Women and Their Gift to the World as Healers

Whether you consider yourself a healer or not, if you come to our circle, you probably are. You may be healing yourself. You may be studying the levels or avenues of healing. You may be exploring the concept of healing. You may be in an occupation where you assist others with healing. Whatever your connection is with healing, embrace it and connect with it. Together we can heal what is most present and balance and return to center.



If someone has helped you in your journey in the healing realm, becoming whole, centered, and balanced, or has helped you become a more effective healer, tell them so.

Leadership and Centering

I received this quote from Joel and Michelle Levey's Thought for the Day email today.

The final paragraph is what inspired me to share it here in our Center Circle blog.  Center Circle is very much a non-linear self-lead leadership program because what we do encourages staying in tune and in touch with what's going on inside you; staying centered.  From there is where you operate in authenticity and integrity.  If you stay centered, i.e. have a regular practice of re-centering, you have a far better chance of becoming a great leader, even if all you're leading is your own life.

"A leader is a person who has an unusual degree of power to project on other people his or her shadow or his or her light. A leader is a person who has an unusual degree of power to create the conditions under which other people must live and move and have their being-conditions that can either be as illuminating as heaven or as shadowy as hell. A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what's going on inside him or her self, inside his or her consciousness, lest the act of leadership create more harm than good.

    The problem is that people rise to leadership in our society by a tendency towards extroversion, which means a tendency to ignore what is going on inside themselves. Leaders rise to power in our society by operating very competently and effectively in the external world, sometimes at the cost of internal awareness.

   I've looked at some training programs for leaders. I'm discouraged by how often they focus on the development of skills to manipulate the external world rather than the skills necessary to go inward and make the inner journey."

                                 --Parker Palmer


Parker Palmer wrote a wonderful book exposing his personal experience and path to understanding leadership; Let Your Life Speak.  It's a great read.

Sacred Space

We'll talk a lot about sacred space, so this is only the beginning.  We are thrilled that the location we found to start holding our Women's Circle has a name that contibutes to our Circle name.

BodySattva is the name of the center.
On their Web site, they allude to a meaning:

The term ‘Bodysattva’ was born out of this vision by pairing  the English word "body" with ‘sattva’ (sahtvah) or ‘awareness.’

“Sattva is a state of mind in which the mind is steady, calm and peaceful. Sattva may be defined as pure existence, awareness, being, truth, intelligence, virtue, goodness, joy”

Or simply put, the desire to practice and deepen the connection to, and access our closest resource, our own body’s wisdom.

In our Center Circle, we will continually discuss and acknowledge our body's wisdom, exploring the concentric circles outward from each of us; the breadth and depth of wisdom and how it might be amplified by coming together and practicing centering together.


If a deeper exploration is of interest, read the wikipedia texts on Sattva.

During at least one of the circle sessions we will discuss the idea of being Sattvic:
A satvic individual can be recognized if their mind, speech and actions synchronize.

Our Circle is a place to discuss the meaning of the things that surround us.  Since we are meeting in a center with the name BodySattva, it seems only logical that we seek to understand the meaning of that name, and its relevance to each of us.  It is of Hindu origin.  The point is to explore it, not to convert anyone to Hinduism or to be a circle of Hindu women.  It is to explore the diversity in this world and become richer, more tolerant, more compassionate, and more loving for it.

It is likely that in the course of time, we will find ourselves discussing things that touch many of the worlds faiths and traditions.

How do I find my Center?

If you were a two dimensional circle, all you'd need is a straight edge and a compass and a few directions from your geometry teacher.  In a woman, her center is that place she operates from where she sees beauty, loves openly, feels joy, and speaks her truth.  To find your center, borrow from the instructions in geometry, and note that a process of intersecting with other circles is still how you find your center.

Geometric Center

Follow the link above if you want to explore finding the center of a circle geometrically.