The Fully Embodied Woman stands aligned in the Deep Feminine.
She loves life.
Her flesh alive with spirit, she sings hearts awake and dances unconditional and ecstatic love.
She embodies the Wisdom of the Dark and of the Light.
Embracing the Great Mystery, not knowing, she Knows.
Empty, she is Full. Dying, she is Born . . .
The Call, The Invitation
This is an invitation for women to retreat together to heal, to vision, to become empty, to be given the next steps, to dance and rejoice, to mourn, to play in the inner ritual theatre of our lives and to be in a circle of women.
We create the temple honoring our life stages, callings, initiations and prayers at altars evoking the child, maiden, sacred lover, mother, commitment/partnership, the father, woman in the world, woman at mid-life/Queen, grandmother/crone, the Void/Great Mystery, and the Divine.
We remember the temple of our women's bodies courting our fullness through movement and dance, music, singing, chanting, drumming, ceremony and ritual.
We remember our connection with the earth, with each other, and with all living things, through the power of contemplation and council.
We move away from doing toward the feminine ground of being.
Sharing our stories, we remember the way of all women.
Come to be nourished and adorned, to remember yourself as the Goddess. Come to deepen your connection with yourself and each other. Come to receive guidance and healing. Come to remember the privilege of being a Fully Embodied Woman living on Earth.
You, your sisters, your friends are invited to join this circle!
What You Can Expect...
- Deepening your connection with yourself and other women.
- Being nourished and enlivened.
- Celebrating the gift of a woman's body.
- Sharing in the creation of a beautiful temple constructed with altars evoking women's life passages.
- Deep councils weaving the stories of women into wisdom.
- Movement, dance, music, play, and ceremony.
- Practices to cultivate embodiment and contemplation.
- Silent, restorative time in nature.
- Opening to life, love, wisdom and eros in all of her many forms and stages.
About Amina
Amina Knowlan, M.S., currently works as a trainer, consultant and somatic-spiritual life coach. She lives in Boulder, Colorado with her wonderful adult daughter and son.
In the traditions of "deep ecology" and Elizabeth Cogburn's Ceremonials work, Amina developed Fully Embodied Woman (formerly Full Bodied Woman) and since the 1980s has provided women an opportunity to celebrate living in a woman's body on earth. She has offered this work across the United States for over 20 years.
Amina enjoys incorporating ritual, dance, voice art, body-mind awareness, and movement into her work. She was a trainer for the Hakomi Institute for Body-centered Psychotherapy for 12 years and an owner-practitioner in Wellspring, a holistic medical clinic for 15 years. She has been leading groups since 1979 and founded Matrix Leadership Training in 1992. She offers Matrix training, facilitation, and process consultation for organizations and groups of individuals.
Registration and More Information
Please contact Amina to attend the next retreat at Sunrise Ranch or in your area.
Phone: (303) 818-1773
Email: amina (at) matrixleadership.com
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