Before your first use, put your egg in a cup of softly boiling water for 5-10 minutes. Jade is an extremely strong and durable stone and it will not break in the boiling water or even if you drop it, and you will have your egg for many years, even decades! After each use you can just clean it with hot water and organic soap. Other ways to clean it are putting it in a cup of boiling water with betadine/iodine, sea salt, and/or tea tree oil.

Please watch the video below on how to properly string your egg. Use unwaxed, unflavored dental floss for string, or any kind of hemp or cotton string will also work.

The best way is by doing an actual practice, and you can do this by joining my online course. You will by far get the greatest and fastest benefits by making this your primary way of using your egg. I recommend practicing like this 1-4 times per week. You can also wear your egg around during the day – this is also something you don’t want to over-do, because your muscles have to contract a little to hold the egg inside while you’re walking around, and if you wear the egg often for long periods of time, over time it can cause tension and tightness. Begin with 30 minutes or an hour or so at home, and then once you’re comfortable you can go out in the world with it inside you (for 3-5 hours at a time), practice yoga, meditate or dance with it inside, or wear it on a date or to the grocery store to keep your turn-on and radiance alive. Lastly, get creative! Try massaging your breasts, belly, womb, vulva, and entrance to your vagina with your egg. Just holding it over your womb or entrance and breathe with it for 5 minutes is an amazing and gentle practice. Look at it, bring your intention and energy into it, treat it like a sacred object.

Like yoga, exercise or eating healthy, this is a lifelong practice, and the more you practice the more you will feel deeply embodied results. It can be very beneficial to do a “devotion” when you’re first starting out - try 7, 10 or 21 or 30 days of practice in a row, remembering if your yoni does not want to receive the egg on a day, you can do the practice without an egg. After your initial devotion period, I recommend to practice one to four times per week. A practice can be short – even 10 minutes, or you can create a whole sensual evening for yourself.

There is some debate about this in the yoni egg community. Some teachers say 12 hours (or even more), some say don’t do this at all (because if overdone, it can make your muscles tight over time). I say tune in with your body and take it slow. When you’re first getting used to the egg, wear it for 30 minutes or an hour around the house after doing a practice. Gradually increase the time and stay tuned in with your body – if you ever feel any kind of discomfort, nothing is wrong, it’s just your yoni speaking to you, saying she’s had enough for the day. Listen to her! I recommend wearing the egg during the day for not more than 3-5 hours.

Yes, it can! When your pussy has had enough with the egg for one day, she may push it out. This is normal and it’s your body communicating with you – just please don’t wear a short skirt and no underwear when you’re out and about with your egg inside! ;) If this happens just go to the bathroom, take the egg out, rinse it and go about your day. When you go to the bathroom, make sure to hold the string (especially when pooping!). If your egg falls in the toilet, don’t panic. This happens to the best of us ;) You will simply need to retrieve it and properly clean it.

Yes. If you do this, it’s a good idea to do it with intention – what do you want to bring in or let go of in your sleep or dreams? Also, if you sleep on your side, make sure to switch to both sides because it could cause an imbalance over time if you sleep with it regularly and you’re only sleeping on one side.

It is anatomically impossible for the egg to get “lost” in your body. If the egg and string happen to travel deep inside your yoni and removal is difficult, first breathe and relax. Place a towel on the floor and squat down with your legs wide apart. Press down as if going to the pooing and peeing at the same time, and the egg should come out. You can also stand and shake your body, keeping your whole pelvis very relaxed. To prevent this from happening, make sure your string is long (about half way down your upper thigh).

There is a small hole drilled in your egg. Before each use you will string your egg with unwaxed, unscented dental floss for easy removal. You can also use silk string, cotton or hemp thread. Gently pull on the string when you are ready to take the egg out, or you can practice “laying” your egg by squatting on the floor and pushing out with the muscles in your pussy until your egg “lays".

It's not recommended, especially during your heaviest days, because during your moon there is a downward flow of energy. The jade egg lifts your energy in and up, so it is counter to your natural flow. Using the egg during your moon may also increase blood flow or cramping. However, this is a great time to practice self-care and love – you can still do the other meditations in this package, hold your womb and yoni, and tune in with her deep messages. It’s great to do jade egg practices before and after your menstruation.

Yes, you can, just please do not do jade egg weightlifting if you have an IUD.

