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Rise To Your Feminine Power

With Gerti Schoen

This course is a declaration of love to all women who have been struggling to find their strength and inner light, and to help them move forward into an empowered future. Many women give away too much of their energy to others, and neglect their own purpose and desire. Many are stuck in faulty beliefs of fear and dependency, and have never learned how to fully take charge of their lives. This course is dedicated to teach women the coping skills how to calm and soothe the mind, the tools to build confidence and resilience, and how to ultimately move toward transformation.

Take charge of your life using your inner feminine strength and light.

30 Days

3.0k students

4.8 stars

13 min / day

English

About this course

Letting Go Meditation

Active Imagination

IFS Self-Led Meditation

Meet your Teacher

Gerti Schoen

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Würzburg, Germany

Gerti Schoen is a psychotherapist, spiritual counselor, and forest therapy guide in NYC and NJ. She is helping to empower women in her online groups, and offers workshops about forest therapy. Over the past 20 years, she has studied mindfulness, cognitive-behavioral approaches, psychoanalysis, Eastern philosophy, the laws of manifesting, energy healing, nature connection, dreamwork and shamanic practices, and has come to greatly appreciate how much these teachings help in the healing process.

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30 Days

3.0k students

4.8 stars

13 min / day

English

Lesson 1

Empower Yourself: The Force Of Your Own Mind

This lecture describes the scientific foundations of how imagery, guided meditations, and active imagination bring about healing and change. Throughout the millennia of human existence, spiritual guides like shamans, religious teachers, and, nowadays, psychotherapists have utilized the power of the imaginative mind to relieve us from our anxieties and mental afflictions. There are now numerous studies, how phenomena like neuroplasticity, the placebo effect, and subconscious reprogramming can change the brain, and bring about deep healing and wellbeing.

Lesson 2

Active Imagination Meditation

In our first meditation, you will experience firsthand how easily our emotions are influenced by the force of the imagination. First, I invite you to imagine something positive. Then, tune into a negative memory, or a worry. Finally, I’d like you to imagine something soothing. This is how active imagination has an effect on our moods and minds - almost instantly. This is how we can learn to use our minds to empower ourselves.

Lesson 3

Beliefs & How They Shape Our World

The beliefs and expectations we carry towards the world have a powerful effect on how the world sees us. So often, we tell ourselves self-limiting stories, and as we communicate these to others, the world starts to believe them. The good news is that we can choose to change our stories by changing our beliefs. The ultimate change arrives when we can turn around not only our thoughts but our feelings as well.

Lesson 4

Guided Meditation To Change Negative Beliefs

In the previous lecture, we learned about beliefs. Today, we'll explore how meditation can help change the negative beliefs we harbor. Start by choosing a negative or self-limiting belief you want to work on, or simply a thought or feeling that gives you discomfort. Begin with something you think is easier to change for now before moving on to more challenging negative beliefs. Relax, and allow yourself to be guided through a healing practice.

Lesson 5

Self-Compassion: How To Soothe The Inner Critic

Self-compassion is the most important healing tool there is. When we can soothe an upset inner critic or experience guilt or anger, we must validate the more vulnerable parts of ourselves. In this chapter, I introduce the theory of parts work. Anxious or depressed parts often originate from traumatic memories, and they do not represent the True Self. In order for the true self to shine through, the parts need to be soothed and empathized with.

Lesson 6

Imaginative Journey To Develop Self-Compassion

In the previous lecture, we have learned that our inner critic is not our true self, but just a part of us that tries to protect us from pain. In this practice, I invite you to identify an inner critic-part. What is it scolding you for? How old is that part? Attuning to this critical voice and identifying its roots is where the journey to developing self-compassion begins.

Lesson 7

Coping Skills For Anxiety Or Overwhelm

Anxiety and chronic stress are a part of many people’s lifestyles. We feel overstretched and overworked, and the belief that we’re not strong enough to figure it all out is widespread. Anxiety cannot be eliminated, but it can be soothed and contained. It has almost always to do with faulty beliefs about ourselves and a need to take control. But there are many ways how to deal with anxiety effectively and thoroughly.

Lesson 8

Guided Sensory Meditation To Soothe Anxiety & Overwhelm

In this calming and soothing practice, you are invited to tune into all your senses to trigger the relaxation response. Notice the anxiety and overwhelm drain away from your body, and a sense of peace spread throughout your mind and spirit.

Lesson 9

Depression & Depletion - Boundary Setting & Attending To Your Own Needs

Many women struggle with chronic tiredness, sadness, back pain, fatigue, and low energy. These are all signs of putting too much time and energy into taking care of others versus taking care of yourself. The fear of appearing “selfish” is common, and must be met with compassion and by taking a bigger perspective. When pleasing others or the desire to feel needed is the main source of self-esteem, we need to redirect our attention. What is needed most is a determination for self-care, and setting boundaries towards others.

Lesson 10

Meditation For Self-Nurturing

Imagine a situation or an emotion that triggers feelings of sadness or depletion. It could be a situation where it’s hard for you to hold your own ground or attend to your own needs. What belief about yourself is tied to these situations? You are invited on an imaginative journey of support and healing.

Lesson 11

The Power Of The Group

Many studies confirm that a group supersizes the healing effect of any kind of therapeutic or spiritual practice. The support of a group leads to greater self-esteem, deeper connections, and self-empowerment. Energy healing done in groups generates stunning results. Studies have demonstrated how group members experience less pain, higher wellbeing, and a sense of neness when they focus on one specific target, and often in a very short period of time.

