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This listing is for one packet of 'The Throne of Warm Waters', our Autumn 2025 Vaginal Steaming Blend, from The heART of Ritual. 
 
Autumn is the season of descent – when energy begins to draw inward, the waters gather, and the womb archetype rises into her own. Just as the trees release their leaves, the body is invited to soften, to let go, and to return to deeper rhythms. If there is ever a time to begin the ancient practice of vaginal steaming, it is here – at the threshold of autumn.
This blend is made with rose, motherwort, applemint, curlymint, wild mugwort, and yarrow – herbs long known to support womb health and cyclical balance. Rose soothes and opens, motherwort strengthens and steadies, the mints cool and refresh while also stimulating circulation, mugwort calls on the dreaming and clearing powers of the old ways, and yarrow protects, tones, and restores.
Vaginal steaming – sometimes called yoni steaming or womb steaming – is an ancestral practice found across many indigenous traditions. Warm, herb-infused steam rises gently into the pelvic bowl, increasing circulation, supporting cleansing, easing menstrual pain, softening scar tissue, balancing cycles, and inviting deep relaxation. It is a ritual of reconnection – a way of tending to the womb as a centre of life, creativity, and memory.
In autumn, when the archetype of the womb aligns with flow, water, and the moon, steaming offers profound nourishment. It can help regulate cycles as they shift with the darker season, ease stagnation, and remind the body of its natural intelligence. The warmth of the steam soothes both physically and emotionally – a throne of warm waters, holding you in care.
This is a practice that benefits all who carry a womb – whether for menstrual health, postpartum recovery, peri- or post-menopause, or simply to deepen intimacy with the body. As awareness grows, more and more womb health advocates are bringing it forward again into the public eye, reminding us of something our ancestors always knew – that this kind of care is not indulgence, but necessity.
To take your seat over warm waters in autumn is to align with the season itself – a time of release, of tending the inner hearth, and of honouring the deep well within.
 
You might also like to check out the Womb Throne™ , Niamh's revolutionary vaginal steaming seat! You can read all about it in its listing, in the APOTHECARY section of this shop.

'The Throne of Warm Waters' Aututmn 2025 Vaginal Steaming Blend

€22.00Price
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  • Add 1-2 tablespoons of your choosen herbal blend to your water as a sitz bath, vaginal steam, or bathing water. Alternatively you can make a decoction of these herbs to add to the bathing water - simply add the loose herb to a saucepan of water and bring to the boil. Simmer for 30 minutes and add to your bathing water. If you do not wish to have the loose herbs floating in your bathing water, simply strain them out before adding your herbal decoction. These herbs are compostable and can only be used once. Note that if you do not strain your herbs out of your brew before adding to the bath, you will have to ensure there is a plug strainer in place to catch the botanicals as the water drains out of the bath. If you are the proud owner of one of our handmade wooden WOMB THRONE™, then vaginal steaming takes on a whole other level of ritual, simplicity, and effectivness. See below for details!

  • Please note that our products are not a substitute for any medical treatment or advice you may currently be receiving. The information presented is intended for informational, research, and energetic purposes only, and it is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any dis-ease. Persons with health related issues should consult a medical professional for assistance.

    Topical ritual products are not intended for consumption and as with all natural products, a skin 'patch test’ is recommended beforehand to see if you have any unique sensitivities. Discontinue use if a rash occurs. Our topical ritual products should not be applied to broken skin, sensitive skin, or mucus membranes. Please ensure you wash your hands thoroughly after applying to the skin.

    This listing is for one portion of the aforementioned product only and does not include any other decorative items photographed. These photographs are for illustrative purposes only.

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OUR SHOP IS CURRENTLY CLOSED, BUT WE LOOK FORWARD TO WELCOMING YOU AGAIN SHORTLY.

Our Autumn 2025 shop opening took place from 6pm on September 7th until 6pm on September 14th
 All times are listed in CEST. Orders begin shipping from 22 September, fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis. Made-to-order pieces dispatch from 6 October onward, unless noted otherwise. All orders are shipped from Europe.

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WINTER 2025 COLLECTION: 

Full details of each season’s collection are shared exclusively through our seasonal newsletter. This missive carries the deeper ground of the season – its energies, themes, and archetypes. Shared only four times a year, it offers original long-form writings on the mythic, elemental, and archetypal ground of the season within Irish cosmology and the Celtic Wheel of the Year, along with the creative soil from which each collection emerges. Readers also receive early access and a members-only preview of these handcrafted, ephemeral offerings.

 

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SEASONAL OVERVIEW

Season • Winter

Element • Earth

Direction • North

Archetype • Elder Archetype

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THE FRAMEWORK FOR THIS COLLECTION

Our Winter/Earth Element Collection arrives into the season of Samhain – that threshold between the last new moon of the dying Celtic year in October, astronomical Samhain, and the first new moon of the year to come in November. It is here that endings and beginnings lie folded together – a dreamtime of moons that leads us into the deepest dark – asking us to walk slowly, to walk in Earth time. 

 

This is not the hurried clock-time of the everyday. It is slow time – deep time – recorded in bedrock and fault-line, in layers pressed through clay and shale. As the earth keeps her history in stone and strata, so we carry memory in bone. The land is our larger body – marrow and mountain, clay and skin, each carrying memory. To enter this season is to enter those depths, to map again the contour lines of the inner ground, to feel where the body holds fractures, pressure, weight-bearing, release. The work is slow. The work is old. Stone remembers, and so do we. Our bodies are cairns of remembrance.

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Between Samhain and Solstice we are pilgrims moving through inner hollows and chambers of the soul. It is sanctuary time, a time of reverence and devotion, where prayer is not passive but visceral and embodied – where we kneel not before idols but within the tabernacle of our own being. The ember of light is entrusted to us here, and it must be guarded with care – fanned in trust, sheltered in hope, nourished with care, until it kindles to flame and warmth.

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Samhain is also the season of surrender. To grieve what has passed in the twelve months gone. To honour ancestors, yes, but also to lay down the burdens of the year, the losses and thresholds crossed, the shocks and griefs that linger. As leaves return to soil, so sorrow returns to earth, darkening into humus that feeds what will come. In the body, this work is felt in the earth element – in the musculoskeletal frame, in the gut’s deep work of breaking down and letting go. To release is to create space, and to hold is to become heavy. The earth teaches us this balance, for she both receives and yields in the same breath.

 

This is the annual pilgrimage to the soul’s inner shrine – beyond one life, beyond one line of ancestry. It is the thread that connects us with stone and to soil, with grandmother and grandfather, with all who came before and all who will come after. In this time-out-of-time we reweave ourselves into that thread, into the north, into the slow, enduring rhythm of earth itself. And from that ground – from a living tapestry of blood and bone and surrender – the Solstice light is born again. A flame at the heart of winter.

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REFERENCES THROUGHOUT THIS COLLECTION​

Focus for the Winter collection is the element of Earth, Embodied Ritual & Green Prayer, Illuminating the Dark & the Inner Hearth, Chakras of the Root, Knees/Elbows, Feet/Hands and Earth Star, Physical WellBEing, the Musculoskeletal System, the Digestive System & Intestinal Health, Death, Grief Processing & Trauma Composting, Vulnerability & Surrender, The Pilgrim & the Inner Journey, Protection, Connection & Roots, Hibernation & Radical Rest, Cultivating Sanctuary & Stillness, Conscious Nourishment & Nurturance, and of course, Earth Rituals for the Head, Heart and Hands.

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