The Invitation: Daily Love for Your Intimate Self

The Invitation is a manifesto for women to accept and cherish their bodies, especially the usually ignored parts, and to open to fully embodied sensuality. It begins a conversation on touch, relaxation, strengthening, nourishing and nurturing the whole self. The Invitation introduces the detailed anatomy of the greater vulvar and vaginal region. The author looks at how our intimate parts rest in the pelvic bowl, which rests in the body, which is infused with blood and all the good and bad materials circulating therein. How our bodies live harnessed to our thoughts, inextricably tied to our environment. By caring for the often ignored or rejected parts, we return to wholeness. Daily Love for the Intimate Self is a tenderness, and a reverence for the miracle of your being. 

Christine is a six-time founder and CEO, an author, yogi, purposeful teacher and speaker, a mom of four, and a grandmother. With her current endeavor, Rosebud Woman, she is changing the conversation about women, women's bodies, self-care and power. She is the co-founder and director of New Earth Mandala, a meditation center and farm in Hawaii.

Christine has been teaching, studying and writing on yoga and consciousness since 2000, with an emphasis on bringing yoga into daily life and human systems. Her books include Indivisible, Bending the Bow, The Invitation, Love in the Face of Everything and the upcoming 9 Gifts.

Her prior work includes 20 years of starting technology companies, with multiple $100M+ exits. She is a mentor to many young businesses and nonprofits, and has been a futurist and innovation advisor for global companies, such as Estee Lauder and Panasonic. She curated and led 14 TEDxSanFrancisco events, and continues to convene gatherings around the world.

She is a devotional singer, an enthusiastic adventurer, and a science nerd who likes plant medicine, cryptocurrency and biohacking. Her social service work is focused on yoga in action: women's equity, restorative justice and internet freedom. She serves on the board of the GRIP training institute, working in the California State Prisons with life-eligible inmates on victim offender communications. Christine has been described as "a true force of nature", combining "the best of the entrepreneurial, can-do spirit along with human-centered thinking."