2008 Archives
Cabin Teachings
Hello Dear Radiant Being,
I am writing to you with this sensual and wild autumn all around I felt very inspired to include some of the photos I took while cooking my mothers “delicious” apple sauce … Of course, this only works with the neighbor’s apples…
I invite you to read on:
Topics in this Issue:
- 20 min Video is up!
- Body Communion
- Invitation from the Academy of Self-Knowledge
- Cabin Teachings
The Launching of my 20 minute Video!!
If you have not looked at it please do – a friend just told me today it inspired her and her new husband to some amazing sex!
Body Communion in Holland
Dec. 6 and 7, 2008
This workshop has deeply inspired and enabled Men and Women to go beyond old fear and numbness that constricts their availability for true intimacy. I have found that the key to open the often unrecognized limitations of our mind is our ability to sense and feel the clear presence of our physical body. Communion is ‘Being in Unity’. To live real Body Communion with ourselves is an art form in our daily world. We have had to numb our sense-ability to protect our vulnerability so much that it is difficult to attract an appropriate partner or to reach our partners heart and Being. In this Workshop I invite you with love and laughter to experience your body, expand and relax into your real core and learn the most nurturing Symphonic Touch® Sequence.
When asked how I discovered this new path of teaching nurturing body contact to men and women instead of sexual practices I replied: Working with babies for many years I realized that joy and curiosity develop naturally when babies are experiencing bodily pleasure. This happens long before puberty and sexual energy takes over this purely sensual exploration of our blissful aliveness. As adults our relationships often lack this piece of nonsexual nurturing fulfillment and therefore we lose our sense of connection and trust to yourselves and our partners.
Over the last 25 years, I have designed and developed Symphonic Touch®, an Integrative Movement Massage Process, which gently creates physical wellbeing and the awareness of the connections in our body. I believe that learning to use these unique and very nurturing Touch and Movement Sequences will give us a chance to soften our blocks, open and receive pleasure.
Feminine Radiance is the natural expression of your body’s relaxed pleasure in every moment. I believe that woman have had to learn to compromise their pleasure and cope with a ‘hyper-masculine’ world, that requires us to animate too much of our masculine force and ability to function, to survive, hold and heal the world. I feel this is not at all healthy for women’s bodies and for what we want in our intimate relationships.
For those same reasons MEN have had their own difficulty to enjoy their natural embodiment of masculine presence and clarity, which can only be trusted with an awake and sensible bodily consciousness. I have seen that the Touch and Movement Sequences you will learn in this workshops can be continuously practiced with your partner to open each others bodies and hearts gently for your deeply satisfying Communion and how they provide the prerequisite for great sex.
The International Academy of Self Knowledge
The Academy of Self -Knowledge (IASK)has just released a FREE Transformational Webinar that I think you will enjoy. Their President and Founder Libby Adams is a long time friend of mine. Libby is a brilliant woman and I can only recommend her great work [over the phone] as long as you can not have my hands on you directly…
The webinar will assist you to discover what’s been preventing you from achieving the wealth, peace of mind, spiritual connection, relationships and health you desire… and learn HOW TO OVERCOME IT!!
You can access this Webinar for FREE by going to the IASK website and completing your information and you’ll receive instant access to the Transformational Webinar.
Let me know what you think!
Cabin Teachings
“A blessing is not something that one person gives another. A blessing is a moment of meeting… in which people involved remember and acknowledge their true nature and worth, and strengthen what is whole in one another.”
Rachel Remen
You probably have also held your breath and felt your un-eased gut while the US Citizens were making their decision on the new president. So much for us and the world depends on it. Now, a new era has begun. The way President Obama held his speech last night already showed a different side of America.
Now it is time to focus on our body again to find the strength we need for our future. Breathing well is the key.
In this remote place it is easier to keep breathing.
Still, this time it took me a full week to slow down enough and feel more ease excitement and inspiration to start writing on my book.
