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Wild Geese
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. […]
Continue readingWe Have Come to Be Danced
We have come to be danced not the pretty dance not the pretty pretty, pick me, pick me dance but the claw our way back into the belly of the sacred, sensual animal dance the unhinged, unplugged, cat is out of its box dance the holding the precious moment in the palms of our […]
Continue readingShakti Groovin Women New Space
Hello, Shakti Groovers! Here’s a quick little video of our new space at P.O.S.T—Wellness By Design, 224a Weller St. Petaluma, CA. Many of you are already familiar with this great facility next to the canal in downtown Petaluma. We’re so blessed to have this abundant space for our class where women come to feel […]
Continue readingMy mother’s group
Shakti Groovin’ Women is literally a dream come true. The idea for a woman’s empowerment group came to me in a dream that I had two years ago—but it is also inspired by my experience growing up with my mother’s group of women friends in Damascus, Syria. I remember I felt safe and supported by […]
Continue readingWhat is Shakti?
Simply put, Shakti is the female principle, the divine feminine. She’s the universal source of your abundance, your creativity and your sensuality which feeds your sexuality. She is Gaia, the Great Mother. She is love, wisdom, beauty and joy. In her darker, more terrible forms Durga and Kali, she is the destroyer of ego and arrogance […]
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