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Erica Gies is an environmental journalist who has spent years reporting on water systems, ecology, restoration projects, and climate adaptation.#ericagies #feminineleadership #waterwisdom #salanaaura

What makes her work valuable is that she sits between:

* Science
* Journalism
* Ecology
* Policy
* Storytelling

She isn’t writing as a hydrologist or activist alone. She travels to real restoration projects around the world and tells stories through people, watersheds, rivers, beavers, wetlands, forests, and communities.

If you are seeing this post, know that your intuition is guiding you softly.

Trust the process, so you can attract inner shift where boundaries are honored in the midst of chaos. You know when you are aligned with love rather than fear in this path less path - spirals of becoming is life flourishing with divine feminine blessing.

Pay attention to-
- Instinctive knowing
- Synchronicities around you
- Take little steps, they will reveal what's next.

With lots of love💕,
Salana Aura.

Love begins when the inherited lens from your mothers & sisters who grew up internalizing patriarchy, childhood upbringing in the same system clears. 💫Respecting family members do not mean- allowing for epigenetics of patriarchy brainwashing to pass to the new generation who depends on you.

Start respecting yourself first to not let third parties interfere with your intimate relationship and your children's lives.

Dr. Bell Hooks talk in length about how relationships meanings get distorted in patriarchy inflicting pain onto each other.

In hooks’ framework, to see with one’s own inner vision, to create a new generation free of patriarchal systemic oppression, we can start-
• Rejecting socially imposed roles and expectations (“woman as submissive,” “man as dominant,” etc.).
• Embracing honesty — with oneself and with the other. She writes that love demands “truth-telling” and vulnerability, rather than performance or pretense.
• Valuing the other’s individuality — not as an expression of tradition, culture, or belonging, but as their unique being.
• Centering care, respect, justice, and mutual spiritual growth — not control, ownership, or domination.

#LoveBeyondPatriarchy #ConsciousRelationships #InnerVision #feminineawakening #salanaaura #mindfulcoaching #patriarchydetox

Hi dear💕, I wish you a beautiful week ahead.

If you are seeing this post, know that sacred feminine is healing you as you courageously attempt to release all that pain you are carrying.

“My anger has meant pain to me but it has also meant survival. And before I give it up, I’m going to learn from it, transform it, and let its power move me toward change.”
— Audre Lorde (1981)
• Lorde often describes patriarchal and racist oppression as embodied trauma in us.
• She rejects “holding” trauma in silence — instead moving toward transformation and release.

#salanaaura #patriarchydetox #sacredfeminine #audrelorde

Isabelle Allende often blends magical realism with themes of feminism, social justice, and Latin American history to inspire women across lands.

Resilience & Adaptability is feminine energy which helps us to grow in difficult conditions.
Just like a dandelion nature seeming fragile yet can grow in sidewalk cracks symbolizing hope and transformation, Feminine nature brings strength, perseverance, and spirals to overcoming adversity.

If you saw this post, know that Your Resilience does not come from patriarchal headstrong power chase,
It actually comes from spiraling feminine flow of rest and renewal, allowing and flowing, focusing on solutions and not the problems.

Take good care,
Sending love❤️

#salanaaura #mindfulcoaching #isabelallende

Yes, Read it again :)

I – m – perfect.
Not perfect as in flawless, performance-driven, heteronormatve notions of productivity.
But perfect as in whole. Already enough. Already worthy.

I’m perfect
because I am in process,
because I am becoming,
because I am remembering myself.

I
– m (embodied, messy, miraculous)
– perfect (precisely as I am)

Sometimes the most radical act is to declare your own sufficiency.

There’s a hidden mantra for you:

I am.
I am perfect.
I am perfectly becoming.

#salanaaura #feminineawakening #lifecoaching #mindfulcoaching #patriarchydetox

If you are seeing this, I hope you faced your answer and healed your power.

There is a difference between carrying responsibility
and carrying the world.

A woman to another woman in solidarity-
• Boundaries can be loving.
• Saying no can be devotional.
• Rest is a form of resistance.

You don’t have to fight to belong.
You don’t have to exhaust yourself to be worthy.

