Dharma, Dosha, Pleasure
Awakening Feminine Wisdom: Why Understanding Your Dosha Leads You to Your Dharma
In a world that often praises logic, speed, and doing over being, many women have forgotten the deep, ancient well of feminine wisdom that lives inside them. This wisdom is not something you learn from books or in school. It is felt. It is lived. It is embodied.
And it begins by remembering who you are—body, mind, heart, and spirit.
Why Feminine Wisdom Matters
Feminine wisdom is the bridge between our physical body and our soul’s calling.
It teaches us to listen, to feel, to trust the soft whispers within. It reminds us that life is not just about goals, performance, and achievements—it’s about connection, pleasure, creativity, and deep, nourishing presence.
When you awaken your feminine wisdom, you reconnect to your intuition, your sensuality, your emotional intelligence, and your natural rhythms. Without this, it's easy to live cut off from your body, operating only from the mind—and eventually feeling lost, drained, or unfulfilled.
Your Dosha and Your Dharma
In Ayurveda, your Dosha—Vata, Pitta, or Kapha—is your unique elemental blueprint.
Understanding your Dosha is like receiving a sacred map.
It reveals how you experience energy, emotions, sensuality, creativity, rest, and purpose.
When you know your Dosha, you can finally understand your body's needs, your mind's patterns, and your soul's way of moving through the world.
And from this place of deep self-awareness, your Dharma—your soul’s true path—becomes clear.
You are no longer chasing something outside of you.
You are living from your center.
You are living your truth.
How Blocked Pleasure Affects Your Body
Many women have been conditioned to focus on orgasm as a goal, rather than as a natural result of deep connection and surrender.
When orgasm becomes forced, rushed, or filled with performance pressure, the body often tenses rather than softens.
This tension can create energetic blockages—especially in the pelvis, lower back, womb, heart, and throat.
In fact, many traditions believe that pain often settles in the pelvis first before it manifests in other parts of the body.
This area holds our creativity, our sense of worth, our right to receive and to enjoy life fully.
Healing begins when we slow down, when we approach pleasure with reverence instead of urgency, curiosity instead of pressure.
Honoring Your Sacred Body: Vulva, Vagina, Breasts, and Beyond
Your vulva, your vagina, your breasts, and your entire body are sacred portals of life-force energy.
They deserve tenderness, attention, and care—not just when you’re with a partner, but every single day.
Self-touch, breast massage, gentle exploration—these are not acts of selfishness or shame.
They are acts of devotion.
They help you stay connected to your feminine essence, your pleasure, your emotional well-being, and your intuition.
When you honor your body, you are telling yourself: I am worthy of joy. I am worthy of love. I am worthy of living fully.
Healing Shame Around Self-Pleasure
I personally have carried a lot of shame when it came to self-pleasure.
Touching myself to awaken my body before intimacy felt wrong, dirty, or selfish.
I had been taught, subtly and overtly, that my pleasure should be a byproduct of someone else's touch—not my own.
And when orgasm became the goal, I often found myself unable to fully surrender, disconnected from the very pleasure I was trying to reach.
It was only when I slowed down, dropped the "goal," and started listening to my body's rhythms that I rediscovered the pure, healing power of pleasure.
Self-pleasure became not about chasing a climax, but about honoring my own energy, my own needs, my own longing.
It became a sacred homecoming.
Returning to Your Intuition and Power
If you feel disconnected from your body, your pleasure, or your purpose, know this:
You can come home to yourself.
You can reconnect.
You can remember.
Here’s how you begin:
Slow down. Turn off the noise. Breathe. Listen.
Honor your body. Touch yourself with reverence. Nourish yourself with foods, rituals, and movements that match your Dosha.
Feel your feelings. Stop bypassing your emotions. They are messengers from your soul.
Release shame. Gently, compassionately. Shame thrives in silence; healing thrives in honesty.
Prioritize pleasure. Not just sexual pleasure, but all forms: the pleasure of a warm bath, a beautiful sunset, a soft breeze on your skin.
Trust your inner voice. It may be faint at first, but with time, it will roar like a river.
You are not broken.
You do not need to be fixed.
You simply need to remember:
Your body is sacred. Your pleasure is sacred. Your path is sacred.
And the world needs you—whole, radiant, and unapologetically you.
Alot of love
Ginhild
