I’ll Give You Mine, If You Give Me Yours

Darlings,

It’s Thanksgiving.
I will show you mine, if you show me yours.
I will give you my top gratitudes, but you gotta give it right back to me–and reply to this blog.
We got a deal?
Good.

This is what I am grateful for:

1. My kid. My mom. And my crazy-amazing team at the Pleasure Palace.

2. Having just come back from the best Miami Worldwide Sister Goddess Reunion of my life, where I got to read brags like this:

I brag that I came to Miami only knowing one SG there (and SG Storm Lauren via phone/email) and left being introduced to more SGs than I have fingers and toes to count!! I wish I could remember everyone’s name, because I would give you ALL a “shout out” here for making this virgin feel welcome.

I brag that Saturday during the Unbound Olympics, I did things I would never have dared before:
> first time food experiences - calamari (at Nexxt) and sushi (at Blue Sky in the Delano). Much better than I ever expected!
> danced on “the wall” at the Pink Party! (I would have been standing in the corner before, hoping no one noticed me…)

In line with the Pink Party brag, I brag that there were several loving SGs who helped me at just the right time to get up on “the wall.” When I dared to climb, two SG hands reached out for me – one from above and one from behind. After a few minutes, the SG I was dancing next to saw me look down, planning my escape. She touched my arm and said “Not yet!” About 20 minutes later, we left the wall – together. Such an exhilarating feeling to break through that bond!

I brag that after the Pink Party was over, I stayed on the dance floor!

I brag that SG Camille helped me with my screen name for Sistergoddess.com. She called me “Denver” all weekend – and we modified that to “Denver Hottie”!

I brag that I signed up for Virtual Pleasure Boot Camp 2012 - and shared the desire with my SG friend that we participate in Boot Camp together!

I brag that my handsome husband gave me a sensual massage with aromatherapy oils when I arrived home last night.

I am grateful to find this community of incredible, beautiful, creative women. I have been desiring this kind of community for a very, very long time (without knowing it was a desire) and feel so blessed to know that you are here…and not going anywhere!

I want to share my favorite frame, too. At the Pink Party, the dance floor is filled with SGs. The music plays, a tribal beat for the beautiful tribe of women gathered in Miami. The beat becomes a heartbeat, the heart that beats within each of us and connects us together through love and sisterhood. Truly a sacred experience!

xoxo,
SG Denver Hottie
(SG Gwynne)

3. And the amazing privilege of doing my first-ever class in Copenhagen, where I got to ride the waves of this delicious reverb:

I brag that I’ve practiced pleasure for no reason since the FANTASTIC Mama Gena event in Copenhagen a couple of weeks ago and I FEEL SO Fxxxxxx GOOD even in challenging circumstances. Woooo Hooo!!!!

Instead of running around and focusing on satisfying everyone else’s needs, I’ve prioritized my own needs! Yes, my own needs BEFORE my children’s and my husband’s needs. For instance I went to get a massage on “Holy Family Sunday Time” (!) and when I came home they were all playing and having a great time, and I was just SO relaxed and became part of their joy immediately (before I usually had a guilty conscience if I did something for myself in “family time” and therefore felt “wrong” and outside of the “community” for a while, after having returned, but OH NO, not any more. NEVER EVER EVER AGAIN!) Now I don’t hesitate if I need to refresh during family time… I just inform my husband that I need some time alone and I go to bed, close my eyes and listen to my favorite guided meditation, and I just feel SO RELAXED AND HAPPY…and all turned on …wraaurrhhhhh…

And they are all so happy and much more relaxed than ever before, both my children and my husband. My children’s reaction is very interesting: They just want to kiss me and hug me and are all around me ALL THE TIME in such a nice way… And my husband… mmmmmmmmmmmmm…so good! We are having SUCH a great time. And my pussy purrs as never before…

I am so happy and feel so FREE! Thank you so much, Mama Gena, for directing me back to my pleasure as MY FIRST PRIORITY! I have broken free from the invisible cage of my mind! I can now step out as THE GODDESS OF FREEDOM I was born to be! Pleasure for no reason = Freedom!

Sister Goddess Sophie

4. And next week…I get to go to San Francisco, to speak at TedxFiDiWomen.  And the week after, off to LA, where I will attend a party featuring the work of Sister Goddess Tara, who was so inspired by her experience in Mastery and Inner Circle, that she created a series of gratitude paintings, leading to the creation of Gratitude Designs, which are being launched with a holiday party at Fred Segal.  The party will benefit Sister Goddess Janine’s Flawless Foundation, which advocates for, and improves the quality of care for children living with mental health and neurodevelopmental challenges. Janine has often shared that without the tools she learned at the School of Womanly Arts, she never would have started Flawless. She even has Sister Goddesses serving on her board of directors. Can you see how the connective tissue of radiance, sister to sister, is spreading like the most delicious aroma, wafting from one corner of the world to the other? The event takes place on December 8^th, and I would love for you to join us. My pal Sheila Kelley will be joining me on the host committee. Please RSVP to rsvp@flawlessfoundation.org.

