HeatherAsh Amara - Warrior Goddess Training

HeatherAsh Amara is a woman who I love and treasure. Her honesty and integrity is on every page of Warrior Goddess Training. HeatherAsh is your coach and impeccable teacher in the life-ceremony that is offered in this book. Using the effective steps in Warrior Goddess Training, you can work through the layers of sick and tired, boredom, and suffocating conditioning. The result? You will finally be able to connect with yourself and others, and live as your precious wild self.

Ana Tiger Forrest, medicine woman, creatrix of Forrest Yoga, and author of Fierce Medicine

Sisters, its time to shed the shoulds, see ourselves through our own eyes instead of others', and close the gap between wishing for and realizing once and for all who we came here to be. No one shows you how to walk this journey with courage and compassionate self-acceptance better than gifted teacher HeatherAsh Amara. If you are ready to discover who you really are and support becoming your best self, pick up this book and get started today. The world needs your light now!

Stephanie Bennett Vogt, author of Your Spacious Self

This is a book for all women, no matter their age or stage of life. HeatherAsh Amara is a master teacher who embodies the concepts of warrior and goddess in her life and writing. For me, the line in the book that most reflects the lessons a woman can learn from her is this: Being a Warrior Goddess is about falling in love with all of yourself. Each lesson she presents offers insight and practices for spiritual, physical, intellectual, and psychological growth and refinement. HeatherAsh's openness about her own journey of becoming a Warrior Goddess adds a sense of authenticity and lightness to the book.

Judith Yost, Dean of Students, Wisdom School of Graduate Studies and author of Nature and Intimacy

Copyright 2014

by HeatherAsh Amara

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this work in any form whatsoever, without permission in writing from the publisher, except for brief passages in connection with a review.

Cover design by Adrian Morgan

Cover art by Elena Ray

Interior design by Jane Hagaman

Author Photo by Nicholas Rozsa

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2014943956

ISBN 978-1-938289-36-1

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This book is dedicated to all the women on this beautiful planet. May we reclaim the fierce love of the warrior and embody the wisdom of the goddess to bring balance and harmony to the Earth.

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anas Nin

Lesson One
Commit to You

Lesson Two
Align with Life

Lesson Three
Purify Your Vessel

Lesson Four
Ground Your Being and Free Your Past

Lesson Five
Energize Your Sexuality and Creativity

Lesson Six
Claim Your Strength and Ignite Your Will

Lesson Seven
Open Your Heart

Lesson Eight
Speak Your Truth

Lesson Nine
Embody Your Wisdom

Lesson Ten
Choose Your Path

In Warrior Goddess Training, HeatherAsh Amara shares her experience as a teacher, friend, and guide, helping a new generation of women enter their own journey of inner transformation.

This book combines the wisdom of many traditions into one beautiful path. Consistent throughout these teachings is the understanding that an idea means nothing without a corresponding step toward action; therefore, this book is full of exercises that are designed to put you in touch with your divine self.

As you will soon see, the path of the Warrior Goddess was forged in love.

HeatherAsh Amara came into my life over twenty years ago as a college student who had so many questions about everything; so many that she took on many teachers in many traditions, including myself, and began her trek toward understanding. At first she wanted to understand everything that existed outside of herself, but all of her teachers pointed inward. So when her resistance to this direction ended, her trek to outward understanding turned into a journey of self-understanding. The pages that follow are the result of that journey.

The path of the Warrior Goddess is described in ten lessons. The first three lessons will help you center yourself and assess where you are, the next six lessons will guide you through a path of personal transformation, and the final lesson invites you to live your truth as a Warrior Goddess in your everyday life.

I am incredibly happy to see that the young girl who walked into my class over twenty years ago has not only become a radiant a woman, a teacher, an author, and a Warrior Goddess, but most importantly, she has become an expression of unconditional love.

With this great work of art, let the words and teachings of this artist guide you to your own divine self and the blossoming of unconditional love in your heart. This is the journey of love that is the Warrior Goddess path.

In the Toltec tradition, the last step before an apprentice becomes a master is when the student lets go of the teacher as a crutch for support and learns to walk with the strength of her own will. The traces of her teacher's lessons may remain with subsequent steps, but what shines through is the wisdom of her own experiences. HeatherAsh Amara was once my apprentice, and now she is my peer.

Thank you, HeatherAsh Amara, for birthing this wonderful book.

don Miguel Ruiz,
author of The Four Agreements
and The Mastery of Love

I was called to work with women many years ago, when I took my first college class called Women and Society and began to explore Earth-based spirituality.

Earth-based spirituality is any religion or tradition that at its center honors the Earth, nature, and all manifestations of life. Practiced by people all over the world, from Native American tribes to African shamans to modern-day scientists, Earth-based spirituality views the Earth as the Mother, the one who gives us life and nourishment and brings insight and wisdom.

Connected to the cycles of the Earth and sun, these traditional teachings honor light and dark, beginnings and endings, male and female, birth and death. Everything is included; all is sacred. As I immersed myself in studying different traditions, I found a deep sense of home in European shamanism and its teachings on honoring Mother Earth. The archetypes of maiden, mother, and crone and the different aspects of the Goddess inspired me to begin to love myself as a woman, rather than trying to be more like the male God and people (mostly men) who were held up as role models and guides.

In time I found teachers to guide me, and I was drafted to teach by the sheer number of women who kept coming to me, asking to learn. As women, we crave a female reflection of the Divine, and a spirituality that empowers us to connect to our natural gifts of intuition, healing, and building community. This has nothing to do with being better than men, or wanting to lead separate lives from our brothers, or being special because of our biology. It is about honoring all of life: female and male, human and animal, plant and mineral. And it is about the magic that happens when we gather to empower ourselves as women, and to honor and be inspired by all the manifestations of the goddess in each other.