tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35451321824248147252024-03-19T01:42:40.581-07:00Meztlicihuatl Moon Womanmoon wisdom for today's GoddessesMujer Lunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05404832374929039848noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545132182424814725.post-27130871467622440792012-07-19T10:44:00.001-07:002012-07-19T10:44:44.031-07:00Distant Worldwide Womb Blessing, 2nd August<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Beautiful Goddesses! </b><br />
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This is an open invitation to all of you to join us next <b>2nd of August</b> in this massive and beautiful worldwide event. We are already <b>21, 930 </b>women registered including more than <b>70 registered Moon Mothers</b>, which means the energy will be incredibly powerful and beautiful.<br />
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<b>The Womb Blessing is a gift of Divine Feminine energy for the highest good and in accordance with Divine Love. </b>Let's remember 2012 is the year of the feminine so it is very appropriate to be healing our femininity now. I believe that even if you don't know what is happening in terms of energy, we women are intuitive creatures which means some of you might be experiencing a "strange" need to learn about your femininity, sexuality, heal a certain aspect of your life or simply reconnect with other women. Some women don't understand why they feel pulled to the Womb Blessing, they just know they need to do it and so their intuitive nature guides them to this beautiful healing experience! <br />
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The Womb Blessing is offered at four different times so that women from
all over the world can join us and receive this beautiful gift. The times available are <b>6am, 12 midday, 6pm and 12 midnight. </b>(all of these times are UK times) If you are anywhere else in the world, you can easily check your local time <b><a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/" target="_blank">here.</a></b><br />
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If you would like to participate please <b><a href="http://www.mirandagray.co.uk/register.html" target="_blank">register</a></b> before the <b>30th of July. </b></div>
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I am personally running a group in London, so if you are in the area, <b>you are welcome to join us!</b><br />
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<b>We will be gathering in circle for the 6pm blessing </b></div>
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I am kindly asking women to arrive from 5pm in order to get settled as the energy will start pouring on us at 6pm sharp. After the meditation, we will share our experience of the blessing, some food & tea and rest a bit before we close circle and head home.<br />
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If you are interested in joining, you can check the <b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/113660038778380/" target="_blank">facebook event</a></b> for more details and either confirm through there or by <b><a href="mailto:belinda.garciareyes@gmail.com" target="_blank">email</a> </b><br />
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<li><span class="text_exposed_show">If you would like to participate, please register on the link below so that the energy can be channeled to you. <b>This is the most important step</b> as every name gets printed out and the energy is then channeled to every single person. So even if you forget the rest, you must make sure you are registered for the blessing! <b><a href="http://www.mirandagray.co.uk/register.html" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>www.mirandagray.co.uk/</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>register.html</a> </b></span></li>
<li><span class="text_exposed_show">Please enter all your details correctly when registering and choose the <b>6pm time</b> as this is the time I have chosen to run the group meditation </span></li>
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<span class="text_exposed_show"><span>I </span>look forward to sharing this experience with you!!! <br /> <br /> Goddess Bless you! </span></div>
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Mujer Lunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05404832374929039848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545132182424814725.post-81419955136372778782012-06-14T10:09:00.000-07:002012-06-20T06:40:54.343-07:00Women's circles<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“…everything an Indian does is in a
circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles…The
sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are
all the stars. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of man
is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the past years, I
have found women’s circles to have profound healing power. They are the perfect
space for women to come together and share. A women’s circle can be run for all
sorts of reasons, the choice of topics are endless. You can have reading
circles, knitting circles, art circles, grandmother’s circles, full moon
circles, online circles, red tent circles, dancing circles and so many other
circles!</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Being part of women’s circle
has been a wonderful experience for me, first because it was inside a women’s circle
I was able to recognize that regardless of where we come from our stories are
far from different, and secondly because <b>it was inside a circle that I started
sharing who I truly am. </b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I first started
attending women’s circles, many years ago, I thought I wouldn’t fit in and that
I wouldn’t be able to relate to anyone, that somehow I would be different. Soon
I realized being from Mexico was no different than being from Italy, England,
India, Spain, Croatia or Zambia. Being a woman in any part of the globe means
we know what pain and suffering means and feels, either because of physical, spiritual
or political repression that still exists in our countries and we are able to
feel the collective pain or because we have actually suffered a painful
situation ourselves, and I mean, who has not suffered in their life’s? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I started attending
women’s circles I always felt very emotional,<b> I couldn't even pronounce my name without bursting into tears</b>,<b> the intensity of my unspoken emotions where
too much for me to be able to share.</b> You see, I was raised in a family where
things where just not spoken, it was always better to pretend nothing was going
on than to speak openly and truthfully, so sharing wasn’t part of me. But the beauty
of a woman’s circle is that it has the capacity to hold you and support you in
whatever situation you may be in. There is no pressure for you to share, the
sharing happens willingly. You can just sit and listen to other women’s stories
and identify yourself with them as ultimately we are all mirrors of each other.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Talking in a circle
can be scary but it can also be very liberating,<b> Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
</b>says that sharing our stories has the power to heal us and this is exactly what
a circle of women does, <b>it heals you. </b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Jean Shinoda Bolen</b> in
her book The Millionth Circle also talks about the basic principles of a circle
and about how some circles may come to an end. I feel that a circle will
sustain itself as long as it has been created with utmost love and respect for
all things. However, I also believe we are all evolving all the time and so
some circles may be transitory circles. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I must say <b>I am now
part of the most beautiful women’s circle</b> and I feel truly blessed for having
so many sisters around me who I have come to admire and love with all my heart.
