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<![CDATA[WOMB AND HARA - Shakti Flow]]>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:47:30 -0800Weebly<![CDATA[Opening Myself to Love]]>Tue, 10 Sep 2019 16:25:05 GMThttp://www.wombandhara.org/shakti-flow/opening-myself-to-loveby Fred Kluth

A decade ago, Dhyana and I were experiencing a difficult time. We were new parents, navigating life with a toddler. We were blessed to own a cozy one bedroom apartment but it was too small for four of us to grow in and due to the bursting real estate bubble we couldn’t sell the place at a profit. We needed to move and thoughts of having to short sell our home filled my mind and worried me. Our immediate future was uncertain. And our marriage was in crisis...

How did we get here? I'll give you some background of what was going on in my life at the time. After the financial meltdown of 2008, my freelance work slowed and we found ourselves saddled with a great deal of debt. I needed to walk away from a creative career and pivot into a project management job. My emotional state was consumed with stress and fear. I was processing a lot of feelings of failure. I had always dreamed of being a lead creator of an animated series or comic book and I failed to make that manifest in any sort of financially viable way. Truth be told, really in anyway at all. Even though I’m a very creative person, all the pieces failed to come together in any sort of way that would support me or my family. In time it became very clear that it was not my soul’s path. But I couldn't see clearly then.

The job market was so unstable that as I was navigating a career change I went through three jobs during the time when Dhyana became pregnant with our second child. For many years prior to this, Dhyana was making a number of sacrifices in order to financially support us and later our family while I worked on developing creative projects. Any money I was making was going back into the business. I knew for a while that it was time for me to change my work situation. I was frozen. Things were not flowing easily. Each new job was a stepping stone yet I found it really difficult to work, not to mention thrive, in the fast-paced market of advertising where I found my career going.

At home, Dhyana was angry with me. We fought. We were exhausted having a toddler and we were resentful towards each other. Dhyana would get upset with the fact that I was not emotionally present and our fighting filled our home with depression and rage. This dynamic caused her to feel that our unborn child was being bathed in this angry disconnected hopeless energy, and this caused her additional despair.

I had a difficult time adjusting to the sacrifice it takes to have a child. The idea of having a second child was overwhelming when compounded with my struggle of trying to manage a career change, financial challenges, and mourning a failed creative career. All of these things are understandable in hindsight with almost a decade-long perspective, but at the time it was like a white noise of depression. I was completely shut-down. I found myself unable to act and unable to really get to the core of why I was frozen.

While Dhyana was carrying our baby, I was laid off from one production when the clients had a fist fight at their Christmas party, putting the website I was producing on hold. I was hired as Director of Production at Estée Lauder. Apparently, I don’t know anything about makeup and the politics of the company were very difficult for me to manage. This challenging new job, compounded with my emotional state, made it very difficult to succeed.

Once Charlotte was born things naturally began to shift subtly. Her home birth was a beautiful experience and Dhyana was so filled with love for this child that she responded almost immediately by expressing her longing to have a third child. Yet I was still experiencing consciousness from such a place of lack back then that the idea of having another child when I was so worried about supporting our current family was too much for me. I felt I was unable to support my family financially and emotionally. It was a difficult time for me when it should have been a time for celebration of the birth of a wonderful healthy child.

Things got worse, I got fired from my job at Estee Lauder.  The universe takes over when you’re too frozen to walk your own path.  When I was going over my unemployment package, the woman who ran the HR department acknowledged that though this wasn’t a good fit for me and she asked, what happened? I admitted I was really overwhelmed with having another child. She didn’t understand, I already had one child what was the big deal? I felt even more disconnected.

Now, almost a decade later, Dhyana and I are more connected and happier than ever before. We have challenges with raising two sensitive and highly spirited children and with financial management as people often do, but we are closer and happier than ever before which makes everything easier to manage. There is more trust in the flow of our lives. I can embrace the unknown more easily and willingly enter into new adventures together.

How did we do it? How did we go from being on the brink of our relationship collapsing to where we are now? It wasn’t a straight line and there were times when things got difficult maybe even worse, but there was a pivotal shift that occurred about a year later when a catalyst that quickened the healing process.

