As women, we may have learned to value some qualities in ourselves and hold back others.
We may find it easy to be caring but difficult to say no. We may be strong and independent, yet find it difficult to be vulnerable. We may avoid confrontation to preserve connection, or become hard when we need to protect ourselves.
Tenderness and strength. Vulnerability and courage. Intimacy and independence. Nurturing and setting clear boundaries.
Making room for all of ourselves
These qualities are sometimes described as feminine and masculine. But rather than choosing one over the other, what happens when we allow ourselves to experience the whole range?
OSHO The Power of Being a Woman is an experiential course for women to explore different aspects of themselves — including those they may have learned to suppress, judge, or avoid.
Through movement, meditation, and experiential exercises, you explore how you relate to strength and vulnerability, intimacy and boundaries, giving and receiving, confrontation and acceptance.
Rather than trying to become a particular kind of woman, the invitation is to become more aware of what is already there — and discover what feels authentic to you.
It’s also an opportunity to explore how centuries of rejection of women and the feminine still influence how we experience ourselves as women today.
🎧 Listen: The Difficulty Women Are In
Learning to love every part of you
“…just as the bird has two wings and you have two legs, in your head there are two brains contradicting each other and complementing each other: the left brain and the right brain, reason and intuition, the feminine and the masculine. And there is a possibility of a synthesis. This synthesis is the goal of all religion, of all mysticism, of all yoga. Yoga means meeting, meeting of the opposites. It is a union.”
Osho, Ecstasy: The Forgotten Language (#3)
In a space of trust and acceptance, we will:
- Explore female archetypes from Eastern and Western traditions
- Take guided inner journeys
- Use movement and other techniques to uncover unacknowledged parts of ourselves
- Share insights and celebrate with music and dance
“There is a point of awareness, understanding, vision, where your man and woman inside meet, mingle, and disappear into each other.”
Osho, Zen: The Path of Paradox, Vol. 1 (#2)
WHAT WILL I LEARN?
Through this course, you’ll discover how to:
- Recognize when you’re going against yourself to avoid confrontation
- Find the courage to stand strong and true to yourself, even in conflict
- Make space for your own needs and self-nurturance
- Stop judging yourself by unrealistic cultural standards
- See beyond the rules and expectations that limit your individuality.
- Respond more naturally, without getting caught in overthinking
TIMES ARE SHOWN IN YOUR LOCAL TIME ZONE.
Course approach
- Issues
Meet Your Facilitator - Ritu
Ritu is a holistic counselor and trauma-informed therapist, working with approaches such as Somatic Experiencing and biodynamic craniosacral therapy. Her approach supports people in exploring different aspects of themselves with honesty and care — creating space for real change to happen at a natural pace.
"The man and the woman are not really two separate entities, but the personality of the man needs the supporting qualities of the woman. If those supporting qualities are not there, the man will fall apart. And the same will happen to the woman. She cannot exist only on female qualities, she needs male supporting qualities. So, each human being is a composite whole of two polarities which appear opposed to each other but are not really opposed; they are basically, absolutely essential components of each other." - Osho