meditation reduces cortisol [1], supports faster stress recovery, regulates the HPA axis [2], and positively influences thyroid-stimulating hormone, growth hormone, and testosterone [3].

3:Time in Nature

Studies show that just 20-30 minutes in green spaces significantly lowers cortisol. Even a 15-minute walk in nature activates the parasympathetic nervous system and supports HPA axis regulation, making it one of the simplest and most accessible natural hormone balancers available dailytelegraph.

4: Gentle Yoga

Research shows yoga helps the body return to a state of physical and emotional balance (NIH Study).

Specific poses and breathwork practices calm the nervous system, reduce cortisol, and stimulate the endocrine glands responsible for hormone production.

Gentle yoga also improves circulation, lymphatic flow, and supports the body’s natural detoxification processes, all essential for hormonal health.

You don’t need to be flexible or experienced. You just need to be willing to slow down and reconnect with your body.

5: Prioritize Sleep & Your Circadian Rhythm

Sleep is not optional for hormonal health. Research shows that fewer than 7 hours of sleep is associated with increased ghrelin, decreased leptin, and reduced insulin sensitivity, directly disrupting the hormonal systems that regulate hunger, metabolism, and stress response (NIH studies).

A simple sleep ritual makes a real difference: set aside 15 minutes before bed for yoga nidra or guided meditation, remove screens, slow your breathing, and consciously release tension from your body.

6: Self-Compassion

Research shows that higher levels of self-compassion are linked to lower daily cortisol levels (NIH study).

Self-compassion also supports the release of oxytocin and natural opiates — promoting calm and connection in the body. According to Dr. Kristin Neff, self-compassion is strongly associated with greater mental wellbeing, healthier habits, and a more stable sense of self-worth (source).

A practical starting point: keep a thoughts journal. When you catch yourself in self-criticism, write it down. Then ask:

“Would I speak this way to someone I love?”

That simple pause begins to shift the pattern.

7: Cycle Syncing and Womb Connection

This is one of the most transformational natural approaches to hormonal balance.

Society encourages women to disconnect from their bodies: to push through pain, ignore their cycles, and suppress emotions. But when you ignore your natural rhythms, it creates a stress load that directly disrupts hormonal health.

Beginning to honour your cycle — menstruation, perimenopause, menopause — and align your energy and activity with your hormonal phases is a powerful act of healing.

A 2020 study in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health found that training based on menstrual phases improved strength, mood, and reduced hormonal symptoms (source).

You are a cyclical being. Hormonal healing starts when you begin to listen to and trust your body.

Your Next Steps to Natural Hormone Balance

Consistency matters more than perfection. Aim for a simple 10-minute daily practice, your nervous system needs repetition to build new patterns of safety and balance.

1. Start with a daily 10-minute practice using breathwork, meditation, or gentle yoga

2. Prioritise rest and begin syncing with your natural cycle

3. Practice self-compassion using the journalling method above

4. Stay consistent, even on good days, the practice is what keeps you there

Frequently Asked Questions About Natural Hormone Balance

How long does it take to balance hormones naturally?

Most women begin to notice shifts within 4-8 weeks of consistent daily practice — better sleep, more stable mood, less cycle pain. Deeper hormonal rebalancing typically takes 3-6 months. This is not a quick fix; it’s a genuine, lasting change built through consistent, gentle practice.

Can stress really cause hormonal imbalance?

Yes — and this is one of the most underrecognised connections in women’s health. Chronic stress elevates cortisol, which disrupts the entire hormonal cascade — affecting estrogen, progesterone, thyroid function, insulin sensitivity, and more. Addressing stress through nervous system regulation is one of the most direct ways to support hormonal health.

Do I need to stop taking hormonal contraceptives to balance my hormones naturally?

No — and never stop prescribed medication without guidance from your healthcare provider. Holistic practices are complementary to medical treatment, not a replacement for it. Many women use somatic and nervous system practices alongside hormonal contraceptives and find their overall wellbeing improves significantly.

Is hormonal imbalance the same as PCOS or endometriosis?

Not exactly. PCOS and endometriosis are specific conditions that involve hormonal dysregulation, but hormonal imbalance is broader — it can exist without a formal diagnosis. Many women experience significant hormonal symptoms without meeting the clinical criteria for a specific condition. In all cases, natural approaches to nervous system regulation and stress reduction are supportive.

What is the fastest way to balance hormones naturally?

There is no overnight fix — but the fastest route to genuine hormonal balance is consistent nervous system regulation. Daily breathwork, reducing cortisol through meditation and rest, and beginning to sync with your natural cycle creates the physiological conditions for hormonal rebalancing faster than any other natural approach.

Natural Hormone Balance Is Possible

If you’ve been feeling exhausted, anxious, disconnected from your body, or stuck in a cycle of painful periods, mood swings, or poor sleep, you are not alone, and nothing is wrong with you.

I spent years in that same place.

Everything changed when I stopped suppressing my symptoms and started listening to my body.

Through breathwork, meditation, gentle movement, and cycle awareness, I built a daily practice that genuinely shifted my hormonal health.

You deserve to feel balanced, whole, and at home in your body. And it starts with one small, consistent step.

Tap below to begin listening to your body and self-regulating. It’s your small, consistent first step:

Thanks for being here,
Joss

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About the Author

Joss Frank is a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) and E-RYT 500 specialising in women’s hormonal health, nervous system regulation, and feminine embodiment. She is the founder of Wild Womb and has supported hundreds of women to naturally rebalance their hormones and reconnect with their bodies through her online courses, 1:1 yoga therapy sessions, and guided meditations.

Is your inner voice filled with self-doubt, asking questions like: “Why did I say that?”

Maybe you fidget, hold your breath, or shrink your posture without realizing it?

If you find communication tough or avoid difficult conversations, you’re not alone! This blog is for you.

Many people struggle with communication because they’re not grounded or feeling safe during the experience.

Conversations can feel intimidating, especially when emotions are high. But with the right somatic tools, you can feel more grounded and communicate confident and empowered.

Here are 5 mindfulness tips to help you feel calm and confident in your interactions.

1. Embrace the Power of the Pause:
   
   One of the most effective ways to maintain your calm during a conversation is to feel your emotions rather than react to them.
   
   It’s okay to have moments of silence, especially during difficult conversations. When emotions like anger or sadness arise, it’s easy to react impulsively without pausing to feel.
   
   In these moments, remember to pause instead of instantly react: What are the felt sensations in your body?
   
   Take a slow, deep breath. Notice how the emotion feels in your body, whether it’s anger tightening your chest or anxiety speeding up your heartbeat. Regulate your breathing and relax your body. Allow yourself to pause for as long as needed. This mindful pause creates space for calm, confident communication.
   

2. Ground Yourself in the Moment:
   
   Grounding techniques help you stay present and connected during conversations. One simple way to anchor yourself is by observing the colors or sounds around you. Whether you’re speaking to one person or a group, take a moment to notice the room or environment. This shifts your focus from overthinking to being fully present.
   
   You can also ground yourself by connecting to your body. If you’re standing or sitting, press down through your feet and notice their contact with the ground. Feeling the edges of your feet helps you center your energy and remain calm.
   

3. Lengthen your exhales to calm the nervous system and reduce anxiousness:
   
   When emotions run high, your breathing might become shallow or you may unconsciously hold your breath. This signals to your nervous system that you’re unsafe, which heightens feelings of fear and anxiety. Instead, practice slow breathing.
   
   Place a hand on your heart and remind yourself to breathe slowly and deeply. By slowing down your breath, you send calming signals to your nervous system, promoting a state of confidence and ease.
   

4. Notice Your Body Language:
   
   Your body communicates even when you’re silent. During conversations, check in with your body’s tension levels and posture. Are you clenching your jaw? Are your shoulders tense or hunched? Are your hands in fists?
   
   Gently relax these areas. Soften your jaw, release your shoulders, and open your palms. By embodying calm and open energy, you naturally express confidence and approachability.
   

5. Practice Positive Self-Talk:
   
   Your inner dialogue influences your energy and body language. If you’re silently criticizing yourself, saying things like, “I’m so stupid” or “I shouldn’t have said that,” it impacts your posture and confidence. Others can sense this negative energy, even if they don’t know the words you’re thinking.
   
   Practice self-compassion by reframing your thoughts. Remind yourself: ‘It’s okay, we are safe’. Positive self-talk helps release body tensions and promote calm.

Start Practicing Today

The key to confident and calm communication lies in your self-awareness.

By regularly practicing these mindfulness techniques, you’ll create feelings of calm and grounding in your body. This allows you to approach every conversation with confidence, and ease.

Bottom Line:

Embrace the power of the pause. Take this moment to self-regulate your breathing, body tensions, and posture. Take control of your self-talk in the moment. With these small changes, you’ll be well on your way to a more confident and empowered experience in any conversation.

Next Steps:

If you're ready to regulate your emotions with ease and boost self-confidence, my self-care audio routines can help. This 10-minute daily routine guides you through simple exercises to:

• Boost confidence and inner-trust

• Reduce stress, self-doubt, and worry

• Calm and balance the nervous system

The self-care audio routines are customized to help you feel less stress and more confidence in just 10-minutes per day.

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Joss Frank, Yoga Therapist C-IAYT

I’m Joss, founder of Wild Womb, and I specialize in empowering people to heal, reclaim their power, and build lasting self-confidence.

After years of struggling with depression, anxiety, and trauma, I discovered that true healing comes from within. Through my personal journey of self-healing, I learned that the key to overcoming physical and emotional challenges lies in reconnecting with the body, cultivating inner awareness, and embracing holistic practices.

As a certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT), I now guide people through transformative healing processes that address both the physical and emotional aspects of their well-being. My work combines somatic therapy, yoga therapy, and emotional healing practices to help people cultivate self-love and lasting inner peace.

Whether you're struggling with mental health, trauma recovery, or building a positive relationship with your body, I’m here to support you on your healing journey.

The most effective way to reduce anxiety naturally is to work with the body first, not just the mind.

Somatic practices — breathwork, body awareness, and nervous system regulation — address anxiety at the root level, creating real, lasting calm instead of just managing symptoms.

As a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) I've helped women around the world find their way out of chronic anxiety using exactly these tools. Here's where to start.

Why Is Anxiety So Common in Women?

Nearly 1 in 4 women report their stress levels at an 8 or higher out of 10, according to the American Psychological Association. Women are also diagnosed with anxiety disorders at roughly twice the rate of men.

There are real physiological and social reasons why women carry more anxiety:

• Hormonal fluctuations across the menstrual cycle, perimenopause, and menopause directly affect the nervous system and mood regulation

• Women are socialised to suppress emotions, override body signals, and prioritise others (all of which dysregulate the nervous system over time)

• The pressure to over-perform at work, at home, and in relationships creates a chronic stress load that the body was never designed to sustain

• Trauma, including sexual trauma, relationship trauma, and medical trauma, is stored somatically and often shows up as anxiety

• The constant cultural message that something is wrong with you: your body, your emotions, your output, keeps the nervous system in low-level threat mode

What’s Actually Happening in Your Body When You’re Anxious

Anxiety is your nervous system’s threat response, specifically the sympathetic nervous system activating fight-or-flight.

When this happens, your body floods with cortisol and adrenaline, your heart rate increases, your muscles brace, and your digestion slows.

This response is designed to be short-term. The problem is that for many women, it never fully switches off. The body stays in a low-level state of alert: always scanning, always bracing, always ready for the next thing to go wrong.

Over time, this chronic activation shows up as tension in the jaw, neck, shoulders, and hips.

It shows up as disrupted sleep, irregular periods, low libido, digestive issues, and a pervasive sense of being “always on edge.”

This is why thinking your way out of anxiety rarely works long-term.

The body is holding the anxiety, and the body needs to be part of the solution.

What Is Somatic Therapy for Anxiety?

Somatic therapy is a body-based approach to healing that works directly with the nervous system, physical sensation, and stored tension in the body.

Rather than analysing thoughts, somatic practices help the body complete its stress response, release held tension, and build new patterns of safety from the inside out.

In my work as a yoga therapist, I use a framework called Release → Rediscover → Reclaim to guide women through this process:

1. Release

The first step is creating enough safety in the nervous system for the body to begin letting go.

This isn’t about forcing relaxation, it’s about gently signalling to the body that it’s safe to soften. Breathwork, meditation, and body awareness practices are central here.

