Last summer, I spent three magnificent weeks on the island of Corfu in Greece… Sinking into my hips alongside 50 women from around the world, we dove into the depths of the feminine spiritual practice from Awakening Women . My teacher, Chameli Ardagh , was reading the book Vagina by Naomi Wolf at the time, and so incredibly guided us all into a deep presence and connection with this source of feminine power Naomi Wolf calls a woman's “second brain”. After those three weeks, I felt like I had discovered a deity inside my own body: in my hips, in my womb, in my vagina. I began experiencing the immaculate intelligence of this life-creating space in me, a power beyond anything I have ever imagined. Photography by the author One afternoon during our dance practice, as I was swaying my hips, a thought occurred to me: There have always been women's hips! I felt the incredible history of this part of my body, a link to all women who have eve...
Women's Spiritual Poetry