Connecting with your Divine Feminine

Art work by Arna Baartz http://arnabaartz.com/

Wednesdays from 7:00 to 8:30pm

A weekly class for women where we will exercise our bodies and spirits using meditation techniques and yoga as well as practicing different types of healing. The goal is to connect us with the divine feminine.

*Ellen Weissbuch, who will be leading the sessions, has been empowering women's spirituality, personal growth, and holistic living through ritual, movement, meditation, and healing arts for nearly 30 years.

Ellen is certified as a Kundalini Yoga teacher and Sat Nam Rasayan practioner, Somatic Respiratory Integration facilitator and women's circle facilitator. She has also taught middle-eastern dance and is the owner and creator of Elenware Holy Sheramics, a hand-crafted pottery and jewelry business.

When she is not in the pottery studio, or working with clients, Ellen also works in schools and after school programs supporting the natural wisdom of children and helping sustain their transformative values and ideas into adulthood.

Her ultimate vision is the integration of authenticity and consciousness in daily life, to create a future where women have a powerful voice and presence.

Recommended donation 10 euro.

Place: C/ Escoles Pies, 17, 2-1, Sitges (the narrow glass door/la puerta estrecha de cristal)

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One Billion Rising!!! One week away!!!!!

I have had the honor of helping organize the 1 Billion Rising event in Barcelona, Thursday February 14th from 7 to 9 pm. We will be dancing and singing and celebrating that the time has come for women to stop living in fear of rape and violence.
I am rising because I know too many women that live with the scars of such abuse. I'm rising because I want to live in a world where girls have the same right to attend school as boys, where women feel safe to dress as they like and be out as late as they want without fear.
Below is a message by Eve Ensler, founder of this global event. For more information and to find an event near you visit http://onebillionrising.org/

Spirit Dance Festival Fiesta de la Luz in Barcelona Saturday the 21st of July

I'm very excited to be participating in the Spirit Dance Festival Fiesta de la Luz in Barcelona Saturday the 21st of July.




I will be selling my sacred symbol necklaces, mugs, plates and bowls as well as new and used dance clothes and accessories from the years that I taught dance. I have new leotards and nearly new bollywood and tribal costumes as will as loads of belly dance costuming.

There will be workshops in nearly every type of dance you can think of. For more information visit the Fiesta de la Luz on Facebook or their blog.

I am still looking for a ride there and back and clothes horse. I have a free ticket for the person that can help me. 

October 16th is our next healing circle

Last month Mercé (sitting to the far right in the photo) shared a movement meditation for the heart chakra. It inspired mystical experiences in many of us. Mercé leads weekly movement meditations in the Barcelona area and is an avid blogger who shares loads of information on women's issues, meditation and green lifestyles. Visit her blog Este Instante and practice your spanish.

In our circle this Saturday, Lesya Starr is sharing a movment meditation based on a technique called Río Abierto. Lesya is a innovative dance teacher and founder of the Mujer Desconocido Dance Collective in Barcelona.

The Golden Sufi website has some new audio and video recordings that talk about the importance of working with feminine energy at this point in humanities evolution. There is a wealth of thought provoking and inspiring information there.

As always, there are more inspiring lectures in the Tedtalks series. Hans Rosling shares an astonishing and mostly unreported piece of news that humanity is winning the war against child mortality. The most effective way to do this, he says, is educating women. Not a surprise, but it's nice that the UN has put it in writing.

My Youtube channel

I spent today creating a youtube channel so I could share videos I've taken of friends and friends have taken of me. There's lots of mantra music and a bit of mantra in movement there. Have a look when you get the chance. The channel is named with my spiritual name, Gurubachan Kaur ,which, in gurmukhi, means the princess that brings the message of the teacher.

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.