5. And finally, I am grateful for you. For your sisterhood, for your stand, for your pleasure, for your defiant beauty.  I know, deep inside, that in a thousand ways, every day, it is your hand that keeps a dozen fires lit, your radiance that inspires multitudes, and your smile that lights up every corner of the world you inhabit.

This makes me crazy with the goodness of it all.
And fires up the urgency inside my soul.
If we have accomplished this much courage to live unbound, this much intimacy between ourselves and our men, this much delicious relaxed happiness between mothers and children, this much sensuality, this much Sister Goddess Activism, this much Sisterhood, then I cannot wait to see what the next year will bring.

Happy Happy Happy Thanksgiving.
Give me your gratitudes, right here.
I can’t wait to feel your radiance and be inspired.

With so much love and pleasure,

Mama Gena

Top 5 Ways Women Lose Their Pleasure and How to Find It Again

Darlings,

It is always hiding in the last place you look.
Yesterday, I was looking everywhere for my bracelet that I took off the previous day, just before my shower.
I remembered taking it off.
But I could not remember where I put it down.
And I looked everywhere, had my kid and my mom looking everywhere, on our hands and knees, but no bracelet.
It was like it vaporized.
But I did not stop looking.  And I became more and more hysterical inside, with every spin through the house.
Because I knew it was there, I just could not find it.

Neglected pleasure feels just like that.
Just like that.
You have done whatever you could to make good decisions.  You have worked hard.  You have hit the marks that everyone told you about.
And there is still something vital that is missing, that fills you with an uncomfortable upset inside, that intensifies the harder you try to find it.

So, I want to give you the roadmap to the top five ways that women lose their pleasure and how to find it again, so you can stop your search, and find yourself, in a whole new way. Click here to begin your audio lesson:

Top5WaysWomenLosePleasure

To recap, here are the top five ways women lose their pleasure:

1.  She is stuck in the misery of a long-term relationship where she feels stifled, undervalued, and ignored, or she is not dating because all the good ones are taken, and she is certain she will never find a great guy, even before she gets out of the starting gate.

2.  She hates her job and feels underpaid and under-appreciated.

3.  She feels fat, even though she’s not, she feels old, even though she’s not, and she feels like everyone else is sexier than she is.

4.  She has it together, and she has created a lot of what she wants, but there is still a nameless longing inside of her that leaves her sad and lonely at her core.

5.  She feels a deep sense of hopelessness and immobility as she looks at her options.

And here are the simple, proven methods you can implement right now to find your pleasure again:

1.  Start your day with the Daily Fluffs for a little morning pleasure inspiration.

2.  Every Thursday, create a new desire list and send your desires out into the twitterverse on #DesireThursdays with Mama Gena.

3.  Choose a theme song, for your day, every day, that speaks to your soul.  Give yourself a dance break and sing-along break every couple of hours.  Today, mine is “Manhattan” by Kings of Leon.

4.  Pretend that the streets are your runway, you are the hottest woman on the planet, and that everyone wants you, as you head for work, run a meeting, or do your supermarket supermom thang.  I have learned to rock this in flip flops, sneakers, or stilettos.

5.  Lip gloss.  Always lip gloss.  It never fails.  Current fave:  Laura Mercier’s Bellini.

Wanna really press your pleasure edge? Join us in Virtual Pleasure Boot Camp!

What other tips do you have as a safeguard against the top five ways women lose their pleasure? Be sure to leave a comment below!

With so much love and pleasure,

Mama Gena

A Million Moments in 52 Seconds

Darlings,

There were a million moments I will never forget.

Like a piece of classical music, connecting me to places in my soul which are parts of my invisible architecture. Or, a visit to Stonehenge, the Parthenon, the Pyramids—places in time which have shaped me, but I never inhabited. That is how the last live weekend of Mastery lives within me.

I can hardly believe it was only four months ago that this class poured through the doors of The School of Womanly Arts, nervous, excited, scared, and wondering what was going to happen.  Who were all these strange women who were taking the class together? And now, we have a new family of 200 plus Sister Goddesses and a box of Tools and Arts so relevant, so practical, so essential that we can barely get through an hour of our lives, or a decision of our lives, without reaching for a Tool or an Art to give us a leg up.

I mean, I just logged onto Sistergoddess.com this morning, and this is the first brag I read from Sister Goddess Sarah:

I brag that as my husband and I flew into Roanoke, Virginia, and I looked out the window, Roanoke looked different. It isn’t different, but I am. I felt (and feel) different. I’m not a different woman; I am a goddess with clarity.

