Awakening the Warrior Within: Secrets of Personal Safety and Inner Security [Paperback]

Dawn Callan (Author), Shakti Gawain (Introduction)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1999

Protect yourself without weapons or brawn. Define and defend your personal boundaries without animosity. Learn how to tap your greatest inner sources of safety. Face your tyrants from a place of openness and power. Step into the power of your evolved spiritual warrior within, bringing balance, inner peace and security to your life. Based on over 25 years of training and teaching.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"...teaches us to reconnect with the natural power of the warrior, creating an important new model for attaining personal safety." -- Hal Zina Bennett, Author

"A very important message to women - a message of power and enablement..." -- Sonya Friedman, Sonya Live, CNN television

"Awakens the warrior spirit within each of us, pointing the way to true security and self-confidence..." -- Shakti Gawain, author-lecturer

About the Author

Dawn Callan draws from her prolific background as a personal bodyguard to celebrities, and from achieving advanced Black Belts in Kempo, Kung Fu, and Karate. Of equal importance is her experience she draws from 20 years as the founder and facilitator of Awakening the Warrior Within Workshops, and years of spiritual work.

Product Details

• Paperback: 206 pages
• Publisher: Tenacity Pr; Revised edition (March 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0965605698
• ISBN-13: 978-0965605694
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #749,500 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Real Warrior Wisdom, April 21, 2000

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Grant R. Schnarr "Author" (Bryn Athyn, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Awakening the Warrior Within: Secrets of Personal Safety and Inner Security (Paperback)

This book contains a depth of wisdom I have rarely seen in my continuing study of warrior philosophy. Dawn Callan brings the esoteric and the practical together in such a natural way that the fabric of the book is seemless. There is a practical twelve-step/recovery flavor here that anyone struggling with addiction, compulsion, will find solace in what reads like a familiar and helpful friend.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must-read, November 28, 2008

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Sue Weaver - See all my reviews

This review is from: Awakening the Warrior Within: Secrets of Personal Safety and Inner Security (Paperback)

I read this book about 9 years ago and it changed my life. Then I placed it on my annual re-read book shelf and I read it again once a year. If you're a shrinking violet (like I was), you NEED this book. It inspires, it instructs, it shows readers exactly how to get into their power center--and most of us need to do just that.

However, I recently read Ms. Callan's second book, The Hero's Code, and was very disappointed with it, hoping as I was that it would inspire me the way her first book had. It would've been a great magazine article but it falls very short as a book (for instance, do we need to know the full details of all of her many courses and why would her favorite real estate agent, carpenter, and insurance broker be listed under Resources?).

If you choose between the two, buy Awakening the Warrior Within. You won't be disappointed--it's fantastic!

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant work-book for safety, spirituality and ecology!, March 14, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Awakening the Warrior Within: Secrets of Personal Safety and Inner Security (Paperback)

Starting from her courageous biography, the accomplished martial artist takes us through the steps of identifying our fears, weaknesses and strengths. Learning to responsibly relate to people and the planet is as much a part of personal safety as are spirituality and physical prowess - a work-mind-body-map for the journey to a safer and better future!