Jade Circle

Jade Circles January 2012!!:)*(: Happy New Year!!

2012-01-09T22:22:00.011Z

Friday 13th January - Jade Circle Level 1
(All women are welcome!)
Special Friday 13th Celebration (learn more in 'Now we're ten!' post - click here and scroll down- what a fantastic way to start the Jade Circle new year!!:)
No Need to Book! just come on by, from 6.45 to 8.45pm @ The Universal Healing Tao Centre UK, 68 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3JT
To learn more call Anamarta 07722566010 or email
Donation guide £9 (£4.50 Taoist and Zen Shiatsu practitioners/students)

Wednesday 25th January - Special Jade Circle - presenting the Winter Shanti Bazaar with its beautiful new things!
(All women are welcome!)~Please bring a long skirt (the more swirly, the better!)
Lets shake the cold away with some Gypsy Kalbelian Dance, all way from from Rajasthan.
@ 6.45 to 9pm @ the same place
To learn more call Anamarta 07722566010 or email
Donation guide £9 (£4.50 Taoist and Zen Shiatsu practitioners/students)

Look forward to see you and meet you, to start together the Jade Circle in 2012!! :)

Anamarta

Transitions

2011-12-21T07:11:00.002Z

Hello!
Many moons and almost two seasons ago since I wrote a post!
The Jade Circle is happily growing and expanding, and I'm delighted to share this good news with you. Its so beautiful for me to assist more and more women all over the world taking the time to dedicate to themselves, to explore, honor and enjoy the Divine Feminine within, taking the most of their yin energy in their harmonious internal universe, contributing like this for a better world, at least 'their outer world'.
I take this opportunity to appreciate all the women who are coming to the Jade Circles and workshops, just not in London, but as well in Dublin, Edinburgh, New Delhi; the sharing in the sacred terrace of Pushkar, Rajasthan with Sara, a dear Italian sister; the interest and invitations from Portugal, Berlin and Brazil. And of course would like to include also all the women who attended the mix Taoist steps at the Universal Healing Tao Centre UK, I've been facilitating with my partner Kris. Thank you all for your beautiful and inspiring presence!
The Jade Goddesses took over in Step 3, Power of Fusion this year, for the first time in the history of the 20 years of the Centre we had the yin predominance! (Actually happened again in the last step 2 -Healing Love) You can check the photos in the Healing Tao facebook page. And if you want to keep in touch by facebook, you know what to do, just click like! (A Jade Circle Community page was opened, but its in germination, will flourish next year...).
You always bring me the opportunity to deepen my practices when I share it with you and to reassure me the path of the Divine Feminine within, the empowerment vs compassion energies has to be cultivated and inspire all the sisters along the way.
Lovely consequences of this is being witness of the sisterhood being born among the women and assisting these same women shining their power and love in their own right.
Aloha Mahalo! Mahalo Aloha! I love you thank you! Thank you I love you!
I feel truly blessed to hold the space for these and more wonderful things to happen.

Being so much on move this year with the Travelling Circle, being sometimes in so many different places in such short periods of time, brought a deep insight about transitions.
We can find transitions in everything around us, all the time.
The transitions of the seasons, nature, their elements; the transitions of the moon, of our planet, even the universe beyond the visible, which are in constant move and transmutation. The transitions of our body, of our cycles; the transitions in life, and life itself is a transition - but a transition from where to where? Well, I don't know, I´ve not been consciously 'on the other side' to tell you that... But what I know is that every day a transition is somehow triggered on all levels of my being, in the physical, in the emotional, in the mental, in the energetical and even in the spiritual. This ongoing transitions may bring me awareness, realisation, inspiration, transformation and even confusion (although I see it as a positive thing, means I'm still looking for something, sometimes its as well a process I've to go through when changes are happening or about to happen) and even may bring destruction (another natural process of letting something die to be born anew).
But this daily transition can just be felt when I stop and listen from within, my inner-self, open myself to receive and accept this inner-knowledge, that I can tell you is not always the easiest way, but I believe is the way for me to walk in the Sacred Beauty Path (these words inspired by Jamie Sams), for me is the one of walking my talk, sharing my gifts with others, be open to receive what it comes and like this weaving the infinitive continuing evolution, embracing the mysterious feminine to the full and living it.

And here we're in a transition of season, Winter Solstice approaching in the North Hemisphere, (Summer in the South). Going from Autumn to Winter, metal to water, from lungs to kidneys, a great time to let go anything you want to let go, anything that no longer serves you, taking the courage from the metal element and entering with the wisdom and gentleness of the water; of course the energies of the festive season help to all this, as we're in the transition for the coming and so anticipated 2012!
I believe this is not new for you, for some inspiration check the post 'Living Fully in the Present' click here and scroll down.
But after my sharing in the previous paragraph, I leave you two questions for you to take the time to think, meditate about it for your end of year and new season, that is the one which represents the yin peak in the Taoist calendar.

How do you deal, respond to your daily transitions, the ones which happen every time, in all levels of your being?
How do you live with your yin energy, of being, of receptivity, acceptance and flexibility towards yourself, others and life?

For all my dear students, friends, even the ones who make part the 'Virtual Circle' that I don't know yet, a joyful, happy, sparkly wonderful festive season!***
I look forward to see you and meet you next year!

Anamarta

Laughter Medicine

2011-07-12T19:07:00.003+01:00

Hello!

How is being your Summer?

This time of connecting with the fire within, with our yang energy of doing!

And this time of doing its balanced and sparkly with the heart virtues of love, joy, happiness, laughter, passion, enthusiasm, motivation.

A time of being out enjoying the warm sunshine, be spontaneous, having fun and spending time with loved ones!

I just got back from Portugal, where I connected and embraced the latin fire with loooots of laughter, fun and company of dear friends and family; then back to London to facilitate a lovely Step 2, where the Jade Circle ladies filled up the room with their radiant presence! So happy and proud to have them there!

I've been enjoying learning to balance sacredness with irreverence.

Looks like every time I start to get too serious or stressed, yes, caught in the web of the adult world we create, something happens which makes me realise... but for what?! And I end up of laughing at myself, yes, sometimes the lesson is even painful, but I laugh; so much more uplifting!...

Here a great exercise: laughing at yourself!! I'm sure you've some reasons, episodes in your life, even attitudes, situations you had at the time were not funny at all , but now you can laugh of them! And when we can laugh at ourselves, we can make others truly laugh. Generating all good feelings, and I believe a much lighter surroundings and world!

"..laughing is a transforming and uplifting exercise, not only in a physical sense, but also mentally and spiritually..."

" The view will always expand if we use the Divine Medicine of Laughter. Nothing is beyond repair. We may need to use comedy to crack a smile so we can reclaim our Sacred Space."

Jamie Sams

Sometimes we really cannot change what is happening around us, things which are out of out control (like stuck in the traffic, train when going to get a plane or on our way to an important meeting, etc... I'm sure you can think about various examples...), but we always have in our hands the way we respond to it.

Definitely the Taoist practices help me to support this way of being, with the powerful and simple tools it offer to keep the harmony of my internal universe, just the deep awareness of my physical, emotional and energetic bodies and like this deal with them and take the most of the things they have to offer.

And one of my favourite practices, for the ones who know me, guess? Yes, that's right, smile!!:) I wrote a post about it, click here and scrool down to Smile And...Smile!! And definitely the laughing chi kung - what a burst of fresh and energizing chi!

Try it! Just laugh, with the laughing chi kung with do it with different kind of laughs, starting with ohohohoh, then wowowowow, then ahahahahah, then heheheheh, and finish with hihiihiihiih. You laugh, you'll bounce your body, which its great for your uterus to move a bit, a fantastic to open your throat, which its connect with your sexual centre, a yin & yang connection, being one your creative center and the other the way you express your creativity, your truth, yourself - if one its blocked will reflect in the other and vice-versa - so this exercise its a important complement for your Jade Egg practice. And you'll feel great and energize after it!!

I remember to hear from the old wise ones: its nothing better that a guffaw from the soul.

Laughter actually increases production of an antibody that is responsible for our first line of defense against bacterial infection.

Laughter, love making and exercise are the best medicine of all!

"Humour is essential for balancing the energies in our organs. Humour is great regulator helping us to look with a sense of relativity, playfulness and lightness at ourselves. It is an expression of compassionate energy of the heart which helps to look with a sense of detachment at ourselves and not take ourselves so seriously that it becomes difficult to relax and be a witness rather than a severe judge." Mantak Chia in Cosmic Fusion.

If you want to learn more about this profound Fusion of 5 Elements practice, we have just a few places left on our annual workshop at the end of the coming week.

Anamarta

Let Your Inner Beauty OuT! WORKSHOP

2011-07-11T22:07:00.015+01:00

On Saturday 6th August - 10am-5.30pm
Explore your inner beauty for your outer radiance!
Give a treat to yourself and Join me on this exciting and expected workshop:

to celebrate the yang peak of the year, the Summer, to connect with the fire energy and embrace its virtues! Will be a special day filled with love, joy and laughter! Sparkly indeed with lots of sacred feminine knowledge.

How can we use the Taoist practices to take the most of this life and enhance our inner beauty? You'll find out!

Through meditations, Kuan Yin Chi Kung, dance and much more, you'll:

Create space, ceremony to honor the sacred fire
Learn techniques to keep your breasts, symbol of love chi, healthy and shining
Embrace your self-unconditional love.
Learn beauty and Tantric secrets from a Tantric Dakini and former L'oreal model Anamarta

Great opportunity to explore the Taoist foundation practices, good introduction for beginners and review for experienced ones, to connect with the fire within, to do some belly dance and Gypsy Kalbelian dance.

Together we're going to open our heart to express and receive the energy of beauty!

(£37 for Zen Shiatsu & Taoist Practitioners & Repeaters who are welcome back!)

Questions? Call me anamarta, 07722566010 or email me

To check previous workshops click and scroll down:
2009 & 2010

What to bring?
***A red or pink candle.
***Why not wear something you love or/and that makes you feel beautiful!
***In the afternoon you'll need a long skirt - the more swirly, the better!

For information about beauty and beauty tips I suggest the 'BEAUTY' post: Click here and scroll down
For the cultivation of beauty and heart's health the post: 'Inner Beauty OuTer Radiance!!' Click here and scroll down

Anamarta

July Jade Circles

2011-07-07T11:27:00.000+01:00

Join me:

This Friday 15th July
Jade Circle Level 1 with Shanti Bazaar & Full Moon in Capricorn Ritual,Celebration
All women are welcome!
No Need to Book! just come on by, start @ 6.45 - 9.15pm @ The Universal Healing Tao Centre UK, 68 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3JT call Anamarta 07722566010 or email
Donation guide £9 (£4.50 for Shiatsu & Taoist Practitioners)

On Friday 22nd July
Jade Circle Level 2 (All women who have already come to a Jade Circle before and heard the Jade Egg explanation are welcome!)
Activating, connecting with the fire within, with the Gypsy Kalbelian dance, all way from Rajastan!

Please bring a long skirt (the more swirly, the better!)

No Need to Book! just come on by, start @ 6.45 - 9pm @ the same place

Donation guide £9 (£4.50 for Shiatsu & Taoist Practitioners)

Looking forward to meet you, see you and dance, swirling with you! ;)

Anamarta

* Faeries & Trees *

2011-06-09T07:37:00.004+01:00

Hello!
Just arriving from Fairy Land for hosting our Jade Circle Level 1.
I'm just back from Ireland, where our Dublin Travelling Circle took place with a group of amazing and lovely Jade Fairy Goddesses. Yes, the fairies exist! Our Jade Circle workshop was filled with surprises every day. And I was even initiated into their fairy tribe through a beautiful fairy ritual, I had read my fairy rights, received my wings and wand! Thanks a million for such warm welcoming and magical hospitality!
Interestingly enough I read this a few years ago in Dancing Shadows and being there, I can confirm it:
"The Sidhe are the Faerie Folk of Ireland(...) The Sidhe apparently put up such a good fight that the Celts were suitably impressed and offered to give the Sidhe kings the right to live under the hills that are abundant in Ireland, although some of the Sidhe chose instead to dwell under the sea (sailed West). The Irish have a special feeling for the "Little People", or "Good Neighbors", and do not like anyone, especially outsiders, disturbing them."
From the same book, and coming back from India just a couple of weeks ago, how nice taking the Travelling Circles to India and Ireland... :"The worship costumes of India can be found duplicated in both Celtic religion and Celtic Faerie tradition. The offering of flowers, grain, and honey to the Goddess and God at hilltop sanctuaries is seen in both cultures. Shiva is worship with gifts of milk and flowers, and this custom relates
to the Celtic tradition of leaving milk for the Fairies."

I came across 'fairy trees' these last few days: they are usually on their own in a field, and worshipped by the people who approach these trees with respect and awareness, leaving offers to the fairies with oats (fairy food, as was given to me every day in Dublin!), milk, small strings of cloth or if nothing this handy, our hair, and just after this ask for blessings. My dear Irish sister Maira explained all this and took me to a fairy tree in a sacred site, for a lovely and sparkly experience!
I read this:
Hawthorn is a wild, fierce tree-not to be annoyed by cutting its branches.
Actually I didn't find it fierce at all, but very special, filled with the fairy energy, so obviously has to be approached with consideration. From Maira I learnt as well that the hawthorn berries are known by their love properties, and here we're in Summer time, the fire element of love, linked with the heart. And I found out that these berries have been used since the 19th century to support the heart and normalize cardiovascular functions helping reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.
Learn more about hawthorn berries healing properties
More fairies & trees associations:
** Rowan is a Fey/Fairy/Nature being or Spirit whose wood is prized for magical charms.
** The fragrance of the lilac tree aids passage between Fey and mortal worlds.
** Elm is a sacred tree to the elves and the Fey. The folk name for the elm is "Elven" because elms were often growing around burial mounds and faerie hills. An important tree in both Celtic and Scandinavian myths, the elm also has a connection to the dead, and to realms of the underworld and the realm of the Fey. Great tree to get in touch with nature spirits, and using her leaves into rituals or create a fairy wand out of a fallen elm branch. In the language of the flowers, this herbal tree signifies dignity.
Adapted from Ellen Dugan.

The transition from the wood element, Spring time, to the fire, Summer time. Summer is in the air, the Summer Solstice, Midsummer day is coming in less than two weeks.
Exciting time of the year, lots of exciting things are happening in our London Tao Center!

Great time to be outdoors, enjoy the aliveness of the nature and of yourself!

And next time you are in nature why not practice some chi kung, activating the meridians of your body, blending with the Earth energy beneath and the energies of the Heaven above, connecting yin and yang, allowing these energies to flow harmoniously within you. Here our latest chi kung video a reminder for the ones practicing already and an inspiration for the ones who would like to try. Even if you just hold the first position, embracing the tree for a while, starting with 9 breaths, you can feel a great benefit for your grounding, centering and self-empowering of mind, body and spirit.

For the ones who learnt the microcosmic orbit, try to do it with a tree, together blending energies, getting fully charge with the tree energy. Just remember to present yourself first to the tree, they have energy field (aura) as we do, so after presentations and if things are flowing nice and smoothly between you, you can then approach the tree and ask to practice the microcosmic orbit with her, if you have a yes, go for it and enjoy it!

For the ones who would like to learn to activate their microcosmic orbit, chi kung and the Taoist foundation practices join us for the Step1-Harmony of Yin & Yang, in the last weekend of this month.

Anamarta

Join me for the June Jade Circles:

2011-06-07T09:07:00.000+01:00

Friday 10th June
Jade Circle Level 1
All women are welcome!
No Need to Book! just come on by, start @ 6.45 - 8.45pm @ The Universal Healing Tao Centre UK, 68 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3JT
call Anamarta 07722566010 or email
Donation guide £9 (£4.50 for Shiatsu & Taoist Practitioners)

On Friday 24th June
Jade Circle Level 2 (All women who have already come to a Jade Circle before and heard the Jade Egg explanation are welcome!)
Welcome the Summer within, with a special unconditional love meditation - open your heart to receive and express the energy of love.
@ the same time @ the same place
Donation guide £9 (£4.50 for Shiatsu & Taoist Practitioners)

Look forward to meet you & see you!

Anamarta

What a wonderful welcome back!!

2011-05-20T23:57:00.004+01:00

Thank you dear women, Goddesses, sisters for your presence in this Special Jade Circle, which so much felt as a lovely welcome back to London!
Wonderful to have a full house with beauties from all over the world; coming just not from London, but Brighton and up north...
And thank you Vicky for bringing the cake, making our Circle gathering so complete and delicious! ;) We shared, learning from each other jade egg experiences, meditate, did chi kung, (including jade gate one), pampering and hang out with our tea circle. :) Embracing sisterhood and enjoying the Divine feminine within!

