The Secret Wisdom of a Woman's Body


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Enormous rewards await you when you learn to trust and respect your body. This revolutionary guide to the second half of life goes way beyond the usual anti-aging recipes for fitness and healthy eating. Practical exercises, fun activities, and inspiring stories will help you tune in to your inner wisdom and discover your own natural source of confidence and satisfaction. Through mindful attention to your body's stories, you'll learn core emotional and spiritual lessons that foster authentic, integrated living. You'll learn how to find meaning from your experiences, which makes it easier to resolve lingering or painful issues. As you feel more at home in your body, you'll feel a renewed sense of passion and creativity--and rediscover your own innate beauty, wisdom, and power. Praise for The Secret Wisdom of a Woman's Body "A wise, passionate guide for women facing the challenges of aging. It offers practical methods and inspiring stories to help you deepen your appreciation of yourself and find your innate resources for healing and growth within your body." --Judith Blackstone, author of The Enlightenment Process "A fascinating book and journey in getting to know your body--its secrets, treasures, and potential--across the life cycle." --Gene D. Cohen, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Center on Aging, Health & Humanities at the George Washington University and author of The Creative Age




Body of Wisdom


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A chakra in our breasts that emits spiritual nourishment into life… a secret substance in our bodies to heal the earth… a direct connection from our wombs to the creative center of the universe… In Body of Wisdom, Hilary Hart identifies nine hidden powers alive in women’s bodies and instincts, waiting to be used in contemporary challenges such as the creation of community, healing of the earth, and the restoration of life’s spiritual nature. Based on interviews with the world’s most visionary spiritual teachers and women's dreams and experiences, Body of Wisdom ushers in a new spirituality in which the body and the shared body of the earth are known as a seat of mystical power and women take responsibility for spiritual work that only they can do. ,




Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom


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Based on the connection between physical and spiritual health, a popular holistic guide to alternative medicine for women contains an alphabetical list of women's ailments and conditions, including fibroids, menstruation, vaginitis, and menopause. Reprint.




The Wild Woman's Way


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"As pragmatic as it is compassionate, this intimate, humorous, and ultimately relaxing invitation to re-wild yourself, stripping away all that is not your true nature, will leave you inspired and curious to discover the wild woman within" (Lissa Rankin, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Mind Over Medicine). For the high-achieving modern woman today, having a successful career, a fulfilling romantic relationship, and a satisfying personal life can feel like opposing goals. It has even become difficult to take the time to enjoy the simple pleasures in lives. We are stuck in "go-mode," damaging our romantic relationships, pleasure, and creativity. But what if there were a way to experience the simplest pleasures of our lives on a deeper level, freeing the body and psyche from these destructive patterns? Beyond our current stereotypes about femininity lies the ancient wisdom of the Wild Woman archetype, a model of building a feminine "body intelligence." By embodying this archetype and using tantra--not just in the bedroom, but also to build intimate connections to our senses and physical movements--we can break harmful psychological patterns. In The Wild Woman's Way, Michaela Boehm shares practical rituals and exercises drawn from years of experience as a celebrity relationship and life counselor and an expert in tantric yoga. She reveals the power of different types of touch, while also training you in forms of meditation and stretching that increase activity and sensual pleasure.




Women's Intuition


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A psychoneuroimmunologist explores “how intuition works; and how people can use it to be in tune with their bodies, reduce stress, and promote health” (Booklist). Women’s intuition is real, says Paula Reeves. Encoded in a woman’s DNA, this subtle yet potent source of knowledge has been doubted and dismissed as an old wives’ tale. Because social conditioning and male-dominated culture have caused women to feel disconnected from their own bodies, Dr. Reeves believes that most women are unaware of what their intuition is trying to tell them. In Women’s Intuition, Dr. Reeves guides readers to remove the blocks preventing this channel of knowledge from informing and enriching their daily lives. By evoking body-based intuition, readers can reestablish their body-mind bond and access their intuitive power for healing and insight. “Reeves describes numerous real-life therapy sessions and exercises involving SCM [Spontaneous Contemplative Movement], providing us with clear illustrations of how to connect with our bodies and emotions and hence achieve a deeper understanding of the self. She helps us through the difficult task of both rediscovering the intuitive parts of ourselves we have lost and trusting our intuitions to guide us through life. This challenging book will no doubt profoundly change some readers’ lives.” —Library Journal “A gift to any woman who is determined to connect with her own feminine body.” —Marion Woodman, author of Bone: Dying into Life “This gracious book is for all who suspect that the body knows things we do not know. We’ve yearned to free the wisdom locked in the body’s images, symptoms, and movements; Reeves gives us a burnished key.” —Jill Mellick, PhD, author of The Art of Dreaming




