Sensuality is Such A Potent Medicine /  by alyssa aparicio

Is 2024 the year you anchor into your sensuality and let it fill your cup?


Join us in a community devoted to just that. Here’s what’s on the horizon ✨

✨PUERTO RICO Retreat: Unleash Your Inner Video Vixen February 5-10th. 1 spot left on site, 3 spots for local residents! Learn More

✨LA P💎ssy Empowered Performance Class: Our 5th round begins on March 29th (10 weeks) and culminates in a performance at the next P💎ssy Empowered Party in June. Now open for enrollment with Early Bird Discount. Learn More

✨ VIRTUAL: Erotic & Alive Virtual Membership is chock full of rituals, resources, courses and monthly live classes. Join us for anytime! The next class: Jan. 16th. Learn More

Other places on the horizon: Bay Area & San Diego in spring. Where else should we rendezvous? 😍

📸: Cover photo by @fempwrboudoir, video self-filmed on set.
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3 Ways to Liberate Your Erotic Nature: A Personal Essay and PLAYlist on L.U.S.T /  by alyssa aparicio

I used to say that lust was my favorite emotion. I love the burn. The feeling of desire and being desired has been my preferred muse as an artist in this lifetime. The writing, dancing, creations that I bring to life when i’m burning alive are my all time favorites.

“Liberate”. Puerto Rico, 2023 via Flash The Abyss

But oh how it burns. Not only lust in general, but unrequited lust specifically. When only one end of the candle is on fire.

It dawned on me that in the process of desiring and manifesting more lust in my life, that I had grown to more closely identify a preferred emotion to lust; satisfaction. Feeling seen, feeling heard, being met in the fire, water, earth, or fresh air of a shared passion. 

I believe sex is the opposite of death. And I don’t just mean intercourse for the purpose of procreation. I mean that I never feel more alive than when my senses are stimulated and my sexuality feels activated. Outside of sex itself, the erotic to me equates life force itself. Vitality. 


Trust, I am not one of those spiritual teachers who will insist that will dissuade you or try to convince you not to find transcendence in sex. Quite the contrary. I say go for it if its your thing. The closest thing to divinity in this lifetime for me personally has been the sensation of dissolving into orgasm at the spot where my cervix very clearly becomes the celestial planes themselves. 

To say I love sex is an understatement. I might live for it. “And I’m not sorry, its human nature”, as Madonna explains. I too, have no remorse. Apart from the occasional remainders of Catholic guilt leftover in my subconscious, I am far from apologizing. I have purposefully cleansed puritanical rhetoric from my mind, body, and spirit regularly, ritually, aggressively, compassionately over time. And yet still, certain shame mired thoughts will arise and cause anxiety. That is, until I realize that the fundamentals of said belief are reasonings I don’t subscribe anymore. Then and only then, am I able to return to center. 


When I think about the erotic charge within me, the metaphor that comes to my mind’s eye most is that of a gushing waterfall. I can relate to the wildness, the urgency, the overflow. Choosing alternatives to monogamy in recent years, has been a step in my untaming. A major part of my claiming and reclaiming the abundantly sexual being that I am. A being who defaulted to monogamy for a time but who always knew that it was not her final destination.

My sexuality is simply nature, as is yours. This core understanding grounds me again and again as I am confronted by the insidious, ever pervasive existence of puritanical rhetoric that says that anything to do with the carnal is evil, wrong, sinful. Unsubscribe, unfollow, thumbs down. I can’t express enough how infuriating I find these ideas and how often they are baked into modern realms of the new age, spiritual, embodiment, empowerment, sensuality platforms. I’m entirely allergic and can sniff the bullshit from miles away by now. I would link to a viral video I once made addressing this, what I call “Spiritual Slut- Shaming” but Instagram made it unavailable without warning which leads me to believe that it was offending a fair amount of people enough to “report” me rather than dare to have a dialogue. I also had an overflow of DMs and re-shares expressing gratitude for identifying an undercurrent of slut- shaming I was not alone in witnessing. Instead I’lll share a recent article where I address firsthand discrimination as a stripper within the empowerment industry if you’re curious about what I mean.

These antiquated belief systems have adverse effects on all of us within this society. No one gets to escape the impact of these patriarchal underpinnings. What we can do is be aware of them. And we can intentionally decide that they will not dictate how we live our lives. To the best of our ability of course while acknowledging that the reality of our society exists outside of ourselves and does its best to suppress eroticism for ertocism’s sake outside of capitalistic and traditional paradigms in which cis heterosexual males do not have the reigns or the benefits (check out my podcast episode on Wet A$$ Pxssy Power).



I return to my personal relationship with lust. Sometimes it has been unhealthy. Sometimes it has bordered on obsession- as in I’ve been so horny that there is dick in my third eye. Its dickstracting. I first discovered this sexual frustration in my early teen years. Attending an all girls catholic school where I was entirely isolated from the opposite sex and inundated with messages of carnal sin, sex was all i could think about. My desire drove me crazy and there was no outlet in sight.

I embarked on a journey that brings me to modern day, an ongoing research project. How do I live with this erotic abundance and the depths of my desires that exist within me? Not just tolerate it. Not keep calm and carry on. But to LIVE with it. To indulge, explore, unleash, untame, make love to this part of myself. To set my erotic nature free. That is, whether I am with a partner(s) or not.

I have committed to nourishing and nurturing this part of myself on a daily and ongoing basis because this is when I feel most in tune with spirit and with my own delicious depths.

Allow me to distill the top 3 Ways to Liberate Your Erotic Nature based on what I have discovered:

  1. Ritual

  2. Community 

  3. Art


  1. RITUAL

I define ritual as a recurring activity that is intentionally crafted or time that is carved out to nurture a physical, mental, spiritual, sexual element in oneself. It is an act or state of being that reinforces a state, belief, or way of being. Ritual is the foundation of any and all of my Pussy Empowered offerings. When we carve out time for ritual in our daily, weekly, monthly lives, we strengthen neural pathways, encourage behaviors or nourish parts of ourselves that need nourishing. Creating intentional time to fan the flames of my erotic nature, safe space to explore, and to feed my sexual desires does wonders for my mental, emotional, physical state. The nourishing chemicals of pleasure make me feel good. The embodiment clears my mind. The attention to my pussy enhances circulation and makes me feel physically grounded in my pelvic bowl/ sacral chakra. Ritual is active resistance to the narratives that we face day in and out through media, perspectives of family or friends, religion etc. It gives us a safe space to explore our sexuality for ourselves, on our own terms, and to develop an authentic connection with what’s true for us in our bodies. There is no one size fits all ritual, however there are many rituals I have developed and share in my virtual and in person offerings for cultivating your eroticism- you can explore them a la carte or as part of my virtual membership here. 

