News of Friday September 30: Beloved sisters, we are maxed out again, so no more requests for now please. We will do it again soon!
It is Monday night, and I am just back from our Northern California Women’s Temple. My skin contains pure space only.
My beloved and I slow-dancing in the kitchen.
We will clear out STUFF before the move to our new house (in three days. Yayy!) and he is putting all our CD’s onto the computers. The soundtrack tonight is… eclectic. The first thunder storm of the season is hovering as dense darkness at the horizon. It is humid, hot.
But I digress.
In Temple tonight we gave each other sparkly new Temple names. A Temple-name is a meditation, a koan. A temple name will support you, sooth you, hold you, remind you, or (if you are lucky) stretch you right over the edge.
Naked Brilliance
Raw Heart
Carried in the hands of the Goddess
Nurturing Connections
Drawn by the Heart
Radiant Inner beauty
Goddess of Fierce Knowing
Bride of Shiva
You, my dear sister, are of course part of the global (and timeless, stretching infinitely into the past and infinitely into the future) Yogini circle (circle of feminine spiritual heart warriors) and I want to invite you to have your very own Temple name.
This is how it works:
You write in the comments section below about your edge right now in your life. What is calling you, what is challenging, what is opening?
I will
:: wait for the fax from the Goddess and give you a Temple Name.
You will:
:: embrace the name with curiosity as a meditation you will carry with you for a while (knowing that you can get a new Temple name as life changes.)
:: share with us how the name is landing in you
:: maybe tell your friends to visit here to get their very own name? (Facebook?)
News of Friday September 30: Beloved sisters, we are maxed out again, so no more requests for now please. We will do it again soon!
(Oh, and just one more thing. You are so loved sister. So, so loved. In each breath. Feel it.)
Welcome to a free telelcass on Feminine Leadership and the Women’s Temple Group Practice
Hello. I am Jennifer. I am being called to serve the people such as working at the food bank, and showing up at habitat for humanity sites in different counties and working. Right now I am priviledge enought to be working in the planning & urban development department of a locality and beginning to work on reclaiming vacant lots to help better the neighborhoods and communtiy as a whole. What temple name would fit me
How wonderful!
A connection to the above, the stars, the infinite is opening for me now, I used to leave them out of my vision of the world. I’m feeling challenged in my futile resistance to change! Finding reasons why I can’t, can’t, can’t, – can’t go for my dreams now, can’t put time in to sacred ceremony now……… Called to reveal my REAL self, to cast aside the illusion and wake up.
my edge right now is not being afraid…of embracing how i am loved and of loving myself for all the beauty and flaws i possess…..you page and words were beautiful…thank you so much
zabrina tocher
hello, I am irena.I am going trough divorce now, letting go all that keeps me in dependency, fear,insecurity I would love to live in Love with brave and open heart with self confidence and connection with fierce and wild part of myself
Namaste Chameli and sisters, the way is opening to me to truly love myself without resistance. Fear, doubts, worries, terrors start to melt away as I live myself in the outside world. Is the most challenging experience to open my heart to myself and be able to feel my own beauty and live it. I had no other guide than my inner voice, I missed connexion with other sisters, it was a painful process until I met the support of your community. I am open to embrace my creative fire in all I do as a mother, artist and woman of our Sacred Earth. I have visions where I dance and play my harp and sig to the Earth and the children and I speak to the stars. I still feel the fear and the I cant, I cant, it feels oh almost deeper than ever and at the same time I know I stand right at the door of my own Self … I pray for courage, wilderness and magic to come through.In gratitude and beauty. Anjali
my edge right now is to feel alive and embrace each experience in it’s fullness. To not shy away from pain but to feel each moment, sit with it. Then to allow it to move over me, through me and beyond. Not stagnant, not bitter. Free and open to healing, peace and the joy that is inevitable in spite of what seems troublesome in circumstances or passing moments.
Dear Chameli!
My challenge is to trust myself! And to trust in the Goddess, in source.
To go for my ideas, my love, my fire and everything that is within me. To bring my energy in the world, without thinking what others may think about me…
I send you much love and wish you a wonderful moving day
Sandra
Dearest Chameli and sisters . Over the last few months I am experiencing beautiful meditations from Mother .. opening to the expansion of the Divine Feminine love deep with in my being and the world.. like being held in the oceanic womb of bliss where all in met and nourished while just being. I am now beginging my journey with other sisters and hosting a womens temple in Dublin Ireland . I ask for the grace in humility through sevice to the Feminine in this Temple name. Namaste.
My edge is trusting I don’t need to eat meat in this, my fourth pregnancy. I was vegetarian before my third pregnancy and had to eat meat. I was raw vegetarian before this pregnancy and was hoping that I could really get through this pregnancy without meat and I am struggling health wise. I want to dive over the edge where I am in service to all creatures
Thank you for this offering Chameli
i have a calling for the beauty in self discipline and rituals of excellence
My edge is to show up fully as I am, unapologetically: being unabashedly myself.
Thank you, this sounds great.
I am longing to fully show up for my family with an open heart, patience and joy. To be calm and peaceful in the midst of high energy life with three small children. To give myself the loving time to practice my yoga,my own spirituality, and live from a place of trust and love. To be graceful, joyful, calm and fully present in each beautiful moment of this blessed life. Thank you dear Chameli for your beautiful and loving words through Awakening Woman…you bring me closer to myself.
Blessings, Love and Light,
~Amy
I am being called to help or protect in a job position. I have been promoted to run and operate a cash cow business. I am also struggling with the decisions my family ( in laws) are making that are affecting my niece who is the innocent. Am I to provide shelter and protection for her as an adopted mother by being promoted? I would love a temple name… Namaste
A temple name would be so very lovely and soothing right now. What a beautiful idea. I am going through a very intense process right now. I have been healing issues from my childhood, surrounding my Mother, and my heart feels so heavy. So much sadness and grief. I know I am doing the work of my soul, and yet, sometimes i feel that it is too much to bear. Thank you Chameli. Blessings to you.
Calling:
To be able to spread the power of Love..”my way”..To trust that I can do this..Challenging:Right now it feels like I’m falling into the unknown..I don’t know who or what I am anymore.. What now? I’m curious and scared at the same time..After 34 years of sharing my life with the love of my life..I’m alone again..he has found a new woman..My Mom passed away during the same time..So this is challenging. Opening:
To really see what and who I am..to embrace myself..my own uniqueness..to love and accept myself as I am..To become a Visible wise woman..
I have had an imbalance in my life for such a long time. I tried to excel in my masculine energy and denied most aspects of my femininity. This has begun to change during the last two years and where I am right now, I feel no anger and no sorrow. I have however a longing to fully explore and embrace myself as a woman. That is my challenge and my adventure. Love /Karin
My heart has been poured empty as I make decisions based on divorce. It has been a year now, and I have rested, regaining energy and motivation. Recently, my heart is becoming full with life again. I can see the potential of joy and playfullnesss upon the horizon and I want to sing in the rain with my children, I want to warm the winter sheets with love making, I want to create and dangle my inhibitions in front of a crowd of high expectation, I want to be pretty! It is a tightwire today … A moment of perfect balance followed by a fumble, sometimes laughter sometimes crying.
breathing the sky, the stars, the birdsong… feeling very courageous and daring and almost like I’m challenging others to judge me… feeling sexy…. always feeling sexy… wanting another baby – at 50! Feel young, alive, joyous. I am in love…
What a blessing to see this offering this morning. I am being stretched in many ways with a transition in work, home and relationship. I am on the edge of 100% jumping in to create a business that will serve women in work transition, who hold back, doubt themselves and question what they have to offer (just like me!). I want to incorporate my feminine practices and other spiritual teachings and create a beautiful net of support. I am receiving the community support and giving back also which is a new way for me to not stay invisible. Thank you. Namaste.
I have been through many phases in my lifetime. I married late (45) and the family I married into emit so much negative energy and are so naturally critical and wanting that I am drained. Somehow we have responsibility for my husband’s 92 year old uncle who has Alzheimers. We manage his finances and have secured him the level quality care in a good environment. Yesterday we were informed that he has to be moved to a higher level of care. In short, Donald is gone and we are making sure that his body is comfortable. I worry all the time about his finances. We are liquidating his land holdings in a terrible market. My husband is worn out with this burden. I can no longer “be nice” to his relatives so I have distanced myself. All we want is our life back. All I want is to have my mind be quiet and feel positive energy flowing from me. I don’t like the person I’ve become in the last 10 years. I don’t know her.
my edge right now… embracing the honor of being a midwife, releasing the illusion of the weight of the responsibility of this work… removing my masks to reveal the gifts hidden within… finding connection with my ancestors, my lineage, my relationship to the unseen world… opening my heart, my spirit, my sight to what is needed to conceive my own sweet child… allowing space for profound change and transformation in my life.
In this moment i feel called to be part of a shift of counsiousness in a more active manner, i have challenged my self to reach other women here in my country (México) i offer my innerself to be a tool for the divinity to manifest love, to learn from others and share this with those looking for the sounds of their spirits. I want to bring the temple here, i started a blog that has been well received and i want to find the best path to be part of all.
My edge is finding my honesty, my authenticity, and having the courage to speak it, to live it, to embrace it fully without fear.
Chameli, I love this — as I read it though I thought, how delightful, to have a name of my own!
When I was much younger, I joined a tribe of like-minded folks, and we all sat around the fire one night, drumming and meditating and calling out names for each other. None of the names my friends and tribemates called out for me were mine — none of them _lifted_ me — and I felt bereft.
My edge right now — I am called to travel the land in an RV, conversion bus, whatever you call it — and frankly this scares the crap out of me. I am trapped in indecision and fear and not-enough-go (well, and not enough money! but that will solve itself, I think, when I solve the fear and immobility). How do I go? How do I GO?
My dear sisters, here we are gathering, showing up as who we are, and this magic field of Shakti is created, by us, for us. Soak it in, fill up the reservoirs, and shower it into your day.
I will begin tuning into names now.
At your feet.
Dear Rian,
Sometimes we give a “stretching name”, a name that you will stretch you into a dimention of you that you perhaps have a hard time to own. This is such a name.
When I feel you, I feel your vastness, your unbroken connection with brilliant truth. I feel Prajaparamita, who is the cosmic womb, who is called the mother of all Buddhas, from which all wisdom and awakening rise out of.
This is your Temple name:
Mother of all Buddhas
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow.
Dear Jennn, I feel inspired and touched by you and your longing to be in service. Thank you!
The spiritual activist reach out in service knowing that the one in need is not separate from the one with resources. The illusion that we are separate from each other is what the Buddhists call ” the root decease ” To see all beings and the earth as whole and as part of you, and to take action from that knowing, is medicine.
This is your Temple name:
Medicine woman
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow.
Dear Renee,
Your energy is crystal clear, empowered. It spreads out to us, through your words.
To be yourself, means to be transparent, to allow for the luminous light of source to shine through you , as you.
This is your Temple name:
Naked heart of the Goddess
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow.
Dear sister, oh I am so with you in this. Rituals of excellence, such a beautiful longing.
(so again a stretching name, sister)
This is your Temple name:
Guardian of the Sacred
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow.
My edge is learning to trust my instincts, my core and what I hear from my inner wisdom. And to be strong enough and confident enough in myself to follow through.
Dear Simone,
First I want to say tat I am vegitarian myself, so I fully can feel your longing. And at the same time I hear a division, which is perhaps not needed any more.
In pregnancy you are moving into the really dense, embodied, in flesh, in carne, aspect of reality, cell by cell expansion, growing, creating, composting. It is more dense more heavy, not so orderly and pretty, yet this is also awake consciousness. Just different, than our more airy bright ideals. The body is earth, a teacher.
This is your Temple name:
Priestess of Body Wisdom
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow.
Dear Sansarasvati, what a wonderful name you already have.
The freedom from our unworthiness (and from feeling special), is to fully realize that the gifts that are pressing forth wanting to be given, are not yours. You are a servant. They are much bigger than you and they are not separate from you. All that is required is to be willing to be used. Your longing to serve is so so much powerful than fear (fear is a feeling, feel-kiss-flow)
This is your Temple name:
Surrendering to Her brilliance
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow.
Dear Tay, yes this is the core of Feminine embodiment practices, allowing us to stay, to stay present and awake as life unfolds. I feel a deep feminine clarity in you.
This is your Temple name:
Embracing Beauty
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow.
In my fifties – life long depression, sorrow, anxiety. Living extremely low income – on gov’t disability. Need to find energy. A way out. Blessings and thank you.
Oh, my name is Lisa McG…
Oops! Sorry! I didn’t know it would post as WW. It is ‘new ideas’.
Dear sister and wise woman, what a blessing you are.
This is your Temple name (it came through you, just too brilliant to be ignored:):
Oceanic womb of bliss
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow.
Simone I was vegetarian for 12 years before I became pregnant with my daughter. My body craved the protein of fish and meat…trust your body, sister, bless what you eat and give great thanks, and talk to your baby about it as well. You are held.
Right now I am dealing with energy challenges, adrenal exhaustion. Taking time to rest and recoup after many years of depletion. Yet am desiring to move forward into my life’s work. To move forward with supporting women on their path, offering healing, bringing my artwork or intuitive art process into the world as well. Feeling I am in this birth-type process and feeling fear about how/if it will unfold before my financial resources exhaust themselves. Mostly, just feeling beyond ready to JUST DO IT already…and needing to develop patience as it unfolds.
I feel love all around me! I daily seek ways of sharing unconditional love. Each and every night I pray to God and my Angels for guidance in my dreams and upon awaking. I feel that I am being called to a higher source of giving as I have lympedema and gateways are being opened to help me be an advocate of bringing awareness to this condition that affects 5 million people around the world. What temple name best fits me? Love and Loving energies to YOU!
hi
I am called to educate others. My challenge is to shoose. My heart is finally opening:)
Dear Anjali, oh you describe so beautifully the journey and the prayers of the Yogini.
And all of these feelings and turns and openings and contractions IS the Goddess. It is the path and it is the goal. It is the call and it is the answer to the call. In the shakti tradition we speak about Spanda, the sacred tremor, which is the constant expansion and contraction of everything, at all times.
This is your Temple name:
Dancing in the sacred tremor
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow.
wow beautiful! Im feeling love, and always an intense sense of compassion and love for everyone around me. I ve been feeling the urge to do something to help others in everything I do, even making my career something that is used to heal hearts, make others happy, fill their spirits with love! I feel so happy and in peace ever since I chose to change careers for others! I love love and im in love with love! I appreciate the beauty in everyone, im mesmerized by the windows of the soul our eyes! dreams! oh dreams! an what you learn from them, what they tell you is simply incredible! The fact that we are all one and all connected makes me think twice and always try to act with LOVE!
I have recently polished some new music and am getting ready to send it out into the world. My challenge is to send it out there with an intention and then release it, allowing the Universe to direct it where it needs to go – then continue to create new music.
I am in the 50th year and am changing, evolving … I am a metalsmith and work with copper. I breathe life and power into every piece that I make. When woman say “Oh…I could never wear anything like that…” and gaze with longing at the piece…I gently work with her. Have her try it on…stand tall…I don’t care whether she buys it or not…just to see the light in her eyes in that moment of strength and power is amazing. I would love a temple name…
This is so wonderful and inspiring! Thank you for your sharing! I’m from Germany. I’m up to change my life completely. I quitted my musictherapist job in hospital to start setting up a ‘healing place in nature’ together with my beloved husband. It’s extremely exciting. It feels like free falling. No idea if it ever will work out… Just a call deep inside me, a deep longing to serve the goddess, the earth and the people on earth with the creative gifts I have. To make healing rituals and create spaces for people to get connected to their true selfs and to heal, to live on earth with more love and joy.
With love, Maria
Hi beloveds, wow this gathering is opening to a lot of energy! I will take a break now and will be back giving more names later. I love to hear how they land in you.
deep bow
c
So wanting to connect and feeling unconnected. A lot of offer but holding back. Sometimes feeling invisible. Sometimes feeling obtuse. I know change is around the corner and yet I feel a lack of commitment to the unknown. Can’t stand still. Tired of standing alone. Very antsy, squirming off the face of the earth & only comfortable in the water…a writer shunning paper…listening to others stories and tired tired tired of my stasis…but very tough to own the spot I’m standing…
I´m at a point of no return, in the peacefull darkness of my heart, longing for it to truely open at let the feminine take over, to lean into the feminine energy and have faith in it. Longing to come “home”. Also feeling the inner strength as a white goddess and a tiger. It is challenging to let go, to take the leap, who am i if i let go?
I am being called to live a more spiritual life. To live and learn all that I can and reconnect with mother earth.
oh, my. humbled broken regal. shunned and yet called to open my heart beyond what is comfortable. hidden curled up inhabiting the shadows of all existence. flirting with consciousness. abandoned by my beloved, yet scratching through the veils of life’s obstacles to see the truth of his love pulsating beyond my peripheral vision, like streams of light that feed me.
shani, my husband. durga, my mother.
helpless and strong, beautiful and broken, luminous and yet tasting shadow. I will not give up. exhausted, body in pain, heart tender and tenderized. dignity. uncommon strength. relentless perseverance. unrecognized. aching and longing simply to love without reservation & to finally surrender, to let the light win.
love.
Hello. First thank you for such a beautiful site and for sharing your beautiful words with such wonder and magic. Each time I read one of your posts I feel uplifted and deeply connected to my truth.
In this moment I am unveiling my truth. I have been on an incredible journey the last 6 years as I healed myself naturally from a deep depression. First it started with healing my mental space, followed by my physical body, followed by my emotional self and now I find myself opening up to creating a loving divine relationship with Spirit and unleashing the sacred sensuous women that is yearning to be loved deeply and intimately. I yearn to travel the world, indulge in luxuries and be fully and totally in my bliss, joy and ecstasy. With Spirit and getting in touch with my truth I am calling in the money necessary to make this happen. I know it’s there yet I feel blocked in my receiving of it.
I love this notion of Temple names. Thank You!