With much joy & delight

Anamarta

Back in London!! Special Jade Circle - Level 1 & 2 together

2011-05-19T05:47:00.005+01:00

Hello!
Hope this finds well and taking the most of the Spring time, allowing its predominant green colour of health and life, and the fragrance of the the flowers to inspire to fulfil your dreams, to enjoy yourself. Allowing your body to receive this sensuous awakening of the nature and remembrance of how good its to be alive in our temples, our bodies, in our mind, in our spirits and their journey!
I'm back in London, after an amazing Indian Tour filled with good surprises, was the absolute embracing of the unknown, celebrating the mysterious feminine to the fullest!...
Teaching Indian women in Delhi, the pioneers Jade Goddesses, how amazing and wonderful experience! And the three days I was in their lovely company I learnt more about Indian food, (trying all delicious snacks you can imagine!), that in the last three years and so... Thank you! So nice!!
The Bagsunag workshop, in the sacred Himalayan mountains was equally a lovely experience with lovely travellers women.
Was so magical to connect with lots of beautiful women from all over the world, cultivating sisterhood and expanding the Divine Feminine power and love!

I look forward to share this energy with you!
Join me tomorrow - Friday 20th May
Special Jade Circle
All women are welcome!
No Need to Book! just come on by, start 6.45 - 9.15pm @ The Universal Healing Tao Centre UK, 68 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3JT
To learn more call Anamarta 07722566010 or email
Donation guide £11 (£5.50 Taoist and Zen Shiatsu practitioners/students)

The Travelling Circle next stop is in Dublin, Ireland:

Jade Circle workshop - The Harmony of Yin & Yang

Friday 3rd June - Free Introductory Talk - 7 to 8.30pm (Open to All Women)
Saturday 4th thru’ Monday 6th June 2011 - 10am to 5.30pm
Click here to learn more

Just 2 more places available!
Sign Up Now!
€257 / £217
Questions? Contact:
Maira at: +353 863612102 or Email or Email me

Anamarta

Blossom with the Spring!

2011-03-18T07:09:00.005Z

I'm quite excited writing to you and feeling these high energies in the air... Spring, the Equinox this Sunday, this energy of renewal and rebirth, and the Full Moon tomorrow will be really close to the Earth, such a powerful one, and biggest for two decades!
This Full Moon in Virgo occurs just before Ostara reinforcing this transformational energy.
How do you feel about that?
Do you noticed the changes in nature?
The trees start to sprout, the flowers blossoming, the animals getting more busy preparing their nest and making themselves heard.
Spring is coming with the wood element, plant life. The direction is the East where things begin.
** Why not start this new cycle of the year and maybe of your life with a celebration?

Different traditions emphasise that the circle is a sacred space where those present gather to encounter the Divine. In the Circle everyone is equal, 'casting a circle' (even unconsciously) creates sacred space to work, meditate, heal, create and commune with your inner self and spiritual realms.
This is just what we did last weekend, the 3-days Jade Circle workshop, the circle symbolising the mysterious feminine and allowing space for its celebration and blossoming.
Check the post below to see the beautiful and glowing faces!

I encourage you to cast your own circle, create and honour if you've already created your sacred space, a space just for you, and never shared except by invitation. Meditate upon the renewal and rebirth the Spring brings and the Full Moon energy in Virgo, review what you have achieved, separating the wheat from the chaff, having a sort-out of the things you want to finish and what you want to start, thinking in which area of your life you want to put your energy for it to blossom and give its fruits.

The wood element is linked with your liver and its virtues of kindness, generosity, forgiveness, self-acceptance, and in sexual terms - desire.
How do these virtues speak to you at this moment?

Look inward into your liver and give it a smile; and with the smile on your face breathe in the green light of the ancient healing forest and claim these virtues, listen what they say to you...

"Constant kindness can accomplish much." Starting with kindness towards yourself.
"Remember that generosity is a talent and a virtue that comes from dropping the fear of scarcity and from trusting Great Mystery" Jamie Sams.
Forgiveness starts with self-forgiveness, and we forgive we're free...
By finding self-acceptance, acknowledge all aspects of your self, just not your personality, but also your body, accepting yourself as you are with all your perfection and imperfections, you can embrace your potential and inspire others to do it as well.
When fulfilling our deepest desire, we feed our heart and soul.
Daily we have opportunities to practice all these virtues!

Every little helps. Sending love & light to Japan.
With a click to make a donation, please feel free to spread the word, together with the love & light from our hearts.

My partner Kris gave an interesting interview on Paranormal Radio click here to hear, where he talks about Taoism, the shamanic and sexual practices, astral travels, from his new ebook Taoist Medicine Wheel - Tao of the Shaman.

Anamarta

Amazing Jade Circle Workshop!!

2011-03-17T23:57:00.001Z

What an amazing workshop!! My heart its still vibrating with much happiness from last weekend!
Again we had a cocktail of different cultures and backgrounds from all over the world, coming from all parts of UK, from Scotland, to Kent...
These lovely women who embrace this journey with such commitment towards their Divine Feminine, courage and grace! What a blessing to hold this space where the mysterious feminine can blossom to the full!
The same I felt from all present, what a pleasure to witness that! A powerful new group of Jade Goddesses who brought me so much inspiration and insight. Thank you all!
Was a three days journey with much depth, transformation, enjoyment and laughter. Wonderful!!

Here the beautiful and glowing faces:

:) Keep smiling & shining... and s... ;)

** Thank you for your feedback **

"A beautiful, nurturing, powerful and gracious workshop. Anamarta led us safely through the foundations of a powerful process to awaken the divine feminine within. I give thanks for such a pleasurable experience. Thank you.x"M.F.
"I loved the weekend, it was very helpful, great practice, great way to teach it. I really liked the way in which you approach the teachings in a simple but inspirational way, very open, leaving space to integrate and take what we need. I loved the music, the dancing ..."C.G.
"A wonderful, inspiring workshop! I enjoyed every part of it, and it helped me to start my journey to find more about myself, my feminine side and my inner resources! Thank you so much! You are very enthusiastic inspiring teacher! fun and serious at the same time! I feel very inspired to carry on!"J.K.
"Such a beautiful held space. I felt safe and respected, but also inspired, motivated and challenged. The pace was perfect, and I feel that we covered a lot but also had time to rest. Anamarta was a goddess!"T.L.
"Dear Anamarta what to say? Thank you so much. My body and soul are very happy and grateful for this teaching, experience, energy and healing. Bless you."S.S.
"A beautiful 3 days once again! Thank you Anamarta for holding such a bright and happy space! Loved working with all you beautiful ladies, it was a pleasure :) Feeling so much love energy, and enjoying to take it home :) Namaste and In lake'ech."M.S.
"Anamarta- what can I say. You have given me such a wonderful gift. Thank you. Your energy is beautiful and you are a beautiful person. Keep doing/being who you are...xx:)"M.J.
"I loved your workshop and the way you directed, it was really magical and special!!something has been opened in that circle and I´m feeling its power, it´s great!!...It has been really complete. Its deserved for me to come all this trip has been amazing!! Muito obrigado por teu amore, tua compasion e tua originalidade..."M.E.

Anamarta

!! JADE CIRCLE WORKSHOP !!

2011-03-09T22:44:00.002Z

I'm delighted to present our awaited and annual Jade Circle Workshop, after such an inspiring Goddess workshop -check below- I'm looking forward to facilitate this next journey!...
Which is happening in a few days!!
Will be a fantastic opportunity for you to start the internal renewal of the coming Spring and ending the yin Winter; and of course for you to: open the door to the mastery of your foundation essential practices, to learn about the Yin Taoist Practice, Kuan Yin Chi Kung, and the secrets of the Jade Egg.

Saturday 12th thru Monday 14th March- 10am to 5.30pm
JADE CIRCLE I - THE HARMONY OF YIN & YANG - Special Yin Step 1
Facilitated by Anamarta

ANCIENT PRACTICE FOR MODERN WOMEN

Jade Circle, symbolizing the mysterious feminine, presents a unique workshop to welcome all women willing to learn more about the Jade Egg Holistic Practice and apply the benefits at all levels: physical, emotional and energetic.

Connect with your Divine Feminine
Enjoy a deep and intimate relationship with yourself
Reclaim your inner wisdom
Love and accept yourself unconditionally
Awaken the body sacredness and sensuous femininity
Improve your sexual health, natural beauty & vitality
And much more!…

As in the Taoist philosophy of Yin & Yang, the aim of this Practice is to find harmony within, to connect and honour the feminine and masculine, the love/emotional and the sexual/creative, and to bring this balance into your life. By opening and evolving the path of self-healing and self-mastery, you live life to the full!
In a safe, nurturing and welcoming environment.
Click to learn more

Questions? Call me at: 07722566010 or Email me
Sign Up Now!

To check last year workshop click here and scroll down

Anamarta

HAPPY WOMEN'S DAY!!

2011-03-08T08:07:00.005Z

Today the international women's day celebrates one century!

In this last two years I've so much enjoyed to take this opportunity to honour all of you, women I know and even the women I don't know yet, with much delight, joy and admiration.
As you probably know already you are an expression of the universal archetype and you deserve to be honoured as such!
This special day, when from the last 100 years women on all continents, often divided by national boundaries and by ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic and political differences, come together to celebrate their Day.
I wish you a lovely day to be celebrated in a lovely way, even just inside your heart! Share your gifts and yourself with the world, spread your special feminine essence with joy and delight!
Something that may inspire you:
"...balanced female energy is not envy or catty; it is sisterhood, content to enjoy and share the goodness with others, express joy for others. Woman energy without games or control is a beautiful experience, it is a freedom of love without jealousy. You might look at the joyfulness of the receptive side of your nature. Have you given yourself a gift recently? Have you received any messages in your dreams, thoughts, meditations? Flow with the water of the Universe...this is the way of balanced female-receptive energy. Honour it! In doing so, you will discover the power of woman." Otter - Woman Medicine, Medicine Cards by Jamie Sams & David Carson.

In celebration & sisterhood

Anamarta

March Jade Circles

2011-03-02T11:07:00.001Z

Join me:

This Wednesday 2nd March
Jade Circle Level 1
All women are welcome!
No Need to Book! just come on by, start @ 6.45 - 8.45pm @ The Universal Healing Tao Centre UK, 68 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3JT
call Anamarta 07722566010 or email
Donation guide £9 (£4.50 for Shiatsu & Taoist Practitioners)

On Wednesday 23rd March
Jade Circle Level 2 (All women who have already come to a Jade Circle before and heard the Jade Egg explanation are welcome!)
Welcoming the Spring within-renewal and rebirth. Focus on the 'green' Jade Egg healthy and powerful exercises!
@ the same time @ the same place
Donation guide £9 (£4.50 for Shiatsu & Taoist Practitioners)

Look forward to see you & meet you!

Anamarta

Celebrating the sacred feminine and unveiling its mystery!

2011-03-01T23:57:00.002Z

Magic definitely happen when women get together...
What a special and powerful day celebrating the sacred feminine and unveiling its mystery!
Thank you for the inspiring and amazing presents who sparkled their wisdom and Inner Goddess with so much grace!
Such a bless to hold the space for Divine Feminine to be honour and manifest. Unfolding gentleness, inner knowing, sisterhood, receptivity and all the best of the yin qualities.
Our shining and lovely photo say it all:

Thank you for your feedback:

"An excellent, nurturing and feminine environment. Thanks Anamarta for creating a sacred space. ...such a powerful workshop...and lovely people too!" M.F.
"Thank you for an amazing experience and new discoveries! I really enjoyed this beautiful way to myself, divine sensations and looking forward to being here again!" G.D.
"This workshop is a real treat for any woman and Anamarta is inspirational and amazing teacher who shares her beauty, wisdom and experience in the most natural and sensual way. Thank you for sharing your magic and helping women to connect with their deepest essence." D.V.
"A beautiful day with beautiful people. Very creative and full of fun and inspiration. Thank you!" K.T.
"Thank you Anamarta. I feel: ***"E.B.
"What a fun day! I leave feeling energised once again! I see light in everybody's eyes :) Thank you! Namaste and Lak'ech." M.S.
"I found the workshop nice to strengthen my energy and chi just what I needed I benefited most from the Meditation which was very deep and I feel opening and transforming for my spirit."D.L.
"Thank you for being a beautiful person inside and out - its been a real honor and pleasure getting to know you. The day has been I fell the continuance of a journey for me, I am so glad I finally come!" A.R.
"Just totally what was meant to happen just now. Lovely goddesses. My deer came back!' S.W.
"Thank you - so rejuvenated. I have lots fun and loved sharing it all with beautiful Goddesses. Bless you...x" S.S.
"Inspiring and fab workshop. I did enjoyed a lots and learn new practices with Anamarta*. Thank you. Hope carry on practice this ancient knowledge here." S.C.

Anamarta

AWAKENING YOUR INNER GODDESS...FOLLOW YOUR INNER WISDOM!

2011-02-11T22:07:00.003Z

Dear Goddesses,

What I'm sharing with you today emerged in a new moon, many moons ago...

The more time I spend with women, the more I find the Goddess present in each of you, make me just not believe, but feel it, we women are a reflection of each other, representing the different manifestations of the Goddess.
With the new moon in the beginning of this 2nd month of the year I feel so aligned with the yin energy! And you?
I'm delightfully enjoying every moment of just being, be yin, nurturing my yin energy and receive the fruits of it with such inspiration! Delving into the mysterious feminine, allowing time for the thoughts to emerge and solidify, connecting with my inner self in such a profound way! Awakening my inner Goddess, letting my inner wisdom to be my guide, and the gentleness to be in continuing action with myself and everyone and everything else.
Result of this inspiring time I'm having to prepare for our coming workshops, I'm feeling the Divine Feminine within bubbling so intensively! Its like fireworks from the depth of sacred water, like the fire shining on the ocean.

The days are dark and short...
Nature embraces the darkness
And you, what do you do?
Let's embrace it too!
Going into the void
And what do you find?
the answer, the solution,
the direction, the path;
the Goddess!...
...the Inner Goddess
and her outer manifestations!
Be Yin!
Be Yourself!
Allowing the dark to rise
Blending with the light
Alchemy surprise!
Achieving the perfect harmony within,
Bringing this clarity on everything!

Join me for this beautiful yin celebration:
Book your place, if you didn't do it yet!!

Awakening Your Inner Goddess...Follow your Inner Wisdom!

Sunday 27th February 2011 - 10am-5.30pm

I happily present this special workshop to celebrate and embrace the Yin Peak of the year, the Winter!
Along with the Taoist practices, we're going to delve into a journey to awaken, stimulate or just allow space for your Inner Goddess to bloom and to be fully present.
Through meditation, Kuan Yin Chi Kung, dance, and much more, you'll:

**Do the Ceremony of the Sacred Water.

**Explore the different manifestations of the Goddess Power within and without.

**Embrace your inner wisdom.

**Reclaiming your Divine Feminine, honour it and enjoy it!

**Learn to keep your kidneys (the Winter organ, which regulates our sexual energy and links with our wisdom and gentleness), healthy and radiant.

What to bring?
Something special for you that represent your yin energy, your femininity, yourself!
Why not wear your best Goddess clothes, what makes you feel good externally and internally.

Questions? email me or call me at: 07722566010
£75
Sign Up Now!
To check last year workshop click here and scroll down

Anamarta

!! CeLebRaTing 2 !!

2011-02-04T17:22:00.008Z

I'm back from India, after two months of inspiration and renewal and looking forward 2 see you and meet you! :)
We started this 2nd month, with the New Moon on 2nd, and yesterday the New Year of the Rabbit, female energies are in high!
February is a special month for us! I'm celebrating 2 years of writing newsletters to you, 2 years of Jade Circle Blog - Would you like to keep up with the present and past news and tips, the latest workshop, articles, videos updates? Become a blog follower! Welcome!!
As a celebration month I'd love to see you all, the ones I saw two months ago and the ones I saw last year, or two years ago!
As February is itself NR 2, the lunar number, believed to be very feminine and receptive.
Let's start the Rabbit New Year in the greatest way!... Unveiling the mysterious feminine! Celebrating ourselves!
"Rabbit brings a year in which you can catch your breath and calm your nerves. To gain the greatest benefits from this time, focus on home, family, security, diplomacy, and your relationships with women and children."
Here we go!
The rabbit is said to be gracious, peaceful, gentle, virtuous and financially lucky. It's a symbol for mercy, elegance, amiability and worship of beauty.
According to the Chinese tradition, it's a welcome move into a more placid time after the ferocious year of the Tiger!