2. Community

Exploring ritual within a supportive, sex positive community can be incredibly healing. Many of us feel alone in our desires, wants, needs. This can be very isolating and maddening to feel that we are the only ones, or that no one understands us. When we join in community and share our individual experiences, we realize that often our burdens in acceptance, embodiment, and/or expression of eroticism are not our own faults or individual issues. They are often much bigger than us. Systemic, cultural, societal, ancestral. This perspective opens a sense of ease and compassion for ourselves wherever we are on the journey of reclamation. Joining in safe spaces for exploration gives us an intentional setting to look within and connect with our own truth while feeling inspired and supported by one another. One of the biggest reflections I’ve received from sharing my own erotic embodiment and expression and something we practice with and reflect on in Pussy Empowered Dance Class is that seeing one another express gives such permission to whoever is witnessing to awaken that within themselves. Desiring community?

3. Art 

On my personal journey of processing, exploring, digesting, reclaiming my right to exist as an erotic being, art has been paramount. Unleashing my creativity has allowed me to translate what lives inside of me in a digestible way that keeps these energies flowing rather than stagnant and stuck within me “threatening the life it belongs to”.* Really, pouring any emotion into art has been a life raft for me since I was a kid. Since before I had words for it, pouring my erotic energy into art has been such a source of satisfaction and healing. Writing, dancing, choreographing, performing and now creating music have been outlets for me to channel this larger than life energy that courses through my veins at any given moment. 

My second song, Como Un Animal, was a milestone for me in setting my erotic expression free on a whole ‘nother level. Using my voice to express myself erotically via covering and reconstructing a song that resonated, but creating a version that spoke to my own experience with vulnerability, intensity, submission and raw desire was a project that challenged and excited me. I love the finished song and feel like it exactly expressed what I was desiring to express- there it is, satisfaction!

I have been deeply inspired by erotic art and artists who have dared to explore sexuality as a theme in their work even against the odds when it was/is considered taboo or dangerous. Some of my favorites are Madonna, Janet Jackson, Jacq the Stripper, Alpha Channeling.  This taboo and danger is not a thing of the past. It remains baked into today’s landscape ridden with conservatism and censorship of anything remotely sexual. I myself encounter this shadowbanning and censoring on a daily if not weekly basis as I stand my ground on social media platforms, within the entertainment industry and beyond. (Check out this PLAYlist devoted to L.U.S.T featuring some of these boundary breaking artists).

Enjoy this PLAYlist I made. Listen on Spotify.

Warning: may result in extreme horniness!

It is not an easy world to express in as an erotic being. But, it is far harder for me personally to deny this part of myself. I refuse. And here, I must share a piece of writing I resonate with deeply the words of Audre Lorde** from her essay, “The Uses of Erotic as Power”,

“...when we begin to live from within outward, in touch with the power of the erotic within ourselves, and allowing that power to inform and illuminate our actions upon the world around us, then we begin to be responsible to ourselves in the deepest sense. For as we begin to recognize our deepest feelings, we begin to give up, of necessity, being satisfied with suffering, and self-negation, and with the numbness which so often seems like the only alternative in our society. Our acts against oppression become integral with self, motivated and empowered from within. 

In touch with the erotic, I become less willing to accept powerlessness, or those other supplied states of being which are not native to me, such as resignation, despair, self-effacement, depression, self-denial. “ -Audre Lorde 

Here’s to cultivating a healthy relationship with our eroticism, lust, and satisfaction. An ongoing and deeply rewarding journey.

If you are desiring to explore this topic further, here are some ways to do so:

Join me upcoming FREE Masterclass: Fan Your Flames: 3 Ways to Liberate Your Erotic Nature

Join Pussy Empowered Virtual Membership for more musings on my erotic journey in non-monogamy and as a stripper, rituals, community, courses, live classes, erotic art including writing, visual, video and more. 

Join me for an upcoming Pussy Empowered Dance Class or Pussy Empowered Performance Class Virtually, in LA, or elsewhere. Upcoming.






Como Un Animal now streaming on all platforms! /  by alyssa aparicio

Queiro chingarte como un animal…

Como Un Animal (Like an Animal) is a re-imagining of the stripper anthem: Closer by Nine Inch Nails.

“My personal journey of freeing my erotic nature has been a lifelong commitment since before I had the vocabulary. The more I reclaim my right to exist freely and autonomously in my body, the more liberated I feel in expression at large. Owning my voice and integrating my wholeness as a sexual, intellectual, multi-passionate woman has inspired me to step firmly towards dreams I previously felt were beyond reach. One of those dreams has been to make music exactly like this.

In all my art, I seek to channel and liberate the erotic, provocative, and raw within. I love to create from this part of myself. 

I’ve always respected the original version of this song: Closer by Nine Inch Nails. Its so intense, vulnerable, and yes, sexy.Trent Reznor is a lyrical genius who is responsible for some of my favorite lines of all time.

I had the idea to create a cover of because when I would sing this song aloud, I would change the lyrics to reflect my desire to evoke the image of being ravished that I love to fantasize about. It started with: “Want you to fuck me like an animal” as compared to the original lyric “I want to fuck you like an animal”.

Upon arrival in Puerto Rico I  was eager to make music and teamed up with Beatmaker, Isai. As we were listening through some beats without any particular project in mind, this beat leapt out at me and I could hear the track in my mind as if it were already finished.

Inspired by my time in Puerto Rico and connecting to my roots on la isla del encanto, I decided to deliver the second verse in Spanish. We recorded in Viejo San Juan- the whole experience was surreal.

We took the lyrics literally and filmed the music video embodying our wildness in the rainforest of El Yunque. Stay tuned for the uncensored and censored versions of the video dropping soon!”

Como Un Animal is Alyssa Aparicio’s Second Single.

