Podcast Summary: Highest Self Podcast® w/ Sahara Rose

Episode 610: How to Reclaim Your Feminine Power + Awaken Your Yoni Wisdom with Shiva Rose
Release Date: July 8, 2025

Overview

In this intimate and empowering episode, host Sahara Rose and guest Shiva Rose (“fellow Persian priestess” and holistic beauty entrepreneur) explore reclaiming feminine power by reconnecting to yoni wisdom, embracing sensuality as spirituality, and awakening the sacred connection between body, lineage, and spirit. Together, they guide listeners through ancient feminine practices, the reclamation of sensual self-care, and the importance of healing our own bodies and lineages to transform our relationships—with ourselves and others.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Meaning and Power of “Yoni” (00:00–05:16)

• Definition: “Yoni” is the Sanskrit term for the womb and female genitalia, considered a sacred portal between worlds—spanning the physical, spiritual, and energetic.
  • Quote: “Yoni is like the most sacred object... When you go to temples and altars, they have entire yoni pujas... blessings and rituals...” — Sahara (00:00)
  • Modern society strips away this sacredness, reducing sexuality to a superficial or mechanical act.
• Discussion of Shiva (divine masculine) and Shakti (divine feminine); emphasis on the reunion of these energies.

2. Priestess Pathways, Ancestral Healing & Midlife Initiation (05:16–13:44)

• Shiva shares her Persian roots and childhood longing for beauty, water, and ritual, describing herself as always feeling like an “alien” longing for meaning and connection (05:29).
• Both women discuss experiencing “the dark night of the soul” (post-divorce, illness) as an initiation into womanhood and deeper spirituality (07:19).
• Maiden-Mother-Priestess-Crone: Contemporary women experience new archetypal stages beyond the classic “maiden-mother-crone,” including “priestess, medicine woman, maga”—the gathering and sharing of wisdom in community (08:01).

3. The Feminine and the Waters: Sensuality as Spirituality (13:44–20:18)

• Beauty and Sensuality as Spiritual Practice: Both host and guest emphasize that beauty, pleasure, and adornment are not vain, but sacred.
  • Quote: “Beauty can be your medicine... It's those people that can light up a room with their spirit and their essence—that's true beauty.” — Shiva (13:49)
• Rituals like yoni steams, self-massage, adornment, and gathering with women echo ancient feminine practices.
• Women’s DNA shifts in the company of other women; women flourish in sisterhood and ritual (17:10).

4. Amrita, Yoni Wisdom & Healthy Sexuality (20:18–33:57)

• Amrita (“nectar of the goddess”) is a sacred feminine fluid released through pleasure/arousal—representation of “gushing woman,” discussed as deeply healing and empowering.
• Shame and trauma around female sexuality addressed (20:18–24:33).
• Warning about modern “shortcuts” (vibrators, porn) dulling subtle pleasure and disconnecting us from natural sensitivity.
  • Quote: “The porn is to men what vibrators are to women... vibrators can actually desensitize you... and be a hindrance to creating Amrita naturally.” — Shiva (22:53)
• Both women share practical steps and encouragement for returning to self-discovered pleasure and sensitivity after numbness or negative conditioning (24:52–25:04).

5. Yoni Eggs, Yoni Yoga, and Reclaiming Pleasure (28:03–33:35)

• Introduction to yoni egg practices: using sacred, certified crystal eggs in rituals and exercises to increase sensitivity, tonify and awaken the yoni.
• Yoni Yoga: Learning to pulse or activate different parts of the yoni for heightened mind-body connection, release trauma, and cultivate new forms of embodiment pleasure (29:47).
• Quote: “Most of us are so disconnected because we're taught that it's dangerous, dirty, it's bad... but that's where we create our dreams, in our womb space.” — Sahara (31:11)

6. Cervical Wisdom, Ancestral Lineage, and Womb Healing (33:57–39:57)

• The cervix as a powerful, often neglected, spiritual gateway.
  • Opens during ovulation, menstruation, and birth; key to deep nervous system healing and reclaiming pleasure.
• Intergenerational connection: ancestral names and womb lineage ceremony.
  • Quote: “It holds... when we say, I come from the womb of X, who came from the womb of Y... it really connects you to that lineage of our guardians.” — Shiva (33:59)

7. Healing Practices: Yoni Steaming, Yoni Sunning, Breast Massage (39:57–50:11)

• Yoni Steaming: Using herbs and heat to cleanse, rejuvenate, and ritualize the womb; practiced communally or solo; promotes wetness and ojas (vitality).
• Yoni Sunning: Direct exposure to sunlight and/or moonlight for revitalization and empowerment (41:51, 41:55).
  • Modern challenges like privacy (drones!) and societal shame are discussed humorously and candidly (42:05).
• Breast Massage/Lymphatic Health: Taoist and Ayurvedic techniques to keep energy and lymph fluid free-flowing.
  • Use of castor oil wraps, breast massage, and chest opening to release stored sadness and open the heart.

