Redvolutionaries & Spiritual Superheroines:
Kris Carr, The Crazy Sexy Revolutionary: A courageous, highly-spirited model and actress was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer at 31. She has since kicked some major cancer ass and has given cancer and the entire field of health and wellness a much-needed makeover through a revolutionary best-selling book and heart-warming documentary, Crazy, Sexy, Cancer, and her amazing online wealth of alternative health www.crazysexylife.com. Kris is out spoken about what it means to truly heal, to be your self, and to live your life with all you’ve got, and then some.
Christabel Zamor, Hoop girl: Through hula hooping, yes, hula-hooping, the young Christabel transformed herself from a heavy-set, shy, academic into a sexy, stunning, deeply-spiritual professional hula hoop dance performer. She teaches internationally and has performed for Cirque Du Soleil, Warner Brothers, and Universal Pictures as well as Burning Man and the Love Parade and is the author of Hooping: A revolutionary Fitness Program. Hoopgirl teaches a way of life – one that embodies freedom, sensuality, and fitness. Christabel’s goal is to revolutionize women’s beliefs of what they can do in their life by modeling how to be strong, beautiful, creative and fabulous, while spiritually-attuned.
Rha Goddess: A fiery, talented female performance artist, social/political activist, speaker for Know Thy Self Productions, co-founder of Sista to Sista Freedom School for Young Women of Color, author and editor of We Got Issues: A Young Woman’s Guide to a Bold, Courageous, and Empowered Life (a book based on conversations with over 100 young women) and founder of We Got Issues Organization: Raising the Voice of a New Feminine Generation – a multimedia group that brings to the public awareness the most relevant issues facing young women today. Rha Goddess is also the creator of modern “Red Tents” for young women – a sacred space where women can come to connect, share stories and emotions, and reconnect with their divine spark.
Kali Ma: A young spiritual teacher and profound inspiration to many around the world. A westerner, she was recognized at a very young age as a Siddha (enlightened spiritual teacher). She has dedicated her life to the spiritual awakening of humanity and teaches in the unorthodox, Yogic style of the MahaSiddhas. Her work is joyful, humorous, irreverent and she’s radically committed to reminding people how all of life can be transformed into the path of realization, including relationship, work, family and formal spiritual practice. But most importantly, she has a mad affection for red clothes, as do all her devotees.
Sarah Burke, The Crimson Combatress: The second ever female Sergeant Major at The Citadel who is fighting for women’s rights and the need for divine feminine power within the military. She re-wrote The Citadel prayer that had a line “thank God I was born a boy” to “thank god I was born a girl”, which she read in front of a statue of the Greek goddess Athena her sophomore year. Despite ruffling some military feathers, Sarah managed to rise in ranks as her heart, humor, and uniquely feminine approach to the military eventually inspired the entire school. She was one of the first women to be awarded the highest award in the military, the Douglas MacArthur award. She begins her career with the Marines fall 2009 and her goal is to work with women in the middle- east.
Elizabeth Bast, The Tantric Priestess: A vibrant, sexually-empowered woman who is a practitioner of the Tantric arts. She runs a modern Tantric temple in San Francisco. Through classes, yoga, and ritual Bast teaches men and women that human condition is to be embraced, not denied or repressed. She reminds women that the senses, the energy of desire, and our hungers all present opportunities to be centered, generous, compassionate, and vibrantly AWAKE.
Sharon Phfliger, The Badass: A bold, brassy, hilarious southern suburban housewife who quit her safe and stable career at Bank of America to start her own coaching service called “Unleash Your Inner Badass” in her conservative republican Georgian suburb. Gulp. She specializes in inspiring women who have felt trapped in careers, relationships, and life styles that don’t reflect their true inner badass self. She is a powerful force to be reckoned with and possibly, every republican’s worse nightmare.
LaSara Firefox, The Mystical Witch: A witch, ritualist, sexual r/evolutionary, activist and educator, mom, author of Sexy Witch, and founder of The Ecstatic Presence Project and Global Family Awakening. LaSara is a designer and facilitator of a wide variety of interactive, exploration-based workshops and classes given around the country. She believes that the most revolutionary, and perhaps evolutionary, act we can engage in is to become healthy, strong, and empowered. And she’s a natural red head!
Jennifer Posada, The Oracle: A truly remarkable young woman, author of The Oracle Within, sound healer, and, well, oracle. That’s right, she hears the Universe and dishes the good stuff to lucky us! This brilliant, articulate, highly sensitive and loving woman travels around the world helping women and men listen to their inner voice and become their own “oracle”. She is a rare voice of radical esoteric love no matter what you believe….or hear.
