Woman Awake - The Soul-led Journey of Awakening

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In today’s episode I share my journey with The Divine Mother and Awakening to The Rosary

I  never even imagined that my own mother’s devotion to Mother Mary would have such a deep impact on my own spiritual path.

I never fathomed that the Divine Mother in all her forms and goddess energies would come calling for me.

When I first received Mary Magdalene in 2014 through a vision (whilst pregnant) I had no idea what would be activated in me.

A deep and reverent love for the DIVINE MOTHER. Goddess from all time, space and dimensions. For the Divine Feminine Presence that is the life-force of all.

I couldn’t imagine how it would deepen my love for Gaia, for this earth and her people. I had no idea the depth of aliveness and grounding I would feel by walking this spiritual path into the Cosmic Womb to be held once again by the Mother.

I couldn’t forsee how this would shape my own mothering and my relationship to the Mother Archetype in all areas of life - (and of course a deeper understanding of how we as a modern society have shut down, suppressed, disconnected and closed off from the ‘Mother’ in everything from the way we eat, to how we live, commune, connect, work, relate…)

If I cycle back many years, watching my mother pray the Rosary (which I now do too, in Aramaic and not as a religious practice but a deeply spiritual path, spiralling back to the centre of my heart and the centre of HER heart) and meditating each day I couldn’t imagine the seeds she planted. I wouldn’t have wanted to know… it was all too religious and dogmatic for me. And yet here I am, in a deep love affair with ritual, ceremony, spirituality and all the ways I can weave my world back into the arms of The Divine Mother…

This is equally the most celestial, cosmic journey AND earthly, grounding, human unfolding I have ever experienced. 

It fills with me joy and grief, with light and shadow, with peace and chaos… with passion, purpose and pain. And I wouldn’t have it any other way. 

Thank you for being here and listening.

Show Notes:

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Beautiful one, thank you for being here and listening. It would mean the world to me if you would hit subscribe and stay connected to Woman Awake– join me on this journey of awakening. Your feedback, comments, reviews and shares would always be gratefully received but also help us to reach more mamas who need support as they navigate the choppy waters of motherhood and all it asks of us.

Love + light,

Claire

Woman Awake - Episode119 - Life After Birth with Yara Heary by Woman Awake with Claire Obeid

In today’s episode, I am talking about The art of holding space.

I am excited to announce on the podcast the launch of ATTUNEMENT: The art of holding space. https://claireobeid.com/attunement/

A 6 day deep immersion in presence, deep connection, cultivating safety and the art of listening for the coaches, healers, guides, leaders, mentors and teachers of our time.

Todays podcasts dives deep into subjects around the art of holding space.

Such as:

+Listening and being in presence.

+How to open, close and hold a space

+The refinement of this craft by understanding the importance of respect, reverence, understanding and recognising the human/ spirit in your presence. +How we engage with our community

+The magic that happens when we hold space well for others.

+Your intuition as your most powerful medicine.

Thank you for being here and listening.

Visit claireobeid.com/episode118 for more.

Show Notes:

Explore Attunement here: www.claireobeid.com/attunement

Love + light,

Claire

I have the most incredible episode for you today. I had the opportunity to speak with Yemi Penn. Yemi is an engineer by profession, entrepreneur by passion, an author and has many other facets. Yemi is doing incredible things in raising the collective vibration and instigates us all to use our trauma for growth. Today we dive into personal journeys, Yemi’s book which you'll hear more about in our conversation. I talk to Yemi about sharing wisdom and knowledge and I can’t wait for you to hear our powerful conversation.

We talk about:

- What is important right now, is your focus in life and work?

- The foundational pillars of Yemi’s book

- The creation of success as opposed to being born lucky…

- Our personal journeys

- wisdom Yemi would you share and program into the listeners cells?

Be sure to connect with Yemi after listening to this episode.

Visit claireobeid.com/episode117 for more.

Show Notes:

Connect with Yemi here:

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://www.yemipenn.com

In today’s episode, I am talking about when I had my littlies home with me the other day.

