I met you for the first time at the Red Tent.  You are a glorious being and gifted facilitator. It was such a joy to see you in all your fullness and genius.  You made holding space for 70 women look a breeze! I have never witnessed such seamless co-facilitation.  I loved how you (and Valentina) look time to set up each exercise – talking us through what we might meet on the way but never resolving our tension. I felt you see each woman in the room (tent). You created such deliciousness and such spaciousness. 

Thank you for your deep appreciation of the sacred. Thank you for sitting in circle with us, listening deeply and showing us the many faces of the One. I appreciate your approachability, your lively mind and the depth of your soul. 

Your ceremonial appreciation of a dear sister touched me deeply.  

You raise my hope for a better world and for genuinerhood siste

~ Gwendolen Ward (Spiritual Doula), UK & SA, The RED Retreat 2022

 

Kali, you are an absolute delight!  Articulate, playful, honest, and deep. The ways in which you unpack Shakti's teachings with your own additions and your energy is exquisite and easy to digest.  Also, I love how accessible you are AND how you connect to the participants and their questions in the course.  

~ Joy Clarissa Taylor (Business Soul Mapping Founder), United States, Awakening Your Feminine Sexual Essence

 

Dearest Kali, oooh yum, all the lovely women sharing, caring, holding, in such a beautiful, open environment – this is the life!  Thank you so much for holding this powerful incubating space with so much love, gentleness & authority.  Wow, you are so good at setting a safe space for going deep into our beings.  This is good for humanity and circles out its richness.

~ Leán Bakker (Tantrika, Performance Artist), Magic of Menopause Workshop & Sweat Lodge, Cape Town

 

You are one of the sisters I admire most: a powerful, magical being, an extension of source energy and I honour you.  It has been so nice and lovely to meet you Kali .  I am wishing you a beautiful end of this old week, a soft and gentle start in the new one.  May the mantras calm your mind and open your heart, and may the music move your hips, blessings.

~ Gypsy Lily (Artist, Supermodel), Germany

 

You are the most radical, courageous, fascinating, funny and fearless woman I know. I'm honoured to call you my friend and sister.

~ Lesley Gittings, Academic

 

I am still so thankful for the precious experiences during our women's circle at the Drakensberg.  My heart and my womb is still drinking from that source in which everything was welcome.  I have been to several women's retreats so far, including in India, but have never experienced such a loving field for the feminine, as well as for the masculine systems.  Kali, I am deeply thankful for that space you have created for us. The honouring male ritual with Yoyo was so heart opening for me - and for him! And thank you, sisters for your love field that you created during the ritual and during all times.  I bow to the ongoing creative energy within the worldwide sisterhood circles.  May the love we share keep on spreading its wings and fly across the earth.  Love and big hug to all of you.

~ Miriam Mann, Germany

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You were so beautiful, so knowledgeable, so present, so powerful, so loving – did everything right, as always.

~ Liesl Haasbroek (Artist, Elementor, Keeper of the Sacred Fire), Magic of Menopause Workshop & Sweat Lodge, Cape Town

 

Thank you so much for the fiery, warm, nurturing, melting workshop with you and Michelle.  The lodge really made the process go deeper, and you two were beautiful together.  I’m in such awe:  it was also really lovely to have a diverse group of women, thank you!

~ Andrea Kuti (wife of progressive Rabbi, womb priestess), Magic of Menopause Workshop & Sweat Lodge, Cape Town

 

Big thanks to Kali Satyagraha and Michelle Reid for holding such a beautiful and contained space today at the menopause and sweat lodge retreat.

~ Merrissa Lebetkin (Shamanic Practitioner), Cape Town

 

You are a divine embodiment of Sacred Feminine Crone inspiration my dearest Kali sister.  It was a free-flowing co-creation.  Thank you!  Today I’m fully charged with all the awakened wisdom settling into me.  Thank you, all most divine women for all reflections given and received.  It is an honour and blessing to be in sacred circle with you.  Much gratitude. 

A’ho Mitakue Oyasin!

~ Michelle Dancing Heart Reid (Medicine Woman, Shamanic Teacher), Cape Town

 

Your workshop and sweat lodge have been the best day of my life!

~ Florence Mutisi (Domestic Worker), Cape Town

 

Dearest sisters :) What a wonderful supportive, nourishing and enlightening weekend- so much gratitude to you all, especially the magnificent Kali. I awoke today with such joy and inspiration and music just poured through my fingers onto my piano/keys.

