Okay, here is my all time favorite sweet treat: 6 dates (Majool dates if you have, otherwise soak for a bit in warm water) A big scoop of raw almond butter 2 big spoons of melted coconut oil Little bit of salt If you want more sweet, you can add agave or honey or other [Read More...]
Posts under ‘Body,Beauty,Health’
what’s weighing you down?
Today I have joined this wonderful initiative/challenge from Bindu Whiles: The Shed Project. It is about loosing… whatever is weighing you down (Bindu is letting go of 10 pounds+ everything but 100 of her possessions …) I am dragging my gypsy bags around Europe at the moment, but being part of this project, what will [Read More...]
BRINGING NATURAL BEAUTY INTO WOMEN’S LIVES~ The Women’s Temple Group
Guest Blog by Maria Vikman from the Awakening Women Team When I first started to do my feminine practice I knew I was home! Home with “me” and fully in my own body. I did not even know what I had missed out for so long. Soon I stepped into being the retreat organizer, and [Read More...]
The Beauty Way Course
Hi all, here are some good news for all of you asking for more courses in the US or on the phone: I will be teaching in a powerful course on beauty in September/October together with 8 wonderful teachers on women’s empowerment and beauty. I look forward to connect with you there! In Beauty, Chameli [Read More...]
The Beauty Way
Guest Blog By Devaa Haley When we experience something truly beautiful, it can open-up the universe and allow grace to bathe us in Her sweet embrace. Whether it be an incredibly gorgeous landscape, the smell of a rose in full bloom, an exquisite piece of music, or a delicious mouth-watering bite, when the senses are [Read More...]
I’ve become an arms-in-the-air-forehead-to-the-ground-cult member
I’ve become a cult member of the Earth Church (aka the Farmers Market) Church meeting is a blast in the not-too-hot-yet morning sun, lots of hugs from the other devotees, a massage (yes for real! and finally my soul arrived home in California too, the body has been here a week already), latte, local olive [Read More...]
The Primordial Feminine
image Bibbi Friman guest blog by Dorothy Atalla My book, Conversations with the Goddess: Encounter at Petra, Place of Power began on a January day in 1981 in the depths of mid-western winter when I lay down on my living room carpet to relax with music. Inexplicably, a vision of a radiant and beneficent female [Read More...]
Gratitude to Gaia Practice
Sit down to your meal in a relaxed and comfortable state of being. Now, as you begin to eat, open yourself up as if you were being fed directly by Gaia. Offer praise and gratitude for your food and take in the nurturing feeling of knowing that what you consume comes from mother earth, who [Read More...]
We Have Come to Be Danced
by Jewel Mathieson We have come to be danced not the pretty dance not the pretty pretty, pick me, pick me dance but the claw our way back into the belly of the sacred, sensual animal dance the unhinged, unplugged, cat is out of its box dance the holding the precious moment in the palms [Read More...]
Do we perceive beauty?
A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousands of people went through the station, most of them on their [Read More...]
Eating for Peace
A talk by Thich Nhat Hanh All things need food to be alive and to grow, including our love or our hate. Love is a living thing, hate is a living thing. If you do not nourish your love, it will die. If you cut the source of nutriment for your violence, your violence will [Read More...]
8 Easy Ways to Overcome PMS (and Your Other Womanly Woes)
Guest Blog by Sara Avant Stover Pesticides in your food, working long hours, stifling your emotions, air pollution: what do all of these things have in common? They all contribute to you health (or, I should say, ill-health) as a woman. Infertility rates, the early onset of menopause, irregular menstruation, and cancers of the breasts [Read More...]
Touch My Heart and My Body Opens
By Lisa Schrader Our breasts are the gateway to our heart. How do they want to be loved? As women, we are energetically positive at the heart chakra and negative in the sex chakra. It means we often need to be touched and “meet” at the heart—both emotionally and physically—before the energy can drop into [Read More...]
New pathways overflowing with lush greens and fragrant roses
Many of us are using this time of the year as a time to reconsider habits that no longer serve us. Eating habits, exercise habits (or lack of them), mental patterns or relationship habits. Our brain is an amazing tool; it monitors and adjusts so that the energy we have, is spent in the most [Read More...]
the end of the 4 week cleanse
So I did it! 4 weeks herbal cleanse including one week Fasting (!!). Wow. What a journey it has been. It has been wonderful to hear from so many of you who also have been inspired to ADD more vibrant foods into your diet. I say add, because this has been the main key to [Read More...]
The- Yes, thank you I'll have some more- diet
Yesterday I entered the last phase of my four week internal cleanse. This is the fasting phase. I must admit I dreaded fasting. My body usually do not agree with fasting. But here I am feeling soft and clear and open. Not even hungry. (This moves in waves I tell you, but I celebrate this [Read More...]
What is all this about Green Smoothies?
When I moved to California eight years ago I never thought I would end up here, completely utterly in love, with green smoothie. But I am. And it loves me back! It makes me feel beautiful and glowing, it makes me feel balanced and nourished, and it makes me feel passionate and energized. I promised [Read More...]
I am cleansing!
For the last months my body has been in cleansing mode. It is an amazing journey to be participating in. For a long time it just felt so easy, then I hit some days when I was attacked by craving, cravings for all kinds of things. Foods I don’t even like very much. I was [Read More...]
Making Love with Life
When I look around me at the way our culture relate to sex, I get sad. And I must admit it, a bit scared. If the way we display and speak bout sex at all reflects how most people have sex, we have some major collective wounds to deal with. It is a paradox how [Read More...]
You cannot force the seed to sprout
I remember reading a quote from a giant motivational speaker, saying: “you have to improve yourself every single day!” I don’t know about you but I get exhausted just by reading those words… In my Feminine I know, in intimate ways, how nature moves in cycles. Even when it looks like nothing is happening, or [Read More...]
