OrcaWomen’s Fest 2025
Invoking, Honoring & Reconnecting to the Sacred Feminine
The Sacred Feminine has been depicted throughout the ages in the form of Goddesses, Priestesses, Women Saints, Wise Women and Healers.
It is the ultimate form of feminine energy and power with all the feminne characteristics in ideal form, frequency and harmony. The Sacred Feminine represents the pure (unconditional) love, compassion, intuition, creation / creativity and deep transformative powers of the feminine energy. While the females in nature embody it, both males and females have this power inside. After eons of oppression, disrespect, and desacralisation, where women and the feminine has been suppressed, demeaned, and abused, now we can feel and see the rise of the feminine and the Sacred Feminine in our World and in ourselves, to take its rightful place and come in balance with the Sacred Masculine.
As a wonderful group of women, we are offering this festival to women to invoke, remember, honor and reconnect to the Sacred Feminine within us. All events are online and free of charge. The workshops are depicted below in the languages in which they will take place. Registration form is below.
Rahim Meditasyonu
Ayşe Dayı, PhD., Psikolog, Reiki Master (RMT) ve Farkındalık Eğitmeni
8 Mart 2025, Cumartesi
10:30-12:00 (Türkiye zamanı: 12:30-14:00)
Etkinlik dili: Türkçe
Kadınlar dişiller ol’arak bir yaratım hayat canlılık üretkenlik yeri ol an rahmimizden uzaklaşmış onunla ve onun gücüyle bağımız kopuk ya da zayıf ol abiliyor. Rahmimiz bizi annemiz, anneannemiz, dişil atalarımz, dişil güç ve Kutsal Dişil’e, Kozmos‘un Rahmi ve Dünyanın /GAIA‘nın Rahmine bağlayan önemli bir güç noktamız. Bu meditasyonda dişil bir çember ol uşturarark, rahmimizle sevgiyle, huzurla temasa geçecek, bu önemli bağı tekrar ol‘uşturmak için adım atacak, onun bilgeliğinden faydalanacağız. Organ ol‘arak rahmimiz artık orada değilse bile enertik ol arak orada mevcut. Tüm dişilleri sevgiyle bekliyoruz.
Eğitmen bilgisi: Ayşe Dayı
Psikolog, Reiki Master (RMT), ve Achtsamkeit / Farkındalık eğitmeni ol’an Ayşe Boğaziçi Üniversitesi’nden Psikoloji ve Siyaset bilimi lisans dereceleri, Penn State Üniversitesi’nden İnsan Gelişimi-Aile Çalışmaları ve Kadın Çalışmaları alanlarında doktorasını tamamladı. Uzun yıllar akademik hayatta psikoloji, medikal sosyoloji ve kadın çalışmaları alanlarında çalıştıktan sonra 2020‘den bu yana Berlin‘de kurduğu Orca Dreams: Farkındalıkla Yaşam Platformu ile bireylere ve kurumlara bütüncül sağlık, fiziksel-psikolojik denge, stresle başa çıkmak, tükenmişliği önlemek, duygu yönetimi, işyerinde farkındalık, çocuklarla / eğitmenlerle / ailelerle farkındalık ve kadın sağlığı üzerine eğitim ve danışmanlık sunmakta, Türkçe ve İngilizce bireysel danışmanlık ve Reiki şifa seanslarına devam etmektedir. Berlin VHS-Mitte’de verdiği Kutsal Dişilimi Hatırlıyorum, Onu Onurlandırıyorum isimli kadın şifa çemberlerini muhteşem dişil arkadaşlarla Birlikte sevgiyle kolaylaştırmaya devam etmektedir.
Invoking the Sacred Feminine through Voice
Mizgina Rengin, Singer -Vocal coach
Sunday, March 9, 2025
10:00-11:00 (Turkish time: 11:00-12:00)
Online: Zoom platform
Event language: English
Voice is crucial for the feminine. Many women may feel they have been disconnected from their unique voice, not being heard and not being able to express themselves fully and freely in the world, be able to shine. In this short workshop for women, Mizgina will show us how we as women can activate our voice and use our potential for intuitive singing. Using playful and performative approaches, we will explore the basic elements of singing as well as voice training, breathing and singing styles, we will improvise and reflect together.
Trainer info: Mizgina Rengin
Mizgina Rengin is a singer, vocal coach,educator and artist who was born in Turkey. In their artistic work they mix diverse cultural musical influences in their performances. A cosmopolitan who uses her voice for encounters and tolerance. “In the beginning there was improvisation.” www.mizgina-rengin.com
Mavi Sakal Masalı ve Kadının Otantik Benliğinin Keşfi
Ezgi Aydın Korkmaz
15 Mart 2025
16:00-17:30 (Türkiye saati: 18:00-19:30)
Online: Zoom Platformu
Etkinlik dili: Türkçe
Bu atölyede masalların büyülü dünyasında kadının içsel yolculuğunu birlikte keşfetmeye davetlisiniz. Mavi Sakal Masalı üzerinden, kadının bireysel dönüşüm yolculuğunu, bilinçdışı sembolleri ve dişilin kendi öz benliğini özgürleştirmesindeki engel yıkıcı eril prensibi ele alacağız. Mavi Sakal, masal literatüründe kadının içsel tehlikelerle yüzleşmesini, bastırılmış bilgeliğini ortaya çıkarmasını ve dönüşüm sürecini temsil eder.
