• Silver Medal Winner in the prestigious Nautilus Book Award Competition 2016.• Winner of of the 2016 "Best Book" Awards as a Finalist in the 'Spirituality: Inspirational’ category. • Finalist in the Spirituality: Inspirational category in the 2016 International Book Awards.This empowering, poetic, and magically potent book will entice women of all ages to explore and activate their relationship with the divine, feminine and most sacred part of themselves–their goddess within. In this book, Back to the Goddess founder Renée Starr takes women on an enchanting, inspiring journey, offering ancient wisdom in a fresh, modern way to help woman reclaim their beauty, grace, and strength.In Part 1, she leads readers back through history to revisit the reverence for women that every ancient culture possessed. From the dawn of pre-history, women were perceived as holy, sacred, and divine incarnations of the Great Mother Goddess. Powerful figures full of strength, wisdom, and leadership, women were the keepers of the human race, from which all life flowed.In Part 2, Starr retells in mesmerizing narrative 7 goddess myths from ancient cultures around the world: Ancient Egypt, Africa, India, Tibet, Ancient Greece, Lakota, and the Judeo-Christian Bible. Each myth presents a quality that modern women can restore into their lives: Lilith (Power), Yemaya (Creativity), Tara (Stillness), Radha (Passion), Kassandra (Voice), White Buffalo Calf Woman (Wisdom), and Eve (Awakening). Accompanying each myth are anointing, bathing and lunar rituals, instructions for altars, invocations, meditations, and more. In Part 3, Starr shows women how to integrate the teachings of The Divine Feminine into everyday life, honoring the sacredness of their body and how to be in energetic, feminine balance. The book offers fresh, new ways for women to embrace their ancient and sacred traditions. It uplifts the spirit of any woman–from young womanhood to her elder, wise-woman years. It honors the Feminine spirit that all women can celebrate in themselves to rebalance the world. Readers will live more fulfilled lives and feel more confident, free and feminine...becoming the goddesses they were meant to be.Beautifully designed; includes a foreword by Raquel Allegra, noted fashion designer.
The modern woman often doesn't know herself as a goddess; her feminine energy is out of balance and her divine essence goes unnoticed. We are now entering a new time - The Age of Woman, when women throughout the world are looking for ways both ancient and new, to awaken their feminine essence - which will, in turn, balance the masculine essence of the world.
This inspiring, poetic and magically potent book will entice women of all ages to explore and activate their relationship with the divine, feminine and most sacred part of themselves - The Goddess within them.
In YOU ARE WOMAN, YOU ARE DIVINE, Back to the Goddess founder and master mythologist Renee Starr takes women on an enchanting, empowering journey. YOU ARE WOMAN, YOU ARE DIVINE offers fresh, new ways for women to embrace their ancient and sacred traditions. It uplifts the spirit of any woman - from young womanhood to her elder, wisdom years. It honours the Feminine spirit that all women can celebrate in themselves to rebalance the world. Readers will live more fulfilled lives and feel more confident, free and feminine…becoming the goddesses on earth they were meant to be.
Beautifully designed & illustrated; includes a foreword by Raquel Allegra, noted fashion designer.
In Part 1 of the book, she leads readers back through history to revisit the reverence for women that every ancient culture possessed. From the dawn of pre-history, women were perceived as holy, sacred, and divine incarnations of the Great Mother Goddess. Powerful figures full of strength, wisdom, and leadership, women were the keepers of the human race, from which all life flowed. In Part 2, Starr retells in mesmerising narrative seven of the greatest goddess myths from ancient cultures around the world: Ancient Egypt, Africa, India, Tibet, Ancient Greece, Lakota, and the Judeo-Christian Bible. Each myth presents a quality that modern women can restore back into their lives: Lilith (Power), Yemaya (Creativity), Tara (Stillness), Rada (Passion), Kassandra (Voice), White Buffalo Calf Woman (Wisdom), and Eve (Awakening). Accompanying each myth are anointing, bathing and lunar rituals, instructions for altars, invocations, meditations and more to deepen their connection to their own inner goddess-self and inspire living the Goddess Lifestyle. In Part 3, Starr shows women how to integrate the teachings of the Divine Feminine into everyday life, honouring the sacredness of their body and how to be in energetic, feminine balance.
