How to be an Elder

How to be an Elder: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype, by Clarissa Pinkola Estes.

What makes an elder, a heartfelt spirit, a clear mind, a talented heart, one who is young while old and old while young, an activist for the Soul? Is it formulae, schemas, lexicons? It could be. But also, and often more so, I think it is very like the flowering of the trees in the forest, as we gather more years: we straggle and stride onward in our better learned ways to give out even more seeds for new life, and to blossom wildly in so doing for self and others. The old ones are yet traveling underground and overland toward us as we meet one more time: La Vidente, the Seer; La Que Sabe, the Knowing Woman; La Levantadora, the Lifter of Curses, the Dangerous Old Woman in her many likenesses calls to you to 'get down to business.' (Clarissa Pinkola Estés, PhD)

How to Be an Elder presents the culmination of Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés' masterwork, inviting us to 'come into our own as wiser and wild souls,' through six sessions of teachings, stories, poetry, and blessings. In this fifth and final volume of Dr. Estés' landmark series, we will explore how it is that through the gathering of our years we become a beautiful refuge for ourselves, our Souls, and for those who come after us.

"Did I mention, dear brave souls," reminds Dr. Estés, "that you came with all the seedlings needed to do your work, to take your venerable places in life? Now is the just-right time, like Sleeping Beauty, to break the enchantment, to truly awaken and awaken others, as either a rookie Dangerous Old Woman, or a mid-career Dangerous Old Woman, or as Crone with Crown complete.

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Heaven's Bride: The Unprintable Life of Ida C. Craddock

Heaven's Bride: The Unprintable Life of Ida C. Craddock, American Mystic, Scholar, Sexologist, Martyr, and Madwoman, by Leigh Eric Schmidt. The nineteenth-century eccentric Ida C. Craddock was by turns a secular freethinker, a religious visionary, a civil-liberties advocate, and a resolute defender of belly-dancing. Arrested and tried repeatedly on obscenity charges, she was deemed a danger to public morality for her candor about sexuality. By the end of her life Craddock, the nemesis of the notorious vice crusader Anthony Comstock, had become a favorite of free-speech defenders and women’s rights activists. She soon became as well the case-history darling of one of America’s earliest and most determined Freudians.

In Heaven’s Bride, prize-winning historian Leigh Eric Schmidt offers a rich biography of this forgotten mystic, who occupied the seemingly incongruous roles of yoga priestess, suppressed sexologist, and suspected madwoman. In Schmidt’s evocative telling, Craddock’s story reveals the beginning of the end of Christian America, a harbinger of spiritual variety and sexual revolution.

Leigh Eric Schmidt is Charles Warren Professor of American Religious History at Harvard University, and the author of numerous books, including Restless Souls and Consumer Rites. He lives in Belmont, Massachusetts. Click here for more information or to order.

Changing Shoes

Changing Shoes: Getting Older--Not Old--with Style, Humor, and Grace, by Tina Sloan. After twenty-six years starring as nurse Lillian Raines on the hit soap opera Guiding Light, Tina Sloan knows a thing or two about surviving the pitfalls of growing older in front of the world. From depleted storylines, to transitioning from sizzling screen diva to a mature grandmother Changing Shoes shows that even TV grandmothers can have style and flair. Drawing from the lessons she has learned in her own life, Tina candidly shares her endearing, sensitive, and often funny, story of crossing into her next phase of her life. And, in doing so, she offers important tips on how to embrace womanhood with ease. For twenty-six years, Tina Sloan, played the role of nurse Lillian Raines on Guiding Light, which aired its final episode in 2009 after a seventy- two-year run on radio and television. Sloan has appeared on many other television shows, including Search for Tomorrow, Law & Order: SVU, and in a variety of feature films, including The Brave One and Changing Lanes. She is currently shooting two feature films and touring nationally in her acclaimed one-woman show, "Changing Shoes." She lives in New York.

