Warrior Goddess Training- Become the Woman You are Meant to Be

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HeatherAsh Amara is the founder of Toci-the Toltec Center of Creative Intent and the author of The Toltec Path of Transformation: Embracing the Four Elements of Change and No Mistakes!: How You Can Change Adversity into Abundance. She is dedicated to supporting women and men in becoming more curious, open, courageous, humorous, creative, loving, accepting, and impeccable explorers of their truth. She lives in Austin, Texas, and travels extensively.

In Warrior Goddess Training, HeatherAsh Amara shares her experience as a teacher, friend, and guide, helping a new generation of women enter their own journey of inner transformation.

This book combines the wisdom of many traditions into one beautiful path. Consistent throughout these teachings is the understanding that an idea means nothing without a corresponding step toward action; therefore, this book is full of exercises that are designed to put you in touch with your divine self.

As you will soon see, the path of the Warrior Goddess was forged in love.

Heather Ash Amara came into my life over twenty years ago as a college student who had so many questions about everything; so many that she took on many teachers in many traditions, including myself, and began her trek toward understanding. At first she wanted to understand everything that existed outside of herself, but all of her teachers pointed inward. So when her resistance to this direction ended, her trek to outward under- standing turned into a journey of self-understanding. The pages that follow are the result of that journey.

I was called to work with women many years ago, when I took my first college class called Women and Society and began to explore Earth-based spirituality.

Earth-based spirituality is any religion or tradition that at its center honors the Earth, nature, and all manifestations of life. Practiced by people all over the world, from Native American tribes to African shamans to modern-day scientists, Earth- based spirituality views the Earth as the Mother, the one who gives us life and nourishment and brings insight and wisdom.

Connected to the cycles of the Earth and sun, these traditional teachings honor light and dark, beginnings and endings, male and female, birth and death. Everything is included; all is sacred. As I immersed myself in studying different traditions, I found a deep sense of home in European shamanism and its teachings on honoring Mother Earth. The archetypes of maiden, mother, and crone and the different aspects of the Goddess inspired me to begin to love myself as a woman, rather than trying to be more like the male God and people (mostly men) who were held up as role models and guides.

In time I found teachers to guide me, and I was "drafted" to teach by the sheer number of women who kept coming to me, asking to learn.

You are whole. You are powerful. You are divine.

When you read these words do you feel the truth of them ringing in your bones?

Or do you instead feel the muffling weight of self-judgment and self-doubt? Perhaps you have a deep-seated belief that you are not good enough, and as a result you have tried the exhausting process of seeking value outside of yourself throughout your life.

If you don't love and honor yourself with every fiber of your being, if you struggle with owning your power and passion, if you could use more joyful play and simple presence in your life, then it is time for an inner revolution. It is time to claim your Warrior Goddess energy.

As women, we are trained to seek our wholeness and value and to find love through others. Fifty years ago, we were told a husband and children would complete us that was about our only option. Today, what makes us worthy might be a beloved, our career, or even following a chosen spiritual path. We rarely see ourselves as perfect just the way we are.