Cat-face

This time a poem that I wrote inspired by two pictures of Cintia Pumes, a very faithful reader of my blog. Thank you for your permission to use the pictures here and for bringing the inspiration back to me, Cintia!

Cat face

When everyone bought everything new
she escaped to the ruins of who bought everything new years ago.
Expressing something ancient there in her fresh eyes and smile
in her light steps causing the castle to crunch.

Being a doula for nothing to be born
but the way the past blackens in our face,
the way she holds her cat between us and herself
when a brand new camera arises. 

Hissing with slinky beauty,
through and behind the shadow. 

Moonfruit´s dress

White as a piece of moonfruit
head like a fallen apple
and the sea licking my toes

Yes, I´ve got feet down there
not a tail
should I still hesitate to sing
afraid to be a siren
leading sailors astray from
the real lighthouse?

My face in the sand
dark as death?

No, moonfruit is woven of innocence
a child still,
crying for depth

A dress to wear on the inside
where an army of organs
loves for love
on a beat so tranqualizing
the us inside of me

I´m on a boat
on the stream of that blood
marrying life

Don´t catch me
don´t write words
where it´s white

I stood up
I´m digging a hole
for the winter
I am now.

How to be a ultra feminine warrior (part 1) - 4 tips

After writing the article about the Dakini more inspiration in the same direction keeps coming to me!
My blood rushes faster when I open myself for this and my heart becomes even more warm and vibrant. Because of this I will spend some more blogs on the subject of Female Coaching.

At first I want to emphasize that even though I use examples out of my personal experience, this 'I' is not that important. I´m only some small kind of moon, temporary blessed to reflect light of the sun!  I´m also not claiming my words are the truth or in anyway can be a replacement for psychotherapy or medical help, if you are in some kind of a psychological or physical crisis please contact a doctor. 

1. Love the other Dakini's in your life - A flower doesn´t compete with other flowers, she just blooms.
Never see your female friends and acquaintances as a competition. Don´t compare yourself with them! Admiring the feminine can be your basic setting but of course it´s natural if your friend just made something amazing and you are having weak days wherein you are not able to accomplish anything, that a wave of jealousy comes over you. I learned to see jealousy as something good. If you feel jealousy you can thank the universe for it! It shows you something about you, a craving of your soul. It´s an alarm bell ringing to remind you of what you came on planet earth for. To be awesome in your own ultra-feminine way! Jealousy is in the end nothing more than energy. If you open yourself up for this energy, you can transform this into something creative. In this way jealousy can even work as a domino effect where one woman after the other feels and acts amazing following her souls calling.

2. Show the Dakini your appreciation - Don´t hesitate to hug female friend or give her a compliment when you feel like it. If you do, it will have an effect on you like you just hugged yourself or gave yourself a compliment. Besides this it will also raise your vibration if you give praise to the invisible divine female energy. There are many ways to do this. You can use a statue of a Goddess and burn a candle for her, sit and meditate. You can go in nature and feel in your heart the thankfulnes for her creative life-force. Or just say or write down thanks to her. Thank yourself, standing before the mirror! Even when you are feeling miserable say thanks. Forms and feelings are changing and all gifts on the journey to yourself!

3. Nevertheless, cultivate feeling GOOD! Just the way you are.. Do things because you want to, not because others tell you so. Don't believe there is only one way to a ' succesfull'  kind of life. Be you're own guide in this.
The most female woman I know are woman who took risks in their lifes. Who followed their own hearts and own dreams. Not slowed by the ideas of family or society or anything. There is no plan except the plan you write yourself. That´s your soul. Sometimes you just have to make choices in your life just because your soul tells you too. Your rational mind may not understand and try to relativize with cold arguments why you should not. Or the fear becomes bigger than your trust so you run away like you just saw a ghost in your own mirror-image. Taking risks will for sure also bring you in the situation(s) where you feel like you are down there at zero. You could even come at a point where you even say out loud you wish to die. If so, your soul gives you the opportunity to find out on what in the world or on witch people or situation your happiness was depending. You can learn just to be there for you. Be convinced of yourself, do everything for yourself, speak delicate words to you like you are your own lover.

4. And this is the practical tip of today, please SELFIE yourself!
I tend to make a lot of selfies when I feel good and I don´t care if some people might find this weird or idle. I spended half of my so far life already thinking I was no good and not beautiful and I like to celebrate and cultivate my healing. And it´s really true, if your ideas about yourself change, the circumstances will change too. So now please decide, how delicious do YOU want YOUR LIFE to be? I want it to be just as delicious as my favourite kind of raw chocolate. Hmmmm, more on that subject later! ;)

Blessings and thank you!
Sisterlove,
Lauri


Ps: If you like, please share your self-love selfies down here, If at least 10 people do I will start practicing to stand on my head ( i can not do it yet! ) and show the results on my blog.  It will be hilarious for sure!

15 Signs You Are A Dakini

I would like to tell you something about the second part of my artist name, Lauri Dakini. A Dakini is a female messenger of wisdom.The name translates as 'she who traverses the sky' or 'she who moves in space' or, more poetically, as 'sky walker' or 'sky dancer'. The term comes from Tibetan Buddhism. 

In my vision a Dakini is like some kind of a guru in the form of an energy that can manifestate in all of us. She is a sharp mirror for her surroundings, playfull and changable. As many Hindu-deities she can be both cruel and loving. The Dakini is like a vessel for non-intellectual truth.

1 You are easily creative, using the materials and possibilities you have. You know how to use play just for fun, but also as a surviving-strategy
2 You know intuitively how to invoke the Dakini-energy when you have to accomplish something challenging. You do this with music, dancing, smoking inscence, you just know how to raise your vibe untill you are at the Dakini-level!
3. You often feel like something bigger than yourself flows through you.
4. You are playfull and sponteneous. Personally I feel now as a grown-up somehow more in touch with my inner-child, It´s Dakini wisdom unfolding.
5 You inspire others and you love this! And you love it just as much when others are a Dakini for you..
6. Sometimes you say things without thinking that change the whole vibe around you. It can be both bring shock or healing. No this is not just because of hormones. You are mirroring like a Dakini.
7. You don´t always take yourself too seriously. You can laugh about yourself.  You know the little you that can be described with a story is not really you. Nothing would describe you the best. Or the gentle smile on your face now..
8. You are familiar with the experience of losing the ground under your feet. (And this is one of the main reasons you do not take yourself too seriously!) You were in situations where you thought to know what it was all about but than suddenly it came completely different.
9. You know your emotions are like waves that come and go that´s why you can have inner peace while at the same time you are crying your eyes out.
10. When you reach ´empty space´ you feel at home.
11. You are not afraid of death because the process of rebirth is familiar to you.
12. Boxes are not made for you. You can not define ´who you are´ or ´what you do´ in one single job or profession. You can be like a child each day dressing up as a different creature.
13. Because you want it all! And you know you can! (be a mother, be both an angel and a geisha, a painter and a dancer, you can clean and repair your car, write a book or make money by selling vegan ice-cream, become super-elastic, drive on your bike for thousands of kilometers and always feel guided and so on and so on.
14, Yes, you know your possibillities are neverending..15. You know you are one with nature.You are not ashamed of your naked body and it does not disturb you to see others naked. 
I hope my words about the Dakini were a nice mirror for you. Please leave a comment with your thoughts coming up, add something or question something. I love you!

In praise of the 5 elemental Dakini´s  - this song is a delicious invocation! Listening this I feel like sitting at a fire outside, becoming really clear, clean and sharp.