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Title: Meditation Secrets for Women: Discovering Your Passion, Pleasure, and Inner Peace by Camille Maurine, Lorin Roche ISBN: 0-06-251697-3 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 23 January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.79 (14 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Revolutionary approach to meditation.
Comment: This review is goiing to be all praise. I loved this book and get so much use out of it. I still refer to it and I bought it when it first came out.

I found "Mediation Secrets for Women" a pleasure to read and revolutionary. The authors challenge traditional approaches to meditation (mostly developed by male monks) and describe a meditation practice particularly tuned to women. It is more sensual and creative than most traditional practices. The book is full of suggestions and it invites the reader to really investigate and create meditation for oneself. When I finished reading "Meditation Secrets for Women" I felt as though I had gotten a "transmission". The writing itself seems to transmit the practice the authors describe and invite the reader into it.

Even though it is "for women", and I am a woman myself, I thought that many men, especially men interested in meditation, would be interested in this book. Sensuality, creativity, emotion, rhythms in life and instincts are domains of all humans. At the very least the book could help men to better understand the deep nature of women.

I find "Secrets" to be revolutionary and a very important book for the empowerment of women because I believe women's progress depends on women accessing inner power which is authentic to them. As I read the book I thought about how practicing deep internal techniques in order to empower themselves is very important for women for all sorts of reasons: making their creative and productive mark in the world, standing up for themselves, resisiting abuse, nurturing themselves and their loved ones, having satisfying intimate relationships, impacting politics, staying healthy and more. Reading this book made me think about how for women to be trying to access their deepest resources by practicing techniques which are an expression of the male psyche, the aesetic male psyche at that, doesn't make too much sense. In fact, it seems like women might unwittingly oppress themselves further by taking the traditional approach. Not that the authors invalidate that approach. They simply bring forward a female way, a female voice from the depths. And, they do it in such a fun and eloquent way.

Deeply thought provoking, practical and useful, beautifully written. Obviously, I highly recommend this book.

Rating: 5
Summary: An encyclopedia for a woman's sovereignty
Comment: 'Meditation Secrets for Women' transcends the popular genre of self-help and how-to books to an unprecedented approach of wisdom applicable to the woman of the 21st century. This book is an encyclopedia of solutions that a woman can refer to. Here she will find her own passion, pleasure, and inner peace. This is a revolutionary concept in an age of quickly accelerating technology that pulls the woman away from her source of being - namely the body. Camille guides us to our inner sanctuaries through her lifetime experience of bodywork, indepth psychology, and the dance. Through her gentle voice, she assures us we shall find our sacred gifts. Through meditation and movement techniques, to the identifiable stories of other women, to her own personal meditations and prayers; not to say a distilled overview of spiritual teaching from East to West and back again, this most wonderful book points the way for a woman to 'claim her inner authority.' This is precisely what the woman of today needs to do. This book is a first and a last resource of meditation for the woman of the 21st century. In Camille's words: 'Amazing. The power floods back into my body. Like a transfusion of my own blood. This is my body. This is my life. Oh. I see....No one else can give me power. And no one can take it away. Nobody else knows what I should do or be. Someday I will simply rest in this truth. Someday all women will remember their sovereignty... Now there's a prayer.'

And there's a book.

Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Find
Comment: I stumbled upon this book one day when I was feeling particularly feminist and spiritual at the same time. I can't praise it enough. It brings into focus aspects of meditation I had not considered before. Like pleasure. Wait, isn't meditation about sitting on a little cushion staring at the wall and watching your breath? Well, not necessarily. Meditation can be so much richer than that, so much more fun, so much more personal. This book encourages you to listen to yourself, honor your experience, celebrate your senses, and be tender with yourself. Meditation need not be an endurance sport. And yes, with these techniques you can find that spot of inner peace deep within you. No more staring at the wall (unless you still want to). Gift yourself and a woman you love with this fantastic book.