- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Harperone; 1 edition (Jan 11 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0062516973
- ISBN-13: 978-0062516978
- Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 19 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 499 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #99,443 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"The field of meditation has been not just a man's world but a monk's world," write Camille Maurine and Lorin Roche, Ph.D., who assert that the techniques that worked for "reclusive and celibate males" need updating for contemporary women. In Meditation Secrets for Women, they introduce a refreshingly modern, female-oriented approach to meditation that encourages "luxuriating in the sensory world, resting in the simplicity of your own being, enjoying yourself shamelessly."
Meditation fills a need that women crave: to carve out time for themselves "to rest, to restore, to settle in." Rather than impose rules and strict discipline, however, the authors encourage women to rejuvenate themselves, open up, and affirm their "womanness" through meditation.
Meditation Secrets for Women presents 12 "secrets" in 12 chapters. Each secret is a theme, such as "celebrate your senses," "claim your inner authority," "ride your rhythms," or "love your body." Each chapter starts with a poem and includes explorations (questions for you to ponder), skill circle (practical tips for skill building), meditations, and reflections. This is a nurturing book, filled with acceptance, warmth, and encouragement. If you've tried to meditate but found it too restrictive, dull, or difficult, this book will give you a different, distinctly womanly, approach.
The authors are a married couple who have been teaching meditation to women for 50 combined years. Maurine is also a dancer and healing practitioner. Roche is the author of Meditation Made Easy. --Joan Price
From Publishers Weekly
In this powerful book, the husband-wife team of Maurine and Roche explore the particular needs women have in meditation. They point out that most ancient meditation texts were meant for cloistered male monks living a celibate life, with meditation techniques used to "eradicate passion, emotion, and sexuality." Maurine and Roche find that women require precisely the opposite approach: an ability to use meditation to embrace their psyches including passion, emotion and sexuality. Maurine (who comes from an eclectic background of Transcendental Meditation, Zen, esoteric yoga, dance and Tibetan Buddhism) and Roche (who teaches Himalayan meditation and is the author of Meditation Made Easy) employ the various components of their backgrounds to argue that women should custom-tailor their meditation practice to suit their individual needs and circumstances. With tips, exercises, meditations, reflections and other women's stories, Maurine and Roche share enthusiastically and thoroughly what they have found works for women, leaving the dry legalisms behind. If one's mind rambles, they say, that's all right flow with it and turn it into meditation. If one is nursing a baby, she should become a nursing meditator. The book conveys a strong sense that both Maurine and Roche delight in women and their gifts. This is an excellent, empowering resource for novices, as well as for those who have spent a lifetime meditating. (Feb.)
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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A Great Find,
By EmBee (Oregon, United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Meditation Secrets For Women (Paperback)
I stumbled upon this book one day when I was feeling particularly feminist and spiritual at the same time. I can't praise it enough. It brings into focus aspects of meditation I had not considered before. Like pleasure. Wait, isn't meditation about sitting on a little cushion staring at the wall and watching your breath? Well, not necessarily. Meditation can be so much richer than that, so much more fun, so much more personal. This book encourages you to listen to yourself, honor your experience, celebrate your senses, and be tender with yourself. Meditation need not be an endurance sport. And yes, with these techniques you can find that spot of inner peace deep within you. No more staring at the wall (unless you still want to). Gift yourself and a woman you love with this fantastic book.
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Revolutionary approach to meditation.,
By Sara Urso (Marina Del Rey, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Meditation Secrets For Women (Paperback)
This review is goiing to be all praise. I loved this book and get so much use out of it. I still refer to it and I bought it when it first came out.I found "Mediation Secrets for Women" a pleasure to read and revolutionary. The authors challenge traditional approaches to meditation (mostly developed by male monks) and describe a meditation practice particularly tuned to women. It is more sensual and creative than most traditional practices. The book is full of suggestions and it invites the reader to really investigate and create meditation for oneself. When I finished reading "Meditation Secrets for Women" I felt as though I had gotten a "transmission". The writing itself seems to transmit the practice the authors describe and invite the reader into it. Even though it is "for women", and I am a woman myself, I thought that many men, especially men interested in meditation, would be interested in this book. Sensuality, creativity, emotion, rhythms in life and instincts are domains of all humans. At the very least the book could help men to better understand the deep nature of women. I find "Secrets" to be revolutionary and a very important book for the empowerment of women because I believe women's progress depends on women accessing inner power which is authentic to them. As I read the book I thought about how practicing deep internal techniques in order to empower themselves is very important for women for all sorts of reasons: making their creative and productive mark in the world, standing up for themselves, resisiting abuse, nurturing themselves and their loved ones, having satisfying intimate relationships, impacting politics, staying healthy and more. Reading this book made me think about how for women to be trying to access their deepest resources by practicing techniques which are an expression of the male psyche, the aesetic male psyche at that, doesn't make too much sense. In fact, it seems like women might unwittingly oppress themselves further by taking the traditional approach. Not that the authors invalidate that approach. They simply bring forward a female way, a female voice from the depths. And, they do it in such a fun and eloquent way. Deeply thought provoking, practical and useful, beautifully written. Obviously, I highly recommend this book.
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Pay attention and honor yourself,
By TR (Overland Park,KS) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Meditation Secrets For Women (Paperback)
Camille teaches us to give permission to ourselves to honor our bodies, our thoughts and our spirtiuality. We're not meditating wrong when we don't detach or become singularly focused, we dive in deeper and acknowledge all that life throws at us and we have a way to deal with it. We don't have to be stiff and sore from beginning to end where parts of our body become numb, but we become fluid and rhythmic with our breath, at own pace until our hearts have enough room to open up and find answers from within. This is a book to practice with and refer to, you can't absorb all "the secrets" in one reading but the tools are there for each meditation Camille offers or to create your own.
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