Still Smiling

Deep woods hike
Sudden downpour
Soaked to the bone.

Blessed by
transformation:
Lady Godiva
sans equus.

Drove home
in only a blanket.

Still smiling.

~AF

 

1/2 Day & Small Group Retreats

Coming soon:

Detailed information on retreats in process of development. I hope to have these offerings available by the end of September. These retreats will be based on my clients input, and upon my observations of many of my clients’ needs. Please feel free to leave comments and ideas! I welcome them, so that we may co-create something truly to the point!

Currently in development:

• 1/2 day private fertility focused retreats
• 1/2 day private mentorship/deep soul retreats
• 1/2 day private sustainable wellness retreats
• Small group retreats for deep soul work

Please leave comment, ideas and suggestions below! Here’s to co-creation!

Thank you for your patience….

Warmly,

Angela

 

Colleagues’ Creation

April 20, 2009

Wild Feminine: Tami Lynn Kent

Entrant: Sarah E. Wylie, ND Midwife
Nominee: Tami Lynn Kent, Women’s Health Physical Therapist

Tami Lynn Kent is a scribe for those of us pioneering back into the frontier we collectively left behind, the Wild Feminine. Tami’s gift is to illuminate, and create a specific language for us to communicate about the female energetic presence within our flesh.

Tami Lynn is a mother to three sons, and women’s health physical therapist. Her hunt for the Wild Feminine, our divine femininity has brought us riches! She has sat with us, hours with hundreds of women, who have complaints that would otherwise fall on deaf ears. She is the healer who listens to the vagina, the sentient organ who never lies. Tami has brought relief to hundreds of ladies who couldn’t enjoy sexual intercourse, or suffer with vague or specific feelings of pain and unrest, or struggle with post-partum hurts.

This year Tami has presented us with a book, “Wild Feminine: Finding Power, Spirit, & Joy in the Root of the Female Body,” that clearly connects us to what she has discovered in her uniquely defined profession. This book brings together all that she has learned about the pelvic bowl, the wellspring of creative and healing spiritual energy, the place where spirit becomes matter.

This book covers the physical as well as the spiritual-energetic systems of the female body. It is written from a truly a unique perspective and will weave together the lessons we have learned from our great teachers, Dr. Northrup, Dr. Arvigo, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Caroline Myss and Ina May Gaskin — to name just a few. This book is also written in a way that all students of natural medicine and women’s health, regardless of experience or training can comprehend.

Tami’s pioneering work is also reflected in her way of being. She is the least conflicted self-employed mother that I know. From her grounded pelvic bowl, she seems to know exactly how and where to set limits upon her work in the world outside her family. As a working mother, I reference her and then remember to connect to my pelvic bowl whenever I feel conflicted about the demands from my professional relations. Mothering our children and our masterpieces comes from this core space in the pelvic bowl. Tami, by way of her awareness, intelligent perspective and artful writing, is offering us the opportunity to dig in to our birthright, the divine feminine who lives within each of us.

Tami Lynn Kent is a true hero for the female body and the feminine within all bodies. Let us make her book Wild Feminine a classic now, so that together we can heal the earth and her peoples, from this place of centered femininity.

 

Feminine Spirituality is Everywhere! I kiss Her Everyday!

Why do I kiss Her everyday? Because she loves me! She is everywhere! Why do you feel better when you are out in Nature??? Because She is loving you most deliciously then. And when you are no longer afraid to be curious about Her, and touch Her, and listen to Her, She will give you EVERYTHING YOU NEED! (And I love men!)

What prompted this effusion of adoration?

In recent conversations with many of my clients, a deep ache was expressed by all of them: Where do I go to nurture feminine spirituality? This surprised me, since I have been honoring this aspect of my Self since the late 1980′s. I just assumed somehow that She is known to my sisters. Yes, in some circles. But not all.

It occurred to me why this must be so: Many of them are at least 10 years younger than I am. Or, they haven’t until now, felt the calling to search deeply for what is True for women. This means they started searching for help after insurance companies began disallowing coverage for psychotherapy: the place where I became aware that Divine Feminine exists at all. Perhaps this earnest search is a beneficial outcome, springing from challenges our collective dysfunctional excesses are forcing to sprout? As a dear teacher of mine often says: challenge/benefit?….same/same.

Recently, I have been searching for a way to share what I know from having learned how to listen to Her. In an exercise I undertook, the following topics arose as ones I could expand upon in my offerings to my clients. In the spirit of community, co-creation is what I most desire. I want to share with you what I know, resources to support you, and a place to chat about all of this. I ask you now: Which of the following subtopics would you most like to learn about? I invite you to leave your comments, thoughts, dreams, desires around all of this!

• What is Feminine Spirituality?
• The Great Goddess ~ The Earth
• fertility
• moon lodges
• goddesses
• Pre-Hellenic: Isis
• Greek, roman, celtic, native american, african, hindu, chinese, maya
• Greek/roman: Hera, Aprodite/Venus, Artemis, Vesta/Hestia, Demeter
• Celtic: Brigid,
• Native American
• African: oshun
• hindu: Lakshmi, Saraswati, Kali
• Chinese: Quan Yin,
• Maya: Ix Chel
• universality
• community
• How do I bring Her into my life?
• How do I become involved?
• The Mother Wound
• The Earth, Her rape and yours.
• being invisible
• The current political climate
• disenfranchisement
• What would a world look like, in which feminine values were as honored as male values?
• Prophecies…it’s all in the stars.
• Empowerment
• How do I nurture feminine values in myself?
• How do I nurture feminine values in my family?
• Pornography vs. the power of the erotic
• duplicity and complicity
• Holistic medicine
• Monsanto, big pharma, and the FDA
• The AMA
• Body, mind and spirit….what about emotions?
• If you don’t have a body, you can’t feel….If you can’t feel than how do you know what is true?
• Trusting your feelings
• technology and misogyny
• The Shining Masculine
• What do feminine values look like in men?
• How many ways to kill the divine feminine…The Shadow Masculine Agenda

May the Goddess be with you. ♥

 

Estrogen Dominance Testing

This is a link that tells you how to order this test and how to calculate whether or not your estrogen levels are problematic and how to improve them if so.

Estrogen Dominance Test