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Empowering the Dreams & Spirit of Women

November 2012

In This Issue
Spirit Drum Circle
Community Connections
Conference News
Puttin' on the WOW Dinner Party
Your Authentic Power online seminar
Have a Better Holiday ~ FREE Teleclass
Imsara Astro Overview
The Wisdom in Our Hearts ~ article
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Bergith Kayyali
 Elise Child
Katie-Lynn Harrison
 Kris Steinnes-Founder
Lyn Waring

 Roberta Sherwood

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Camey Jensen 
Julie Fretzin
Karen Fletcher
Len-Erna Cotton
Miriam Dyak
Mosa Baczewska
Patty Jatkowski
Richard Berger
Wren Campbell

 

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Board of Advisors
 Elena Avila
 Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.
 Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.
 Sandra Ingerman
 Charlotte Sophia Kasl
Brooke Medicine Eagle
 Judith Orloff, M.D.
 Gabrielle Roth
 Nicki Scully
 Sobonfu Somé
 Susun S. Weed
 Cris Williamson

 Dear Women of Wisdom,  

  

Summer's come and gone, now the rain!  For our members who are on the east coast, we hope you are safe and your homes survived without damage.  

We have completed our conference program!  And very excited about who will be coming. You can download a pdf view of the calendar on our website to see the half day workshops. 

I'm very pleased to announce we have just finished booking our featured guests:

Nicki Scully will join us with Normandi Ellis for a healing ritual ceremony Saturday evening, and also give a workshop.  They are right now together on the Nile with a tour and are sending us their descriptions!  They each want to share in both of their workshops, so that should be exciting Eqyptian lore! Nicki's new book is on Planetary Healing.  
Also - hot off the press, we'll be having Cyndi Dale, internationally renowned author and energy healer, author of The Subtle Body: An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy and New Chakra Healing and many other books.

If you'd like to receive a hardcopy brochure, please send your mailing address to wow@womenofwisdom.org by Nov. 7th
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Now you may be wondering "I thought Kris retired from directing the conference".  Yes I have, I'm in a consultant role as we go through this transition, so I'm helping out getting the major speakers, and will mentor the marketing/media team. It's fun to be in this new role, and I have to watch myself as it's so easy to get back into the "doing" role rather than mentoring.  And many people are in place, including Kelly O'Dell, master conference coordinator, to manage the day to day of conference business. 

Coming up is our November Community Connection on November 17th with Ragini Elizabeth Michaels, Mosa Baczewska and Heather Taylor-Zimmerman. The theme is The Art of Sacred Living. We've been having great turn outs so be sure to register soon!

In case you notice there's not a dance announcement - we've had to cancel as people haven't been coming to dance lately - maybe 'cause we had such beautiful warm fall days and nights.  So if you want to dance, you need to contact us about revitalizing this wonderful evening in 2013.  We can't do it without bodies!  


There are some new programs that will be launched at conference. Stay tuned for some exciting news!  
Very soon we will be announcing the launch of an online Temple, just as we have healers and readers at our conference!  We will send a special e-newsletter announcement about how you can apply to participate in this resource. If you are in the healing profession, it'll be an opportunity for you to be visible to our members, and they will be able to find trusted Women of Wisdom practitioners of holistic health modalities, including intuitive readers of tarot, astrology, and other modalities available in our region.  And many people work online now or by phone so the Temple will be available to all of our readers.  

That is just the first stage of Women of Wisdom developing new resources for you.  We're excited about our direction and hope you will be too.


We had a great community dinner on October 23rd, great conversations of what our best summer memories were, and viewed the film about Meinrad Craighead's life as an artist. Very inspiring.  

You can join us for our holiday potluck dinner December 11th. Mark your calendars as this one fills up quickly.  Everyone's brings their favorite food that they make with love.

Last call for healers and readers for The Temple at the conference, the deadline is Nov. 21st.  More information is in the e-news on how you can apply to participate with your gifts at WOW in February.

I continue to  interview our Women of Wisdom presenters  on my radio show, Voices of Women, on Voices of Women Talk Radio  at 1pm Pacific time on Fridays. The interviews will continue each week until the conference begins.   Please join us and learn about what they'll be sharing with you in February.

We hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family and friends!

