When it comes to improving your wellness and starting your journey to feeling good—really good— tapping into those tried and tested practices like prioritising rest, healthy eating, and quality time spent doing things that you love are essential to setting yourself up on the track for success.
However, expanding your horizons to incorporate self-pleasure rituals into your wellness routine can help to not only discover new opportunities for growth in your relationship to yourself, but also to reinvigorate your motivation and inspiration to maintain your connection and practice to self-care and all the ways it lights you up from the inside– out!
One amazing way to reinvigorate your self-care practice is to incorporate aromatherapy with a mindful self-pleasure ritual. Separately, each are powerful methods of empowerment and self-love. Together? They’re your new ultimate combination for restoration and rejuvenation.
While self-pleasure is often regarded as a purely physical act, when paired with aromatherapy it can transform into a deeply meditative and mindful experience. Essential oils are shown to stimulate the olfactory system, responsible for perceiving smell, which stimulates areas of the brain that control emotion and memory: think lavender for relaxation, citrus for energy, ylang-ylang and jasmine for sensuality. When paired with a mindful self-pleasure session it encourages us to slow-down, cultivate awareness, and connect our physicality and emotional selves.
What’s more, this synergy of scent and sensuality can also aid in supporting reproductive and hormonal health. Oils like clary-sage and thyme oil have been shown to balance estrogen and progesterone, while rose oil is believed to strengthen the uterus, potentially aiding in mental discomfort, while in those experiencing menopause, it may improve mood and reduce hot-flashes. Self-pleasure on the other hand, increases blood-circulation to the pelvic area, strengthens the pelvic floor, and supports natural lubrication, making the combination of these two practices a natural offering to care for sexual and emotional wellness, reaffirming that pleasure is not only valid in our approach to holistic health, but vital.
As women, we deserve rituals that support our full well-being—not just physically, but emotionally and spiritually. By inviting scent and sensuality into our self-care practice, we create a space that honours all that we are: soft, strong, sacred, and sensual. Combining aromatherapy with self-pleasure is about intentionally reclaiming the senses, returning to self, and celebrating the feminine body’s power to heal, feel, and thrive.
This isn’t just self-care. It’s soul-care
