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What Does it Mean to Be a Woman?
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What Does it Mean to Be a Woman?

What kind of creatures are we? What is our true shape if any? What is it that wants to be remembered?

Greetings!

In this episode, we let the word woman move through us and follow where it leads.

How do we claim and hold our power and what makes it leak?

What is our true shape if there is any? And what happens if it’s not afforded?

Are we learning or rather remembering something about ourselves?

That was a space where a lot of questions emerged. That we’ve been living since.

We cherish your presence, and joining us in flowing.

Irina, Polina and Yulia

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Some Things That Wanted to Be Said:

“My power leaks when I am not afforded my true shape”

“You are like water. You always take the form of the one with whom you are.”

“It’s not about what we’ve learned about being a woman — it’s about what we haven’t yet remembered.”

“Power is about having a choice. You have a choice to change your mind. It is your power”.

“Is there a distinction between our true selves and what we’ve learned to be? The thing is everything we’ve experienced — learned, inherited, remembered — is still ours to claim. It’s all still us.”

“We have wings made of light. We have fangs made of crystal. We have claws of a wildcat. What is a true shape of a woman?”

“We are infinite inside. We might have outside borders, but within we are limitless.”

“When I lose connection to my center, my power leaks. Words disappear. Things I never knew could be forgotten — forgotten.”

“When there’s no need for reproduction anymore, all of a sudden there’s a lot of energy to direct wherever you want. Menopause is not a loss of power — it’s an integration of power.”


Let it flow,

Polina, Irina, and Yulya

Life in Flow is a reader- and listener-supported publication. If something here touched some part of you, consider supporting us by subscribing, sharing. You are wholeheartedly invited to flow with us.


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📍Chapters

  • 00:00 – Entering the Field: What Does It Mean to Be a Woman?

  • 01:15 – A Somatic Experiment: Feeling “Woman” in the Body

  • 06:01 – Portals, Warmth, and Safety: First Embodied Responses

  • 08:43 – Infinite Within Borders: The Feminine as Inner Cosmos

  • 10:16 – Air, Water, and the Wolf: Elemental Feminine Imagery

  • 12:41 – “Woman is Like Water”: Taking Shape in Relationship

  • 15:13 – Creation and Destruction: Dark Feminine Energy

  • 17:33 – Holding It All: Softness, Rage, and Power Together

  • 19:20 – Wings, Claws, and Fangs: Archetypes of Feminine Power

  • 21:06 – What Does Power Feel Like in a Woman’s Body?

  • 26:36 – Goddess States, Nature, and Embodied Power

  • 33:03 – Power Through Connection, Attunement, and Aliveness

  • 37:00 – “Not Afforded My True Shape”: When Power Leaks

  • 43:11 – Losing Power: Approval, Disconnection, and Self-Doubt

  • 56:09 – What Is Truly “Me” vs Learned? Identity, Memory, and Choice

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Music “Echolocation” by airtone, source: CcMixter

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