The highlight of this month of celebration will be on Sunday 27th, with the Awakening Your Inner Goddess Workshop...Follow Your Inner Wisdom! A special workshop to celebrate and embrace the Yin Peak of the year!
We're celebrating the love of Valentine's with the couples workshop, Tao Tantra 1.
Celebrate love with more love!... Following in love with your beautiful self! Loving yourself unconditionally, no matter what!
The news of the year!... An Advanced Jade Circle workshop to deepen your Jade Egg & Taoist Yin practices is coming in September, I'll let you know more about it: keep posted!

I'd to take the opportunity to thank you for being part of the Jade Circle with your physical or virtual presence! This beautiful sisterhood we've been cultivating, exploring the mysterious feminine, reaping the fruits of wisdom, wellbeing, pleasure and enjoyment of being a women, and honour the Divine feminine within and its outer manifestations! I feel truly blessed for you to be part of my life and to hold this sacred circle which provides the space to grow, explore and make the most of the beauty of our feminine essence and harmony of our yin & yang energies!

"The Jade Circle gives the chance to really tune in to how I'm feeling in a way that's unique...While being surrounded by other women in such a respectful place it totally opens up a new way of being. It has amazed me just how much energy and insight can be gained by tuning into the yin energy and after all my years of 'doing'- I feel I'm receiving a profound wisdom of how to not so much 'do' and more how to 'be'. This comes from your support, wisdom and sweetness. You give us absolute permission to leave all the hard edges of the outside world at the door- and to be nourished by the space you so generously hold for us. I also feel like I'm not in London for the time we're with you...it's a great feeling!"
Thank you for sharing Christine!

Regarding your personal practice, have you been smiling to your kidneys (Happy New Year post below) and keeping them warm (Happy Winter Solstice post)?

A great way to keep them rejuvenated, (they regulate our life force and carry our ancestor chi, they play such an important rule in your sexual energy!) is to practice the kidney breathing. For the ones who learnt it, here's a reminder: keep on doing it! The ones who would like to learn or review it, together with Chi Kung exercises to keep your kidneys radiant, join me in the coming workshops!
Here a nice way to keep your kidneys clear and happy with the healing sound:

Find yourself in a quiet place. If its not freezing outside, its lovely to do it in nature. You can be sit on the floor or in a chair, take your time to connect with your kidneys; in your mind's eye delve into the waters of your kidneys, acknowledging any fear, any nervousness, breathe in through your kidneys and let all these emotions go with the sound WHHHOOOOOO. The movement is placing your hands on your knees, round the back in a C shape and pull in the abdomen. Imagining, feeling the sound vibrating inside your kidneys; and now breathe in the blue silk filled with gentleness and wisdom and wrapped around your kidneys; visualize, imagine, feel your bright blue healthy kidneys. Give them a smile!

With all these energies of new beginning launching the month, its time to concentrate on what you wish to manifest in the coming year, or reinforce your last month's wishes!
******* Do you need to stir a bit of magic in your life? Well, magic is no more than a change of consciousness. Become the magician: embrace the feminine mystery, honor your inner Goddess and inner wisdom, trust them to illuminate your sacred path of beauty and infinite being you are!

Anamarta

:)) Join me in in the first Jade Circles of 2011 & In 2 Celebration !! :))

2011-02-02T07:44:00.005Z

Wednesday 9th February - Jade Circle Level 1
All women are welcome!
No Need to Book! just come on by, start 6.45 - 8.45 @ The Universal Healing Tao Centre UK, 68 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3JT
To learn more call Anamarta 07722566010 or email
Donation guide £9 (£4.50 Taoist and Zen Shiatsu practitioners/students)

Wednesday 16th February - Jade Circle Level 2
(All women who have already come to the Jade Circle before and heard the Jade Egg explanation are welcome!)
Embracing the Winter! And focus on keeping our kidneys nurture and strong.
@ the same place @ the same time
To learn more call Anamarta 07722566010 or email
Donation guide £9 (£4.50 Taoist and Zen Shiatsu practitioners/students)

Look forward to see you and meet you!

Anamarta

!! HAPPY NEW YEAR !!

2011-01-05T22:44:00.009Z

Namaste & Happy New Year!!

And Happy New Moon; yes, yesterday in Capricorn, such a good kick for the new year! This moon connects with personal ambitions, dedication, a good time to develop strong structures, set boundaries and rules.
Well, have you set your intentions for this new year?... I'm really excited about it!! And you?
As we're in the new season as well, started two weeks ago with a full moon and a total lunar eclipse!
What a start to embrace this Yin peak of the year, the Winter!
We'll have our own celebration next month with the workshop Awakening Your Inner Goddess...Follow Your Inner Wisdom!
And for the end of the season we close in grace with the Jade Circle workshop!
You can find more in the posts above.

Look upon the water element, its just amazing what water can do! The element which best describes our yin, feminine, nature.
Water is nature's shape-shifter, freezing, solid as ice, boiling to steam, flowing as teardrop or tidal wave. As plain water it adapts to any shape, fits in any container and left to its own devices always flows down to find the lowest level, a good thing to remember when "going with the flow".
Rivers flow into the ocean which evaporates into clouds which rain on the earth and refill rivers.
The water element is represent in our kidneys and genitals.
** Take a moment for yourself, time to stillness, time to just being, cultivating your yin energy.
Be aware of your kidneys, and smile at your kidneys, you can place the palm of your hands in your back, you may feel a warm feeling raising, keep smiling and breath in the blue light of wisdom and gentleness, connect with your inner wisdom. Smile at your kidneys, let your gentleness act and your inner wisdom talk.
** If you want to continue, or you can do it in another meditation, move your hands or place your hands in your womb, cover your ovaries, your uterus, your Jade Gate. Smile, feel, visualize or imagine the warm of your hands blending with the cooler water, alchemy is trigger. Smile and appreciate your Jade Gate everything it does to sustain your life, appreciate your ancestors and your descendants, appreciate one of the sacred parts of your beautiful female body, thank it for its power of creation and the pleasure it can give, and understand pleasure as opening the door of bliss in path of ecstasy.

This is a great time of the year to go inwards, connect with yourself in a deep and profound level. Allow this time to be, let go of the doing now, and just be, allow the yin energy to emerge from the depth of your inner-self, allowing your inner-wisdom to be your guide, awakening, stimulating, enhancing the Goddess within.
Is good for us to have time to retreat, "Retreat is not an act of weakness; its an act of strength. In order to access your gifts of inspiring and renewal, you must be at peace with yourself and rested enough to recognize blessings being offered." (Jamie Sams).
All the answers are inside us, we just need the time to receive the information, digest it and then apply it to our lives. Find your self-healing and self-mastery, and is what the Taoist practices are about.

Good news! The inspirational and long-awaited book Taoist Shaman - Practices from the Wheel of Life by Mantak Chia & Kris Deva North is going to be released soon! click here for the special offer! If you are into e-books you can get it here!
If you want to learn more, we're running a Taoist Shamanic Healing workshop at the end of the month.

Anamarta

Breathing!

2010-11-22T16:27:00.028Z

How is your Autumn?
We're going now into the last few weeks of the season, walking lightly into the yin peak of the year, the Winter, descending into the darkness, from which new life and ideas are born!
Continuing to talk about breathing, as I began in 'Happy Autumn' post below:
Do you Know?
**The size of your nostrils indicates your born ability to take in life. Which you always can change...
**The lungs are also called the master of chi and breathing: "heavenly chi" (air) is breath in, and "impure chi" breath out, to vitalize the body.

*Good affirmation for you lungs (you can create one with your own words): "I have the capacity to take in fullness of life. I live to the fullest."

To breath in is inspiration, to breath out is to expire. The Breath of Life/Chi/Prana, flows like a tide.
A nice way to give your lungs fresh chi and at the same time recycle their emotion is by the Healing Sound: do it with full awareness of your breath, of your lungs. The slower you do the sound and breath, the more powerful you make this practice.
*** Sit quietly, focus on the breath coming and going through your nose. After a couples of breaths connect with your lungs, breath in and out, feeling your lungs expand. Now, delve into your lungs, be aware of any feeling of sadness, grief, depression. Breathe in from your lungs and out with a SSSSSSSSSSSSS, letting all go. And then, breathe in this imaginary white silk and wrap all around your lungs, visualize your bright white, healthy lungs, filled with courage and self-confidence, for you to do whatever you have to do! And smile at your lungs! =) You can do this a couple of times, and can add the movement if you wish: as you breathe in, raising your arms overhead, elbows slightly bent outwards, hands palm up, and extend your arms above your head. Your eyes follow the movements of your hands.

The healing sound is such a nice way to practice breathing to release and relax, and if you want some energy, breathe to energize and warm up your body with 'Bellows Breathing':
***Sit in meditation, comfortable posture and lay your hands on top of each other over the navel.
Inhale and expand your lower abdomen, feeling your lungs expand. Keep your chest relaxed and focus on breathing with your belly.
Exhale with some force, pulling the navel back in toward the spine and keeping your chest relaxed. Feel your sexual organs pull up toward your navel at the same time.
The rhythm of this breathing is medium to quick, see how it feels and if it feels good, repeat a couple of times. Finalise by relaxing and feel the warm chi that you have created at your navel center.

**Sexual Practices - Focused breathing: Air=Energy, the more you can take in with least effort, the more you can put out.
We have specific breathing in the Yin Taoist practices, as the kidney breathing and ovarian breathing, so important and useful to keep these organs healthy and radiant, and to strengthen our life force, our sexual energy.
If you want to learn more about it, review and refresh what you've learned already, we have the 2011 Jade Circle workshops coming in the beginning of the year with that opportunity!
Before that, join me for the last Jade Circle of the year!

We finish 2010 in the greatest way:

Special Jade Circle - level 1 & 2 together! On Wednesday 1st December
All women are welcome!
No Need to Book! just come on by, start 6.45 - 9.15pm @ The Universal Healing Tao Centre UK, 68 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3JT
To learn more call Anamarta 07722566010 or email
Donation guide £11 (£5.50 Taoist and Zen Shiatsu practitioners/students)

Look forward to meet you and see you!

Anamarta

November Jade Circles!

2010-11-01T07:22:00.003Z

Join me:

This Wednesday 3rd November
Jade Circle Level 1
All women are welcome!
No Need to Book! just come on by, start @ 6.45 - 8.45pm @ The Universal Healing Tao Centre UK, 68 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3JT
call Anamarta 07722566010 or email
Donation guide £9 (£4.50 for Shiatsu & Taoist Practitioners)

On Friday 19th November
Jade Circle Level 2 (All women who have already come to a Jade Circle before and heard the Jade Egg explanation are welcome!)
Jade Gate breathing & Jade Egg specific exercises.
@ the same time @ the same place
call Anamarta 07722566010 or email
Donation guide £9 (£4.50 for Shiatsu & Taoist Practitioners)

Look forward to see you & meet you!

Anamarta

Embracing & Celebrating the Mysterious Feminine!

2010-10-23T22:22:00.002+01:00

Our last night Jade Circle was magical!!
We let the full moon shine her light on us and inspire us.
Was a special evening where with all the beautiful presents we embrace and celebrated the mysterious feminine!...
...Honor the sacred waters and the Divine Feminine within and outer manifestations.

With much delight & inspiration

Anamarta

HAPPY AUTUMN!!

2010-10-19T07:27:00.019+01:00

Yes, I know, one month almost since it started, but Id like to share my wishes with you. I hope you're enjoying the new season and taking the most it brings!
The Autumn can be challenging, this time of change, the drop of the temperature...
A few years ago I used to say "I don't like this time of the year. Its difficult for me..." Then I realized with this kind of affirmation, I was the one creating all the 'difficulty'. So I decided: let's embrace it! I started by looking around, watch the nature, and by doing this I was amazed with the beauty that surrounds us. I even remembered how I liked to walk in the dry leaves when I was a child. (And nowadays I'm enjoying it again!) I reconnected with my inner child and I started to absorb the beauty of the leaves turning their colors, green getting yellow, orange, brown, red - its magical! I'm sharing my experience and invite you to let the beauty of surroundings inspire you too and give you encouragement to embrace this season, if you didn't do it already.
The days are getting shorter, we're going into the void, turning within, and like this embracing the yin, our female energy of stillness and receptiveness.
I like the idea, as the leaves turn their colors, we turn our thoughts within... good time to go through them and you may have some realizations or find some inspiration to do something you want to do! I'm being in this stage lately. And you?

In Taoist terms, we're now in Lung season, the sense is the smell, the element is metal, associated with the virtues of courage, uprightness, self-confidence. Quite appropriate, don't you think?
We definitely need courage for times of change, and indeed to be ourselves. We need the courage and self-confidence to do whatever we want to do.
Last year around this time I was writing about the 'Warrior Woman' and share a meditation you can do and develop, 'to awaken the warrior within', older posters - click here and scroll down to learn more.
The guardian totem is the white tiger. And being in the year of the white tiger, makes this time even more exciting and somehow special!
***To give special care to your lungs this season, as you know already, smile at them; but why not have special attention to your breath? Be aware of it!
We all agree that to breathe is essential to keep us alive, and the interesting thing is, we all have to stop breathing in order to breathe again! Such a nice example how yin and yang flow into each other in order to exist.
Different traditions, from Taoists to Yogis, from hypnosis to massage, they all use different techniques which involves the breath to relax or as well to energize.
Try this:
*~* Slow down your breathing. When slowing down, you may find yourself deepening the breathe, and this may result in a deep relaxation state.
"Many of our modern conditions are due to the stress of modern life. Stress leads to tension, tension leads to stress, but when we relax the tension goes, and often the conditions go too." (Kris Deva North)

Recently I was in a talk by Dr Usha, at the Zen School of Shiatsu, and one student asked her: "I never meditate, what do I have to do for this to become part of my everyday life?" Dr Usha answered: "Just sit quietly and start by focusing on your breath for 5 minutes. The more you get used to it, the longer you can be in this inward state".
Here we go, just focus on your breathing to connect with yourself can be a great daily practice. To make it more profound:
*~* Place one hand in your heart and the other hand on your womb, close your eyes and focus on the breath coming and going through your nose. Smile and feel the connection between your sexual, creative center, and your heart, love center; the connection between water and fire, earth and heaven, yin and yang. With your breath and mind's eye allow these powerful energies to blend, and feel this internal harmony spread through all your being. Take your time to open your eyes, be fully present and be aware the mundane world will be now a reflection of your internal one!

***Take in fresh air! Walk in the park, in the forest, be in nature as often as you can, (when not possible just contemplate that tree or beautiful plant on your way to work or lunch time), I know for the ones living in the city, is not always easy, but your lungs will really appreciate!

In the post 'Enjoying the latest Harvest time!'- (scroll down), I wrote about the crystal Tiger Eye. This month I'm writing about the Tiger Iron, this cousin and special crystal which is a combination of iron, Tiger Eye, Red Jasper and Hematite, the result of this is a powerful vibration of each of these minerals in their own right, amplifying and blending their effects.
It can be a great ally for this time of the year, or anytime you need it!
I tell you why: Tiger Iron is a stone of strength, stamina and courage. This strength is not only physical, but it is also of an emotional level, allowing one to feel more confident and capable of creating one's reality.
Affirmation: I am strong, confident, energetic, grounded, healthy and whole.

An inspiring and practical book related to times of changes, telling uplifting stories of individuals who have learned to face adversity and overcome challenges: "Bouncing Back - Thriving in Changing Times" - my partner Kris Deva North is a featured author with Wayne Dyer, John Assaraf, Gavin Keilly, David Riklan, Brian Tracey, Gregory Scott Reid, and others. Click here for more inf.

I'm excited for our next Jade Circle, this Friday 22nd, a full moon evening, with a master nr 22, and of course double 2, feminine, feminine, energies will be in high!
Join me:
Friday 22nd October - Jade Circle Level 2 (All women who have already come to a Jade Circle before and heard the Jade Egg explanation are welcome!)
Embracing the inspiration Autumn can bring! Focus on the breath, breathing to release and relax, breathing to energize.
No Need to Book! just come on by, from 6.45 to 8.45pm @ The Universal Healing Tao Centre UK, 68 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3JT
To learn more call Anamarta 07722566010 or email
Donation guide £9 (£4.50 Taoist and Zen Shiatsu practitioners/students)

Look forward to see you!