Each one of them has amazing talents and so much wisdom, the times we’ve been
together had been like a huge bubbling cauldron of pure raw wisdom! They’re all my blood
sisters, sharing a common blood, <b>our moon blood. </b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All these beautiful, wise,
talented and powerful women have all been part of my years’ apprenticeship
program with <b>Alexandra Pope</b>. I must say that been part of this beautiful nourishing
circle has helped me grow down deeper into myself, have a deeper connection
with who I am and a clearer idea of my path and my calling. The beauty of this
circle is that we’re all riding the magical wave together and going through
the ups and downs of life, but as I said before, a circle has the capacity to hold
you and nourish you until you feel safe enough to go out on your own and spread
your wings. I feel our year’s apprenticeship program with Alexandra has done
exactly that. It has given us the capacity to unroll our wings one step at a
time and so we are now ready and free to fly! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Life is sometimes too
hard to walk on your own and so you need a circle of women to carry you on…</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Belinda x </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is Wednesday
and this means women around the globe are Wishcasting! If you would like to
join us simply head over <a href="http://jamieridlerstudios.ca/" target="_blank">Jamie Ridler Studios</a> to find out more about it! It is
fun and a great way to make online friends! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So today’s
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">As soon as I saw this I just smiled!!! It seems
the Universe is already playing its magic and allowing me to concentrate at
what I want rather than what I don’t want! :) </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was only
last night I was watching a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FQ7AzXUVeyU" target="_blank">video</a> about creating abundance posted on the
<a href="http://leoniedawson.com/goddess-circle/" target="_blank">Goddess Circle</a> by the beautiful <a href="http://www.loransheart.com/" target="_blank">Queen Loran</a>. I felt so inspired by it that I
immediately though I needed to start concentrating on the things I want and
feel like I have them rather than feeling the lack of it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’m in a
transitory moment of my life where I am leaving my job, I am moving house and I
am looking to move back home at the end of the year. This means I have already started
getting rid of material things I no longer need in order to start a process of <i>feeling lighter</i> and be able to move around
and travel before I head home so there isn’t much I want at the moment. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*<b>A new laptop!</b> My current laptop is five
years old and apart from been slow and not doing what I would like it to do, the
cable that goes to the socket is broken, this means I need to play my magic to
even get it started every day. Not to mention I get scared every time I move
the cable as I might get electrocuted! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* <b>The perfect wardrobe!</b> I wish I had the
perfect wardrobe and key items so I could easily combine my clothes and know
what to wear every day. I am useless at shopping, it takes me ages to buy
something and when I do I either get the wrong size or I come back home and my
new item doesn’t combine at all with anything I have. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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I wish at the moment is to create the right abundance in order to sustain my current
situation and be able to travel and visit my friends around Europe, visit my
sister in Canada and still have plenty money to move back home. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It seems that even in the XXI century women are still
scared of the word <b>menstruation.</b> What
is it with this word that every time we say it our voice goes soft and we end
up whispering as if we were talking about something really awful? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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as <b>Alexandra Pope</b> and <b>Sjanie Hugo</b> where talking about <b>menstruation
and spirituality</b>. I went there to support them and to help spread the word, talk
about their coming workshops and books. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Hearing Alexandra and Sjanie talk about menstruation
to a group of women was a really inspiring experience for me. I just finished
my apprenticeship program with Alexandra so I saw this talk in a completely
different way. So many ideas started popping up into my head about how can I approach
this work in my own practice and the things I could offer to women. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It is amazing how still many women out there have no
idea about their cycles and do not understand they could be working <b><i>with</i></b>
them rather than against them. The sad thing about all of this is that the most
common reaction when we hear the word menstruation is the idea that a women is
in bed suffering with pain but we never think about menstruation in a <b>positive
way </b>and we certainly don’t attribute <b>spiritual </b>connotations to it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Mind Body Spirit festival is supposed to offer spiritual
work but it doesn’t really offer deep radical work. Most things offered can be
found in your main high street, book store, crystal shop, etc. but nothing as
radical as <b>menstrual work</b> or <b>cycle awareness</b>. So it is amazing how the
word menstruation on a well know event like the Mind Body Spirit where
supposedly people are more open to this kind of things are still shocked when
they hear menstruation and spirituality in the same sentence. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">But I have hope just as much as Alexandra and Sjanie
and many other women who are doing wonderful work on the lines of menstruation
and women’s spirituality. I believe the more women start reconnecting with
themselves and finding out the true meaning of their womanhood this work will
start popping up in every high street. So let’s keep holding this vision
together, let’s keep spreading the word. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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joined <b><a href="http://jamieridlerstudios.ca/" target="_blank">Wishcasting Wednesday</a></b> by Jamie Ridler Studios after
seeing it at <a href="http://www.theredboxcompany.com/blog.html" target="_blank">Jo’s blog</a> and many other lovely blogs I enjoy reading and getting
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">So here I am sitting in front of my desk thinking about this
first wish: </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">What do you
wish to delight in?</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first thing
that comes to mind is the fact I wish I had more time to <b>delight
in a morning practice</b>, think about my dreams, write them down, do my daily
meditations, smile and get ready to start my day! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can see
this happening very soon since I won’t have a full time job anymore and so this
means more time in the morning to delight in a morning ritual which can set my
day. I can’t wait for this job to end so I can start a new life, it feels scary
but I just feel new things are coming my way! </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It's already been twelve days since I took the Womb
Blessing Training workshop and I feel the energies are still working through
me. I feel the initiation/blessing has served as a firmer validation of who I
am and my path, although there is still a lot to be done. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Womb Blessing training workshop was a very powerful,
emotional and beautiful experience and it was lovely to finally meet <a href="http://www.mirandagray.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;"><strong>Miranda Gray</strong></span></a> as we had been speaking about organizing something together for quiet
sometime. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We are now 14 <a href="http://www.wombblessing.com/moonmothers.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;"><strong>Moon Mothers</strong></span></a> in England which you will
be able to contact for one on one <strong>Womb Blessings</strong> and <strong>Womb Healings</strong>. It was a
real blessing meeting women from all over the country who are already doing some
kind of work in the areas of <span style="color: #cc0000;"><em>sacred sexuality, menstrual work, rites of passage,
Reiki, herbalism, family constellations, energy work, Divine Feminine, etc.</em>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In our new role as Moon Mothers we will be helping Miranda during the next Distant Womb Blessing which I feel it’s going to be wonderful
experience, not only because we are more women this time but because we might feel a
stronger energy, who knows! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I really hope the number of Moon Mothers around the
globe keeps growing as the more we are the more we will be able to help on
distant blessings as well as on individual sessions, which only means we will
be able to acompany more and more women on their journey. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As from yesterday we were <strong>13,000 women</strong> registered for
the <strong>Free Distant Womb Blessing</strong>. However, it seems women from the <strong>US </strong>and<strong>
Canada</strong> are not very much involved, so if you are reading this and you are from this part of the world, <span style="color: #990000;"><strong>please come and
join us!<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">If you still don’t know what the Womb Blessing is, you