About a year or so later, Dhyana and I were introduced to Womb Awakening and Seren and Azra Bertrand. They taught and offered online courses and in-person teacher training retreats at the time and first course we did was a deeply spiritual 40-day process with guided meditations and extended yoga positions. This started the process of bringing Dhyana and me into a loving relationship. We would do the exercises together. This helped us not only align our patterns together, but much of the teaching is oriented around the sacred feminine and the sacred union of the masculine and feminine energies we all express within our bodies. The work centered us in our bodies and helped open our hearts and energetic centers to ourselves and each other.

The self-incriminations, the anger and rage I was feeling towards everything started to shift. When Dhyana worked with Carol-Marie, our friend and mentor for this womb awakening work, Dhyana spoke about our arguments and Carol suggested that during these times that perhaps she can choose to soften to me, to open her heart to me. This shift of attitude and this softening, was the beginning of a huge process of healing for us.

One of the practices was partner eye gazing, where you stare into the eyes of your partner for an extended amount of time. This can go from holding a loving gaze to some difficult moments of shame and hurt being revealed. Holding a safe space for your partner’s vulnerability is really difficult especially when you are hurting but ultimately you can end up in a place of healing, a place of being seen and seeing your partner. The exercises were often themed around a return to innocence, an opening of the heart and a softness that was missing not only from our relationship but more importantly of how I was treating myself.

Men are so often told to man up, told from a young age that we shouldn’t cry. For me, most of the time when I felt anything negative, all I allowed myself to express was anger. Having Dhyana soften to me was incredible healing. It allowed me to soften to myself - despite the norms of a dysfunctional mainstream culture. Allowing myself to be witnessed and seen was a very healing experience for me.
What I mean by soften is to have compassion for your partner’s suffering and to lower your guard and be there for each other in a meaningful and kind way. This can a be a big challenge when you are being asked to put your own suffering aside and hold space for your partner - as it was for Dhyana. In a very triggered moment this might be too much to ask. It is in the returning to connection, continually, that you develop the ability to hold space for your partner, to help grow trust and love. As we heal, we can reciprocate this compassion for each other.

The Womb Awakening experience helped me reframe my role in the family, as a Father, husband and lover. One of the roles I have embraced is one of the Grail Knight. The purpose of the Grail Knight is to be one who supports the divine feminine. In the legend, a Grail Knight was on a quest for the Holy Grail which is a symbol of the Divine Womb. A Grail Knight lives to protect and support the divine feminine in the world and in that role, allows for the sacred feminine to bloom. Through this love and devotion, the Grail Knight can drop his armor and receive the love he has been lacking. It’s a relationship of ever renewing love which completely matches what I was intuitively looking for and what I needed. This archetype provides me with direction, definition and purpose.

It also makes sense to me on a physical level. Here I am, a man who needs to provide for his family - a wife and two beautiful daughters. By tuning into this role in a divine sense, it also provided me with clarity on what I was being called to do as a Father and a husband. It doesn't make me a doting slave to my family, but allows me to understand that by providing the love and physical support that is needed as a Father, I help create more love in my life and in the world.

I started to change the way I was thinking and started to ask additional questions of myself during moments of mindfulness. I asked about the choices I was making, “Will this bring me closer to love? Will this bring me closer to my beloved?” This small choice in my everyday actions, made a large change in my life. This created a resonance in my lifestyle that was more peaceful and loving.

As I have grown closer to myself, I think it is essential for me to have my partner mirror me. Sometimes that mirror can be difficult to see. I don't always like what I am shown. Like many people I have an ego and my personality self doesn’t like to be challenged. Questions about my actions and words, and calling out my shadows, can be very challenging but it is an essential process for self-growth. Facing myselves with love and compassion helps me create a more peaceful life and a world where I can explore my creativity and imagination.

Do you need to take a course on Womb Awakening in order to grow closer to your beloved? Perhaps not and the barrier of entry for this type of work for men seems to be very high. But transformation in relationships can be made in smaller ways. Shared experiences which help build connection and affection can help. Radical honesty and deep heartfelt connection are difficult to create and maintain at first. Sometimes these things only happen at pinnacle moments of your life. But living in an honest way, as a true partner to your beloved, one where their personal growth and your connection to them is as much a priority as your own personal growth, is a key. And that's an imperative point: making your own personal growth a priority is important. Doing the work on yourself so you are working with the unexpressed shadow parts of your personality is essential to any growth as a person. It’s the first step toward growth as a couple. Doing this work so that you have a greater capacity to love a person and yourself is of essential importance.

