10 Keys in Self-leadership
A field Guide in Feminine Force
Leadership begins in the listening
Before we lead, we must listen. Not just to others—but to the ancient wisdom inside our bodies, hearts, and dreams.
Female leadership begins in the deep listening to our own voice. It is not built by performing louder in a noisy world—but by attuning to what is quiet and true within.
I believe the world doesn’t need more women in leadership who have hardened to survive. Survival is where history has played for long enough. It needs women who remember how to soften to lead from their wholeness.
🌿 A reflection on female leadership through the lens of self-discovery.
2. Awakening the wild is women's wealth
A woman in tune with her instinct is a force of nature. In a world that has taught us to polish, control, and edit ourselves into acceptability, reclaiming our wild knowing is an act of leadership. A ripple I believe is worthy of attention. The wild is not chaotic, it is deeply intelligent. We as females can often fall into the rabbit hole of burnout, because we have been operating from shoulds instead of soul. My work is about remembering: the very core by creating spaces that are safe to unlock our natural rhythms. Our leadership is not a mask. It’s a remembering of who we are. In retreat, we unmask.
We get wild.
We learn the art of process.
And in presence—we rise.
3. The power of receptivity
We hear a lot about “taking action” in leadership.
But feminine leadership begins with receiving.
Receiving insight.
Receiving stillness.
Receiving support.
It’s not passive, it’s powerful.
It allows a softening through the skin, the heart, and the head.
A sponge-like effect that says a full-bodied ‘YES’,
to new sensations, new insights, new ideas, new life.
And in that sponging… something miraculous happens, a magnet-like force begins to generate.
One that doesn’t chase, but draws in what is aligned, true, and ready.
This is the space where creativity gestates,
where innovation whispers,
and where alignment replaces effort.
The body of a woman knows how to receive.
True leadership is not just about the generosity of giving, .
It’s about how generously we allow ourselves to also receive.
Let’s learn the art of receiving ourselves. In all it’s colour. Join us
4. When the body speaks, wisdom in the flesh
The body doesn’t lie.
While the mind can be trained to perform, posture itself can reveal a truth you haven’t dared speak.
In our facilitation, we explore:
-The body as an anchor and portal.
-Our intimate relationship with the central nervous system and the subtle relationship with life..
-The mechanics of women's functioning as a gift and growth for self and all.
Biochemistry of flow in form
Embodied female leadership is not theoretical. It’s practiced through presence, breath, sensation, and the art of metabolising experience.
When life is engaged through full-body intelligence, the intellect of accumulation gives way to the innate intelligence; one that reveals the profound, the wise, and the true.
5. Self-care is a strategy of soul, not a spa day
Leadership requires stamina—and for women, that stamina is sustained through cycles.
Each month, a woman’s body moves through a physical shedding. A mechanical yet sacred process that allows for the release of emotional, psychological, and physical accumulation.
It is nature’s built-in reset, a rhythmic intelligence that clears space for clarity, creativity, and deeper connection.
And as a woman moves through the greater shift of change, menopause and
These transitions are metabolised with open arms, a portal opens. The monthly cycles fall away, and a sovereign wholeness begins to express through her physicality and presence. It is the maturity and gift of age.
The feminine operates in rhythm.
To ignore that rhythm is to burn out, to go against the innate intelligence of the system.
So what if…
-Rest, digest, and release are strategic.
-Saying no is a powerful way of saying yes—to coherence.
-Pleasure recalibrates and elevates both performance and process.
Self-care is not indulgent plus add it’s intelligent doorway to more of ourselves and the world.
It’s how women leaders process and elevate their energy, preserve and refine their clarity, and pulse in the power of freedom and flow. Exploring in the skin is what we do in adventure, retreat and inter-revolutionary processes.
6. Lead in wholeness not wounds
We have been shaped by life happenings. The good, the bad and the ugly. Traumatic moments are great doorways to more of ourselves. These moments activate things like, silencing, or self-doubt.
That pain can indeed become fuel, but not when we lead from it unconsciously. Our wounds can be portals to our greatest strengths, yet only when we’ve given them space to be felt, understood, and metabolised. When pain remains unprocessed, it quietly steers the ship, often recreating more of the same cycles within ourselves and our culture, we long to break.
The real gift is in learning how to transform that pain and feed our purposeful life, while still honouring the journey it took to get here. This is not about erasing the past but integrating it so deeply that it becomes the very foundation of our fullest expression.
We don’t need perfect leaders. We need integrated ones, women who are choosing to discover how to alchemise their stories and now serve from a place of embodied wisdom.
