*~ Edinburgh Traveling Circle ~*

What a magicawiccaly energy I felt in the company of a powerful and lovely group of women, coming from everywhere, and during all my stay in beautiful Scottish countryside. 

Everyday of our amazing workshop was filled with surprises and laughter and the most incredible stories and episodes shared in the Circle! Was a great pleasure to witness the embrace of each woman into her essence which sparkled with glory!

And so much loved the mystical Edinburgh (special at night)... the Harry Potter town, flying brooms around... Felt like sisters & ancestors connection & celebration! Went straight after to teach in India filled with such inspiration! Thank you dear all.

And here the Edinburgh Jade Goddesses pioneers, and baby Almita who joined us at the end:)

Smiling & Sq...***

Thank you for your feedback!

 ** "It was a very beautiful 3 days, the practices are powerful and deep, but taught & presented in such a gentle gracious way. I am in love with my Jade Egg, myself & my body again. Namaste"A.W. Scotland

** "Really beautiful. So essential to have such initiations in life and you facilitate this so well with respect, sensitivity & humility. Thank you Anamarta for the work you are doing and the service you are in."G. Australia

** "Thank you for an amazing and profound 3 days. I have enjoyed and savoured every second. Feel delighted to have met you and learned from you, Anamarta."H.A. Norway

** "Thank you for your beautiful guidance and compassion. I hope we meet again. This course was perfect."C.G. Scotland

** "Thank you for deep insight and delicious practice. The path lights brightly before you."L. England  

** "Thank you for sharing your wisdom, knowledge, practices & love. Was inspiring and I feel like is only the beginning. Enjoyed all the aspects - you hold the space beautifully."T. Scotland

** "Wonderful intense journey. Safe beautiful environment for us to journey together. Amazing to share this with this group of women...Loved initiation & ceremony. A laughter filled time."R.H. New Zealand

** "Thank you for your sharing. You provided a secure, warm space where we could feel very open and comfortable and able to share. You showed great kindness, patience and are good listener, and teacher. Thank you! As well as being inspired it was much fun too. And all done with great respect."J.R Scotland

** "This workshop has been a complete experience for me. It has been great to organise it... The workshop has been magical, I found a strong group of women and Anamarta hold it really well with great compassion, patience and love. I've solidified most of the teaching, now I need to bring them into practice."E.A. Spain

** "I enjoyed all 3 days on many levels. Thank you for an inspiring, empowering and interesting time of love and sharing with a great group of women. You are an excellent facilitator Anamarta."M.W. Scotland

** "I thank you kindly dear sister for reminding me how beautiful and honourable my body and femininity are...Its a true blessing to have been able to take part in your workshop! Keep shining your brilliance your magnificent bright star! Namaste"K. Malta

** "I feel now very relaxed... I will try to integrate the breathings, meditations and everything I learned in my life. The Jade Egg is beautiful, and the way you shared it was very comfortable and respectful. Thank you for that and for your love and patience."A. R. Spain

** "You hold the space beautifully and with a calm control...It was very enjoyable and great to be with women and embrace being a women in such a space. You really taught me that. I often forget the power of the yin and you gave me the confidence to feel the power of the goddess in everyday life. It is great to re route that into my being. It was great to meet you. Thank you so much Aanamarta! I have charged my egg and have been sleeping with her under my pillow every night. Had quite a funny time the evening of Monday, walking across town squeezing and smiling without anyone knowing I had my egg in! ;)"J.T. Scotland

** "I loved every aspect of the time with you Anamarta and with the group. I learned, laughed, learned and laughed! A beautiful journey and I'm delighted to have been able to participate, thank you for everything. Feeling in the right path. Hoping to join you again in the next one!"C.R. Spain

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Private Advanced Jade Circle Workshop

This new workshop emerged from my personal practical experience from the last years and the inspiration my students always bring to me; so like this I launched it for the Jade Goddesses who want to go deeper with their Jade Egg Holistic Practice.
Just after the Harvest Full Moon, with the magic and mystery of the golden light I felt truly inspired to 'give birth' to this baby who was inside of me for looooong time.
And this profound journey into our sacred feminine selves was so powerful and magnificent! I don't have words to describe it and to describe how happily proud I am of the Jade Goddesses pioneers of the Advanced practices, for their courage to go deeper into themselves, and at the same time, for their dedication, dedication to the Jade Egg Holistic practice, but more than anything dedication to their Divine Feminine within.
My heart is filled with delight and gratitude to have these beautiful and inspiring women walking this path along with me. Aloha Mahalo, Mahalo Aloha! = I love you thank you, thank you I love you!

