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žena:\zhay'na\ means woman in czech moon:\moon\ honors the power, cycles and light reflected throughout our lives |
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small pillar (center right) - 2"x3", burns up to 30 hours
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About This Candle Whenever someone asks which is my favorite candle, this one always tops the list. Sacred time with self was inspired by a desperate need to set aside time to attend to my spirit: to draw, nap, meditate, write, take a bath, lay in the grass, dawdle, and/or create a solitary retreat at home while Bryon is away fishing. Too often I schedule quiet time then fill it with busyness. This candle reminds me to make time--and protect it ferociously--for Me. —Carla Blazek, creator, zena moon |
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Customer Feedback Sandra H. (Mill Creek, WA) I had been reading to my unborn baby from the moment I found out I was pregnant, and using the sacred time with self candle allowed me to make it an even more special time. Now that my baby is here, we still enjoy reading stories while our sacred time with self candle continues to burn ... Just as the love in my heart for this new life continues to burn. She is fascinated by the light and I enjoy making this time together our sacred time with each other! Keep up the awesome work!
MaryKate M. (Bellevue, WA)
Mmmm. That is the representation of
the happy sound I make every time I light your candle. Actually, I
don't even have to *light* them to adore them. I ABSOLUTELY love the
smell, and the color and the clear flame my "sacred time with
self" candle burns with.
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Our Recommended Books, Music & Movies for Sacred Time With Self zena moon sells books, CDs and DVDs in association with Amazon.com. To order, click on the item's title or image, then add it to your Amazon shopping cart. Orders are then filled and shipped by Amazon. Send us your recommendations for this page--we may post them here.
Last updated 4/17/2005
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From Amazon.com: Jennifer Louden,
author of
The Woman's Comfort Book, gives women a
do-it-yourself guide for creating solitude. Because women tend to nurture
relationships more than they nurture themselves, it is often a challenge for
women to carve out the space and time they need for private renewal and
reflection. Louden offers women inspiration and specific advice on how to
retreat within their own homes, as well as how to create rejuvenating weekends
and vacations. She even devotes a full chapter to the most pivotal stage of
any retreat--the successful re-entry into home, family, and community.
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From Amazon.com: A wonderfully prolific poet, novelist, memoirist, and journal-writer, May Sarton has always enjoyed an extremely wide and loyal readership. Though she considered poetry to be her life's work, it was her novels and journals that made her famous. Plant Dreaming Deep, a memoir published in 1968, tells the story of her decision at forty-five years old to buy a house in a small New Hampshire village and to live and write in it alone. Journal of a Solitude, the first of a series of journals about her life in a different house on the Maine coast, brought her many new readers--particularly women--who identified with her efforts to carve out and describe a life of chosen solitude in all its rewards and contrary vicissitudes.
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From Amazon.com: "I'm beginning to think that real growing only begins after we've done the adult things we're supposed to do," confides Anderson, a journalist and author of children's books (Twins on Toes, etc.). She came to this conclusion after a year living alone in a cottage on Cape Cod. Feeling that her marriage had stagnated by the time her two sons were grown, Anderson surprised and distressed her husband by refusing to move out-of-state with him when he accepted a new job. In this accessible memoir, she shares the joy and self-knowledge she found during her time of semi-isolation. In order to supplement the income from her royalty checks, she found a job in the local fish market and began making new friends who sustained her. After her hot water heater broke down and her husband refused to help, she earned the additional money for the repair by digging and selling clams. Through vivid and meticulous observations about the natural world, Anderson makes clear her strong affinity for the ocean, with its changing tides, subtle colors and burgeoning life. A Memorial Day reunion brought Anderson and her husband closer; shortly thereafter she embraced his plan to retire and live with her in the cottage. Anderson has recently begun a "Weekend by the Sea" program for women who need time to reflect.
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From Amazon.com: The renowned Trappist monk Thomas Merton wrote Thoughts in Solitude in 1953 and 1954, when his superiors allowed him extended periods of seclusion and meditation. This elegant gift book, with clean, spare type and graphics, does justice to a 20th-classic (this is its 25th printing). What has made this book such an enduring and popular work is that it recognizes how important solitude is to our morality, integrity, and ability to love. One does not have to be a monk to find solitude, notes Merton; solitude can be found in the act of contemplation and silent reflection in everyday life. Also, this is not a pious book that assumes that a relationship with the divine can be obtained only by denying our humanity and striving for saintliness. Instead, Merton asserts that connection with God can most easily be made through "respect for temperament, character, and emotion and for everything that makes us human."
1. Enigma - Love Sensuality Devotion: The Greatest Hits
Original Release Date: 2001
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From Amazon.com: A greatest-hits package sampling four Enigma discs released between 1990 and 2000, LSD splendidly documents the influential output of Michael Cretu, a techno-bohemian who successfully creates cinematic, otherworldly New Age-like musical suites. Now, more than a decade removed from the arrival of Sadeness (Part 1) and its eyebrow-raising mix of sacred and sensual subplots, people can debate whether Cretu's music represents savvy commercial calculation or satisfying art. LSD suggests a split decision, though tracks with intriguing blends of atmosphere and rhythm, such as "Gravity of Love," "T.N.T. for the Brain" and "Morphing Thru Time," reveal an inventiveness that demonstrates Cretu is capable of more than sophisticated novelty tunes. Big bonus: run time exceeds 76 minutes.
