November 2010

Yo, sisters.

It is I, your Queen–Queen of Pleasure, Queen of Eccentric Thanksgivings, Queen of Change–here to shower some gratitude and juice and inspiration all over you.
This year I am heading out to Montana, to celebrate Thanksgiving with my daughter, who is in boarding school.
And I am sitting next to my very very ex husband, who is also heading out to see our girl.
This goes on the list of things I never thought I would be doing.

Is this what normal looks like?

Last year, at this time, I was in NYC, hanging out with my tribe of girlfriends.
The year before? Having a clandestine encounter with a lover in Miami.
The year before that? With my beloved Pentti in LA, at his son’s house.
Before that? London with a girlfriend.
Why can’t I ever do anything normal for Thanksgiving?
I keep thinking I want to be normal. But it never turns out that way.
I think something in my body sees normal and runs in the opposite direction.
And for this I am grateful.

I follow my heart. My truth. My intuition. To the very best of my abilities. Just like you.
And when my desire opens a pathway, I throw my saddle astride the unknown and gallop in a whole new direction, guided and secured by being deeply rooted in the Womanly Arts, and the Tools of the Womanly Arts.
Just like you.

Steeped in the Tools and Arts.
Sometimes your whole new direction is celebrating this holiday in a place you could not have imagined.
Sometimes that new direction is being where you expected to be, but in a way you have never been before.
Listen to how Sister Goddess Leora is standing for her pleasure, inside her traditional family celebration…

I brag that I am leaving on Tuesday for Thanksgiving and I feel so relaxed and grounded as I enter the loony bin. My sisters are already sniping and behaving in really unhealthy ways. I am in my pleasure and intend to stay there. I brag that I desire to have a lovely time and to stay connected to my pussy at all times.”

She is heading for home, well armed with the Womanly Arts, to stay sane and happy for the holidays.  Or how about this from Sister Goddess Laura?

I brag that this year I finally remembered to do most of my charitable giving during the month of November when my company will match donations 100%.
I brag that I gave to a number of my favorite organizations–Room to Read, the Salvation Army, Komen Breast Cancer Society, Red Cross, Save the Children and Habitat for Humanity.
I brag that I gave generously and am so excited that each organization will get double the amount due to matching from my company!!”

She has learned that the best way to ensure her own happiness is to give generously to others, from her surplus. Making a beautiful Thanksgiving for herself, inspired by her own generosity, and for so many.

And this one, from Sister Goddess Veela, who has found that she can flick the switch from victim to courtesan in the moment she reaches for a Tool!

I brag I am HAPPY. More and more often I wake in the mornings with a big smile on my face. And when it’s not there, I am getting into the habit of creating it. I brag I self-pleasure nearly every day and sometimes two or three times (or more) in a day. And I listen to upbeat music (doing so right now, even!) and take dance breaks. And more and more often I have been catching myself when I’m about to stress out or lose my temper, and I remember to take deep breaths and to relax.”

That's more like it.

This brag fills me with joy.

This Sister Goddess community is a gigantic, ever-growing, ever-expanding happiness generator.

Whether you are utterly eccentric in your celebrations, like me, or utterly traditional, like Sister Goddess Leora, or utterly giving, like Sister Goddess Laura, you have the keys to your happiness in the palm of your hand…like Sister Goddess Veela.

I am so grateful to be part of this community of women who make ecstasy their reality.

With so much love and pleasure,
Mama Gena

PS-Tell us how YOU will be using the Tools and Arts to celebrate Thanksgiving this year.

Post here on the blog, or onour Facebook pageor on Twitter. Or share your research on Sistergoddess.com. It’s your choice- the key is to share it with each other in community, so we can keep taking each other higher.

Beauty and the Beach

One of the most common desires I hear from women is to feel beautiful and confident, and to love their bodies. And so many women truly believe that they will finally feel that way once they: lose the weight, fit into a smaller size, get that nose job, boob job, liposuction, or Botox.

When I hear that, I have to slam on the brakes and bring this crazy train to a halt. Owning your beauty is so much simpler than that! And it’s one of the most fantastic side effects of Miami and The World Wide Sister Goddess Reunion. Just ask SG Michelle (the beautiful woman who is wearing the glasses in the photo). It was in Miami that this Sister Goddess awakened to the incredible beauty of her very own body, and it’s a love affair that continues on to this very day….

