On feeling small…
If women are to be regarded equal in value in the world and our power and the medicine we bring, honoured, then I believe that part of what we must move towards is men learning to meet their feelings of inferiority and smallness, if or when they arise. Of course we...
Giving & Receiving
To give and receive is one the most fundamental energetic movements of life. Every breath we take contains this wisdom. And like all the most profound things in life, there lies a paradox - that in its full beauty and potential, by deeply giving we can receive, and by...
What is Strength?
What is strength? I am being spanked so hard by life right now, so magnificently confronted with what feels like every single limiting belief I have around what it is to be strong. Lovingly yet firmly guided, to see that anything other than truly walking my talk is no...
Day 18
Yesterday afternoon my energy dropped so hard and fast it felt like an energetic collapse... I lay on the sofa feeling listless and flat - tell-tail signs of a drop in oestrogen as I move into the midst of the second half of my cycle. Feeling into the layers of what...
On Sexual Liberation
When I was younger, I used to think that the way we free ourselves from the repression of our sexuality was to reduce sex until it became meaningless, to have no boundaries, because boundaries meant shame and shame was bad. It took me hanging out at a porn shoot in...
How we unconsciously suppress the Feminine
How we unconsciously suppress the Feminine from Ruby May on Vimeo.
On Penetration
I wouldn't go as far as to say that I'd never have anal sex with a man who hasn't been penetrated himself... I'm not really one for principles... and besides, who hasn't done slightly questionable things in the name of being turned on? ;) But I find it so amazing how...
On Prayer
Living in a culture that values the head over everything else, as I enter events and rituals that are heart-spaces, I always meet a wave of sadness in me as I acknowledge what a process it is, to transition... to move from a cerebral gadget-riddled ADD culture of...
Feeling pain as creative activism
On feeling helpless in a world that seems to be crumbling before our eyes... Each moment brings possibilities for creative activism. In a world that teaches you to be an obedient and numbed little consumer, to listen to authority rather than yourself and to abandon...
Vagina Dentata
A curious thing it is, that the default world feels ok with the yin qualities of the vagina - their capacity to receive a penis - and rather less ok with their yang qualities, like their capacity to ejaculate, menstruate and give birth.. Except of course when they...