Gabrielle Bernstein, the Urban Angel of Transformation: Recently featured in the New York Times Sunday Styles section as the next generation guru, motivational speaker, life coach and author Gabrielle Bernstein is making her exclamation mark! Expanding the lexicon for the next generation, Gabrielle launched her first book Add More ~ing to Your Life – A hip guide to happiness, in 2010. Gabrielle was just one year out of college, when she co-founded the Women’s Entrepreneurial Network, a non-profit professional organization that connects female entrepreneurs. WEN started a local mentor program for young women, WEN Mentors, and is best known for its signature Gift of Service Exchange events. In 2007, she launched the brand Falling in Love with Your Future: A Young Woman’s Guide to Passion and Happiness, which takes the form of books, life coaching, lectures and more. An integral part of the program is the emphasis on guidance and mentors. Gabrielle recently launched her social networking site www.HerFuture.com for young women to find mentors. In addition, she can also be seen riding around the West Village on a unicycle!
And me, Sera Beak, Spiritual Cowgirl!
Artists In Red Residence
Shamanic Cheerleaders: Pep squad for the divine in us all! This electrifying group of 6 women cheer for all beings, Spirit is their mascot and everyone wins! They raise the vibration, spread contagious smiles and set people free. The BRING IT with rockin’ dance routines, affirmational cheers, call and response “Cheer-than,” pyramids and rowdy bliss. They set the dance floor on fire in the blink of an eye, and as they say “you’ll be freaking out and won’t even know why!!” These sexy, hilarious, electrifiers of the soul will be cheering us on throughout the Redvolution
Goddess Alchemy Project: An electrifying fresh feminine-flavored musical and spoken-word group consisting of four young women who bring forth a timeless science through a live lyrical experience of “more than one sista on the mic at a time”…this crew gives voice to the potent medicine of Goddess Alchemy rising. Empowering the revolution from within, these creatresses synergize their individual skills to weave together an evolutionary, artistic collective grounded in the ancient ways of women’s wisdom.
Coleman Barks: Translator of dozens of books such as The Essential Rumi will recite ecstatic, redvolutionary poetry by Rumi, a 13th century Persian mystic and the best selling poet of all time. Coleman will read Rumi’s poetry that focuses on “red” themes and muse brilliantly and sardonically about the spiritual meanings. Rumi’s sensual, provocative, humorous, inspiring, unorthodox prose will boogie through the film via Coleman Bark’s rich, wise tenor and vocal twinkle.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: An irreverent savior in a micro mini who courageously battles evil powers and saves the world. A lot. “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” was a cult T.V. (and now DVD) hit from 1997-2003 and reflects fascinating spiritual, religious, and mythological ideas – in fact, it was called “the most original, witty, and provocative television show with of the past two decades” by the Independent. Joss Whedon reversed the stereotype of young pretty women in film and T.V. and made “girl power” a viewer draw. Buffy was blonde but never a victim, vulnerable but also tough as nails, sexy and sensual but also a modern feminist icon. As Whedon said “I wanted Barbie…but with a Kung Fu grip”. She is a modern spiritual superheroine.
Red Experts
Tom Robbins: Divine wordsmith of giddy gaping reality, spiritual outlaw, best-selling author of Jitterbug Perfume, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Skinny Leggs and All, Still Life with Woodpecker and radical under-ground icon of pop culture.
Elaine Pagels, Professor of Religion at Princeton University: Pagel’s award-winning brilliant research on the early Church, (specifically heresy and the Gnostic sects) and her ability to communicate these ancient beliefs into electric tantalizing modern- day parlance has made her a trusted media super star. She is the author of the bestselling book The Gnostic Gospels, which inform us that we each have a divine spark and to know this spark, your true self is to truly know the divine so you have no need for intermediaries like priests or the Church (the early church father’s are turning in their graves!).
Stuart Davis: Punk (Zen) monk, twisted mystic, rock and roll star, creator and star of the cable TV show Sex, God, Rock n Roll – Stuart is a spiritual genius with a fetish for designer jeans and the Mystery of All that Is. While transgression is this spiritual superstar’s claim to fame, he also has a heart of gold, is a loving father and husband, and one of my favorite authentic male spiritual voices in our spiritually jaded yet spiritually curious generation.
Jean Houston: scholar, philosopher, researcher in human capacities and one of the best story tellers, like, ever. Jean is one of the foremost visionary thinkers and doers of our time, one of the principal founders of the Human Potential Movement. A powerful and dynamic speaker, who tells the most hilarious and poignant stories she is also a prolific writer and author of 26 books including A Passion for the Possible, The Possible Human, and A Mythic Life: Learning to Live Our Greater Story.
Chandra Alexandra: Scholar of religion and creator of a religion called “Sha’can, which is a combination between Wicca and Shakta Tantrism. The Hindu Goddess Kali is the center of all her work, her classes, and she has groups of priestesses and “Daughters of Kali”, which looks to infuse the divine feminine into modern peoples lives. She is also a spiritual activist with several projects that help improve women’s lives in India. She also has the coolest dreads on the planet.
