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The Women’s Temple ~ About the Practice |
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For the balanced feminine to blossom it is helpful, and in our experience crucial, to create and sustain women’s circles that truly nourish us in the deepest sense. Instead of enforcing the status quo by focusing on our problems and personal shortcomings, circles like this connect us with truth beyond our fears and limited self-images. From this deeper place we can effortlessly radiate clarity and guidance instead of exhaust ourselves in trying to be leaders from a tense, competitive and ego-centered state of mind.
The Women's temple is not a therapy or a support group. It is a space were we come to mirror, celebrate and empower each other. A space were we can drop our masks, and let the beauty of our authentic face be seen in all its glory and pain and passion and vulnerability.
In our Women's temple, we meet beyond the personal, and in this expanded meeting the collective feminine as well as the personal feminine is healed and celebrated.
The Women's Temple meets sometimes in the homes of the women and sometimes in rented rooms. Sometimes it is a closed group, sometimes it is open for all. Sometimes the group meets weekly, sometimes less often.
We honor and treat our temple as sacred. We enter it with reverence and with the intention to be as true as we can. All superficial chit- chatting we leave outside. In our temple we explore how it is to speak from a deeper place within, and most importantly, we explore how to communicate without speaking at all.
All our practice is based upon being present in the body, so we spend a lot of time dancing and moving. We also support each other in softening our bodies by touching each other in respectful and nourishing ways. This part of the practice is most women's favorite part...
In the Nevada City Temple group we have been practicing together for four years, and through this process a remarkable tapestry has been woven between us which embrases us through our lives inside and outside of temple. We have been there for each other, when one married her beloved, another got divorced, several published books, and others started businesses. We have witnessed new houses being built, and we were together as one sister died. We have experienced wailing and raging, and dancing and celebrating together.
Do you have a longing to be part of a group like this?
Check the list of currently existing groups to see if there is already one happening in your area.
If not, maybe it is up to you to create a group where you live. See the next page for useful tips on how to do it.
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