Opening the Heart of the Womb: Healing Meditations for Women
About this audiobook
For 20 years, Stephen and Ondrea Levine have supported thousands of people caught in the aftermath of grief and loss, including many women deeply hurt by sexual trauma. Now, on Opening the Heart of the Womb, Stephen Levine addresses this hidden heartache, offering a gentle three-part guided meditation.
When a woman's “lower heart” or womb grows numb due to violation, miscarriage, abortion, or even PMS, Levine teaches, her “upper heart” closes down too, leaving her entire emotional and spiritual life in shadow. There is a way to create the safety and nurturance that both “hearts” need to open once again, Stephen Levine says. By practicing this gentle and unique meditation, you can reawaken the joy you lost, and open up to love again. At last, here is a program created specifically to help women reclaim both body and spirit, shared by this trusted teacher and bestselling author.
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About the author
Stephen Levine
Stephen Levine (1937–2016) was a poet and teacher of guided meditation healing techniques who, with his wife Ondrea, counseled the dying and their loved ones for more than 30 years. Stephen Levine’s bestselling books Healing into Life and Death, A Gradual Awakening, and A Year to Live are considered classics in the field of conscious living and dying. He is also the coauthor, with Ondrea, of the acclaimed To Love and Be Loved and Who Dies?
The Levines’ work is said to stretch from the most painful experiences of the human spectrum to the furthest point on the human horizon, from hell to heaven, from pain to ease, from our ongoing sense of loss to the legacy of our unending interconnectedness. Their experiential Conscious Living/Conscious Dying workshops offered a meditative investigation of what it means to be fully alive, helping to cultivate the qualities which heal the mind and heart while exploring the nature of what it is that dies.
