Regina Sara Ryan

Regina Sara Ryan, author of The Woman Awake, Feminine Wisdom for Spiritual Life, is a former Catholic nun who has studied contemplation and mysticism for over forty years. After leaving the convent in the early 1970s, Regina began her exploration of other religious traditions, and was particularly inspired by the lives of the great women of Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism and Sufism who had lived these ways. In her own life she had strongly felt the need to appreciate and celebrate herself as woman, and to balance the masculine pole of Divinity, which had characterized her previous religious education, by finding women and men who exemplified the feminine pole, or the Feminine Face of the Divine.

Since meeting her own spiritual mentor, the Western Baul master Lee Lozowick in 1984, Regina has continued to follow what she calls a path of “unashamed devotion” in which she works to bring her life of contemplation into action. Since 1980 she has made several trips to India, and in 1998 she wrote the story of a great beggar saint, titled: Only God: A Biography of Yogi Ramsuratkumar. Her book Dangerous Prayer: Radical Reliance on God (2001) draws the distinction between prayer for the sake of comfort and prayer as a means of radical transformation.

Her popular seminars and retreats have been given in many U.S. locations, as well as in Mexico, Canada, and several countries in Europe. She lives in Paulden, Arizona with her husband of thirty-seven years and her adopted grandchildren.

CDs/DVDs/Books Available:

The Woman Awake, Feminine Wisdom for Spiritual Life

Becoming Mother

Embracing the Dark: Kali Energy in Life and Spiritual Practice