I am being called to remove my own veils and those of others to allow raw truth and beauty to be accessible by many, without the intrusion of egotistical separation, through basic connection with self. It is challenging me to show up and clear a path of awakening in it’s most fundamental aspects. My fear is not being ready.
I am coming full circle, back to the start, to put right what I broke. I can’t see the future or the past, only the now, it’s very odd and quite unsettling but I’m trusting the process.
Hello, I am Veronica. I want to help other women with my experience, yet I feel I need a guidance. I am open and my heart waits in silence. My path is under my feet, but in this moment I can’t feel it. Maybe here, now?
sorry….my name is Wendy Peacock
I am struggling to find balance in life, with work, family, economy etc. And I´m loosing touch with the ancient knowledge in myself…
New beginnings, fragile love from the deapth of my soul.
I am working on an a series of art works that follow my conception to birth.very profound and expansive .
Dear Chameli,
my name is Marit, I am a midwife student in my last year. I am struggeling with my fear to glow and rise in the light of my divine power. There are times, I whish I would have never been born and instead rest deeply protected inside my mothers womb. But there are also times, when I rest in me, where I meet women in labour and I am guided in a divine way to empower those in fear.
Namaste
What is calling you, what is challenging, what is opening? I am being called and opened to teaching Reiki, creating in my business, and to really carry the wisdom of discernment. My challenges of lately have been around others who are rigid in their thinking/lifestyle/thought patterns.
with a bit of shyness.. yes I would like a name.. im my life more and more the world seems to greet me, welcome me, want what I have to give and I try to open to that, there is something within, something old, though I am so much older than that… who hinders me still. I want to open up more and welcome the abundance, the love, all that is possible.. and probably already so near to me.. I want to still this voice of worrying, of being unworthy, of saying that something is wrong and impossible, case I know better I do: It is al hear, right now, right here… and I am welcome to unfold with all of me – into the arms of my man, into the arms of the world..
Hi Rian,
Right now I am working with seing and telling the truth lovingly.
sorry, my comment appeared twice… >_< I edited this one.
(excuse-me if my words are not correct, I’m not an english native speaker)
That’s amazing!
I feel I’m deepening my relation with the Divine, opening myself more
and more to Gods and Goddesses. I’m walking on a new road that seems to
go where I always wanted to be : nearer the Divine AND at the same
time, nearer to the pagan community! And I totally love it.
Blessings from Belgium!
Sarasvatya Shantii
Im into a dive deep knowing of my self-deeper then ever. I have been in grieving, judgement,isolation.
Iv been so fragile and skinless- though inbetween all this I have a strong connection to my roots and true nature, stronger then ever- this two sides of me have been dancing around in and out since two month- and now i feel a shift. Like being born again and again
Love you
Bibbie
I am living, quite literally, at my edge – I live right on the coastline where the River Forth opens up to the cold North Sea, and every morning I look out at the sea and breathe in its expansiveness.
What I’m finding really challenging right now is that I’ve recently left my job (a place where I’ve been for the last 15 yrs – since I was 17) and I’m kind of in a period of free-fall. The way forward for me feels like it’s through my writing, and so that’s what’s opening up the most for me right now.Thank you so much for this incredibly generous offer, Chameli. Sending you much loveAmyxx
I’ve been riding deep waves of inner re-creation and am having difficulty bringing these changes out into the manifest world. Much fear, I guess. Fear of being truly seen in my vulnerability and creative expression as well as taking action on what it is that I want. There are parts of my psyche that haven’t caught on to the fact that I can be a Warrior and a Queen and it’s okay.
My edge has many facets. I have spent most of this lifetime in grateful service … to my peers, to my employers, to my family, to my greater power and spirit. I have done this quietly & sometimes anonymously. The work is far reaching & continual. I feel the presence of the sacred now. It calls me … reaches for me … lifts me up to help me soar now. My biggest challenge is to make this wondrous feeling tangible in the world. I want to pass along what Spirit reveals to me so that we can ALL experience the light & the power within. My heart is bursting with all I have to share.
I am called to release my negativity and procrastinations, and evolve both physically and spiritually. I have to cast off the self imposed restrictions that keep me from resuming being ME. The door stands open…..
Deep feminine radiance, naked of all possessions (literally), traveling, creating and dancing are my edge right now. I am being called to reclaim all of the feminine attributes that didn’t fit into a western woman’s life. I am in communion with the moon, the universe and the women who walk this path with me.
Those who are threatened by my freedom and their negative or fearful reactions are my challenge. I wish I could bring everyone with me. I wish I could somehow help them see what I see ….
My authentic heart is breaking wide open with Bliss and Fierce determination …
I’m feeling a huge connection with “Soaring Dreamer” so I’m grabbing it.
Kate, the same thing is happening to me, I’m suddenly the owner of a van that I can sleep in and I know I’m supposed to live in it and go round the country, but I can’t see why or the details yet, but I’m so glad it’s not just me and I’m not completely crackers! xxxx
dear Sabrina, you describe the path of the Yogini beautifully, and the fear is welcome here too, just a feeling that comes and goes (yet sometimes so hard to stay awake with)
This is your Temple name:
Resting in the source of Love
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow.
Hi Irina, I feel your solar plexus radiating, cleansing, opening. There is one Goddess (our great patron in the AWI work) who rides on a tiger, is married to love, and is not willing to compromise and inch… (you can read more about here: http://awakeningwomen.com/2010/09/12/durga-the-tiger-riding-goddess/))
This is your Temple name:
Durga
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow.
Dear Amy, yes this is what we are called to do as modern day yoginis, to embody our spirituality in the midst of daily life, to evaporate the mirage of separation between spirit and matter. In our shakti tradition we move in a world where Shiva (pure consciousness) has become, has fully merged, and show himself as Shakti (the realm of form). So there comes a time where we accept everything that arise in our experience as the Goddess, as the guru.
In Tibetan Buddhism there is a Goddess Vajrayogini who has a reputation of showing us hidden in different forms. She is a fiercely lover of truth and will do all she can to wake you up. She will point out all the places you make duality. (and remember she comes in surprising forms)
This is your Temple name:
VajraYogini’s grace
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow.
Dear sister, let the goddess pull you in in in in. I hear a need to take time to pause, to be still, listen to the subtle signals from your body and being. It may not come as a message in words, maybe only as a deep knowing, an opening in the chest, a contraction. listen.
I will give you a “stretching name”
This is your Temple name:
Goddess of inner Guidance
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow.
AWESOME! I need something bigger than a van, alas (three cats and a small business travel with me) and I’m waiting for the right one to show itself. I have plans and plots and theories and I’ve done SO much research…I have websites and bookmarks and links and PILES of information…and I just can’t make. That. Last. Step. To get on the road.
If you’re crackers, then so am I, and we can be crackers together! Let’s go!
Now the aiming is towards greater humbleness and peace, And learning to love both myself and all other living creatures. Also accepting the shadow and light polarity in life just as much! Im expecting a babysoul in december:) namaste/ elin
Dear Robbin, in our journey(s) into the underworld we are initiated into deep wisdom. It takes patience, and kindness to hold ourselves through it all. But the reward is deeper roots, a knowing, we are birthed into real woman hood. Frozen places in the heart melting
This is your Temple name:
Growing roots in truth
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow.
Dear Mimi, mmmmm yes. I am reminded of the Goddess Inanna who walks into the underworld and has to shed all that which she has identified herself as. She has a glimpse of an expanded experience of herself.
It is a dying when it all fall apart. And there is a holy crack in the limited story we carry about ourselves (in Leonard Cohens words “and that’s where the light comes in”)Who are you when all is taken away?
This is your Temple name:
Radiating healing wisdom
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow.
Dear Karin , YES!
This is your Temple name:
Full feminine bloom
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Well make that three of us! Actually I went on a vision quest in a van ten years ago when I was 40. In the spirit of Chameli and her words: let the circle be the teacher … my best advise is: Let the road be the compass. Don’t decide ahead of time what you are doing or why … the answer is out there. One more thing, if you pull into a nice neighborhood and park after dark, and leave first thing in the morning that is a great way to save on $ and be safe too.
(this time I am 50 and am getting rid of my possessions and moving across the country, I know 2 other women my age doing the same … there is something of a trend emerging!)
Dear Lori, how beautifully you describe the re-awakening. It makes me smile. I feel joy in you, a fullness and light which come from those visits in the dark…
your energy reminds me of leela, the principle of divine play. limitless possibilities…
This is your Temple name:
Embodying
Leela
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Hi beauty, your words make my heart sing. and there is a Goddess who comes to mind:) she LOVES to be in her body, to her everything is sensual, she is sexual shakti embodied. she loves to love…
This is your Temple name:
Aphrodite
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
I’m seeing a tribe of us emerging — women called to the road! Who’s with me? (Well, who else! Since there are indeed already three of us.)
Dear Karen, thank you for bringing your gifts into the world, it is so needed!
This is your Temple name:
Midwife of feminine truth
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear Peggy, you are held here in this circle. Just as you are. Your light and darkness both welcome. Rest for a moment in the embrace of this circle, soothing those tired aching places. In the women’s circle we learn that in order to give, we have to fill up the inner well first. All the way to the brim, until it flows over, and then we love to give, it is nourishing to the feminine to give. But first You. For the sake of all.
This is your Temple name:
Goddess of exuberant self care
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Hi Noah, what sacred work you do… deep bow. There is something profound that happens when you begin to see and to claim your place in a lineage. And your assignment is indeed tapping into a sacred, unbroken circle of wise women midwifing the new life into our world. As you fully claim that you were called to that lineage, and you answered the call, you become an instrument of something vast, and you are supported from beyond time and space…
This is your Temple name:
Midwife of miracles
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
So beautiful and oh, so generous of you! My edge or challenge right now is that I’m taking my job loss as meaning it is my time to follow my dreams, which are go use compassion, empathy,encouragement and intuition in my new career as a life coach. I am in training now. This feels very right to me, however, I do struggle with self-confidence and fear. I appreciate your thoughts.
Warmly,
Pamela
Dear Bernadette, it is powerful to claim your vision and commitment with the timeless Yogini circle as your witness. Watch out:) I bow to your dedication to the feminine. feed your vision and longing to serve, and then open open open, hand it over (thy will be done). Keep us posted!
This is your Temple name:
Instrument of Love
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Years of searching; studying;reading;meditating etc, seem to have filled up the pond to overflowing this week. Suddenly, all is coming together with the speed of light. My body aches, my head exploding, but its happening. Yesterday A huge understanding appeared……The Divine within, the Divine that links us all, quite simply ‘divine’. The bubble of light within is still to shine outwards, but its getting there. The opening is huge, I just need to let it happen, without fear. it is love. My physical bost tingling. Last night I heard my spirit guide, her name is Claire..how patient is she.
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Dear Claughlin, this is again the realm of Durga the Tiger riding Goddess,( http://awakeningwomen.com/2010/09/12/durga-the-tiger-riding-goddess/) take her on as you teacher and she will mirror to you genuine feminine empowerment. The key is to root yourself firmly in that which truly is important to you, marry that, commit to that above all. And this will become your navigation system…
This is your Temple name:
Fiercely Rooted in Truth and Love
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
i accept this name “Growing roots in truth” with the deepest of gratitude. many blessings to you Chameli ♥
Good Evening…I am Denise. I am sitting in the silence of peace and light, waiting for what it is I am to do next in my life. I do not feel called to go forwards or backwards and so I sit. I desperately desire answers, but do not know the questions.
In light and love.
Thank you for this opportunity. ‘Mystery/the Unknown’ is calling me. I am dismantling much and clearing the clutter (inside and out). ’Trusting the unknown’ and ‘feeling sad and alone’ and ‘feeling Life contracting and expanding’ in this process is challenging me. ‘My heart’ is opening.
lost my partner of over 30 yrs. last Feb. and my mother (whom i cared for in my home 9+ yrs.) in April, then moved myself 1200 miles away from my support system. Delving deeply into myself every way i can, working hard to mend my saddened heart and find a new direction/purpose to my life.
Hurdling space-ward. Releasing Earth in love, letting go of everyone and everything. Walking alone inside and out, being everything/nothing.
I struggle to control things I cannot control, to be more deeply connected with my fiancée, to dive below my surface feelings to find the meaning behind my actions (or reactions).
I am ecstatic about being pregnant, but unsure of my path forward – I feel I’m being drawn to be a full-time mother, but after climbing the “corporate ladder” for the past 15 years this leaves me with many questions abouty my identity.
I am seeking my true self. Seeking to find my true voice, the one that will guide me through this next journey.
Thank you for this amazing opportunity to be given a Temple name.
What is calling is living with my feet firmly and deliciously planted, honoring my innate truth and purity; rooted, strong foundations, the center of the storm where chaos can be all around, but peace prevails; honoring my goddess gifts of resourceful stability and vision…
What is opening is sky scrapers of life being built upon the foundation that is fortified for just such a purpose, expansive and creative, true to the form from which it is built upon, this life is abundance, and refreshing stabilizing strength and beauty; powerfully connecting the earth and gracing the open expanses of sky. Stabilizing, Resourceful, Visionary.
Thank you for inviting me into the goddess garden of naming,
Alita
What a deep deep warm feeling to have found your site. Every cells in my body wish I could be physically present at the temple. Such a powerful call for me. One day I’ll make the trip.
At this time in my life, I’m opening myself and my life and getting ready to walk my creative and sacred path, spreading my love and light in the process. Part of me is still scared to really step up to it. Part of me is also on a journey of healing painful memories related to men. I feel bless. I ask for the strength to be who I really am. To open my wings and fly joyfully.
I just want to dissolve.
I have been called to create circles. Circles of wise women who empower one another through insight and reflection. I have dreamed of the day when the drum echoes with our own hearts and the drumbeat of the Earthheart. We all must heal one another and cherish our Earth Mother, we must continue to dream one another and dream the future into being.
I have multiple edges–I feel at the edge of being able to truly live my faith, having my life be a living prayer. I also constantly teeter on the edge between meeting my children’s needs and meeting my own needs–and trying to find the harmony in that; trying to find the place in which our family works in harmony to meet each member’s needs (not requiring “sacrifice,” because we have a seamless integration!).
Dear Kate, take this response from the other women as an omen for the times you are entering… wide open and full of potentials
This is your Temple name ( a bit of a long one for you:):
Soul traveling into Expanding horizons
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear Kirsten, yes and the more you do that, you model that aligned feminine for us all.
This is your Temple name:
Divine Messenger
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear Lisa, you are traveling the darker realms, and you are finding your way out. This, ALL of it, is part of your medicine to the world. Find ways to fill up your inner well and share yourself in any small way you can. Nothing is permanent.
This is your Temple name (stretching name):
Blooming Shape shifter
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
(further elaboration) I have so many edges, I can’t possibly enumerate them all. I feel like a starfish, growing in the half-light. I want to dissolve into the moonlight, into the womb of Mother Ocean, into the arms of the Love from which we all came. I want to find my own True Home.
Dear Sheri, you know this already; all of this you are going through, including the waiting will be part of your gift to the women. It is the feminine in us who knows the wisdom of rhythms. We cannot push the baby out before it is ready. I get this image of roots deep deep down and within, sucking up nourishment, filling up. Filling filling up… (Amrita is the elixir of life, the gift of Lakshmi)
This is your Temple name :
Overflowing Amrita
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
just to offer a little more: I am divorcing, downsizing, decluttering, deciding what is next; but nothing is clear about anything. It feels like a vulnerable, holding, waiting place (I imagine the days before descending the birth canal). I want to move forward, however, not to what feels the same. I need to decide to breathe in Love every moment as I give myself space to agree to be fully me and not afraid to shine. When I’ve shone, I am dancing, teaching adults, welcoming, travelling, smiling, creating a safe, belonging space for others. I want to know more deeply, and connect as much as possible with my own loving, kind Presence before I re-enter the world in a new way.
I will open my heart to all the newness that surrounds me and find peace in challenging times.
I truly understand and have walked many miles in your shoes my dear sister. Hang in there and there shall be peace and comfort, you will find “your” place amid all the madness.
My edge at this moment is to find peace and tranquility during my health crisis. I am usually the giver and nurturer and need to find space in my heart to allow those who wish to help me, to do just that. I am learning to trust my higher power to be in control of this situation and surrender all my unessary fears. I need rest from my weary mind. What is my temple name??
Thank you so much, Chameli. Deep blessings to you.
Thank you, Chameli. I am Overflowing Amrita.
Many blessings,
Sheri
Dissolution happens all on its own my beautiful sister and is a natural rythym to existence. Our coming home happens when we recognize that we are the Divine embodied in this exquisite becoming. We are always wrapped in the arms of love in the Divine Spirit and only when we turn inward with self appreciation and respect to receive that love, will we ever be truly home. Namaste
Dear Cynthia, what a blessing it is to hear the call.
This is your Temple name :
Guided by Love
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear Hanne, time for celebration:)
This is your Temple name :
Guided by the heart
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear Mohena. Your energy feels like bubbles of bliss over the internet:)
This is your Temple name :
Embodied Love
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear Leah, how beautiful it is that you have the intention of really sending it off with wide open arms, so many blessings are available when we open like this.
This is your Temple name :
Hathor Goddess of healing sounds
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear Lisa, what an important gift you offer, mirroring beauty
This is your Temple name :
Unleashing beauty
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear Maria, as you follow your dream, you are a gift and a role model for us all. Deep bow. (the devas are nature spirits)
This is your Temple name :
Deva of feminine healing
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear Juliana, right in this experience, just like this, is the door. Be gentle with yourself sister.
This is your Temple name :
Drinking healing from each breath
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
*returns bow*
(and I smile with knowing….”unleashing” has been a theme in my life. How validating!)
Dear Pia, I can feel your yearning, it has already happened, just lean in.
This is your Temple name :
Dissolving in the arms of the Mother
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear Louise, it is powerful to speak your intention like this. Deep bow. (I yogini is a feminine spiritual practitioner)
This is your Temple name :
Open Hearted Yogini
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Analisa, your words are songs of awakening, thank you for sharing them with us.
