Dear awakening woman,

Do you ever get the feeling that there's more to your feminine expression? Do you ever long to connect to others, to life and to yourself in a more intimate way? Do you have unpleasant feelings arise when you tap into your sensuality?

If so, you're certainly not alone.

Many of us feel there is so much more to our sensuality, so much more bliss, joy, freedom, wildness, ecstasy, creative-potency, love, intimacy and connection. The trouble is, most of us were never shown how to open those doors. Heck, most of us weren't even shown how to have a healthy relationship with our bodies, much less a healthy relationship with the fullness of our feminine energy!

To me, there's been a lack of education for us around 'the good stuff', the intimate women's wisdom that heals and awakens.

It's so disheartening to think back on how I was taught about my feminine essence in my teen years. The main teaching was three-fold: anatomy, pads vs tampons and how to put a condom on a banana. Useful, sure, but the juicy stuff got left out! Stuff like:

• How do we fully open to the potent, life-giving, love-filled, creative aspects of our beings?
• How do move away from our sensual energy being in a repressed, hidden, shamed state to an open, loving, healthy, beautiful state?
• How do we as modern women open into an enlivened, fully empowered, sensual being in a healthy way?
• How do we open to the heights and depths of union with another?

The lack of intimate feminine wisdom being shared, combined with the current state of sexuality in most cultures, shatters my heart, makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up and a deep fire in my belly glow with an intensity that feels as if it might consume me!

I've been an advocate for women's awakening and the reclamation of the full feminine essence within for a long time now. But before stepping into opening doors and holding space for another woman to heal and awaken I had to do the deep, big mamma work for myself.

It wasn't easy but it was worth it. Every tear I cried, every howl I howled, every roar I roared during my own healing and awakening process wasn't just for me... It was for every woman who's ever been objectified, abused, shamed or put down in some way. It was for my mother, my aunts, my grandmother. I howled because they couldn't.

I howled for the generations of women who didn't have access to spaces like this or practices like these to release all the pain and wounding we carry in our cellular memory, in our DNA and in our past-life records.

Walking this path has changed every aspect of my life. It's changed how deeply and lovingly I can connect with my body (all of it - even the tiger stripes on my hips, my beautiful sagging breasts and my monthly cycle).

Walking this path has changed how I work in the world, what I do with my time, what I create, how connected I am to the natural rhythms of the authentic feminine. It's changed how I voice my truths. It's change my ability to set boundaries and my ability to decipher self from other, self from family and self from the collective.

Walking this path has changed every single aspect of my intimate relationships. It's changed my ability to be open, to be seen and to be vulnerable with my man.

Something I learned about deep connection to another is that when I felt I wasn't being met by my beloved, it wasn't because he couldn't meet me there, it was because somewhere deep inside, often very hidden from my mind, I couldn't allow myself to go to those places. Before walking this path, there was too much dark hidden stuff in the basement of my being for me to trust, to open, and to love and be loved in the way my heart and soul were longing.

The unconscious bits from this life, from the collective, from my ancestral lines and past lives blocked me from opening, blocked me from orgasming, blocked me from connection and love.

It was an amazing time in my life and I am forever indebted to my beloved Stavros and to the teachers, healers and facilitators who held the space and opened the doors for me to walk into the basement with a glowing torch and shine the most magnificent healing and awakening light onto everything that was blocking me from the fullness of my sexuality and the fullness of my love.

Now, years later, I offer this same space for women around the world. I do this in in-person retreats and workshops, but I also do this here, in this online retreat. I share this space and this deep feminine wisdom in a way that makes it accessible for almost all women around the world.

I say 'almost all women' around the world because not all have the freedoms that you and I have. As painful as it is to hear, there are women in this world who are still living under slave-like conditions where their bodies, and sometimes even their lives are not their own.

This drops me to my knees in a humbled sort of gratitude with deep reverence for the fact that "We get to do this!" We get to awaken to the fullness of our feminine!  We get to change things for ourselves, for our children, for our ancestors and even for the women who aren't yet free to do the same!

When you join me in this online retreat, you're not only making a choice to heal and awaken yourself, you're also helping heal and awaken a woman or child who doesn't have our same freedoms. We're donating 10% of all proceeds to the incredible charity Love146. They work their butts off to stop abuse and exploitation of women and children around the world and I'm excited to share that we have already donated over $4,000!

My friend, I'm sending so much love for your personal journey of healing and awakening to the fullness of your feminine. I'm also holding the intention that everything we do here in this online retreat to liberate and empower ourselves spreads through this world like wildfire - transforming everything in its wake!

So much love to you dear sister
Sabrina Lynn