 

Kris Steinnes, Founder

Women of Wisdom Foundation

 Author of #1 Amazon bestselling, award-winning book, Women of Wisdom:  Empowering the Dreams and Spirit of Women available for sale at www.womenofwisdom.org  and host of Voices of Women on www.transformationtalkradio.com

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Spirit Drum Circle

Drumming with Intention 

  943 N 89th St., Seattle 98103 
Friday ~ 7:30PM to 9:00PM ~ Nov. 16
Cost: $5 suggested donation. No one turned away. 
  
   Bring your drums, rattles & sacred objects for a community altar!

 

   Facilitated by Veronica Appolonia & Bergith Kayyali, join us as we drum, tone, & share with our sisters in a talking circle.   If you have an extra drum, please bring it to share.  If you don't have a drum, we'll have extras or we'll have rattles to use.

 

Our intention for November will be Gratitude

 

Next Drum Circle is Dec. 14, 2012 
A portion of the proceeds to benefit Women of Wisdom

Community Connections
   The Art of Sacred Living    
Saturday, November 17, 2012  
at
943 North 89th St., Seattle, WA 98103 -
just off Aurora Ave./Hwy 99
To register go to www.womenofwisdom.org.

 Full day registration is $45 for WOW members, and $55 for non members.  For individual workshops registration is $25 for WOW members, and $35 for non members.

9:00 - 9:30 - registration, coffee/tea and opening circle 

Ragini Michaels 9:30 - 11:30 Integrate and Balance Your Divine Human Nature with Ragini Elizabeth Michaels   

  

Waking up spiritually isn't easy.  When the "doing" of daily life keeps you running, "being" becomes double difficult to find.  This workshop offers a precise tool for how to integrate and balance your dual nature - both divine and human - without making one more important than the other. This is original work based on the Psychology of Mystics, 40 years of meditation, and expertise in Unconscious Communication and the Enneagram.  

  

Ragini Elizabeth Michaels, author and Trainer of NLP, Hypnosis and Paradox Management, receives international acclaim for her elegant style and professional expertise.  She is also recognized for Paradox Management - her original tool for accelerating our ability to surf the spiritual-psychological interface in daily life.  Ragini offered The Wisdom School of Paradox Management in Seattle as well as Paradox Soirees and Paradox Salons. 

11:30 - 12:30 Lunch - bring something to share for potluck, or if you're on a restricted diet bring your own lunch 

Mosa Baczewska photo 12:30 - 2:30 pm Sounding on Purpose, Simmering the Matrix with Mosa Baczewska   

  

In this workshop, participants learn some of the New Edge current understanding of the vibrational structure of universe, he Matrix, and the sound of our voices.  Using Singing/sounding, intentional authentic-moment expression, we explore the coherence of the heart and voice, the chaos to harmony principal and the possibilities of healing and transformation through experiencing the alchemy of group Singing/Sounding.  This joyful expression empowers, enlivens, and becomes the metaphor of how to live in harmony on a  peaceful planet, expression our own unique sounds.  All voices welcome.    
 
Mosa Baczewska is a performing songwriter, fabric and visual artist and workshop presenter who, for over 35 years, has been performing original "nouveau folk jazz" with 6 self-produced CDs ter her credit while simultneously creating beautiful, useful fiber and visual art
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3:00 - 5:00 p
heather taylor zimmerman m Aligning to the Source with Heather Taylor-Zimmerman

 Sacred geometry provides the structure of creation, within ourselves and the world around us.  It is a system of relation, a bridge connecting the microcosm within and the macrocosm without, the quantum and the astrophysical levels of being.  Human traditions have drawn upon geometry to align themselves to focus their consciousness through art, whether it was Carl Jung and the mandala of consciousness, a Tibetan sand mandala or a Hindu yantra.  We will learn to understand and draw upon this system of alignment to create a more purposefully patterned life through visualization and self-exploration. 
 
Heather Taylor-Zimmerman is an artist who works with sacred geometry and symbolism to express universal truths through human transformation and creation.  Her art focuses upon concepts of alignment that center the viewer and expose them to mediated experiences.