This is your Temple name :
Making love with life
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear JS, thank you for your feedback, it means so much to hear. Your name is a calling into the unlimited world of Lakshmi the goddess of abundance
This is your Temple name :
Seduced by Lakshmi
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear Jackie, tank you for hearing the call, this is the greatest gift you can give.
This is your Temple name :
Naked Brilliance
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Thank you so much Chameli. I am honoured and grateful for such a powerful name. Namaste
Dear sister, there are times when time moves vertically, I have this experience too.
This is your Temple name :
Drawn into truth
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear Veronica, the deep waiting is a quiet dance with the deep feminine. Sometimes it takes time. Each breath is preparing you
This is your Temple name :
Shining soul sister
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear Charmeli, thank you so much, I feel very touched by the temple name you gave me. You are not the first to tell me that I already am where I long to be, I suppose I only need to open my eyes to it myself. Thank you, blessed be.
Yes you are!
Dear sister, the Goddess remind us that all that appears in our experience is Her teachings. As yoginis we lean into, and practice to stay awake in the midts of it all. And we do loose our skin, and do we find our way back, and all of this is our dance of awakening.
This is your Temple name :
Breathing through the heart of the Goddess
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Oh this sounds amazing, what a gift you are birthing
This is your Temple name :
Devotion undressing Source
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Wonderful! I have a mini statue of Lakshmi on my nightstand, along with other little momentos from my different travels years ago, that I pray to each night. So very fitting. I feel a mighty presence within me. Much Love.
Dear Marit, your speak to the inquiry : How can we serve and fully give our gifts while staying fully connected within. Can we rest while being active?
This is your Temple name :
Feminine Mystic
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear Casey, I hear such a piercing clarity in you. Thousands of blessings on giving your gifts to the world!
This is your Temple name :
Channel of crystal clear space
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Susanna, thank you for this reminder, pulling us deeper into the “arms of the world”. Such a relaxation in that.
This is your Temple name :
Goddess of Surrender
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Beloved Clare,
I once read words of a sage: “Your words cannot be truth and unkind at the same time. ”
In the yoga of speech we practice Satya (truth) and ahamsa (non violence), both. It takes practice and awareness. the key is to check our intention. Remembering our intention to create connection and then we check if our choice of words support that intention
This is your Temple name :
Clear Heart Yogini
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Beloved beauty, This name is the first temple name I got. It has great powers. Blessings on your journey
This is your Temple name
Divine Edge Walker
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
beloved sister, I dance with you in all your colors. So deeply in love.
This is your Temple name :
Dancing in the Heart Fire
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear Amy, thank you for sharing these expansive horizons with us. A breath from your end of our beloved earth.
This is your Temple name :
Unmasked and ready
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear Christie, the Goddess Saraswati is a powerful teacher in bringing our creative gifts into manifestation. She is the bridge between left brain and right brain. Deeply feminine, utterly creative, and able to bring it all into form. Look into her mirror, she is you.
This is your Temple name :
Surrender into my calling
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear sister, yes, yes please. The world are so hungry. Thank you for taking the time to cultivate this inner beauty and connection, it is so needed.
This is your Temple name :
Channel of soaring wisdom
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
I am: Breathing trough the heart of the godess, and I am dancing the dance of the awakening heart…
Namasté <333
Dear Chameli and sisters… I am recreating my life and my practice after moving from Australia back to Europe. I want to be fully present and show up with my gifts and talents, sharing them with people who’ve been waiting for me to show up in bigger ways. I’m committed to living and sharing from the heart, wherever I am. Much love to you, Chameli, and to you all out there!
I feel full of love, the name is empowering me sooo much at this moment!! (i feel it will always do so) thanks Charmeli, i will be on the ”The Art of Leading a Women’s Group” tomorrow and i will try to get the women’s temple manual soon!!!! thanks for being such a loving and caring spirit!!
Dearest Chameli,
Thankyou so much for this name, it is mine and I love it.
Warmest regards and fondest love
Wendy xxxx
Thank you so much Chameli. I love my temple name … & hope to live it every day. Deep bow
Thank you! yes that is just it, thank you
Sat nam. Thank you so much!! I had no idea to call upon Saraswati like this. The name is simple yet so very true.
Dear Padi, Yes, we are all beating the drum for you as you shed the too tight skin
This is your Temple name :
Embodied Freedom
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear Ann, we are pioneers, and we are many. We are soaring with you.
This is your Temple name (a long one:) :
Lioness blissfully leading the way
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear Elin, I can feel such a deep sensitivity and connection with the sacred in your words. Blessing on your journey into mama hood!
This is your Temple name :
Breathing miracles
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
I am in an interesting and stretched space right now. I recently gave up my job of four years and moved to a new location to pursue my graduate degree in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology to be an “awakened therapist” –at the same time I am exploring more about myself in relationship–my relationship to myself and with men. My heart is still healing from a past wound, while I’m trying to be open to new experiences and a new relationship. My graduate program is intense in many ways—and I’m still transitioning to my new life.
~Nancy
Im Dancing in the Heart Fire
Thanks beloved sister, I can feel the energy from my Dancing in the Heart Fire. Twisting me into pure love, more clear and soft than ever.
Bibbie
Thank you, beautiful lady – I’m going to sit with this, but it already stirs my heart. Funnily enough, I just remembered that on my dreamboard this month I have a large image of a woman removing her mask: http://yfrog.com/h011uyyj
Much love to you
Amy
xx
(further elaboration) It was recently revealed to me that my soul’s commitment in this lifetime is to burning off all of my remaining karma. My current edge in this process is feeling the infantile rage and emptiness from abandonment and inadequate holding as a baby, and how I’ve been looking all my life for arms to hold me…
Dear Pamela, you have responded to the call. I bow. Feed your intention ” use compassion, empathy,encouragement and intuition”, and it will navigate you through fear. fear is just a feeling, coming and going, your intention is the voice of evolution
This is your Temple name :
The Heart Whisperer
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Caroleann, we are celebrating with you, dear sister. Your words are ecstatic ripples from the heart of the Mother, the bubble of light IS shining outwards, so brightly.
This is your Temple name :
Ecstatic ripples of truth
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear Denise, I feel such a deep silence and serenity in your words. Silently burning, growing deep roots
This is your Temple name :
Breathing wisdom from the unknown
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear Patricia, when things fall apart, there is a crack in our rigid identities. be gentle with yourself, and stay open. This is a window where a vaster light begins to move you, as you. this can be your new identity
This is your Temple name :
Phoenix arising in naked beauty
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
For the first time in months, due to surgeries and other issues, I am getting back on my horses today. Together, my mare and I will be that embodiment of freedom.
I feel like I have lost my ability to dream. I’ve reached an age where I’ve hit all of my life’s milestones but here I am still feeling empty. I want to evolve into something different, to transform from an IT-geek into something else. I want to awaken from this dreamless life I’m living in now. I realize the next major milestone is probably death and frankly that scares me.
Thank you so much! <3
Thank you dear Chameli. I love this name. It calls me and inspires me to move ahead with all that I will do …. each cell ready to pounce, and tingling with ecstasy!
Dear Chameli,
Thank you for the gift of this beautiful name. I can’t express how touched I am and how much it speaks to me. You have been such a blessing.
Namaste,
Pamela
In the past six years I have had a complete rearranging of my life. From living over-seas, relocation to the states, divorce, hysterectomy, my babies growing up, leaving a beloved job to pursue my life in another city closer to family and friends, then turning 50; change has been a hallmark of my recent life.
With some wonderful support I am learning to trust my strength and believe in myself and rely on an inner peace away from the material world as best I can.
Dear Eve, you have a seat in this circle among wise and warm women who all have been going through darkness. It sounds as you are having a very tough ride at the moment. be gentle with yourself sister.
Sundari is a hindu goddess symbolizing the reward and the attraction of our spiritual practice, the beauty of who we are, without her our path would only be hard and dry and dark.
This is your Temple name :
Gently whispering Sundari
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear sister, gate gate gate, go beyond. remember that earth is space and space is earth. no need for division it is all one.
This is your Temple name :
Heart of the world
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear Posie, showers of blessings on the birth, what a miracle!
This is your Temple name :
Yogini of unwavering trust
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear Alita, your words expresses so much beaty and feminine clarity. Thank you!
This is your Temple name :
Radiant roots in all directions
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear Marie-Terre, I can feel you. I am so happy you are here.
This is your Temple name :
Goddess of healing beauty
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear Nicole, I can feel strongly that the healing work you do, you do for all. be gentle with yourself. we are always at home, always. and sometimes we cannot see it. it is all the awakening & embodiment journey.
This is your Temple name :
Breathing into the Mother
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Namaste, sister spirit, what a sacred assignment you are given. deep bow.
This is your Temple name :
Protector of the feminine soul
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear Molly, yes this is the challenge and bliss of the modern day yogini, to find the sacred in the middle of life! Is is the advanced practice. I bow to you.
This is your Temple name :
Embodied prayer
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear Beverly, I send you so much love and healing. And a gentle shower of rosepetals..
This is your Temple name :
Surrendered Goddess of healing
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear sister, you are such a bright light in this world. Thank you!
This is your Temple name :
Getting out of the way
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear Cindy, such a raw truth you are speaking, such a gift you are giving us all. Deep bow. Lalita is a goddes who symbolizes the principle of life that is Divine play. The possibility that anything can totally change in just a moment.
This is your Temple name :
Lalita Dreaming the world
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear Ally, sound like Kali has roamed through your life. That can be really tough. Kali is a hindu goddess of death and rebirth. she takes away, and she provides space for the new. She delivers truth, at all cost.
This is your Temple name :
Arising in radiant truth
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Chameli,
Thank you. Yes, I am arising in radiant truth!
Namaste,
Ally
Just perfect.
Thank you.
Thank you Chameli
It is funny, because last week I discovered Leela and was already secretly holding her close to my heart. What a delight to find that you have reiterated her energy with the temple name you have offered!
In Joy and Play
Embodying Leela
Thank you deeply Chameli. Everything you say is true, I recognised the dense aspect of this creation into being and at the same time felt divided by my ideals and potential for all humans as we evolve. I find the more present I am to each moment the less I need meat as I am able to open into a far greater source of sustenance. Thank you again for all our names, reading each woman’s yearning and your responses is reading an aspect of myself in any possible moment
Warm love.x
Thank you Suzan. Yes, I understand this is true for some women and then for other women they can remain vegetarian. It hasn’t been easy finding my way through this and not referencing myself to others, either way (or even my own past experiences). I appreciate the reminder to talk to my baby about it as well
(even though I’m a doula, I forget these things sometimes in the midst of worry!). Namaste
Thank you Chameli. Thank you.
That name, my Temple name, is opening what feels like a even bigger space in me, giving more light to my path. Thank you so much.
This new name is filling me with warmth, light and a deep sense of peace.
I’m sending you a beautiful wave of love and joy dear soul.
Thank you!!!!
Oooh, Chameli—I love it. And thank you; you have seen me truly. <3
I feel like a newborn child, naked and vulnerable to the extreme. I know in my heart that I am called to breathe the first breaths as a Divene being evolved enough to experiece the God Souce in every moment of my lives, but do I have the courage… Jeannette Mariae
I am so sorry, I didn’t see your above request. Much love to all of you… Jeannette Mariae
Dear Chameli… thanks so much for this very suitable name! For some reason I see your message only today. I will practice my temple name
. Lots of love… Heike, getting out of the way
I am in the middle of a very tough custody battle, confronting domestic vioence and things that I have ignored for too many years. My oldest, of three children, is caught terribly in the middle. It is tearing holes in all of our hearts. My edge is constantly checking to make sure that I am standing in a place of dharmic action. I feel as if I am walking through a mine field, and the wrong move will blow up everything. I am forced to be very present, and to hold myself and others to accountability, with compassion and courage. It is a fine line.
dear Ana, this situation calls for Durga, the compassionate Goddess of genuine Feminine empowerment. She calls us to that place of no compromise. A moment to moment relaxation of the solar plexus and resting into the deepest truth of your heart. We ride with you!
This is your Temple name :
Riding the Tiger
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
I would love a temple name.
My life seems to be going well on the surface–I’m financially successful, doing well in my graduate school program, and in a wonderful, nurturing relationship–but something inside me feels muted or snuffed, and I’m worried that it’s getting worse. I have a hard time feeling motivated to do anything, as though there’s no point to life. I’ll go through the motions each day, but that’s it. Even meditation seems pointless; even the volunteer work I do seems futile. Writing this out makes it sounds silly (what’s wrong with me? why can’t I just enjoy the sweet gift of being alive on the planet?), but I can’t seem to shake the shadow inside. I feel as though I don’t know who I am anymore.
Dearest Temple Sisters, I am refreshed by reading your tender words. The edge of my life right now is holding balance while each area of my life and body-being is being challenged and transformed. What is calling me is expansion & my capacity to yield to my expanding heart to include more awareness and compassion. What is opening in me…it feels like more than love..the frequencies of my heart and soul are opening , daily my perceptions are shifting.
I was a pastor in the United Methodist Church for 20 years after being a pastor’s kid and a pastor’s wife for 15 years until my husband became an RN. Two years ago I’d had enough and handed in my ordination and left the institution that has been the vehicle of my faith and identity for 46 years. I’m still searching but am excited about the spiritual journey, though I often doubt my own strength….
Dear Chameli,
I’m only 20 years old and I know I have so many opportunities and possibilities for my life. I’m excited by the fact that there are so many new adventures just waiting for me to have them, but…I can’t start. I’ve been stuck in the same life for a long time. I still live in the same house, see the same people, work at the same part-time job that I can’t stand, do the same things in my free time…the only thing that has changed is the school that I go to. I feel like I’m on the edge of the beginning of my life, only, I don’t know how to just begin. I’m still so optimistic about my future, I just want to be able to find the courage to start it.
Oh, am I happy that there is another chance for a temple name! THANK YOU!
What a chance, what a surprise! 
I am so happy that in the course of the Goddess Sadhana I set up a “routine” – what a word in this context!
– in my spiritual practice. I do my practice on a daily basis now. This is wonderful and I was allowed to harvest the first fruits already, e.g. I got to know deep and heartfelt gratitude to Mother Earth for every piece of food she offers us. My wish and deep longing is to fully land and ground and root myself in feminine spirituality.
Namaste. I bow.
Thank you, Chameli, for your generous offer. My edge right now is to deepen the qualities of honor and respect – within myself and in the giving to others. Honor and respect for the inner feminine and masculine. Sisters and brothers. I have seen disrespect from another, a clear message that this is my edge.
I left the Church completely two years ago– it has been the vehicle of my faith for all 44 years preceding the last two. I was a pastor for 20 years after being a pastor’s kid. I am discovering the Divine Feminine in so many ways this past year and it resonates and enlivens my soul and heart, but it is still hard to live in a church-saturated culture and have confidence in being different…
I am in a huge transition in my life. I am moving from my home/ history in Boston to California to begin a new life for me. I risking it all for my aliveness and a calling to become all that I am, to claim my powerful passionate SELF.
With love and appreciation,
Lynda
dear chameli,as I had to go to some very deep issues about regret, trust and asking me who I really am, what makes me happy, what is my propose in life, a new part of my life is calling me, I do not know yet, what it will be, but I am open and willing to welcome it. It is my challenge to let go old issues, to be totally in what is now. I feel I need to listen more to my body and take more time to reflect.love susanne
Mother I would like a temple name! I don’t know what the edge means in my life. Fear of being in trouble for nothing. I am called to great work in alliance with nature but I haven’t the courage to proceed. Nature is blessing me, Goddess is blessing all and rising. I ask for purpose and will. I ask to walk in beauty in your name.
I’m being challenged to face my intimacy fears, to open and embrace the full depths of my heart even in the face of loss and immense hurt and to allow the natural flow of relationships in and out of my life. Even when I don’t understand the “whys” of loss I want to express myself fully and let go with grace and ease while surrendering to the beauty of what was and what is and to find the beauty amidst the pain and in the pain itself.
I am being called now to step forward, to embrace something much larger than myself, to be in a place that is uncomfortable, but with a joyful knowing that I must must do this. It started with a commitment to hike the Annapurna circuit despite the disease that I dance with that makes my joints stiff and painful. Somehow, I know this must be documented for all the other women who suffer with autoimmune disease. But I also want to create work that helps them birth their own dreams. So here I am taking the first step, in public and out loud.
Dear Chameli,
it´s great that you open your offer today! Today a good friend visited me and we were talking about the yogini-time in corfu, about malas and your work. It´s the perfect end of the day – sitting here and writing to you – asking for my very personal temple name.
At the moment I realize that I want to change my life. Not complete or very radical, but in a very soft way - to make my life more soft, to reduce the stress and to have more contact with nature. This belongs to my work and to my leisure time.
At this point of life I don´t know exaktly what I want to change but I know that it will come – I only have to go through life with open eyes..
Thank you so much for your offer to find a temple name for me!
I´m very curious about you answer..!
A lot of love
Constanze
I am struggling right now to figure out what to do with my life. I graduated in May with a degree in Art: Applied Design, and a minor in Psychology. I am a Sekhem Reiki energy healer, and a Fire Opal Temple Priestess with the San Diego Temple Priestess program. I am also currently studying Shamanism and Shamanic Tantra with a few wonderful shamanic practictioners. I started my business Creative Fire Reiki and Healing a few months ago and have had some clients. For the past few months I have been leading art events with meditation, and connecting others to their most creative selves through intuitive drawing.
Yet I am struggling to live this truth of being creative in my own being because I am so stressed out with not having my bills paid. Without the container of school, my creative practice has become almost nonexistent. I work part time at a clerical job that I hate, yet I am resistant to finding a full time job. I am resistant to all changes that are big, even though I need them. I need a new living situation, a new job, a new relationship, a new career – a whole life makeover, yet I am focused on the fact that I am broke in all areas.
So this is where I am at. Desperately needing change, yet tied to my current unfulfilled life.
