I recently attended a presentation by Natalie Benhayon on “A Sacred Relationship with Self.” This subject has been in my conscious awareness for a few years as I have been learning about and developing more self-love and more self-nurturing which has led to more self-esteem. When I received the notice of the presentation being given by Natalie, I suspected there would be a slant on how to be in relationship with my self as a woman. I’ve been a late bloomer so to speak, in the sense of realising what my true expression as a woman means for me. I was eager to attend, yet still a little apprehensive. The apprehension had to do with not being confident about ‘how to be a woman’. As the presentation began, I quickly learned that the evening would be about a relationship with my sacred self.
If we look at Natalie Benhayon, we see a young woman who is amazing. She is beautiful, sexy, cheeky, fun and a full time complementary healing practitioner. She is seeing people in clinic many days of the week, founder of Our Cycles App, editor of a magazine called Women in Livingness, designer of websites, director of the Esoteric Practitioners Association (EPA)*, Founder and Director of Esoteric Women’s Health and on the board of the College of Universal Medicine (a charitable institution) and constantly pushing the edges, not to mention a few buttons! How can one woman do all of that? Some of us admire her. Some of us might envy her. Some might even be jealous. Some don’t like what they see. What they don’t like is they know that they too could be all of that but are choosing not to. That isn’t a comfortable reflection.
For many of us who have the privilege of attending the sacred movement groups which were initiated by Natalie, we can easily feel what it means to be in our sacredness because the movements allow us to connect to that most holy of places. But how many of us retain that sense of sacredness as we put on our boots, gather our bags and scarves and head out the door? I’m going to guess not many.
Being in sacredness is about a sacred relationship with self and being fully present and connected with yourself…. and more.
We have had Natalie Benhayon and her family as well as other esoteric practitioners demonstrating what “being with yourself” looks and feels like and I, along with many other women I know, have been inspired to develop our own rhythm and beingness. I have an increasing awareness of when I am with myself and when I have dropped the ball and lost the plot. I am spending more time with myself nowadays so I know what that feels like and I still go in and out of being present with myself.
When I’m showering, I am aware of tipping the shampoo into my hand, aware of how I apply it to my scalp, of how gently (or not) I massage it in. When I’m pouring my cup of tea, I am aware of how I connect (or grab) the kettle. When I’m choosing my clothes I consider why I have reached for that blouse. Is it the colour, the fabric, the style? It’s a rare occasion now that I drive somewhere and arrive realising I was on automatic pilot all the way there. I’ve incorporated little check in points during the drive to make sure I am present in my body. How are my hands placed on the wheel? Does my mirror need adjusting? I am mostly spending time “being with myself” so when I do fall away from that position, I recognise it and can choose to bring myself back home to myself.
At Natalie’s presentation on ‘A Sacred Relationship with Self’, I felt that to be in sacredness as a woman is something even more profound. It isn’t just about being with myself, or being present or being fully present or being consciously present. It is about being all those things – as a woman.
As a woman, I’m learning to start with my stillness and anything I ‘do’ must come from that stillness. For me, the biggest distraction to my stillness is nervous energy. If I am anxious or worrying there is a ‘busyness’ in me that disrupts my inner stillness. If I am thinking about things I have to do, and it is not yet time to do these things, this also creates a ‘sense of work or activity’ that is not real or productive. When it is time to do this activity, whatever it may be, I can do it with a sense of my sacred self, knowing there is no right or wrong if I am in activity as my sacred self.
If I am not coming from stillness first I have left my true essence and entered into the male essence of action, the male essence of ‘doing’. This can be a tricky business in a world that acknowledges and rewards those who do and those who produce. But thank God, there are people like Natalie Benhayon who are presenting and demonstrating how to be role models for this profound way of living from their sacredness so that we have a reflection of what it looks like and what it feels like. I feel very fortunate indeed to be able to attend these presentations in person but I feel even more fortunate to be a woman, in a large group of women, who are helping pioneer the return to our true essence; that of living in a sacred relationship with self and in the sacredness of being a woman.
By Gayle Cue, Office Manager, Bangalow NSW Australia
* The EPA (Esoteric Practitioners Association) is the internal accreditation arm of Universal Medicine. It was instigated by Universal Medicine to monitor and accredit the modalities that were founded by Universal Medicine.
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This is beautiful Gayle, how amazing if we all adopted this simple principle, ‘As a woman, I’m learning to start with my stillness and anything I ‘do’ must come from that stillness. For me, the biggest distraction to my stillness is nervous energy. If I am anxious or worrying there is a ‘busyness’ in me that disrupts my inner stillness.’
There is also a grander sense that there is more than just the ‘self’ the possibilities are endless that we can tap into when we connect to the universal mind, which makes our so-called ‘intelligence’ no intelligence at all but a regurgitation of someone else’s force-fed ideals and beliefs. We are vessels of energy and depending what energy we choose we are either accessing the universal mind or regurgitated intelligence from the astral plane. We can easily see from our present state of affairs we have not been using universal intelligence. We have placed all our eggs in one basket and gone for regurgitated intelligence. We just have to look at our current education system and the facts are before us.
Thank you Gayle, I have practiced many sessions of Sacred Movement since I last read this and my understanding of what you are sharing has changed so much. Now I have more experience in my own body from what Sacredness is and how that feels and what it means – a completely different understanding. Thanks for everything you have shared, it’s one of my favourite blogs, it always communicates something so deep to me and inspires me, beyond the words. I love this line, “Being in sacredness is about a sacred relationship with self and being fully present and connected with yourself…. and more.”
This makes me really appreciate to be in a woman’s body at this time, to be with other women who are equally rediscovering what it is to be a woman in-truth.
There is so much wisdom in this blog, the way it unravels it calls us right back into stillness, into realising that we don’t need all of the chatter & all of the things that we think we should be doing. For they come from a place of insecurity, a place of feeling not good enough. Perhaps we may think that if we do all of the things we have listed in our heads, we are good enough – but at what expense, with what quality? Nothing is worth doing if it is done in abuse of you or your body.
Thank you Gayle, you make being Sacred feel like it is the responsibility for everything, and this is equally for all of us so when we move in our essences we feel the sacredness of ourselves and the responsibility that it brings to everything we do.
Gregbarnes888 I’m beginning to understand the responsibility we carry towards ourselves and all others. When you know something is true and do not express it then that is being irresponsible but we do this a lot because we don’t want to lose friends/ family or seem to be the party pooper we become a bystander and allow the un truth to become a truth by not speaking up.
Absolutely Mary, putting a button on our lip has never worked, and even when something is not said because we have discerned that what is needed would be too disruptive. Thus when we appreciate this level of responsibility the space will open where the True words are ready to be heard because we have responded in True-timing with Love.
The feeling of raciness is so horrible, I feel it right now. There is a nervousness about the day ahead which I don’t exactly want to go into, but it feels like my diaphragm is being filled up with acid and there is a flickering under my skin – kind of like a wing-flap of an insect. It amazes me how much the body actually communicates with us, it has been said many times that the body sends very clear messages but it’s almost as if I am hearing it for the first time.
What a blessing it is to be able to feel at the level you are sharing Viktoria, and those feelings are usually lost when we feel the sacredness in our walk.
Very true Greg, we don’t appreciate the awareness we have because it usually shows us the things in life that are not so pretty. But seeing them is such a gift because the majority of us, for the majority of the time are so stuck in our perceptions that we don’t even recognise the harm we are doing to ourselves and others.
Spot on Viktoria, we live in a cycle or what we think life can be as one of Living Love and no harm and one of critique, which is usually judge-mental to self or others, then what we are living or thinking circles back to pay back with either a deeper level of Love or further judge-ment’s and the ill energy that ensues. It is not really pay-back but Karma.
This blog has unclicked something for me, I have no idea how many times I have heard the phrase “a woman’s body should not be rushed” or how many times I have repeated it to myself, but here’s another layer peeled off, a “woman’s body should not be engaged in thought of what to do next” – Thank you Gayle
“a relationship with my sacred self.” Deepening our awareness of the sacredness we hold within our body as a woman is to feel the equal sacredness within everyone.
Thank you Gayle, this is one of my favourite blogs to read and all the reminders in there on how to be with my Sacred self are very practical. We don’t really have a world that values who people are, it’s all about what you do, qualifications, credentials, how much you can do in a day, etc, but we live all of this without a connection to the truly sacred beings we are.
Being in sacredness, is something many of us are choosing to return to, ‘Being in sacredness is about a sacred relationship with self and being fully present and connected with yourself…. and more.’
Natalie Benhayon is an amazing inspiration. Nothing will stop her from living sacred and bringing sacredness to the world, as every woman is in desperate need of a loving and sacred relationship with herself and her body. Natalie will keep going until we all get the foundation of what it truly means to be a woman in this world.
Sacred Movement brings us back to what being a ‘Woman’ truly feels like and how we as “Women naturally’ are designed to be, equally so.
Thank you Shirley-Ann, today I was able to keep coming back to my body to be present with what I was doing, and I realised that this gives me the opportunity to choose the quality of each moment when I’m present with it, what kind of imprint I leave, and ultimately the expression I put out that eventually comes back to me.
It is great to be reminded as Gayle did about techniques we can use to support us to come back to our bodies, ‘I’ve incorporated little check in points during the drive to make sure I am present in my body. How are my hands placed on the wheel? Does my mirror need adjusting? I am mostly spending time “being with myself” so when I do fall away from that position, I recognise it and can choose to bring myself back home to myself.’
It’s quite an amazing journey learning to live from my sacredness, the more I connect to that within myself the more I realise how I have lived in the rush, push, busyness, anxiousness, racy thinking, when inside me is this deep well of stillness and sacredness that I can instead choose to connect to and live from. It’s like learning to walk again, plugged into a different source.
And when we ‘fall’ as in choosing to go in drive, push, busyness etc. (which comes from the other source we can live from but it is not the source we are naturally a part of) we just stand up and enjoy the walking again.
I love this sentence Melinda, ‘It’s like learning to walk again, plugged into a different source.’ Beautifully sums up the situation.
Yes and it is because of my increased awareness and choosing to be with myself that when I do lose myself it is very clear and obvious. I am also aware that I/we are being presented with opportunities constantly, perfectly constellated to support ourselves to learn what we are to learn so that we do not lose ourselves. It is a matter of saying yes to these constellations and what they are offering, for us to let go of that which does not support us and hence offer and support everyone, for us all to grow and expand.
Being with ourselves in every moment is paramount, ‘I have an increasing awareness of when I am with myself and when I have dropped the ball and lost the plot. I am spending more time with myself nowadays so I know what that feels like and I still go in and out of being present with myself.’
The world as we know it today would be very different if women were taught to honor and live from their sacredness.
I probably find the most successful places of having a sacred relationship with self is in the shower / bath or in your bedroom. And there is participating in a Sacred Movement class which is second to none.
In our world today that has become so way off course….that is losing the fundamental tenets of decency and respect towards our fellow brothers and sisters bringing the Sacredness back is a pure blessing. Natalie Benhayon is sharing with us practical ways that we can do just that. The practise of Sacred Movement has us releasing from our body energy that is holding us back from expressing ourselves in full. It allows for a connection to the divine in us.
I find this very beautiful – when we are thinking about the things that need to get done but it is not the time to do them, we find ourselves listening and saying yes to self love re-imprinting a way that perhaps in the past had a strong hold on us.
Connecting to my sacredness and moving from there is something I experience in the Sacred Movement classes. I can feel I am not living this as my normal, whereas that is what living as a woman is all about. So a work in progress, and Natalie is the most amazing example I can ask for, she makes it very practical, playful and fun.
Hi Monika, I’m experiencing the same thing, being connected to my sacredness very deeply in Sacred Movement and it being my expression and in the way I move, and learning to make this my living way. I find being present with my whole body really supports this as I’m in a 6 week Esoteric Yoga program at the moment which has highlighted how my mind takes me away from my sacredness, but being connected to my body helps me restore it. It’s lovely learning this alongside yourself and so many other women.
I recognize how being present in my body supports connecting to my Sacredness, in fact without that I can’t experience it. What also supports me is allowing myself to deeply drop and surrender into tenderness and to connect to multidimensionality.
Connecting to our sacredness is supported by being present and connected to our body, ‘I felt that to be in sacredness as a woman is something even more profound. It isn’t just about being with myself, or being present or being fully present or being consciously present. It is about being all those things – as a woman.’
When I first heard about this sacredness that resides within waiting to be expressed, I thought never in a hundred years does that mean me, but what I have discovered is that it is there in all of us no matter what our past history.
Yes Julie, all of us, including you.
Thank you Gayle, it’s an inspiring read that offers a lot of understanding about what it truly means in a practical sense to live our sacredness as women. Holding my connection to myself as Sacred and above all else is something I am constantly learning, as is exploring how that feels as a woman. The more I deepen my connection to my Sacred self the more I realise how my true qualities feel as a woman, delicateness, sass, nurturing, grace, love, beauty, and stillness are just some of the things I feel inside myself. I am learning to stay connected to these qualities, the essence of me, and express those throughout the day. This has been so beautiful and supportive to read again today Gayle, thank you, it’s been like receiving a warm hug and a boost to feeling my Sacred, powerful self!
“As a woman, I’m learning to start with my stillness and anything I ‘do’ must come from that stillness” – so true Gayle, it’s the same with me also; learning that everything, myself, and all life is about quality and determining which quality is in use to then direct us in all our moves, and in what we experience is the key to living. The quality of stillness being our natural and fine quality, our poise to instil over the qualities of anxiousness, busyness, race or rush for example.
It is remarkable that such a young woman can do so much, and be such an inspiration to so many women of all ages, consistantly so, and as you say constantly pushing the boundaries of what else there is to be done to support not only women, but also men to reconnect to their true selves.
The role modelling that Natalie Benhayon presents with herself is phenomenal because in her movements we get to see how life and in that, relationships can be when there is not a force called in making everything personal and protected. In all the years that I have known her, Natalie remains open and loving with every single person that she meets, showing us that knowing who you are and living that in full is love’s greatest strength.
The quality of our movements become delicate the moment we connect to breath and stillness, It is as if we touch and offer heaven to others.
Inspired by Natalie Benhayon, re-connecting to sacredness is the new conversation I’m having with myself. It’s profoundly humbling know that sacredness is not out there and separate from me but what we all innately are.
Natalie Benhayon is all inspiring for many reasons particularly showing us how we can have a sacred relationship with ourselves, Natalie lives and breathes her connection to herself, her movements are gentle yet purposeful and Natalie is an amazing role model for both younger and older women.
Natalie Benhayon is an endless source of inspiration to so many women, both young and old and every age in-between. She is the most incredible, beautiful, sexy, sassy and not to mention wise, role model that anyone could have or wish for as what she presents comes with nothing other than absolute pure love and integrity for all with not one ounce of judgement.
There is no right or wrong in sacredness, just a space where we feel who we truly are. And Natalie Benhayon is a living breathing example of how this can be, and that it’s possible – it’s beautiful to feel and be a part of this, to come back to who we truly are.
What I can feel is how we get caught in an image and trying and neither belongs to the truth of what we are – be it men or women. There’s nothing to do, nowhere to go. In our trying, we push away and resist what we already are.
When we connect to our stillness first what we do naturally flows, we are able to stay with our bodies rather than go into the drive and pushing that comes from our heads.
Every time I meet up with Natalie I am deeply inspired by her absolute strength, depth and wisdom but more it is the emanation that comes out of her body that is so sacred. She is committed to this 100% and the continuation of deepening and it is extremely and deeply powerful.
Natalie Benhayon offers all women and men an opportunity to feel what true sacredness looks like in everyday life with her powerful reflection.
‘I felt that to be in sacredness as a woman is something even more profound. It isn’t just about being with myself, or being present or being fully present or being consciously present. It is about being all those things – as a woman.’ It has taken me a long time to understand what being a woman is all about. Do I live it yet? Quite honestly, no I don’t as I still get very caught out by drive and motion. However, I can say that as a woman there has been an increasing appreciation for all those qualities I have as a woman and a self-acceptance that has gone deeper than anything I have experienced this lifetime. The stillness bit is still a work in progress!
Getting to know and understand the word ‘sacredness’ in its true meaning is today not as daunting as it first appeared to be. I had so many pictures and beliefs that the word ‘sacredness’ was way too much for me to comprehend within my body. The more I get to know myself as a woman and feel the natural qualities such as delicateness and preciousness that are present within me, the more I am coming to terms with the sacredness that is inherent within and within every woman and man.
Totally gorgeous Gail, thank you. Your blog gave me a moment to stop and connect to my sacredness. A moment to surrender and feel what strength lies in stillness.
In its simplest term and on a very physical level I would describe sacredness as getting a feel of our body again, and not in the sense of outer stimulation or on an emotional level, but by simply allowing myself to feel my body from the inside out, what is going on in my body and how much of it can I feel and how much do I allow myself to feel in every moment and move from this inner connection instead of letting me be pushed and directed from what the world wants from me.
Before I came accross Universal Medicine I lived in emotional up and downs, very anxious and very unsure about ‘how to be a woman’. Today I really value the check in moments to feel my body from within and to be able to come back to me, with no regret when I found myself in ‘doing’ mode. My life today is more simple and natural than ever before. I feel very rich for having such a big family who inspires, reflects and supports me very much everyday in my way of life. I don’t live in sacredness every single second, but I have a wonderful reflection to see and feel what it looks like from the Benhayon family. Having them present in every moment invites me to trust more in what I feel from my body, to let go any idea or belief from my mind about who I am and to surrender to this space of stillness that is in all of us.
Before Universal Medicine many people lived a more emotional up and down life; by bringing in supportive techniques to nurture, cherish and love ourselves, our lives are far more steady, ‘I have been learning about and developing more self-love and more self-nurturing which has led to more self-esteem.’
Natalie Benhayon brings her all in every presentation that she holds. As a student of the Livingness and after attending her workshops I can feel more present in my body and empowered. The way she presents is very refreshing, very inviting to claim myself back my true power as a woman. Love having her reflection in my life, it’s a constant reminder of the true woman I am.
Stillness is a word that I am still learning to develop a relationship with. I feel I have a grasp on it, but then I feel like I lose it. And so it is a process of letting myself get used to this ‘new’ but in reality ‘eon old’ way of being. And further to that, perhaps what is happening is not that I lose the grasp, but that my sense of stillness is actually growing and deepening so that when I think I have it mastered, I am then shown the next level of where to take it… a never ending process so to speak. I am doing baby steps but with each baby step my body rejoices…
How wonderful being open to this process that never ends Henrietta. The more I let go the ideas about ‘going there’, to ‘have it all’, to ‘do it right’…the more I surrender and enjoy in my own way and rhythm to my stillness.
Natalie Benhayon in an amazing woman who is deeply inspiring. And though she is young, she is well wiser than her years. She holds an absolute honouring of herself as a woman and in this lives her delicateness each and every day, but never in a way that is weak or fluffy – she is a very strong woman and has no fears around saying that what needs to be said, doing what needs to be done and living love in every single moment for all to be inspired by. Thank you Natalie for being who you are and not holding back and in this reminding each and every one of us as women that we have the same within to embrace and live every day.
I find it crazy that we can move through life, or let’s make it smaller, a day, an hour, a drive, a walk, even brushing our teeth without being aware of ourselves and that we can not remember how we got somewhere or what we did in our year. We can check out and not be with ourselves when we do something and if we don’t catch that detachment it just builds a momentum of doing with no-one pointing it out because that is what we are rewarded for in life. A choice to be dedicated and commitment to ourselves is incredible medicine for our lives.
I wonder how it is that one person stands up and pushes the edges without considering the consequences and others don’t. I am discovering that it comes detaching from what others think of you.
Yes.. nervous tension, anxiousness and thoughts of self doubt are all a distraction that get in the way of feeling the solidness, the simple joy, of being and feeling who we truly are, and living it.
Connecting to sacredness had never been on my agenda before, however, meeting Natalie and the Sacred Movement Workshops has been an opening to a whole new dimension that keeps joyfully expanding.
Natalie Benhayon is strong and powerful and oh so very sweet. She allows the Hierarchy to pour through her whatever is needed and is an awesome role model for all of us.
A man meeting a woman who is her sacredness is one of the greatest blessings a man can be given and receive.
Connecting to sacredness gives us a sense of the beauty we are and we represent like nothing else.
Natalie Benhayon lives and breathes sacredness.
When I deeply feel into life and the way I have approached it for a great time of my life is that I have made my self hard and tough as an answer to the abuse I encountered as a child, and still do as an adult. But now I have learned from watching Natalie Benhayon that it was just me reacting to the abuse in the outer world, the abuse that belongs to nobody’s nature, but we have made our way to behave in life.
Thanks to Natalie Benhayon I have been able to reconnect to the sacredness within and now am slowly rediscovering its beauty and its magnificence, its divine essence that lives in me.
Its not a surprise to read a blog about Natalie Benhayon and for it to be a topic on sacredness. She is the founder of Sacred Movement and attending her classes is mind blowing and very revelatory. I attended the universal Medicine Retreat recently and we were guided by Natalie performing a movement that I had never ever felt so sexy in my body. I was moving like a woman and I could not hold this back. I felt so sexy and it felt normal. I accepted this as being okay but I could feel my mind rebutting it continuously. Sacredness comes with a lot of force in opposition. It pulls me to consistently move more like this so it merely becomes my living way.
Beautiful Rik, thank you for sharing. Each and everyone of us knows how to move in sacredness whether we are a woman or a man. I became aware recently of how I have been shut down to not allow myself to move in a way that felt so natural for fear I would be ridiculed, condemned, accused of seduction, attacked especially by women etc yet there was no holding back; I was giving myself permission to move my body in connection to me, bringing all of me in that moment.
Natalie’s ability to speak what needs to be spoken inspires me. There is a dedication to humanity that is rock solid and gives no thought to personal gain and this is so rare. I would happily count this young woman as a role model.
“Being in sacredness is about a sacred relationship with self and being fully present and connected with yourself…. and more.” when we are fully present with ourselves we can not but love ourselves unreservedly.
Hi Sam, as for a man it is such a blessing to be around women that live in sacredness and it makes me remember that I to am from that same source and do not have to perform. It allows me to simply be the love I already am. Thank you for being one of the many women that have chosen to reconnect to that sacredness, as we miss it so much in our societies nowadays.
Great question what actually is sacredness? ‘It isn’t just about being with myself, or being present or being fully present or being consciously present. It is about being all those things – as a woman.’
Moving in connection to the sacredness I feel inside is part of it for me.
I am daily inspired by Natalie Benhayon, her dedication to offer all the women in the world the truth of what it is to live as a woman is out of this world. And for me personally her reflection of how to work and do so much without male energy or push is a huge example to live and work from the sacredness as well.
Natalie Benhayon is a remarkable woman and continues to inspire and remind all women that they too have an endless potential to reconnect to and live… that it all resides within.
From a foundation and connection to the quality of stillness, our movements and quality of life reflect the same.
Thank you Gayle for highlighting how it is about the quality of our being that we do things in rather than what we do.
I am learning this too and I choose to feel all that I have put up to prevent me from feeling my stillness.
Stillness is a treasure that ought to be the foundation of every moment of our life and not be overtaken by functionality and raciness. Stillness first and then everything else can easily follow.
For the past three weeks I have been feeling the importance of being more delicate and exploring what that means, and while at work yesterday I chose to be delicate with my movements and I had such a lovely day with my clients and myself. The day felt lighter, and my shift was a breeze.
Yesterday morning I had did esoteric yoga for one hour, which I could feel went quite deep for me in connecting with my stillness. The rest of the day I could just feel this contentment being me and being in my body, and I had the most lovely day hanging out with my mother.
Coming and moving from stillness creates plenty of spaciousness in the body, in our day and imbues everything we attend to with its delicate and sweet flavour.
‘As a woman, I’m learning to start with my stillness and anything I ‘do’ must come from that stillness.’ This is something we have not valued in ourselves and in society and we see the consequences of this everywhere around us, the raciness, the speed in which things needs to be done, the lack of presence and living without a connection with the body are a few examples of this. When women and men equally choose to value stillness and bring this in what they have to do, the world would look completely different than what we now know it to be.
Indeed it is never too late to reconnect and continue to deepen and expand that relationship with ourselves and the sacredness that is within.
Simply choosing to be aware of how we move things, get dressed for the day, wash our hair etc. is a huge step in truly taking care of ourselves – it asks the question of whether we are worth more than a rushed change and slightly lunatic exit from our house everyday?
‘But thank God, there are people like Natalie Benhayon who are presenting and demonstrating how to be role models for this profound way of living from their sacredness so that we have a reflection of what it looks like and what it feels like.’ If it weren’t for this reflection I would still be calling living with anxiousness and tension normal! Through this reflection, I am reminded that being in stillness is a choice although it is one we have to keep making. Through such a living example I am reminded just how possible, absolute and real it is and that this choice is all for the making.
Yes, it helps so much to have someone as a living example of what it looks like to live from that space, with ease and grace and commitment to life. In the face of those who don’t like what she shares there is not an ounce of judgement, simply an even more focused dedication to live the love we are all from.
.. and how beautiful and inspiring is that!
Sacred is who we are but have lost our connection to this most precious part of our being. We’re all invited re-connect and return to our sacred selves, this takes a conscious commitment to move differently inwardly and outwardly. Our sole purpose to align with divinity within.
‘the biggest distraction to my stillness is nervous energy.’ I know this well, having caught myself in a whirl recently and spinned me off course. The cause? Diving in, instead of standing back and feeling what was needed. Stillness compromised affects the body and every activity.
A great reminder of where it is truly about: the connection with our innate stillness and move from there. It starts with the connection with the body. I too can find myself in thoughts or I can feel the nervous energy or busyness. A stopmoment and a gentle return to the body helps me to be fully present again with where my body is engaged in. And the stillness greets me with a ‘hi there, great you are back’!
A beautiful blog to come back to, as we can’t get enough reminders to appreciate ourselves as the sacred woman we are, and to express from our innate stillness.
When working with my client fully present and in stillness the quality in which I move is exquisite and delicate, the connection between us is deepened. Drift out of stillness and a hard remoteness comes in: we’re now on auto pilot. Same applies to relationship with self. Moving with sacredness and stillness in everyday tasks elevates the quality of our days and must be treasured and embodied.
But how many of us retain that sense of sacredness as we put on our boots, gather our bags and scarves and head out the door? Great question, as a reminder that sacredness is not reserved for a special occasion or just in a sacred movement class, but in every single movement we make, from getting dressed, doing the dishes and taking out the trash….
In the past I had no clue how to be a women, as I was very much in my male energy, and as such had not developed a relationship with my body or my innate qualities as a women. In the last few years, I have been healing my issues, and clearing my body, so that today I feel so much more of me as a woman in my female body, it just feels like being home.
That male energy you speak of jacqmcfadden04 is very much that tick box mentality of doing doing doing in a way that totally disregards the innate preciousness, qualities and wisdom that every women and man holds equally within.
I relate to so much of what is shared here, to have experienced Sacredness in me, even if just a hint at times has been amazing and to observe how I let it go and get into doing in life. That nervous energy and busyness you mention is very much a trap I know well, a way to keep myself at arms length from me and as I write this I can feel how unnecessary it is and how great it is to be aware of this and to consistently keep coming back to feeling and connecting to me and know that in fact I can ‘do’ whatever is needed in the world in connection with my Sacredness, in other words all of me.
Living in the sacredness of a woman is palpably the most beautiful feeling of grace. as it touches every one we met, talk with or even communicate with via email. Our presence and essence is that of deep nurturing and understanding. A way of being that invites another to feel, sense and live from their own. Could this be how one can change the world?
This is what I am doing when I am driving, I check always my posture and every time I feel more present when I lengthen my spine. I check my hands on the steering wheel, and always come back to my breath and how it moves in and out silently. All small checks but truly supportive to remain present while driving.
Yes pioneering our return to truth. Beautiful and such a needed reflection for the world.
The more I am with myself, i.e. paying attention to what I’m doing in that moment, not daydreaming off in my head, the more aware I am of how and what I feel, within and around me. There’s less anxiety, less rush, more space and more flow. An ease and a feeling that everything that needs to get done, will get done. It feels a much simpler way to live.
It is very self-loving when we stay present in our bodies, and makes life so much simpler because we can be in touch with all we are feeling and all that is around us, thus we can feel our very next step, and the next, as our day flows and yes things get done in this effortless flow.
Coming from a steadiness and stillness that requires no force nor control but allows one to be is most exquisite to feel and live by.
Your blog beautifully describes what it means to be in a Sacred relationship with ourselves, and how the quality of ‘stillness’ is very much a part of a woman’s Sacredness.
Its really something to ponder – ‘how can 1 man do all of that’. She would say it herself that its not because she is special, but there is a commitment to life that is absolute, a service to people that is unrelenting, and a solidness in who she is that is unshakeable. Inspirational!
There really is a feeling of sacredness that comes with being still and feeling connected to our own bodies.. in that stillness, there is space, expansion and a surrender – a total knowing that nothing we can ever do can match the innate and incredible qualities of who we are at our core, underneath all of the behaviours and distractions.
“As a woman, I’m learning to start with my stillness and anything I ‘do’ must come from that stillness. ” Thank you Gayle for a great sharing, when what we do comes from our stillness there is a flow and a rhythm in our movements, when we leave our stillness behind we go into the male energy with its drive leaving our bodies with anxiousness and exhaustion.
It starts with an understanding that it’s about being the woman, with the natural sacredness and stillness we are … from within, not without and holding and being that in the world … and it’s our natural way, so it’s great many are looking at how we can live and be this way in life no matter what.
Beautifully expressed Gayle and truly inspiring!
“If I am anxious or worrying there is a ‘busyness’ in me that disrupts my inner stillness. If I am thinking about things I have to do, and it is not yet time to do these things, this also creates a ‘sense of work or activity’ that is not real” I love this analogy and can see it will support me as I deepen the relationship with myself. Having a dedication to living in relationship with ourselves and to bring that sacredness to the fore as a lived experience benefits everyone, with ourselves at the red-hot loving core!
To feel how another beholds themselves in a loving and tender way, is so inspiring to take that risk with myself also.
To be thinking about something before we need to do it is an activity … a move away from stillness, so true and something I haven’t always considered. What I feel now with stillness is a strong sense of settlement in the body so any moves made don’t disturb that equilibrium and while I don’t always have this I know in my being this is possible and how awesome it can feel.
Gayle it’s a very powerful point you have made here “It isn’t just about being with myself, or being present or being fully present or being consciously present. It is about being all those things – as a woman.” Once we connect to ourselves as women and express in full from our essence it’s a very powerful experience.
“As a woman, I’m learning to start with my stillness and anything I ‘do’ must come from that stillness” – agree Gayle, this is probably the most essential aspect to note in self-relationship as a woman.. the stillness quality; because without this we really are lost as women.
Developing this quality of connection to my stillness is an ever deepening process in which identifying with what I am doing can take me away from it and put me into drive or a nervous tension.
“As a woman, I’m learning to start with my stillness and anything I ‘do’ must come from that stillness.” How lovely it is to have women who move, express and live from their sacred self and we all have the opportunity to be inspired to also move in this way. I really love feeling my movements in the fine details I make and it really does connect me to stillness and grace and allows my body the space to be just as it feels to be. A beautiful blog thank you Gayle.
As .a woman, I’m learning to start with my stillness and anything I ‘do’ must come from that stillness. I can also feel the difference when I am out and have left my stillness, every thing changes, it is like putting on the dark shades.
Gail Natalie has inspired me and I’ve come a long way, probably like most other people. When I first saw her I was full of my own issues that I couldn’t understand how a young woman like Natalie possessed so much wisdom and she was presenting on stage to hundreds of people – yikes and without a power point presentations either!..
Over the couple of years I’ve seen Natalie to be the woman role model I seldom saw in the world. Would you believe it she inspired me to take pride in my body, how I cared for my nails, how I dressed etc, no other woman has inspired me in this way – truely inspirational woman of the world.
Amazing Blog. Natalie Benhayon is an absolute inspiration for how to live in sacredness.
‘As a woman, I’m learning to start with my stillness and anything I ‘do’ must come from that stillness.’ And that’s the difference, do we move from that stillness, stay with it or do we go into a doing, I know I and many others go into a doing so yes thank God there are those like Natalie Benhayon providing a reflection of how we can be as true women, that we can be in the world and do while staying connected to that stillness.
Natalie Benhayon has offered by her reflection how to appreciate the Divine gift of connecting to my sacredness as a woman and the responsibility to reflect this to others.
My driving is completely changing. Long distances can be a little challenging when I can go into my head but as soon as I notice this I bring myself back to me. There is a huge difference between driving on auto-pilot and driving while being present with myself and it really does make me wonder who is in the driving seat in those moments of leaving my body and checking out into my mind!
It can often be uncomfortable to be around those who reflect to us ho we know we could be living. I certainly feel it when i’m with people who embody everything we know to be true. The best thing I find to do in that situation is nominate it (either to myself or out loud) and do my best to close any gaps for comparison or jealousy (a particularly insidious one right there) to come in.
very well said Michael.
I am sure Natalie Benhayon is involved in even more than you have listed here but I have never ever ever seen her stressed or heard her say I’m so busy, she is always steady and consistent in her Livingness and flow. I adore Natalie, as all the Benhayons, they are super inspiring. What I am learning is sacredness is not something to achieve, attain or to work on, it is innately within and when we start to loving clear all that we not and start to lovingly claim the women we are the sacredness starts to emanate more in all we do. Only the other day during a Sacred Esoteric Healing course held by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine I could appreciate many women around me in the way there are and the way they were moving. I love what you have shared about sacredness and what it means to you.
Thank you Vicky for pointing out that Natalie doesn’t bemoan how busy she is. You are quite right, there is a presence she brings to all she does that does not budge regardless of what she does or what there is to do. I will hold this memory and inspiration as I walk till I can make it my normal foundation.
There is much to explore to return to who we truly are.
