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I Hear Your Cry: Women in Prison
By: VERONICA A SHAFFEReBook Publisher: AuthorSolutions
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I Hear Your Cry: Women in Prison shares the extraordinary process of how one woman took a dream, nurtured it into reality, and shared her inspirational message with women prisoners-never give up.
Author Veronica A. Shaffer has always relied on her inner voice to lead her, but it was her perseverance and commitment to personal growth that eventually allowed her to share the benefits of yoga and meditation with women prisoners. In this poignant account, Shaffer compromises with prison officials who ask her to rename her program "Fit and Wellness," and begins her life-transforming work. Although her personal experiences differ from those of the female prisoners she educates, she is able to identify with their powerlessness and desperation-two demons she had personally battled as a young woman. Her years of teaching are complemented by the amazing lessons learned from women who struggle with addictions, obesity, physical handicaps, grief over separation from loved ones, anger at the men left behind, and loneliness without friends.
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| Title of eBook: I Hear Your Cry: Women in Prison | |
| Release Date: 04-13-2007 | |
| Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. |
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I Hear Your Cry: Women in Prison
Chapter One
Introduction
As I stood on my deck one fall morning five years ago, I watched the gentle movement of the Tibetan prayer flags that I had tied between two of my tall pine trees. Watching these flags blow in the breeze comforted me.
I first saw them on a trip to Tibet seven years ago. Wherever I traveled, I noticed these colorful prayer flags hanging from the roofs of temples, monasteries and mountains. Sometimes they were hung between poles. I felt amazed at how many blew in the breeze as trekkers climbed toward Mount Everest.
Each vivid square is inscribed with a prayer. Blue represents space, white is water, red represents fire, green is for air, and yellow for earth. Tibetans believe that hanging prayer flags with intention releases positive energized blessings out to the world on the wind, spreading these blessings to all beings and assisting those who hang the flags. These prayer flags flutter in all kinds of weather. Some days they move softly in a light breeze; on other days, a strong wind sends their prayers surging outward to the world.
On that fall morning, at home, I felt transported to a peaceful place-one I don't often experience. Calmness fell over me, and my inner voice whispered that I needed to share some of the teachings I had received over the years. I found myself nodding in agreement as though I were having a conversation with someone.
At certain times in my life, this same inner voice has guided me through life-altering moments. One of the most important moments of this kind was in the mid-sixties, when I decided to go home to Pennsylvania f
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