Full day registration is $45 for WOW members, and $55 for non members.  For individual workshops registration is $25 for WOW members, and $35 for non members.  Go to www.womenofwisdom.org to register. 
21st Annual WOW Conference News! Woman reading a newspaperFebruary 14th - 18th, 2013
 
"Women Leading the Evolutionary Shift - Midwifing the New Paradigm" 
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 Call for Temple Participants

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Body Workers, Healers, & Readers  (psychic, tarot, astrology, etc.)

 

Become one of our service providers at the 21st WOW Conference, Feb. 14th - 18th,  tarot cards2013,  and share your gifts with our participants.  The Temple is an important part of the  conference activities and a good way to get more exposure for those of you who do this work. 

 

Please go to the conference website to download the information letter and application form  www.womenofwisdom.org    The deadline to apply is November 21, 2012. 

 


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hand holding candle Opening Ceremony
The opening ceremony is a WOW Conference tradition.  If you would like to be part of the team that creates and presents the ceremony on the first night of the Conference, Thursday, February 14, contact Veronica Appolonia at vindaloo2002@msn.com.  The first meeting will be held in the Hall at Standing Stone Healing & Arts on Thursday, January 3 from 7 to 9PM.
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Goddess Market
The vendors for the 2013 Goddess Market have been chosen!  Plan to spend some time during the Conference shopping from the selection of treasures from out talented women artists and craftspeople. 

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Get Involved, be a Committee Member!

Women in a meeting Come share your gifts with WOW and make new friends!  

It takes nearly a full year to plan each conference and the planning committee has been working through the summer on the 2013 conference
program.  There are many ways to participate and we welcome the addition of new and returning sisters to share in this rewarding process.  


If you would like to be a part of the circle that creates our conference, email wow@womenofwisdom.org   We welcome you to join our circle of fabulous women!  

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  Conference Program!

See the Conference website for a calendar of the workshops and events that have been chosen so far.  We're finalizing some of our evening programs and workshops so stay tuned for special announcements.  Later this month you will be able to read all about each workshop, presenter, and event on our newly designed website.  We are excited about our lineup of terrific and insightful workshops and fun, uplifting events!
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Latest News!  Internationally renowned energy healer and best selling author, Cyndi Dale, will be at WOW.   She will give a Friday, Feb. 15th eventing presentation and a Saturday, Feb 16 workshop.




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And returning to WOW is Nicki Scully!
Nicki Scully will do a ceremonial ritual healing with Normandi Ellis Saturday evening, Feb. 16th AND a full day workshop Sunday, Feb. 17th:  Planetary Healing;  Spirit Medicine for Global Transformation; Alchemical Healing; The Anubis Oracle; and Shamanic Mysteries of Egypt.




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Normandi Ellis,  

returns to Women of Wisdom to present a two day intensive workshop:

Creating Realities: Principles of Ancient Egyptian Magic on Wednesday, February 13th & Thursday, February 14th.  

  

  

 

 

Starhawk

Starhawk,

author and environmental activist, will be opening the conference with a keynote address on February 14th, Making the Transition,  and a full day workshop for women, Visionary Earth Healing, on February 15.  



Watch for special early bird pricing in the fall!  Registration will open later this month! 

woman holding candle clipart  December Community Holiday Dinner 
Celebrating Our Lights!

Tuesday, December 11  
6:00PM to 9:30PM 
at 943 N 89th St., Seattle 98103 

Come celebrate the Year with Festive Good Cheer!  The WOW Council and Conference Committee invite our community to this Festive Holiday Dinner, Celebrating Our Lights!

We will be singing!  "The only thing better than singing is more singing" ~ Ella Fitzgerald.  Nothing warms the heart more easily than voices joined in song.  Come join us!  The more the merrier!

Wear your best festive sparkle and be prepared to shine!  We'll provide the wine, beverages, and main course (meat and veg entrees) - you contribute to the Potluck Feast with your favorite side dishes, salads, and desserts.  Please bring a wrapped gift ($5 - $8 or small re-gift) for a Holiday exchange!

No one turned away for lack of funds.  Scholarship donations greatly appreciated. Register now by emailing us at wow@womenofwisdom.org or by going to womenofwisdom.org and paying through PayPal.   Members: $5 / non-members $10
 
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Your Authentic Power banner Dear Woman of Wisdom,

If you have longed for the keys to being in command of your life - no matter what is happening "outside" of you, no matter how fast the world is changing  or how chaotic the outcome - then you do not want to miss a free call with 4-time New York Times best-selling author and consciousness pioneer Gary Zukav.
 