2. Rediscover

Once there’s more space in the body, we begin to reconnect with sensation, emotion, and the body’s innate wisdom.

Many anxious women are deeply disconnected from their bodies, they live from the neck up. This phase is about coming back down, gently.

3. Reclaim

This is where the nervous system starts to build a new baseline, one that isn’t dominated by anxiety.

Women in this phase often describe feeling grounded, clear, and more themselves than they’ve felt in years.

5 Somatic Practices to Reduce Anxiety Naturally

These aren’t generic wellness tips. These are body-based practices drawn from yoga therapy and somatic healing that directly address nervous system dysregulation.

1. Extended Exhale Breathing

The exhale activates the parasympathetic nervous system, your rest-and-digest response.

Making your exhale longer than your inhale is one of the most direct ways to shift your nervous system out of fight-or-flight in real time.

Try it: inhale for 4 counts, exhale for 7–8 counts. Repeat for 5 minutes. You can do this anywhere,in bed, at your desk, before a difficult conversation.

2. Body Scan Awareness

Anxiety pulls you into your head. A body scan practice reverses this by directing attention systematically through the body, noticing sensation without trying to change it.

This builds interoception — your ability to sense what’s happening inside — which is one of the most important skills for nervous system regulation.

Start with 5 minutes lying down. Begin at the crown of your head and slowly move your awareness down through your body. Notice tension, warmth, tingling, numbness. Don’t try to fix anything, just witness.

3. Gentle Somatic Movement

The body stores anxiety as physical tension, particularly in the jaw, neck, shoulders, hips, and pelvic floor.

Gentle, slow movement helps discharge this held tension without overwhelming the system.

This isn’t about working out. It’s about moving slowly enough to feel what’s happening in your body as you move. Restorative yoga, gentle hip openers, slow neck rolls, and fascia tapping are all effective tools.

4. Guided Meditation and Yoga Nidra

Guided meditation — particularly yoga nidra — brings the nervous system into a deeply restorative state that sits between waking and sleep.

In this state, the body can process and release stored stress that conscious awareness can’t easily access.

Even 10–15 minutes a day creates measurable shifts in cortisol levels and baseline anxiety over time. Consistency matters more than duration.

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5. Somatic Journalling

This is different from regular journalling.

Instead of writing about what happened or analysing your thoughts, somatic journalling starts with the body. Before you write, take a few breaths and check in:

Where do you feel tension right now?

What emotion lives there?

Let the writing follow the sensation, not the story. This practice builds the body awareness that is foundational to lasting anxiety relief.

The Role of Self-Compassion in Anxiety Relief

One of the most underrated tools for reducing anxiety is self-compassion — and it’s also one of the most research-backed.

Dr. Kristin Neff’s work shows that self-compassion reduces cortisol, increases oxytocin, and creates a felt sense of safety in the body.

Self-criticism does the opposite.

When you judge yourself for being anxious, stressed, or ‘not handling it,’ you add another layer of threat to an already overwhelmed nervous system. The body hears self-criticism as danger and responds accordingly.

Practising self-compassion doesn’t mean bypassing difficult emotions or pretending everything is fine.

It means meeting yourself with the same warmth you’d offer a good friend who was struggling. Simple phrases like

“this is tough, and I’m not alone in this”

can genuinely shift your nervous system state.

How Long Does It Take to Reduce Anxiety Naturally?

Most women begin to notice a shift within 2–4 weeks of consistent somatic practice: better sleep, less reactivity, more capacity to pause before responding.

Deeper change in baseline anxiety levels typically takes 2-3 months of regular practice.

You don’t need an hour a day. 10 intentional minutes: a body scan in the morning, extended exhale breathing before bed — is enough to start building new nervous system patterns.

The key is consistency, not intensity.

Frequently Asked Questions About Reducing Anxiety Naturally

Can somatic practices replace medication for anxiety?

Somatic practices are a powerful complement to any anxiety treatment plan, but this is a decision to make with your healthcare provider.

Many women use somatic tools alongside medication, therapy, or other support — and find that over time, with consistent practice, their overall anxiety levels reduce significantly. I never advise stopping medication without medical guidance.

Is yoga therapy the same as regular yoga?

No. Yoga therapy is a clinical, individualised application of yoga tools: movement, breathwork, meditation, and somatic awareness, to address specific health conditions.

It’s evidence-informed, trauma-sensitive, and tailored to the individual. A yoga therapy session looks very different from a group yoga class.

What if I’ve tried meditation and it made my anxiety worse?

This is more common than people realise, especially for women with trauma or significant nervous system dysregulation.

Sitting in silence and trying to ‘empty the mind’ can feel threatening to a hypervigilant nervous system.

There are research-backed meditations and breathwork for anxiety. While others could feel quite triggering and activating.

Guided meditation (particularly body-based, trauma-informed guidance) is very different and much more accessible. Starting with movement or specific breathworks before stillness can also help.

How is anxiety connected to pelvic health and hormones?

Directly. Chronic anxiety elevates cortisol, which disrupts the hormonal cascade that regulates estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone.

This can worsen PMS, period pain, irregular cycles, and perimenopausal symptoms.

The pelvic floor also holds a significant amount of stress tension, many women with anxiety carry chronic pelvic tightness without realising it.

Addressing anxiety somatically often improves pelvic health as a result.

Want Support to Reduce Anxiety Naturally?

If you’re ready to stop managing your anxiety and start actually shifting it — from the inside out — I work with women 1:1 through private yoga therapy sessions online.

I work directly with your nervous system using somatic movement, breathwork, guided meditation, and body awareness practices tailored specifically to you.

No generic routines. No toxic positivity. Just real, body-based support.

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Joss | Yoga Therapist C-IAYT

About the Author

Joss Frank is a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) and E-RYT 500 specialising in women’s nervous system health, anxiety, pelvic health, and feminine embodiment. She is the founder of Wild Womb and has supported hundreds of women to move from chronic stress and anxiety into genuine safety and embodiment through her online courses, 1:1 yoga therapy sessions, and guided meditations.

Many women face challenges with their sexuality, including past trauma, low self-esteem, intimacy issues, or a low sex drive.

If this sounds familiar, know that you're not alone. Many women experience these struggles and can benefit from healing their sexual energy.

No matter your age, background, or experience, every woman has the power to connect with her sexuality to heal, build confidence, and improve intimacy.

In this blog, we’ll explore ways to:

• Boost sexual confidence so you can enjoy healthier relationships with others and with your own body.

• Overcome intimacy challenges (fears, doubts, traumas).

• Connect with inner sexual power.

Here’s a Youtube which dives into this topic…

Why Does Understanding Your Sexual Power Matter?

In a world where women often face slut-shaming, objectification, and control, exploring and embracing your sexuality can be a powerful act of self-care.

Sexuality is more than just physical attraction or a sexual activity; it’s a core part of who you are.

Unfortunately, societal norms often complicate this connection. Women’s sexuality is frequently subjected to control, objectification, and shame, which can make it challenging to feel connected to our true selves.

There is an easy way for you to tap into the spirituality of your sexuality and embrace it fully. This journey involves self-discovery and can lead to increased confidence, intimacy, and a deeper understanding of your body.

The Exact Steps To Connect With Your Sexual Power

Before diving into deeper practices, I recommend this gentle journey to help you return to your sexual power with compassion and patience.

1.Build a sense of safety in your body

For many, especially those who have experienced trauma, feeling safe is the first step. Here’s how you can begin:

Ask yourself this important question: ’Do you feel safe and comfortable in your body?’

If the answer is no, focus on daily self-care to calm the nervous system and reduce stress. Practices such as: grounding breathwork and root chakra exercises can help you reconnect with your body.

Be patient with yourself: If you’ve experienced trauma or have an imbalanced nervous system, start slowly. Avoid quick fixes or superficial solutions. Instead, focus on foundational practices that help you feel secure and connected.

For guidance on releasing trauma and feeling safe in the body: Read my blog ‘Rebuilding Confidence After Sexual Trauma’

2. Break-Free from Shame, Guilt, and Fear

It’s essential to consciously release feelings of shame, fear, and guilt imposed by society. Women’s sexuality has been historically controlled and objectified, leading to a distorted view of what it means to be sexual.

Explore embracing a new mindset:

• Release Patriarchal Views: Release from societal expectations and beauty standards. Celebrate your sexuality as a powerful, magical energy.
  

• Empower Yourself: Understand that your sexuality is a source of creativity, healing, and personal power. It’s not limited to physical acts or relationships.
  

3. Build Inner-Awareness & Body Connection

Once you feel safe in your body, the next step is to build inner awareness and deeper connection with your body.

Understanding your emotions, triggers, and sensations is key to connecting with your sexuality. Here’s how to get started:

• Daily Self-Care Practices: Engage in activities that help you tune into your body and emotions. This could include a mix of inner-awareness meditations, journaling, and gentle movement.
  

• Explore Your Bodily Sensations: Build awareness to your body’s tensions and feelings. This self-awareness helps you understand what brings you pleasure and confidence.

For guidance with deepening inner-awareness & body connection: Dowload the free 15-minute guided meditation to build confidence and awaken feminine energy. It will help you connect with your body, womb, and emotions.

4. Exploring the Spirituality of Your Sexuality

As you grow more comfortable and confident with your body, you could explore deeper practices focused on sexuality and pleasure such as:

• Breast and Yoni Meditations: These sacred practices help you tune into your feminine energy and connect with your body on a deeper level.
  
  

• Tantra and Womb Yoga: Offers practices that focus on channeling sexual energy so you can feel aligned with your body’s natural rhythm and cycle.
  
  

• Creative Expression: Use your sexuality as a source of creativity and healing. This might include art, writing, or other forms of self-expression.
  

For guidance with exploring the spirituality of your sexuality: Access the online self-paced course: Embodied Feminine. It gently guides you through a complete healing journey. You’ll learn natural, holistic practices that help you reconnect with your body and awaken your true sexual power.

Bottom Line

Embracing and connecting with your sexual power is a unique healing journey for women of all ages to explore.

Whether you’re starting fresh or deepening your connection, remember…

Your sexuality is a beautiful, integral part of who you are.

Keep exploring, stay curious, and honor your journey.

Next Steps:

You're ready to embrace your sexuality, build confidence, and align with your feminine energy, start right away!

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Joss Frank, Yoga Therapist C-IAYT

I’m Joss, founder of Wild Womb, and I specialize in empowering people to heal, reclaim their power, and build lasting self-confidence.

After years of struggling with depression, anxiety, and trauma, I discovered that true healing comes from within. Through my personal journey of self-healing, I learned that the key to overcoming physical and emotional challenges lies in reconnecting with the body, cultivating inner awareness, and embracing holistic practices.

As a certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT), I now guide people through transformative healing processes that address both the physical and emotional aspects of their well-being. My work combines somatic therapy, yoga therapy, and emotional healing practices to help people cultivate self-love and lasting inner peace.

Whether you're struggling with mental health, trauma recovery, or building a positive relationship with your body, I’m here to support you on your healing journey.

You're not alone and it's not your fault.

As women, we’re often told that our sexuality should look a certain way: effortless, desirable, always ready. But behind the scenes, many of us are quietly wondering why the spark feels so far away.

You may have tried quick fixes: lingerie, dieting, a vacation, even forcing yourself to "just get in the mood", but none of that addresses the deeper truth:

Real pleasure starts from within.

The good news? You can awaken your body and your desire naturally, through simple, at-home somatic practices like pelvic floor breathwork, breast meditations, and womb yoga.

This isn’t just about sex, it’s about reclaiming your connection to your body, confidence, and feminine energy.

Because the truth is, many women struggle to feel confident in their sexuality. Whether it’s shame from past experiences, cultural conditioning, or simply the stress of daily life, your nervous system and emotional body might be blocking the flow of your natural arousal.

To begin truly healing, you need more than a surface-level fix.

You need a return to self-awareness. Breathwork, journaling, and gentle somatic practices offer powerful tools for reconnecting with your pleasure.

Try these journal prompts to start your journey:

• What’s your biggest challenge when it comes to feeling pleasure alone or with a partner?
  

• Do you feel safe and confident expressing your desires?
  

• Are there lingering feelings of shame, guilt, or fear around your sexuality?
  

• Can you fully relax and receive during intimacy?

The most important part of sexual healing is letting go of self-judgment and the pressure to "fix" yourself.

True healing and transformation starts with self-compassion.