Gayle thank you again for this wonderful sharing. What I received reading today was a much deeper appreciation for Natalie Benhayon and what she is bringing to women worldwide. Also for me to be part of that group of women pioneering living from their essence and reclaiming their sacredness is a very beautiful responsibility. There is a bigger picture here also to appreciate of what this means for the world and to value every moment as it unfolds, because despite imperfections and so called mistakes that feel a little too easy to focus on, it is amazing to be on the path of return to sacredness as a woman.
Its really a crime that as women and men we don’t appreciate or live with the knowing that we are sacred and we are divine.
There are so many excuses to stop or hinder us from completely honouring ourselves, no matter what the situation or the discomfort this may cause in others.
It’s one thing to be happier, ‘more at ease’ or optimistic about life ahead. But to live and know your Sacredness is another whole thing instead. Sacredness implies to me a deep knowing of your preciousness and true original divinity. It is true religion in action, our link to God and who we truly are. Instead of sacrilege imagine what our world would be like if we all carried ourselves as Natalie Benhayon does, knowing as you say Gayle that we are without doubt, designed to live Sacredness as we are placed here by God.
Witnessing Natalie Benhayon grow and keep on growing in the way that she does is very inspiring i agree. i feel her more awesome every year and the Sacred Movement that she embodies and presents in her classes supports us to re-engage with the true woman inside us, feeling that energy in our own bodies and sharing with us the possibility of walking with that in our daily lives.
I love meeting Natalie Benhayon, every time I meet her, she reflects to me true sacredness and power in a woman. She reflects to me a true women and her flow of movement is just awesome.
There are so many versions of what sacred is that it can be very confusing to know what is sacred and how to live knowing that sacredness is within. Natalie Benhayon walks it beautifully and with such grace that you can’t help but notice the joy and sacredness in her movements. There is no effort in this. But our pictures and images of what this is get in the way of deepening this connection that we too can have. What I love about Natalie is that she is so willing to share this, like this connection she has is not for her. But for us all to see, feel and walk as well.
It is vital that we have these reflections in our lives, otherwise we would be dictated to by the media and by outside images that, certainly for me, are not inspiring women to be women. Moreover the reflection I have seen is that we should be more like men so we can get equity in life. I am deeply appreciative of the reflection offered by the women who are building this awareness of a relationship with sacredness, so that I too can heal my body and celebrate the reflection it offers others as a woman in a woman’s body!
There is quite a lot we can learn with a sacred relationship with self, how we like to flow, how we like to order things, and then combining this level of sensitivity and awareness with another person takes it to another level.
I love meeting with Natalie Benhayon because I can feel the presence she has with her body and that inspires me to feel much more of me I can be and this makes my whole body deepen in warmth and my eyes literally sparkle.
I can completely resonate with what you share, meeting Natalie Benhayon is a beautify full reflection, the grace, the sacredness, the true beauty from with in and the power she reflects. She is an awesome role model and reflection to all of humanity.
Natalie Benhayon is not defined by the clothes she is wearing or by any hairdo or accessories nor is she her job or all the things she does. She is simply herself and this is deeply inspirational to me in a world where we learn that we are only someone when we achieve and fulfil the pictures of success and beauty we have.
“If I am not coming from stillness first I have left my true essence and entered into the male essence of action, the male essence of doing”. It is equally important for men that their action is also coming from a place of stillness. This is absolutely crucial for all men and the abandoning of our stillness has left almost every man deeply feeling the lose of the their true essence – which in turn then just drives them into more action – so as to avoid feeling that pain. Sacredness is the source for both sexes.
So true Otto and very unappreciated. Stillness has not been valued as a connection to who we are, nor as a source to connect to before we take anything into activity regardless of our gender.
Even now, after all that I have learnt, seen and felt through the amazing teachings of Universal Medicine, I still struggle at times with stillness. It’s very sobering to really feel the forces that I allow into my body that then drive me.
The world is in too much motion and going nowhere at the same time – how ironic is that.
Yes, Natalie Benhayon is a very inspiring young woman who has provided the platform for women globally to stop, ask themselves the question and reconsider of what it truly means to be a woman This question re-connects her back to the very essence of what constitutes ‘Being Woman’ is… and that is, re igniting the relationship a woman has within herself, with stillness, with Sacredness. This is indeed a vital piece of awareness for a woman that has huge positive impact on Woman’s Health issues..
To come from stillness first and to allow that stillness to imbue all we are in the world and what we do is another level and I love the clearness you bring in describing it. I can feel that this takes presence to another level, and it fully embraces who we are and what we’re here to live, the love we are as women and to show that stillness which is deeply needed is possible here. It’s a gift for all of us.
Natalie Benhayon has done so much for women worldwide as she knows how to live and move in the world as a truly sacred and loving woman – her reflection is deeply inspiring and very powerful for men and women equally.
I love your exploration of sacredness and so very much agree how blessed we are to have Natalie Benhayon among us, always reflecting to us how beautiful and simple living as a true woman can be.
Its such a big question… when we see someone who is powering on all cylinders, does that inspire us and show us just how big and full of potential we all are? Or do we start to compare, and use it as a whip to beat ourselves up because we are not expressing in that way? That is a fundamental choice and when I choose the inspiration, wow, those Benhayons have so much to teach by the way they live!
“For me, the biggest distraction to my stillness is nervous energy.” Yep hands up Gayle, me too. But it is awesome to become aware of this, whereas in the past I was so caught up in it that I never stopped to even consider if there was another way to live. Natalie Benhayon has enabled so many women to realise and connect with our stillness and begin to reclaim our natural grace, qualities that set a new resting tone in the world, one that we have all been craving for.
Living in and with nervous energy, by thinking about things as if we were doing them, without it actually being time for us to do them, or worrying about things unnecessarily, is hugely draining. Bringing our awareness to what we’re doing now, being in and with our whole body as we do the task, can actually be quite energising, especially when we connect to the purpose of what we’re doing.
‘there is no right or wrong if I am in activity as my sacred self’, very powerful, because when we do not live from being right or wrong, we can just ‘be’, sharing, expressing and reflecting our true divine nature.
Working (and living) in excess nervous system energy, push and drive is terribly damaging for women – and men. It’s time to start working in a way that acknowledges our sacredness and our bodies, and does not spring from ideas, ideals and beliefs about the way we think it ‘should’ be.
We relate to ourselves in a certain quality and this matters for what we get in return from the body.
Stillness or sacredness are often presented as things that we connect with outside of ourself in a transcendent kind of way rather than them being innate qualities held within the essence of each of us equally and qualities that we can re-connect with through awareness of our body. Natalie Benhayon’s presentations are super supportive in helping us women to appreciate our body and its innate qualities that we can bring them out more in our daily expressions.
I have been inspired by exactly this myself, observing how Natalie Benhayon is, in how she moves and lives, she is a great example of ‘being’, no need to prove a thing. I can also see this lovely surrender to purpose and service for others, this feels deeply sacred. I live more of this and come into more contact with it in myself from the inspiration that is Natalie Benhayon.
Natalie Benhayon is the living embodiment of sacredness and this is deeply inspiring for women and men the world over.
In a world that is set up to push us, our greatest challenge is to not move forward in this and instead make the choice to reconnect to the deep pool of stillness within us and allow the quality of this to impulse us forth.
Thank you Gayle the title of Natalie’s presentation caught my attention ” A sacred relationship with self ” from what you describe the important part of this, is to acknowledge and live ones sacredness and have a relationship with that livingness, beautiful .
I grew up thinking that strength in a woman was being in action and getting things done, this was what would be praised and what I thought would make me equal to men. Stillness is not something I was taught growing up nor was it present in any role models until I came across Natalie Benhayon. Its beautiful you are finding your way to stillness now and it proves that we all have a choice at anytime to reconnect to this very natural part of us.
Same here, Sarah. We were sold a pup when it comes to what we thought empowerment was!
It’s so amazing reading all the comments on this blog – especially the ones from the women who are all extolling the virtues of what Natalie has reflected for them, and inspired in them, as women. Well, as a man, I can say that each and every single example that has ben given, is also exactly what she also does for me and us men!!
As women we seem to herald being busy, being able to do more than one thing at a time (actually impossible), but all that just takes us away from the natural quality of being a woman, which is a stillness that shines through in all we choose to do.
Natalie Benhayon shows us all our natural qualities and how simply these can be left every day when we honour them. When you meet Natalie you will feel grace, lightheartedness, and an endless depth of beauty she enjoys sharing and much more, and you will remember beneath the stress you may carry you are all these qualities as well.
I thank God for Natalie Benhayon every day. If it was not for her reflection, my self and women world-wide would not know that we can live and express divinity on earth consistently. I would have thought it was not possible, but Natalie does this, so if she can then we have no excuse as to why we are not.
Its palpable how much Natalie Benhayon has inspired so many people from the comments on this blog. A great example of one person that is lifting us all, and showing us that we too have the capacity to inspire others.
Beautiful Gayle. When I look into the eyes of Natalie Benhayon all I see is a depth of strength and mastership of love. She is so open, transparent and real – seeing her live from her femaleness, womanliness, than inspires me that I am exactly the same and can live all of that. When I am not living that I can feel a indeed uncomfortable feeling when I see her reflection. This is now my marker of that I need to appreciate the woman within me and take a step closer to who I am and to appreciate Natalie (instead of taking a step back to avoid feeling what I miss within myself).
This incredible woman recently introduced me to my sacredness; one of the most profound and important things that has happened in my entire life. She has changed everything and given me a gigantic gift. Thank you Natalie Benhayon – you are the queen and king of sacredness!!
Every time I am with Natalie Benhayon and see how she is in the way she moves, talks and deeply honouring it is extremely inspiring and I get reminded every time not to settle for less. That there is a quality within me as a women and this Sacredness is worth Gold.
If we are designed to live in sacredness it makes sense for this to be very practical as you have shared.
Natalie Benhayon is always pushing at the edges of what I understand a woman to be. In the few years that I have known her she has always been a constant – absolutely constant – reflection for what is possible, and what is so beautiful is that she does not ever give off the impression that only she can be beautiful, in fact she actively encourages other women to join her in their beauty. This is very rare.
When we do honour ourselves in this way then there is a greater quality that we bring to others.
The beauty and sacredness of all you share Gayle is very inspiring “I felt that to be in sacredness as a woman is something even more profound. It isn’t just about being with myself, or being present or being fully present or being consciously present. It is about being all those things – as a woman.” with the knowing of what that really means. Natalie Benhayon is an amazing inspiration leading the way for us all back to who we truly are and the honouring and livingness of this.
This blog is a great reminder of how much many of us tend to put what we do before the quality of how we are within ourselves when we do it. There is a great power with our presence when we are with our bodies.
Yes Josh it is a great reminder for me at this moment, that it is about quality first and not the end result!
‘I feel even more fortunate to be a woman, in a large group of women, who are helping pioneer the return to our true essence; that of living in a sacred relationship with self and in the sacredness of being a woman.’ I love this Gayle and it’s very beautiful to see how women all over the world choose to be inspired and change the quality in which they do things. Natalie is leading the way for us and continues to do so by deepening her sacred relationship with herself showing us there is no end in evolving in being a woman in this world.
What you have shared here has many layers and, each time I read it, I read it from a body that is unpeeling those layers in myself therefore I read the blog differently and see different things each time I read. Each time we make a movement without awareness or go into being distracted we feed a way of living that takes us away from the connection to our sacredness. I would not have known this had I not felt it, and your words have offered me an opportunity to appreciate that more fully. It is a constant unfolding and unpeeling of many layers of ‘doing’ to remember the ‘being’!
Natalie Benhayon is reflecting to women that we can be delicate, fragile and live our divinity on earth and still lead a very productive, busy life with out the drive and push that many women go into.
And she does pretty much exactly the same for men too!
That she does Otto.
I totally agree Otto. After attending a couple Sacred Movement sessions lead by Natalie Benhayon, I have continued practising the exercises I learned there on a regular basis and it has really helped me feel centered and grounded in my body, as well as the natural tenderness that has always been there for me, but had been masked by previously living in a harsh, disregarding way. Natalie is truly inspirational on all levels, and her stillness and confidence asks us all to live up to our true potential.
Re-discovering the depth of my sacredness has been one of the most profound chapters in my life and a huge step toward finally feeling exactly what it is that a man truly is.
Thank god there are those that reflect sacredness – the irresistible nature of our essence.
Natalie Benhayon, simply by just being herself, is changing the lives of women everywhere. It just goes to show the power of what one woman alone can do when she chooses to live her sacredness. Imagine if all women made the same choice? We would have a very different world.
“Imagine if all women made the same choice?” wow thank you Elizabeth for expressing this in such a way that I can feel how all encompassing this is for every man and woman and the joy in choosing this, versus something that before I felt would be an honerous task, exhausting or overwhelming…
I love how in the reflections of Natalie here that it also is (1) the deep appreciation of her qualities and lived sacredness first and foremost and what this inspires beyond her roles and achievements, and (2) the reminder of how incredibly simple it is – to be ourselves and allow that to emanate our beauty and worth in whichever tasks we do.
I relate to your every word Gayle, from being a late bloomer to your source of inspiration in Natalie Benhayon. In the past 10 years I have been deepening my relationship with myself, my body and the essence of who I am. This has accelerated with Natalie taking the helm of women’s health. No longer am I so willing to abandon self-connection as I used to be. Nor will I abandon my body or push it to the sort of excesses that were once so easy. It is the holder of sacredness, and as such precious and dear to me.
Most of us women of today do not have any appreciation or even the awareness of the quality and inspiration we bring when we choose to live in the honour of our sacredness.
It’s so supportive to have check-points throughout the day, something we do often and regularly so we can continually confirm and deepen the quality we are choosing to express within us, or reconnect if we have chosen to wander away from ourselves for whatever reason. It can be anything we do a lot – like opening doors (as a dear and wise friend of mine shared she does), turning on and off lights, putting on shoes, making tea – any and all and many many more. If we chose one or a few and consistently check in when we do these things, the effects on our relationship with ourselves is profound.
I fully agree Gayle – thank God for women like Natalie Benhayon who is an unwavering beacon of the sacredness every woman holds within her body. Sacredness offers very powerful magnetic pull – the pull back to divinity, to our essence at one with God. And so, a woman like Natalie claimed in her sacredness pulls us all up – and eventually there will be more of us offering this sacred magnetic pull as well.
Very beautifully expressed Gayle. There is a massive difference between living present and living present as a woman. Life is indeed made so much about what we do instead of the quality we are living in, we do not often consider to live in the quality of a woman or the quality of a man if you are a man yet this is very important as we are living in a woman’s or man’s body and this needs to be honoured.
I have got to a point where my body has told me that I can no longer use nervous energy to fuel the body in order to get through the day, and every time I use nervous energy my body shows me how exhausting it is on the body. My body is truly amazing and I’m beginning to realise it is my best friend because it tell me the truth always. It loves the stillness I am returning to and the difference in the quality of my life if I come from stillness the stillness in my body is quite profound.
I too have had a pattern of using nervous energy, but it now only leaves me depleted and exhausted such that push and drive I need to let go of. Having no attachment to what tasks I achieve is key in this and making it about my connection and quality first. From that place I simply know what I need to do, I am actually more focused and efficient in what I do work on, everything feels complete and I am not drained and exhausted afterwards. A new way of living to be embraced for sure. It makes so much sense.
Gayle, this is beautiful to read, ‘I feel even more fortunate to be a woman, in a large group of women, who are helping pioneer the return to our true essence; that of living in a sacred relationship with self and in the sacredness of being a woman.’ I have experienced this way of living and feels divine, it is so different from the rushing; the lack of self worth and the nervous energy I used to live in, I too am choosing to be present with myself more and more and I’m getting to know who I truly am – a gentle, playful and tender woman.
Anxiety and nervous energy really does wreck the stillness that is possible within our own bodies. And then we can become anxious about feeling anxious! It can be a merry-go-round of anxiousness. I find it helpful to come back to the movements I am making. Sometimes I am too far out of my body to even realise. Other times it just takes a little reminder and I am back with myself. It is a total other thing to remember I am a woman as well!
I make no secret of the fact of how much I love and respect this lady, Natalie Benhayon. Don’t take my word for it, you only need look at her track record for young women, women, men and the community. Everything from apps, singing, dancing, tv, treatments, websites and the list goes on, a real community leader at a tender age. We would as a community do well to take her lead and start to bring true change into our lives and to the community. You never get anywhere preaching to the masses, live who you are and all that you do and people are touched and inspired to be that way themselves. This lady represents what a true community leader looks like and what’s more it looks like she has only begun.
With you 100% in not making any secret of my absolute admiration of this extraordinary woman who is changing the lives of men and women all over the globe.
Ditto from me too
Very true and I think people and even I would be taken back by how much this lady does in our communities behind the scenes. The meetings, the phone calls, the emails, the conversations and the support is possibly unimaginable. We are all too quick to be critical of people these days and when we have someone like this who is genuinely into our communities supporting them we tend to not make a big fuss and in place often we actually have a go at them, it’s a strange place to live at times, almost back the front.
Easier to criticise than it is to appreciate. If we criticise, then we can stay where we are. If we appreciate then we have to accept the reflection and the pull that we too can be more, because in truth that is all she is doing – “check me out…you too can do this…because we are equal.” The power of true leadership.
I went swimming in stillness last night and it felt amazing.
Without women like Natalie I would have continued to be so very disconnected as a woman. Through all the support she and other students and practitioners give I can sometimes feel very womanly and even sexy!! I can feel the joy it is to be me – I could never have claimed that a while ago. And I know there is SO much more.
I like how you mentioned the tangible qualities like feeling the shampoo in your hands, and how you rub it in, as well as other things; the connection this sacredness, lived and expressed, is very beautiful.
Stillness and Sacredness are innate qualities of being. Natalie Benhayon is a stunning example of how we can be in life when we live in respect of our true nature. Stillness does not mean we are quiet or stationary, the quality of stillness moves in and with us in everything we do with a rhythm and flow that is in harmony with all around us.
‘If I am not coming from stillness first I have left my true essence and entered into the male essence of action, the male essence of ‘doing’’. Going into the doing or action I know only too well, and in the doing there was always a push and a drive and a rush mode to get even more done – it was an exhausting way to live. However, I have made many lifestyle changes to self-care and self-love that this doing mode just feels yucky in my body now, and I can feel the difference in my quality when I am moving from my innate stillness – it is so much more joyful and light!
Stillness and repose are a confirmation of our true nature and a great confirmation of our essence.
Treating ourselves and others as sacred, tending to our ill behaviours from a perspective of honouring the sacredness, holding ourselves as the divine beings we are, is all a development that slowly but surely reminds us we are divine beings, every one of us.
Divinely beautiful words Heather. To tend “to our ill behaviours from a perspective of honouring the sacredness, holding ourselves as the divine beings we are..” is melting me. The can be no self-judgement, criticism or self-bashing when coming from this place of absolute love and understanding for ourselves.
Heather I agree with you, coming back to the knowing that we are divine beings and as such should treat ourselves with utter respect and the preciousness we deserve.
Natalie Benhayon reflects how to live in a way to come back to our divine beings and how to treat ourselves with utter respect and preciousness, she is a true role model.
What I find about Sacred Movement is that it is for everyone equally and as a man I feel the benefits of this movement as it brings a feeling of more tenderness and fragility to my body.
Sacred Movement is highly recommended by me and I feel everyone should attend and feel for themselves what a true connection can do!
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Natalie Benhayon is one of the most inspiring young women I know. I was with her yesterday and the delicateness, sweetness, divineness, cuteness and sexiness was so evident and yet there was a strength and no nonsense attitude that was also obvious. Being with her allows me to see what a real woman is; she is a true role model.
Reading this has reminded me that when I get caught up in my worth being about what I do and not the quality that I choose to express from my sacredness, I just remember what I felt when I saw Natalie Benhayon walk across the park. Pure sacredness in motion. It was just a simple lunchtime walk she was taking with herself, yet it was for all to see if they choose to. She held back nothing. It was a wow moment. But seriously, if life wasn’t about the quality we live, there could be nothing wow about this – no special moves, no words were exchanged, no super fancy clothing. And it what she expressed was show stoppingly wow. Awesome to be reminded of this and the awesomeness we can all choose to express.
And as a man I feel the same as you describe Gayle, fortunate to be part of a large group of men, which together with this large group of women are part of that large group of students of The Way of The Livingness who have chosen to make life about returning the divine into our daily lives and societies once again.
Thank you Gayle. This is a perfect read for this morning. It is such a blessing to have inspiration from other women to show how it can be done. There is no room for jealousy, simply inspiration – to choose or not choose for ourselves.
I have also been incredibly inspired by Natalie. Her gentle humour, unflappability, natural glow and beauty, graceful movements and innate wisdom have shown me how it is possible to accept and love oneself as a woman and the inherent power that is emanated as a consequence.
Thank God indeed for Natalie Benhayon. She has inspired 100s of women of all ages around the world to change the way they relate to themselves, and Sacred Movement has been instrumental in this. Natalie is always 1 (or rather, many) steps ahead and is an inspirational role model I appreciate very much.
I have found the only way I can connect to the sacredness of being a woman is through stillness and as you say – everything I do has to come first from that connection. It is changing my life, each and every day as I discover ways I avoid it, ignore it and sometimes blatantly sabotage it. If we choose, there is so much more to be aware of than we have been encouraged to be aware of.
It’s a completely different way to look at yourself and the world, through ‘sacred’ eyes. No more doing or autopilot but a presence of quality first, why is this so foreign? This isn’t just something for women either as I can see it’s there for men as well, not to get stuck on being something but always willing and flexible to seeing there is another way. No matter how much care or depth you have gone to there is always more to bring, more refinement or detail. The world is forever expanding and like that we are here for the same, do we stop in the ‘that’s enough’ category or do we keep taking steps ready for the next part.
The reflection that Natalie Benhayon is for many women is invaluable, not only for all the women she is in direct contact with and do attend these courses, but also for all women and men that in turn are in a relationship with all of these women. I am in full appreciation the one woman that is at the source of this ripple effect and an inspiration for many.
I love this sharing Gayle, it reminds me that each and every moment is made for me to hold myself as a precious being. This isn’t an austere, feeling of withdrawl to me, but a playful, vibrant sense of enjoyment. The more I embrace this the more I can see that sacredness is innate to all women and also to me.
Yes Thank God for Natalie Benhayon, a woman who is continually pushing the boundaries on what it truly means to be a woman, and through her forever deepening relationship with her body, offers us a very solid role model to help get us back on track. I too used to wonder what it meant to ‘be a woman’, thanks to Sacred Movement, which has re-introduced me to my own Sacredness, I now understand that I don’t need to be anything else, I just need to connect to a divine essence within. As you say Gayle, the more we practice being with our selves, the more we realise where we are not holding this connection and bring ourselves back. What a God send indeed.
‘Some don’t like what they see. What they don’t like is they know that they too could be all of that but are choosing not to. That isn’t a comfortable reflection.’ It is uncomfortable to be faced with your choices of comfort and playing smaller than you already know yourself to be.
Natalie Benhayon has inspired many women to reconnect back to themselves in the fullness of the women they are, every choice we make has a bearing on whether we are expressing ourselves in our fullness, or contracting away from who we are.
‘..thank God, there are people like Natalie Benhayon who are presenting and demonstrating how to be role models for this profound way of living from their sacredness so that we have a reflection of what it looks like and what it feels like. ‘ Gayle I completely concur! With anxiety, stress and being constantly on the go, what Natalie is presenting is the complete antithesis of how we are currently living. She shows there is a different way to live life.
‘..thank God, there are people like Natalie Benhayon who are presenting and demonstrating how to be role models for this profound way of living from their sacredness so that we have a reflection of what it looks like and what it feels like. ‘ Gayle I completely concur! With anxiety, stress and being constantly on the go, what Natalie is presenting is the complete antithesis of how we are currently living. She shows there is a completely different way to live life.
Allowing my essence and sacredness to lead the way in what I need to do is worlds apart from when I leave it and instead choose to go into anxiousness.
“As the presentation began, I quickly learned that the evening would be about a relationship with my sacred self.” The word ‘sacred’ can be off-putting because it has been used many times in contexts that mean anything but sacred! Learning that ‘sacredness’ is connection to the stillness that emanates from the ovaries, womb and cervix can also be off-putting if we have learned to dismiss ourselves as women or to reject or ignore those aspects of our physiology. Once we accept that we have a cervix, ovaries and a uterus and once we can connect to them in appreciation of the natural quality they emanate then we can begin to have a relationship with our sacred selves. There is a simplicity to this but I have discovered that I have had to let go of a lot of self-loathing as a woman and a lot of pictures and ideals around what a woman is before I could feel comfortable with my body as a woman (inside and out) and begin to appreciate it.
Yes, a feeling of being at ease in our female body – who would have thought this would be something to need to consider, let along build and appreciate. Yet it feels like a gold nugget and one that should be developed by taking care of this awareness and appreciating it every day.
Yes it’s one thing to be connected and present, but totally another to be doing this as a true woman. I am still uncovering that one.
Natalie’s picture says it all – the depth of love and vitality, living in connection with oneself
Amazing, and he Benhayon family are constantly reminding us that every single one of us can live such a life.
If you want to know what the embodiment of sacredness looks like in the human form you need look no further than Natalie Benhayon, and the beauty is, how she has shared this with so many women and men who now are also starting to embrace their sacredness as well. My understanding and what I have felt is that sacredness is deep within each and every one of us, always there ready and waiting for us to surrender to it and when we do wow – we have the universe at our fingertips.
Discovering a sacred relationship with yourself is a bit like finding a treasure map only to find the treasure can be found all along the way, and even the map is made of gold.
Natalie Benhayon is a role model for all women, but not only that, she inspires us all to be role models as the uniquely expressive women we truly are.
It is deeply beautiful the way that Natalie Benhayon never gives women the answers to how to be a woman, but simply presents that there is a relationship to be had with ourselves as women, and in this there is simply a life to be lived – so it is not that the questions become answered, it is more that the questions are no longer relevant or required.
I love Natalie Benhayon- when you are around her you feel confirmed in yourself as a woman. She emanates a beauty and deep love which is very holding, inspiring and confirming. It is amazing to see a woman so claimed in herself and showing another way that we can be as women.
Gayle it’s been so interesting reading your blog again today and feeling a reconnection to the sacredness within me. As the sacredness was restored within I felt how much the true me felt missing without it present in my body. A truly beautiful, powerful and confirming moment.
Thank you Gayle and Bryony, I still have a lot of work to do on supporting myself to stay connected to my stillness, and the main obstacle here is the thinking and worrying, and the nervousness or anxiousness that jump me ahead of the present and away from my body and my inner connection. We are not currently a society that values stillness, rather the busyness and doing, yet we can still achieve enormous productivity throughout the day without sacrificing the quality we do it in.
Gayle, I really enjoyed reading about your return to your sacredness as a beautiful woman, I can feel every word from your gorgeous livingness expressed here.
I never knew the true meaning of the word ‘sacredness’ until I met women like Natalie Benhayon and Miranda Benhayon.
Totally agree Anna without these true reflections I would never have known what sacredness is and that we are all equally sacred within.
And the size of that group of women is expanding all the time as more and more women embrace the reflection of Natalie and the women already committed to connecting deeper and deeper to the stillness and scaredness that is within each one of us just waiting for our attention.
It is a sad state of affairs that we as women generally live is such a dis-empowered way, of not knowing that the power of our sacredness is within each and every one of us. That the very untouchable, incorruptible, unchangeable core of who we are is already present within us, with a fullness and richness that is waiting to be embrace and lived. Our connection to our essence within, through our female form is the where the power of our sacredness can be explored, and brought to life for us all to be blessed by. Our sacredness is a quality that we all as women hold within, through which our power, grace and wisdom is a gift to all, for the purpose of our evolution. We are returning to claiming our natural way once again as women, and I am forever inspired by Natalie Benhayon for leading the way, and for all those who have chosen to walk equally beside her and with each other.
Natalie Benhayon presents that there are so many amazing things about us, and she is a living example in every way, we are used to talking about the weather, the food we eat and the activities or pursuits that we seek but crave to live a deep quality of love, which Natalie is an inspiration.
“If I am anxious or worrying there is a ‘busyness’ in me that disrupts my inner stillness” i can so relate to your whole blog Gayle especially this line, when Im in busyness life becomes un enjoyable and far more complicated. keeping myself present helps keep life simple.
It is so true Samantha – the more we truly are ourselves the more there is to enjoy. And the beautiful thing is that there is no end to the depth of joy, power, and wisdom there is for us to explore and live through our connection to our sacredness.
We are all so deeply precious and sacred – yet so often do not give ourselves the time to fully appreciate this fact within ourselves. Something Natalie does amazingly is help bring this out in each of us – and to truly appreciate and confirm another is a blessing we can bestow upon another.
Natalie in her livingness is a true role model for women and their relationship to their sacredness. She shows us what it means for a woman to be powerful, sexy, fun and yet in this she holds all woman as equal, knowing that what she holds in her sacredness all woman have the same, if they so choose.
“If I am not coming from stillness first I have left my true essence and entered into the male essence of action, the male essence of ‘doing’.” This is still a work in progress for me as I have found it to be much easier said than done.
Natalie shows how simple yet incredibly powerful it is to live the women we are – all we need to do is give ourselves permission to be in full.
I have also become aware that the greatest killer of the sacredness that is naturally there in women, is motion, most often expressed as busyness. When I get into that sense of rush, of needing to do things by a certain time, I lose my feeling of my being in what I am doing. The sacredness is squeezed out, as it has no space to express or to grow.
Yes it is not only about being present with ourselves but about being aware of the preciousness and sacredness that is inside us every moment of the day.
“As a woman, I’m learning to start with my stillness and anything I ‘do’ must come from that stillness.” This is so important – but until I heard Serge Benhayon and Natalie Benhayon present on this it had never occurred to me. Unlearning a lifetime of doing without one iota of stillness is ongoing – but so worth it.
In a world where women are pushing their bodies like never before this seems like a very needed thing. I see people at the gym pushing their bodies way beyond what seems natural and I can pretty much assure that one day the body will have to give way, unfortunately. Both women and men would benefit greatly if we start looking after our bodies and stop looking at both internal and external pictures we have of how we should be with our bodies. I think the body is the best teller of how it wants to be treated and worked with. If the body says no then the body doesn’t want to do what we are up to.
I’m appreciating a growing self awareness which allows me to feel when I’ve moved into motion and away from stillness, particularly when expressing myself. Feeling disharmony or tension in my body after speaking, is a sure sign I’ve over-extended myself, communicated from my head and not my innate stillness. These daily observations support me to stay connected with myself and the other person as I speak and never impose myself on another.
Without awareness and stillness in the body, nervous energy creeps in and completely throws us off kilter. In my experience nervous energy can stem from living from my head not my body and fast forwarding into the future and not consciously being present in the here and now. With self awareness we can consciously bring ourselves back to the present, our body and stillness.
Gayle, it’s true nervous energy disrupts the stillness by making it hard for us to feel it. We get covered by a racy superficial energy that projects us on a horizontal momentum whereas the stillness is not a linear projection but a vertical depth that we can drop into whenever we so choose. The more we do it the easier it is to revisit this place.
Sacredness is often something that is presented as being ‘out there’ somewhere and not an innate quality that we hold within. I love how Natalie de-mystifies sacredness and shows how possible and lovely it is to reconnect with it and express from it in our daily lives.
Very true Fiona, and I love the way Natalie Benhayon wants to share this so widely to women so we all get to feel that sacredness is a quality we can all connect to and live in the world.
“If I am not coming from stillness first I have left my true essence and entered into the male essence of action, the male essence of ‘doing’.” I so resonate with your words Gayle. Staying with my stillness whilst doing is an ongoing daily learning for me – but I so appreciate it more and more.
It occurs to me how we may more easily associate the word sacredness with women but less so with men but there is no true basis for this. Men are equally sacred in their essence and can equally walk, move, speak and be in their stillness before they start ‘doing’ too. It is a balance that has been missing from many of our lives for a very long time and it feels wonderful to reconnect to it now.
Awesome Richard! That’s so very cool and so true. It’s so inspiring to see a man stand tall in his own sacredness and not be ashamed to be all that he truly is.
Absolutely Richard, the quality of sacredness is genderless, as is the essence we all originate from. We are simply different expressions of the one true light.
So true Natalie Benhayon reflects to us where and how we could be living and we are not because of the choices we have made. It is a very big ouch.
Natalie Benhayon is truly inspiring, she lives from the depth of sacredness in her own life and is super productive. What she presents is what she has come to know through her own body, from her lived experience. This is what truly communicates.
I am only just beginning to appreciate the power of the tools that Natalie Benhayon has initiated and provided for Women today, when I first arrived at an Esoteric Women’s group 6 years ago and was asked what it was like to be women today – honestly I felt no real connection to myself as a woman – everything that came out my mouth was borrowed from an image, an unobtainable ideal that I spent the most part of 30 years trying to live up to. It’s been an extraordinary journey and the learning never stops, but today I know I am entirely responsible for supporting and growing my relationship with me as a woman – there is no picture but a deep inward sense of the colour and cuteness that I bring to this expression.
Natalie’s reflection is like the brightest star, mesmerising and on point 100% of the time. There is no dulling, no doubting, it is she that delivers her full power without apology. I am inspired by her daily.
It’s an interesting feeling going from not feeling particularly like a woman to cherishing the fact that you are and living that to the best of your ability. I recall, of course knowing that I was a woman, but that it was something that was functional but at the same time going about my day even feeling that I was a woman. It as like that part of me was parked out the back only to come out at times. It’s amazing to see large numbers of women really open up to the exquisite beauty that it is to be a woman and I include myself in this too. As I was driving home today I could feel the preciousness of what it is to be a woman. I can’t say that I live this all of the time, but it’s a far cry from where I have been and I deeply appreciate myself for this as well as amazing women such as Natalie Benhayon who never hold this quality back from anyone, so we can all see that this is ourselves also.
Amazing thing is that ‘sacredness’ is not something I have to go out and borrow from somewhere, it is a quality I already have within but have not connected for a very long time, and it still is available for me to reconnect back to.
