What Our Bodies Know 
A Blog by Stefana Serafina

Two years ago, I sat in a small circle of peers and our guides– the desert winds blowing furiously in our faces and blinding our eyes with dust– in preparation to head out on a journey into the remote parts of Death Valley for 5 days on my own. With just water and some survival gear, without food or shelter, I would sleep on the earth floor, close to the bones, my body exposed to the elemental impulse of the wild gods.

A few months back, a friend who was turning 60 invited me to her celebration of The Pleasure Priestess. She was choosing to enter her...

I like to say that women’s bodies have taught me my work. And 15 years in, they continue to. But if anyone had told me 15 years ago...

Image by Nona Limmen As the intense appetites and indulgences of summer begin to wane and the wheel of cycles turns once more, there...

I took me years to see to the bottom of this, but women’s bodies ultimately taught me the truth: That whatever is happening in a woman’s...

When Eve Ensler wrote the Vagina Monologues more than twenty years ago, it went on to shake the world because it named a deeply...

Art Photography Katerina Plotnikova The erotic life, don’t we want it? Alluring, yes, the word ‘erotic’ itself, only uttered,...

To unravel and unclog one's sensual body, to harness its legacy, its possibility... Can we ever say enough about the significance of...

One day when my last breaths bless these lungs and it’s time to set on that other journey, I want to be able to say: I loved this body–...

It is said that nothing novel and brave is born of the inertia of a comfort zone. Perhaps that is why 2020 mandated that we hang out in...

What are those parts of us, of me, of my wild soul and uneducated nature, the signature qualities and longings of my personhood that have be

You know the kind of stories that have been really eating at me for a while? They are taking over my feed, sponsored and unsponsored,...

On a recent trip to Mexico, I made a new acquaintance and soon we were in deep conversation. I am not a very spiritual person, he said....

When I visioned for my five-week trip to Southeast Asia, I thought I'd travel to be inspired in my art–– whatever it is that i do, i...

Are we witnessing the Earth's perfect storm? It might seem, on some days, that the women of the world have still an endless way to go....

On some days, I wake up and I don’t know how to keep a mere semblance of peace, or to even begin making room for the joy of living–– when...

As part of Earth's ecosystem, the body is exquisitely attuned to its place on the planet: the climate, season, water, plants and foods...

The other night, after finishing up a workshop with about 30 women in Berkeley, California, someone asked me, how did you get into the...

Photograph by Kelly Grabianowski Have you ever witnessed a woman ‘enter’ herself in the silent, expressive language of flowing breath...

Some surreal and somewhat inexplicable events have been taking place in our women's community in the last weeks, leaving us baffled,...