Only then can you begin to gently release the heavy emotions, fears, and shame that may be holding you back from fully experiencing your body and pleasure.

Through simple somatic practices like pelvic floor breathwork and womb meditation, you can build a deeper connection with your sensuality, improve arousal, and strengthen the foundation for more embodied, fulfilling intimacy.

When I started my sexual healing journey, it started small and with gentle curiosity. Yes I’m guilty of going for the quick fixes which now feel quite silly: a new hairstyle, lingerie, supplements! Although these things did ‘do the trick’ for a short moment, I wasn’t getting to the root cause of my issue.

I was a beautiful woman on the outside but on the inside, I felt blocked. I wasn’t confident and I didn’t have any connection to my body. In a way, I was just going through the motions when it comes to sex. It almost became a gift that I gave to men. I never thought to prioritize my pleasure during sex or to explore my own pleasure alone.

Here’s how I started to improve my libido and confidence:

I started to take a serious look at my unresolved trauma and how to release it. This is not to say that everyone reading this has trauma they need to release. You might just have heavy emotions or non-serving thoughts that are blocking you.

But most often, there is ‘something’ there blocking sexual flow.

I committed to daily womb yoga and meditation to connect to my sacral chakra and womb. I realized in this moment that I‘d never really connected to this space with intention.

This small new positive habit had a ripple effect. Instead of just doing yoga or breathwork, I focused on breathing with my womb, meditating with her, and exploring gentle movements to open up my pelvis and hips.

Things began to feel lighter. I felt more connected to my womb and sexuality.

From here, I began to really honor my feelings and needs. I was slowly aligning with feminine energy and she had a very distinct rhythm. There were phases during the month that I felt more confident and sexual. And there were phases where I felt more closed and inward.

I began to honor my feminine rhythm instead of blindly demanding my body to feel sexual as I wanted it to.

This pertains to the seasons as well. During the winter months (or rainy season), I felt myself go inward and restful and I began to honor this phase just as Mother Earth does.

Aligning with feminine energy using simple meditations, breathwork, affirmations, and journaling will help you improve your sex drive

From here, I slowly began to deepen my practices to include pelvic floor breathing exercises (known in tantra yoga as Yoni Bandhas).

It’s important that you approach this as a gentle journey not a race. There’s no point in jumping straight to the breathwork techniques if you’ve not also given space for trauma release and healing first.

The pelvic floor breathwork to improve tone, pleasure, and heighten sexuality is known as Yoni bandhas.

The Yoni bandha breathwork practice involves breathing between gently holding and releasing the pelvic floor muscles. This is not kegels as kegels do not connect breathing with pelvic movement.

The benefits of Yoni Bandhas (Pelvic Floor Breathwork):

• Improve tone: The tone of a woman’s pelvic floor often weakens after menopause. Lack of tone can also result in prolapse.
  

• Improve pelvic alignment: Improper pelvic alignment (such as tucking the tailbone) can increase the risk of prolapse.
  

• Womb healing: It builds a healthy relationship with a woman’s sexual organs where feelings of shame, guilt, and fear are often stored.
  

• Strengthen the pelvic floor: Pelvic floor exercises - without other treatment - can improve ailments such as incontinence. Consider that 50% of women with children have prolapse and 10% have symptoms.

There are many types of pelvic floor breathwork practices (yoni bandhas), womb yoga asanas, and somatic exercises to help you improve intimacy, pleasure, and sex drive.

Tap here to explore the exercises right away! Watch my YouTube: Boost confidence in intimacy (10-minute meditation + tantra exercises)

Bottom Line

If you’re ready to improve your sex drive, arousal, and pleasure, start small and be patient.

Sexual healing is an exciting journey of discovery and every woman’s is different.

Start with releasing what might be blocking access to your own pleasure: This means releasing any trauma, non-serving thought patterns, and heavy emotions that you’re holding onto.

From here, commit to an simple daily somatic practice of 5-10 minutes to explore womb meditation, womb yoga, and breathwork. This will help you build a loving relationship with your body and womb.

As it feels right in your body, begin to explore the yoni bandha practices. Take it one step at a time.

Next Steps: Ready to reconnect with your feminine energy?

Download my free guided meditation and begin your journey back to softness, sensuality, and embodied feminine energy.

Feel more calm, confident, and connected right away! ⬇️

About Joss Frank

Yoga Therapist C-IAYT, Wild Womb Founder

I’m Joss Frank, certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) and founder of Wild Womb, where I help women heal naturally from anxiety, burnout, hormone imbalance, trauma, and emotional overwhelm through somatic exercises, yoga therapy and womb yoga practices.

After years of living with depression, anxiety, and chronic stress, I found lasting healing through body-based practices that support the nervous system, pelvic health, and emotional release.

This journey inspired me to create my online course and guided meditations that help women reconnect with their bodies, balance their hormones, and feel empowered in their feminine energy.

My approach blends somatic therapy, yoga nidra, cyclical awareness, breathwork, and trauma-informed womb yoga, giving you practical self-care tools you can do from the comfort of your home to release stress and reclaim confidence, pleasure, and emotional well-being.

If you're ready to start your healing journey at home, check out my online feminine energy course or explore my blog and YouTube channel for free practices and inspiration.

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From an early age, women are bombarded with unrealistic beauty standards in the media, leading to constant comparisons and self-criticism.

With the rise of social media and photo filters, these beauty ideals have only worsened, leaving many women feeling inadequate.

If you’ve ever found yourself caught in a cycle of negative self-talk, you're not alone. You may hear thoughts like:

• ‘You shouldn’t have done that’

• ‘Why didn’t you do that’

• ‘Why did you say that?’

• ’You aren’t worthy of this’

These thoughts can become so ingrained that they feel automatic, and sometimes you may not even realize how harshly you’re speaking to yourself.

But there is hope—by recognizing and addressing negative self-talk, you can begin the journey to greater self-love, confidence, and emotional healing.

There’s a deeper meaning behind negative self-talk. Beneath it lies a core belief which is often non-serving and very untrue.

For example: A core belief of ‘I’m unworthy’ will be supported by your own thoughts:

• ’My partner left me for someone better’

• ’I never have good luck’

• etc…

When you change your thoughts, you change your core belief.

Your core beliefs represent how you see the world and this is developed from life’s experiences.

When we face a challenge, our core beliefs motivate how we interpret that challenge. Our chosen interpretation is going to determine how we feel emotionally, and from here, our actions are born.

By paying attention to your negative self-talk, you'll often find that your thoughts about a current situation are linked to something that happened in your past.

How to Break Free from Negative Self-Talk

Breaking free from negative self-talk can be challenging, especially because many people aren't fully aware of their negative thought patterns. However, with the right tools and awareness, it's possible to overcome negative self-talk and build a more positive mindset.

To develop awareness of your negative thoughts, it's essential to commit to daily mindfulness practices that nurtures the body, mind, and spirit.

Some effective mindfulness practices include:

• Yoga Nidra: A powerful relaxation practice that helps quiet the mind and increase body awareness.
  

• Meditation: Regular meditation helps you observe your thoughts without judgment and develop mental clarity.
  

• Body-Awareness Exercises: Techniques like body scans can help you tune into your body’s sensations, which are often linked to your emotional state.

By incorporating these mindfulness practices into a simple daily self-care routine, you'll begin to notice how certain thoughts and emotions manifest in specific areas of your body.

For example, some people feel self-doubt as a lightness or unease in their stomach, while others experience sadness as a tightness in their heart or throat.

Everyone’s experience is unique, so it's important to approach these sensations with self-compassion and kindness.

By acknowledging and accepting your feelings without judgment, you can begin to break the cycle of negative self-talk and cultivate a more balanced, positive mindset.

Overcoming Negative Self-Talk: The Key to Lasting Confidence and Self-Love

It’s nearly impossible to love your body and embrace confidence when you're constantly battling negative self-talk.

These harmful thought patterns block self-compassion, self-acceptance, and joy, keeping you stuck in a cycle of self-doubt and insecurity.

Here’s what I discovered many years ago when I finally decided I was tired of living in fear and uncertainty:

I had to prioritize daily mindfulness practices in order to become more aware of my negative self-talk. Through mindfulness, I began to notice the unfair and limiting stories I was telling myself about who I couldn’t be and how unworthy I felt.

As I began my healing journey, I allowed myself to be seen.

I reached out to teachers, mentors, and a supportive community, sharing my truth. It was incredibly liberating to realize how many other women were also struggling with the same self-critical thoughts.

Being seen is a crucial part of the healing process.

Trusting that you are not alone on this journey can lead you to a more compassionate and accepting way of being. Embracing vulnerability and connecting with others is often the first step toward healing negative self-talk and building lasting self-confidence.

Transforming your mindset from negative self-talk to confidence

It starts with committing to daily at-home mindfulness practices. Each day, could you explore some or all of the following:

• Breathwork

• Meditation, yoga nidra

• Gentle asanas for body awareness

• Skillful observation (this is a process of seeing your thoughts as words with no inherent meaning or power).

• Journaling: Note what comes up during your practices (feelings, doubts, emotions, fears, etc)

Keep it simple. Even 5-10 minutes a day to explore these practices is more than enough to start noticing change from within.

Practicing Positive Beliefs and Releasing Negative Self-Talk for Continued Confidence

The next step in overcoming negative self-talk is to practice new positive beliefs and release the non-serving ones.

Establishing a daily self-care routine can significantly boost your self-awareness, helping you quickly identify and understand how negative thoughts show up in your body.

When you notice a negative belief or thought, take a moment to pause and compassionately acknowledge it:

"This belief no longer serves me. I have the freedom to invite a new, uplifting belief about myself."

By consistently replacing negative self-talk with positive affirmations and new beliefs, you gradually transform your self-confidence.

The key is remembering that you have the power to choose what you believe about yourself.

Through mindfulness practices, I learned that my own thoughts were the root cause of much of my suffering. I had unknowingly created an inner "bully" that affected my confidence, relationships, and joy.

Recognizing this allowed me to challenge my negative thought patterns and invite more empowering beliefs into my life.

The Power of Neuroplasticity: How Your Brain Can Change

It’s important to understand that neuroplasticity—the brain's ability to change—plays a significant role in how we can transform our thought patterns. Your brain is constantly rewiring itself based on the habits you practice, so making consistent changes can lead to lasting transformation.

Here are some habits that can help change your brain and reinforce new positive beliefs:

• Exercise: Regular physical activity supports brain health and emotional well-being.
  

• Adequate Sleep: Quality rest is essential for mental clarity and emotional resilience.
  

• Good Nutrition: Eating nutrient-dense foods fuels brain function and emotional balance.
  

• Stress Management: Practices like meditation, yoga, and deep breathing help reduce stress and improve mental health.

Just like paving a new path in the forest, changing your brain requires consistency.

By practicing mindfulness, meditation, exercise, yoga, and good nutrition consistently, you are rewiring your brain to reinforce positive beliefs and boost your confidence.

Bottom Line:

Thoughts determine how we feel in our bodies. Beneath non-serving thoughts lies a healing journey to reveal your core beliefs that were formed from a younger age.

With a bit of self-compassion, guidance, and a mindfulness practices, you can absolutely release those non-serving thoughts and find more confidence and joy in your body.

Remember, self-criticism turns on your stress response and touches the fight or flight part of your brain. It’s not possible to feel confident and connected to your body when you’re in this state.

So the next time you notice a non-serving thought, consider how it impacts your confidence.

Change your thoughts, change your confidence.

Next Steps:

If you're ready to break-free from negative self talk, self-doubt, and stress, my self-care audio routines can help. This 10-minute daily routine guides you through simple exercises to:

• Boost confidence and joy

• Reduce stress, self-doubt, and worry

• Calm and balance the nervous system

The self-care audio routines are customized to help women feel less stress and more confidence in just 10-minutes per day.

Start your healing journey today: https://wildwomb.space/selfcareroutines

Joss Frank, Yoga Therapist C-IAYT

I’m Joss, founder of Wild Womb, and I specialize in empowering people to heal, reclaim their power, and build lasting self-confidence.

After years of struggling with depression, anxiety, and trauma, I discovered that true healing comes from within. Through my personal journey of self-healing, I learned that the key to overcoming physical and emotional challenges lies in reconnecting with the body, cultivating inner awareness, and embracing holistic practices.

