The Messy Movement Practice Is Life-Changing. Here’s Proof.

“I’m so glad I did this. I have been wanting to join your classes. Thank you so much for offering this. The obstacles for me are what to do with the energy and feelings afterward.  After I do the exercises, I have this energy, this strange motivating energy that I do not know what to do with. I love it tho.”

— Melissa

“I was drawn to take this course because the title alone spoke to a desire I’ve had for a while to live my life from rest, pleasure, and joy instead of viewing these as things we work for and earn. I’ve also been yearning to take into that source of pleasure in my body and I know Rashida’s work values this very thing. Initially, when we started the class, I was having a hard time focusing. My mind felt scattered and unable to focus and no matter how many breaths I took, I couldn't seem to get grounded and focused.

However, we got to this point of the class when Rashi led us to touch ourselves as we would a lover and as we would want a lover to touch us. This was the point of the class where I felt a huge release. I started to touch my thighs and felt this huge surge of desire. It took me by surprise! I had never experienced my own touch in that way before. I had never felt my own desire like that before. It was absolutely electrifying and terrifying at the same time. For the past year, I’ve done practices of touching myself through masturbating and sensual massage but I’ve mostly felt like I was going through the motions. 

I hadn’t felt that sense of passion or desire. This time, though, it felt soooo good. It felt like coming home and falling in love. I realized that I had been hungering for my own desire and passion and was finally able to sense it. For all the times I’ve given that to other lovers, I’ve never been able to give it to myself until that moment. I think that the way Rashi guided us through the movements and her words of affirmation/encouragement helped unlock something. As we continued going through the exercises, I couldn’t stop crying as more desire rushed through my body. 

At the end of it, Rashi asked us to use one word to describe how we felt, and immediately I said: “desired!.” I felt so much desire from my own being and it is one of the best feelings in the world. I feel like I’ve fallen in love with myself in a way I didn’t realize I could. Thank you so much, Rashi for the gift of this class. I can say with 100% confidence that I will never forget this day because I discovered something that is beyond any type of riches this world has to offer. 

To know and experience your own desire for yourself and to feel that in your body is sacred fuel, it is the erotic that Audre Lorde so profoundly talks about, and the power that it brings cannot be denied. Rashi's work is transformational and has been a huge part of my sexual liberation. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I can't recommend this class enough ...”

— Sarah

“I have so much gratitude for the weeks we spent together. I feel like the exploration helped me to move through some deep blocks that I have carried for a lifetime, related to my sexual expression, body image, and self-love. I feel like the practice gave me a way to center myself in my sensual life, in a way that I have never fully been able to do. The reverberations of that are still rippling as they continue integrating into my life, my relationship with myself, and my relationship with my partner (and really my relationship with the whole world).  

My big challenge is time. I am someone who definitely works too much and spreads herself too thin. I am striving for balance. Making time and space for myself and my very own pleasure for my very own self remains just barely within reach. It is coming closer and I am committed to this path on many different levels.  

The thing I loved most about your class was the attitude of acceptance and permission. You are a stunning model for both. You have a very loving and glowing presence, which is so obviously rooted in your practice. I felt held by the space you created and felt like I could just totally show up as myself and explore whatever I needed to explore within myself on each day. There was never any sense of pressure or performance, but just delicious exploration and a deeply soulful self-connecting sensual play.  

I work as a psychotherapist and help people heal their traumas and broken hearts and wounded senses of self. And I can say that the work you are offering is an even more effective tool for healing and self-growth. I would recommend it to anyone wanting to connect more deeply with their bodies and the sacredness of life.

I also teach fertility awareness and am writing a dissertation on the power of the practice of tracking our cycles to support self-connection and empowerment. This practice fits so well with the one that you are offering because they are both about centering our experiences of our own sexuality within our own bodies, relinquishing attachment to the outward-in gaze, and reclaiming a subjective centered experience of being. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the beautiful light you are shining in the world, dear Rashi. What an inspiration you are!”

— Virginia

“I just wanted to send a note to say … just how profound, beautiful, and nourishing your classes were. Thank you, thank you, thank you. You shared so much wisdom. Taught me to received so much wisdom from my own body, it was just truly magic … I’m excited for the opportunity to learn from you again.”

—April