‘Does it hurt?’ asked the Rabbit. ‘Sometimes,’ said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. ‘When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.’ Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,’ he asked, ‘or bit by bit?’ “It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It [Read More...]
Posts under ‘Body,Beauty,Health’
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...]
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...]
The Trance Of Judgment And Comparison
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...]
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...]
A woman awake to her Shakti knows herself as a spark of divinity
“It you want to be passionately in love, begin with being passionately in love with yourself.” ~ Lisa Schrader
When the Yoginis gathers in Corfu, something magical happens
Dear Sisters, Since the first time we gathered on the magical island of Corfu five years ago, our practice and connection to the ancient lineage of feminine practitioners have deepened in ways I could never have imagined. Together we have created a sanctuary for the feminine. We do it together. And together, we evoke real [Read More...]
My feet once stilled, are dancing today
Women are dancing, everywhere Feel the rhythm, move those hips This IS the time Join the movement Get your Shakti blast The Art of Leading a Womens Temple group. Free Tele class
My heart ripped open and inside I found a tiger
I tell you the journey was intense. I think I died. I am still here. Last spring I was told I had cancer. I am sure that the young eager doctor did his very best, but it turned out he was wrong. I did not have cancer (thank you, thank you, thank you.) Now when [Read More...]
The Journey Home to Beauty
It is natural to love and be attracted to beauty. When someone recognizes beauty in the color of your eyes or in the curve of your thighs, it can feel nourishing and vitalizing. This does not automatically close us to presence; on the contrary, it can relax and open us so that our radiance can [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...]
let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
Wild Geese You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world [Read More...]
I found out what true happiness is…
This spring I have been on quite a journey down into the dark valleys of fear and death. And back. I am still digesting the learning and awakening that happened and still are happening within me and in my marriage and my work. My husband and best friend Arjuna has written a wonderful article about [Read More...]
The Goddess in Your Vagina
We came across this article by Kristin Luce at elephantjournal.com, an important and brilliant read about how a pelvic exam can be a spiritual practice. Here is an excerpt: _________________________________________ Then I begin to touch this strength in myself, the strength to open, utterly vulnerable, into another person’s hands. To yield honestly and wholeheartedly, present [Read More...]
About giving, bitterness and learning to receive.
Women love to give. It gives us deep pleasure to give. In fact, our body produces healthy hormones when we give. It’s essential for the feminine to give. But what we do is that we give and we give and we give and we give and we give and we give and we give and [Read More...]
Where is My Passion & Spark?
Guest Blog By Lisa Schrader A common complaint I hear from women I meet in my retreats and coaching sessions, is that they just don’t have the “energy for sex.” It feels like a chore, another item on the already overwhelming “to do” list. They often find themselves “giving up or giving in.” If you [Read More...]
Aphrodite and the art of rallying toward exalted moments
Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the [Read More...]
