AWAKENING TO APHRODITE "MAGICAL RITUALS FOR HUG YOUR INNER BEAUTY AND LIGHT YOUR LIFE. "
Every woman carries within it many goddesses. Identify and give life helps us to increase our self-consciousness.
Aphrodite, the ancient Mother Goddess of the Mediterranean, is the goddess who rules the enjoyment of love for oneself, beauty, sensuality and creativity of women.
Dare to invoke!
Upcoming sessions: Premia de Mar (Barcelona) on 21 November.
Finestrat (Alicante) December 28.
Program of the meeting:
Welcome Circle. Women's circles. The sacred feminine. Aphrodite myth. Aphrodite archetype. The dark side of Venus. Ritual to discover the Goddess on Earth. Meditation with Aphrodite. I hand my dance . Invocation to the Goddess. Final dance. Farewell circle.
Yes, it ends in August and I said nothing of my film course. Ended in late July and the first for the corrections, then because I was sick, then because I was lazy ... would postpone the time to value. But, as always, was a wonderful course that exceeds the minimum academic and experience becomes enriching life. Because when I do my course I forget that I'm doing a course. I prefer to feel like a woman sharing my thoughts, my ambitions, my world view. Most of my students are women and men who are (increasing number) are those who do not mind cultivate their femininity, otherwise not attend a course in women. Thus, women and feminine men, it is easier to share what they think. That the matter be movies or mythology, or literature, is not important. The important thing is to create among all a warm and begin to release what we have inside, what concerns us as women, discrimination, the complex, the joys, the injustices, the laughter, the fears, questions ... I am always surprised same thing: how little women know about ourselves. Used to measure ourselves by the standard male and patriarchal, we know nothing or very little about our potential, our power, our true desires on the rest of the world's women past and present. Used to admire the beauty from the male point of view, we must learn to look the other way to perceive another beauty. That may not match the fees, which may then blow conventional beauty, but that, once trained in practice that different way of looking, offers a kind of satisfaction different because they no longer restrict ourselves to admire the best, most important, most expensive, more modern, but admired what is worthy in our eyes, our real eyes of sincere admiration. And so, in the course of film, we learned to admire the group of Free Women of the Second Republic, the "New Woman" of the 30, who was trying to pretend to be modern and if you attempt fell short by pressure social. A post-war women, gagged with the weapons of the seam and the broom to prove themselves as women, the dark bedroom and accusing fingers on the street. In the crazy girls in the transition, which were dyed hair and the soul of rebellion and took to the streets to shout their freedom. We learned to mourn the abusers hits of patriarchy, to smile with bittersweet tones by the vicissitudes of today's women, trapped in a pink dream never satisfied until exercise of superwomen in a world of middle men. And once again, I met women. Wonderful women, some who finished the race, other combining the course with their work and family, others who did everything at once: career, work and family. And again, thank you for everything you have taught me, for the affection you have given me and my hat is humbled by their courage and patience to listen to my rants. Women Power!
Ramírez How to have a look and a flirty smile or a subtle touch a woman's hair? Learn and apply the art of seduction, creativity and beauty without a purpose archetypal frivolous and banal, it's part of what is taught in the school of God, in Mexico City.
Here, women can become geishas and penetrate the okiya (geisha house), learn the arts of Scheherazade with the magic of the spoken word, how convincing and redirect the circumstances in his favor. Amazons can be
XXI century to discover the sources of power and achieve any goal; activate the gifts of Aphrodite to discover the particular beauty and charm; celebrate menopause and femininity through the rhythm of the hips, the softness of waving hands and body.
is a Mexican school educational model which is based on formal disciplines, with certified teachers Ceneval and the Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey.
School of Goddesses in female development are working through the body (dance), visualizations, meditations, rituals transformational traditional practices, psychodrama, learning metaphorical circle of women where they talk and exchange experiences, always watching what they do women, especially in modern society.
