At the School of Womanly Arts, we are here to meet your needs, wants and desires with an incredible team of creative, caring, SPARKLING personalities.

Meet the women and men behind the scenes who make the magic happen for you. And if you need to contact one of them, either call the School at 212-787-2411 or simply click on the appropriate email link below.

Donna Otmani

Role in the Pleasure Revolution: Business manager. I coordinate all the magic that occurs in all areas of the business and ensure they support our mission in an organized, systematic way.

The thing you love most about working for the Pleasure Revolution: Hands down, the women. They INSPIRE me! It is incredible to see the transformations—the women owning their beauty and their power—and to watch their journeys getting there is exquisite! I sometimes can't believe I get paid to do this.

What brings you pleasure? Massages, peonies, the tiara ring from my husband, French pedicures, transformational workshops, reading, NYC, Grey's Anatomy, snuggling on the couch with my husband!

Your favorite quote: "Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?" –Mary Oliver

Which tool from the Womanly Arts do you use the most? Bragging—I've learned that unacknowledged good turns to sh*t and that the disciplines of Bragging and Gratitude allow me to make room for more good to come into my life.

What do you currently desire? A two-bedroom apartment in midtown Manhattan with a backyard!

Chica

Role in the Pleasure Revolution: Directrix. I am head of enrollment for all of our programs. I am lucky enough to assist women in conjuring their desires for our programs. I work in partnership with Regena and Donna to shape the Pleasure Revolution. I also tend the garden outside of our office and do my best to make Mama Gena's dreams come true.

The thing you love most about working for the Pleasure Revolution: The humble opportunity to serve at the tear of reality. Right there, where reality is splitting open to a new dimension, is where my desk sits. I love connecting with women around the world. Sometimes I imagine that when I am 90 and think back on this ride, I will fall to my knees in gratitude.

The other thing I love is the staff here at the Pleasure Palace. They are like the Waltons to me. We are the trampoline for each other's desires. We are tightly woven with each other, flexible and bouncy. Each member is family to me and I love coming to work to see them all.

What brings you pleasure? Following my desires, travel and adventure (I've traveled to 21 countries), growing flowers, taking walks, dancing, kissing while dancing, Clothes! Fashion! finding the perfect something for someone, eating with my parents, decorating my apartment, anything to do with tea, movies with popcorn, and caring for my cats, Ton Ton and Minou.

Your favorite quote: "What the world needs now is love, sweet love…" Take it away, Burt.

Which tool from the Womanly Arts do you use the most? Bragging and hearing brags! It's pure magic.

What do you currently desire? A home in the country with grass and a stream. Many bedrooms for friends, a fireplace and lots of windows. (Can you smell the cookies baking?) And a trip to Paris on a private jet, with party dresses for all!

Janine Francolini

Role in the Pleasure Revolution: I work on the enrollment team ushering women into the Pleasure Revolution through the Mastery Program.

The thing you love most about working for the Pleasure Revolution: Assisting women on their journey towards pleasure and transformation is sooooooooo meaningful to me. I often describe it as the closest thing to giving birth. It is a thrill to be able to work in the job of my dreams.

What brings you pleasure? Red shoestring licorice, my husband, my son, Portland, Oregon, Italy, Nia, Yoga, hula hoops, anything with bling (I wear something with glitter, sequins, sparkles every day), caramel, my vintage hula dancer collection, attending and hosting parties, the farmer's market in Portland, dancing at my fave club and traveling to New York for Mastery weekends.

Your favorite quote: "The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain." –Kahlil Gibran

Which tool from the Womanly Arts do you use the most? Gratitude and Having Fun No Matter What.

What do you currently desire? A wild and frolicsome trip with a group of Sister Goddesses™ for my birthday, a two-week vacation in East Hampton and continued health and growth for my son.

Teresa Kliokis

Role in the Pleasure Revolution: Personal Assistant to the Queen of Pleasure, a.k.a. Mama Gena. And I make use of my BFA Dance degree as the Resident Choreographer during Mastery weekends!

The thing you love most about working for the Pleasure Revolution: Throughout life we find so many ways to doubt we can do something. Mama Gena and the Sister Goddess™ community find 1,000 ways you can say YES to what you want to do.

What brings you pleasure? The color pink (who do you think invented the Pink Party?), sparkly things, vacations, dancing while looking hot, a great show, my boyfriend's hugs, flowers, friends' messages, laughing, cheese, hamburgers, getting my nails and hair done, glamorous nights out on the town, a beautiful day at the beach, a clean apartment, sleeping late.

Your favorite quote: "Studying your problems only makes them bigger." –Mama Gena

Which tool from the Womanly Arts do you use the most? Having Fun No Matter What!

What do you currently desire? A vacation to Vegas or a beautiful island with clear blue water.

Beth Elliott

Role in the Pleasure Revolution: Event Production Extraordinaire. I take care of the class venue location and logistics, the after-parties, speakers, the Big Sister Goddess mentorship program and our trips to Miami! And anything and everything else so desired!

The thing you love most about working for the Pleasure Revolution: I love working with Mama & the Palace gang, having exquisite communication and love for each other, working in a pleasure-filled work environment and seeing the change and growth and manifestation of desires for each Mastery-ette!

What brings you pleasure? Surfing, smiling, planning parties & benefits, taking care of myself, kissing!, learning, growing, challenging myself and reading The New Yorker, exploring the world and having adventures.

Your favorite quote: "Pleasure takes work!" –Mama Gena

Which tool from the Womanly Arts do you use the most? Bragging, Spring Cleaning and the Yes! exercise.

