India’s youth and women are on fire with their passion!


Leaving Hyderabad to be in the Ashram of the Great Goddess Lalita Tripura Sundari. By far my highlight of Hyderabad was the amazing Young people I met and all the Amazing Women!! India’s youth and women are on FIRE with their passion. It is so inspiring! Wishing you an amazing Holiday Everyone. Cheers and Big LOVE!!! xx

Empower from within

With Maya Tiwari and Paula Fellingham. What a blessed experience!

Greetings from India, Everyone!!! I wake up this morning FILLED with deep gratitude, LOVE and hope for our world and the Power of Women! I just had an amazing meeting last night with a great mentor of mine, Maya Tiwari or “Mother Maya”, where we began to talk about how I can help her Turn Her Mission into a Movement!!!!!

I cannot tell you how exciting this is, because her Mission is BIG. Mother Maya is a profound healer, teaching women how to HEAL themselves through “Inner Medicine” or awakening to their Shakti Power within. (www.mayatiwari.org) She healed herself more than once of Ovarian Cancer, after being diagnosed with three months to live, and makes the most amazing connections between healing through our womb for the greater healing of the Earth and humanity. All that we need so much right now!! I thank you Paula Fellingham and your amazing organization the Women’s Information Network, for facilitating this meeting and for your fierce and compassionate dedication to women’s empowerment and liberation all over the world. I LOVE You. To all women and men, may we continue to empower from within to be and lead the change our world is so ready for. Jai Ma!!!! ♥ ♥ ♥

The REAL Source of Women’s Power (It’s Not What you Think!)

I am here in India and arrived just in time for a Women’s Empowerment Day, where a big theme was awakening to feminine power within our bodies, or our Shakti Power, in order to be the change in the world.

I created this short video for you with a highlight of the day along with a short practice on you can begin to go within and Nourish Your Power!

What is so beautiful about coming into our power is that there is nothing to strive for or attain. Rather, our power awakens when we deeply nourish and care for ourselves.

We open to our power, when we open to pleasure, to receptivity, to simply being and resting in the body. We open to our power when we relax. How good is that?!

If You Want to Go BIG, You Gotta Go DEEP

On the Eve of Leaving for India, I felt a calling to shoot this video. As I go BIG into my Mission and Calling, I realize I have to go DEEP into my body to hold space for this creation and birthing. As we transition into 2013 and birth new creations, remembering the most simple things like the breath and body has the potential to bring so much grounding, simplicity and pleasure and take us DEEP into our Truth. I hope you enjoy this!! Lots of LOVE

Embodying Your Mission!

I know many of you in my community, and I know your desires for happiness, for service, for EMBODIMENT of your feminine power and beauty. I want to let you know that it is truly our time! There are energies and possibilities open to us right now that have never been before.

I have created this video to introduce you to my mission, my heart, my LOVE and passion to serve in the world!

 

It all boils down to this. I am more EMBODIED than ever before.

I am ready to step into my power, my passion and mission to serve in the world and this readiness is not coming through my mind, but through my body, through my womb, through my heart and through devotion.

And I so want to inspire the same for you my dear ladies!

My wish is that you will always feel the power that resides within you and believe in all of yourself to bring that power into the world.

As I journey back to India, I will continue to take you with me and will be offering tips and tools to go deeper into a place of honor to yourself, your body and to your highest potential and possibilities to serve in the world.

Through our own inner journey of transformation, we become the change our children, men, communities and the larger world is ready for.

It is a great honor to be on the journey with you!

My Sacred Feminine Journey

I just spent a magical day of sacred make-up, as I prepare for my sacred journey to India!

 

In ancient times they used to say that women with the brightest lips are the most sensual and women with the brightest eyes were the most wise.

Well, as I journey back to India, I am bringing back both!

It is time for us women to stand in all of our brightness and glory, rather than dimming ourselves down to fit a standard or norm of who or what we should be.

Keep shining and rocking ladies! Big LOVE xx

Commemorating 9/11 In Love

I remember September 11, 2001 very vividly. I was a student at NYU at the time so was living in New York City near Union Square.  I woke up to an NPR broadcaster who was in shock as she was reporting a second plane was headed towards the second world trade tower.

I had voicemails on my phone from loved ones and my girlfriend who could not locate her mom who was scheduled to go vote in the towers that day was besides herself.  In the end her mom was ok.

That day in New York City was surreal.  Everything was in chaos but in order at the same time.  White ashes were flying around everywhere and people were just roaming the streets with a new found love and openness to one another.

People were lined up for hours to donate blood. So many volunteered that the hospital had to turn people away.  Almost immediately people began to gather in the parks and create candle vigils to band together to honor the lives lost and make sense of what was happening.

I distinctly remember, how grateful I was to be in NYC that day because of the love and solidarity experienced amongst fellow New Yorkers and how this was in such sharp contrast to what we were watching on television.

I will never forgot a phrase that George Bush, the US President at the time, said.  He went on national television and told the American people, to make sure they keep shopping and that the terrorists would win if the US economy fell.  I was in shock!

September 11th is so near and dear to my heart because it woke me up! And it wasn’t just the day but more so the response by our government and the decision to go to war with Afghanistan and then Iraq and it so continues until today.

I realized that the government did not represent my views and my values of peace and love.  This awakening took me into the world of politics and economics, where I thought I could effect the most change.

I immediately joined the anti-war movement and then went on to work for the largest community and labor organizations in the US, advocating for economic justice.  I moved to India and directed a national campaign against the entry of Wal-Mart and spread of Western consumerism.  I got my Masters at the prestigious London School of Economics, and after all this, I felt lost.

The change I was seeking, had not come to be, but rather I was left feeling oppositional, full of judgments, full of animosity and completely tired and burnt out from fighting and opposing the “bad guys”.

My search for another way, truly born of love and peace, took me into what has become the creation of Feminine Awakening.

The search took me back to myself and the understanding that never can I change the world “out there”, it is only by coming in “here”, in this body, in this mind and spirit, that I can hope to establish greater peace and harmony and Oneness.

The seeds of all the violence we experience in the world lies in thinking we are separate, which is a lie.  The Truth is we are ONE and Truth is the highest expression of LOVE. To awaken into Oneness is a blessing. It is a blessing that the world needs so deeply right now and one that starts in healing our own thoughts, words, actions that are based in separation.

However this inner journey, does not preclude action in the world, but rather necessitates it.  As we discover our greater inner power, wisdom and love, we naturally desire to share this with others.  Particularly as women, it is our time!!

So on this commemoration of September 11th, 11 years later, I take the time to honor myself, to do my own healing and to continue to offer my gifts to the world, in whichever way I can at this moment in time.

I am gearing up to launch my new initiative to bring my skills in movement building to women change-makers!!!  It’s coming SOON.  I can’t wait!!

I will end by asking you to join me today in uniting our thoughts and prayers that the seeds of LOVE and PEACE may grow within our own hearts, within the hearts of those we love and in the hearts of all beings, ALL Beings.  And that through this LOVE we may begin to bring about a world created in the name of our children.

Thank you for taking the time to read this!

Always with LOVE,

Reena