Connecting to our sacredness brings an immediate expansion that transcends the physical and incorporates it into something way much bigger. When that happens and we connect to it, we know what is home.
Our commitment to living from our stillness as women is a true revolution. A woman in her stillness, aware of her sacredness is super powerful. Natalie Benhayon is a clear example of this.
Commitment to myself and to life is to everything because when I find myself not committing this can lead to anxiousness and nervousness in my body e.g. I am to meet someone at a certain time. If I distract myself in my movements leading up to the meeting, guarantee I will be in anxiousness whereas if I commit to every moment and allow plenty of time I feel supported and I am more likely to be in the natural stillness of who l am.
If we were to know our self as the sacred, divine being we truly are we would with out a doubt honor our self in every move we make. The challenge is to re-connect back to these innate qualities and this is why Natalie Benhayon is here, to reflect back to all women that it is possible. As well, she presents practical tools on how to and the obstacles that may get in the way. Thousands of women’s lives including my own have been transformed with the support of this young and very wise woman. I love her dearly.
As women, we have lost our way and everyone is suffering – women, men and children. Natalie Benhayon is a young woman who has reconnected to her essence and lives from that and is inspiring women of all ages to do the same. Thank God for Natalie because I was totally lost. Things looked ok from the outside but on the inside, things were not great. Natalie is like a guiding light, paving the way for women to reconnect to their sacredness and take that out into the world.
If living as a woman in this world today was working as a whole – we wouldn’t have the disease rates we do. Something is amiss – BIG TIME. And Natalie shows us just how very simple it is to turn it all around.
So true – well said Kylie.
There is a part of us that shines, beyond the wrinkles on our face, a part that lives and emanates, beside the clothes we wear or the way we cut our hair, there is a part that brings a quality of grace to everyone we meet and connects them to a truth that is deep. In addition to the moves we have on the dancefloor or the type of car we drive, there is an aspect to you and I that sparkles, bright like the stars in the sky. It’s the quality that you can see when we look in another’s eyes, where all of life’s surface presentation is nothing compared to the eternity that lives inside. And when we live a life knowing this, as Natalie Benhayon does, then in all we do and represent its this sacredness of God that shines through.
Hi Joseph. I read all the comments on this blog because they are all worthy of a pause in my day – to reflect on the love being lived by each of us, often inspired by Natalie’s Livingness. However your comment is worthy of a highlighter! Thank you for contributing such a beautiful reflection.
What a wonderful equation Gayle:
developing more self-love + more self-nurturing = more self-esteem
Thank you, just reading this blog this morning has allowed me to connect to a deeper level of stillness than the one I had chosen to move from this morning. I so appreciate this, it feels exquisite to be with myself in this way and to feel the sacredness that I am and can live in and with.
Gayle, I can really relate to what you share about going into nervous energy, or thinking about the things I need to do that takes me away from being still. It is through the stillness that I have come to know myself, my essence and who I am. When I lose the stillness, I feel like a ping pong ball on those arcade machines that are randomly flung about, just bouncing off one bit of life to another. I concur with you Gayle…”But thank God, there are people like Natalie Benhayon who are presenting and demonstrating how to be role models for this profound way of living from their sacredness so that we have a reflection of what it looks like and what it feels like.”
‘I feel even more fortunate to be a woman, in a large group of women, who are helping pioneer the return to our true essence; that of living in a sacred relationship with self and in the sacredness of being a woman.’ Beautifully claimed Gayle and I too feel so fortunate to be part of this group of women who have been inspired by Natalie Benhayon to explore our sacred relationships with ourselves.
For me too ‘the biggest distraction to my stillness is nervous energy’, before meeting Serge and Natalie Benhayon I lived my whole life from nervous energy and the patterns that I created have taken time to change. I find Natalie and the many amazing women who have been inspired by her are a constant inspiration to explore more of my stillness and choose not to go into nervous energy every time something comes up to challenge me.
The enormity of this claim is wonderful Gail, that in our willingness to accept and regard our sacredness we are “helping pioneer the return to our true essence; that of living in a sacred relationship with self and in the sacredness of being a woman.”
Natalie has been a huge inspiration for many hundreds if not thousands of women the world over and count me in as one of those. Indeed a huge blessing to have the understanding and ultimately confirmation of the sacredness all women equally hold within. A sacredness we can live and move every day, and one that confirms to women and men alike the sacredness of the Divinity we are all from.
I spend a lot of time with myself too but I also go in and out of presence with myself…..but working on this.
Being in our stillness first so that we are not in the doing energy of men, is an important distinction. It is something I hadn’t really understood before coming to Natalie Benhayon’s talks. I knew that in essence I was not like men but in so much of society we are encouraged to value the doing of things rather than the essence and quality we are in before we swing into action. Now I have important things to consider and it has changed the quality of my life.
Getting our buttons pushed – is always about not being all of us and knowing it, too.
We are indeed hugely blessed to have Natalie Benhayon presenting and living what it is to be living from your sacredness and reflecting that out for all to know and feel. Now there are lots of women building on their own self loving rhythms and helping to build a more solid foundation for all.
“But thank God, there are people like Natalie Benhayon who are presenting and demonstrating how to be role models for this profound way of living from their sacredness so that we have a reflection of what it looks like and what it feels like.” I agree whole heartedly Gayle, I am forever blessed to be orbiting the world at the same time as Natalie Benhayon.
I’ve noticed my hands play an important role in reflecting whether I’m living my sacredness or not. Whether I’m ‘grabbing for the kettle’ as you say Gayle or rushing around, it’ll show up immediately in the form of bumps, bruises, scratches and scrapes on my fingers and hands. Symbolising detail and delicateness, they’re a great marker for where I’m at and how I’m living.
‘…how many of us retain that sense of sacredness as we put on our boots, gather our bags and scarves and head out the door? I’m going to guess not many.’ Good call Gayle. It’s one thing to ‘feel it’ in a presentation, another to ‘live it’ in every moment in ordinary life. I attended a presentation with Serge Benhayon yesterday which stressed just that. We were to rank, on a scale of 1 to 10, how close we were to living our awesomeness every day, 1 being ‘totally me’ (i.e. awesome) and 10 being ‘totally disconnected from me’. It was good to get honest about the quality of our everyday livingness. It’s good too to be able to ponder our capacity to live our sacredness as women. If we can’t live more than a fleeting connection to ourselves and are honest about that, we can at least ask ourselves why that might be so and what we might need to do to change it.
Natalie sure does have Spunk…and sexiness, and when you talk to her she holds you with such immense warmth and understanding and yet at the same time can deliver for you just what you need to hear in order to make changes in your life. And she is only in her early twenties – this is inspiration for sure! What more can one ask for from a woman who is so dedicated to the true well-being of humanity? I for one am in immense appreciation for my path having crossed with hers, and to have met her and to know her, and to always be inspired by her in so many ways. Thank you Gayle, for this awesome blog reminds us all that Natalie really is reflecting and reminds us all as women of the very same thing that lies within us, the GOLD that we all are.
To have the awareness that the relationship with self is sacred is a great start and from that space can be developed and deepened.
‘ Being in sacredness is about a sacred relationship with self and being fully present and connected with yourself…. and more’. I love being with myself and I love giving to myself, but I can feel I have to work on staying fully present and connected to the stillness within me.
The word ‘sacred’ brings up many beliefs and ideals which I have bought into eg.I have associated sacredness with institutionalised religion believing it was only for a selected few and that I was not worthy of it. This belief I know is not true for sacredness lies within every body and every thing including myself yet I have chosen to mask it within my own body investing in untruths which are outside my body.
Thank you Gayle. Natalie Benhayon is “constantly pushing the edges, not to mention a few buttons!” and she is an inspiration to push our own start button to feel the sacredness of who we truly are.
‘If I am not coming from stillness first I have left my true essence and entered into the male essence of action, the male essence of ‘doing’. This can be a tricky business in a world that acknowledges and rewards those who do and those who produce.’
Gayle you have highlighted here one of the biggest difficulties for women today. Yet it is up to us to lead the way on changing this damaging status quo. And that starts with the development of true self-worth – with the acknowledgment of our own inherent value, a value we know, live and reflect well before we produce anything.
‘As a woman, I’m learning to start with my stillness and anything I ‘do’ must come from that stillness’ Stillness a much forgotten and abandoned quality in the modern world. To be offered a way back to true stillness as women is truly a blessing. Natalie’s work. that of the Benhayon family and esoteric practitioners has revolutionised women’s perception and relationship with themselves. As I learn to re-connect to my inner stillness, and move more tenderly, I’m giving me more strength, not less.
‘What they don’t like is they know that they too could be all of that but are choosing not to. That isn’t a comfortable reflection.’ Yes, spot on and, as Natalie, and Serge Benhayon, have also presented, that reflection can arise in us jealousy, which is simply self-fury at not living to the level we know we could be.
There is so much to love in being a woman; and Natalie Benhayon certainly inspires the truth of this in a very real, practical and powerful way.
Natalie Benhayon is a true inspiration for women and men alike, her aliveness and true beauty is a deeply healing experience.
“I feel even more fortunate to be a woman, in a large group of women, who are helping pioneer the return to our true essence; that of living in a sacred relationship with self and in the sacredness of being a woman.” I couldn’t agree more Gayle, i am humbled and deeply appreciative of the amazing women around me that are making a consistent commitment to themselves and their sacred power as women – its truly inspirational.
Gayle I too have found that building my connection with my sacredness, through Sacred Movement and Esoteric Yoga and a recent Pelvic Floor awareness program has had a profound affect on my life. The daily anxiousness that I felt left me feeling over sensitive, on edge, frustrated and irritable and consequently this impacted on everyone around me. Today i have committed to my body with more consistency and care and as a result my mornings feel more spacious and playful.
Universal Medicine offers healing, not solutions for a better world that are based on ‘doing it better’. We have been trying to ‘do it better’ for thousands of years and still find ourselves in a world of war, corruption and hunger. So why not give ‘stillness’ in action a chance, as presented by Natalie Benhayon.
“As a woman, I’m learning to start with my stillness and anything I ‘do’ must come from that stillness”-
– Great reminder Gayle. What I am still working on is what disrupts the stillness within, which is anxiousness- not feeling that I am enough, and being in nervous energy- from worrying over things, wanting control or rushing trying to get many things done in a short span of time. I am learning that from a place of stillness, there is a strength and solidness which can be felt in the body which disperses any anxiousness or fear. And by connecting deeper within and trusting more my body lets me know what needs to be done and when.
Totally inspired by Natalie’s power, wisdom, and the fun she has all the time! Her dedication to living what is true and serving this to all is incredible!
It is a delight to hear Natalie Benhayon speak because she brings such wisdom, born from her connection with herself. She inspired both women and men to cherish and love themselves.
Natalie Benhayon has a lot to teach women and men alike in relation to life.
Thank you Gayle. That was beautiful to read about reconnecting back to the sacred woman and I agree Natalie Benhayon emanates this amazingly. Shows what a true woman can feel and look like. It has been a slow unfolding for me as I have moved from a life of busyness, raciness and in the “doing” throughout my days, to one of being able to feel the gorgeous stillness (which I am not perfect at). It is so true that Stillness for a Woman is the way back to her Sacred Self. I have found that the Esoteric Yoga Stillness Program for Women has really supported me to reconnect back to the Stillness that is naturally present within all women.
“But thank God, there are people like Natalie Benhayon who are presenting and demonstrating how to be role models for this profound way of living from their sacredness so that we have a reflection of what it looks like and what it feels like”, hear hear!
Gayle you are spot on when you say ‘This can be a tricky business in a world that acknowledges and rewards those who do and those who produce’, we are output hungry monsters, wrecking our innate natural ways of being as both men and women for the sake of getting things done.
As women we are each naturally the stillest of ponds, it’s just that we stand at the edge of the water and throw stones in.
Gayle reading this line in particular: ‘what they don’t like is they know that they too could be all of that but are choosing not to. That isn’t a comfortable reflection’, caused me to reflect on how, for so much of my life I have wanted to hold other women back. When I have heard particular women in my life talk, I have not wanted them to share how well things are going because it always brought up angst in me. It’s only since coming to the Ageless Wisdom teachings as presented by Serge Benhayon, that I have truly understood that my feelings arose from the fact that I couldn’t bear the reflection of others who were making better choices than the diabolical ones that I was making. The antidote I have found is to make better choices and then I am able to share the joy of others doing well.
Natalie has shown me that age means nothing when it comes to wisdom and is a constant reminder of what is possible and how to truly live and embrace life as a woman. She is an incredible role model and a remarkable inspiration for women of all ages.
Understanding sacredness as a state of being, the deepest connection I can have with myself as a woman, has been profound and life changing. Natalie Benhayon offers a living example of what this looks like when it is lived every day, is in every movement made and in every expression. That is definitely something deeply inspiring… not to mention extraordinarily productive!
Natalie Benhayon is someone who deeply inspires me every day, who she is, how she lives and the stillness she operates in. It is through her reflection, I have been able to claim so much within myself, love her presentations and what she emanates.
As a man going to some Sacred Movement classes with Natalie has been amazing. Something I learnt is that we all have sacredness inside of us already we just generally do not embrace it and let it out. So it is not something we have to go out and get but rather foster within. It may seem minor but it makes a massive difference!
Yes James, it is far from minor… I would say that re-establishing a connection to sacredness is in the same ballpark as discovering the fact of the inner heart and the Soul. It’s very beautiful that men can feel it just the same as women.
Natalie has been an incredible inspiration, mentor and role model for women of all ages all over the world. Humanity is blessed by her loving, sexy, sassy presence. Go Natalie, bringing it on.
“I feel even more fortunate to be a woman, in a large group of women, who are helping pioneer the return to our true essence; that of living in a sacred relationship with self and in the sacredness of being a woman.” Me too Gayle – and this is to be celebrated and appreciated. We are part of a revolution.
This is a great blog Gayle, as, how you describe all the check points (for example, finger tips on the car steering wheel, pouring a cup of tea) bring many moments throughout the day that a woman can check inwardly and connect with her self. And these moments are truly self caring. This description redefines the meaning of self care, which is, connection. It is an opportunity to not be on auto pilot and become drained or overloaded by the ‘doing’, to develop body awareness and bring out that natural quality and essence of ourselves to whatever activity is being attended to.
We have created an image of what it is to be sexy, a contrived, one dimensional picture that serves no one.
At long last someone has laid this image to rest, inspired us to re-connect to our true sexiness, a sexiness that is entirely impulsed from within – an effortless expression of all that is there already! Thank-you Natalie Benhayon.
To observe Natalie moving and expressing is super inspiring, the combination of stillness and sacredness is a delicious melting pot of all that it is to be a woman, she oozes a sexy confidence for which there is no try, no image just and innately natural flow – she has shown us how to engage with the body, with the inner most in such a way that we are able to express the still, sacred quality of this into how we move and express.
“It isn’t just about being with myself, or being present or being fully present or being consciously present. It is about being all those things – as a woman.” Indeed Gayle i have found that through practicing the simple yet profoundly powerful movements that Natalie has initiated for women to connect to their sacredness, I have become much more honouring of myself as a woman, i.e. not putting myself into rush or drive, and having greater awareness of my movements.
“For me, the biggest distraction to my stillness is nervous energy. If I am anxious or worrying there is a ‘busyness’ in me that disrupts my inner stillness.” Absolutely Gayle nervous energy is a sure cap on connecting to our stillness, I have found that the gentle breath meditation, exercises, movements in the morning have all really supported me to carry this innate stillness into the business of my day and hence not get pulled and pushed about by others emotions, dramas, choices.
“For me, the biggest distraction to my stillness is nervous energy.” absolutely Gail. I noticed this very much in the last couple of days, I am going into the future because I am looking forward to something or because I have to do something and then am not present and get quite anxious as I can not do what I am thinking about yet. Reading your blog I realised that there is more to it too. It is the ‘why’ I go into the future as every moment with me could be delicious. It is about feeling myself, the sacredness of me as a woman in every moment so there will not be anything better that being with me in that moment.
I love reading the men’s posts about Natalie Benhayon as it is a testament to her wisdom and power that men are inspired by her rather than intimidated and dismissive.
My life has transformed as a result of the presentations and living reflection of Natalie Benhayon.
Thank God for Natalie’s transparency in sharing the steps she has taken to return to living as a True woman, the wisdom and inspiration she offers woman is deeply needed to return us to our true expression and power.
Natalie Benhayon inspires me to not hold back my divinity for a moment, to show the world the jewel that I am – a sacred, wise and heavenly woman.
I love everything about this Woman, Natalie Benhayon.
She forever reflects to me my own potential and indeed the potential of all women to live in honour of our preciousness, sacredness and pure beauty.
Natalie Benhayon continues to inspire me each and every day. She provides an incredible sense of empowerment, style, self love and stillness all combined in one. There is a delicateness, but inner strength that I find deeply inspiring in how to live and yet be playful and loving.
Natalie is an inspiration to women and men alike. She has redefined what it means to be a woman, and thus, given men an opportunity to redefine how we live with the women in our lives.
Excellent sharing Gayle.
Thank you Gayle and I support what you say totally especially where Natalie Benhayon is concerned and her great positive influence on women young and old!
Not to idolise Natalie Benhayon or place her on a pedestal, but she has been a very strong and forever constant inspiration to me and to many many hundreds if not thousands of others. How can one woman be so strong and so powerful yet so fun and so cheeky? Just watch her, she is not doing a single thing for self-gain or betterment but for the betterment of us all.
I too are enormously grateful to have someone like Natalie Benhayon shining very brightly the way back to living from our stillness. I dread to think where I would be if I had not had that reflection of another way to live.
“For me, the biggest distraction to my stillness is nervous energy. If I am anxious or worrying there is a ‘busyness’ in me that disrupts my inner stillness.” great point Gayle it is good to see where we have underlying ways of being that inhibit any true connection to stillness, for me it is going into drive to get things done. I have been putting myself on a mini focus to not do that in the last week or so, just not upping the pace of what I am doing, its an energetic thing not a doing things slowly thing! If the first movement is a push I am no longer in stillness. Pretty simple really but its like resetting a automatic pilot reaction that I have lived for my whole life! So constant awareness is developing.
Thankyou Gayle for highlighting the way a sacred woman can be in the world honouring each choice from within, as opposed to allowing what is there to be done to dictate her life. It’s a true celebration reading all the comments and feeling the dedication of women world wide to live from their own sacredness.
Sacredness is something all women can connect to, we just have to choose to do so. We are not perfect and at times we all lose this connection, but all it takes is our choice to stop and choose again to move with ourselves in presence, and sacredness is there. As women we cannot not be sacred when we are being ourselves, and sacredness is not a picture we can imagine or follow suit in, but it is revealed when lived in a quality that is irrefutably felt.
Natalie Benhayon presents something that resonates deep down – that we know there is another quality to life, a true preciousness, a deeper dimension, greater richness – something we have sensed in other times, but it is not the antiquity, or the heritage, culture or country, but rather lived quality of love and Divinity which transcends all these things. That essence is what Natalie lives in full.
Gayle I too can relate to getting caught up in the busyness of the day or a to do list and how when I am in this I cannot feel how gorgeous I feel as a woman. What I do know is that I can feel this first and then do all that I need to do for the day. What this changes is how I feel as I do all I need to do. Knowing that we are sacred as women can seem like an idea. But as we start to live this it becomes part of our everyday and every way. Natalie Benhayon is a forever inspiration in this regard.
What is amazing and very inspiring is that Natalie does A LOT but from connection to her stillness, the doing and activity is required but it is the quality that she brings with her doing that makes her stand out. I have witnessed her consistency of 5am sessions everyday whilst in the UK. Amazing rhythm and dedication to humanity but with no drive or push or frustration. Amazing I am endlessly inspired by her and those who live this way of life. Learning to live this for myself is the greatest journey my life has taken.
This blog that you share with us on Natalie Benhayon’s presentation on “A Sacred relationship with self” is very revealing. Even with the best intentions we do tend to go ‘in and out’ of truly being with ourselves, I do know that in myself and start and end each day with gentle exercise that connects me back to my body.
The checkpoints you have described in the day are a great opportunity to mark where we are at, whether we are holding connection, or if we are out, to reconnect and return to holding the quality of stillness. Through this practice it becomes very obvious just how much, how quickly we are distracted from full presence and how we let the energies coming at us in the day enter and disturb. The checkpoints bring an opportunity for a deeper awareness and opens up space for that awareness and understanding to expand.
Natalie is a constant inspiration in my life, she is the epitome of sacredness, empowerment and stillness in motion. She is such a role model to young girls, adult women and elder women also. She has an infectious smile and sense of humour and an absolute joy to want and drink in her wisdom.
Thank you Gail, I also feel very fortunate to know Natalie Benhayon. These last 6 months I have been partaking in a Sacred Movement group with 8 other women online once a fortnight and the experience has just been totally amazing. I find these session so inspiring, they remind us how to return to our true essence and we get to feel and embody what it feels to be in the true sacredness of a woman.
As a young girl, my role models were diversified but I tended to look up to the action packed women who could do it all, however in hindsight I can see that none of those role models held the grace and tenderness of what I now know a true woman to hold. Deeply appreciate that Natalie Benhayon walks on this earth as a reflection of heaven in a woman’s body, showing us all that we too can be this, by cultivating a deep and sacred connection that stems from within.
Natalie Benhayon is offering women worldwide a true reflection of what it looks and feels like to live as a woman in her sacredness. This is a far cry from the images we have been sold via the media of what a woman is and looks like and it is beautiful to feel a group of women choosing for themselves to claim back their sacredness, offering this is as a reflection to all women that they too can live this.
Thank you Gayle for sharing your experience with us. we are so blessed as women to have such an amazing role model in Natalie Benhayon who is pioneering the way forth for us women to have a true reflection of what sacredness in a woman feels and looks like, in the way she moves with grace harmony and real power, she is surly a gift from heaven.
What I am appreciating about being a woman is feeling my connection to grace, to delicateness, to loveliness, fragility, strength, and power. To be myself in all my womanliness. To feel the greater rhythms of life in my body and honour these. To simply live as a woman. We, as women, claimed in our sacredness (which is actually universal), is super powerful. Thanks to Natalie Benhayon for being the woman to live this first and to then call the rest of us to feel this same sacredness within us.
Natalie Benhayon has been and still is an instrumental inspiration for all of us women on how to embrace and accept and allow ourselves to live as true women. Her grace and beauty and power as a woman are undeniable. And with how she is, she does not even need to say or do anything…and yet her presence alone awakens the same grace, beauty and power within any one around. Now this is phenomenal! Thank you Natalie and Thank you Gayle for sharing your appreciation of Natalie and all of us women and the sacredness that we carry within.
What a difference living this way makes. “It is about being all those things – as a woman.” I love how you specified ‘as a woman’. There is something really beautiful about that… allowing me to feel the delicacy, honouring, preciousness and sacredness that is available throughout and in life. Thank god for Natalie Benhayon indeed.
Yes, thank God there are people like Natalite Benhayon reflecting back to use what it is to live from stillness. The other day I was in a park and in the near distance my friend and I saw Natalie walking. Her walk was divine; my friend commented what a blessing it was to witness this. I was struck by how purposeful her walk was, how each step was a celebration, a no holding back of who she is; stillness in motion, no other energy disrupting this flow.
As I reflect on this, me having felt this means I too have this expression within. Sure I’ve work to do to not be swayed by other energies and to stay connected with my sacredness but it is there to choose. Today I sat at my desk at work and I could feel I was being observed by a colleague. In years past I may have been flummoxed by this and wanted to appear apologetic but today I settled myself in my seat with great grace and enjoyed my movement. I thought to myself how this didn’t take any longer than had I rushed the movements – my old excuse for not being with myself as I move was I didn’t have time to do this was exposed. When the traffic lights go red and cars stop to let just me pass I once would have felt apologetic for making them wait as they were going to work and in a rush. Now I come back to myself and walk with grace across the road. A reflection of taking a moment to come back to ourselves rather than race ahead to where we’re going before we’ve got there.
Living from that stillness that comes from our sacredness is something worth committing to and it does take commitment and a loving discipline to keep returning to it. Women living from their sacredness is something that the world really needs because when women connect to it, there is no room for self-doubt or abusive behaviour. Women can return to living in deeply honouring ways and in turn live the full power and beauty that they are.
Hi Gayle, I really appreciate you sharing what it is to connect to your essence. This is something that was very foreign to me a few years ago, as no one really talks to you about what this is and how it is possible to be a woman in this world and not have to always do and prove to get by. You describe the presence you have when taking a shower, driving a car, choosing clothes – all daily functions for many of us are overlooked, rushed, or seen with no importance. But what if we could nurture ourselves and care for ourselves in a way that valued every single moment, where we would remember every single moment because we are present? Natalie Benhayon certainly has pioneered for so many women to see the essence we all have the power to connect to, and to live in a way that is so enriched by the simplest actions. Gayle – you are living this too and it is all inspiring.
The idea that each of us is sacred is one that is easy to speak about, but less easy in action. There are so many thoughts, words and pictures to keep us away from knowing there is a sacredness to each of us. With the support of Natalie Benhayon, I am slowly discovering the sacredness I am, and it is surprisingly not soft or fluffy, but instead a foundation of joy and love that is unshakeable.
Natalie Benhayon is deeply inspiring, she brings everything she is to life and lives life to the max. She does not hold back in any way and it is something I love about her. She radiates love, it quite literally oozes out of every part of her body and embraces you in such a way it is very special. Whilst she is all of this she also says so are we and through her reflection has inspired so many women and men to regain their sense of worth.
I too have a great deal of love and appreciation for Natalie Benhayon, although she may be young, there is indeed a wealth of wisdom that she openly shares with us in order that we too are able to build a relationship with ourselves.
What I love about this blog is that it’s very real. In the past if I heard the word sacred, I would have never associated this with myself, my body and the innate essence that lays within (all) but would have seen this as something outside myself or holier than me. Natalie Benhayon makes this real as well, she is bringing sacredness back (although it never left!) … so maybe I should have said …. she is bringing truth, love and an awareness of the sacredness that lies within us all. Which when you take a look around the world is much needed.
There is a lot that Natalie Benhayon has inspired within me, not only her incredible presence, sense of humour and wisdom, but her absolute stillness, how she interacts with people and her ability to explain and confirm so much. She is a true role model for women young and old, she is a true inspiration to many, including myself.
Gail, what I appreciated about your article and Natalie Benhayon’s presentation is that it can equally apply to men and women. We each have that responsibility to look at our relationship with ourselves and how we deepen that on a daily basis.
It is inspiring and a joy to see quite how many people have deepened their love as a result of Natalie Benhayon. Mostly women have commented and have seen profound changes as a result of the women’s health programs Natalie has run. Natalie has also been an immense support and inspiration for many men showing what a true women looks like and can be like. She has normalised so many of the ‘women’s only’ things and for many of us, myself included has supported me to deepen my relationship with myself and with my wife. Natalie is beyond her years and a truly remarkable women.
We are indeed blessed, to have a truly inspiring role model in Natalie Benhayon, who shows in her life and interaction with people a great degree of wisdom, commitment, intregity, along side her playfulness and joy. She is a role model for women of all ages, you and old alike, and also men.
Gayle, you began by noting that some people may envy Natalie, be jealous of her or even not like what they see because they know the they too could be living everything Natalie is if they chose to make the choices she has.
This is so true. One of the most amazing things you get when you watch Natalie present or spend time with her in a 1:1 session is the fact that the way of being she reflects to the world is effortless. She is herself – her real, true and full self effortlessly, she speaks and lives truth – effortlessly, where others struggle with this. Natalie is effortlessly amazing and this is the case because of the dedication she brings to the way she lives, the choices she makes and her purpose in life.
Natalie is a walking testament to the fact that it it is actually ridiculously simple if we but choose to allow it to be.
‘… thank God, there are people like Natalie Benhayon who are presenting and demonstrating how to be role models for this profound way of living from their sacredness so that we have a reflection of what it looks like and what it feels like.’ Natalie Benhayon is naturally an amazing role model as she brings all that she is to the world.
I used to wonder what ‘a Sacred Relationship with Self’ was. Now I know it is all about allowing ourselves to be still enough to know the absolute preciousness and sacredness that we come from and hold within us and to live in a way that supports that sacredness to emerge.
Gayle, what you have written is a great reminder to me that the degree to which I can feel stillness and a sense of sacredness depends on the choices I make moment to moment with one thing building the basis for the next step and so on. Thank you!
Absoultely, thank god for Natalie Benhayon – she rocks! Such a beautiful, beautiful woman!
Gail, it is inspiring to read this blog this morning as I ponder the energy the male energy I so easily go into sometimes. However I am not going to knock myself about this but appreciate the fact that I have this awareness and I can choose to be in my stillness equally.
I could listen to Natalie Benhayon present for hours and hours. I love how and what she presents. She is so fun-loving and real and delivers such wisdom. What an amazing inspiration to have in this world.
I agree Eleanor, I could listen to Natalie Benhayon present for hours and hours also. She is absolutely so fun, empowered, loving and delivers wisdom that is out of this world, truly inspirational.
Yes I can too Eleanor. Natalie Benhayon is an amazing role model for women world-wide. She has inspired thousands of women and men to connect to their innate wisdom, power and joy. I am blown away and inspired by her dedication, commitment and love for supporting people from all walks of life.
Thank you Gayle for this blog. Its great how you describe all those moments when you are with yourself, which makes me think how much there is to appreciate in the conscious presence I am building up in myself. If I compare how much more connected I am to my body now than a year ago, there is a vast difference. And through this growing connection there is a deepening of the understanding of what it means for me to be a woman as well.
Natalie Benhayon is a tremendous inspiration to men and women alike.
She really is – to the point, where by watching her move through her day or interact with you is inspiration enough to inspire true change, this is before you hear Natalie speak or attend a 1:1 session with her.
If there is something that I have been and continue to be inspired by Natalie Benhayon, is here quality. There is a solidness and gentle quality that is not felt in many women, there is a tenderness, but incredible strength, she is no push over. Not to mention the many projects she leads and supported by how she lives. She is a true inspiration to all women.
“As a woman, I’m learning to start with my stillness and anything I ‘do’ must come from that stillness. For me, the biggest distraction to my stillness is nervous energy. “-I agree Gail, this is so important. If I am in anxiousness I am usually not fully present in my body, I lose my self confidence and there isn’t clarity of thought. I am also caught up in the ‘doing’ and this allows negative thoughts to come in as well.
Spot on, Gail – the biggest distraction and disruption to our natural stillness comes from nervous energy – the anxiety or preoccupation with what needs to be done. Your blog is also a great reminder that our awareness of our own sacredness isn’t simply about being able to feel our inner stillness, but to feel it ‘as a woman’. How often do we forget that last bit?
All of us – women, men, and children – are bombarded with signs all around about how a woman should be. The reality is that these messages do not help us to know who we truly are (which is putting it mildly!). And isn’t that what most (or maybe all?) of us want on some level? To know our selves and connect with our true essence.
The answer is within us all along, and it’s our choice to continue to look outside of ourselves for re-connection or to start to look within. This is something I am learning for myself. Above all else, I am finding lately that, to know that no matter what is going on around me I always have the sacredness that is me, has been the biggest blessing.
Thank you Gayle, for such a tender and powerful message about connecting with what it means to be a woman.
What amazes me is how much we have already learned from Natalie Benhayon, and she is only in her mid twenties. There is so much more to unfold from all of us, equally so, if we are to embrace the choices and subsequent evolution available.
I agree Amelia that we have come so far yet there is so much more to go with bringing the sacredness of the woman to the world.
Getting in touch with or better yet re-connecting with our sacredness is personified by Natalie Benhayon, I am constantly inspired by her and how she lives. She lives with such self honouring and self appreciation, that this is the way forward for all women, to really honour ourselves and who we are in our essence.
Gayle it is truly beautiful to feel all the women I know deepening their commitment to themselves and living in this Sacred way. This is something so important to reflect as it is clear the alternatives out there – as put forward through magazines and billboards of how women should be are not truly supporting. Natalie Benhayon has lead the way with this, in supporting women to truly connect with themselves. The ease she does this with is a testament to her commitment to living in this way, consistently so. Thank you Gayle for writing this piece, and Natalie for the inspiration you live every day.
Beautifully said and I agree Amelia, Natalie Benhayon is a true role model for all women supporting and inspiring us to re-connect to our sacredness.
You’re right Lorettarapp, the sacred movement classes are awesome and amazingly things change within your body with these simple movements making it so easy to be connected.
“Being in sacredness is about a sacred relationship with self and being fully present and connected with yourself…. and more as a woman”. At present I am doing Sacred Movement classes which are awesome, and definitely allowing me to feel more of me as a woman. I am very appreciative of Natalie Benhayon for having made this modality available.
I agree – Sacred Movement has been a beautiful opportunity to stop and connect with myself, and bring myself back to the stillness I know I can live all the time. Doing Sacred Movement I am able to more easily feel in my body where I need to let go more and surrender to allow this stillness to just be. Indeed in a world that fosters and values ‘doing’, I am so glad I have the reflections to slow down, and allow my life to be about the quality I am, first and foremost.
There are those rare moments in life where you meet someone who is so themselves that they inspire you to be more of who you are – its not a judgement or a comparison or a telling you what to do, it is simply where to see them and all that they are and realise that you can make choices to be more of yourself. Natalie Benhayon is one of those people and it is why she is so loved, and she is supporting others to also be this for people in their lives.
very true Rebecca.
Making the choices to be more of yourself – beautifully said Rebecca
“Being in sacredness is about a sacred relationship with self and being fully present and connected with yourself…. and more”, thank you for sharing this, I am currently working on connecting to my sacredness and this is a great reminder that it is about “relationship with self and being fully present and connected with self
I find this Sacred relationship with self in conscious presence a fabulous answer to all kind of alternative therapies where someone has to do something for me to become better. If I put my energy into being consciously present, there is no room, really, to be lost in emotional turmoil.