As a certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT), I now guide people through transformative healing processes that address both the physical and emotional aspects of their well-being. My work combines somatic therapy, yoga therapy, and emotional healing practices to help people cultivate self-love and lasting inner peace.

Whether you're struggling with mental health, trauma recovery, or building a positive relationship with your body, I’m here to support you on your healing journey.

For anyone struggling with anxiety, depression, or seeking trauma release, the variety of therapies available can feel overwhelming. With so many treatment options to choose from, it’s hard to know where to start.

In this blog, I’ll break down:

• How Yoga Therapy can help you manage trauma, anxiety, and depression.

• The benefits of somatic healing exercises for emotional wellness.

• How to choose a qualified yoga therapist for your healing journey.

When I first began my search for the right therapy, I too felt overwhelmed. There were so many questions that kept coming up:

How do I know which therapy is best for my emotional and mental health needs?
How can I trust my therapist or practitioner?
Is online therapy effective for healing trauma and anxiety?

My Journey to Healing: Finding the Right Therapy for Anxiety, Depression, and Trauma Release

I struggled with anxiety, depression, and unhealed trauma for years.

I knew I needed help, but I was uncertain about which form of therapy would work best for me. So, I tried a variety of treatments, including medication, talk therapy (psychotherapy), yoga, and meditation.

Through this journey, I discovered that true healing requires an approach that addresses mental, emotional, and physical wellness simultaneously.

The problem I encountered with traditional talk therapy was that I wasn’t at a place where I could fully articulate my emotions.

I needed a therapy that allowed me to simply feel and connect with my body.

Why Talk Therapy Alone May Not Be Enough When it Comes to Anxiety, Depression, and Trauma

When people get close to the story of their trauma, the area of the brain responsible for language production (Broca’s Area) can shut down.

For this reason, traditional talk therapy - in the beginning of one’s healing journey - can sometimes feel ineffective when processing deep emotional pain.

Expressing trauma verbally becomes difficult when the brain's language center shuts down.

This knowledge helped me understand why I wasn’t seeing much progress in my talk therapy sessions. I needed to tap into my body and emotions in a different way.

The Role of Yoga Therapy in Managing Anxiety, Depression, and Trauma

Yoga therapy and somatic healing exercises offer a more holistic, body-based approach to mental health.

This alternative holistic approach combines gentle physical movement, breathwork, interoception practices, and more to release trauma stored in the body, helping to heal emotional tensions and restore balance in body, mind, and spirit.

Here’s how yoga therapy helped me heal:

• Trauma release: Yoga helps release trauma stored in the body offering a deeper form of healing.

  
  

• Anxiety relief: Breathing techniques and mindfulness help calm the nervous system.

  
  

• Emotional balance: Somatic healing exercises help you improve awareness to emotions, thoughts, and sensations.

How to Choose a Qualified Yoga Therapist for Your Healing Journey?

When looking for a qualified yoga therapist to support your healing, it’s important to choose someone with expertise in trauma-informed care.

Here’s what to consider when selecting a yoga therapist:

• Credentials and experience: Look for a therapist who is certified in yoga therapy (C-IAYT) and has experience working with trauma, anxiety, and depression.

  
  

• Trauma-sensitive approach: Choose a therapist who uses a trauma-informed approach, ensuring that you feel safe and supported during the healing process.

  
  

• Safety and trust: It’s essential to feel safe and trust your therapist. The therapeutic relationship is key to healing.

Is Online Therapy Effective for Anxiety, Depression, and Trauma Release?

The rise of online therapy has made mental health support more accessible than ever.

Many people wonder if virtual therapy can be as effective as in-person sessions. While face-to-face sessions have their benefits, online yoga therapy offers a flexible and comfortable way to heal from the comfort of your home.

You can still receive high-quality, personalized therapy sessions remotely.

How Yoga Therapy Helps Improve Mental, Physical, and Spiritual Health

Once I began practicing body-centered therapy (specifically yoga therapy), I started to truly feel how my breathing, body tensions, and thoughts were affecting my overall well-being.

This holistic approach allowed me to address the root causes of my mental and physical health challenges, leading to profound improvements in both areas.

For example, if you're dealing with anxiety, it’s not just a mental experience—it's also felt in your body.

Common physical symptoms of anxiety include:

• Increased sensitivity of the sympathetic nervous system (responsible for the "fight or flight" response)

  
  

• Decreased activity in the parasympathetic nervous system (which calms the body)

  
  

• Reduced heart rate variability, which is a key indicator of stress levels

Body-centered therapy helps stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system, improve heart rate variability, promoting relaxation and recovery.

Yoga Therapy Heals the Body, Mind, and Spirit

Body-centered therapy (yoga therapy) is an invaluable tool for healing a wide range of physical and emotional issues, such as:

• Anxiety

• Depression

• Chronic pain

• Stress

• Trauma release

Yoga therapy offers somatic exercises that support the mind, body, and spirit together, creating a whole and balanced holistic healing experience.

What is Yoga Therapy?

There are many different types of somatic therapies available. One of the most effective methods is yoga therapy.

Somatic therapy is a treatment that focuses on the body and how emotions and experiences are stored and expressed within the body.

According to Amanda Baker, a clinical psychologist at the Center for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Disorders,

“Somatic therapies posit that our body holds and expresses experiences and emotions, and traumatic events or unresolved emotional issues can become 'trapped' inside.”

The Role of Yoga Therapy in Your Healing Journey

Yoga therapy is a specific form of somatic healing that incorporates evidence-based yoga techniques to address the physical, mental, and emotional needs of the individual. These techniques include:

• Therapeutic yoga postures

• Breathwork to regulate the nervous system

• Meditation techniques for mindfulness and stress reduction

• Inner awareness exercises to cultivate emotional intelligence

You might think of yoga as just a physical practice centered around stretching and movement, but yoga therapy is a different approach entirely.

It combines therapeutic somatic-based techniques to help you become more mindful of your body, emotions, habits, and thoughts.

Trauma-Informed and Gentle Healing with Yoga Therapy

Yoga therapy is designed to be gentle, trauma-informed, and supportive.

These private, one-on-one sessions create a safe and welcoming space for you to be seen and heard as you explore your healing journey. The goal is to help you connect with your body and release trauma, stress, and emotional tensions in a compassionate and nurturing environment.

What happens inside a private yoga therapy session?

A certified yoga therapist helps clients release emotional and physical tension in their body using various mind-body techniques such as yoga nidra, breathwork, body awareness, guided meditation, affirmations, asanas, and inner-awareness exercises.

A client might book a private yoga therapy session with a wellness goal to release trauma, manage depression, or reduce anxiety.

A session with a yoga therapist will include a combination of:

• Physical practices: Such as breathing techniques for nervous system regulation and heart rate variability. Stretches to release tensions within nerves and muscles.
  

• Emotional/mental practices: Such as journaling and affirmations to build inner-awareness to one’s own thoughts, feelings, and emotions surrounding their illness.
  

• Spiritual practices: Such as guided meditations and Yoga Nidra to reduce stress and boost mindfulness.

What’s great about yoga therapy is that your therapist will provide you with a self-care routine (containing active-healing tools) so you can self-regulate your issue in-between and beyond the sessions.

A Yoga Therapist provides clients with a small at-home self-care routine (typically 10 minutes) which allows them to explore the practices from home on a consistent basis.

When it comes to healing, success lies in commitment to a consistent daily practice (for mind, body, and spirit) to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and/or trauma long-term.

Clients receive research-backed somatic exercises that are shown to regulate the nervous system, balance hormones, release tensions, and modify any non-serving thought patterns or habits.

Clients gain a greater sense of self-control to manage responses to various stimuli.

What specific somatic healing exercises are explored in private yoga therapy?

There are plenty. A particularly powerful one is the breathwork practice Bhramari Pranayama (also known as the humming-bee breathing technique).

Research shows that it effectively stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system, helps reduce heart rate and blood pressure (Pramanik et al., 2010).

Another study shows that Bhramari Pranayama elicits neurological activity involved in mental processes such as attention, working memory, learning, and conscious perception. (from AJNA Yoga)

Who May Benefit From Yoga Therapy?

Just about anyone can benefit from Yoga Therapy, in fact:

“Recent research has pointed to somatic therapy as being effective when used as a treatment for trauma and/or post-traumatic stress disorder”

— Forbes Health Article: www.forbes.com/health/mind/somatic-therapy

People of all ages and identities can greatly benefit from private yoga therapy. It supports a vast range of physical and mental health issues including:

• Depression, anxiety,

• Stress,

• Trauma,

• Chronic pain and fatigue,

• PTSD

…and more.

What to specifically look for in a yoga therapist?

If you’ve searched online, you may find yourself inundated with the amount of healers, teachers, and practitioners. But how can you know who to choose?

Here’s a few things to look for:

• Is your Yoga Therapist licensed? For example: The International Association of Yoga Therapists provides a C-IAYT certification to all registered practitioners.
  
  

• Has your Yoga Therapist completed trauma-informed training? Language and sensitivity of your chosen therapist makes a major difference to creating that safe space for healing.
  
  

• What school did the Yoga Therapist study with? Don’t be afraid to ask and then research the reputation of the school.
  
  

• Check their reviews: Take a look at the Therapists Google and/or Facebook reviews to hear feedback from real clients and build your consensus.

Bottom Line:

If you’re someone seeking support for trauma release, anxiety, depression, or just ready to feel more mindful and present, yoga therapy is an approach that you might love.

Although it’s not mainstream just yet, it's increasing in popularity as the benefits of mindfulness and yoga are researched and books such as ‘The body keeps the score’ are widely known.

The benefits of yoga therapy are studied, and can be applied to a range of ages, identities, and experiences.

Discovering the link between your emotions, thoughts, and how this affects your body and vice versa is incredibly empowering for everyone.

Next Steps:

If you're ready to break-free from depression, trauma, and/or anxiety, my online 1:1 yoga therapy can help.

This holistic approach to therapy guides you through somatic-based healing to cultivate mindfulness of your body, emotions, habits, and thoughts.

Online 1:1 yoga therapy is designed to help you reduce stress, manage mental health, and improve self-care.

Book a free 20-minute consultation and start your healing journey today: https://wildwomb.space/privateyogatherapyhealingsessions

Joss Frank, Yoga Therapist C-IAYT

I’m Joss, founder of Wild Womb, and I specialize in empowering people to heal, reclaim their power, and build lasting self-confidence.

After years of struggling with depression, anxiety, and trauma, I discovered that true healing comes from within. Through my personal journey of self-healing, I learned that the key to overcoming physical and emotional challenges lies in reconnecting with the body, cultivating inner awareness, and embracing holistic practices.

As a certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT), I now guide people through transformative healing processes that address both the physical and emotional aspects of their well-being. My work combines somatic therapy, yoga therapy, and emotional healing practices to help people cultivate self-love and lasting inner peace.

Whether you're struggling with mental health, trauma recovery, or building a positive relationship with your body, I’m here to support you on your healing journey.

The emotional imprint of a relationship doesn’t disappear when the relationship ends. It lives in the nervous system, in the body, and for many women, specifically in the pelvic space and womb.

Dreams about your ex, intrusive thoughts, a heaviness in your lower belly, difficulty moving on (even when you know you should), these are all signs that your body is still processing what your mind has already decided to leave behind.

A womb healing ritual after a breakup is how you support your body to complete that process, to release what no longer belongs to you and create space for genuine renewal.

I’m Joss Frank, a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) specialising in women’s pelvic health and somatic healing.

In this guide I’ll walk you through why womb healing matters after a breakup, what a womb cleansing ritual actually involves, and a step-by-step practice you can begin today.

Why Womb Healing Matters After a Breakup

Sexual and emotional intimacy is not just a mental experience, it’s a full body and nervous system experience.

During intimate connection, we naturally absorb the emotional and energetic imprints of our partners. Their stress, their unhealed wounds, their emotional patterns, all of this can be absorbed and held in the body, particularly in the womb.

In yoga therapy and somatic healing, the womb space (the pelvic bowl, the sacral chakra, the lower belly) is understood as the seat of emotional processing, creativity, and intuition in the feminine body. It’s where we hold our deepest feelings, our relational history, and often our most unresolved pain.

After a breakup, especially one involving toxicity, emotional abuse, or deep attachment, this space can feel heavy, contracted, or numb. Many women describe feeling “stuck” in their bodies long after a relationship has ended, unable to fully move forward no matter how much they intellectually want to.

