Practices with Mother Nature to regulate the nervous system
Learn how to use the elements of earth, water, fire, air, and spirit to soothe your nervous system and regulate trauma.
- Explore how your body relates to Mother Nature and healing
- Learn about the elements and its relation to our nervous system
- Ground and become present with yourself
- Decrease dissociation, overwhelm, and numbness
- Discover how spirit plays into our body and nature
Twenty pages of questions to get closer to yourself and what you need to regulate your nervous system.
When we dissociate from our world because of trauma, we become locked in survival fight, flight, and freeze. Retuning to what creates and builds nature returns us to our own creation.
Earth becomes the rooted sense of self. Fire becomes the passion for pursuits and the boundaries for self protection. Water becomes the ease of flow of our emotions and movement. Air becomes the breezy life of our thoughts rather than sticky rumination. Spirit is the essence of our life force designed for our individual purpose and pleasure.
When we work with our creator in Mother Nature, we rewire ourselves into what we were supposed to be before trauma captured us.
Pause and Presence Worksheet
Deep mindfulness with embodied grounding.
Four steps to deepen your mindfulness work but connecting your body to your environment and rewiring your discomfort into peace.
Step 1 – Proper Pause
Step 2 – Real Presence
Step 3 – Bridging our environment and body
Step 4 – Bringing peace to our discomfort
Book – The Great Cosmic Mother
This classic exploration of the Goddess through time and throughout the world draws on religious, cultural, and archaeological sources to recreate the Goddess religion that is humanity’s heritage. Now, with a new introduction and full-colour artwork, this passionate and important text show even more clearly that the religion of the Goddess – which is tied to the cycles of women’s bodies, the seasons, the phases of the moon, and the fertility of the earth – was the original religion of all humanity.
- Part One – Women’s Early Culture: Beginnings
- Part Two – Women’s Early Religion
- Part Three – Women’s Culture and Religion in Neolithic Times
- Part Four – Patriarchal Culture and Religion
Can be purchased with other matriarchal books
Book – Women Who Run With the wolves
Within every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. But she is an endangered species. In Women Who Run With The Wolves, Dr. Estes unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairytales, and stories, many from her own family, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. Through the stories and commentaries in this remarkable book, we retrieve, examine, love, and understand the Wild Woman and hold her against our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine. Dr. Estes has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul.
- Chapter One: The Howl – Resurrection of the Wild Woman
- Chapter Two: Stalking The Intruder – The Beginning Initiation
- Chapter Three: Nosing Out The Facts – The Retrieval of Intuition as Initiation
- Chapter Four: The Mate – Union With The Other
- Chapter Five: Hunting – When The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
- Chapter Six: Finding One’s Pack – Belonging As Blessing
- Chapter Seven: Joyous Body – The Wild Flesh
- Chapter Eight: Self-Preservation – Identifying Leg Traps, Cages, and Poisoned Bait
- Chapter Nine: Homing – Returning to Oneself
- Chapter Ten: Clear Water – Nourishing the Creative Life
- Chapter Eleven: Heat – Retrieving A Sacred Sexuality
- Chapter Twelve: Marking Territory – The Boundaries of Rage
- Chapter Thirteen: Battle Scars – Membership In the Scar Clan
- Chapter Fourteen: La Selva Subterranea: Initiation in the Underground Forest
- Chapter Fifteen – Shawdowing – Canto Hondo, The Deep Song
- Chapter Sixteen – The Wolf’s Eyelash
can be purchased with other matriarchal books
Book – If Women rose rooted
If Women Rose Rooted has been described as both transformative and essential. Sharon Blackie leads us on a quest to find our place in the world, drawing inspiration from wild landscapes and the wise and powerful women in narrative mythology, and guidance from contemporary role models who have re-rooted themselves in land and community and taken responsibility for shaping the future.
Beautifully written, honest and moving. If Women Rose Rooted is a passionate song to a different kind of femininity, a rallying, feminist cry for the rewilding of womanhood; reclaiming our role as guardians of the land.
- Chapter One: Reclaiming our stories
- Chapter Two: Wells and Waters – The Wasteland
- Chapter Three: Islands of the Heart – Embracing the Call
- Chapter Four: Deep Caves and Bottomless Lakes – The Cauldron of Transformation
- Chapter Five: Find the Path – The Pilgram’s Way
- Chapter Six: Moor and Bod – Retrieving the Buried Feminine
- Chapter Seven: The Enchanted Forest – Restoring the Balance
- Chapter Eight: The Fertile Fields – The Heroine’s Return
- Chapter Nine: Mountains and Rocky Heights – Becoming Elder
- Chapter Ten: If Women Rose Rooted