Lit From Within:
A Collective Unfreezing Through Books, Movement, and Action
Don’t join this expecting your usual book club.
The book is the impetus.
What we’re doing is a reclamation.
A reckoning.
A remembering.
This is a large-group, low-fee space - accessible, alive, and welcoming to many. No limit on participants. Just bring your body and your curiosity.
Over three weeks, we read one provocative, body-awakening book (Vagina Obscura was the first) and gather in sisterhood to metabolize its truths through movement, emotion, and collective action.
Each 60-minute gathering includes:
Somatic practices to awaken your body’s response
Emotional processing that goes beneath words
Real-time integration through collective sharing
Invitations into small but catalytic actions
We don’t just read - we embody.
We don’t just discuss - we disrupt.
This is for you if you:
Are ready to move from awareness into action
Want to thaw what’s been frozen, stuck, or numb
Crave sisterhood that is bold, alive, and unfiltered
Feel the pulse of truth in your hips and want to follow it
When we let our bodies interpret the text, something shifts. Truth lands differently.
Pleasure becomes a guide. And the systems we’ve internalized begin to loosen their grip.
What Women Are Saying
Each round of Lit From Within is built around a different book - but what stays the same is the container: the movement, the sisterhood, the truth-telling, the thawing. Here’s what opened for two women during a past round, when we read Vagina Obscura:
"I’ve never experienced anything like this."
I’ve done swamping, rage rituals, grief work, and deep dives into pu$sy - but I’ve never experienced anything like this. Meenal guided us into a space where my pu$sy wasn’t just present - she was leading. I wailed. I danced. I birthed a new layer of myself. I left reconnected to my body and my mission.”
— Dana Lawrence
"Lit From Within cracked something open in me."
While I was reading Vagina Obscura and then coming into the weekly gatherings with Meenal, I was hit first by the violence - how messed up the history is when it comes to women’s bodies - and then by the total absurdity of it all. Seeing where all this conditioning came from gave me this wild sense of freedom. Like, why have I been walking around letting these old stories shape how I feel about myself? It was a full-body ‘hell no’ - and suddenly I was showing up with more power, more approval of who I already am. This wasn’t just a book club. It was a wake-up call.
— Lisa Querido
The next round of Lit From Within is coming soon.
Lit From Within is offered in the Winter and in the Summer. Enter your details to be the first to know when registration opens.
You’ll also receive my occasional newsletter - with stories, transmissions, and invitations to deepen your embodied leadership.
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