Fertility is a Frequency

Fertility isn't just about conception: it's a frequency that boosts creativity, spiritual awakening, and graceful aging. Renew yourself with me in Mexico with the Mayan Codes of Fertility.

“Every time I landed on the massage table I was transported into a beautiful realm of deep care and nourishment. I could feel the trauma held in my soft tissues being released and held so lovingly as it made its way out of my body. Those women are not only body workers but silent spirit cleansers as well.”

On my recent Living Pelvis Retreat in Tulum Mexico, I brought 12 women down to receive healing with my mentor Maria Elena and her collective of Mayan Curanderas. We spent 8 days in an oscillating prismatic constellation of ceremony, sacred cenote caves, living foods, and unbelievable bodywork treatments.

Many of the women had life changing experiences on this retreat, and the power of this work was reflected back to me in their eyes. Mayan Womb Massage, when received by the lineage holders themselves, is like being worked on by a thousand of your most loving grandmothers.

It can barely be spoken to, but I’m going to attempt to illustrate why I believe all women NEED this experience. I’ll highlight why this medicine is so important now to women in the West, who are feeling lost in their search for soul-deep breakthroughs.

I’ll also share scientific research and personal musings as to why Mayan women seem to defy the rest of the world’s ideas about birth, life, death, and aging, with their graceful stewardship of the female body.

I’ll share about the frequency of fertility, and why all women should be attuning to it to enhance their reproductive vitality, creative flow, feminine awakening, and graceful aging.

Finally, I’ll shamelessly entice you to join us this March for the next Living Pelvis Tulum Retreat at the spring equinox; focusing on the creative, fertile, blossoming energy of the Mayan Rivera in full bloom.

The Science is in, Mayan Women have a secret to surviving perimenopause

I’m going to focus on some sciency things for a moment, specifically about the final reproductive threshold women cross: Perimenopause. I’m focusing here because it’s the grand finale event, and helps us analyze the entire span of a woman’s reproductive life.

For Mayan women of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, ‘perimenopause’ isn’t a thing. They float through menopause without the heat flushes, dryness, bone density issues, and brain fog that we in the West seem to think are just ‘part of aging’ or just ‘what happens when hormones decline’.

Two peer reviewed studies show that rural Mayan women seem to be a global exception to the common narrative that hormone decline in perimenopause = terrible symptomology. If this is true, what are these healers doing and how can it support women’s other cyclical needs?

“None of the women reported symptoms of hot flashes, and none recalled any history of significant symptoms associated with their menopausal transition. Hormone levels were similar to U.S. reference values.”

They bleed, birth, and age with dignity and grace. They welcome the natural flow of the process, and their bodies are equipped for the hormone cascades and reproductive peaks of being a cycling woman.

“The endocrine characteristics of menopause among Mayan women in Yucatan are similar to hormonal changes reported for women in the United States, but signs, symptoms, and apparent consequences are different in the two populations.”

You might be thinking, this is unique to the West, but there are several studies examining menopause experiences of women in various Asian communities, and they are not experiencing peaceful changes, like the women in Mayan Mexico are.

“There is a school of thought that believes that menopausal symptoms are a peculiarly ‘Western’ phenomenon, not experienced by women from other regions and particularly not from Asia where, it has been claimed, dietary, social and cultural factors afforded protection for women living in that region. More recently, studies conducted in multi-ethnic communities living in Western countries as well as in Asian communities have found that menopause and its consequences are similar world-wide.”

If it’s not about hormone cascades, and it’s not really about diet, social or cultural factors, what is it that women in rural Mayan communities are doing that women in the rest of the world are not?

It is almost laughable how distinctly opposite our cultural experiences are (if we weren’t already sobbing). I believe this highlights the reason women in the West live so outside our innate natural rhythms: we’ve been conditioned not to trust them.

This in particular stands out to me after visiting the Yucatán and studying ancient Mayan healing practices: these women are not privileged or wealthy, yet their culture is rich with respect for the feminine.

Statues, altars, and shrines for the fertility and birthing women’s goddess Ixchele can be found all over the countryside, from ancient ruin sites, to village squares, to small back yards. Old men carve pregnant wooden figures on the roadside. Respect for feminine fertility is woven into the fabric of the culture, and so is respect for the cycles of nature.

For women in the West, these codes of reverence for the female body are invaluable.

Many women my age are starting to feel the heat of perimenopause, and I see how our culture paints this as an impending doomsday. Like all of a sudden a switch will flip, and you had better have some rescue buoys in place. But this is so short sighted. It’s hard for Western women because we’ve grown up with a deficit. All our lives, we have hated our bodies, and now it’s time to atone. It’s not our fault, it’s cultural hatred, unexamined and rampant.

Perimenopause is the last reproductive threshold for women. It’s the final report card, the Autumn season, showing us how well we have managed our fertile feminine essence… or not. And for women of the West, it’s looking like it’s been mostly not.

Women of the West are told many lies, and I’ll be speaking to a few in this essay, but one of the worst is this: you have no value after you stop looking young.