Anamarta

Live Your Bliss! Workshop with Saida Désilets

2010-10-13T07:57:00.013+01:00

Was such a pleasure to organize such an inspiring and fantastic workshop with the Healing Tao Center filled (yes, literally full!) with beautiful and powerful women, including our dear guest and facilitator Saida Désilets, that one more time shared her Désilets Method for radiant living, living your bliss! Saida brought her innovating and juicy practices, for all the women to explore their heart-centered sexuality, honor and enjoy it! Her encouragement and support towards those present to embrace their sensuality and erotic innocence was tangible.
Our weekend was filled with wisdom, radiance, succulence, sisterhood and fun!

*****Thank you all, lovely and glowing Jade Goddesses*****

With much joy & delight

Anamarta

Special Jade Circle with Saida Désilets!

2010-10-07T17:47:00.009+01:00

Such a great evening we had!

"Inspiring and informative! Thank you Saida for the sharing and Anamarta for kindly organising this Jade Circle for us.''

I can't wait for the weekend!

In delight & sisterhood

Anamarta

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Wednesday 6th October
Special Jade Circle with Saida Désilets
This fantastic and unique opportunity to have Saida Désilets, Ph.D. founder of The Désilets Method and the author of Emergence of the Sensual Woman sharing the practices for radiant living, living your bliss! together with the secrets of the Jade Egg.
Bring all your questions and curiosities!
All women are welcome!
@ 6.30 - 8.45pm @ The Universal Healing Tao Centre UK, 68 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3JT
call Anamarta 07722566010 or email
£11

Anamarta

Enjoying the late Harvest time!

2010-09-08T03:44:00.012+01:00

Hope this finds you well and enjoying the late Harvest time!
...This time of abundance, sweetness and gratitude; this time of reaping things, the things you've been cultivating in the different areas of your life. Have you?
Well, no worries, here's something to help you with that, or just positively reinforce it:
We're in the yin peak of the moon, the new moon. Such a great time of rest and planning for new beginnings! And from here until the full moon, take the most of this energy of new beginnings and new undertakings, new growth, bringing things in, regeneration, give thanks.
Time to set new goals and review old ones for both the long and short term. Put ideas in motion, become engaged, make long term relationship plans. It can be a starting point for kicking that bad habit, or simply beginning a project.
The new moon is in Virgo, good time for: look into your health **(Do I live a happy and healthier life?); getting organised, having a sort-out, tidying, cleaning, catching up with small jobs and matters to do with your daily routine **(How do I become and stay more organised at home and at work?); study **(It is the time to start what I really want to do!); employment matters **(Can I initiate a greater sense of cooperation between my colleagues and/or employees and myself?) **(I find and get that job which encompasses my talents and expertise; or if I've one already just give it a nice fresh update!)

So this Harvest time of yellow and gold is related with the earth element. When you think about earth?...
Yes, the Great Mother, a wonderful ally, it doesn't matter what situation you have created, ask Mother Earth for assistance, and abundance will follow! Yes, it's still... Her energy of expansiveness, centering, openness, always happy to receive anything you send to her, can be a fantastic channel to discharge anything you don't want from your body - physical, mental, emotional or spiritual - and to charge your whole body with her healing, nourishing and sensuous energy! Honoring and cultivating the Divine Feminine within!
***You can use this special time of the year to cultivate as well the grounding and openness of your mind, body and spirit, centering yourself in your own power, and like this use your own power to create your own destiny.
"In learning to ground, you are placing focus on your thoughts and actions and slowing to a place that assures completion." Jamie Sams.
The associated organs are the stomach, and do you know this meridian runs through your nipples and ovaries? Important connection with your sensuality and sexuality. And the spleen which has the energy of nurturing and caring, following the nature of the earth element.
A easy way to keep your spleen radiant, with virtues that shine out to the mundane dimension, is by doing the healing sound and simply smiling!:)

Sit quietly and connect with your spleen, place your hands on your lower-left ribcage, delve into your internal universe: the spleen is the center. Follow this, bring up any worries, stress, anxiety which are bothering at the moment and breathe them out with the healing sound Hooooooooo (a guttural sound), while pressing the fingers under your left ribs and leaning slightly forward, breathing all these emotions out to Mother Earth. Then, allowing the sound to vibrate in your spleen, breathe in this golden silk and wrap all around your spleen, visualize it, imagine this gold radiant and healthy spleen filled with the virtues of serenity, centering, openness, fairness, grounding. And smile at your spleen and be serene!

A great crystal to support during this time, or whenever you need to awake or stimulate these aspects in your life, is the Tiger Eye, with its gold harvest color. And remember we're in the year of the tiger! Tiger Eye grounds the energy of the Solar Ray into the Earth. This is an excellent stone to keep centered and grounded, assisting in accomplishing goals, recognizing inner resources and bringing clarity of intention. It energizes the body to accomplish the imperatives of the will. Can be carried as a protective stone. Balances yin-yang, teaches the balance between extremes and the underlying unity behind apparent opposites. It enhances your connection with your personal power, fosters self-confidence and supports general vitality.
Affirmation: I act with confidence, clarity, balance, fairness, enthusiasm and strength.

I'd like to congratulate Sarah and my brother Nuno for the new little tiger in this world: Sol Rafael Banks da Silva Antunes born on 27th July at 3.59, just when the day was starting, with 3,584 kg. I'd like as well to express our delighted joy and gratitude for making Kris and me such a happy auntie and uncle! :))

Anamarta

September Jade Circles!

2010-09-07T22:44:00.007+01:00

Join me for the Jade Circle level 1 this:
Friday 10th September (All women are welcome!)
No Need to Book! just come on by, from 6.45 to 8.45pm @ The Universal Healing Tao Centre UK, 68 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3JT

To learn more call Anamarta 07722566010 or email

Donation guide £9 (£4.50 Taoist and Zen Shiatsu practitioners/students)

Join me for Jade Circle Level 2:
Wednesday 15th September (All women who have already come to a Jade Circle before and heard the Jade Egg explanation are welcome!)
Powerful ways to connect with Mother Earth - Welcoming, absorbing her abundant, healing, sensual, nourishing energy into our bodies, through meditation, Kuan Yin Chi Kung and Jade Egg exercises.
@ the same time @ the same place

To learn more call Anamarta 07722566010 or email

Donation guide £9 (£4.50 Taoist and Zen Shiatsu practitioners/students)

Advanced Jade Circle
Friday 24th September
(All women who have done the Jade Circle Workshop!)
Master the foundation practices, develop the Yin Taoist practices and Jade Egg specific exercises.
By invitation only, from 6.45 to 8.45pm.
Would you like to be invited? If you've done Step 2 and like to join the Circle: call Anamarta on 07722566010 or email
Donation guide £9 (£4.50 Taoist and Zen Shiatsu practitioners/students)

Look forward to meet you and see you!

Anamarta

Beeeeeautiful Workshop!!

2010-08-18T15:50:00.013+01:00

A beeeeautiful and wonderful day in the presence of such inspiring and lovely women, who shared the fire of their hearts and radiated their beauty out!
Each workshop is unique with the uniqueness of each of those present. I feel so blessed to be surrounded with different qualities of the sacred feminine that each of you bring! I feel deeply appreciative and always inspired for this delightful sharing.
The fire and beauty energy were honored, together with the love, joy and laughter which made this special day memorable!
Inner Beauty, Outer Radiance, here we are:Thank you for you feedback:

"Thanks, I really enjoyed the mixture of different exercises and ideas. You packed in loads! I particularly liked: laughing chi kung, learning about the breast + breast massage, the opening exercises, healing sounds + inner smile, the ending ceremony. And your facilitation is very relaxed and soft...sharing a way to enjoy and celebrate the femininity. I'm going to practice and see what I discover!" C.B.
"It's good to be a woman! Nice atmosphere and kindness of each person. Its nice to create a small secret circle between each other.(...)Bless you, that I meet you."A.L.
"I always find the workshops inspiring, gentle and healing. I'm so glad I found a nice space to learn, to grow. Thank you so much for your guidance, patience and enjoyable way of learning. " R.K.C.
"A very inspiring workshop with a very inspiring teacher. Thank you for sharing with us the secrets of your inner beauty, which is huge! Muchas Gracias! Obrigado! :)"R. Z.

Anamarta

Special Jade Circle in August!

2010-07-27T07:07:00.013+01:00

Was with no doubt was a Special Jade Circle!! Such a lovely night we had!
The extra time allows us to more sharing, practice and 'hanging out' a little bit more with our tea circle. ;)
Such inspiring women which make the feminine pool of knowledge so interesting and rich! Thank you all!
A special appreciation for the ones who did the effort of coming from Manchester and the ones who drove across the city.

Look forward to see you again!

With delight & much joy

Anamarta

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Level 1 & 2 together - All women are welcome!

Join me on Wednesday 4th August
No need to Book! just come by, from 6.45 to 9.15pm @ The Universal Healing Tao Centre UK, 68 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3JT
To learn more, call me, Anamarta 07722566010 or email me
Will be the same donation guide! £9 (£4.50 Taoist and Zen Shiatsu practitioners/students)

Look forward to see you and meet you! =)

Anamarta

Inner Beauty OuTer Radiance!!

2010-07-22T17:27:00.034+01:00

The fire, yang energy is out there! Time of doing, what have you been doing for yourself this Summer?... Yes, its important when doing a lot, to have yourself on the top of the list 'To Do'. And of course you are always worth it for a treat or pampering time. Every time I have an opportunity I do it so! This includes cultivating your beauty, which starts by cultivating love, joy and happiness!
The secret of true love is to be lovable. LOVE Yourself, let the energy of love flow within you and be expressed in your outer world.
Joy!=) Every day do something that gives you pure joy, which happens when our heart smiles! And your face follows your heart, contributing to your natural beauty!... For a few beauty tips and/or benefits of smiling - Click here and scroll down to read the 'Smile...and Smile!' and 'BEAUTY' p osts
Happy people shine!...Notice in yourself when you're happy! Be happy! Get happy! Positive emotions have been linked to a lower risk of coronary heart disease. Also boosts your immune system, enabling it to handle stressful situations better.
Definitely true beauty comes from inside, but we are also allowed to be beautiful on the outside too, after all our body is the temple of our spirit!
"The body is fundamental and necessary for the realization of the Divine intention" (Rumi )
One of the things that really applied to me with the Taoist practices is the care and importance of the body as the soul, the important balance of physical, emotional, energetic and spiritual.
You already know you've to give special attention to your heart this season.
**Keep smiling to you heart... :)

***To let go the heart (negative) emotions, to cool down your heart heat do the healing sound. Focus on you heart, delve into it and acknowledge any feelings of impatience, apathy, cruelty and hatred, breathe in from your heart and breathe out all these feelings with the heart sound HAWWWWWW. As the sound vibrates in your heart inhale now in the fresh red light of love, joy, happiness, laughter, honor, radiance and enthusiasm. To add the movement, when you breath out raise your arms and clasp above the head, then lean to the right.

***Do you know grapes are the heart's best friend? Being rich in vitamins A, B and C, besides proteins, carbohydrates, iodine, phosphorus and flavoides, grapes protect the heart against stroke, help clear clogged arteries and regulate the levels of cholesterol in the blood. Also improve the functioning of the kidneys and liver! But just be aware the green or white grapes do not have the same effect of the black or red grapes, because it does not contain flavoides - substances that act as anti-inflammatory and help in the protection of every organism against free radicals that cause aging.
*Grapes promote fertility and mental power and...
...you can use to clean your skin!
**Cut two large grapes in half horizontally and remove the seeds, rub the grapes all over your face in circular motions. Rinse and dry with a towel.

***Good news: chocolate protects the heart! Of course chocolate is just good only when consumed in moderation, the ideal is 30g to 50g per day of dark or milk chocolate. But experts say that one piece of dark chocolate a day can benefit the heart, as its high in antioxidants called polyphenols, that prevents the fats in the blood vessel walls, (is good for men's libido too!). And the chocolate is often associated with feelings of joy, happiness and well-being!

***If you don't like chocolate or grapes, maybe green tea is the best option for your heart! It is known that green tea has medicinal features that lower the levels of cholesterol, improves blood circulation and reduce the risk of stroke.

Ah! What was my treat and pampering this Summer? Well a few, contra-balanced with lots of doing...But the best one was the Lomi Lomi Nui massage, this lovely Hawaiian massage I received from Jusytna! Amazing! Such a delicious, relaxed and nurturing time I had. I recommend it. Here's her web site.

Anamarta

HAPPY SUMMER SOLSTICE!!

2010-06-20T09:47:00.022+01:00

Hello and Happy Summer Solstice!!

Longest day, shortest night, apex of the solar cycle, the sun reaches its peak!
The Summer Solstice is a combination of joyous celebration and the realization that the wheel has reached a pinnacle and is now turning towards the dark again. Its a time to gather loved ones and to celebrate community!
**Call the fire energy, invite towards you, feel or imagine its warmth in your heart, and tune your warm heart with the Mother Earth heart beat below and tune into the Divine Love above, all heart is one now! Enjoy it, expand it and share with others!
**And yet, a few quiet moments in a darkened room with a lit candle, honoring the fact that after today, will give you a sense of peace. Its a time for inner connection as well, because the inner and outer communities are interwoven.

We're in the fire season, the season of the heart. The heart is such an important organ, it connects with all the organs, if it stops, everything stops!
We need fire to do the Inner Alchemy Taoist practices, as our body is mostly composed of water.
The first practice starts with the inner-smile; inner-smile originates from self-love towards our body.

Sit quietly, connect with your heart beat, relax all your body and your mind, and with your mind's eye look in front of you and see the sun, breathe in the sun light through your midi-eyebrow, let this warm and energizing feeling spread through all your being...and now smile at your heart, where the sun always shines, breathe in red light of love, and remember first love is self-love, the unconditional love towards yourself essential to receive and give true love; breathe in red light of joy, think upon everyday life and its joyful gifts; breathe in red light of laughter and happiness, think of the laughter which always works as a spirit lift! And about happiness: "The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts".

"When the heart is open, we feel sunshine from inside. We have a sense of joy and love that is sometimes a floating sensation. In all of our meditations it is important to fill our hearts with loving, smiling energy, because when we feel love, we are truly relate to all things." Mantak Chia in Healing Love through the Tao-Cultivating Female Sexual Energy.
If you want to learn more about Taoist Inner Alchemy we've a great opportunities coming soon with Step 1 and Step 2 .
We've a Summer celebration, celebrate love and joy Let Your Inner Beauty Out! check the post above about the workshop or click here

Next Jade Circle level 1 and 2 in July

Join me on:
Friday 2nd July Jade Circle Level 1(All women are welcome!)
No need to Book! just come by, from 6.45 to 8.45pm @ The Universal Healing Tao Centre UK, 68 at Eastern Street, London EC2A 3JT
To learn more call Anamarta 07722566010 0r email
Donation guide £9 (£4.50 Taoist & Zen Shiatsu practitioners/students)

Wednesday 21st July Jade Circle Level 2 (All women who have already come to a Jade Circle before and heard the Jade Egg explanation are welcome!)
Activating the three fires, enjoying the Summer time of joy & laughter with laughting Chi Kung!
@ the same time @ the same place
To learn more call Anamarta 07722566010 0r email
Donation guide £9 (£4.50 Taoist & Zen Shiatsu practitioners/students)

Anamarta

June Jade Circles!

2010-06-03T11:07:00.015+01:00

Join me tomorrow for the Jade Circle level 1:
Friday 4th June (All women are welcome!)
No Need to Book! just come on by, from 6.45 to 8.45pm @ The Universal Healing Tao Centre UK, 68 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3JT

To learn more call Anamarta 07722566010 or email

Donation guide £9 (£4.50 Taoist and Zen Shiatsu practitioners/students)

Join me for Jade Circle Level 2:
Wednesday 23rd June (All women who have already come to a Jade Circle before and heard the Jade Egg explanation are welcome!)
Focus on the Heart, welcome the Summer within!
@ the same time @ the same place

To learn more call Anamarta 07722566010 or email

Donation guide £9 (£4.50 Taoist and Zen Shiatsu practitioners/students)

NEW!!
Advanced Jade Circle
Friday 25th June
(All women who have done the Jade Circle Workshop!)
Master the foundation practices, develop the Yin Taoist practices and Jade Egg specific exercises.
By invitation only, start 7.15 - 9.15pm
Would you like to be invited? If you've done Step 2 and like to join the Circle: call Anamarta 07722566010 or email
Donation guide £9 (£4.50 Taoist and Zen Shiatsu practitioners/students)

Look forward to see you!