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Energy Medicine For Women

Energy Medicine for Women: Aligning Your Body's Energies to Boost Your Health and Vitality, by Donna Eden and David Feinstein with a foreword by Christiane Northrup. For more than three decades, Donna Eden has been teaching people to understand the body as an energy system, to recognize their aches and pains as signals of energy imbalance, and to reclaim their natural healing capabilities. In this long-awaited new book, Eden speaks directly to women, showing them how they can work with energy to tackle the specific health challenges they face. Hormonal health is essential to a woman’s well-being, and in this groundbreaking book Eden reveals that a woman can manage her hormones by managing her energies. In fact, energy medicine is effective in treating a host of health issues. From PMS to menopause, from high blood pressure to depression, it offers solutions to women’s health issues that traditional medicine often fails to provide. In Energy Medicine for Women, Eden shows women how they can work with energy to strengthen their immune, circulatory, lymphatic, and respiratory systems to promote health, vitality, and inner peace. Blending a compassionate voice with a profound grasp of how the female body functions as an energy system, Eden presents what is sure to become a classic book on the subject of women’s health.

Sacred Land: Intuitive Gardening for Personal, Political and Environmental Change

Sacred Land: Intuitive Gardening for Personal, Political and Environmental Change, by Clea Danaan. Clea Danaan breaks new ground with Sacred Land-a fresh approach to sacred gardening that goes beyond the backyard. Danaan shows how the garden can germinate environmental awareness and political change while feeding the spirit. You'll learn how to create compost, save seeds, connect with garden goddesses, perform rituals and magic, and incorporate planetary energy in the garden. Each of the four sections-spanning earth, air, fire, and water-suggest ways of spreading this message of ecology and sustainability to the community. There are also inspiring stories of activists, farmers, artists, healers and other women who are making a difference in the world. Clea Danaan (Colorado) has been gardening organically for over fifteen years. Her articles on gardening and environmental activism have appeared in Sage Woman and Organic Family. She lives near Denver with her husband and daughter.

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Grandmothers Counsel the World

Grandmothers Counsel the World: Women Elders Offer Their Vision for Our Planet, by Carol Schaefer. What would the world be like if our grandmothers were in charge? In some Native American societies, tribal leaders consulted a council of grandmothers before making any major decisions. What if we consulted our wise women elders about the problems facing our global community today? Grandmothers Counsel the World offers the insights and guidance of thirteen indigenous grandmothers from five continents, many of whom are living legends among their own peoples. The thirteen grandmothers represent tribes from the Arctic Circle; North, South, and Central America; Africa; Asia; Tibet; and Australia. In 2004 they gathered together for an unprecedented meeting in the United States where they discussed the major challenges facing the world and shared their tribes’ timeless wisdom on how best to move forward. Grandmothers Counsel the World, inspired by this watershed meeting, offers the grandmothers’ rich and varied sources of wisdom, new visions and prophecies for humanity, and time-honored teachings on cultivating well-being and living in harmony with each other and the natural world. The grandmothers also share their thoughts and advice on such timely issues as nurturing our families; cultivating physical and mental health; and confronting violence, war, and poverty. Also in attendance at this historic meeting were notable Western women elders including Alice Walker, Gloria Steinem, Helena Norberg-Hodge, and Theresa Hale—all of whom are also profiled and quoted at length in the book.

13 Moon Oracle

13 Moon Oracle: A Journey Through the Archetypal Faces of the Divine Feminine, by Ariel Spilsbury. The 13 Moon Oracle is an interactive kit for entering into and working with the mysteries of the divine feminine. In the spirit of her mentors Jean Houston and Joseph Campbell, master crone Ariel Spilsbury teaches how to access the nonlinear mind to invoke the archetypal inner world of the goddess using the finely crafted oracular tools contained within this kit. Kit includes 39 oracle cards, a casting board, a guidebook, the four-CD series Mythic Journeys into the 13 Temples of the Divine Feminine, and a silk pouch with three throwing tokens.

A Weekend to Change Your Life

A Weekend to Change Your Life: Find Your Authentic Self After a Lifetime of Being All Things to All People, by Joan Anderson. New York Times bestselling author Joan Anderson gives women practical advice and inspiration for building creative, independent, and fulfilling lives through discovering who they truly are and who they can be. Like Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way, Joan Anderson’s bestselling A Year by the Sea revealed a far larger than expected constituency, in the form of thousands of women struggling to realize their full potential. After years of focusing on the needs of others as a wife and mother, Anderson devoted a year to rediscovering herself and reinvigorating her dreams. The questions she asked herself and the insights she gained became the core of the popular weekend workshops Anderson developed to help women figure out how—after being all things to all people—they can finally become what they need to be for themselves. A Weekend to Change Your Life brings Anderson’s techniques to women everywhere, providing a step-by-step path readers can follow at their own pace.

