The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2011 is to be divided in three equal parts between Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work. From www.nobelprize.org They were dancing, Leymah Gbowee [Read More...]
Posts under ‘Awakening Women Around the World’
Take a Stand – and a thousand doors open
~ a contribution to the Girl effect blog-campaign FOR ME FEMINISM IS ABOUT SISTERHOOD. I BELIEVE I AM NOT FREE IF THERE IS ONE WOMAN WHO’S NOT FREE IN THE WORLD. I HAVE BEEN A WARRIOR WOMAN, AND I WANT MY GRANDDAUGHTERS TO BE WARRIORS AND MOTHERS. I SAY, HAVE THE NURTURING PART, HAVE THE [Read More...]
A ticket for my new life
Guest blog by Renate Wernet For my 40th birthday, I got a rather unusual gift: a picture frame full of money and flyers for spiritual workshops. But I was more surprised by the words glued to the middle of this picture frame: A ticket for your new life Clearly, my friends could see what I [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...]
My feet once stilled, are dancing today
Women are dancing, everywhere Feel the rhythm, move those hips This IS the time Join the movement Get your Shakti blast The Art of Leading a Womens Temple group. Free Tele class
How Women & Trees Will Save the Planet
Guest Blog by Elisa Parker from See Jane Do I distinctly remember the smell of pine needles and the crunching sound they created underneath my feet during summer outings at Mt. San Jacinto where my dad served as a California State Park Ranger. As a little girl the trees seemed to tower over me and [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...]
Women’s Ashram is being born: Watch out
Hi, I had an exuberant little conversation with fabulous Dyana Valentine today about the Virtual Women’s ashram. Take 5 minutes and get inspired to live your life in the deep waters of the feminine, get rid of uncomfortable underwear, and to go for the real deal. Love, Chameli
You Don’t Have to Be Super Woman
Guest Blog by Carol Stocks “As I see it any individual has two choices; stick your head in the sand or look around and see what reasonable things you can do to help make a difference.” –Senator Susan Bartlett I think I must hear about global warming every time I turn on the news these [Read More...]
Have you ever given that perfect gift?
Guest blog by Cynthia Kersey The idea comes to you like a lightning bolt. A-ha, that’s it! It’s the perfect gift. It is thoughtful and personal and it will bring great joy to the other person. You can imagine their face when they open it; the big smile, the surprised and delighted eyes and perhaps [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...]
Bathing in My Souls Deepest Potential
Guest blog by Susanna Nova In the movie The Fountain, Izzi says; every shadow, no matter how deep, is threatened by morning light. I love this film, letting it in is like bathing in my own souls deepest potential. Reading the quote above I am feeling the word “threatened”… wondering, but yes, that is often [Read More...]
It Ain’t Easy
Guest blog by Niki Andre “Easy” This word’s been coming up for me a lot in the past months. As in, “Damn Niki, you’re not easy” and “Why do people make relationships so hard? All this game playing. It should be easy” “It is easy” “It is?” Not for me it ain’t. My mother came [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...]
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...]
ROAR
By Cinda Stevens Lonsway It began as a whisper, of one woman leaning into the ear of another, “Do you feel it?” she asked. Then whispered to another, “Do you feel it?” and it began to spread, this whisper, from one woman to another, to another, whispering, “Do you feel it? Do you feel it?” [Read More...]
The dark side of religion
Most of you know by now how much I love the Hindu Goddess Durga, and how much she has meant to our Awakening Women practice. Yesterday we got a message from a blogger in India. Rajeev had read my latest Durga post, and he directed my intention to one of his latest posts about child [Read More...]
