Ep186: Meditation Secrets For Women - Camille Maurine

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Camille Maurine is a meditation mentor, dancer, and author of ‘Meditation Secrets For Women’ written with her husband Dr Lorin Roche.

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Camille describes her turbulent upbringing and how her discovery of practices of mediation and embodiment saw her embark on over 50 years of adventure and exploration.

Camille recalls her performance career in dance and theatre, how she used movement to learn to feel her emotions, and the practices she uses to process strong feeling.

Camille recounts meeting Lorin Roche at a time when she had rejected romantic relationships, and how she drew on inner processes and practices to open into relationship with him.

Camille also discusses meditation secrets for women, why one should not fear the depths, how to honour one’s rhythms, and reflects on the limitations of male-oriented religious and spiritual systems.

Topics include:

00:00 - Intro 
01:04 - Camille’s upbringing 
05:32 - Discovering dance at the time of her mother’s death
06:40 - The path of spirituality, creativity, and love
10:16 - Studying philosophy and looking for the essence in all 
12:51 - Marriage to Lorin Roche 
15:09 - Learning how to feel emotion  
19:00 - Calling the inner beloved 
20:32 - Camille leads a drinking practice 
22:26 - Meeting Lorin Roche 
28:13 - Empowerment and vulnerability
30:14 - From inner marriage to relationship with Lorin
36:25 - When love feels like dying 
38:49 - Connection and awe 
40:12 - Practices for working with strong emotion and deep patterns 
45:16 - Primal, primary, and primordial creativity
52:39 - Meditation Secrets For Women
57:10 - Do not fear the depths 
01:01:08 - Honouring your rhythms and hormonal cycles 
01:05:02 - Male-oriented religions and spiritual traditions 
01:09:37 - Tragic misunderstanding about meditation
01:13:02 - Camille’s contribution to Lorin’s ‘Radiance Sutras’ rendering of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra
01:19:40 - Training meditation teachers
01:26:30 - Concluding remarks 

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