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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 participant, of the Yogini Paradise Retreat in Corfu, and I see it over and over again in the mirror and in the women participating; we all start glowing.

We radiate a pure natural beauty, which arises naturally when we do the feminine embodiment and empowering practices. And it grows by every day at the retreat, stronger and stronger, so by the end of the week we are not only a group of women, we all look like Goddesses! I look around and see women walking with full presence in their bodies, knowing their own healthy boundaries and speaking words of thruth and love. Who would not fall in love immediately?

I am so honored to be part of bringing out this natural essence of beauty in other women, I believe it can bring a real difference in the world.
One of the best way of bringing out this essence in an ongoing way  is to start a Women’s Temple Group, and that is what I am part of now!

Our Temple Group will start next week where I live, in Stockholm, Sweden. We offer two open evenings, then we are ready to form the group of women who will be part of this Beauty-Ride! And in doing it together with another “awakening woman” as a co-leader, I also have a deep experience that I don’t have to do it alone anymore (which is the way I have done it most of the time in my life). Chameli will also give the “Womens Group Facilitator Training” here in Stockholm end of September so I really have the best opportunity ever to deepen my practice and my leadership skills, the feminine way.

If you live nearby and want to join our Temple Group just send me an e-mail

With Love

Maria Vikman

www.yourstrulyclothes.se

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Sep 3rd, 2010
by awakeningwomen.
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Posted in: Awakening Feminine Leadership, Awakening Women Around the World, Body,Beauty,Health, Feminine Empowerment, From the Awakening Women Team.

this is the most touching & genius art I have experienced in a long time

I came across this website today and what I experienced there made me cry.

I will not spoil it for you, so I will not say anything more other than to tell you that you need some speed for your computer and connection to make it work

so head on over to www.thewildernessdowntown.com for a heart expanding art experience

would love to hear your reactions here if you feel like sharing

Sep 1st, 2010
by awakeningwomen.
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Posted in: What We Love, poetry, video.
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The Beauty Way Course

Hi all,

here are some good news for all of you asking for more courses in the US or on the phone: I will be teaching in a powerful course on beauty in September/October together with 8 wonderful teachers on women’s empowerment and beauty.

I look forward to  connect with you there!  In Beauty, Chameli

From Devaa Haley the Course host:

Let me tell you why I’m so excited about the Beauty Way Course. In my work with hundreds of women, I have found that many smart, spiritually conscious women long to live radiant, beautiful lives, yet sometimes they face obstacles to living this dream.

The biggest obstacle is how they feel internally. They may work so hard that they are exhausted and have no juice. They may judge their bodies for the way it looks. They may not treat themselves with deep love and respect–to name a few of the issues that crop up regularly.

To access our true beauty, we need to move through these obstacles that obscure our radiance. We need to develop tools to connect with the divine essence at our core. And then we need to align our body, emotions, appearance, and life with that inner wellspring of joy.
The Beauty Way course is designed to do just those things. We’ve pulled together 8 top experts who will offer you important keys to a juicier and more satisfying way of being, as well as a journey of discovery for the spiritual dimensions of beauty. We see this as part of the return of the feminine that is needed to heal our culture and our world.

A woman who is living with passion, vitality, and purpose is beautiful, regardless of her outer form.

Click here to learn more about the course, or to sign-up now.

Sep 1st, 2010
by awakeningwomen.
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Posted in: Body,Beauty,Health.

What story are you telling?

Guest blog by Lisa Schrader

I listened to myself telling my tale of heartbreak to a new friend recently and in my boredom with my own story, I had a realization.

Before the chapter called, “My Husband of 20 Years Left Me,” something powerful happened that I forget to tell.

I was visiting Mt. Shasta. I walked a labyrinth at the base of the mountain, circling deliberately and slowly, back and forth, on the pebble pathway. Arriving at the center, I raised my heart to the sky and said a fierce invocation to the heavens. It went something like, “God-Goddess, I ask you to remove any and all obstacles that are in the way of me becoming fully who I am and bringing my gifts to the world.”

This is the kind of prayer that should come with a big fat warning label (especially when you say it at the base of Mt. Shasta).

