Meditation Secrets for Women

by Camille Maurine and Lorin Roche

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062516973
• ISBN13: 9780062516978
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

An encyclopedia for a woman's sovereignty

'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 wonderful tool for evalution!

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!

it's about time

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!

BEAUTIFUL AND UNIQUE

Some books are so brilliant you could easily give 100 reasons why you love them, and how they've improved, enriched, and deepened your life. So here, then, without much headscratching are my top 10 reasons for loving "Meditation Secrets for Women" with all my heart:1. "Meditation Secrets for Women" is supremely easy reading. Its 292 pages (much meatier - and juicier! - than most meditation books) fly. Now this may not be important to some people, but, heck, who wants to battle through a dry, arid wasteland of intellectual ramblings? Fortunately, you'll find no such thing here. The writing is by turns funny, serious, sensuous, electrifying, and poetic, but never less than wise.2. "Meditation Secrets for Women" is carefully broken down into 12 easily digestible chapters, with each chapter covering exactly one secret. 3. Secret. That's the key word. "Are they really `secrets'," you may wonder, "or is this just some hokey scam to get me to fork over my hard-earned dough?" No, they're secrets, all right. Not the kind of hush-hush secrets that have been passed down from master to pupil for thousands of years (far from it, in fact, as you will soon see), but the kinds of secrets that have been denied women too long.4. You see the sad fact is that many contemporary women (and men!) have been taught meditation techniques designed for monks over a thousand years ago. And as the authors quite rightly point out, these techniques aren't just plain irrelevant to life in the 21st century, they're highly dangerous as well. If you've ever tried meditating to "kill your ego," "block your desires," "blunt your instincts," or "purge your mind of all thoughts," (to name just a few toxic objectives) you know how devitalizing and dehumanizing this type of meditation can be.5. I'm delighted to say the authors Camille Maurine and Lorin Roche espouse a completely different kind of meditation. At last, here is approach full of love, joy, spontaneity, movement, sensuality, sexuality, daring, honesty, tenderness, instinct, passion, pleasure, adventure, and - last but certainly not least - FUN! I know this for a fact because I have been meditating under Lorin's tutelage for over a year, ever since reading his truly wonderful, "Meditation Made Easy," a beautiful and indispensible companion to "Secrets."6. "Meditation Secrets for Women" provides not just one or two or even three meditations, but quite literally dozens, so you can pick and choose what suits your mood or temperament at any given time. I happen to stick to my favorite "Do Nothing" meditation, but occasionally switch to some other technique (or make up my own, which the authors heartily encourage) if the mood calls for it. And naturally all the meditations in the book are based on the same simple premise: meditation is fun and natural.7. Also provided is a superb reference list (organized by chapter) for those who wish to delve even deeper into special areas of interest. Plus there's an invaluable listing of musica

The Female Voice Proclaims her Presence

Finally, a thoughtful and illuminating look at the female psyche and her need to use meditation as a tool to explore our sensitivities, creativity and sensuality. Meditation has been taught for centuries as an ascetic, rigorous discipline by a spiritual patriarchy uninformed about and often alienated from female passions. This book expands the horizons of meditation to allow women to adapt it to their contemporary needs, emotions and lifestyles. It is a well researched and poetic guide that revels in the female spirit and soul. Women will use these secrets to find sustenance instead of denial in the practice of meditation.