Maricruz Sanchez Pineda, an anthropologist, a specialist in female development and founder of this school, explained that the model part of their studies with teachers of the old Russian tradition, Hispanic, Arabic and Hindi, as well as psychotherapists, teachers and instructors workshops and seminars in Mexico, United States, Canada, Spain, Turkey, Egypt and Greece.
"We use the strategies that women of different cultures practice to approach aspects of their feminine essence and use the symbolic meaning of the goddesses of old to learn, "he said.
Pineda Sanchez said that the purpose of your school is addressing the problems of modern women through workshops to achieve emotional balance, confidence and self esteem.
"The feminine has been cast aside, we are masculinized in our arrangement, our time, our careers and the challenges of a cultural issue.
"Women have the need to seduce and I'm not just talking about sexual seduction into a man have the power to develop a charisma, of open spaces with a smile, a flirty attitude and now reject all this because we think it is unworthy to exercise those resources for private gain, "said the anthropologist.
Arabic dance to Maricruz is essential in teaching. Its practitioners feel more happy and in harmony, and increasing their confidence and self esteem and generate a rediscovery of his feminine side, and curves of their bodies.
A Goddess School come from seven women over 70 years and its methodology is also applied to universities and the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, as a training tool for self-esteem and security students.
"come housewives, college, girls of seven, executive women working in male-dominated environments, who feel overwhelmed, stuck in the rigid, hard, in places where you can not express the feminine, women who wear a suit Taylor, short hair, no jewelry to do their jobs, "she added.
a short while my course "Women in Spain through the contemporary cinema." It is the second summer that impart and hopefully do as well as last summer. Powerful women I met and enjoyed as a dwarf. The course, offered from the Centre for Women's Studies at the University of Alicante, will take place on March, 10, 14, 21, 17, 24, 28 and 31 July. Here are the schedule and the program and if someone wants to register yet, below is the link to the page CEM:
PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE
Hours:
Days 3 and 31: From 16.00 to 18:15 h. Days 10 to 28: From 16:00 to 20:30, with 15 minutes break
DAY 3
16:00 to 18:15 Exhibition Degrees, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (Building C)
Course introduction
The English woman the twentieth century, from the Second Republic to the present
DAY 10
16:00 to 18:15 Graduate Hall, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (Building C) 18:30 to 20:30 Classroom FI/2-07M Building Studies, Fac Arts (Building I)
The Republic II: The "New Women"
Belle Epoque, Fernando Trueba Watching the film. Analysis and commentary
DAY 14
16:00 -18:15 Graduate Hall, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (Building C) 18:30 to 20:30 Classroom FI/2-07M Building Studies, Fac Arts (Building I)
The Civil War: Women who lost peace Libertarian , Vicente Aranda Watching the film. Analysis and commentary
DAY 17
16:00 -18:15 Graduate Hall, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (Building C) 18:30 to 20:30 Classroom FI/2-07M Studies Building , Fac Arts (Building I)
The English Civil War: live in dark times Hive , Mario Camus Viewing of the film. Analysis and commentary
DAY 21
16:00 -18:15 Graduate Hall, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (Building C ) 18:30 to 20:30 Classroom FI/2-07M Building Studies, Fac Arts (Building I)
The Democratic Transition: Learning freedom The Calentito , Chus Gutiérrez Viewing of the film. Analysis and commentary
DAY 24
16:00 -18:15 Graduate Hall, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (Building C) 18:30 to 20:30 Classroom FI/2-07M Building Studies, Fac Arts (Building I)
Current Issue I: Gender Violence
Take My Eyes of Icíar Bollaín Watching the film. Analysis and commentary
DAY 28
16:00 -18:15 Graduate Hall, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (Building C) 18:30 to 20:30 Classroom FI/2-07M Studies Building ; Fac . Philosophy and Letters (Building I)
Current Issue II: Immigrant Women Flowers From Another World, Bollaín Icíar mink the film. Analysis and commentary
DAY 31
16:00 to 18:15 Graduate Hall, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (Building C)
Closing
course and final work
Registration: http://www.ua.es/cem/cursos/2008-2009/index.htm This may be done in person at CEM office (Lecture II, 2 nd floor) or electronically.
