Dakini’s main focus is on guiding retreats and workshops on the divine feminine. She has a passionate interest in exploring the feminine within the context of the Sufi path and in integrating ancient and contemporary feminine spirituality with Sufism. Below are some of the themes she explores in the individual and group retreats and workshops she guides.

Contact Dakini if you would like to organize an event in your area.

Inner Goddess Retreat

In this retreat we work with the archetype of the Goddess as virgin, mother, and crone in order to support us in balancing and embodying the qualities of each of these aspects of our feminine nature. Journaling and movement are used to support us in our intention. For those interested, Sufi practices may be also be included zikr and wazaif.

In recent years a candle has been added to the Universal Worship to honor the tradition of the Great Goddess and the Re-emerging Feminine in our time. During this retreat or workshop, we take this as our theme. What is the tradition of the Goddess? Why is it important to us at this time? What is the ‘Re-emerging Feminine? We will work with Sufi practices such as zikr and wazaif as well as movement, and other contemporary practices to answer these questions and help us to connect with the deep feminine soul and find support for its and our emergence into our daily lives and the world today. This is offered in either retreat or workshop format.

The Handless Maiden is a fairy tale of a woman who loses and regains her hands. It recounts one woman’s archetypal journey from helplessness and dependency to full creative empowerment! Perhaps her story is also your story! During this workshop, we will tell the story, work with Sufi practices such as wazaif and zikr, as well as journaling and movement. In some situations, if time allows, we will make and decorate plaster casts of each other’s hands, and use the casts in ritual. In this way, we will take significant steps on our own journey to empowerment!

Taking the Sufi mystic Ibn’Arabi’s teaching as our foundation, we will explore ways to bring make these teachings a reality in our lives. Contact Dakini for more information.

Hazrat Inayat Khan has been quoted as saying that the “Goal of the path to be natural.” and “The best way of living is to live a natural life.” In this event, we will explore what is natural for each of us and take steps toward finding our way to be natural and live a natural life in our current cultural conditions, be natural and live a natural life.

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Dakini Lynn Marlow, M.A. is a Cheraga guide and retreat guide as well as the co-ordinator of the Chrysalis Connection: The Feminine Council of the Sufi Order. She has co-facilitated the Art of Spiritual Guidance Training program with Atum O’Kane. She is also a body-centered psychotherapist with a master’s degree in Jungian psychology as well a writer and ceramic artist. Dakini lives in Boulder Colorado. You can visit her at www.dakiniscave.com or contact her at dakini@dakiniscave.com or call 303-530-7617.
Traveling expenses plus $500 for a weekend event is the average. Her fees are flexible and she works on a sliding scale.