No. During pregnancy you want to keep the energy in your womb, and using the egg and doing the other practices can disperse the energy from your womb to the rest of your body. Using the egg to prepare your body for pregnancy is excellent as it connects you to your pussy, creates buoyancy in the pelvic floor, balances hormones and cultivates life- force. It’s also great after-birth care for your pussy (beginning about 6 weeks post-birth).

I can't say for sure, but many women do notice a difference in their cycle. Generally it reduces PMS, cramping, quantity of blood and the number of days your bleed. Many women with irregular periods or other menstrual related issues find balance and healing through a jade egg practice, some in very short periods of time.

Absolutely not! The jade egg practice is meant to be a lifelong practice. Pre and peri-menopausal women will find many benefits as well as women who still have a cycle. The egg is also a type of preventative medicine - it pulls the sexual organs in and up, which prevents prolapse and urinary incontinence.

These are different crystals, which carry different energetic, vibrational and healing properties. Jade is balancing, harmonizing, and extremely revitalizing. It’s great for increasing vitality, doing healing work, and promoting pussy love. Jade is revered in Asia and Latin America for these energetic properties. It’s recommended to begin with jade because of these properties. It’s also extremely tough, dense and durable – it’s harder than steel and it will not break, and is not porous. Rose quartz is the crystal of unconditional love, so it’s great for bringing loving energy to your womb and pussy. It’s also good for connecting your heart and yoni, for bringing in a soft, receptive, yin energy, and for increasing self-love and acceptance. Obsidian is formed out of hardened volcanic lava and so it contains the properties of fire. It’s typically used as a crystal that cleanses, clears, purifies, aids in letting go and releasing. Obsidian has an element of protection to it, and it can pierce through the veils of illusion. It’s excellent for clearing sexual trauma or shadows of any kind, and it’s intense!

Yes, but this is mostly a marketing thing. Some companies sell small, medium and large size eggs. For most women, beginning with a medium size egg is ideal. For women who have had several vaginal births and/or very weak pelvic floor muscles, beginning with a large egg may be more serving (but these woman can also work with medium eggs and build strength). Small eggs are more “advanced” because they’re harder to feel and move around.

There are a lot of fake jade eggs on the market, because jade is expensive and there are many stones and crystals that look like that jade that are much cheaper. It is dangerous to use these eggs because they can be porous and get bacteria inside them, they can crack or break (and therefore cut your yoni), and often they’re bleached, dyed or waxed to look like real jade. Also with these fake jade eggs you will not receive the healing properties of the jade itself. All eggs should come with a certificate of authenticity if they are real.

I guarantee your yoni egg is a 100% natural gemstone without any dyeing, bleaching or heating treatment. Your egg will come with a certificate of authenticity. Jade eggs come from Western Canada, rose quartz eggs are from Brazil, and obsidian eggs are from Mexico.

Yes! You can also charge your egg however you’d like – crystals love moonlight, sunlight, water, earth, sage/other clearing plants, your alter - get creative!

Kegels focus only on tightening which can strengthen, however, strengthening without equally releasing can actually worsen discomfort or existing imbalances by encouraging areas of tension to remain tight and areas of weakness to remain weak. Egg exercises address this by creating necessary resistance. The exercises are easier when you have an object for feedback about what you're doing. The egg gives you feedback because to do the exercises correctly you need to "lift" the pelvic floor, then squeeze, and the egg gives you something to "lift” (all of this is incorporated into the included meditations). Additionally, Jade Egg practices should always incorporate relaxing the entire pelvic floor as a way to release stagnation and tension and to train your brain to feel sensation through softening and expanding as well as contracting, and kegels don’t do this. Kegels also are often done without much awareness or love, and so they don’t cultivate the connection and relationship with your yoni like a jade egg does. ​Using a jade egg also opens you to the healing properties of jade which in addition to balance and harmony, also include tranquility, prosperity, vitality, healing and love. In fact, the Taoists used to view jade as being more valuable than gold! The vibration of the stone will resonate deeply inside your body and you do not get this huge benefit by just doing kegels.

Let’s be clear on something.  There are no scientific studies on the jade egg, so it’s incorrect to say that the jade egg heal a physical, emotional, physiological, or energetic issues a woman may be facing in her body/sexuality. 
Western medicine has certainly documented the mind-body connection in terms of one’s healing, health and wellness, which I believe is one reason why so many women who are facing issues in their sexuality and reproductive health (such as trauma from rape/abuse/assault, chronic infections, abortion, difficult childbirth, transitioning into motherhood/menopause, physical organ removal, chronic pain/numbness, all sorts of issues tied to menstruation from PMS to painful periods, irregular periods, cysts, fibroids, PCOS, endometriosis just to name a few) find great support and healing from a regular jade egg practice.