About three weeks later, he left and life, as I’d known it, fell apart. Continue reading →

Aug 31st, 2010
by awakeningwomen.
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Posted in: Feminine Empowerment, Love and Relationship.
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MY LIVED EXPERIENCE IS THAT WOMEN SIMPLY ADORE WOMEN

as you maybe already know by now one of our (white hot) mottoes in the Awakening Women community is that; I don’t have to do it alone.

(Oh, why not) please say it with me (out loud) I DON’T HAVE TO DO IT ALONE!

okay (feels good right?)

so since I am a woman who has made it my life mission to create conscious women’s community, you can imagine that the Awakening Women work was not created in a solo sweating heroic drama (although there’s moments like that too), I love to work in team. I love to get support. I get coaching and consulting and I get massage as often as I can.

one of the awesome women who has been supporting the Awakening Women work with fierce creativity, clarity and hands on practical business and web skills is Danielle LaPorte, a spiritual blog diva, and a business fire starter. I bow, I bow ,I bow.

now that I have done my adoring (for now)

over to some of Danielle’s out of this world prose…

MY LIVED EXPERIENCE IS THAT WOMEN SIMPLY ADORE WOMEN:

: Women shake their cosmic pom poms. Go sister go! How many times has a girlfriend told you, that you got it going on, before your head out the door or the dressing room? That even though your new haircut makes you look like a mushroom, your ass looks grrreat. They’ll be looking at your ass all night, not your hair. Really, you’re hot. Just keep your hat on and don’t sit down. Go get ‘em.

: A woman makes a cup of her heart. She carries your concerns and fears with you, for you. When your eyes fill up with teary news, so do hers. It happens with women you’ve known for years, with women you just met at the grocery store, in the ladies room, in a prayer circle. She carries your story with her. She mixes honey with it and re-tells it to you and helps you notice how great you’re doing, in spite of everything, because of everything.

: Women bear their fangs for you. Like when Tammy threatened to butt her cigarette out between buddy’s eyebrows if he didn’t leave us alone. He walked, we rocked.

: Women feed each other – literally and figuratively. Think of all the meetings or retreats you’ve been to. Who brings the cocoa and sparkling water? Who remembers that you’re lactose intolerant? Who asks you if you have everything you need?

: A woman will sacrifice without calling it a sacrifice. Leila was three months pregnant. I was moving cross-country (again.) Road trip anyone? We U-hauled our way from Seattle to Santa Fe with Leila coughing her cookies at every truck stop. I made it to my desert home and she flew back to the coast. And named her little girl Phoebe Danielle.

: Women hold on. It’s like Audrey Hepburn said, “Never throw anyone out.” It’s like my soul sister Donna says, “We’re all bozos on the same bus so just go with it.” Meep meep.

: Women bypass history. A good sister listens to you bitch about the same jerk for years, she helps you pack when you’re smart enough to leave, and she stands by you when you repeat the same lesson with the next emotionally lame lover. She loves you enough to let you do it your way – again, and again, like it was the first time. No drama is too big for big women.

: A woman howls to help you remember what matters the most. She loves you enough to intervene. She will drag you out of your comfort zone and into the moonlight to say “What the fuck are you doing? You may have temporarily forgotten who you are, but I haven’t and I’m hear to remind you.” Like when Karen told me over green tea, “D, maybe it’s all about the divine feminine for you, maybe that’s the question to live. It’s time to move on from playing small.” Arooooo!

: Women touch you. Michelle and I went to visit a friend in the hospital recovering from surgery. Miche brought lavender lotion and massaged Friend’s feet while she lay achy and groggy. I’ll never forget that stunning moment of loving service.

: Women push. Push babies out, push babies into the world. Baby ideas. Baby thought forms. Baby parts of you. “But Danielle, it’s just a thought-form that you ‘can’t take more,’” Navjit told me. “Don’t constrict. Expand.” Boundaries, pushed.

: Women know how to navigate the layers because they love the layers. Folds of skin, the sediments of time, the stories that build into the present. Like how Candis not only remembers what I love but knows why I love it. She is reverent, keen, actively interested in the why of me – and that is what it means to be witnessed by a woman. Word.

by Danielle LaPorte

To work with Danielle one-on-one,  is awesome AND it is has a price tag that calls for major commitment. BUT, just recently she launched The Fire Starter Sessions, e-book/web program where you can drink from her well-of-wisdom for a quarter of what she charges for her individual consultation. I have not read the program myself (yet) but I have come to trust the level of quality from this lady.

