One of the most challenging truths to speak, especially for a woman, is your “No.” This is not your fault. For centuries, women have been dismissed, hurt, chastised, and punished for their “No.” It can, therefore, be difficult to identify your “No,” let alone claim it through your body.

This practice, guided by Nicholette Routhier, offers you a pathway to embody your heart-centered “No” through several powerful feminine energies.

Begin by softening and opening your heart. Then without losing this connection to your heart, feel your "No" in your body. Feel how it lives in your body. Feel how it longs to be expressed.

Then take the shape of your open-hearted "No." Fill that shape with your breath, with your voice, and with your "No."

You will fill this "No" with textures to free you to fully express your "No":

1. "This is the 'No' that I never said. This is the grief and the pain that I feel having never said this 'No.'" Express this "No" fully through your body and letting every cell be transformed by transmuting this "No."

2. Queen. How does your Queen own her "No?" Say "No" again and again as if you are anchoring it in your body through the power of your Queen.

3. Kali. The fierce warrioress "No." Be a stand for consciousness through your "No." Your sword is your heart. How does she slice?

4. Angel. Goddess. Feel your heart as a sun, a glowing orb of light that is radiating love out. Offer your "No" with the texture of "I love you."

A fully embodied and expressed “No” is one of the most powerful ways to create trust in your own heart and in your relationships. If you desire to claim this possibility, try this 18-minute practice.

Disclaimer: Although anyone may find this practice to be useful, it is made available with the understanding that we are not engaged in presenting specific medical, psychological, emotional, sexual or spiritual advice. Nor is anything in this practice intended to be a diagnosis, prescription, recommendation or cure for any specific kind of medical, psychological, emotional, sexual or spiritual problem. Each individual has unique needs and this practice cannot take these individual differences into account. Each person should engage in a program of treatment, prevention, cure, or general health only in consultation with a licensed, qualified physician, therapist or other competent professional. Any person suffering from a sexually transmitted disease or any local illness of his or her sexual organs should consult a medical doctor and a qualified instructor of sexual yoga before practicing the sexual methods described in this practice.