We were choosing an afternoon movie and landed on SOUL.

There was one message in the movie that I was happy to spend time explaining.

And that was the difference between your soul’s purpose and the meaning of life.

Whilst I truly, 100% believe that our soul has a purpose to some degree - and that purpose is part of our own personal journey, script, story you could say. And whilst that purpose is valuable and has such depth - I have started to realise over my years that it’s not so much EXACTLY what you are doing within that purpose but the feeling state, the embodied alignment and joy, the deep gratitude washing through you.

So that’s not to say don’t go for big dreams, or don’t chase down what feels purposeful, but the real question is are we opening up to the meaning of life that to me is felt in the everyday.

Such as:

Holding your child as they cry, watching their heart break.

Witnessing a fellow human do something wild, outrageous and simply inspiring.

Watching the way shadow and light plays on your bedroom wall.

The taste of a strawberry.

That first insanely refreshing glass of water after you’ve completed a big workout.

The deep rest and peace that washes over your babies faces when they sleep or their little fingers reaching for your face when breast-feeding.

The crunch of autumn leaves under your feet.

The first beam of sunshine you feel after a long bout of rain.

The magic in the air when watching live music.

The love in the air when witnessing two people on their wedding day.

Today’s episode is about when we add each of those moments up, many hundreds of them, that we have hopefully been present with and soaked up, isn’t it then that we live a purposeful, meaningful life?

Visit claireobeid.com/episode116 for more.

Show Notes:

Explore The Temple Space here: claireobeid.com/the-temple-space

Love + light,

Claire

In today’s episode, I’m bringing you a conversation around abandonment - a theme that has been circling in my world since covid, but has also been a theme in my life for many years.

Alongside resurfacing whilst I was sick with the dreaded virus, I’ve also come to learn through therapy how this core wound of mine plays out in other areas of my life, specifically in my relationship. It constantly reveals new layers for me to meet, and when meeting the topic of abandonment with a client recently, we dove into the confronting ways that she was also abandoning herself.

When we are on a journey of reclamation - healing stories, beliefs and patterns - yes, we go to the root cause (if our nervous system is ready and able to hold that - if not, then we tend to our nervous system first!) and yes, we must address all the areas that feel sticky and hurtful.

However, what I have found to be the most fruitful and what I offered my client is this;

From here on out, you must work to never abandon yourself. Ever.

This starts by looking at all the daily and small ways where you can choose yourself.

Like -

Showing up to a commitment you made for your movement and mental health.

Choosing a meal that makes you feel healthy and alive.

Saying what you need to say and hold boundaries that you know are right for you.

Today’s episode is about choosing you, over everything and everyone else, first. Reclaiming abandonment and turning it into acceptance, belonging, appreciation, acknowledgement - and in doing so, allowing yourself to follow through.

Visit claireobeid.com/episode115 for more.

Show Notes:

Explore The Temple Space here: claireobeid.com/the-temple-space

Love + light,

Claire

I have the most incredible episode for you today. I'm speaking with Jason McGrice, Meditation Teacher & Healer, who is doing incredible things in the world, as well as with his crew and their Brazen Brotherhood, which you'll hear more about in our conversation. I've not had many conversations in my life that have flowed as naturally and effortlessly as this one, so I know you are going to love it.

We talk about:

- What it means to be a man and the preconceived ideas that exist in our society today

- What led Jason to step into this work

- What Jason sees unfolding in women and the feminine at the moment

- Toxic masculinity versus the conscious and aligned masculine

- What our boys and men need as they navigate the world today

Be sure to connect with Jason after listening to this episode, or tune into his meditations on Insight Timer.

Visit claireobeid.com/episode114 for more.

Show Notes:

Connect with Jason here:

https://www.jasonmcgrice.com/

https://insighttimer.com/jasonmcgrice

Jason's bio:

Spiritually connected from a young age, it was Jason’s embodiment of spiritual practices and meditation that plucked him from the depths of anxiety and depression in his early 20’s. This healing process impacted him profoundly and formed the catalyst of his commitment to help men and women heal their old wounds and reach for the best version of themselves by finding their truth within.