My dream is to run women’s groups that get women juiced up through deep connection to spirit and creative expression. But I have to get through this time myself before I can lead others in doing do.
I would love a Temple name stretches me out of this funk into a higher, more magnetic place that I feel like I am supposed to be in.
Thank you!
Jaime
I am living on several edges at once. And for the first time, I am loving it. I am allowing these sharp edges to cut away what no longer serves me and I’ve found that what lies beneath is what I knew about myself as a child. I resonate so deeply with walking through shadows and being of comfort to those who live there, that I could not keep up the facade of societal expectations of segregation between light and dark. Thank you for the opportunity to have a name that will only be used for celebrating my lifework of reintroducing Divinity to those who’ve forgotten.
Dear Chameli,
my heart answered to your newsletter … In my life I feel the call to learn much more about real and free love, holy relationships and to develop my very authentic self. My soul is calling to live my deepest life-tasks. And I have the deep wish to develop my very authentic femininity. I would be happy if a temple name could connect me better to this special power of my soul.
Love and blessings
Thank you so much. This has become such a gift/blessing to my life!
my edge right now is in staying deeply in the heart whilst an ex lover operates in a punishing way.. after I had to release him in quite a kali like way… a new experience for my being… feeling many dark waves of the mind .. whilst I traverse this rocky route… yet focusing on the tender flow of the heart… so fragile at times… shakey… yet true, always true..to trust….breathe… little to hold onto… but feel the support of the earth below my feet…
Dearest Chameli and sisters -Surrendered to the unknown, dying to many lifetimes, I find my hands and heart reaching out towards those in need – especially children and the elderly. So many of my own personal desires have fallen away to reveal a deep joy in being in service and in love with the great mystery that dances across and through the many expressions of the ONE. Curiosity, awe and gratitude lite at the edge of encounters . There is an emerging humility that is learning to embrace the paradoxical nature of both the interior and exterior landscape – and this very paradox is asking to BE embraced …..and that embrace is indeed, an act of compassion that is flowering in our world like an ever opening lotus blossom…..like a quickening and loving revolution of awakening.
It is such a blessing to be part of this ever expanding circle.
I too am struggling right now to find my path in life. The past 10 months have been very trying for me emotionally. I want to break free and “live” again. I want to find the “passion” that was once there. I want to find the gyspy in me that once was. I continue to be called to energy work but cannot seem to find the right path. I feel as though I am being pulled away from my previous meditation and power. I am requesting a name that will help me build that strength once again.
Namaste,
Tricia
What an answer to my heart’s prayer! I recently have been feeling like a whole new person and I have no idea why! LOL And this new me put out a call for a new name and viola…an email from you! I am so in love with life right now and amazed by all the beautiful things that open up when I just rest in the knowing that I’m ok. I find myself laughing so much more…things are so curious for me…I look at myself and everyone with wonder. Of course, I still struggle. Anger flares. Wanting to find my male partner to share my life, my heart, my soul with … the addiction to stories, the impulse to try to predict the future and make it all work out! But mostly, I just want to be able to share this love with everyone. I love you! ~ Jennifer
The edge that I am feeling now is the the breeze of change in all aspects of my life…to truly feel the life of joy that I deserve and dream of…to know fully and completely that joy and bliss is for me as long as I trust that it is…to feel it and live it by being ready to stop the cycle of fear and ‘lack’ and accepting that I’m ready for this shift.
Dear Chamali,
Thank you for your loving offer to gift a Temple name.
I’ve recently returned to the States after spending 6 months in India and a month in Italy. Much of that time was spent doing volunteer seva work or in intense silent meditation. I feel continually expanding awareness, acceptance, inner spaciousness, silence and heart opening - all very beautiful - yet it is as if I left a part of me somewhere along the way in my travels. I have not been inspired to resume many of my former activities or relationships. Instead I have spent much more time in inner process. I feel that I am on the edge of moving outward in my life expression – yet nothing seems clearly defined in my life - except a feeling of deep inner peace beneath the surface of what is sometimes disorganized and chaotic around me. I struggle sometimes with the belief that I should have some sense of direction or that I should be doing more. This thoughtform comes and goes at times – yet I don’t feel that I know my life purpose or mission other than expressing the I Am in every moment. I don’t seem to have any desire to take action unless I receive a clear and strong divine impulse to do so – and this hasn’t happened very often since my return. I’m not discontent – just open and waiting… waiting for fullness is.
Blessings to you beloved sister.
So much is shifting for me with this entrance into Autumn. I’ve been ‘stuck’ for months… years, even. Sad. Lonely. Depressed. Fearful. Anxious. Worried. I attended an amazing, small festival in Oregon (Beloved) in August and everything changed. I melted into possibility… released what was holding me back… and then the creative juices & opportunities began to flow.
For years I have felt this pulling to create space for a women’s full moon dance within my community. Since the festival, the pull has become fierce. Two goddess sisters have expressed interest in helping to make this dream a reality and we are currently in the planning stage. Feeling so grateful for these changes, for newfound confidence & for this desire to take some healthy risks. Looking forward to growing this community & continuing to center & anchor in trust.
Also, I’ve taken to dedicating some time each morning to a personal kirtan practice. Words cannot express how much light this has allowed to seep in. Blessings!
I love your description, Lori…especially singing in the rain with your children and wanting to warm the winter sheets with lovemaking…I love that! I want to warm my winter sheets, too, with my Beloved…whomever he may be. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
I am currently struggling to take hold of my future and start working for myself. I’m struggling with embracing myself and loving myself compassionately. I’m struggling with what appears to be a re-emergence of depression. I feel like I’m on the verge of embracing who I am and making myself a priority, but I’m teetering on the edge and I’m scared.
Thank you Chameli, for this gift of the Mother expressing itself through you. I just turned 55, and have faced so much loss in the last three years. Alone now, I am still feeling heavy with grief and hopelessness, vulnerable and unsure in the world. Yet I am sure of my calling – as a mandala artist and teacher I am centered, clear, and filled with joy and purpose. These two women live inside me, the fearful one holding the powerful one back more often than not. How can this be? My challenge is to apply what I know in my heart about making art to creating a self-sustaining, satisfying life – embodying playfulness and trust, embracing the unknown with loving curiosity, and moving out of the way to let what wants to happen come through me.
I envision a temple name that carries the energy of strong, flowing, courageous feminine power – something that helps me stand tall and confident as I radiate out into the world.
Many thanks and blessings- Charlotte
Thank you Chameli. I am ending a long term intimate relationship with a man I dearly love. We have been up, down and around it and at this time have both decided (for about the 5th time, but this time feels final) it is best that we part as friends. This is has been a three year process and it feels right, but is at the same time very hard. I want to heal from this and open up to whatever comes next – not only in love, but also in joyfully entering my life (there has been a lot of sadness and grief) and thus growing as an artist and a spiritual being. Thank you again. There is power in a name and I appreciate your offering this. Mary
I long for a life where I have time to be peaceful and the space to start to write a book/cd of meditations and start more womens mediations groups to work with healing and enlightening of woman, all living beings and mother earth. I long for taking better care of my body with training and good food and peaceful life. I long to have a deeper sensual, sexual connection with my husband.
The challening part of my life is that I have my own business that I love but it is taking so much time I am searching for companions so I can have more time to express and share my creativity in a free space, but it is so difficult to get an apartment where I live so when I find beautiful partners it is nearly impossible for them to get somewhere to live here. It is also challening to realise that some friends is not so supporting when I need support, it is persons I have helped a lot in their own lifes.
I also want more time and peacefulness to be with my older daughter, to cook good food and just be there for her.
What is opening up is that I have get in contact with some persons that maybe can have an apartment for new partners in my business. But everything is taking so long time.
Hmmmm. . . where to begin, here on my first daughter’s 35th birthday, I write of my closeness to the edge. I came across your inspiring community a few days ago while searching for “natural cures for depression.” While (my mild) depression is not my edge per se, it is slowing the momentum of realizing personal goals and desires. I come from a long line of intuitive women – women, like me and my daughters, who put everyone, especially the men in their lives, ahead of their own joy and satisfaction and purpose in life. Did I finally say that out loud? I was successful by societal barometers, home on the water, expensive SUV in the drive, hair, nail, clothes, vacations and connections with all the right people. And I was miserable, not at my success, but for selling out in essence, not only ignoring my intuition but blatantly denying my gift. You see, my “visions” always exposed turmoil, accidents and especially death, of loved ones. I thought I had buried that aspect of my being by focusing on the outside, and it worked for awhile. I remember very distinctly sitting on my dock one morning and asking God to please take this all away and let me be me the woman I was always destined to be. Well, he was listening . . . within two years I had lost everything, job, house, SUV, computer, phone and all life and health benefits. But what I gained is more valuable than any material good of my previous life could have afforded me. I have my integrity and that is the best legacy I can leave my daughters and grand daughters. It’s been another two years and I am stalled, practically paralyzed. I long to build a community of women and especially young girls to take control of their lives, to be all they can be, not a carbon copy dictated by an amoral society. To respect themselves, educate themselves, listen to their heart and their own intuition, to be inspired and be inspiring, to love their life. More importantly that they are valuable and to respect themselves, they are not identified by drinking, drugs, sex and foul, obnoxious behavior that is so rampant in our culture, via movies, reality shows, magazines, social media and advertising. The abuse against women is astounding and heart breaking. Girls no longer know how to be girls so how can we expect women to know how to be women? When I found your site and began exploring – I believe I read every word that evening – I felt as though my entire “tough girl” – aka masculine energy – melted into a puddle beneath my feet – which was very appropriate, as I find solace in the sea. The smell of the sea air, the cool waters rushing over my body as I dive into the Gulf of Mexico, and the long walks on the beach bring me peace and infuse a spirit of belonging – no rush, no consequences – no judging – pure and simple peace. I long to unleash my creative, feminine energy and just run with it. To truly be myself and in the process be a gift to others. I seek to drop the what if’s and have the confidence to follow my dreams, dreams I can’t stop thinking of even for a day. I am in the process of building a woman’s website (ob substance) and sincerely anticipate launching on my birthday in a couple of weeks, but I need that little extra intuitive nudge on the actual direction to proceed. I think there is no “Angel Posse” ~ this one’s all me . . . Peace & Grace ~ Debra Lynn
Hmmmm. . . where to begin, here on my first daughter’s 35th birthday, I write of my closeness to the edge. I came across your inspiring community a few days ago while searching for “natural cures for depression.” While (my mild) depression is not my edge per se, it is slowing the momentum of realizing personal goals and desires. I come from a long line of intuitive women – women, like me and my daughters, who put everyone, especially the men in their lives, ahead of their own joy and satisfaction and purpose in life. Did I finally say that out loud? I was successful by societal barometers, home on the water, expensive SUV in the drive, hair, nail, clothes, vacations and connections with all the right people. And I was miserable, not at my success, but for selling out in essence, not only ignoring my intuition but blatantly denying my gift. You see, my “visions” always exposed turmoil, accidents and especially death, of loved ones. I thought I had buried that aspect of my being by focusing on the outside, and it worked for awhile. I remember very distinctly sitting on my dock one morning and asking God to please take this all away and let me be me the woman I was always destined to be. Well, he was listening . . . within two years I had lost everything, job, house, SUV, computer, phone and all life and health benefits. But what I gained is more valuable than any material good of my previous life could have afforded me. I have my integrity and that is the best legacy I can leave my daughters and grand daughters. It’s been another two years and I am stalled, practically paralyzed. I long to build a community of women and especially young girls to take control of their lives, to be all they can be, not a carbon copy dictated by an amoral society. To respect themselves, educate themselves, listen to their heart and their own intuition, to be inspired and be inspiring, to love their life. More importantly that they are valuable and to respect themselves, they are not identified by drinking, drugs, sex and foul, obnoxious behavior that is so rampant in our culture, via movies, reality shows, magazines, social media and advertising. The abuse against women is astounding and heart breaking. Girls no longer know how to be girls so how can we expect women to know how to be women? When I found your site and began exploring – I believe I read every word that evening – I felt as though my entire “tough girl” – aka masculine energy – melted into a puddle beneath my feet – which was very appropriate, as I find solace in the sea. The smell of the sea air, the cool waters rushing over my body as I dive into the Gulf of Mexico, and the long walks on the beach bring me peace and infuse a spirit of belonging – no rush, no consequences – no judging – pure and simple peace. I long to unleash my creative, feminine energy and just run with it. To truly be myself and in the process be a gift to others. I seek to drop the what if’s and have the confidence to follow my dreams, dreams I can’t stop thinking of even for a day. I am in the process of building a woman’s website (ob substance) and sincerely anticipate launching on my birthday in a couple of weeks, but I need that little extra intuitive nudge on the actual direction to proceed. I think there is no “Angel Posse” ~ this one’s all me . . . Peace & Grace
I am grateful to you for this opportunity. a Temple name feels like a much needed gift, a form of guidance to be sure. On a sunny day in August, my best friend, the father of my children, my former husband crossed from this life to the next. It was I who found him sitting in the sun (his favorite place), his body void of life. Amazing how, when a peice of our human puzzle is missing, everything is re-arranged in the attempt to fill the void and continue our journey which becomes suddenly different, and unfamiliar.
I am left to parent our adopted 11 yr. old daughter, who is grieving the loss of her biggest supporter and best friend. She is a gift. Being 17 years younger than her nearest sibling, she is an only child.
I have many gifts, and the love of the Universe to assist me in this. what feels like a huge transition. It is now that I realize more than ever the truth of being a Spiritual Being on a VERY human journey.
I feel that a Temple name would greatly assist me and strengethen my connection to the Goddess and my own Divine Feminine wisdom and strength. I feel very blessed. Namaste’
Emily.
I just wanted to send a blessing and smile. You’re only 20, but sound already like such an old soul! I have faith that in your heart you’ve all the courage necessary to make whatever next leap you need. The world is waiting for you.
Dear Chameli,
Thank you for your sweet offer sister. I would love a temple name.
I am 5 months post-surgery (thyroid related) and still really not feeling myself. I am struggling to find the patience and the faith to make it through this time. Doing my best to be with my body and the sensation of not feeling well or ‘normal’. Having a hard time trusting that I will heal and that my body will return to integrity and health. Surrender needed. A time of much prayer for me.
My body story is slowing me down big time in my ambition, dreams, goals… I am adrift at sea with no paddle asking… now what?
Much love for all that you are and all that you do.
xo m.ev
I am 51 and have been going through the physical change and it has sparked within me a spiritual change, an awakening to MORE. More seeking,more wondering, more growing, it seems I cannot fill the deep urgings and searchings within me. And through this seeking I have metamorphed so much, however, I know I am not done yet. The metamorphisis has been so wonderfully fantastic, I am so often filled with such gratitude and joy in the sheer aspect of living and growing that it can literally bring tears. And as I continue to grow and change I am seeking a Temple name for myself.
Thank you
CaLynn
Debra.
Your post was so moving and so richly inspiring. I have no suggestions and no advice–it sounds as though you’ve been through so much more than I, and are so much more in touch with your gifts–but just wanted to offer a humble note of thanks for your story. It touched me and made me feel less alone. Thank you.
Cassandra
My edge feels very edgy right now, with the turning of the seasons and the honoring of Navaratri. I feel the tigers circling, tails thrashing. My calling and challenge is to transform the way I relate to my desire, my sexual energy, my Shakti, my womb, my life force. It is time to dismantle the dam that keeps this river from flowing through my body. My spiritual path calls me to embody the union of Desire and Devotion – I am living into this as deeply as I can. How can I dissolve the places that are blocked, how do I find the courage to wake this sleeping force?
I would love a temple name to keep company with as I make this journey.
Thank you so much for this offering.
Now seems so ripe to adopt and embrace a temple name, to bring my consciousness to my core essence, magnify it, and move it through a vision that deeply resonates with me and touches others.
I feel that nothing I am doing is running through the filter of my spirit. I ask: What’s
stopping me from my full thriving potential? The first answer that comes: the restrictions placed on me as a working, single mom of two elementary school-agers whose father does not contribute in any way. Sure, there are plenty of times I fantasize about breaking free and enlarging my scope of activity. But, because I really can’t imagine ever shucking my mama role or my truly amazing children, what I deeply wish for is to find the way to grow within the structure of my current restrictions, using it to ENLARGE my life.
Not knowing. Allowing space to be, here, now. Ocuppying the air that I breathe, swimming in my own blood, flying. My edge is to feel true love for myself, and accept my right to be alive. To love that I am a woman and to feel the goddess within, where is my feminine?
Peggy, what courage! Your strength is ALL THERE! Your story is reminiscent of Sue Monk Kidd’s, author of the fictional Secret Life of Bees and her lesser known collaborative memoir (with her daughter) Traveling with Pomegranates. I highly recommend it!
My heart goes out to you. I learned, through my own divorce, to take things one breath at a time, one breath at a time… With your wisdom, Ana, you not only will get through this but surely be a model of grace for others.
Well, Here I stand, just about to embark upon my 47th birthday in a few weeks, a new author, a stronger then ever passion for empowering women and wanting them to embrace the magnificence that they are as creators, and holders of the feminine divine energy. I have a dream of having a place for all women to come and be, to learn and share and grow and release, to heal and fall in love with themselves. I know it is there, I have seen it to many times in my dreams, I am on the path there, and I stand in gratefulness for it being already given and knowing it will be revealed to me when the time is right. My struggle is that as a newly published author, I am unknown in the big world, and have spent the savings to get this book out there. Now the “money tree” has had its last leaf plucked and I am uncertain as to where the finances are going to come from since I am not employed at the moment. I am constantly saying thank you to God/Universe for all the gifts that are given to me, and that I know we are taken care of, but there are days when I don’t feel at my best and I get worried. I stand in one of those days today, wondering when the time will be right for all the pieces to come together and for graceful grounds to be more then the virtual coffeehouse website that it is now. Not wanting it to remain a dream, but for it to come to be so that I can help women from all walks of life.
I would so honor a temple name that will sustain me on days like today and continue to elevate me to the surrender of me and carry forward the unfolding of my divine essence.