can read about it <a href="http://www.wombblessing.com/eng-aboutblessing.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #990000;">here</span></strong></a>, and if you decide you want to join us just remember to
<a href="http://www.mirandagray.co.uk/register.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;"><strong>register</strong></span></a> before the 3rd of May as registrations close that day. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><strong>The Womb Blessing is a women only event</strong>, so why not
gather with your best friends, family members and create your own circle of
women. If you are in doubt about whether you should take part, just head <a href="http://www.wombblessing.com/eng-aboutblessing.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;"><strong>over here</strong></span></a><span style="color: #990000;"><strong>,</strong></span> where you will be able to read what other women have been asking. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I really hope you can join us! </span><br />
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It has been quite an intense few weeks but I’m really happy to be back with a guest post from a lovely friend and fellow student at Alexandra Pope’s apprenticeship program. </div>
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<b>Jo Macdonald</b> is the owner of <b><a href="http://www.theredboxcompany.com/index.html" style="color: #990000;" target="_blank">The Red Box Company</a></b>, an online shop that offers beautifully wrapped boxes full of essentials for a <b>girls first moon</b>. </div>
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But Jo is not only making periods a positive experience by selling her products, she is also running <span style="color: #990000;"></span><b style="color: #990000;">A celebration day for girls</b><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">, </span></span>a workshop where she helps mums and daughters deepen their connection by opening to a subject that most mums and girls alike feel very anxious about. </div>
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I invite you to have a look at Jo's <a href="http://www.theredboxcompany.com/index.html" style="color: #990000;" target="_blank">website</a> and to find out more check her blog <a href="http://www.theredboxcompany.com/blog.html" style="color: #990000;" target="_blank">The Red Lifestyle</a><span style="color: #990000;"> </span>where she post on a regular basis about periods, puberty, PMS and much more! </div>
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In her amazing book <span style="color: #990000;"></span><b><a href="http://astore.amazon.co.uk/threboco-21?_encoding=UTF8&node=6" style="color: #990000;">A Blessing not a Curse</a></b> Jane Bennett tells the true story of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘a girl who had no knowledge of menstruation when she first started to bleed. She felt utterly devastated and alone. Having no-one she felt she could confide in, she committed suicide.’ </i> </div>
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As a woman and a mother I find this story heart-breaking. I’m sure you do too. So many of us worry about how to talk to our daughter’s about periods, what to say, when to say it etc. We can go round and round in circles worrying about it and forget that the only thing that actually matters is <b>SAYING SOMETHING</b>. It doesn’t matter if you get it all right, it just matters that you <b>START THE CONVERSATION</b>. </div>
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<b>Here are some of my </b><b>top tips for having a successful conversation about periods and puberty with your daughter: </b></div>
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For more information on successful conversations you can download my free book <a href="http://www.theredboxcompany.com/freebies-and-links.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #990000;">7 top tips for talking to your daughter about periods and puberty</span></b></a></div>
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<b>Your daughter only gets her first period once but will continue to menstruate for around 35 years.</b> It’s worth taking the time to make sure it is a positive experience and that her menstrual cycle becomes a positive, empowering part of her life not a curse.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I feel truly lucky to be part of different online women groups as it gives me the opportunity to meet wonderful women from all over the world. Women who are willing to share their path with other sisters so openly…so, today I have a beautiful guest from Germany and I am so excited about it!!! </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">She is a beautiful goddess, mama, doula and a holistic pregnancy and birth coach who runs a website called <b><a href="http://happywithin.wordpress.com/" style="color: #990000;" target="_blank">Happy Within</a></b> where she guides mamas-to-be worldwide to an extraordinary, powerful, life changing pregnancy and birth initiation. She is the beautiful <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Nora </b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Amala Bugdoll</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> or Nora for friends like you and me! </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">When I asked Nora if she would be willing to be my guest she immediately said YES! I felt so blessed by her email, her words and when I finally received her creations, I was so astounded at the beauty of her writing and her painting! </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Nora talks on a regular basis about pregnancy and the spiritual transformation that comes with it. I get asked many times about this topic on email and facebook, and I could tell you what I know about it from an intellectual point of view but I haven’t gone through it myself so I am not the best person to talk about it but Nora is. So, make yourself comfortable, grab a cup of green tea, relax and enjoy Nora’s words from her womb to us…</span><br />
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When you are a woman who is conscious about the power that lies in her blood cycle, you won´t give up your body-soul-power entering a pregnancy. But mainstream pregnancy literature has nothing to say in this direction. So I am glad to share some insights and starting points today with you.</div>
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Our monthly blood is our body-connection to earth and part of our female wisdom. That's how it was seen in non-patriarchal cultures and how some of us decided to see it again. So when a woman does not give back her wise blood to earth but keeps it inside, she is growing a baby out of it, or otherwise keep it in her body and become a wise elder. This is biologically not true but its a really precise and empowering metaphor. So the woman is using her divine power to co-create this baby. <span lang="DE"></span></div>
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Pregnancy and Birth are a powerful initiation for your entire life and it will get more positive-powerful the more you are aware of it, although it will affect your entire life wether you like it or not and not only because you then will have a precious child but also because the way you will experience this transformation.<span lang="DE"></span></div>
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Modern society doesn<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3545132182424814725&postID=4440556085056252407" name="__DdeLink__870_1897906279"></a>’t encourage us to experience pregnancy from a point of personal power and responsibility, the opposite is true. But you can do it anyway – a path that will probably lead you more towards natural birth, breastfeeding, attachment parenting – your heart can guide you in these topics and if this isn’t you that´s fine too. Just stay in your own power, entering this new phase of your life. And this will be challenging enough, because everything changes. Literally every part of your body is affected and will change as well as your mind and psyche does and your baby does while growing inside your womb.<span lang="DE"></span></div>
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As the thread of consistency (in my mother tongue we call this the red(!) thread) in your pregnancy journey to connect with that strength you can use <b>ritual</b> and self-exploring through <b>writing</b> and <b>drawing</b> combined with <b>connection</b> which is a way to celebrate your path. </div>
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For that reason it is very helpful if you set up a <b>pregnancy altar</b> or a pregnancy corner. This can be a space that is dedicated to your own woman-power in general – to which pregnancy and birth are a part of. This corner or altar is there to help you remembering the power in you and reconnecting to it. You can add every touching positive empowering picture or everything that directly refers to pregnancy and birth from a point of women wisdom. </div>
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To be able to feel the connection and power during the ups and downs of pregnancy you will find it extremely helpful to <b>deeply connect with other women</b>. And if you connect from heart with other pregnant women or mothers you respect, you will feel probably more nourished and fulfilled as this is a connection every pregnant women at some level longs for. This is really helping your psyche in the transformation process if it is a woman-circle not only a fear- and comparing-centred chat with others. You can find this kind of experience in general spiritual women circles, in red tent gatherings and birth art cafe gatherings as well as in my virtual birthcircle. </div>
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A simple ritual you can do alone, as well as with a friend or a professional, is painting your belly. How about trying this out even if you still have your normal size belly. Just create a little self-love ritual around it, nourishing your senses: light some candles, play some music, maybe burn an incense and embellish your belly with doodles and patterns. This powerful temple of life. <span lang="DE"></span></div>