Our retreats are spaces where this process becomes possible, not as a therapy, but a restoration of sovereignty, where our wholeness is our compass
7. Intuition is intelligence
We don’t always need another opinion.
What we truly need is to re-establish trust with our own knowing.
Intuition is not mystical fluff—it’s a biological, emotional, and spiritual intelligence system. It’s the wholesome interpretation of all information, not just what the mind can compute. or collate
I often think of intuition as “into-it-I-see.” The mind will filter through historic patterning, scanning for the quickest route based on past data. But our full system: gut, heart, and head can interpret information from the state of nowness, in the isness. This opens the door to higher, deeper, fuller-spectrum frequencies from which to shape our decisions.
Energetically, this means accessing the entire bandwidth of available information. Yet, it isn’t always easy. The reflex is to default to what we’ve known before, or to react from the conditions of our personal and collective experiences. This exploration is about ingesting and staying here fully and long enough for clarity to reveal itself.
Women are naturally intuitive as our body mechanically has reflexed the emotional body well, but many have been trained out of trusting it.
In leadership, intuitive precision creates impact.
Trusting our gut, heart, head in coherence is not unprofessional. It’s unfakeable
8. Sacred Boundaries Make space for genius.
Boundaries are not walls.
They are sacred agreements with ourselves. vows that honour the deepest processes of our creation.
As women rise into leadership, there is often an ancient reflex woven into our very skin: the habit of feeding everyone else, holding everything together, doing it all… while quietly abandoning our own needs.
When we emotionally and psychologically mature, something shifts.
-We reclaim the right to discern; what serves the whole and what harms it, what we will tolerate and what no longer belongs in the way we dance with the world.
A boundary is not rigid stone; it is a living guidance system. It moves with time and wisdom. Yet, as we dismantle old behaviours, learning to play a different edge gives us a new space of sovereignty—where the inner compass becomes the navigator, not the survival patterns of yesterday.
Burnout begins where boundaries end.
The feminine thrives inside containers. We are the vessels of creation, the sacred bowls where vision is held, nurtured, and birthed.
In retreat, we explore our edges and stretch them. We build new structures that are spacious enough to hold our freedom, strong enough to keep us safe.
9. The feminine Field is where creation thrives.
One of the deepest wounds many of us carry is the belief that there’s not enough space for all of us to rise. That if someone else is shining, it somehow dims our own light. But the feminine field doesn’t work like that.
It isn’t rooted in scarcity, it’s woven from the ever-changing, life-giving fabric of connection, movement, raw and honest expression. It’s the fertile ground where ideas spark, relationships form, dreams are born, and visions come to life.
We, as women, have a direct physiological connection to this field. That is the gift of being born in what I call the skinsuit of a woman. Nothing to do with gender, but the basic mechanics of the system.
When we explore it, when we learn to trust and harness it, we start loosening our grip on old systems that never really fit us. Systems that are outdated and out of tune with our true nature.
This is when we open the door to a new way of seeing, a new way of being.
This is the shift from playing by the rules of the old game to rewriting the game entirely. Supporting growth, connection, and the full expression of our gifts.
It’s the moment we stop living in cycles of dissonance and instead come home to resonance.
The spaces we create are for women to witness each other, lift each other, and rise together
10. Unfolding opens the voice of resonance
As we lean into our curiosity and untangle the threads of limitation, something truer emerges.
This is where aligned living begins.
Where the feminine vibration doesn’t perform for the world,
but becomes the sound of life itself, a resonance felt, not just heard. It’s a place where many qualities are born.
In this space, every ripple is perfect for the moment.
Imagine if we all attuned to this fluidity.
Imagine knowing, deeply, that the force of nature holds us,
cradled in the womb of consciousness.
Here, voice is not just sound.
It is silence, listening, playing.
Not passive. Not receding.
But unapologetically alive.
We explore the full range of frequency and sound expressed through our body/mind organism.
She sits in silence… as the world spins its noise.
And in that stillness, she remembers —
Her power in process
She learns to untangle the stories…
the ones that wrapped around her body,
threads coiled tightly, like a snake awaiting the sun.
Each thread she loosens,
a truth returns—
wild, raw, and freshhh.
Breath becomes her bridge.
With each inhale, she receives.
With each exhale, she gives.
Life dances in her lungs,
reminding her she is already whole.
Her voice awakens .
Not sharp, not soft, but sovereign.
She speaks not to fill the air,
but to create.
Words that carry the victorious pulse of being alive.
And in the rhythm her body moves,
she discovers the wilderness ,
the mystery of the muse,
the freedom of imperfection.
This is not a performance.
This is not a role.
This… is
HOME - Marie Louise