Thank you ,
Namaste’
Lynn
Dear Jeannette Mariae
This is your Temple name :
Goddess of the Naked Heart
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
well, a temple name sounds lovely.
So here is a bit about me…
I have experienced many wonderful things in my life, have traveled a lot, have loved a lot, have studied a lot, have worked in the medical field, than in the transpersonal field, all the while painting and dancing to satisfy my need for beauty. I have been a mother, a wife, a lover, a therapist, a teacher, a friend. Life was inspiring and full of laughter and people.
Then 5 years ago my beloved decided our relationship too difficult and needed to be on his own and left. I crashed.
I lost myself, my support system and everything that was dear to me, including contact with my children for awhile. I thought I was going crazy from the intensity of the fear and sadness I was experiencing. It felt like I would never recover. Life had become unbearable. For the first (and only time) I was suicidal. I saw nothing worth enduring the suffering for and didn’t recognize anything about me anymore.
But I am here 5 years later and life does go on, even though I do not feel that I am really engaging in it anymore. It is such a new feeling for me and I am still getting used to the different person i have become. Most of my friends have disconnected from me, either because they couldn’t cope with me during the crisis or because they have nothing in common with who I have become.
One dear girlfriend has been there all along. Her and I seem to now be in a bubble: in ‘the world’ but not a part of it.
I have no idea anymore who I am or where I am heading. Art is the only ‘language’ I can still relate to and so that has come to the forefront as all other interests have fallen to the wayside.
The rest is a total mystery to me…
om shanti.
Catherine
dear sisters, it is so deeply touching to read your words to feel your hearts. What a a circle of women this is! I will be traveling the next days, so will add names whenever I have a moment (and internet access.)
Deep bow.
Wow. I was just reading your blog and found this quote: ‘ You don’t need to learn how to let things go, you just need to recognize that they are already gone.’ Suzuki Roshi
That gave me such a feeling of release and openness regarding that relationship!!!! Thank you!
I also wanted to add that another challenge for me is that I have had to change my work situation recently. For the last year I’ve worked primarily from home which gave me acres of freedom, with plenty of time for the things that feed my soul: hiking, gardening, time with my animals, painting/art work, and study. That job came to an end and I am now working 4-5 days a week. I am indoors in a clinic for up to 9 hrs daily and I am feeling the time crunch – ie, it feels like there is never enough time for those very important things. With winter coming and days growing shorter, it feels even more restrictive.
I have always worked for others, mostly healthcare corporations, but I would love to figure out a way to work for myself – and NOT in corporate healthcare. It is a secret dream of mine that I’ve almost never even voiced, it seems so unlikely.
Thanks again, sorry to be so wordy.
I am a mother, homebirthed all my children. Supported women in childbirth. Have a connection with babies and animals. Have watched souls being born, animals have chosen me to die in my arms. My connection with the universe is strong. I have been given messages many times through animals, once a wild bird flew into my hands. Have been a midwife in birth and rebirth in many situations. Was disconnected from my body when young. An inner voice compelled me to heal and embody my spirit into the physical fully. Have explored dance, weight training, fitness training, yoga bringing my consciousness into every cell of my body. I am a holistic Personal Trainer and Yoga teacher now. I can now meditate and feel energy currents moving inside my body, kundalini is awakened within. My challenge is to step forward and teach my classes with courage and speak my truth to those that come to me to connect more deeply mind/body/heart and share what I have learnt on my own journey not hold back like I have done in the past. I have walked my path mostly alone with my feelings and intuition guiding me despite major opposition from people around me but they are silent now as they watch me grow in strength. Just thinking today I miss having other people around me that are supportive of my spirituality. What opens me is as my heart is expanding through my nearly daily spiritual practices of movement, breathing and meditation I am enthralled more and more with the beauty and wonder of life on this earth in all its forms. I would be honored if I could be given a Temple Name from you in this point of my life and I would feel more connected to this beautiful community of women on the other side of the world and not so alone.
Much love and peace
Sunne
Hello my cherished Sisters!!! I am reading an amazing book at the moment…Lightworkers Companion….and it is awesome. I am feeling so very connected to my Guides and Angels. I meditate daily and am raising my vibrations little by little. I live in Australia but feel very connected to the women on this site. I am working from home at the moment, making leather jewellry etc. I am finding sooo many spiritual things that I can add to my leather work. Very exciting indeed. I just want to wish all my Sisters a day and night that is FILLED with Inner Serenity. Take the time to sit in nature and BREATHE. I would be so very grateful if I was to recieve a Temple Name. Thanking you and Many Blessings to ALL…Julie xxx
my calling is to share all the great stuff i have to share:) my challenge is my selfworth, and because of that i do everything to stay in the comfort zone
) my edge is addictions/indulgence in every way. and one of the pieces in the opening is The Work, OMG! I knew it from before in the ways of Eckhart t, but TW is practical, i love games and plays that transforms. It helps me not to take everything so seriously, and that helps my self worth. Trying to embrace both the openess to “fail” “out there” (to be vourneable) and the passion/commitment/devotion in creating and sharing. do it for my self, because i love it is my mantra, right now i am very scared! of commitment and expectations (mostly from my self , i belive…) Thank You for offering this, Temple names 
A lovely gift, that i look forward to embrace and have fun with:)
Blessings!
Lajla-Cecilie
Thank you Cassandra for those kind words. You are not alone. By reading all these comments by wonderful women, most likely from around the world, you and I appear to have found a graceful place to land.I have been through quite a bit and have had unexpected loss, but I’ve come out the other side a much better woman, if I do say so myself. With the bleak economic, political and spiritual (or lack thereof) climate raging, there are many more women and families going through exactly what I have, but I was fortunate because I was ready, in my soul, to let go. I no longer wanted to be defined by my bank account, my home, car or what church I attended. I wanted to be loved and appreciated and accepted for who I was and more importantly who I was capable of becoming, not what I could do for you and especially not how much I could contribute to your bottom line. I got lost, being the proverbial “good girl” always dependable, supportive and willing to go that extra mile-for someone else. When most are asked “What do you do?” the general response is to name your job title, or I’m so and so’s wife or I’m so’ and so’s mom. All good in itself, but where do you truly fit in? Life changes and you have responsibilities and it’s necessary to take on numerous roles, many at the same time, but never – ever lose yourself. Women have more options than ever today – again all good – but sometimes there are too many options. I think that’s where I’m at – I have total freedom – no mortgage – no car – no car payment – no cell phone – no boss
and it’s frightening at times, especially when I lay my head down on the pillow at night and house is quiet and you have the silence to remind you of your day. I collect my thoughts and give my thanks and come to terms with myself – if I have made the world a better place for my children and grand children, even by one small gesture this day – I’m satisfied, because at the end of the day, nothing else matters, as selfish as that may seem. If everyone sought to improve their little corner of the world, just imagine . . . Sleep well Cassandra, you have done well today. ~ Debra
Ah! my edge …
Well, my current & ongoing edge seems to be sexuality. My own specifically. And as I become aware of my restrictions, woundings & boundaries, so I am able to help others heal themselves around this issue.
Dear Chameli,
I just found this temple name today at, of course, the perfect time! Thank you for this affirmation — it brought tears to my eyes as the theme of birthing has revealed itself three times this week and feels deeply connected to where I need to focus now.
With gratitude for your wisdom and generosity,
Karen
I am 49 and going through menopause – and so many changes and shifts are going on inside of me at this time, not only because I’m transitioning into this new stage of life, but also the past months have seen some big steps forward in emotional healing and some truths finally sinking in and hitting home. Yet there is still much emotional healing ahead of me, to heal hurts I have kept inside for so long.
I am a Reiki Master and also work with other vibrational and energy healing modalities, and I also write at times – and I feel drawn to use my own emotional healing journey to help others on their journeys too. But at the same time that I want this connection with others, I also fear connection because of the fear of getting hurt.
Fear has controlled my life in many ways, for a very very long time. I feel I’m at some sort of crossroads, where I’m being asked to take a big step forward into finally being my authentic self. I think this means letting go of certain things, perhaps certain relationships. It means not hiding who I am so much. It means letting my true self be known more often. I’m so tired of being afraid so much of the time. I’m so tired of being so careful, and being so afraid of what others think of me. I want to be ME, even if that means risking disapproval or risking not being liked or not ‘fitting in.’ I want so badly to finally stop being so afraid, to finally accept myself for who I am, to finally step into the role and purpose of my life, to finally feel at home in my own skin.
This is my edge right now in my life.
Thank you…
Thank you so much for your invitation!
As one who feels a deep call to create Temples for healing and inspiration, I would like to receive your inspiration for a Temple name!
For many years I have felt a strong call to create beautiful spaces for healing myself and others. I feel that our California landscape, and our culture in general, is lacking in sanctuaries of beauty and upliftment. I would like to dedicate my life to creating and facilitating these sorts of experiential destinations.
Alas, for many years, even though I have known deep in my heart that I am an artist, an abundant creator of beauty, and one who can achieve and thrive in creating my dreams, I have felt creatively imprisoned in my own mind. I haven’t painted a picture in over a decade. I haven’t written for the fun of it for just as long. I have been working to make ends meet and to take care of everyone else’s needs but my own, because there is a constant voice in me that says that I am not good enough, pretty enough, rich enough, beautiful enough, successful enough or smart enough to attempt to bring out the beauty that lives deep within me to the world. ~ It will be a failure. It will not succeed. What’s the use anyway? ~ These are the thoughts that have plagued me for years.
Well, my body had enough of that! Last week I felt a lump under my belly button, and after closer examination, discovered that was just the tip of the iceberg. I found a fibroid tumor on my womb the size of a large mango. All the creative dreams I’ve held inside me for so long…my fertile visions…have had no way to birth through the dried up, disempowered, drained, impoverished, emaciated femininity that has been dragged through the heartbreak, stress and hard labor that has been my lifestyle of self-denial for the longest time.
So, I stopped and took good look at what I have created with my feminine creative power…my womb has given birth to a massive lump of fear, regret, resentment and creative frustration. I see how the negative expectations of fear and primal self-rejection have raped my creative spirit and given me this alien baby of stagnant energy and forgotten dreams.
I am so grateful for this discovery, because it has put me face to face with the deepest knowing of how deep is my love for myself and for my life, for my passion, and for creating beauty in this world, even if it is not a child. I am a creative woman and I am going to give birth to beauty while I am alive in celebration and service to all of creation and all of my ancestors. I am 100% committed to turning this situation around and healing my body from the inside out and the outside in.
Throughout this process, I’ve felt a strong knowing that it is time to leave my birth name behind. It never fit my soul…I’ve felt uncomfortable in this name my entire life. I am ready for a name that resonates with creative power, grace, abundance, beauty, truth, femininity, strength, wisdom, sweetness, fertility, joy, love, sexuality, sensuality, sweetness, success, and happiness. I’m calling it in…can you hear it? Could you whisper it back to me? I would be so grateful if you would bestow my name upon me…
I am drawn to start a circle of older women, women who have lived life, experienced much and are feeling somewhat overwhelmed with all the changes going on. I went back to the town I lived in for many many years last year, and I never felt so out of place, as soon as the snow melted in the mountain passes I packed up my car, headed west with faith and joy in my heart that I was heading in the right direction……….over 4 thousand miles later I arrived, in the welcome open arms of my friends……….I knew I was in the right place………I was HOME.
Chameli,
In my late teens, through my middle twenties, I was embodying Lilith, mother of nightmares, too goth for myself at times. In my thirties, I was Queen Mab, bringer of midsummer and dancer of faerie dust. Now, I live in a rickety house, filled in heat, light, and dust. Arachnids follow me, spinning webs in my hair. I am tired. I feel burnt up by the sun, and long for mooncalves to low at me, and gemini to sing to me. I feel uncomfortable in my cocoon. I fight, angry as always, but my spirit feels battered and beaten. I care too much, and too little. I am afraid to ask for what I want, for fear, it will be given, disastrously so. I am brittle and too full of peanut butter.
I have a relationship which is very challenging for me, it is my son. He lives with me because other wise he would be homeless. He is 45 years old Oct. 3rd. He has a substance abuse problem. I have been praying for him for years, I do take care of myself by doing yoga, exercising and taking dancing classes. I work at being positive and feeling peaceful, by meditating everyday. I know everyone of us is where we are supposed to be in our spiritual growth. I release my son Christian to the Universe everyday. This is my challenge in life.
Catherine Mary
Loving my Self has been my reoccurring challenge: taking charge and standing up for my Self, loving my Self enough to walk away, to speak my mind not to be taken advantage of, to express what my needs are… to love ME first and staying in-love with mySelf has been the challenge for me. Loving mySelf to have clarity about my ambitions has been challenging…
Hi! Beautiful, beautiful people. .I have had a name given to me by your beloved husband Arjuna- Mauna Deva; which I love. He kind of tuned in before he said the name and I love it and the name is still in my life. Now, it will be so appropriate to have a name that comes through you. One thing I can tell you about me is; I kind of have stopped struggling to make things happen; I find myself more and more listening and flow to what ever is unfolding in front of me. I see a lot of magical moment through out the day. Oh, there are discomforts, desires, needs, and all kind of emotions, but it is kind of ok, yes and what is next. I have been putting in a lot of time with virtual friends and less of reading. But I found myself picking up one of my most favorite book; “The Enlightenment Process” By Judith Blackstone and I am in a huge yes! moments as a lot of clicks/alignments are happening. I highly recommend it to anyone interested to really see. Thank you for your precious time and offer.
shanti
I am longing for the time and space to let my inner sparkling creativity to blossom. I am longing for the time and space to cook good food and have more time for my children and husband. I am longing for to have more time to dance and train my body and eat healthy. I try to change my life but it is always some “blocks in the road”. I start to see the possibility to a change but everything i taking so long time and I try to accept it, that life has its own way to manifest things.
Heaven-world here I AM… After a rebirth I feel like a newborn child, naked and vulnerable to the extreme. but I feel that I am called to breathe my first breaths as a Divene being evolved enough to experiece the God Souce in every moment of my lives… Heaven-world here I AM… A new born child needs a name… Thank you, I would love to receive my Temple name… Love. Always… Jeannette Mariae
I’m so close, so close of being true to myself in every way, but I’m still separated from being a 100 percent there. I’m a writer and a write childrens books, just published a cook book and I’m waiting to know if the publisher will be accepting my first novel. It’s a novel about women breaking free from restricting family patterns. I’ve left a life in the big city with my husband so I can be close to the sea in our summer home. My heart is telling my I have to be close to nature now. I’m working on the trust that I’ll survive economically. I’m working on totally trusting that life will guide me when I’m on my path. I’m working on loving myself unconditionally and following my way wherever it takes me. My dreams are telling me that I have work to do in order to free myself from fear, worries and restrictions. I’m almost there. I can feel the love, the trust, the freedom…
Hello, and thank you, thank you, thank you!
This post came as a blessing in my e-mail today<3 I really would like a temple name to work deeply with. I am actually a bit flabbergasted by it coming, because it is such a perfect tool right NOW.
I work as a terapist in Norway, and amongst others inspired by you Chameli and all you beautiful women, and by Chamelies husband, Arjuna++ I am now on the edge of starting my own little center in the midst of Bergen city (Norway). A place for growth, transulence, awakening, living, loving and sharing.., and I am so filled with a fealing of blessing and co-operation and connecting to deeper purpose etc, but it is also a big step for me. A deep process of daring to become visibel, beleiving in what I have to share could be meaningful to others, and it is a large step in manifesting, really stepping into and onto both earth and society, and start the real exchange with what surrounds me.
So, yes please, I would really like a temple name to work with, and help me in this trancission and stepping into my life and purpose…
Thank you<3
I feel as though I am dredging the depths and allowing every last story I’ve ever held, about how I need to shrink or put up with what I don’t want or give in to what others want me to be even when it destroys me, to dissolve in the warm rushing river of my own purposeful self-honoring. This flow has been unleashed by recent expansion into unknown territories where I have discovered, but am not in the least shocked by, a community that I am thrilled to be learning, dancing, exploring and creating with for years to come. I am now empowered by relaxing into the current of this flow to pursue my quest for meaningful experience, and the accompanying perspective which I can begin to offer in practical service to others. My parents are (finally) so proud of me! The future is looking strong and bright, and I am deeply grateful for choosing to listen to what has called… Blooming… <3
embracing my animal heart
also considering visiting New Zealand to find an enduring peace and unity which I do not feel here in the US.
WOW!
A few weeks ago I would have thought; a temple name, Why the H.. do I need that? But amazingly, I find my self saying YES Pleeease!
I guess it comes with the longing. The longing for true authenticity, the deep longing for my inner Earth, the longing for a women’s temple group (none here in my little sleepy town, have to travel rather far.. or create my own…? ) The longing to be more with women: dive into life with women, work with the sexuality, the awakening. Your work is so inspiring to me, and the Goddess Sadhana group is indeed a blessing!
At the same time, together with the longing for my inner Earth, ( which I consider being the female expression of Tao) a fear of death arises, a fear of loosing the body, not consciousness, and it feels as if I will have to die from the Uterus… in a very physical way. It is a very intimate feeling, and it feels as I need a lot of courage to go trough this “dying from body”. I dream at night of wolves haunting me.
Many years ago I asked the gods for challenges. It came. I ended up divorced, with no income, nowhere to live, and 3 children to raise. I got back on track, and slowly a new path to walk; the path towards enlightenment. This brought a totally new love into my life. Both in my heart & being as well as for a wonderful man, with whom I live today. I quit my job and moved, for us to live together as truthfully as possible in every given moment.
Divorcing after being with the same man for 19 years was… absolutely scary & challenging. This “dying from body” is in a way just as scary. Over and over again I need to relax into trust, but often I find my self escaping into thoughts. I need courage. Me and my beloved are about to launch a regular meditation group, a possibility to meet and share. We are also hosting a Tantra Circle across all gender and preference-thinking, in a couple of weeks. Our first event of this kind! And I am working on how to “advertise my skills” in order to get clients for reflexology, acupuncture and healing sessions as an income.