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And this is only the beginning. Get yourself a blank book or booklet and start a pregnancy journal. But the important things are not how much weight you gained and what symptoms you feel – although you can note this too. The important things are your feelings. Your sorrows, fears, thoughts. Take them seriously and write them down. This encourages your own wisdom, to show up and lead you to own insights for feeling better. <span lang="DE"></span></div>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-MX;">Today we have a double celebration, yeee!!! International Women’s Day and Full Moon in Virgo!!! </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-MX;">Congratulations to all of us, to the women who read this blog and the ones who don’t, the ones I know personally and the ones I don’t too. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-MX;"></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-MX;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-MX;">Living in a masculine world has created and unhealthy competition among women, plenty times we are full of prejudices, jealousy and envy towards our sisters. Today, I want us to reflect on the sister who makes us feel like this and think of her as you, see your own reflection in her. We are all mirrors, so take a good look at yourself! </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-MX;">She has the same body, the same ideas, the same fears. Help her, hold her, understand her, have compassion towards her, she is your own feminine spirit that yearns and looks for validation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-MX;">I wish love in your hearts today and every day and don't forget to smile to that strange woman as she walks past! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div>Mujer Lunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05404832374929039848noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545132182424814725.post-83452366816270537862012-03-07T02:53:00.005-08:002012-03-12T13:00:32.039-07:00Womb Blessing training workshop in London<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWqPhXzAop6op7jZHTaXcd5zmdPMvNUYPGHnSZdaDH6aBAQgN6KRq8oxt1FChux2aFjlqRxj-2TXy8lFp4yeXwELY6QItEWHFh8TTa07wBvR34wtw_VlUgGm16r-H8dtgwSbjwLfWgyutI/s1600/topbar-blessing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; height: 67px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 602px;"><img border="0" height="63" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWqPhXzAop6op7jZHTaXcd5zmdPMvNUYPGHnSZdaDH6aBAQgN6KRq8oxt1FChux2aFjlqRxj-2TXy8lFp4yeXwELY6QItEWHFh8TTa07wBvR34wtw_VlUgGm16r-H8dtgwSbjwLfWgyutI/s400/topbar-blessing.jpg" width="400" yda="true" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Today I am really excited as I can finally tell you what has been cooking for the last month :) </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">For those of you who participated in the Womb Blessing last February would probably know more about what I am about to tell you. For those of you who don’t know yet about the Womb Blessing, here it is Miranda’s explanation about what it is: </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">‘This Womb Blessing attunement is a simple gift - a gift to every woman of any age and experience who would like to receive it - of energy to bring healing to our femininity, to our womb and its cycle, to our creativity and fertility, to our sexuality and spirituality. </span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The attunement restores our natural purity and beauty, abundance and love, creativity and magic, and our wisdom and strength. It frees us from the past, from limiting expectations, and guilt and hurt, and releases the soul-felt joy and expression of women's power and beauty. It is a beautiful blessing and restoration of light for women's souls in a harsh and masculine world.’</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The 1st Womb Blessing last February given by Miranda Gray had an amazing participation of over 6,000 women around the planet! </span></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The day of the blessing was an amazing day, it was so beautiful and sunny during the day and we had the most amazing silver full moon that night. The attunement to the blessing caused many women to feel joy and positive changes in their lives which prompted them to ask more about this beautiful energy work. How they could learn it or how could they pass it into other women. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #990000;">2012 is the year of the feminine;</span> </span></b><span lang="EN-US">we are feeling the feminine more than ever and this energy is grounding us deeply into mamma earth. For those of you who have been doing this kind of work for quite some time, 2012 feels like a firmer step towards who you are. For women who are new to this work, this year feels like a true awakening, they feel a sudden urge to change the old patters and express their natural femininity. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Whatever you are in your life, we all need this energy, we all need to come back to our pure essence, we need to heal personal and collective pain and we need to share our awakening and love with other women so we can all heal. Miranda’s role in the Womb Blessing is to be a channel of the Divine Feminine energy and with this Womb Blessing Training workshop, she hopes to pass this onto other women so we can all spread this beautiful loving energy onto more and more women. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">It's beacuse of this that Miranda feels it is important to pass this energy and spread the blessing by teaching other women how to be the channels themselves and spread this healing onto more wombs. </span></span><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #990000;">The training workshop is a two day workshop</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US"> where you will learn: </span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">give a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Womb Healing</b> </span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">give the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Womb Blessing</b> </span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">teach women a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">simple self-healing technique</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">share with women the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Womb Blessing meditation</b> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You will also receive a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #990000;">‘Moon Mother’ initiation / attunement</span></b> on the first day which is a gift of the Divine Feminine energies and will make you a channel for this energy and vibration, helping you to cleanse your own patterns. You will be taught how to give a hands-on Womb Blessing to help women gently heal their femininity and their womb energy centre or ‘Sacred Grail’. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">After the two day training workshop you will be a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #990000;">registered Moon Mother</span></b> which means you will be able to give Womb Healing and Womb Blessings. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">‘</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Working with the Womb Blessing energies changes us and changes our lives. Being a <span style="color: #990000;">‘<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Moon Mother’</b></span> is a path for bringing the spiritual energies of the Divine Feminine into everyday life and connecting women in a single, loving, spiritual, and female family.’</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The training workshop is open to all women of all ages, with a womb or without, with a cycle or without, with a medically managed cycle or a natural cycle. However, it is not recommended if you are pregnant. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">I am pleased to announce Miranda's first Womb Blessing training workshop will be in London </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">When:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> 14 & 15th April </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Where:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Tara Yoga Centre, 25 - 31 Ironmonger Row, London, EC1V 3QW (10 mins. from Old Street)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><b>Price:</b> £200 or get the early bird price £180 before the 7th of April. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>For bookings</b> and checking availability please email </span></span><a href="mailto:miranda.gray@footmark.com"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>miranda.gray@footmark.com</b></span></span></a><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>For enquiries </b>you<b> </b></span><span lang="EN-US">can contact me on <a href="mailto:belinda.garciareyes@gmail.com"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>belinda.garciareyes@gmail.com</b></span></a> or on 07758 160191</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span></span></span></span></div><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span></span></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Miranda is planning more Womb Blessing Training Workshops around the country and around Europe, so please check her</span><a href="http://www.wombblessing.com/eng-workshops.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b> website</b></span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> for more information. </span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I hope to see you there!