Permission to Descend: The Power of Embracing Your Darkness
(Originally published in Rebelle Society at: http://www.rebellesociety.com/2016/06/23/symakharal-descend/) As a Goddess coach, healer and yoga teacher, I have the incredible blessing of supporting soulful women all over the world heal their most painful patterns and create the lives they dream of. I was called to this sacred work after transcending many personal...
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Celebrate Summer Solstice like a Sun Goddess
Summer Solstice is one of the most powerful, beautiful and sacred days of the year. Known as Litha in the Pagan tradition, this holy day celebrates our primary source of light: the sun. The pregnant mother goddess is in her full radiant glow, as the sun god is at...
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Goddess Rituals and Prayers to Celebrate Beltane
Beltane is a Celtic festival of fertility, fire and flowers. Taking place on May 1st, this is a day of celebrating the sacred union of God and Goddess, which creates new life from the death of winter. As the flowers begin to bloom and the birds begin to sing their...
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The Feminine Cure to Competition: Inspiration, Collaboration and Connection
I recently had the pleasure of attending acclaimed yoga teacher, psychotherapist and ordained priestess, Ashley Turner’s amazing Urban Priestess Training class at the Toronto Yoga Conference. I was excited to meet her as she too is dedicated to teaching healing from the inside out and empowering women on the...
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Feminine Wisdom at Work: Stop Striving and Start Thriving, Goddess
Never-ending doing, striving and achieving may be the excessively yang-driven way of the West, but it’s certainly not for our best. Mental overwhelm, physical burn-out and emotional exhaustion become an accepted way of earning a living—meanwhile, there’s very little actual living happening. Much of the money we make from all...
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Triple Goddess: Awakening The Maiden-Mother-Crone Within
Awakening the Goddess within is every woman’s birthright. As cyclical beings, we are endowed with countless sacred feminine gifts, and learning how to honor and harness them can help us own our feminine power wholly and unapologetically, and become flourishing forces in the world. What is the Triple Goddess? While there...
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Awaken Aphrodite at Work: Syma's Article in Over the Moon Magazine
I spent the second half of my corporate career fantasizing about a life in which I could be my own boss, live my true purpose and be of great service. I imagined that instead of reporting on every minute of my day to essentially abusive superiors—my last boss demanded I...
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Awaken Your Psychic Gifts: Clairvoyance, Clairsentience, Clairaudience and Claircognizance
You are intuitive. As spiritual beings having a human experience, we are all connected to the same inner source of infinite wisdom. And while some of us may be born with heightened psychic ability, all of us have the ability to open our spiritual communication channels – and in...
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5 Magical Full Moon Rituals
By Syma Kharal Full moons have forever been a mystical time of connecting with our spiritual, sacred feminine selves. Many Goddess and earth-based traditions honored all phases of the moon, while Eastern religions like Hinduism and Buddhism still celebrate special holidays according to the lunar calendar. While new moons are associated...
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