Wellness Wisdom


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Wellness Wisdom lifted my energy immediately . . . This book contains a powerful blueprint for what wellness looks and feels like. CHRISTIANE NORTHRUP, M.D., author of Womens Bodies, Womens Wisdom, Mother-Daughter Wisdom, The Wisdom of Menopause, and The Secret Pleasures of Menopause "Susan Tate is a joyful, enthusiastic, cosmic cheerleader for life, health, and consciousness. She has managed the almost impossible task of making transformational reading fun and inviting. Wellness Wisdom is a beautiful synthesis of timeless teachings for wellness on all levels-body, mind, heart, and soul." MARC DAVID, author of Nourishing Wisdom and The Slow Down Diet: Eating for Pleasure, Energy, & Weight Loss "As a healer, dancer, and body worker who teaches people to fall in love with their bodies and stay connected to sensation, Susan's words, advice, and insights give us tools for having a passionate and sensual relationship with the body." DEBBIE ROSAS, author of The Nia Technique: The High Powered Energizing Workout that Gives You a New Body and a New Life "Susan Tate weaves stories, humor, wisdom, and science in this easily accessible guide to wellness. I love that it is organized into 31 delicious bites of wellness wisdom. This second edition takes the reader from inspiration to action-right into joyful wellness." DEBORAH KERN, Ph.D., author of Everyday Wellness for Women and co-author of Create the Body Your Soul Desires "Susan opens the door for us to heal from the inside out." This book is a practical holistic wellness tool to help us create our own wellness philosophy that expands beyond body fat and blood pressure! It highlights important wellness dimensions we often neglect such as joy, forgiveness, love, and laughter. I love how practical the information is and how inspiration is delivered through many personal stories. Susan opens the door for us to heal from the inside out. KAREN WOLFE, M.B.B.S., M.A., co-author of Create the Body Your Soul Desires With elegant simplicity, Wellness Wisdom provides a step-by-step guide to sustainable, joyful wellness. This updated edition combines the latest science-based and mind/body healing strategies to lead you gently forward on your wellness journey. In her engaging style, Susan Tate offers nourishing stories, well-researched theory, practical exercises, and a powerful Wellness Bill of Rightsall written with you in mind.




Sacred Woman


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The twentieth anniversary edition of a transformative blueprint for ancestral healing—featuring new material and gateways, from the renowned herbalist, natural health expert, and healer of women’s bodies and souls “This book was one of the first that helped me start practices as a young woman that focused on my body and spirit as one.”—Jada Pinkett Smith Through extraordinary meditations, affirmations, holistic healing plant-based medicine, KMT temple teachings, and The Rites of Passage guidance, Queen Afua teaches us how to love and rejoice in our bodies by spiritualizing the words we speak, the foods we eat, the relationships we attract, the spaces we live and work in, and the transcendent woman spirit we manifest. With love, wisdom, and passion, Queen Afua guides us to accept our mission and our mantle as Sacred Women—to heal ourselves, the generations of women in our families, our communities, and our world.




Dharma Matters


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A powerful collection of essays on race and gender in contemporary Buddhist practice by one of the leading thinkers in the area. Jan Willis was among the first Westerners to encounter exiled Tibetan teachers abroad in the late sixties, instantly finding her spiritual and academic home. TIME Magazine named her one of six “spiritual innovators for the new millennium,” both for her considerable academic accomplishments and for her cultural relevance. Her writing engages head-on with issues current to Buddhist practitioners in America, including dual-faith practitioners and those from marginalized groups. This collection of eighteen scholarly and popular essays spans a lifetime of reflection and teaching by Willis. Grouped in four sections—Women and Buddhism, Buddhism and Race, Tantric Buddhism and Saints’ Lives, and Buddhist-Christian Reflections—the essays provide timeless wisdom for all who are interested in contemporary Buddhism and its interface with ancient tradition. “This collection of essays by Jan Willis, penned over thirty years of study, teaching, and practice, is destined to become an authoritative resource in Buddhist scholarship and thought. Willis challenges many of our preconceptions, but asks no more and no less than what the Buddha asked: come, see, and experience for yourselves.” —Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness and Real Happiness “From Birmingham to Bodhgaya, Jan bridges worlds like no other. Her essays are treasures of wisdom born from a remarkable life richly lived.” —Matthew T. Kapstein, author of Reason’s Traces: Identity and Interpretation in Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Thought “This book is a blessing for us all—across cultures, across genders, across traditions.” —Larry Yang, author of Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community




Essays on Women in Western Esotericism


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This book is the first collection to feature histories of women in Western Esotericism while also highlighting women’s scholarship. In addition to providing a critical examination of important and under researched figures in the history of Western Esotericism, these fifteen essays also contribute to current debates in the study of esotericism about the very nature of the field itself. The chapters are divided into four thematic sections that address current topics in the study of esotericism: race and othering, femininity, power and leadership and embodiment. This collection not only adds important voices to the story of Western Esotericism, it hopes to change the way the story is told.




The Secret Teachings of All Ages


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Acclaimed by Publishers Weekly as "a classic reference, dizzying in its breadth," this volume explores the themes underlying ancient mythology, philosophy, and religion. Hundreds of entries range from esoteric elements of Islamic and Christian history to arcane rituals practiced by Druids, Freemasons, alchemists, and other secret societies. 16 pages of color plates, 100 black-and-white illustrations.