New Course!

Announcing The Art of Being Unabashedly Female, a new 10-week course, offered for the first time this Fall, 2009 in Berkeley.

This is an experiential course designed to awaken and deepen your awareness and expression of your innate creativity, and deepen your trust in your own sacred nature as a woman.

If, after you read this description, you feel called to join me, please contact me at juliedaley at gmail.com. The course details are below.
The Art of Being Unabashedly Female – a new 10-week course offered by Wildly Creative Women.

It seems that human beings are the only beings in nature that try very hard to be something other than what we are. Trees are trees, dogs are dogs, rocks are rocks, but we do everything in our power to be something better than what we believe ourselves to be. This drive to be something better can feel even more relentless due to the cultural voices that continually bombard us with messages that tell us our beauty is not enough without enhancement, our emotions must be checked if we are to be taken seriously, and our womanly nature cannot be trusted.

We learn to distrust our nature, our innate, intuitive instinctive nature. We each have our own unique conditioning that adds to this distrust, but the thread for most of us is a distrust of our own femaleness.

Think about it, when was the last time you felt free to be yourself, truly yourself? To be you without controlling what you communicate, toning down your feelings, enjoying and expressing the natural sensuousness of your body? Maybe you’ve felt it necessary to leave your feminine nature at home and be somewhat androgynous at work, or perhaps you’ve adopted a false femininity in order to be desired and loved.

You have lived life pretending to be someone you think others will like better than who and what you believe yourself to be. But now, the pain of this self-deception has become too great, because you realize the joke is on you. The one you’ve been trying to fool is you, in order not to feel the deep, internalized sense of unworthiness you’ve managed to keep down until now.

Stop right now and feel the pain in your heart and the longing in your soul. Feel the deep sensuousness of your womanly body that longs to reconnect with the sensuous nature of life. Acknowledge the knowing in your gut that underneath these layers of conditioned behavior awaits your true nature. This knowing is the quiet, but insistent, wake-up call of remembrance.

The only way to true peace is to stop trying to be anything other than what you naturally are, and the good news I’m here to share is that when you stop trying to be what you aren’t, just like the tree, dog or rock, who you really are is already there, simply being you. When you do, you will once again know this someone who’s been waiting all along, watching the entire make-believe with patience, love and compassion. This pain and longing won’t go away until you stop and turn to look within.

You may fear, while everyone else is lovable, there is something fundamentally flawed and unlovable about you, but what I’ve seen and experienced time and time again is that everyone fears being unlovable. That’s because we’ve all been conditioned to believe the harsh internalized voices of self-loathing rather than trusting our own hearts that quietly and patiently tell us of our inherent worth and dignity.

And, you may have been taught that there is something fundamentally flawed and sinful about your nature as a woman, but what I have seen is that your nature as a woman is sensuous, loving and perfectly divine by design. When you are simply what you are, you are a unique expression of that which created you, an intelligence that does not create flawed and sinful beings.

The sacred feminine is alive and breathing right inside your body. You have the ability to bring life into life, whether it is babies or any of the other myriad ways you can create new life. Your creativity, sensuality and sexuality are intricately woven together in a way that allows you to nurture and love all of life, without losing yourself. This same rich tapestry is also the source of a fiery life-affirming force, a Kali energy that surfaces as you express the fullness of what you are. When you come to know the divine feminine you, a true dignity arises from within. You accept the humbleness of your own soul and the opportunity to serve all of life.

You have a part to play in this divine dance of life that is yours and only yours. Your sacred feminine creativity and open heart are needed in our world today. It is time for us as women to own our innate power, to no longer trade it for the false securities of our cultural conditioning. It is time for us to realize that what we are as women is wholly different than men- this difference serves the natural expression of the masculine rather than competing with it. When you bring together your innate love for the sacred and your deepest desires to see love made manifest in the world, you become a powerful creative force in service to something greater than yourself.

No one can do this for you, but what I do is walk the journey with you, teaching you powerful tools for discovery and change. As you embrace the uniqueness and intelligence of your design, and identify and transform the cultural conditioning that binds you, you open your heart to the power of vulnerability and your soul to the sensuousness of your body and its connection with the earth and all of life. You are no longer separate, but part of the Oneness that is Life.

In truth, the only thing you can know is your own experience. Trust the calling of your own heart. Come on this life-awakening creative journey with me so you can discover for yourself that creativity is not being artistic, but rather the artistry of being fully who and what you naturally are.

10-Week course: September 15 – November 17, 2009
7:00 – 9:00
Berkeley, CA

Cost: $295
The is the first-time offering of The Art ob Being Unabashedly Female – Opening to the truth and power of the sacred feminine within