From a Chinese medicine standpoint (and the jade egg is an ancient Chinese Taoist practice), these issues have to do with energy and physical stagnation.  The egg and accompanying practices move, refine and balance sexual energy.  In addition, what a jade egg does practice does for so many is strengthens a connection to, and relationship with your vagina, womb, breasts and body, which is important because many women feel dissociated from these parts of the body as we are taught largely to ignore and neglect the female body.

Many women also have a lot of sexual shame, guilt, judgment and body hatred.  A lot of the times this is inherited from religious, patriarchal and consumer/media conditioning (not to mention a culture/world that is sex-negative, especially in regards to women's bodies/sexuality), as well as the fact that women are not taught accurate, or any, information about their female bodies/sexuality.  These emotional states and thought patterns absolutely affect the way a woman feels about herself and experiences her sexuality.  If a woman is able to shift her relationship to herself and her female body, if she’s able to release some of the heavy emotions she may be carrying, and if she is able to find a sense of honor, beauty and joy in her female body, that physical health conditions may also be affected. 

I have seen this happen both in myself and in hundreds of women I’ve worked with and alongside.

Absolutely freaking NOT!

The best way to use an egg is absolutely not to shove it inside the vagina and walk around with it in you during the day.  Actually, if a woman does this consistently it can create tension and muscle tightness, which is the opposite of what we’re cultivating in a jade egg practice (see point #3, below).  This is because the muscles in the vagina have to tense a bit in order to hold the egg inside when a woman is standing.  It's okay to wear it in the day once and a while for short periods (30 minutes at first, up to approximately 4 - 6 hours), but again, this should definitely not be a consistent thing or the only practice that you do with it. 

The way to use an egg properly is to do an actual practice with it inside of you – it’s basically like doing yoga or pilates with your vagina and your pelvis – which is necessary for women's sexual and reproductive health, as well as to experience sexual sensation, pleasure, and orgasm, because there are huge amounts of muscles, fascia, and ligaments in our pelvis that need care, tone and attention just like the rest of the body, in order to function optimally.   On a physiological level, doing a practice with the egg tones and strengths the muscles, which is very different from having tense, tight muscles.  It also brings blood, oxygen, hormonal and energy flow, which is essential for pelvic health as well as pleasure.  

Furthermore, every single time I do or guide a jade egg practice, there is a meditative process of warming up the body by cultivating energy and sensation (turn on).  The aim of that is creating a space so the body welcomes the egg in, all on her own.  Every single time I guide a practice for others or myself, I/we actually ask the body/vagina, “Do you want to receive the egg today?” before putting it in.  This in of itself is one of the most healing and reconnecting parts of the practice.  Women are often in tears when they realize how many times they’ve been entered before they are really ready… and this helps them create new empowerment for speaking their truth and honoring their body’s desires.   In addition, a proper yoni egg practice not only develops muscle tone and strength, but it is an awareness practice where a woman brings loving attention to the whole yoni/womb space.  The result is that this cultivates a beautiful, new relationship with the yoni and whole sexual/reproductive center, which most women experience to be incredibly life changing.  This is quite different from pushing the egg inside and unconsciously walking around with it during the day. 

Again, absolutely not. 

There is a very false and damaging message that some women have received that tells us to make our pussies really tight (mostly for the enjoyment of men).  However, proper and healthy pelvic floor muscles and muscle training involves contracting AND relaxing muscles.  Most women find it easy to contract the muscles, and much more difficult to really relax them.  Tight muscles don’t have much flexibility, movement, lubrication or sensation.  This contrasts sharply with toned muscles which can both contract and relax in easeful, balanced ways.  It's like the difference between a body builders muscles which are bulky, rigid and tight, with a cat's muscles, which are present yet flexible and robust.   

Jade Egg practices should always incorporate relaxing the entire pelvic floor as a way to release stagnation and tension, and to train your brain and nervous system to notice sensation through softening and expanding as well as contracting.  ​In my classes and courses I always emphasize the relaxation of muscles, especially at first. 
One basic exercise with the jade egg supports this is squeezing the muscles for a count of 4, and releasing for a count of 8.

