Meditation Secrets For Women [Paperback]

"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

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.)
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Husband and wife therapists Maurine and Roche have written a commodious, busy, entertaining book on meditation for women. They use advice, examples, exercises, and life-stories to show women how to relax and then reclaim their power. Peppered with interesting ideas and filled with tempting section headings such as "Hecate's Knife" or "The Right to Swoon," this is broadly appealing yet never condescending or less than intelligent. It should appeal to many women readers. Highly recommended.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

"...teaches you how to meditate with full access to the emotions and body wisdom that are part of the Divine." -- --Christiane Northrup, MD, author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom

"...wise, wonderful, and revolutionary. It returns the whole human being to joy, restorative serenity, and embodied, psychological and spiritual expansiveness. -- --Sylvia Brinton Perera, author of Descent to the Goddess and Queen Maeve and Her Lovers

Applause goes to the authors who bring exciting new insights into the embodied art of meditation. -- --Emilie Conrad, founder of Continuum

“Applause goes to the authors who bring exciting new insights into the embodied art of meditation.” -- --Emilie Conrad, founder of Continuum

Finally --an approach to meditation especially for women!

The benefits of meditations are manifold -- but so few practices are tailored to the special needs and interests of women.Now, with Meditation Secrets for Women, you can discover how to love your body and find a time and place to tune into yourself and restore inner balance.Get in touch with your body's natural rhythms.Honor your instincts, and tap into your femininepower so that you can emerge nourished, revitalized, and joyful.Meditation Secrets for Women offers all the tools and insights necessary for women to design their own custom meditation techniques, without all the restrictions of traditional practices.

Learn How To:

• Make use of sensual, pleasurable meditation techniques
• Gain a refreshing, rejuvenating rest that is deeper than sleep
• Relieve stress and promote good health
• Relax and be yourself as you reap life-affirming benefits
• Live in harmony with your world
• Enhance your relationships and creativity

Camille Maurine has been teaching meditation and movement since 1975. She is the creator of kinAesthetics, a fusion of dance, yoga, meditation, and expression. She lives in Marina del Rey, California with her husband and co-author, Lorin Roche. Lorin Roche, Ph.D. is the author of HSF’s Meditation Made Easy (1998).