I let you penetrate me

I let you activate me

I let you captivate me

Won’t let you complicate me

Help me

You broke my Pussy

Help me you fucked me so well

Help me the only thing that works for me

Help me become more of myself

Want you to fuck me like an animal

I wanna feel you deep inside

Want you to fuck me like an animal

My whole existence is enthralled

You get me closer to uhhh

You can have my desperation

You can have the hate that it brings

Cleanse me of my absence of faith

But you can’t have my everything

Help me tear down my reason

Help me you fuck me so well

Help me you fit so perfect

Help me become more of myself

Quiero chingarte como un animal

Queiro sentirte desde adentro

Quiero chingarte como un animal

Siente mi ferocidad

Pegate pa’ ca

Through every forest

Below the trees

Deep in my pussy

Get on your knees

You drink the honey

From inside my hive

I give you reason

To feel alive

Fuck me

Alyssa Aparicio

Born and raised in the Bronx, NY, Alyssa Aparicio’s ancestors are most recently from Puerto Rico, Panama & Mexico. She is currently based in Puerto Rico.

This is Alyssa’s 2nd single.

Alyssa is 100% That Bitch. And so are you. Wherever you are on your journey of owning that, Alyssa is ready to offer resources, rituals, and support to usher you to your next level. All the while, honoring your innate & authentic expression.

Alyssa is a lifelong anthropologist of Pussy Power, Pussy Empowerment Coach & Erotic Creatrix.

Throughout her professional career she has worked as a fashion model, writer, editor, artist, performer of belly dance, burlesque, samba, and exotic dance. She is one half of the artistic duo, Flash The Abyss which is currently in the final stages of completing a documentary exploring modern female flamenco performers in Spain.

Over the last decade, Alyssa has studied with many of the top voices in women’s empowerment in the nation.

Through her offerings and art, she is passionate about inspiring the feminine to stop settling for crumbs and create a world where women feel empowered to live their embodied truth.

Instagram: @sensual_radiance

Bad Bitch Mirror Werk Embodied Affirmations for Confidence, Self Love, Body Positivity, Sensuality, Sexuality /  by alyssa aparicio

You are that bitch. And its time you start feeling that way. Because when you feel that way, you act that way.

But first things first, you need to believe that you are. And on the days where you are questioning again, because you inevitably will, you need to know how to remember that this is the truth always underneath whatever you may be currently experiencing.

I’ve created a ritual that can be used daily to cultivate and reinforce an un-fuck-with-able belief in self and the bad bitch that you are.

This Pussy Empowered Ritual combines 3 powerful tools for empowerment:

1. Mirror Work

2. Affirmations

3. Embodiment

Designed create a profound mind, body, spirit experience of confidence and self love. Furthermore, this practice is intentionally a very grounding ritual with accompanying rhythmic Latin percussion to instill a rooted experience of your power that can integrate into your everyday experience as you move through the world feeling more anchored, sure of yourself, in love with your body, and unshakable in your knowledge of self.

Listen daily for optimum impact morning, noon, or night and please let me know how your experience goes!

For more Pussy Empowered Rituals, visit the ritual library and consider joining Pussy Empowered: The Movement Subscription for access to the whole library, erotic art, live classes, and digital courses.

Coming March 2023!

Surrender to Receive Your Dreams /  by alyssa aparicio

Have you ever brought a big juicy dream to life, only to feel a major contraction afterwards? OR have you noticed that the contractions are strong as you are bringing a dream to life?

In some cases its immediate, in others there may be a lag, but any matter what, it can be a very frustrating experience.

Photographed by @gabrielasvision at Pussy Empowered Party

Let’s call this the process of contraction and expansion. It can happen anytime, after a creative project coming to fruition, a fun sexual encounter, career goal met, dream brought to life. It can happen during the expansion itself.

The exact feeling varies. Maybe its fear, despair, grief, shame, numbness. Overall, its a contrast from the elation or excitement of experiencing a success or bringing a dream to life.

I believe it happens for a number of reasons, but the main one that I have come to realize can be summarized as upper limiting, a term coined by Gay Hendricks that is outlined in his eye opening book, “The Big Leap”. (This is a book that I’ve re-visited many times and have been recommended in spiritual spaces and business coaching spaces alike.)

To summarize, the concept of upper limiting is something that occurs when things are going well in our lives. It can have many triggers, but the more we become aware of its presence and these triggers, the more we can recognize upper limiting as it arises.

Why? On reason is that it is a result of habitual mental and emotional patterns that we have reinforced over our lifetime. Practiced ways of thinking and being that your mind, body, and spirit have grown accustomed to over the years, thus reinforcing neural pathways over time. These are ways that our brains and bodies feel at home in a certain way of being.

When we experience a meteoric or sometimes even gentle rise in our joy, positivity, pride, accomplishment these commonly reinforced ways of being attempt to stabilize once again, often sabotaging the uplifting feelings.

It can also be understood as the shadow side of the success.

For example, in this weekend’s Virtual Retreat: Brave, Badass New Year, we identified our biggest struggles and also our greatest celebrations of 2022. Afterwards, we reflected on the relationship between these two elements.

For me personally, 2022 was a year of major ACTION- I brought so many dreams to life including producing and performing in 4 Pussy Empowered Parties, leading 3 Pussy Empowered Performance 10 week classes, expanding my solo burlesque performance career, writing, recording, & performing my first song, moving out of my home in Topanga and arriving in the Caribbean commencing a period of travel I’ve always dreamed of, amongst other accomplishments. (Yes, I’m flexing!! Its a good muscle to strengthen- you should practice sometime!)

But I also want to illustrate my point, amidst all of this excitement and up-leveling, I began experiencing major anxiety reminiscent of my youth. Anxiety runs in my family and its something that I experienced on the daily growing up. I have had a long journey of learning to calm my nervous system and find true, regular grounding. This process has gifted me a more common state of calm and stability compared to how my internal realm used to feel like on the regular.

Still, at times where I push myself out of my comfort zone, when I’m triggered fear, making big life changes, when I fall off my daily rituals, when I have too much sugar or coffee, and sometimes for no identifiable reason, I experience flare ups.

This fall, I experienced an extended flare up. A contraction to all of the expansion I was experiencing as my mind, body and spirit tried to catch up with all the growth. This anxiety was an aspect of all the action that was being activated. It made sense when I became aware of this this relationship between the expansion and contraction I was experiencing simultaneously.

