Take Back Your Beauty
Recently we had a women’s circle where we talked about our changing bodies and our feelings around them. Not surprisingly, even the younger women, with seemingly perfect forms and few lines on their faces, had body shame, which affected everything from their self esteem to their sense of sexiness, desirability and beauty. But what was […]
Sexying Up Your Summer
Summer is a time to bring out your sexy and your inner seductress even if she’s been in the closet for a while. Just like women have different outfits for different occasions, we hold an abundance of feminine archetypes within our psyche that we can call on for inspiration. For some, the seductress archetype comes […]
How to get Unstuck
One of my most beloved spiritual teachers, Pema Chodron, talks about a Tibetan word called “shenpa,” which is the condition of being stuck, of being completely taken over and “hooked” by something. You’re so emotionally hooked, you can experience physical pain. Shenpa is involuntary and often leads to habitual behaviors that reinforce feelings of powerlessness. […]
My Depression Breakthrough
Some years ago, in a suicidal moment. I remember having this thought: “If I want to die this much, there must also be an equal part of me that wants to live.” If I hold a secret death-wish, I must also hold a secret life force. The catch, however, was how to access this life force […]
Fierce Feminine Shadow Work
It must be part of the cosmic joke that our liberation lies in the last place we’d think or want to look – our pain. Humans fear pain almost as much as we fear death. Fear and pain are two alleys we’d rather not walk down. But if you take a closer look, and see […]
Anima
A spoken word, dance, song and performance art collaborative… of women’s secrets, dreams, sexual fantasies, revelations, rants and vulnerable reveals. Lisa Citore is the writer, director and producer of four theater productions, including The Tao of Sex, Bloodlines/Women’s Moon Stories, Riding the Dragon and Keep it Wet. Anima is a curated production of local female […]
Jesus Know What Rape Feels Like
I’ve been feeling my Christian roots lately and especially a soft spot in my heart for Jesus, ’cause this is a brother who knows what rape feels like. I once facilitated this sort of improvisational shamanic performance art group called Riding the Dragon. The purpose of the group was to give movement and expression to […]
The Awakening of Feminine Sexuality
I created the Women’s Sexual Mystery School with three specific goals in mind. 1) To return sexuality back to its sacred seat – not just the act, but sexual energy itself, which is the energy of Creation. 2) To expand our understanding of sexual energy beyond what happens in the bedroom to how our sexual […]
Why Positive Thinking Only Gets You So Far
You’ve been around the spiritual block. You’ve read The Law of Attraction and The Secret. You know you are what you believe. You understand that negative beliefs attract negative experiences and positive beliefs attract positive ones. And in the last decades, you’ve made a conscious effort to choose beliefs that are more in alignment with […]
Holy Menage!
I have an idea for a movie where a woman, who discovers her husband is having an affair, seeks out the woman he’s having sex with. The wife, Eva, is a sexually conservative fiftiesh woman. Lily, in her late thirties, is a sexual free spirit. The husband, Adam, and Eva (yeah yeah it’s on purpose) […]