Anamarta

Welcoming the Summer!!

2010-06-02T23:44:00.010+01:00

The sun is shining, the warm weather is out there, the Summer approaches with the love, joy, laughter, happiness that symbolize this season, the season of the heart!

Welcoming the Summer?

*******Turn your face to the sun, breath *her warm, love, joy, let the sun light filling up all your being, all your organs, all your glands, all your bones, all your cells. Smile at the sun! *(the Japanese Taoist 'Shinto' have a Sun Goddess, Amaterasu).

*******Spread your arms out wide to embrace the happy breeze!

"Taoists perceive the heart as the seat of love, joy, and happiness, which can connect with the Universal Love", Mantak Chia in Cosmic Fusion.
Some of you asked me what is the practice of fusion?
It is a great meditation(s) we learn in Step 3, In Fusion of the 5 elements, as the name says, we go through all our organs (which link with each element) and transform the (negative) emotions, and enhance their positive virtues. This is not a just a process of deep refining of emotions, but to strengthen the energy field, harmonization with the self and the total freedom to be yourself!

If you want to learn more, we've a workshop coming in the end of July- check the calendar.
Mantak Chia:
Negative energies may be seen as a kind of garbage. If we discharge it into the environment, it becomes a major factor in generating toxins, bacteria, viruses and a variety of forms of disease by which negative emotions are multiplied and become more and more difficult to control. Or they can be seen as highly positive and urgently need for recycling to help us grow and improve our balance, so that we do not become a burden and threat for others or environment, but a blessing, as our energies contribute to a climate of harmony and peace. The more light chi that enters our body and the more we radiate it into others and our surroundings, the less bacteria and viruses have a chance to grow.

Anamarta

Beltane!

2010-05-12T04:55:00.011+01:00

Hope you're enjoying Beltane as much I am. This ancient Celtic festival of fire, fertility and love. At the height of Spring, when all of nature bursts into blossom, we celebrate our bodies, the pleasure we can invoke in one another, and the love we can kindle.

After a delightful Jade Circle workshop scroll down to check the picture with the happy and sparkly faces! I went to the wild to celebrate Beltane in Step 5 of the Taoist Training - Tao of the Shaman.
An exhilarating opportunity to go back to the wild, admire nature perfect and speechless beauty, and of course take the most of the Taoist Practices! This is the path for the ones who would like to delve into themselves, the endless journey of self-discovery and continuing evaluation.
This is the door to teach the Jade Circle - Do you see yourself teaching this practices?
We would love to have more Taoist Practitioners teaching at the London Tao Center. If you've an idea or even a dream (as I quoted in a previous post: "the future belongs to the ones who believe in their dreams"), let me know, I'd be very happy to support you!
I'm sharing these wild nature vibrations with you, but I'm sure wherever you are, you can commune with nature as well. Try:
** Breath in her green, the color of health, invite into your healthy being (even if you're not at the moment, this kind of positive affirmations can be very helpful). Do a few deep breaths of cleansing green. - Be sitting on the grass or contemplating a tree can make it so really and profound, enjoy it!
***Now let this green wash your liver internally and wrap it around externally - as a beautiful green silk - Keep your liver radiant green and SMILE at your liver, breath in the green light of kindness, generosity and forgiveness...
...Remember to be truly kind towards yourself you have to accept yourself unconditionally. And the every day opportunities you've to forgive, starting with self-forgiveness, and when you forgive you are free, allow new experiences and energies to flow within. Cultivate your generous spirit and share it with others, with the world!

If you would like to share your generosity, click on this link, was sent to me by Paula, you can contribute with your ideas to help our sisters in need.

** To keep your liver even happier and in good shape, you already know: eat green! But as I promised in 'HAPPY SPRING...'post, here some food which is excellent for your liver and their curious associations:

Basil - fecundity and passion
Sage - the soldiers of Ancient Greece were welcomed by their wives with sage tea, to stimulate fertility. In shamanic traditions sage is being used to cleansing purposes, of the space, people auras, objects and crystals.
Asparagus - those with thick stems, pale color, and a tip somewhere between rose and purple are the most aphrodisiac.
Garlic - it is thought to be sacred, erotic, medicinal, and restore and was for that reason given to athletes during the Olympic Games in Greece. So many curative properties are credited to it, even cases of cancer. And for clearing yeast in our genitals.
Watercress - the Romans called "shameless" for their supposed stimulating values.

* Walk in the nature, place your feet on the earth (with bare feet for a pleasurable and deep connection with our Mother Earth), root yourself, become like a tree, grounded, in perfect harmony between earth & heaven, yin & yang. The ones who practice Chi Kung, take the most of it outdoors! To learn this powerful way to get grounded and centered, or to evolve with your Chi Kung practices, join me on:

Wednesday 26th May Jade Circle Level 2 (All women who have already come to a Jade Circle before and heard the Jade Egg explanation are welcome!)

Kuan Yin Chi Kung - improving your grounding, earth-connection and empowerment of the self.
To learn more about Chi Kung benefits scroll down and click at older posts to read next page 'Kuan Yin & Iron Shirt Chi Kung' post.
No Need to Book! just come on by, from 6.45 to 8.45pm @ The Universal Healing Tao Centre UK, 68 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3JT
To learn more call Anamarta 07722566010 or email
Donation guide £9 (£4.50 Taoist and Zen Shiatsu practitioners/students)

Anamarta

Amazing Jade Circle gathering!!

2010-05-07T07:22:00.001+01:00

This last Jade Circle level 1 was amazing!
Full house, with my auspicious number...15! :)
Women representing the different beauty from all over Europe and world!
Memorable!!
Thank you all!
A special appreciation for the ones who did the effort of coming from Cambridge.

Look forward to see you again!

With delight & much joy

Anamarta

Join me tomorrow to the Jade Circle level 1

2010-05-04T07:22:00.003+01:00

This May Jade Circle Level 1 is going to be on Wednesday and not Friday.
Well, the Spring is bringing us a few changes, but our yin nature blesses us with the virtue of flexibility!

Wednesday 5th May Jade Circle Level 1 (All women are welcome!)

No Need to Book! just come on by, from 6.45 to 8.45pm @ The Universal Healing Tao Centre UK, 68 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3JT

To learn more call Anamarta 07722566010 or email

Donation guide £9 (£4.50 Taoist and Zen Shiatsu practitioners/students)

Look forward to see you and meet you!

Anamarta

Jade Circle Workshop - was just lOvely!!

2010-05-03T23:57:00.013+01:00

We had a delightful Jade Circle workshop with a wonderful group of women from all over the world and coming from all Britain with their different motivations. Was a blending of different energies which created an exhilarating group boundary and a nourishing feminine environment. We embrace this journey of unveiled the mysterious feminine within and made the most of it - was lovely! Truly amazing to wittiness the open up of each of the presents in their own way and share of their graceful essence, like a flower share with us, her color, fragrance and juiciness! Follow this the London Healing Tao Center was like a Eden garden full of succulent and sparkly beauty!
Was an honor to facilitate this special three days and be in the presence of such beautiful and inspirational women. Yes, I know, I always say 'inspirational women'- I believe to be inspirational we must be inspired! Also, we are just a reflection of each other!
Here the happy and sparkly faces:

:) Keep smiling & shining... and s... ;)

Thank you for you feedback.

"Anamarta, obrigada,irma! This was the most beautiful, inspiring workshop that captured the Goddess energy in a very real and earthy way. It has come to my life at a very important time – all of the practices were so well explained and lots of repetition was useful. There was always space to ask questions, and these were always answered from the heart and patiently...you are a powerful and dynamic facilitator- there was ever a time when it was boring, there was always space made for joy and laughter and to play, and be young. You have made everyone feel welcome and warm. Thank you for putting the time into creating and developing this workshop. It has been a time gift." M.N.G.
"Thank you for the wonderful workshop Anamarta! You are a great teacher & you have a lovely beautiful way of presenting all of the information across. I really enjoyed the meditations & really hope to incorporate them into my daily practice for health & well being... I look forward to the Jade Circle meetings!!!" P.A.
"I don’t even have words to describe the way I feel-not even in Portuguese… things happen when they are suppose to happen so if I’ve joined this group...I was ready. But mostly because I met you and you’re kind and special in a way I cant even describe. Yeah, I am speechless but really really happy and connected and FULL OF HOPE! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!" I.M.
"Thank you for the three days celebration of our love to ourselves and all creations. Will move on ever so gracefully, softly in our lovely feminine way. Until we next meet I think of you with lots of Love and SMILES." S.C.
"I enjoyed the workshop. I felt very comfortable in the group. Thank you." R.C.
"Amazing!! ... A nice, gentle, but increasing rhythm through the 3 days, ending in a very powerful yin energy. Lovely, positive vibe throughout. Now I have some reading and personal practice to engage in.:) It was the first time I have done energy work, but it feel very natural and I would like to do more. Thank you for a fun three days, time to remember to love myself enough! Also time to meet an inspirational and beautiful group of women:)" M.S.
"Anamarta’s workshop created a lot of great energy that I can now use to help myself and all beings without exception. Thank you."M.G.
"The first 2 days I didn’t feel really believe in the magic to come & at the same time was disappointed that it didn’t... On this last afternoon though...I all of sudden felt like... I haven’t had this feeling for about 20 years... Thank you for that! I suppose that was what I came for, only didn’t know." S.W.
"...It was a wonderful Circle. It make me very happy - this special opportunity to learn about my woman energy and how to connect with it. I love the meditations that we did... the energy up the spine and down the front -it feels very strong. and the grounding and balancing -amazing... I feel more all my own energy and it is an honor to learn from you, with your amazing energy that you share with all of us. Thank you Anamarta." O.H.
"Great workshop and a great teacher! Really grateful for everything I have learned this weekend. Feeling so much at peace with myself and in dew of the mysteries reviled inside my female body. Thank you so much for your natural and effortless guidance." D.V.

Anamarta

Private Travelling Circle in India!

2010-04-15T17:44:00.003+01:00

One more time the Travelling Circle in India was hosted by the Indian spiritual teacher and healer Dr.Usha, in her sacred Center BuddhaHall, on the Himalayas's foothills. Thank you so much Dr.Usha for the warm hospitality and this opportunity of sharing and learning the beauty of the mysterious feminine in incredible and lovely India! My travel this year was quite an adventure, after a phone call with Dr.Usha telling me: "Why don't you come; it's not a high tourism season, but come anyway and we will see what happen". All the experience was amazing and special. The private workshop was so beautiful and magical! I feel so happy and grateful for the presence of two inspiring, beautiful and dedicated women who made this sacred sharing of the jade egg holistic practice an even more pleasurable, smooth and joyful three days. I'm filled with delight and so much inspiration after this journey with you!

:)Keep smiling & shining:)

Gracias, Dhanyabad, thank you for your feedback.

“Was so nice. I'm so happy with everybody and I learn so much. I smile with my shy body and this is so good. I hope to see you again. The life is light. I'm a woman Ive to be sensual, and here I'm getting. Nice subjects cover this workshop.”
“…my husband say I'm looked sexy,…”
V. L. Spain
“This time was different from last year, being just two of us…Really amazing! Was bringing the unconscious to conscious…Was like reopening everything, but everything that was already there – make me understand it clearly, gave me more depth and easy way to do the practices and understand their truly essence. And more than anything was the time we spent with you, enjoying the celebration of the mysterious and Divine Feminine back in India, at Buddha Hall, in your such creative, joyful, funny and very feminine manner.
Look forward to next Jade Circle Workshop here, on April 2011.”
Dr.Usha India

Anamarta

Join me in the April Jade Circles:

2010-04-02T22:44:00.003+01:00

Friday 9th April Jade Circle Level 1 (All women are welcome!)

No Need to Book! just come on by, from 6.45 to 8.45pm @ The Universal Healing Tao Centre UK, 68 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3JT

To learn more call Anamarta 07722566010 or email

Donation guide £9 (£4.50 Taoist and Zen Shiatsu practitioners/students)

Tuesday 20th April Jade Circle Level 2 (All women who have already come to a Jade Circle before and heard the Jade Egg explanation are welcome!)
Continuing to welcome the Spring within and focus on the sacrum secrets, the sacredness of the sacrum bone, the connection with your internal universe, the gate to the universe beyond the visible.
@ the same time @ the same place
Donation guide £9 (£4.50 Taoist and Zen Shiatsu practitioners/students)

In the spirit of renewal & Spring celebration! :)

Anamarta

HAPPY SPRING & FULL MOON! :)

2010-03-29T17:25:00.018+01:00

Happy Spring and Full Moon!

I'm quite excited about our first full moon of Spring, the Storm Moon rains upon us, fertile and strong, launching on the moon day, today! The full moon in Libra is promoting the energies of balance and fairness.
Seeds awaken, pushing roots into dark earth. Shoots push up into the light, and sap rises as trees break into leaf.
Day and night are balanced now. Justice means balance- balancing one set of needs against another, balancing what we take with what we give.
Spring is in the air!
Can you hear the birds singing until late or really early morning?
The earth is prepared for planting. Is the self, yes yourself, ourselves, ready to change and grow?
Spring is great to nourish your dreams that may grow strong and healthy, creating and producing the magical life you have envisioned. I always have this waking dream of what I really want ... Try it:

Imagine waking up to find that your most cherished dream, goal has been achieved, as if by magic. How might you recognize that this happened? How would your life and surroundings have changed? Looking into the future, even as a fantasy game, can help you to define your priorities and focus on your dreams. "The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams".

***A great crystal ally for this Spring: green aventurine or in India named Indian jade.
Green Aventurine’s essence is that of the spring bursting forth after a long, dark winter. It frequency stimulates renewal on the physical, emotional and spiritual levels. It balances yin-yang energy and stimulates life force, increasing physical and vibrational vitality.
This 'fresh' stone of optimism and zest of life, helps one move forward with confidence into new life situations and assists in embracing challenging issues, finding hope, optimism, and joy in daily life.

We are now in the wood element season, with the energy of birth, rebirth and renewal, the unstoppability of life, the bursting of bud through bough. This vibrant and innovative energy gives inspiration! The organ is the liver, the virtues of kindness, generosity, forgiveness, self-acceptance and desire. The color is the green, the color of health! The direction is the east where things begin. The guardian totem is the Dragon and the correspondent planet Jupiter (which has such a powerful influence in our planet!).

One good thing you can do for your liver in the springtime is a detox. I'm starting mine in a few days! And now is a excellent time for it, in the waning moon, between the full moon and dark moon, new moon (next is on 14th April), our body is naturally taking out, purifying, detoxing; usually people can feel less hungry! This is as well a good time for healing.

Next post I'm going to talk more about the liver and share some tips to keep it radiant and healthy! Meanwhile look forward to see you in our next Jade Circles!
Spring change for the Jade Circle: we start now our gatherings at 6.45pm, I know some of you really have to run from your work, so like this will make it easier, and will give more time to hang out a little bit for the earlier ones. We keep our 2h session, finishing at 8.45pm.

Join me for Jade Circle Level 2:
Wednesday 31st March (All women who have already come to a Jade Circle before and heard the Jade Egg explanation are welcome!)
We're going to welcome the Spring within and focus on the green Jade Egg, its healthy benefits and exercises!
No Need to Book! just come on by, start 6.45 - 8.45pm @ The Universal Healing Tao Centre UK, 68 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3JT
To learn more call Anamarta 07722566010 or email
Donation guide £9 (£4.50 Taoist and Zen Shiatsu practitioners/students)

Enjoy the springtime and have a happy Easter! Ostara is the time of hope, joy and share good fortune. The tradition of decorating and offering eggs. Why not give a special attention to your Jade Egg?

Anamarta

HAPPY WOMENS'S DAY!!

2010-03-08T07:02:00.014Z

Namaste from India and Happy Women's Day!

Today we celebrate the international women's day and Id like take the opportunity to express my love, joy, admiration and gratitude to all the women I know and even to the ones I don't know yet. Coming on Monday, the Moon day, the time of peace, healing, caring and psychic awareness. Celebrate the sacredness of being a beautiful woman this life with Grandmother Moon and her eternal support and inspiration, with Mother Earth and Her abundant and healing energy! Celebrate the Divine feminine within and its outer manifestations! Celebrate the mysterious feminine and your intuition - "the treasure of a woman's psyche"! Celebrate with all your relations, include your sisters, ancestors and descendants! Celebrate your womanhood in the fullest, today and everyday! As a woman, you are already an expression of the universal archetype, and you deserve to be honoured as such!