Lesson 12

Oneness Meditation

In this practice, we will go on an imaginative journey of being supported and healed by a circle on unconditional love and acceptance, and eventually, experiencing oneness with all beings.

Lesson 13

The True Self: Expand Into Your Greater Being

There are many doorways to the True Self. It is not just silent meditation that helps us access a place of inner stillness and wisdom. We can focus on nurturing the love in our hearts, use our bodies to find inner strength, or focus on the metaphor of the deep ocean as a resource of tranquility. This lecture discusses several access roads to the path of tapping into the True Self.

Lesson 14

Meditation To Access The Larger Self

Today, you'll be led into a practice that clearly distinguishes the True Self from the parts, guided by a sense of beauty, wholeness, and appreciation. Understanding the many different aspects that comprise the self enables us to gain a deeper understanding and gratitude for ourselves and its infinite possibilities.

Lesson 15

Learning To Love Your Body

Women’s bodies often become the external battlefields for their internal emotional distress: a perfect appearance must make up for low self-esteem. A fit body serves as a bulwark against feelings of vulnerability, and a lack of control. Extreme weight gain becomes a self-made wall and a warning for others not to come too close. Women’s bodies have been objectified and violated for millennia. The task to heal these wounds is enormous, but it is possible to learn to love your body.

Lesson 16

Gratitude Meditation For The Body

When we learn to draw away energy from our negative thinking and towards appreciation, we can quickly utilize it to feel gratitude toward our bodies. Appreciating just how hard it works every day helps us to overcome self-hatred and to love the body.

Lesson 17

Love, Love, Love: What Makes A Successful Intimate Relationship

Intimate relationships are our primary playground to grow into our own. In relationship to a close other, we are challenged to face our wounds from the past, and to heal what wasn’t provided. Some of us display high anxiety when our needs aren’t fully met, while others cope primarily by withdrawing. In this lecture you will learn about healthy attachment and how to mend broken bonds.

Lesson 18

Meditation For Attachment Repair

In this practice, we make up a perfect partner - a partner who loves you unconditionally and gives you all the understanding, attention, and resources you crave.

Lesson 19

A Healing Relationship With Prosperity

For many women, money is fraught with anxiety and a sense of lack. It triggers negative beliefs about being stuck in a dire place or about not deserving more. Money is alternately seen as something that needs be disavowed or as the ultimate tool that helps us fulfill our every wish. But what does our desire for money really mean? What needs healing in order to have a more balanced relationship to money? This lecture will challenge everything you thought was true about money.

Lesson 20

Guided Meditation For Living With Prosperity

In this journey, you are invited to ponder what a healthy relationship to money looks like, what expectations you place upon having resources, and how much you actually value money.

Lesson 21

Step Up & Into Your Power

Many women have learned that they depend on the approval and influence of a more powerful (and often male) person in order to feel confident. Learned helplessness and past programming prevent us from stepping into our own power. Blaming others for what went wrong puts us automatically in a place of victimhood. Taking responsibility for our own choices and mistakes is the most important path to self-empowerment.

Lesson 22

Seat Of Inner Power Meditation

In this guided practice, you learn to draw power into your own center, strengthen your confidence, and remind yourself of your innate self-worth and strength.

Lesson 23

Accessing Inner Guidance: Dreams & Intuition

We all possess powerful tools that lead us on the path to fulfillment: our dreams and our intuition. But most of us have lost touch with this inner radar and don’t know how to restore it. Yet our internal and external world constantly serve up clues that help us navigate life for the better. We can learn how to distinguish anxiety from having an actual viable gut instinct and how to harness our dreams as a source of wisdom.

Lesson 24

Drumming Journey To Your Intuition

During this drumming journey, you will get acquainted with the hypnagogic state of your mind - the place where intuition, creativity, and precognitive abilities live. By setting an intention you can utilize it to receive the feedback for a certain question you are looking for.

Lesson 25

Letting Go & Letting Be: Dancing With Your Own Shadow

The ultimate sign of transcendence is that we can admit to our own faults, and learn to laugh about them. When we can embrace our own humanity, we can accept the humanity of others, which may be the most profound form of love there is. To simply let yourself and others be. Acceptance is the foundation of seeing the good in ourselves and in the human race altogether.

Lesson 26

Meditation For Learning To Laugh About Yourself

Very often, we are so serious about our own shortcomings that we get all worked up when someone else points them out. In this practice, you will begin to learn to laugh about your own faults - which is the ultimate sign that you are overcoming them.

Lesson 27

Nature Is The Greatest Healer: Nature Connection & Unity Consciousness

Getting back in touch with nature is one of the greatest gifts we can give ourselves. In understanding the intrinsic interconnectedness of all life on a visceral level, we develop a whole new relationship to the more than human world. The anxieties and the loneliness of daily life subside, and we begin to feel whole again. This lecture stresses the importance of a personal connection to nature that can heal the planet and heal ourselves.

Lesson 28

Nature Meditation

Today, you'll be taken on a journey deep into nature. In modern life, it's easy to be alienated from nature. This practice is designed to spark the reconnection between you and nature, enabling you to gain an understanding that nature accepts you and that you are part of nature.

Lesson 29

Dreaming A New Life Into Being

Manifesting is an art It requires that we truly know what we want from life and brings our desires into a clear focus. It demands a commitment to our own happiness and the perseverance to keep putting our energies into it. When we feel content we can serve others fully and honestly. And it challenges us to let go of our obsessions and worries and to learn to trust the universe to take care of us.

Lesson 30

Manifesting Meditation

In this practice, you will learn how to create the energies that begin to manifest your goals desires. The process consists of visualising, feeling yourself into it, and then, letting go of the outcome.