So, yes, often, the expansion and contraction is happening in conjunction. I like to use waves as a metaphor- that ebb and flow is something we must learn how to surf, to stabilize ourselves amidst it all. Because these waves are inevitable.I don’t foresee that we ever truly reach a point in life where we don’t experience these waves to some extent. However, we CAN get to know our patterns, strengthen the practices that help us stay centered as we continue to rise.

How do we do that? How can we best ground and support ourselves along the way? Here are my tried and true Pussy Empowered solutions to practice before, during, and after our dreams come true. These solutions can be used in the midst of a contraction flare up, and/or ideally daily as a way to continue staying present and processing along every moment of your journey.

Pussy Empowered Solutions:

1.Surrender

Affirmation: I surrender to the life of my dreams

Surrender is the foundation of my Pussy Empowered™ Framework because it anchors us into the present. And the present is where our power truly lies.

Using our senses, aka sensuality, we can access this moment and move from the chatter of our mind down into the reality of our bodies. Meeting our bodies in the moment is a way to remember that the earth’s gravity is still holding us, that our breath is still fueling us, that likely in the now moment we are safe. These practices allow our nervous system to really feel that.

I have found that having a daily method to access surrender is critical when working with feelings of worthiness, enoughness, anxiety, and during times of elation. Here’s how you can incorporate surrender into your routine:

Action step:

Create a daily ritual that invokes the blissful feeling of surrender in your mind body and spirit:

Some suggestions:

  • Nature: Spend time in nature

  • Earthing: Put your feet directly on the earth

  • Breathe: Take deep, intentional breaths

  • Touch yourself: let your hands graze across your skin and get present to the sensation while reminding yourself that you are safe in your own hands.

  • Embodiment: Create a playlist for surrender or use this one and use it to get into your body


    Resources:

1.Download my Surrender to Radiant Calm Ritual, a guided daily grounding ritual, taken from my own personal daily practice, filmed on the beach on a breathtaking beach in Puerto Rico. Download here.

2. Listen to my Pussy Empowered Podcast episode, Surrender to Being, to explore this theme more. Listen here.

3.Listen to my Pussy Empowered Playlist: Surrender to Being. Listen here

2. Alchemize

Affirmation: I love myself in this moment, just as I am.

Alchemy is a necessary tool for staying present amidst the waves of life. This is an invitation to continually digest and reflect on your experiences. It is a practice of meeting yourself exactly where you are, as you are, again and again. Embedding methods for alchemizing emotions and experiences into your everyday can help nip prolonged experiences of contraction in the bud.

Action step:

Create a daily ritual that allows you to alchemize whatever emotions or experiences are present for you:

Some suggestions:

  • Dance: put on music that matches the mood you’re in and dance with/through whatever comes forward. Laugh, cry, roll on the ground- whatever feels the most true. You can change the music to match your mood as you go along. Try setting an allotted time for dance daily or allow a less limited time for when you can feel a need to go deeper.

  • Vocal Activation: feel into your body. Where is this emotion, sensation most alive? Take a deep breath into this space and on your exhale, make sound with your voice to mirror this feeling. Do this as many times as you are called to. Try doing it for a period of 5,1 0, 20 minutes and watch how things shift

  • Journal: Free write without judgment. Allow your hand to move across the page and spill everything that is on your heart and mind. “If I get it all down on paper, it's no longer inside of me threatening the life it belongs to” - “2am” Anna Nalick

    Resources:

1.Download this Alchemize your 2022 PLAYsheet to reflect on 2022 or for what the process of alchemy can look like. Download here.

2. Read this blog post on the Pussy Empowered element: Alchemize Your Herstory


3. Explore these Pussy Empowered PLAYlists designed for feeling and moving through different moods and states of being. Listen here..

3.CELEBRATE

Affirmation: I am so proud of myself!

Yes, celebrate! Set aside quality time to revel and bask in your accomplishments. Even the teeny tiny ones. Getting in a habit of celebrating reinforces the neural pathways in your brain associated with self love, joy, self esteem, gratitude. This is an integral part of creating/living the life of your dreams because without out it, we are simply on an endless ladder seeking accomplishment after accomplishment. When really the reason we seek to accomplish anything is because we “think we’ll feel better in the having of it” as Abraham Hicks says. Taking time to appreciate and acknowledge your wins from small to large gives you the fuel to keep going and the recognition you deserve along the way.

Action step:

Create a daily ritual that invokes the feeling of celebration.

Some suggestions:

  • Dance": yes, dance is a suggested step in each category because it really works, its free, powerful and it can never be too much! Try blasting this Pussy Empowered PLAYlist: Live Rapturously

  • Say it out loud- proclaim, brag, express appreciation out loud to let yourself hear how badass you are. It feels so good to say “I really did that shit!” and let this truth resonate in your body. This practice is amplified when you allow someone else that you trust to be able to hold your joy, to witness you.

  • Bask: set aside time just to bask. That means clear your to do list for part or all of a day after an expansive experience to just be. Be a body, listen to music, stare, take a bath, eat well, order in or eat out etc.

    Resources:

1.Listen to this Pussy Empowered podcast episode: Live Rapturously


2. Listen to this PLAYlist to invoke rapture in your spirit. Listen here.

What to avoid:

  • Interacting and attempting be acknowledged & celebrated with people who tend to be debbie downers, tend to be jealous, or take joy in raining on your parade.

  • Overscheduling yourself or filling your day with tasks or experiences that tend to bring you down directly after an expansive experience.

  • Try not to be hard on yourself. That is, focus more on your wins than what could have been done better. Things could always be done better but thats not a good reason to be mean to yourself!

  • Numbing out with things that tend to have a negative effect on your mind, body, spirit afterwards

PS. Are you interested in 1:1 Pussy Empowered Coaching?

Alchemize 2022 Reflection PLAYsheet /  by alyssa aparicio

Do you have BIG dreams for 2023? In order to achieve them, its important to reflect on where you’re at right now.

I love me some good reflection time and I consider it the foundation of my Pussy Empowered approach, which is why I crafted a  PLAYsheet (emphasis on the play, because you don't need anymore work). I invite you into a moment of self love in the form of celebrating the YOU that made it to the end of another year. 👏🏽

New Act: La Pampara- Alyssa Aparicio /  by alyssa aparicio

“Si Eres La Pampara, nadie te puede parar.” Translation: If you’re the shit, no one can stop you.