” For me, the biggest distraction to my stillness is nervous energy. If I am anxious or worrying there is a ‘busyness’ in me that disrupts my inner stillness.”
Yes, I too am still struggling with this depending on where I am working and what needs to be done within a set time frame. However, I know to make definite stop moments throughout the day to feel my body, and reconnect with the gentle breathe or do some sacred movement. It’s very powerful in connecting back to stillness and the sacredness of who I am as a woman.
How is it that a woman as young as Natalie has such a relationship with Sacredness and imparts this so easily to men and women of all ages? It is unbelievable to many, and unfathomable to some also. The depth of wisdom she brings however cannot be mistaken, and is a testament to her choices to live this level, consistently so, that we all may learn it can be the same for us in equality.
I love how much you appreciate Natalie and what she offers, Amelia.
The relationship with our sacred self, what an amazing topic for discussion. I love what you have shared here. What Natalie Benhayon brings, presents, teaches and reflects is inspiring for all women young and old. She does not put herself on a pedastal but as all other Benhayons, holds all equally. What I love is the practical level you have brought to this, in we could be in a group that focuses on our sacredness with self but what happens when we walk out the door, or as you have shared, put on our shoes and scarf etc, does it all too easily become forgotten? I feel I have a long way to go with sacredness of self, not because I am way off the mark (as it never leaves us and is innately in all) but because there is always another depth or layer to go, explore and feel.
Natalie does teach and share with us the constant deepening in Sacredness. Never does she reach a plateau or settle, and is constantly open to whatever is there in order to serve, always from this place of Sacredness first. I have much to learn also of the consistency in coming from this Sacredness, and it is something I enjoy unfolding more of every day.
On reconnecting to this post, there seems to be a key difference not only in how we connect to ourselves but which aspect of ourselves we connect to. The is a sacred, still aspect or one that feels slower, but not, still if we find a way to mask or ease (but not heal) the anxiety.
Stillness does not mean doing nothing and doing nothing does not automatically mean that I am still. Very true Joel.
Agreed! This is such an important distinction to make. Our world has so much to learn about the quality of true stillness, and it is only by reflection that this will happen. Natalie has been a shining example of this, and there to inspire all that it is there for us also.
Natalie Benhayon has taught me so much about building a Sacred relationship with myself. This has evolved and deepened over many years with her support. From my sleep to my relationships, there is no end to developing and allowing more of the Sacredness I am to be part of my everyday life. For this understanding, I am truly appreciative.
Yep Natalie has changed my life too. I love this women, she is super gorgeous, loving, funny, wise, warm and deeply inspiring.
What Natalie brings is truly amazing. She constantly reflects to us the power of our choices, and what can happen when we make them in line with the Love and deep Sacredness we are, consistently so. She has taught me what feels like lifetimes of lessons this life, and it is really only just the beginning. What an honour it is to have this woman in my life.
“It isn’t just about being with myself, or being present or being fully present or being consciously present. It is about being all those things – as a woman.” I have read this blog before and at the time I didn’t have much comprehension of what the line above meant. Over the past 6 weeks I participated in an esoteric yoga program designed especially for women http://www.esotericyogastillnessprogram.com/ At times we would move our bodies while maintaining a connection with our breasts, cervix or ovaries. I was absolutely stunned by the difference in my movements when I did this.
This blog allows me to appreciate that the experiences I had in my esoteric yoga program have allowed me to take a step towards a sacred relationship with myself. And of course Natalie Benhayon is a guiding light and constantly reflects what is possible when a woman chooses to express her sacredness consistently.
I have recently joined a Sacred Movement group and I was profoundly aware of the power and sacredness held within it, “I feel even more fortunate to be a woman, in a large group of women, who are helping pioneer the return to our true essence; that of living in a sacred relationship with self and in the sacredness of being a woman.” It feels amazing that I can feel this when the group has just been established, women being open to rediscovering and reclaiming their true sacred essence and stillness.
Sacred Movement, and allowing the space for it in my day has been foundational in seeing where I do or do not choose to honour myself as a woman. I love what this reflects to me always, as there is constantly more to deepen and learn.
Gayle, beautifully expressed. As a woman I found it difficult to let go of all the doingness first, and building a relationship with myself has been an interesting experience, as it is not something that we are brought up to do. Watching Natalie live the way she does, and encourage us to get in touch with our sacredness has been very inspiring and rewarding.
This was such a smooth and enjoyable blog to read Gayle, thank you. Your humble exploration of building presence, connection and stillness to support sacredness is so practical and encouraging. I also like how you make the distinction that sacredness is ‘more profound’ than these qualities. Understanding nervous tension and anxiety has been key for me to get past being caught up the pressure to ‘do’ before I let myself ‘be’.
So much of what you have shared here Gayle is felt by many, but you have articulated it so wonderfully. I definitely am one of those women who absolutely am deeply inspired by Natalie Benhayon, what she represents, how she lives and what she reflects by way of that. She is sharing with us how to re-learn to be connected with our sacredness, who we are as women, what true self care, nurturing and love really means. Thank you for writing what is deeply felt.
Sacredness is very much what we as women have lost touch with, we are so used to living in the doing we forget the preciousness we are. I know I’m touching on the sacredness I feel is there but as yet do not fully live this in the world, so it’s great to know Natalie Benhayon and those who live and show this as a real lived way of being, to remind us all that it is possible and that this is the way we naturally are and that this is the way to live in the world.
I agree Monicag2 – sacredness is something that 5 years ago I thought I knew nothing about. But to rediscover it in my body again feels like coming home. I can see how even the word sacredness has been bastardised to be religious, when in fact it is very far from this and is simply a connection we allow within ourselves that is our natural state.
I am grateful to Natalie Benhayon who presents with such wisdom the simplicity of connecting back to our sacredness as women.
Yes Hannah, sacredness has been miscontrued and placed beyond us as an otherness, something not attainable and we’ve all played a part in putting it away so to speak, putting it beyond our everyday living, and not taking responsibility and living in a way which supports the expression of the sacredness we carry. Natalie shows us it’s possible, and that we’ve been playing a game to be less, and to somehow make our decision to not be and live the sacredness we are as an excuse when it’s about the choices we make, we all can make. So having Sacred Movement is both a gift and a responsibility – it’s for us all to live and bring that sacredness back to its true understanding and place in the world.
‘Sacredness’, this word was also foreign to me a few years ago. It was something I would never have thought I could connect to. From attending presentations by Natalie Benhayon, meeting amazing inspiring women at Universal Medicine and from reading blogs and comments like these that I am starting to learn to build a relationship with myself that I have forgotten could even exist. ‘A Sacred Relationship with Self’. Inspiring!
I can only agree Monica. Living in the world as it currently is, it is so easy to disconnect and forget how innately precious we are, and how it is we should indeed be living as women to honour this deeply so. It is no coincidence that most literature available for women is designed to keep us on this merry-go-round and keep enforcing the cycle of doing, as opposed to deeply connecting with our quality and way of being as being the key.
Yes Amelia, everything is currently designed to keep us in the spin, and actually we choose that often. It very much reinforces the cycle that we are to keep going constantly in motion, yet this is not the truth of who we are, and right now more than ever the world needs that quality of stillness we bring and without it we’re all chasing our tails in a motion whirlwind. We have a responsibility to allow ourselves to live and feel that connection to the stillness we hold and to allow ourselves the space to learn to live and be this each and every day – it’s an active choice, and requires a commitment and dedication to connect and when we disconnect, to reconnect and never give up. That’s what I see with Natalie Benhayon a constant commitment and choice to live that preciousness in the world and I now know that is possible to take it step by step to learn to be this in the world, without any perfection. We are the ones who change what is seen in the world.
I agree Monicag2, I am the same. I too am learning to connect to a deeper level of sacredness that supports me to live true to who I am. By letting go of my old patterns and behaviours that I know doesn’t support me and this will assist me in all areas of my life.
Yes a sacred relationship with self is it, and so inspiring, you remind me all over again. Thank you.
Natalie Benhayon brings an understanding of sacredness that leaves us in no doubt what sacredness is. It is about us living true to ourselves, bringing the absoluteness of love and truth into everything that we do on a day-to-day basis. It is about us in relationship with ourselves and with others. It is living divinity on earth.
Yes, her presence certainly leaves no doubt as to what sacredness is. The depth to which she expresses this is so committed that I can feel the sacredness we hold within is forever deepening. How deeply beautiful.
Thank you Elizabeth. I love what you have shared here about Sacredness. Natalie does indeed make it a real and tangible experience, to live with Sacredness consistently so. As you say, it is as simple as bringing the absoluteness of love and truth into everything that we do, and shining our living Divinity on Earth.
Beautifully said Amelia and an awesome reminder for me.’ bringing the absoluteness of love and truth into everything that we do, and shining our living Divinity on Earth.’ This is very powerful, if we all choose to bring this to the world we would be living heaven on earth.
So beautifully said Elizabeth, understanding of what sacredness means is so important for women. I know for me, a number of years ago, I had no idea what sacredness was or meant for that matter, but you have articulated it so well. Especially ‘bringing the absoluteness of love and truth into everything that we do on a day-to-day basis’. On a day-to-day basis is key here, it isn’t something you switch off, but a quality that we carry everywhere we go.
Beautifully said Elizabeth.
When thinking of activities to do in the future we are burning the candle at both ends. I’m guessing there needs to be ability to deeply trust in what ever needs to be done will be done and there is no need to worry about that certain activity until the time and place arrives to perform the action.
Luke I really appreciate your comment and can relate to the ‘burning the candle at both ends’ when thinking about all the activities I need to do in the future. Often this way of living is so draining I’m exhausted before I’ve even got to the task at hand, poured so much energy into the thinking rather than being and from this, the action of the task itself. Much wiser to deeply trust than try and control!!!
Agree, or run the risk of being sick and being forced to stop and re-assess how you have been running.
Living from our sacredness, as a women is something I am still re-learning to connect with. I draw continued inspiration from Natalie Benhayon, who she is, what she represents for all women, young or old, as she has an innate depth, quality and love that is incredible. She has more foundational love for herself than anyone i know, this is something that is truly to be observed and inspired by.
I agree Raegan, the foundation of love Natalie lives and brings for us all to be inspired by is something I am forever learning from. As our equal as a woman, she constantly shows how there is more to unfold in our love for ourselves, and for this I am very appreciative.
So true Raegan, Natalie Benhayon’s foundational love is so inspiring to me along with Natalie’s realness in her sharing of that with us all is a constant reminder of how we all can be living in our day to day. As Natalie often reminds us she has no special privileges she just makes loving choices consistently.
Thank you Gayle. I’m appreciating this article and the reminder about my sacredness as a woman. I am constantly learning and deepening my relationship with myself, though I feel more embracing and acknowledgement of my sacredness is key. When I stop and feel the sacredness of who I am, it makes it very hard to do anything that is going to compromise myself in any way. Living from this sacredness and stillness shows the world another way, which it may resist at first due to how much motion and hardness in activity are championed currently. As said, Natalie Benhayon is shining a light on how it is we can be in sacredness, living from our stillness, and still very active and committed members of society.
Absolutely Amelia, to be in Natalie’s presence and the quality she offers is so strongly a reflection that there is another way to be.
Amelia, I especially love your last line…”As said, Natalie Benhayon is shining a light on how it is we can be in sacredness, living from our stillness, and still very active and committed members of society.”. That is the winning combination – in my experience the spiritual realm of being sacred and stillness often feels like sitting in a retreat somewhere and trying to attain the goddess within but what is so different on offer here, is that our sacredness is within us always, it is how we live that activates it and then we take that very much out into our lives into our community. It is a divine yet incredibly practical way of living.
Natalie Benhayon is definitely a beauty-full inspiration and reflection of a true woman embracing her essence in full- sacredness, preciousness, sexiness, playfulness, tenderness.
She reminds us that we all come from love and that we too hold these qualities deep within us.
“As a woman, I’m learning to start with my stillness and anything I ‘do’ must come from that stillness. “-I still find myself going into the “must do” and feel the nervous tension creeping into my body. But by being aware of this I can lovingly stop and come back to by body with my next breath.
This is such a great blog Gayle, I thank you for taking the time to celebrate what an amazing women Natalie Benhayon is. I have been deeply inspired by her myself, due to her incredible sense of self worth, her wisdom, stillness she holds, confidence and her essence. It all is deeply felt whenever you are with her and even when you are not.
Thank you Gayle. I have certainly felt the power of connecting to my sacredness when participating in Sacred Movement sessions, however, as you say “…how many of us retain that sense of sacredness as we put on our boots, gather our bags and scarves and head out the door?”. For the most part I certainly don’t. I am feeling the potential to bring sacredness to all that I do, taking presence to a whole new level and connecting to the quality of sacredness I hold within.
You are a true pioneer indeed Gayle, and very much needed. We as women have lost ourselves in the doing and with that have lost touch with our true essence. Women like Natalie Benhayon are true role models in what it means to be a woman and to live as a woman while being fully committed in the world.
The more women return to their sacredness the more men will be inspired to honour them in this sacredness by being more gentle and tender like the way we are meant to be.
As women we hold a great responsibility to return to our sacredness – and when we do we will benefit the whole world. It feels like a great honour that up until now we haven’t truly respected or realised as we made our lives more about ourselves without thought of the way we can serve humanity. Gayle’s blog is offering us great inspiration to begin anew, our dedication and commitment to serve both men and women alike.
Having read your inspiring blog Gayle I look forward to exploring what being in my sacredness means as I will be commencing sacred movement sessions soon.
Having recently attended a Sacred Movement group, I was ‘blown away’ by the quality of the energetic platform we are developing TOGETHER, thus serving every woman on this planet to be returning home to our true sacredness and essence. It is so beautiful to be deeply appreciating women rather than being stuck in the old separative way of comparison.
I can now fully agree with your sentence Gayle –
“I feel even more fortunate to be a woman, in a large group of women, who are helping pioneer the return to our true essence; that of living in a sacred relationship with self and in the sacredness of being a woman”.
Natalie Benhayon is a huge inspiration to me, she is steady, warm, loving, playful, cheeky, sincere and totally genuine. The total equality that she has always met me in hugely inspires me to connect with all the qualities that I innately hold inside me, no different, more or less than another. She has and still does support me and many women to treasure who we are and bring our essence to life. And this done in total respect for the amazing qualities that men can bring too.
Gayle I am taken by your observation ‘If I am anxious or worrying there is a ‘busyness’ in me that disrupts my inner stillness.’ I realised today that I approached a task with anxiousness and lost myself in the drive. It was great to read this timely reminder that as women our greatest strength is our ability to move from stillness.
Thank you Gayle for your sharing, that I am returning to re read. Natalie Benhayon is one young woman with so much Wisdom that she presents so exquisitely to us. If we can aspire to be the same, how wonderful this world will be.
I love that there is even a conversation happening about sacredness Gayle. How awesome is that! It’s a stop moment each time I feel the truth that there is a sacredness within me that equates with ALL that there is in the universe and I am fully part of that whether I am currently choosing to be aware of it our not! Thank you.
“If I am thinking about things I have to do, and it is not yet time to do these things, this also creates a ‘sense of work or activity’ that is not real or productive.” More and more I am finding this to be true. I can be so ahead of myself that I miss the present moment and there is no fun in that at all.
Natalie Benhayon is a consistent and beautiful role model to us all in how to live and work from our true essence in all that we do. The sacred stillness within women is very powerful when it is felt and lived in deep connection to femaleness.
Thank you Gayle, this was really important for me to read this morning. Even just as I was reading the paragraph about thinking ahead, and going into nervous energy, I was doing precisely that! Having the connection back to my sacred, and still, self as a marker from this blog will be key in moving forward in my day. This is something important every day for me, so thank you for the reminder and ‘bringing me back’ to it here today Gayle!
How wonderful to hear that the article supported you at the perfect moment. Thank you for letting us know!
Gayle what a beautiful reminder to all on how to be sacred with ourselves. Natalie Benhayon is a true inspiration to any female. She is an awesome role model that I constantly look to and her modalities that she has presented to the female community are life changing. She can easily communicate with anyone and she holds no judgement only love.
I can relate to the business. How I can be very concentrated on what I am doing and actually completely lose myself therefore giving my power away – to the screen of my laptop or when I am in conversations with others. This has been very normal to me. I would call it almost natural, my natural. But it’s not, my body’s telling me so. Some symptoms I might feel: anxiousness, cold feet, cold hands, contraction in my legs, typing harshly. The feeling of wanting to get the work done, finished. Where all along my Love is there waiting to be connected to. I can feel it, it’s just there. So strong, so lovely, so me. There’s lot of Joy in connecting to it. I am starting to Truly develop the Sacred Relationship with myself and my body. Thank you for sharing Gayle Cue.
I know that for a very long time I did not feel that I had any authority as a woman. I felt so powerless and felt that my experience as a woman was poor and uninformed. This is ridiculous and sad and looking back I can see how little I claimed myself and allowed unkind and loveless ways to affect me.
So how wonderful it was to have the esoteric healing modalities especially for women and then this amazing role model in Natalie Benhayon. The way I feel about myself and about being a woman is light years away from the woman I was. The way I feel about myself is glorious and becoming deeper and more claimed as I journey back to my true and powerful self. I feel so blessed to have been able to come to this and to experience this with so many other beautiful, committed women.
I endorse everything you say Amanda – it is so wonderful to have been so blessed in this way and to have found the unity and love that has been my experience of Universal Medicine and the whole Benhayon family.
And just love how you share your tips of simple, everyday activities. I found them very helpful and supportive.
I connected to so much of what you have shared in your blog Gayle – being another late and also a somewhat slow bloomer. I recall during a session at the clinic with Natalie telling her that despite her being so young and my being in my elder years, I felt like I was the child and she was the elder. No surprise really – an awesome reflection and inspiration!
You are right Gayle, that busyness, going into fight or flight energy or anxiousness, is a very quick dampener on our connection with the sacredness that is naturally there. Sacredness leaves a woman feeling full and complete, aware of the power and stillness within her. In contrast, when I start rushing around, I feel far from this. The harm and falseness of the busy way we have adopted as our norm is what we need to become aware of and start to say no to, so we can reconnect to the loveliness of sacredness once more.
Natalie totally dispels the idea that sacredness is some kind of holier than thou activity. As you describe it Gayle, sacredness with her feels like a super deep cherishing of how precious and truly beautiful we are, like a sapphire diamond. I recently moved into a house with two women, and every day I am reminded how this stillness is the beginning step for me to appreciate how sacred we all are.
As is evident in this blog and peoples comments the qualities that Natalie Benhayon brings and inspires in others are life changing. Having been fortunate enough to be in a number of her presentations on understanding and developing rhythm in the way we live over the last year, I am deeply appreciative of being offered the opportunity to feel and integrate such wisdom into my own life.
Natalie walks her talk. You notice something about her, kind of like having that ‘X’ factor. What is it that I am seeing here? I remember asking myself… then one day, during a sacred movement class, I discovered and actually felt this exquisite essence, and will go as far as calling it ‘Sacred place’ within my body. It was a discovery and realisation about the preciousness of a woman, It then later dawned on me… this feeling is what I have noticed and saw in Natalie, but didn’t know what IT was… As she walks her talk, she reminds all us women about the living sacredness within.
Natalie Benhayon is an inspiration to all women every where, for us to feel that there is another way to live as women, a way that is much more connected with ourselves and our body and in respect and honouring of the gorgeous, delicate and glorious women that we are. Thank you Natalie for being one women willing to stand up amongst the crowd and be seen, not hiding away where everyone misses out.
Before attending a presentation by Natalie Benhayon, I didn’t even know really what that meant, what is our sacredness? It just was not something that I could connect with. Then overlay all the ideals and beliefs we hold (I’ve held) about being a women, there was even more confusion about what this sacred business was. But since attending these classes and presentations, I have grown to understand what it means and to connect to this. It is definitely something I am still getting to know and understand for myself, however, enjoying what this feels like and getting to know myself at a much deeper and loving level.
I too have check in points with the many moments I have throughout the day. I know when I’ve totally forgotten these that I need to stop, walk and reconnect. Once we have experienced the amazing feeling of connecting to our sacredness it is a place we feel to come back to and continually deepen.
Thank God for Natalie Benhayon as she accepts her power, grace and wisdom and in doing so calls all of us women to our own. Natalie shows us that in sacredness there is no competition or comparison – simply the expression of your unique essence which is a part of a greater whole from which are all a part of.
A beautiful reminder of staying present with our bodies and selves with all we do, thank you Gayle I loved the little details you described or daily rituals in staying present. Its s true that then when we leave ourselves it quickly becomes obvious, when we build a foundation of connection.
What a totally amazing inspiration Natalie Benhayon is, as a young woman not conforming to the pressures and trends of that society places upon women, that say you must constantly get outside recognition and approval. It’s extremely unusual to see the absolute confidence and self love that she has and lives.
Before Natalie’s presentations I had absolutely no idea what it meant to honour myself or to have a feeling of sacredness. I was just getting through life and not really in connection to myself as a woman. Its amazing what I have experienced in recent years and the changes I have made, its a learning but I can connect to something deep inside- an inner stillness and beauty that I had lost connection with and denied. It is through seeing this in another that I came to know it in myself.
Kristy, I just read your comment and what stood out for me was ‘connection to myself as a woman’, in an instant it struck me and I realised why I disconnected from myself as a woman.
As a young girl I took on the belief that I needed to be a boy. When I began puberty my body began to change and I hated getting my periods and I didn’t want breasts. I lost my ‘boyness’ and I have blamed my body for it. Now that I am aware of this I have the opportunity to change. Thank you.
This part was is very much resonating with me – I feel even more fortunate to be a woman, in a large group of women, who are helping pioneer the return to our true essence; that of living in a sacred relationship with self and in the sacredness of being a woman.
Thank you Gayle for sharing what it means to be in sacredness with yourself as a woman. Natalie Benhayon is indeed such an amazing natural reflection of this, in how she presents herself to the world. What she brings to woman and humanity is pioneering indeed and very evolutionary. I am very appreciative of this.
What you have learnt about yourself as a woman through Natalie is deeply beautiful. The inspiration she offers to young and old alike is really remarkable. The power of a women in her sacredness clearly has no bounds and is a blessing to all for it reminds us who we truly are and how to live that in the world.
It is oh, so incredible to be a man amongst women who are living in their fullness as a woman. It is by far the sexiest thing going! And what is more, a woman in their most sacred womanliness allows for me to be in my full and tender manliness. A pairing not to be underestimated, for it has the potential to shift all of the dramas between the sexes, and to start changing the world we live in.
So true Naren ~ the quality of our relationships are potentially world changing and it all seems to start with a willingness to be responsible at a very deep and personal level. A responsibly that leads us to the loving people that we already are.
That responsibility is really the place that we need to start, Shami. It can be rocky at first, and seem unfamiliar territory that we are heading into, but the truth is that this is who we are. We are meant to be in relationships with one another, be they intimate or platonic, we have relationships all of the time. Imagine if we decided to be honest about ourselves, skin to bone, in all of our relationships? What a world this would be!
I agree totally Naren – well said. The natural quality of stillness in women living in their fullness supports me greatly to stay centred and not get lost in the activity of ‘doing’.
A gorgeous appreciation of the true power of women living in their sacredness Naren, and its enormous potential.
So true Naren, women living their sacredness do invite me to hold them in this with all the tenderness I have. To live this tenderness is actually the normal way of being. We as man are in fact tender and sensitive but we have put it aside and measured to a picture that shows us to be the opposite, being hard and insensitive, not being able to feel anything! What a blessing then it is to be with women that live there sacredness, because they help me to restore the true me, to surrender the man I truly am, that is so gentle and tender, a coming home to where I belong.
Gayle your blog is so awesome always. The reminder that women can express their sacredness in every movement they make. Your deep appreciation of being able to bring this reflection to all women is truly inspiring. Thank you.
Awesome blog Gayle, I am too, very inspired by Natalie and I say yes to all what can come trough me because that what we know is working in our daily life wants to be shared with everyone who is looking for something more to life than just existing. What some people don’t like is they know that they too could be just like Natalie with that what she brings, but are choosing not to. That is painful to feel.
Yes Monika I totally agree when we don’t choose it this is when jealousy raises it’s ugly head.I am sure many women have been and are jealous of such a beautiful amazing lady, but there is always a choice to be inspired by Natalie or to feel jealous of her. Inspiration leads to evolution and jealously leads us down a very slippery path I love this blog on Women in Livingness about Jealousy http://womeninlivingness.com/2015/06/17/jealousy-foe-or-friend/
Your blog Gayle was exactly what I needed to read this morning. The ‘busyness’ from me being anxious was trying to take over from the moment I woke up. To allow myself to be in my stillness and feel the sacredness in my body is all there is while commenting on this blog. And I can feel the support of women all over the world returning to their true essence and the effect this has on other women. Thank you Gayle for this beautiful sharing.
Well said Gayle. Within every woman is a deep sacredness. To allow that sacredness to be lived, seen and felt by others, we need to actively bring it to all we do…Doing everything feeling that sacredness first and letting it guide the way in which we do things.
Thank you Gayle – it’s quite something to experience a woman and that power-full delicateness when she is connected to herself and her sacredness.
Thats so right Deborah, as you say it”s quiet something big to experience a woman in her delicateness and sacredness. Feels yum!
“I feel even more fortunate to be a woman, in a large group of women, who are helping pioneer the return to our true essence; that of living in a sacred relationship with self and in the sacredness of being a woman.” Love your words Gayle, thank you for this awesome sharing.
Connecting to the women we are are with the beautiful stillness and feeling that sacredness emanate out is beautiful. The deeper our stillness the more connected we are to our sacredness, every movement is felt with gentleness, and our conscious presents deepens. For me it is a constant work in progress, as something’s my body goes into auto pilot and old pattern, but I have put in check points that allow me to come back to myself when this happens. With these constant check points I am able to reconnect back to myself in a loving way.
I can relate Amita learning how to be loving and not judge myself when I act against my own grains as you state ‘reconnect back to myself in a loving way’ is fundamental in releasing the invisible pressures and expectations I can place on myself.
It wasn’t until I attended presentations by Natalie Benhayon that I began to realise how dismissive I was towards myself as a woman. I have been inspired by the beauty and grace I see and feel in Natalie and other women (myself included), inspired to continue developing my relationship as a woman and exploring this for myself. What I am learning is that nothing feels more normal, gorgeous and fullfilling than living life in deep connection with myself.. still a work in progress for me but I wouldn’t have it any other way.
‘still a work in progress for me’ too Abby, a task that becomes more sacred as I fall back in love with myself.
It is interesting Gayle how you began the blog stating how much Natalie Benhayon ‘does’ and yet completed it by stating how she is a role model in allowing women to ‘be’ in their sacredness and takes the pressure off doing. This is a wonderful testament to how we can all live – being with our stillness and then embodying it and living from our essence – so that our doing has a completely different purpose and quality which does not drain or make life joyless.
Great comment Simon – it’s not what or how much we do but the quality we are in whilst doing any action.
That is an important point you make, its the being from which we should live and do that what is needed.
So beautifully written Gayle, and I very much agree with all you share about Natalie Benhayon and the inspiration I too, felt from her Esoteric Women Health presentations. When a woman is aware of and feels her stillness and sacredness, she automatically brings with this, a huge sense of self worth, self love, preciousness and value to any activity she attends to. It is ironic how, post feminism, we as women, have consciously or unconsciously taken on the ‘24/7 superwoman’ stance that can do everything and anything, which in reality, is unsustainable. (I know I have done this!). The pursuit of equality with man has been the exchange (the loss or disconnection) of what this innate power, stillness and sacredness brings, to gain outer perceived strength, power, respect and worth from everything from outside of her. Esoteric Women’s Health – Innermost Women’s Health, is in my opinion, a new public health era in addressing women’s health and wellbeing, as the health and wellbeing of women in our communities is a vital ingredient to the health and welfare of public health.
This is true johannebrown17, and I love the way you have looked at public health from this perspective. It does need to be seen how harmful the ’24/7 superwoman stance’ mentality has become in our society. We (generally speaking) have been tricked into thinking how it is we are meant to be. There is a truth in our capabilities as women to do a lot, but this needs to come from honouring ourselves deeply so first. If we don’t do this – exhaustion can easily result, and any other number of health conditions. Indeed self-honouring is an important public health message – thank you Johanne for highlighting this!!
Gayle this is as beautiful blog, I too have come to these ways of being in my later years, and I am grateful for what has been and is presented through Universal Medicine and a young woman such as Natalie Benhayon. a true inspiration to all women!
The sacredness of a woman is vibrant, a real show stopper that carries an untamed beauty I have seen in women of all ages. Thank god there are women in the world such as Natalie Benhayon who live their natural quality consistently so to remind us of who we are.
Yes Abby, Natalie Benhayon reflects to us that all women naturally have a deeply beautiful sacred part of themselves that they can access and express all the time.
Natalie is one of the true role models we have in the world today – I love to observe her ways and always humbled by her deep connection with herself. Thousands of people are inspired by this amazing woman.
So beautiful to connect with your blog again and the truth of your words Gayle. I experience those moments of connecting to my sacredness and then as you say ‘how many of us retain that sense of sacredness as we put on our boots, gather our bags and scarves and head out the door?’ This has been the way I have lived – having amazing moments but then not committing fully to the consistency and dedication that I can feel in Natalie Benhayon and other members of the Benhayon family. For me it is a work in progress as I slowly build a livingness that reflects what does feel to be the truth until I can also reflect this sacredness in the way that I live life.
I agree Abby, when you meet a women who is deeply connected in this way you can’t help but stop in your tracks, be in awe and appreciate the beauty they emanate. It is incredibly powerful and inspiring to be in the presence of this magnificence. I know we can all connect this power of sacredness.
Gayle perfect to read this again after returning from a sacred movement group. It never ceases to amaze me of the depth of sacredness we hold in our bodies as women which makes our relationship with self one of the greatest things we can invest in.
Well said Sharon. I agree, the beauty in – once you connect – it is all there.
How beautiful expressed, thanks Sharon.
Absolutely Sharon, so beautiful to allow ourselves to connect to our bodies in this way. There is so much to learn and appreciate about our body, the sacredness from within and by allowing ourselves to feel, access and utilise our greatest gift, the wisdom and truth of our body.
Reading this article in itself would inspire another to ask the question ‘how am I living as a woman’. From day one of meeting/listening to Natalie Benhayon and what she presents to us all has, truly inspired me to ask this and many other questions of myself. I am continually observing and making changes through my own choice and the results of this are amazing. Observing many women ‘living in a sacred relationship with self’ of all age groups is so beautiful to feel and see and truly inspirational for others. Thank you Gayle for this awesome sharing.
I agree Marion, having people like Natalie Benhayon, and now many other women around me, there is the constant reflection to observe and take stock of how I am living as a woman. There are so many ideals and beliefs we have taken on that can make us feel like we are doing this to the fullest, and yet this can be an image we have taken on. What is beautiful is that Natalie Benhayon stands solid in her way, showing us a very different, simple and yet full way to be as a woman. She is therefore able to assist others to reach this place of solidness also – bit by bit – as we all unfold more of who we truly are.
Beautifully expressed Gayle…Natalie is a gorgeous woman – a true inspiration and role model for women worldwide, and I too very much appreciate being “…a woman, in a large group of women, who are helping pioneer the return to our true essence; that of living in a sacred relationship with self and in the sacredness of being a woman.”
Natalie Benhayon is indeed pioneering the way forward for women of all ages to connect back with their inner essence. I find Natalie very inspiring and the reflection that she offers is what we can all access and have inside ourselves too. Very much looking forward to Natalie’s new endeavour, TV Show, ‘Natalie, With Love’.
Gorgeous Gayle. I agree as also I feel very fortunate to have to opportunity to attend these presentations. Natalie Benhayon is a true inspiration and role model as she leads the way for us all as women(even men) to return to the sacredness that we all are within in our own equally divine and unique way. It is a true joy to walk beside and to be constantly inspired by such a beautiful, loving, fun and wise woman. I also feel very ‘fortunate to be a woman, in a large group of women, who are helping pioneer the return to our true essence; that of living in a sacred relationship with self and in the sacredness of being a woman.’ – beautifully said, thank you Gayle.
Natalie is extraordinary, sacred, sassy, sexy, deeply beautiful and everything a woman naturally is. I will always treasure what Natalie reflects to us all and all that she brings and presents as i have reawakened my own true beauty and sacredness as a woman and am forever inspired to bring my all.
So true Gayle, Natalie Benhayon is beautiful, sexy, cheeky, fun and an amazing young woman. She is a role model to myself and thousands of women world wide. I had no idea what it looked like, nor how to live as a true woman, until I met Natalie Benhayon. Now through being inspired by her and through attending her presentations and workshops, I have re-connected to myself as the beautiful woman I am and live this to the best of my ability every day.
Me too Nicole, I have lived with a level of anxiousness for most of my life and this disturbs my stillness. I have managed to become so much more aware of this and able to stay in my stillness for longer periods of time with the support of the Esoteric Yoga Stillness Program For Women.
Beautiful Gayle, I agree in that I also appreciate the reflection that Natalie gives to us all.
Being present with me is something that I have come along way with and still have a long way to go, and appreciate the support from the modalities with this, Especially the Esoteric Yoga Stillness Program For Women.
That Sacred relationship with self and the connection to stillness you have written about is so beautiful Gayle – and has been equally transformative and breathtakingly life changing for me. We have that connection as men as well and its a great thing to discover, nurture and develop.
Standing out for me Gayle is this: “…What they don’t like is they know that they too could be all of that but are choosing not to. That isn’t a comfortable reflection….”
It is always a yucky feeling – shall we call it jealousy? – when you see someone i.e. get a reflection from someone, who is doing what you would like to be doing too but aren’t. It is never about what the actual activity looks like, but about the fact that it is me who has decided not to choose something that has stopped me from living who I want to be. That’s in your face, no escaping that realisation!
