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Meditation Secrets for Women
discovering your passion, pleasure and inner peace
by Camille Maurine and Lorin Roche, Ph.D.
How
many of us, when considering meditation, have visions of monks sitting
awkwardly with crossed legs and stiff backs, chanting inaudible sounds
mixed with total silence? The thought of learning to meditate can
be daunting and intimidating. We tell ourselves that we'll learn to
meditate another day, another year when life is slower and quieter.
Yet meditation, yoga, chi and other rejuvenating and spiritually awakening
practices are being mentioned by our friends, discussed online and
reviewed in magazines more than ever. If you are like me, you want
to participate and learn! The authors of Meditation
Secrets have opened a new door, one which allows us the freedom
of designing our own meditation techniques. They explain that the
techniques that worked for "reclusive and celibate males" need updating
for contemporary women. As you read this enlightening book, you will
discover a refreshing new view of what meditation really is.
Camille Maurine
and Lorin Roche have opened up some boundaries that many of us have
mistakenly assumed would be irreverent to displace. We are now told
it is okay to find what works for us, and to address our needs and
strengths as women. We are led through a journey that helps us customize
our meditation practice to fit our individual nature. We are taught
what our authors call meditation secrets, all of which are the keys
that open those doors I mentioned above: Celebrate your senses, Honor
your instincts, Claim your inner authority, Be tender with yourself,
Dwell in your inner sanctuary, Answer the call, Ride your rhythms,
Say yes to every part of yourself, Rest in simplicity, Do not fear
the Depths, Love your body, and my favorite: Live it up!
The most empowering
lesson I learned through reading Meditation
Secrets for Women is that each of the secrets are created and
fashioned by our own selves. There are no rules. There are suggestions,
ideas, creative and powerful invitations, but we are in control of
our own meditation! The gifts we will experience by following our
own personal path to meditation will allow us to:
- Make use of
sensual, pleasurable meditation techniques
- Gain a refreshing,
rejuvenating rest that is deeper than sleep
- Relieve stress
and promote good health
- Relax and be
yourself as you reap life-affirming benefits
- Enhance your
relationships and creativity
Meditation
Secrets for Women is a wise and sensible book that lifts my spirits
and energizes my inner self. I keep it near my bed and review sections
often. It is a guide I use in my own life and in my own journal.
Writing my thoughts on this book has been a wonderful opportunity
to share in the celebration of being female!
About the authors:
 Camille
Maurine has been teaching movement, meditation, and theater
since 1975. With her husband, Lorin, she has long been exploring
the experience of the feminine in meditation.
Camille's
work, called kinAesthetics, focuses on accessing one's inner life
through meditation, and then expressing that life in movement, sound,
and speech. She teaches at the Continuum Studio in Santa Monica,
California, offering private sessions, workshops for women, and
Moving Theater classes for men and women. Camille also travels to
give performances and workshops, and is preparing a new presentation
called "Secrets."
Lorin
Roche received his Ph.D. in Social Science from the University
of California at Irvine in 1987. His dissertation was about the
maps that meditators develop to navigating their inner worlds and
the language they come up with to describe their experiences. His
Master's Degree work focused on the hazards of meditation and the
crisis points in a meditator's development.
Dr.
Roche has been exploring, researching and teaching meditation since
1968. Since then he has been developing an approach, which he calls
Instinctive Meditation, that works with the fine structure of individual
uniqueness, rather than imposing a standardized approach. He draws
on insights into how people learn gained from the cognitive sciences,
the Himalayan meditation tradition that TM is based on, Jungian
dream work, and Tai Chi. This integrative approach results in simple
ways for people to learn many different meditation techniques.
Instinctive
Meditation tends to feel more like an innate skill that you are
remembering than a technique that you are learning. Lorin's work
is aimed at activating an individual's internal guidance systems
and bringing forth your instinctive knowing, so that you can safely
practice meditation without being dependent upon Gurus, systems
or external authorities.
Book review by Nancy Eggleston
To Purchase:
• Meditation Secrets for Women at Amazon.com
• Meditation Secrets for Women at Amazon Canada
• Meditation Secrets for Women at Amazon UK
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