This is the body asking for support. And a womb healing practice is one of the most direct ways to give it that.

The Nervous System and Breakup Healing

From a yogic and nervous system perspective, a significant relationship loss activates the same threat response as any other trauma.

The body goes into grief and survival mode: cortisol spikes, the pelvic floor braces, sleep is disrupted, appetite changes, and the nervous system oscillates between hyperarousal (anxiety, racing thoughts, obsessive checking) and hypoarousal (numbness, exhaustion, disconnection).

Most breakup advice focuses on the mind: keeping busy, reframing thoughts, moving on. But the body has its own timeline. Until the nervous system feels safe again and the held tension in the body is released, true healing remains incomplete.

Womb healing practices work directly with the source of a woman’s feminine energy, creativity, and sexuality (not just the mind) which is womb healing supports a depth of healing that thinking alone cannot reach.

My Personal Experience With Womb Healing After Relationship Trauma

Years ago I was navigating the aftermath of painful relationships, alongside depression, anxiety, and period pain I couldn’t explain.

I tried therapy, medication, self-help books. All of it helped to a degree, but something felt unresolved in my body that none of it could reach. I felt stuck.

It wasn’t until I discovered womb yoga and yoga therapy in Thailand that I began to understand why. I had never been guided to connect with my womb, to bring compassionate awareness to my pelvic space, or to acknowledge what I was holding there.

Through these practices I began to access buried memories and emotions I didn’t realise were stored in my body. As they surfaced and released, my pain (both emotional and physical) began to genuinely shift.

That experience is the foundation of the work I do with women today.

What Is a Womb Cleansing Ritual?

A womb cleansing ritual or womb healing ritual is a somatic practice that helps you consciously reconnect with your pelvic space, bring compassionate awareness to what you’re holding there, and create the conditions for emotional and energetic release.

It’s an intentional, gentle, body-based practice where you slow down enough to feel what’s present in your body & womb which gives it permission to move.

In my yoga therapy practice I guide women through this process using my Release → Rediscover → Reclaim framework:

Release

Here, we create enough nervous system safety for the body to begin letting go of held tension, grief, and emotional residue from the relationship. It’s gentle, consistent, and establishes safety from within.

Rediscover

Reconnecting with your authentic self and understanding your feminine anatomy: your body, womb, emotions… your inner world. A redirection from the relationship and the identity you held within it.

Reclaim

Reclaiming your feminine energy, your boundaries, and your voice. This is where genuine renewal becomes possible, it’s you finally coming home to yourself.

A Step-by-Step Womb Healing Ritual for After a Breakup

Practice this ritual daily for 1-2 weeks. Consistency matters more than duration, even 10-20 minutes a day creates real, cumulative change in the nervous system and body.

1. Create a Safe Space

Find a quiet, private place where you won’t be interrupted. Dim the lights, light a candle if that feels right, and put your phone away. The nervous system needs to feel genuinely safe to open, and that starts with your physical environment.

2. Regulate Your Nervous System First

Before bringing attention to your womb, spend 5 minutes regulating your nervous system with extended exhale breathing (approx inhaling for 4 counts, exhaling for 6-8). This activates the parasympathetic nervous system and signals safety to the body.

3. Place Your Hands on Your Womb

Place both hands on your lower belly, just below your navel. Close your eyes. Simply notice (without trying to change anything) what you feel here.

Warmth or cold.
Tension or softness.
Heaviness or lightness.
Protective or open.

Whatever is present, let it be witnessed without judgment.

4. Write a Letter to Your Womb

This is one of the most powerful practices in the ritual. Write a short letter to your womb, acknowledging what it has held, expressing compassion for what it has been through, and affirming your commitment to care for it now.

It doesn’t need to be eloquent. Even “I see you. I’m sorry I’ve ignored you. I’m here now” is enough to begin shifting the relationship you have with this part of your body.

5. Affirmation Practice

With hands on your womb, repeat an affirmation aloud that feels true or that you want to grow into. Something like: “My womb is sacred. I release what no longer belongs here. I welcome my feminine energy back.”

Say it slowly, feeling the words land in your body rather than just passing through your mind.

6. Guided Womb Meditation

Close the ritual with a guided womb meditation. This brings the nervous system into a deeply restorative state and allows the body to process and integrate what has surfaced during the practice.

Here’s my free 15-minute womb meditation: Get the free guided meditation

7. Journal What Surfaced

After the meditation, spend a few minutes writing down any emotions, images, memories, or sensations that arose.

The act of writing what surfaced completes the cycle and helps you process emotions in a creative and embodied way.

Signs Your Womb Is Healing After a Breakup

Healing isn’t always dramatic. Look for these subtle but significant signs:

• Dreams about your ex becoming less frequent or less charged

• A felt sense of more space or lightness in your body

• Emotions surfacing more freely and passing more quickly

• Less obsessive thinking about the relationship

• A returning sense of your own desire, creativity, and aliveness

• Improved sleep and more stable mood

• Period pain or pelvic pain reducing

Learn more: What is womb healing (my complete guide)

Frequently Asked Questions About Womb Healing After a Breakup

How long does womb healing take after a breakup?

There’s no fixed timeline, it depends on the depth of the relationship, the nature of the trauma, and the consistency of your practice.

Most women begin to notice a shift within 2-4 weeks of daily practice. Deeper healing particularly after toxic or abusive relationships takes longer and often benefits from professional support.

(For 1-1 support, book a free consultation to learn more about private yoga therapy with Joss).

What is a womb cleansing ritual?

A womb cleansing ritual is a somatic, body-based practice designed to help women release stored emotional energy from the pelvic space after a relationship ending.

It typically involves breathwork to regulate the nervous system, mindful attention to the womb space, journalling, affirmations, and guided meditation.

Do I need a uterus to do womb healing?

No. Womb healing works with the energetic and somatic centre of the feminine body: the pelvic bowl, sacral chakra, and the emotional energy held there.

Women who have had hysterectomies or other reproductive surgeries can benefit fully from these practices.

Can womb healing help after an abusive relationship?

Yes, and it can be particularly powerful. Abusive relationships leave significant imprints in the nervous system and body.

Trauma-informed womb healing practices create a safe, gentle pathway for releasing these imprints without requiring you to relive or re-narrate the trauma. I always recommend working with a qualified, trauma-informed practitioner for deeper healing after abuse. You are never alone.

(For 1-1 support, book a free consultation to learn more about private yoga therapy with Joss).

How is womb healing different from regular therapy?

Traditional therapy works primarily through the mind: language, cognition, and narrative.

Womb healing works through the body: sensation, breath, movement, and loving awareness. They are complementary approaches.

Many women find that womb healing reaches places that talk therapy alone cannot, particularly when it comes to trauma held in the body rather than in conscious memory.

Learn more: Somatic healing for women

Ready to Go Deeper? The Embodied Feminine Course

If you’re ready for a complete, guided womb healing journey, one that takes you step by step through Release, Rediscover, and Reclaim, the Embodied Feminine course was built for exactly this.

It includes womb yoga, breast & womb meditation, womb healing rituals, yoga nidra, pelvic breathwork, and creative journalling — all designed to help you reclaim your feminine energy, your body, and your authentic confidence after relationship pain.

About the Author

Joss Frank is a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) and E-RYT 500 specialising in women’s pelvic health, womb healing, relationship trauma, and nervous system regulation.

She is the founder of Wild Womb and has supported hundreds of women to heal, reclaim their bodies, and move forward after painful relationships through her online courses, 1:1 yoga therapy sessions, and guided meditations.

If you've been struggling to release an ex, heal from past trauma, or stop replaying situations you have no control over, it's not just about will power, it’s about healing through the body. The body holds on long after the mind has decided to move forward.

Feminine energy — with its qualities of surrender, flow, and cyclical rhythm — is one of the most natural antidotes to the state of resistance that keeps us stuck. In this post I'm going to explain why, and give you practical ways to begin.

I'm Joss Frank, a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) specialising in womb healing and nervous system regulation for women.

Using Feminine Energy to Become a Master at Letting Go and Detachment

What does feminine energy have to do with letting go?

Everything.

Feminine energy is cyclical, fluid, and oriented toward surrender — the exact opposite of the clinging, resisting, and controlling states that make letting go so hard.

When you're unable to release something, you're often living in the qualities of masculine energy overdrive: gripping, forcing, analysing, trying to think your way through something that lives in the body. Feminine energy offers the counterbalance.

The qualities of feminine energy — surrender, openness, movement — are the same qualities that make letting go feel natural rather than forced.

The qualities of feminine energy are the same qualities that help you master letting go and detaching:

• Surrender

• Openness

• Movement

Consider the qualities you feel when you can’t let go of something:

• Clinging

• Resisting

• Refusing

• Denying

When you align with feminine energy, you embody an open heart, mindfulness, and acceptance.

This frequency helps you master letting go because you begin to embody the qualities of self-acceptance and surrender more.

Life begins to support your natural ability to surrender and go with the flow.

How to Embrace Feminine Energy So You Can Let Go with Ease

Connecting with your feminine energy doesn't have to be complicated.

When I first started to learn about feminine energy, I realized how masculine I’d been living my life. I was so hard on myself, pushing my body, striving to meet deadlines.

There was no compassion or kindness, and as a result, I was suffering.

My ability to let go deepened through yoga & self-care practices designed to reconnect me with my feminine energy:

• Prioritizing rest with yoga nidra

• Honoring all the phases of my menstrual cycle, the seasons, and the moon phases

• Womb meditation

• Yoga exercises for pelvic health and womb healing

These exercises helped me begin to release stored tension, heavy emotions, and access my feminine flow.

Slowly - and day by day - this self-care helped me embody all the qualities I was craving in my life: surrender, allowing, acceptance.

If you’re ready to get better at letting go and detachment, start by integrating these small, mindful habits into your daily routine which honor feminine energy.

Simple Feminine Energy Practices So You Can Let Go with Greater Ease

Here are four simple practices that reconnect you with feminine energy and make releasing feel more natural:

1. Align with the Moon Phases: Learn about the energy associated with each lunar phase and create rituals for the new moon and full moon to harness their transformative power.
   

2. Honor Seasonal Changes: Celebrate the shifts in seasons, acknowledging the natural cycles of life and aligning with their ever-moving energy to foster a deeper connection to your surroundings.
   

3. Track Your Menstrual Cycle: If you menstruate, use journaling to track your menstrual cycle and observe how the different phases of your cycle influence your emotions and energy.
   

4. Recognize Feminine Energy Everywhere: Understand that feminine energy exists not only within you but in the world around you. It flows through nature, relationships, and the rhythms of daily life, take time to notice and honor it.

By embracing these practices, you can start to tap into the nurturing, cyclical nature of feminine energy and experience greater ease in the process of letting go and detachment.

Why Letting Go Feels So Hard (And What's Actually Going On)

Letting go is difficult because the body doesn't distinguish between emotional pain and physical threat.

When something feels significant — a relationship, an identity, a belief about yourself — the nervous system treats losing it like a survival risk. That's why you can know intellectually that something no longer serves you and still feel completely unable to release it.

This is where body-based practices outperform mindset work. You can't think your way out of a nervous system response — you have to move through it.

Struggling to let go of relationships, past experiences, or even limiting emotions often stems from a sense of disconnection. When you feel detached from yourself or the world around you, letting go can feel like an overwhelming challenge.

I used to be in such a state of resistance

Whenever I lost something in my life, my whole world would spiral. I couldn’t accept any form of change. What’s fascinating is that feminine energy is always moving and changing.

When you align with feminine energy, you realize that life is a constant state of change, nothing is permanent.

Change used to be scary for me, but it slowly become a safe and comforting truth.

If you find yourself constantly battling with the release of what no longer serves you - whether it's a partner, situation, or old emotional baggage - connecting with feminine energy is your ticket to more acceptance and freedom.

The Takeaway

Letting go isn't a decision you make once — it's a practice you return to, in your body, over time. Feminine energy supports this because it's inherently cyclical: it doesn't resist change, it moves with it.

The more you reconnect with your feminine energy through daily body-based practices — womb meditation, cycle awareness, rest, nervous system regulation — the more naturally releasing becomes part of how you move through life.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you let go of someone you love using feminine energy?

Letting go of someone you love is less about forcing yourself to stop caring and more about coming back to yourself. Feminine energy practices — womb meditation, yoga nidra, cycle awareness — help regulate the nervous system and create the internal safety your body needs to begin releasing. Grief moves through the body, not around it.

