Meet Jesunma Tenzin Palmo: 12 Years in a Cave for a Lifetime Lived in Love

Meet Jesunma Tenzin Palmo: 12 Years in a Cave for a Lifetime Lived in Love

Tenzin Palmo started off as Diane Perry, the daughter of a fishmonger from London’s East End. In 1964, aged 20, she set off to India to pursue a spiritual path. There she became one of the first westerners to ordain as a Buddhist nun.

In 1976 she secluded herself in a remote cave, 13,200ft high up in the Himalayas, cut off from the world by mountains and snow. There she engaged in 12 years of intense Buddhist meditation. She faced cold, wild animals, near-starvation and avalanches; she grew her own food and slept in a traditional wooden meditation box, three feet square – she never lay down. Her goal was to attain enlightenment as a woman.

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WISH: Women’s International Summit for Health. The Whole Story.

WISH: Women’s International Summit for Health.  The Whole Story.

- by Tera Warner

I didn’t ever intend to become an alliteration and acronym addict, it just happened that way. I felt W.I.S.H. (The Women’s International Summit for Health) brewing in my mind for months. I knew it was coming–something big, something juicy, something that was going to feel just right.

Then it happened! “W. I. S. H! The Women’s International Summit for Health!! That’s it!!”

I would mention it to well-respected friends with hesitation at first. Kinda testing out the territory. And perhaps it would have stayed in the dusty treasure chest of ideas not fulfilled if my closest friends hadn’t said to me, “Tera. You have to do it. This one gives me goosebumps!”

Somehow goosebumps on the arms of the ones I love were the cosmic confirmation I needed to make it happen.

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Saskia Shakin on What Sex and Public Speaking Have in Common

Last year during the WISH Summit, I received such tremendously supportive and inspiring emails from this dear woman! I had no idea at the time that I would so grow to love her and her message and invite her to join our WISH summit this year.

If you’ve ever wanted to get your voice out to the world, but wondered how, this call will help you do it! (Make sure you’re registered for WISH to access the call.)

When surveyed and asked to share their top fears, women invariably put the fear of public speaking at the top of their lists. Now why is it that sharing our thoughts, ideas, and voices in front of a group of people makes us clam up and shut down?

And how can we overcome this fear to get our message out there and inspire the world in a powerful way?

In a social climate where it’s become easy to hide behind emails and twitter status updates, we felt it was important to invite one of the world’s best public speaking coaches, Saskia Shakin, to help us understand that the secret to inspired speaking and powerful communication is about a lot more than words can say.

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Daniel Aaron Inspires the Women of WISH to Stop Sucking in Their Stomachs and Get Over Themselves

Believe me when I tell you that Bali’s most loved yogi, Daniel Aaron, inspires the women of WISH (in the most loving way possible) to stop worrying about their bodies–to breathe, to move and to embrace complete self-acceptance. To access this call, and all the calls, register for the FREE WISH summit on any of our pages.

When you look down at the layer of pudge around your gut, when your thick thighs rub and you strut your stuff with that scrumptious dimpled rump,

How do you feel?

It’s not about trying to fit into a size 5 skirt or getting your skin to match some anti-aging cosmetic ad. It’s about making a decision to live in alignment with the greatest vision of the grandest life you can possibly imagine. It’s about a commitment to make choices and take actions that support you and your vision.

When you do that, no dimpled rump or pudgy gut will ever knock you down. And from the sweet space of loving yourself, there will only be  one question to ask yourself.

How good can it get?

Way on the other side of the world from where I am, amidst rice paddies and coconut palms, is a man who has committed his life to answering that very question. Daniel Aaron is here with us now all the way from Bali to help you get a taste of what it means to be radiantly alive.

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Debbie Rosas Helps You Cultivate Your Curves and Get That Body Moving

If you’ve ever worked out tirelessly with bands, bricks, barbells and way too tight running shoes only to feel like you were still missing something in your fitness routine, then chances are you have never tried Nia.

You can run marathons and workout at the gym three times a week, but what about your curves? When do they get to play?

And what about that insatiable calling within to dance, to move express to explore what your body can do? Here to help answer that call from within and a few of our questions on this subject is the co-founder of Nia, Debbie Rosas.

Here are some of the questions I asked her in this interview:

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