Drawing on her own life and on the experiences of the women she meets at her workshops, Anderson shows women how to move beyond the roles they play in relationship to others and reclaim their individuality. Through illustrations and gentle instruction, she illuminates the rewards of nurturing long-neglected talents, revitalizing plans sacrificed to the demands of family life, and redefining oneself by embracing new possibilities.

Mother-Daughter Wisdom

Mother-Daughter Wisdom: Understanding the Crucial Link Between Mothers, Daughters, and Health, by Christiane Northrup, Md. The mother-daughter relationship sets the stage for our state of health and well-being for our entire lives. Because our mothers are our first and most powerful female role models, our most deeply ingrained beliefs about ourselves as women come from them. And our behavior in relationships–with food, with our children, with our mates, and with ourselves–is a reflection of those beliefs. Once we understand our mother-daughter bonds, we can rebuild our own health, whatever our age, and create a lasting positive legacy for the next generation.

Mother-Daughter Wisdom introduces an entirely new map of female development, exploring the “five facets of feminine power,” which range from the basics of physical self-care to the discovery of passion and purpose in life. This blueprint allows any woman–whether or not she has children–to repair the gaps in her own upbringing and create a better adult relationship with her mother. If she has her own daughter, it will help her be the mother she has always wanted to be.

Drawing on patient case histories and personal experiences, Dr. Northrup also presents findings at the cutting edge of medicine and psychology. Written with warmth, enthusiasm, and rare intelligence, Mother-Daughter Wisdom is an indispensable book destined to change lives and become essential reading for all women. Now in paperback!

Women of the Way: Discovering 2,500 Years of Buddhist Wisdom

Women of the Way: Discovering 2,500 Years of Buddhist Wisdom, by Sallie Tisdale. Known for her books and essays but less well-known as a lay Buddhist teacher and consulting editor to the magazine Tricycle, Tisdale unites her spiritual and feminist concerns by breathing life into historical women of Buddhism. The book constructs a female lineage (line of teachers) for Zen Buddhism, including ancestors known through mythic tales and through Indian, Chinese and Japanese traditional writings. So much of women's history is unwritten that Tisdale "reimagines" the past in a series of stories about individual women who taught and practiced Buddhism. Some sketches are as beautifully done as brush paintings, apparently simple yet the result of skillful rendering of details selected to summon up an unknown and far removed life. Tisdale's descriptive writing is especially imaginative ("Their waters are endlessly broken by canoes and rough sailing boats, and endlessly renewed"). Occasionally, the book is confusing; the Western eye only slowly negotiates the Japanese names that can pile up in any given story of a woman and her family, teachers and temples. Although not a book for beginning students of Buddhism, this compilation of gracefully written stories helps American Buddhism put its egalitarian stamp on the evolving wisdom tradition that originated with the Indian prince Siddhartha 2,500 years ago. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood

Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood, by Suzanne Levine. The first editor of Ms. magazine helps women address the three crucial questions of second adulthood: What matters? What works? What’s next? New brain research is proving it: Women at midlife really do start to see the world differently. Some 37 million women now entering their fifties and sixties—a unique generation—are refashioning their lives, with dramatic results. They have fulfilled all the prescribed roles— daughter, wife, mother, employee, but they’re not ready to retire. They want to experience more. Suzanne Braun Levine gives us a fun, smart, and tremendously informative road map through the challenging and uncharted territory that lies ahead.

Sacred Places of the Goddess: 108 Destinations

Sacred Places of the Goddess: 108 Destinations, by Karen Tate. Designed to present a diversity of places both sacred and feminine, this coffee table book is filled with photographs from every corner of the world, from the Middle East to Europe, Africa, and the Americas. The images of feminine divinity presented are as uniform in their beauty as they are diverse in cultural tradition. A history of each site is provided in conjunction with the photography. Tate is an accredited goddess practitioner living in Venice, California.

