Jaguar Womban is a multidimensional healing artist, medicine woman, visionary, and mother of The Womb Nation. She is an intuitive herbalist, poet, and teacher finding ways to connect to Mother Earth through plant medicine and ceremonies. Jaguar teaches the unique self-care ritual of womb steaming as a ritual of prayer and a sacred tool to awaken our innate womb wisdom and divine internal guidance system.

Jyoti talks about how the root of undervalued women started when the Vatican sent out letters, or the papal bull, to people across all continents and saying that the people living outside of western civilization were less than human and needed to be brought into the Church, foregoing their cultures. If they disobeyed, they would be killed, and their land would be taken. That was when land started to become possessed and the strand with Mother Earth herself cut. This forced colonized states to form over centuries and eventually led to land being objectified and commodified.

Dr. Nicole Gruel is an author, speaker, Mama, and a specialist in spiritual health. She comes from a 450-year lineage of samurai. A near-death experience and numerous other spiritually transformative experiences inspired her to cheerlead others through their extraordinary experiences towards life, prosperity, joyful livelihood, and into becoming the agents of awesome they were meant to be.

Usha explains how just as Mother Earth experiences seasons, so do women. The first phase is the follicular phase or what Usha calls the “inner spring” because that’s when its freshness comes over our body and it begins once the blood of your menstrual cycle stops; the next is the ovulatory phase or the “inner summer” where we experience our ovulation or the peak of fertility; the luteal phase or “inner autumn” is when estrogen falls and progesterone rises which increases the linings of our uterus; lastly is menstruation or “inner winter” where progesterone falls and triggers the release of the endometrium and the shedding or the release of blood.

Marysia Miernowska explains that our extractive capitalist culture is to blame. The modern world equates self-worth to productivity, pushing people to work past their limits. It’s not just our bodies that are suffering, but the Earth as well. To combat burnout, we must value rest. We must re-learn the pace of growth and healing—processes which take time. We cannot recover faster than the pace of recovery.

Jeremie Lotemo explains that this allegiance has been socialized from a young age. Fathers teach their sons how to dismiss their mothers. Sports initiates kids into a culture of dominance. There is no space for kindness and warmth. To be respected, men have to reject their emotions.

Nina Simons is an award-winning social entrepreneur and visionary thinker. She is co-founder of Bioneers and its Everywoman’s Leadership program. Her work currently focuses on writing, speaking and teaching about women, leadership, diversity, nature, systems thinking, leading from the heart, and restoring the feminine in us all.

There is so much going on in the world right now and as the divine feminine is rising, her awakening presence is the one doing the shaking and showing the structures that make people feel stuck, their trauma bubbling to the surface.

The Great Feminine Divide—as Jamie Elizabeth Thompson calls it—starts in childhood. From a young age, most girls were bought up to believe that sex is taboo. But sexuality is a natural and essential aspect of human nature, and we intuitively know this. The lack of safe spaces prevents women from exploring their sexuality so instead they carry shame about having erotic thoughts and desires.

There is no space for men’s pain. Society expects them to put on brave faces even when they are hurting inside. Men are taught to reject their feelings, and with it, the feminine. In the past, they were once warriors and providers who had to compartmentalize their emotions in order to succeed.

“Was Jesus married?” Margaret embarked on her own journey to uncover the truth about the lost bride of Christ after reading Holy Blood, Holy Grail. In her research, she found that the church has been trying to suppress the sacred marriage between Jesus and Mary Magdalene for thousands of years.

Born in post-war Germany, Turiya carried collective trauma with no means of addressing it. She and her husband experienced a profound change after their first encounter workshop and Jungian psychotherapy session in the 70s.

Womb healer and herbalist Raven Rose urges us to reframe the way we see menstruation. The phases of our menstrual cycle are like seasons. Each new season brings an opportunity for release, transformation, and creativity. There is a mysticism present in the connection between our womb spaces and the sun, moon, and planets.

Everyone longs for unconditional love and acceptance. In our world that is conditioned to judge, so many of us have felt like we don't belong. People strive for money, fame, and power in an attempt to feel worthy. When we act according to these preconceived notions of what we should be like, we are unable to form real relationships.

Guatemala has faced hundreds of years of colonization and oppression–keeping the women feeling distant, unworthy, and traumatized. Upon arriving in Guatemala, the Maya people were wary of Dr. Marie and her intentions but her constant presence eventually earned the community’s trust.

Why do we judge each other? Instead of facing the wounds we carry, we project them onto other people. Ironically, we fear criticism and yet we participate in it too. This fear of being misunderstood and betrayed is deeply ingrained in our psyches—especially in women who have been historically excluded and condemned.

The divine is not limited to one specific gender or race but for most of us, we’ve been conditioned to believe that the only acceptable form of God is that of a white male. This limited patriarchal view of religion breeds misogyny and white supremacy.

“Intuition is a practice of reading the unseen” according to master intuitive Nikki Novo. But she wasn’t always attuned to her mystic gift of intuition. As a child, she showed no signs of being a psychic, except for her fascination with the divine. After a bad breakup in her twenties, Nikki sought out clairvoyants for answers.

In India, women were taught to be good wives and mothers—and sadly this still holds true in many parts of the country. Despite being a goddess-worshiping culture, Indian society still upholds outdated patriarchal views. Hindu mythology has great reverence for warrior goddesses, for they have the capacity to be both nurturing and destructive at the same time.

Renouncing the patriarchy is not about shaming men. Throughout time, the preference for the masculine has been perpetuated by the skewed view of God as an exclusively male deity. This patriarchal ideology has affected not just women, but all beings.