Orgasmic Alchemy

Your Sexuality and your Powerful Feminine Voice

Sometimes you check your voice mail, and something amazing is waiting for you.

That's how it was last week when I picked up a message from the extraordinary Linda Rivero.

Linda and I met at SEVEN, the powerhouse seminar and networking event with David Neagle and Suzanne Evans. This past Monday we met again, on the radio. Linda invited me to be her guest on her powerhouse radio show, Global Feminine Rising. Each week she interviews women creating opportunity and transformation for women on a global scale. You can listen live each Monday at 12 Noon Eastern time.

Here is our interview on Your Sexuality and Your Powerful Feminine Voice.

Linda Rivero is the founder and CEO of Global Action Network for Entrepreneurial Women, GaNEW for short. Her mission is to bring together women business leaders in the developing and developed worlds for exchange of resources, ideas, support, and mentoring. In Winter, 2012, you can travel to Senegal, West Africa, to help the local women build their Women's Literacy Center--so that they can learn to read themselves.

Does this stir your soul? Visit Linda's website for Volunteer Adventure Travel, and click on the Senegal Women's Literacy Project.

I am delighted to bring my message of empowered sexuality/empowered women to a global community with the mission of local economic and educational empowerment.

Thank you for the opportunity to speak, Linda.

Naked Coffee Friday: Sacred Matters

I've been thinking about the stillness surrounding the sacred versus the silence surrounding shame.

Yesterday I heard an NPR story that moved me deeply. From the HIdden World of Girls series, a man, Chris Abani, told his mother's story. She was an English woman married to a Nigerian man, living in Nigeria. You can read or listen to the story "A Woman's Mission: To Teach Birth Control in Nigeria"

Chris's Mother was a Catholic. She wanted to help women learn about birth control but as a Catholic could not teach condom use. So she wanted to teach women about natural methods. She enlisted her 8 year old son, Chris, as translator, traveling the countryside visiting with women. Chris Abani tells how he greeted the women, apologizing because he had to talk to them about the most sacred things, which were taboo to speak aloud. If they didn't want to talk to him, he would understand. He would ask them if they were on their "Holy Period."

This is not about Shame, but about Sacredness. Oh my goddess, if only I had been taught as a girl that my blood was holy. This culture shames us about our bodies and sexuality, our most sacred union with divine and thus with nature and all other creatures. It is a double affront that our sacred life force desire is used to manipulate us to buy things and do things that hurt us and the earth.

  

Because of the need for healing individually and as a society, I speak out loud about sex, in art, word, and deed. I believe it is necessary to bring about healing and a restoration of naturalness. Yet sometimes I wonder.

My question for myself, and I am also asking you, am I breaking taboo? Are those of us who speak out loud and teach about sexuality openly, publicly, corrupting the sacred? 

I think I know the answer for me. Mysteries are revered and cloaked in stillness, and they are also celebrated in a display of sacred bawdiness. I am tilted toward the bawdy to aid in transforming the silence of shame into the stillness of the sacred.

In another generation, I hope the initiations will be restored and people can be natural with their sacred sexuality once more.

Rev. Diva Carla on the Radio

Orgasmic Alchemy Tweaks Your Vibrations tomorrow!

Yes, I know, it's everyday! Tomorrow, I do it with Diva Valerie White, healer and all round magnificent radio diva.
She'll be interviewing me on her radio show Tweaking Your Vibrations on the blogtalk network.

Please tune in tomorrow at 2 pm eastern time. You can listen via web, or call in from where ever you are, and you can post questions in a chat room. I'd love to connect with you live!

If you have a previous engagment, you can always listen to the recorded version later, and ask follow up questions through the blog comments here at Orgasmic Alchemy.

Tomorrow's the day to tune in HERE.

I'm looking forward to it!