Suzanne Rickards Raja has been in the personal development industry for over two decades and teaches empowerment with her husband through their company Warrior Sage. 

She talks about how the world is feeling a lot of pain right now - how the pandemic has sent us to our rooms to consider what we haven't been doing well as a collective!

She talks about how there is a masculine and feminine side within us all. We've all got that desire for freedom but we've also got that need for flow. She says that right now "we are feeling stopped in our tracks and the feminine within all of us is feeling that".

She's here to share her wisdom with us about how to work with some of the challenges we may be facing as the pain of members of our global family continue to rise the surface and how to hold that place within ourselves of compassion and self-compassion. 

Timestamps: 

-Suzanne describes The Masculine and The Feminine as she has come to understand them (2:30). 

-There is always hope - Suzanne explains this through the metaphor of the day after the night and the spring that follows winter (6:25). 

-Take a Breath (9:20).

-The Feminine is suffering. She needs to be restored through self-resourcing (15:20).

-Action Step #1: Let's breathe wider together (20)

-Let's talk about privilege - why would someone resist the term and how can they feel their defensiveness or whatever feeling is truly arising in order to then find curiousity (26).

Jillian Lawrence is a female leader in business, who is passionate about making the world a better place. She loves leading purpose-driven female entrepreneurs to create their impact by understanding social marketing and what role feminine energy plays in the new advertising space.

Spending most of her life living in what she calls "Default-Mode", this mother of two is no stranger to anxiety, depression, and lack of self-expression. After a cancer scare in early 2019, Jillian discovered her Purpose and has been driven to empower other women to take control of their life and live in what she calls "Dream-Mode"; choosing to consciously live life by dreaming the future and taking inspired action to create it.

Timestamps :

She describes what she means by "Default-Mode" - feeling like life was happening to her - anxiety, depression, passionless, questioning the purpose of life (3:00)

She describes "Dream-Mode" - more conscious of mind and body, expression, freedom, passion, enjoyment (4:20)

How Perfectionism can mask anxiety (11:20)

For women who are out of touch (no pun intended) with their sexuality: Jill talks about how seeds need to be planted early on when it comes to Sexuality. What do we need to know about pleasure and how to pleasure ourselves? And how can these knowings help when our bodies and minds are going through something tough? (30 mins)

In this Shakti Story I ask Blaire Lindsay how she defines The Feminine. Blaire is a Feminine embodiment coach who helps women go from doubting themselves to feeling confident and sexy. In her online programs and in-person trainings, Blaire draws from a background in classical and neo-Tantra, yoga, dance and trauma resolution to help women access full-body presence and inner to outer radiance. 

In this episode of Shakti Stories we are talking about:

~ What is The Feminine?

~ Why the focus on pleasure matters now more than ever!

~ Healing trauma through finding our inner resources and leaning into what feels good.

~ What if you aren’t in the mood for sex?

~ How boundaries have been a teacher for Blaire.

Timestamps:

Blaire says “forget everything you think you know about The Feminine”. But what does The Feminine means to her? She offers her definition (2:00).

She speaks about how pleasure is the medicine for patriarchal wounds (19:30).

Trauma from the Somatic Experiencing perspective - finding our inner strength, power and resilience (24:00).

Not feeling sexual? Blaire describes how to process that by being with what’s present with what you need and also remembering that turn on is medicine (37:30).

The importance of boundaries and taking care of our energetic hygiene in order to prevent depression and collapse (42:00).

The importance of boundaries and taking care of our energetic hygiene in order to prevent depression and collapse (42:00).

See the full video on my website!

Achintya Devi is the Founder of Goddess Rising Mystery School and Global Sisterhood. She is dedicated to supporting women reclaim their Ancient Feminine Power & Sovereignty, and embody their Soul Essence.    

In this Shakti Story episode Achintya:

~defines Shakti and how Shakti is showing up in her life.

~shares around the importance of honouring emotions like anger and sadness.

~addresses what she thinks we are being called to face in the midst of this world crisis.

Check out the video on my website! 

Alexandra Goldwell, M.A., is a speaker and healer passionate about growth, possibility and our future. Using clairaudience, clairvoyance and tools uncovered from over two decades of practice, she assists individuals to release the past, reclaim their voice and embody their authentic power.

In this episode Alexandra talks about Conscious Conception as a path of preparation of the body, mind, spirit, home and relationships for the miracle of pregnancy and childbirth. She shares how she discovered this concept of clearing the space for the spirit to enter before she was pregnant and how surprised she was that nobody talks about this stuff in modern culture! She shares a little bit about her own home birth story and how having other women present and the support of an experienced midwife and doula made all the difference in her painful, but powerful initiation into motherhood.

I just love Alexandra's openness, insight and clarity.

Kati Kimchi is a Focusing-oriented Co-ordinator who has been teaching and facilitating Focusing in her clinic for more than 10 years. The crossing of Focusing and Sexuality was born out of a her need to explore the sensitive issues of sexuality. 

Because she is a curious person she was asking: 

✨Why is there no Focusing orientation in sexual therapy?

✨Why do felt senses in the pelvic area appear so rarely in the natural flow of the Focusing process? 

✨What do we need to know as facilitators when our Focusing partner or client is in touch with a felt sense in the genital area or is preoccupied with sexual issues? 

Over the years Kati has learned that entering emotional space through issues around sexuality enables direct contact with the deepest parts of our inner world, safety issues, traumas and communications and leads to a unique shift. In this episode, she describes a bit about what Focusing Therapy is then we look at how it can be helpful in exploring sexual issues.