A Strong & Vibrant Woman:
Is one who feels deeply and loves fiercely.
Is both soft and powerful.
She is both practical and spiritual.
And her essence
is a gift to the world.
Adapted from a poem received from dear Rachel Bavin.

In celebration & sisterhood

Anamarta

Self-Nurturing!

2010-02-27T17:44:00.013Z

Here we are, end of the month, tomorrow is the last full moon of this Winter. A couple of weeks and we go into the new season, the Spring, when things begin.
Do you start to smell, feel change in the air?
We are in the transition from being, the Yin peak of the year to the time of doing, with the Wood element.
I'm looking upon this time as self-nurturing, looking after ourselves, our bodies, still delving into our yin, water energy and letting emerge the beginning of Spring, welcoming this alive and healthy energy within! I see the time and care invested in ourselves as the greatest investment! From here we can spread our vibrations, inspiration and support towards others.

From inspirational Jamie Sams in Sacred Path Cards:
~"The way we view life is dependent, to a certain extent, on how we feel and how we respect and care for our bodies."
~"All nurturing comes from the ability to pay attention to our needs and our feelings. If we don't know what we need, how can we nurture ourselves? If we don't know what others need or feel, how can we give comfort? If we are out of touch with our bodies, how can we keep them healthy and strong?"
~"If we are willing to nurture ourselves through connection to our Earth Mother, then we will learn how to nurture others."
Our body is a vehicle for processing energy, and the healthier we are, the more energy it will process at a faster rate.
~One thing to be aware of is the physical effect on our body of our thoughts and feelings. So as Dr.Christiana Northrup says in Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: "If our bodies are nothing but a field of ideas, lets make sure that those ideas represent our best interest."

A great way for nourishment and self-nurturing is the inner smile, smile to your organs giving special attention still to your kidneys and give a special look to your liver. When doing your inner smile...notice if any of the organs feel different? Can be a message from your internal universe.
**Focus on the breath coming and going through your nose... With your minds eye, look in front of you and see the sun, warm and shining, lighting up all your being, all your organs, all your cells, all your bones... Smile at your organs... when you arrive at your kidneys:
*Keep smiling at your kidneys, breathe in the blue healing light of gentleness and wisdom; be gentle with yourself, be gentle in everything you do.

Fear being the emotion of the kidneys, it creates cold, associate negative emotions as phobias, trauma, nervousness, which are very deep emotions; fear contributes as well for the loss of the primordial and sexual energy, loss of life force, (the nervous system becomes stressed, the body becomes acidic). Do the kidneys healing sound to let go all your fears:
**Connect with your kidneys, feel or imagine the warmth from your palms going into your kidneys, you can be sitting on the chair or in floor, place your hands around your knees, your feet on the floor, round the back, and pull in the abdomen. Look inward, into your kidneys and breathe out WHHHOOOO releasing, letting go fear.
Breath in the fresh bright blue light of gentleness, calmness and wisdom.

Self-nurturing is essential to connect with the Divine Feminine within.
*What makes part of your self-nurturing routine?
Do you know is important to integrate one self-nurturing practice towards ourselves every day?
**You can make a list of everything that makes you feel good, nurtured and happy with yourself. Then add one of these to your daily life. May different days reflect different self-nurturing practices.

Enjoy the end of the Winter and the beginning of the Spring!

Anamarta

Welcoming the New Tiger Year!!

2010-02-09T22:44:00.031Z

The Chinese New Year is approaching with the New Moon! An excitement and great opportunity for making resolutions and goals, new plans, or just reinforce the ones we've done one month ago, and may didn't have the time to put them in practice!
While it is good to make lists or write a mission statement, having a mantra can help focus your energy and attention on your new goals for the year.
Taken from the original Sanskrit, the word mantra means "sacred counsel" and can represent a thought, a phrase or even a single word that embraces what you wish to bring into your life.
The power of your mantra is twofold: recitation and repetition. Saying it to yourself on a daily basis (or even several times each day!) can help you to focus on the power of the words and the meaning behind them.
Tiger New Year starts on 14th February, Valentine's day! Celebrate the New Year with love! With self-love (yes, you've many reasons to love and be in-love with yourself!), love with your beloved (we're celebrating at the Centre with a Tao Tantra Couples workshop), love with your family and friends! In ancient Chinese tradition the New Year's day is beneficial to celebrate, to be happy, to have smiling faces, and to refrain from quarreling, or criticizing anyone.
Leaving the Ox year behind - the reinforcement, "prosperity and fortitude through hard work" we come into the Tiger - the courage - "associated with good fortune, power and royalty, tigers are viewed with both respect and fear".
"The Tiger is one of the most beautiful creatures on the planet".
The Chinese (as other Asian cultures), see the tiger and not the lion, as the king animals.
"Tiger is lucky for some..."
Well, about luck, I believe we do our own! I heard in a movie a while ago something that reaffirms this: "Never give up and good luck will find you!"
In Taoism the Tiger symbolizes the female Yin energy and also represents Earth, as opposed to the Yang male energy of the Dragon, which represents Heaven.

Join me in the celebration & welcoming of the ))))) Tiger (((((
New Year!!
Wednesday 17th February Jade Circle Level 2 (All women who have come to a Jade Circle before and heard the Jade Egg explanation are welcome!)
We will focus on the Jade Egg secrets of the pelvic rock with Belly Dance! We continue to shake this cold away enjoying our tiger tales!...;) To learn more about the belly dance benefits scroll down to find the "Lets Dance" post.

@ the same place @ the same time!

Donation: £9.- (£4.50 for Taoist & Zen School of Shiatsu Practitioners)

Anamarta

Keeping Warm!

2010-02-04T07:13:00.008Z

Hello!
Congratulations to Liz Peart and Sean on the today arrival of Nooka, a beautiful Taoist and Jade Circle baby girl.

How is your Winter?
This time of looking inwards, to focus and embrace the flow of your yin energy, the time of just being. And do you know each moment is a precious gift in BE-ing? Enjoy!
Are you keeping your kidneys warm? (check the Happy Winter Solstice post).
Another good thing to keep you warm, as you already know, is to have warm feet. And do you know why?
We've the KD1- Kidney 1 point in the sole of your foot, (where you keep your feet on the ground), named 'Bubbling Spring'.
**Do some tapping, massage in your KD1, awaken and stimulating this point; which can be very helpful in your connection with the Earth. Through it you can easily access the healing and abundant energy of Mother Earth and Water Element, imagine drinking from it. You can also use this point to discharge anything you want to let go from your body (physical, emotional and even energetic), you can do a meditation or just dance, dance with the rhythm of the Earth, surrender to Her pulse. Remember that Mother Earth is always open to recycle everything you send and the Water element to dissolve it.
A good way to stimulate your circulation:
**To rub, massage your ears. Yes, the ears are linked with your kidneys. Also helping you to keep warm!

Next Jade Circle - Join me tomorrow!

Friday 5th February Jade Circle Level 1 (All women all welcome!)
No Need to Book! just come on by, from 6.30 to 8.30pm @ The Universal Healing Tao Centre UK, 68 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3JT
To learn more call me 07722566010 or email
Donation guide £9 (£4.50 Taoist and Zen Shiatsu practitioners/students)

Anamarta

Magical Celebration of the Divine Feminine!

2010-01-29T20:44:00.001Z

I once heard that when women gather together, magic happens! Absolutely!... Our last workshop was proof, with the celebration of the Divine feminine within and its outer manifestation. This gathering of amazing women all contributed to our pool of feminine knowledge! We had a special day connecting with our yin energy, enjoying it to the full, sharing and supporting each other's journey, as true sisterhood! Each Goddess shone her power in a different way, working as a mirror for all present. I'm still vibrating from the weekend, and so deeply appreciate this blessing of working with such magnificent women along my path, sharing my teachings, learning from others' experiences and inspiring presence!
Thank you magical Goddesses!

Here's our sparkling picture:
Thank you for your feedback!

"A truly inspiring and worthwhile workshop, presented in a creative and practical way. Thank you!"V.C.
"I think that is a beautifully natural, imaginative, compassionate and light touch about Anamarta teachings. I also feel reassured that the teacher lives the life! I loved the use of stones, cards and other symbolic things to enable us to open up and discover...Thank you."L.R.
"It was lovely to be in a space filled with so much sweetness, calmness and joy. This was possible because of the presence of all women and you Anamarta -big inspiration."J.Z.
"After the amazing summer workshop with Anamarta I knew I have to come to the Yin Peak to continue the "magical" transformation and the journey as a woman. I feel deeply connected with the Infinite Inner Wisdom and that I take so many blessings with me. Thank you Anamarta for being such an amazing teacher and an inspirational woman." D.V.
"This workshop is very important in women's lives. It supports shedding of shadows and blossoming into full potential. It is a gentle practice that helps with confidence. Its lovely!..."M.G.
"...everything felt very supportive...I think Anamarta hold a very relaxed space - I certainly felt very comfortable with in it... Lovely to do healing sounds & inner smile...what a wonderful group of Goddesses...Thanks so much to them & to Anamarta for making the space (physical e energetically)..." J.N.
"I really enjoyed the workshop... I felt the benefit of acknowledging the Goddess within each one of us, and found the mirror very powerful and beneficial. The group size worked well, was not too crowded for space, yet there was enough of us to share and reflect." R.B.
"Thank you so so much for such a wonderful day. Just very inspiring." A.M.

Anamarta

:) First Jade Circles of 2010 :)

2010-01-04T04:47:00.016Z

Join me in in the first Jade Circles of 2010 !!

This next Friday 8th January Jade Circle Level 1 (All women are welcome!)
No Need to Book! just come on by, from 6.30 to 8.30pm @ The Universal Healing Tao Centre UK, 68 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3JT
To learn more call me 07722566010 or email
Donation guide £9 (£4.50 Taoist and Zen Shiatsu practitioners/students)

Wednesday 20th January Jade Circle Level 2 (All women who have already come to a Jade Circle before and heard the Jade Egg explanation are welcome!)
Lets shake this cold away!... In this Jade Circle will focus on the Jade Egg secrets of the pelvic rock with Belly Dance! To learn more about the belly dance benefits scroll down this page and check the "Lets Dance" post.
@ the same place @ the same time.

Look forward to see you in this delightful magic New Year 2010!

Anamarta

HAPPY WINTER SOLSTICE!!

2009-12-22T20:11:00.002Z

Aloha & Happy Winter Solstice!!

At the darkest moment of the year, light is reborn. From the womb of night is born the child of light who is the returning year. Solstice reminds us that the Goddess is, beyond all, associated with regeneration. Death gives way to birth, ending to new beginnings.

The solstice reminds us that every quality contains and gives to its opposite. There can be no light without darkness, no darkness without light.

Winter is officially here, Yin peak of the year, special time for us women, where the yin prevails!

We delve into the water element represented by our kidneys, guardians of ancestral QI/CHI, storehouse of genetic energy, holding the reproductive essence, our life force. Associated with the virtues of wisdom and gentleness and the negative emotion of fear.

Jade is a great crystal to heal the kidneys, you've one more reason to keep connect with your Jade Egg!

A good tip for this Winter:

***Keep your kidneys warm, don't forget they look after your life force- give them a good rub everyday. And if you're rubbing your kidneys just bring the movement down and give a energetic rub in your sacrum...keep it warm and flexible...so important in the Taoist practices!

*When women ask me what to do if they feel this part of the body cold, I recommend to wear a scarf around their waists, keeping the kidneys and sacrum warm, you'll see how the lower back pain will be gone too!

**Its especially good to keep your kidneys warm when you're with your moon (your period) and if you're really cold- great to do the kidney breathing, for those familiar with this practice. To the others who want to learn, come to our Winter celebration workshop!

And such a great way to celebrate Winter, time of death and conception.

Come and celebrate the rebirth of your Inner Goddess! - Awakening your Inner goddess...Follow Your Inner Wisdom! (See the post above)

Anamarta

Come to the last Jade Circles of 2009!

2009-12-02T07:13:00.002Z

This Friday 4th December Jade Circle Level 1 (All women are welcome!)
No Need to Book! just come on by, from 6.30 to 8.30pm @ The Universal Healing Tao Centre UK, 68 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3JT
To learn more call me 07722566010 or email
Donation guide £9 (£4.50 Taoist and Zen Shiatsu practitioners/students)

Next Wednesday 9th December Jade Circle Level 2 (All women who have already come to a Jade Circle before and heard the Jade Egg explanation are welcome!)
I'll continuing to share the latest Taoist secrets inspired by Grandmaster Mantak Chia on his London Visit and to delve deeper into the Jade Egg powerful practice!
@ the same place @ the same time.

:) Look forward to see you! :)

Anamarta

Happy Full Moon!

2009-12-02T02:20:00.014Z

This special Full Moon is greeting us today, the 2nd December. And do you know the number 2 is a lunar number? (As the Moon is the 2nd brightest light in the sky after the Sun, and in her phases as two horns). The ancients believe that 2 was a very feminine, receptive number.
The Full Moon is in Gemini, you can use this time of sparkle, bright, ideas, jokes, laughter and repartee to: bring light and life close to you as Yuletide approaches, make arrangements, swap ideas, improve communication, work with impartial and detached thinking, travel short-distances, heal the lung! (arms and hands too).
The lungs negative emotion is sadness. We can look upon sadness as a process of letting go...And its such perfect time of the year to do so! Look at Nature, trees getting stripped, everything dumped in the Earth, preparing to enter the dark, the Winter, the Yin peak, time to Be! The Great Void is the place where all solutions and answers live in harmony with the questions that fill our realities. Jamie Sams
To help you in your process of letting go, here is the lungs' healing sound:
**Become aware of your lungs resting within your chest. Take a deep belly breath to slowly fill your lungs, breathe out SSSSSSSSS as you release sadness, grief, sorrow, depression.
Allowing the sound to vibrate in your lungs, breath in the crystalline white light of courage, self-confidence, uprightness, and self-esteem.
*Adding the lung meridian stretch: as you breathe in, raise your arms overhead, elbows slightly bent outwards, hands palm up and extend your arms above your head. Your eyes follow the movements of your hands.

The Taoist practice is a continuous invitation to turn inward and get in touch with one's body (and organs), teaches us about the Inner Alchemy, starting with the first practice of the Inner Smile meditation. Let the moon too inspire you to look within- the Lunar Alchemy.
Alchemy was more than attempt to turn base metal into gold, it was a spiritual quest. The alchemist's power came from the conjunction - the union of the God and the Goddess. The God was symbolised by the Sun, the Goddess the Moon. This is a reminder to look deep within ourselves, to the balance of male and female internal energies, yin and yang. By attuning ourselves with to the needs of our male and female sides or conflicts, we then can work towards healing the parts of self that need assistance.
Without balance there is no place to creativity, without true awareness of ourselves there is no place for progress. By looking deeply into ourselves we grow.

**As in all the Full Moons, tonight you have the opportunity to energize yourself with the power of moon yin energy and unite with women from all over the planet: let's meditate at 10pm in the moonlight; by your window (as its too cold to be outdoors!) or use three candles or one large, thick silver candle as a substitute for the moonlight.

Talking about moon, Belinda Garcia Reyes wrote a great article about the Mooncup for the alternative Mexican magazine 'Encuentro', she's introducing and selling the Mooncup for the first time in Mexico. So please pass this on to your Latin American friends!
Here is her blog: Mi Periodo Al Natural -it is in Spanish, but worth to have a look.

Anamarta

Living Fully in the Present!

2009-11-15T17:44:00.022Z

Here we are past the middle of Autumn, greeted by the dance of leaves, shorter days and longer nights.

:-)Keep smiling to your lungs breathing in the white light of courage and self-confidence, qualities of a woman living fully in the present. The past is where it belongs, behind us; and the future is ahead, we can plan, wish, dream, but we can't see for sure what's ahead, (until the ones who can see, know things can change).
A little anxiety is good for us, some experts say. It gives us the edge we need to handle uncertainty. "So throw open the windows and see what flies in." Interesting things happen when you don't have an agenda. Embrace the unexpected, gather your courage, let your adventurous side call the shots. Trusting the flow of the Universe, which provides everything we need.
**Let go what no longer serves you...
By undoing yourself from what is no longer needed the new can grow. An ancient Taoist proverb suggests that simplicity comes with seeing every day what has become dispensable. Then one can walk and move more lightly, both in mind and body.
**Practice staying in the moment. Visualize your life as a red carpet unrolling in front of you. Imagine you're the star, walking it a step at the time. Stride confidently; trust that something exciting is waiting for you just around the bend.
What would you do if was the last day of your life?
Enjoy your life, yourself and live it to the fullest. Each minute is unique, because it doesn't repeat!
One of the first things I wrote, many many years ago, but continues to be part of my philosophy:
happiness is not to be wished, but to be taken. Carpe Diem.

