Femme Fire Radio & TeleSeries  

You'll notice that AwakeNow! Radio has transformed to Femme Fire Radio. The new name is in alignment with Coach Lotus Allen's company -- Femme Fire Productions ... http://femmefire.com

I will also be changing from a weekly format to specially-scheduled shows approximately one to times per month. Following our Oct 14th show with Sam Bower, we will not have another show until sometime during November.

Happy Listening!

Lotus Allen, Producer & CEO
Retreat, Life & Spiritual Coach
Femme Fire Productions

Join Femme Fire Radio and Coach Lotus Allen and her guest Jill Lessing of Fabled Asp for another fabulous show this week! Fabled Asp (an acronym for Fabulous/Activist Bay Area Lesbians with Disabilities: A Storytelling Project) is a multi-cultural, multi-racial, multi-media project run by disabled lesbian activists from four generations. Our mission is to preserve, document and celebrate the achievements and contributions of disabled lesbians in the Bay Area over the last 40 years. Our further mission is to empower disabled lesbians to continue the revolution in disability arts, aesthetics, culture and politics. Fabled Asp -– in conjunction with our partners the GLBT Historical Society and The James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center of the SF Public Library -– is promoting 2010 as "The Year of Honoring Lesbians with Disabilities." This project will culminate with an exhibit in the beautiful Skylight Gallery of the San Francisco Public Library Sept. - Nov. 2010 which includes five historic programs. We also have an exciting range of programming coordinated with our community-based colleagues in Berkeley, Oakland, and San Francisco. Jill Lessing has a fine arts background, a practice in psychotherapy in the Bay Area and been a political activist for human rights and social justice including, civil rights, anti-war, feminism, LGBTQ, and disability for 30 years.

Stephanie Reif is an singer-songwriter, author, and also Executive Producer and Director of "Left Of Oz: Dorothy Comes Out!" She has a passion for life that comes through her voice, her music, and her written word. Her taste in music is eclectic, and includes folk, R&B, Middle Eastern, Salsa, and World Beat. She has sung at venues ranging from the Renaissance Faire to Reggae on The River. And all along, she’s had a special love for musical theater, on stage as well as behind the scenes. Stephanie's current project is her original musical comedy, Left Of Oz, Dorothy Comes Out! which will play at Berkeley's Ashby Stage in July, 2010. In Left of Oz, we follow Dorothy from Kansas to San Francisco to find womanly love. She has various delightful adventures, from erotic to silly. Stephanie feels that, in this all too serious world, we need to laugh, including at ourselves. Left of Oz is guaranteed to lighten the hearts of all who see it. Truly a show you won't want to miss. =============================================== AUDITIONS are Saturday, Nov 14th, 1pm to 4pm at The Ashby Stage. That's in Berkeley, at the corner of Ashby and Martin Luther King, right by the Ashby BART station. Check the website http://www.leftofoz.com for more information and go to 'contact the director' to write to Stephanie.

The Mosaic Project, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, works towards a peaceful future by reaching children in their formative years. We unite young children of diverse backgrounds, provide them with essential skills to thrive in an increasingly diverse society, and empower them to strive for peace. We create a microcosm of the diverse, inclusive, just world we want to see and show our young students that peace is possible. We seed the future population of middle schools, high schools, and all the venues of adult life with thousands of individuals who have seen a new possibility of what the world can be. Not only are our students inspired to work towards peace, they have been given concrete skills to do so and are empowered to take action. Bio of Cherine Badawi, Curriculum and Training Director, The Mosaic Project Citizen to both Egypt and the USA, Cherine had the privilege of growing up on two sides of the planet. Her area of expertise lies in the development and facilitation of experiential social justice and conflict resolution programs for young people around the world. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Cultural Studies from the Univ of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and her Master’s degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from Int/l Christian University in Tokyo, Japan. Prior to joining The Mosaic Project, Cherine worked as a journalist for several years in the Middle East and the US. She also wrote the Footprint Handbook to Egypt. Following her stint as a writer, Cherine worked with several non-profits. In 2005, Cherine was awarded the prestigious Rotary World Peace Fellowship. Cherine is delighted and honored to be working with The Mosaic Project in support of this amazing initiative's growth and expansion. She believes in earnest that this extraordinary program will continue to motivate young people to, in the words of Gandhi, ”be the change they wish to see.”

Evalena Rose will share how learning ancient arts of connection and conscious sensuality can deepen your connection with yourself, others, and all of life. She will describe her unique teaching of women who love women in the ways of Tantra and sacred sexuality, and her insights from helping men and women open to the deep flows of kundalini in the body. Learn more about the breath practices of Tantra which can lead to ecstatic states and to reclaiming one’s true erotic nature. Gain insight into the nature of Pujas, sacred rituals for practicing erotic and romantic arts within a container of unconditional love, respect and honoring. Evalena will share how this amazing spiritual path can open you to your multi-dimensional nature Evalena Rose M.A., has led workshops on intimacy and Sacred Sexuality for 17 years & founded LoveJourney: Tantra of the Heart in 1997 to offer workshops and evolve a community developing sex-positive lifestyles. Her most expansive work is for women only, and she also serves a compassionate community of men and women. Evalena offers in depth counseling for individuals and couples, multi-dimensional bodywork and channeling. She has lead intimacy workshops and Goddess-centered rituals for 30 years, guiding people in erotic and romantic arts within a container of love, respect, and honoring. Evalena has trained extensively in body-centered therapies, inner child work, psychic & spiritual healing, soul retrieval, Tantra, and recovery from additions and incest, with 27 years in private practice. Learn more about her at her various websites: Private work: www.evalenarose.com Men & Women's Tantra: www.lovejourneytantra.com Tantra for Women: www.tantraforwomen.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WhDnxLPXLU

Helene Van Manen is a Master Certified Coach, The Retreat Mentor Coach, on the Faculty of Coach U where she trains coaches, has a full and fulfilling practice, and balances it all with her many other interest and roles she plays: environmental education activist, wife and best friend, “Grandmother Wolverine” and on and on. She says “it’s a wild life and practicing self-care from the moment I open my eyes in the morning allows me to dance in and out and around the many appointments my days bring.” Helene will be sharing with us her nature values, her vision for women retreat leaders, news from the exciting Mountain Park Environment Center (http://www.hikeandlearn.org/) she is involved in, and the value of collaboration with others. Coach Helene is also the creator behind the music we play on our show. Come join us while we share time with this dynamic, fun, inspiring and empowered wise business womyn who contributes so much to the world around her. Learn more about who Coach Helene is at her two websites: http://www.coachhelene.com http://www.retreatcoaches.com