Yael Deckelbaum is a platinum award-winning Israeli/Canadian singer songwriter and an activist for peace, and especially well known for her song “Prayer Of The Mothers”, written in 2016 to support the Women Wage Peace Movement: a song for the movement of Palestinian and Israeli mothers walking together for change and peace. You hear its tune at the beginning of the episode. Shared by millions, it inspired and keeps inspiring women across the globe to get together and take action.

This episode is a powerful and deep conversation between Yael Deckelbaum and Julia Neumann. Yael talks with vulnerability about her journey in the last 10 years since she wrote Prayer Of The Mothers, and how she went inwards to peel deep layers on what it means to be a woman. She shares her inner quest about the meaning of peace, and how she discovered that peace is an idea that cannot exist without people looking inwards and healing their core wounds.

Yael and Julia open up on:

• what it means to be a woman;

• women’s true leadership, from a place of love, vulnerability and connection with spirit, but without suppressing fear and denying their humanity;

• the key things for the women's revolution to happen, including women tapping into their own spiritual power;

• how women’s language is inclusive for all life and very different to patriarchal language that is based on and creates war;

• how women’s voices have been censured for generations and the importance of women connecting with their true voice.

Yael shares how she uses singing and praying as a tool to speak her truth and encourages all women to connect with their true voice. She believes that change will be possible if women can speak in a real way. Besides using the voice, she shares other paths for transformation and healing and suggests reaching out to other wise women, like Marlee Wolf, the founder of Sovereign Ground Institute: sovereigngroundinstitute.com

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Music: Prayer of the Mothers, by Yael Deckelbaum

Women of the World Unite, album by Yael Deckelbaum

Marlee Wolf, ⁠sovereigngroundinstitute.com⁠

Julia Neumann, julia-neumann.com

Radically Alive Women, radicallyalivewomen.com