What do you currently desire? Financial abundance, a two-bedroom apartment in the West Village with an outdoor space with my loving man in a loving, committed relationship, a trip to Maui for a week in the summer to play with my friends, to be sponsored by a surfboard company and continued sponsorship with Letarte swimwear, lots of fun surf sessions and surf lessons this summer in the Hamptons!, a trip to St. Bart's, a trip to Boothbay Harbor, Maine, fun-loving time with my family, a Pucci beach bag, successful Margaritaville Footwear & Learn to Surf 123 DVD business and more!

Email Beth

Juan Munoz

Role in the Pleasure Revolution: Office Manager and the man behind the Production Manager.

The thing you love most about working for the Pleasure Revolution: Being able to smile and be silly in a work environment. Coming from litigation support work to this is a big change, but something I have always desired. Working with, amongst and for so many Sister Goddesses is a real bonus.

What brings you pleasure? Being able to be myself without any hesitation or fear brings me pleasure. And of course, laughing and smiling and anything that's fluffy!

Your favorite quote: "There is nothing impossible to him who will try." –Alexander the Great

Which tool from the Womanly Arts do you use the most? Finding the Perfection in every situation.

What do you currently desire? Abundance, travel, to live in Manhattan either downtown or the Upper West Side, more abundance and for William and I to keep growing older and closer together!

Emily Bohannon

Role in the Pleasure Revolution: Datamatrix! I create and manage the online communities for our courses, and I work with the enrollment team on course registration. I am also the Palace bean counter, Directrix of the talent show at Mastery graduation and I assist William with audiovisuals on Mastery weekends.

The thing you love most about working for the Pleasure Revolution: Helping women conquer technology! It makes me so happy to see women use the online community to connect with each other and use the tools of our courses to go higher. I love watching women light up in class; to witness each woman's unfolding is a huge honor and privilege for me. I also love working for a pleasure-run business: doing dance breaks at work, sitting in a magenta office chair and making time for pleasure in our daily lives.

What brings you pleasure? Spending time with my parents (the BEST parents in the world) and my beloved friends, THEATRE! (seeing plays, writing plays, singing, and acting), dancing, kissing, playing the piano, losing myself in a good book, listening to music and making mix CDs, walking in Central Park, someone playing with my hair, lush bath products, the Miami trip!, dark chocolate, Southern food, Britcoms, Harry Connick, Jr., puppies, gold lamé, dusk, unbridled laughter, the smell of rain and wet dirt.

Your favorite quote: "Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn't force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come." –Rainer Marie Rilke

Which tool from the Womanly Arts do you use the most? DANCE BREAKS and the womantra, "My timing is perfect and elegant."

What do you currently desire? To be on Broadway.

William Neal

Role in the Pleasure Revolution: Technical Manager. I'm responsible for coordinating the technology that makes everything work behind the scenes, and I manage all the audiovisual production aspects of our live events.

The thing you love most about working for the Pleasure Revolution: The people I work with—including both our staff and our community. In no other company have I ever experienced such mutual love and respect.

What brings you pleasure? Music, technological gadgets, learning, traveling, languages, nature, crystals and gemstones, Chica's patio garden, my two cats Kitty and Domino and Regena's cat Miu Miu, our company trips to Miami's South Beach (!), delicious food and drink, my friends and family, and spending quality time with my Juan.

Your favorite quote: "Whether you believe you can or believe you can't, you're right." –Henry Ford

What tool from the Womanly Arts do you use the most? It's a tie between dance breaks (good for body and spirit alike!) and the phrase "Thank you, it's true," which has taught me to openly and graciously accept praise from others.

What do you currently desire? A beautiful, cozy, conveniently located apartment in Manhattan.

Nicole Ohebshalom

Role in the Pleasure Revolution: Enrollment Support

The thing you love most working for the Pleasure Revolution: I am so rocked and inspired watching each woman say YES to herself and YES to her life.

What brings you pleasure: Yoga, laughing with friends and family, backgammon and tea, yogurt and cucumbers, bananas with raw almond butter and hemp seeds, watching kids discover something new and express themselves, jogging on the West Side Highway.

Your Favorite Quote:
"Stay in the center of the circle and let all things take their course." –Lao Tzu
"Fear is just excitement without breath." –Fritz Pearls

Which tool from the Womanly Arts do you use the most? Spring Cleaning and Dance Breaks—what a breath of fresh air… I have learned how to express, let go of all the yucky stuff in my mind, digest and celebrate so I can be open and receptive to all the new amazing things coming into my life.

What do you currently desire? To have a published article and health column in an international magazine and New York newspaper.

Sheila Kamara Hay

Role in the Pleasure Revolution: Newsletter Goddess. I do anything and everything having to do with the newsletter—writing, interviewing, editing, reviewing...

The thing you love most about working for the Pleasure Revolution: Being in the flow—having my ideas of what is possible busted wide open and passing that on to my sisters.

What brings you pleasure? Music, my kids, being pampered, surprise gifts and letters, moving my body, chocolate chip cookies, one on one time with my honey.

Your favorite quote: "In a sky full of people only some want to fly... Isn't that crazy?" –Seal

Which tool from the Womanly Arts do you use the most? Favorite Frames—I really enjoy savoring each day in this way.

What do you currently desire? Weekly massages, orgasmic childbirth, a first-person column, to live and mother from a place of Joy and Wonder, to collaborate with Moby on a musical version of Winterson's The Passion.