The Fire Inside

An inquiry - How are we are deconditioning from more masculine ways of being and leaning into our feminine sides? How do we cultivate the new generation of empowered and awakened women the world desperately needs to come into balance?

Sara Campbell

Confusion of selflessness with inner poverty can be especially difficult for women. In our male-dominated culture, a woman can grow up feeling that she doesn’t really count, that she will not amount to much in this man’s world, that a woman’s fate and work is not of value. This powerful conditioning can lead to an identity riddled with depression,

Jack Kornfield • A Path With Heart

We do not need more selfless women. What we need right now is more women who have detoxed themselves so completely from the world's expectations that they are full of nothing but themselves. What we need are women who are full of themselves. A woman who is full of herself knows and trusts herself enough to say and do what must be done.

glennon doyle • Untamed by Glennon Doyle

We recognize the sacredness of all life

We recognize there is an imbalance in the world creating the current state of ecological and political emergency

We believe the re-emergence of the sacred feminine through spiritual and social development is key to healing this imbalance leading to partnership between masculine and feminine, in a more balanced

Mission, Vision, Values - Tara Mandala

Tara Mandala’s organizational values

Perhaps the greatest kindness of Tara is how she reminds me that in order to be free, I must embrace my own suffering and allow it to teach me about the nature of how things really are. In my experience, the practice of Tara is an invitation to experience the divine feminine and to contact a sense of sacred masculinity that transcends racism and... See more

Rod Owens • ‘Woman Hold My Hand’

Rather, the feminine way is about recognizing that the flow of abundance is around us always, and simply being open to receive.” It’s what life coach and “possibilitarian” Cherie Healey described to me once as: “allowing life to happen through you”—whereas the masculine approach is to make life happen “by you” (through sheer will and effort).

Ruby Warrington • Material Girl, Mystical World

I understood with sudden clarity that doing the right thing—being right—gets you nothing in this world. It’s the sinners everyone loves: the flailers, the scramblers, the bumblers. There was nothing sexy about getting it right the first time.

Jennifer Egan • The Candy House: A Novel

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet. —Adrienne Rich

Emilia Hart • Weyward

Because I prefer not to reject my critical or judgmental nature, it’s important to remember that my love for improvement is fundamentally about enhancing how good my life feels. So, if a part of me, such as my critical or judgmental nature, is trying to serve this improvement but doesn’t feel good, that means its energies are being used... See more

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embracing the whole self, not just the parts you like

THERE ARE MANY kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise. The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling. In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within... See more

Audre Lorde. • Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power

Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: Erotic as Power