2. Gurdjieff, Tsabropolous: Chants, Hymns and Dances
Original Release Date: 2004
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From Amazon.com: This is a quiet, peaceful disc, and yet it's not the kind of thing you'll probably play as background music. Something about these melodies works its way right below your consciousness, so that you want to really listen to it, really lose yourself in it. There are no lyrics, no voices, and yet these "chants" seem to strive to communicate something exquisitely beautiful, something tragically forgotten. For me, listening to this music feels like being hopelessly in love; but with someone who lived a thousand years ago. Perfect. Impossible. Heartbreaking.
3. Tinderbox
Original Release Date: 1990
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From Amazon.com: Like many, my favorite release from the Banshees is probably Juju. But Tinderbox is my runner-up. With some of the most catchy yet unquestionably dark material the band has ever released, I never grow tired of listening to this album.
"Candyman" kicks things off, very fast and peppy. "The Sweetest Chill" is one of the most beautiful and melodic songs the Banshees have ever done. It has a very melancholic, yet uplifting vibe to it. It is here that you will really begin to take note of the richly expressive guitar work on the album, as well as Siouxsie Sioux's heartfelt and powerful voice. "This Unrest" is a manic, Gothic masterpiece--a slinky, dark rhythm gives the song an added sense of the exotic and then climaxes to a chaotic, frantic chorus. This album probably illustrates some of Budgee's most fantastic drumming with the Banshees, and it is heard on this track, the claustrophobia of "92 Degrees" and the foreboding, epic "Land's End" that appears later in the disc. Overall, I recommend this disc wholeheartedly.
(1998) ~ DVD
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From Amazon.com: The original title of Living Out Loud was The Kiss, which also happens to be the title of one of the two Anton Chekhov stories the movie is loosely based on. (For those Russian lit mavens out there, the other story is "Misery.") The actual kiss in Living Out Loud is a somewhat mysterious affair: newly single Judith (Holly Hunter) suddenly finds herself laying a wet 'n' sloppy one on a total stranger (Elias Koteas, Hunter's Crash costar) in the back room of a cool jazz club, and then parting ways with the man. For good. Like so much of this exceptionally smart, generous movie, no explanation is given--or necessary. Screenwriter Richard LaGravenese (The Fisher King), making his directing debut, charts Judith's struggles in the wake of being dumped by her doctor husband (Martin Donovan). It turns out life has its ups and downs, some of which come courtesy of the elevator operator (Danny DeVito) in her swanky Upper East Side apartment building. DeVito's character is a nice guy in need of a little human touch, and the actor soft-pedals his usual sleaze in favor of a warm, directly emotional approach. It's the kind of turn that garners Oscar nominations, except that this movie didn't attract the box office it deserved. His performance, like the film, keeps surprising you--a fantasy sequence here, an ensemble dance there, plus a couple of smoky jazz tunes contributed by Queen Latifah. This unpredictable movie has the kiss of class.
(2003) ~ DVD
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From Amazon.com: In the sensible yet elegant hands of actresses Helen Mirren and Julie Walters, Calendar Girls walks a fine line between sappiness and snickering and ends up both wonderfully funny and gently touching. When her best friend Annie (Walters, Billy Elliot) loses her husband, Chris (Mirren, Prime Suspect, Gosford Park) cooks up a scheme to memorialize him: They and their friends--all fiftysomething women--will make a nude calendar to raise money for the hospital where he died. The calendar becomes hugely popular, but the success may drive a wedge between the two women's friendship. Based on an actual event, Calendar Girls carefully balances the stories of several women as it follows the calendar's media explosion, becoming a surprisingly moving fable of loss, determination, and the perils of fame. And let's face it--Helen Mirren is one of the wittiest and sexiest women alive, clothes on or not.
(2002) ~ DVD
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From Amazon.com: When young psychiatrist Sam (Christian Bale), the son of record producer Jane (Frances McDormand), brings his girlfriend Alex (Kate Beckinsale) to stay at his mother's house, he's expecting that Jane will be gone--but a delay in finishing an album with a British rocker named Ian (Alessandro Nivola) has kept her there. Instantly, the tensions of Sam's counterculture childhood set off a series of betrayals and attractions that threaten to wreck Sam and Alex's relationship. Director Lisa Cholodenko has a keen eye for the behavior, delineating doctors and musicians by the ways they talk and greet each other--it's an almost anthropological study of different tribes. Laurel Canyon lacks the focused story of High Art, Cholodenko's previous movie, and some viewers may find the ways the characters change too subtle to be rewarding; but for others, the rich, detailed performances will be a pleasure worth having. | ||||||||||
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