The Heart of the Sacred Feminine
welcoming the essence of grace

By Marla Durden
 
sacred feminineFeminine qualities bring depth, meaning and vitality to our lives. Women and men both have access to this luminous wellspring of life giving energy within. The “hyper-masculine” age has required that we culturally align ourselves with unbalanced masculine values in order to succeed- often leaving us feeling that something important is missing- at times dry, hollow and lonely. Our collective success has come at a great expense. We are searching for the lost connection to our essential feeling nature. It is this missing “something” that we long for in the quiet moments of our lives…. bringing richness, creativity, and warmth to our being. This deeply nurturing work supports you in reweaving your graceful ground of being by awakening, healing and integrating the heart, head and womb/seat of creation. Using ancient ritual practices, cognitive and body-centered modalities we re-member our essential nature and feed our souls.

Participate in the profound awakening of feminine consciousness
We each embody both masculine and feminine qualities. The deep feminine is nourishing to women and men. For women it reminds us of who we truly are at our most magnificent essence, imbuing us with a grace and luminosity that feeds and nourishes all those around us from a well-spring of abundance and Love. She reminds men of their essential feeling nature and gives them deep emotional integration and stability to wield masculine power and focus with grace.


“The mind goes insane without the guidance of the heart.”
- Marianne Williamson


Bringing balance to a hyper-masculine age
The drive for advancement and centuries of cultural and religious oppression have found us tipping over the “hyper-masculine” edge. The deep underlying values of Life are calling us home if we are to create a world that honors the sanctity of all life and understands that every decision we make affects our children and lineage for many generations. In many ways, our move away from the ancient feminine cultures may have been what we needed to re-wire our brains and evolve technologically. It has brought us many gifts along with the Trojan horses. But too much of anything, no matter how good, is unhealthy.


Hyper-masculine: the excessive dominance of the masculine urge toward differentiation, penetration and autonomy that becomes dis-associative, self-isolating, overly-analytical, dominating, suppressive, and rigidly hierarchical.


She nourishes and honors all life without exception
She is re-awakening in the hearts and minds of women and men the world over, weary from the over-heated values of annihilating masculine drive. We see her as we re-examine what is truly real and important for us in our lives. She has the power to feed and nourish us in deep and profound ways. Working in tandem with a healthy and integrated masculine, she supports our creating and succeeding in ways far beyond what our linear, left-brain, analytical mind ever thought possible. In tune with her, our lives take on a healthy rhythm of their own, and we begin to remember our essential connection to all life… the pulse of life.


“It is my belief that we carry in our cells, in our tissues, in the very throb of our existence
an underlying flow that urges, inspires, flares our nostrils and beats our heart.”
- Emilie Conrad


Embodied Spirituality and the Cosmic Womb
A spirituality that honors the Divine Feminine is embodied. It recognizes the sanctity of the body as a being with billions of years of bio-intelligence expressing the pleasure, joy and wisdom that can only be experienced in and through form. Thousands of years of religious “training” has made us forget this most basic fact of life, disconnecting many of us from our essential healthy sensual nature and the great intimacy and well-spring of creativity that it engenders. The Divine Feminine creates, is giving, nourishing and if necessary fiercely protecting her progeny. The cultivation of a “full-chakra” spirituality seeks to make all human attributes permeable to the presence of both immanent and transcendent spiritual energies. There is no true separation, everything is sacred.

Embodied Spirituality:
The alignment, honoring and experiencing as sacred- all human dimensions- body heart, mind and spirit.


Surrendering to the power of Grace

I have witnessed Her emergence with middle-aged men crying like babies in my office as she re-awakens in them long lost feelings of joy and love. Her grace has brought the waters of life and healing to women who had lost themselves in the unbalanced masculine drive to succeed. It has helped them to regain their connection to their essential sensual feminine nature, and deepened their capacity for true intimacy. This Deepening into the Heart of the Sacred Feminine Practice is dedicated to helping women and men to re-member and drink deeply from this luminous Ocean of Being.



“I found God in myself and I loved her. I loved her fiercely.”
- Ntozake Shange