July 2010

Hello friend,

With the 2010 Australian Meditation Conference a week away, here is a brief offering from my 40 minute key note presentation - 'Women and Meditation.'

"What do women need to thrive in meditation? In my experience, women feel subtly ashamed for being different from men, and are subtly shamed for it in the meditation, spiritual and religious industry. There can be judgement about women's emotions, her body and how she expresses herself.  What needs to be said, even though it may be obvious, is that these differences are strengths and, they need to be seen and valued as strengths. These strengths compliment men. For women to be healthy in meditation, it must take into account the attributes of her body and psyche ..."

Following on from the conference presentation, there will be an all day Workshop - Discovering Your Needs As A Woman (An Introduction) Places are filling fast, so if you're intending but haven't actually registered, please act now. It will be one of a series - Exploring how women can learn to listen and trust their self-guiding instincts to develop and strengthen their authentic individuation, unique voice and personal evolution. It promises to be an engaging, playful and experiential day of self-discovery!

We're planning (Intrinsic Events) to bring married meditation pioneers and innovators, Lorin Roche, Ph.D. and Camille Maurine from America to Australia for workshop trainings in 2011. With 70 plus years of exploring, researching and teaching meditation, they're globally known for Instinctive Meditation, Women's Creativity, Self-care, and promoting meditation for the modern era. With multiple books including, Meditation Made Easy, Breath Taking, Whole Body Meditations, The Radiance Sutras, as well as co-authoring Meditation Secrets For Women and 24/7, they're also mentors, dear friends and colleagues!  Let us know if you're interested. Register your contact details here .

Our private and personalised meditation coaching is now conducted from our Melbourne City Office, which has been transformed into a small oasis - The Intrinsic Group, Level 5, 365 Little Collins Street, Melbourne. Our clients love the calm and clear space, particularly for those of you in the CBD, we're only a phone call away from scheduling your next appointment 1300 020 030.

Our final 4 week Self-Care Meditation Course for the year starts November 4th - 25th. Please don't miss out as places are filling, and we're not teaching our courses again, until March 2011.

Finally, a poem for the chilly season. In Oriental Medicine, Winter is a time for reflection, submerged energy and hibernation. Hidden beneath the surface is the activity of gestation, bringing forth birth, renewal and emergence in Spring. 

Sometimes the one who is running from life, death and nature
insists on thinking love as a boon only.
Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths.
We let go of one phrase, one aspect of love and enter another.
Passion dies and is brought back.
Pain is chased away and surfaces another time.
To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, 
and many, many beginnings - all in the same relationship.

                                                        Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Love All Ways,
 

arian@arianyoung.com.au
www.arianyoung.com.au

Phone 1300 020 030

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