For the balanced feminine to blossom it is helpful, and in our experience crucial, to create and sustain women’s circles that truly nourish us in the deepest sense. Instead of enforcing the status quo by focusing on our problems and personal shortcomings, circles like this connect us with truth beyond our fears and limited self-images. From this deeper place we can effortlessly radiate clarity and guidance instead of exhaust ourselves in trying to be leaders from a tense, competitive and ego-centered state of mind.
The Women’s temple is not a therapy or a support group. It is a space were we come to mirror, celebrate and empower each other. A space were we can drop our masks, and let the beauty of our authentic face to be seen. In all its glory and pain and passion and vulnerability.
In our Women’s temple we meet beyond the personal, and in this expanded meeting the collective feminine as well as the personal is healed and celebrated.
The Women’s Temple is sometimes happing in the homes of the women, sometimes in rented rooms. Sometimes it is a closed group, sometimes it is open for all. Sometimes the group meet weekly, sometimes less often.
We honor and treat our temple as sacred. We enter it with reverence and with the intention to be as true as
we can. All superficial chit- chatting we leave outside, in our temple we explore how it is to speak from a deeper place within, and most important of all we explore how to communicate without speaking at all.
All our practice is based upon being present in the body, so we spend a lot of time, dancing and moving. We also support each other in soften our bodies by touching each other in respectful and nourishing ways. This part of the practice is most women’s favorite part…
In the Nevada City Temple group we have been practicing together for four years, and through this process a remarkable tapestry has been weaved between us which is embracing us through our lives also outside of temple. We have been there for each other, when one married her beloved, another got divorced, several books have been published, and businesses have been started. New houses has been built, and one sister died from us. We have been wailing and raging, and dancing and celebrating. Together.
Do you have the longing to be part of a group like this?
Check the list of already existing groups to see if there are already one happening in your area.
If not maybe it is up to you to create a group where you live. Come back for usefull tips of how to do it, or you can go to our shop and order the e-book: How to Create your own Women’s Temple Group
I believe in health; physical, mental and spiritual. I believe that we should have positive symbiotic relationships between the genders. However, we should also be able to be separate, unique and whole by ourselves. Unfortunately, we do not perform that well in the 3 R’s (Reading, wRiting, and aRithmetic), in our school systems and homes, much less adding Relationship building/maintenance to make it 4 R’s. So, any organization, large or small, that helps is a good thing. . . . nice post
“YOU ARE MY SISTER”
with anthony and the johnsons..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-NziGE6DVY&feature=related
Want to share this with you all…
Love to all my sisters.
Mette.
Yes, there is a very deep longing in my heart to have a Women’s Temple Group for me and my sisters in this area of the world – Finland. I’ve read the Manual – and I love it, and at the same time I feel fear of all of it, it’s so unlike anything I’ve done before…
Dear sisters
ganz frau – woman totally it is called. Tomorrow will be started a weekly tempelgroup in Zurich, Switzerland by me and my friend Hana. Lately I have been dealing with a big fear coming out of my commitment to be true and and to go toward truth. The void and this not-knowing seemed to be everlasting and it was my daily practice to not go in trouble with my mind. Since yesterday (don’t ask me what I did or why?!?) my heart rejoices and it remembers its source and its passion. I am buying rosepetals today this is mirroring me how I feel now and I am happy to welcome the women tomorrow. Hana will sing with her golden voice for us, she and we will receive the sounds that are been given to us. Everything is fine, I don’t have to know how it will be. We are creating it together, all of us…….mmmmmhhhh
Did you finally arrive home Chameli, and being received by your beloved and your sons, this is what your heart was yearning for – you wrote in facebook…..I wish you are there, resting, enjoying, celebrating. Thank you for traveling to Europe, so much nourishment and light for all of us. in service always
yes, I am back home! it is wonderful to be back. My trip was amazing, so many sweet and deep meetings. It was lovely to meet your radiant heart again!
many blessings on your temple group!
with love, always
chameli
I am interested in being a part of the Women’s Temple Night in Nevada City. I just finished reading the book, “Come Closer” and am very interested! Thank you.
Hi Kathleen, it is wonderful that you feel pulled to our practice, it is such a gift.
Right now our group is closed to protect the depth of our practice, but I think that we will have an initiation soon. Either this fall or in the beginning of the year. If you sign up on our mailing list on http://www.awakeningwomen.com, we will keep you posted.