This very body we have that’s sitting here right now, with its aches and its pleasures… Is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive. –Pema Chödrön Imagine yourself standing naked. Behind you stands your mother, naked as well. And behind her, your grandmother. Behind her is your grandmother’s mother, and [Read More...]
Posts under ‘Awakening Feminine Leadership’
In surrender you find your power
As write this I am on my way into a full month of Durga Sadhana, first a weekend retreat here in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and then next week we kick off the 21 day online Durga Sadhana Immersion. I feel a subtle tremor in my soul, similar to what I imagine [Read More...]
Unplug from the drama
When you feel that knot in the belly, when there is a court drama playing in your head, when you panic, when you worry, when you regret it the moment you push the send-button. When you hear yourself say yes, or no, again, shrinking inside. When it’s not enough, or way to much. When his/her [Read More...]
A 21 day Durga Sadhana Immersion
Sadhana means spiritual practice, spiritual practice is love. For 21 days you offer yourself onto the altar of awake living, and with the support of a global circle of wild hearted Dharma sisters + daily practices and short sutras of awakening, you will re-connect with and re-commit to a truth which is deeply rooted in [Read More...]
With the expansion comes the contraction
Yesterday evening after I came home from Monday night Women’s Temple my love asked me, tell me, how is it to be you? Like moss, like warm velvet. Infinite. Still and held. Not in any way airy, it is full. Full of dark softness. And no impulse, what so ever, to do, anything. This is [Read More...]
5 Reliable Anchors to Sanity
I am in the middle of a creative explosion. I could call it challenging, trail blazing, obsessive, divinely inspired, mad, exhausting, blissful, meaningful. High. Fast. Vast. Ferocious (and many more words if I was more fluent in the English language.) Lets just call it intense. It is in times like this I get to experience [Read More...]
Are you allowing yourself to be supported?
In my Yoga class this morning I found my self leaning my legs up towards the wall, a blanket was rolled up underneath my thighs. I had two pillows supporting both my wrists, and one under my head. Oh, and did I mention the warm soft blanket hugging my whole body? This was the point [Read More...]
Millions and millions of women have prepared for this time
I know that life sometimes sucks, I know you have been through hell. I know people have disappointed you, hurt you, that you have failed many times, that you have regrets and unfulfilled dreams. I know that your body does not always fit into the image that you want it to be. I know relationships [Read More...]
Spiritual Practice is Self Love
I love spiritual practice. Yes I know, some cringe thinking about the dreaded D word (yes, discipline..) having had too many authority figures telling us what to do. But we can also view our commitment to practice as self love. It is a commitment to that which truly nourishes us. We feed the practice, and [Read More...]
2011 Nobel Peace Prize goes to [Real] Women
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2011 is to be divided in three equal parts between Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work. From www.nobelprize.org They were dancing, Leymah Gbowee [Read More...]
Take a Stand – and a thousand doors open
~ a contribution to the Girl effect blog-campaign FOR ME FEMINISM IS ABOUT SISTERHOOD. I BELIEVE I AM NOT FREE IF THERE IS ONE WOMAN WHO’S NOT FREE IN THE WORLD. I HAVE BEEN A WARRIOR WOMAN, AND I WANT MY GRANDDAUGHTERS TO BE WARRIORS AND MOTHERS. I SAY, HAVE THE NURTURING PART, HAVE THE [Read More...]
A ticket for my new life
Guest blog by Renate Wernet For my 40th birthday, I got a rather unusual gift: a picture frame full of money and flyers for spiritual workshops. But I was more surprised by the words glued to the middle of this picture frame: A ticket for your new life Clearly, my friends could see what I [Read More...]
Durga- the Tiger Riding Goddess
In the celebration of the Navratri holiday coming up soon (starting September 28th), we are re-posting this short text+ video on the Goddess Durga. I myself am on my way down to Yoga Kula in Berkley, to spend the weekend in an immersion in the three faces of the Goddess, lead by master philosopher Douglas [Read More...]
Introducing TreeSisters: A speech at Women on Fire
A brilliant talk by a woman on fire. She is embodying feminine leadership, showing us how a purpose bigger than yourself gives you the fire to create miracles. We can expand beyond imagination when we as women hold each other - when we wobble and when we shine. Visit the treesisters.org website Welcome to [Read More...]
The Art of Leading a Women’s Temple Group ~ Free Tele Class
The basis for all spiritual exploration in the Women’s Temple Group is the insight that that which we are longing for is who we already are. Thus our practice is not towards a goal of attainment in the future, it is a process of melting, of unraveling the wisdom and beauty already inherent in each [Read More...]
Embodied Spirituality
Spiritual awakening is not a process in time, it is neither an awesome experience you once had, nor a goal to reach later. Your memories of the past or our plans for the future are simply thoughts. Thoughts coming and going. Your luminous presence is always right here in the moment, fresh and impossible to [Read More...]
How Women & Trees Will Save the Planet
Guest Blog by Elisa Parker from See Jane Do I distinctly remember the smell of pine needles and the crunching sound they created underneath my feet during summer outings at Mt. San Jacinto where my dad served as a California State Park Ranger. As a little girl the trees seemed to tower over me and [Read More...]
The Beloved’s Hands
Guest blog by Mags Deane If there were any purpose to time it would be this: the time it takes for the Beloved to reveal what you have not yet been able to love; the time it takes for the Beloved to soften your heart through the relentless pain and longing of being human. The [Read More...]
