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Meditation Secrets For Women

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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.

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.

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.

Because of my habit of holding in emotion and thinking fearful thoughts, my whole body, energy system existed in this contorted state. I was a shallow breather, and lived in alot of discomfort. I lived this way my whole life, though I tried meditating among other things as a means to relax or settle myself.

Traditional meditation did not offer me much, I had no idea how much tension existed not only in my muscles but cellularly. I had no space inside, I was trapped. Sitting still only perpetuated my inner rigidity. I had so much shame attached to all of my feelings- in my family feelings were something to rise above not indulge in. I learned to reject my emotional life--which I later learned was a rich area for me. Meditation Secrets for Women taught me how to track my feelings, sensations inside with acceptance sans judgement. I learned that everything in me that I resisted emmotionally, energetically was a powerful resource for me. Moving meditations allow me to let go of control and let what wants to move-- move. By allowing by body, sound, breath, emotion to express big or small, my being has been transformed. It has brought me in touch with the most satisfying sense of being--rich in gratitude and aliveness. I am so happy just being. The process is about trusting just being.

Allowing the truth to happen, just as it wants to produces deep experiences of love in me, and around me. Whether it is a scream from my gut or a soft whisper from my heart, to be fully attentive (which is meditation) to my own expression and allow it to flow has become a requirement for my daily living. I am profoundly moved by the tenderness and power of my inner life. I am so thankful for Camille Maurine and Lorin Roche's work.

It has been almost four years now, that I have been practicing the meditation secrets in the book. I have learned so much about what is available to me through the tracking of my own inner movements. It is tangible, real and felt. And I trust what it reveals to me with my life.

I was thrilled to discover this book and think that it has to get into the hands of more women who may be struggling with forms of meditation that do not serve all of us well. It
offers liberation from practices that do not respect and
love the human body, especially the woman body, the senses
and sensory pleasures. The authors echoed many of my own
concerns, experiences, and approaches as a teacher of
Western-oriented meditation. The book is beautifully written,
too--just a joy to read!

Now I finally know why meditation methods that were designed for male monks have never worked for me. I am using the meditation methods in this book to create a deep level of contact with myself and to increase the level of passion in my life.

I love this book. It really speaks to my heart. I like the picture on the cover too. I smile when I look at her form. It says, I'm not a man! This book is so rich that I can dip into it at anytime and get something I need. I took the books that made me feel bad to the goodwill. It has a different message than women usually get in this culture. I need all the help I can get when it comes to accepting and cherishing myself as I am. What is in this book I have not found anywhere else. It is helping me get to know myself.

'Meditation Secrets for Women' transcends the popular genre of self-help and how-to books to an unprecedented approach of wisdom applicable to the woman of the 21st century. This book is an encyclopedia of solutions that a woman can refer to. Here she will find her own passion, pleasure, and inner peace. This is a revolutionary concept in an age of quickly accelerating technology that pulls the woman away from her source of being - namely the body. Camille guides us to our inner sanctuaries through her lifetime experience of bodywork, indepth psychology, and the dance. Through her gentle voice, she assures us we shall find our sacred gifts. Through meditation and movement techniques, to the identifiable stories of other women, to her own personal meditations and prayers; not to say a distilled overview of spiritual teaching from East to West and back again, this most wonderful book points the way for a woman to 'claim her inner authority.' This is precisely what the woman of today needs to do. This book is a first and a last resource of meditation for the woman of the 21st century. In Camille's words: 'Amazing. The power floods back into my body. Like a transfusion of my own blood. This is my body. This is my life. Oh. I see....No one else can give me power. And no one can take it away. Nobody else knows what I should do or be. Someday I will simply rest in this truth. Someday all women will remember their sovereignty... Now there's a prayer.'

And there's a book.

A saying I have always found a good reminder, is: "If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep getting what you've always got" If we are to evolve as a species, making valuable and powerful changes in the way we function is certainly something to look into as we find our best and authentic selves. Meditation Secrets for Woman is not only one of those tools for valuable and powerful change, it is itself a unique and authentic creation of the authors. No where else have I ever read such "new thinking" re meditation and self growth. Thank you Camille and Lorin. Get this book, do not pass up on the chance at, and do not deprive yourself of, this new paradigm of experience!

I always sensed something was off as I explored and practiced a multitude of meditation techniques. I felt I was being asked to cut off a huge part of my zest, passion, and basic instincts. I never could identify what was wrong...was it me? At last a book that speaks directly to the heart of the beast---I am a woman meditating in a man's sensibility. Yes there is a difference between our basic energetics and how delighted and relieved I am to discover there are a set of very female ways to enter into the flow of meditative peace and truth. I know the apparent distinctions between male/female is not ultimately the answer...inclusivity is love and all that...but as we practice in daily real life yin/yang defines the world of duality and so THANK YOU CAMILLE AND LORIN for allowing me to enter the realm of the sacred via my present form...as woman. No more cutting off my nose to spite my face. Hooray for the celebration of the me-ness juiciness that will lead me into the wholeness of meditative bliss and joy!