After a few years late and many adventures, finally came out this precious and indispensable volume that I also feel proud to be involved. Right now (and is that the universe has a surprising order and balance) I'm lost in the preparation a workshop on non-sexist language ... When will speak well and correctly all? Without excluding each other, not despise one sex over another, with propriety, wisdom, elegance (which Politeness does not bold) ... When will this recognition in the language of our struggle to be and to be present has not been in vain? When do to endless discussions about the usefulness or uselessness and non-sexist language, but simply unrealistic of those who call themselves intellectuals or scientists or philologists or just smart and do nothing but contempt with attitude to women around them, love them, their caregivers, appreciate them, tolerate them, they have produced, that accompany them, hear them, understand them, coddle them, they wish, inviting them to coffee, talked to men? Discuss sexist discourse is not exactly the same as speaking of sexist language. What language is not distance himself from the social, but necessarily social. So the classic discussion about whether the English language is sexist or not "as" more sexist or less than other languages \u200b\u200b("as such") is certainly very interesting for us linguists, but probably is " out of focus "for scholars of the social. As a social phenomenon that is, sexism can be manifested in any field, and achieve reflection (explicit or implicit) in the language (though not always or necessarily). around us (in the media, in literature, in our work or in our daily lives ...) are often events and facts that reasonably would say an underlying viewpoint or ideology clearly sexist sexist speech, but not always easy to find traces involved explicit language and precise words to the phenomenon.
vigara ANA MARÍA Taussig. "of sexism, language, speech and gender discrimination," "Appointment in women. The judge's flagship event." English Language Teacher Professor in the Department of English Philology III (School of Information Sciences, Universidad Complutense de Madrid). Research work focused on the study of spoken language (especially in its spoken aspect, "colloquial" or conversational) of youth discourse, and the use of language in the media (periodicals, radio, television) and sexism Discourse and language. BERDET Esther Forgas. "By following clues: the emergence of women in the dictionary." Ph.D. in Romance Philology from the University of Barcelona, \u200b\u200bProfessor of English Language at the University Rovira i Virgili of Tarragona. EULÀLIA LLEDÓ CUNILL. "In mares, cows, herds and broody". PhD in Romance Philology from the UB, is a high school teacher in Barcelona and collaborative teaching universities. JOAQUIN AGUIRRE ROMERO Maria . "Women and reading. The formation of the novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries." PhD in Information Sciences and professor. Holder of Journalism Universidad Complutense. MARIA ELENA GOMEZ . "Women columnists and political events." PhD in Information Sciences and Professor of Journalism Writing at the European University of Madrid. DOLORES ANNUNCIATION IGUALADA Belchí . "Strategies for the image in the female parliamentary speech (Constituent Assembly). PhD in Romance Studies and Professor of English Language at the University of Murcia. CASTAÑON JESUS \u200b\u200bRODRIGUEZ. " Women and sport. Evolution of women's presence in football English. "Doctor Honoris Causa by the Latin American Council in honor of the Quality of Education and Doctor of Philology. IBAIA Aramburuzabala ARRIETA ." We are men! Machismo in men's magazines. "Degree in Translation and Interpretation from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid and has done doctoral courses of the Language and Literature in relation to the media at the School of Information Sciences at the University Complutense de Madrid. FELIX RODRÍGUEZ GONZÁLEZ . "The stereotypical gay feminine characterization. Professor of Philology English at the University of Alicante, and a PhD in Romance Linguistics from the University of Alberta (Canada). ANGIE SIMONIS . "Lesbofilia: the unfinished business of feminism English." Degree in English Philology. http://huergayfierro.com/html/files/NOVEDADES_28239.html
This course examines the different myths and conceptions of the deities women in different cultures with the intention of giving you a part of the culture of women historically silenced and distorted.