Here is a Affirmation for you,

“I allow life to meet me in every moment.”

You are held.
You are supported.
Take good care of yourself 💕

In All About Love, bell hooks redefines love not as a feeling, but as an action, an ethic, and a practice rooted in making choices free from fear. A choice to act with honesty, care, responsibility, and respect — toward ourselves and others.

patriarchy conditions women to overgive and men to repress emotions — neither of which are love.

To choose love — especially self-love — is an act of defiance.

Because when you choose to love yourself:
• you stop abandoning yourself for approval,
• you stop shrinking to keep peace,
• you stop participating in systems that demand silence.

Love becomes an act of sovereignty.

Ask yourself and reflect: Where in my life am I choosing fear instead of love?

#salanaaura #lifecoaching #feminineawakening #bellhooks

May you be able to speak your truth and reset and renew as you move through your journey 💕

Above 3 questions are here for you to navigate your truth engaging your body, heart and mind respectively. 🙏
Breathe, Be present, Ask yourself.

Clarity, when seen through a feminist lens, isn’t just about mental sharpness; it’s about seeing through illusion, reclaiming truth, and embodying self-knowing despite systems that obscure it.

Feminist scholars have navigated through these to empower us with their truths:

'The process of naming has been a way to bring clarity to confusion, a way of making visible what has been rendered invisible.'
— Adrienne Rich

'Clarity comes when you stop trying to be good and start being real.'
— Glennon Doyle

'To reclaim the sacred is to see clearly — to remember what has always been true.'
— Starhawk

So, my soul friends, We are not confused; the world has been confusing us. Our clarity becomes an act of resistance.

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#salanaaura #feminineawakening #lifecoaching #adriennerich #starhawk #glennondoyle

Inspired today by Arundhati Roy.

Today's rain reminded of monsoon Rain, in Roy’s imagery, often symbolizes both cleansing and remembering.
'The God of Small things' is a beautiful signature poetic work of hers where politics merges tenderness and resistance, nature and revolution.
- The “rain” can break a long drought, emotional, social, or political. It carries the scent of earth reclaiming herself, a kind of relief and release.
- Forgiveness here isn’t submission, but renewal — the earth forgiving us for forgetting her.

It’s the feminine principle of regeneration, not vengeance.

A woman “smelling the rain” becomes a seer, a witness to rebirth, attuned to nature’s healing cycle. Welcome to Feminine awakening 💕

#salanaaura #feminineawakening #lifecoaching #arundhatiroy

October felt like a weaving — threads of study, spirit, and remembrance intertwining.

From Paleolithic caves where women’s hands first painted light into darkness, to the ancient songs of the land still carried by fire and ceremony,
to the timeless presence of goddesses energies whisper: “remember.”

This month has been about remembering — not as nostalgia,
but as reclamation.
As Marija Gimbutas taught, our ancestors lived in cycles of relation — with body, with land, with each other.
That wisdom still hums beneath our modern noise.

As we move through festival season,
I feel the divine feminine shifting forms —
from fierce protector to gentle illuminator.
From the sword of Durga to the lamps of Lakshmi —
she reminds me that power is not domination but devotion.

Here’s to carrying these threads forward —
into our circles, our art, our activism,
and the quiet knowing that the sacred is never far.

What ancient wisdom is calling you? Comment below 👇

Link in Bio. View my blog here to learn more- https://www.salanaaura.com/post/excavating-the-feminine-from-paleolithic-caves-diwali-lights

#SalanaAura #FeminineAwakening #SpiritualFeminism #TiharVibes #DashainReflections #EmbodiedWisdom #GoddessCulture #CyclicalLiving #SacredActivism

Observing, not looking for anything evokes a presence, attentiveness, and an ethics of witnessing rather than meaning making with biases that are ingrained in us.

“Paying attention is a form of reciprocity with the living world, receiving the gifts with open eyes and open heart.”
(Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 2013)

“To see the world rightly is to see oneself as part of it, not as a detached mind surveying a field of objects.”
(Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 1993).

#salanaaura #feminineawakening #lifecoaching

Above affirmation is crafted to free ourselves from mind/body dualistic thinking and trust our own unique rhythm
We are wrongly taught to see duality of mind over body.