What does it mean to "let go" in feminine energy work?

In feminine energy work, letting go means returning to a state of flow rather than resistance. It doesn't mean forgetting or not caring — it means releasing your grip on what you can't control and trusting the natural movement of life. Surrender is a feminine quality, not a weakness.

Can yoga therapy help with letting go and emotional release?

Yes. Yoga therapy works directly with the body and nervous system — where emotional patterns, grief, and stored tension actually live. Through somatic practices, breathwork, and womb-focused meditation, yoga therapy creates the conditions for genuine emotional release in a safe, supported way.

Why is letting go so hard even when you know you should?

Because letting go isn't a cognitive process — it's a nervous system process. Your body holds on to significant experiences as a form of self-protection, even when your mind knows it's time to move on. Body-based practices are more effective than willpower or positive thinking because they work at the level where the holding actually happens.

What is the connection between the womb and letting go?

The womb space — and the sacral chakra for those without a physical womb — is where women hold stored emotions, grief, and unprocessed experiences. Womb healing practices bring conscious, compassionate awareness to this space, allowing what has been held there to soften and release over time.

Next Steps:

If you’re ready to master detachment and letting go, practice embodying feminine energy more through a daily meditation practice.

Click below to download my free guided meditation. It will help you connect with your womb, feminine energy, and emotions.

Thanks for being here,
Joss | Yoga Therapist C-IAYT

About The Author

Joss Frank is a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) and E-RYT 500 specialising in women’s pelvic health, womb healing, and feminine embodiment.

She is the founder of Wild Womb and has supported hundreds of women in moving from survival mode to genuine embodiment through her online courses, 1:1 yoga therapy sessions, and guided meditations.

For most women, chronic stress and a dysregulated nervous system are making PCOS significantly worse — and that's exactly where natural remedies can make the biggest difference.

As a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) specialising in women's hormonal health, I work with women who are done being handed the pill and told to lose weight.

In this guide I'll walk you through the most effective natural remedies for PCOS — including breathwork, womb yoga, yoga nidra, and nervous system regulation — and explain why they work.

What is PCOS

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most common hormonal conditions affecting women of reproductive age, estimated to affect 1 in 10 women worldwide. Despite its prevalence, it remains poorly understood and frequently misdiagnosed.

PCOS is characterised by hormonal imbalance — specifically elevated androgens (male hormones like testosterone) — which disrupts ovulation and the menstrual cycle.

The name refers to the small follicles that can develop on the ovaries, though not all women with PCOS have cysts, and not all ovarian cysts indicate PCOS.

Common signs and symptoms of PCOS include:

• Irregular, infrequent, or absent periods

• Heavy or painful periods when they do occur

• Elevated androgens causing excess facial or body hair, acne, or hair thinning

• Difficulty losing weight or unexplained weight gain

• Insulin resistance

• Fertility challenges

• Mood changes, anxiety, and depression

• Fatigue and low energy
  

The Connection Between Stress, the Nervous System, and PCOS

One of the most significant and under-recognised drivers of PCOS symptoms is chronic stress.

This isn’t just about feeling stressed — it’s about what chronic stress does to the body at a hormonal and physiological level. Learn more: How to reduce stress with yoga therapy

When the body is under chronic stress, the HPA axis — your stress hormone system — continuously releases cortisol.

Elevated cortisol directly disrupts the hormonal cascade that regulates ovulation and the menstrual cycle. It also worsens insulin resistance, increases androgen production, and creates a physiological environment that makes PCOS symptoms significantly worse.

Research supports this connection:

A 2018 study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism found that women with PCOS show significantly elevated cortisol responses to stress compared to women without PCOS — suggesting that stress dysregulation is both a symptom and a driver of the condition.

This is why nervous system regulation is not optional in PCOS management — it’s foundational. Reducing the body’s chronic stress load creates the physiological conditions for hormonal rebalancing to begin.

What Is Yoga Therapy for PCOS?

Yoga therapy is a clinical, evidence-informed application of yoga tools — movement, breathwork, meditation, and somatic awareness — tailored to address specific health conditions.

It is not a group yoga class. It is a personalised, therapeutic practice designed to work with your specific body, history, nervous system, and hormonal pattern.

For PCOS specifically, yoga therapy addresses the condition from multiple angles simultaneously:

• reducing the stress load that drives hormonal imbalance,

• releasing physical tension held in the pelvic space,

• supporting the emotional and psychological dimensions of living with a chronic hormonal condition.

In my practice I guide women through the Release → Rediscover → Reclaim framework.

First releasing the stored stress and tension driving PCOS symptoms. Then reconnecting with the body and menstrual cycle. Then reclaiming hormonal balance, energy, and genuine wellbeing.

What Does the Research Say About Yoga for PCOS?

The research on yoga and PCOS is growing and encouraging.

A 2012 randomised controlled trial published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine found that yoga practice significantly reduced anxiety, testosterone levels, and menstrual irregularity in adolescents with PCOS compared to a control group.

A 2020 systematic review found that mind-body practices including yoga reduced cortisol, improved insulin sensitivity, and supported psychological wellbeing in women with PCOS. The researchers concluded that yoga represents a promising complementary intervention for PCOS management.

These findings align with what I see clinically — women who commit to a consistent yoga therapy practice experience meaningful improvements in their cycle regularity, mood, energy, and overall sense of wellbeing over time. Learn more: How to relieve period pain naturally

Yoga Therapy Practices for Natural PCOS Management

These are the core practices I use with PCOS clients in my yoga therapy sessions.

They work best used consistently and in combination — even 10-15 minutes a day creates real change over time.

1. Nervous System Regulation Through Breathwork

Since cortisol dysregulation is central to PCOS, nervous system regulation through breathwork is the foundation of everything else.

Extended exhale breathing — exhaling twice as long as your inhale — directly activates the parasympathetic nervous system and begins to reduce cortisol in real time.

Bhramari pranayama (humming breath) is particularly effective for PCOS — research shows it significantly reduces sympathetic nervous system activation, heart rate, and blood pressure (Pramanik et al., 2010). Even 5 minutes daily consistently practiced creates measurable shifts in the body’s stress response over time.

2. Womb Yoga and Pelvic Movement

Gentle, pelvic-focused yoga movement supports PCOS management by improving circulation to the reproductive organs, releasing chronic pelvic tension, and building a positive, connected relationship with the womb space.

Many women with PCOS have learned to disconnect from their pelvic space — it’s a site of pain, frustration, and medical procedures. Womb yoga gently reverses this disconnection, helping the body feel safe and cared for rather than fought against.

3. Yoga Nidra for Hormonal Balance

Yoga nidra — a guided deep relaxation practice — brings the nervous system into a profoundly restorative state. Research shows yoga nidra reduces cortisol, supports the endocrine system, and improves hormonal balance over time.

For PCOS specifically, the deep rest state induced by yoga nidra creates the physiological conditions for the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis — the hormonal system that regulates the menstrual cycle — to begin rebalancing.

Even 20 minutes of yoga nidra daily can reduce anxiety and improve hormonal markers in women with PCOS. Learn more: Yoga nidra for womb healing

4. Cycle Awareness and Menstrual Tracking

Understanding your menstrual cycle — even when it’s irregular — is a powerful tool for PCOS management.

Cycle tracking builds body literacy, helps you identify patterns in your symptoms, and supports the process of working with your body rather than against it.

In yoga therapy I guide PCOS clients to track not just their bleeding days but their energy, mood, appetite, libido, and physical sensations throughout the month. This builds the body awareness that is foundational to long-term hormonal healing.

5. Womb Meditation and Somatic Awareness

Bringing compassionate, mindful attention to the womb space through guided meditation helps address the emotional and psychological dimensions of PCOS — the grief, frustration, shame, and disconnection that many women carry alongside their physical symptoms.

This isn’t bypassing the physical — it’s recognising that emotional tension held in the body has real physiological effects.

Releasing that tension through somatic awareness creates conditions for the body to heal more effectively.

Learn more: Somatic yoga for women’s healing

6. Self-Compassion Practice

Living with PCOS is genuinely tough. The uncertainty, the symptoms, the feeling of being let down by your own body — these take a real emotional toll.

Self-criticism in response to this adds another layer of cortisol to a body that already has too much.

Self-compassion practice — meeting yourself with the warmth you’d offer a close friend who was struggling — directly reduces cortisol and creates a felt sense of safety in the body (Dr. Kristin Neff, 2011).

It’s not soft or indulgent. It’s one of the most evidence-based tools available for chronic condition management.

What to Expect From Yoga Therapy for PCOS

Yoga therapy is not a quick fix. It is a genuine, sustainable approach to managing PCOS that works with your body’s natural capacity for rebalancing — and that takes time and consistency.

Most women begin to notice shifts within 4-8 weeks of consistent daily practice — better sleep, reduced anxiety, more stable mood, and sometimes early improvements in cycle regularity. Deeper hormonal rebalancing typically emerges over 3-6 months.

Yoga therapy works best as a complement to medical care, not a replacement for it.

I always encourage clients to maintain their relationship with their healthcare provider and never advise stopping prescribed medication without medical guidance.

Frequently Asked Questions About Yoga Therapy for PCOS

Can yoga therapy cure PCOS?

No — and I’d be cautious of anyone who claims it can.

PCOS is a complex hormonal condition that requires comprehensive management. What yoga therapy can do is significantly reduce the stress-driven factors that worsen PCOS symptoms, support hormonal rebalancing over time, and improve quality of life in ways that medication alone often cannot.

What are the best yoga poses for PCOS?

In yoga therapy for PCOS I focus less on specific poses and more on the quality of practice — slow, conscious, breath-led movement that supports nervous system regulation and pelvic connection.

Gentle hip openers, supported inversions, restorative poses, and pelvic awareness practices are generally beneficial.

Vigorous, high-intensity yoga can actually increase cortisol and worsen PCOS symptoms in some women.

How does stress worsen PCOS?

Chronic stress elevates cortisol which directly disrupts the hormonal cascade regulating ovulation and the menstrual cycle. It worsens insulin resistance, increases androgen production, and creates a physiological environment where PCOS symptoms intensify. Reducing stress through nervous system regulation is one of the most direct ways to support natural PCOS management.

Can I do yoga therapy for PCOS alongside my medical treatment?

Yes — and I always recommend it.

Yoga therapy is a complementary approach designed to work alongside medical treatment, not replace it.

Many of my clients use yoga therapy alongside hormonal medication, Metformin, or fertility treatment and find their overall wellbeing and symptom management improves significantly.

How is yoga therapy different from regular yoga for PCOS?

Regular yoga classes are designed for general wellbeing and fitness. Yoga therapy is a clinical, individualised practice designed to address specific health conditions.

For PCOS, yoga therapy is tailored to your specific hormonal pattern, stress response, cycle irregularity, and emotional experience — making it significantly more targeted and effective than a general yoga class.

What are effective natural methods to balance hormones and improve pelvic health with PCOS?

The most effective natural approaches for PCOS combine nervous system regulation (breathwork, yoga nidra, meditation), gentle pelvic movement (womb yoga), cycle awareness, and consistent self-compassion practice.

These work together to reduce cortisol, support hormonal rebalancing, and improve pelvic health over time.

As a C-IAYT certified yoga therapist I offer personalised 1:1 online sessions to guide women through exactly this approach.

Ready to Explore Yoga Therapy for Your PCOS?

If you’re ready to explore a holistic, body-based approach to managing your PCOS naturally — one that works with your nervous system, your cycle, and your whole self — I’d love to talk.

I offer free 20-minute discovery calls for women who are curious about 1:1 online yoga therapy. It’s a relaxed, no-pressure conversation about what’s going on in your body and whether yoga therapy could support you.

About the Author

Joss Frank is a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) and E-RYT 500 specialising in women’s hormonal health, PCOS, pelvic health, and nervous system regulation. She is the founder of Wild Womb and has supported hundreds of women to manage PCOS naturally and reconnect with their bodies through online yoga therapy sessions, courses, and guided meditations.

Tantra yoga and womb healing practices help you rebuild both.

In this article, I'm walking you through exactly what gets in the way of sexual confidence for women, and the practices that actually help.

“To be a sexual woman in our culture now is to be a woman who looks a certain way in order to elicit sexual desire in others. It has nothing to do with the inner arising of our own feelings and experiences.”

(― Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, Yoni Shakti )

What Makes a Woman Confident in Bed?

Feeling comfortable, safe, expressive, and confident in the bedroom for women comes down to these two things:

1. Your ability to say NO and communicate your needs

2. How connected you are to your body and inner world

If you do not have a gentle womb yoga practice or solid boundaries then chances are you're focusing on your partner more in the bedroom and not tuning in to your own pleasure.

Why So Many Women Struggle With Sexual Confidence

Most women don’t prioritize their needs or pleasure in the bedroom.

Womb healing is a gateway to help you understand your feminine energy and build confidence. It helps you understand your sexual energy and how powerful it is.

If you’re someone who’s ready to feel more confidence in bed, start small with a gentle womb healing ritual to release tensions and heavy emotions.

The Qualities of a Sexually Confident Woman

• She unapologetically says NO and communicate her needs to her partner.
  

• She’s connected to her body and inner-world because she does the daily womb yoga practices that nurture her feminine anatomy and get her sexual energy flowing.
  

• She shamelessly prioritizes her pleasure and ensures she thoroughly enjoys intimacy with her partner.
  

• She understands the power of of her sexual energy because she took the time to learn about her feminine energy.
  

Confidence does not happen overnight. Practice gratitude for where you’re at right now and trust that small steps in the right direction are all you need to do to feel more sexual confidence in bed.

A woman who’s confident in bed shamelessly prioritizes her pleasure, listens to her body’s needs, and gets assertive in her communication.

How To Start Building Sexual Confidence Today

1. Explore daily affirmations: Open your journal and note down healing affirmations such as: ‘I have a sacred sexual power within me’

2. Explore womb healing: Womb healing helps you release stored tensions and heavy emotions that block the flow of sexual energy. (Learn more about the 30-minute womb healing ritual)

3. Begin a daily self-care routine which includes tantra womb yoga practices to help you deepen connection to your body and sexual energy long-term. Practice with me on Youtube:

Frequently Asked Questions

Can tantra yoga really help with sexual confidence?

Yes. Tantra yoga works by helping you reconnect to your body, your breath, and your sensual energy — not through performance, but through presence. When you feel safe in your body, confidence follows naturally.

What is womb healing and how does it relate to sex?

Womb healing is a somatic practice that helps women release stored tension, trauma, and disconnection from their pelvic space. When your womb space feels safe and open, intimacy becomes less about performing and more about feeling.

How long does it take to feel more confident in bed?

Every woman is different, but with consistent practice — even 10 minutes a few times a week — most women start to notice a shift in how connected and present they feel in their body within a few weeks.

Is this for women who have experienced trauma?

Yes. These practices are gentle, somatic, and trauma-informed. You go at your own pace, always.

Your confidence in bed starts in your womb

Most women try to think their way into feeling more confident — but real confidence comes from feeling safe and open in your body first.

The Womb Healing Ritual is a 30-minute guided practice that helps you release the emotional tension and heaviness stored in your womb space, so you can finally connect to your sensual, feminine energy.

About The Author

Joss Frank is a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) and E-RYT 500 specialising in women’s pelvic health, womb healing, and feminine embodiment.

She is the founder of Wild Womb and has supported hundreds of women in moving from survival mode to genuine embodiment through her online courses, 1:1 yoga therapy sessions, and guided meditations.

I’m not sure where to start with this experience. I’ve completely blocked parts out of my memory (which is common for trauma survivors), and the rest feels like a giant ball of confusion.

To love a narcissist is to love someone who never existed because none of it is real. 

My heart is still not ready to accept this reality.

This all started under the guise of love and I’m a hopeless romantic. I was an easy target for a love bomber because no one loves to love as much as I do! I want to believe in romance and fairytales so bad. I wanted to believe that I had met my dream artist and I would be his muse. It felt like we were soul mates. I couldn’t imagine feeling love with anyone else as I felt with this man.

I held onto this dream until the bitter end. Even after the police asked me to press charges for his physical assault against me, I still found my way back to him and told myself he was my soul mate.

This is how delusional the love bombing made me. 

I’ve always believed that with love, anything is possible. And this belief hurt me in the end. I excused awful behaviour because we loved each other and we could ‘work through it’.

But the truth is, this man was a red flag from day one. His ex-girlfriend even contacted me to warn me that he was abusive, throttling her, pushing her, and shouting abuse at her. She even sent me screen grabs of his abusive texts. She warned me he was a narcissist, selfish, and childish and would abandon me. And I chose to not listen to her warning, even when he displayed the exact behaviour that she warned me about.

My choice to ignore the red flags and stay led to years of emotional abuse, physical abuse, and harmful narcissistic behavior that I’m still trying to heal my nervous system from.

Being with a narcissist is never ending drama.

They cannot take accountability for their behaviour therefore his jealousy, anger, upset was always somehow my fault.

Even when we broke up after the assault and I moved on with my life for many years… he still guilted me during this time for having new partners. And when I tried to explain logically to him that when people break up, you cannot guilt them, all he could see was himself. He wasn’t with anyone - or so he claims - for 3+ years. No sex, nothing… and I was convinced to feel guilty for moving forward while he wallowed in self pity. Upon reflection, I see this was just another lie and manipulation. 

Here’s what I remember. And trust that it can all unfold so fast. It was a mix of subtle aggressions and full blown physical assaults.

There was the night he got angry and I had to lock myself in the bathroom to escape him so he smashed the glass on the door which then cut my hand and left a permanent scar.

Or the time he yelled at me in public and I told him to stop and he threatened me ‘you’ve not seen me yell’.

There was the way he consistently refused to let me feel anything when he was hurtful. For example, showing up 4 hours late but refusing to hear how this was hurtful.

Or when I waited 40 minutes on the street for him to arrive and when I tried to express how this made me feel, he walked away mid-sentence to chat up a young attractive woman right infront of me. And then while I was on the street crying, I had to beg him to talk to me, but he chose to laugh at me with strangers on the street. This actually triggered an anxiety attack. Later that night I kicked his door and threw things in his home in upset… but the rage I felt was his perfect opportunity for reactive abuse.

Reactive abuse is when the narcissistic abuser pushes you to your edge and when you finally snap, they become the calmest they’ve ever been. They enjoy your reaction. 

And that night I snapped after one full year of staying calm with him. I cried, I screamed, I threw things. And in the end of that whole drama… the only thing that mattered to him was my reaction. The next day he guilted me. I was the problem. He was innocent. He used the opportunity to treat me like dog shit. Calling me a whore. And again when I reacted to his abuse… Guess who was the problem?

I feel a lot of embarrassment even writing this because I know how awful it sounds, but in the moment, I could not think clear. I was lost, confused, and alone in that moment. I believed that I needed him.

When I expressed any boundary, he would react vengeful instead of caring that he was hurtful.

For example, the night he made me feel so uncomfortable and unsafe that I had to ask him to leave my hotel room. Instead of resolving the issue, he spent the night with a 55+ year old woman all the while sending me abusive texts and calls telling me I was evil, bitch, whore… for kicking him out of my apartment. You can’t imagine his manipulation and selfishness. To be guilted and blamed for someone’s choice to cheat on you and abuse you. I’m still processing how I could have let this go. He even took a train home with this woman. And when I finally met up with him, I held him as he cried. I consoled a man who emotionally abused me and cheated on me. I just wanted to help him heal. I wanted him to process whatever it was that made him angry. This is why I kept forgiving.

Weeks later, I saw heart emojis from her on his phone. When I asked him about it, he guilted me for looking at his phone and of course, denied my feelings over any of it. I was not allowed to feel anything. 

What I slowly discovered is that a narcissists anger and harmful behaviour is ALWAYS ignited by the same thing: When you attempt to address their hurtful behaviour or express your feelings or needs. It never ends well. Never. It got to the point where I just had to keep my head down and swallow my feelings because the alternative would be WW3 with him.

But let me tell you the major incident. The night I thought for sure I would leave this man. 

The worst experience was the night of the physical assault and the subsequent charges I could have but never pressed.

I still regret not pressing charges but in my defense, the police officer told me: ‘He feels really bad, maybe don’t do it’. He persuaded me and I was in such a state of shock, I made the wrong choice. I was in his country, alone with no family or friends, just him and I was afraid what would happen if I pressed charges.

This was by far the scariest night of my life. One that I’ve never received so much as an apology for. In fact, he blames me or mocks me with ‘Oh how did I abuse you?’.

Even though I have a police report, witness reports, and was asked to press charges. This isn’t enough for him to take accountability for his behaviour.

I can’t tell you how painful it is for someone to physically hurt you and scare you like this and then pretend it didn’t happen, and even if it did, its my fault.

He believes the physical assault is ok because I had called my mom that night during the phase that his anger was escalting. I called her because I was afraid and his anger was become frightening. He translated this into: ‘You called her to talk bad about me’. This is how egotistical and selfish a narcissist is. Calling my mom because I was genuinely scared of how he was acting was enough for me to deserve physical assault. In fact, it was not physical assault. He won’t even acknowledge it happened.

On this night I actually told myself: ‘I think this man could kill me right now’

On this night, he was not himself anymore. I saw him transform into a dark entity. He became his fathers darkness. I was trapped in a room with a monster and when I tried to run away out the door, he dragged me back into the apartment by my legs. He told me he had to do this because it was late at night and dangerous outside. (This man could stab me and make an excuse for it. Accountability was an impossibility).

A Narcissist will never take accountability for their behaviour

That night, he shoved me against the wall, pushed me onto the bed and bruised me, and dragged me across the floor. He trapped me in his apartment and frightened me with emotional abuse too. I still don’t know what for, we were not in a fight, nothing eventful had happened that night but he was intoxicated and that was never safe to be around.

I eventually escaped to seek safety with complete strangers off the street who circled me to protect me as he tried to tell them: She’s a slut, whore, etc. One of these strangers was so disgusted, she took me into her home and gave me her room for the night.

As always, a woman came to my rescue. They always do.

And that night I received some of the most violent abusive texts I’ve ever seen in my life. He called me a whore, slut, accused me of fucking everyone on the street. There was zero reflection or remorse for what he just did, only more rage. As I slept in this strangers house, my body went into shock. Every few minutes I would jump scare similar to when you have those dreams that you are falling. This was the start of my PTSD.

In the morning when I returned to the apartment, I discovered that he had not slept, he had just sat there fuming, tossing my belongings into a pile, and waiting to unleash more rage on me.

And when I gathered my belongings to go, he suddenly transformed. That’s how easy he could switch his mask.

The rage left in the blink of an eye and he became this sad little boy. He held my hand and said: ‘Please don’t go’. And would you believe I actually fell for this and stayed?

Here’s what I learned from a narcissists rage:

• There is no healthy communication with a narcissist: Every serious healthy communication I tried to have with this man was filled with contempt, sarcasm, mocking, and belittling. Every single time. And if I tried to address his behaviour, it only made it worse. Contempt means they believe they are superior to you. And he believed he was superior to everyone! He made fun of everyone, his boss, his ex girlfriend, even his ‘best friend’ who ‘wasn’t a real artist because he traced his art’.
  
  
  

• When a narcissists anger is ignited, it does not cool down after time apart. It only gets uglier and fiercer. There’s no reflection phase or accountability, therefore it’s always your fault. Even when I was physically assaulted, this was my fault.
  
  
  

• You must never react to a narcissist. Ever. Even if you want to yell or fight back. Do not do it because they enjoy seeing your reaction. It will only give them an invitation to express more rage. The best thing you can do is not react and go no contact with this person immediately. Don’t try to reason or communicate. It is hopeless.
  

Every argument we had ended in me being slut shamed. Deep down, I know this man hates women. I was constantly accused of getting with other men. I see now that he was projecting his own behaviours onto me because he could not manage anything he felt whether it was jealousy, insecurity, or anger.

Instead of maturely managing his own feelings, he would instantly point at me: It was my fault his anger escalated into dangerous situations, it was my fault he was insecure, and so on.

I wish I would have understood what narcissism was in the beginning. Had I known, it would have explained so many things and prevented me from making excuses and blaming myself.

Here’s what I wish I’d known sooner about dating a narcissist:

• Educate yourself the second you sense the red flags: When you don’t have the language or labels to understand the abusive ways in which someone is treating you, it’s easy to make excuses or blame yourself.
  
