Breast Massage
Breast massage is a fundamental part of initiating the jade egg practice. It is part of the traditional Taoist wisdom and it is unlikely, even today, to find a source which does not site the importance of breast massage to the practice of the jade egg. Below is an audio for a guided breast massage which comes from the Spleen module/reflex zone of the Golden Lotus Online Temple work. This meditation and practice is beautiful because it elaborates on simple breast and nipple massage, and deepens into the massage of the 9 flowers, which balance our endocrine system, and awaken our breasts, centre, ovaries, and clitoris. You will also find a few explanations below which guide you in a more detailed understanding as to why this practice is so important for the use of the jade egg, and why it is always considered a beginning point. ✨
Breast Massage
In the Taoist system, the breasts are seen to be the only direct external expression of the ovaries. Men, who’s gonads and genital are external, can do exercises such a tugging on their testicles to awaken their sexual energy - however as women, we aren’t able to stimulate our ovaries directly. Although we do use an external ovarian massage in many Golden Lotus practices, the premise of those practices is still via energetic centres and external stimulus of the ovaries, of course. The Taoists see a mirror of the breasts and the ovaries, and therefore see the energetic, endocrinological, and fascial correlations between the two as a direct stimulation of the ovaries. Therefore, the practices encourage women to stimulate their nipples and their breasts in order to command and control the ovaries directly. A good example of this principle would be the female deer exercise, which is a precise set of breast massage techniques and circles which eventually stops a woman’s menstrual cycle via her ovaries. However, breast massage makes up a major part of all female Taoist sexual cultivation and love making techniques. As a woman, it is a beautiful way to begin to generate an integrated sense of your breasts and your pleasure - and it also serves to awaken the Heart, reminding us that pleasure is also about gentleness, love, and Union. Breast massage is also used, with inward circles, to gather energy, and with outward circles, to release stagnant emotions and energy. Therefore, it is always recommended prior to jade egg use as the jade egg can be emotionally very activating, and this encourages a sense of intimate emotional and Heartfelt regulation of your needs. Often, using the jade egg can be a much more emotionally activating and healing tool than a sexual one, and as such, it’s important to touch the Heart, and the breasts with tenderness in order to aid regulation and movement of emotions.
Female Spiritual development & Energetic Anatomy (The Chong Mai)
The way in which women’s energy works is that we receive energy through our negative polarity (as it is named in Tantra) which is our pelvis and our yoni. We receive energy into us, through our cervix (as a sovereign gatekeeper of our inner world) and into our womb. From here, these emotions and energy can become stuck in the lower body, and generate illness or stagnation - or they can rise up and become stuck underneath the Heart or around the breasts. This differs from woman to woman, however one thing we all need to learn in the process of developing and cultivating our feminine sovereignty is to draw energy from the base to the heart while purifying the energy as it moves through us. When women learn to use their truest spiritual nature, they are like the Earth. If you give the Earth shit, she will grow you flowers; so too, when we learn our truest feminine nature we become able to regulate, discern, and even transmute/alchemise even coarse and rancid energy through our body, and turn it into grace, love, and beauty through the power of our Heart. This means that energy becomes abundantly available to us. This doesn’t stop women from desiring high quality energy, or even cultivating spaces which emanate high quality energy - on the contrary - however the ability to take all forms of energy and use them to our advantage without the quality of our surroundings and energy destabilising our system is a alchemical, spiritual art, and it requires an understanding, utilisation, and activation of a variety of channels. These practices can all be learned through the Golden Lotus opus of work - however, irrespective of how far you go upon this journey - one of the most important channels in this regard, and for preparing and acquainting ourselves with orgasmic, energetic, and emotional regulation, is the spiritual channel of self love and self trust which lies between the womb and the Heart - called the Chong Mai. The Chong Mai also has two smaller vessels, which run from the nipples to the ovaries. During the 9 Flowers practice, we are filling the body with light, acknowledging and activating our endocrinology, and arousal through this whole channel (also known as the Sea of Blood - from where our menstrual and magnetic power comes), and then allowing this energy to blossom and spill like blissful orgasmic potential through the whole pelvic bowl, over the clitoral bulb, throughout the labia, and prepare/ready our body for receiving the egg internally. This beginning practice therefore clears the pathways for the potent lessons of our spiritual self and practice to take form. It sensitises our body to it’s sensual pleasure and hormonal wisdom, while leading us to anchoring and grounding energy through the spiritual and physical power of the Earth - which includes our own physical body, and the jade egg.