But this is a good thing right? Natalie Benhayon won’t stop making her own loving choices for herself, so our choice is to either be inspired by her and crank up our own self love or we can try to pull her down to our level, knock her off her perch, bag or criticise her. A wise person will do the former. Turns out I am very wise 🙂
We learn to trust our actions and our busyness but we don´t get taught that we should trust our innate stillness. Everyone is selling themselves out, because we see it everyday from others- true role models are missing. There is always this decision in my life: nervous tension or trust and stillness. It takes courage still to go with stillness, because nervous tension is more familiar (although more painful in my body) – but there will be a moment where nervous tension will be the abnormal and not the stillness. 🙂
I like how you emphasize that conscious presence needs to be connected to the woman you are. Very well said- me myself I learned from all the presentations how important it is to be with myself in everything that I do. It opened up a total different world to me, as I used to distract myself a lot and did thing in doing and achieving mode. Since I am more present with me, my whole life changed- and there is still a way to go- I know it will never stop deepening. And I am looking forward to it, because I never felt so at ease in my body.
Just being aware of and able to appreciate the sacredness of being a woman is an extrordinary gift and one I will treasure.
Hi Gayle. This is such a great blog – thanks for sharing it. That idea of ‘ Being with Myself’ is something I have heard of and tried out in so many different ways over many years with different forms of Yoga, and meditation (Hey I Live in Byron Bay – there are plenty to choose from)! You really have done a great job here of de-mystifying it and putting it in the simple, everyday context that it should actually be. Well done! And you offer us a great example or what it looks like when someone actually lives that each moment of each day in Natalie Benhayon. Any one who has met here and spend any time with her can so obviously see there really is a difference!
Beautiful writings Gayle – I could ponder on just the title alone – A Sacred Relationship with Self… exquisite!
Natalie Benhayon is such an amazing role model for what it means to be a true woman.
I love the Sacred Movement that she taught us to connect to our inner sacredness.
…or, Nicole – does the stillness never go and the flow is always there – but I choose to avoid it, ignore it, go into distance to it? Definitely my body reflects me that it is hard work to go against my stillness and against the flow, because I am getting more and more exhausted by doing so.
What I am learning is any form of anxiousness will take me away from my stillness, and therefore away from myself, love, self nurturing. Keeping me away from the sacredness within me. I am working on recognising this anxiousness in the body and bringing myself back to the stillness that I know I am.
Thank you Gayle. What I got from your blog is that it is just as easy to be in stillness, with ourselves, and living from our sacredness as it is to be making lists and getting nervous about how we are coping in life. Very few people live this way and it is awesome to have role models like Natalie Benhayon to inspire us, showing us how possible it truly is.
wowser Gayle. This article depicts just how sacred we are as human beings and just how much we can learn to appreciate ourselves and in this build a full on beautiful quality relationship with ourselves. Incredible to read and incredible to feel the beauty of what Natalie is teaching women.
“Anything I do must come from stillness”- yes, I have found this to be very important otherwise I go into nervous energy and drive,
which leaves me feeling exhausted.
Thank you Gayle for an incredible blog, one that has brought me back into my body and present with myself. These lines really stood out for me, if truth be told as I have been fighting allowing and honouring a deeper level and action of stillness that I, my body and Soul are calling for. “Anything I ‘do’ must come from that stillness. For me, the biggest distraction to my stillness is nervous energy. If I am anxious or worrying there is a ‘busyness’ in me that disrupts my inner stillness. If I am thinking about things I have to do, and it is not yet time to do these things, this also creates a ‘sense of work or activity’ that is not real or productive.” I deliberately call this nervous energy in, to not take responsibility for all that needs to be done. With this there is no doubt, complication or drama – but simple truth and clarity.
I am a “late bloomer”,too, and only starting to get the grasp of what it feels like to be connected to the sacred woman in me, and it feels absolutely amazing. It is a blessing to me to have access to the wisdom and love that Natalie Benhayon is so generously sharing with all of us, with humanity.
Gayle, this is such a timely read for me. When in my stillness the blogs that are needed for me are just right there-amazing!! Coming from stillness in every thing we do is the key to feeling all of who we truly are. Natalie is all of this and more and I feel blessed to have her in my life.
It felt so true what you said about the nervous energy or anxiousness being the biggest distraction from our stillness, this feels true for us men as well.
I can agree on that Thomas, the distraction in my body from the anxiousness I hold makes it difficult for me to be in my stillness. And when I come to my stillness I feel uncomfortable with it because I have never been acknowledged as a man for my stillness but only for my actions instead.
“As a woman, I’m learning to start with my stillness and anything I ‘do’ must come from that stillness. For me, the biggest distraction to my stillness is nervous energy. If I am anxious or worrying there is a ‘busyness’ in me that disrupts my inner stillness.” As I read your blog I was reminded of my stillness and the distraction of nervous energy. Thank you Gayle.
I too thank God Gayle for the constant reflection offered by Natalie Benhayon and the sound counsel and enormous inspiration it is a blessing beyond words to be in her orbit.
Thank you Gayle, I love coming back to this. What resonated most with me today are the following words: ‘I feel even more fortunate to be a woman, in a large group of women, who are helping pioneer the return to our true essence; that of living in a sacred relationship with self and in the sacredness of being a woman.’ I enjoy that very much too, being together with other women discovering more and more of our sacred essence and living from it.
Esther I agree, I have learnt so much from being in a group with women who are happy to share openly and honestly and listen with judgement I didn’t realise how rare it was and how much difference it would make to my everyday life until i experienced it.
Thank you to Natalie and Gayle for being a reflection of what being a woman is all about. Regaining our sacredness is the greatest gift we can offer ourselves.
Starting with stillness and ending the same task or action in stillness is a beautiful experience. Living in stillness, no doubt, is even more so.
Thank you Gayle for sharing your observations. I appreciate the reflection offered by Natalie and everyone I meet. I feel that there is so much to learn and observe in humanity and nature that surrounds us on a daily basis.
“It isn’t just about being with myself, or being present or being fully present or being consciously present. It is about being all those things – as a woman.” So beautifully expressed that this is the intention we have willingly taken upon ourselves as ‘women in the livingness.’ Gayle. It is truly an honour, as you say, to be part of this pioneering group of women globally.
I love what you’ve shared Gayle. I too feel very blessed to be a woman and to have found my way to Universal Medicine and Natalie. Everything I thought about being a woman prior to this was about what was on the outside – how I looked, how I dressed, was I attractive, sexy, etc. Now I know it’s about what’s on the inside and connecting to my stillness and sacredness, I feel more attractive, sexy and confident now than ever before.
I love the reminder of having a relationship with our sacred self. It feels so empowering that the package is complete with in us and it is only a reconnection to it. There is nothing to get. Just reconnect.
This is a very inspiring blog Gayle I have enjoyed rereading it, thank you.
Thank you Gayle for this article. I was blessed to attend a Women In Livingness Workshop hosted by Natalie Benhayon in February this year and it was amazing. Natalie is such an inspiration and I loved every minute of the workshop – it was such real and practical support. Natalie returns to Melbourne in August for another Women In Livingness workshop and I can’t wait ~ I have already booked my ticket! Natalie’s presentations are an investment worth making as they support me immensely in my re-development as the beautiful, still and sacred woman I am.
I agree Bianca- It was such a beautiful unfolding process of discovering who we are as true woman, with Natalie Benhayon at the Women in Livingness workshop in February.
She is such an inspiration, and I can’t wait to attend the next WIL workshop on August 2nd. I too have already booked my ticket- a personal investment definitely worthwhile.
Gayle, thanks for a great blog. I agree that it is inspiring to be in a sacred relationship with self. If ever we need inspiration for what this looks like we need look no further than Natalie Benhayon. It takes dedication and commitment to develop such a relationship as we are so used to living our old patterns and have bought into old ideals and beliefs without being aware of what was happening.
How could we not be inspired by Natalie Benhayon, she is an amazing women who has so much to share with all women.
Reconnecting to our bodies allows us that deeper connection to the stillness within, that deep knowing that in essence we are all love equally and this can then be expressed by us all. I find the more I choose to connect to my body the less I live life from that nervous energy that separates me from that level of connection within me. Thank you Gayle, for a lovely sharing of your commitment to developing such a relationship with self as inspired by the woman herself Natalie Benhayon.
I was just reminding myself today how Natalie talks about really paying attention to the detail and to keep refining it in intimate and delicate detail while holding oneself in sacredness. I would not know what this was until I started sacred movement classes … Wow, what an amazing blessing they are for humanity!
Slowly, ever so slowly actually, one who’s lived life like it’s a race, can make choices to be present. Stilling the mind and body is very easy to write and talk about; to live with and through all of what normal life is, with an inner quality unperturbed, is a way of life one masters. With access to and inspiration from Natalie Benhayon and now many others, the way is becoming clearer without doubt.
An inspiring blog Gayle and I cannot agree with you more in your appreciation of Natalie Benhayon. She has been, and continues to be, a role many for me and, I know for a fact, many other women – as has been expressed here.
This is such a great sharing “For me, the biggest distraction to my stillness is nervous energy. If I am anxious or worrying there is a ‘busyness’ in me that disrupts my inner stillness”. I have invested much time and energy in living life with a constant nervous tension and anxiousness, and yet when I do take the time to stop and reconnect to myself, and the fire of sacredness that I am starting to feel is constantly aflame within me, the feeling is out of this world. I can pull away from that as it is so unfamiliar, but when I hold steady, wow, there is nothing like it. It is exquisite.
Love how you discover that “spending time ‘being with myself’” does not mean to go into a spa or sit for hours on my bottom, Gayle – it is being with me all the time, while I am doing ‘normal’, every day things. That’s the point: to not create parts of “being with me” or parts of release – there is no insularity in life – we live all the time and every second counts! Am I with me or not? What choice do I take?
For me it is a re-learning to be with me, because I made the choice before (loooong ago – but also every second again and again without realizing) to leave me. So to be with me is a choice, a training – that’s how I get connected with me and the world again. My sacred relationship with me is my connection to all of you.
Yes – being my sacred self 100% of the time is what I am working towards also, Sandra, and it is very much a re learning!
The beauty of your sharing Gayle is to me the honesty you have opened up yourself for. In being with you and appreciating you as a women. That you could expose the “male essence” in your behavior and re-imprint your way of living in your quality as a women. Thank you for that one.
After all this years of violence against women, learning to hide or to fight, become hard and protected I get the reflection of being sacred…
After all this years getting the presentation of living in a body of guilt and sin by the church because I am a women, I now get here a reflection of sacredness in me, that I am holding the connection to God inside me…
After all this years of self loathing because of the thought I am not good enough and will never be as good as I should be, I get here the reflection of I am worth, I am love and SACRED – what more can I be?
And after all of this I realize how much lived untruth I have in my body, how much untruth thoughts did poison me, I have to clear while I learn to get familiar with my sacredness, learn to express and to celebrate my sacredness.
And to learn all of this I am so thankful to get a role model like Natalie Benhayon and all of you my sacred Sisters as an Inspiration.
Thank you.
It’s very beautifully claimed and put in words Sandra, how we all get a true reflection of our sacredness through Natalie Benhayon and can re-claim this within us again after times of lived lies and pains endured. Now we too can be those reflections for all the other women to feel the truth of what they really are, again. We all are deeply sacred, delicate, powerfull beings that hold the key to a life in harmony and love with ourselves and everyone around, within our bodies. There’s a stillness and joy to be felt and lived from and it’s too beautiful to keep it in. May we all bring forth our true sacred nature in it’s full glory and allow the power of our stillness to emanate for all to rest in the love we are, and come from.
Sandra this is exquisitely beautiful. I feel myself dropping into my body, accepting myself and my past choices with an understanding far deeper than ever before. Thank You.
So beautifully put Sandra, what Natalie presents is astonishing, ground-breaking and revolutionary, and yet is the most natural and normal-seeming way of being. It taps into something we actually feel is true deep down or something we once knew. Natalie lives this fully as the absolute reflection of all that she presents, powerfully confirming the truth of our sacredness and beauty.
The fact that it is so far from the ‘normal’ that most have experienced throughout most of their life brings an interesting study to how we live and what we have allowed to run our lives. How did we get so far from what feels so true?
Yes, we once knew our sacredness and we still do deep inside. Lets re-connect and express it again!
Sacredness…what an amazingly beautiful word for a quality we all carry as women. Thank you Natalie for being such a powerful reflection of living sacredness.
Not feeling good enough, hiding, fighting, hardening and being furious at oneself are all rife amongst men and women. Yet here we have Natalie Benhayon showing us that none of that matters and when we do choose to feel that we are love, we are sacred, we get to feel that none of those previous poisons do matter. While it’s still a work in progress, coming back to that love within me makes so much more sense and brings a sense of stability rather than continuing to listen to those thoughts of not good enough or acting out the emotions of self-fury. Thank you for this reminder Sandra and Gayle that everything is a choice and that we have in the world a living example, through Natalie, of what we can all choose to live in and by.
…not to forget yourself as a living example leighmatson! We are all role models and responsible for what we are living. And it is not to forget to appreciate how far we have come. 10 years ago Sacredness was for me something to do with ‘the church’ and now it is a part of my true being, apart of me, it is in my body. That changes the world! And by discovering and with claiming my sacredness, I will inspire others. As you do.
I loved re-reading your post, Gayle. ‘I feel even more fortunate to be a woman, in a large group of women, who are helping pioneer the return to our true essence; that of living in a sacred relationship with self and in the sacredness of being a woman’ – I too feel very blessed to be a part of this.
It takes commitment to return from total lack of appreciation of the essence of womanhood to its full expression, and I too feel blessed to be part of it, to celebrate when I see the women in this group I am part of expressing their essence. I am blessed indeed to be part of it, and to have Natalie Benhayon as a role model.
Beautiful Gayle, I can feel the appreciation in all your words and as you, I am deeply inspired by the amazing woman Natalie Benhayon is. Natalie reflects true beauty, sexyness, playfulness, wisdom, sweetness, power, stillness…she lives it all to the nth degree for all women in this world.
My sentiments exactly Carolienbraakenburg, Natalie Benhayon is a truly amazing young woman and a true role model for women of all ages.
A beautiful post Gayle. I too have been “developing more self-love and more self-nurturing which has led to more self-esteem” – such a powerful yet simple way of living. And Natalie is awesome.
Beautiful, inspiring blog Gayle… I very much appreciated reading it! Thank you!
I agree Gayle Natalie Benhayon is an amazingly inspiring example of what it is to be in a truly sacred relationship with one’s self. She is grace and beauty personified.
Absolutely Gayle, I am deeply appreciative of the reflection Natalie Benhayon offers me and other women to know what it is to return to the true woman. Previous to knowing Natalie I had no true role model and my sense of being a woman was simply an ideal of a picture I had. I am reconnecting to the true woman and learning to express all the wisdom that is deep within and the innermost beauty I am here to share with others.
Before Natalie Benhayon and the presentations from Esoteric Women’s Health I had not even thought about what my relationship with myself was, and it is true what you say Marcia, Natalie is a role model of exceptional standing, and yet she would say “we are all equal and through relationship with self we develop ourselves into the amazing women we are”.
As you mentioned Heather and what you have shared here Mary is that indeed there is a revolution happening. I am inspired more and more by many women around me who are living and expressing the beauty-full woman that they are.
For most of my life I have not felt like a woman and did not accept that I was a woman. I felt more like a human being, functioning in life. Lately the woman in me has been awakened and this just feel awesome. I love being a woman, I accept being a woman and I even start to cherish that I am a woman. This all comes from inside and this is the most awesome part of it. It is an inside feeling and I live it from that place.
What a beautiful read this morning Gayle. this one I will read over and over. Natalie is such an inspiration for living in her sacredness as a woman as are you Gayle. Thank you
Natalie Benhayon is a remarkable woman who has taught me so much about life, others and myself. I would not be the woman I am today without her loving inspiration.
I lived most of my life as a tomboy, keeping people out from seeing my gorgeous femininity, my tenderness, my vulnerability and my unwavering love.
Through the work of Natalie Benhayon I have moments when I re-connect to the sacredness of me. It is a feeling that I am developing more of a relationship with, it feels like I am part of something very large, very grand, magnificent in fact. All within my body.
Sacredness is the way of our future as women, and we have only seen and felt the very beginning of Natalie Benhayon’s work inspiring women and humanity.
Yes, the quality of energy that you bring through when you are in stillness is so beautiful. Anything less, we would feel it straight away.
It is very beautiful to see the women I know around me taking this opportunity and change to come to the true women they are.
Me to Benkt.
My Wife is really ever deepening the things that Gayle is talking about here, and it is the most beautiful thing. It has a great impact on our relationship and it has inspired me to feel that we (Men) are equally as sacred and divine. The most wonderful gift I have had in this life is the opportunity to explore and understand that within myself. It has truly changed our lives.
Simplesimon888, this is such a beautiful comment. I can feel the appreciation for your wife and for yourself. I love ‘…it has inspired me to feel that we (Men) are equally as sacred and divine.’ Wow!
To feel how women are returning back to the sacredness they naturally are is simply amazing. As a man there is much to be in awe of here and yet as Simon has remarked, if we stop for just a second, as men we know that to be true for ourselves as well.
Beautiful to feel your appreciation of this Benkt.
I completely agree with you, Gayle. It is amazing to be here, part of an incredible group of women, pioneering our way back to being the women we naturally are.
Thank you Gayle. You capture what Natalie brings and reflects to the world so beautifully. When I first heard Natalie speak my heart sang and my whole being was saying ‘yes’ . Her depth of wisdom and love for humanIty in awe inspiring. I too feel honoured and hugely fortunate to be part of a group of women who are re-introducing the qualities of sacredness, stillness and preciousness to women’s lives and way of being once again after aeons of this connection being lost.
Thanks Gayle for giving some very real, everyday examples of how we can be in a sacred relationship with ourselves. I also have found the support of Natalie Benhayon extremely valuable as I have been developing my connection to stillness and my sacredness.
Thank you Gayle for this wonderful articulation of the joy of not just being in stillness, but to the rediscovery of the sacredness it is to be a woman. I too cannot show my deep appreciation enough to the inspiration of Natalie Benhayon and her presentations and livingness, which support women to reconnect to their true essence and the joys and trials that journey brings.
I love that there are so many comments of women (and men) talking about sacredness – about what it means to them and how they are living it. This is not a conversation you hear often enough. Your last quote really summed it up Gayle – “I feel even more fortunate to be a woman, in a large group of women, who are helping pioneer the return to our true essence; that of living in a sacred relationship with self and in the sacredness of being a woman”. Hear hear sister. I do too.
The sense of stillness I felt whilst reading this blog was palpable thank you Gayle.
Wow Gayle, beautiful. And the absolute love and reflection that Natalie shines is awesome to feel, and in honoring ourselves as the sacred beings that we truly are, is simply the most loving deepening we can all feel within.
Awesome Gayle. I feel so inspired after reading your blog. What I really felt as I was reading was the importance of committing to ‘the little things’ in every day – checking in, be it in the car, at work, cooking dinner – seeing where we are at. And not just checking in, but confirming ourselves and appreciating ourselves in those moments too. I could also feel that Natalie’s example is one of not holding back… and that expressing ourselves in full is most honouring of us as women.
‘As a woman, I’m learning to start with my stillness and anything I ‘do’ must come from that stillness.’ Thank you Gayle, it is a good reminder how much it matters to come from this stillness.
Thank you Gayle and so true. I love this … “As a woman, I’m learning to start with my stillness and anything I ‘do’ must come from that stillness”. I have been working on this also as inspired by Natalie Benhayon, and have come to feel that when I stop worrying about what I have to do and what I have just done I find myself in a place of absolute stillness that is priceless, as I can be quite busy doing what I need to do, but it is as if I am observing the doing; like I am actually sitting back watching it as it gets done. There is no exhaustion in this at all!
It’s great to read how simple practical everyday activities mentioned can lead to a sacred way of being. Having indulged in some spiritual practices I am aware how rare this is. In those practices, there are often rituals which are considered ‘special’ and that develop special qualities in people. In what is described above and in what I have experienced with Universal Medicine, every single practice is about bringing a quality to what we do in daily life. This has broken down the meaning of ritual for me, so that everyday routines can become sacred. So our sacredness, men and woman, can be practiced 24/7, which brings enormous power and self empowerment to our lives.
Loving it Gayle, it never fails to astound me the amount of things both Natalie and Simone Benhayon are involved in and the quality that they bring to everything they do so as to inspire many people to do the same
Thank you Gayle for writing this. What I love about your writing is your wide eyed open view and willingness to explore what it means to be you as a woman. There’s a beautiful tone of exploration in your writing.
Behind our flesh and bones lives our sacred self, a part of ourselves we have forgotten and something Natalie Benhayon demonstrates is well worth connecting with.
Thank you Gayle, for sharing your experience of the sacredness of a woman. I so love that this is something that we all hold and can easily connect to and can share with each other the experience of it and how it feels to re-learn how to live from this very ancient way of being. I too have found sacred movement an incredible way to connect to my sacredness and to be with other women in this just exquisite. Thank you Natalie Benhayon for being the living embodiment of a true woman and showing us all how it’s done.
Gayle, to live being sacred as a woman, reading you blog today I can feel the offering of you and Natalie, that it’s all about coming back to the stillness, the sacredness of who we are. I’m now aware of that, whereas for years I had no idea how to be a woman let alone the idea of sacredness and now I feel there is greater depth to be explored in how to live that sacredness out there in the world. Thank you for sharing and bringing focus to this for us all.
Very beautiful Gayle, I love what you expressed about how Natalie Benhayon is a true role model and inspiring you to be the true you, as she does to actually everyone who knows her.
Gayle it is a great confirmation of what an inspiration a true role model such as Natalie Benhayon brings to humanity. As you have shared she has supported and inspired many thousands of people to re-connect to the truth of who they are and that is only just the start of things. As men, such as myself and many of those that I know, are also supported with the love and steadiness Natalie lives by.
As I neared the end of this sharing Gayle, I saw your lovely photo and immediately felt a joy and warmth. There you are obviously a good deal older than Natalie Benhayon, and yet your appreciation of her and her influence on you as a woman was absolutely without mention of any age difference. When we make our lives about what is true, and experience this in anyone, we are ageless and your writing reminded me of this.
So true Bernadetteglass, wisdom can come at any age – it is a lived wisdom that just shines through.
A great sharing, Gayle, of your experience of coming back to the sacred beautiful lwoman that you are, with Natalie Benhayon as a role model. Natalie has also inspired me to the journey of discovery of myself as a woman. I spent most of my life in the doing, largely to cover up a huge emptiness. Slowly, slowly, coming back to that wonderful feeling of stillness in my body, slip into the doing again as my head takes over again, but the stillness is building as I become more and more aware of the distractions. Very much a work in progress.
I love what you expressed in this blog Gayle. It is a great reminder to keep connecting to the stillness and to commit to retain that sense of sacredness throughout the day.
I am inspired by Natalie Benhayons presentations, she is a gorgeous and amazing young woman.
‘The sacredness of being a woman’, (as a woman) there is no better place to be. Connecting to that stillness, to be met by your own essence, is impossible to have as a once only celebration as there is no greater call than the depth of that connection. One well worth building.
Thank you Gayle for sharing the amazingness of Natalie Benhayon. She supports and inspires many women to be able to live a life of the same quality she does as a woman, and the following is a great reminder – thank you. “It isn’t just about being with myself, or being present or being fully present or being consciously present. It is about being all those things – as a woman”.
Thank you Gail, your blog is inspiring and an invitation to connect to that sacred stillness we have in all of us.
‘Learning to start with stillness and that anything I do must come from that place’ – a great reminder as I begin my day. Life flows so much more easily when I stay connected with myself.
Gayle you have most beautifully expressed the stillness you write of, within your writing. Just by reading this I can allow myself that stillness.
Being at work I feel I can have the support of you, and all the women who are committed to living this stillness, knowing that, ‘If I am not coming from stillness first I have left my true essence and entered into the male essence of action.’
I have started a 6 week program and my focus is on my stillness as a woman and there is no coincidence that I chose this blog. I really loved hearing what another person does to stop and check in on their stillness. I am in school so my check points are a bit different but when I listen to other people I release that everything I do is a check up on my connection to my stillness. For example as I am writing this comment I noticed that my knees started to rise and legs where tensing, this was telling me that I have resistance to returning to my stillness and this is not a bad thing its just a reminder. So thank you Gayle as I will know go on to my day with a much deeper awareness of all the reflections my body gives me to come back to my stillness.
I have started a 6 week program and my focus is on my stillness as a woman and there is no coincidence that I chose this blog. I really loved hearing what another people do to stop and check in on their stillness. I am in school so my check points are a bit different but when I listen to other peoples, I realise that everything I do is a check up on my connection to my stillness. For example as I am writing this comment I noticed that my knees started to rise and legs where tensing, this was telling me that I have resistance to returning to my stillness and this is not a bad thing its just a reminder. So thank you Gayle as I will now go on to my day with a much deeper awareness of all the reflections my body gives me to come back to my stillness.
Thanks for reminding us Gayle, that the sacred relationship with self that is available for all, is a truly beautiful thing.
What you have shared is very beautiful Gayle and one could say transgender. For as a man there is much in there for me too to behold and take forth into my living awareness… every moment of every day.
To be shown and to feel sacredness changed my life. Sacredness expanded my awareness beyond just me – feeling others in the same energy all around me in the room was a revelation to my feelings and awareness. It was a great support to be able to surrender to this and be held in this space. To know this was possible changed me instantly. I had a new perspective of life. I had purpose again.
Wow Rick, this is truly inspiring. Something which is worth to take myself deeper towards and surrender to in full.
I too “have been learning about and developing more self-love and more self-nurturing which has led to more self-esteem” for the past few years, inspired by Natalie and Simone Benhayon and Sara Williams also. These amazing woman walk their talk – busy active women who emanate stillness and the feminine – yet not in stressful male ‘doing’ energy that is so familiar to me. Their lives are dedicated to service and not to self – true role models for women everywhere today.
Yes, I absolutely agree sueq2012. I feel very fortunate to have come across Natalie and Simone Benhayon and Sara Williams who continually inspire me to live as a true woman.
I have learnt so much from Natalie Benhayon and she never fails to inspire me year after year. She among others have been a true role model of what it means to live as a women in this overly busy world we live in.
Thank you Gayle, your blog very powerfully expresses the amazingness of Natalie Benhayon, a women for whom many, including me, can say has been the strongest leading inspiration for what it means to live truly full and true to ourselves as women. She has in fact redefined what it means to be true, in a world that is becoming anything but. In that sense she is responsible for a women’s revolution there is no question… and yes her reflection brings up an enormous amount for each of us choosing not to be in the fullness of our own expression… ouch, but bring it on. Otherwise we continue to live in the misery of contraction, inadequacy and disempowerment and life goes on same, same, as it has for eons!
Thanks Gayle a great reminder of my responsibility to myself – this is perfect timing for me to reflect on your words and practice in my work place in particular.
I couldn’t agree more Gayle. Natalie Benhayon is a true inspiration and a true role model for woman of all ages. I am so grateful to have her guidance along with the many other women who also inspire me daily.
Daily inspiration 🙂
What you wrote came with immense power and inspiration thanks Gayle.
I love this Gayle, such a profound blog and the sense of stillness is palpable. What I am aware of more and more is in stillness not often much is actually needed in the sense of quantity, (e.g do, do, do) it is much more about the quality I am in, whereas in anxiousness there is a constant buzz of needing to do, say or think things and be on the move all day, which is exhausting and draining in itself. I find I am much more productive, clear and not as reactive to life when I am in stillness ( that doesn’t mean I am lying down all day not moving) but simply I am with me, moving through one thing at a time.
I have noticed lately how I automatically choose that nervous energy when I am in a busy environment and how that exhausts me and if I keep going in that by the end of the day I feel l edgy and I come home and overeat to dull the feeling.
What a beautiful blog, Gayle. So many truths about Natalie Benhayon. What a wonderful role model she is for women and girls. I can relate to what you say about nervous energy interfering with stillness as I have the same problem. Thank you for reminding me – I’ll work harder on that issue.
Natalie Benhayon has been a role model for me for the last 6 years or so… an absolute blessing to have a woman in our lives that reflects back to us how to live the sacredness we naturally all are … Thank you.
So true Gayle. Spending time with Natalie Benhayon is such a joy. I find myself giving more and more permission for the true woman to come out. The reflection she provides is forever reminding me that ‘wow, there is even more’… even more beauty, love, joy, sexiness, playfulness, celebration and wisdom. Natalie role models everything I have always known deep down to be true.
I agree Kylie. Natalie Benhayon is my forever inspiration. She is the most amazing, living, breathing role model any woman could have!
Yes I completely agree with you Kylie – Natalie does model what I know deep down to be true. Thank you for the reminder Gayle of our sacredness as women and the importance of connecting to quality first and then action second. I love that quality of stillness – it is so spacious unlike it’s poor cousin, anxiety & action where I can feel such lack of space and such pressure.
Love it Gayle! You have worded it so well – the utter simplicity of the task is absolutely exposed: just step back, stop the doing, breath (as the sacred woman) and move on from there. I love the feeling of being with myself in stillness and moving into the day with this as a foundation – however, I often do find myself in the doing and forgetting the being, let alone the being as a woman! But I too feel so inspired by Natalie Benhayon’s presentations (and of course her as a person), who shows us that this can indeed be done, beautifully so – and so I see myself in a sort of ‘training ground’ where I get to practice this as many times as needed, no perfection here being asked for, just a commitment to keep working on this. Thanks for your inspiration too Gayle – having read this article is just another gentle yet oh so powerful reminder and reflection to keep at it.
I too love that feeling of being in stillness and simply knowing, moving and living the day from there – it is divine.
Well said Henrietta in response to Gayle’s reflections. I also loved what Gayle said about returning ‘to our true essence; that of living in a sacred relationship with self and in the sacredness of being a woman.’ This is language that we just don’t hear out there in the fogged up world of image making of women to please the popular trends or to keep women disempowered. Bring back normalising our sacredness ~ more practice and inspiration of women like Natalie and Miranda Benhayon and more…
Thank you for your sharing Gayle…the stillness you talk of can so easily be felt in your article. And yes, we are so very fortunate to have role models like Natalie Benhayon who consistently and so lovingly presents what it is to be a true woman.
Hi Gayle, before Natalie came to reflect the joy and stillness of living as a true woman there were very few reflections like this. Natalie embodies all that we as women can live and reflect and I too thank the heavens for sending her to be amongst us. Living as a woman is definitely a work in progress and thank you for your blog which serves to reflect the living stillness we can be.
Yes thank God we have now role models, cause otherwise it would be just a concept, but as you say, thanks to women like Natalie, “we know how it looks like, and how it feels like” to do things from stillness, to come from that sacred place inside.
Beautiful to reread this Gayle it is amazing to have Natalie and all the women who have committed to putting connection to the sacred essence within as a marker as role models, it is nothing short of miraculous when we see women becoming more and more beautiful year on year. The best beauty balm ever!
Gayle, I am back revisiting your blog as I can really feel and appreciate your understanding and openness with regards to your sacredness, I find it very inspiring.
Gayle, I love the innocence and humbleness with which you share your experience of Natalie Benhayon’s presentation and your journey to reclaim your self as a woman and your sacredness.
Sacredness is the true essence of a woman and all women have it within them, even if they have lived a life so far from this quality that they don’t know that it exists within them.
This sacredness you speak of is definitely something we could all do with a lot more of.
Hello Gayle, what in inspirational sharing on Natalie’s Sacred relationship with self. Being a male I can relate to this. The majority of my friends are females and they all have an open-ness about how they go about their daily lives. I learn from them every day and this gives me a better understanding of how to connect with not just them but all the people I connect to in everyday living.
Gayle no wonder you are inspired by Natalie Benhayon, she conducts herself with impeccable grace. If anyone is qualified to talk about a sacred relationship with self its Natalie.
When Natalie first presented about Sacredness it was just a word for me. I didn’t have a real identifiable feeling in my body of what sacredness with myself felt like. I didn’t even know you could have a warmth in your uterus or your Breasts as your expression and relationship with yourself as a woman comes alive. This I absolutely know now and like you Gayle I feel like I am a forever student of what it means to have a sacred relationship with myself as a woman.
Thank you for taking the time to write this blog.
Learning to connect with myself, developing this sacred relationship with myself has given me much more awareness of my body and my thoughts and allows me to be more present with what I am doing, similar to you Gayle. This gives my body space to feel less tension, and more tenderness, more connection with my real self as opposed to that crazy lady (me) who runs around doing everything for everyone till I fall into bed pooped. This relationship with myself is building and growing, and my vitality is coming along with it.
A beautiful written article Gayle, which just by reading has brought me more to myself and a still feeling inside, thank you.
It had some amazing pointers of connecting to that place inside, and then doing what every activity needs to be done.
Thank you Gayle for sharing this. I feel that our relationship with ourself is the most important relationship we have. It is from this relationship that we go out to the world in our other relationships. If we don’t have love in our relationship with self then we can’t truly have love with another.
Awesome Gayle, thank you for your detail in exploring this here.
As the day progresses I can lose my connection and the nervous energy creeps in.
Then I find myself seeking foods that will keep me in that nervous energy.
I am learning that this is my cue to stop and be still, to reconnect to my stillness and not use food or drinks to pick me up. When I take responsibility for this, it is truly amazing to feel how full – of me – I then feel.
Thank you Natalie Benhayon, for paving the way. I am deeply inspired by you and all the Benhayon women, feeling your grace and true power.
Natalie Benhayon is truly pioneering another way to be as a woman – she is an awesome & beautiful reflection. I too am in deep appreciation of what she is offering to all other woman.
My connection with me is deepening and becoming more loving & I am starting to feel the preciousness as a woman, from my stillness.
Beautiful reflections on sacredness – thank you Gayle.
Gayle, thank you, I love your blog and fully relate to what you say. I was also a late bloomer “in the sense of realising what my true expression as a woman means for me”. When I first met Serge Benhayon and then subsequently Natalie Benhayon and gradually started to make different choices, I learned to be more with myself. This lead to being more fully present in everything I do in all my daily activities. Like you, after attending presentations by Natalie Benhayon I also realised that my true expression as a women is not just these things – “It is about being all those things – as a woman” and it forever deepens.
