Category Archives: Empowerment
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 readingSpecial Celebration
Experiential Journey: Celebrate the Divine Feminine Within with Rim Zahra, Ph.D. Open your heart, release blocks, come home to your body in celebration of our feminine energy, Shakti. Discover Shakti within you and deepen your unique relationship with her. Experience deep transformation and feel the power of inner exploration through meditation, authentic movement, belly dance […]
Continue readingFeeling Your Body: Spiritual Embodiment Meditation
The body is a device to calculate the astronomy of the spirit.” ~Rumi I love this line by Rumi because it shows the inherent connection between our body and our spirit. It isn’t enough to know the significance of this connection in the head, but it’s important to feel it in the body—spiritual embodiment. When […]
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 readingBreathe Your Way to Empowerment
Time to Breathe Sometimes I resist taking a moment in my busy life to breathe and gather myself. Especially on high stress days I just want to keep going, crossing one more item off of my to-do list and take care of one more loose end. My mind drives me like a slave master, telling […]
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