The body is the ground of our knowing. It remembers what the mind forgets, and it speaks in sensations, rhythms, and desires.
— bell hooks, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope (2003)

Women’s rhythms are the pulse of the Earth; our cycles echo the waxing and waning of the moon. To honor them is to live in harmony with the sacred.
— Starhawk, The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess (1979)

#salanaaura #feminineawakening

We keep using this terms quite often, have you thought about it? What does it mean for you? Yes it will be unique for you💕

Empowerment journey from a spiritual feminine perspective is not a linear rise to success or dominance, but as a cyclical, embodied, and relational awakening — a process of returning to one’s inherent wholeness and reclaiming power that was historically silenced, fragmented, or externalized.

Here are three pointers:
1. The empowered woman no longer seeks permission to exist.
2. She roots in her truth, knowing that her being itself is sacred.
3. One woman’s awakening ripples outward as healing for her lineage and for the planet.

It is a reclamation of voice, body, and belonging — a homecoming to the sacred feminine within and around us.

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#salanaaura #feminineawakening #mindfulcoaching #lifecoaching

Every leaf, even from the same branch are different.
They vary subtly — in shape, size, vein pattern, texture, and color.

BE YOURSELF
AS EVERY EXPRESSION OF ONENESS IS DISTINCT.
You are created by nature as a unique beautiful expression of herself 🌎

#salanaaura #beyourself #mindfulcoaching

Everything we see — seasons, breath, relationships, identities, even galaxies — exists only through constant transformation.

Yet we humans cling to stability, mistaking permanence for safety. We suffer when we resist the current, when we demand that what’s flowing remain still.

Alan Watts says:
You can’t step outside the river of change and expect to understand it.
You have to enter it, feel its pull, and learn its rhythm.

It’s not about control — it’s about communion.
Happy change of season, Happy Fall 🍂🍁💕

#mindfulcoaching #salanaaura #alanwatts

What has been surfacing for you these days?

Jung says real awakening doesn’t come from escaping the dark — it comes from turning toward it.

🌘
The darkness refers to our unconscious — the parts of ourselves we reject, suppress, or simply don’t see.
• It could be unprocessed grief or anger.
• Or our own power, sexuality, envy, or desires that we learned to hide.
Jung called this the shadow — not evil, but unlived, unacknowledged aspects of the self.

🌕
When we bring those shadow parts into awareness — by noticing our triggers, our projections, our repeated patterns — we integrate them.
That’s where real growth happens. Illumination isn’t about banishing the dark; it’s about including it, with compassion and curiosity.

Picture here is taken by my dear friend Saroz🙏

#mindfulcoaching #salanaaura #feminineawakening #carlyoung

I wish you belonging to love ❤️ that is both a radical act and a regenerative force, a way to renewal.

This longing for belonging — is not nostalgia, it’s not about returning to a house, to any one person, but to a way of being that feels rooted, safe, and authentic. Belonging isn’t just physical, it’s emotional, ancestral, and spiritual.

bell hooks names a deep wound many women carry — displacement.

Women, especially women of color, have often been denied belonging:
• Patriarchy tells women their bodies, homes, and lands are not truly theirs.
• Colonialism and capitalism displace women from ancestral lands and from ecological harmony.
• Racism & Sexism uproots women’s sense of safety and worth in their own communities.

To belong as a woman:
• Come home to your body.
• Root into the earth.
• Reweave connection through love.
This triad — Body · Earth · Community — forms a circle of renewal.

When you heal, all are nourished. 💕

#bellhooks #salanaaura #feminineawakening #patriarchydetox #lifecoaching #mindfulcoaching

An affirmation is a short, positive statement you consciously repeat to retrain your mind toward the reality you want to create.

May you find peace to be able hear inner guidance and follow your path💕

#MindfulCoaching #WomenWhoRise #PatriarchyDetox #authenticity

My dear soul sisters, raising your minimum standard is okay. Respect your essence and don't accept anything less.

