1 - 4 July 2027 - Empower yourself with ancient sacred feminine energy by embodying it

Workshop by Annine van der Meer on the Matriarchy for Future Festival in Kasteel De Berkt in Baarlo by Venlo

Remember the forgotten contribution of women to evolution and civilization. Experience how the global 13 body positions of our ancestresses and female leaders can empower 21first century women.

It is an acknowledged fact that most of the prehistoric art that depicts humans depicts the powerful and sacred feminine. In this workshop I will first give a short introduction about the coherent global body language of ancient feminine leaders from prehistory till the Late Bronze Age, because people continued to mostly depict feminine figurines over very long periods of time. After this introduction we can conclude that all over the world ancient feminine leaders stand in the same 13 sacred positions of birthing, feeding, blessing and rebirthing humanity.

It is time for us to remember their power and wisdom. Therefor we will slowly and in a meditative way move into several of these sacred body positions. Why? We need to regain, internalize and remember the wisdom and knowledge of our ancestresses.

First we will look at the images of our powerful ancestresses, who had central positions in ancient and some modern egalitarian societies. We will understand some of the secrets their body positions show and practice them.

Then they will touch our hearts when we slowly start to move into these ancestral body positions in utter concentration, silence and darkness. During these silent moments of embodying the sacred feminine we will listen to inspiring music that was recorded in the deep subterranean temple called The Hypogeum of Hal Saflieni on the island of Malta.

My personal experience: After having researched the global sacred language of our Primal Mother MA in several books I wanted to embody them myself. After practicing them at the end of lectures in smaller circles, I performed the global 13 sacral body positions with large audiences in the Convention Hall of the one and only Women’s University the world is rich: The Ewha University at Seoul in South-Korea in July 2016. Then a second time I presented them as keynote speaker at the Glastonbury Goddess Festival in August 2017 in an overcrowded Glastonbury Townhall.

My friends and I concluded that women from East to West were emotionally touched and sometimes even moved to tears by the sacral positions, a kind of yoga for females. Then I gave several embodying-workshops of one full day in my home country The Netherlands after which participants urged me to write a book about this which I did. This Dutch book is titled in English translation Empower yourself with Venuspower from 2019, 2024. It shows of each of the 13 body positions many photos and has 13 films that bring the movements into motion.