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"Rewilding" is an earth sciences term used to describe the restoration of tracts of land and ecosystems to their pre-cultivated, pre-domesticated state. Wikipedia describes 'rewilding' as "large-scale conservation aimed at restoring and protecting core wilderness areas, providing connectivity between such areas, and protecting or reintroducing apex predators and keystone species. Rewilding projects may require ecological restoration, particularly to restore connectivity between fragmented protected areas, and reintroduction of predators where extirpated."

This Monday, May 3rd, at 10am PST I will be talking with the power-triad of Own It Sister! See their website for more information and to listen to previous shows with, among other visionary guests, Kathleen Woodward Thomas and Claire Zammit (founders of Awakening the New Feminine Power). The show's topic? Re-Wilding Female Sexuality, As If Our Lives Depended On it (of course)!

Join us for this WILD conversation.

by Pattiann Rogers Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall become as white as snow. Isaiah 1:18

Under the branches of the elm and the tall, blooming bushes of the black haw, in the wavering jigsaw of the sun, you sit, naked on the bench, waiting. The paraphernalia is gathered, laid out − warm wash water in a stainless- steel bowl, rinse water in the deeper pail, creams, soaps, a sanctuary of flannel and towels.

If I were given the opportunity to change one thing about our culture I would eradicate shame. All of us, to varying degrees, experience some version of shaming. Whether or not we are born to families who celebrate and encourage our innate individual expression, the culture we are born into is structured to shame us. In fact, the tenacity of the culturally dictated 'status-quo' depends upon the efficient and prolific shaming of innate human characteristics.

Full feminine sexual health and expression transcend orgasm or in-the-moment pleasure. They are a mirror for the health and well-being of all the Earth's natural systems. The extent to which we women are, not only merely safe, but encouraged and expected to express our pleasure, desire, radiance and power is the extent to which life in general is revered and protected; the extent to which humanity protects and tends to all life on the planet.

As surprising as it is, the most recent remake of King Kong contains everything men and women need to know about intimate relationships and love as they pertain to the future of our world. For those of you who haven’t seen it, I’m sure I won’t give anything away in this article that would have come as a surprise to you. Really, what could there be at this point after three major motion picture versions and more than a dozen spin-offs? Let’s see; Kong dies, the guy gets the girl and ignorance reigns supreme in the final, woefully misinterpreted statement, “It wasn’t the airplanes, t’was beauty killed the beast.”

It is of great importance that we own the full responsibility of our sexuality. Human sexuality is a complex creature. Certainly, if you ask the evolutionary biologists they will tell you without equivocation that our sexuality is a straightforward function of procreation, driven by our ingrained instinct to survive. Yet after witnessing both my own intimate experience as well as the experiences of hundred of individuals and couples over the years, the function of our sexuality is clearly so much more intricate.

True radiant, inside-out Beauty is a radical act these days. Certainly, it is one of the more powerful invitations we can experience; an invitation to show our reverence and honor as well as an invitation to feel our love. Beauty is very much in the purview of the feminine; something we seem to have been innately endowed with, and also something which our culture has – in many ways – stolen from us.

In the Fall of 2009, I participated in a Council and Mirroring Training through Animas Valley Institute on the other-worldly Antelope Island in the middle of Utah's Great Salt Lake. We were camping on the west side of the island, where the original American blood-line of buffalo and antelope play, cavorting and snorting all around us, sometimes within yards of us.

This post is not about blaming. It is about traveling the path toward humanity's healing and wholing. Men are responsible for egregious violence against life. It has been this way for at least four millennia. Yet in order for something different to arise men must cultivate a functional relationship with the very emotion responsible for so much of the violence. They must be reacquainted with their rage, allowing it to come out of the shadows and take its place alongside the (only slightly) more accepted emotions of love and grief.