Recognizing the Sacred Feminine: Stories and Meditations for the Rebalancing of Our World

Heartfelt and accessible, Recognizing the Sacred Feminine: Stories and Meditations for the Rebalancing of Our World offered me a fresh perspective on my own feminine experience. I found it to be grounding, validating, and full of insights. The author's personal stories are instructive and enjoyable. This is a read to cherish and pass along.

This deeply personal and grounded account of Julie Wester’s spiritual journey comes at a time when our world urgently requires the healing truth-telling of wise women. This accessible book is one that men as well should find insightful.

Beautiful book to heal the female heart in all of us. One beautiful story after another is presented. A girl child knows that the Buddha is a princess. Bali girls become goddesses, as they learn the traditional dances along with their mothers, sisters and grandmothers. The author’s stories of her female wisdom teachers who support her to be the wisdom of the Buddha. I love Julie’s question: “Do I dare to place an image of myself, as the sacred feminine, at the center of my altar?” How beautifully daring!!! My favorite story is of the 5 Dakinis. Dakinis represent energies that are innate within us through our body sensations. Anger, sadness, pride all can be felt within. Nothing wrong with feelings as long as we learn how meet the energy with awareness and kindness. Turn anger into the wisdom of clear understanding, discerning wisdom, strength and courage. One other favorite, the Prajna Paramita story, where we learn to drop our sense of a separate self and find unity in all things, the greatest love of all. Julie Wester says women have stories about our female wounds and we need to share these stories to find our way out of isolation and into realignment with our true radiant nature. Our sorrow is the doorway that can open us to the portal of our sacred empowered feminine. Men can integrate this feminine nature within themselves as well. Thank you Julie for your personal stories and your wisdom gleaned!

Recognizing the Sacred Feminine: Stories and Meditations for the Rebalancing of our World is an exquisite, intimate journey into the heart of the feminine.Bringing the spiritual into form, Ms. Wester calls us, to see and embrace the interconnected web of life, to understand and live in the presence of the Sacred Now.In Hafiz's words she beckons us:"Now is the time to know That all that you do is sacred… Now is the time for the world to know That every thought and action is sacred."Highly recommend this insightful gift from one of Spirit Rock's lauded Meditation teachers.

“Recognizing the Sacred Feminine: Stories and Meditations for the Rebalancing of Our world” is a gentle gem that urges awakening to one’s personal essence. It offers a compressed history of women in the Western World combined with Ms. Wester’s personal experiences in becoming sacred and the teachings she received. The honesty in her offerings generate an increased sensitivity to the precious magic of everyday life. Her stories are honed to an exquisite simplicity that encourage a calming and spacious perspective.

This book is a gift for the soul! Wester’s exploration of the sacred feminine is both grounding and freeing. It is grounding in the sense of articulating the core wisdom which we sense, but which is insufficiently celebrated and too often dismissed or discouraged in our culture, freeing because this affirmation can fuel a joyous reconnection to and courage of expression of the sacred feminine, which is so needed in our world.Ellen Pettit

This author blends short, guided meditations with insightful reflections and personal experiences. Having practiced Buddhist meditation and read countless books over fifty years, I found Recognizing the Sacred Feminine: Stories and Meditations for the Rebalancing of Our World to be a true stand out, and very applicable to life's everyday challenges. Can't wait to share this gift!

As a decades-long meditator, Recognizing The Sacred Feminine is the book that I have been waiting for. The book comes alive with the voices of women whose lives and teachings are an important contribution to all who want to live a heart-centered, embodied, and compassionate life. It is an important resource for teachers and students alike and a joy to read and contemplate.