Hi gayle, Thank you for sharing this piece of writing. I get a sense that Natalie is pionerring what it is to be a true women in our society. It is a true blessing to be able to have such a wonderful woman that has a true care, and depth of sacredness and stillness present and reflect that way to all other women that attend her presentations.
Love the simplicity and truth felt in your blog Gayle!
I too have been so inspired by Natalie Benhayon and very appreciative of what she offers to us as woman.
Learning to reconnect to my own sacredness as a woman is a wonderful, and joyous work in progress.
At the start of the article there is this powerful statement ” The apprehension had to do with not being confident about ‘how to be a woman”. I can totally relate to this – it’s like I’ve got an idea of what ‘being a woman’ means – like a list that I need to meet. And when I start to feel more myself I reject myself, because it doesn’t fit the list. Totally Crazy, we are all unique and now as inspired by Natalie Benhayon and Universal Medicine I can feel my power in my uniqueness.
A truly lovely article.
Thanks for this article Gayle, the sacredness you are living comes through and it inspires me to live more stillness in my day. Your observation about nervous energy is spot on.
Just Beauty-full Gayle Cue. What joy to read about one women truly appreciating and celebrating another woman and in that equally celebrating and appreciating every other woman including herself. We need so much more of this, thank you Gayle.
Thank you Gayle for sharing, the part which stood out for me today was the detail in which you described how you do everyday tasks. This is a great reminder to be present and not let busyness take over.
Sacred movement was a most pivotal turning for me personally and I thank you Gayle for writing this blog to celebrate your own journey of returning to sacredness. The power and the beauty that the movement helps reveal is truly awesome for all women and men alike.
Thanks Gayle, today I realized that I had been avoiding reading your blog for some time and felt it was time I found out why. I found reading your blog has called me to step up and become more aware of my sacredness. I could feel the marker in myself of my sacredness. I felt how being with myself was a slightly different feeling from sacredness. Thank you for sharing, it was a blog a needed to read.
Hi Gayle, Yes Natalie is indeed a wonderful example to all women of all ages. I feel very lucky as you also mentioned that I am able to attend in person the presentations that Universal Medicine shares with us. The Woman’s Sacred Movement is absolutely gorgeous or at least that is how I feel when I have taken part in a class. A feeling of oneness with all who participate carries on out into the World with me.
Thank you for the lovely blog.
When starting to attend the Universal Medicine courses and opening up for a totally new view of myself, the biggest lesson to accept has been that the hardest thing for me was to be with myself and to be in stillness.
Realising that felt like standing in front of a huge mountain with no path leading upwards towards a pass. It took some time to realize that I did not need a trodden path but could simply walk ahead and be inspired and be free to walk whereever this way may lead. There is no path visible, because everything is the path :o)
Being with myself is so precious.
Thank You Gayle for your article
Thank you Gayle, your photograph reflects the loveliness that you have connected to in your deepening relationship with your sacred self. Like Natalie Benhayon, you too are inspiring!
Thank you Gayle for your insight into your “sacred relationship with self”. While I am not a woman I understand what you are saying. I have many women in my life and appreciate the ‘anchor’ they bring at times. This is not saying I am weighed down by them but more saying there is a place they hold that is really still, it can hold you, the house and many other things and give a reflection when things go a little off. It is a feeling that ‘calls’ you home in a way, not imposing but more an asking and gives a really warm feeling. It’s lovely that you are developing this for us all Gayle.
Natalie Benhayon does all those things but it is the quality that always strikes me. There is such a grace with Natalie and a presence. As a man she doesn’t ask anything of me, just allows me to be the man I am and that is a beautiful thing.
Agree Ray.
Such a deeply appreciating comment truly honouring women in their innate quality. Thank you Ray!
Natalie Benhayon is indeed completely beautiful. The love that she shows for herself oozes out of her in every move and every word. Her quality is one of tenderness and also a deep confidence that comes from the authority of knowing herself so well. She is wise beyond her years and is not afraid to share and live what she knows. She is an awesome reflection for all women. We can choose to be jealous or we can choose to be inspired. I choose the latter.
I absolutely love reading your blog Gayle and I feel a deeper appreciation for the stillness within, and a deeper commitment to keep connecting back to that throughout the day.
Gayle thank you for sharing your experience of what is means to have a sacred relationship with yourself. I loved the practical examples as it so easy to get caught up in all the doing instead of just feeling our bodies first. I too have been deeply inspired by Natalie Benhayon and other women like you who are forging the way for what is means to live as a true woman.
Natalie Benhayon’s presentations on women’s sacred relationship with self are revolutionary. Previously I had searched far and wide and I knew I was seeking connection – but to what? Natalie presents practical ways to re-connect to the divine inner beauty held innately within every women. It includes firstly her outstanding connection to herself which is obvious to everyone who meets her, right through to gently movements of the body that help us get back in touch with our deep inner sacredness. Purely gorgeous. Thank you for sharing your experience Gayle.
Natalie Benhayon truly is a perfect reflection of stillness and sacredness and she inspires me everyday to live more and more from my very own sacredness. Thank you Natalie.
While reading your blog Gayle, I have really felt the sacredness of being a woman in connection with all women. It’s lovely.
“I feel even more fortunate to be a woman, in a large group of women, who are helping pioneer the return to our true essence; that of living in a sacred relationship with self and in the sacredness of being a woman”. I feel the same Gayle. We are in the midst of a new Women’s revolution.
This was the perfect blog for me to read this morning – I can definitely relate to nervous energy and rushing taking me way off course! It’s like I think I’m more productive if I’m thinking about a few things, and doing things quickly at the same time. More and more I’m realising, when that stillness is allowed to just be – everything that needs to get done is done, and there’s no anxiety about it. Thank you Gayle.
I can so relate Amelia, it takes me a lot of consciously choosing to move differently to actually counter the automatic drive of wanting to do more and thinking I can achieve this by rushing or getting ahead of myself. It so does not work. So thank you Gayle for this inspiring blog about Natalie Benhayon, who is an amazing woman and role models how to live from our sacredness.
I found this presentation delivered by Natalie to be huge, so huge i had to shed a few tears. I was touched deeply by what she presented and how she shared about her relationship with herself. I could feel how I have not allowed myself to develop a deep understanding and presence with myself. this is something I commit to changing.
To keep choosing moments to cherish our connection to that inner stillness is a very loving discipline, and I have just made a fresh start with that again after re-reading your blog, thank you Gayle. You are walking the talk!
My biggest distraction to stillness is also nervous energy Gail. Through the reflection and dedication to love from Natalie Benhayon I have learnt that all I have to do is stop, reconnect and from there move forward. My sacred relationship with myself is an ongoing love affair with myself and one I feel so very fortunate to have.
This is absolutely gorgeous Gayle, I can feel the claiming back of your beautiful essence and by living it with yourself it then radiates with everyone.
I so relate to what you share Gayle, even as a man. For some time I have noticed how much of my day is run on nervousness. Recently there has been a deep surrender in me to what the day is to bring, and this has enabled me to get through the day without the tension. I am more relaxed, seem to have time on my hands to smell the roses. It has been so much more enjoyable, yet strangely enough – more productive as well.
I love the reflection you have offered on this Adam – about running on nervous energy but allowing ourselves the opportunity to more deeply surrender. For me, this is confirmed when I connect more to my body and stay as present as I can in every moment.
You are a sacred inspiration Gayle, that’s for sure. Thank you for the ripple effect of your attendance at the presentation by Natalie Benhayon on “A Sacred Relationship with Self.”
I love your little, yet profound checks points in the car and also during the day to which you bring awareness back to yourself. Stillness is the key.
I am so enjoying reconnecting to ME and learning to appreciate how awesome I am already. What was I thinking, to feel that the media, other people who have never met me, even those that had, knew more about how I should be in this world than me. Crazy.
You can definitely feel the sacredness of a women when they are being them, it’s like nothing untoward can touch them. There is a strength and a delicate beauty. Thank you for the hint about nervous energy and thinking about what your going to do before it is time to do it. That’s a tricky one. And the ways to keep yourself in the car whilst driving !
thank you Gayle, I love what you share here. I can feel how what is offered is so much more then just being present and through reading your blog I am reminded how our basis as a women is the stillness.
I loved this blog Gayle. I will definitely be returning to read it again. We may all be “a work in progress” but how glad I am that I am on the path and not completely oblivious of myself as I was before I met Natalie Benhayon.
Words cannot express how fortunate I feel to have Natalie Benhayon as a role model in my life. I have come from being a ‘functional person’ who took on the roles of a woman, to actually appreciating and enjoying being a woman. I have also come to know and remember that feeling of sacredness which would not have seemed possible 10 years ago. The connection to sacredness is a constant discovery and reclaiming of the power within me.
“As a woman, I’m learning to start with my stillness and anything I ‘do’ must come from that stillness.” Yes, and I am finding Esoteric Yoga a powerful way to reconnect with my stillness and then take that into my day – a ‘work in progress’ as they say.
Gayle, thank you for sharing your experience and developing awareness of creating a deeper, sacred, relationship with yourself. Reading this blog I can feel the quality that this relationship with self brings to all you do and all other relationships you have. Thank you for the inspiration and yes, thank you Natalie Benhayon.
Thank you Gayle for teaching and reminding that all women can live in their sacredness.
Lovely Gayle that you have reminded us to “stop, feel and connect” before we go into action. I too am inspired by Natalie to be in conscious presence and then to present that confidence to the world. I love how she has shown us a way to enjoy our make up and nail polish and to lovingly choose what we wear and to not hold back our beauty.
This is awesome Gail, thank you for this great and timely reminder to connect to the beautiful and sacred stillness that is always in me just waiting to be accessed. I love how you have brought this back to simplicity and shared this sacredness which Natalie is reflecting to us.
What stood out for me was the question I sometimes still have about “how to be a woman” and realise that I am still looking outside myself to get a prototype that I can copy to “get right”. More and more however I am realising that being with me is “right” that I am not wrong and the way I express myself also has its place in the world.
Gayle your writing is great because it feels like you are asking me the question, when I am being present? and how much of my sacredness do I bring to my life? I feel I have some way to go to living my sacredness but it’s lovely to actually be asked and to reflect on.
I love the value and honouring you have developed for yourself Gayle. If every person did that we would have an entirely transformed world.
Each time I read these blogs I am reminded to slow down and be more present, I have made the commitment to continue reading..so I feel the next step is making the commitment to continue deepening the relationship with myself..
Thank you Gayle- just gorgeous. I had a few laughs at the ridiculousness of what we do when we are not in our stillness, “lost the plot” and “Connect (or grab) the kettle”. Natalie is just sacredness embodied…inspiring us all of the time. She is solid and consistent- How fortunate are we to have this reflection and what a joy to help “pioneer the return to our true essence“.
Thank you Gayle for a great blog. I too have been doing the Sacred Movement and I am so pleased Natalie Benhayon instigated these amazing classes for women of all ages It is enjoyable and I feel connected to the people who go along too and also much more connected to self. I am an anxious person at times and not always sure of who I am and quite often I do lose my connection to self but it is easier to connect back again after one of these classes as I feel so lovely inside and out.
Very timely Gayle to read your article, just as I was about to rush into the day. I stopped, connected to self and realised the rushiness was coming from an anxiety stemming from an inability to control an event that occurred yesterday. In that connection I was able to go deeper and recognise this anxiety pattern, I now have choices, and feel the anxiety is not ruling today. I love your quote “knowing there is no right or wrong if I am in activity with my sacred self”. I too feel fortunate to have Natalie as a role model and to be part of this “large group of women pioneering the return to our true essence”.
Thank you again Gayle, I (like many others here) love coming back to this blog and reconnecting with what you say. Today I felt appreciation for myself actually being part of something so old and revolutionary, coming back to our sacred essence as women and reflecting this to a world stuck in a merry-go-round of disregard and denial.
I can feel as I sit here that the way I dressed and choice of my clothes was not in full support or expressed through sacredness. I too attend the sacred movement classes and find it extremely challenging to be aware of my sacredness outside the group. I can feel the dedication in what you write and the simplicity of what it takes to come home to ourselves and connect with our innate delightful selves. I just complicate things to make it challenging. Woah!
Natalie Benhayon certainly is very inspirational to us all as a woman in livingness, and brings a huge love and care to herself and humanity, where ever she goes. Thanks Gayle for sharing the sacredness.
Thank you Gayle. I was drawn to your blog this morning as I attended a webcast by Natalie last night, all about ‘my connection with myself, as a woman’. I realise that I have indeed become rather stuck in the ‘doing’ and not feeling first, how my body feels on the inside and coming from that place in what I do. It sounds like that’s not so hard, but it is. So, I come back to my choices and as this day begins, I am committing to myself to work on this to the best of my ability.
I love that cheeky question Gayle “how many of us retain that sense of sacredness as we put on our boots, gather our bags and scarves and head out the door?” It really captures the contrast between what Natalie presents in her day to day and how we so often willingly forget ourselves and leave sacredness in the next room so to speak.
Absolutely Rosanna, I find myself leaving sacredness in the Sacred Movement class. This is not the intention, it’s about building on what I’ve felt in this intimate hour class in my week so when I return there is a new layer to be discovered felt and unfolded. If I am not feeling and expressing from my sacredness in my days I lose the chance to build on what I feel. Feeling more dedicated to being this, after reading this blog again.
Great read Gayle. Driving is a great gauge of how present we are. My marker for working out if I am present when driving is if I remember to put my seatbelt on before I put the car in gear. I often start the driving before I put my seatbelt on and this tells me I have started moving before I was actually ready. Its taken me quite a bit of work to consistently remember to put my seatbelt on before I put the car in gear, but I’m getting there!
In the 6 years I have known Natalie, the inspiration she offers just keeps on growing. I am always blown away by the truth and love that she presents and the love that she holds all in equally so is beautiful to feel. She truly is an amazing woman, a true role model for us all.
Before re-visiting this blog Gayle, I’ve just been reading the blog about quality and integrity and self-worth at work, and it reminds me of something amazing that Natalie Benhayon presented a few years ago. She spoke of being all of herself at work, no matter what anyone else was or wasn’t doing. I went right after that and began to try it out, with awesome results. Can you imagine, people singing quietly to themselves in the office, smiling at each other, cleaning up their long-standing mess, a sense of calm and presence, all without anyone having said anything. Just being me in my presence. That was a turning point in my life as a worker and as a woman. Thanks Natalie!
I love this Dianne, just what I needed to hear before another day in the office! ”no matter what anyone else was or wasn’t doing”, this is GOLD. My workplace is so interactive full of drama and gossip that I easily but reluctantly get sucked into the vortex, which goes onto become judgement, resentment and just annoying. Today I will make the choice to be ALL of myself (playful, joyful, lovely, gorgeous me!) and not worry what anyone else is choosing to be. I will see the vortex for what it is rather then being swallowed.
That’s sounds like a challenge just made for me Rachel, a whole day at work or at home focusing on staying with me and not worrying what others are choosing. That does not mean not feeling what is going on in life fully but staying with that essence of stillness.
Thank you Gayle for sharing with us all and reminding us of our own sacredness as women. I realise I do often go into automatic pilot and how then I loose myself in my thoughts of what has not happened yet. The times I do stay consciously present I find a steadiness and stillness that carries me through each moment without the anxiousness in my body.
Thank you Gayle beautiful reminder to honour the quality of stillness and sacredness I bring as a women and not to get lost in doing and function mode often through nervous energy.
I love this Gayle. Natalie is a true inspiration and to be jeolous or go into comparison shows how much she is truly reflecting that we are choosing not be already be living ourselves.
What a beautiful and honest account you present here Gayle. Thank you, it’s truly inspiring and gives me much to reflect on.
I love this article, thank you Gayle. You say….. ‘It isn’t just about being with myself, or being present or being fully present or being consciously present. It is about being all those things – as a woman.’
This Gayle is truly an amazing revelation. As a woman I have the choice of ‘being’ in stillness, and from this sacred place all that I do and express has a quality about it that can be felt, not only by myself, but felt by all.
Developing this sacred relationship with myself and my own body is supporting me in living my life as the beautiful woman I am. I feel blessed to be re-connected with this sacred core of my being and in many ways this relationship has only just begun.
I enjoyed reading this blog and agree with Gayle, Natalie Benhayon is a real inspiration for women and men alike, she embodies true beauty, stillness and equality with everyone she meets, Amazing!
Thank you Gayle. Even considering that we have a sacred self we can connect to is a huge shift for women. But in considering this, it’s easy to feel that it’s naturally there. Underneath the business and the nervous energy we can find ourselves in, is a depth and a flow that feels exquisite in the body and it’s our choice to connect to it or not. Having spent many years focusing on achieving things and being successful, I can now feel that if I go into any of that old pushing or driving myself to get things done, it is such a drain on my body, that I have to let it go…..and why would I want to when there is something so gorgeous to connect to, readily available, in my own body. Natalie Benhayon is an awesome reflection of a woman who achieves many amazing things in a day but does not work in a way that is pushing, driving or draining on her body. The fact that we can choose to live like this is blessing and brings a revolution in women’s health. That is no small thing. It’s something to embrace and celebrate!
Wow, if we are all that sacred then it is not only about honouring our own sacredness that is important but also honouring each other’s. How often would we do that in our connections and interactions throughout our day? Takes respect and care to a whole new level. Thanks Gayle.
The ‘more’ you speak of Gayle, in relation to sacredness is to feel not just our essence, & to be present but to let people in and feel the universality of sacredness, that we are all connected and express this in very moment. In a recent women’s group we discussed what it means to be sacred, Natalie Benhayon was with us and encouraged us to go deeper. We explored how the meaning of sacredness had been twisted away from its true meaning…it is not something that is hidden, or only available to some special people, untouchable etc. but a connection to the all and to be shared equally with all. I totally agree Gayle, Natalie is an inspiration for all.
Natalie Benhayon offers a steady point of reflection and inspiration – through her consistency and support I have developed a deeper connection to myself as a woman, and to the other women in my life. I now have a much greater love and deep respect for myself.
You write with such depth here, Gayle, with such simplicity and clarity. There is true beauty in how Natalie Benhayon is in the world, and I agree, she is an inspiration for all women and men. I too feel “…fortunate to be a woman, in a large group of women, who are helping pioneer the return to our true essence; that of living in a sacred relationship with self and in the sacredness of being a woman.” and though we are definitely here in this present time and place I am finding your words are touching something so ancient and sacred within me that is being brought through once again.
“being fully present and connected with yourself…” beautiful and so simple, when we choose to live this way life simply just is, there’s a feeling of contentment and joy.
Thank you Gayle, for such a great blog. I also find that nervous energy is my biggest distraction from finding Stillness. Yes, it has improved a lot, but is still very much a work in progress.
Dear Beverley, I think we have all been working on this, by the relationship that is possible with self is so worth it!
Much love
Felicity
Gayle what you have shared is profound. The words ‘the sacredness of being a woman’ are simple and yet when I feel into them there is a feeling of an enchanted chasm that starts to reveal itself, one that I do know but have long since forgotten. I relish the opportunity of being reminded.
Natalie Benhayon is an inspiration and she works tirelessly to support those around her. A beautiful blog Gail. Thank you.
A celebration of family! Thanks Gayle!
Discovering within myself that there is a way to be with this sacredness throughout daily life is turning out to be a massively important and fundamental learning journey that I am actually on with myself. Even though there are these amazing women like Gayle Cue and Natalie Benhayon who act as inspirational role models along the way, the basic and simple truth is that all the work of connecting to who I truly am and expressing this is actually and fully my responsibility.
Hi Gayle, I love the easy and succinctness of your article. I totally agree that Natalie is a true role model for all women and her presence with herself in all that she does is truly inspiring.
Great blog. Natalie Benhayon is an ongoing inspiration for me, too. It´s amazing how much she can do and be still at the same time. It´s an absolute fascinating quality – a quality that you can feel in all that she does. Since I listen to Natalie’s presentations I am able to increase my conscious presence in all that I do. And I have come a long way. I can relate to what you share: “For me, the biggest distraction to my stillness is nervous energy. If I am anxious or worrying there is a ‘busyness’ in me that disrupts my inner stillness. If I am thinking about things I have to do, and it is not yet time to do these things, this also creates a ‘sense of work or activity’ that is not real or productive.” Due to my choice to be more present and to focus on the things that I do in that moment I am much more productive, less stressed and no more exhausted although I sleep less and work more than before. 🙂
I also relate to nervous energy being the biggest distraction to my stillness. Very much still a work in progress.
It is such a joy to come back to this blog. What is being presented here is absolute GOLD. If we are not in connection with our bodies we are not in connection with ourselves as women – it is that simple. It is our body that we express with is it not? Then to express when in connection with our body is to express as a woman.
So true Rebecca!
So true Rebecca, I loved re reading this blog and feeling Gayle’s growing appreciation of herself as a woman. Both Natalie and Gayle are inspirations for all women and men. How blessed are we to be sharing these reflections with each other?
I love reading this blog – the sense I get of the sacredness is so profound. I have learned that it is so much about how I feel in my body, deeply feel, instead of what I do that makes me feel the cuteness of the woman I am.
I love your words, ‘pioneering a return to our true essence’. And yes it does take time, patience, love and care. I know in my inner most being that it is the best thing I have ever undertaken. Thank-you Gayle for sharing your sacredness.
What I can feel more so than anything is how important it is to have a deep connection and relationship with ourselves, not the things we do or comparing ourselves to anyone one else, but to deeply live from our own truth.
Great blog Gayle there is no denying Natalie Benhayon is totally amazing and an inspiration to both men and women.
Thank you Gayle, as I read your blog I allowed myself to surrender and re-connect to the stillness in me.
Gayle, your article is very inspirational and reflective. It shows the importance of us being present to our stillness and sacredness every moment of our day. And thank you for sharing that it is never too late and there is no right and wrong, just practice.
I agree Elena.
I agreee, Gayle, Natalie is a great role model. By being in her presence or connecting with her I learn so much about what is true in me and where I stick to roles as a woman. She is deeply living truth, joy and true sexyness and from her I learn the preciousness of me as a woman.
Natalie is forever inspiring me to go deeper because of her absolute commitment to express the woman she is.
Thank You Gayle for this beautiful blog and in inspiring me to reflect and appreciate.
Coming back to this blog has confirmed what I had been wondering about today. If everything I do or say or think does not have that sense of “you are already enough just as you are” then all and everything I do comes from a place of “you are not enough and must do x,y,z to be and reach that point of ‘Amazing, sacred, a true woman'”. I am starting to learn about my relationship with myself, excited with a curiosity I have not felt since I was young. Bring it on I say.
I needed that reminder today Mary, as this morning I ‘dropped the ball’. I find it so amazing that I always seem to choose a blog that speaks to me about what is going on in my life right now, and what Gayle has written has reminded be to be still. Thank you
Thank you Gail a timely read, and a reminder to connect to the sacred self as a choice in every moment. When I take the time to be with what I am doing when I am doing it, as you so aptly describe, it brings a greater connection to me. For me, this has become a sacred relationship with self and an integral part that brings me to a brotherhood with the rest of humanity.
Thankyou Gayle your blog was a gorgeous confirmation of the sacredness held in us all. I felt connected to everything you wrote just as if we were walking together 🙂
What a lovely reminder. As I was reading the article I became aware of how I was sitting, as now, how I am typing. What a difference the quality of a single fingertip can be in typing. Yes, wherever we are and whoever we are with, the first and foremost question is, are we with ourselves, and if so, how is that quality? For me this is also a daily checkin and then stop moments during the day to truely feel my body.
Connecting to the vast and deeply nurturing stillness within me – to the sacredness that is innately who I am as a woman – is unfolding a powerful love affair with myself greater than I might have imagined possible before being inspired by Natalie Benhayon and all of the many amazing women on the same unfolding path.
Natalie Benhayon is leading the world in sharing a way of living as a woman that turns every ideal we have been sold on its head, and this can be stated with not one ounce of exaggeration.
This young woman (half my age) constantly astounds me with the profoundness of her insight and understanding.
Her source of her wisdom (for that it is) is the sacredness she lives in every part of her life. She shares the insights she develops through her living way with women, without reserve. Natalie holds nothing back, no little secrets, no keeping the amazing to herself. It flows from her and ignites the inspiration to live the same in all of us, women and men.
What I love about Natalie (although it challenges me at times) is that she looks straight into my heart with her infinitely deep and steady eyes, and she sees my sacredness, equal in all ways to hers.
The only difference between us? She lives hers to the brim.
Ever inspired by her I am developing my relationship with my sacredness, letting go of the anxiousness, the struggle, the pushing, and the beliefs that I am not worthy.
Thank you Gayle, beautiful woman you are, for celebrating Natalie and sharing all she is for you, with the world.
Reading your blog, Gayle, convinces me that we are, or rather have all been women and men. I feel that the sacredness of being a woman is something we all know deep within. As I read your beautiful words and phrases, it just feels familiar. Could it be that what you have learnt from Natalie Benhayon, that you relate to in yourself now, is deep within us all? I know that as a man in this life that I am here to express my maleness, yet I have the ‘memory’ of expressing my femaleness within me too. Thank you for being and expressing the beautiful woman you are and sharing your amazing experience.
Amazing, Gayle – I so love what you have written. And what you say about people who react negatively to Natalie Benhayon and what she has to offer hits the nail on the head: “What they don’t like is they know that they too could be all of that but are choosing not to. That isn’t a comfortable reflection.”
Thank you Gayle for honouring the true women in all of us and acknowledging true role models such as Natalie Benhayon. It has been from observing Natalie over the years that I am consistently inspired to deepen my relationship with myself.
Gorgeous flowing blog Gayle – many great points made, Natalie Benhayon is beaming with love in your description and the photo. Appreciate also the take home snippet to remind me… “As a woman, I’m learning to start with my stillness and anything I ‘do’ must come from that stillness.”
Natalie Benhayon is a wonderful role model that we all can be inspired by. And this article Gayle is also inspiring, it is a reminder of how we can stay present and deepen our relationship with ourselves while doing our everyday activities, thank-you.
How absolutely beautiful for all women to have a reflection such as Natalie Benhayon, the truth she presents as how she lives rings true within all of us. Simply allowing this truth we feel to be expressed in our own gorgeous ways, is such a discovery of being a woman, and every moment is fun. And Gayle, thank you for your gorgeous lived expression in this blog.
Reading the blog and so many of the comments is very supportive and inspiring. Adele, you’re one of the many women I have met and keep meeting who inspires me ongoingly. It’s such a joy to be part of this ground breaking movement in re-claiming our sacredness and true beauty together for everyone!
Thank you for inspiring me to go deeper in being a woman – a woman in sacredness!
“If I am not coming from stillness first I have left my true essence and entered into the male essence of action, the male essence of ‘doing’.” And every day and indeed every moment is an opportunity to come back to this simple truth, connecting to our innate stillness within our activity. I feel very blessed to be in the company of so many women dedicated to living their essence.
Gayle thank you for this inspiring blog. It encouraged me to think deeper about what makes me a sacred woman and how I have chosen to be with myself. It is beautiful to have Natalie as a real life inspirational role model. Thank you Gayle.
Gayle thank you for your beautiful blog. Natalie is indeed an inspiring young woman and we truly blessed to have her in our community. I too am a very late bloomer and am constantly being inspired and nudged by Natalie to deepen my relationship with myself.
Thanks Gayle for your lovely sharing, to feel stillness and take that stillness into our day is much needed reflection for a world that is all about motion never allowing itself a true foundation built from stillness and then stepping forth.
Thank you for your post.. it was lovely to read. I have always operated on auto pilot and did not even have a realization that this could be anything but normal until I started to hear about stillness. I still operate on auto pilot but now I have an awareness of what I have been doing and can take steps to bring myself back to me… to the present. Your blog was a lovely reminder of how to do this all over again. Thank you.
I went to a women’s work shop last weekend that Natalie Benhayon presented. She again spoke about deepening our relationships with our selves and to do this we have to truly claim that this is what we want, and are committed to. Otherwise we may think that we are relating with ourselves, going deep and looking to truly relate with others, where in truth any relating we are doing is coming from a need to fill the void that we are not yet filling for ourselves.
A timely reminder that it’s about my ever deepening relationship with myself first. Thank you Danielle for sharing this.
Thank you Danielle, what you have shared here about really claiming that having and deepening this relationship with ourselves is what we want, otherwise our relating could just be coming from an emptiness where we are still just filling the void, has hit home for me, inspiring me to make a very clear choice and deepen my commitment to myself and my Livingness on an even deeper level. That sacred place within where the stillness resides and is always there guiding us as women, to live all that we do from that place as Gale expresses.
I am truly inspired by all the women around me who are claiming this for themselves and showing the Way.
Thanks Gayle for a good summary of the challenges facing women who are accustomed to being always in motion and male energy, ahead of herself, driven by time…. I can relate to that. Natalie’s sharings about what it means to be a woman are so different from everything that has been presented to me before. It used to be all about the accepted ‘mould’ – wife, mother, certain ways of thinking and being, style of work and career, even what you are supposed to like! But I did not fit the mould and did not want to – it just wasn’t me and it would have been a stressful pretence to try to. Now I realize that it’s my sacredness in a female body, whatever role I play in the world, that is the essence for me. How liberating!
Natalie is an amazing women who does not suffer fools lightly. She stands strong as the women she is today and the beauty and steadiness she radiates is a inspiration for all women who have the privilege to be in her company or listening to her speak on women’s issues. Her true strength is she stands alone unshadowed by anyone just simply being herself.
There is no other feeling that can compare to the feeling of a women connecting to her sacredness.
And what is curious, is that people like Natalie also are able to do so much! but not from nervous energy, drive or push but from that lovely connection to stilness. Quite unusual in this world, a great example of how to achieve and be there for so many people and projects, without losing the beauty of her essence as a woman.
Natalie Benhayon is a great role model for us all. I see here a woman who never appears jaded by a busy day because she brings stillness to everything she does and is not going into busy-ness with nervous tension or anxiousness. Of course she’s not perfect but there is a consistency built from a solid foundation of her daily rhythm and she has shared with us how she does this, which has supported many women to shift away from the trap of identifying self-worth with getting things done.
Thank you Gayle, your sharing grows our understanding or how important stillness is and yet until I met Serge Benhayon and have been graced by Natalie’s expression, stillness was something I knew I loved, but had not claimed how natural it really is and how wonderful it feels. Natalie Benhayon is creating a true revolution by bringing us back to our sacredness via our stillness. How truly blessed we are!
Thank you, Gayle. Natalie Benhayon is a true inspiration for me as well. I don’t get to see her often enough (once or twice in a year if I am lucky) and every time I see her, I am floored by how she keeps expanding consistently. The wisdom and love she affords to everyone she meets is just astounding. Such an honour to have met her in this life.
Definitely an inspiration to all women.
Gayle I love this blog. I have read it before and I am sure that I will read it again and each time I will get something different shown to me. Today it was about stillness. Choosing to connect to the stillness and do from the stillness not from the busyness which I often find myself in. So its going to be lovely to claim the deeper stillness that is within. What a gift your writing brings. Stillness, sacredness and Natalie Benhayon.
So true, Gayle, how Natalie does not instruct anyone about sacredness but, rather, exudes that awesome quality and offers us a reflection of the same within each of us. I love how you describe the conflict between age old nervous energy and holding our stillness, a conflict with I am all too familiar myself. Like you, I am completely committed to deepening my relationship with my own sacredness and and to giving the nervous energy a well earned “flick.”
Wunderbar Gayle I love what you wrote about Natalies sacredness and about your nervous energy. That helped me a lot because I get caught up in the same game as you and it is good to feel that it is possible to change.
Beautifully said Gayle, and thank-you for your unhindered honesty.
To hear an amazing woman such as Natalie Benhayon present on what it is to truly be in relationship with ourselves as women is deeply inspiring, in a way that leaves me feeling no ‘less’ as a woman, but rather ‘more’ – in the sense that I feel more in touch with all that is within me that is naturally there to guide my way, in honouring the woman that I am, and in every facet of my life.
No goals to ‘live up to’ (outside of oneself) are EVER set by Natalie, but rather she continually pours forth the tools and awarenesses that we may simply get in touch with, yes, the sacredness within, and live its way.
I have also found my own life transformed, and I rejoice in the knowing that there are yet more depths to rediscover in my expression as a woman.
Gorgeous Gayle, thank you. Yes, the reflection Natalie offers us all is the opportunity to explore our own depths as women. The relationship we can hold with ourselves in all we choose to do is something that I know I will be forever exploring.
I agree with you completely “… thank God, there are people like Natalie Benhayon who are presenting and demonstrating how to be role models for this profound way of living from their sacredness so that we have a reflection of what it looks like and what it feels like.”
This reflection inspires me deeply to really know myself (in every detail) as the true woman I am – and to not settle for the woman I thought I ‘had’ to be.
I have been trying to be a woman since my teen years, and probably earlier if you count dressing in up in my mothers shoes when I was a child. What I mean by this is that I have been trying to fit some mould and trying to find my way in terms of who I am. There are so many reflections and role models in society about what it means to be a woman, so many different pictures of how women should be and I have found that not many of them are truly helpful in the long run. I am still developing a sense of who I am, but with the support of Natalie Benhayon and Universal Medicine, I am actually developing myself from within me, rather than trying to copy a picture of what I see in the magazines and movies.
Your statement, Gayle resonates with me. “But thank God, there are people like Natalie Benhayon who are presenting and demonstrating how to be role models for this profound way of living from their sacredness so that we have a reflection of what it looks like and what it feels like.” I am forever inspired by Natalie and other quite amazing women who are showing the way forward and what it means to be truly connected to self as a woman. Their, love, grace, and tenderness knows no bounds and I know I have the same true qualities in myself but am learning to live in such a way, through their inspiration, that I connect to them and can let these qualities out in full.