Doing kegels and trying to increase muscle tone is like lifting weights without a weight.  It’s not so effective.  Jade Egg exercises address this by creating necessary weight and resistance (it’s like using a barbell weight for doing bicep curls). The exercises are also easier and therefore more effective when you have an object to squeeze against because it provides feedback to your brain. 

Additionally, Kegels originally were done with a device inserted into the vagina, similar to a jade egg.  The modern adoption of this practice of squeezing and releasing at random without anything inside is far removed from the original practice.

Lastly, Kegels also are often done without much awareness or love (for example they’re many women do them passively when driving, waiting in line, talking on the phone, etc.), and so they don’t cultivate the connection and relationship with your yoni like a jade egg does.

It is anatomically impossible for the egg to get lost inside your body.  However, it can make its way very deep inside your vagina, which is why I HIGHLY recommend to women to use an egg with a hole drilled in it so you can attach a string that stays on the outside of your body.

False.  Just like you can overdo a yoga or exercise practice, you can also overdo a jade egg practice.  You’re awakening very deep muscles and energies by working with a yoni egg, and it’s good, especially at first, to do a little bit, and stay tuned in with your body and listen to her messages for how often she’d like to have a practice. 

If your body is willing and wanting, it is fine to do a practice several days in a row (I’ve done practices for 21 days in a row several times), but ONLY if your body and your yoni are wanting and accepting of the egg.  As noted above, this is something we ALWAYS ask the body before inserting the egg.  You can also always do a jade egg practice without the egg physically inside of your vagina, while still getting the benefits of blood flow and emotional/brain-body connection.

There is a lot of talk in the media about jade eggs being dangerous because it’s alleged that bacteria can get inside them and potentially cause an infection (or that they can cause TSS, which I address in the next question).  Pure jadeite and nephrite jade is an extremely hard and dense stone.  It’s stronger than steel, and has a Mohs Hardness Rating of 6.0 – 7.0, which means it’s very tough and durable.  You could throw jade against a rock or concrete and it would not break.  Although jade technically is porous, real nephrite jade is not absorbent, which means bacteria cannot get inside it.

The real issue here is that there are many companies selling eggs that are not pure jade and they’re sold as pure jade (the reason is that pure jade is expensive).  These are usually cheaper, softer stones such as serpentine or onyx that look somewhat like real jade, but they definitely are not jade.  They’re usually sold for about $20 and real jade eggs are nearly impossible to find at less than $60, because that’s just what jade costs.

It absolutely IS dangerous to use one of these fake jade eggs for at least 3 reasons.  First, these stones/marbles are not only porous, but they are absolutely absorbant, so yes, they could cause an infection.  Second, they likely contain bleach, wax or dye so they look more like real jade (and I don’t think you want any of that inside your vagina).  And third, they may contain small (or even large) cracks or breaks which could injure the inside of your vagina and/or harbor bacteria. 

I’ve had many women come to my live classes with these fake jade eggs, asking if they can use them.  The answer is NO.  Spend the money to invest in a real jade egg.  It’s worth it from a safety standpoint, and from the energetic standpoint of the properties of jade itself.  And $60 is not expensive for something that will last for decades (unlike a vibrator) and has the potential to completely shift the way a woman experiences her sexuality and female body.

In a very public criticism against Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop company, and specifically the jade eggs she sells on her website for approximately $60, a gynecologist asserted that jade eggs cause toxic shock syndrome, with absolutely no evidence of this.   The gynecologist falsely maintained that because jade is porous and absorbent, it means it could absorb vaginal secretions and cause TSS.  So, in response, some prominent jade egg teachers, including longtime jade egg practitioner and teacher Saida Desilets, who also is a doctor, as well as my primary teacher, Layla Martin, investigated this claim.  

They found that toxic shock syndrome became a thing when tampons went from being 100% cotton (how they originally were) to containing synthetic ingredients (which most non-organic tampons today contain) .  So, it’s not the absorbency of the material of the tampon or object that matters, it’s what its made with.  Synthetic materials can cause TSS; organic materials cannot.  Pure nephrite and jadeite jade comes from the earth.  It’s 100% organic, natural and pure.  The claims that jade eggs can cause TSS are completely unfounded and have never been studied.

If you have any other questions about things you may have heard about the jade egg, feel free to contact me and I'll include the response here.