</span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">With love</span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Belinda</span></span></div>Mujer Lunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05404832374929039848noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545132182424814725.post-77264974316585171232012-02-24T14:25:00.010-08:002012-03-11T15:47:23.506-07:00Inner light<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgJ8gLVTxWBGOA5e-xUsIFHxgCANkYTYyEt6N-05lBQx7l7JbxJjmNP_XuvuXuaL2BZVNoruYJOV4oGDKm3j0MaYAinUoYLFZkmKBeXHkVolmBgGajZaNX1yt_rsnZg51QFm6795P6X7rg/s1600/399465_275133129210819_228408953883237_780049_129767257_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgJ8gLVTxWBGOA5e-xUsIFHxgCANkYTYyEt6N-05lBQx7l7JbxJjmNP_XuvuXuaL2BZVNoruYJOV4oGDKm3j0MaYAinUoYLFZkmKBeXHkVolmBgGajZaNX1yt_rsnZg51QFm6795P6X7rg/s400/399465_275133129210819_228408953883237_780049_129767257_n.jpg" width="385" /></a></div><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Today is the last day of my juice detox and I am actually sad it has come to an end. I thought it would be more difficult since it was programmed during my premenstrual phase but instead it has been a real eye opening. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">For the past months, I've had headaches during my premenstruum which made me be in bed most of the time, just retreating in the dark, not wanting to do anything but to rest. I knew this would be probably related to my diet and I tried to improve my water intake but that wasn’t enough. I am not a big drinker so cutting alcohol wasn't a problem. I also removed my morning cup of coffee last month, it wasn't part of my 2012 resolutions that I might not even keep, it just happened. All with the intention to keep my diet clean and see if my symptoms would improve. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">For the past five days, I have been drinking 4 juices a day, 3 liters of water and two cups of hot water with a slice of lemon and ginger, one in the morning and one just before going to bed. I can’t say it hasn’t been difficult, it has! But not as difficult as I though. Yes, I feel hungry and I can’t tell you how much I am looking forward to tomorrow’s breakfast, but a big part of me wants to keep it clean. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I have definitely seen a different side of me, especially now that I am on my premenstrual phase, where I would usually be more moody, have tender breast, bloated belly, lower back pain and most recently, headaches. Today, after five days of juices, I feel happy, alive and mentally strong. I know my energy is coming down and I won’t be running a marathon any time soon but I’m not dragging myself out of the floor and my body is not aching at all. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I have been going through massive changes, internally and externally, but I feel centered. My senses are so alert that I can actually feel a connection between my belly, my heart and my throat. It is as if everything that is coming out of me is coming from this centered power, inner voice, inner light and it feels amazing. I feel very in tune with who I am and very intuitive too. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Don’t get me wrong, I love food, cooking it and eating it, so it has been a real torture to smell food around me. Every time I do, my stomach rumbles but I have kept going, after all five days is not that much! </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It has been amazing realizing how much food affects us in a positive or negative way and how it can certainly affect our cycle. During my juice detox, I kept receiving message from the company I did the detox from, on their messages they would say things like ‘well done, you’re nearly there; make sure you reward yourself today’. My first reaction was: How can I reward myself if I can’t eat?!... luckily, my partner overheard me thinking out loud and he wisely pointed out that there are other ways to reward yourself other than food!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I mean, I knew that, right? but probably I had not seen it so obvious and so clear. I thought I wasn’t the sort of person who eats for comfort but because I am actually hungry. Clearly my subconscious betrayed me and it seems I am. So even if five days is not a long time and I thought my previous diet wasn’t bad, after just five days without solid food, I feel more centered and in control of my emotions and my power. I feel my belly full of fire burning but not burning in a out of control kind of way but rather burning gently lighting my whole being. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">For most women, the premenstrual phase is the hardest to manage, it comes full of emotions, body aches, cravings and so on. But what percentage of theses are our true emotions and what comes from our food? </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">After these five days, it is clear to me food plays a major role, I mean, it’s kind of obvious and you're all probably thinking “I knew that already” but notice it properly, see exactly what you are eating, what are your cravings during this phase. Would it be that it is easier to reach for food rather than dealing with the emotions that are coming up? Be aware of your intake of coffee, sugar, salt, alcohol, drugs, etc. </span></span></div><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So, what was my treat to myself? I filled a warm bath with epsom salts, turned off the bathroom lights and lit a red candle instead. I spent more than an hour in the bath meditating in the dark, soaking in powerful emotions. </span>I am on day 30th of my cycle on the board of bleeding and I have had no pre-menstrual symptoms other than wanting to retreat and I want to keep it this way. From this centered place of love and light, from my womb to your womb, I wish the same for you. </span></span>Mujer Lunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05404832374929039848noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545132182424814725.post-32747409626265270992012-02-01T04:02:00.002-08:002012-02-23T06:47:50.164-08:00Free Womb Blessing by Miranda Gray<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfIhiu9_7DRfqtNJqlcrqakkuB1bsHOXiF4Mz3uu8caM7Wll3rLKRaY2kbGtFIbnjFwYvp9NdZfn7Zsyk-Li8YmhqA211HaHlaK7twdIvn_SrGVOjYhIJPujDN9I4CI3XxBs82rIL_CGYs/s1600/tree-sm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" sda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfIhiu9_7DRfqtNJqlcrqakkuB1bsHOXiF4Mz3uu8caM7Wll3rLKRaY2kbGtFIbnjFwYvp9NdZfn7Zsyk-Li8YmhqA211HaHlaK7twdIvn_SrGVOjYhIJPujDN9I4CI3XxBs82rIL_CGYs/s320/tree-sm.jpg" width="251" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="text" style="margin: auto 0in; text-align: center;"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Join women all over the world for this unique magical experience!</span></strong></div><div align="center" class="text" style="margin: auto 0in; text-align: center;"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We are already over 1,800 women in 40 or so countries!</span></strong></div><div align="center" class="text" style="margin: auto 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div align="center" class="text" style="margin: auto 0in; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Help restore the Divine Feminine, the Goddess energy in the world by tuning to </span></div><div align="center" class="text" style="margin: auto 0in; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Miranda Gray's</strong> <strong>Free Womb Blessing attunement </strong></span></span></div><div align="center" class="text" style="margin: auto 0in; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><strong></strong><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Next Full Moon </span></span></div><div align="center" class="text" style="margin: auto 0in; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><strong>7th Feb 2012 </strong></span></div><div align="center" class="text" style="margin: auto 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div align="center" class="text" style="margin: auto 0in; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A truly unique opportunity to receive attunement to the divine feminine energy to bring healing, blessing and the restoration of the beautiful and magical energies of the feminine.</span></div><div align="center" class="text" style="margin: auto 0in; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">With the current situation in the World, this energy is a gift.</span></div><div align="center" class="text" style="margin: auto 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div align="center" class="text" style="margin: auto 0in; text-align: center;"><em><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Available at four times to suit all world time zones</span></em></div><div align="center" class="text" style="margin: auto 0in; text-align: center;"><em><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">6am, 12hrs, 18hrs, 24hrs GMT </span></b></em></div><div align="center" class="text" style="margin: auto 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Registration ends this Saturday 4th of February </span></b></div><div align="center" class="text" style="margin: auto 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div align="center" class="text" style="margin: auto 0in; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://www.mirandagray.co.uk/wombblessing.html</span></div><div align="center" class="text" style="margin: auto 0in; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Daily updates on facebook </span></div>Mujer Lunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05404832374929039848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545132182424814725.post-68016309690631276742011-12-16T05:32:00.002-08:002012-05-28T07:54:24.312-07:00Alexandra Pope<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When I meet Alexandra Pope for the first time, I felt in love with her energy, her self-assured posture and her ideas about menstruation. Every single word that came out of her mouth was pure wisdom. She’s one of those women who you could listen for hours and hours. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I meet Alexandra during the first screening of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Moon inside You</b> back in 2009; she appears in the documentary as one of the featured experts along celebrities in the menstrual world such as Penelope Shuttle and the social anthropologist Chris Knight. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Alexandra was born in England and lived in Australia for 25 years; it’s only been three to four years since she decided to go back to England. The decision wasn’t easy but there was a wonderful opportunity ahead. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She now runs <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Women’s Quest program</b>, a project that would had not been possible without the encouragement and unconditional love of another <b>beautiful mamma Goddess</b>, who I meet dancing the five rhythms, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sjanie Hugo. </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">The Women’s Quest is a project dedicated to women’s self-empowerment by acknowledging the menstrual cycle as the most important tool in womanhood. </span><span lang="EN-US">So far, Alexandra has taken The Women’s Quest to<b> Italy</b> and <b>Spain</b> and travels around England along Sjanie teaching menstrual awareness. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The need of this type of work all over the world is so great that The Women’s Quest has become a very successful program. So great that in fact last year Alexandra decided to run an <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">apprenticeship study program</b>, the first of its kind, which will focus on deepening our knowledge on the cycle. The<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>apprenticeship program is dedicated to women who are keen to transmit this work back to their communities, just like in another time it would've been done from mother to daughter. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Alexandra’s idea about menstruation is that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">one day girls and women of all ages will think it's super cool to have a cycle!</b> But before that happens, we all have a lot of work to do. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It has taken Alexandra 30 years to put together <b>The Women’s Quest apprenticeship program</b> in its actual form, all of her menstrual life, as she well says, but I am sure it has all been worth it! </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It is beacause of this that Alexandra has earned the title of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">wise woman </b>and I feel blessed and deeply honored to be able to take part on her first apprenticeship program. She is a beautiful wombman, a great speaker, a natural leader, a wise mentor, a kind spirit. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Her second apprenticeship program starts in <b>September 2012</b>, for more information, you can </span><a href="http://www.womensquest.org/Events/Details/Womans_Quest_Apprenticeship_Training_in_UK" style="color: #990000;" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">visit her website</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"> </span>or join </span><a href="http://womenssquest.ning.com/" style="color: #990000;" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Women’s Quest community. </span></b></a></span></div>Mujer Lunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05404832374929039848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545132182424814725.post-27436331240486598992011-12-07T05:04:00.003-08:002012-02-23T06:48:06.619-08:00Red Moon workshop<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD17B-2MFv91ChBqvHu_XFK_eSR2bB_XMfoneVqEtbwwGLknJs3vHl0Kt9pRARfhShARNx8V8MyhHXKkxxlx43jtlg1tamIDnR0gxh4yMdBzKjzCqxZzvXCmTFk1VBxld-xNiWzeRCzxdq/s1600/logo-sm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="176" mda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD17B-2MFv91ChBqvHu_XFK_eSR2bB_XMfoneVqEtbwwGLknJs3vHl0Kt9pRARfhShARNx8V8MyhHXKkxxlx43jtlg1tamIDnR0gxh4yMdBzKjzCqxZzvXCmTFk1VBxld-xNiWzeRCzxdq/s200/logo-sm.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Red Moon</strong> is probably one of the most well know books on menstruation. It was written by <strong>Miranda Gray</strong>, an English teacher, writer, illustrator, Reiki master and healer. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I believe books come to you whenever we need them so Red Moon came to me a long time ago, I was looking to know more about the cycle and I found Miranda Gray, since that moment I have always wanted to meet her, she seemed my kind of woman! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I have helped Miranda in the past with translations of her work into Spanish, work that is available for Spanish speakers on her website but I wanted to do more than that and so after years of exchanging emails and talking about doing something together we have finally decided it was the time! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I invite you to come to this wonderful two day workshop inspired on Miranda’s book RED MOON. </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The workshop is open to all women of all ages, who are already into their cycles, women new to this work, mothers with daughters coming of age; grandmothers wanting to pass this beautiful knowledge to their family, ANY WOMAN is welcomed! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For more information, check my details on the flyer and for bookings you can do so through </span><a href="http://www.mirandagray.co.uk/miranda-gray-workshops-redmoon.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Miranda Gray’s website </span></strong></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">17 & 18 December<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Venue: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Hall at In-spire, The Crypt at St. Peter’s, Liverpool Grove, London, SE17 2HH </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Cost: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">£</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">50<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>(student concessions </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">£</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">35)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Come and celebrate being a woman!</span></span></b></div>Mujer Lunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05404832374929039848noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545132182424814725.post-39396466344195887412011-11-18T03:56:00.003-08:002012-02-23T06:48:23.301-08:00Womens circle<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTe-HSaFToM&feature=related"></a><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTe-HSaFToM&feature=related"></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I am a circle</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I am healing you</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">You are a circle</span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">You are healing me</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">U-oo-oo-nite us, be one</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">U-oo-oo-nite us, be as o-u-u-ne</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: purple; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><i>spiritual song for women</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="color: purple;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><i>unknown author </i></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><i>click on the image to see the video </i></span></div></div></div>Mujer Lunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05404832374929039848noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545132182424814725.post-83654867059355787802011-11-18T03:40:00.002-08:002012-02-23T06:48:33.740-08:00Ode to wise blood<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBloGcqOzbtHhx7f0mnXKFS-Kenunh68ecybrKVMQRvF45CqHzSqzhJ0R9v7CcKOl9v-ZayJYruvYj3BSMWcQ5InYrb41TyTbKX6WPBsoLchyphenhyphent1767NKi3CWXVM9QJeIJNQftnkM2EPtRX/s1600/societyorigins-main.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hda="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBloGcqOzbtHhx7f0mnXKFS-Kenunh68ecybrKVMQRvF45CqHzSqzhJ0R9v7CcKOl9v-ZayJYruvYj3BSMWcQ5InYrb41TyTbKX6WPBsoLchyphenhyphent1767NKi3CWXVM9QJeIJNQftnkM2EPtRX/s320/societyorigins-main.jpg" width="261" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Earliest humanity<br />
believed menstrual blood coagulated into new life<br />
Maoris and Africans thought human souls<br />
were made of menstrual blood<br />
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The Greeks called it "supernatural red wine"<br />
and the Celts, "red or royal mead"<br />
One Norse god bathed in a river of menstrual blood<br />
from the giantesses<br />
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The Chinese gained immortality by drinking<br />
red yin juice<br />
Egyptian Pharaohs defied their dead<br />
with amulets of menstrual blood<br />
In Mycenae, the word for "the people"<br />
was "mother blood"<br />
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The Bible calls it "blood the flower"<br />
or "fruit of the womb"<br />
and Adam means "bloody clay"</span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Some called it<br />
wise blood<br />
moon dew<br />
elixir of immortality<br />
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And the Goddess - given menstrual calendar<br />
with thirteen annual lunar months<br />
was established by Chinese women<br />
three thousand years ago<br />
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That's a lot of history<br />
