Smoothlycoveryoni with your hand right after exiting. Maintaining eye contact, place your other hand on your beloved's heart and breathe together, visualizing energy circling between you. Giver,coverwithyourpartnerwithasarongorblanket.Ifshe desires, lie in each other's arms, spoon, hug, comfort, or cradle her body. Lie together in silence, or sweetly share the experience while holding each other, as she prefers.   10. CLOSING When you're ready to end the practice, close your Sacred Space and give each other a Heart Salutation. Closings are as important as openings. Release the elements and directions if you called them to be with you in your Sacred Space. Just say, "Thank you for being here. You are released." YoucandiscusswhathappenedifShaktiprefers,orwaituntillaterafterthingshave settled. If you choose, bathe together and be sure to drink lots of water. We encourage Shakti to not run off to do something right away. Relax, let the process unfold on its own accord, enjoy.   Afterthoughts It's possible that the first healing session may reveal little. Maybe during the second or later session Shakti will be relaxed enough to allow her hidden traumas to be experienced through yoni healing massage. This is an intuitive call. If Shakti believes additional sessions may be useful, go with it. Giver, don't try to talk her into it or out of it. Don't try to change a lifetime of resistance and armoring in one session. Make some progress and come back later. If you run into reluctant hot spots, the following practice provides a powerful method for addressing them.   PRACTICE: Healing Hot Spots   Purpose To clear the negative energy stored in any resistant hot spots.   Description This practice can be added into a yoni healing session if you find a hot spot that doesn't seem to release or stay cleared. If you set up a separate session to focus on specific hot spots, don't simply dive into yoni until Shakti is relaxed, settling into body sensations, and opening her energy channels. The more skilled the receiver is at using the four cornerstones of breath, sound, movement, and presence, the more powerful the cleansing. And the deeper the breaths, the more releasing is facilitated. This is why a vital part of yoni healing is for Shakti to breathe into numb, sore, or burning spots, especially in the face of strong emotions, to encourage energy release. To speed up the healing process, use Orgasmic Breathing in the face of any strong emotions or cathartic reactions. Recognize that the venting, screaming, thrashing, sobbing, or anger are prompted by earlier traumas that have been awakened. Work together to clear the energy and the force of the imprint will cease to have any affect on the receiver.