His unique spiritual approach remains highly relatable and dives to the depths of pain and trauma all whilst being held within a very safe container. This gift has generated a worldwide community of meditator’s, with millions of listeners connecting to his guidance on the popular meditation app ‘Insight Timer’. His highly successful single ‘Morning Ritual’ has inspired a movement of peace seekers waking up to his meditations every single morning.

Jason is passionate about raising the consciousness of the globe and finds himself at home facilitating group healing’s and mass meditation sessions where a collective intention can be cultivated to create seismic leaps toward fundamental societal change.

Now with over 18 years’ experience with Reiki pumping through his blood, he is in constant refinement of his gifts and offerings with being a conduit of universal energy and passionately shares his skills to serve as a true lightworker.

Love + light,

Claire

This week on the podcast I share my experience of teaching to private groups, most recently teaching yoga to a group here on the coast last week.

I don’t do these often but when I do I am always met with a push-pull sensation - The tug of tension between sharing all of what and who I am and yet measuring it, drip-feeding it and tailoring it to the group.

And truthfully, I never quite know what to expect.

How will they feel when I start with unusual breath work practices, or talk to them about their womb centre, or have them working with energy, or doing bizarre practices to unscramble their brain?

And yet, every single time I’m shown that I should question such things. When a women is invited home into her body an inner spark is lit, a curiosity awakened, a remembering even…

By the end of these sessions someone always asks:

“Claire, do you know where I can find someone who teaches like you do…”

Which is usually met with me sucking in air, deeply, before sighing and saying - “I’m sorry, I don’t know…”

Here’s the thing…

I do know where to send you for Kundalini. I do know who can hold you through Womb Yoga. I know precisely who can teach you yin. Or the many breath work teachers I’ve had.

But I can’t show you someone who weaves it together, who intuitively blends it and who offers it from her heart (and from 15 years of self exploration) in my signature.

We all have our own signature. We all have our own unique essence. My essence - in a nutshell - a co-creation of many learnings, lessons and elements unique to my soul.

If you’ve been here a while (if you’re new, Hi, welcome!) you’ll know I’ve grappled with the way I learn, co-create, tailor, mash-up and blend, rewrite and make teachings, practices, guidance all my own. Thinking it should be just ONE thing I offer and become an expert at.

I’m now at a place where I can own that when you work with me, you actually get ME. Not THAT tool. Or THAT modality. Or THAT piece of wisdom.

You get me… and yes, my bag is fully of magic tricks. But it’s me and the way I hold space, midwife and teach (and how interpret and use those bags of tricks).

You get ME - the one who intuits the room, reads the energy of each individual and tailors the experience to create cohesion. Coherence. Medicine.

…

Now here is where I want to bring you into this. Because none of this is possible without your participation. We dance together… It’s one thing for me to highlight how far I’ve come in owning my incredibly unique, layered and medicinal ways (and I do so as an invitation so stay tuned). But none of that matters without factoring in YOU, who you are, what you bring to the space (that includes your energy, your story, your history, your wounds, your life, your trauma).

So let me start here by saying…

One of the most important aspects of being in service to women is SAFETY.

My beautiful friend Tara Bliss, who I had the absolute pleasure of hosting a ceremony for her Heartbeat container says “There is a sense of comfort, safety and belonging that Claire creates for everyone that sits in circle with her. That is known and felt that it’s possible because of the circles that Claire herself has sat in, received in, participated in and welcomed into her whole being. “

Join me in this episode as I unpack safety, the way it has unfolded on my own journey, and invite you in to question how important safety is for your growth, learning, healing but also simply for your daily embodied experience within life.

Visit claireobeid.com/episode113 for more.

Show Notes:

Explore The Temple Space here: claireobeid.com/the-temple-space

Love + light,

Claire

Welcome back to Woman Awake.