Rob Breszny: Rob Breszny is “an aspiring master of curiosity, perpetrator of sacred uproar”, spiritual anarchist, prophet, and founder of the Beauty and Truth Lab. He writes “Free Will Astrology,” a syndicated weekly column that appears in over a hundred other publications and on the Web. Author of the genius epic “everyone needs to own this book” - Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings.
Regena Thomashauer (Mama Gena) is a revolution: an icon, teacher, author, mother and one of a handful of pioneers on the planet researching the nature of pleasure and dedicating her life to the discipline of pleasure and fun. Self-taught in the social, cultural and economic history of women including the ancient Goddess religion, which dominated for 30–50 centuries of recorded history, Regena uses her more than fifteen years of research and her knowledge of female pleasure to open doors for women today by giving them a context in which to maximize their power, passion, enthusiasm and creativity. The result is the Womanly Arts Mastery Program, a unique program which has helped hundreds of women to discover the power of pleasure and create their dreams.
Jeffrey Kripal: Professor of Religion at Rice University and author of Kali’s Child, The Serpent’s Hiss, and two upcoming books on the spirituality of superheroes and superpowers. He was also Sera’s mentor at Harvard and a brilliant scholar of all things unorthodox, gnostic, mystico-erotic, and the spiritual in pop culture. He also wears awesome spiderman ties.
Sofia Diaz: Sofia Diaz is an unorthodox hatha yoga master, a lineage holder in the Balasaraswati lineage of the South Indian temple arts and a recipient of numerous meditation empowerments in both Tibetan and Shakta Tantric traditions . She turns the body wisdom practices she is empowered in into accessible teachings and wild practices for the modern western mind. Being an inspired woman practitioner who is considered a mystic by many, the rigors of her practice have resulted in great clarity and expertise in the domain of Feminine Spiritual practice, which she has been generously teaching for 27 years. She is a core founder and faculty of iEvolve: Global Practice Community and a Fellow of the Integral Life Spiritual Center.
Barbara Carrellas: author of Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century, sex educator, university lecturer, workshop facilitator, sex/life coach, motivational speaker and theater artist who believes when our erotic energy is aligned with our spiritual purpose, it releases our creativity and manifests in prosperity and happiness in all areas of life. This faiery-like pink-haired, wise, street-smart sensual spiritual activist encourages us to go ahead and be “too much”. Her personal stories of how the spiritual and the sexual clashed and crashed into her life are emotional and hilarious and extremely revealing about the culture we live in and how desperately it tries to subdue and eradicate authentic, healthy eroticism.
The Jungians
Marion Woodman: Jungian analyst and Canadian mythopoetic author of several widely-acclaimed books on psychology and attitudes of modern women including Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride and The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter: Obesity, Anorexia Nervosa and the Repressed Feminine and The Pregnant Virgin: Psychological Transformation. Her life-changing work has helped hundreds of thousands of women release unhealthy addictions, develop their personal identity free from external authorities, and become more conscious of their unique feminine consciousness.
Jean Shinoda Bolen: Jean Shinoda Bolen, M. D. is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco. She brings an emphasis on the question for meaning and the need for a spiritual dimension in life to all aspects of her work, while also taking into account the powerful effects of archetypes within us and family and culture upon us. Her books are used as college and university texts in gender studies, women’s psychology, mythology, spirituality, east-west philosophy, and psychology courses. She is in the widely acclaimed documentary, “Goddess Remembered,” the first of the Canadian Film Board’s trilogy.She is a former board member of the Ms. Foundation for Women, and the author of Goddesses in Everywoman, Gods in Everyman, and Urgent Message From Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World.
Nancy Qualls Corbett, Ph.D. is a diplomat of the C. G. Jung Institute, Zurich and is a practicing analyst in Birmingham, Alabama. The author of The Sacred Prostitute: Eternal Aspect of the Feminine, she is an expert on this somewhat confusing and enlightening topic and believes this archetype resides inside every man and woman and is ultimately about passionate love – of self, others, life, divinity.
Red Flirts
Louboutin shoes, explosives, spiritual superpowers, red apples, The Matrix, red goddesses, purple PT Cruisers, glitter, Burning Man, Fashion Shows, the Gnostics, hula hoops, lots and lots of laughter (and some tears), red feathers, graffiti, universes of divine feminine mojo, and many other sexy spiritual outlaws, radical mystics, and sacred troublemakers from a variety of traditions – from the past to the present who are here to change the world through Love.
And everyday redvolutionaries who are sitting next to you on the subway or on that bench in the park – powerful, vulnerable, real women and men who are daring to disturb the universe with their personal spiritual explorations and expressions.
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