This act is Alyssa’s interpretation of Intergalactic Boss Bitch as debuted at Pussy Empowered PARTY.

With it, Alyssa embodies a Fuck You to shame, boundaries, rules, and stigmas. It is a fusion of performance elements including flamenco, pole dance, stripping, and burlesque.

Please Note: Nipples are visible in this video, so if you are offended by nipples, you are lost. Please exit my website swiftly :)

If you enjoy the show, please feel free to tip Alyssa with Venmo or PayPal linked below. All proceeds go to the Pussy Empowered Scholarship Fund.

LIFE, Legacy, & Loss: A Tribute to My Grandfather Armando H. Pretto /  by alyssa aparicio

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On September 19th 2021, just a few months short of his 102nd birthday, my family and I lost my grandfather, Armando Hilario Pretto, to covid. My heartbreak has been immense and yet even through the loss I can feel how powerful his legacy lives through me. He has played a profound part in my empowerment. commitment to living life on purpose, entrepreneurial nerve, passion for health and wellness, self love and beyond. I share this with you as an example of the pillar of Pussy Empowerment I teach: Alchemize Your Herstory.

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In honor of his memory I share with you the words I spoke at his memorial:

I always knew this day was coming. I worried about it since the day I understood what death was. And even though I am so grateful I made it 32 years with my grandfather in my life, it is still more excruciating to experience this loss then I imagined especially knowing how he went and how it didn’t have to be this way. But the truth is that even through tragedy, the triumph of my grandfathers life cannot possibly be eclipsed. You see one does not accidentally arrive at nearly 102 years old. A fact he reminded us of often. Furthermore one does not make it to 102 without experiencing much loss- grandpas beloved mother and siblings, friends amongst them. 


It’s the resilience and commitment to LIFE that he demonstrated that has given me strength In these last couple of extremely hard weeks. The fact that he made it to nearly 102 still laughing every single day, cracking jokes and putting smiles on our faces even after he started to not recognize our faces little by little. 

As his eldest granddaughter I have to say I feel like the luckiest of everyone. He wasn’t as strict with me as he was with his own children. But as a grandfather, with us he took his role very seriously as a source of love, light, wisdom and inspiration. I am realizing the not everyone has had someone in their life who poured as much love into them as grandpa poured into us. Everyday and in every way. From installing a swing in his basement to crafting stilts from wood for us, to giving us endless long pep talks about life and how to live it with intention. Almost every day he would pick us up from school with a tupperware of apples my Lita sliced for us and blast music on our ride home, sometimes taking his hands off the wheel to clap which only scares us a little bit. I remember how proud I always felt to point him out to my teachers. THAT impeccably dressed, jokester with a twinkle in his eye- always ready to make anyone laugh, was MY grandfather. 

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He never missed an opportunity to tell us how much he loved us- from here to China and back he would say with a booming laugh every time he recounted the story of how one of us said, that’s not far enough- I love you from here to Pluto and back. He always let us know we were capable of anything, everything could be understood , that we were always welcome, loved, smart, beautiful or handsome. 

I remember the day we lost my Nana, my fathers mother when I was about 13 years old. I cried on grandpas lap all day as he stroked my hair and told me she was an angel. Told me about heaven and believed it with every cell in his body. 

Grandpa would never fool you, he would always say. Grandpa will always be with you, never forget that he would repeat. Enough so that through this pain, those words have continued to ring loud and clear. It’s as if through the memory of that day, he continues to comfort me now. 

But honestly in the days since his passing I’ve had a really hard time connecting to my own faith. The night he passed even before I knew I felt it in my body. And as I looked for him in the days after I simply could not feel him. But when I asked where he was I felt a wave in my body. I realized that at the very least he is in every cell of my own body . That I am his living  legacy. As so many of us in this room are. Alive and THRIVING because of him, his love and support. This body, this life and so much wisdom about how to care for it and appreciate being alive is what he has gifted me. 

And every chance he got he would remind us that he felt like a king for all that he accomplished in his life - coming from Panama, making it as a photographer and entrepreneur, marrying my Lita, having all of the kids and grandkids and getting to see them successful and healthy, owning a home. Living the American dream essentially. 

Of all the beautiful things my grandfather said and loved to repeat, “Living is an art, you must learn to live” - is probably one of my favorite and his most famous. I am so grateful that I get to be a part of the masterpiece he created out of the art he made of his life. And it gives me great comfort to know that he didn’t take a single moment of his own life for granted, a template that I highly recommend no one reading this ever forgets. 

I take his commitment of joy, laughter, determination and resilience and I commit to carrying it onwards in his honor and in celebration of getting to live with his legacy in my veins. 

Thank you for being here with me to celebrate the life and legacy of my (abue)Lito, Armando Pretto. 

October in my Membership Program will be devoted to Alchemizing Your Herstory.

Pussy Power Won Me a Trip to Jamaica /  by alyssa aparicio

I WON a whole retreat to JAMAICA last weekend 🤯.

And when I say it’s cuz of Pussy Power I’m telling the whole truth. Here’s how it went down:

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1.SURRENDER:

If y’all been following me on IG or email recently, I’ve been sharing about how these last weeks, I’ve been deeply anchoring into SURRENDER. Actively cleansing scarcity from my body, mind, and spirit while conjuring abundance on a cellular level. All while guiding the members in my membership on a journey of a month of Surrendering to Being.

As a tool, surrender has been extremely important to me on this journey of leveling the fuck up and riding the rollercoaster of emotions that accompany confronting shadows while making BOSS moves and investing in myself and trusting like crazy. Whew! So I’ve been diving into rituals on rituals on rituals and they’ve been deep since my birthday last week. I’ve been devoted to pampering myself next level to support myself through the process and anchor into my power.

Here are some of the rituals I’ve been using to anchor:

Sex Magic

Consulting with my Highest Sensual Self

Embodiment

Womb Meditation


2. Intuition:

So from the moment I saw the flyer for a women in cannabis event called Down the Rabbit Hole, where our resident Pussy Empowered DJ, Moonflower was gonna be spinning, my intuition was fully drawn to go even though my logical mind was low key in scarcity and resisting getting a ticket. I let myself work through the feeling of scarcity by proactively taking time to surrender and listen from that place of connection including on the day of….