I brag that now I’m Sarah with glitter, Sarah with a new outlook, Sarah with greater potential for joy and peace.

I brag that as I unpacked my suitcase, rather than putting my fairy goddess skirt back in the attic with my other infrequently worn outfits, I put it in my closet. I wasn’t ready to put it away. The crown …oh, the crown …it’s residing on the top shelf beside my pink tutu where I can see it everyday. It will be a reminder.

A reminder of 5 weekends of confusion, struggle, awakening and beauty.
A reminder of the potential my life is offering.
A reminder of the beauty I have within me.
A reminder to use the tools.
A reminder of my new family of sisterhood.
A reminder of the divine.
A reminder of the goddess I am.

I am grateful for my husband and family.
I am grateful for Mastery.
I am grateful for my BSG Sonia.
I am grateful for my Pod sisters and new goddess sisters.
I am grateful for change and chance.

SG Sarah

See, with Sisterhood like this, we are never alone.

With support like this, we can do anything we dream.

With this kind of cheering section, there is no way we cannot get anything and everything we want.

I want to give you my deepest gratitude for the extraordinary experience that Spring Mastery 2011 has been for me.  This was, without a doubt, the best Mastery class, ever.  You created so much ravishing beauty for yourselves and each other.  It was unforgettable—from Victoria’s song on the courtesan couch, to Merry and Faith’s courage and power, the beach in Miami, Elvira’s sacred dance, the incredible Big Sisters, Dara’s Empire State brag, Dr. Northrup’s powerful commencement address, Team Pleasure, the gorgeous men from Men’s Night and the panel, the sexperts, Camilla’s swamp run, Halie’s prom brag, the Sister Goddess Gospel Choir (featuring Alfa Anderson of the band Chic, who also sang backup on the original studio recording of “We Are Family”), the heart-stopping talent show, oh, I could go on and on and on…

And I will go on.  With each of you, living inside me, inspiring me, encouraging me with your marvelous outrageous Pleasure Revolutionary actions, out in the world.

Thank you, thank you, and then, again, thank you.

With so much love and pleasure,

Mama Gena

A Mission for Sister Goddess Activists Everywhere

Darlings,

This is my ninth Womanly Arts Mastery Program!

I have had the privilege of reacquainting hundreds upon hundreds of women with the most delicious, divine part of themselves for 13 years now.

In all these years, every woman who has taken my class has gotten there the same way: a woman in the world stood for her.

In the beginning, it was me, one woman, standing for women. Then my graduates, who had been inspired and ignited by the experience of the class, began to stand, alongside me, for the women in their lives. They began to bring their friends, their sisters, their moms, their aunts, their cousins, their co-workers. This thrills me, overwhelms me, delights me, and makes my soul soar.  My stand for women is eternal.

My desire to see women stand for one another is taking wing. Sister Goddess Activism is what it means to be on the front lines of the Pleasure Revolution; because of you, me, all of us, women’s lives are forever changed. We all have an eternal stand for the women of this world to dance with every facet of themselves–right here, right now–in our lifetime.

I created The School of Womanly Arts for my daughter, Maggie. And it is my own mother, Bebe, who elegantly holds space for the Mastery students, every weekend. So I have a soft spot for the mamas and daughters of Mastery.

Can you imagine? Mothers, swelling with pride at the sight of their own creations unfolding. Daughters, honoring the women who most profoundly shaped their lives.

Check out SG Marie aka Glamour Puss, whose mother is traveling to graduation all the way from Denmark!

I knew from the very beginning that it was important to me that my mum, Rete, attend graduation. I want her to be a part of this, a part of my new life, so to speak. I have a hard time explaining to people what I’ve learned at Mama Gena’s and why it has changed my life, although my mum has always been very intrigued. I’ve bought all my good girlfriends Mama Gena’s books but knew that my mother had to be there in person to understand, and my wish is that she will return to Denmark with some of the magic that has entered my life.

I have a very devoted mother, so it didn’t take more than me telling her that it would mean the world to me if she attended. That is one of the things Mama Gena has taught me – you first have to ask for what you want! I’m so grateful and proud that my mother is the kind of woman who loves her child so much that without question she would travel across the globe to participate in something she knows is important to me. She is taking a huge stand for me just by attending, and it is a privilege for me to able to stand for her blossoming as a Sister Goddess. This will be my mother’s first visit to New York City, and I know for sure she has never experienced anything like this!

Although I haven’t told my mum that much about the course in detail, she can tell that I have changed and that I am much more thrilled about my life, and honestly that’s all a mother really cares about at the end of the day. She just wants to see me smile, to hear me laugh, and for me to feel good in my own skin—after all, she is the one who created me! And I am most looking forward to her witnessing the power of sisterhood and what happens to a woman’s life when she makes pleasure her guiding force. Who knows what it will lead to! It would be a dream if she were to gather her girlfriends back in Denmark and tell them all about it!