After a little break with the spicy flu, I’m excited to be back on the podcast today to share with you my latest offering - The Temple Space. A monthly grace-centred gathering of ceremony, ritual, healing, holding and home-coming. And alongside this, I want to speak to the common response that I often hear when we’re invited into a space like this that doesn’t always present a clear and direct outcome for us.

We’re often asking - “What do I get out of this?”

“Is this just a luxury or a nice to have, or is it a must-have?”

And to that I want to say, why can’t it be both?

You see, it is our duty, not just a luxury, to tend to our spiritual selves. It forms the energetic framework that carries all the other work we do in the world. It supports us in cultivating an inner aliveness and attunement that ripples out into the world as it shifts us on a cellular level. 

Often this need to class such things as ‘luxury’ is our way of avoiding where we are being called to sit with our soul, and keep us holding back on our responsibilities to ourselves and this earth we are passing on to our children. 

Which is why we need to start asking - can this be both? Can spaces to meet myself, return home and come together with likeminded people be both a luxurious place to be AND an absolute must in my life, for myself and the world?

Today’s podcast is an exploration of this for yourself, as I invite you through the doors of my new offering The Temple Space.

Visit claireobeid.com/episode112 for more.

Show Notes:

Explore The Temple Space here: claireobeid.com/the-temple-space

Love + light,

Claire

Welcome back to a new season of Woman Awake. In today's episode, I want to share some words from a beautiful member of the current (I am) The Remedy container, who wrote me to share her experiences in our weekly Soma and Light Sessions on embodiment…

Her words: “You're the first person I’ve done training with that I actually understand and have felt what it means to embody something. The word embody has always been elusive to me, but every single Sunday session I’m like, OMG this is embodied! Which can only mean that you yourself embody the practices. You are filled with grace…”

Firstly, what a message. I still pinch myself that I get to work with women who so beautifully share words like this and who see me with such love.

Secondly, I’m bloody thrilled. Because it wasn’t only 5-6 years ago that I realised a big and painful truth. I was not EMBODIED. I was not grounded. I was not and had never been home on this earth, in this body, in this lifetime (and that simply wasn’t good enough)…

So this feedback is a huge gift… Even so, despite this, I cringe when people describe me as an embodiment coach…

Embodiment is the new spiritual buzz word du jour.

I actually really LOVE embodiment work. I love the word. I love what it means. I love that we are starting to centre our attention on the SOMA and explore somatic based practices.

I cringe though because, to me, embodiment is often very misinterpreted or misunderstood. It’s not something you DO. It’s in the BEING. We DO things to support our integration and becoming. So we can BE embodied.

The irony in what I’m about to say is that embodiment is not how well you can writhe about on the floor performing your best pleasure based practice (and again, I say this with a little cheek - I love a good floor romp).

Here’s the thing … we can “perform” and attempt to portray what might look like an EMBODIED individual. We can perform anything if we want to. But the real golden ticket is when a person can hold space AND transmit a clear and tangible form of embodiment that is felt not just witnessed and seen.

“To be an expression of or give a tangible or visible form to an idea, quality, or feeling…”

When we are in the presence of someone who is embodied, that is how we begin to learn what embodiment feels like and looks like. That person might be silent and still and yet if we can FEEL their embodiment then we come to understand it and possibly begin to live it too.

When someone embodies their truth it’s not just the things they say, it’s the way they live, stand steady, own, exemplify and teach without trying. It’s what’s you HEAR without words.

When someone fully inhabits and embodies their sovereignty they do not fight from a place of fear but instead hold strength and worthiness. There is reverence for themselves and others and a very clear, unbreakable & felt boundary line.

When someone embodies their sexuality & sensuality, it’s not something they perform, but something you can FEEL - a frequency you can almost taste even when they are washing the dishes. They are not in their mind questioning their creative, sexual self - they are breathing that into every moment.

When someone embodies their heart and their soul there are no airs and graces, false pretences or games - you can sense their aliveness and wholeness. You are invited into their authenticity and vulnerability. You can touch their compassion and get drawn into their deep respect for humanity and divinity.

Visit claireobeid.com/episode111 for more.

Show Notes:

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Love + light,

Claire