Its such bliss when one can be mindful and totally engage in whatever you are doing, whether pleasure, work or meditation. As Grandmaster Mantak Chia said in his recent visit, "put your mind, heart, spirit and soul in what you're doing, in what you want, to be a great success!"

Join me next Wednesday 18h November Jade Circle Level 2 (All women who have already come to a Jade Circle before and heard the Jade Egg explanation are welcome!)
I'm sharing the latest Taoist Practice update inspired by Grandmaster Mantak Chia on his recent London Visit. And we continue to develop the Jade Egg powerful exercises!
At the same time and the same place. See on Wednesday!

Anamarta

Welcome the Autumn within!

2009-10-22T22:44:00.008+01:00

We're going to welcome the Autumn within us and continue to focus on the Jade Egg secrets and practice the powerful Jade Egg exercises!
Next Wednesday 28th October in the Jade Circle level 2 (All women who have already come to a Jade Circle before and heard the Jade Egg explanation are welcome!) Join me!
No Need to Book! just come on by, from 6.30 to about 8.30pm @ The Universal Healing Tao Centre UK, 68 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3JT
Donation: £9.- (£4.50 for Taoist & Zen School of Shiatsu Practitioners)

Join Bernadette! Friday 6th November Jade Circle Level 1 (All women are welcome!) with Bernadette Carelse
No Need to Book! just come on by, from 6.30 to about 8/8.30pm @ The Universal Healing Tao Centre UK, 68 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3JT
Donation: £9.- (£4.50 for Taoist & Zen School of Shiatsu Practitioners)

To learn more call Anamarta 07722566010 or email

Anamarta

WARRIOR WOMAN

2009-10-21T23:27:00.011+01:00

Hello Warrior Woman!
Yes, we all have this warrior within ourselves, who gives us the courage and the strength to go for it no matter what, to stand up for ourselves when we need to...
" If she advances confidently in the direction of her dreams, and endeavors to live the life she has imagined, she will meet with success unexpected in common hours."
We're in the Autumn, the season of the lungs, with the virtues of courage, self-confidence and uprightness; the element is Metal, that reflects and inspires, cuts and contains!
When I think about metal I imagine a sword. The sword stands for decisive, clear thought.

To awake the warrior within:
**Sit quietly, focusing on the breath coming and going through your nose. When totally relaxed, inhale deeply... Smile at your lungs, appreciating all they do to to sustain your life...keep breathing deeply... And now imagine a white sword of light which carries all the courage and self-confidence for you to be who you are, to be yourself; the courage for you to do all you need to do!

Support from the mineral kingdom, "the stone people":
**Aquamarine the stone of courage and empowerment. It helps one realize that not all power comes from force- there is also tremendous power in aligning oneself with the yielding, resilient vitality of life. It is a doorway to connect with the Goddess, both within the self and in Her outer manifestations.

Our history and mythology has been marked with Warrior-Women and Goddesses who showed their courage and uprightness. They have been admired and worshipped for centuries:

Boudicca The Celtic Warrior Queen, who shook the Roman Empire. Wife of a king, mother of two daughters, the Queen of the Iceni, led an uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire. She has since remained an important cultural symbol in the United Kingdom.

Joan of Arc is a national heroine of France and a Catholic saint, who led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, claiming divine guidance. She was captured by the Burgundians, sold to the English, tried by an ecclesiastical court, and burned at the stake when she was nineteen years old.

Pocahontas a native Indian from America, daughter of a chief of the Powhatan, saved the colonist John Smith's life when he was captured by the Indians. He was about to be executed but Pocahontas placing her head close to his saved him. They then got married and he brought her to England where she impressed everyone one with her gentleness and kindness, making the English change their opinion about the 'indian savages'.

Durga The Hindu Goddess, "The Invincible" ; "One who can redeem in situations of utmost distress"- is a form of Shakti (the Divine feminine force), her warrior aspect.
Anamarta at Sri Durgiana, The Silver Temple, Amristar

Athena Greek Goddess of Wisdom, as Goddess of war, was a superb warrior; her presence on your side assured a win. (The goddess Minerva was her counterpart in Roman mythology.)

Neith was the predynastic Goddess of war and weaving, the Goddess of the Red Crown of Lower Egypt and patron Goddess of Zau in the Delta. The Egyptians believed her to be an ancient and wise Goddess, to whom the other Gods came if they could not resolve their own disputes.

Anamarta

AUTUMN MAGIC!!

2009-09-27T14:11:00.007+01:00

Sweet Hello in this time of Sweetness!
The Autumn/Fall Equinox arrived this week, bringing the harvest home festival, the gathering time, when we prepare for the cold and shorter days... Now day and night are equal, and we turn our thoughts again to balance.
I'm writing and looking at this tree outside my window, sunbeams lighting up her first yellow and red leaves on one side, while the other still shows green ...
... Autumn magic! The transition of seasons, the changing of colours, from Earth to Sky, the start of a new cycle; a new cycle in Nature, a new cycle for ourselves; time of changes and evaluations. Did we plant enough of the right things? Have we nurtured what will truly feed us?
Above all, this is a time to give thanks, to offer gratitude for what we have, and to remember the balance of all elements that sustain our lives. Gratitude to Mother Earth, the living soil that grows food, to the air we breath, to the sun's warm rays, to the life-giving rain and the flowing, cleansing waters. Gratitude toward our community, to our family and loved ones, and to all families and beings that are linked in the web of life.
Gratitude is the counter to greed. If we neglect to say thanks for what we have, we feel eternally dissatisfied, and need more and more. When we are thankful for all we have been given, then we need very little in order to feel surrounded by abundance.

Harvest time is the Spleen season as I shared in the post below (Harvest Moon). Spleen direction is the center, our lower abdomen is named as our hara, in Taoist terms as your "lower tan tien." The spleen is related with two meridians, the spleen itself and the stomach, and have you heard: "you have your brain in your stomach?" Just think about the times you feel nervous, happy, anxious, "butterflies in the belly"- everything that happens to us resonates in our center! Keep it strong, thus your mind will be calm and your body will move with ease and power:
***Place your hands on your centre, sit up straight and inhale deeply; hold the breath for a moment, focusing on your centre; exhale slowly, and imagine any tension leaving your body.
***For a more powerful practice do the spleen/stomach healing sound:
Breathe out HOOOOOOOO (like a guttural sound) as you release worry, anxiety, stress, guilt and pity back to the Earth. Then breath in the golden light of serenity, centering, openness, fairness and grounding. If you want to add the movement, press the fingers into your left abdomen/ribcage and lean slightly forward.

This time of harvest and beginning of Autumn is the best for you to eat the rich natural sweets of the season like the pumpkin, squash, corn, oranges...
And do you know!...Oranges attract prosperity and luck; and you know already that its good for vitamin C reinforcement to prepare us for the cold! And Corn grants protection and attracts luck as well!

Now with the Autumn, we come into in the season of the lungs, the metal element of mystery, of swords and shields, coins, boxes and silver-backed mirrors. Ancient Alchemist sought to transform metal into gold, a metaphor for transmutation of lust to love.
***Be aware of your lungs, smile at them, breathing in the crystalline white light of courage.
We need courage for times of change...

Like the fruits of the vine, our lives too can change and ferment. Celebrate the ever changing nature of life, dreams, and goals as you toast the sacred ingredients- friends, family, and familiars- the loving relationships that mellow and ferment you.

We had a radiant Summer full of successful workshops, where i had the opportunity to meet beautiful women who I hope to continue to see in this new season. And let me share the changes in the Universal Healing Tao Centre UK:

We had a great Tai Chi Camp with a Yin predominance for the first time! Watch (with sound!) the fantastic Video
Congratulations to new Taoist Trainers, after their completion of Step 8 Tao of High Degree Retreat at Monchique in Algarve, Portugal. The first ones who completed so far: Matt Lewis, Tanya McCormack, Annie Hooley, Bernadette Carelse,Samara Hawthorn and myself!
Bernadette is going to be facilitating the Jade Circle again (yes! she was one of the pioneers!) with me from November. Welcome back, Berni!
The NEW Jade Circle Level 2 - All women who have already come to a Jade Circle before and heard the Jade Egg explanation are welcome! After a few requests, I decided to start this level 2 with the aim to give more practical time, skipping the explanation part of the Jade Egg.

Join me on Wednesday 30h September - Jade Circle Level 2
We're going to focus on the Jade Egg secrets and practice the powerful Jade Egg exercises! Such a great start for this new circle of the new season!
No Need to Book! just come on by, from 6.30 to about 8.30pm @ The Universal Healing Tao Centre, 68 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3JT
To learn more call me 07722566010 or email me
Donation: £9.- (£4.50 for Taoist & Zen School of Shiatsu Practitioners)

The Jade Circle Level 1 - All women are welcome! Is now on the first or second Friday of the month, (we're going to try to keep the first Friday, but we'll always announce in the newsletter and the events page of the Jade Circle web site).

Next Jade Circle Level 1 Join me on Friday 9th October
No Need to Book! Just come on by, from 6.30 to about 8.30pm @ The Universal Healing Tao Centre, 68 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3JT

Donation: £9.- (£4.50 for Taoist & Zen School of Shiatsu Practitioners)

Anamarta

:-)SMILE And...SMILE!!:-)

2009-09-09T22:44:00.002+01:00

Hello and Ola from Portugal!

I'm with a big smile writing this post, the corners of my lips really lifted up! And i can imagine a smile on your face now!...this is the magic of smiling! When we smile we make ourselves feel good and everyone around us.
In our Summer gathering, letting our inner beauty out, (see below), we learnt and practiced the art of smiling, exercising 600 muscles in our face!
Smile is the start of all the practices of the Universal Tao, from the basics to the most advanced. The Inner Smile is the key to relaxation, to refresh, create, transform, attract and blend energies; it serves to soften our body and its elements, knots and blockages start to dissolve so that free flow of energy is restored. Smile to a part in your body where you feel some pain or need some healing and your truly felt smile can help alleviate or melt it away.
If you notice the portraits of the great sages and masters of self-transformation like the Taoist Immortals and the Buddha, there's always a inward-oriented smile in their faces, to signify the spark of inner freedom and balance the unity of yin and yang.
Smile is the most important sexual secret! It helps keep the sexual energy in the body- allowing you to cultivate more and more energy without loss. That's why its so important to smile when you do the Jade Egg practices and exercises!
And smile is just not important in a sexual level but in a mental and emotional ones as well! Smile increases the blood flow to the brain, allowing it to operate more efficiently and it reminds us of being happy, which can (sometimes!) trick the mind into thinking we're happy even when we're feeling a little low. This can boost our self-confidence, make it easier for us to believe in and develop our own abilities.

Go ahead: SMILE...and SMILE!!:-)

Anamarta

Harvest Moon...Next Jade Circle- Full Moon Celebration!

2009-09-01T00:07:00.009+01:00

Come and celebrate the Full Moon, the Harvest Moon with Liz Peart on the 4th, I'm going to be with you energetically in Portugal! This is the Farewell Circle for Liz, she's having a break to have her baby! Congratulations Liz! I'm so happy for you and to celebrate the first Jade Circle's baby!!

This moon is quite special...we start the "Turning Day", when the seasonal shift from Summer to Autumn pulls on her first layer of softness. The sun becomes more golden and loses its white glare, the blue of the sky preparing itself to provide contrast for the upcoming leaves of red and yellow.

In Taoist terms we're going through the Heart season, of love, joy, honor, respect, and happiness, to the Spleen season, the earth element, harvest time, time of deep gratitude and enjoyment for the sweetness of life! The spleen is related to the centre and has the feeling of pause before and after movement and change. It contains the virtues of openness and serenity! Open your heart, mind and body to the flow of the abundant Mother Earth of the creative force, use her energy to aid you, and you will be healed enough to share this energy with others. This openness will be balanced with a sense of being centered in one's own power and deeply rooted into the Earth!

***SMILE at your spleen and be SERENE, call upon all the virtues of Mother Earth of openness, fairness, centerness and grounding and imagine yourself expanding limitless as the Great Mother with infinitive beauty and resources to embrace every day life gift, including the challenges that make us grow and bring us awakening.

***"Gratitude is the heart memory." List the things you are grateful for, and from that grateful place in your heart, look for the abundance of alternatives that Mother Earth gives.

Friday 4th September- Jade Circle level I with Liz Peart

No Need to Book! Just come on by, from 6.30 to about 8/8.30pm @ The Universal Healing Tao Centre, 68 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3JT

All women are welcome!

Anamarta

Let your Inner Beauty Out!

2009-08-11T20:59:00.010+01:00

The beauty didn't just shine out, but all around the Healing Tao Centre, the City of London, and surely around the world and universe too!

We lit up the fire within ourselves and allowed the warm feelings to grow and expand, celebrating beauty, love, joy and laughter of our hearts in the fullest!

We had a lovely and delightful day with a group of such beautiful and sparkling women!
It was a such a pleasure to facilitate this special workshop with such inspiring presences, a day with the best of the feminine qualities: beauty, wisdom, gentleness and fun! Brilliant!!
Here we are:
Thank you for your feedback.

"Thank you for the warm lovely teaching. really enjoyed the nice balance of yin-yang (exercises vs. stillness). Thank you with all my heart."S.C.
"Every Jade Circle with Anamarta is wonderful, and every new one exceeds the expectation. I felt delighted, beautiful and allowed new parts of me to shine out... Anamarta is a great teacher and never ceases to surprise with new beautiful ideas. She makes a woman feel truly beautiful as she is beautiful herself and a mirror for us..."M.G.
"I am so grateful to discover you and your lovely and generous presence; the Tao teachings were known to me before, but i didn't have time or wasn't ready, you make it so easy. I now appreciate myself as a woman, its a lovely long time life journey and finally looking forward to. Hope to learn more with you in the future."D.V.
"The workshop was insightful, beautifully held and well presented. I enjoyed the exercises, the energy, + dance... I enjoyed the day and the coming together of women. Thank you very much." A.F.
"I very much enjoyed the gentleness, openness, fun... All good as an introduction to deepen practice." S.H.
"Today was filled with wonderful new experiences, presented in a warm and caring way. I would definitely recommend the day to all women who seek a deeper meaning in today's often shallow way." V.C.
"...another wonderful workshop. Its good to see you doing workshops like this... Well done!..."S.R.
"Thank you for the lovely day. Everything about it was good." M.O.
The guided meditations were lovely. The sound elements were very useful..."S.B.
"I had a wonderful day" M.
"...another great workshop, your love for the women in the group was tangible. Your grace and kindness give me hope..."E.B.
Thank you for a beautiful workshop... Really enjoyed the belly dancing! Thank you for your joyful and generous spirit." S.K.

Anamarta

BEAUTY

2009-07-27T22:11:00.012+01:00

Here we are in Summer time, starting to worry about being fit and beautiful for our holidays or next wedding! Beauty, body fit, mind and spirit too can get a work-out with the Taoist practices!
"Beauty, the radiance of the eternal" - the source of compassion, serenity and hope.
We feel most alive in the presence of beauty, whether we find it in a person, place or work of art, in nature or a spiritual moment.
Our society often confuses beauty with glamour. But which do you think endures? True beauty is a light that cant be extinguished.
"Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward woman be at one."
As I shared in the 'Happy Summer' post, one can attune to natural beauty by awakening the heart chakra.

Look for beauty in everything even the flowers in a clump of weeds or the reflection of the sky in a muddy puddle, recognize beauty in others and in yourself. By doing so, you feed your own spirit and also add to the positive uplifting energy in the world.
Our conscious perception of beauty, unique to our species, can be kind of creation in itself.