I have the utmost respect for both of my mamas, and I know that my mother will see, hear, feel, and experience exactly what she needs to at graduation. She is my mother, but it’s her journey, and I know Mama Gena will work her magic and have a deep impact on my mother’s life.

-SG Glamour Puss

Could it be any sweeter? SG Glamour Puss told her mother it would mean the world to her to have her at graduation, and now her mother is literally traveling the world to share this experience with her.

I cannot wait to celebrate them. And you. Graduation is for any woman who wants to feel each and every cell in her body ignited by the privilege that it is to be her. And if you really want to soar, bring a sister, a girlfriend, or your mom with you! Registration closes Monday, June 13^th, so click here to RSVP!

With so much love and pleasure,

Mama Gena

Warning: What Happens in Miami May Not Stay in Miami

Miami is not just inside the classroom.
We take over South Beach.
At random times, you might find pink rose petals floating in the aqua ocean.
Or Sister Goddesses gathering at dawn to write their desires in the sand.
A runway appears, at the Delano.
One of my favorite days is Friday, when the entire Inner Circle takes over the spa at The Standard Hotel.

It is an aural experience; I listen to the sounds of outrageous hooting and yelping as the Inner Circlets indulge in the mud at the outdoor mud lounge.
Or shrieks of laughter as we go from the hot plunge to the icy cold plunge.
Or the yummy moans of pleasure in the salt scrub, hammam, and vichy shower.
Or the tinkling sounds of silverware on china, and the buzz of good deep conversation, as we sit outdoors on the bay, eating the most incredible lunch of mahi mahi, Greek salad, and special, secret Mama Gena cookies that The Standard Hotel only makes for us.

All the bliss pours into the classroom that evening, as the Mastery students arrive in Miami, and we kick off a weekend of indulgence in the hot, sweet power of desire—unbound—and my Inner Circle stand as wing women, to speed along the desires of the entire Mastery community.
It was poetry to witness Sister Goddess Leslie connect to the deepest, best part of her soul, after searching so long.
And who could even believe, watching Sister Goddess Molly strut her stuff, loud and proud—and I am not kidding—into the classroom.
And what about the scorching, eternal fire, burning brightly in Sister Goddess Elvira?
And please. Don’t even speak to me about Sister Goddess Ayodele. From the Oprah Show, in her church lady hat, to ceremonies and rituals at the ocean that carried the whole classroom to new heights and depths of love.

Sigh.
How do I even stand myself, throwing such a damn good party?
Hope to see you all there in November for World Wide!

With so much love and pleasure,
Mama Gena

P.S. The hot guy in the picture? He helped me with an entrance, and then, well, we got a little carried away…

A Peek Inside Mastery

Darlings,

This is it.

The month that Persephone crawls back from the underworld and relaxes into spring.
The time of year when you don’t know whether to wear your down jacket or a t-shirt.
When we all are yearning and itching for that transformation–body antsy with desire, ripples of longing crossing our souls, hot hunger fighting with the damp weather that just won’t give it up…yet.

Take that temperature and you have the confluence of forces churning through the extraordinary sea of women at The School of Womanly Arts Mastery Program, this past week.

Here’s what took place: Friday night we had the largest clothing swap on earth, complete with stylists, makeup artists, and hairdressers.  Everyone went home with gorgeous stuff!

Saturday we swamped.

We saw how we could choose to step into the darkest feelings of being lonely, scared, and disenfranchised, and own the raw beauty in this dark face of the Goddess.

When a woman falls rapturously in love with her dark side, she unites with the most beautiful and powerful part of herself, and alters her destiny. It is the inhabiting of our own darkness that is the key to bringing in the light. The darkest part, of each of us, is delicious.

We were formally introduced to the concept of the Courtesan, and how to navigate the realm of the Courtesan’s Journey, as a tool.  By so doing, we each have the opportunity to relocate ourselves from victim to heroine, by bringing the fire, passion, and sensuality in each of us, into every aspect of our lives and the world.  We learned that by using the Courtesan’s Journey as a tool, we can turn our hardships into our very own magical elixir.  Not bad for a day’s work.

Sunday, we had Barbara Stanny teach us how to take ownership of our finances.

And Alex Tchassov brought the art of ballroom dance.

And so so so so much more.

My gratitude to those of you who are with me, in the Mastery classroom, and those of you, without.