Recently I signed up as a TreeSister, not knowing what to contribute with, but it feels so right!
I have made some changes in my life, but I did not choose them. Life gave them to me; I tuned into the energy, and picked up the possibility.
With Love,
Mette.
To find my true purpose here in this life seems to be the very challenge at the moment. After 20 years of being married I separated from my husband in April this year and am now living alone with my 7year old son in a cosy old little house by the woods. I have a job as Team leader with the Social Department of my city. A new life wants to get started – I can feel it. It is exactly now that I have been led to this site and to Chamelis work. I participated in the Goddess Sadhana and in the Teleclass on the topic of the Temple Group. This was very inspiring and made me feel that there is more beyond duality. I have always been searching for this realm because I am sure that the service I am here on earth for is waiting for me. I feel I haven’t met with it yet or only had glimpses of it. I sometimes can feel it very near but then it vanishes again. It is strongly present under the surface right now but I cannot reach through to it (yet). I feel there is something on its way and it wants to be manifested here on earth and in reality.
Beloved Chameli,I had a very enriching skypesession last week with a canadian woman (www.alandra.net) where I was told I am in deep healing until the end of this year due to a split that surfaced in May/June. In this healing that I am in I am longing to get back to my inner source of joy and grace and creativity as life since then has been more or less just everyday life.
I would love and feel very blessed to embrace a Temple Name as a part of this healing process as I am longing to share myself with the world again.
Much love and gratitude
Samadhi
To find my true purpose here in this life seems to be the very challenge at the moment. After 20 years of being married I separated from my husband in April this year and am now living alone with my 7year old son in a cosy old little house by the woods. I have a job as Team leader with the Social Department of my city. A new life wants to get started – I can feel it. It is exactly now that I have been led to this site and to Chamelis work. I participated in the Goddess Sadhana and in the Teleclass on the topic of the Temple Group. This was very inspiring and made me feel that there is more beyond duality. I have always been searching for this realm because I am sure that the service I am here on earth for is waiting for me. I feel I haven’t met with it yet or only had glimpses of it. I sometimes can feel it very near but then it vanishes again. It is strongly present under the surface right now but I cannot reach through to it (yet). I feel there is something on its way and it wants to be manifested here on earth and in reality.
There is a desire in me so big I fear it will swallow me up. I want to be free and though I know in my heart any fear or limitations holding me back are mind made still I hesitate. I want to step into my power and be the authentic woman I was born to be, living moment to moment in truth. I want to join hands with my sisters and step forward into love, joy and peace. Anything less is painful and I’m ready to let that go now.
Thank you
Suzi
Thank you for opening the offer again. I would love to have a temple name.
For the past year, I have been trying to overcome my negative feelings and thoughts relating to my husband’s affair. I am seeking clarity in what is best for me. Intellectually, my mind is telling me to leave the marriage. But emotionally, I am not ready for it. My heart wants for us to reconcile. I am willing but he does not seem to want to budge. I am on a spiritual journey to find enlightenment, peace and happiness. Any help would be welcome…. I am very grateful to have found you on the internet… peace and love, sue
It would be fantastic to have a Temple name. My deepest longing right now is to be able to stand in love no matter what happens, with my children, my partner, my friends, in my work … with the people I disagree with, with everybody and everything. I want to be able to be open and in the heart space. To feel everything and to be aware, awake. That is what my soul is yearning for.
Love and light
Helen
Oh such amazing and moving comments, I am in awe of all of you!
My life has been taking wonderful turns lately, and it is about to take yet another one. I am a (burgeoning) yoga teacher and solopreneur, still working a day job. In a few months time, I will quit my job to live the life I want to live, and I am slowly creating it. I am taking huge leaps and I am on a steep learning curve, but every time I teach yoga, in groups or in one-on-one sessions, the smile on my students face remind me why I do this.
It is not always easy: trial and error, overwhelm, fatigue as you try to find still 5 minutes to rest, but oh so rewarding. For now I need time to develop my offerings, and I also need the financial support provided by my day job. There will be a rough couple of months – probably more – when I quit, but I am determined to be free and live life on my own terms, creating abundance for myself and my family, and above all guiding people in their self discovery journey. I can’t wait!
Blessings to all of you, and to you Chameli, thank you.
Love & light,
Emmanuelle
my edge is in dealing with the punishing energies of an ex lover right now.. after having a kali like need to break from his ways….a new experience for me… feeling the heart so tender and fragile and yet the earth so strong beneath my feet…needing protection… to deepen within the heart….to heal.. and to step forward with the gifts of this experience… a fragile place though right now.
Hi, I’m Fedra from Italy,( sorry for my english)
. Our way is working on breaking rules and bounderies, finding the thruth in everything we explore, in the way we relate each other, in the way we share with other people.I found the the artist’s way is a magical and deep way to discover us as women.
I’m very curious wich one can be our Temple’s name 
) Thank you sooooo much!!!
We have a group here in our wonderful island, Sardinia (an ancient land where Marija Gimbutas found some of the Mother Goddess idols that she showed on her books).
We have some workshop for the Feminine Energie, wich aproach is mostly from arts and creativity. We also play theatre, dance, and lots of other artist stuff
We are a strong group with lot of entusiast, enjoyment and fun, fun fun
Hi. Right now I’m trying to manage my broken heart and facing a tsunami of ego, fear and I’m not right, I’m not lovable enough. I would like not to loose this opportunity to go in and discovere who really I am.
Thank you sisters
Tanmaya
Hello.
It feels right to reply to your offer to receive a Temple name.
I guess because more and more since the past year I have been opening to my feminity, becoming the woman who has been sleeping, who has been hiding away from deep fears and wounds that I wasnt aware of.
I feel that I enter more and more into the beauty of being a woman, learning one day after another to be a woman at 34 years old. Not that I was not one before, just that I didnt have the sense of it and wasnt in touch of this powerful gift that it is to be a woman in the deep sense of it.
Able to give birth and also to help bring birth into other, that is what I am feeling at the moment especially in the strange relationship I have come to be in 1 year ago. I dont know the stage of the relationship as I am writing but I feel deep love for the man I have shared a lot with and I feel that lov coming from that deep level of sensitivity that we have forgotten and sometimes burried away scared to be hurt more. As I let this love guide me I discover that the need to protect myself is not so present, only when my mind interfers as I discover that when I interact from that place of deep love, this same love that I want to share and give protects me at the same time.
I feel rewarded by my openess as I act with trust and surrender and I feel grateful of that discovery.
I am in a place in my life where I feel strong internal changes which as now are not apparent externally. I have a sense of purpose but cant express it in words which sometimes leaves me frustrated and lost as I feel impatient to take my action in the world. But in the moments of flow and trust I see myself with others and in healing I think.I know we are all about healing but its almost that image of the big Mama smiling and with open arms. I dont know exactly how it will translate into the reality of the interacting world but I feel soon the flower will burst.
In that sense of change I have found myself facing a dilemma: does that change, that growth mean that I have to let go of places, people who have helped to reach where I am. Somehow like a little girl I dont understand why I cant embrace it all, and my answer so far has been to stop resisting and to love but also to leave when it doesnt feel right anymore.
With that answer and awareness I realise that I can let go actively without having to break bridges radically, it is a soft process of grieving which takes me to the next level of my life and I understand the beauty in being present in the process, in being present in closure and how much it is so healing to go this way and to be in the pain if pain there is rather than denying it and playing “strong”. Surrender and acceptance more and more in the softness, feeling and almost knowing that this is the real strength and that it is liberating at the same time.
This is where I am at the moment. Thank you for letting me the space of that expression as the flow of writing just happened spontaneously.
Love and Light,
Elodie
I am sorry, Chameli, had troubles with my computer and posted twice …
Hello (again?)
I was so sure I posted a post here some hours ago, but now I can,t find it..
So, I do it again:
Because: Yes, please! I would really like a tempel name to dive into, to help me grow, stretch, heal, and be able to truly move forward into the world with all of me and all of what I am meant to contribute.. I am ready, oh, so ready, but also a bit scared..
Inspired by you Chameli, and all you other beatiful women, by Arjuna, and many others, by my man and my two beatiful daughters, and standing on the fundament of my many years of practise as a therapist, I am now ready to launch my own little center for growth, love, awakening, living, loving life, and this is my edge. The challenge is really daring to step forward full bodied all I am into the light and into the world, allowing myself to manifest in abundense both spiritually and material overflow.
The mail/blog today was a blessing from above (and below) a lovekiss from the goddess and all her beautiful sisters her on earth, telling me here is your tool, here is my gift to help you grow..
So thank you Chameli and all you women at Awakening Women, I openheartedly accept your gift to help me grow:-)
love R
Hi Chameli,
Thank you for this fantastic oppurtunity. I would love you to give me a Temple Name.
My Calling: To step out more from my safe environments
What is Challenging: To take my place, to show myself, to share myself, to expose myself in new environments.
What gives me Opening: Being totally responsible for my Pleasure in every way in every second in a fun and relaxed way.
Lots of Love, Cintra
Dear Emmanuelle
I can so relate to your post for I am on exactly the same path right now. Your words have touched my soul and made me say: YES, YES, YES. Especially that you want to create abundance for yourself and for your family by living your life on your own terms. I realized: thats exactly what I want to do too!
Love and a deep bow to you sister,Antonella
I feel like I’m in a hole, trying to get up. I divorced my husband a year ago, after ten years together. The relationship was draining, mentally abusive, and I know I did the right desicion. Now I’m alone with two little children, the older is six years old and the younger is one year old, he was one month old when I told the boys father I wanted a divorce and four months old when the father finally moved out. The older son is very sensitive, very intense, and right now very explosive, acting out that he doesn’t feel well on a mental, energetic level. The younger is chronically constipated and we don’t know why or what to do about it. This situation requires a lot of energy and attention, and I’m struggling to get time and resources to replenish my own soul and energies. A few months ago I participated in a womens temple retreat and it was great, crying and dancing and connecting without so many words.
I’m staying at home with the younger son, trying to get on my feet again. I’m studying homeopathy, and blending Bach’s flower essences to family and friends, and I would like to work more professionally with homeopathy and the flower essences. I haven’t got a career or a job to go back to, and I don’t see my professional path clearly yet, my firts priority is to find balance internally and in my family.
I will start a women’s temple group in my town as soon as I find the energy for it, and I would love to have a temple name.
Thankful for your time and your insights, thankful for the new spaces your practices open up for me, for all of us.
I am in the process of re-defining myself. I am discovering who I am and who I am not, getting stronger in the gym, flexing not only those physical muscles but those mental and emotional ones as well. I am grateful for this journey. I don’t know who or what life will bring me – I embrace it all in peace and joy. I am here. I am ready. Bring it.
My life is parted right now. On the outside my life could be perfect! I live in a big, beautifull house, I have a fulltime jobb, helping sick and elderly getting the right help in the comunity, I have 3 beautifull daughters and a good husband. (He was a widdower when we met and his 2 daughters are now mine too, if not legally, then in heart, mind and soul) we allso have a dog!
On the other hand my husband is strugling with depresion, not admitting this he doesn’t do anyone any favour! This makes my life hard, I have to carry all the weight, have constant awareness about everything that conserns the girls and me (I really try to let him take resposebillity for himself, at least!) I miss being part of a team, miss being recognized as a lover, as a human. I pick up the feelings in the family and know how the girls are, how they feel, what they do at school… I didn’t sign up for doing this alone!
I know this is a fase… or I keep telling myself it is, but it makes me a bit depressed too! And I get frustrated at times (often??)
Inside I’m constantly asking myself how to be free an true. I smile in the morning, giving my daughters ther morning cuddles, and this morning, today(!) I smiled for I knew it was my turn today! I know I need to care about myself too, I need to give myself permission to have my own time, fun and happiness. May be this is the core… not to have bad conscience about having fun an refilling time and expierences with myself?
Do you have a Temple Name to help me through?
Love from Alexandra
Dear Chameli!
After years of struggeling, always true deep in my heart, I finally find myself just as I am, the first time with 44 years I am successfull in what I love, my family life, my art of writing and doing pioneer networking. After many healing steps a door opened to my true self, I feel fresh and young. I can`t denie any more my dancing gifts and so on. I want ot include now my yogingi being but in a totaly pure way and it is just waiting one very little step beside me. I don`t know how to include temple work, awareness, dancing in my life now, in a really authentic and GROUNDED way, MY way of living it- not following only others. My wisdom, my joy, my gifts. With all my love you are always in my heart Diana from Germany
My edge is in every direction. I have given birth and raised kids…. I have grandchildren I worship and marvel at. I have a fantastic career and amazing friends and family. I am an artist and photographer and I make jewelry..my passions not my job. Music is integral for me to live. The great spirit fills me with curiosities most never voice and dreams most can’t imagine. I am a prisoner of my own creativity and it sometimes stops me in my tracks. I suffer minute by minute with a disease that is taking my life slowly and yet I never show the pain to anyone unless they are with me daily. I long for true love but fear reaching out. Who wants me? I am told that I am beautiful … sexy… talented…brilliant… these are observations shared with me and I sometimes believe them but it is just “nice to know” and does not define what I think of myself..my challenge is finding my worth as a human-a partner-a lover to my love wherever he is. Can I let him in though my life may be shorter than the “me” that would have been without this dark passenger. I am like waves rolling continuosly but with different frequencies… peace is attainable and present .. fulfillment …. somewhere out of my grasp.
Temple Name: What is calling me, challenging me, opening me?
Right now it feels like I am on the precipice of something–most particularly greater understanding and awareness of Ultimate Reality. I am being called to greater levels of my own being, my own consciousness. Challenging me is the persistent, consistent effort to put into practice all that I have learned, thus far, and that I know deep within my being, and understand already at greater levels of my consciousness. Desire not to retreat into fear and smallness is also a challenge. Learning also to trust the process and this is opening me as I endeavor to step into greater action and move forward with intention and with purpose toward that which I am being called to do.
I am on the edge… of creating a new life of love, joy, miracles and beauty.
Well, ALL parts of me are in transition. I’ve said yes to an amazing job, moved my husband, daughter and myself across the country in less than a month and am just now landing on the other end of it all. I’m processing all the layers of excitement, sadness, growth, humility, loneliness, opportunity and much more that comes with leaving every familiar thing and surrendering to an unknown. I know my biggest edge in all of this is around standing in my truth, what that means, how that feels; it shape-shifts at times. I’m aware that this chapter of my life is about stepping into and owning an elder part of myself that I’m not really comfortable with. There is a wise woman in me that I am with-holding myself from embodying. So I witness this and know that where I’m at with it must be ok. I can’t force process, I cannot really understand something so much bigger than me in the way I want to understand it, so I surrender to it, make room for it, and honor it.
Life and love are callling me to accept all of myself now as I am and to let go of past traumas, self destructive thinking and behaviours. It’s calling me to receive love, intimacy and healing and to learn to feel safe with myself and in this world. To become present and to be and express who I truly am and let go of fear and shame and poverty. Kali is calling me to embrace my rage and anger and express it creatively and own my protective and destructive self too. To learn how to heal myself with self love of my inner child and myself at all ages up to now, and in the future. I am being called to move out of disease and paralysis and dread of the future to good health, movement and trust in life and love. Life is calling me to live and not die now, but to let old abusive and destructive concepts and experiences and relationships to die. To embrace my life and enjoy it. To know and feel I am connected to everyone and everything and that I’m not alone.
I am entering a new season of my life. One that takes all of my courage and positive thoughts to keep manifesting. My past includes several years of drug abuse and co-dependent relationship/friendships..That transformed into motherhood to a beautiful son, Justice, my job of the last 6 years, as a 911 dispatcher. (that I recently left, I miss it while knowing am blessed to have this time to take care of my body away from shift work) I am now expecting my second son in December, have a wonderful partner and am learning to be a step mother for his two children that are in late teens, trying to find their way in the world. All of the changes have been very powerful and rewarding, I desire to embrace a new side of myself that I am creating. I have always been very introverted and avoid connection with people out of fear of having nothing worth while to give. I struggle to recognize my unique and special talents or skills that will give back to the world and fill me up, I desire mature women to build relationship with and community involvement where I can be passionate and fired up about what I am doing. I hope for a Temple Name that will inspire me to take action, open doors to my Dharma and expand into life and relationships!!!
I have a problem: I have been given a boy name Claude! Yet it is part of who I am. Although I am very feminine, I have learned to accept myself as I am and I am a vey sexy woman! I want myself to be in the flow, to be more flexible, to experience serenity and to embrace all that is as it is
Thank you dearest Antonella for your reaction to my post. Your kind words went directly to my heart, and I salute you for wishing to create the life you want to live. I would say go do it!
Love & light to you,
Emmanuelle
Several years ago I studied to become a Reiki Master and work with Essential Oils-Aromatherapy. I started my small business but at the same time continued to work in “corporate america”. Time did not allow me to continue with my business so I let it go. Daily I struggled with this decision as I felt stuck in the big business world. I know that Spirit has been trying to close this path but I just resisted. A few months ago I started to have health issues due to all the stress. Once again Spirit spoke to me that I must leave and start my own little business called Essence of Nature. This will enable me to follow a path of joy and giving. Today I gave my 2 week notice that I will be leaving. I have been in this big corporate business for 40 years! With all this going on, it would be wonderful to have a Temple Name at this most wonderful time in my life. I want to do the highest good for myself and the people that I meet.
Thank you so much for all that your do!!
Love & Light,
Frances
Woo Hoo! Congratulations on your 2 week notice, Frances!
Thank you dear sister. I am honored and greatful to have you riding with me. Thank you for your light and support.
Thank you Lucia for your kind words.
Thank you so much Chameli… Deep bow… Love you
Dear Cassandra, in a few weeks we will meet for a Inanna retreat. your words remind me of her. She was this glorious Goddess, queen of the heavens and earth, but she felt this restlessness, this inner knowing that “there is something more”, and she listens to the call from her dark sister, and embarks on a journey into the underworld. She becomes initiated, into a deep feminine wisdom….
