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 ‘coaching’
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...]
Where do you find your worth?
Today I’m contemplating the message of Lakshmi, the Goddess of true wealth. In these days of “get- your- dream- sports- car- using- the- law- of- Attraction” and “I-do-it-my-way” , the Deep Feminine is calling us to sincerely investigate what is true wealth. What is success? Lakshmi has 108 names, and each name represent a different [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...]
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...]
I am in. With both feet.
I used to think of commitment as limitation, that if I chose one thing then I would miss out on other options. Especially in relationship. If I would choose one man then I will miss out on other men. We hear it all the time: commitment and freedom are polarities, they are opposites. In my [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 Power of Longing
(image from ashesandsnow.org) If I asked you what area of your life is not really fulfilling for you, what area of your life is most compromised or lacking, I will guess that 90% of you will answer “intimate relationship.” This does not mean to imply that we all have dysfunctional relationships or that we are [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...]
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...]
Surrender
We have been meeting in the Women’s Temple every Monday for more than five years now. It is still my main spiritual practice and my satguru. In the beginning of this year we initiated many new women into the temple and we decided to all reclaim our beginners mind. So we went back to our [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...]
Just Like Me ~ a practice for you
Our “shadow side” are resisted aspects of ourselves. These are aspects that do not fit into the image we carry of ourselves, they can be both positive or negative. We tend to project our shadow side onto other people or circumstances. This exercise will help you call the disowned parts of you home. Just Like [Read More...]
Stop…
Right here. Can you feel it? Life? Right here. Right here is the very edge of evolution. Just now as these words are offered, as small helpless bridges from one breath to the next, life is unfolding. Life is not happening to you. It is also not happening by you. It is happening , and [Read More...]
Making Love with Life- A Feminine Practice For You
Notice how your breath enters the body. Begin by noticing the breath coming in through your mouth or nose and going deeper inside of you. Rest your awareness in the sensation of the breath. With each breath you relax your body a little bit more and allow the breath to enter you a little bit [Read More...]