I am so deeply grateful to each of you, for your courage and brilliance as you gain momentum, each day, in the use of the School of Womanly Arts Tools and the Arts. And my deep gratitude to those of you who stand for us, witnessing us, as we surrender deeper and deeper to the journey called woman at The School of Womanly Arts Mastery Program.  I know, I know, each of us takes a few steps forward, then, tumbles.  Baby steps toward pleasure are the way a mere mortal becomes a Sister Goddess.  Here’s to many more tumbles, and triumphs, ’til we meet again!

With so much love and pleasure,

Mama Gena

P.S. Please come celebrate graduation with us, June 19, 2011, 2:00pm at Hotel Pennsylvania, NYC.

P.P.S. Next week we are off to Miami.  I am sure I will send some brags from South Beach!

The Wildfire of Desire Wants You

Darlings,

Desire.
My obsession.
My passion.

My raison d’être, cause célèbre and chef-d’oeuvre. (And I didn’t even know I spoke French ’til I got to Morocco…)

I have devoted my entire life’s work to this topic.
As you know, I have made it my mission to fan the flames of women’s desires wherever I go and wherever I see them.

Now you may wonder, why on Earth would I ever do that?
C’est peut etre parce que je suis une chienne folle.
Or, maybe it’s because your desires are the best thing about you.
They are the voice of your soul, calling you to step into an even grander, more dazzling existence. Desires are anything but frivolous. They have the power to transform you and every other person who has the privilege of being in your presence. In fact, the entire School of Womanly Arts began with the spark of my own desire, kindled by the hot, throbbing appetites of you, my sisters. We have created some wildfire!!

And the fire is growing. We now have Sistergoddess.com–The School of Womanly Arts Global Online Community, a worldwide desire playground where women learn to locate exactly what it is they want and let it come alive through practicing the discipline of pleasure, in sisterhood. Women are able to log in and join the party wherever they have Internet access. We’ve got women from over fifteen different countries right now. It’s like having a global desire task force at your fingertips, 24/7. As the Pleasure Revolution expands, more and more women are choosing to live as Sister Goddesses, remembering the ancient art of desire and bypassing one of the most common misconceptions women have about creating their dreams.

Let me show you what I mean. Check out SG Ti’s story…

I joined Sistergoddess.com in the first weeks of its existence. An avid fan of Mama Gena’s amazing books and blog, I was thrilled at the chance to play with other Sister Goddesses and absorb their wisdom and beauty. I soon discovered that I had made one of the most brilliant decisions of my life. (Joining Virtual Pleasure Boot Camp was another, and I am quite sure joining Mastery in 2012 will be the topper.)

A few months into my Sistergoddess.com membership, I took on a new Sister Goddess name. My sisters cheered me on in becoming the Bliss & Beauty Bitch. That’s when things got really good. I owned my bliss, taking my first ever solo vacation and recapturing the feeling of being a small child in joyful communion with nature. I owned my beauty, appearing at a women’s art conference in a short dramatic dress, and sweeping everyone there into my celebration of female flesh. During the month of January, I listened to the Womanly Arts audio recording on Partying with Your Inner Bitch and found freedom from an old, deep wound with the homework of writing a viciously angry letter (that I didn’t send) and then doing an anonymous act of good for that same person. I took a relationship that had been great and made it legendary. I have Sister Goddess friends all over the world now, and our fierce support for each other extends beyond the virtual world into our daily lives, inspiring all of us to stay on the pleasure path and revel in the exquisite privilege of being a woman.

Using the Tools and exploring the Arts in community is life changing. I’ve done the exercises in Mama Gena’s books on my own and they work. But regularly checking in with my sisters online takes it to a new level. I write about my rough spots, and others admit to and transform those same experiences. I brag almost daily in the company of Pleasure Revolutionaries. I brag when I feel gorgeous and when I feel like an ugly duckling. I brag when I’m sure bragging won’t work, and it always does. I read about what my sisters are doing, and it fires me up in ways I could not have imagined. Through researching and practicing pleasure in this online community, I’ve conjured all sorts of desires, including the exact $888 I requested for a Tiffany necklace, a hot makeout session, and private coaching with Mama Gena and her business partner, the amazing Dr. Anne Davin. (Not simultaneously, though don’t put it past me!)

You know what’s the most fun? I enjoy my desires now. I don’t sit around staring glumly into the space between me and what I desire. I delight in the desire itself! I love myself for the audacity of my BIG desires and wriggle with joy at the pure fact that what I desire desires me and is on its way. There’s no angst or feeling of “less than.” There’s just play and hot, sweet desiring. Sound good? Get in the mix, sister! Join us at Sistergoddess.com and see just how delicious a life you can create.

SG Ti, Bliss & Beauty Bitch

You see darlings, all there is for you to do is take pleasure in your “hot, sweet desiring,” in community. Most women think they’ve gotta try and do all the “work” themselves, focusing on deadlines rather than desires. Don’t make it so hard on yourself. Your pleasure is the fastest path toward getting what you want, and on Sistergoddess.com you have the opportunity to take advantage of the magnifying power of global Sister Goddesshood.

