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THE YOGINI PROJECT - SUMMER 2018

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YOGINI PROJECT  SUMMER FUNDRAISER 2018

 - THE STARS ARE SHINING

The Yogini Project is expanding this summer!  After 6 years of groundbreaking media releases from film to interviews to art projects in support of women in Buddhist practice, inspiration of millions through our social media channels, and extensive platform building, this summer is a threshold for the project, a coming of age.  As we prepare for our endgame depth projects - our film on women on the path around the globe and our Yogini Fund to support women in dedicated retreat - we have this year refined thoroughly our platform that has been built with love these past many years to prepare for an extension of our profound interview series, a powerful film project, and our upcoming Yogini Fund to support women in retreat for generations to come.  





Current foundational elements from extending our team, new equipment, and platform enhancements are essential for us to take our next steps forward this autumn.  We are cresting a wave of benefit and invite you to join us on this exciting adventure that daily touches and transforms lives around the world. 




WHAT THIS FUNDRAISER SUPPORTS





This includes:





a) Extending our content team to several fantastic dedicated women, providing tremendous and extensive new material, both subtle and accessible, with extraordinary new content scheduled for the next years





b) New equipment and interview budget for an extended video interview series with some of the trailblazing women both east and west in the dharma





c) Further platform enhancements and integrations essential for our coming projects





Our budget for these is $18,500-$23,000, which will allow for the expanded base for our most significant projects yet, while maintaining support for a steady flow of new media from site content to extensive video interviews, and fresh, vital social media inspiration that continues to touch 100,000s weekly.





The first tier of $12,500 is essential for the minimum we require for our autumn work.   As this first tier is met, the remainder goes to support our interview budget (see 


Yogini Project Now  



for our prospective interview list).  What is not reached by this October through this fundraiser, we will raise by an autumn Yogini Membership drive for the project.  Your timely support is appreciated.


WHAT THE YOGINI PROJECT IS HERE FOR





What we seek with our interviews and all our media is to provide encouragement for women either already committed to practice or just being introduced and encountering the Dharma for the first time to have examples of women who are manifesting the fruits of the practice without needing a limelight to authenticate their qualities. Their qualities are inherent in themselves and their practice - which is precisely where all 'women on the path' will eventually find them, they will arise within.





This world now as much as ever needs awakened women, women who are empowering themselves through genuine practice.








As the project was being first founded, we met extensively with Venerable Tsoknyi Rinpoche, receiving advice for over a year.  He essentialized the purpose of the project with these words:





"This is for creating more Yoginis in the world.”






What are the causes and conditions for that?



As the Dharma spread around the world in recent decades, the question was asked again and again, ‘Well, where are the women?’   Exquisite, authentic dharma was being taught, but the transmission was primarily from traditional societies to modern, gender equality based ones.  And the images and role models of women were scarce, though the feminine was woven through the dharma.  At the time that the Yogini Project came to fruition however, women actually were and ARE the majority of practitioners in the world.  The answer was actually… “Everywhere!”  



Women are actually blossoming in practice all around the world, in numbers and contexts like never before.  But how to provide the visibility, the needed images and praise?  We have often felt that The Yogini Project is here to announce a global movement that is actually hidden to its own members!





To meet the needs of those women - and just as much those men who are aspiring for and inspired by more positive and comprehensive images of empowered women, for themselves and others - we have striven to illuminate and fulfill these foremost:



~ Visibility / Recognition


~ Confidence Building


~ Respect and Support


~ Sense of Community,  Of Belonging


~ Endless Inspiration


~ Empowerment / Development of Faith






Foremost, confidence has come up again and again as the most essential need for women to embark on and moment by moment genuinely engage in the path.   Both as being a woman and as an individual.  This has also been  a primary topic of the sublime teachers we feature.









“Lesson #1 to raise their confidence to realize the path is the understanding of our buddha nature.  It is that we identify with all the wrong things really.  When it comes to buddha nature, certainly, there is no gender issue.  There is no male or female; there is no monastic or lay.  It’ss just our pure, intrinsic nature, which we all have and which is the thing that connects us all. Unlike our clinging to our individual identities which is what separates us from everybody.  So, as a foundation for our practice is to remember that inherently we are completely pure and completely ok, no matter what our outer circumstances may be. 





These are just clouds, but the blue sky is always there.
”






~ Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo




“Being able to have the confidence that who you are is absolutely fine.  That further adornment of the person as an individual by association is not needed. 





I think women do tend to have a lot of confidence but at the same time are always looking for affirmation of some kind, that it's alright to be that confident.  So I think in that regard if there is also a project such as The Yogini Project that provides a platform for women to feel confident and assured in that confidence, that as they are, who they are, as a practitioner, that is very fine but further more something additional to that is not needed other than working with your own self. Then I think that is an excellent platform that will be very helpful for many women.”




~ Her Eminence Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche



SUBLIME SUPPORT FOR THE YOGINI PROJECT
 





“Any endeavor that is there to support women as practitioners, that is excellent!I wish the project, The Yogini Project, all success. And I hope that extends towards everyone and more women are able to be supported.  You have my full support!” 





~ Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche








“Thank you for initiating this wonderful project to help promote and support those women whoare dedicated to genuine training on the path.”





~ Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo






GRATITUDE TO ALL OUR SUPPORTERS OF THIS TIMELY WORK!


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Michael Ash
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Anastasia Eremenko
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