A unique and practical guide to support women through the complexities of the menstrual cycle and the journey of womanhood
Drawing from the ancient wisdom of the Great Goddesses, Agnieszka Drabek-Prime reclaims the cycle of menstruation and the journey of womanhood as a sacred spiral of life, death and rebirth, encouraging women to understand their cycle as a vehicle for wisdom and strength.
For centuries within Western society, the menstrual cycle has been connoted with feelings of shame and dirtiness, rarely acknowledged outside of medical circumstances. Women across the world move through life without a proper understanding of the monthly cycles of their bodies, hating themselves for feelings of irritability, tiredness and depression.
Dancing with Goddesses reveals the archetypes of the great Goddesses and provides a guide for women to work with them in unravelling and strengthening the energy and feelings of their own cycles. Drabek-Prime also includes information vital to all women, explaining the workings of a healthy menstrual cycle and information cycle tracking.
Offering a range of practical methods to work with from meditations and rituals to seasonal journeys or moon guides Dancing with Goddesses will appeal to all women, both old and young.
In this unique exploration of mythology and womanhood, Dancing with Goddesses invites women to re-connect with their menstrual cycles and feminine power. By working through this book, readers will be able to transform the previously negative aspects associated with the menstrual cycle, instead reclaiming them as a vessels for strength, wisdom and clarity in daily life.
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"Reading Dancing with Goddesses is like sitting with a womens circle remembering the vital truths of our bodies and our wisdom. Agnieszka Drabek-Prime has created a work that is both poetic and practical, mythic and deeply embodied. Her voice is one of remembrance, reawakening the sacred rhythm of the menstrual cycle as a spiritual patha path of initiation, power, and profound listening. It speaks to the cyclical wisdom that lives in the blood mysteries. Through practical knowledge and the power of myth, Agnieszka brings the reader back into relationship with the womb as oracle, the body as altar, and the cycle as a teacher. For those tending sacred womens mysteries, this is a companion you will return to again and again.
Ariella Daly, Natural Beekeeping and Dreamwork facilitator
In Dancing with Goddesses, Agnieszka Drabek-Prime weaves insightful connections between elemental feminine archetypes and goddesses and the powerful journey of inhabiting a menstrual body, packed full of helpful practices and meditations.
Lucy H. Pearce, author of Moon Time and Burning Woman
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
The healthy menstrual cycle
Cycle within cycle
Cycle tracking
Why Goddesses?
How to work with this book
PART ONE: WINTERING IN MENSTRUAL WISDOM
CHAPTER ONE: THE WISDOM OF THE VOID
Message from the Void
What is the Void?
The Void meditation
Question to journal with
Goddess of the Void Dancing with Hekate
Void meditation with Hekate
CHAPTER TWO: MENSTRUAL WINTERING
The wintertime
Wintering of menstruation
Dark feminine
CHAPTER THREE: Dancing with Goddesses
Lilith
Get to know your blood
Hekate
Conscious birth ceremony
Kali
Question to journal with
Fire practice
Including the masculine
PART TWO: THE RISE OF THE MAIDEN
CHAPTER FOUR: THE WISDOM OF TRANSITIONS
Question to journal with
Potions for transition
Herbal infusions
CHAPTER FIVE: MAIDEN UNLEASHED
The Springtime
The Maiden
Menarche Ceremony
The Young Goddess
CHAPTER SIX: DANCING WITH GODDESSES
Artemis/Diana
Questions to journal with
Sacred gathering
Cordelia
Questions to journal with
Yoni Gazing practice
Idunn
Connecting to the Maiden-self meditation
PART THREE: JOURNEY FROM LOVER TO MOTHER
CHAPTER SEVEN: BREAST WISDOM
Breast self-examination
CHAPTER EIGHT: THE JUCINESS OF OVULATION
Summertime
The Lover and the power of ovulation
Journey from Lover to Mother
CHAPTER NINE: DANCING WITH GODDESSES
Aphrodite
Questions to journal with
Rediscovery of pleasure practice
Freya
Temple of beauty practice
Gaia
The spiral walk
PART FOUR: ENCHANTRESS THE POWER OF THE SHAPESHIFTER
CHAPTER TEN: PLACENTA THE GIFT OF LIFE
Conscious birth meditation
Placenta burying ritual
CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE SHAPESHIFTING ENCHANTRESS
The beauty of Indian Summer
Shapeshifters powers and the gifts of post-ovulation
Lover, Enchantress, and Sage intertwined
CHAPTER TWELVE: DANCING WITH GODDESSES
Hathor
Inner balance meditation
Circe
The Enchantress potions
Sedna
Beautiful cleansing bath
PART FIVE: WISE WOMAN AND THE WISDOM REGAIED
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: MENOPAUSE AND THE CYCLE REMEMBERED
Why are we so afraid of menopause?
The great awakening of menopause
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: WELCOMING THE WISE WOMAN
Autumn
Crone, Sage, or Wise Woman?
Wisdom of the Crone
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: DANCING WITH GODDESSES
Innana
The descent meditation
Persephone
Dancing with your shadow
Baba Yaga
Questions to journal with
Wise Woman Manda
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: THE ELEMENTAL WOMAN
The Earth Woman
The Water Woman
The Fire Woman
The Air Woman
Working with the Earth element
Working with the Water element
Working with the Fire element
Working with the Air element
EPILOGUE
Bibliography
Useful links
Agnieszka Drabek-Prime is a teacher, Womb Medicine Woman, and Sacred Weaver. Through connection with the Spirit, from threads of different traditions as well as from the wisdom of her womb and the Sacred Feminine, she weaves the sacred into everyday life. Agnieszka is the author of the childrens novel The Secret of the Underland and has been published in the womens collaboration Weaving Our Way Beyond Patriarchy: A Womancraft Publishing Compendium. Originally from Poland, she now lives with her husband, son, and dog in Cambridge, UK, teaching, seeing clients, organising ceremonies and courses in person and on-line. Her website is https://primetherapy.co.uk/