When I first heard about Mama Gena’s School of Womanly Arts from my Nia teacher, I was not interested. But after a few months, out of nowhere, I began hearing more about Mama Gena from people I’d just met. I started wondering if this was all a sign that I should consider taking the program.

The more I researched and heard other Sister Goddesses’ testimonials on the website, and the more I spoke with graduates from the program, the more I began thinking that I needed something more in my life. I was soon to be going through a career change of leaving my job and returning to school, but I felt that despite the new chapter in my life that was starting in the fall, I wanted to experience it with more flair, more pizzazz, more juice and more ownership of who I was. I wanted to feel self-love, self-confidence, be more comfortable with flirting, and take my life and experiences to a higher level. After witnessing some bragging in my Nia class, I knew that I wanted more of that, and decided it was no accident that Mama Gena’s name started appearing in my life at the time that it did.

For me, everything began coming together in Miami. I can’t believe I hesitated in going! Miami was amazing, and I fell in love w/myself there. I think we SGs took over South Beach that weekend, as we dazzled the streets and water. When Mama offered us the challenge to do something to stretch ourselves, I decided that I was going skinny-dipping. A little daunting and scary at first, my self-consciousness melted away through the support of all the SGs. My transformation moment was the second time I went skinny-dipping in the Raleigh pool at 1 in the morning! I think that was the most daring thing I’ve ever done, and it felt so good…because it was a little naughty. Dashing naked from the pool chair into the water was nothing I’ve ever done in public before. But being in the pool with my fellow SGs under the moon was magical. When I went back to my room that night, and gazed at my body in the mirror, I fell in love with myself. It must have been from all the activities during the day, the Pink Party, and all the skinny-dipping. But until that night, I didn’t know I was so drop-dead gorgeous. My breasts, my butt, even with the cellulite…were all mine…and beautiful. Before then, I’d never seen myself in that way. It was at that moment that everything we’d learned so far began making sense. Such love, peace and gratitude swept over me that night, and I arrived back home after the weekend on a higher level of joy and pleasure. Even now, when I see myself in the mirror, I see my beauty.

The self-confidence I have learned allows me to be in my own power, and it helps me to support other women and upride them with more clarity. I can stand up for myself and say what I want because I own who I am, and am in my power and pleasure to do so. I’m more comfortable with being sensual, and no longer feel self-conscious when I’m intimate with my boyfriend. I am now more open-minded, and can support other women in their desires. I am empowered. I can express my desires, and give into them without feeling guilty. The community of SGs has redefined the meaning of friendships, and the connections I’ve made with SGs are even deeper than those I have with my closest friends from grade school. All women need to take this course!

People who knew me before Mastery have noticed a change in me. I walk taller, prouder, with more openness, and they say that how I speak and present myself has changed. My friends say I own who I am, and embody a confident woman. That to me speaks volumes, and it’s the most sincere and greatest compliment I’ve ever received. I respond with gratitude, and say “Thank you. It’s true.” Thank you to all my SGs, the Pleasure team, the Palace Staff, and to Mama Gena for showing me how to live like the Sister Goddess I was made to be.

With much love,

 

SG Michelle

If knowing yourself, loving yourself and appreciating every ounce of the gorgeous, amazing, beautiful, incredible woman you are is anywhere on your desire list, I suggest you join us for the World Wide Sister Goddess Reunion in Miami, which kicks off this Friday at 7:30 p.m. Click here for all the details.

I’m gonna teach you everything you’ve ever wanted to know about your desires:

• How to locate them, wallow in them, celebrate them, stand for them

• I’ll show you all the sneaky little ways we bail on our desires (logic is the number one culprit)

• I’m going to reveal MY proven methods of expanding your ability to receive

 

• And I’ll give you all my insider tips on how to surrender to those desires, and experience greater levels of pleasure, enjoyment, and delight in your life

Festivities Include:

• Three live events with me, Mama Gena, at the Convention Center in South Beach, Miami, Florida

• The opportunity to connect with Sister Goddesses from around the globe

• Parties, parties, and more parties in South Beach

• Beach time, shopping, lying by the pool, and plenty of pleasure research homework

• A special reading from my upcoming book!

