Dear Friends,
Today's interview is with feminine leader and priestess Jumana Sophia, who talks about her DailyOM course, Radical Intimacy in 10 Days. Jumana teaches a soul-filled journey into the beauty and spirit of female sexuality, intimacy, and womanhood. Let's get started!
- Receive a new lesson every day for 10 days (total of 10 lessons).
- Have lifetime access to the course for reference whenever you want.
- Select the amount you can afford, and get the same course as everyone.
- If you are not 100% satisfied, you may request a refund.
DailyOM: What is this course about? Who is it for?
Jumana Sophia: This course is about returning women to a real sense of sovereignty and fulfillment through their own sexuality, regardless of what their current relationship status might be. There is a misconception among women who assume that intimacy is so much less than what it really can be. It is taken for granted that sexual fire will burn hot but then burn out, that there will be an inevitable loss of desire in a long-term relationship. Or that no matter how promising a relationship seems, it is inevitable to develop power dynamics that ultimately destroy true intimacy. On the other end of the spectrum, women often submit to an unwanted and dry solitude, or heartbreaks that never seem to heal. Many of us, even if we do find ourselves in an intimate relationship that has potential, end up in endless confusion about what we really want, believing that settling or compromising is the only option.
This course is for women who have spent a lot of time trying to sort out their relationships or dating issues, only to come back to some form of dissatisfaction again and again. There is deep feminine wisdom that we need, but we have inherited cultures that have interrupted or suppressed it. This course is a treasure house of that wisdom. The thing is, when we don't understand the basic self-care and self-regard that keep us empowered by our feminine fire rather than confused by it, we end up bound by our sexual intimacies rather than nourished by them. This course functions as a reset, with 21 days of basic energetic/emotional hygiene for the female sexual being. It supports women to turn fully and with devotion toward their own sexual potency and the resource that it is for their own healing, for guidance, vitality, love and deep life fulfillment, regardless of the particular iteration of intimate relationship they may currently find themselves in. It is ultimately from this place of self-authority and sexual self-possession that relationships are changed, intimacy is re-ignited, and women come to really understand what it means to feel intact, balanced, and sacred as a sexual being.
DailyOM: This course has a strong focus on aligning with our energy and our creative self-expression. Why are they important in fostering intimate relationships?
JS: Intimate relationships can only thrive to the degree that we know ourselves and know ourselves well. Aligning with our personal essential energy and cultivating it as a sacred practice is the only way we can authentically bring everything that we are to a relationship. True intimacy only happens in the presence of authenticity. And this means all of your authenticity -- your authentic desires, feelings, and truths -- the entire spectrum from ecstatic to terrified, fully turned on to totally turned off. Intimacy also requires that we are able to open to our own creative self-expression. Sometimes women assume that it will be the chemistry with a particular partner or the skill of a particular lover that is going to open them or take them to incredible new intimate terrain. While it is obviously important who we choose to share ourselves with, they still aren't ultimately the determinant of how much of our own unlimited and dynamic spectrum we will be able to experience. We are the determinant. The extent to which we know ourselves will dictate the extent to which we can invite someone else in to know us. We really can't expect to guide anyone else into a terrain that we have not yet explored.
DailyOM: What kinds of practices and homework do you provide?
JS: The written content of the course is full of deep feminine wisdom and what I think of as basic energetic/emotional hygiene for any female sexual being. Ideally, we would be tending to our own emotional clarity and sexual fire with the same regularity that we brush our teeth. Then the practices in the course are guided meditations that begin to gently open up inner terrain and personal revelation. A closer relationship to your sexual current and essential energy can be supported or catalyzed by someone else, but it can't be given by them. The practices and my voice serve as guides into your inner terrain where you can experience self-revelation that is authentic, true, and trustworthy. The homework is kept intentionally simple, and it develops what was begun in the guided practice. Essentially, the guided practice cultivates internal awareness and the homework offers opportunities to apply that awareness in external circumstances. This ensures that the work done throughout the course is fully integrated into the student's daily life.
DailyOM: If someone is feeling stagnant and emotionally frustrated in a long-term relationship but isn't sure what to do, what's an important first step for him/her?
JS: I would say the first step is to take the focus off of the relationship with their partner and to put it fully 100% on the relationship between themselves and their own sexual current, their own emotional needs, and their own stagnancy. It is too easy and ultimately way too frustrating to focus on the relationship dynamics and get stuck there. Always, always, always, the way that magnetism and deep feminine influence work is to come fully home to ourselves, change the fabric of our own being, and allow that to re-align our relationships and our world, rather than us trying to change or have control over what is outside of us. At the heart of it, when we are focusing on the stagnancy or the other person or the dynamics, we are feeding them. We are often crystallizing and solidifying the "problem" by trying so hard to fix it.
It can feel overwhelming to address stagnancy, numbness, or confusion inside of ourselves because it may also be accompanied by a sense of hopelessness or helplessness. Somehow it often just feels safer or easier to address it as something outside of ourselves -- the relationship, the other person -- even though ultimately the opposite is true. That is why it is so helpful and important to work with a course like this where there is support and a level of guidance for the necessary internal reckoning and work that needs to be done. We aren't meant to walk this terrain alone.
DailyOM: You teach about our feminine power, such as the sacred bowl and womb. Tell us more about how tapping into this power nourishes us.
JS: I have worked with thousands of women at this point and what continues to fascinate me is that even women who have strong meditation, yoga, embodiment, or other spiritual practices almost always express that tapping into the sacred bowl and womb is like inhabiting a place in themselves that they had forgotten. There is often an ease with the mind, the heart, or the body as a whole, but an absence when it comes to the sacred bowl and womb. There are some reasons for this, notably the vilification of female sexuality over millennia, and the truth that even most meditation and yoga practices were created without women, uninformed by the real magic and power of the female body.
So, when I refer to deep feminine power, I am referring to a current of ancient and regenerative power that wells up in women, which is held like a reservoir in the womb and sacred bowl. This is, not coincidentally, where our sexual center resides as well. This source of power and energy feeds us, nourishes us, and actually provides a source of wisdom and regenerative vitality that guides and heals us. What is amazing and important about deep feminine power is that it is not something we have to strive to attain, it is not a portrait we present, or ultimately about anything we do. This power is always available to us if we are willing to soften into it, sit down into it, and just come home to ourselves. It is so deeply nourishing for exactly that reason. It asks nothing, but it gives everything. That is the nature of deep feminine essence and female sexuality itself -- it is miraculously generative, creative, and wise. That is why it is so important that we tend to our sexuality as what it really is, so much more than just an explicitly sexual expression. When we work with the "sexual current" in this course, we are working with that source of deep feminine power that is creative in all ways, profoundly wise, and full of guidance that keeps us safe, emotionally and intimately.
Thanks, Jumana! Her passion is contagious, and her energy is felt throughout this course. With self-care tools, self-reflection, and daily guided audio practices, Jumana shows you how precious and powerful your feminine energy is -- and how it can be nourished so you feel truly alive and fully present. Until next time.
Be well,
DailyOM