Together with his spiritual partner, Linda Francis, Gary will engage in a timely teaching about a new paradigm for power called "authentic power".  Authentic power is a new  way of being in command of your life unlike anything you've experienced before, and it's reshaping our world.  It's an emerging global consciousness of compassion and wisdom, and it calls you to act from love rather than fear.   


In this enlightening LIVE 60-minute online seminar, Gary and Linda will guide you through the 5 Essential Keys to unlock your authentic power and show you how to live aligned with your soul's true purpose including:
        *    Expanding Your Emotional Awareness
        *    Creating Conscious Intentions
        *    Making Empowered Choices
        *    Accessing The Wisdom of Your Intuition
        *    Cultivating Spiritual Partnerships

Are You Ready to Step into Your Authentic Power?

If your answer is yes, join me on this free call:  shiftnetwork

 Kris

PS:  This essential call on the new paradigm of "authentic power" will be recorded so even if you can't make it live, sign up and receive the recording: shiftnetwork

Don't Go Home Without These! Three Great Ways to Influence Family Drama and Have a Better Holiday Season

  Edree Allen-Agbro photo Free Teleclass  Nov. 8th   6pm pacific time
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by Edree Allen-Agbro and Oghale Agbro
 
Are you nervous about visiting your family for the holidays? Are you looking for reasons not to go? Are you an adult who feels like a child again when around your family? If you are ready to create a different experience, this free seminar is for you. You will learn:
 
        ~ How to wake up from the holiday trance and make conscious choices for your self.
 
        ~ How to let go of other people's "baggage"
 
        ~ How to recognize and defuse your own hot buttons and stay grounded

Call into this number at 6pm on November 8th
, 218-862-7200
Conference ID: 202351

Scorpio
 
Astro Overview November 2012
             by Imsara

Planning the new adventure to beautiful and healing MT SHASTA, California from May 20th to May 27th, 2013, the week of the Wesak Full Moon in Taurus festival, the Birthday of the Buddha.  This journey will also include a day trip to Crater Lake, Oregon, one of the purest and most pristine lakes in the world.  It holds a type of crystal rainbow energy and has been a major sighting area of unidentified flying objects! Itinerary is available by emailing me-thanks, Imsara!

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us. 
- Alexander Graham Bell 
 
ARIES --Use the simple approach combined with a bit of daredevil to find the best solution to difficulties.  Give ample room for last minute shifts in plans and preparation.  Seek to make more of your ideas known to a wider group of associates. Do not overstate your case but practice restraint and moderation.   Watch events in the media carefully for the purpose of gauging which way the winds are blowing.  The year ahead will call for many adjustments on both a personal and collective level.  Look going to the dentist-it best be done. Take some time for play for this will help you ease built-up stress and thus improve your focus. 
 
 TAURUS -Don't wait too long, putting up with the status quo when bigger opportunities may lie just over the next hill. Ships come in when supported by both vision and action.  While there is wisdom in stillness and no harm being done, what is really being achieved?  Situations in your life tend to be either harmonious to your well being or not.  Deepen discernment and recognize the fact that you have one of the best intuitive voices in the zodiac.  Let new growth happen via creating the space that can both embrace it and support it.  Think about both long term and short -term goals outlining a more methodical and grounded process.

GEMINI -Bridge the optimism and delight you feel with more constructive thought and action.  There can be deeper and broader linking between what you do, places you do it in and the people you can touch.  Make the effort to contact a deeper kind of wisdom within you and pay heed to the messages that emerge.  Using the tools you have acquired to extract deeper meanings of life can yield you good results.  Stop distractions and endless busy quests for more information.  You have all you need.  Use it.   Give up the old outworn methods simply hung onto because it is the way you have been doing things.  Branch out and try some new ideas.  Test the water-you will find it fine! 
 
