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 ‘Feminine Empowerment’
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...]
Don’t resist the Holy
She sat in front of me with that burning heart that I have come to recognize as the very essence of a Yogini sister. So in love with truth, so dedicated to the “real deal.” I could spend my whole life just kissing her feet. We were in a gathering with a group of yoginis, [Read More...]
The inner voice
WHY IS IT WHEN WE TALK TO GOD WE’RE SAID TO BE PRAYING, BUT WHEN GOD TALKS TO US WE’RE SCHIZOPHRENIC? ~ Lily Tomlin For 14 years, Meinrad Craighead lived as a nun in Standbrook Abbey in England. Now, she’s an artist in New Mexico, spending her days creating lush, colorful paintings and charcoal drawings. [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...]
Longing is the deepest design of the Universe.
Guest offering by Sukhvinder Sircar The universe as we know it was at origin one unmanifest whole, the remembrance of which lies deep in every particle of it. The secret & spirit of evolution is embedded in this longing. Longing is not a sign of incompletion. It can exist even in the most peaceful and [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...]
One day you just find yourself dancing
The infinite universe planted a seed. Inside the seed is all the wisdom, the inspiration and clarity, everything the seed needs in order to grow into what it is meant to be. It has the spark of life within it, and will, in one way or the other, grow to fulfill its incarnation, because there [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...]
A 21 Day Lakshmi Sadhana Immersion
~ aligning your life with your souls desire With Chameli Ardagh & The Global Awakening Women Circle January 25 – February 15, 2012 You are invited! Get all the details here. Image: Bibbi Friman
pssst… sister… the universe is hiring
So I pray. It is my job. For real. Everything that we explore in the Yogini circles, everything you read here, everything, arises from prayer. But what about self empowerment? What about taking charge of our lives? What about looking for the answer from our own wisdom? What about all the ways women have given [Read More...]
Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart
Candles burning, Tibetan incense whispers secrets in the early morning. I am re-emerging slowly up to the surface after almost 21 days of Sadhana, of Spiritual Cleanse. Daily I claim my seat among the outrageously devoted Yoginis. Prayers and howls are the soundtrack of my days, the inner channels humming with sparkly fresh winds, the [Read More...]
When will you surrender to the dance? For real.
Every living being perceives subject and object, but the Yogini resides in their union. ~ Vijnanabhairava Your body is energy, energy that sometimes moves so slowly that it appears and feels solid, yet in it’s deepest essence, at the crossroads where the scientist and the mystic gaze at each other in absolute surprise, we find [Read More...]
Monsters Need Love Too
Guest Blog by Toko-pa Turner Every self-respecting superhero has an arch-enemy. No matter how strong you get, there will always be a personal kryptonite that drops you to your knees, reduces you to tears, keeps you up all night churning, or causes you to behave badly. Even if you’ve grown wise to it, somehow it [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
Do you want a Temple Name?
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 [Read More...]
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...]
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...]
Have you had tea with your inner monsters lately?
At the very beginning of time there existed a single sublime couple: the lovely mother earth, Gaia, and the magnificent heavenly sky, Uranus. Gaia was so beautiful that Uranus desired to make never-ending love with her. This celestial lovemaking produced awesome gods, pretty human beings and unwholesome frightful monsters. Ever maternal, she loved them [Read More...]