3. Sex Magic:

I woke up and chose to start the day in abundance with a breast massage that turned into an embodiment practice that turned into a deeeep sex magic ritual using my pleasure treasure wand, and I was literally moaning the word “Caribbean” at one point. No lie.

4. Living Rapturously:

After the ritual anchoring into abundance, I was like - ummmm, of course I wanna spend the evening at a pool party being blessed by DJ Moonflower and the badass women in the realm of cannabis. That became very obviously the thread of abundance to follow.

I blasted Milkshake and No Doubt and flirted with a couple guys I’m auditioning on text and danced around and got dressed up pinup style cuz I saw there was a contest and I thought -that sounds fun, why not me? I asked my bestie which outfit he liked better and then chose the other one cuz my Pussy and ass was showing more and that is my forever mood.

5. Parade Your Power:

The event was like a DREAM. It felt like a living Barbie dream house with flowers everywhere, neon and pink. All the women were INCREDIBLE-fun, sassy, BOSSES. I was in heaven hanging with everyone, dancing and eating tacos, having deep conversations, and laughing our asses off.

When the contest came around, I was like OMG I'm too high for this and I’m not in performance mode. I just wanna be myself so I just relaxed and did my best to stay fully present and out of my head.

I was asked my inspo behind the outfit during the contest, and upon reflecting on my day leading up to the moment and week before, I said PUSSY POWER of course and flashed my leopard print thong and shook my ass and had so much fun being myself, living in the moment. I got so much love and applause and laughter from all these glowing women. I was like holy shit this is my life rn?! All these dope women showing me love for me being exactly who I am?! Flaunting my sexuality, celebrating my body, living my truth!

When I won by crowd cheers, my brain fell out of my head 🤯. This wasn’t the wink I was asking for, it was a full on orgasm delivered by the universe letting me know I am on my path and in alignment. I was calling in surrender? Well guess what, the universe delivered to me even more surrender to match the vibe I’ve been cultivating within- a whole retreat vacation to the CARIBBEAN like the word spoke out loud during my sex magic practice.

Damn. Pussy Power for the WIN.

Thank you Coral Cove Wellness Resort for this incredible gift! I cannot WAIT!


PS. All the tools I mentioned above, I also share and teach all the time! If you want a taster, consider purchasing my Pussy Empowered Ritual Bundle. If you’re ready to dive in, join us in Pussy Empowered: The Movement Membership Program where dive in with weekly virtual gatherings and there’s a membership site FULL of rituals and tools like my Sex Magic for Abundance Masterclass.


Here I am celebrating after my big win:

Squirt for Me: Pleasure Treasures /  by alyssa aparicio

Meet my new friend, "Squ!rt for Me". Its a glass sex toy/ wand that is designed to invite pleasure and deeper awareness to the G-spot and cervix.

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What I love about it:

✨The texture! Glass is non-porous which makes it easy to clean vs. products made from silicone, plastic, or rubber which can absorb bacteria. Because its glass, it also doesn't soak up any juices, so you can stay wet, wet, wet

✨It's sustainable! Glass is much more environmentally friendly compared to certain crystals that have become very popular for wands and eggs. Many crystals are being over-mined and are mined in unethical conditions for workers.

✨Pleasure Treasures is a company owned and operated by a woman and former str!pper, @asti.maree. She is based in Australia and is a proper badass.


✨The wand comes with a how to squirt instructional video which is super dope.

I am now a proud affiliate! So anytime you wanna purchase Squirt for Me, a glass egg, or other glass toy, you will receive 10% off with my code ALYSSA10 using the link in my bio. AND, through June 27th, there is a 30% off storewide sale with the code: YUMMY.

Its a great time to give your Pussy the gift of Pleasure.

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Sexy Dance Wear & Lingerie: Local, Women, Bipoc, LGbQT owned & Sex worker inclusive /  by alyssa aparicio

One question I get A LOT is where I buy my sexy dance wear and lingerie. I’ve been promising to compile a list of my favorites forever and alas I’ve finally done it!

The criteria I aim for when I shop in general includes as many of the following modifiers as possible: women, BIPOC, and/or LGBQTIA owned small businesses. I look for clothing that is ethically made and/or environmentally friendly whenever possible.

I also look for sex worker inclusive brands that celebrate the individuals out there being sexy for a living. Because if you’re selling sexy wear and you’re not inclusive… I recommend you f*ck off :)

All of the following brands are also local to LA, or the Bay Area at the furthest, which is a major plus for me as well.

Here are 5 brands you can feel good about giving your money to and great about how you’re gonna look when you adorn your pretty ass with these gorgeous threads! They are mostly illustrated by pieces I have danced in and own for reference.

Ghetto Stiletto Apparel:

Each of us has an inner lion/ess desiring to be set free. Apollo Sa’Deek, aka Mr. Ghetto Stiletto, is really good at helping you unleash yours. He has created a line for all body types, genders, and flavor of sex appeal. As a Black, gay man who was one of the original heels teachers in Hollywood, well before Yanis Marshall and before every studio had a heels class on their schedule, Apollo continues to bring the authentic movement of the strip clubs and the ratchet magic of his hometown of Tampa, to LA.

He has always created an inclusive, sex positive, sex worker friendly space in his classrooms and beyond- where all identities are welcome. And as an Official Ghetto Stiletto Girl for the last 10 years, I can attest to the way all things Ghetto Stiletto infuse my life with confidence and feelin’ myself.

Tune into my interview with Apollo on Pussy Empowered Podcast. “Never Forget You’re A Bad Bitch” to hear more about the brand and the inspiration behind it.

IG @officialghettostiletto

Twisted Movement

Nadia Sharif is an all around badass of Mexican-Pakastani descent. She is a pole dance extraordinaire, pole engineer and Founder of Twisted Movement dance wear. She continues to speak out, using her voice to advocate for sex workers and other marginalized communities. You may remember her viral video about why use of the word “exotic” is problematic. Each outfit she designs is original AF and custom made in Los Angeles.

Hear more about Nadia’s story and what she stands for via our conversation via Pussy Empowered Podcast: “The Heat Don’t Feel Like Nothin’ When You’re On Fire”.

Watch a Twisted Movement outfit in motion in my Sexy Slow Freestyle:

IG: @twistedmovement

Use the code: PUSSYEMPOWERED at checkout for 15% off!