CANCER -Lift your eyes above the ordinary; transcend any problems by striving to see the bigger picture! Nurture inspiration, zest and your capacity to embrace a deeper wisdom as well as new points of view.   Use your ability to foster and nurture to promote your own growth and security.  Sometimes you are overloaded due to too many people or situations to consider.  Relax, ask for new perspectives and make your questions a little deeper.  The questions you ask yourself should focus on what you really need to be happy.  Listen deeply to your feelings.   Review your life for its capacity to not only support your needs yet also gives you sufficient room for new growth!
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The Wisdom in Our Hearts

by Saba Teklegiorgis

 

I can feel the truth of why I can't have certain things when I want it, be it love of a man or material positions. I have this knowing that it's not him, that "he's not the one" or that it's not time.  

 

But the childlike mind wins with "I want it anyways!"  

 

I go after it, receive and I learn the hard way.  

 

The biggest lesson I learned is that no- thing, nor no person will bring me (long lasting) happiness. Especially, prematurely.

 

How many times have you been there? Where you could look back and saysomething told me he or it ain't right. But we proceed without caution. I believe we will always posses all three: the women, the girl and the child/baby. (the man, the boy & the...) Our intuition can only go as far as we listen to it. But if we only listen to the women, the girl or the...it will either guide us to greater discovery or destruction.

 

Our heart is the greatest gift of all; it carries far more wisdom than our feelings that could either grow beautifully, die softly and/or make us suffer hard. But we want what we want when we want it!

 

And with all of me I say: sit down!

 

(God/Universe may have something for you or someone greater...)

 

Grow an understanding between your heart, mind & feelings about your innermost desires. This is essential to create harmony within & to uncover your TRUE desires with long lasting fulfillment!

 

Whether it be:

~ Your career

~ Your relationships

~ Your loneliness

 

Now of these three:

~ Your Heart
~ Your Mind
 

~ Your Soul

 

Bring them into a meeting and have a full discussion. Weird, right?  But dammit, if you've been hitting a wall, you're not listening to your inner voice.  It's time to sit down and figure YOU out!

 

Within you it's in fact "figured out"- I know I am contradicting myself....but...

Deep down...

 

You know, like, you know that, you know more than you know. It's in you, real deep.  

 

To begin to uncover this knowing, the wisdom in your heart...  

 

Start with putting your hand on your heart and say, "I'm going to listen to you more" or just sit with your hand on your heart and quietly reflect.

 

Let no man, no woman....not society, not your circumstances tell you what's possible, what you are meant to do, what you are capable of or what's going to make YOU happy.

Only you know...to the extent you are willing to listen, learn and love.

 

With love,

 

Saba

 

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 Gaian Soul Retreat  Gaian Soul Retreat 
Gather with like-minded women at the soul-nourishing Gaian Soul Retreat with Joanna Powell Colbert (creatrix of the Gaian Tarot), January 31st - February 3rd on Whidbey Island.

Rekindle your inner flame at the Feast of Brigid! Drink deeply from the sacred well of nature, spirit, creativity & community.  http://www.gaiansoulretreat.com


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Go to www.womenofwisdom.org to register 

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Access Your Wild Feminine Creativity! by Jennifer LothrigelJennifer Lothrigel photo

 

Reach deep within to un-tether your soul and discover your unique creative essence. In this 8 week course Jennifer draws on her experience as a Spiritual healer and an Expressive Arts Practitioner to gently guide you into your unique, soulful, beautiful and unbound creativity.  With Spiritual and creative exercises as your tools you will explore your unique creative expression, giving birth to your wild feminine creativity!  This class leads you on a soulful journey within using guided meditation, dialoguing with and examining blocks to creativity, energy practices for being receptive to creative inspiration, and creative expression through drawing, poetry, storytelling, drama, dance and more!

 

Jennifer Lothrigel specializes in healing blockages (mental, physical, emotional and spiritual) and reclaiming wholeness for women using spiritual, somatic and creative practices.  She is a certified Holistic Life Coach, Holistic Health Practitioner, Expressive Arts Practitioner, Master Herbalist, Clinical Nutritionist, Aromatherapist, Reiki Master and Shamanic practitioner. Jennifer was a presenter at this past year's conference.

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Women's History you have never been taught  

by Kathleen M. Bishop, Ph.D.                                    

 

starfishWomen's history is not taught in schools or universities, meaning each woman has to learn her history on her own or not at all. This Teleclass will discuss how women's history has been lost, some important facts like the Peking man is actually the Peking woman, and rewrite some of the women back into history that have made a difference in all of our lives. This course, hoped to be the first of many, will focus on how the history was lost, the importance of spirituality and healing for ancient women, as well as accomplishments of women in the arts. Suggestions and exercises will be designed to help participants re-find and re-store this history. The course facilitator will also give suggestions on resources of Women's History and creative ways to learn about women's history.