Joanne Corrigal, Awakened Women Unfolding Together, Oct 2017 

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I'm sure you hear this so often, and probably can't hear it enough...just the magic, the incredible power, the beauty, the modelling, the wisdom, the mentorship, the allowing, the parenting, the everything from the joy to the great boundaries, the clear communication, the preparation; and a million other things...and I trust that you will live, experience, dream and holistically know that there's a homeopathic aspect to your work that may not be visible straight away, even though one feels it on a small scale immediately in the field - the women that you work with, that you show up for, there's a homeopathic power and healing which is carried in the body of women who've been with you, who go into families and communities, who then can heal in turn because of their being healed. It's such personal work that impacts globally. I want to reflect that to you and to remind you of its power, beauty and magnitude. I just have this strong image: when an empowered woman, who carries this wisdom in her waters, urinates and flushes, that message goes into the waters, into the ocean, back into the clouds, more and more, and it's raining down upon us, and it starts, in many respects, because of you Kali, so drink in the honouring that is the intention behind my words.

~ Liesl Haasbroek (Elementor, Keeper of the Sacred Fire)

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This has been such an incredible year of Sacred Feminine Healing for me and I wanted to thank you for your part in it and for your Beautiful Presence and for the INCREDIBLE work that you do. I had the pleasure of being at one of your beautiful Red Tent Gatherings at SpiritFest which you held with such grace and strength, and I was deeply grateful to have done Hayley’s Sexual Awakening workshop and be familiar with the language.

I felt full and present.

It was a little later in the year, after two break-ins in 5 days: huge fears came thundering in, not only the fear of having someone in my house but every single ancient long forgotten fear.  I looked up the goddess of fears, and that was when Kali made an appearance and again while I was clearing out the garage of our friends and I kid you not, there on the shelf was a statue of Kali in all her glory.  And then again when Tess’s Sweat Lodge was full, and she sent me your details and I landed in your beautiful Sacred feminine space during the time of the Full Blood Moon Eclipse. Thank you for your wisdom and your generosity and for your ability to hold and create safe space where we can all dive deep into our inner wounds and cry, laugh, play and dance them into the Great Magnificent Jewels for healing. Such immense gratitude to you! 

~ Tina Bester (Chef, Author, Shaman, Artist)

 

The retreat was so constructive for me because since I have been back, I have more power, and more beautiful things are coming out of me. I have a presentation with Usaid, so they can come and sponsor the Alexandra Traditional Healers with the equipment that we need and I’m confident we will be successful.

~ Esther Ramodike (Head of Traditional Healers), Alexandra Township, Johannesburg, South Africa

 

 Love your beautiful & loving & majestic & beautiful caring & vulnerable, sensitive & wild, forresty, mother earthy, lioness presence. I just loved you.  Hope to meet you again, here or in other ways, maybe in South Africa.

For now, lots of love.

~Erica Greefhorst, Germany

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Thank you dear sisters and thank you Kali Satyagraha Widd for holding such a special space for woman. It was so rich and deep, even though we journeyed a seemingly short time together, an infinite amount of healing was available to all of us. And thank you most especially to myself, my higher knowing that took me into circle with woman even when the mind was resisting, thank you dear Self, for knowing what was needed, for reaching out for support, for feeling everything so deeply and for going along for the ride when my body and mind just wanted to keep on, in the struggle. I’m amazed how much clarity is available, how much wisdom and perspective we hold collectively as a tribe and I am so grateful that I am able to drag this sometimes reluctant body to this sacred temple of integration that these circles are. 

There is always something waiting to be transformed, something wanting to be seen and felt, acknowledged and loved back into the heart. If we just pitch up, together we truly can make magic happen.  We can open to receive the love and support we are craving. It is safe here, we can rest into these magnificent woman and together we can heal ourselves and our world. We may also be infused with the courage to take on the enormous challenges we face collectively and individually, as no one else can do what we came here to do. I implore you beautiful women to follow the calling of the whispering voice of the feminine within that invites you into the red tent where we can heal and grow. 

Such gratitude in my heart today as I write this, a week later and reflect on the synchronicities and insights my soul was really needing. I am in awe of the knowing of the feminine from deep within the unknown, the unknowable, and yet....wow, there is clarity in my heart. 

~ Hayley Manson (Therapeutic Art Process Facilitator)

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Dearest Kali.  The vulnerability I feel today is testament to the powerful evening of women's sharing with each other, each mirroring me. I cannot thank you enough for holding such a beautiful space.  I have been feeling so lost of late.  I feel with this work, I could find healing.   I have tried to "start " but encountered too much "stuff" and have simply stopped believing in myself.  Last night inspired me to get up and start again!!! Not sure how or where or even what…but I need to believe I'm worth it, thank you Beautiful Soul. I so look forward to seeing you soon. Much love and gratitude.

~ Wendy Paarman (Swim Coach), Cape Town