What is a Women Circle and why you should try it?

Since immemorial times and in all traditions, women have always come together to share their life experiences, their daily lives, their worries, and their sorrows, but also to celebrate their femininity (rites of passage, childbirth, death, etc.), to share and transmit feminine knowledge and to heal together.

The arrival of patriarchy has had the consequence of creating rivalry and competition between women and today, more than ever, women need to reconnect with their feminine part to be able to find this benevolent harmony brought by the sisterhood of ancient times.

During women's circles, themes specific to women are discussed: menstrual cycle, maternity, couple, sexuality, diseases of the feminine, spirituality, but not only. As daughters of the Great Goddess, we also reconnect to our divine essence and celebrate the Sacred Feminine in all its forms. We remember our connection to the earth and the moon but also to the sky and the sun, we relearn how to listen to our needs and our body, to respect it, and honor its power, its sensuality, and its beauty, like its vulnerability. We rediscover the power of forgiveness and non-judgment. It is sometimes, even often, necessary to reconnect ourselves to our power of life, which sits in our pelvis, and from which we have cut ourselves off to protect ourselves.

All this work is done through speech, creativity, dance, meditation, and any other activity that encourages expression and letting go to reconnect with our female body and our divine feminine essence.

The different rituals practiced allow us to engage with ourselves and regular participation in the circles promotes our journey through the different female archetypes: the priestess, the initiator, the mother, the goddess, the healer... They all take their place in our lives.

The shape of the circle inherently contains the principle of equality. There is no division, no hierarchy. Each woman has her place in the circle; each is important, in its unique and universal truth and essence at the same time.

The circles I offer are inspired by different ancient traditions: Native American (Womb Keeper, Rite of the 13 Moons, Healing of Ancestral Lineages) and Eastern (Tantra, Shakti Healing) mainly as well as other more modern practices.

Women of all ages and backgrounds can participate in the circles as they are not conditioned by any belief or religion. The most important thing is to be kind and non-judgmental towards the other participants.

The benefits of the women's circle:

• Reconnect to the biological rhythms of the body and harmonization of your feminine cycle

• A feeling of peace and well-being

• Strengthening of self-confidence (in yourself and others) through the bond with other women

• Renewed energy and self-love

• Reconnect to your inner power

• Awakening your power of creativity

• Connection to the divine part in oneself and discover the power of your energies.

• Take care of your emotions and accept them.

• Share your story.

• Listen to your intuition.

The Womb Rite

“The womb is not a place to store fear and pain; the womb is to create and give birth to life.” 

WHAT IS THE RITE OF THE WOMB?

The Rite of the Uterus is an initiation whose main purpose is to heal women of the suffering they carry within them, in their womb, about this life, but also about their previous lives and the lineage of women from which they come. Men can also benefit from this transmission since they have a mother and a whole female line from which they come as well as possible past lives as a woman...

This is an important energy transmission where the feminine creative center is rebalanced, where all the wounds, traumas, and suffering experienced in the feminine can be cleansed. In this way, every woman (or even every man) can begin to better understand and manifest who she (he) is in her uniqueness, relieved of all the burdens that can be.

HISTORY OF THE RITE OF THE WOMB

Marcela Lobos was the first woman to receive the 13th rite in March 2014. A journey that lasted 12 years, following a dream she lived in 2002 and which was the beginning of everything...

 In this dream, she was pregnant with a dead baby. Growing up in Chile, a country struggling with dictatorship and terrorism, Marcela felt in her dream that fear was always at her doorstep. She was nearly paralyzed with terror as 4 midwives dressed in white helped her deliver a stillborn baby. Meanwhile, outside his door, men were engaged in a battle with guns. She had woken up, surprised and shaken, with the feeling that this dream was significant but that she did not yet understand its meaning.

Two years later, while she was rearranging her bedroom, one of her diaries fell on the floor and opened to the page where she had described that dream. After a hasty read, she put the newspaper back on the shelf and continued to concentrate on her tasks until she heard a sudden knock on her door. Like those who experience post-traumatic stress disorder, Marcela had been instantly transported back to her past of war, terror, and oppression, and she had been swept into an uncontrollable spiral of panic.

She had just studied the Medicine Wheel with the Four Winds Society, and she heard a voice say to her, “Marcela, practice what you know.” At that time, the spirit of the female jaguar appeared and said to him, "I will teach you the way of the luminous warrior. Keep your focus on your light.”

For Marcela, everything seemed black. But as she applied the principles she had learned, a tangible light began to fill the room and surround her. The knocking on the door continued but his terror quickly faded. That's when the 4 midwives from his dream appeared, coming out of the hearth, saying to him: "Now it's time to deliver you from the dead baby". At that moment, Marcela understood that her "dead baby" was the fear she had been carrying in her womb for almost 3 decades.

As she approached the fire, a line of women stepped forward to lay their hands on Marcela's womb and help release her fear into the fire. Later, while celebrating with dance, these women said to him, “Now you understand and you have the right platform to convey this message to the world. We will be close to you and we will continue to teach you”.

