you may or may not know that my huz and i are running an indiegogo campaign right now to help fund a dream.
it’s to launch our company, luminous love toys, and its first product, the luminous love wand. it’s a diletto (an awesome now-fave word) made of 100% rose quartz crystal. rose quartz is considered, by the new age and mystics and those living in northern california, to be the love stone, helping us open our hearts, heal our sexuality, and connect more harmoniously with our selves and each other. it’s also a sex toy that’s 100% BPA- and phthalate-free, a beautiful, rare thing.
if you know me and are like, wha? it actually makes sense–i was a sex columnist in college, writing under to nom de plume madame exotica. it was a popular column that even got quoted by the school’s president at my graduation and landed me on the pages of rolling stone magazine, replete with hot pink feather boa. (suddenly football players began to talk to me at parties. it was confusing, creepy, and a little bit cool.) it also connects to my career of writing about health, spirituality, yoga and wellness. i’m always interested in the methods, approaches, media, and tools to get to a deeper level, to get the light shining on the soul and all its shadows and bright spots. it’s just where i feel juiciest and most alive.
also, sex has been a bit of a rough road for me. part of being a woman in our culture (if you’re a lady you know what i mean, and if you’re a dude, well, i love you but it’s hard to explain–ask a lady you love). it hasn’t always been easy or pleasurable or fun.
my long journey to a much healthier, happier sexyland has further spurred me to share a new way to play. using a love toy with spiritual capacities allows us to stop, slow down, and be awake–to our own breath, our lover’s presence, all our senses. sex, when we really pay attention, holds enormous power to transform and enlighten, to help us wake up, feel, and purr. it can also unleash unseen powers and long-held emotions. it’s the creative energy of the cosmos you’ve got there between your legs and too often we find it an annoying itch to be scratched, or a master to be served, depending. but when we dive right in, so to speak, with our wits about us, we can surface shining, alive with the electrical calm of having been right there. of course you can do this with a cucumber too, or nothing at all, but sometimes a beautiful object made of pretty crystal can act as a grounding wire to give us focus.
plus, i’m gettting to do this all with my honey, and i think we can both say that this is one of the best rides we’ve been on. we’re both so tremendously proud of ourselves for following through, for getting this far, for hurdling over the ordinary, common, boring, yet potentially debilitating blocks that get between us and our dreams. so, success or fail, we feel awesome about this–doing the thing, plus getting to talk at weddings and cocktail parties about sexuality and spirituality and the business of making a livelihood out of passion. it’s super effing cool and we are so deeply grateful. thanks so much to those who have supported us in any way, and thanks to those who will.
i feel like i want to say something profound in another language here, but i never thrived in/skipped those classes, so i’ll make something up: inshallah mahalo gratfulare una momenti amore–in luminare-ese that means, thanks, from our deepest hearts. and party on, with presence and love. amen. awoman. namasté.
our whole schtick, plus video is here:
http://www.indiegogo.com/luminous
