Enlivening Into Passion/Surrendering Into Softness
Are you taking care of everyone but yourself?
Has motherhood or menopause drained away your mojo?
Has work exhausted the joy from your life?
Maybe your’e missing what you once had?
That full-on thrill of feeling alive in your body…
connected to your passion…
rooted in your Sacred self.
WELL…
perhaps it’s time to reawaken the sleeping giantess of your sensual / sexual self
Mary is now will be available for personal coaching and freelance writing assignments.
Working with Mary, women have learned to nurture, honor and awaken their entire being more than ever imagined possible.
Working with Mary you can:
- Review the history that’s led us to women’s current best of times / worst of times scenario.
- Examine attitudes / fears / preconceptions about sexuality
- Deconstruct the way our culture encourages you to disown this generator of your power
- Make the connection between sexual health and physical health and happiness
- Explore the chakra system as it relates to sexual enlivenment
- Learn ancient tools and practices for enlivening sexual / sensual natures
- Ignite passion for bringing your talents to the world
Did you know that enlivening your sexual/sensual energies has everything to do with health, weight control, energy, mood and how you relate with others and the world?
Do this for yourself…for your joy, your pleasure, your health
Join Mary Campbell Case
founder of Claiming Our Voices and the Walking Our Talk concept and initiative
for the next important step in women’s empowerment…YOUR empowerment!
contact Mary@ClaimingOurVoices.org
Mary has mothered three adolescents, trained as a musician and teacher, and lived through both a divorce in her twenties and 20+ years of the peaks and challenges of marriage. After experiencing a debilitating mid-life depression she has rebirthed herself to embrace the body, mind and soul she was born to live.
Mary has studied with Regena Thomashauer in the School of Womenly Arts, with Joan and Tomas Heartfield and Caroline Muir in the Divine Feminine / Awakened Masculine Institute, with Saida Desilets in The Desilets Method, with Charles Muir in the Source School of Tantra Yoga, and with the Animas Valley Institute, David Deida, Harville Hendrix, John Gray, Don and Martha Rosenthal, Trebbe Johnson, and Joel and Kate Feldman among many other teachers devoted to committed and connected relationship with self, partners, humanity and the Earth.
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We’re told that women in the 21st century have more leisure time than any time in history, yet we constantly forego our own deepest needs and pleasures for the enticements (or distractions) of our commitment to others. We devote our energies to causes and careers we believe in, to our children, to our friends, to tending of our home and garden, to providing for our partners’ happiness, to shepherding the needs of our community. We’re there when anyone needs us… anyone except ourselves.
We consistently ignore our exhausted bodies, doing that perennial one more thing before falling into bed. We deplete our adrenals from the fight of flight game of everyday life, with too consistent and frequent doses of adrenaline year after year. Hypothyroidism has been called the silent epidemic of women over 40. Half the women I know suffer with intestinal issues, irritable bowel, Candida or leaky gut. Frankly, my Dear, we’re a mess.
Sure we get the occasional pedicure or massage. We eat right (or try to), squeeze in a little exercise, make a stab at meditation, and take time to smell the roses now and then (before we prune them). But where’s the joy? We a daily marathon everyday, and then get up and do it again the next morning.
Don’t you sometimes hear Peggy Lee singing that old song. If that’s all there is my friends, then let’s keep dancing, Let’s break out the booze and have a ball. If that’s all there is.
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Well, I’m here to say that, yes Virginia, there is more! So much more.
Our joy lies in reconnecting with the sacredness of our feminine bodies, tuning into our own inner wisdom, nurturing our whims and desires, enlivening our sensual/sexual centers, and celebrating with our sisters the real mother lode of joy that is our birthright as women.
You probably remember hearing the old saying, When Mama’s happy, everyone’s happy! And we know it’s true, don’t we? When we drop the old excuses and tend to our real needs — when we get the sleep our body craves, or do something spontaneous and crazy, or keep those promises to ourselves — then our contentment permeates everyone around us. We rediscover our delightful sense of humor, our capacity to make every moment a party, our joie de vivre. We’re BACK!!! And our immense and magnetic light – that light that every man I know craves — can do nothing but shine!
And when it does, there’s more light reflecting and refracting off everyone and everything around us! People notice! Did you cut your hair or something? You look great! Even the grass looks greener — right here on YOUR side of the fence!
But, whoa! Wait a minute. How do we get from where we are now — to THERE? Where are the apps we need to power up this great shift in consciousness? How can we make this transformation more than just airy-fairy new-age positive thinking?
So, come and try out a few of the tools. They’ve been known by women since time began. 5000 years of patriarchy has done a great job in expunging them from our awareness… till now.
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It’s impossible to grow through our girlhood and adolescences without experiencing emotional pain. We each have our stories. Biting words from a mother, spoken in anger, still linger in our psyches. Seventh grade girls’ callous teasing carry a sting well into adulthood. And the inevitable undeserved punishment lives on in our memories. We become wary and cautious building walls to protect those tender places inside.
When we’re young we’re victims of others’ unconsciousness, without the tools to protect ourselves. Our open and trusting childhood sense of safety in the world erodes as those who love us most occasionally lose sight of our innocence and sensitivity. Then those walls can be life-savers. We learn when to let a violent father smolder in silence or to walk away from a compromising situation. We find ways to cope, to stay safe, to protect ourselves.
As we pass into our teen years friends are two-faced and lovers betray us. The scars etch deeper, and we develop a sophisticated shell to cover mounting injuries to our sensitive inner core.
These skills we’ve honed work fairly well, for a while. Yet as some of them tag along with us into adulthood they become less helpful. We may find ourselves closing down our options for fear of being rejected, avoiding opportunities in favor of the sure thing. We become habituated to struggle and create more drama than is necessary. Or we anticipate pain ahead and leave a lover before we’re left.
Our stories are powerful, and true – they are our histories. But when they begin to define us currently, they have the power to create our future as well. We become the worker who’s always passed over, the lover who gives more than she receives, the woman who can’t trust men.
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So what stories do you need to leave behind? Is that old litany of abandonment really what you’re really still about? Are you sure it needs to be your MO anymore?
What if you rewrote the story for a change… swapped out your reaction for another… tried a different scenario? What if you were determined to find the fun in your next relationship, your next challenge, your next argument? What if your own enjoyment was more important to you than perpetuating the same old ending? Could you surprise yourself and create a whole new pattern, just for the delight of it?
That’s what we’ll be exploring in Enlivening into Passion / Surrendering into Softness.
Passion doesn’t have a chance if you’re stuck in the muck of your own dismal story. All the always and never platitudes. Especially when there’s so much to wake up to. So much delight in exploring who each of us was born to be. So much FUN in being the woman of our dreams.
It will take a rethinking of everything, these four months we’ll share together. First we’ll look at how we got to this sorry place, worn out by work and responsibilities, our adrenals zapped, the fun all dried up by the dutiful grind.