In our feminine embodiment practices we are not so interested in “why”. Analyzing has its place, of course, but in terms of exploring the deeper layers and the piercing potential of the feminine path, we are encouraged to let go of the linear “cause and effect” thinking. Everything is connected, but in a much multifaceted [Read More...]
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I belong in this circle
This I know: I belong in the circle of Yoginis. I have always been here. This circle is my teacher, satguru, it is my home, it is my sisters, it is my mother. It is myself. The Yogini lineage goes way back for thousands of years, and the practices we explore in the Awakening Women [Read More...]
the intuition game
This practice will help you become familiar with the underlying river of intuition. It is a way to practice surrender, to discover how life unfolds without your interfering. You will need a whole day with no agenda (ok, a few hours will also work if it is hard to take a whole day.) Take some [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...]
The Monk and the Moon ~ video
I dedicate this day to that which truly matters. With Love, always
The Curse of the Spaghetti Mind
Once in a while I meet a woman who has that exhausted look of someone who is lost wandering the endless tangles of the spaghetti mind. (Imagine your head as a pot of spaghetti- mamma mia!) Her eyes are matte, and she is biting her fingernails in anguish. Her breath reaches no further down than [Read More...]
Sister, remember this:
:: you are completely and utterly loved. :: the intelligence that grows the leaves on the trees, is also moving you. Surrender. :: your body is a miracle. It breathes, it pumps, it digests and it moves. It is God in action. Just stop. Stop right now, being so violent towards it. :: the body [Read More...]
What is the virtual Women’s Ashram? ~ Free Tele-Class
You are a magnificent, unique and brilliant woman. Each time you fully show up as you, the entire celestial gallery of Goddesses are throwing their hands in the air, howling in ecstasy. But, even though you know you want to live this precious life with all you got…you want to feel the breeze on your [Read More...]
I will not hold my self back to fit in and I will support you in doing the same
For four years I had the honor to meet with a very special circle of girls. They were fourteen young women and we started to meet when they were in sixth grade. The story that follows is about a practice we did together the first time we got together. One of the girls, Anna, had [Read More...]
Are you pushing the river?
One of the most common complaints of our culture is that we don’t have enough time. Stress and burnout are our new plagues. We suffer from insomnia, but hardly anyone is really awake. As we deepen our feminine spiritual practice, connecting with our bodies, cultivating an open receptivity to the moment, we start to listen [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...]
Break the Spell of Fear
To me the Awakening Women Way is both an inner journey as well as an outer journey, and the outer journey has taken me around the world and I’ve been meeting with thousands of women in many countries by now. Together we are exploring, like we are exploring together here, how we can live a [Read More...]
Feeling All the Way to God
I have been in sorrow’s kitchen and licked all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hand. Zora Neale Hurston Most people are surprised when I talk about being with feelings as a spiritual practice. How can our feelings, which so often [Read More...]
About Commitment, Passion & the Masterpiece
My passion, my mission if you will, is to inspire women to reconnect with the magnificent power, wisdom and joy of the feminine. This is my work and in my view I have created the most incredible work for myself. It is of course not perfect for everyone but for me its the best work [Read More...]
We spit out borrowed ideas, we want the real deal. The direct undeniable realization of the pure beauty that we are.
—————————————————————————————————————————————————– I am sitting here on my last evening in Corfu. It is the completion phase of our Yogini Paradise retreat 2010. I am just surfacing after two weeks of deep-diving into feminine practices. It feels as we have created a magnificent women’s ashram here on this beautiful island in Greece, it is the fourth [Read More...]
Reclaim Your Prayers
When I travel and meet women, I love to create space for devotion. Many share that it is as they have forgotten this essential part of human expression. One devotional expression, which some feel awkward about, is the practice of prayer. Too often prayer has been associated with asking for something. We pray to someone [Read More...]
Awaken the Sleeping Beauty ~ an initiation into womanhood
Guest blog by DeAnna L’am The story of Menarche, our first period, is rarely told. I find it interesting that women, who tend to share everything with one another, from first sexual encounters to stories of survival and recovery, are silent about this one. We have come a long way as women. We became assertive. We [Read More...]
sadness-shield anybody?
and here it comes. The fall. the storms, the rain, the darkness. the heart ache. the sadness. and no. The feminine embodiment practices does not make me feel less. Or make me have heavenly control over my feelings (I did after all, right there in the kitchen supply store earlier today, between the shelves with [Read More...]
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...]
ATISHA’S HEART MEDITATION
Allow your breath to move gently in and out of the middle of your chest, enlivening the center of the chest, the center of your heart. Imagine that there is an open window in the middle of your chest, an open window into the vast sky of the heart, an open window into consciousness. As [Read More...]