Sistergoddess.com was designed for a woman to plug into her power no matter where she is, and study the Tools and Arts alongside her sisters. You can log in and listen to an audio recording of me teaching you about one of the Arts or interviewing a Mastery graduate on how she uses the SWA technology in her everyday life. You can take on the pleasure research assignments and share your findings, as well as see what magic your sisters are stirring up. Like SG Ti, use it to get inspired and to inspire. We are in this together, and being a Sister Goddess takes active participation. I created this Global Online Community as an answer to all the women from around the globe desiring a way to get active NOW until they can get to Mastery. Sistergoddess.com is loaded with features to enable you in creating a life of ever-expanding pleasure. Click here to read more about all the goodies included in your membership.

Your desires are seeking you. Will you answer the call? Become a member of Sistergoddess.com today!

With so much love and pleasure,

Mama Gena

P.S. And if you’ve already joined the party, I wanna know, what’s your favorite feature on Sistergoddess.com? Tell me below…

There’s No Place Like Home

Darlings,

Okay, have you ever gotten so flooded with your own dazzling beauty and brilliance that you just wander around giggling and chuckling like a fool?

Really.

I am a little woozy, a little wan, and wandering around whispering, “Heh, heh, heh,” as I review the opening weekend of the ninth session of the School of Womanly Arts Mastery Program.

We had over 200 women from nine different countries, including Qatar and Kuwait.
Women from 31 different states.
30 Team Pleasure volunteers.
20 Big Sisters.

All creating barrels of starlight, handfuls of glitter, magic by the boatload, rivers of tears, joy unbound, crazy dancing sisterhood, an eternity of universal love, Broadway entrances with singing nuns, Elvis stripteasers, African dance, and yo’ Mama getting savaged onstage by a desperately hot trainer who I have a huge crush on.

It was quite a caper.
How instantly we recognize and live into sisterhood.
Check out this off-the-hook e-mail I received this morning, from a brand-new student, Sister Goddess Annie:

My Gawdess!

What a torrent of ruthless magic you are.  I expected a lot but you blew my socks off, well my panties, actually.
I love your relentless audacity, your wily candor, your panache.

I’ve been sourcing my reality from “down there” ever since, and my guy has been falling all over me.
Not to mention I’m getting more sex and adoration from a man who already bowed to me daily.

I love your witchery, and I revere you.
But even more, I’m starting to revere the little girl inside me who deserted her “p” at age four to take refuge in her mind.
Ever since, she’s built magnificent bridges and fantastical narratives trying to find her way back.
When all along, just like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, all she had to do is click her heels, and she’d be home.

Thanks for reminding me.

There’s no place like home,
There’s no place like home,
There’s no place like home.

Love,
A

And, my darlings, my wish for you:
That you feel the force of Mastery’s explosion of reclamation in your own lives, right here, right now.
And that you, too, remember…
That home is right there—yes, right there—where you are.

With so much love and pleasure,

Mama Gena

P.S. If Mastery is on your desire list, and you’d like to be the first to know when we announce the dates for Spring Mastery 2012, click here.

The End of the Great Depression

Sisters,

Depression. Numbness. Anger.
When there’s no enthusiasm, no turn-on, it bleeds the energy from every part of your life.
And we have all been there.
Every time we are faced with a situation that we don’t feel thrilled with, we are overwhelmed. And when we are overwhelmed, doubts about ourselves, and our decisions, suck us down that old familiar drain.
Anytime there is something in our lives that’s making us unhappy, it’s like a slow leak in a tire. Until we find what the leak is, we can’t really get the tire all filled and fat and ready to roll us down the highway toward our desires because we’re limping along, losing steam, losing energy.

This is where Mastery comes in. Within the context of the course and the support of the Sister Goddess community, you will begin the art of learning–step-by-step, with baby steps–how to love yourself, how to really cherish yourself, how to prioritize yourself and how to consider your desires as being primary and important.

Your pleasure is not FRIVOLOUS. It is a profound essential element for women. And without it, a woman finds herself cut off from herself, her wisdom, her life force. Hence the host of eating disorders, autoimmune diseases, cancers, depression, anxiety, overspending, and all around ANGER that plague women today.

Yes. Your pleasure is that important.
And The School of Womanly Arts is the ONLY school of its kind. I designed my Mastery Program to reconnect you with your desires, your pleasure and an incredible community of women to take the journey with you.

SG Varkoshka’s Mastery journey did just that. After years of suffering from severe depression, she learned to not only live depression free–but in PLEASURE! That’s right…bye-bye antidepressants!

