Tertia Riegler

Pleasure and Liberation Embodiment

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First Principles for Living and Leading from Your Wild and Wise Feminine

In the hustle and bustle of our modern lives, it’s easy to lose touch with our inner selves, feeling overwhelmed and disconnected. But there’s a powerful antidote – the wise and wild feminine. (Listen to part 2 of the series here.)

Our wise and wild feminine is a source of inner wisdom that, when embraced, can lead to a deeply satisfying life. 

When you lead from your wise and wild self, you can’t go wrong. 

The world is burning and it’s easy to feel helpless rage and overwhelm. 

When our energy and our focus is out there, when we view all the atrocities that’s going on in the world where we feel helpless in our own ability to do anything about that, we are removed from our deeper truth, we move further away from ourselves. 

It takes us further away from our bodies, from our essence, from our wildness, our wisdom, and we become more disembodied.

While I don’t have all the answers, I do believe that we need to come back home to ourselves.  

We need to come back home to our wisdom, to our wildness, to our intuition, to our authenticity, to our joy, and to our pleasure, our creativity and our mystery.

First Principles for Living and Leading from Your Wild and Wise Feminine

What the world needs at this time is women like us.

Women who are awakening.  

Women who are honouring and listening to their desire and yearning for more.

Women who long to live into their purpose.  Who long to contribute, to make a difference and to see change happen, whether it’s on a family level, on a systemic level, or on a global level. 

In this episode, I offer a roadmap for women seeking a more fulfilling and authentic life, contributing to positive change on various levels.

I share: 

  • The first principles for living and leading from your wild, wise feminine
  • Coming into right relationship with yourself, and your shadow aspects
  • Move beyond externalized self-care and fill your cup internally, creating spaciousness, ease, and resilience.
  • Align with the cyclical nature of time, bringing harmony to work, relationships, and well-being.
  • In a logic-driven world, have the courage to trust intuitive knowing, for decisions aligned with your deepest truth.

Embracing the Wild and Wise Feminine: Principles for Living a Fulfilling Life

The wise and wild feminine is a beacon of inner wisdom. Here are the first 4 principles that guide us in unlocking this powerful force for a more fulfilling life.

Principle 1: Cultivate the Right Relationship with Yourself

Peel back the layers of the “good girl” and confront the shame that often accompanies her. Accepting all aspects of yourself, even the uncomfortable ones, brings wholeness. It’s not about fixing; it’s about integrating. Reflect on where you’ve turned on yourself and bring those hidden parts into the light.

Principle 2: Fill Your Own Cup First

True self-care goes beyond external indulgences. Start your day by tending to your body first, engaging all five senses. This isn’t about adding pressure but creating ease and flow in your life. Nourish yourself authentically, moving beyond societal expectations of self-care.

Principle 3: Lean into Natural Rhythms

Step away from the linear concept of time and embrace the cyclical nature of time. Align your life with the current season, reflecting on how it influences your work, relationships, and well-being. Harmonise with nature’s cycles for a more balanced and fulfilling life.

Principle 4: Trust Your Inner Wisdom

In a world that favours logic, trusting your intuition may seem unconventional. Yet, the wise and wild feminine taps into a vast web of inner knowing. Reflect on past experiences where you either listened to or ignored your inner wisdom. Trusting your inner wisdom aligns you with your deepest truth.

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How the Practice of Embodiment Leads to Liberation

Do you ever find yourself toggling between different versions of you, depending on the setting?

For most of us, It’s a familiar scenario; some days, we shine brightly, while on others, we feel constrained.

If we unpack that a little more though, we’ll see that there are many layers to what it means to be fully yourself.  

Some layers have to do with who you think you should be.  Other layers are about who you don’t want to be.  And then in between there are those layers of our most true self and the push-pull tension of giving expression to that. 

If you are habitually presenting a curated version of yourself to the outside world, you may find that your inner fire starts to burn lower, and your voice becomes fainter until you are lost in these layers of self.

And so too often we move through the world as mere whispers of our expression.  We are like the watered-down version of a piece of art that is meant to be vibrant and rich in the full lustre of colours available.  

3 Ways that Embodiment Leads to Liberation

This episode is about how we can orient ourselves to living lives where where feel free to be ourselves without hiding behind masks or dressing ourselves up in prescribed roles.  