Click and learn more

Aug 26th, 2010
by awakeningwomen.
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Posted in: Awakening Feminine Leadership.

UPON BODILY PLEASURE OPENING INTO SOME HUGE SPIRITUAL HAPPENING

Poem By Blake Steel

What is this innocent, mysterious sensation
that permeates every cell of our body
when we dare to stretch as fully open,
as vulnerably open as we can?
What is this God designed drug
that makes our insides a paradise of soft pleasures,
that makes our bodies move to some
music of motion flowing from the core of us,
melting the mind steady in Light
calling it out of old defenses
into this very instant where Light’s magic happens?
It takes a powerful Love to handle it,
to not get lost in it, Continue reading →

Aug 25th, 2010
by awakeningwomen.
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Posted in: poetry.

Touch the bits! Touch the bits!

Let’s start this glorious day with an enlightening (and funny funny funny) reminder from Amanda Gore, of how men and women sometimes approach intimacy with a slightly different understanding of what will open the sexy  flow’n glow ….

Aug 25th, 2010
by awakeningwomen.
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Posted in: Love and Relationship, video.

The Awakening Women Practices ~ Video

Here is another clip from the Dharma jam I did with Richard Miller from NeverNotHere.com TV.

You can see the first clip on Feminine Embodiment here

You can see the full interview at NeverNotHere.com, and we will also post many more shorter clips here, and on our Fb page. If you feel inspired remember to share the love!

(and BTW I am so touched to see just how much you all are sharing after we put up those handy small share buttons. Thank you Thank you thank you. I bow)

Aug 22nd, 2010
by awakeningwomen.
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Posted in: Feminine Empowerment, Practices and Tools, video.

The Beauty Way

Guest Blog By Devaa Haley

When we experience something truly beautiful, it can open-up the universe and allow grace to bathe us in Her sweet embrace.  Whether it be an incredibly gorgeous landscape, the smell of a rose in full bloom, an exquisite piece of music, or a delicious mouth-watering bite, when the senses are titillated and deeply experienced, we create a portal to commune with our true essence.  That essence is pure, radiant and divine.

Picture this: You are walking at sunset at on a long stretch of white sand, with soft grains that slide between your toes.  The air is filled with the gentle sound of small waves lapping against the shore.  As the amber sun drops its bright face below the horizon, it bathes the beach in a pinkish glow.  A slight breeze brings you the smell of an open bonfire, while the taste of saltwater licks your lips.  You wrap an arm around your beloved, who is walking beside you.  And you smile.

As I allow myself to imagine this scene, I feel my own heart begin to open.  I feel the boundaries that separate me from the world begin to soften and relax.  I start to let go. Continue reading →

Aug 19th, 2010
by awakeningwomen.
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Posted in: Body,Beauty,Health.

Initiation from Life: The Story About the Goddess Inanna ~ Video

Inanna is an ancient Sumerian goddess, and her journey down into the underworld provides a powerful lesson about crisis, about the times in life when things are more painful then we think we can bear. Each and every one of us will experience times when things fall apart, times when we lose a loved one, a relationship, a job, or even a home. During these times, we are forced to let go of how things have been. We are stripped of part of our identity. It can feel terrifying, it can feel unfair, yet these moments when our self-identity is less solid can provide a powerful initiation into a greater sense of freedom. The dismantling of identity throws us into unknown territory and into change.

Our western culture has little patience for these times of change and transformation. We run around, with our tight, busy schedules, claiming we don’t have time for grief, loss, or a crisis. We are impatient; we think that something is wrong and that we must simply “get over it” and get back to “normal” as quickly as possible. In our attempts at efficiency, we lose out on the wisdom and growth found in the grieving and transformation process.

It is vitally important that we allow ourselves to be with our feelings of grief for as long as it takes for them to compost into something fertile and new. Sometimes this process takes time, a long time. But, if you can surrender to the experience, like you have practiced doing with your fear and anger, you will find a jewel waiting for you. The darkest parts of your experience have much to teach you. When you willingly open to feel your pain, your heart breaks wide open, your eyes become clear, and your feminine roots can grow stronger and your ability to feel compassion deepens. Continue reading →

Aug 18th, 2010
by awakeningwomen.
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Posted in: Feminine Empowerment, Practices and Tools, video.
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