Exploring The Sacred Feminine with Lisa Schrader

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Schrader gives an example of Shakti energy, “Our Shakti is a feminine lifeforce energy that marries with our well-honed masculine skills to create new life, which could be a biological child, or a project, a new business, or painting, or an amazing pot of soup. It’s creative life force energy.”  She goes on to reveal that we don’t want to throw out the great masculine qualities of penetrating life with our ideas, our vision, our mission, and our ability to stay on task and stay focused. “We need the banks of the river to hold the feminine flow which is sometimes going into an eddy or flowing over boulders. Sometimes it moves in rapids of grief or rage and sometimes in stillness. We need all of that working together and that’s what we’re reclaiming.” Women are so often the caretakers of their families and communities and functioning in the mode of giving. She explains that giving is an aspect of a masculine energetic and says, “The gift to give is to penetrate and is a doing energy. In the deep and sacred feminine it is a receiving energy just as the womb receives the sperm and creates an entire life out of that.”  She uses the analogy of a tree to describe our inner resources. We need to be grounded like roots; we need to give and receive love from the heart like the trunk of the tree; and we need to connect with spirit akin to the branches reaching upwards.  (hosted by Rae Palermo)

Bio

Lisa Schrader is a workshop leader, author, speaker, coach, and founder of Awakening Shakti. Her work has been featured on Oprah and Oxygen. She is a graduate of UCLA and a faculty member of The Shift Network, where she also hosts the annual Shakti Summit global event.

Lisa Schrader is the author of:

• Kama Sutra 52: A Year's Worth of the Best Positions for Passion and Pleasure (Quiver 2009)
• (e-book) Getting Started with Tantra

To learn more about the work of Lisa Schrader go to www.awakeningshakti.com.

Topics Explored in This Dialogue

• How Shrader’s awakening to the feminine energetic began with the spiritual aspects of sexuality
• What is the ancient power of Shakti or life-force energy in post-modern times
• How she took the “humdrum” sexuality of a long-term relationship to a deeper sense of sensuality
• How can we find a new balance between our masculine and feminine energies
• How the practice of tantra is a blending and weaving that makes life more sustainable
• How “applied shame” comes from the inside as opposed to coming from the outside, and how it can help guide us
• What the acronym VUCA stands for: volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous
• What is the analogy of the balanced energy of a tree
• What is the fluidity of gender and identification
• How we are moving from the static masculine and feminine to dynamic masculine and feminine

Host: Rae Palermo        Interview Date: 11/20/2017       Program Number: 3630

Music Playlist

From Album: Call of the Mystic
Artist: Karunesh
2004 Real Music RM 4159

Opening Essay: Track 01 For the Joy of It All
Music Break 1: Track 03 Monsoon
Music Break 2: Track 06 Zensual
Music Break 3: Track 06 Zensual (reprise)