Vicki Noble

Vicki Noble is a feminist healer and contemporary shaman, co-creator with Karen Vogel of the renowned Motherpeace tarot deck and author of eight books, including Shakti Woman: Feeling Our Fire, Healing Our World and The Double Goddess: Women Sharing Power. For three decades she has taught healing arts, [...]]]> Vicki Noble Judy Grahn Sabine Grandke-Taft

Vicki Noble	Vicki Noble Vicki Noble is a feminist healer and contemporary shaman, co-creator with Karen Vogel of the renowned Motherpeace tarot deck and author of eight books, including Shakti Woman: Feeling Our Fire, Healing Our World and The Double Goddess: Women Sharing Power. For three decades she has taught healing arts, women’s history, and Goddess spirituality in the U.S. and internationally, and is currently an adjunct professor in the Women’s Spirituality Masters program at ITP (Institute for Transpersonal Psychology) in Palo Alto, California. After almost three decades of practice, Vicki adapts Tibetan Buddhist Dakini practices in special tutorials and classes for women who are generally not Buddhist. She is also a professional astrologer and lives with her son Aaron Eagle in Santa Cruz, California, where they are actively involved with her two daughters and three grandchildren. For more information: www.motherpeace.com
Judy Grahn	Judy Grahn Judy Grahn is an internationally known poet, writer, and social theorist. Her work underpins several movements, including Gay, Lesbian, and Queer; Feminist/Woman-Centered; and Women’s Spirituality, but it has spread far beyond any of these. She serves as Associate Core Faculty for the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, California, in their Women’s Spirituality Master’s Program. Judy teaches writing, Metaformic Consciousness, women’s mythology and ancient literature, and Uncommon Kinship (with Luisah Teish)—a diversity course using testimony, ritual, symbolism, and a Metaformic philosophical approach. Judy teaches Creative Inquiry and Creative Writing in the Writing, Consciousness, and Creative Inquiry Program at California Institute of Integral Studies. She holds an earned Ph.D. in Integral Studies with an Emphasis in Women’s Spirituality from California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. Her work has won awards: an NEA Grant, an American Book Review award, an American Book Award, an American Library Award; a Lifetime Achievement Award (in Lesbian Letters), a Founding Foremothers of Women’s Spirituality Award. Triangle Publishers feature a “Judy Grahn Nonfiction Award”. She co-edits and writes for her online journal, Metaformia: A Journal of Menstruation and Culture, viewable at www.Metaformia.org
	Sabine Grandke-Taft – Movement Sabine Grandke-Taft has studied over 20 modalities of body-centered healing and has lived and worked in India, Australia and for 3 years at the Esalen Institute. Sabine brings a bodily approach that teaches us how to feel and open our bodies as the trustable source to live the love and clarity that we already are”

]]> http://pwcacamp.org/?feed=rss2&p=124 0 http://pwcacamp.org/?p=115 http://pwcacamp.org/?p=115#comments Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:10:20 +0000 Admin http://pwcacamp.org/?p=115 “I have torn the ugly pictures from my past,

Off the long-suffering walls of my heart,

And spackled the holes with Goddess light.”

These words could be lyrics from a country and western song, but are actually a quote from a veteran of many women’s camps. they spell out a profound healing passage. They refer to the cumulative [...]]]>

“I have torn the ugly pictures from my past,

Off the long-suffering walls of my heart,

And spackled the holes with Goddess light.”

These words could be lyrics from a country and western song, but are actually a quote from a veteran of many women’s camps. they spell out a profound healing passage. They refer to the cumulative effect of spending one week per year in the company of women who want to co-create a healtier paradigm in our culture; and to feeling truly seen, heard, appreciated and safe in that company. Even taken individually, these themes are rare experiences for women in the wide world.

This year, amidst the chanting, drumming, creativity, soft gestures and joyful outbursts at women’s camp, I witnessed many instances where Mystery was trusted. Revelation soon followed. Serenity then often followed. Miracles, from the size of a grain of dust that you blink from y ou eye, to the awe-inspiring, noisy, instantaneous healing of a wounded woman’s heart, happened regularly during that short, 5-day hiatus fromt he “usual” world. Most of this came about from women being brave enough to ask for what they need, and then allowing love and abundance to flow in. Some of it happened because of the mindful, dedicated organizing that put the parts and pieces of camp together. And some of it happened because of the compassionate chemistry of everyone there.

And now our theme for 2010 implores us to “embody the goddess within.” What does that actually mean? Is there really a goddess trapped in side of me looking for outward expression? What is my definition of “goddess”?

An apple tree embodies sunlight and bears fruit; a bee dances in a flower’s heart and produces honey; birds inhale clear mornign air and release higly individualized musical sounds. What kinds of amazing things will we each manifest in our world if we embody the Goddess within? I’m looking forward to finding out at next year’s marvelous camp!

With love and light,

Terrea