 

• BONUS INCREDIBLE GUEST SPEAKER: Sister Goddess Lissa Rankin, author of “What’s Up Down There?” will be speaking and doing a book signing.

The cost of the Reunion is $350*. If you enroll with a girlfriend(s) you can each attend the reunion for only $299*! (*Flights, meals and accommodations are not included.)

It’s not too late, you’re not too old, you’re not too broke, you’re not too married or too single, you’re not too grumpy or too shy. You’re not too outrageous or too sexy already. If you are a woman age 18 or older, and there are things you desire in your life that you just haven’t seemed to be able to attain yet, this class was designed for you!

Bring me your desires. Big, small, and everything in-between…. Every time the Sister Goddess Community takes over Miami, miracles and magic ensues. Are you ready to have yours?

You have until 3pm EST on Friday, November 12th to enroll online. Register now.

See you on the beach!

With so much love and pleasure,

Mama Gena

Miami Pleasure Gymnastics

Dear Mama,

You know I live for Miami – love it, and have been to every ecstatic Miami in the history of the SWA… Mmmmmmmmmmm, the countdown is on!

I just had to share with you that it always takes some major pleasure gymnastics to add a cross-country trip from Portland, Oregon to my over-the-top full life. This time extra heroism was required – my nanny had to fly to India, so now I have NO CHILDCARE and I am traveling cross-country every week for the next six weeks!

You’d think I might take a break from my travel and cancel coming to Miami, but NO! The fuel, the pleasure, the ecstasy, and the coursework (call me a SWA nerd, but I soooooooooo love the sessions with you, Mama!) – Miami is a non-negotiable. And I just love how my husband is so on board with it – and is supporting me in making it happen!

Gotta go now to board a red-eye to NYC…see you in the sun!!

 

 

 

SG Janine (J9)

Hey, if this busy mom, wife, and founder/board chair of a flourishing nonprofit – with no childcare – can get to Miami, I have no doubt you can, too! Whatever “pleasure gymnastics” this trip requires for you, I promise it will be worth it!

We hit the beach this Friday! Register NOW.

With so much love and pleasure,

Mama Gena

P.S. Now is not the time to give up on your desire to attend! Stay in the game! Check out my final desire lesson, Lesson #5: Receiving your Desires!

 

 

What to Do with Your Man During Miami

Sisters,

It’s SG Melinda here from the Pleasure Palace! For two years I’ve been working on my husband to come to Miami, and for the past two years, he’s had all the reasons under the sun not to join me. I didn’t let it stop me, though, as there is nothing hotter for a marriage than a juiced up woman–and what better place for a woman to juice herself up than a weekend away with Mama and her sisters?!

This year, my husband said YES and will be joining me in Miami!! WHOOOHOOOO!!!!!!! So I thought I’d share all the juicy nuggets that I’ve gathered over the years to keep your man entertained while you are in Miami…no matter if he is staying at home or joining you on the sunny beaches! For you gals who are leaving your guys at home, here are 5 ways you can keep your guy entertained until you return. And for you gals who are bringing your man with you to Miami, I’m giving you 5 delicious ways for you to keep your man amused while you’re in sessions with Mama Gena and your sisters!

If your guy is staying at home:

1. Cut out the weekend’s football schedule and leave it on the table
2. Send him daily text messages or leave him daily voicemails with notes of appreciation and gratitude
3. Share 3 of your desires with him and ask him to surprise you with one of them when you return
4. Let his friends know that he’s going to be a “bachelor” for the weekend
5. Ask him to put in overtime at work so he can take off a day when you return and enjoy the Miami juice you’ll be bringing home to him

If your guy is coming with you to Miami:

1. Make sure he is firmly planted on a beach chair in front of the National Hotel when all the pink towels come out
2. Before you leave your hometown, find out 3 things that he wants to experience while in Miami
3. Introduce him to another SG’s guy before you leave for Miami
4. Bring him to the Pink Party and introduce him to every SG there
5. Coordinate him to participate in Mama’s entrances

Ready to take yourself and your guy higher?!!
8 days ’til The World Wide Sister Goddess Reunion kicks off.

Join us!

With pleasure,

SG Melinda