MEDITATION SECRETS FOR WOMEN
Discovering
Your Passion, Pleasure, and Inner
Peace
(click HERE to order)
by
Camille Maurine and Lorin Roche, Ph.D.
HarperSanFrancisco,
2001. ISBN: 0062516973.
Paperback, 336 pages, $17
What woman
doesn’t yearn for time for herself, without having to
be anything for anyone else? To rest, to restore, to settle
in. To catch up with all the thoughts that fly in and out
all day. To sort out her feelings from the tangle of
everyone else’s. To be in touch with herself, her
body, her rhythm. To clarify her own sense of things. To
get back to her essence…
In these wildly challenging times, having a daily
meditative practice is one of the best forms of self-care,
deeply healing and nourishing. Your meditation time is a
sanctuary from the world, a space and time where you can
come home to yourself, come home to your body and heart,
come home to your place in the universe.
In order to get
the greatest physical, emotional, and spiritual benefits of
meditation, you must find the ways that suit your nature.
That is why women need their own approach, one that
supports the female body and psyche.
Most meditation teachings were created long ago, by and for
men in monasteries. The issue of what is healthy and
supportive for women was never raised. In
Meditation Secrets
for Women: Discovering Your Passion, Pleasure, and Inner
Peace, Camille
and her husband, Dr. Lorin Roche asked: “What do
women need to thrive - in meditation, and in life?”
Based on three decades of experience teaching meditation,
and interviewing hundreds of women, Camille Maurine and Dr.
Lorin Roche have elucidated a healthy, female-centered
approach. The twelve Secrets provide the essential tools
for you to experience more vibrancy, richness, and pleasure
in both your inner and outer life.
You will learn how to:
• Relax more deeply
than you thought possible
• Fit meditation into a busy life
• Free up your energy for more vitality and creativity
• Discover practices that you absolutely love and want
to do
• Let whatever is going on in your body, mind, and
heart lead you deeper into your core
• Experience more balance, clarity, and
alertness
"Women's
meditation insights and needs are very different from the
traditional methods used for centuries by men in
monasteries.
Meditation Secrets for Women teaches you how to
meditate with full access to the emotions and body wisdom
that are a part of the divine." Christiane Northrup, M.D.,
author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom
"Wise, wonderful and
revolutionary. It returns the whole human being to joy,
restorative serenity, and embodied, psychological and
spiritual expansiveness." Sylvia Perera, Jungian analyst,
author of Descent to the Goddess
Find
healthy, satisfying practices that support your female way
of being in the world. Women’s nature is ever
changing, like the weather! You want to be able to meet
yourself no matter what is going on. You will learn how to
create a handful of meditations – not just one size
fits all - to match your mood and the needs of your day.
Discover the deep
feminine ecology of meditation:
• Tap in to your inner roots
and draw strength, nourishment, and inspiration
• Experience profound release of tension
• Get vital energy from all your emotions
• Celebrate your sensuality, inner beauty, and flow
• Honor your instincts and inner authority
• Cooperate with your hormones and biorhythms
• Connect to your primordial female
power
Many people think of meditation as dry and boring. Little
do they know how sensuous, soulful, and fun it can be!
Meditation is like sex – you have to find the ways
you enjoy and that work for you. You want your inner
sanctuary to be a place where you can let go, follow your
own rhythms, let your energies flow freely, and relax into
deeper and deeper pleasure and connection.
If you’ve felt frustrated with meditation, thought
you couldn’t “do it right” or been
ashamed of your body, wild thoughts, or feelings, then you
have probably internalized some of the repressive and
controlling attitudes that are toxic to women and have no
place in your inner world. It’s time to break those
taboos and set yourself free.
This is a “come as you are” approach. You
don’t have to change yourself in any way. Your
grumpy, tired, rebellious, vulnerable, or naughty self may
be just the key to more freedom, energy, and balance.
• Make use of
sensual, pleasurable meditation techniques, including
simple movement meditations.
• Get in touch with your body's natural rhythms and
emerge nourished, revitalized, and joyful.
• Gain a refreshing, rejuvenating rest that is deeper
than sleep. Relieve stress for optimal mental and physical
health.
• Accept every part of yourself. Transmute depression
and receive its healing gift.
• Find meditations that enhance your creativity and
your relationships, and that support you to share your
gifts with the world.
Learn to live in your real body, not the one in the mirror.
Meditation helps you tune in to the world of sensations,
movement, and energy that are your real body, the currents
of life force flowing within you.
Breathe
in your own atmosphere
Steep in your luscious feminine essence
Rest in your inner silence and hear your true
voice
Here’s what readers say
about Meditation Secrets
for Women
“Thank you for
your incredibly positive, helpful and nurturing book on
meditation secrets for women. I bought it two days ago and
already it is helping me transform my life. What a
gift.” Dede in Maine
“I would just like you to know that your book has
made a wonderful difference in my life…Between being
a busy wife, mother and owner of a flourishing graphic
design business, I have found time to reclaim myself.
Meditation has made a tremendous difference and it is now
something I really look forward to when life challenges
me… I relate to all that you say and use your
meditations religiously. I never leave home without your
book. It goes everywhere with me. Thank you for writing
this for all women.” Ainslie in British Columbia
“My friends and I deeply cherish your
book
Meditation Secrets for Women. It has personally
freed me and lifted great weights of expectations in
meditation from my heart and soul. I frequently give copies
of the book as gifts to family and best friends. It is a
treasure; thank you!!!!” Mary Jo in San Jose,
California
"I want to thank you
for a sensitive, extremely well written and informative
document regarding meditation, insights, and the virtual
feast of knowledge and inspiration contained within this
manuscript. I can truly say it is the finest book
I’ve read regarding meditation, the process, and the
essence of the feminine link embodied within mind body and
soul – an aspect I needed to more fully understand,
appreciate and become more sensitized to for my own
spiritual growth. My only slight regret is the title -
“secrets for women” - which may deter some men
from reading this book and delving into their feminine side
which is so vitality important in terms of balance for
humanity. Many blessings..." - A male
reader
Click here to see more rave
reviews
The 12
Secrets:
Secret #1: Celebrate
Your Senses
Secret #2: Honor Your
Instincts
Secret #3: Claim Your Inner Authority
Secret #4: Dwell in Your Inner Sanctuary
Secret #5: Be Tender to Yourself
Secret #6: Answer the Call
Secret #7: Ride Your Rhythms
Secret #8: Say Yes to Every Part of Yourself
Secret #9: Rest in Simplicity
Secret #10: Do Not Fear the Depths
Secret #11: Love Your Body
Secret #12: Live It Up
Read an excerpt from the
Introduction
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CREATE YOUR OWN GROUP: Many women are gathering
together to create Meditation Secrets for
Women study groups, using the
book to guide their discussions and meditative experiments.
Each of the twelve Secrets offers journaling questions,
body explorations, movement, and female-friendly meditation
practices. The book is also being used as a reference for
classes on women's studies, spirituality, body awareness,
movement, and creativity.
The synergy of women gathering together can be very
liberating, revealing, and powerful, not to mention fun! If
you'd like support for creating and sustaining such a
group, contact Camille. cm@camillemaurine.com
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MEDITATION SECRETS FOR
WOMEN is now available
in German, Dutch, Czech, and Japanese. Friends in Germany
can find MEDITATION GEHEIMNISSE FUR FRAUEN in bookstores
and on www.amazon.de. The Dutch translation, MEDITATIE VOOR
VROUWEN; ONTDEK DE RUST IN JEZELF can be found at
http://www.nl.bol.com
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