Description

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A collection of guided meditations suitable for reflective reading, or to facilitate healing and empowerment for women who gather in red tents, moon lodges, circles, and ceremonies.

Wild & Wise is not merely a collection of guided meditations, but a potent tool for personal and global transformation. The meditations within beckon you to explore the powerful realm of symbolism and archetypes, inviting you to access your wild and wise inner knowing.

Part I: The Sacred Feminine is comprised of thirteen meditations, inviting you to dive deep into the feminine psyche and catalyze healing. Meditations include: Coming Home, The Power of No, Hunger, Your Inner Warrior, and The Mother Code.

Part II: Your Inner Goddess is comprised of thirteen goddess-centered meditations from many traditions around the world, inviting you to connect with and cultivate the qualities each goddess embodies. Meditations include: Artemis (authenticity), Brigid (inspiration), Sekhmet (rage), Durga (boundaries), Gwenhwyfar (sovereignty), and Lakshmi (abundance).

Part III: The Wheel of the Year is comprised of five seasonal meditations, marking the cycles of life. Meditations include: Rebirth and Renewal (spring), Tending Your Garden (summer), Preparing for the Dark (autumn), and Winter Spiral (winter).

About the Author

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Amy Bammel Wilding is the founder of Red Tent Louisville, a sacred interfaith women’s community. She has been leading sacred women’s circles, mother-daughter circles and retreats, and rite-of-passage ceremonies since 2006, just after her initiation to motherhood. The pregnancy and birth of her daughter in 2005 catalyzed her evolution by setting her on a path toward healing and Sacred Feminism, and sparked her passion for empowering women by helping them to reclaim their inherent power and wisdom.
 

Praise For…

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"Wild & Wise is for women who are ready to delve deeply into the Sacred Feminine. Amy Bammel Wilding's meditations can easily be used in women's circles to deepen each woman's connection to goddess archetypes and to yearnings in herself. The questions for deeper reflection can be done alone or shared in the circle. This rich resource is an answer to ‘what can we do to go deeper?’ that many in circles want to know."
—Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD author of The Millionth Circle and Goddesses in Everywoman

"Wild & Wise offers a powerful sacred journey of initiation for women worldwide, rooted in the wisdom of feminine rites-of-passage. Amy Bammel Wilding opens the doorway to the lost feminine soul, and skillfully shines the light of remembrance. May all women discover this sanctuary within and rebirth their true essence."
—Seren Bertrand, co-author of Womb Awakening – Initiatory Wisdom from the Creatrix of All Life

"Through beautifully written, skillfully crafted meditations, filled with reverence and tenderness, Amy Bammel Wilding guides us on a journey to find Holy Sanctuary in ourselves again as women – vital for us and for our times. Wild & Wise is a book to cherish and revisit many times over."
—Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer, co-authors of Wild Power and Wise Power