But menopause isn’t the end, you know. It’s the greatest portal of a woman’s life, and on the other side is a Second Spring, a re-birth. And here’s what they don’t tell you. As long as a woman knows how to tend her sacred vessel and doesn’t leave her garden a mess, she will have another season of fertile energy resurgence, similar to adolescence.

Not only are these Mayan Codes vital to you today, they are essential to your tomorrow. Similar to how you save for retirement. Your Second Spring is coming, and you don’t want to drain your savings account before you get there, right? Keep reading to see how I think we could all be better with our fertility finances.

What does thriving later in life even look like?

According to Jane Hardwicke Collings, an Australian Priestess Midwife, this season is when women come into their most powerful medicine. “Honor and understand peri-menopause and menopause - it is a time of transformation, a labour of sorts with a birth of a new you.”

Just like this beautiful earth, women’s bodies have seasons. When a culture respects this, traditions that honor the seasonality of the body are upheld, and women can rise, bleed, birth, and be-reborn. A New You, Jane says, a butterfly that the caterpillar can’t even imagine.

Mayan Womb Massage is potent medicine that supports women’s cyclical thresholds

Women’s cyclical timelines have many arcs, or waves, and at certain potent thresholds, we need a lot of support ie: menarche, postpartum, and perimenopause. These are called Golden Opportunities, and they are moments when the vitality of a woman’s feminine fertile essence can be spilled.

Unfortunately, these Golden Opportunities are not treated with reverence in the West, because we are being sold another lie: your body is untrustworthy, so let us manage it.

We are taught to disrespect our female bodies and cycles without even a blink. As girls, the very first stories of what is coming for us tend to be dark and worrisome. Period product ads tell girls that they can ‘hack’ their biology with tampons and never need to rest, pharmaceutical companies brag that they can make girls stop bleeding altogether with hormone shots that poison them.

Postpartum women come out of the gauntlet of medically managed births these days, totally traumatized, depleted, and blown open with no one who knows the energetics of closing the gates of life, no one who knows how to massage the uterus to close the arteries and placenta wound, no one who can bring her back into herself to trust her animal mother instincts.

Perimenopause is completely misunderstood, pathologized, weaponized, medicalized, and pharmaceuticalized. No respect for the delicate moment before a women’s biggest self-actualizing, self-birthing event. Just more campaigns to shame her for aging.

This imprint is hammered into us from every angle: the body is sinful, living in it is painful by design, periods are a burden, birth is dangerous and painful and must be managed by ‘professionals’, perimenopause will ruin your life, menopause will shrink your labia and leave you withered, thin-boned, and frail…

Honestly, these imprints run deeper than our minds can comprehend and believe me, I’ve spent the last 20 years of my life actively rooting them out - and they still persist.

What are Mayan Women really up to?

What are rural indigenous women in the mountains of Mayan Mexico doing that Western women could truly learn from? How are they sailing through menarche, birth, postpartum, and menopause without debilitating symptomology? How are they finding happiness, connection, spiritual awakening?

This is where I get to extrapolate and intuit some things. Based on what I’ve observed, there are many factors that could contribute including diet and lifestyle choices that are less toxic, living closer to the land, they aren’t consuming ultra processed foods, and since technology is less prevalent, they aren’t getting nearly as much radiation damaging their DNA.

But that isn’t what I think is really preserving their vitality and easing their female milestones.

It’s the bodywork. I credit the Mayan abdominal massage, which is focused on brightening circulation to the womb and ovaries, eliminating toxicity from the lymph, liver, and colon, and imbuing codes and ancient frequencies of alignment and connection with the earth & cosmos.

This bodywork is unlike anything else I’ve ever experienced, and I’ve studied many other abdominal massage traditions. It’s hard to describe why it’s so special but here’s a few testimonials of a retreat attendees who joined me in October:

“LOVE. The love that came through their hands was as if I were their daughter/mother/sister.”

“Love, Trust, Safety. Three sessions, three areas of trauma touched and forever shifted. I have been at a loss for words regarding this magic. The deep reverence these women have for others and their knowing and felt sense is something most can only dream of achieving.”

“Every time I landed on the massage table I was transported into a beautiful realm of deep care and nourishment. I could feel the trauma held in my soft tissues being released and held so lovingly as it made its way out of my body. Those women are not only body workers but silent spirit cleansers as well. They are masters in their medicine!”

“My body knew that every touch by these Curanderas came with the whole Mayan Cosmovision. They touch on physical, emotional & spiritual levels every time. I doubt they could do otherwise.”

Womb massage from the Grannies

When you get a massage in the West, most of the time the belly is simply… avoided. This is not the case when you go to Mexico and receive a Mayan Massage.

This tradition of Mayan abdominal and womb massage goes back to an ancient era, before there was a coup on women’s folk wisdom. It’s a practice that has been preserved because it’s a household skill in most Mayan communities.