The forest with its sounds of the animals, running creeks, the crisp wind and falling lusciously colored leaves; the deeply relaxing smells of the trees and the earth and the ever changing shadows and lights are seducing and guiding my attention back home into my body. I feel blessed that I can experience this abundance of nature and feel safe at this particular time in the world. I am being invited to listen and hear deeper than pleasure and fear. Especially when the first storms are coming in and my little cabin seems to turn into an old wooden bark sailing through the trees gnarling and squeaking until my trust is shaken that we will make it whole through the night.
This is when I remembered that I have a body.
I remembered to make the famous U-turn. I let the crazy world outside and in my head step into the background. I began to listen inward. I allowed my rattled nerves to feel into my sense of home and warmth and space inside my body. My exhales got longer. My inhales had space. I welcomed my softening and than I got even curious about how bad it would really get out there and with a smile I was able to sleep.
I expect that our challenged world uses this crisis as the opportunity to begin to listen to everyone. No one can exclude themselves any longer from the ground of constructive committed communication.
It is not enough to trust in ourselves – we need to find trust in life.
There is Life After 50
Hello Dear Radiant Being
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I wish you to fully enjoy the summer of 2008 [or winter, if you live on the other side of the equator]. Here is this season’s newsletter contents:
- 20 min Video is up!!!!!!!
- Return to the cabin
- 50-50 party
- Gina Ogden’s new book
The Launching of my 20 min Video!!!!!!!
Thanks to Della Heywood my infinitely inspiring interviewer, clever camera chick and wonderful web wizard, I am thankfully thrilled to announce my first video interview. I invite you watch it on my home page and hear more about the process on writing my book.
And as if all those cool talents weren’t enough, Della is a spiritual artist too! This is the painting she gave me on my birthday, painted as a prayer for all women everywhere… to see more, visit her website here.
Return to the Cabin
More teachings from writing- my editor said this is the book she’s been waiting for since the 80s!!!!
Interestingly I don’t seem to be able to create a quiet enough space for me to write on How to Recover our Feminine Radiance while I am here at home running the household, my office, teaching my classes and working with my clients.
Coulda known bedder, but of course that’s exactly what I am writing about.
You might have already noticed how difficult it is for your self to get in touch with your deeper and whole self that is buried underneath our keeping-it-all-together-tension patterns.
The more “masculine” mental action of sensibly writing about ‘Living Connected to the Bliss of Our Bodies in the Midst of Anything’ still needs me to retreat into a “safe” nest in full feminine nature where I can uninterruptedly explore how we all can re-member our body’s natural radiance in the moments of our daily life.
I am very grateful for the opportunity to go back to the cabin at the end of October, since the huge Big Sur Fire spared the cabin.
50 – 50 Party
There is life after 50! I can relaxedly assure you.
The 50 50 birthday party that I shared with my friend Lésa was lovingly organized by our husbands and friends.
This celebration launched me into a new space of inner space, trusting, letting go and curious awareness, it just gets better and better….!
Dr. Gina Ogden’s New Book
I am excited to bring your attention to my dear colleague and mentor Dr. Gina Ogden and yet another wonderful book she has written: The Return of Desire: A Guide to Rediscovering Your Sexual Passion. To see the book and receive special gifts on Tuesday, July 15th (today!) click here www.ginaogden.com/promo
Dr. Gina has another special offer for you:
“In gratitude to the hundreds of graduates of ISIS weekends, and because I want to see how you are transforming this profound work, I offer to discount the fee for you to attend the 2008 August 15-17 Kripalu gathering if you contact me personally by July 31.
Write me at “offer[at]GinaOgden.com”
I got to read this book still hot from the press this weekend and as always Gina expands my perspective and gives me such a place of feeling wholly embraced as a woman. Her 360 degree insight and wisdom also bring a good spark into my marriage. Gina noted one of my excersises in the chapter on “Treating yourself like Royalty…” how appropriate… and thank you Gina!
… and that is my July Newsletter!
Come for one of my Summer Special Tune-Ups, and keep in touch. I am looking forward to connecting with you!
with love and light,
Sabine