Respect is the quiet baseline of love, not an extra, not a reward. When we stop normalizing disrespect, we start healing collective worth. 🌿

"The bare minimum is not a gift — it’s a standard.”
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"If respect makes you seem ‘too demanding,’ demand louder.”
- Audre Lorde

In every relationship — personal or professional — respect is not a milestone, it’s the starting point.
Anything less is not love, not connection, not conscious.
Let’s unlearn the ways we normalize the opposite. 🌸

#MindfulCoaching #WomenWhoRise #PatriarchyDetox #authenticitymatters #respectisminimum

Love is here, within us all.
My soul sisters, I wish you a beautiful Dashami/Dashain.

... images of god imposed through a patriarchal system, show us god as too impersonal, too big, too unbelievable
(created by big powerful few) only to limit our understanding of ourselves... encountering the divine right where you are is the spiritual sustenance
- God is here, by Rabbi Toba Spitzer

This Dashami, May ma Durga blesses us with her nine sisters's blessings-
1. Finding strength staying grounded in our body, a gift of Mother Earth
2. Seeking truth with discipline n devotion, trust inner voice
3. Radiating calm in the conflict as both will be there as you choose it to be
4. Embody creativity as you are the vessel of it
5. Love your inner warrior it only wants justice by you
6. Embrace her who is becoming through you
7. Be open to transformation, it comes from within not outside
8. Forgive, what needs to be comes to you, let go which needs to flow
9. Gratitude for all around us, goddess aspects within us.

Have a wonderful time with your loved ones 🪔🪔🪔
#godishere
#salanaaura
#patriarchydetox
#feminineawakening

"To be in coalition is to recognize ourselves in each other, as earth recognizes itself in all beings.”
- María Lugones

eco-feminist interpretations of nature reflects on decolonial feminist work
##marialugones #ecofeminism #feminineawakening

By dissolving ego boundaries, your vision resonates with ecological consciousness all life as one field of awareness.

#ecospirituality
#salanaaura

🙏the goddess is in your human form, experiencing the intricate web of life in the Anthropocene.
I am not here to become divine; I am here simply to be me, letting all experiences flow in existential creativity.

This validation opens one to the truth of Satchidananda- existence, consciousness, bliss.

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#navaratrivibes
#mindfulcoaching

Līlā is the Hindu mystical vision of existence as divine play — spontaneous, joyous, and creative. It is central in bhakti devotion.

Vedānta philosophy (cosmos as Brahman’s self-expression), and Tantra (play of Śakti). For mystics, to recognize life as līlā is to transcend fear and suffering, and to participate consciously in the cosmic dance.

"We (as existing beings) realize that we are always in dynamics of existential revealing, poietically co-manifesting our worlds…”- Dr Francesca Ferrando.

Full blog here: https://www.salanaaura.com/post/the-lila-of-awareness
#francescaferrando #salanaaura #feminineawakening #lifecoachingforwomen

I am
You are
We are
This is
&,that's all

Now, another question.
Can you see her without her Gender?
And all your beliefs about her Gender?

🙏
#feminineawakening #lifecoaching #salanaaura

Great women scholars and thinkers highlight how hysteria has functioned less as a clinical reality and more as a social weapon to undermine women’s legitimacy, especially when they resist silence or conformity.

The term is historically been used to dismiss, silence, or pathologize women’s voices.

It is time to own our hysteria:
. Be true to yourself
. Don't confirm to gender biases
. Own your dream
. Be the change our next generation needs

#audrelorde #susanbordo #elaineshowalter
#salanaaura #feminineawakening #lifecoaching

In a true Goddess-centered context, in contrast, the will is valued. A woman is encouraged to know her will, to believe that her will is valid, and to believe that her will can be achieved in the world.

#carolpchrist
#feminineawakening
#salanaaura

Your self-love is not selfish; it is the seed that allows community, healing, and solidarity to bloom.
When women come together in love and truth, mountains move, and futures change.

- complement another woman today
- show your support
- pause and smile softly in mirror
- be proud of being you

don't let this system of unjust traditions & judgements, keep you imprisoned and small. Say NO.

#womenempoweringwomen❤️
#salanaaura
#patriarchydetox

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