 

Kathleen M. Bishop, Ph.D. is a Gerontologist with a specialty in aging in people with disabilities, women, and environmental design. She has presented over 15 years on-line  and over 30 years of traditional classroom teaching. Her passion is women's history, she presents frequently on topics related to women's history. She is also a published author of 'Whistling up the Wind" and is currently writing a book 'Reclaiming women's lives through diaries and letters.'

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Divine Nourishment / Cook Your Way Into Your Soul   

by Mary Lane

 

Mary LaneDivine Nourishment is an 8 week course with seasonal steps to live and nourish yourself according to the Earth's wisdom. It uses the ancient Taoist 5 Element system of nutrition to articulate the language of nature. It gives you season by season support, recipes, and cooking tips. This is woven into the fabric of the healing and reclamation of the Divine Feminine necessary to honor the Earth's nourishing wisdom. You will see yourself reflected through the eyes of nature and receive practical support to apply this in your daily life as a foundation of healing and reclaiming the Divine Feminine.

 

Mary Lane has been a professional chef for over 30 years. She has flown the world as a high end chef, catered numerous spiritual and health retreats and been a full time student of nature for 20 years. She is the author of the book Divine Nourishment, a Woman's Sacred Journey with Food and draws upon her own extraordinary journey to support women to transform the self rejection hidden in the shadows to self care, honor and love.

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Celebrating Spirit in Community with Plants

by Julie Charette Nunn

Julie Nunn 

Julie Charette Nunn, Crow's Daughter, offers this 3-session exploration in  shamanic herbalism with simple practices in listening, connecting and collaborating with plants.  The ancient ways of deep listening will be offered through shamanic exercises, stories, writing assignments, spending time in nature and herbl crafting.  Lessons will take place in your home, in your yard, and in your surrounding community.  This course is seasonal in nature and will express the unique dance of each month's energy.  When you complete this course, you will see the world of plants through different eyes.

 

Julie Charette Nunn, Crow's Daughter, joyfully teaches wise woman ways through weekly and residential shamanic herbal apprenticeships, classes and one-to-one teachings at her farm on Whidbey Island and around the Puget Sound area in Washington State.  She has had a lifelong relationship with the plants of the Pacific Northwest and has been teaching for over 25 years.  Among her wise teachers are the common plants, the compassionate ones.  This online course offered through Women of Wisdom will lead into other online classes that Julie will offer through her website, www.crowsdaughter.com.  

  
book    Kris is still gathering contributions for book two. Contact Kris if you would like to be part of the next bestseller at ksteinnes@mac.com.  
Women of Wisdom: 
Empowering the Dreams 
and Spirit of Women 
by Kris Steinnes 
 
Amazon best-seller! 
# 1 in six categories

2009 Bronze winner for Mind, Body, Spirit from Independent Publishers

Award Winning Finalist for Best New Non Fiction 2008
by USA Book News 
To purchase the book, go to www.wisewomanpublishing.com
 
If you're now reading the book, please write a review in Amazon and also send it to Kris at ks@wisewomanpublishing.com   

The Wise Woman University 

(WWU) is a sacred online learning environment for thWise Woman University graphic Lillithe reweaving of the healing cloak of the Ancients.  WWU offers women a secure online space for personal empowerment: emotionally, psychically, and physically. At the Wise Woman University you will find mentors (teachers) with women-centered skills pleased to offer their wisdom to you in a format that is lively, interesting, and easily available. WWU is non-accredited, all courses are for personal enrichment, each course is designed to be completed in four weeks. Visit: wisewomanbookshop.com to register for WWU courses and for a select collection of educational materials to further your empowerment through knowledge the Wise Woman Way. Contact us via email: wisewoman@wisewomanuniversity.org

Join Kris Steinnes for her Reclaim Your Feminine Wisdom online course at Wise Woman University:  www.wisewomanuniversity.org/steinnes/

This is an in depth personal exploration to gain a comprehensive understanding of how and where in your life you have rejected the feminine. We will reclaim the feminine and our wise woman unique gifts and learn how we can utilize them to manifest your purpose and contribute to the healing of the planet.