This is your Temple name :
Shadow Dancing longing
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear Kendall, what a blessing… be gentle.
This is your Temple name :
Seeing the world with a thousand eyes
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear Peggy, I bow to your courage and your love and deep trust of God.
This is your Temple name :
One with God
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear Emily, wonderful. I call in the Goddess of fearlessness and of new beginnings, Green Tara. She is pictured as this young beautiful dynamic goddess with one foot in front of her always ready to take action.
This is your Temple name :
Green Tara dancing my truth
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Beloved Uli, I am so deeply touched by you, and that we get to walk this wild path together.
This is your Temple name :
Innocent Devotion
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear Jeannie, beautiful intention. so simple and so straight to the core of what all this is about.
This is your Temple name :
Compassion in action
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
see my reply below
love
c
Wow Lynda, showers of blessings to you, your energy shines through the words. Thank you for spreading your light.
This is your Temple name :
Warrior of the one heart
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Beloved beauty, such wise words you are sharing with us. you are in inspiration.
This is your Temple name :
Surrendering to truth
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear Sarah, the depth of your prayers has such a power. They will guide you.
This is your Temple name :
Divine Feminine Embodied
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear Lara, this is true courage.to live in the world with a broken open heart. but it is what we all are called to do. Thank you for blazing the way
This is your Temple name :
Source of Love
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear Juliet, aho. deep bow to your clear vision, and for exploring the path so you can show other sisters the way.
This is your Temple name :
medicine woman awakening
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear Constanze, how wonderful to hear from you. I am embracing you.
This is your Temple name :
Goddess of Feminine beauty
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Wow!!!! I am BLOWN away by my temple name, it brought tears to my eyes immediately. Thank you thank you thank you. It is a gorgeous reflection of my inner self and I’m letting source of love flow through me and shine out into the world. Blessings to you and to all who have posted here; we are pivotal in changing our world into a brighter, more beautiful space.
dear Jaime, yes, lets call in the glory and leela of Saraswati the goddess of the arts. and lets call in the the infinte kindness and abundance of shri Lakshmi Ma.
saraawati is that opening into the possibilities we cannot see. reminding us that we cannot see around the corner, to not limit our view, leela. anything can happen in her realm. Lakshmi, brings form, brings meaning into form. brings abundance. They will give you challenges because they dont want you to only be successful. They want your greatness
I see them with you. Now.
This is your Temple name :
guardian of the highest frequency
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear Wendy, I will give you the first temple name i ever got. It is still my favorite.
This is your Temple name :
Divine Edge Walker
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear Kathi, I love how deeply connected you are, the way you expressed it ” this special power of my soul” is so stunning.
This is your Temple name :
Goddess of the Authentic feminine
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear chameli, i thank you so much for taking you time to answer all these requests. this means so much to me! as i am moving to my new own flat the next weeks, i will practice my surrendering to truth. i guess you just put the spot on something very important for me. surrendering and knowing what my truth it, and what it means to me to 100% go for it. love to you beautiful sister, looking forward to see you soon at the jonatan/chiemsee. have a save & gentle trip! susanne
dear Rachel, I can feel you. be gentle wit yourself sister. It is a raw experience to embody Kalis voice, to trust her love. She reminds us of clear boundaries, yet never separate.
This is your Temple name :
Durgas heart
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dearest Marlie, your words are …. transmitting your awakening. thank you so for sharing it with us. it all.
You remind me of a beautiful song by leonard Cohen….
This is your Temple name :
Surrendering into the masterpiece
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Beloved Tricia, thank you for your clear request and for walking the path even when it is dark and unclear where it is heading. It is all part of the feminine embodiment journey.
This is your Temple name :
Yogini of the wild heart
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear Jennifer, thank you for your LOVE!
This is your Temple name :
Goddess of Love and Wonder
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear Kaye,
This is your Temple name :
Breathing in miracles
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear Kamala, the edge you are expressing, the edge of moving outwards from this inner spaciousness, is the edge of the Yogini path. the courageous path of embodied awakening.
This is your Temple name :
Yogini guided from within
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear Tiffanie, sometimes it takes a long time, the initiation through darkness, and then one day, it is over. I honor you for hanging in there, and for sharing with us all your journey, it is so important for us all to hear.
This is your Temple name :
Voice of Freedom
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear sister, you express so clearly the expansion and contraction, expansion and contraction, which is life. In the Shakti tradition we called this rhythm which is in all life, Spanda. As feminine practitioners we practice to surrender to the different rhythms, not clinging, not pushing away. And then we begin to slowly align ourselves with the Big Heart.
This is your Temple name :
One with the sacred pulse
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
beautiful Charlotte!
This is your Temple name :
Priestess of soul art
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
I love that quote, Mary. such a simplicity in truth. There is a power in speaking your dream, let it be witnessed by this powerful circle of conscious women…
This is your Temple name :
Goddess tending the garden of the impossible
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear Li, it feel like it is time to call in the soothing quality of the Goddess Hestia she is the goddess of the home. For most women it is essential to have a base of beauty and serenity in our lives, where body and family and relationships are all taken care of. then we can fly in the world. hestia is also called the goddess of the sacred fire (she protected the fireplace)
This is your Temple name :
Dancing in the sacred fire of love
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear Debra, thank you. I am deeply touched by your words. I think you write for many many sisters in this circle. And thank you for your willingness to bring the “honey” of your journey back to the circle for all to share and heal from.
This is your Temple name :
Clear seeing wise woman
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear deanna, it is so fragile this life, each breath such a gift. I hold you and your daughter through this pain.
This is your Temple name :
Awake to love
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear Marie Eve, our bodies are such teachers of the feminine, of rhythms of patience, of alignment with nature. such a miracle it is this body…
This is your Temple name :
Goddess of surrender
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
What a powerful name you already have sister! union of desire and devotion…i love it., the realm of Lakshmi ma. She invites us to tap into desire as the very force of evolution, burn and recreate, burn and co create.
This is your Temple name :
The Source of Amrita
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Hi beloveds, it is really wonderful to have the opportunity to get to know you a little like this. I will teach the Deeper love Retreat in Germany from tomorrow, so I will be off line for the weekend. Will continue to give names next week. Let me know how the names land in you!
deep bow, Chameli
Dear Chameli,
thank you so much for giving me this beautiful temple name (and for all the
other beaufitul ones)! First when I red it tears came into my eyes. Yes, it
touched me very, very deep. Allowing myself to really feel the deep meaning
of the name brought me in touch with some doupt like ‘is this really me?’.
And at the same time I got a
feeling like ‘yes, that’s what I was always longig for’. A deep desire of my heart
is going to become real if I allow this to myself. The connection with my
temple name really guided me the last weeks of changes, doupts, excitement and
feeling like not knowing anything – through all the ups and downs.
Not knowing you personally…
but I thank you so much for your wonderful being and your inspiring work!
May we all become more and more what we are ment to be!!!
With love,
Maria – Deva of feminine healing
Chameli…praying I can lay down my silly little ego beliefs and embody this name fully! Feels SO B I G … with the heart~ Goddess of Love and Wonder
Forgot to add….THANK YOU!
Thank you so much, Chameli! I got the chills when I read you’ve given me. As I said it aloud, I started to tear up. I am honored. Thank you.
Thank you so much, Chameli for my Temple Name. I love it! One of my teacher/sisters reminded me that these two goddesses work well together, and that they are some of my patron goddesses. Yet, it is so hard to remember these things when I am down in the muck.
I am honored to receive my name and will stretch into it.
Thank you!
Jaime
Dearest Chameli!
A few hours ago I received my Temple name speechless and grateful with a deep bow. Thank you.
After saying it out loud it started to resonate with different layers inside me – bringing up long forgotten characteristics of mine – and giving me a deep non-rational knowing or recognizing of what’s ahead and what’s “needed”!
So I bow again to you with and as Innocent Devotion. Namaste.
In a funny way I feel blessed. For (too) many years I felt like motherhood was all I had, being a mother was the only thing I was good at. Now, with my elder child hurting and a family life out of balance, I cannot automatically assume that my mothering is/has been good. Even though I logically know I have done and still do many things right, it still feels like starting over, learning from scratch. I get to build up a new life with my two wonderful children. Learning the hard way.
Now is also the time to get to terms with the sensitivity that we share, me and my sons. Many of the issues I’ve faced in my life have been about sensitivity in some way. Working too hard, becoming exhausted, losing my job. Finding a sensitive husband who, I thought, understood my sensitivity. But since he couldn’t manage his sensitivity and he had other mental issues as well, the relationship was draining and mentally abusive. Divorcing him was the only way I could get some space of my own, and in the long run it will be good for the children as well. I’ve been working much on the sensitivity issue, but we still have to find a way to combine our sensitivities with the demands of a normal everyday life in a good, creative way.
Hello sister. I appauld your courage and humbly offer advice I pray I am not over stepping but I believe you heal yourself and your children will follow. Outer world is a mirror of inner. You started that process by leaving your abusive relationship. Take care of yourself. Heal yourself (all while caring for your kids – of course not easy!) and the effect will ripple out. It sounds like this is exactly what you are already doing! So I say keep on and you will he supported! Goddess bless you and your little angels of love!
with deep love ~ Jennifer I am Goddess of Love and Wonder
I have been feeling a fraud lately in regards to this temple name. This is a very old pattern. When I want something (love) I dance around trying to be noticed and have someone offer it to me. But as soon as they ask me directly if I want it, I shrink away and say no. Dear sisters, hold me in the space. Don’t let me run. Keep me here to claim what is already mine. I am the Goddess of Love and Wonder. I am the goddess of love and wonder. I am the Goddess of Live and Wonder! Even while on the floor I embody this name.
For now I lay myself at the feet of the divine with deep gratitude for the opportunity to become aware of this Pattern and bring love, acceptance and healing to it.
With love and wonder,
Jennifer, Goddess of Love and Wonder
Dear Chameli,
Thank you so much for this beautiful name. I realize again and again how important it is to be seen and have our deeper essence reflected back to us. It is such a gift of witnessing and reflecting that you are giving to this ever-expanding circle of women. I am quite stunned by the preciousness of what you are offering.
I am sitting with myself as The Source of Amrita, saying it, feeling it, listening to the response. “What do I want to say about it?” I keep wondering. This morning I got it, at least the first layer. The most real thing that I feel about this name is so simple: it doesn’t feel separate from who I know myself to be. I came at this idea of a temple name with the thought that I was working with energies that feel so blocked and foreign and “not me”, that whatever name you gave would also feel different and unfamiliar. I thought it might be something that I would have to really stretch myself in order to identify with. Perhaps I even wanted the excitement of something really new and outrageous to reach for.
Isn’t this part of the perpetual subtle or not so subtle quest in working with spiritual teachers and healers? The hope that they will wave their magic wand and reveal some hidden treasure in us that nobody knew existed? That they can cast a spell and bestow qualities upon us that we didn’t have access to before? The fantasy that there is some locked-up secret about us that only the truly gifted will be able to activate? Under that quest lies the fear that who we are is not good enough, and the hope that somebody or something else will have the power to fix that by making us what we are not.
How much more profound a gift it is to be shown that who we already are IS the treasure. There is no secret unfamiliar self that is going to make it better than this. When I felt my name, I laughed, and thought, “You? Really? Oh hello, I know you! You were already here all along.” Somehow I was surprised that your answer to my questions felt like an invitation to step deeper into the self that already feels like me, to expand and uncover all the flavors of that, rather than an invitation to bring forth something new. I thought the challenging nature of this new phase of my journey meant that I had to cultivate and embrace something “not-me”.
It brings me back to this knowing: this work, this path is not about transforming myself into something that I am not. Again and again I am reminded that it is a journey of opening myself more deeply to who I am; a sometimes arduous task of shedding the layers that keep the deep shining me bound and contained.
What I am searching for lies within me. Any separation I feel between where I’m going and where I am at is simply another layer of illusion to let go of.
I am deeply grateful for the gift of this reflection. Yes, I am The Source of Amrite. The full complexity and depth of what that means is still veiled, but I know it’s in me. There’s nothing to do but keep drawing closer. And burn.
Deep gratitude to you and to those companions who make this journey possible.
So beautifully and clearly expressed dear sister! Thank you…
Dear Chameli, I just now found this. I hadn’t realized you would post it on your blog and just thought to look. It brings tears to my eyes and a sense of possibility even in the face of what seems impossible. Blessings and thanks to you and your circle of Goddesses!
Oh. Thank you so much. I started reading about Inanna, and felt–for the first time in so, so very long–something breaking within me, and moving. Thank you. The temple name is such a perfect reminder, and Inanna… oh. I have no words.
Dearest Chameli – thank you for reminding me of Leonard Cohen -
here is one of my favorites………………
http://youtu.be/n_56ep729TE
With love and endless surrender
My edge is living with PTSD, anxiety and depression from childhood and teenage sexual abuse, and trying to heal myself and my life with love and creative and artistic expression. I’m also dealing with cronic pain from arthritis, fibromyalgia and osteoporosis and trying to heal these with natural remedies and meditations and other things I do. I am middle aged and I’ve done a lot of therapy/therapies for 20 years. Now I am working with a healer/therapist and I am feeling my inner child’s fears, pain and traumas daily and I am being courageous to get up out of bed every day and go outside and meet people. Or be alone at home and cope with just the basic jobs. I have attended Goddess workshops in the past, also Tantric group and private therapy and female empowerment work. I want to become unstuck and stop the traumatic thoughts that keep going back to the abuse. I want to trust in life and that I have a future to look forward to, and to stop thinking about ending my life. I have so many skills and experiences that I would like to use to help myself and use to find work I love doing and earn money and break away from poverty thinking and living. I want to committ to my artistic and creative, healing expressions and work and let them flow freely from me with confidence. I want to open my heart and love myeself and move on from fear of intimacy and loving sex with a special other person. I want to break out of the prison I’ve kept myself in and find what I want to do, what is my purpose – to find/create a purpose, to connect and be a part of community. To find my tribe. To stop being alone so much and feel safe with others. I want to be connected with my deep inner wisdom , love and truth and with the earth in a deep spiritual real way. I want to enjoy my life and heal so much negative thinking. I need all the help and support I can get right now because life has become such a big challange for me. I want to heal both the feminine and masculine in me and the inner conflict I have. I want to stop looking to the outside for validation, love, safety, comfort, rescuing.
Many thanks.
Thank you for this reflection, for sharing your insights with us. I love it
Dear Lucia, yes this is the return of the Goddess back in our spiritual lives;the invitation to find the sacred in the midst of ordinary life. This very moment, with demands from kids and bills and parents and exlovers, this breath, this. Just like this. Is the expression of spirit. Puja is an indian name for a ritual of worship. How can these thoughts, this breath, this action be your puja?
This is your Temple name :
A Living Puja
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear Lala, such a sacred quest, welcome to the circle.
This is your Temple name :
Radical self love
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear Lynn, thank you for showing your light, for sharing your gifts, for dreaming and praying. Thank you for your dedication to the feminine. It is so needed in this world.
This is your Temple name :
The perfect dream of the Goddess
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear Catherine, such a raw and painful initiation you have been through. I can feel you.
This is your Temple name :
Gently kissing beauty with my breath
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear Sunne, what a a gift you are in this world. deep bow to your commitment and quiet dedication, and for being a pioneer of embodiment.
This is your Temple name :
Midwife of embodied spirituality
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear Julie, thank you for your your love, it flows our from your words touching my heart across the ocean.
This is your Temple name :
Deva of light
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear Lajla- Cecilie, your awareness is bright as the sun.I bow.
This is your Temple name :
Drawn by the heart
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear Hannah-Fey, yes this is the beauty of all our initiations, sometimes so challenging, that they become part of our medicine to the world.
This is your Temple name :
Radical body love
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear Ginny, your intention is crystal clear, you speak the wisdom and the gifts of the menopause process, this fierce commitment rising to living in alignment wit the magnificence of who you truly are. This voice is so needed in this world. You are a role model to all of us. (and… a little patience and compassion with ourselves trough the process is always helpful:)
This is your Temple name :
Feminine Truth blossoming
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear sister, I can really feel the awakening power of this initiation you are going through. (maybe you read on this blog that I also went through a healing journey like this, this spring, and yes it was the greatest gift), your words are piercing and vibrating with truth. Your commitment is a transmission of awakening. This is our awakening journey, we loose our skin, and we find our way back, and each time we learn. and we can pass it on.
Sundari, is a powerful goddess in the ancient tantric traditions. she symbolizes the reward of our spiritual journey, she is a goddess of beauty, the beauty that opens up as we awaken. without her the journey would be dry and dark and meaningless. She is the pull into truth, she seduces us deeper. She is the nectar releasing from the crown of our heads as we wake up. she keeps us motivated, she gives meaning to our challenges
This is your Temple name :
Sundari
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Ohhhhhh, how BEAUTIFUL to read my Temple Name on this day of A Full Moon, here in Australia!!! I Thank YOU soooo very much and already cherish my Temple Name. Last Sunday, I attended a Spriritual workshop and was told by one of the beautiful Mediums ” You need to work on your self worth my dear”. I was blown away, as I was guided earlier that morning to my Angel card of ‘Angel of Self Worth’ …and NOW have received my Temple Name. Than You again and I pray for beautiful Blessings to surround you Chameli and all my cherished sisters here on this page xxxx
Thank you Chameli…how fitting. This is actually a name I have considered for myself before. To hear it echoed through your words helps to confirm the resonance that I feel in this name. Thank you for taking the time to listen and reflect this back to me. Blessings to you!
The only Hindi phrase I know is this…Apke bohut Sundar he…you are so beautiful! I always remembered that one.
Thank you so much – this name resonates with me so very strongly.
Blessings to you…Ginny
Thank you Chameli
My name reminds me to embrace instead of resist as I’ve been doing.
Deep blessings your way.
Dear sister, yes yes yes!
This is your Temple name :
Priestess of feminine wisdom
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear Lisa, I feel such a joy and connection with the deep feminine when I read your words. I feel trust in you.
