• It might sound complicated but it is not.  We have been doing it for millennia. Women gathering together. We just need to remember our sacred nature.
• There are simple practices which can help us tune into our relatedness. These might be things we are not used to— silence, listening, stillness…praising.
• This can be done alone, but it is more powerful when done in small circles.
• I see it as an act of service that requires intention, dedication and love.

Here are some resources for practices and a few books that I value. I am sure you have your own.

Practices

Listening Circles, Seeding Life, by author Anne Scott

is a small guide that describes a simple way to help us remember who we are and reconnect with our sacred nature as women. We possess, in our very beingness, wisdom which is vital for the nourishment and regeneration of self, of families, community and our Earth. When we gather together in silence, we can reconnect to deeper dimensions of ourselves and naturally realign to our place in the web of life. It is through this practice of deep presence with each other, that we can weave back into life the missing thread of love. The Dream Weather Foundation: https://dreamweather.org

Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home, by author Toko-Pa Turner

Toko-Pa draws on myth, stories and dreams, to take us into the origins of our estrangement and reframes exile as a necessary initiation into authenticity. She shares the competencies of belonging: a set of ancestral practices to heal our wounds and restore true belonging to our lives and to the world. https://toko-pa.com

Spiritual Ecology: 10 Practices to Reawaken the Sacred in Everyday Life by authors Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee and Hilary Hart

This is a book that offers practices for fostering a deeper, sacred connection to the natural world and everyday activities. The 10 practices include Walking, Breathing, Gardening, Seeds and Their Stories, Cooking with Love, Cleaning, Simplicity, Prayer, Death, and Meaning and the Sacred. The book suggests 10 simple yet profound practices to reawaken the sacred in everyday life. https://workingwithoneness.org/spiritual-ecology-ten-practices/

Emergence Magazine – Listening practices

Emergence Magazine is an award-winning magazine and creative production studio that explores the threads connecting ecology, culture, and spirituality. Our work gathers voices—both human and more-than-human—with the potential to shift ways of thinking and being in relationship to the living world. https://emergencemagazine.org/podcast/

Books/Authors

Dove in the Stone: Finding the Sacred in the Commonplace by Alice O. Howell

“It is the best-kept secret down through the ages because it is so simple. Truly, the last place it would ever occur for us to find the sacred would be in the commonplace of our everyday lives and all about us in nature and in simple things.” Alice Howell is the grandmama of psychological astrology, Jungian scholar, poet, traveler and wise woman.

Body of Wisdom: Women’s Spiritual Power and How it Serves by Hilary Hart

In Body of Wisdom, Hilary Hart identifies nine hidden powers alive in women’s bodies and instincts, waiting to be used in contemporary challenges such as the creation of community, healing of the earth, and the restoration of life’s spiritual nature. Based on interviews with the world’s most visionary spiritual teachers and women’s dreams and experiences. http://www.hilaryhart.org/books-by-hilary-hart.html

Return of the Feminine and the World Soul by Llewellyn Vaughan Lee

The feminine holds the mystery of creation. This simple and primordial truth is often overlooked, but at this time of global crisis, which also carries the seeds of a global transformation, we need to reawaken to the spiritual power and potential of the feminine. Feminine qualities belong to both men and women, and they draw us into the depths within us, into the mysteries of the soul whose wisdom is called Sophia. We need to return to the core of our being, to where the sacred comes into existence. And the mystical feminine holds the key to this work of redemption and transformation. https://workingwithoneness.org/the-feminine/

Angela Fischer, Author and Teacher

“There is an incredible power in the Feminine that comes directly from the source of life. But when we consider feminine power, we tend to forget that our concept of power is shaped by a patriarchal view of masculine power. We can’t just translate masculine power into feminine power. Feminine power is completely different. They are both needed, and in wholeness they work together in a balanced way, as we so clearly learn from the Daoist tradition. But there is no wholeness and there can be no balance, if we try to bring together masculine power and a feminine power formed by a masculine concept.” https://www.oneness-of-life.org/en/

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter Levine

Dr. Levine invites us back into the natural intelligence of our body, showing how we can use the model of animals in the wild to understand—and rediscover—our own innate ability to heal from trauma. http://www.traumahealing.org/store

The Way of Woman: Awakening the Perennial Feminine by Helen M. Luke

Helen M. Luke speaks with the power of a true sage on the issues of community, relationships,  the women’s movement, marriage and divorce, and mothering. Profound, graceful, and transforming, The Way of Woman is a true celebration of feminine worth.

Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller

The Drama of the Gifted Child explains how children who are overly sensitive to their parents’ needs become gifted at adapting by suppressing their own feelings and developing a “false self” to earn love. The book’s core message is that individuals must confront and acknowledge childhood trauma and repressed emotions, rather than intellectualizing them, to reclaim their true selves, achieve personal freedom, and break free from the lasting influence of their past.

Shakti Woman by Vicki Noble

This is a seminal guide from 1991 designed to help women to reconnect with their innate creative, and healing powers by embracing the divine feminine energy known as “shakti”. The book emphasizes shakti as a life-giving, expansive, and transformative power, connecting it to the energy of creation and Mother Earth. Noble advocates for women to use their rediscovered powers to heal themselves, their communities, and the planet.

Psychology and Alchemy or Man and His Symbols by Carl Gustav Jung

CG Jung was one of psychology’s pioneering figures of the 20th Century. He was a radical and inspirational psychologist and thinker who developed a characteristic and unique way of understanding the human psyche and its functioning. It is a life-long psychological journey of self-discovery and wholeness, where an individual integrates their conscious and unconscious aspects, including archetypes like the Shadow and Anima/Animus, to become their authentic self and contribute to the greater good of society. It involves facing and reconciling internal conflicts and the “dark side” of one’s personality to achieve a balanced, harmonious whole, ultimately leading to self-realization and the fulfillment of one’s unique potential.

Receiving Woman: Studies in the Psychology and Theology of the Feminine by Ann Belford Ulanov

This book focuses on helping women “receive themselves” by rejecting stereotypes and categories and seeking out their own individuality. This book grew out of years of reflections on women’s real experiences.