  

• People are very quick to judge the woman in a toxic abusive relationship: I’ve received so much judgement from supposed friends that I reached out to and explained what was happening. I was mocked ‘You have horrible taste in men’, ‘I can’t believe you’re back with him’ yet never was there any actual compassion or support. If you’re feeling shamed or judged, its important that you surround yourself with loved ones, practice daily self-compassion, and be gentle with yourself as you heal.
  
  
  

• Healing from narcissism and abuse takes time: It requires daily practices to re-balance your nervous system and promote self-compassion.
  
  
  

• Narcissists LOVE reactive abuse: A narcissist will push you to your edge and when you finally snap they will become satisfied and calm. This is called reactive abuse. He would do this to me and then when I finally felt rage, he would say ‘See, you’re just like me’.

I feel lots of shame and embarrassment about staying with an abusive narcissist and I still battle with the question: ‘Why did I stay?’

It’s easy for those on the outside to over-simplify it and judge. But when you’re with a narcissist, you’re experiencing intense manipulation. I didn’t know a person was capable of saying ‘I love you’ while literally treating you like dog shit.

So, why did I stay… The love. The ‘love’ that I now understand was fake this entire time because a narcissist does not love anyone.

The love you receive from a narcissist is unlike anything you’ve felt before.

And this love made me stay. It made me forgive the physical assault, the cheating, the lies, the permanent scar on my hand, the contempt, the abandonment. I was willing to forgive literally anything this man did - even the humiliation - because we had a love that most people will never feel in their lifetime. At least… that’s the story I told myself.

This wasn’t just any kind of love. It was undying passionate soul-mate kinda love. 

The kind of love that had me whispering ‘I love you!’ from the depths of my soul ten times in a night in his company. I was his dream girl, his muse, and and he loved me like he’d never loved anyone before. I believed this wholeheartedly.

I sacrificed my own mental health and wellness to feel that love. I was addicted to it.

The more that I loved this man, the worse he treated me.

I excused the blatant harmful behaviour because I told myself we love each other and we can get through this. Love can get through anything.

So imagine how I felt when I discovered the languaging to understand the reality of my situation. It turned from my soul mate to my abuser.

I still cannot accept that this man never actually loved me. For me, this is unimaginable. It feels like my entire reality has been ripped from under me. It’s made me lose trust in humanity.

With a narcissist, there’s intense love bombing but NEVER mature, healthy emotional connections with others.

I believed it was love because he told me this and I can’t imagine a person would lie about something so sacred as love. I don’t understand the motivation to lie about something like this.

So there it is: I fell in love with a man who never actually loved me.

I let him emotionally and physically abuse me for many years. I’m still processing this, it feels like my entire trust in humanity has been ripped from under me. 

You might think you could easily spot this type of person but the love bombing and manipulation made it impossible. I believed the love was so deep between us that I literally forgave everything to hold onto the love. I was in a cycle moving so fast I had zero time to reflect on the reality of the situation. 

Here’s what you need to know: All narcissists move the same. They will ALWAYS follow this cycle:

1. Intense love bombing (where I was made to believe this man adored me).
   
   

2. Anger and degradation phase (you will be kicked off your pedestal and be made to feel very unworthy and small).
   
   

3. Abrupt abandonment (stonewalling, ignoring).
   
   

4. Hoovering (they waltz back into your life weeks, months, years later only to repeat the cycle again).

Do not convince yourself during the hoovering phase with a narcissist that it will be different this time. It will not. Unless they’ve committed to intense ongoing therapy with a psychologist, there’s absolutely no way they will change. And even then, it’s not likely.

I have a lot of shame for letting myself be mistreated for so long. I excused physical assault, emotional abuse, daily contempt, cheating, pathological lying, and manipulation. I genuinely believed that this man loved me. I mean… he acted like he worshipped me. 

The reality is: A narcissist does not love you or anyone. They can’t.

This is something I’m still trying to process. I catch myself reflecting on our time together and in retrospect it all seems so obvious how unhealthy the relationship was. It was all manipulation and love bombing. It’s hard for me to imagine trusting anyone again after experiencing this level of deceit.

If you’re not familiar with narcissism, you may find myself - like me - making excuses for this behaviour:

• He’s just emotionally immature, he can grow.

• He comes from a troubled past, I need to give him time.

• He’s experienced trauma…I have to forgive him because we love each other. 

Remember, a narcissist does not have true friends or partners.

They can’t. They have ‘supply’: people who feed them sex, money, or praise. And they will always ditch you for whatever supply they can get.

I have nothing left to show for opening my heart, home, and body to this man.

This man abruptly abandoned me and tried to re-start the cycle of abuse (I won’t even explain how because it’s the same theme). All that remains from my time with this man is a permanent scar on my hand, anxiety, and PTSD.

If you’re reading this and you're either healing from an abusive narcissist or still with one, you’re not alone. The toughest part is truly going no contact and leaving the situation. I promise you, once you go through this phase, things get so much better!

There’s one major red flag that you can easily spot from day one with a narcissist: misalignment in their words and actions.

Trust this one! When you witness this, leave this person immediately and don’t look back. (For example: saying they care and respect you but then acting super disrespectful and hurtful).

This blog is only the beginning. I will continue to speak up about this topic. Next, I will share about the process of moving forward and self-healing.

Next steps:

If you're ready to start your healing journey, My 1:1 online yoga therapy sessions can help you.

My online therapy sessions are a safe space for you to:

• Reconnect to your body in a compassionate, loving way.

• Feel seen, heard, and supported.

• Release emotional tensions of fear, shame, and guilt.

• Practice self-care exercises that promotes healthier menstruation, libido, and/or pelvic health.

The 1:1 online yoga therapy sessions are customized to help women explore womb healing in a safe, trauma-informed environment.

Book a free 20-minute consultation and start your womb healing journey today: https://wildwomb.space/privateyogatherapyhealingsessions

Joss Frank, Yoga Therapist C-IAYT

I’m Joss, founder of Wild Womb, and I specialize in empowering people to heal, reclaim their power, and build lasting self-confidence.

After years of struggling with depression, anxiety, and trauma, I discovered that true healing comes from within. Through my personal journey of self-healing, I learned that the key to overcoming physical and emotional challenges lies in reconnecting with the body, cultivating inner awareness, and embracing holistic practices.

As a certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT), I now guide people through transformative healing processes that address both the physical and emotional aspects of their well-being. My work combines somatic therapy, yoga therapy, and emotional healing practices to help people cultivate self-love and lasting inner peace.

Whether you're struggling with mental health, trauma recovery, or building a positive relationship with your body, I’m here to support you on your healing journey.

Anxiety doesn't just live in your mind. It lives in your body.

In the tension in your chest, the shallow breathing, the tight hips, the cycle that goes off the rails every time life gets stressful.

And talking about it, while helpful, doesn't always reach the places where it's actually stored.

Online yoga therapy for women is a different kind of support. It works with your body (not just your thoughts) to help you regulate your nervous system, release stored tension, and actually feel better in your day-to-day life.

And because it's fully online, you can access it from anywhere in the world.

What Is Online Yoga Therapy — and How Is It Different from Talk Therapy?

Yoga therapy is a one-on-one, personalised therapeutic practice that uses breathwork, movement, meditation, and nervous system tools to support your specific health challenge or wellness goal.

It's not a yoga class. It's not psychotherapy.

It sits somewhere in between, and for a lot of women, that's exactly what's been missing.

Talk therapy works primarily through language. But here's the thing:

when we get close to trauma, anxiety, or overwhelm, the language centres of the brain can actually shut down.

You know the feeling — you're trying to explain what's wrong and you just... can't find the words.

Body-centred approaches like yoga therapy work differently.

They give you a way to process what you're carrying without needing to put it into words first. You start with the body: the breath, the sensation, the tension… and the clarity follows.

Research supports online therapy as equally effective as in-person sessions for anxiety, depression, and PTSD. And many women find the online format actually easier to show up for: no commute, no waiting room, no having to hold it together in public afterwards.

What Happens in a 1:1 Online Yoga Therapy Session?

Every session is built around you. Before we meet, you fill out an intake form so I can understand what's going on for you — physically, emotionally, and in your life overall.

A typical session might include:

• Breathwork to calm the nervous system and bring you out of fight-or-flight

• Gentle movement to release tension held in the body — especially the hips, pelvis, and upper body where anxiety tends to live

• Yoga Nidra or Meditation — a guided practice that brings the body into deep rest while the mind stays gently aware. It's one of the most effective tools I use for anxiety and sleep

• Somatic awareness exercises to help you reconnect with what your body is actually telling you

• Journaling prompts or affirmations to support integration between sessions

Sessions are 60 minutes, fully virtual, and available to women worldwide.

Why Women Specifically?

Women's anxiety is often connected to the body in ways that general therapy doesn't address.

Hormonal shifts across the menstrual cycle, stress that disrupts ovulation, pelvic tension that builds and never gets released — these are real, physical patterns that affect how anxious you feel day to day.

Yoga therapy for women looks at the whole picture.

I don't separate the mental from the physical. If your anxiety spikes before your period, that's information. If you hold all your stress in your pelvis or your jaw, that's somewhere to work.

This approach is particularly helpful for women experiencing:

• Anxiety and chronic stress

• Low mood or emotional flatness

• Overwhelm, burnout, or feeling constantly "on"

• Sleep issues linked to a busy mind

• Body disconnection or difficulty feeling present

• Anxiety connected to hormonal shifts, cycle irregularity, or pelvic tension

• Trauma that hasn't fully resolved with talk therapy alone

Is Online Yoga Therapy as Effective as In-Person?

Yes. Research looking at over 60 studies found that online therapy is just as effective as face-to-face sessions for anxiety, depression, and PTSD.

For many women, online is actually preferable. You can be in your own space, wear what you want, and not have to manage the emotional effort of getting somewhere and back.

For body-centred work especially, being in a familiar, safe environment can support deeper relaxation and more honest exploration.

All of my sessions are online. I work with women across Canada, United States, the UK, and beyond.

Is a Yoga Therapist Qualified to Help with Anxiety?

As a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT), I hold an 800-hour certification which is significantly beyond a standard yoga teacher training — plus I’ve completed a supervised clinical practicum.

I’m trained to work with individuals on specific health conditions, not just lead group classes.

I'm a C-IAYT and E-RYT 500 with a specialisation in women's health. I've worked with women managing anxiety, depression, trauma, hormonal imbalances, PCOS, pelvic pain, and more.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can online yoga therapy help with anxiety?

Yes. Yoga therapy uses breathwork, movement, and nervous system regulation tools that are well-supported by research for reducing anxiety symptoms. Because it works with the body — not just the mind — it can reach patterns that talk therapy alone doesn't always access.

Do I need any yoga experience?

No. Sessions are fully personalised to you and your body. You don't need to be flexible, fit, or have any prior experience with yoga.

Is online yoga therapy the same as a yoga class?

No. It's a private, one-on-one therapeutic session tailored to your specific health goals. It's much closer to a therapy or physio session than a yoga class.

How is yoga therapy different from talk therapy?

Talk therapy works primarily through language and cognitive processing. Yoga therapy works through the body — breath, movement, sensation — which can be especially effective for anxiety and trauma where language sometimes isn't enough.

How many sessions will I need?

This varies depending on what you're working with. Some women notice a significant shift within a few sessions. Others prefer ongoing support. We can discuss what makes sense for you on your free discovery call.

Where are you based? Do you offer in-person sessions?

I'm based in Canada but also work abroad in Thailand. I work fully online. I support women across Canada, United States, the UK, Southeast Asia, and beyond. All sessions are via Zoom.

Who is online yoga therapy for?

Women who feel like something is off — in their body, their mind, or both — and want a holistic, personalised approach that goes beyond talking. It's especially helpful for anxiety, stress, burnout, hormonal imbalance, pelvic tension, and trauma.

How do I get started?

Book a free 20-minute discovery call. We'll talk about what's going on for you and whether working together makes sense.

Ready to Feel Different in Your Body?

If you've been managing anxiety on your own — or trying different things without lasting results — online yoga therapy might be the missing piece.

Book a free discovery call and let's talk about what's going on for you.

No pressure, no commitment. Just a real conversation about whether this is a fit.

Thanks for being here,
Joss | Yoga Therapist C-IAYT

About The Author

Joss Frank is a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT, E-RYT 500) and founder of Wild Womb, a women's wellness space focused on womb healing, pelvic health, and nervous system regulation. She works online with women worldwide.