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...]
Posts Tagged ‘awakening women’
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...]
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...]
how do we bear the unbearable?
Some times it is tempting to just numb out isn’t? Sometimes it can feel too overwhelming this thing called life. Especially life lived through an awake feminine body…aaaaghh. I feel things so deeply, I always have. I guess I just had to bring practice to my stormy inner world, to stay sane. So here I [Read More...]
Authentic
I am back home, after a looong tour. More than any trips before this one was a radical deepening of my own feminine embodiment practice, and stronger than ever before I feel a longing to move even deeper in the practice together with women who also long for this (I am having a vision of [Read More...]
Your Feminine Leadership Instrument
I wanted to share with you this little practice that I love and that I use a lot when I am on the road You can do this practice sitting down, standing up, I love to do it while walking. Your Feminine Leadership Instrument Earth Breathing – Imagine a point a few feet inside the [Read More...]
The Guest House
Image ashesandsnow.org This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He [Read More...]
When you give up your joy, you give up your power
You have heard me before, raving about my women’s temple group here in Nevada City. Yesterday it was Monday, and Monday night is Temple night. I don’t know how it happened but all of the sudden we were taken over by a powerful divine force. It did not happen while meditating, or while praying, it [Read More...]
Love Grows When You Trust
Hi beautiful ones, as many of you know last week I took a short trip to Germany to meet with Eva Maria Zurhorst and an amazing group of Awakening Women. During the weekend together we played this deep reminder from Tina Turner (wow, she is such a juicy embodiment of the wise woman). We kept [Read More...]
To live with nothing to hide
We all know the feeling we get in our bodies when we are compromising something truly important to us. The body always lets us know, even when the mind is in denial. We shrink in on ourselves, more specifically we can feel it in our solar plexus, and we cannot, in all honesty and integrity, [Read More...]
The Future of Love
A New tele class series on Love. Our host is Ken Wilber and some of the guests are experts like Deepak Chopra, John Grey, Carolyn Myss, Jean Houston as well as Arjuna and Chameli Ardagh and many more. “I Love You” Consider the impact that these words—spoken in the right place, at the right time, [Read More...]
The Feminine Face of Awakening
By Rita Marie Robinson, M.A. For the first time in thousands of years, women spiritual teachers are emerging. And their perspective is unique. Yes, on an absolute level, there is no real difference between men and women. But on a relative level, there is indeed a difference between the feminine and the masculine expression. And [Read More...]
The pain passes, but the beauty remains
Image from Ashesandsnow.org Don’t we all, in one way or another, long to live in love? To connect deeply with each moment, to connect deeply with our children, our friends, and our lover? And again and again we find ourselves being occupied by one emotional state after another. We close down when a feeling arises, [Read More...]
Why I celebrate the International Women's day
In Norway where I grew up March 8th was a big day. We marched in parades through the city, we dressed up in nice clothes, we said congratulation! In Norway women have as close to equal rights as it gets at this time on our planet, so one could easily say, “whats the big deal”, [Read More...]
The other name for longing is love.
We flocked to the mountains. Women from all over Switzerland, Germany and I from California. What called us here? In this ancient house I can hear the floor yearning with every step, the walls wake me up in the night with their songs of longing. The long dead sufi teacher for whom this retreat place [Read More...]
Welcome to the Feminine Rejuvenation Retreat- in Mexico…
Women’s Yoga, Meditation & Embodiment Practices for Awakening the True Feminine Leader with Sara Avant Stover and Chameli Ardagh October 23-30, 2010 Maya Tulum Resort on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula Dear Sisters, When was the last time you wrote “MY TIME” over a whole week in your calendar? That’s what we thought! As busy women ourselves, [Read More...]
How would your life have been different?
(Photo by Mikaela Larm) Guestblog by Jennifer Wynne How might your life have been different, if, deep within, you carried an image of the Great Mother? And, when things seemed very, very bad, you could imagine that you were sitting in the lap of the Goddess, held tightly… embraced at last And, that you could [Read More...]
Every Day Enlightenment
A while back I heard of a Buddhist center in America where they have a practice to stop what they were doing every time the phone was ringing, not to rush to pick it up, but to do their breathing practice: Breathing in calmness- Breathing out calmness At our office at Awakening Women Institute we [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...]