Lately I have often found myself re-examining this period of time when Dhyana was carrying my youngest daughter. As a result, we were able to talk with each other and then had a talk with our daughter about it. We shared with her about what it was like when she was in-utero. Talking about many of the things we were going through as a couple. She's been going through her own process as an eight-year old. She's discovering her voice and through that she's discovering that she's really angry about a lot of things and she's feeling very vulnerable and sensitive at the same time. Are her felt experiences connected to what we were going through when she was being carried? They could be. I believe so. I also believe that she has a right to know about the energy that was surrounding her when she came into this world. I believe as a spirit she made her choice. She chose us as parents and the life lessons she has been called to face. We are all working together on our souls’ evolution.

As I re-examine that period of my life, it has given me an opportunity to really appreciate all the work my wife and I have done on our relationship and how we are closer now. Our trust in each other is very strong, we love each other deeply and recommit to our relationship constantly. I have gotten much better at communicating my needs and I think that's an essential skill as a human to develop, the identification and communication of needs.

I have learned through my actions to turn towards love. I work to develop myself in order to be kinder and gentler. By making choices in my life that increases my capacity to love and be loved, I have no doubt this helps make the world a better place.

Together we are Reverends Kluth ~ Lovers of life committed to tending the garden of this sacred earth; dedicated to living in joy, continually engaging the unpleasant shadow work to keep it real and integrate into wholeness truth and authenticity, to be present for self and other, family, friends, community and nurture all relationships.

Listen to our Working Together to Liberate Joy podcast interview on An Emerging Forest here: https://youtu.be/0HXuk4FrNTw

And feel free to reach out to me or my partner about support with your relationship or personal healing process.

]]><![CDATA[Man with a Live Wire]]>Tue, 09 Oct 2018 13:33:22 GMThttp://www.wombandhara.org/shakti-flow/man-with-a-live-wireby Fred Kluth

Moving into this new moon cycle has been all about releasing and emptying what has come to the surface from the hidden depths. The journey here has been an emotional one, faced with uncomfortable mirrors on the outside and disquieting questions of judgement on the inside.

I have struggled in the past with feelings of rage, self-worth and questioned my ability to be enough. I have felt the familiar feeling that there is an elusive unknown code that I need to decipher. If I do all these certain steps, in this exact right order, then the universe will reward me. I attribute this experience as a result from being raised in the United States of America, steeped in the hidden systemic belief that some people are more deserving than others. That insidious dogma has been hidden underneath the American Dream all this time. It’s what has driven people to believe change is not necessary, that we should not be of service or help make life better for others. A product of my catholic upbringing, even though I do not consciously believe in this, I still struggle against it. Now that so much that was hidden has reared its ugly head, come out of the closet into full view, and risen to the surface from the murky depths, I am faced with the echoes of these shadows within myself.

The practice in all of this I know is to keep returning to my true center when these doubts resound within. In this process of releasing what hurts me, and others, emptying the space of these doubts occupied within me, I entered a deep process that took me on a very unexpected journey within to my core. I touched upon a part of myself I didn’t know I had abandoned.

I have visited this subject before, the subject of my circumcision. Over the years I have uncovered the rage, the loneliness and feeling of utter abandonment. After I was circumcised, something crumbled inside me, something on a basic level told me I was not good enough as I was and therefore I had to be cut off from my senses. This time I went deeper and deeper into my body, releasing energy, my muscles aching, moving my body in new ways and moving closer and closer to the muscle-memory of the trauma of my circumcision. A familiar feeling of “they don’t want me” and a physical recoiling from affection and belonging came up. Deep infant recoiling, preverbal feelings of not being accepted, which for years has made full embodiment impossible for me. To attempt descending my energy fully into and through my pelvis – which is what we need to do to be grounded - was to be filled with all these difficult feelings for me. It was like trying to grab hold of an electric wire.

After cycling through feelings of fear and abandonment, moving into and through all the domino effect of feelings, on the other side of this process, I felt a feeling of deep and full embodiment in my pelvis, able to access subtle parts of my physical body in a fuller way. I felt a connection to my pure innocent child self, perfect and beautiful residing inside my body. The spirit of an infant, a shining part of grace and love that I was before I was circumcised. This pure innocent essence of ourselves lives within the center of all of us always and is never truly lost.

As I relate all of this, I release my parents from any blame or anger about being circumcised. This is my journey and a deep one for which I have no map. My partner guides me into my body and encourages me to face my shadows.