Wow Gayle thankyou. I myself at the age of 33 am only just starting to realise that I don’t need to be so much in the “doing,” and that it is completely ok to just be. I will admit, I really am loving this new road, back to the true woman within, it’s really fun.
Lovely to feel the connection with me first as I read your blog Gayle. It’s not about getting to the end of anything, it is about feeling ourselves from the inside out while doing everything. Thank you.
Reading this blog I feel how a woman’s choice to hold her sacred-ness in life offers a reflection of the true tenderness that I, as a man, have to connect with and offer in return. It is the absolute power and strength of each of these respective expressions that hold us as equal.
This is a wonderful blog and a wonderful account of how Natalie Benhayon is inspiring to all women. Natalie is showing to us as women, and to the world over, that when a woman lives from her inner stillness, from the sacred rhythm that resides within her own body and claims that as her way of being and not the paces and dictations of an outside world that will constantly be trying to put its demands on us, we can in fact do so much — Natalie is a living example of this. But what we do do comes with this sacred quality, it comes from our stillness and it is a true honouring and celebration of us as women. Everything about Natalie expresses this — her movements, the way she dresses, the way she presents and speaks, the way she treats her clients (I have had many first hand experiences of this) and in the projects and initiatives she pioneers. Natalie is a huge inspiration to all women to be who the truly are as women.
Natalie has taught me that it is our responsibility as women to bring our stillness and beauty to all our relationships and that living this responsibility can be the foundation for a very full and vibrant life.
Thank you for sharing Gayle and you have always been a role model for me, just as Natalie is. Every time that you open your mouth to speak you are in stillness and from that, regardless of what you speak of, I feel you are in your sacred self. Absolutely beautiful.
Thanks Gayle. It feels impossible to not be inspired by Natalie. Being aware of your every movement, being present…is something we are innately capable of doing/being. It can take a little work to get back in the swing of it, but the difference it makes to actually be present is quite profound. When I choose to not be present and be the rally car driver I can be, life is so much more exhausting.
Natalie reflects to me what I know I am too, a deeply sacred Woman. It’s my choice to connect to this sacredness at any time. It’s inspiring and confronting at the same time to see Natalie’s consistency when I am still developing mine.
You guys (women) rock. When Women are living their true selfs we can not but be deeply amazed by their beauty.
Yes, we have been living so far off the mark as woman in this world we didn’t even realise it until we started to see role models of woman living against the trend. They have and are inspiring a revolution unlike anything we have seen before and you Gayle are one amongst many who are changing the tides, bringing the woman back to the sacredness that is hers to hold for all of humanity to share.
Natalie Benhayon has pioneered so much for the women – and men – of the world. Thank you Natalie for all that you bring and are, it is truly life changing.
Thankyou Gayle.
I am fortunate enough to know many of the women that are returning to the sacred beings that they truly are, and from a man’s perspective, you are just amazing to be around and know.
I feel free to be myself, without any need to be someone or do something to please, just by the beauty, stillness and grace of your reflection. Thankyou.
Beautiful Rob, it is touching to hear a man who can feel and see the true beauty that all women are.
Hello Gayle, thank you for writing about this ‘sacred’ topic. I love Natalie Benhayon and I am inspired by her and yes I am not a woman. This doesn’t mean I can’t relate or feel what you are saying in this Gayle. There are moments as a man that what you are saying is a precious thing and I am no different to you in feeling this. Does this make me less? On the contrary, more actually, more me. Thanks again Gayle.
Thank you for your sharing Gayle…Natalie Benhayon is truly an amazing woman and an awesome role model for women of all ages. The wisdom and joy she brings is not always comfortable to see or hear but truth is a rare reflection these days, and one well worth viewing.
Natalie is a constant inspiration, and at age 52, I feel like I am coming to understand what it truly means to be a woman for the first time in my life.
I totally agree Paula and it is very confronting to take a good look at yourself and the way we have chosen to live life and so to start to make changes and coming back to being yourself again is a remarkable reconnection.
Wow Paula, I wonder how many women, in reality, do not understand what it truly feels like to be a women. I know this was true for myself, I feel so fortunate to have role models like Natalie to inspire me to honour the women I am.
For most of my life, I have been so good at the ‘doing’ – I am learning how beautiful and sacred stillness feels in my body, and how amazing it feels to ‘do’ from that stillness rather than the anxiousness you discuss. What has really helped me is attending Esoteric Healing sessions. They have allowed me to connect to that stillness, feel the yumminess that is inside of me, and to have a marker so that I can be aware when I am not in that stillness. Thank you Natalie Benhayon, Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for your teachings.
It is very deep and “coming home” to start to feel a sacred relationship with self. It opens my eyes to realise that I am part of a big group of women and that there is something very natural and old that connects every woman with every woman.. and more…Natalie Benhayon offers an amazing reflection and she is deeply inspiring!
I feel like I have just seen the tip of the iceberg in the far distance when it comes to being in a relationship with myself and my sacredness. Only now, at age 33 have I discovered the notion of a relationship with myself. And I’m excited about it. It’s as if I have someone new to go on a date with and to want to spend time with. And I’m excited as to how this will unfold and what you have shared here Gayle helps bring that vision of the iceberg a little closer. Thank you.
Thank you Gayle for this amazing blog and for outlining in this loving and natural way how it is the simple things in our daily life that establish the connection with ourselves.
Beautiful Gayle. Yes Natalie Benhayon and many from Universal Medicine have been gorgeous and true reflections. It is a blessing to be alive, in and around all of this and as you put it – a blessing to be . . . ‘in a large group of women, who are helping pioneer the return to our true essence; that of living in a sacred relationship with self and in the sacredness of being a woman.’
Totally agree. We are all from this sacredness and have the ability and responsibility to reflect the truth we know and all are equally from.
I have watched Natalie Benhayon become a women who is an inspiration to so many people from young to old, boy or girl, man or women, family or friend and it makes no difference to Natalie, she treats us all with the same respectful love. As a friend I have known Natalie for over 10 years, like Serge she is uncompromising with what she shares of her life. Natalie’s life is just a joy-full way of learning, she has connected to life and lives that to the fullest. She also participates in many projects not mentioned in this article. If there was ever to be a true role model for humanity we need look no further because Natalie unequivocally fits the part.
I absolutely love this woman, she is a true role model and inspiration, reflecting just what it is to have and be in a relationship with self, on a deeper level than I have ever known and felt before. Thank you Natalie for simply being you.
I agree Gayle, through her grace and natural confidence, Natalie Benhayon inspires me too, and so many others towards living the sacredness of a woman. I love how you have been connecting to your own with the examples, again offering inspiration the very same as the sacred woman you are inspired by.
Gayle what you write is so true “ I feel even more fortunate to be a woman, in a large group of women, who are helping pioneer the return to our true essence; that of living in a sacred relationship with self and in the sacredness of being a woman.” Thank you for the reminder to deeply appreciate ourselves and All women.
Gayle thank you for reminding and reigniting what is truly means to be a woman in her sacredness.
Thank you Gayle for sharing this with me. For those of us who have not been to one of these events it is wonderful to have the opportunity to hear about it and the practical examples you offer by way of inspiration.
I love the way you express Gayle, such a straightforward honesty. Yes sacredness is in the smallest detail as you say, the feel of the shampoo….so many opportunities.
This blog has re-connected me to something deep in me, I can feel that you are spot-on when you shared that it is more than conscious presence! Although, conscious presence is a great starting point and foundation, I get a sense that we are in fact bottomless as we dare to dive deeper and deeper into our own stillness…into our Sacredness!!
For me, personally, a word that resonates with the depth I am reaching is delicateness, and I can feel that am only just beginning to bring that quality of delicateness to all that I do!
I am also becoming more and more aware of the absolute treasures I am surrounded with being a part of a ‘large group of women, who are helping pioneer the return to our true essence; that of living in a sacred relationship with self and in the sacredness of being a woman.’
Natalie has a stillness and presence within her that invites me to join her there every time I meet her. It’s like she is so steady and clear that she holds me in her stillness. This feels quite different to how most other people meet me, and it’s an absolutely divine gift.
Gayle, your blog has inspired me to commit to connecting more deeply and steadily with my inner stillness and femaleness, not just for me, which of course it is, but so as I may hold others in my stillness as Natalie does us. She really just feels too amazing not to want to be like her.
Thanks for your great blog, it feels like a massive wake up call.
I resonate with Gayle’s comment about the disruption of nervous energy, busyness and activity which I am realising I so easily call on due to self doubt. Natalie and others have been very supportive as I work on these issues on my path of return to my sacred femaleness.
Natalie Benhayon is definitely a true role model that lives with a strong connection to the sacredness of being a woman, her love for humanity is evident in all the community based work she does. The way of livingness that she lives first then reflects and teaches is divine. Thank you Gayle for sharing a great blog!
Thank you Gayle, awesome blog. I too have been deeply inspired by Natalie Benhayon and the way she lives. She is amazing, so natural and very real. When I have had the opportunity to talk with Natalie the thing I have noticed the most is that there is not one ounce of imposition, she simply lets you be and allows you to feel the absolute equalness that exists between people. It is like my body “settles” when I am around her and any feelings of nervous tension melt away. This is the power of a woman who lives from her natural stillness and has embraced the sacredness that is within. The beautiful thing is that when you feel this quality from Natalie it validates for me that I have these qualities inside too, every woman does. I am more consistently bringing stillness to every moment of my life and getting to tangibly feel what it is to live from my most natural sacred essence. Thank you dearly Natalie Benhayon for being the truly beautiful woman you are your refection constantly inspires me to live as a true woman in my everyday life.
Great Blog Gayle – Yes Natalie Benhayon has inspired me for many years and will for all that follow. Natalie Benhayon is an extremely confident, powerful woman and I know that it is because of her that I am beginning to live my sacredness as a woman once again.
Another amazing journey from the question of ‘how to be a woman’, to speak “As a woman…” and to end up expressing how fortunate you are of being a woman making inroads into living in a sacred relationship with self and in the sacredness of being a woman. What a gift for humanity!! Thanks Gayle!!; Thanks Natalie!!
Natalie is 24 and I am 55 and male, yet I regularly chat with Natalie and have received some amazing advice. There is something beyond knowledge (at which I excel) and that is an understanding how things really work.
For the last ten years I have made great strides in this understanding and Natalie has made it much easier for me many times to increase and deepen my understanding.
It is beautiful to see the women who express from their sacredness they naturally carry within. For me as a man it is a blessing to be with a woman that also has been inspired by Natalie Benhayon to live from her sacredness. She is giving me the possibility to connect with the sacredness that is equally available in me.
I concur Gayle, Natalie Benhayon radiates the exquisite-ness of woman truly connected – Sacred indeed. Beginning to connect to that within me has been extremely confronting yet at the same time magnificent to feel.
I am discovering what sacredness feels like in my body as a woman and how to allow this quality to become a part of my natural everyday expression and like you Gayle I have an amazing super star of a role model named Natalie Benhayon. Natalie has supported my understanding of sacredness so I no longer see it as something outside of me that I need to obtain or as something that I have to work at to create inside me but rather it is a quality that has always and will always naturally emanate within me. All I have to do is recognise it is there, connect to it, feel it in all its exquisiteness and get myself out of the way so my sacredness can be there to be felt by all.
I have met Natalie and I think it is rare to meet someone so deeply caring, nurturing, loving and dedicated like her and she’s only in her early 20s.
I am loving the journey I am on in learning to appreciate myself and re-acquaint myself with my womanliness, self worth & self confidence. What Natalie brings to our awareness is truly amazing and done with such naturalness from within.
I am so inspired by Natalie Benhayon as well, even being in her presence reminds me what it means to be a woman in sacredness. Without her speaking at all – she says it all.
Awesome article Gayle, I love how you have described Natalie and what she brings, she is such an inspiring lady and it is great to hear how she has helped and inspired you to return to your true essence of being a women. With more inspiring ladies like you and Natalie more and more women are able to see a true reflection of what it means to live sacredly.
I enjoyed the fine detail of your paragraph on “going in and out of being” Gayle. I know it well………
How fortunate for us who have met her and indeed the world, that we have Natalie Benhayon, a shining example, and the embodiment of sacredness in a woman.
Thank you Gayle for your great article, I personally love the sacred movement presented by Natalie Benhayon, it is and she is so powerful.
I feel so privileged to read your beautiful blog again, Gayle. It is inspiring when I realise that all this wisdom is within me and if I live it, that it can be a blessing for the world.
Indeed, how fortunate to know Natalie Benhayon, a wonderful role model and ‘trailblazer’ for encouraging us women (and men ) to return to our true essence and sacredness.
Thank you for your wise inspiring article Gayle.
Thank you Gayle for expressing your journey of deepening into your stillness and the expanding into the sacredness of being a beautiful women. I feel blessed having so many reflections around me on this journey of ours. Natalie being one who by living from her sacredness is bringing it all back to us, so we remember who we truly are, and can claim the sacred wisdom within our body too. I have witnessed many more deepening into their sacredness and many are well on their journey. So am I, in appreciation of all women and find fond love Sarah
This is very inspiring Gayle. I often feel so far from the amazingness that I am and I feel the momentum of living in constant motion/maleness for SO long…but I am reminded here, of just how simple and possible it is to re-develop this connection.
It is hugely helpful for me to stop and take time to appreciate how far I’ve come on this path to being more present and closer to my femaleness/stillness. I am SO much less racy and have many more moments where I am at least calm and am beginning to get glimpses of this “stillness” we, as women, hold inside.
Hi Jo……..as Cheryl said above, “There is always more”. But even knowing this, it is super important, as you say: “to stop and take time to appreciate how far I’ve come on this path to being more present and closer to my femaleness/stillness.” Super important and that is part of the genius of contributing comments to blogs like this – it allows us that time to stop and reflect, and APPRECIATE our journey.
Gayle that is awesome to be reminded of the appreciation that is deserved when we choose the Love that we are and the sacredness that naturally emanates with in. It blows me away how amazing we are.
I too feel very fortunate to be a woman and to be apart of the pioneering return to our true essence. Very powerful, inspiring and very much needed for all Woman.
Me too Natalie. There are many trailblazers leading women down paths of self confidence issues (the media does that by itself really), eating disorders, self-abuse etc. etc… but as Ariana said earlier, ‘here we are blazing the trail for the return to our true essence.’
Gayle, I really enjoyed reading the everyday practical ways in which you bring yourself back to your body and maintain that presence that eventually develops into a sacredness. It is a great reminder too, that the second we are getting ahead of ourself and I think about what I have to do tomorrow or even later in the day, my body gets drained as if I am actually performing that act before I even do it. I have experienced this at work, and have gone home feeling really tired even though the level of physical activity would not have warranted that amount of exhaustion. Every thought is energy, so it’s better to use it on the task at hand.
This is a great article Gayle and what a true representation of an Amazing Woman Natalie Benhayon, that she is committed 200% to herself as a Sacred Woman and sharing that with all that comes into her path. I have walked with Natalie on her path and will do so for the rest of my life because that Sacredness we are both from is Powerful, Precious and Glorious. One that I can not deny any longer and will day by day commit to connecting with it and express my way of being as this. I have lived in disconnection for a majority of my life and of late re-connected to this innate quality that I am and all I can say is it is super special and worth every second exploring it further and further.
Gorgeous to read a blog concerning stillness and the reflection of this that Natalie Benhayon brings through her life and through the presentations. A way of being that I continue to become more aware of in myself. Thank you for sharing.
Love this line particularly as a reminder for me as I start my morning today Gayle “When it is time to do this activity, whatever it may be, I can do it with a sense of my sacred self, knowing there is no right or wrong if I am in activity as my sacred self.”
That is a powerful line you have highlighted Vanessa – there is indeed ‘no right or wrong if I am in activity as my sacred self’. It is so easy to get caught up in the outcome, and so forgetting my quality when I am doing something – it is then that I will judge it to be good or bad, whereas when I am with my self and with what I am doing, whatever the result is I know I have done a great job as a result of the quality of my energy not what it looks like.
Vanessa – this is also my favourite line in the blog as it was the ‘break-through’ moment for me in changing my state of nervous energy.
I know – right Ariana! We are indeed part of something amazing!
Hi Gayle, sacredness is still quite a new concept to me and what reading this reminded me of is 1) How I have been living that isn’t remotely sacred, 2) How I have been living that feels a little bit sacred, and 3) There is more.
Hello Cheryl………….your comment made me smile
“I felt that to be in sacredness as a woman is something even more profound. It isn’t just about being with myself, or being present or being fully present or being consciously present. It is about being all those things – as a woman.” From being ‘driven’ and in male energy which is all about action and doing – no stillness – as a result of making new choices, I too, “as a woman, am learning to start with my stillness and anything I ‘do’ must come from that stillness.” Beautiful blog Gayle, thankyou.
Love your blog Gayle, I could relate to everything you said. Before Universal Medicine if someone asked me “What does it mean to be a woman”? I would have had no idea what to say because up until then I had never even considered what it meant, I was too busy getting through my day continually pushing myself to get things done. I could very much relate to nervous energy being the biggest distraction to stillness. I was able to look the part, dress to be a woman, but it was functional, I had not connected to the sacredness and to the absolute preciousness that is there within me and within in all women. Through Natalie Benhayon and all the Benhayon family I am re-learning from ground zero, what stillness is, how to be gentle with myself and everyone else, and what being a woman really means to me, and bring this into every part of my life.
Natalie Benhayon reminds me how it is possible to be in a world where ‘doing’ is recognised before ‘being’. Gayle I love that you’ve played with how we can start with stillness first and let that be the foundation from which things are done. My body has been crying out to stop reacting and bring it back to feminine stillness – and this blog only shows me there is another way to be.
It is heart warming to see the comments on this blog – from both women and men – about the power and strength that comes from the light reflection of another living from presence and stillness. For me personally, I get extra delight in seeing people at a young age, like yourself Hannah, ‘getting it’ – when it took me such a l-o-n-g time. It’s never too late to wake up to Truth, but if we do it early in life, we have so many more years to live in grace.
Thank you Gayle, Natalie Benhayon and many other women for reflecting the SACREDNESS we all are as Women.
It’s great to re-read your article Gayle, I love reading through your practical list of examples of you being present with yourself; in the shower, making tea and when your driving. These are really inspiring examples for me, thank you.
Same here Rebecca, its the practical things that make such a difference and I loved the detail in the examples.
The gift brought by Natalie Benhayon of how to truly connect to our sacredness is the most special gift in the world for all women to reconnect with. Thank you Gayle i love reading this and the honouring that comes gets deeper each time.
I agree Tricia, sacredness connection is a special gift brought by Natalie Benhayon for all to be able to experience and connect for themselves. How awesome it is, when we start to feel this connection in our body and we take it in our days, the stillness we amplify and reflect is amazing.
I love to feel the depth of the feeling of sacredness, I get what you’re saying Gayle, about how profound this is, embracing all my own fullness and presence as i know, and to be all that, as a woman. There’s a deep yearning of what I’ve had and lost in the past, but as I am connecting more to it nowadays, it’s becoming more alive in me.
Yes, Gill. The more we connect to our own sacredness and the more we honour ourselves in that place, the more available that connection becomes to us. As some have said in these comments, writing about “it” can sound a bit lofty or “out there”, when in reality what we are talking about can be very much felt in our bodies and exercised in our moment to moment living as the awareness of our own sacredness becomes more alive.
yeah it is the felt body, very REAL feeling that is our sacred connection that is presented by Natalie Benhayon and because it is so tangible and not lofty or out there that we are able to feel the truth of what is on offer for us. Truly inspirational.
When I read the comment thread I feel some self doubt – have I felt my own sacredness or have I allowed myself to feel this? There is a deep sense of wanting to run away from that delicateness we feel inside. A vulnerability that opens me up to feel who I truly am. I too, like everyone here, have been deeply inspired by Natalie Benhayon to open up to the possibility that I am much more than what is seen on the surface. To connect to feelings that I have for eons ignored and to live a life where I feel the absolute grace and power I bring.
Great comment Fiona. We all know there is more, but sometimes the unknown (because as you say it hasn’t been lived for eons) seems a scary place to go. Yet the reality is quite different, when we finally step into that sacredness we are truly held, home at last.
Jenny so true when we just allow our selves to step into the sacredness, we are truly held. We all have it in us, we just need to connect and choose. When we connect and choose the feeling is out of this world.
Love what you have brought to this Fiona I can have that doubt too and its good to understand what that can be about.
I love your honesty Fiona.
This is so true Fiona. Sacredness is within all of us but when we have ignored, buried and pushed it aside for so long we can forget that it is there, feel scared or not recognise it when it starts to emerge, even though we may long for this re-union so much. I know this is definitely my experience.
And I too, feel fortunate to be able to attend these presentations and learn and feel the true loving power of allowing our sacredness.
I too am blessed to have felt what sacredness is. I have felt it in my body, the way I move, and the way I feel confident about myself as a women and knowing the power and delicateness I can bring when I’m connected to that sacredness within me. It may sound a bit out there, or too deep but it actually isn’t, it is very attainable for all women and Natalie Benhayon is amazing in the way she easily and naturally presents this sacredness for all to feel in themselves,
When I look at this picture of Natalie I see myself, a light playful and deeply beautiful person who has inspired me to no end. Natalie is a representation of all women.
And thank God there are women like Gayle who has here shared what she has been shown, and what she lives in such a full, and easy to understand way.
Thank you Catherine. I am a very practical person. Perhaps because of this, it took me a long time to get in touch with my mystical side. That’s one of the benefits of growing older. All the different perspectives start to merge into a whole package. Now I’m a practical mystic!
Hi Gayle,
I love that! A practical mystic..Makes it sacred and down to earth.
Thanks for your article!
hear hear Catherine a big thanks to women like Gayle they are very much needed.
Natalie’s reflection as a true women is amazingness, she is definetly one true role model and a great inspiration through the tenderness, and sacredness she shares with us all. I love meeting Natalia and having sessions with her, as each time she reminds how it is so possible to live and be the way she is, it allows me to go deeper within myself.
I agree Amita, the inspiration Natalie offers as a true role model for women is beautiful to feel and I have deep appreciation for the loving expression that she most definitely is.
I so agree with you, whenever I see or have a session with Natalie Benhayon two things are very paramount, that is her quality and her presence. She brings the quality of her presence with ALL she says and does. This is truly inspiring to observe and know that we all hold and can live this. It brings the opportunity to have a different and true relationship with ourselves and life.
I agree as well Natalie is a true role model – as you said Vicky her quality and her presence is extremely strong. Natalie Benhayon is an inspiration for many women I know and also many men, myself included. Natalie shows us and delivers us the way it can be for all. Natalie is great at unraveling our complex issues and making them clear and easy to see so we can let them go and not stay entwined in them.
Yes, Amita. You’ve pointed out the power of one person living their true essence. With Natalie and others, as a reflection, it allows us to go deeper without ourselves.
Thank you Gail for your sharing on a ‘Sacred Relationship with Self’ as a Woman. What particularly resonated with me as I read your article was ‘as a woman I am learning to start with my stillness and anything I ‘do’ must come from that stillness. Beautiful to be re-reminded of this as I start my day.
Oh thank you for writing this Gayle so clearly and simply expressed and so true. Natalie Benhayon is indeed a true role model and inspiration as you say ‘how many of us retain that sense of sacredness as we put on our boots, gather our bags and scarves and head out the door? I’m going to guess not many’. What Natalie lives and presents is just how possible and lovely this is.
“I feel very fortunate indeed to be able to attend these presentations in person but I feel even more fortunate to be a woman, in a large group of women, who are helping pioneer the return to our true essence; that of living in a sacred relationship with self and in the sacredness of being a woman.”
I really loved this appreciation you’ve expressed as it has supported me to understand and appreciate the true value of what we do when we attend and participate in these truly amazing groups. Thank you Gayle.
Very inspiring lovely article.
Having recently spent time with Natalie Benhayon, the expression of love and beauty she emanates has been yet again confirmed. Natalie is indeed a true role model for women everywhere to be inspired to express who they truly are with the grace, tenderness and strength of true self worth.
The sacredness that is in us all, is a quality that Natalie Benhayon lives and shares, inspiring hundreds of people to develop the tenderness and care for themselves, so it can be part of their lived experience too. Young, funny, dedicated, hard-working, sweet, beautiful, gentle – Natalie is a true role model for our times.
Stunning article Gayle. The simplicity and practicality with which you talk about sacredness is so deeply inspiring. I can really feel how it’s not some unattainable thing available only to a select few, but the quality I and every other woman has as the essence of our being. And as for Natalie Benhayon, well, I couldn’t agree with you more – she is a role model for me who I am blessed to have in my life.
“I felt that to be in sacredness as a woman is something even more profound. It isn’t just about being with myself, or being present or being fully present or being consciously present. It is about being all those things – as a woman.”
This takes us to a whole new level. Truly appreciating the tender and innate beauty of a woman. Even reading the words alone I can connect to the depth this brings, the huge difference that would mean for oneself and for others around you.
Thank you Gayle for sharing what Natalie presents by her livingness and how that inspires other women. Having been a supporter of the feminist movement in early 70’s and then becoming dis-illusioned with it, even if it was beneficial for women, as it only seemed to be creating further diversion between the sexes, it is fabulous to have women who are truly empowering themselves without demonising men but in fact supporting them to be in their true expression too.
Good point Jonathan. It is so important that we don’t demonise men in the process of empowering ourselves as women. It is important to honour the unique qualities of both sexes.
Beautifully expressed Jonathan, ‘it is fabulous to have women who are truly empowering themselves without demonising men but in fact supporting them to be in their true expression too.’
Thank you for bringing this point to discussion. That was definitely a sticking point for me with the 70’s revolution. That men became the bad guys in order for woman to recognise their self worth, just did not feel like the solution or the truth! So I defaulted to the group who were championing that “both men & women are equal”. But until recently, I didn’t have a true understanding of the issue. We are equal in terms of both being divine, but we are very different as women and men. We have different bodies and different internal make up. Now I feel the absolute equality – as in all beings are equally divine – BUT I am well aware of the differences between men and women without one of them being better than the other.
Very true Jonathan, and to experience men in their true expression is deeply touching and delightful.
Great how you share your healing and evolution in your blog with us Gayle, thank you for that. I specifically love: At Natalie’s presentation on ‘A Sacred Relationship with Self’, I felt that to be in sacredness as a woman is something even more profound. It isn’t just about being with myself, or being present or being fully present or being consciously present. It is about being all those things – as a woman.
Natalie is offering that to us all: going deeper and deeper in relationship with ourselves not stop.
Gayle, I especially enjoyed your description of reconnection with your sacredness within as a choice “to bring myself back home to myself”.
Thank you Gayle for your blog. I specially appreciated when you said about stillness and nervous energy. If the latter is present you can never have the former. That is where we should focus on.
Gayle I have come back to re-read your blog and all of the comments. It has enabled me to slow down and drop that anxious feeling which over the years has become my normal. I too now ‘have an increasing awareness of when I am with myself and when I have dropped the ball and lost the plot.’ Having someone like Natalie to show us there is another way to live is so important in this world that recognises you for how much you can ‘do.’
Hello Debra, I woke this morning with a sore throat and blocked sinuses. I was sluggish getting out of bed, started to worry about what a big day I had ahead of me, could I cancel meetings, what would that mean, when would I reschedule etc……..I sat down with a cup of tea and decided to read some comments on this blog. When I read your comment, I realised reading the comments had brought me back to myself, into my sacredness. Yes, I still have a sore throat, although the tea is soothing, and I am still a bit sluggish, ……..but gone is the worry, the planning of the day, my focus is now back on living from my sacred self. A little miracle to start the day with……..read a few blog comments and return to yourself 😉
It is amazing that a day spent with an amazing woman has inspired this amazing article which has in turn inspired all of these amazing comments. I find that to be incredible and wonderful.
What I love about Natalie is that she is so real. Sacredness for me used to be accompanied with an air of mystery, abstract or arrogance. However when anyone spends a short time with Natalie, they can not help but feel the gorgeous quality of love, stillness, Joy and power she exudes, and the profound wisdom she expresses. This is while she is incredibly hard working, completely open to people, treats everyone as an equal and will not miss an opportunity to laugh and chuckle. Indeed she is a true inspiration to all women – showing how simple, loving and fun it is to live in our sacredness and how powerful is our natural expression.
That’s lovely Golnaz. Yes Natalie is a living example that sacredness is real, gentle, tangible, practical, simple and within us all. It is deeply appreciated what I have learnt and continue to learn from her.
What a gloriously blog Gayle. I love the way you offer us with such clarity the most beautiful relationship we can have – one that is fully and sacredly honouring all that we are as women.
Gayle thank you, so lovely to read and reconnect with all that we are. Natalie Benhayon is pure sacredness embodied and reflected as an inspiration to all women reminding us to be in connection with ourselves with such joy, radiance and love and then living and expressing from this place inside. Truly beautiful.
Thanks Gayle, I really enjoyed reading this and it is so great to see and feel the changes in many of my female friends as they reclaim their sacredness.
Thank you Gayle, such an inspiring piece of writing. It is supportive and confirming as I reconnect to myself as the beautiful precious woman I am.
You caught me at this line – ‘I’ve been a late bloomer so to speak, in the sense of realising what my true expression as a woman means for me.’ You’ve hit on something that’s endemic. Most women I know, myself included, have grown up with ideals and beliefs about what it is to be a woman, highly linked to their generation’s values, and have never encountered the concept of our timeless sacredness and more importantly, what that quallity brings as a contribution to society. Instead we have an army of non-blooming women, not living that true quality. Great that Natalie Benhayon is now role-modelling how sacredness can be lived very normally and practically as a true reflection of the potential of being a woman.
A very inspiring article deeply expressed
Gayle I love your blog, and as you write, yes Natalie is an amazing gorgeous woman and so many women’s [and men’s] example of a ‘woman’s true role model’, and in doing so at age 26 shatters the frequently held belief that role-models typically are those older than our own age; someone who gains wisdom or insight as the years go by. This is the uncomfortableness as it highlights just how many years we’ve delayed or let pass by in not living as the full connected woman we see and feel being lived by a woman of Natalie’s ‘age’, but equally, as your blog presents Gayle, when we drop the beliefs and allow ourselves to be inspired – we can but only embrace how these women show us the way of our future. Natalie and many other women who like you are working on developing and deepening their essence show what greatness is possible – regardless of age – when we live as a woman deeply connected to the sacredness within — this is beautiful, just like your blog Gayle.
Gayle what you present for us in your own deepening understanding of the true quality of yourself as a woman is beautiful. Natalie is an amazing role model of a woman living in her sacredness and deep wisdom. We have so much to support us to feel and develop this potential, whether it is through Sacred Movement, Esoteric Breast Massage or a deepening connection to our quality of stillness through Esoteric Yoga, it is something that is there for us all to connect to. I couldn’t agree with you more Gayle, that I appreciate being a woman and returning to my true essence.
Well said Rosanna. Appreciating being a woman and returning to my true essence is a continual and beautiful revelation to me.
When I read your blog Gayle I feel the dedication that you have to deepening that relationship with yourself. I too have been developing that return to the Woman that I know I am, but sometimes choose not to connect to. Natalie Benhayon has been a huge inspiration and I feel extremely fortunate to be where I am – breaking ground on the Truth of what it is to be a Woman with all Woman that are open and willing to self reflect and claim what we all know is True. When you feel that Sacredness there is no other way – you can’t deny how powerful we are.
I have heard the word sacredness a lot but it wasn’t until I started to connect to what it truly meant that I could see the power and magic in it. The more I started to allow myself to see and feel the reflection Natalie was reflecting as this amazing women in her stillness and the enormous power she brings, it started to ignite something in me. As I work on my stillness as a women I am slowly connecting to that sacredness in me and working on building this foundation where sacredness comes naturally in all my being.
For some time after meeting Natalie Benhayon I could not accept that what she presented so simply, powerfully and inspiringly in the way she lives was something I could access and live too. What I have learnt, accepted and am coming to fully appreciate as I have worked alongside her more is that the sacredness she lives, is in us all and that all I have to do is let myself be that and live in a way that supports and nurtures this quality; loving myself from the inside out, just as I am.
It is truly inspirational to hear what Natalie Benhayon is capable of given that she is living her life in full… wow. Imagine that inspiring another person to live more fully…. and another… and then a whole room full. By the sound of it Gayle, you were part of that room full and it is gorgeous to hear about it, and very exciting to see what happens as you step into your sacredness.
Thank you for sharing this Gayle. I often used to hold the word sacred as something outside myself that I could not attain, when in truth it is something inside myself that I just need to be open to connecting to.
Here here, I love to share the company of all the gorgeous women, supporting each other on a one to one basis where I live locally, or in a larger group when there’s a meeting, who are dedicated to this sacredness and the return to who we truly are.
Thank you Gayle for sharing what feels like a supportive presentation and an inspiration to consider we are so much more as women than we choose to live. On reading this article I could feel the invitation to connect deeper within myself to something that is always there – my sacredness. I too have been inspired by Natalie Benhayon and the many other women who are committed to living the natural beauty of themselves.
Thank you Gayle for this piece of writing. I really appreciate it. Two things have stayed with me since I read it, the first one is how nervous energy can be a distractor from our stillness. I’ve never seen it as a distraction, but I can now feel how this is the case….having got so used to a momentum of anxiety, procastination sometimes and then rushing, I stopped seeing these as something I also use to distract myself and to avoid having to connect to that sacradness and stillness within, as if I doubt I am able to hold it, so why even try….? It is great to feel this. The second one is how as woman we need not only to be aware of our presence and connection, but importantly do everything from our stillness. Yes, Natalie is a powerful inspiration of this. When I had the chance to be closer to her, I never, ever saw her rushing around, or moving fast, it was amazing to feel how she always held herself every minute and the rhythm she kept, which could even be seen even as “slow”, and still all the endless list of things see did all of the time, pretty amazing!.. Its super revealing to see that we as all women can do this by first deeply honouring and connecting to our sacradness and stillness and do everything for there.. it is definately worth beating and learning to let go of that nervous energy, a big learning for me…
A big learning for me too Luz. I can relate to what you say about either being in procrastination or anxiety. I seem to swing from one to the other which doesn’t allow for a true connection to myself in activity. It is so inspiring to observe Natalie being true to her rhythm and honouring her sacredness in everything she does.