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I found out about Mama Gena from one of my best friends, who brought me to a Mastery Intro session that featured Dr. Christiane Northrup as a guest speaker.  I have huge respect for Dr. Northrup, and when I heard that her daughters were enrolled, I figured it must be an amazing program, so I signed up right then and there.  As an artist working in the non-profit sector, the cost of the program was a major expenditure. And it was worth every penny.

Before Mama Gena, I didn’t know how to be a woman.  Mastery allowed me to take huge steps toward living my life to the fullest, as a woman exploring her pleasure potential in many ways. But the area of my life that has been most significantly impacted by my Mastery experience stems from the age of about fourteen, when I developed anorexia.

Living in rural Pennsylvania at that time, no one had a clue what was wrong with me. The doctor prescribed Valium because he thought I was just nervous. My parents punished me if I didn’t eat by not allowing me to go out with my friends. But anorexia is much stronger than any threats of punishment. By the time I finished my first year of college, I was admitted into the hospital for four months, weighing in at 67 pounds (I am 5’8’’, and even at my current weight of 115 pounds, I am considered underweight).

Although the odds were against me, I somehow managed to physically survive and return to college, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. But of course the underlying issues of my anorexia persisted. It wasn’t until I was about 30 years old that I could eat food in the presence of other people without having a panic attack.

Over the years, I continued to suffer from severe depression. During Mastery, I was taking antidepressants, which helped a lot, however, they took a drastic toll on my libido. I felt dead sexually. After getting all juiced up from Mastery, I decided  it was critical that I wean myself off the medication. I wanted my sexuality, my power source, back. Mama Gena gave me the tools to get myself off the meds and live depression-free—not just depression-free but in pleasure!

One of the most valuable tools I learned was expressing gratitude. “Spring cleaning” has also allowed me to achieve clarity and recognize and process my underlying emotions. The “desire list” is another one of my favorites. Before Mastery, I always had a lot of trouble even feeling desire. Hearing other women express their desires has helped me uncover and own what I want. Mostly, though, I think the highest value of the Sister Goddess network is the comfort in finding commonality. During Mastery, we were all in it together. I no longer felt alone in struggling to make sense of women’s shifting roles and expectations. Every single woman’s power and pleasure was a benefit to us all (one of my mottos is now “Pleasure to the People”). It was incredibly informative to witness other women’s blocks and triumphs and apply it to my own experience. I am now 50, and it is especially inspiring to see ladies in their 60s and 70s who are totally rocking.

It’s been over three years since I’ve been completely off antidepressants, and not once have I dipped into the depths I used to visit regularly. I recently had a conversation with my mother, who told me how well I’ve been doing and how I haven’t been depressed in years. She was absolutely shocked when I told her I hadn’t been taking medication. I am now brimming with desires, one of which is a fulfilling long-term relationship.

I have two graduate degrees, and I genuinely feel that my training with Mama Gena is vastly more important. If you’re not able to locate and radiate pleasure in your life, everything else is meaningless. Thank you again to Mama, all of you in Mama’s crew, and all the women in Mastery whose energy and experiences propelled me into a new way of living!

Love,

SG Varkoshka

Depression, numbness, anxiety, anger–these are all signs that something’s not quite right. When used to go higher, you can see that these signs are your wake-up calls that it’s time for something to change.

The question is: Are you ready to take it on?

Mastery is designed to provide you with a community in which you will receive the kind of support, inspiration, encouragement and infusion of enthusiasm and joy that will permit you to regard every aspect of your life with a sense of objectivity—enough so that you can begin to facilitate change.

It would be my honor and my privilege to have you in this class.
It’s going to be OFF. THE. CHARTS.

Enrollment ends TODAY, Wednesday, March 2^nd at 5pm EST.

Call the Palace at 212-787-2411 x1 to grab your spot–and find out about our incredible payment plans! OR ENROLL ONLINE. When you pay in full, you save $200 off the tuition.

Bring it on, Sisters.

The games begin this Saturday!

With so much love and pleasure,

Mama Gena

It Takes A Village

It takes a village.
All women know the truth of that.
Hilary Clinton coined this phrase when she spoke of raising of a child- and I’ve found that the same applies in raising a woman.
Yes, raising.
Raising her orbit.
Raising her income.
Raising her hopes.
Raising her expections.
Raising her eyesight, her imagination, her reach.
The Womanly Arts Mastery Program was designed intentionally to surround and support a woman as she lives in the action of creating her desires.
And it takes a village. From the women in the class- the Sister Goddess Community- to the incredible Guest Teachers I bring in- who are all pioneers in their fields- to the 30+volunteers who help produce the event- to the Big Sister Goddesses- grads who lead a group of Sister Goddesses throughout the 6 month process. There are calls, an online community, homework and tools and arts to guide and inform the unfolding process. A village. Primitive. Wild. Indigenous. And perfect.
I don’t know a more powerful village/tribe for women on this planet.
I do know that the results of this village on a woman’s soul and life are unprecedented.
Every woman deserves a village dedicated to her dreams.