I release these unhelpful repeating patterns and thought forms, like broken records repeating endlessly. I choose to change the record and release all negative belief systems. I give myself the authority to live a fully embodied life. I experience and acknowledge that I am already surrounded by love, success and friendship. I release these old patterns and allow my thoughts to spiral into new directions, to create new neural pathways. I am singing a new song to myself about how much I love I feel for myself, and for those around me. It is this new path that will allow me to feel the sacred love of the Universe which flows within me and around me. It is this new path that the new moon brings for us to choose to lead the way forward.

This new moon, it is necessary to release the charge of all the negative energies that are coming into consciousness. Plant new seeds charged with life to grow within the spaces that have been emptied of all the old clutter.

Art: Spiral by Fred Kluth

]]><![CDATA[Corporate Shaman]]>Wed, 25 Apr 2018 19:20:15 GMThttp://www.wombandhara.org/shakti-flow/corporate-shamanby Fred Kluth

I’m like a shamanic Batman... During the day, I work in the corporate advertising world and during the nights, between being a father and a husband, I have one-on-one healing therapy sessions with people, I plan womb and hara awakening workshops and I write about healing.

Many years ago I asked, “How can I be a healer?” I was at a channeling group at the Edgar Cayce Center in NYC. Joe Monkman was channeling and he answered, “Everyday be a healer. Put on your suit, and tie your tie - that will be your Shamanic uniform - and go to work as a healer. In your everyday interactions, be a healer”.

Dhyana, my soul partner, calls me a Corporate Shaman. Although it’s not very often I interrupt a meeting about a big website build to talk about dropping everyone’s consciousness into their womb space, I will often take a few moments to drop into this space myself in order to remain grounded and authentic.

I often have to sit with the people I manage and listen to their fears and anxieties about the job at hand and their careers and hold space for their energies and emotions. I provide guidance. Although I don’t call in the four directions for this, I will often ask for support from my ancestors and guidance to help transform the energies around me. Maybe other people pray to God or ask Jesus for help; I am a little different.

I returned from a retreat in Hawaii with a Tibetan symbol of protection: the double dorje. When my friend Richard asked me about it at work, I told him what it was and that it was a symbol of protection. He asked me if it was for my own protection or in order to protect others? This lesson, Richard at this moment, was my corporate shaman. What a riddle that was? Yes, I said, all of those things.

As a man who is working to bring consciousness to his unconscious parts and who is walking a path of love and connection, I am trying to protect myself from the unconsciousness energies that can often permeate a corporate culture. Making sure I maintain healthy boundaries - whether it’s making sure I am caring for myself when stress levels increase or being conscious about when I am unable to care for myself. I am also seeking to protect my team from client requests that aren’t covered in our work agreement - basically making sure we aren’t doing work we aren’t being paid for unless we are choosing to.

It's also protecting people from myself. When I feel angry or upset, my energies can affect everyone around me. And I am a leader, the head of a team. Yes, I’m allowed to be upset sometimes, I am a human, the main financial provider for my family and I work in advertising in New York City. It can be challenging to find the space to be authentic and walk a path of love and kindness. Should I say something heartless or inappropriate, I need to own it. I apologize if need be and change the energy. I have worked with people who have raged at their employees, their clients, at the work. Maybe it's a way to motivate people to do better, but I would rather help contribute to a workspace where people don't hate coming to work and feel heartsick that they are not on a different path. If a team member is unhappy, I am compelled to address it.

The protection isn’t a denial of the difficulties of working but the transformation of energies, to make sure we see the signs of unhappiness and difficulties are indications that we need to facilitate better communication, so change for the better can occur.

I would love to be working more one-on-one with people, helping people in deeply transformative healing sessions and I will keep building my practice, but right here and now, I am being called to be the corporate shaman person. And as I walk in this world, I want to do it with loving kindness. I remind myself that supporting my family, saving for the future and providing the health insurance is an act of love for my family. I would love there to be away to be able to spend more time with my family. But if I can keep myself healthy and balanced and doing the right balance of self-care I can be present when I am home and have this be a source of my strength.

My connection I have with my wife, nurturing that healthy connection, with time to talk, make love and share the things we love together is everything to me. This is where it becomes easier to go to work: when I am deeply connected to myself and Dhyana.

