lids on. My desire is to lift the lid off, and to fan the flames of that woman’s desires and connect her to her life force, enthusiasm and joy.”
Mama refers to the women she works with as Sister Goddesses. “Sister” because Mama maintains that all women are sisters to one another, and “Goddess” since there is at least a drop – if not an ocean – of the divine in every woman. “I find that women respond extraordinarily well when you treat her as if she were your sister or a goddess.”
Mama Gena, AKA the Queen of Pleasure, focuses women on their pleasure and desires as their guiding stars. “Pleasure is the new frontier,” says Mama. “I used to think that you could only get to enlightenment through suffering. So I suffered a lot in my attempts, and I think a lot of the current religions encourage that. From what I have studied, the ancient goddess religions’ approach to enlightenment is very different – theirs was more about thanks and gratitude and dancing and celebrating the exquisite joy of life. It is very easy to overlook the importance of pleasure, but in fact it is the only thing that anyone is in actually control of.”
Take Sister Goddess Jane, who is 45 and happily single, a highly successful corporate events producer, in the middle of her second Mastery. In the six years prior to encountering Mama Gena, Jane cared for her sister and her six-year old niece until both died of brain cancer, and then Jane’s own mother died as well. Surrounded by death, she heard about the Mastery Program and thought, “OK, I have a choice, I can spend the rest of my life pounding on their graves asking why, or I can live an extraordinary life in their honor. On the third weekend of Mastery, the class altered my DNA, and