Guest blog: Poem by Yogini Miri Kalliwoda Sharing from her experience of our Yogini Initiation Retreat in India Warmly welcomed and loved – home Surrounded by “blow your horn” sounds – chaos and balance Space, moving in and out, at different speed – breath Always challenged – trust Walking with monkeys and cows – ”humanimals” Durga, Sarasvati, Lakshmi – Sadhana Stone people, ShantiMayi, puja – offerings Flowers, Yoga, chanting – connecting body and [Read More...]
Posts under ‘Awakening Feminine Leadership’
I remember Mary Magdalene
By Chameli Ardagh In this shimmering opening between the in-breath and the out-breath, in an exhilarating moment just about to tip over the edge of what is known, sensing the unfathomable potential in the vastness beyond, I remember Mary Magdalene. I remember Mary, Miryam the Migdalah, as She is standing there facing the empty grave. [Read More...]
Those Damn Wings
Splendorous Yogini, In your travels from the surface, into the landscape underneath Her skirts, into body, into feeling, into form, you will hit those thicker places, those denser, stickier, not-so-pretty, heavier places. Guaranteed. Nevertheless this is when we will question if we are still on the right path, if we perhaps at some point took [Read More...]
From the depth of the beauty which has no form.
Lotus pollen wakes up in the heart’s center- The bright flower is free from mud. Where do the color and fragrance come from? Why accept or reject them? ~ Kambala Yogini Everything you experience, each thought and feeling and bodily sensation arises from the depth of the beauty which has no form. Everything you experience, [Read More...]
A Sadhana Practice
Resting… Receiving Drop your awareness down into your womb area and pelvis. If you like, put one hand on this area of your body. Allow your breath to sink down, drop down. Have patience, no need to push.
A Triumph to Exist
What do I fear? I am a part of infinity. I am a part of the great power of the universe, a single world within a million of worlds, a star of the first magnitude which is extinguished at last. A triumph to live, a triumph to breathe, a triumph to exist! A triumph [Read More...]
The Journey
One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice~~ though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” each voice cried. But you didn’t stop.
A 21-Day Mary Magdalene Sadhana Immersion
~Open to the Beloved Companion and the Tree of Life Within with Chameli Ardagh & The Global Awakening Women Circle April 3 – 23, 2013 And right here, breathing in and out, at the pulsating edge where the Whole becomes Woman, and Woman become the Whole, we enter Shakti Sadhana, the spiritual practice of [Read More...]
Sister of Truth, something beautiful is calling you.
…a movement from within, urging you to leave the safety of the known. It is a deep and organic process, very much like when the seed, contained, perfect in itself, is moved from within by an unstoppable yearning to taste itself in all its expressions. The treasure that was hidden within it is risking everything [Read More...]
Feminine Leadership & the Women’s Temple Group
~ A Tele Class Time: Tuesday, January 15th at 6:00pm PST, 9pm EST Join Chameli in a conversation about Spirit-based Feminine Leadership and the Women’s Temple Group. This call is free and is for women who are in a Temple group already who wants to start one or just are curious to learn more about [Read More...]
India’s Daughters ~ living Goddesses
Guest post by Sukhvinder Sircar ‘We were made for these times’. We hang our head in shame for losing daughters to rape. Rape, a heinous demon that devours women, but keeps them alive, shackled in shame. Rape is a scheming, devious demon that converts the victim into a culprit. A raped woman brings the biggest [Read More...]
Lakshmi: Beauty, Abundance and Beyond
Date : Tues, July 22 – Sun, July 27, 2014 Location: Chiemsee outside Munich, Germany In this luscious summer retreat, we will explore reality beyond our limiting beliefs; Welcome to play in the world of Lakshmi! When we connect with presence, with a more spacious and abundant dimension of ourselves, we begin to experience ourselves as [Read More...]
Inanna ~ Embracing the Dark Wild Feminine
Date : Thurs, March 13 – Sun, March 16, 2013 Location: Chiemsee outside Munich, Germany I meet you at the crossroads; I lead you through the darkness We will follow the journey of Inanna ~ the Sumerian Goddess ~ and her descent to the underworld. This ancient myth creates a powerful initiation and a context in [Read More...]
A 21 day Shakti Sadhana Immersion
~Three faces of the Goddess: Kali – Lakshmi – Saraswati with Chameli Ardagh & The Global Awakening Women Circle December 1 – December 21, 2012 One regret, dear world, That I am determined not to have When I am lying on my deathbed Is that I did not kiss you enough. ~ Hafiz Shakti is [Read More...]
Spiritual practice, Sadhana, can be the kindest gift you can give to yourself and the world.
A future goal of perfection will never make sweaty, hot and holy love to you. Why chase a frigid lover made of plastic, when right here right now, intimacy itself is yearning to love you to pieces, to love you all the way in. Awakening, like love, is not an achievement. It is a blossoming [Read More...]
The New Age Walk of Shame
A little more than a year ago, I was told I had cancer. I didn’t. Have cancer. I could add many words here about western medicine and young doctors who are quick on the diagnosis trigger. I am sure we would have a wild bashing fest in the commentary section, but this story is about [Read More...]
Your holy being unfurls like a flower
What a ride it is, this life lived in a woman’s body. The moment we think we have found a shelf to rest on, a sort of “aha, so this is how it works”, we are again thrown into new territory. Once we think that we have finally worked through, healed, those old wounds, [Read More...]
Sister, Search No More. The Key is Authenticity
Do you want to feed the trance, or do you want to be an instrument of awakening? There’s so much plastic and hype out there, and yes the masses are eager for it, because we think it will feed our soul. But it doesn’t. It never does. Instead we have a culture suffering from painful [Read More...]
Cubicle or Baby?
Guest blog by Karen Bell I can pinpoint the moment when my debut novel, Walking with Elephants, sprang from the collective unconscious into my mind. The story’s underlying message hit me like a ton of bricks—but I’ll get to that later. What drove me to write this novel was how much I’ve seen change in [Read More...]
Returning Home
A woman’s journey back into the body is a journey of awakening, a journey of liberation in its most genuine meaning. We are blessed today by living and enjoying the fruits of the woman’s liberation movement. Women in the western world are enjoying rights, freedom and empowerment that we may never have experienced before on [Read More...]