Belle de Nuit:

Belle de Nuit is “lingerie inspired by versatility”. Founded by Celina, an Iranian/Ashkenazi Jewish woman based in the Bay Area. With sizes available from XS-3X, her lingerie celebrates all shapes and sizes. Her designs are equal parts very naughty and extremely glamorous. She offers discounts for sex workers and student as well!

From silky satins to lace to BDSM inspired looks, you will feel like a Queen in her looks.

IG: @belledenuit_

Slay Essentials:

This is a new favorite of mine which supplied my look for my recent Clean My Plate & WAP WAP WAP videos. This woman owned business makes custom, handmade pieces out of LA.

The Founder was previously an entertainer herself and using her own experience, she creates looks for dancers who want to stand out at the club and beyond. Her motto being “When you look like money, you make more money.”

Slay Essentials has pieces for both male and female in sizes XS to XL. However most pieces are 1 of 1 because the fabric she uses are limited and often not restocked. I love that I get to own a unique piece that only small number of people get to have.

The materials feel so good against the skin and the fit is super sexy.

Enter their current giveaway on IG: @shopslayessentials

Watch the outfit in motion:

DancePhreakz:

Dance Phreakz is a Nigerian-American woman owned business based in Los Angeles. The CEO & Founder, Erika Ames, is dedicated to uplifting the dance community through shows like Polephreakz, where I’ll be performing live on July 24th! They are also responsible for the showcase “When Worlds Collide”, Conversations with Impact, and are soon to release a podcast that explored themes relevant to professional dancers and dance lovers.

I have yet to own a piece from DancePhreakz, but I have my eyes all over their new collection, which is about to drop on July 4th. Thus, Bambi is modeling the above outfit which can also be seen in the “Clean My Plate” video as well.

IG: @DancePhreakz

Watch the outfit in motion:

Other:

Heels:

Everyone has heard of Pleasers, due to their popularity with strippers, but recently the brand has done strippers dirty so luckily, Ava Hennessy compiled a list of sex worker inclusive brands published on Novacaine’s blog:

6 Sex Worker Inclusive Heel Brands You Need To Know

Knee Pads:

I recently came across this cute line of sex worker inclusive knee pads. A woman owned business based in Ukraine

QUEENPoleWear

Ready to Rock it?!

Got the look and ready to rock it?

Join me virtually for Pussy Empowered Dance: The Movement Membership Program where we meet weekly to shake ourselves free.

OR

Join me for Pussy Empowered Dance Class live in LA.

Demystifying Stripping, Decolonizing Sexual Empowerment: A Conversation Series /  by alyssa aparicio

The film Strip Down, Rise Up has premiered on Netflix. Leading up to its release, unresolved feelings about my less than optimal experience being filmed for a class in a modality called S Factor, which was filmed for the purpose of being included in the documentary.

Next came absolute outrage upon watching the finished film which was releases a little over a week ago. Navigating the waves of this experience has been quite the ride.

After sharing my uapologetic, non- sugar coated truth on IG live, the video went viral. It was reposted and shared by many womxn all over the world. My DMs filled with shares & I've been receiving opportunities to speak to this ever since, including in an interview by Buzzfeed. Its been energetically a lot to navigate which is what I want to be transparent with you about.

The best way I can describe how this experience has been is:activating.

From the release of the trailer stirring up unresolved discomfort with my involvement, to absolute outrage upon watching the finished film upon its release a little over a week ago, to navigating the waves of this experience.

Not only that, but my video went viral, shared by many womxn all over the world, my DMs filled with shares, & I've been receiving press opportunities ever since. My voice was included quite a bit in this BuzzFeed article.

As a result of this experience, I have felt called to lean into this conversation and inspired to create this conversation series,

Demystifying Stripping, Decolonizing Sexual Empowerment.

In this episode I break down why this discussion is so important and why creating awareness around this topic is an integral step towards true empowerment. Hear about my journey of using my voice to speak out, what I have learned from this experience, how I am choosing to be a part of the solution, and how I’m inviting you to be a part of the solution to.

Tune In

Meet the badass April Haze, stripper, lyra aerialist, activist, pole dancer, and fellow Latina who was also interviewed for the Buzzfeed Article I was also interviewed for last month. We got to talking about experiences of discrimination in the pole dance industry, healing relationships with the male gaze in the club, and how the culture we are raised in impacts our perception of sexuality and what happens when that comes into conflict with the white gaze.

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If you don't already know, you're about to find out that Nadia Sharif is a Badass. In the world of pole dance and general bad bitchery, she is well known and widely respected for her fiery, bold movement style and commitment to using her voice to speak truth.

In this chat we'll learn about how she went from corporate career in technical engineering to pole performer, pole engineer, teacher and founder of Twisted Movement dance wear. We talk about Nadia's recent video speaking out about the problematic use of the word "exotic" that went viral and what that experience has been like. We talk about the sex worker discrimination that has become apparent in the industry of pole dance as it has grown and we talk about Nadia’s experiences as an American woman of Mexican, Pakistani heritage plus so much more.

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Samantha Sun is a performer, stripper,  host of Stripper Life Drawing ELSC  and holder of so much knowledge on the intricacies of internet law & beyond. In this chat we address the importance of proper education around consent, the intersection in conversation around sex work, sex traffic, & immigration, interacting with cultural stereotypes in performance and centering policy change. DAMN there's a lot of goodness in this episode.

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Misha Delores is an embodied movement facilitator and learning & development consultant for witches, mystics & spiritual babes of color.

Misha shared about her experiences working in mission based wellness companies in which internal practices did not align with their forward facing values. And what ensued when leadership was called in to accountability.

From there we discuss using your voice, creating boundaries, and what it means to hold responsible space in which toxic patriarchal power dynamics are not simply replicated, but continually called into question. Also, a vision for empowered leadership to create change and get into integrity when harm has been done in order to create pathways for change and growth.

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This convo w/ Jozey covered a LOT of ground.
From the effects of colonization & Catholicism on sexuality, to stripper unions & how to be an ally to s3x w0rkers.

@juicy.jozey is a str!pper, online cam girl, & board member of @soldiers_of_pole_
If you learned something or were inspired by this conversation you’re welcome to tip Jozey at cash.app/$/juicyjozey

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Stripper & Activist, AMD aka The Queen of Sexy continually uses her platform & privilege to gather, organize, and have the conversations that need to be had.