From creation myths to the present female latest modern witches, offers a new insight into the power of women dismantling stereotypes and issues related to the culture of patriarchy, since the malignancy attributed to the female goddesses and mythical characters in different cultures, the qualities that ideology has been awarded to women based on the concept of gender dicotonómica as submissiveness, passivity, the ethics of care, reproductive sexuality, the imposition of motherhood and marriage as the only destinations for women, separation of both the public / private, etc.
Receivers
Women of any age without specific cultural level
Objectives:
- Review female myths of various cultures from the perspective of gender.
- Re-female figures mean that the male-centered tradition has considered negative and rescue for the modern woman as emblems of power and personal growth.
- Increase self-esteem of women with the knowledge of the inherent qualities of female myths.
- Promote women's empowerment with new visions alternative culture on women to provide them self-confidence to face conflicts and problems of today.
- detect, prevent and promote the rejection of the attitudes of gender inequality that affect women in our society and which result in violence (real and symbolic) of one gender over another.
9 .- The alchemical goddess: Aphrodite, goddess of love and beauty, creativity through the sex drive.
BLOCK 4: The celebration of femininity.
10. The Goddess within every woman.
11. Rituals of Power and ceremonies.
12. Conclusions and final big party.
Methodology
The lectures are interspersed with artistic activities (painting, writing, etc..) And group dynamics that reinforce the content (games, dances, displays, nature walks ...).
Each session lasts two hours to combine both aspects of the methodology.
Duration: 24 hours
Resources
Ample and clear as possible the movement. It is desirable that students bring blanket, mat or similar to sit or lie comfortably on the floor.
SOME BRAVE WOMEN: WRITING WORKSHOP-COURSE OF WOMEN
DESCRIPTION: This course is an interactive workshop that combines content on women's literature in English, both classic and current techniques of creative writing, covering various genres (poetry, fiction and essays, mostly).
DURATION: 31 hours
OBJECTIVES: - Meet some of the most significant writers of the English language in Spain and Latin America through its texts and biographies, context and challenges as women faced to write and be recognized as authors. - Meet women's writing, its history and its ongoing thematic and formal and silencing and historical discrimination that has been subjected by the dominant culture. - Develop skills to start or continue a writing process that facilitates personal quest for ways of artistic expression. - Introduce basic techniques of poetry, fiction and essays, based on examples from the works of women writers studied. - Promote self-esteem of women through creativity.
RECEIVERS: Women of any age and cultural level. METHODOLOGY
Alternating theoretical notions (authors, texts, literary theory), in digital and printed, using techniques that encourage writing (games, exercises in animation writing, reflection and discussion, group dynamics, viewing movies, etc..).
CONTENTS Item 1. Milestones of international feminism. Mary Wolstonecraft to the present. Workshop: From the window. Item 2. Feminist Criticism: Virginia Woolf, Ellen Showalter, Sandra Gilbert & Susan Gubard. Workshop: What is the women's literature? Debate. Item 3. Women's Literature and Life. Film: The Hours. Reflection: different ways of telling a story. Item 4. Brief history of women's writing. Historical overview of its precursor. Workshop: Time, space, point of view. Item 5. Word of women in English. From jarchas until the late nineteenth century. Workshop: Remembering our ancestors. Description (I). Item 6. The grandmothers of the literature. Writers nineteenth Gertruidis Gómez de Avellaneda. Workshop: Remembering our grandmothers. Description (II) Item 7. The Second Republic and the awakening of feminism: Carmen de Burgos. Mary Lejárraga, contradiction between a woman and a feminist. Workshop: The Autobiography. Item 8. The Civil War: Llum Quiñonero. Women who have lost peace. Workshop: The interview as a literary device. Dialogue. Item 9. The unjustly forgotten: Carmen Conde. Workshop: Poetry (I): feelings and poetic expression. Metaphors. Item 10. The mothers of literature in the Franco I. Ana Maria Matute, Carmen Martin Gaite. Realism of the war. Workshop: Storytelling (I). Item 11. The mothers of literature in the Franco II. Gloria Fuertes, wife of verse in his chest. Workshop: Poetry (II). Reciting poetry. Item 12. Daughters in the English Transition: Ours is writing. Rosa Montero, Marina Mayoral. Workshop: Narrative (II). Item 13. Hispanic sisters I. The magic realism of Isabel Allende Workshop: Narration (III). Item 14: The English-American sisters II. The kitchen and literature. Movie: Like Water for Chocolate. Item 15. Hispanic sisters II. Gioconda Belli. Workshop: Poetry (III). The verse and the body released. Item 16. Granddaughters: The new woman. Young Writers: Lucía Etxebarria. Debate: final conclusions and farewell of the course.