Some beauty tips:
***Smile! When you smile you exercise more then 600 muscles in your face, when you frown you just exercise 400!
***A few minutes of facial exercises, chi self massage each day can help to relax tension and release your natural beauty. At the foot of next page you can watch the Video Kuan Yin Chi Kung Warm Up- ending up with a chi self massage.
***Try a simple stretch to tone muscles around the mouth, cheeks, jaw, chin: with your mouth open as wide as possible sound out the vowels A, E, I, O, U slowly, exaggerating your facial movements as you speak. Repeat 9 times. Have fun with it!
***Breast massage as we teach in the Jade Circle to keep your breasts healthy, shining and firm, but just not that, when you do the nipples massage you stimulate your endocrine system feeding all your master glands, which will give a rejuvenate side affect.
***Radiant beauty ritual bath to enhance your inner and outer radiance. Light vanilla-scented or three rose pink and three white candles around the bathtub, (the bathroom should be warm), drop some rose oil and sprinkle rose petals onto the surface of the bath water. Close your eyes and imagine that your body is absorbing radiant beauty from the surrounding water. Just feel yourself glow! As you bath, focus on your best qualities and recite this affirmation: "I let my inner beauty shine." If you need a special boost for an important date, do this when the moon is just approaching full. And to become a beauty moon bath, have your six candles (three rose pink and white) in silver holders around your bath, burn a rose-scented joss-stick, or place rose oil in an oil burner. When you ready to get out, wrap yourself a huge, soft rose-coloured towel and get ready in a leisure way, knowing that delights are to come!

Anamarta

KUAN YIN & IRON SHIRT CHI KUNG

2009-07-16T17:22:00.014+01:00

Friday 24th July the Special Jade Circle presents a great opportunity to learn or improve your Kuan Yin & Iron Shirt Chi Kung with Anamarta.
With these ancient and powerful self healing exercises and postures you can:
*Improve your grounding
*Feel more centered
*Develop your rooting power and Earth-connection
*Empower yourself on the physical, emotional & spiritual level

Taoist philosophy recommends the same amount of chi kung as meditation, and its always good to start with what you know better, your physical body.

Iron Shirt Chi Kung Stage Demonstration at the Mind Body & Spirit Festival 2009 by Anamarta & Kris Deva North

"Its incredible how much inner strengh these postures bring, which reflect in various aspects of life! I can take not just a physical push, but emotional and spiritual too...amazing how rooted and grounded you can get! You become like a tree...nobody can move you and you feel in perfect harmony between Heaven and Earth!" Anamarta

Look forward to see you on Friday 24th July!

HAPPY SUMMER!!

2009-06-25T15:40:00.000+01:00

Hello and Happy Summer!

Each year when the richness of Summer moves across the Earth Mother and Old Man Winter was just a memory, the seeds already sown, the flowers opened... We come into a time of warmth, which brings us energy and good feelings; a time of light, which illuminates and inspires to create; a time to enjoy the fruits of love and success; a time to celebrate joy, passion, enthusiasm and pleasure.

Enjoy the summertime!
The sultry air is an invitation to savour life. Let your inner playmate out of hiding; laughter is a great way to shake up your routine, hang out and giggle with people! And lets not forget romance, that's one thing the weather's never too hot to enjoy. Then again, some of the greatest pleasures are the simplest: walking in the nature; smell the flowers; napping in a hammock; licking an ice cream very, very slowly.

And don't forget that the sun always shines inside of our heart!
We are in the heart season, associate with the fire element. Fire dances, fire warms, fire burns, fire creates and fire destroys.

SMILE at your heart breathing in the red light of love, starting for love yourself unconditionally; breathing in the red light of joy, joie de vivre, celebrating your everyday life's gifts.

Without an open and loving heart, you can never taste the nectar and pure bliss of life.

It has been suggested that our heart generates its own energy field, which interacts with the energy fields of other people.

Consciously radiated love, caring feelings from your heart to everyone around you, and they’ll transmit these same energies to you in return.

One way to attune yourself to beauty is by awakening the heart chakra. And do you know our heart centre is the strongest generator of light energy in the body, even stronger than the brain?

Sit quietly, take a few deep breaths and focus on your heart, breath in the sunlight and smile at your heart, call to someone you love. Let your heart fill with warmth and appreciation for them. The nourishment such a feelings give to body, mind and spirit enhance your own beauty.

Summon restful energy to care for yourself, strengthen your health and be your best to celebrate this Summer in the fullest and to reward yourself with a sip of life's joy and sweetness.

Anamarta

Special Jade Circle - The heart Summer Celebration

2009-06-15T11:20:00.008+01:00

Special Jade Circle on Friday 26th June with Anamarta
The heart Summer celebration with a special unconditional love meditation
Open your heart to receive and express the energy of love

All women are welcome - come on by The Universal Healing Tao Centre at 68 Great Eastern Street London EC2A 3JT at 6.30 for a warm welcome from Anamarta. We finish around 8.30. If you need help finding us or would like more info just give us a call or email
Anamarta 07722 566010

Look forward to see you on Friday 26th June!

Anamarta

Lets dance!

2009-05-27T07:22:00.008+01:00

I'm delighted to present this Friday, 29th May our Special Jade Circle- Lets dance! @ 6.30-8.30pm in The Universal Healing Tao Centre with Anamarta & Bernadette.
We're going to have an evening divided into wisdom & action and good fun!
People often ask me about a daily practice. I always say Smile! And of course i can say the inner smile is such a nice way to start the day, the healing sounds to finish it, and...
...Dance five minutes a day!
Is great for yourself and your body! And is so important to celebrate your body, your Temple, the fertile vessel that you inhabit. The woman's body is a sacred extension of the Great Mother Earth; all acts of pleasure, abundance and fertility are part of the female nature.
Dancing is so good for de-stressing and allowing space for new energies and experiences to flow within!
Dancing is so good for grounding, to celebrate the Earth in which your seeds flourish; assisting their growth and flowers, and blessing the youthful fruits of your knowledge and wisdom in action.
Dancing is such a beautiful way to express yourself through the movements you create in your beautiful body. And dancing can be such great fun!
The human body is meant to move. Dance is simply movement to music so anyone can do it.

We're going to do some belly-dancing this Friday, dancing with joy, anticipating the coming warmth!
Belly-dancing is great to open up our energy: in ancient times known to be the dance of fertility, preparing for childbirth.
Its a great exercise for your pelvic area, working all your internal muscles, really connecting with our Jade Egg practices!
And belly-dance is fun! The movements draw you into an intimate relationship with your body and may help to overcome blockages and a less positive self image. When i started it opened the door to love and appreciate my hips and round curves, bum, which are the landmarks of the female body, but in society nowadays is quite forgotten...
Do you know that belly-dance and dance in general, is a weight bearing exercise, the kind of exercise critical in helping prevent Osteoporosis?
Belly-dance works on so many levels providing a holistic approach towards well being. Here a few more benefits of it: back and joints (relief of pain), overall body toning, boosts self-esteem, can help relieve PMS, helps in losing weight!

Looking forward to dance with you on Friday!

Anamarta

Travelling Circle in India

2009-05-22T02:07:00.023+01:00

The Travelling Circle in India, hosted by the the Indian spiritual teacher and healer Usha-ji in BuddhaHall, was absolutely fantastic!
I'd like to appreciate Usha-ji for this opportunity to celebrate the mysterious feminine in incredible and magical India! I'm deeply grateful to all the lovely women I had the pleasure and blessing to meet and work with! As well to my dear friend Carla who came all the way from Portugal to do this workshop, thank you for such a big help with the administrative work and the sharing of the impressive bio-gymnastic (a fusion of Kung Fu, Yoga and gymnastics), was good fun!
We had a group of beautiful women from all over the world, who made this workshop even more special, for their full and bright presence every moment of this journey we embraced together.
We had three days with all the weather conditions...from sun, blue sky, hot, rain, storm, cold, the Divine representation of the feminine tapestry!
Was amazing to observe the changes, enhancements and improvements in each of the present Goddesses along the three days.

Keep smiling & shining!

Thank you, muchas gracias, obrigado, dhanyabad for your feedback!

“Many thanks…for sharing something that I believe will become intrinsic to my being – my woman-ness.” J.G. India/UK
“…all of this was very new to me to me but your wonderful and loving energy and the amazing and kind energy of the group made this an amazing experience.” Y.R. Israel
“Your imagination, energy and sense of what is sacred is a blessing to behold…” M.M. South Africa
“…thank you for the beautiful course…for bringing your wisdom and sharing it with us…inspiring us…” R.M. England
“You rock!! You held the energy in the group beautifully…” M.N. Sweden
“…an interesting, new and exhilarating experience…All in all, the course was great. Exceeded expectations!” K.W. S.Africa
“Your guidance and instruction was informed + inspiring and positive…I will take the pointers with me on the rest of my journey…” T.M. Scotland
“Thank you for…this opportunity to work with this energy in a safe, contained space.” J.N. England
“…You made what can be dry technique more juicy!…thank you for helping keep the spirit of the Goddess alive and radiant.” M. India/USA
“Thank you for an inspiring workshop.” V. UK
“Muchas gracias a ti por abrir esta puerta a una nueva sabiduria…” P.A. Chile
“…ADOREI o workshop, veio ensinar-me muita coisa, a descobrir uma parte feminina que estava um pouco esquecida, obrigada por tudo!…” C.L. Portugal
“...I really want to say thanks to you for sharing your divine knowledge and beauty of real feminine self, I was so impressed by your beautiful teaching and secret knowledge, I really feel that all woman should learn or experience this divine jade practice for their highest creativity, beauty and discover the power of their true feminine self and I see you as a beautiful person and a teacher to help all those woman’s who need to experience this secret energy... So Thanks a lot once again for everything and special thanks for bringing up your knowledge to India in my School Buddha Hall, I hope will be continue in this path to share our love and knowledge with each other and who ever needed…….”
Dr.Usha India

Anamarta

SHARING

2009-04-26T12:44:00.013+01:00

Namaste from India!

Here I'm in India to share the sacred Jade egg practices in the Himalayas hills, in the sacred BuddhaHall, in Bagsu, Dharamsala, hosted by the Indian teacher and healer Usha-ji.

This Spring is being so flourishing!
Id like to share with you what other lovely women Ive been shared with me, contributing to the wisdom, beauty and richness of our Circle.

The beautiful Jade Circle logo was kindly designed by Liz Peart, which I'll post in our blog soon as i get back.

"Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything- we need only listen." Clarissa Pinkola Estes the author of "Women Who Run With The Wolves- contacting the power of the wild woman", such an inspiring and enjoyable book, a gift received from dear Sarah, my sister-in-law.

Belinda sent me this wonderful story about a girl, i attached it in the newsletter, is long, but worth to read it. If you want to receive it just email me. Here a taste of it:

"The Circle was so special all the women told me things that I didn't know i had. I will never forget it in all my life. (...) The circle was glowing with light and it was beautiful. (...) Alicia knows inside that the old ways, the sacred ways are coming back. That this is how it could be, for all girls, becoming woman... everywhere."

Sharing is such a precious and natural gift. The true Yin nature is open to receive, and when we receive we give, completing the energy's cycle, everything that goes around turns around.

Let me share the medicine of one of my totems, Otter-Woman Medicine, from the Medicine Cards by Jamie Sams.
The beauty of a balance female side, the side of ourselves that creates space for others to enter in our lives without preconceptions or suspicions. This teaches us that balanced female energy is not envy or catty; it is sisterhood, content to enjoy and share the goodness with others, express joy for others.
Woman energy without games or control is a beautiful experience, it is the freedom of love without jealousy.
You might look at the joyfulness of the receptive side of your nature. Have you given yourself a gift recently? Have you received any messages in your dreams, thoughts, meditations? Flow with the water of the Universe...this is the way of balanced female-receptive energy. Honor it! In doing so, you will discover the power of woman.

And about the Tao? Tao means the way...and each of us finds our own.
You already know the secret...Smile!
Smile at all your organs, giving special attention to your liver this spring!
Here the liver sound to keep it clear and radiant.
Breath out SHHHHHHHHH as you release anger, greed, envy and jealousy.
Breath in the healing green light of kindness, generosity, forgiveness, self-expansion and identity.
The posture, if you want to add the liver meridian stretch: raise your arms and clasp above your head, lean right, look up.

Please feel free to share your thoughts, stories, ideas, inspirations...I'm always happy to hear from you!

Anamarta

Happy Spring Equinox!!

2009-03-20T08:44:00.002Z

Spring Equinox represents the Yin Yang harmony, the moment when these energies are in balance.

New hopes, new beginnings, new relationships...the earth is reawakening. It's the seed sowing holiday! Its the fertile festival! Its the festival of Eostar, the ancient Anglo-Saxon Goddess of the Spring. Her colorful eggs are the symbols of renewed life. The fertile hare, that leaps up from the field just as the life force leaps up within us, was her sacred animal.

We're coming from the kidney season to the liver, from being (be yin) to doing (do-yin!), from the Water element to the Wood. The Wood element is the energy of birth, rebirth and renewal, the unstoppability of Life.

Smile at your liver, awaking and stimulating the kindness, generosity and forgiveness within you.
* Forgiveness is such a virtue! When we forgive we are free. We need to forgive ourselves and others to allow space for new experiences coming in into our lives.
* Generosity comes from feelings of abundance and gratitude; its about more than material exchange. True abundance is abundance of the heart- a sense of fullness that overflows in a desire to help.
* The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance; the second, transmission.

Practice covert acts of kindness and generosity- like the girl heroine in the film Amelie, or "guerrilla gardeners"- environmentalists who go out in the middle of the night and plant flowers to beautify waste ground. Think of something you can do secretly for other people or for the world, with no thought of reward for yourself.

You can nourish your body eating more greens this season, such as broccoli, so good for your liver. And avocado - good for lust and love!!!
Spend time connecting with the Mother Earth. Walking in bare feet on the grass, nourish yourself with Earth energy. Earth-Connection gives the energy needed to use our natural gifts, abilities, and talents.

Anamarta

A Magic 10th Birthday!

2009-03-15T13:07:00.012Z

Our Special Jade Circle to celebrate this special date was certainly unique and magic, a truly deep celebration of the mysterious feminine.
We had the honour to have a full house of wonderful women who brought their experience and knowledge to the Circle and made it more rich then ever!
Our lovely guest Bernadette Carelse illuminated us to dive into ourselves with the Vision Quest; such a beautiful and sacred evening!
Thank you for all the presents for your bright and inspiring presence! You made me feel so blessed to have the opportunity to gather women of all ages and backgrounds joining in the Universal Feminine Awareness and I believe from here this energy spreads to the city, country, world and Universe!
This enhances our continuing evolution on this path, the power to celebrate the beauty and bliss to be a woman, to just Be, Be Yin!

Anamarta

Now we are ten!

2009-03-09T19:29:00.010Z

We are delighted to present our Special Jade Circle to celebrate our 10th birthday on Friday the 13th (6.30-8.30), a lucky number for us women because of the 13 moons (period cycles) we have during the year, and on Friday which is associated with Venus and the Goddess Freya, who brings us love, friendship, beauty, reconciliation. Such a great day for our celebration!!
For our tenth birthday we've a special guest, Bernadette Carelse, one of the first facilitators of the Jade Circle! She will guide us in a vision quest, and for that you need to bring paper and colour pen, candle and, if you would like to, an object with symbolic meaning.

Prepare yourself for the Spring!
Spring is still but a memory within your heart, but the worst of winter has passed and soon the growing cycle will start. Enjoy and reflect upon the yin stage that marks the Winter, which is associated with the Kidneys, smile at them, breathing in the healing blue color, connecting with your inner wisdom and gentleness. Any seed you plant in yourself will grow in the Spring time, when things begin; associated with the liver, smile and prepare the liver energy of kindness, generosity and forgiveness to flow within you with a green light of ancient healing forest.

Anamarta

HAPPY WOMEN’S DAY!!

2009-03-08T00:02:00.005Z

I’d like to wish a happy women’s day to all the beautiful women I know and I don’t know yet.
The bliss of being a woman in this life makes me appreciate every day to the Universe.
We’ve the support of Great Mother Earth, a gift for us women to receive Her abundant, serene, centering, sensuous energy! And we’ve the Grandmother Moon who illuminates us in the dark, inspiring us, and arousing our connection with our intuition and feminine mystery.
Today we celebrate the International Women’s Day! Such a good time to connect with the Goddess within you and thus empower the Divine Femine, which emanates a soft, soothing energy that engenders feelings of comfort, safety, nurturing, and stimulates joy, happiness and relaxation. And this connects us to the frequency of Divine Love, compassion and true appreciation for all experiences and creation, developing trust in the Universe to provide for all our needs.
All of us have both yin and yang energy; but our yin predominant energy make us to be a woman! Enjoy it! Live it in the fullest! And celebrate!

Anamarta