AMD is Host of @yesastripperpodcast, Coordinator of @soldiers_of_pole_ and Co-founder of @everybodyvisible

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Arouse the Sacred Erotic this MAY /  by alyssa aparicio

Today I came with my Pussy in the sunlight...

In a pocket of golden rays underneath a canopy of oak trees, breasts towards the blue sky. As I climaxed, my conscious mind dispersed into an explosion of sparkling iridescence filling my third eye. Waves of pleasure connecting me to the matter of the cosmos themselves. It filled me with so much inspiration that I poured into movement that birthed a playlist devoted to the feeling of Spring. Sex. Magic.

With Spring upon us here in the Northern hemisphere, I awaken into my own inner Spring time, aka the follicular phase, brimming with ideas and visualizations, excited with the possibilities of a new cycle even as the external moon wanes.

It seems like clockwork, the Spring beckons me full force towards my Sex Magic practice. It's a longing that the flowers in bloom remind me of every time- an opening, an expression of unapologetic radiance. It fills my heart with hope and dreams and feeling of blossoming myself.

For the past two years, I have devoted the Spring to sharing my work around fanning the flames of sensuality, and the erotic. Maybe you joined me for my annual email course, where in the past, I framed this work around the pagan holiday, Beltane.

Today, with the intention of decolonizing my Pussy Empowerment, I am questioning whether the European roots of Beltane is a framework I want to continue centering. However, the essence of Spring undoubtedly continues to ignite my devotion to sensual and sexual awakening.

Thats why this May, in my brand new Membership Program, The Movement, we will be devoting the whole month to basking in, inspiring, Arousing the Sacred Erotic.

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Pussy Empowered: The Movement is a membership program where each month we will dive into an area of the 9 Elements of Pussy Power. We will do this with live gatherings in community and pre-recorded material that you can explore at your own pace. There will also be goodies like bonus events, snail mail, and much more.

In May, we will be devoting the month to
Arousing the Sacred Erotic

What does this entail?
Multiple live gatherings including a
✨Forum Discussion
✨Pussy Empowered Dance Class,
✨ Dance Party
centered around this theme.

&

A library of tools and rituals including:
✨Highest Sensual Self Meditation
✨Pussy Proprioception Ritual
✨Sex Magic Masterclass
✨Sensual Movement Ritual
& So much more

If you feel the call turning you on & tugging at your spirit, your bonus for trusting that intuitive nudge & signing up by this Friday, 4/9/21 at midnight is:

✨A 45 min. Pussy Empowered Breakthrough 1:1 session w/ me if you choose to sign up month to month
OR
✨ A quarterly 90 min. 1:1 w/ me if you choose to sign up for the year

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How to Take Up Space Unapologetically /  by alyssa aparicio

When I say power is a practice, I mean it. And freestyle movement has been one of the most life changing practices of empowerment for me.

After a whole year without dancing in stilettos, the freestyle you see below was birthed last week. As I watched it back, I could feel how all my dedication to Pussy Power has simply become part of me. No more striving, just being. Simply at home in myself. My cells at ease in conviction with who I am. There was no part of myself that was stuck in my head as I sprawled myself across that studio floor. I trust myself more than ever. Body, mind, spirit aligned.

It wasn’t always this way. I have faced off with body dysmorphia, self doubt, chronic overthinking, making myself small, boundaries crossed and more. But in this video I see so much growth. I see myself channeling a conviction that I have been continually cultivating, that I always knew I had in me. It took a long while to ground into this lack of apology. But these days, trusting my body to move freely feels like home. And I feel this same comfort in expression settling equally into my voice.

It’s no accident. I have been showing TF up. Each day committed more and more to being who I came here to be, or rather allowing myself to be fully who I am. The experience I have gained through practicing my expression with freestyle in the classroom and on stages has become the fabric of what I now teach.

How to Take Up Space Unapologetically

Here are the four elements of Pussy Power required to trust yourself to take up more space and free your unapologetic expression.

1. Know WHY:

Actively reflecting on why it is important to you that you express yourself will form the foundation of your conviction. Take some time to examine what it means for you and for the collective if you and more people like you felt free in their expression. Also, take some time to reflect on the limiting beliefs that you may have internalized from your family, as a result of the religion you were born into, your culture, race, class etc. (Alchemize Your Herstory).

2. Cultivate Presence:

The ability to inhabit your body, respond to intuitive guidance, and react to your environment requires you to be out of your head, and totally in the present. Given that our society elevates the thinking mind over the feeling body, this requires intentional practice to become a more habitual state (Surrender to Being).

3. Be Shameless

Liberating your body requires active untaming. That is shedding of puritan, colonialist, racist beliefs about your hips, which include your Pussy. Connecting with this part of yourself, embracing it as nature, and celebrating this part of yourself will undoubtedly liberate your expression of the parts of yourself that were previously weighed down by shame. Furthermore, unlocking your hips helps to free your voice simultaneously due to the unique connection between your Pussy and throat (Untame Your Wild Hips).

4. Practice Expressing Yourself

This is not a metaphor. In order to feel free in your body, you need to be physically comfortable with the space your body takes up. This requires a relationship with self that is present, supportive, and unapologetic. That kind of relationship doesn’t come out of nowhere! Finding and creating safe spaces to practice trusting and expressing yourself will strengthen the figurative muscle required to take up space on the regular (Parade Your Power).

To reiterate, these same elements required to take up space with your body apply to taking up space with your voice as well. The more you practice allowing yourself to be seen, the more you will see a difference in your relationship with being heard, and vice versa.

Come Practice Taking Up Space!

Now that you’ve heard this all in theory, are you ready to practice taking up space and activate your Pussy Power in real time?

Join my next monthly Pussy Empowered Dance Party this Thursday March 25th!

Here I am practicing what I preach:

A Shoutout to my Mentor:

A very special thank you and shout out to Apollo Sa'Deek for holding this space for me in Ghetto Stiletto class. Apollo was first person to hold space tor my sexual expression and to create a sacred space in his classroom that always feels like home. He encouraged the spiciest depths of me to overflow and form the convicted person you see before you. Being part of the Official Ghetto Stiletto Gurlz has been a major part of my empowerment journey and I am so so so so grateful for the space Apollo holds. Check out our conversation on Pussy Empowered Podcast: Never Forget You’re A Bad Bitch!