Cultivating Receptivity: Connecting with Yin/the Inner Feminine for Healing, Balance, Nourishment and Integration

by Jun 27, 2022

The demands of the modern Western lifestyle are highly oriented to productivity, requiring a doing, yang, often adrenalized, masculine state. However, healing oneself and facilitating healing for others requires presence, being, listening, holding and receiving — it requires relating with yin, the feminine. This guided visualization was first received during a healing session with a man who wanted to address disconnection from his inner feminine, which was negatively impacting his relationships. While the guided meditation proved effective in this case, it’s come up many times since as adaptable and appropriate medicine for multiple scenarios, including:

  • again, for those who feel disconnected from their femininity or who want to balance dominant masculinity
  • for ‘filling up’ after big release or removal work
  • when someone has difficulty with receiving, often related to self-worth
  • to support shifting from an adrenalized (fight or flight) sympathetic nervous system state to the restorative, assimilative (rest and digest) parasympathetic state, in either acute/ situational overwhelm or Chronic / Complex Post Traumatic State situations (PTSD / C-PTSD)
  • to strengthen receptivity, presence, space-holding, intuition and protection in preparation for facilitating healing work
  • when the momentum of doing is strong from long stretches of productivity, this can help shift into being for meditation practice or relaxation / creativity / play
  • as an East-medicine visualization to transition from doing to being, to calm fears, set up protection, introduce renewal and become receptive to altered shamanic states
  • as a West-medicine / Water-element visualization to connect with eternal divine flow (surrendering, trusting, allowing, receiving)
  • as North-medicine for post-ceremonial integration to connect with source (and receiving all of the insights, lessons, nourishment and healing from the experience)

 

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Tammy Mabra

Tammy Mabra

Walking the path with heart since 1999, Tammy's healing practice is steeped in indigenous wisdom traditions, mindfulness, myth, mysticism, art, astrology and psychology. After many years of intensive shamanic study and training, she began offering healing and ceremonial services and retreats professionally in 2010. She has studied with indigenous healing practitioners spanning multiple earth-honoring traditions, including but not limited to Toltec and Q’uero, with deepest experience in Huichol and Shipibo healing traditions. Her public offerings are cross-cultural, always rooted in deep reverence for those who have shared their ways, and for the earth. In addition to Shamanic Practice, her early secondary education was focused on visual arts and communication. She is trauma informed and also holds certifications in Hellenistic Astrology, Aromatherapy, Kundalini Yoga, Prenatal Yoga, Postpartum Mother Roasting and Somatic Attachment Therapy. She is available to witness, tend and support connection to your intrinsic sacred knowing, your essential self, your unique expression of divinity, your heart and your heart's path, and your underlying energetic blueprint for physical, mental and emotional well being. With compassion, empathy and love, through this recognition and (re)connection, healing and transformation occur. She works in Texas, both Austin and Dallas areas, and remotely through http://sacredcup.com.
Walking the path with heart since 1999, Tammy's healing practice is steeped in indigenous wisdom traditions, mindfulness, myth, mysticism, art, astrology and psychology. After many years of intensive shamanic study and training, she began offering healing and ceremonial services and retreats professionally in 2010. She has studied with indigenous healing practitioners spanning multiple earth-honoring traditions, including but not limited to Toltec and Q’uero, with deepest experience in Huichol and Shipibo healing traditions. Her public offerings are cross-cultural, always rooted in deep reverence for those who have shared their ways, and for the earth. In addition to Shamanic Practice, her early secondary education was focused on visual arts and communication. She is trauma informed and also holds certifications in Hellenistic Astrology, Aromatherapy, Kundalini Yoga, Prenatal Yoga, Postpartum Mother Roasting and Somatic Attachment Therapy. She is available to witness, tend and support connection to your intrinsic sacred knowing, your essential self, your unique expression of divinity, your heart and your heart's path, and your underlying energetic blueprint for physical, mental and emotional well being. With compassion, empathy and love, through this recognition and (re)connection, healing and transformation occur. She works in Texas, both Austin and Dallas areas, and remotely through http://sacredcup.com.
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