Center of the Circle
LIVING IN BALANCE FROM THE HEART
with JoAnne Dodgson. Ed.D.
www.pathwaysforhealing.net
Dear Friends:
In the ancient Peruvian tradition, Ka Ta See, the tribal culture was understood to be a circle in which women are the center. There are no hierarchies in this way of life. In a community shaped by equity, there is enduring respect for women, their bodies, spirits and minds. Women are deeply honored for their gifts of giving birth, for weaving the web of life. To hold the center of family and community, women are responsible to live authentically, to naturally radiate who they really are, to openly share their happiness, love, vast knowing and aliveness.
In the ancient ways, the honoring of women goes hand-in-hand with the honoring of the feminine energies in everyone and everything on our planet earth. Feminine energy is receptive, flowing, and rooted in relationship. Feminine energy is visionary, filled with the capacity to dream new dreams and see beyond what is. The feminine holds the vision, the blueprint, for what may be and nourishes the continuance of life.
In our modern-day world, honoring women as the center of the circle opens up the potential to give birth to a new (and ancient) way of life. We can unlearn what we’ve learned about judging ourselves and others. We can untangle from the beliefs that keep us stuck inside harmful hierarchies – all the habitual ways we place ourselves and everyone else in categories of better than and less than, good or bad, worthy or not.
The ancient ways offer us a pathway for remembering how to create balance and thrive – living and relating as part of a circle, honoring the feminine, filling ourselves and the world with equity and unconditional love.
Manaole U Manaole, from my heart to the heart of mother earth to your heart,
JoAnne Dodgson
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SPECIAL EVENTS
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• LIVING IN BALANCE RETREAT • July 8-11 in New Mexico
• MATRIARCH GATHERING * June 24-27 in Colorado
• SHAMAN’S CIRCLE and MANIFESTING WITH THE MOON – Ongoing enrollment in JoAnne Dodgson’s online classes offered with Wise Woman University