Aunties and grandmothers in every home are bestowed with the knowledge passed down from their ancestors, of how to care for the reproductive organs and systems of the girls and women in their family. And they do so, for one another, sometimes daily.

The human being is a sacred antenna

Mayan Womb Massage is a physiological practice that has spiritual roots. It’s a sacred tenet of classic Mayan cosmology that spiritual ascension is derived from first becoming fully embodied. To fulfill our purpose as spiritual beings incarnated on this planet of matter, we must descend into the physicality of our bodies and tend to them as the sacred vessel for our spirit. We are the bridge between the esoteric realms and the realms of matter.

In many other spiritual traditions, it is taught to transcend beyond the body in order to seek enlightenment, but Mayan cosmology speaks of embodiment as our highest spiritual dictate.

In the center of the abdomen is the portal of our navel, our first ingestion point, the center of our fascial web, and the spiral from which emanates the chakra energies of the spine - the navel connects us to the womb of the Earth and the womb of the Heavens.

In Mayan homes, girls’ wombs are tended to from their very first memories by the hands of their loving grandmothers and mothers and aunties, and they grow up with these codes of spiritual embodiment known to their very bones.

When you tend to your body this way, with love and intention, with massage that intends to build the frequency of fertility, move circulation, regulate the nervous system, flush out toxicity, and foster strong bonds within female relationships of the community, then all of the major tenants for beautiful reproductive transitions are met.

Circulation. Cyclicality. Connection.

It’s been one of the most influential and life changing aspects to my education as an alternative gynecology practitioner, and as a woman, to immerse myself in the wisdom and hands-on practices of the Mayan Curandera Healers.

To receive codes of fertility, self-love, and female body worship through the hands of women sent by God to deliver the truth - this is my greatest privilege.

Fertility is a Frequency

Fertility is FELT, even for post-menopausal women, because fertility is a FREQUENCY. It’s every woman’s birth right to live in vitality and fertility. This is how the female body sings, it is her highest health aria. This is the feeling of lying in the lush jungle at sunrise, feeling the earth hum to life all around you. It’s how we defy illness, toxicity, negetivity, and cynicism. It’s an energy that women are learing to actively cultivate at the Living Pelvis Retreats.

One woman who came on my last retreat found the frequency of fertility, and this ignited her body and restarted the intimacy in her marriage. Upon returning home, she found that her pain and dryness had just melted away, and sex felt fun and juicy again. There were so many aspects of this retreat aimed at the intention of finding the fertility frequency, but it’s my hunch that the codes from these Mayan women were at the heart of it.

Fertility is a stage of being that all women resonate with, where they find their highest capacity for wholeness and health. Juiciness, libido, fertility, and creativity bloom during these retreats. Vitality is not for just a select few - every woman has vitality and ease written into her very DNA - and these practices and rituals are here to remind us: it’s not good enough just getting by. We deserve more.

If you’re wanting to harness this frequency of fertility, the flow of creativity, an ease of existence, a return to natural cyclical rhythms - come with me to Tulum in March and get immersed in these Mayan healing codes.

You will have three opportunities to receive Mayan Womb Massage, and four healing rituals led by my mentor Maria Elena - all in one week. It’s designed to bring you through your threshold into the next chapter of your life, you’re New You.

The Frequency of Fertility is a spiritual vibration that is available for all women - and it’s my highest calling to bridge the gap and help women in the West remember these codes of female thriving.

It’s our birthright and our duty to the rest of the world to wake up to our power as women, and to stop the harm being done, and this is my call to action. Finding your fertile frequency is the key.

This is an endangered medicine

If you can’t justify doing this work for your own healing, think of your daughters, think of the women in far reaches of the world where medicalization has destroyed the unique cultural women’s wisdom of that region, and removed the loving hands of grandmothers upon wombs.

This is not new, Mayan Womb Medicine is very old, and it’s the only thing that seems to be actually working to improve life experience, birth outcomes, and reproductive thresholds for women.

Come to the Mayan Riviera with us, discover for yourself what your fertile frequency feels like at this point in your life, and set yourself free to enjoy it.

This retreat is perfect for women in all aspects of life who want to harness the creative energy of the Vernal Equinox, the power of the Mayan Moon Goddess Ixchele, and the intoxicating fertile energy of the Spring Season in Mexico.

You can read more about the retreat here:

One more little teaser, from a recent attendee:

“The thoughtfulness put into every step of this experience made it what it was… life changing and soul nourishing. To be among 13 other women without any drama speaks for itself. The web among all of us sisters will forever be embedded in our soul mapping. No conscious words could ever describe such an experience. Sarah’s ability to intuitively guide each circle and embodiment session speaks to the decades of her education professionally and personally. What an honor to be a recipient of this magic!”

Love you and Happy New Year,

Sarah WolfMother

References:

Menopausal experiences and bone density of Mayan women in Yucatan, Mexico - PubMed

Menopause without symptoms: the endocrinology of menopause among rural Mayan Indians - PubMed

East is east and West is west: perspectives on the menopause in Asia and The West - PubMed