When I speak of vaginas that shoot ping pong balls and open beer bottles and win world records, these aren’t wild exceptions to what vaginas can do (though they are currently).

Every woman can do these things.

So why don’t they?

Every woman has heard the pelvic adage: “Do your Kegels! Everyday! This is how you will build a stronger pelvic floor!”

Except that it’s not.

The real Kegel, the exercise that Dr. Alfred Kegel created in 1947, involved placing a feedback device inside the vagina. Doing so, a woman would know just how strong her pelvic contractions were.

With this method, Kegel saw a whopping 93% improvement rate with issues of urinary incontinence.

When other doctors suggested the clenching exercise to women, without the use of any kind of feedback device, the success of the exercise immediately dropped 50%.

In my sex coaching practice today, I have yet to meet a single woman—amongst thousands—who has had success with Kegels.

Instead, I meet women every day who are terrified to get on a trampoline with their children or who can’t go for a run anymore, because they have involuntary bladder emissions.

The statistics are shocking: as many as 60% of women are thought to experience some form of urinary incontinence. It’s difficult to say for certain, because, due to sheer embarrassment, most women don’t talk about it.

Another 50% of women will experience some form of pelvic organ prolapse (like the uterus falling into the vagina) after childbirth.

50%??

That statistic (and the one on incontinence, both from the Yale University School of Medicine) made my jaw drop.

This is the problem with the modern version of a Kegel: It doesn’t work.

In order to build strength, you need resistance and feedback. You need to be “lifting” just enough weight, whether with your bicep or your vagina.

The weight needs to be light enough that you can pick it up, and heavy enough that you need to exert some effort.

That’s how you build strength.

 

The long lost art of vaginal weight lifting

Five thousand years ago, genital strengthening was considered a necessary life skill.

Since sexual energy is life force energy, and our genitals are the centers of that power, it’s essential that we’re connected to them.

Both energetically and physically.

In the ancient Taoist system of sexual practices—where sex was seen as medicine and a pathway to enlightenment—pelvic weight lifting was an essential part of their health regime.

The regimen strengthened the pelvic floor, supported the internal organs and recirculated vital sexual energy throughout the system.

Women practiced the lifting with a jade egg. In the Chinese system of medicine, jade was thought to have healing and balancing effects on the female reproductive system.

 

 

The world’s strongest vagina

Tatyana Kozhevnikova is from Novosibirsk, Russia. After she had her children, she felt that things just “weren’t the same down there.”

She’d heard about these ancient Taoist practices of vaginal weight lifting and decided to try them out.

Several years, 31 pounds and a Guinness World Record later, Tatiana has the strongest vagina in the world.

 

Yes, you heard me correctly. Tatyana can lift 31 pounds with her vagina.

And there is a Guinness World Record for this accomplishment.

(I love Russians).

While you don’t have to aim for Tatyana’s skill level, the benefits of an internal weight lifting practice are many.

But Kim, what about the other vagina strengthening methods
I’ve heard of?

Yes, there are other pelvic strengthening devices out there. Here’s how the jade egg is different:

First off, if you see a “stick” claiming to make your vagina stronger for you, while you just lie there, and do nothing… Seriously? I have seen some devices which claim to make you “tighter” just by inserting them into your vagina, with no work on your part. That’s denial, folks! You can’t make your bicep stronger by lying next to a dumbbell.

There are other devices which act in the same way as “ab shockers” to deliver an electrical shock to your vagina and force the muscles to contract. These have proven to be far less effective than weight lifting. I don’t believe that traumatizing the vagina through electric shock is going to help with re-sensitization.

Then there are some devices which you insert that give you feedback based on the strength of your contraction. These are a better choice. However, they still have a very machine-like, obgyn-look-and-feel. Some are made of steel, which feels very industrial to me. And you aren’t adding weight to them.

The egg is my top choice for many reasons:

• It fulfills the biggest requirements to provide resistance and feedback to the pelvic floor muscles. This is how you build strength.

• It’s organic and natural. It’s jade! It’s a 5000-year-old tool from one of the most advanced medical and sexual energy systems on the planet. The symbolism of the egg as a seed, as the start of creation, is also powerful.

• The Vaginal Kung Fu program works on every level: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Lasting change happens when we are onboard in every possible way—just giving you exercises isn’t enough. Vaginal dissociation is multi-faceted and that’s why I tackle it from every angle.

• This system of inserting an egg (or glass ball, as Tatyana did) and lifting weight is what created the strongest, record-holding vagina in the world. How can you go wrong?