For 10 years, this line of women has strengthened and supported Marcela in her shamanic learning. They stayed by her side during her stays in the Amazon jungle and the Andes.

But it wasn't until March 2014 that Marcela received the message that it was time to share the Womb Rite.

She had taken a group of women to work with the female shamans of the Shipibo nation in the Amazon jungle. During this shamanic stay with them, Marcela again met the 4 midwives who said to her: “Marcela, your uterine womb is ready to offer the 13th rite of Munay-Ki to women. We'll give you a transmission."

Then the midwives proceeded to transfer great wisdom about life into her body. They poured a bright green juice, made from carefully chosen jungle plants, over Marcela's body. This green juice entered every vein in her body until her womb became a glowing green energy sphere.

"It was a purification of my body and my mind," says Marcela. "By giving me this medicine, they gave me the rite, and they told me to give it to as many women as possible because this rite could heal human beings, it could heal any form of life. ".

Furthermore, they told Marcela:

“The womb is not a place to hold fear and pain.

The womb is a place to create and give birth to live”.

Marcela then received the message that she must first offer this rite to her mother. So she visualized her mother and she felt their womb become one. She whispered the rite to her mother and saw the vibrant green color transfer from her womb to her mother's.

Marcela continued to “receive instructions” on how to transmit this rite to a group. It was then that on October 11, 2014, the Rite of the Womb was kicked off for nearly 200 women at Omega. They received the rite from a line of women from the Amazonian jungle.

During this transmission, men drummed and sang in a semicircle around the perimeter of the room. Each woman visualized herself walking inside her body, from the fallopian tubes to the inside of the uterus. Then each of them was welcomed by a shaman who transmitted to her "the 13th rite of Munay-Ki" - the rite of the womb - with the intention of healing women from the suffering they carry in the heart of their womb.

After receiving the seeds of healing, each woman then passed through the ceremonial vagina to be reborn into a new life, welcomed and supported by the love of men.

A week later, she gave the rite to another group of 200 women in California and then to another group of women in Miami at the end of the month. And now the rite continues to be transmitted across the world.

Before the rite of the Womb, there were 9 rites of Munay-Ki.

Even though the Rite of the Womb is the tenth rite to be given to us, this rite is feminine, so it does not follow a linear process.

The lineage that transmitted this rite to us wants us to respect the 13 moons of the year, which corresponds to the menstrual cycles of the uterine womb.

WHO CAN RECEIVE THIS RITE?

If you have had your uterus removed, it is all the more important that you receive this rite!

Energetically you still have your Womb Matrix and it is vital to reconnect to it to reclaim your feminine wisdom as well as your feminine power.

After receiving the rite, it is fundamental to nurture it on each New Moon (or Black Moon) to heal any imprint of pain or grief and to engage in joy and compassion.

CAN MEN ATTEND THE CEREMONY?

If the women giving and receiving the rite feel it would be appropriate to invite men to their ceremony, then that would be fine.

When men come forward in service to women and the rite, it can be extremely healing for all present. 

Men can prepare sacred spaces so that women feel especially safe.

Additionally, men can strategically place themselves so women feel supported in their healing process. To accentuate their role, men can drum with sticks to tell women that they are there for them.

This rite serves to heal the womb. Sometimes a man may feel the need to heal his womb on a psychic level. Sometimes these men have had very traumatic experiences in their mother's womb or they have had a very dysfunctional relationship with the feminine aspect of life. Also, this rite will have an impact on the womb of his mother but also on all the women he may have been in his past lives.

If a man asks to receive this rite with sincerity of heart, then it is entirely appropriate to give it to him.

CAN THIS RITE BE GIVEN AT A DISTANCE?

If the person delivering the rite already knows how to work with energy at a distance, it could be effective. However, it is highly recommended to receive the rite in person since the quest to reconnect with the feminine aspect is lived in an embodied spirituality.

WARNING

This is a sacred rite that is transmitted in all humility. This, therefore, requires a certain open-mindedness both in terms of this initiation and in the way of feeling it and integrating it into one's life.

It is about a deep commitment, vis-à-vis yourself but also vis-à-vis any principle of life.

This rite does not replace work on oneself, and on the contrary, for some, it can stir it up. It is therefore aimed at anyone who wishes to evolve on their Spiritual Path.

It's also not about comparing yourself to anyone. The same rite will not be received twice in the same way because no two people are identical, even if there are many similarities. It will activate and help you in due time and in the best way for yourself, who you are in the here and now.

“Dear Women,

I am so grateful for each of you who have received the Womb Rite and I am also so grateful that you want to share it with other women. I feel that my task of birthing this rite in the world is complete. Now it belongs to all women who are open to receiving it, as well as all men who find it essential to their healing.

Now it is up to the lineage to continue to spread this healing to every corner of the Earth, and in this way heal the Earth. Now, you are the bloodline as much as I am the bloodline. We are women freeing ourselves from suffering.

Continue to nurture this rite until there is no fear or pain in your womb.

Lots of love forever” - Marcela Lobos