This is what stands out so much about Natalie Benhayon, as you say, “If we look at Natalie Benhayon, we see a young woman who is amazing. She is beautiful, sexy, cheeky, fun and a full time complementary healing practitioner.”
There are many individuals who work tirelessly, all hours and achieve great things, however many feel hard and will openly admit they have lost their work/life balance. Others are beautiful and sexy in the conventional way – they see it and know it because they are told so but they do not always feel it and live it. Natalie Benhayon stands out because she embodies all of these things, because she lives in a way true to herself, honouring all that she is in every moment and enjoying all that she sets her mind to. She is an inspiration to many and her youth yet wisdom is only but encouraging too.
True Jenny, Natalie Benhayon dismantles so many myths and raises the bar on so many levels for living a life of love and comitment for both women and men. And she is also an amazing role model for all women – dedicated to working hard and serving humanity without losing her sense of fun, remaining open and connecting with every person in her path – she is an inspiration for us to develop our appreciation, honouring and expression of the stillness and sacredness within us and to engage life in our fullness.
Very true Golnaz, Natalie has taken apart so many beliefs about what it means to be a woman. The depth of her grace and love keeps on expanding and she continues to inspire woman of all ages to lovingly connect to and nurture themselves. We are witness to the amazing shifts woman are making for themselves thanks to her continual and unwavering example of living a life based on love.
Thanks for your contribution to this discussion Jenny. You’ve identified an important aspect of what is different between Natalie’s achievements and that of many others. She does an amazing amount of work and day after day appears tireless, whereas others are openly exhausted. This alone should warrant a second look!
‘I feel even more fortunate to be a woman, in a large group of women, who are helping pioneer the return to our true essence; that of living in a sacred relationship with self and in the sacredness of being a woman’.
I too feel the same, and what is so very beautiful is that this group of women are so dedicated to this return, and supportive of one another, as we journey back to living our true essence once again and reflecting this out to the world – thank you for this beautiful sharing Gayle.
I agree, Gayle and Anna, it’s beautiful to be part of this group of amazing women who are ‘helping pioneer the return to our true essence’.
Its an honour to be beside you all with the willingness, openness and the allowing of our Innate beings that we hold deep within – the Sacredness which emanates so profoundly is precious yet powerful all in one. The Woman within that needs to be shared outwardly.
Gayle your writing carries strength with the sacredness, and reading it is a beautiful reminder to keep connecting to our sacred stillness. I also am deeply inspired by Natalie, who always places us as equals, and I am also inspired by the many other women whom I have met on this path. Such blessings!
I felt that it was a sacred experience to read your blog. It felt full of grace and appreciation and a deep stillness that felt very supportive. Thank you.
I agree Samantha. Reading the blog I felt a stillness within me, a sense of joy and appreciation of the work of Natalie Benhayon and other women sharing their sacredness and inner beauty for all to feel and see.
It is truly amazing how writing and reading and making comments to blogs such as these can be so healing. It expands our conscious awareness. As we are learning and experiencing, everything is energy….and everything includes the intention and interactions of blogs.
I could not agree with you more Gayle, reading and commenting on blogs like this one is incredibly healing, along with taking the time to appreciate what another has brought to us as well is incredibly powerful. It is all too easy to take people for granted and not see how much they have inspired us to make changes in our lives. I know I would be in a complete mess had I not met Serge Benhayon over 10 years ago, Natalie has also been a huge inspiration to me as well, always there with an abundance of love and support.
It is a beautiful process and so supportive. It is very joyful to read all the comments and hear and feel how gorgeous we all are. Natalie is a continual joy and inspiration, as are you Gayle for sharing your journey and initiating this awesome conversation.
In the ever increasing raciness of life I know that developing a foundation of stillness is the way forward, so that I can take me into life, not just a flurry of nervous energy in survival mode. Working with Natalie Benhayon has inspired an even greater level of commitment. That of bringing me, a woman, with all the sacredness I hold, to life for humanity. There is no end game or moment when everything is perfect and in place, just a commitment to be forever learning and an integral part of the world around us.
For sure Matilda, I feel commitment is the key to continuing to return to the stillness. The more we do it, the more we can feel the difference from running in the nervous energy to standing in the stillness. Then we recognize the difference earlier when we leave the stillness to do, instead of bringing ourselves in stillness to do things.
Thank you, Matilda, beautifully said.
Thank you Gayle for this beautiful blog. Like so many here Natalie Benhayon has supported me in connecting to my stillness beauty and tenderness. She has presented the depth of truth of our sacredness as women and made it accessible because she lives it with every cell of her body so much so that you can only feel her equal when you to connect to what she lives. So much love,fun and cheekiness. She is amazing.
‘She has presented the depth of truth of our sacredness as women and made it accessible because she lives it with every cell of her body’ – beautifully put Anne-Marie.
Live it in every cell of our body. Now that’s something to aspire to!
Most definitely!
It certainly is …
I agree Annemarie and love how you sum up that Natalie is so much love, fun and cheekiness. I add to this she has an infectious giggle when she is trying not to laugh, which sometimes just cannot be held in, so we all end up joining in enjoying her sheer enjoyment of life. An amazing inspirational young woman offering so much to the world.
I utterly agree Anne Maire, love, fun and cheekiness just sum Natalie Benhayon up.
I agree with you Annemarie, Natalie Benhayon presents the depth of truth of our sacredness as women, making it accessible. This is held and lived by her at all times, this amazing woman is deeply inspiring.
Natalie sure is amazing and yes every cell of her body oozes the Sacredness that we all hold. I constantly feel inspired by her and love connecting to that Sacredness that I am.
Gayle thank you so much for your blog and the simplicity of how you have presented, ‘If I am not coming from stillness first I have left my true essence and entered into the male essence of action.’ I know I may be present on the surface, but like you say sacredness is more profound than this.
Thank you for giving me such a simple way of being sacred in my everyday livingness that I can actually check in with. Your blog has really inspired me now I’ve been reminded that it is my natural way of being if I choose to connect to my stillness. This dispels the myths about sacredness being some elusive mystery way of being.
Very true Karin, Gayle has dispelled the myth that sacredness is some unattainable thing out side of our selves and clearly reminds us of the glory that lies within us all, every single woman and man.
Yes, Karin, I think humanity has been misled or lost the way, in any case, as to what “sacredness” is and who is eligible to experience this state of grace. Surprise! It’s not elusive after all.
Thankyou Gayle , simply and beautifully expressed .
I enjoyed reading you blog very much Gayle. During reading my body became very still and connected to my sacredness. Beautyful to be reminded of the true qualities we bring as women.
Great and inspiring article Gayle. It is amazing to have the reflection of a gorgeous young woman such as Natalie. It is never too late to let go of the anxiousness and nervousness that was my default button too. Simple practical things throughout the day such as how I make a cup of tea are great markers for me, and yes it is an ongoing process but so valuable as I make the changes to have stillness in my relationship with me.
Me too Ariana, I also count myself as very fortunate to know her. What she brings to us is very inspiring.
I felt so in-the-dark most of my life but now I realize that I posses true and honest guidance; it comes directly from my own body. When I am really present with my body I am aware of so much more about me and what I need, I have no anxiety as I am just myself and I can feel that that is enough.
It is about just that….being a woman. I have only recently realised how I have avoided allowing myself to be fully female and that I have a default male persona! In times of self-doubt, I have often fallen back on an overly intellectual, dismissive, highly capable and assertive, even aggressive and forceful, stereotyped ‘man’. But more and more I am calling on something way deeper as I develop my connection to my innermost stillness and what it means to me to be a woman in a world that values my doing more than my being. So I am finding that when I do respond to tension and self-doubt, its with a steadiness and a knowingness of my own sacred depths. With thanks to your blog, Gayle for I am only just re-connecting to this and it is wonderful to read about the pioneering women like yourself, returning to sacred relationship with your true essence.
Like you, Peta, I recognise how often I have defaulted to the intellectual, dismissive, highly capable and assertive approach to life. These are tactics. And we are discovering that there is another tact to getting on in life, and that is to come from our true connection to the divine aspect of who we are, where we aren’t trying, we aren’t out to prove anything to anyone, not even ourselves. Yes, society has contributed to our sense of honouring the doing rather than the being, but the grace of the situation allows us to choose to honour being as much as doing. Isn’t life wonder-full?
This is wonderful Gayle and whilst I’ve allowed myself to have glimpses or taste this connection, the possibility to have everything thing that I do come from my essence – that sacred part of me is something I feel ready for. It is only through the Grace of my period that I have felt in my body how cut off from myself I have been in the drive of the intellectual, dismissive, highly capable and assertive approach, with my pelvic region feeling very hard and numb. It’s amazing how a woman’s period can highlight where she is at in her relationship with her body, as what I have found is that however my body feels – aches, pains or none during my period is a reflection of my relationship with myself and ultimately my sacredness. If it wasn’t for the presence of Natalie Benhayon and Sara Williams (who presents the Women in Livingness groups in London) I would not even have this awareness and would have carried on seeing periods as a curse, rather than the absolute blessing that they are.
This blog and comments thread are so completely amazing. So many aspects resonate on so many levels and I couldn’t agree more about Natalie. I particularly relate to the ‘default male persona’ Peta, so much so that it made me break into laughter to hear you put it that way. So inspiring to be able to see it for what it is and let it fall away. I am having a wonderful time at the moment of seeing this in action with my sons. When I behave in a controlling, hard way, misery ensues. When I feel my body and allow complete gentleness, the flow of the house completely changes – teeth get brushed, clothes get put on, toys get put away. It is in some of these moments that I feel most connected with my femaleness – not because I am mothering, but because of how I am expressing and from where. Thank you for these sharings and inspiration – such a huge support on this journey.
Yes that is so true Jenifer, when we surrender to our gentleness everybody responds and things get accomplished without any fuss. When we are truly connected to our sacredness, its irrisistable! Definitely a work in progress but when we can feel the true effects it certainly encourages us to keep having a go.
That is so true Jennifer how when you are in your rhythm and being gentle and tender with what ever you are doing, then what ever around you responds to this and meets you with the same gentle and tender approach, you can’t help but feel it and be inspired by it – its to beautiful not to!
Thank you Gayle for your simple but deeply profound presentation about the essence of having a sacred relationship with ourselves and the amazing role model that Natalie Benhayon is in this regard. I am so grateful for being able to spend so much more time in stillness rather than consumed by nervous energy which was my default position until recently but realise that I have spent most of my life trying to get away from the fact I am a woman. Now I am being presented with the opportunity to deepen my connection with this and can choose to do everything with this as my starting point. A work in progress but I feel so inspired by your sharing and the practical nature of it makes it feel more attainable.
I know what you mean Helen when you say you have spent most of your “life trying to get away from the fact that I am a woman’. Me too. Thankfully, I came across Universal Medicine and Natalie Benhayon, a remarkable and truly joyful young woman who has inspired me to whole heartedly embrace my self as a woman and the results have been amazing. It is thanks to her wisdom and self connection that I can now fully embrace the awesome beauty that we as women bring to society. When we connect to our sacred energy within, our nurturing and stillness, it is a true gift for everyone and Natalie is a living example of the joy and deep healing these qualities bring.
Helen I can too relate to what you have shared. I also spent a lot of time getting away from being a women and that had showed up in the hardness in my body and also creating a constant nervous energy, keeping me in the doing all the time. As I have started to work on my stillness and really appreciate this feeling in my body, the hardness has started to shift and nervous energy has reduced. Body feels completely amazing, a work in progress.
Thank you Gayle, great article. I have been so inspired by Natalie Benhayon’s presentations and have begun to connect to my stillness and build it, which is a beautiful place to feel myself with. I have had much anxiety and nervousness throughout my life, caught up in doing, and have found the simple practical things you write of like how I make a cup of tea or feeling my hands and how I am using them has been a great tool to bring me back from the nervous/anxiousness.
Thank you Gayle for writing this blog. I enjoyed reading it. I have attended many of Natalie Benhayon’s presentations and I have also found her to be very inspiring, and very down to earth. Through her presentations I have started to allow myself to connect the word ‘sacred’ to myself.
‘Through her presentations I have started to allow myself to connect the word ‘sacred’ to myself.’ – Me too Debra.
I too am consistently inspired by the presentations of Natalie Benhayon, amazing and so true. Her Presence of a true women in stillness and full power is amazing to be with and the joy and laughter with it is infectious and soo soo loving. Sheer Beauty, inspiration and magnificence a true reflection to the world and her love for humanity and all women and what Natalie is offering to the world is simply Devine.Thank you Gayle for your lovely sharing.
Beautifully written Tricia, ‘her presence of a true woman in stillness and full power is amazing’. Natalie is an amazing role model, I find her deeply inspiring.
I agree Tricia and Rebecca – Natalie Behayon is a deeply inspiring role model for many women and men – Natalie shows us with ease how possible it is to live in a truly loving way, not holding herself back with anyone, and constantly showing how amazing she is – all the time inspiring others and showing us that we too are the same and can be the same.
Thank you Gayle. I have noticed avoidance of placing a comment on here for the last few days. What do I say? – I keep thinking. Each time I read the word sacredness I can feel this impetus to run in the other direction. Interesting as if ‘Being in sacredness is about a sacred relationship with self and being fully present and connected with yourself…and more’ – why would one want to run away from that? The word ‘Being’ keeps standing out as I read your words. Being in sacredness means we have to engage with it, be it and live it which is exactly what Natalie Benhayon is the epitome of. A woman to be naturally inspired by. When Natalie is with you, you can feel all of her and the attention she brings to the moment you are together is palpably felt. So much so that you can’t help but feel safe. Natalie is like this with everyone and it is inspirational to know that the more we each claim our sacredness we can be this with others too.
This is a very important discussion Shevon and I can feel the deep importance of connecting to our own sacredness and from there just deeply enjoying ourselves and then enjoying ourselves while we are with others. It is easy to have short lived moments of joy but to live this deep connection with your essences is a whole other factor and one that requires a deep dedication with you and your body. We very fortunate to have Natalie Benhayon in our lives reflecting to us how deeply scared we are and how simple are lives truly are when we simply connect to our own body and live life from their.
Beautifully said Amina, to make the commitment to be in continual connection with our sacred essence requires an ongoing dedication and focus, which I have not always found easy to do and live life at the same time!
Natalie reflects not only her exquisite sacredness every moment of the day, but shows us that it is very possible to maintain and deepen this connection with ourselves while living an every day life to the full, with plenty of joy, fun and commitment to her work. It is a pleasure, an inspiration and a privilege to know her.
Thank you Shevon. You have put the highlighter on an important issue….that sacredness is a state of being, not something we have, not something we pick up and put down. It is in us, it is us, all the time. We just have to choose to be it.
Hi Shevon……what an interesting and honest comment. You ask “why would one want to run away from that?” I suspect the answer might be “because there is a responsibility”. It’s one of those things that once you wake up to, it is hard to turn your back on. Once we connect to our sacredness, what excuse can we come up with for not being in our sacredness all the time? So, yes, of course, at first we think it might be easier to just run away from that!
Yesterday I attended a presentation on female genital mutilation. What sprang to mind was your comment Gayle and a sense of, even though I may not be able to do anything to physically stop this happening in the world, I can value my sacredness and connection and honour and value myself, so that I and other women get to know what sacredness is, just how Natalie shares this will us all. That’s the true responsibility.
Dear Gayle and Shevon. The exchange in your comments is both inspiring and supportive.
“Once we connect to our sacredness, what excuse can we come up with for not being in our sacredness all the time?” A great question Gayle, thank you.
Gayle what an inspiring question, ‘Once we connect to our sacredness, what excuse can we come up with for not being in our sacredness all the time?’ A responsibility to feel sacred all of the time, sounds pretty amazing when i really consider it!
Wow Gayle, awesome stuff. As I have been inspired through the presentations I have seen from Natalie Benhayon I, like Jonathan, have taken the time to appreciate not only a female role model but also what that means to the “all” of me. It’s so easy as a guy to ignore the sensitive, gentle and female side of me, but yet when supported in actually re-claiming that side of me and not shying away to societies conventions just how much more, strength, truth and courage I express.
Awesome Phill, it is amazing when we open up to be inspired by others, and Natalie is a very inspiring woman, showing everyone who cares to see that they are equally amazing.
There was so much I could relate to in your blog Gale that I felt to come back and read it again. Your words “As a woman, I’m learning to start with my stillness and anything I ‘do’ must come from that stillness. For me, the biggest distraction to my stillness is nervous energy.” Yes, it is mine too, but I am learning to recognise the two very different feelings in my body and that awareness is allowing me to bring myself back into the stillness before the nervous energy really start to get a hold.
Great article Gayle on introducing our sacredness as a woman. If we hadn’t have had Natalie to help us begin to develop our understanding of what sacredness means in its truest sense as a woman, and if we had not had her gorgeous example of how graciously we can live as women and lead full lives, I for one am very sure I would have been in the dark for a lot longer.
Natalie Benhayon is indeed an inspiring woman and role model for many women and by supporting women to be all they can be she is also helping men to be all they can be too.
Thank you Gayle – you have voiced what myself and I’m sure many other women feel (but could most certainly express more!) towards Natalie Benhayon, which is absolute appreciation of all that she has presented and reflected to us over the years of what it truly is to be sacred. She is a role model like no other.
Gayle, I so loved the balance between the really helpful practical aspects of this blog, such as the examples you gave of how you stay, and check whether you are present during your day to day activities, and the very profound nature of your topic, ‘the return to our true essence; that of living in a sacred relationship with self and in the sacredness of being a woman’, because of course the two are the same, our ‘return to the sacredness of being a woman’ must be lived fully in our practical day to day lives, it cannot be something separate and distinct from it.
It feels like your commitment to coming from stillness has been the simple key to knowing more about yourself and respecting where your body is at. That is absolutely how it feels for me – as I start to allow anxiousness and busyness less and less.
Natalie has been a pivotal point of inspiration for how we can exist in the world in a way that supports us and others.
Hi Gayle, I too am constantly inspired by Natalie Benhayon to live the True Woman that I am. I work with women on a daily basis and what I see most is women’s ill health on the incline and many women reporting feeling like they have lost who they are. True role models like Natalie Benhayon are very needed for women to be reflected who they truly are and begin to recognise that there is in fact a scared relationship to be had with self. No woman I know has ever known this innate quality within themselves yet it has always been there. How is it we have been led so far away from knowing something so precious within ourselves? Now, thanks to Natalie Benhayon and her unwavering dedication to people, thousands of women around the world are reconnecting back to this truth and in turn are beginning to reflect it to other women. It is now possible for women to start to know who they truly are and nurture this sacred relationship.
I love the detail and the descriptions that you share Gayle of what it means for you to feel sacred and to have conscious presence. As a man I have also been inspired by Natalie Benhayon, it is so great to have role models who walk the walk and bring a way of living that I know feels true.
Hi Gayle, thanks for sharing the ways you check in with yourself to see how still or not you are. This blog was clear and factual and its great when you feel there is a deepening available that you just aren’t getting to then read a blog which gives you an ‘aha’ moment. As you say glorious Natalie Benhayon is a young woman who undertakes many different tasks without going into doing but always remains still and emanates true beauty.
This feels so clear and vital, thank you Gayle. Very inspiring to be reminded of being in sacredness in all that we do.
Lovely Gayle, thanks for pointing out that doing is actually is tapping into male essence… That may we’ll help me become more aware of all the doing and remind me that I have left my sacred place…
Thankyou for this inspirational article Gayle. Returning to my sacred self is a journey I have only recently embarked on. The practical details of your day show us how simple it can be to reconnect, to return to stillness in the midst of the busy to do lists. I am inspired by Natalie and also Simone Benhayon with their clarity and wisdom and living stillness, yet also knowing that they both lead very full-on lives.
Hi Monica……Your comment about ‘letting go of the resistance to being a woman’ really jumped out at me. I hadn’t quite thought of it in those terms but when I saw the phrase, I knew it fit. I think for most of my life I was in resistance to being a woman, because somewhere along the line I had taken on the belief (or fear) that to be a woman was to be less than a man. Crazy thinking, I know, but it is a program I was running with for a long time. It is so good to have not only dropped the resistance, but to have fully embraced being a woman. Everyday I learn more about being me, as a woman.
Gayle, thank you for this great blog and for sharing your beatiful unfoldment with us.
I too feel inspired by and appreciate knowing that there are women such as Natalie Benhayon in the world for me and all other women to see that our current mainstream ‘role models’ and templates of women pale in comparison to the beauty that comes from within. I am only just re-learning now the practice of reminding myself and living daily with the fact that I can connect to that same quality I see within my true role models and to accept that this can be a normal way to live.
Gosh Gail, from when I read the start of your blog ‘I’ve been a late bloomer’ to all the way through, it’s like you’ve described me exactly without knowing me. I haven’t had similar experiences as you, it feels like I’ve had the exact same experiences. Thank you for putting them down so clearly for me to see. My biggest distraction is also nervous energy, busyness disrupts me too. So with this reflection, I’m going to work more on doing things WITH my sacred self too.
I really loved your article because of how practical you made it – breaking it down into what you do to stay present, and explaining the difference between staying present and building a scared relationship with self. And you are so right, Natalie Benhayon is such a massive and inspiring role model! Thank you for sharing.
This is a beautiful expression by a beautiful older woman about a beautiful young woman who enables us all to find the gift of the sacredness of the Divine Woman within. Thank you Gayle, for showing how that connection can be the impulse for everything we do in our daily lives. If we stay present with it then the whole quality of our thoughts, words, and actions changes and becomes gentle and respectful. As an older woman who has not lived from that sacred place in myself, I appreciate so much now being able to feel deep within myself, through practising the Sacred Movement, that Divine essence, which transforms my whole being.
Very inspiring thank you Gayle, it shows the real importance of such incredible individuals such as Natalie Benhayon who show us more of who we can be – something many don’t even consider is a possibility. Instead of settling when our life feels better to have the opportunity to be reminded of the truth of who we really are and the depth that is, is an amazing blessing.
What a joy to read this blog Gayle, thank you. I too have been immensely fortunate to have met Natalie and I cannot agree more with everything you share here. Natalie is an inspirational reflection of a woman who does not hold back an ounce of who she is, a woman who is deeply connected to her essence, her sacredness. That’s something rarely seen in our world today, and so many women are living very far away from who they truly are, myself having been one of them. With the the support and reflection of Natalie and from other women in her family as well, I’m now reconnecting to my own sacredness which is naturally there in all women. It is the deepest joy of joys, to allow myself to feel the fullness of me — and that is the immense healing and blessing Natalie brings every day to every woman that passes her way.
Top Article Gayle Cue – I like you was a late bloomer and this amazing woman Natalie Benhayon inspires me and is without any doubt a real role model. She makes me feel like I have the potential to do what she does and more but without the hard work, effort and drive that comes with doing more than one job. Her grace and beauty is a living example for all those like me who are ready to see it is possible for all of us Equally to have this too.
The tiny details you mention like how you grab the kettle when making a cup of tea is something I have really focused on for many years. I reckon that is what has really helped me to develop a deeper stillness and not get caught out constantly thinking ahead about something which then puts tension into my body and I feel racy. I am a work in progress for sure but well on my way as I choose to surrender to my sacredness.
Thank you so much Gayle for writting this blog. As I was reading it I could feel the absolute solidity in the stillness within me. I could also feel myself completely relating to the start of your blog where you talked about how you were unsure of how to be as a woman. You then expanding on this, about our sacredness being about being fully present with ourselves – as a woman is a deeply healing statement. I can already feel my body saying a deep thank you to you.
This is beautiful Gayle, I felt inspired reading your simple and practical examples of when you are present with yourself, and I loved reading, ‘I feel even more fortunate to be a woman, in a large group of women, who are helping pioneer the return to our true essence; that of living in a sacred relationship with self and in the sacredness of being a woman.’
Thank you Gayle for sharing your experience so beautifully. It is indeed amazing to have a true role model in Natalie Benhayon. She is a shining light and is showing us the way.
Beautifully said Gayle thank you for your honset sharing. I have seen Natalie Benhayon grow up into the amazing beautiful inspiring fun loving true women she is. All she is bringing and her dedication to all women in the world is absolute and transformational. Natalie Benhayon is showing women the true way to our innermost sacredness and treasuring of ourselves and our devine stillness we all carry within.
I wholeheartedly agree with your lovely blog Gayle – I, too (along with countless other women and men) have been deeply inspired by the amazing and gorgeous Natalie Benhayon, the Benhayon family and other practitioners at Universal Medicine. Through their consistency and commitment to truth I am aware of another way to live with simplicity by coming back to ‘being with myself’ and re-building a new foundation from a starting point of the innate stillness within.
My inner confidence and sense of that which is truly Sacred within me as a woman continues to unfold from this.
Thank you Gayle, this is deeply inspiring.
Gayle, I too am deeply inspired by Natalie Behayon to deepen the connection to myself and if I am honest I am just beginning to realise and feel the sacredness of being a woman and what that means. I can relate to your words: “I have an increasing awareness of when I am with myself and when I have dropped the ball and lost the plot. I am spending more time with myself nowadays so I know what that feels like and I still go in and out of being present with myself” I feel equally as fortunate as you “to be a woman, in a large group of women, who are helping pioneer the return to our true essence.”
Thank you for sharing Gayle, Natalie is deeply inspiring to myself, a man as well. A lot of what you have said is equally applicable to men, it is soo easy to get caught up in what I am doing and what I have to do that I can lose connection with myself especially when I focus on the end result – it puts my body into anxiousness as it is somewhere or something I am trying to get to instead of simply celebrating all of me and my quality of being in that moment. It is also deeply inspiring being around women who are returning to their essence and their sacredness.
Yes! Of course. Everything I’ve written does apply to a man. Because I am in the awesome journey back to my sacredness as a woman, I was writing exclusively from that perspective. But after reading your comment James, I can see that a man could be making the same journey back to his sacred self, as a man. Thanks for expanding the original idea to include everyone!
Thanks Gayle, even though you are writing from your perspective as a women they way you have written the blog/article does not exclude men in any way which is inspiring in itself. So thank you again for sharing.
Thank you Gayle for a very timely reminder to connect to stillness first as a woman and for taking presence to a deeper level. As a working mum my days are endlessly filled with “things to do” but if I choose to operate from the stillness first then the quality I live in will be rather more like that of Natalie’s – a gorgeous, loving, delightful inspiration. Again, thanks for the beautiful reminder!
Thank you Gayle “I feel very fortunate indeed to be able to attend these presentations in person but I feel even more fortunate to be a woman, in a large group of women, who are helping pioneer the return to our true essence; that of living in a sacred relationship with self and in the sacredness of being a woman.” I agree Gayle.
I have huge appreciation for the reflection that Natalie offers and have found this to be a great inspiration for connecting to sacredness. Very much a work in progress but the knowing of it being there inside me is amazing in itself.
Beautiful Gayle, you have summed up just how amazing Natalie Benhayon is, what an inspiring and beautiful young lady she is and how amazing it is when we are guided back to connecting with who we truly are. I love your last sentence. It is such a grace to be part of a group of woman who are not only connecting to their own essence, but celebrating every woman’s essence too. I can too easily slip away from my body and let my brain get busy with the day’s tasks and so thank you deeply for the reminders and tips on how to simply stay present and be aware of everything I am doing, for no other reason than to do with all of my presence and all of my body all at the same time!
Yes, Natalie is an inspiration and not just for women but also for us men. For by her being and expressing in her ‘fullness’ it provides men a reflection and opportunity to be who we are without having to engage in any sexual gender game playing that normally takes place, consciously or non-consciously, between men and women.
Thank you Jonathan for reminding us that men need women role models too!! I’m totally inspired by your comment!
Beautifully put Jonathan! As you say, the reflection of who we truly are can be felt, without the gender game intervening, either consciously or otherwise.
Thank you Gayle for sharing this. Reading your words brought me back to a stillness within my body and a deep appreciation of my relationship with myself and the sacredness of being a woman.
Wow. Thank you, Gayle, what you have shared is super profound and simple. Nervous energy and anxiousness have been my side-kicks for a very long time, actually my fuel and sustenance.
I have also had the privilege to spend time with Natalie Benhayon, to feel the ‘something amazing’ about her (living sacred-ness in full) and hear her present.
Nervous energy and anxiousness are still part of my life, but something is emerging through this old patterning and that something is an acceptance, appreciation and love for myself, as me, a women, in life. I am learning to hold myself with a tenderness and respect that is then the foundation for all my interactions in life.
That’s very beautiful Matilda, “I am learning to hold myself with a tenderness and respect that is then the foundation for all my interactions in life.” How special is it to re-introduce tenderness and respect into every interaction we have, whether with ourselves or with other people, regardless of who they are. It feels very fundamental as I know for one that my respect for those closest to me has not always been so great. How beautiful to make this a living reality in one’s life.
I am in awe of how the blog comments allow a deepening and connection with each other. Just as Matilda’s comment takes the original blog one step further by bringing in tenderness and respect, Rowen’s comment then takes that one step further by acknowledging Matilda’s…..and introducing the concept of respect for others as a natural deepening after living with respect of self. Who would have guessed that blogs can actually expand the Love field!
Gayle, this is a beautiful article sharing your experience of becoming more still and present with yourself as a woman. I really relate to much that you share, as I too am choosing to return to my true essence, ‘that of living in a sacred relationship with self and in the sacredness of being a woman’. Natalie is indeed an awesome role model for us women.
An inspiring blog Gayle, thank you.
I am also a ‘late bloomer’, but have certainly become much more aware of the way I move, speak, and hold myself.
I too am appreciating the reflection from a group of very inspiring women. You are very much one of them Gayle.
Gayle, I loved what you shared in the line… “Being in sacredness is about a sacred relationship with self and being fully present and connected with yourself…. and more.” What a timely reminder that connection to self is super important before we ‘do’ anything, and that everything we do go on to ‘do’ from this point, can then hold this same quality of connection. Thank you.
Thank you Gayle, for such a fabulous article reminding me of all the ways I can observe myself to see if I am with myself or somewhere else.
I love this blog Gayle, what is intriguing is how you present all that Natalie does, which is immense, but that she is able to ‘do’ it all without going into the ‘doing’/motion that you describe
That’s a great point Jessica and one that I’ve found really inspiring in Natalie, that she is absolutely committed to life and work and is very active whilst also staying connected with her sacredness and inner-stillness.
Who would have thought this was ever possible … To be committed to life and work, to be active and stay connected to our sacredness and inner-stillness. Our connection to our sacredness and the stillness within is key to living a full life with absolutely no drive or exhaustion and we now have so many living examples of this in those who have been inspired by Natalie. It’s never too late as you have demonstrated Gayle to connect to our sacredness and live in the woman’s body we were born in. You are an inspiration!
Well said Fiona
Absolutely Jessica. This is so inspiring.
So true Jessica . All that Natalie Benhayon does but not from a place of ‘doing’.
Like you Gayle I feel truly blessed to be a part of a pioneering group of women across the globe who have been deeply inspired beyond words by Natalie Benhayon and other equally gorgeous female practitioners in Universal Medicine. I love your line “knowing there is no right or wrong if I am in activity as my sacred self.” The activity as my sacred self just rings something inside me that I know to be true, that there is a true and sacred way to live every moment of every day, and hook or by crook I am going there, what an inspiration to know it is even possible. For that I am eternally grateful!
Hi Vanessa………This was the biggest gift of the presentation for me……..discovering that when I am in action as my sacred self, I am not plagued with wondering if I got it right or not. Living as my sacred self seems to have eliminated self-doubt! Big gift!
Thanks Gayle, this comment is a powerful testament – “Living as my sacred self seems to have eliminated self-doubt”, and an important message to share with all women.
So true Vanessa, I feel this also. The great gift and blessing and inspiration to know this is even possible. Natalie has awakened a potential and truth in all of us that resonates so deeply that when felt cannot be denied.
Wow Gayle, thank you for sharing this profound article that shows us how we can lose ourselves in the doing of life. I so recognise myself in your words: ‘For me, the biggest distraction to my stillness is nervous energy. If I am anxious or worrying there is a ‘busyness’ in me that disrupts my inner stillness.’ I recognise that one of the qualities in me as a woman is my stillness and I am learning to re-connect with that – it feels beautiful when I do. I love the reminders to check in when driving. For me gently touching anything is a great reminder – at the moment it is how I close a door, especially a heavy fire door, so that it doesn’t bang shut.
Great blog Gayle and something I have very much been aware of lately. I too am a late bloomer in realising my true essence as a woman and what it means to me. I have only now begun to recognise how little I am in my stillness and how much that affects everything I do. Without the reflection of Natalie, Simone, Miranda and Deborah Benhayon I would still be driving my body with male motion and pushing myself to get things done. As you say here Gayle, “Thank God, there are people like Natalie Benhayon who are presenting and demonstrating how to be role models for this profound way of living from their sacredness so that we have a reflection of what it looks like and what it feels like.”
Thank you, Gayle. We are blessed in so many ways to have the living example of Natalie Benhayon to help us reclaim our sacredness as women. She is gorgeousness personified with a profound and exquisite love of herself and everyone equally. I love your check point moments during the day, and the joy you share about your deepening connection to your sacredness.
I have loved reading your article Gayle, it is so clear and concise and makes complete sense to me. Thank you.
I too Gayle feel very fortunate indeed to have Natalie Benhayon in my life and attend wherever possible her presentations. She demonstrates a wisdom of the ages and does provide us with a true role model for women today.
Previously, I detested participating in any sort of women’s activities but with the presentations offered by Esoteric Women’s Health I have come to really enjoy them and appreciate what women have to offer and been inspired by many of the participants and hosts of the events to value myself more and explore what being a woman means to me.
I love this “explore what being a woman means to me”. So much freedom in looking at being a woman from this perspective!