Monday, March 8, 2010

Developing Resilience during Difficult Times

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Joan Borysenko, PhD., Author and Noted Lecturer – Own It, Sister! is thrilled to be interviewing Joan Borysenko, PhD, #1 Bestselling author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind. We’ll be talking with Dr. Borysenko about developing resilience during difficult times. The world is in crisis . . . but we don’t have to be. We all know resilient people who bounce back from hardship and create their best lives. That’s the promise of change. Other people stress out and melt down, losing hope and health. That’s the danger in times of change. The good news is that resilience isn’t a genetic gift for the lucky few—it’s an easily understood skill that anyone can practice and master. As a Harvard trained medical scientist, psychologist, and director of a spiritual mentor training program, Dr. Borysenko understands that living your best life is a multidimensional process of caring for body, mind, and soul.

Saved by a Poem

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Kim Rosen, MFA, is the author of Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Word and the co-creator of four CDs of spoken poetry and music. Kim will be talking with us about the power of poetry to pierce the most difficult situations and cross the most formidable cultural boundaries. Combining her devotion to poetry with her background as a spiritual teacher and therapist, she gives performances, lectures, and workshops in the U.S. and abroad. Kim is a beautiful example of a women who is owning it. She’ll share her challenges, breakthroughs and insights from taking risks, living large and allowing poems to resonate deep in her being.

Taking the Stage and Becoming Visible

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Monday, February 22, 2010 – Heather Wertheimer, Musician and Vocal Artist, Shantala

Are you a woman who wants to share your dreams with the world but feels inhibited by the fear of performance? Often, performance anxiety is at the heart of sabotaging our greatest contribution to the world. Join us as Own It, Sister! interviews Heather Wertheimer who will share with us how she over came her fear of performance to become a world class musician. Heather Wertheimer is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist who combines her special love of both music and yoga to lead devotional chanting for yoga workshops and spiritual gatherings internationally. Heather’s debut CD with Shantala, Church of Sky, was named by New Age Retailer as one of the top ten albums of 2004.

Own It Sister Wings It!

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Whitney Wogan, Jeanie Manchester & Sarah Hoskin Clymer – Sometimes life doesn’t go as you planned … as was the case on today’s show! Due to a scheduling error, we missed our interview with Claire Zammit and Katherine Woodward Thomas from Women on the Edge of Evolution. Don’t despair though … the interview has been rescheduled for April 5th! We had a delightful conversation about women’s relationships … exploring both the dark side of cat fights, gossip and competition as well as the power of evolutionary partnerships which Claire and Katherine will talk more about in April. These relationships are generative, co-creative and collaborative; they bring out and demand the best in each of us. And isn’t that, ultimately, what we want?

Sally Kempton –Waking to the Divine Feminine in our Everyday Lives

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Sally Kempton – Meditation Teacher, Author, Columnist for Yoga Journal. The Divine Feminine has always been present in our culture and in our bodies and yet she has been suppressed and forgotten for thousands of years. The Sacred Feminine is alive and awakening in the West. Learn to recognize the power of the Divine feminine in your life and in your body. Sally Kempton, a former New York journalist, was compelled on a spiritual journey in 1971 after an ecstatic experience she couldn’t explain. For 28 years, Sally took up the monastic life and studied meditation in the Indian yoga tradition. In 2002, Sally put aside her monastic robes to begin teaching independently.She travels extensively, and offers workshops and retreats that integrate meditation, yoga wisdom, and spiritual life-skills.