The Multi-Orgasmic Woman

The Multi-Orgasmic Woman: Discover Your Full Desire, Pleasure, and Vitality, By Mantak Chia and Rachel Carlton Abrams, M.D., from Rodale. ISBN 1594860270. The Multi-Orgasmic Woman is a for-women-only, intimate journey into female desire and sexual satisfaction, guided by every woman's dream doctor. With its help, you can not only reach your true sexual potential but also discover a more joyous and healthy way of living in your body. The book begins with a self-assessment to help you discover your own unique sexual potential. It then leads you through a series of exercises that will allow you to experience both multiple orgasms and increased wellness and vibrancy, ending with a life-cycle guide that illustrates the changes in a woman's sexual needs over her lifetime.

The exercises in these pages will help woman who do not orgasm regularly to have them, women who are not multi-orgasmic to become so, and multi-orgasmic women to deepen and intensify their sex lives. This whole-life approach to sexuality will show you that profound sexual fulfillment arises not from the number of orgasms you have, but from allowing your sexual and emotional lives to be a source of infinite joy and boundless vitality. you will realize that your relationship to your body, your desire, and your pleasure are essential to your overall well-being, your satisfaction, and every aspect of your life.

For the millions of women who have never experienced the pulsating pleasures of orgasm, and for the millions who have, The Multi-Orgasmic Woman combines the secrets of ancient Eastern sexual practices with the best of Western sexual knowledge. Women of all ages, whether partnered or not, can benefit from the time-tested exercises in this book and learn how to not only orgasm any time they want -- but to orgasm as many times as they want and to prolong those orgasms into expanded full-body orgasms.

But orgasms are just the beginning. The authors, a Taoist master and a medical doctor, reveal an ancient secret that's only recently gained the support of modern science: we can live truly healthy lives only if we connect to the source of our overall well-bring -- our sexual energy. In step-by-step exercises, the authors guide you in harnessing that sexual energy in a way that nourishes and enriches the rest of your body, your mind, and your soul.

Authors:
Master Mantak Chia is the world's best-known teacher of the Taoist arts, from Tai Chi to Taoist sexuality. He is the author of the best-sellers The Multi-Orgasmic Man and The Multi-Orgasmic Couple as well as the self-published classics Taoist Secrets of Love and Healing Love through the Tao. He lives in Thailand and teaches in the United States and around the world.

Rachel Carlton Abrams, M.D. is a family practice physician who specializes in complementary medicine as well as women's health and sexuality. The coauthor of The Multi-Orgasmic Couple, she lives in northern California with her husband and three children.

Woman in the Shaman's Body

Woman in the Shaman's Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion & Medicine, by Barbara Tedlock, from Bantam Doubleday Dell, ISBN 0553108530. A distinguished anthropologist reveals the female roots of the world's oldest form of religion and medicine, and celebrates women's role in the worldwide resurgence of shamanism today. Reinterpreting generations of scholarship, Tedlock explains how and why the role of women in shamanism was misinterpreted and suppressed, with illuminating stories, illustrations and evidence. She also describes her own shamanic training among the Maya of Guatemala and the rich record of women warriors and hunters, spiritual guides, and prophets from many cultures and times.

Mother-Daughter Wisdom: Creating a Legacy of Physical & Emotional Health

Mother-Daughter Wisdom: Creating a Legacy of Physical & Emotional Health, by Christiane Northrup, at from Bantam Doubleday Dell, ISBN 0553105736. The best-selling author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause introduces an entirely new map of female development, exploring the "five facets of feminine power." Ranging from physical self-care to finance, sexuality, and the discovery of passion and purpose, Northrup's blueprint allows readers to repair the gaps in their upbringing and create better adult relationships with their mothers. If they have daughters, it will help them become the mothers they always wanted to be.

Goddess Guidance Oracle Cards

Goddess Guidance Oracle Cards, by Doreen Virtue, from Hay House, ISBN 1401903010. The goddesses are angelic, powerful, loving beings who want to help you with every part of your life. In this set of 44 oracle cards you'll learn who the different cross-cultural goddesses are and how they can help you. Each card gives you a specific message about how you can improve your life, health, relationships, finances, career, and spiritual path.

Mother's Wisdom Deck

Mother's Wisdom Deck, from Bluestar Communications, ISBN 1885394616. The unconditional nurturing care that comforted us as children is needed more than ever in today's world. This deck presents 40 wisdom cards, illustrated with exquisite images by the incomparable Sulamith Wulfing, each accompanied by words of gentle wisdom from the heart of mother-love. The cards offer guidance and understanding for difficult times, or simply a daily reminder of the infinite source of divine tenderness within us all.