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every twenty-eight days.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">taken from the </span><a href="http://womenssquest.ning.com/"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>womens quest</strong></span></a></div></div>Mujer Lunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05404832374929039848noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545132182424814725.post-31898183325548978162011-11-18T03:07:00.003-08:002012-04-11T14:32:17.407-07:00Yemaya<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_XgDQQrOJ2U" width="420"></iframe></div><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Yemaya, Goddess of the waters</b>…of life. This song feels very much like the summer of my cycle. It’s a care free woman, full of live, full of joy, full of creation. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Enjoy! </span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Belinda ♥</span></b><br />
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</div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">She began to nurse dark fears about the future. She would never bleed, never marry Jacob, never bear sons. Suddenly, the small, high breasts of which she had been so proud seemed puny to her. Perhaps she was a freak, a hermaphrodite like the gross idol in her father’s tent, the one with a tree stalk between its legs and teats like a cow. So Rachel tried to rush her season. Before the next new moon, <strong>she baked cakes of offering to the Queen of </strong><strong>Heaven</strong>, something she had never done before, and slept a whole night with her belly pressed up against the base of the asherah. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But the moon waned and grew round again, while Rachel’s thighs remained dry. She walked into the village by herself to ask the midwife, Inna, for help and was given an infusion of ugly nettles that grew in a nearby wadi. But again the new moon came and again Rachel remained a child. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As the following moon waned, Rachel crushed bitter berries and called her older sisters to see the stain on her blanket. But the juice was purple, and Leah and Zilpah laughed at the seeds on her thighs. The next month, Rachel hid in her tent, and did not even slip away once to find Jacob. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Finally, in the ninth month after Jacob’s arrival, Rachel bled </strong><strong>her first blood</strong>, and cried with relief. Adah, Leah, and Zilpah sang the piercing, throaty song that announces births, deaths, and women’s ripening. <strong>As the sun set on the new moon when all the </strong><strong>women commenced bleeding, they rubbed henna on Rachel’s </strong><strong>fingernails and on the soles of her feet.</strong> <strong>Her eyelids were painted </strong><strong>yellow, and they slid every bangle, gem, and jewel that could be found onto her fingers, toes, ankles, and wrists. They covered her head with the finest embroidery and led her into the red tent. </strong></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">They sang songs for the goddesses; for Innana and the Lady Asherah of the Sea. They spoke of Elath, the mother of the seventy gods, including Anath in that number, Anath the</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">nursemaid, defender of mothers. They sang:</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">“Whose fairness is like Anath’s fairness?</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Whose beauty like Astarte’s beauty?</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">“Astarte is now in your womb,</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">You bear the power of Elath.”</span></strong></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The women sang all the welcoming songs to her while Rachel ate date honey and fine wheat-flour cake, made in the threecornered shape of woman’s sex. She drank as much sweet wine as she could hold. Adah rubbed Rachel’s arms and legs, back and abdomen with aromatic oils until she was nearly asleep. By the time they carried her out into the field where she married the</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">earth, Rachel was stupid with pleasure and wine. She did not remember how her legs came to be caked with earth and crusted with blood and smiled in her sleep.</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">She was full of joy and anticipation, lazing in the tent for the three days, <strong>collecting the precious fluid in a bronze bowl—for the </strong><strong>first-moon blood of a virgin was a powerful libation for the </strong><strong>garden</strong>. During those hours, she was more relaxed and generous than anyone could remember her.</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As soon as the women rose from their monthly rites, Rachel demanded that the wedding date be set. None of her footstamping could move Adah to change the custom of waiting seven months from first blood. So it was arranged, and although Jacob had already worked a year for Laban, the contract was sealed and the next seven months were Laban’s too.</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Extract of the book </span><a href="http://issuu.com/periodoalnatural/docs/diamant_1997_the_red_tent#download"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>The Red Tent </strong></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Photo: </span><a href="http://www.redtentmovie.com/"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Red Tent movie - things we don't talk about </strong></span></a></div>Mujer Lunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05404832374929039848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545132182424814725.post-25968594381668781502011-11-18T02:39:00.003-08:002012-02-23T06:49:11.566-08:00Menstrual creativity<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><strong>Lara Owen</strong> & <strong>Miranda Gray</strong> talk about menstrual creativity on their books, but what exactly is menstrual creativity? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“The disperse conscious state that comes with menstruation makes it a time to let go what Don Juan from Castaneda calls <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">nagual </i></b>and the Australian aborigines call <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">time to dream</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>which is our own unknown where there is knowledge and wisdom” Lara Owen. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Why not write in our diary all the messages we receive, a letter to yourself where you welcome yourself to this new phase. It could also be a letter from your adult self to your inner child where you welcome yourself to your first menstruation; you could even write something you would’ve liked someone had told you. This letter could be helpful later in your cycle <strong>(days 20 - 28)</strong> where it is very likely you will need words of encouragement and affirmation. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Why not expressing yourself through painting, and if possible with your own blood. You can use fabric, paper, etc. You can make your own ritual with your blood, offering it to Mother Earth or to the Moon. You could even decorate your body with it and dance in your room adding candles, incence and really connecting with it, touching it, feeling it, letting those feelings of embarrassment or of “being dirty” disapear. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Miranda Gray in her book <strong>Red Moon</strong> also suggests creating our own <strong>Moon Dial</strong>. In your menstrual phase you would have gone through most of your cycle, so it will be easier to gather all the information of previous days and see your cyclical nature in paper and learn more about yourself. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">All these exercises are very personal and also very powerful; they will help you shift any negative emotions you have about you moon blood. They are beautiful exercises of self-healing so why not try them, you have nothing to lose, on the contrary, there is so much to gain!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I share here some photos of my own menstrual creativity made with my moon blood. I hope you enjoy them! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Belinda </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 115%;">♥</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-y1Za3irNtO5XEivpvaL1lNZPnmV1HgidzqWvxODm3kKjDd9m-B1sKMxBgLP0OJ3-Nc32fFIZ2XsoDrDtym24y-PJGM2_4DMxmMrZu0U6VPf0JfNHKH2PY7RSeoilHzNM0IU2ZpdxWFaD/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-y1Za3irNtO5XEivpvaL1lNZPnmV1HgidzqWvxODm3kKjDd9m-B1sKMxBgLP0OJ3-Nc32fFIZ2XsoDrDtym24y-PJGM2_4DMxmMrZu0U6VPf0JfNHKH2PY7RSeoilHzNM0IU2ZpdxWFaD/s1600/1.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">embracing my cycle </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt6ULagsD_Z7W9GyiVVHsCcV-MNRNDIDYU21K-LMT1ZikjsVlpyAXmPR7bSk1y7t-58NJdbHK93yn3UQK7OJc-Tr_vBtF3P8VYwbEjA4iZK553Wgz8kCbzOaRsO8CDed4h7oe_T3tj65AW/s1600/3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt6ULagsD_Z7W9GyiVVHsCcV-MNRNDIDYU21K-LMT1ZikjsVlpyAXmPR7bSk1y7t-58NJdbHK93yn3UQK7OJc-Tr_vBtF3P8VYwbEjA4iZK553Wgz8kCbzOaRsO8CDed4h7oe_T3tj65AW/s1600/3.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">full moon dance</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOD9NX_bOVQRJGYqOsmxyEn8J3P1CUv0Uaar3ysf4tSqn_Q7xPP8tIy6GDSJ5pC6I45kWXzhLV9DJFuywId65XME75rLxjqA-bzpeAKnY_xI_gQ_srOwz8R5jv2dSMmsfNcwgqlH7UK_un/s1600/4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOD9NX_bOVQRJGYqOsmxyEn8J3P1CUv0Uaar3ysf4tSqn_Q7xPP8tIy6GDSJ5pC6I45kWXzhLV9DJFuywId65XME75rLxjqA-bzpeAKnY_xI_gQ_srOwz8R5jv2dSMmsfNcwgqlH7UK_un/s1600/4.