I recently had a moment with my boss where she shared her experiences in a Kundalini Yoga class, talked about how we love gongs, and we talked about the benefits of essential oils. I was able to talk about how we store trauma in our body and how the movements in Kundalini can help restore our life force. These moments, where I don’t need to hide my interests in order to have a corporate identity give me hope to carry on. I don’t have to hide who I am to conform. I can bring my gifts into every part of my life.

Art: SHAMAN TRANSFORMING INTO BEAR, Abraham Anghik Ruben

]]><![CDATA[Riding with the Feelings]]>Wed, 11 Apr 2018 22:40:05 GMThttp://www.wombandhara.org/shakti-flow/riding-with-the-feelings~by Fred Kluth

It’s easy to be removed from my feelings. It’s not easy for me to access the currents of emotion that are constantly coursing through me. I sit on a bridge and watch them flow underneath me. I can poke at them, analyze their temperature and their flows, all without sticking a toe in the water to experience them.

It’s safe on the bridge. Removed from the things, there I can analyze, examine, measure. But not flowing with it. Not allowing myself to get caught up in the currents and the passions of my life force. Watching it all go by day after day...

But it’s not really safe; it’s not experiencing life. It’s waiting. It’s always waiting ... for the winter thaw, when the rivers rise, when the tidal wave comes and crashes down upon me, sweeping me away and destroying everything in its path. All the ancient repressed rage and despair.

I can sit on the bridge and see that I’m not accessing my feelings, creating a bridge over the bridge. Analyzing the fact that I am analyzing.

My mind's eye can see the walls my partner puts up as I try to touch her with my hands being controlled by the man who sits on the bridge above the bridge.

But then I kiss her and I am in the river and my heart is open and life and love flows through me and she smiles and welcomes me inside her heart and body.

I kiss her without intention or expectation but in the moment feeling my love bursting through my heart and in my hara and she opens up as if she is a rose opening to the sun.

After, she asks me where I was? What was the journey I was on? And I am back on the bridge over the bridge. I have to climb down to be in the flow of life. She wonders hopefully, when will there ever be a time when she doesn’t have to draw these feelings out of me? And I am aware that I have to descend these great heights within myself to even find a safe place to allow myself to just feel and also to feel safe enough to talk about what I am feeling.

I am learning everyday that I operate best in this world when I am in the flow of the river. I can watch the bridges go by and I can be responsive and aware of what I am feeling. I can navigate and I can feel alive. It’s much easier than having my eyes on the river and waiting for the onslaught to hit me from behind.

I open my heart, and then open my heart again.

]]><![CDATA[Opening Up For The World]]>Tue, 20 Feb 2018 15:06:43 GMThttp://www.wombandhara.org/shakti-flow/opening-up-to-the-worldHelping Men Embrace Their Spirituality And Heal From Deep Trauma

~by Fred Kluth

When I was 16, I was assaulted and my girlfriend at the time was in a great danger at the time of being raped. I share this intense story in this podcast I recorded recently (link to listen below). This experience was not only deeply traumatic to me but also sparked a deeper path of spiritual discovery in my life and a quest to be healed.

Someone had tried to kill me. This person was never found or brought to justice.  It’s possible that he never intended the whole thing to happen.  My story isn’t uncommon.  Everyday more and more people are coming forward with their own stories of assault, rape, betrayals, and suffering.

Wombandhara.org is my wife Dhyana and my endeavor to share what we have learned on this long healing journey.  My intention is to lead people to a path of understanding which will hopefully help bring peace and healing to their lives.  For those who are struggling with their lives, I have tools and practices that I would like to share with people to help them open to greater sense of love for themselves and the people in the world.  These tools have worked for me and I feel called to share them.

I recently had the opportunity to record a podcast with Dan Doty, one of the leaders and organizers of a nationwide men’s group working to help men find their way in this world, helping to providing a space for men to drop their guards and connect with each other.  Each of us is trying to learn how to overcome the great pain that every man can be carrying without the tools to free ourselves from the restraints which constrict our ability to feel freely, deeply, in order to live a full life.

For me, this was a big step in embracing my calling and talking about some deeply personal experiences that helped put me on my path of being a person who is called to help people embrace their life fully, to help heal the wounds that are holding them back from being fully present in their bodies and their lives.

Since Dan started the podcast I really wanted to be on it and was brave enough to ask him last month. He enthusiastically said yes.  We discussed the relationship men have with spirituality and emotion, and the work that needs to be done with deep trauma.  It was a deep conversation about my path to becoming a womb shaman and what I have learned, the challenges we have as men to embrace a spiritual path and how to become men who live in our bodies, fully present in our relationships and nurturing the love in our lives.