RESOURCES: classrooms equipped with overhead projectors and the possibility of removal of furniture for the group dynamics. Photocopies of the course material. notebooks for students.
film criticism and analysis for prevention sexism and gender violence
DURATION: 30 hours
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course aims provide an overview of women in Spain through cinema of directors and national directors of prestige, and analysis from the perspective of gender, have projected images of English women some of the best films in contemporary cinema English, proposed or overcome stereotypes and the most recent issue of the modern English woman.
Following a chronological approach, the course covers the progressive modernization of the concept of femininity in the English State and the peculiar evolution of feminist claims and accomplishments, cultural and social English women.
Separated from the rest of Europe under Franco, the English have been equated with amazing speed to women of other Western countries with a steeper trajectory of feminism and progress on equal rights for women, which has led, paradoxically, a crisis of gender relations, whose most dramatic consequence is the increase of violence against women within the couple.
OBJECTIVES:
- Give introduce students to aspects of English history and culture, focusing on women, to have an overview of developments in the history of our country, which has been silenced or minimized the importance of women so that is valued and taken into account by future generations.
- Unveiled by analyzing film, stereotypes about women prevalent in English society, in order broader prevention behaviors and behaviors that foster gender inequalities still prevalent in our society.
- Prevention, from the critical knowledge of the above, the various forms of violence against women, the consequences are not restricted to military or sexist violence, but encompassing many other aspects such as inequality in the labor field, the lack of parity and representation in positions of power bodies and the impossible to reconcile motherhood and career, discriminatory attitudes against women in immigrant protagonists of sexual diversity, prostitution and trafficking of women, etc ...
RECEIVERS:
Women and men of all ages and cultural . PROGRAM
Item 1: Presentation of the course. Essential concepts of gender. Brief history of English women in the twentieth century, since before the Second Republic to the present. Item 2: nineteenth-century woman. grandfather of José Luis Garci . Item 3: The Second Republic: the "new woman." The Whore and the Whale Luis Puenzo . Item 4: The Civil War: The girls who never grew up. Pan's Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro. Item 5: The English Civil War. Live in dark times: Secrets of the Heart Montxo Armendariz. Item 6: The Democratic Transition: Learning to freedom. The Calentito , Chus Gutierrez. Item 7: Current Issue I. Mothers and daughters Single of Benito Zambrano. Item 8: Current Issue II. Gender Violence. Take My Eyes of Icíar Bollaín. Topic 9: Current Issue III: Women at the edges. Immigration, prostitution, crime ... Princess Fernando León. Item 10: Conclusion: better alone than in bad company. Back by Pedro Almodovar. Close and conclusions.
METHODOLOGY:
dynamics course viewing of films and an analysis and subsequent discussion by the students moderated by the teacher, who will provide information and documentation related to the film and the time reflected, leading to the conclusions of participants to a reading of gender.
movies generally last about 180 minutes, which should add about three or so to the analysis and commentary later and fifteen minute break.
RESOURCES:
Classrooms equipped with cannon, PC and audio or, failing with TV and DVD.
Furniture should be movable to facilitate the work groups.