And here we're... smiling & glowing...

*** Thank you for your feedback! ***

*** "It has been uplifting, completing the Jade Circle Step 1. It will help my strength of my Jade Sacred Cave, it will help me to harmonise and energise with Heaven and Earth. I felt like a small family of Goddesses willing to share the sacredness within. I find that the homework has helped me to check if the exercises I was doing are right and to improve it. It was beautiful... any teachings from Anamarta because she directs everything in a sacred and safe way. Thank you for sharing your teachings!"E.C.

*** "I'm soo grateful to have been here and have this opportunity...As always good to repeat some practice and we have gone deeper with the practice. Everything was useful. Amazing... I love your teaching... Thank you soo much Anamarta my inspiration, beautiful Goddess."S.S.

*** "Enjoyed very much. Felt very safe with tutor and group. Lovely intimate group, which was good to explore the practices at a deeper level. Enough diversity, including meditation + fun, enjoyed chi kung and dancing... was enough time to feedback and questions + clarification. All exercises seemed to be relevant, help with self confidence, self esteem + self love... the pace was about right. MANY THANKS" R.C.

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Laughter Medicine

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: 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.

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***Fairy Magical Travelling Circle in Dublin***

How excited I was to go to Fairy Land for the first time, where our Dublin Travelling Circle took place; hosted by a beautiful Shamanic Centre,
Slí An Chroí, organised by dear Máire; with a presence of an amazing and lovely group of Fairy Goddesses. Yes, the fairies exist! These fairies flied from all over Ireland, including a Druid one, and even from the neighbourhood and far away parts of the world: England, Poland and New Zeland! A mix of powerful and beautiful women, who arrived shining in their 'fairyness' and left radiating their magic! What a pleasure it was to hold such a special Jade Circle.
And of course, as being in Fairy Land, the three days of our workshop were filled with surprises!... The biggest one was when at the end I was pampered with gifts! And then initiated and welcome me into their fairy tribe through a beautiful fairy ritual, I had read my fairy rights, received my wings and wand! A memory which will always light up my heart.
Thanks a million for such warm welcoming and magical hospitality!

***Here they are, the Jade Fairy Goddesses***Thank you for your feedback!

*** "Thank you so much Anamarta. I really enjoyed the whole workshop. I loved the way the exercises were repeated, with theory and how open you were to questions. You are a wonderful teacher. I learned a lot about myself and leave feeling alive, open-hearted, loving myself. I hope to attend another workshops in the future." C.L.

*** "Wonderful 3 days, gentle introduction with humour, passion and compassion. You have a gift for teaching. Thank you for your warmth." C.M.

*** "Really enjoyed it and delighted to have found you as my guide into this wonderful practice. You have passed on so much wisdom I look forward to using it and hope to do further courses with you. I am now ready to embrace my fully sexual femininity for the first time fully. Thank you. Namaste beautiful woman. I felt safe and ready." A.M.

*** "Thank you for a truly inspirational & wonderful workshop. Your gentle thorough instructions and magical cauldron of energy was amazing." K.W.

*** "Thank you! I'm very happy I could meet you and learn from you. Very appreciated is your gentle & feminine way of introducing all the levels of the practice. I liked to listen about the philosophical roots of the teaching. You have a great gift of creating intimate trustful atmosphere. I want to explore and experience more & more." G.K.

*** "Anamarta Aloha! I loved the workshop...felt fine doing all the exercises. Thank you!" S.G.

*** "Thank you, Sister Priestess! I loved the yin elements of your workshop: yin time, following our own cycles, listen to our bodies, etc. I'd love to keep in touch...Blessings & lots of Goddess inspiration in the future!" A.N.

*** "Different, challenging at times but really lovely. I learned so much. You are a very gifted teacher. Thank you." A.C.

