There's good news: the Goddess Within isn't dead, she's just sleeping. Blending coaching programs with Tantra & sacred sexuality teachings, I help high achieving professional women awaken their Shakti, or sacred feminine life force, by guiding them inside themselves to the source of their authentic power and wholeness. As mothers, lovers and leaders, these women exude a kind of radiance that transforms the atmosphere around them and brings healing to the planet as a whole.

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My Journey to Shakti

I know first-hand how challenging it can be to find life balance as a professional woman. I had a chaotic childhood and found security in over achieving, accomplishing and caretaking. After graduating from UCLA, I had a high profile W2 career in high tech marketing that left me burned-out at 30. I know the stress of starting your own business while nursing your baby, supporting your husband, and managing a home. After 20 years of marriage, I understand how deeply fulfilling and frustrating long-term relationship can be. I also know the heart break of miscarriage, separating paths, and divorce.

I certainly never planned to teach Tantra and Sacred Sexuality. But it's funny how life happens while you're busy making other plans. I agreed to teach my first workshop in 2002 only after my closest girlfriends repeatedly urged me to share with them about what was sparking the personal breakthroughs and awakening in my marriage. The couples workshop rapidly grew by word of mouth. Then I offered my first women's retreat and over 40 women attended. Many came up at the end with tears in their eyes. Others eagerly asked what was next and I could only stare at them blankly. Clearly something significant had been unleashed. But still I kept the sacred sexuality work in the closet, separate from my "professional" coaching practice, because of concern about damaging my reputation with my executive-level clients.

Then one random, drizzly Tuesday morning as I was banging away on my computer, the phone rang and it was a producer from "The Oprah Winfrey Show." She was following a lead from a publicist via a colleague of mine who had attended my women's retreat a couple of weeks earlier. Thirty-six hours later, my husband and I found ourselves being proclaimed "Tantra Experts" in front of millions of viewers all over the world. That was November of 2003.

As Carolyn Myss would say, "I smell God."

On one hand, I was wholly unprepared. I didn't even have a website at the time (although amazingly enough the site went live and we had an e-book for sale by the time the show aired ten days later thanks to dear friends and contacts from my high tech marketing days). I also had to have some bizarre conversations with my existing coaching clients ("By the way, I forgot to mention that I teach this 'Tantric Sex' thing and I didn't want you to be shocked if you see me on Oprah next week.")

On the other hand, it was perfectly orchestrated. I can see now how everything in my life prepared me for this path. And I now know, without a doubt, that this is my "dharma," my work to do in the world and why I am here. Being on mission and on purpose is an amazingly wonderful feeling. It just took a bolt of lightning for me to recognize it. I see now how an early incident of sexual abuse, my erotic awareness as a child, being raised by liberal, loving, and sensual parents, the priestess lineage from my astrological moon in Virgo, my life-long quest to know and embody the divine feminine, the joy and challenges in my marriage, and so much more, all conspired to make me the teacher I am now.

I typically work with professional women who have achieved outer success in our hyper-masculinized world but feel an emptiness and lack of fulfillment inside. Maybe their health, marriage or career is failing. As we work on self-love and I guide them back inside to the source of their feminine and wholeness, it's my profound joy to bear witness to how their lives, bodies and relationships transform. I also adore working with the men who love these women, helping couples find new ways of deepening intimacy and experiencing more joy, love and spirit in ecstatic union. Although I work predominately with women, welcoming Shakti back to her rightful place alongside the masculine (Shiva) is work that ultimately supports us all.

I am attracted to working with the topic of sacred sexuality because it is the most powerful energy we have access to – the power that creates life itself. We were all born sexual beings, fully alive to the joy and sensual pleasure of our bodies. Our bodies were exquisitely designed for love and ecstasy. Very few of us, however, landed in environments that supported or protected this innocence. Instead we were shamed, shut down, given destructive and negative messages about sexuality, or told nothing at all. Twenty five percent of us were abused sexually.

If we have any hope of reclaiming the earth and awakening consciousness, I believe we must begin with ourselves. I work with high achieving professional women because, quite frankly, I'm up to creating significant, rapid shift on the planet. It's an "all hands on deck" kind of moment. As Clarissa Pinkola Estes says, "We were made for these times."

Women are the movers and shakers. You have the influence, skill set, and heart to make it happen. I have the programs, coaching, and curriculum you need to transform the power you already have into something beyond anything you've ever known. It's your Shakti, your sacred feminine life force energy. It's the New Face of the Feminine. What's required is trusting, opening, attracting, allowing, softening, intuiting, listening, quieting, feeling, loving, and learning to embrace pleasure.

I can show you how. I can guide you back to what you already know. I can help you remember.

Welcome home.

Namasté


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