Soma is the sweet luminous moon like nectar that begins to pour into our being as we wake up.
This is your Temple name :
Crystal clear soma
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear Catherine, welcome to this circle. Rest here for a moment and time you like.
This is your Temple name :
Ecsquisite self care. first.
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear hazel, This clearly calls for Durga, goddess of feminine empowerment. She rides on a tiger, and radiates from her truth, not willing to compromise that.
This is your Temple name :
Married to my truth
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear Mauna Deva, what a beautiful name you have! A templename is a name that shifts and changes as life shifts and changes. So it has a bit different purpose. I hope you will enjoy it!
Prema means love, shakti means feminine life force
This is your Temple name :
Prema Shakti
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear Li,see my response below
Dear sister, see my response below
dear Milena, wow, thank you for sharing YOUR voice. you are a role model for us all. yes you are already there, and have always been.
This is your Temple name :
Married to trust
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Hei Renate, saa fint aa treffes her!:)
This is your Temple name :
Dancing Translucently with God
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear sister, what a profound journey, a becoming, a composting, a sprouting, a blooming
This is your Temple name :
Drinking truth with deep roots in all direction
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear Mette, you are an inspiration. I feel a REAL woman in you, having walked this path like you have. I am happy you find way to share it in so many ways
This is your Temple name :
Wise Woman
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear sister, yes, finding our purpose is a process of revieling what is already here. It is a deep connection with what you love, more than a form. It is a marriage and re alignment with that which you love, and the form(s) will arise of this commitment. It is a more a falling in love, than a desition or a “finding”. I am so happy you are here, and that you contribute with YOU.
This is your Temple name :
Falling on love with the beauty of me
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear Samadhi, know that feeling of splits and of integration both arise out of the same source, which is who you are. Blessings on your couragious healing journey
This is your Temple name :
One with joy
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Suzi, wow, your commitment has great power. Thank you for speaking it so clearly. It has already happened
This is your Temple name :
Already Home
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear Sue, oh this sounds like a great challenge, I can feel your heart.
This is your Temple name :
Voice of love
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear Helen, yes yes yes!
This is your Temple name :
Crystal clear love
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear Emmanuelle, thank you for answering the call, and your willingness to burn in the fire of truth.
This is your Temple name :
Servant of truth
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear rachel, see my response below
dear fedra, how happy your message makes me. It is such a joy to feel our global circle of Yoginis, practicing, gathering, awakening
This is your Temple name :
Wild Awakening Yogini
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear Tanmaya, thank you for walking down into the dark. you do it for us all.
This is your Temple name :
Broken open into love
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
See my response below. love to you
dear Eloide, thank you for this sharing. You describe your (and our ) journey so beautifully.
“a soft process of grieving which takes me to the next level of my life
and I understand the beauty in being present in the process, in being
present in closure and how much it is so healing to go this way and to
be in the pain if pain there is rather than denying it and playing
“strong”.” …mmmmm thank you
This is your Temple name :
Goddess of soft surrender and truth
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear Cintra, how wonderful to meet you here. I am so happy you are such a shining part of our circle
This is your Temple name :
Unmasked Divine Pleasure
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Thank you Hannah, for sharing with us your journey. It is such a help for all of us as you put into words many of the challenges we all meet. We are modern day s yoginis, feminine practitioners, and our spiritual practice is just this, in the midst of all of life with its glories and challenges.
This is your Temple name :
Medicine Mama of soft strength
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear sister, yes yes yes, I can feel you.
This is your Temple name :
Ready to shine
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear Alexandra, we are here with you. you can lean into the circle and let yourself be held for a few moments.
This is your Temple name :
Lavishly Loving Me First
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear Diana, I am so happy to hear, you deserve all of it and more!
This is your Temple name :
Yogini Guided from within
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear sister, thank you for letting us peak into your world. he is out there , right now, preparing himself to be worthy of you.
“I am like waves rolling continuosly but with different frequencies…” mmm….. what a beautiful description of the feminine embodiment journey. Deep bow.
This is your Temple name :
Darkness and light overflowing as love
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear sister,
This is your Temple name :
Source of miracles
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear sister, this is the spiritual practice of the Yogini, the feminine spiritual explorer : the embodiment of spirit, letting it shine through , as, form. Thank you for walking that pat, i is so needed in this world today.
This is your Temple name :
Ultimate Truth Embodied
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear sister, thank you for following that inner voice. You are an example for us all. Be gentle with yourself as you grow roots in your new life.
This is your Temple name :
Wise Woman Blossoming
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear Maura, thank you for being a channel of this call from the deep feminine. Such a strong power in this voice. It is time. It has already happened.
This is your Temple name :
Kali’s expanding heart
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear sister, showers of blessings on this new phase in your journey.
This is your Temple name :
Luminous Yogini of healing
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear sister, YES!
This is your Temple name :
Feminine essence embodied
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
dear sister, you have learned to listen to that voice which speaks to us all the time. thank you for sharing it with us.
This is your Temple name :
Channel of Divine Essence
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Dear sisters, welcome here. Let us hold you for a moment so you can rest. Remember that you are healing patterns that are collective, you do it for us all. Deep bow.
This is your Temple name :
Boddisatva of the healing heart
Say it out loud 3 times beginning with “I am….fill in name”
Deep bow
Thank You for my Temple Name. Somehow it sounds .. familiar?.. so I guess it must be right then!
Lots of love to you, sister
and thank you for … a lots of things!, but certainly right now, for taking time to give everyone asking including me a New Name, WHAT A JOB!
Wise woman.
Thank you – I love you sister
Chameli,
Thank you for my Temple name: Luminous Yogini of healing! Sometimes I forget to give myself permission to take the time to heal and receive blessings. This name reminds me to allow that for myself!!
there are many beautiful places here in NZ, ask to be inspired to choose wisely where to go and research – you don’t have to ‘keep on the go’ with the tourist trail if you have a sense of the nature that brings you home
Dear Chameli
I was so touched, so touched by this temple name. Tears came to my eyes immediately when I read it. It felt so right, so immensely right. It touched my heart. It felt so much like my own essence. It just felt like myself. Feelings arose from within and felt released, almost as if they were freed from leading a life in the shadow. I am looking so much forward to our Skype session later in November.
Love to you, dear Chameli and thank you for your dedication.
Antonella
Thank you so much, it feels really good to have that temple name, I cried when I said it loud. Love Li
14 okt 2011 kl. 11.30 skrev Disqus:
Beloved Chameli,
Thank you so very much for asking on my behalf for this name. I am so grateful. And I must admit a little amazed by it. All I can say is WOW. And thank you, thank you, thank you.
Deep bow.
Dear Chameli,
Thank you so much! My temple-name is touching me so much! I could nothing do than take a deep breath when I read it. I will try to always remember my name and represent it in the world.
Only two days ago another women told me that I should show more feminine power, even if I work with a lot of men. And now my new temple-name arrives to me.. wow!
Thank you so much for your love and support! I´m looking forward to meet you again!
A big hug to you
Constanze
Dear Goddess, Dear Chameli,
Thank you for guiding me closer to you.
All my love, Lala
Thank you for your words Chameli and for my temple name. I just want to share that 2 days ago when you replied I had not yet read this (I received it just now) but my heart was overflowing all day and it expressed itself in tears. Now I understand why…
Deep bow
One with joy
Thank you for inspiring us all Chameli.. how beautiful x
Hei kjære Chameli;-)
Thank you for the name, and for your service to the world!
I will take it with me, deep within, and come dancing out again <3 <3 Takk!
Thank you thank you thank you.
Love & light,
Emmanuelle
Servant of truth
Dear
Chameli, I am so deeply touched by your puja poem. This is what I was longing
for, this is what was sleeping inside of my all the time. The little girl I was
dancing full of joy, the women I am moving in my house with grace, beauty and
consciousness. You gave me the doorway to my
deep committment to celebrate life
in every little movement. For me everything is puja, this is my way to life, to
myself. For me, breathing is puja, devotion, love. Being here for my son is
puja for me. It is a major key to my life. The last days I was praying
for an answer how dancing wants to be expressed by my soul and my body. As I
feel now that my life is a puja, moving with grace is a eternal life dance. And
dancing is celebrating and praying on his very pure point. After years of
fighting full of longing and anger, now it is puja, set free. Thank you so much
for you, for your beauty. I would love to receive a tempel name from you. With all my love Diana
Hi dear one, if you have not already requested a name, I am afraid that you will need to wait until we open this offer again. As you can see we got a lot of requests so we had to limit it for now. We will keep you posted o=about the next time Chameli will offer this again
Dear Chameli: I read your puja post with tears coursing down my face. I have longed for the beauty, the fierceness of my devotion to shine thru, for my heart to blaze with the ecstacy of Divine Love, for me to weep while basking in the Beauty that is all around. When the time is right I would love a temple name. I’m in no hurry – just putting the request out there.
All Love,
Padme A’Tea (Tashi Drolma)
I am currently deployed to Afghanistan in the Army as the Female Engagement Team Program Asst Officer in charge and it is challenging for a number of reasons to include the cut throat people I work for; I don’t trust anybody to include my OIC who is leaving and I will own the program myself; I broke up with my boyfriend which is good, but got involved with someone else that is wrong, and I am not sure where we are going. I want to get thru the next 5 mths with no drama and honestly if things don’t work out with the guy I just need a break from love because I can’t take it anymore. One of my sisters and I got into a fight as well over leave; she is not well and don’t know when I will speak to her again.
I am a woman who has been on the path of awakening for a very long time. I had a career in psychology until an autoimmune disease stopped me in my tracks. That led, blessedly, to a new path of healing and spiritual awakening. Recently, I relocated to a new (to me) part of the country and have learned a new healing modality with tuning forks…what an amazing feeling to hold them in my hands…I’ve done this before…in a long-ago and far-away place. I want to move forward in a healing, mentoring, and even Mothering role with women of all ages in this, my new Home. The opportunities will come, I am convinced…maybe I need to develop a temple here?
We’d love you to start a Temple where you are. Please do!! Chameli will offer Temple names again. Stay tuned to the blog to know when. We have a couple U.S. based events this year if you are in our area.
Hi Chameli
I love the name!! I don’t have a good translation in italian for Yogini, but I love so much this name.
Thankssssssssssssss Fedra
Chameli I just wanted to thank you for my Temple name. It is always with my and grounds me like an anchor to the truth. With love.
Dear Chameli, thank you. I repeat “This is how I am”
And walking in beauty I am. This is a scary time for me, a lot to go through and seeing in the darkness. For all a huge clearing, having faith. Love, Sarah
Thank you for letting Chameli know, Suzi! So glad to hear this.
I feel this inmersion with Lakshmi is changing me powerfuly… I feel her embrace fully… like an ocean of waves fluctuating… so delightfuly… this was the pleassure I was so much longing for … I feel an old me is dying…and I can feel Her new within me coming to life now… I can feel the matrioshka within the matrioshka within the matrioska… like and endless flowing river of the femenine… I understand… I am every woman… and I want to embrace them all in me… my heart… my whole body is breathing… alive… eyes watering…so much Love…
Right now in my life I am in a void… sweetly suspended… non and all directions and at the same time… I want to give birth to all this knowledge bursting out of me through my creativity… offer it… I want Love with sweetness and passion… and call my beloved one…I feel Ready Alive… I don´t only see the bigger picture… I am it… Beloved Chameli… thank you thank you thank you… We all Come together…
And Yes! I´ve been feeling it… I would love a new name
I am uncovering my feminine energy, learning to listen to my intuitive side, feeding my beautiful and divine self, surprised and grateful for all the blessings received, enjoying my newfound and authentic meeee, vulnerable and open hearted…to whatever life offers…strong and enthusiastic!
Thank you for awakening women to their magnificence, teaching us how to heal ourselves with infinite love, and enjoying the process of discovering ourselves and the other…
Ada
What is calling..to write, to finish what I started 7 years ago that I continue to work on, a memoir for inspiration. what is opening..teaching dance (my profession)in a new community and a new opportunity to sing (secret wish) the challenge..patience with Life that what I have studied for 2 years (Feminine Power Mastery) will be in the mix with my gift for choreography/authentic movement/leadership/in facilitating women’s workshops in service as a conscious dancer and agent for social change. I am grateful for finding awakeningwomen and have posted on facebook that I want to start a woman’s group. Blessings to all.
Trish
I hope you have a moment to give me a Temple Name.
I sit quiet ….. motionless, as a wild dance goes on inside of me. There is a sense of active paralysis …… everything going so fast, in slow motion. I straddle 2 worlds, although each is not familiar, all I know is to trust …………… this.
This blog was from last fall, Bethleen. Chameli will offer Temple names again I am sure though she is on teaching tour now and then again most of the summer. In the meantime, feel into what would assist your process in a name right now…such as Trusting This or Goddess of Slowing Down or Dancing Stillness…write it somewhere that you’ll see it regularly to affirm your state. Much love…Suzan @ AWI
would love for you to open the temple naming again…
Hello Charmelia. I would like a temple name if that is still possible. Im joining the circle rigth now and Im trilled. My challange rigth now is to let go of my self and connect deeper to the love within. I´ve meet a very nice man whom I like to go deeper with as well. What I find important ritgh now is to become a woman, to feel like a feminin human being, I think Im here to touch life and get touch by life. Im here to live the miracle I am. I have easy to connct with flowers and i want to be a kind of flower my self. With love from Lykke Pia
Hello Lykke,
This post was from last fall…Chameli will again in the future give Temple names so stay posted for that. You can also feel into a name that would help you focus on this feminine flowering that you are desiring and give yourself a name to remind you of this. Blessings sister….
My edge is my opening….which im approaching with a tad bit of fear….knowing my inner power and wanting to take the leap into mature womanhood. I have yearned for natures embrace and for the weaving of god into each other. I feel I am at the edge of entering the inner temples of Gods creation and eradicating all walls and obstacles that prevent me from entering this greatness.
Greetings Sistarr’s, My name is Yasmin.I live in Perth, W.A. At this time i am visiting Chang Mai. Its the first time i have travelled for my own purposes, my past default patterns around my international travel has predominately been about meeting up with my lovers, its because of them that i have travelled far and wide; in search of my beloved, wholeheartedly and courageously dropping everything to meet the other, risking my heart, spirit and finances in the name of true love and often to arrive to my destination not being met in presence, juiciness, love and affection…My desire, longing and waiting to be met so strong and over powering that at times these feelings become chaotic and all consuming…I fall into an abyss of deep feelings of unworthiness, sorrow and sadness of not being met! But always somewhere in side there is the consciousness that i am truly loveable, i am worthy, i am a beautiful, juicy, creative, loving Goddess. This trip has been about going into these feelings and owning my projections of the other and recognising that it is indeed myself that i am waiting to meet! My own inner healthy Feminine being supported and loved by my Inner Healthy Masculine. It is me that i have been longing to show up for! This has been my challenge and i can see that these themes of longing and rejection have also affected other arrears of my life.
I have been on a very long journey or self empowerment, self discovery, self enquiry since the age of 15…I have been a Wounded Healer assisting others, nurturing others through Sacred Body Work and many other beautiful modalities and more recently i have stepped in to the role as a Intimacy coach and sacred sensual/sexual healer/facilitator.
Another Challenge here is being afraid to really step into my Mastery rather than coming from the Wounded Healer Arketype. My fears involve being branded and ridiculed from the ones that i love…This is my edge…What is calling for me is to have the courage to lead my life the way i have always envisioned it and apart of that is being in my full Feminine, Goddess Power….Assisting others to fully move into self empowerment! What is opening for me is a deep sense and inner knowing that i have played the doing, masculine role for so long and now it is time to really drop deeply into my feminine receptive nature, to open in surrender to all my beautiful gifts, to claim them in service for the greater good of all, to step into my feminine beauty and power, to move into deep vulnerability, juiciness and Softness…So one of the ways that i can really start practicing is to create a Temple Group and invite other beautiful goddesses to practice with me and share our reflections of divinity…I have been isolated from my Sistarrs for too long and now it is time to return to the Divine Feminine, the ways of the heart!
So i ask you to feel into me Goddess and reveal to me what Name would serve me and my Sistarr’s for the creation of our Temple….Bliss, Bless…
Hello Yasmin,
Chameli is on a long teaching tour and this post was from almost a year ago. She gave many Temple names and loved this so will likely offer it again at some time in the future when she is not on tour. This exercise of giving temple names would be a lovely way to start your new temple. Start by having one sister share her edge, what she is healing or wanting to heal, or an area she’d like support. Then the other women offer words or phrases that describe this sister and her journey. This sister says which words/phrases land for her and you can develop her Temple Name that way. As I read through your post, the names that stood out to me were: Owning my Divinity…Balanced Mastery…Courageous Divine Healer.
Blessings on your journey, dear sister.
Love, Suzan @ AWI
Hi
My name is Una and Im from Iceland. I have been living in Sweden for almost two years now to take my masters in Textile Design. I moved here on my own without knowing exactly why except of course that I know I am an artist and that I am supposed to create beautiful things for people, both objects and thoughts. What has been the most challenging about my stay is that I have not had anyone but myself to count on and I have felt lonely, scared and powerless at times. And now I am trying all that I can to find the true, calm and sincere strength within in me; I am trying to find who I am behind my fears and selfdoubt and to shine as the beautiful energy I am supposed to be. I would love to get a Temple name if that is possible and I also want to say thanks for this website, it is very beautiful and inspiring. Love from Sweden, Una
Thank you Una for writing. This blog was from over a year ago so Chameli is not giving temple names at this time though will I’m sure in the future. Blessings on your creations, sister. Suzan @AWI:disqus
I desire a temple name…in my awakening I have learned to instead of ‘run’ from my pain, to sit, stay,feel and have the courage to be vulnerable. To raise my vibration of love so that the healing flower essences I create hold more universal power to aid those that are to be in my path. To burn with passion for my calling, for myself, for my lover…
To manifest abundance.