Atölyede şu konular yer alacak:
- Mavi Sakal Masalı’nın derin sembol dili analizi
- Animus: Kadının içsel eril gücüyle ilişkisi
- Kadın kahramanın (heroin) büyüme ve olgunlaşma süreci
- Otantik benliği keşfetmek ve “40. Oda” metaforu
Eğitmen Bilgisi: Ezgi Aydın Korkmaz
Ezgi Aydın Korkmaz İngiliz Dili filoloğu, Yaratıcı Drama eğitmeni ve Astrolojik Danışmandır. Şu an Berlin Volkshochschule yabancı diller biriminde eğitmenlik yapmanın yanısıra mitoloji, sembolizm ve hikâye anlatıcılığı üzerine online eğitimler vermekte ve astrolojik danışmanlık sunmaktadır. Kendisi kadim anlatılar, kolektif bilinçdışı ve bireysel dönüşüm süreçleri üzerine derinleşen bir yolculuğun içinde yolculuğuna devam etmektedir. https://www.instagram.com/ezosphere/
Awakening the Sacred Feminine through imagination and poetry
Pramila Venkateswaran, PhD.
Saturday, March 15, 2025
19:00-20:00 (Turkish Time: 21:00-22:00)
Online: Zoom Platform
Event Language: English
Pramila Venkateswaran’s poems address women’s awareness of self and world, the sacred spaces that allow glimpses into the realities of women’s lives. Her poems explore themes such as identity, finding one’s voice, motherhood, loss and belonging. In this reading, participants will be invited to ask questions following the presentation.
Artist info: Pramila Venkateswaran
Pramila Venkateswaran, poet laureate of Suffolk County, Long Island (2013-15), is the author most recently of Exile is Not a Foreign Word (Copper Coin 2024) and Tamil Dalit Feminist Poetics (Rowman and Littlefield 2024). We are Not a Museum (Finishing Line, 2022) won the New York Book Festival award, in the poetry category. Her earlier books include Thirtha (Yuganta 2002) Behind Dark Waters (Plain View 2008), Draw Me Inmost (Stockport Flats 2009), Trace (Finishing Line 2011), Thirteen Days to Let Go (Aldrich, 2015), Slow Ripening (Local Gems, 2016), and The Singer of Alleppey (Shanti Arts, 2018), She has performed her poetry internationally, has authored numerous essays on poetics, and was the 2011 Walt Whitman Birthplace Association Long Island Poet of the Year. Her critical essays on Dalit poetry appear in journals such as the International Women’s Studies Journal. She leads writing workshops at many writing and holistic health organizations. She is the co-director of Matwaala: South Asian Diaspora Poetry Collective, and is Professor Emerita at SUNY Nassau. www.pramilav.com
Womb Meditation
Ayşe Dayı, PhD., Psychologist, Reiki Master (RMT) & Mindfulness / Achtsamkeit Trainer
Sunday, March 16, 2025
10:30-12:00 (Turkish time: 12:30-14:00)
Event Language: English
As females and as women, we may have been distanced, and disconnected from our wombs which are spaces of creation, creativity, productivity and vitality. Our wombs connect us to our mothers, grandmothers, all our female ancestory, to feminine power and the Sacred Feminine, and to the Womb of Cosmos and the Womb of Gaia. In this meditation, forming a beautiful circle of women, we will connect to our wombs in love and peace and begin to re-form our relationship with her and her wisdom. If when physical wombs are not there (due to operation or for trans women), its energy is still there. We await all sisters to join us.
Trainer info: Ayşe Dayı
Ayşe Dayı received B.A. degrees in Psychology and Political Science & International Relations from Boğaziçi University, and her PhD. from Penn State in the fields on Human Development & Family Studies and Women’s Studies. After long years of academic life in psychology, medical sociology and Women’s Studies, Ayşe established the Orca Dreams Platform for Mindful Living with which she has been providing services to individuals and institutions on preventive and holistic health, stress management, burnout prevention, emotion regulation, and mindfulness in education and at work. She continues her private consultations in English & Turkish. She keeps on facilitating the women’s circle entitled “Re-membering & Honoring my Sacred Feminine: A women’s healing circle on gender, body and sexuality” at VHS-Mitte in Berlin, with a group of wonderful women, in joy and honor.