8. The Water Metaphor: Creative, Sexual, and Emotional Flow (50:11–54:47)

• Belly dancing, figure-eight movements, and gentle touch as ways to reconnect to the body’s natural rhythms and release trauma (49:18–50:05).
• Working through old “black tar” (emotional blocks) stored in the body toward emotional and orgasmic liberation.
• Encouragement for women to “date yourself,” learning to self-source pleasure and validation.

9. Sacred Sexuality & Relationships: Honoring the Womb, Divine Union (54:47–63:35)

• True sexual fulfillment comes from union of heart, body, and spirit; casual sex and performative sexuality leave people empty.
  • Quote: “Sex is meant to be with love... You can't truly have mind-blowing, take-you-to-God sex with someone you don't love.” — Sahara (56:46)
• Honoring the womb as a temple, inviting partners to revere this sacred gateway.
• Energy exchange is real and persistent (“seven years” as traditional time frame for clearing a lover’s auric imprint); importance of conscious sexual boundaries and ongoing womb healing.
• Navigating relationships with partners less attuned to tantra/intimacy—lead by example and gentle invitation, not coercion.

10. Intimacy, Partnership, and Lifelong Love (63:35–70:22)

• Practical rituals for increasing intimacy (eye-gazing, bathing, walks, caring touch, intention-setting together).
• The “seven-year cycle” in relationships—a Lakota tradition—encourages conscious review and check-ins for growth, not stagnation (64:13).
• Embracing change in partnership; let love (or old versions of relationship) die and be reborn as needed.

11. Embracing the Dance of the Masculine & Feminine (70:22–end)

• Feminine women benefit from relationships with deeply masculine men; maintaining polarity supports respect and passion.
• The longing to “be held” in one’s bigness—a common yearning for modern priestesses and mystics; encouragement that this is possible, but may require patience and discernment.
• Quote (Cherokee proverb via Shiva): “Men were here to protect the woman so that women could lead him to God.” (73:38)

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Let go. Trust flows sooner.” — Shiva (01:32)
• “Being on your knees, the dark night of the soul... that initiation into womanhood, which is sovereignty: No matter what happens, I got me.” — Sahara (07:19, 10:52)
• “Beauty is medicine... you can light up a room by your spirit and essence.” — Shiva (13:49)
• “A woman... is life giving life back to life itself; life amplifies everything around her.” — Sahara (18:01)
• “Our feminine spirituality is in our yonis... most women don’t even know what brings them pleasure.” — Sahara (22:53)
• “You lose the subtlety... It’s not natural, that level of vibration is not how a human is designed.” — Sahara, on vibrators (24:42)
• “Women’s DNA changes when they're around other women.” — Shiva (17:10)
• “It’s like you open the codes to your erogenous zones... We should all find our erogenous zones.” — Shiva (53:04)
• “What’s more powerful than a free woman? Like, really free.” — Shiva (54:17)
• “Sex and love are the same... the heart, the yoni, and lingam are inherently connected as well as with the throat.” — Sahara (57:01)
• “I love this conversation. Can talk to you forever. We’re like moon-y stewing herbs.” — Sahara (74:59)

Segment Timestamps

• 00:00 – 05:16: Yoni, spiritual meaning, and patriarchy’s impact
• 05:16 – 13:44: Ancestral healing, priestess archetypes, and personal stories
• 13:44 – 20:18: Beauty as spiritual practice, personal adornment, sisterhood
• 20:18 – 24:33: Amrita, sexual shame, healing through pleasure
• 24:33 – 33:57: Yoni eggs, yoni yoga, reclaiming pleasure and sensitivity
• 33:57 – 39:57: The cervix as portal, lineage rituals, and womb healing
• 39:57 – 50:11: Yoni steaming/sunning, breast massage, lymph health
• 50:11 – 54:47: Belly dance movement, trauma release, dating yourself
• 54:47 – 63:35: Sacred sexuality, honoring the womb, long-term relationships
• 63:35 – 70:22: Intimacy rituals, seven-year cycle, embracing change
• 70:22 – end: Masculine-feminine dance, finding a partner who can hold you, ancient feminine wisdom

Further Resources

• Shiva Rose: @LocalRose on Instagram, Shiva Rose Beauty, courses and writings
• Sahara Rose: Daily Embodiment Practice, Sacred Feminine Mystery School (rosegoldgoddesses.com), Instagram: @iamsahararose

Tone & Language

• Warm, candid, and nurturing; humorous, relatable, deep feminine wisdom; inviting all listeners (especially women) to reclaim ancient, embodied practices as daily spiritual tools.

This episode is a must-listen for anyone seeking to reclaim their pleasure, embrace wholeness, and rediscover the sacredness of the feminine path in modern times.