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Regina Sara Ryan
Regina Sara Ryan is a professional writer and freelance editor. Regina is the co-author of the classic, best-selling Wellness Workbook (Random House, 2004) and the author of: The Woman Awake: Feminine Wisdom for Spiritual Life (1998), After Surgery, Illness, or Trauma (1999), Praying Dangerously (2010) and Igniting the Inner Life (2010), and an extensive biography of a South Indian saint entitled Only God: A Biography of Yogi Ramsuratkumar.
Selections of her work have been featured in contemporary anthologies of spiritual writing by women, including Sacred Voices: Essential Women’s Wisdom Through the Ages, by Mary-Ford Grabowsky (HarperCollins, 2003), and excerpted in Unity Magazine.
A former Catholic nun, Regina has studied contemplation and mysticism from several traditions for over forty years. After leaving the convent in the early 1970s, Regina explored many other religious traditions and was particularly inspired by the lives of the great women of Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism and Sufism. 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 first 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, besides writing she has worked in retreat settings and currently conducts study groups in Self Observation/Self Remembering, and several popular workshops in the U.S. and Europe. These include: “Training Attention for Prayer,” “Meetings with Remarkable Women,” about the feminine nature of the Divinity, and “Writing Your Way Home” (online and in person) with her colleague Mary Angelon Young, about writing as a means of spiritual enrichment and personal transformation.
Married for 47 years to her husband Jerome Pramuk, Regina was widowed in 2019. She currently resides as a hearth keeper at Triveni Ashram, Paulden, Arizona.