There is a moment every woman knows.
The moment the life you built stops working
The moment you find yourself on the bathroom floor, door locked, crying so no one will hear. You think it is the end. It is the door.
You are not falling apart.
You are being initiated.
There is a moment every woman knows.
The moment the life you built stops working
The moment you find yourself on the bathroom floor, door locked, crying so no one will hear. You think it is the end. It is the door.
You are not falling apart.
You are being initiated.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Pussy: A Reclamation comes On Our Knees, by Regena Thomashauer — and it is the most daring, most intimate book of her life.
On Our Knees comes out August 25.
Pre-order your hardcover now through any of the distributors below, submit your receipt and receive the recording of the Transmission — the On Our Knees transformational experience.
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Pussy: A Reclamation comes On Our Knees, by Regena Thomashauer — and it is the most daring, most intimate book of her life.
On Our Knees comes out August 25.
Pre-order your hardcover now through any of the distributors below, submit your receipt and receive the recording of the Transmission — the On Our Knees transformational experience.
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YOU ARE THE STRONG ONE
You remember the appointments, the deadlines, which kid won’t eat the crusts. You answer the text at midnight. You run triage on a life that never stops needing you. You are the glue — and glue does not get to come apart.
You have said “I’m fine” so many times it became your name.
But your body knows what your calendar does not. Fine is the smile stretched tight over the scream. Fine is formaldehyde — and you have been embalming yourself alive.
And it fell apart anyway.
Then my own life exploded
I’m Regena Thomashauer. Mama Gena. For more than twenty years I stood on stages and taught women that pleasure is power, that the body is holy, that joy is a discipline. I believed every word. I still do.
And then life brought me to my knees.
Then my own life exploded
I’m Regena Thomashauer. Mama Gena. For more than twenty years I stood on stages and taught women that pleasure is power, that the body is holy, that joy is a discipline. I believed every word. I still do.
And then life brought me to my knees.
My daughter got sick — sick in a way no mother is ever ready for.
The program I had built with my whole life stood on the edge of ending. And I stood in the wings of a Broadway theater, adored by thousands, and more alone than I had ever been.
The woman who taught the world to find pleasure in the storm was being asked to survive the one storm she could not teach her way out of.
So I did the only thing left to do. I went down to the floor. Literally. On my knees. Not as a metaphor — on the actual ground, in the actual dark.
And the floor became the door.
That is where I learned the thing I had been circling my whole life without ever walking through its center: surrender is not collapse. It is not giving yourself away. It is not lying down so the world can take what it wants.
Surrender is the doorway to your power.
This book is the map I drew on my way back up. Every page of it, I lived.
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Out August 25
It is more than a book. It is a portal. When you pre-order, you are doing two things at once. You are getting the map back up off your own knees. And you are conjuring a different world into being — one where women do not live down there on the floor, tapped out, overstretched, quietly disappearing. Which is nearly all of us right now. And it does not have to be.
Because here is the antidote, and it is wilder and more glorious than any one book. It is this book passed hand to hand, woman to woman. It is us sistering each other back to life — convening book clubs and covens and temples, group-chatting it up past midnight, pressing this thing into the hands of everyone we love until the whole world is unfurling, turned on, and in communion.
That is what you set loose every single time you order a copy.
Pre-order one to keep, and a few for your beloveds: a sister, your mother, your daughter, your beloved bestie, or the man who worships at the altar of women and needs our freedom tattooed on his soul. Every copy is a figurative door for someone who has not yet found their way in.
And it is also a real door that grants you access to the Transmission — the On Our Knees Book Launch Party streamed LIVE all the way from House of Yes in Brooklyn to wherever you happen to be. Let’s fling these doors wide open.
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THIS BOOK WILL CRACK YOUR LIFE OPEN
Inside, you will find a different kind of medicine. There is the erotic science of pleasure as regulation — your body is a medicine cabinet you were never taught to open. There are Ten Goddesses — Aphrodite, Kali, Inanna, Lilith, Psyche and more — each one a map through a different flavor of devastation: heartbreak, exile, the mother wound, glorious destruction.
There is the Courtesan’s Journey, my most potent teaching: how to take the exact thing that is crushing you and turn it into the source of your most ferocious power.
And at the end of every chapter, embodied rituals — not affirmations, not journaling prompts. Actual practices to move what is stuck in your body and burn it for fuel.
THIS BOOK WILL CRACK YOUR LIFE OPEN
Inside, you will find a different kind of medicine. There is the erotic science of pleasure as regulation — your body is a medicine cabinet you were never taught to open. There are Ten Goddesses — Aphrodite, Kali, Inanna, Lilith, Psyche and more — each one a map through a different flavor of devastation: heartbreak, exile, the mother wound, glorious destruction.
There is the Courtesan’s Journey, my most potent teaching: how to take the exact thing that is crushing you and turn it into the source of your most ferocious power.
And at the end of every chapter, embodied rituals — not affirmations, not journaling prompts. Actual practices to move what is stuck in your body and burn it for fuel.
I am not gently suggesting you take a bath.
I am asking you to dance in the ruins.
To scream. To sister and be sistered. To worship yourself as a living temple — on your knees. To stop numbing, hiding, shrinking to fit the life you were handed, and get really fucking intimate with every last part of who you are.
I WROTE THIS FOR YOU.
For the woman who lost the thing she swore she could not live without — the marriage, the mother, the dream, the child, the certainty, the self she used to be.
For the woman who did everything right, everything they told her, and watched it come apart in her hands anyway.
For the woman who has been so good for so long she has forgotten she was ever hungry.
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About the Author
Regena Thomashauer — known the world over as “Mama Gena” — is the founder of the School of Womanly Arts and the New York Times bestselling author of Pussy: A Reclamation and four other books. For over three decades she has taught hundreds of thousands of women to use pleasure as a portal to their own power. On Our Knees is her most raw, most personal, and most transformative work yet. www.mamagenas.com
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COME TO THE FLOOR
This is how your life changes. Not by clenching harder. Not by optimizing the unbearable. But by going down to the floor on purpose — and finding the door that was there the whole time.
This is the door. Walk through it.