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Inspiration for Living a Passionate, Authentic Life! 

Check out Kris Steinnes column "Woman of Wisdom" in the recent issue of Aspire Magazine!  In this issue Kris interviews Karen Tate, host of the radio program, Voices of the Sacred Feminine and an advocate for the Goddess, in Sacred Feminism and Social Transformation.  You can visit Karen's online radio program at www.blogtalkradio.com/voicesofthesacredfeminine
Along with her Kris's column you'll discover the wisdom of Marcia Wieder, Sonia Choquette, John Selby, and so many more.  Over 75 pages of pure inspiration.  Aspire is the premiere inspirational magazine for women since 2005 and is dedicated to inspiring women to live deeper, more authentic and inspired lives.  CLICK HERE to access the current issue!

 

StandingStanding Stone greenman Stone Healing & Arts    We have a lovely hall for rental in our urban oasis complex in the Greenwood neighborhood.  With a full kitchen, 2 bathrooms and access to peaceful gardens, it's perfect for your event.  We also have office space for healing practitioners.  Go to StandingStoneHealingandArts.com for photos, office availability, and how to contact us. 
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The Dr. Pat Show is a distinctive blend of live talk and interviews with a mix of uplifting and intelligent news with educational and practical information. Topics  range from personal development to critical issues relevant to a rapidly changing world.   Dr. Pat brings together some of the planet's most preeminent and visionary change makers that are stimulating and supporting individual and collective growth, positive cultural shifts, and making a meaningful difference in the world. 
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SPIRITED WOMAN PRAYER SCARF - I'm Nancy Mills, founder of Spirited Woman, a leading women's empowerment community. My dream is to establish a Spirited Woman Foundation to heal women through actions of empowerment.  To help raise funds -  we're selling the Spirited Woman Prayer Scarf. Only $25 and gorgeous - a % of sales goes to establish the foundation. The scarf is a symbol. To heal the deep wounds. Express blissful joy & beauty. Remember we are free & empowered. That abuse is not tolerated anywhere. It also makes a wonderful gift.

http://www.thespiritedwoman.com/prayer_scarf 

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  Hilary HartMany of you read SeattleExaminer.com.  Now, the official Spirituality Examiner is Hilary Hart, the same local writer who edited WOW's, "Empowering the Dreams and Spirit of Women," and she writes predominantly about women's spirituality. Please look for her articles at: 
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Passion and Pain  
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Are you ready to be taken on a journey where FAME meets GOSSIP GIRL?  Enter center stage where love and lust, friendship and betrayal, hope and fear, collide with talented students fighting for their dream on the stage and screen. Dancers, actors, singers.
 
Who wins? Who loses? And who plays fair?  Find out in the new Dancer and Divas Book Series - Book 1 - Passion and Pain by Kathy Petrakis now available on Amazon - e-book and paperback.
 
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Waking Up 
"What a fabulous, beautifully written, and essential book!"  Waking Up book cover
 
"John Earle provides a clear look at how to get on with the business of living the full spiritual life that you were meant to live. Waking Up is about taking personal responsibility for the life you are making, learning what needs to be learned, and turning every moment into a full celebration of your divinity. " 
--Normandi Ellis, author of Awakening Osiris and Imagining the World into Existence 
 
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A renowned cardiologist.  A tragedy.  And an unexpected gift.

"A truly magnificent story, written by a man I consider to be one of the finest human beings I No Storm Lasts Forever book coverhave known." ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer

We all have our dark times to get through. They're inevitable. But we truly can turn tragedies into opportunities for growth, enlightenment and positive change. In No Storm Lasts Forever, renowned cardiologist Dr. Terry Gordon, honored by the American Heart Association as National Physician of the Year, recounts his weathering of a horrific family tragedy that caused him to re-think everything.