*** "This has been a very energising weekend. I arrived unwell and leave animated, energises, enthusiastic, alive. Many thanks for your gentle wisdom and non-dogmatic approach to these practices. I'm very reassure of your suggestions that we make these practices to guide us and see how we best fit them in our own lives...Beannchtai." E.B.

*** "Mana, Thank you so much for being in my life. Beijinhos" M.G.

*** "Just loved everything I learned. Thank you for your kindness, and inner wisdom and will do my Jade Egg always." P.T.

*** "Thank you for clearing up some miss-informed information for me. Your techniques are easy and practical and integrated with every day living. I wish every woman or young female could learn the breast massage to avoid breast cancer. This Taoist practice should be available for everyone... thank you Anamarta and your teachers." C.G.

*** "Wonderfully presented in a gentle and expert way. Supportive and loving environment for all. Very inspiring workshop full of joy and delight. (will be recommending to lots of my friends!) I look forward to the practice and results! Thank you so much Anamarta- hope to meet you again." J.C.

Anamarta

July Jade Circles

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

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 Rajasthan!

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

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

Anamarta

Segredos Ancestrais para Mulheres Modernas

Quais seriam os segredos ancestrais que proporcionavam às mulheres da Corte Imperial a sua incrível energia sexual, saúde, uma vida plena e cheia de prazer? 
Onde é que descobriram os segredos para a cura e rejuvenescimento? 
Como é que mantinham isto a nível físico: com seus órgãos sexuais revitalizados; ao nível emocional: com a harmonia interior; ao nível energético, com o poder de dirigir e reciclar sua energia? 
E como é que nós, Mulheres Modernas, podemos aprender estes segredos tão bem guardados durante quatro milénios? 
Nós, as mulheres de hoje, tão ocupadas em  gerir as carreiras, filhos, parceiros, estamos muito mais em sintonia com a nossa energia de "fazer", a nossa energia yang, que apesar de importante e necessária, muitas vezes sobrepomos em detrimento do ser, o aspecto yin, o espaço para reconhecermos emoções, o "estar" em silêncio e honrar o nosso caminho feminino.

A abordagem perante a vida naqueles tempos era: "Aproveita ao máximo!"

"Todos temos direito a 100 anos de saúde ou mais!", "Onde é que começa a Vida"?, "E onde acaba"?, estas eram algumas das questões que se colocavam na altura. Concepção, nascimento, morte tudo acontecia nos aposentos. 

A energia sexual tem o poder de criar a vida, mas nem sempre é este o propósito do acto sexual. Assim podemos usar essa mesma energia (sexual) para melhorar a nossa própria vida.

Adoptando estas práticas ancestrais, voltamos-nos para o nosso eu interior, equilibrando o "Fazer" (Yang) com o "Ser"(Yin).

O segredo mais profundo, apenas conhecido pela Imperatriz e suas concubinas, fortalecia os músculos internos, despertava pontos de prazer, aumentava a sensibilidade e intensificava o prazer:

O Ovo de Jade, considerado na tradição xamânica de Kuan Yin, o sémen cristalizado dos dragões, a forma mais pura do yang chi e ao ser colocado na parte mais yin do corpo, ficou coonhecido por criar uma perfeita harmonia do yin e yang, minimizando a TPM (tensão pré mestrual) e os síndromes da menopausa.

Artigo  para a revista do 'Salisbury Center' de Edinburgo - que recebeu o workshop do Jade Circle

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* Faeries & Trees *

Just arriving from Fairy Land for hosting our Jade Circle workshop in Dublin, what a magical time.
I was reassure that the fairies exist! And I even become 'officially a fairy'!...  I passed 'my test' apparently (thinking I was just going to facilitate a workshop ;) and was honoured with a ceremony and a warm welcome from the Fey realm.
On the right with the gifts from the fairies, the wings and wand...
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 Máire 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

What a wonderful welcome back!!

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

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... 
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

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!

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!!

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

HAPPY WOMEN'S DAY!!

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

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

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

Look forward to see you & meet you!

Anamarta

Celebrating the sacred feminine and unveiling its mystery!

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 present 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

!! CeLebRaTing 2 !!

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.
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) 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 !! :))

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

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

Look forward to see you and meet you!

Anamarta

!! HAPPY NEW YEAR !!

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