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">moon dial </span></div>Mujer Lunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05404832374929039848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545132182424814725.post-89866776874844694742011-10-25T07:35:00.002-07:002012-02-23T06:49:37.041-08:00Valentine's Day and the Menstrual Cycle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOc5qJn2sJRMNU5Le4XynLVD2ca4hriU_dHuLH14oJMn0r6DyYJl61A-SSFtIAs48ea_DroXE4o4ZPYgxrNXjoZJvjfGY451QVJ3wzMljghygOpIEzYc01uhcHKbx0zWSaRFMjeU3hgjkF/s1600/armensan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOc5qJn2sJRMNU5Le4XynLVD2ca4hriU_dHuLH14oJMn0r6DyYJl61A-SSFtIAs48ea_DroXE4o4ZPYgxrNXjoZJvjfGY451QVJ3wzMljghygOpIEzYc01uhcHKbx0zWSaRFMjeU3hgjkF/s320/armensan.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, how do the phases of our cycle affect how we are likely to feel on the day?</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Imagine that you are in a nice little restaurant with the partner of your choice. There are roses on the table, a candle and a plate of your favourite food has arrived beautifully presented. Your partner looks at you with a loving gaze ….</span></i></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Pre-ovulation phase (Maiden / Dynamic / Action phase)</span></i></b></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Where you are in your phase will depend on how you respond. Early in the phase you may feel a little more gentle and receptive, possibly still tired and low in physical energy from your menstrual phase. But later in the phase you may well be more assertive, analytical, judgemental and full of ‘go getting’ energy. Rather than participating in a romantic conversation, you can find yourself talking through all your current plans, ideas and problems to solve. You may even feel that you don’t really want to be there, even though it is a gift for you, as you are not emotionally engaged. The idea that you may have sex sounds great, but you don’t get turned on by deep emotional stuff.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b>Solution?</b> If you know in advance you are going to be in this phase, suggest doing something active and outgoing together rather than a romantic, intimate meal for two. Don’t be surprised if you end up having fun and playful sex!</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Ovulation phase (Mother / Nurturing / Heart phase)</span></i></b></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Your partner has it exactly right this year! You feel loved and validated. You want to look into their eyes, to hold hands across the table, to talk about your feelings and your dreams together. Sadly, if your partner thinks the meal and flowers are enough, they are very wrong! You may well want the box of chocolates, the present, the card, and words of love spoken directly from the heart as well! For a partner who finds it difficult to express their feelings, you may be expecting too much from them in this phase. Also for a partner who is new, you may also be expecting more commitment from them than they are able to give. Either way the meal could end in disaster!</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><i><b>Solution?</b> </i>Enjoy the evening and the attention. Accept everything in the spirit it is given; if there is deep commitment there then that’s great, if not simply accept that commitment takes time to build and what you have now is wonderful. Oh, and be aware that <i><b>you</b></i> may be likely to go over the top - you may well be the one arriving with presents, balloons, a card and chocolates for your partner. Try not to embarrass them!</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Pre-menstrual phase (Subconscious / Creative-review / Enchantress phase)</span></i></b></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Okay this can be the most difficult phase but it can turn out to be the best! Depending on where you are in your phase will depend on how much energy you will have. If you are early in your phase, then going out is great. Forget the romantic meal, do something which is slightly sexy – go somewhere that you can dress up very sexy and have fun flirting with your partner, or go to a film, show or gallery exhibition which is sexy. This night is not about romantic feelings, but about great sex! Later in the phase however you may feel so tired that you are grumpy at just the thought of having to dress up smart to go out for a meal. In this case, suggest staying at home, perhaps curl up on the sofa with your partner and a DVD, and a large box of chocolates. Warn your partner that the card and presents are important, they help you feel loved and nurtured at a time when life in general seems to be threatening you all the time. Comfort sex is good, and may well wake you up for further fun!</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><i><b>Solution?</b> </i>Give your partner the chance of getting things right by <i><b>you</b></i><b> </b>suggesting the activity for the night – something sexy and outgoing or something comforting and homely. Suggest the present as well – sexy underwear to try out on the day, or a big box of chocolates, a teddy bear and a mushy card.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Menstrual phase (Soul / Reflective / Hag phase)</span></i></b></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This phase is about rest and reflection. A meal out is great as long as the journey isn’t too far and you are not expected to dress up like a ‘sex kitten’. Your natural pace is slow in this phase, so expectations of going out clubbing after the meal can become an issue. Your sexuality can be slow too; sex in this phase can be wonderful but you may simply feel disinterested. A massage that sends you to sleep sounds far better! This is not the night to make plans for your future together, but it is the night to listen to your partner talk and to see the feelings behind the words. It is the night to listen to your heart as to whether this is the one you should be with.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b><i>Solution? </i></b>A gentle meal out for two, not far from home and not too dressy or formal. Your partner may be worried at how quiet you are, so reassure them that all is well and that you are enjoying yourself and the meal. Enjoy the sentiment behind the meal and feel special.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><i>For more ideas and </i><b><i>a daily plan for living in-tune with your menstrual cycle </i></b><i>to create well-being, happiness, success and fulfilment, throughout the month, buy:</i></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b><a href="http://www.optimizedwoman.com/"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The Optimized Woman </span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">– using your menstrual cycle to achieve success and fulfilment</span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span></i></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Writen by Miranda Gray, 2 Feb 2011. </span></i></i></b></div><i></i><br />
<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><a href="http://www.optimizedwoman.com/"><i></i></a></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></div>Mujer Lunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05404832374929039848noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545132182424814725.post-68676410870929804732011-10-21T08:30:00.001-07:002012-02-23T03:27:25.620-08:00Lilith<div align="center"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ex3ZvX0lUS0" width="420"></iframe></div><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #990000; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Temple of the Moon Goddess</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> is probably one of my favorite CD's! It has 9 different songs, all beautiful and all related to a Goddess. Each song can also be related to our own individual phases of our cycle, so the energy that the song brings us is the energy that we can feel in a particular phase and can also relate to the particular energy of the Goddess. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I will post the videos I have made here and let you know which phase of the cycle this relates to, although these may be different for you. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Lilith, is the sensual Goddess, Lilith is the unconscious in each woman. Lilith to me represents our sexuality, sensuality, a deep connection to the self, intuitive knowledge. She can also be seen as the virgin goddess meaning she can holds her own energies. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Lilith can be felt during menstruation once we can get rid of those feelings of darkness and we arrive to love, knowledge and self-power. It can also be felt during ovulation when we are deeply connected with our sensual selves. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Invite Lilith to your life! </span>Mujer Lunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05404832374929039848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545132182424814725.post-11153711451646941812011-08-23T02:20:00.002-07:002012-02-23T06:49:57.291-08:00A wonderful rite of passage<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The story I'm about to share with you, is a beautiful story written by Amrita Hobbs, an English teacher who lives in Australia and dedicates her time working with girls in rites of passage. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In this story Amrita tells us about Alicia, a girl who is about to experience her menarche, a key change in every woman. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Here, she describes an ideal world, something that Amrita wishes for every girl. The story is full of new possibilities and ideals, it plants new seeds in our subconscious and makes us realize that if every woman could grow up free of taboos, accepting what she is and her blood, the world would be a different place. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I hope you enjoy it! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Belinda </span><br />
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