Sunday, May 9, 2010

Women's Healing Circles

I have come up with a way to allow others to partake of my experience and love for dance, healing, yoga, meditation, sharing good ideas and being in the company of like minded women. It is called "The Women's Healing Circle."

"The Women's Healing Circle" is inspired by the books of Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen, the teachings of Yogi Bhajan/Kundalini Yoga, Llewellyn Vaughn Lee and numerous other visionaries emphasizing the need to actively work with feminine consciousness and the ancient feminine beauty of oriental dance.

In this circle, we will briefly talk about the role of the feminine in bringing about changes in our world, do breathing exercises and stretches based on yoga to help us connect to our center and then some movement meditations based on the form of the infinite "8" from middle-eastern dance to mantra music. We finish with a healing meditation. The circle is open to women of all ages and fitness levels.

As we get get in touch with our bodies and feel better about ourselves as women living in this exciting time, we can effect all sorts of change in the world. As an example, some of the proceeds from The Circle will go towards EQUIS-MGF , a Pan-African women's group based in Catalunya providing training to African women to help educate other women to prevent female circumcision and promote family planning and health awareness.

I will be facilitating the Circle on Sunday, May 16th in Espai Para Deesses (The Goddess Space) in Vilanova i la Geltru (Paseo Maritimo, 107, 8º, 3ª), just south of Sitges. I also facilitate The Circle on Saturday, May 22 in the Integral Yoga Center of Sant Pere de Ribes.

I've been deeply inspired by listening to some extraordinary women from a free online series of talks called Women on the Edge of Evolution. This series features Jean Shinoda Bolen, Marianne Williamson and Barbara Marx Hubbard talking about the business of co-creating a better world, starting with our selves.

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