Women, Girls & the Feminine

Cultural Constraints

by Sheila Collins | Jan 5, 2011 | Dances, Personal Stories, Women, Girls & the Feminine

On our recent trip to Padre Island Texas, my husband Rich and I discovered a new medical clinic with a fitness/rehab center in an adjoining suite. The Zumba sign in the front yard caught our attention, and I was thrilled to have the chance to continue taking Zumba...

Cycles and Circles in Women’s Lives

by Sheila Collins | Nov 18, 2010 | Art & Life, Grieving, Improvisation, Women, Girls & the Feminine

Just back from a wonderful trip to Texas. I attended a Women’s Retreat at Glenda Taylor’s Earthsprings http://www.earthsprings.net/index.html in East Texas. The Piney Woods got some much needed rain while we were there, but the sun didn’t desert us,...

Awakening Women Group: Finding Our Balance

by Sheila Collins | May 28, 2010 | Gatherings, Women, Girls & the Feminine

Research has finally documented the secret of women’s resiliency. To the well known “flight” and “fight” responses to stress, women have added a third even more functional one. Now labeled, “the tend and befriend response,” it turns out women who thrive do so through...

Awakening Women Cafés

by Sheila Collins | May 28, 2010 | Gatherings, Women, Girls & the Feminine

(insert picture) Using the World Café format we gather a diverse group of women, facilitate conversations that matter, and harvest the groups’ resulting collective wisdom. Through this collective creativity format, participants connect with one another in meaningful...

The Birth of a Communal Dance

by Sheila Collins | May 28, 2010 | Dances, Women, Girls & the Feminine

In 2007, a group of friends and myself in Pittsburgh were privileged to host one of the Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, Flordemayo, www.grandmotherscouncil.com who visited us from her home in New Mexico. The purpose of that visit was for Flordemayo to...

Creating Circles: Joining together with other women

by Sheila Collins | May 28, 2010 | Gatherings, Women, Girls & the Feminine

One of the most enduring feminine practices involves connection and collaboration. A primary instinct for girls and women is to join hands with others because it makes whatever we’re doing easier, or less scary, or more fun. Some people such as the women in the Gather...

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Cultural Constraints

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Awakening Women Cafés

The Birth of a Communal Dance

Creating Circles: Joining together with other women

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