 "No Storm Lasts Forever will rekindle your belief in the human spirit. Terry Gordon and his amazing family show us how to thrive even against an immeasurable, seemingly unbeatable adversary. ~ Kenny Loggins

  

  How to Live an Amazing Life book cover How To Live An Amazing Life - the latest book by Patrick McNally PhD. Therapist and Life Coach to the rich and famous. Filled with techniques and real case histories that will change your life.  It's all here for you to read. Learn how to change any negative feeling, whether it is anxiety, depression or fear in less than 60 seconds. Yes, 60 seconds.  And it really works.  In fact Patrick has used this technique on Australian television for years and now he wants to teach the rest of the world to live the life you deserve.  It's all in his book "How To Live An Amazing Life" and if you buy today it will be yours for 1/2 price.  Plus as a special thank you we will also include thousands of $$$$$ worth of FREE GIFTS from our amazing partners around the world, just for buying now. Don't miss out; it's never too late to live the life you've always dreamed.

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Financial Fitness for Beginners is the first book in the Financial Fitness series that providesFinancial Fitness book cover you with a fresh approach in a simple 12 week step-by-step program to help you get financially fit.  This book comes complete with a companion website to make obtaining financial fitness easier and faster to accomplish.
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*         Work less and gain more, including an improved quality of life. 
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After studying many successful people, it has become crystal clear that it is impossible to have financial success without mastering personal financial management first.  You can buy all the real estate you want, find the winning stocks or win the lottery, or run a successful online business, but you need to be ready for it.  You know that you can't run a marathon without first getting in to shape and taking the first steps.  Once you simply learn to be grateful for and manage what you now have - the doors will open for you towards having the life of your dreams.  Financial Fitness is within your grasp! 
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For decades, New York Times bestselling author Debbie Ford has been helping people break free from the emotional baggage that has held them hostage. With her new book Courage: Overcoming Fear and Igniting Self-Confidence, she offers her most personal, powerful, and potent work to date.-a proven process for overcoming insecurity and fear and unlocking the enormous courage that resides within.

 

CLICK HERE  Courage to purchase your copy.

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  A journey into women's spirituality- Meetings with Remarkable Women

  

Filmed in 2011, Meetings with Remarkable Women explores the spiritual paths of 5 women:

Available at www.poetryinmotionfilms.com 

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Red Goddess Rising

 

Halle went to Egypt a disinterested atheist with a paralyzing fear of death, just another tourist on vacation. But while exploring the fascinating mix of developing country and ageless temples, she found the unexpected revelation of her soul. 

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Feminine Mysticism in Art: 
Artists Envisioning the Divine
This anim
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"Living Temples - Sacred Land,

a 45 minute healing journey featuring original soundtrack by
David Lanz and Gary Stroutsos is turning home entertainment centers into a healing centers. Available on DVD, BluRay and eco-friendly
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"...strikes a rare chord that heals mind and body. 
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The acclaimed series Women & Spirituality: The Goddess Trilogy is now available for the first-time on DVD from Alive Mind. It is a stunning and poetic work comprised of three one-hour programs: Goddess Remembered, The Burning Times and Full Circle. Created by Donna Read, this multi-award winner is the definitive series addressing mythological, historical and contemporary political manifestations of feminine spirituality.
 


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Signs Out of Time, a film byDonna Read and Starhawk, examines the life and work of world-renowned archaeologist Dr. Marija Gimbutas. Drawing from her extensive knowledge of mythology and linguistics, Lithuanian-born Gimbutas uncovered the life-affirming and goddess-worshipping civilizations of pre-historic "Old Europe." Weaving together footage of Gimbutas herself, as well as interviews with her supporters and critics, Signs Out of Time reveals a visionary scholar whose theories challenged the "establishment" of her time and influenced a generation of scholars, feminists, and social thinkers.

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Hemitra Crecraft is a women's empowerment facilitator, author, filmmaker and red tent celebrationist. Hemitra is partner in Woman Wisdom Corp, an independent publishing company specializing in multimedia educational products and circle leader materials to empower women and girls globally.

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becoming peers book coverBecoming Peers - Mentoring Girls into Womanhood by DeAnna L'am.

An inspirational guide for mothers, grandmothers, stepmothers, aunts, or any woman wishing to nurture a girl through her Coming of Age (while empowering herself!) The book provides practical guidelines for mentoring a girl into womanhood. It offers creative ceremonies and activities designed to honor a girl's transition, and call her to new levels of maturity. At the same time, it presents the adult woman/mentor with powerful tools for enhancing her inner and outer life. To purchase, go to : www.womenofwisdom.org/products/products.php
 
 
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