"A quiet awakening is under way across America as women are coming together to worship, to tell their stories and to find their place spiritually, if not always religiously, in the household of God. Women's spiritual groups are cropping up everywhere like mushrooms after a nourishing rain. Far from being some kind of New Age phenomenon, they involve women of every Christian and Jewish sect including Catholics, Mormons, Mennonites, evangelicals, and others. Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim women also discuss the woman's way. Women of color and Hispanic women are likewise exploring their spirituality and roles in organized religion. Gay women and straight, those who consider themselves feminists and others who abhor the word, are nonetheless searching for authentic spiritual expression. We do so organically, through the medium of sharing our stories, writing and performing songs and poems, celebrating the Divine with our bodies through dance and movement, creating rituals that celebrate important passages of life and heal its inevitable wounds, creating egalitarian and participatory models for worship and by reaching out to others to heal social injustice, racism and discrimination." (p. 2)
WWWW- Wild Wondrous Wombymn Weavers is LEAP's answer to this quiet awakening:
Embark upon a self-exploratory journey of self, spirit and
being.
Enter the sanctuary of self-nurturance and sacred transformational healing.
Reclaim your
feminine authentic ways of being.
Weavers weave roads and pathways composed of imagination and
possibility. They are blessed with the gift of majestic healing, for
they bestow the sacred wisdom needed to take strands of miraculous
energy and intriguing ideas and weave them into powerful acts of
healing. Weavers pull the strands of magic forth so that they can
weave new patterns of consciousness and awareness. With each newly
woven pattern a powerful wave of transformation is released to the
ecosystem, which is the source of change and innovate movement.
Wild Wondrous Wombymn Weavers are the re-creation of the matriarchal
lineage of the ancestral weavers of the past. The earliest memoirs of
our wombynness are founded on their herstories. In the process of
storytelling, speaking and listening they included a wide range of
experiential learnings such as: smelling, tasting, touching their
stories into life through nurturance and acknowledgement. Each
herstory is both a fragment and a whole, a whole within a larger sense
of wholeness and completeness.
Weaving
is a euphonious heritage of womankind handed from generation to
generation of weavers. Let her weave her story within their stories,
her life amidst their lives. And while she weaves, let her whip, spur,
and set them on fire. Thus making them sing again. Very softly a-new
a-gain.
- Trin Minh-ha, 1989
We invite your whole feminine being - mind, body, and spirit - to
engage in this sacred art of:
- Speaking your truth and reclaiming your voice
- Listening and hearing others in unconditional compassion, tolerance and love
- Weaving new paradigms of beliefs and affirmating statements
- Procreating a reality that is genuine, true and real to your authentic being
This exciting workshop includes 9 monthly group
meetings, and three individual 90 minute psycho-spiritual therapeutic
sessions. Throughout these nine magical months of gestation and
rebirthing, we will come together as a group to break bread together
and share our intriguing herstories in a sanctuary of love, truth,
compassion and acceptance.
Our work together will include the following approaches and
techniques:
- Earth-based psycho-spiritual healing
- Eco-therapy
- Eco-feminist teachings
- Heart-Centered Breathwork
- Guided Imagery and Meditation
- Body Awareness Techniques
- Eco-Spiritual Excursions
- Self-exploratory Ethno-autobiography
- Co-operative Inquiry
Dates
For information on our upcoming WWWW group, please contact drhelaine@aboutleap.com
Excerpts taken from Trin Minh-ha, 1989 - Woman,
Native, Other and
Joan Borysenko, 1999, A womans Journey to God