SG Yaf is an incredible example of a woman being raised by a village. How else does a woman go from bankruptcy to six figures, and creating her own foundation?

I started Mastery in the spring of 2008, two years after incurring over $50,000 in debt from my ex and filing for a Chapter 13 Bankruptcy. I had just been audited by the IRS, who were demanding tens of thousands of dollars from me, and I felt burdened by the shame and guilt of that debt.

I remember our first “swamp” exercise in Mastery, when we learned to powerfully embrace our dark feelings. I felt a ton of bricks lifted from my shoulders. And the liberation continued throughout that first weekend of Mastery. My journey toward financial recovery had begun!

I actually learned to get into agreement with my bankruptcy and realize what a genius I was for creating my debt, so that I could then create financial empowerment. Learning to swamp allowed me to release my shame and own my creative power. These moves saved my life! I was anew! Bills to pay—yes! But no more fear of interest and collection calls.

Mastery also gave me access to an array of pioneering guest speakers: leaders in the fields of women and money, sensuality, health and love. Without Mastery, I might never have met Barbara Stanny, a.k.a. The Money Goddess! This magnificent woman taught us about the relationship between pleasure and finances and the true meaning of financial empowerment. It was through exposure to her work with six-figure women that I realized I wanted to become one myself!!!!

Throughout Mastery, I benefitted not only from the work of Mama and her guest speakers, but also from the example of so many other powerful and successful women around me who were creating wonderful lives. During graduation, SG Ruth revealed that she used the tools of Spring Cleaning and partying with money to increase abundance into her life! I immediately spring cleaned for 30 days on money, and it has since become nearly a daily practice. My relationship with money flourished as I began to consciously honor it.

But I was still working long hours with little savings and desiring a better job that I did not believe I could have. SG Alice would lovingly tease, Sure, stay there and keep working for nothing! It hurt but I knew she was right. So one day I decided to organize my very first Jewelry Trunk Show! The support of my sisters was overwhelmingly beautiful. Seeing their belief in me ignited my desire for greatness, no matter what it took! I walked from 47th St down to SoHo repeating my “womantra,” I believe in myself! I am enough!!! Having a successful event showed me my own power. I could now submit my resignation. I asked my Sister Goddesses to send their juice! I knew my sisters were there for me, so what was the worst thing that could happen? I was done working for nothing and having no life!!!

When I told my boss I was resigning, he offered to double my salary! Because I was standing for my value and my abilities, I didn’t even have to ask for it! I decided to continue with the company and become a six-figure woman! And it was the Womanly Arts and the work of another guest speaker that Mama brought in, Jill Rogers, that helped me to see my boss as more than just a boss. Her Seven Sacred Steps of Extraordinary Loving have altered my life.

Yet once again, I still felt unhappy. I felt I had to choose between time and money! But Mama had taught me well; I wanted to go from good to great! I kept up with the spring cleaning and decided to become a licensed real estate agent. This was a way to test my skills in a different arena that I felt might be able to provide me with time AND money. And I wanted to spend a lot of my time with a special someone…

At the end of my first Mastery I met a man that I really liked. He lived outside the US so time was truly of the essence. Armed with renewed strength and confidence, six months after I had been offered a higher salary, I visited my boss and resigned again (my favorite new negotiating tool). I thanked him for the opportunity to work with him for so many years and acknowledged him for all the gifts he had given me.

I brag that he offered I become a share partner in the company and earn ten percent of the annual sales with a guaranteed minimum earning in the six figures. The possibilities here are endless!

I brag that in 2010 I took eight weeks off PAID, and on October 1st, 2010, I married the love of my life- you guessed it, the same man I met at the end of Mastery in September 2008.

I further brag that I am the founder of ASB Foundation, named after my father, Amette Saloum Boye, and our website just went live a few days ago. This foundation supports the children of lepers in Koutal, Senegal by giving them the gift of being kids. This is a dream-come-true for me, as I desire to make millions, save millions, invest millions, and give millions!

I have no doubt in my mind that without the tools, incredible teachers, and women I met in Mastery, that none of this would have happened.

I am so grateful!

Love,
Sister Goddess Yaf

It takes a village.
And it takes filled-up, pleasure-filled, empowered women to raise children, run companies, lead countries, and change the world.
It begins with you, and we’re here to support your biggest brightest vision of yourself- and then expand you even past that!

The only Mastery this year kicks off in just one week. (click here for the schedule)
Enrollment closes on Wednesday, March 2nd at 5pm EST.
ENROLL ONLINE or call 212-787-2411 x1.

With so much love and pleasure,
Mama Gena

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