I share:

  • How the skill of embodiment can free our self-expression and take us from standing with only one foot in our lives to being all in.
  • Embracing the full spectrum of your authentic self.
  • Making the shift from mental overdrive to feeling the aliveness in your body.
  • Waking up your Wild Woman and freeing yourself from internal constraints.

The Power of Embodiment: Three Pathways to Liberation

Expanding Your Range

In the journey of self-expression, embodiment becomes the key to expanding your range. Like a pianist exploring the entire keyboard, you discover new notes within yourself, moving from playing a few familiar ones to creating a masterpiece. The societal narratives dictating which notes are acceptable fade away as you embrace the full spectrum of your authentic expression.

Feeling More Alive

In a world dominated by mental engagement, the art of embodiment allows us to drop into our bodies, fostering sensitivity to the current of aliveness within. Shifting between mind and body, we become more attuned to the fire in our bellies, breaking free from the habitual confinement to the top part of our bodies. Feeling alive becomes a skill that empowers us to name and live our desires.

Waking Up the Wild Woman

Embodiment is a transformative force that wakes up the wild woman within. Dissolving internal scaffoldings imposed by societal expectations, embodiment frees us to be unapologetically ourselves. Our souls come home, reassembling the fragmented parts scattered by, amongst other things, societal norms. Liberation, in its truest form, emerges as we root ourselves in self-trust, enoughness, and self-agency.

Embrace Your Inner Wisdom Through Embodiment

Embarking on a quest to be fully self-expressed is like pulling on the threads of an intricate tapestry. The journey involves deciphering the influences that shape our perceived identity, from societal expectations to internalized judgments. Your liberation lies in the depth of your being, and the pathway is through embodiment, a practice that liberates your life force energy and connects you to your inner wisdom. 

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Descent into the Underworld, your Wild Woman and the Good Girl

It’s my experience that your wild woman can only be fully received once you have made your descent into the underworld.  

When your wild woman calls to you, it is because you are ready to receive the gifts that she brings.

The wild woman carries the gifts of liberation.  The gifts of fierce self-agency.  And the gifts of being connected to the greater cycles of life.

The underworld is the realm of the dark goddess.  She brings us face to face with those parts of us that have to die so that we can be reborn.

Meeting our wild woman usually goes hand in hand with choosing who we are becoming. 

In this hyper-masculine patriarchal world, our wild woman has been accused of being too unpredictable, too cyclical, too hormonal, too emotional.  

It is praised and preferred that we stay good girls, since our wild woman is simply too much.

And so when our wild woman starts to wake us up, to call us to her so that we can return to our truth it can feel scary, and even painful as we go against what we’ve been taught.

Descent into the Underworld

In this episode, I talk about how the underworld may be a place of liberation instead of a place to fear, and share  2 underworld journey nuggets that I hope will support you no matter where you are on your path towards embodying your truth and freeing your self-expression. 

I share: 

  • The wild woman and your evolving identity
  • Embracing the process of transformation and letting go of outdated parts of ourselves
  • Events and circumstances that may launch our descent into the underworld
  • The tussle between the good girl and the wild woman
  • Surrender as a path to shortening your time in the underworld
  • Reorienting our perception of time 

The Awakening Call

Your wild woman’s call, though initially daunting, marks the beginning of your descent into the underworld. The underworld, synonymous with the Dark Night of the Soul, forces us to confront uncomfortable aspects that must die for rebirth.

A Prelude to the Underworld

Maureen Murdoch’s Heroine’s Journey introduces life-changing events like death, role transitions, illness, and broken hearts as gateways to the underworld. These moments challenge our identities, pushing us into the labyrinth of self-discovery. The underworld, though feared, holds the promise of wisdom on the other side.

Good Girl vs. Wild Woman

The journey into the underworld unveils the battle between the good girl and the wild woman within us. The good girl, deeply ingrained through generations, thrives on self-abandonment. In contrast, our wild woman is untamed, and follows another agenda than the one preached by this hyper-masculine world.

Nuggets for the Underworld Journey

Nugget 1: Letting Go of Control

Conscious surrender and letting go of control are essential in reducing the agony of wandering through the underworld. Our need to control creates an illusion of safety, and by consciously orienting towards acceptance, softening, and receiving our time in the underworld can be eased.

Nugget 2: Reframing Time

Acknowledge that your journey takes as long as it takes, mirroring the rhythm of nature. Embrace the seasons of your life, allowing each phase its due time for growth, reflection, and transformation. This asks that you reject the hyper-masculine view of time and efficiency and instead align with natural cycles.

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