I invite everyone to drop in and listen to this stirring conversation.  I would love to hear your feedback and any questions.  You can listen to the my conversation with Dan by clicking one of the links below.

Apple:  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-evryman-podcast/id1229427268?mt=2
GooglePlay: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ilrqdmlqv6ge2scju7ipqvslgkm
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Bi0THabzq7vhHmAfnFDtZ?si=6xgoVmQCQlSYjqOcmcGv2Q
IHeartRadio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/the-evryman-podcast-28854928/

If you are seeking help with challenges of your own and feel called to, please reach out to me. In addition to group workshops I offer one-on-one sessions which you can schedule here:  www.fredkluth.youcanbook.me

Click here to see the upcoming workshops Womb and Hara are offering in the NY/NJ area:
www.wombandhara.org/offerings.html
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All is love.

]]><![CDATA[Relational Healing]]>Wed, 14 Feb 2018 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.wombandhara.org/shakti-flow/relational-healing~by Dhyana Kluth

On Valentine’s Day, Fred and I joined Lorraine Giordano on her show, The Womb Happy Hour, for a deep discussion about the healing work we’ve been doing and the journey it has taken us on. We talk about what Womb and Hara Awakening is and how transformative it has been for us, personally.

Womb and Hara in Sacred Union: Co-Creating Sacred Relationships with Womb Awakening

Listen Now

Taking this step to speak publicly and be 'seen' this way was a big one for me - a personal edge I skirted around with trepidation for many years. It's one thing to be a trained actor with a script, or improvise the voice of a mask I can hide my tender self behind - and keep my self at a protective distance, but another entirely to remove that mask and be utterly my naked self out in the public world. Not contained in a sacred safe circle. Not in a small group of friends. But out there for all to see.

Before we began the interview I breathed down, feeling my roots and the descending flow. Embodying this life and this form. Remaining present. Opening myself to be a vessel of liquid life and share what was wanting to spill forth as a healing balm. All the while shedding yet another layer that was ready to be released in the process of becoming and being. This is relational healing in practice. Opening up to the exchange of energy in relationship to another and allowing love to resonate outward. To my partner. To our host. And to you.

Here we are. For all the world to hear. Embracing life. Falling backward into the feminine realm of shakti for all the world to heal.

]]><![CDATA[STRETCHING]]>Wed, 24 Jan 2018 15:11:05 GMThttp://www.wombandhara.org/shakti-flow/stretching~by Fred Kluth

Lately I have been stretching outside my comfort zone. When doing men’s work we often challenge each other with a stretch goal. What can you do to push yourself past your comfort zone in order to achieve something in your life or even even sometimes more difficult, make a deeper connection with your partner?

Recently I posted about mentoring for Fountain of Life. To come out as a practitioner of this Feminine work is a challenge for anyone, but even more so for a man (I believe). It took a lot for me to post it to Facebook. I was challenged with a lot of questions of self worth and permission, but I knew the Great Mother needed me to make the statement. When I posted it, I was terrified but I did it. Great! I thought, done.

Then my beloved woke me up at 3am and suggested I reach out to the men I worked with in a men’s group a few years ago and ask if they would share it. I then laid in my bed eyes wide open. Can I ask my brothers for support in this? Can I stretch again outside my comfort zone?

In the morning I messaged my friend Dan who runs a national men’s group called Evryman. I asked him if he would share my post. He said, Wow! Sure he would! He also said he admired me for asking. He understood and shared that this was difficult for him to do, too. We wouldn't have shared this connection had I not stretched beyond my comfort zone.

Then I stretched again! I asked if he would have me as a guest on his podcast!

He said, yes!

We recorded it last night. Again I was faced with questions of identity and self worth. Can I embody this work I have been called to do? Can I communicate how important it is to open to Love in the world? How there is a path to peace and happiness? Can I, who during the day work in advertising in midtown Manhattan, embody what this work means to me and step into my role as a healer and a guide?

We opened the podcast and he asked me for a summary of who I am and I said, “I’m Fred Kluth and I am a Womb Shaman”. I wasn’t sure what the reaction I was going to get and Dan says, that’s bad-ass.

Today, my hara is tingling with energy and I know I’m on the right path. What can you do today to stretch yourself and lean into your life goals?

Stay tuned! The podcast should be up in a few weeks

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