THE MEETING PLACE

A community for Black Madonna Integrated Leadership presents:

EROS, BLOOD & BODY

An ongoing FREE teaching series led by women of color…

for women of color and women practicing allyship alongside them.

Eros, Blood & Body is where we open the doors of The Meeting Place and invite you to learn alongside us.

Each month, one of our Resident Guides brings her own teachings, lived experience, spiritual traditions, and ways of knowing into conversations about Eros, the body, spirituality, power, leadership, and the ancient sacred feminine.

COME AND EXPLORE WHAT BECOMES POSSIBLE WHEN MORE OF YOU IS WELCOME IN THE ROOM.

These gatherings offer an opportunity to deepen your relationship with your body, expand your understanding of the sacred, encounter perspectives you may never have been exposed to, and explore how all of it shapes how you live, relate, create, and lead.

Come to reconnect with your Eros. Understand your body differently. Explore the mysteries of Mary Magdalene or the Black Madonna. Encounter a spiritual practice you've never experienced before. Question something you thought you knew. Or simply follow the conversation that calls to something in you.

Come curious and leave with something new to integrate into your own life and leadership.

THIS IS THE MEETING PLACE IN PRACTICE.

We believe liberation work is spiritual work. And if we want to transform systems of domination, we have to examine how those systems show up in our own bodies, relationships, communities, and leadership.

No single teacher, lineage, culture, or perspective holds the whole story.

Inside The Meeting Place, we intentionally create space for different women, cultures, spiritual traditions, lived experiences, and ways of knowing, with particular attention to elevating voices that have not always been centered.

Eros, Blood & Body puts that value into practice by inviting our Resident Guides to bring their own work and wisdom into the room and making those teachings freely available beyond our paid community.

 
 

“Humanity is the goal,

the ancient sacred feminine is the anchor.”

MEET OUR RESIDENT GUIDES

These are the women leading our upcoming Eros, Blood & Body gatherings. Save the date, get to know their faces, and join us for the teachings that call to you.

NOVEMBER’S TEACHING

DEVOTION AS REVOLUTION
with Sasha Ostara

Diverse traditions have long described a war between the forces of Good and Evil, Chaos and Stability. What we are not told is that the Goddess has been at the center of this battle, and so have women, nature, and our connection to the natural rhythm of life.

In devotion, we find not only a personal journey but a spiritual battlefield where we are serving a greater cause: to co-create a world of kindness, balance, and love; to reconnect to the sacred rhythms of life and death; and to honor the one who holds the scale, the Divine Mother, who has been attacked over and over and has always returned when needed most.

Join us for this month's teaching by Resident Guide Sasha Ostara in the FREE Eros, Blood and Body Speaker Series hosted by Melisa Keenan and the Meeting Place, a Community for Black Madonna Integrated Leadership.

MEET YOUR GUIDE

Sasha Ostara is a Mexican sacred sexuality coach, somatic therapist, and priestess whose work is rooted in a lifelong relationship with the Goddess. A woman of Maya and Lebanese lineage, Sasha has been devoted to the priestess path since the age of twelve, exploring the Goddess not only as a spiritual archetype, but as a living force of embodied wisdom, sovereignty, pleasure, and connection.

Her work weaves together Goddess spirituality, sacred sexuality, somatic healing, trauma-informed practice, and embodiment. Through her teachings, ceremonies, and retreats, she creates spaces for people to reconnect with the body as a source of wisdom and to reclaim pleasure, desire, and their relationship with the sacred beyond shame, conditioning, and inherited beliefs.

Connect with Sasha:

Come join us for this free teaching and November journey.

Date: Sunday, November 15th

Time: 09:00 AM to 10:15 AM PST

Online

RSVP HERE

Eros, Blood & Body gatherings are free and open to women of color and women committed to practicing allyship alongside them.

Join the email list to receive upcoming dates, introductions to our Resident Guides, and links to join us live.

After joining, please add mk@melisakeenan.com to your contacts so your gathering invitations make it to your inbox.

Want to come all the way into the Meeting Place?

Eros, Blood & Body is our free teaching series. The Meeting Place is our full membership where you can come into the room and fully participate in our gatherings, conversations, collaborations, and ongoing practice of Black Madonna Integrated Leadership.

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE MEETING PLACE
 

Meet our host, Melisa Keenan

Hi, I'm Melisa Keenan, founder of HOPE, nine-time international and USA Today bestselling author, and creator of The Meeting Place.

I created The Meeting Place because, honestly, I wanted it for myself.

I wanted a sacred feminine community where I didn't have to separate my spirituality from the questions I was asking about race, power, leadership, and what it means to actually be human together.

I wanted to be around women whose lives and experiences were different from mine. Women who would expand me, challenge me, and help me see what I couldn't see on my own. And I wanted a place where none of us had to arrive with all the answers.

All of that started with the Black Madonna Codes Pilgrimage to the South of France, and the Magdalene Interview Series and Black Madonna Codes show that Deidra Towns and I co-host.

It became an ecosystem.

The Eros, Blood & Body Teaching Series is the most accessible and honoring way I could think of to bring more women into the ecosystem. That's why it's free.

Each month, one of our Resident Guides brings her own perspective, experience, and work into the room, and I am there to learn with everyone else. It's genuinely one of my favorite parts of The Meeting Place.

Before publishing, I spent years as an intimacy mentor, and so much of my work has always come back to the body, relationships, and what happens when we're willing to get more honest about being human.

I live on our little hobby ranch in Northern Nevada with my husband, four kids, and my beloved bees.

I'm really glad you're here. I can't wait for you to meet these women.

 

Some questions you might have before entering the room…

  • No. We bring together different lineages, cultures, and spiritual relationships without making one more “right” than another. There is a strong emphasis on the ancient sacred feminine and pre-patriarchal spirituality.

  • Yes! Women of color are centered, and women practicing allyship are welcome. You don't need to have everything figured out, but you do need to be willing to engage honestly with race, power, privilege, and difference.

  • This is a room for women and femme-identifying individuals. You don't need to menstruate, have particular reproductive organs, experience sexual desire, or relate to your body in any prescribed way to participate.

  • No. Come curious. You won't be behind.

Past Teachings/Teachers

OCTOBER'S TEACHING

THE BODY OF AWARENESS
with Domeasha Terry, Empress AkuRa

October invites us into an initiation journey of sacred descent, awareness, reclamation, and embodied wisdom, guided through the pathways of the Black Madonna and Mary Magdalene.

Through six October Awareness Gates, Goddess affirmations, and the October 11 Opal Threshold, we will explore what it means to transform awareness into truth, healing, sovereignty, and grounded action.

This is an invitation to witness what is already present within you, listen more deeply to your body and inner wisdom, and create space for conscious choice and aligned movement.

MEET YOUR GUIDE

Domeasha Terry, also known as Empress AkuRa, is an Akashic Spiritual Life Coach who works with individuals seeking clarity, alignment, and conscious direction during times of transition, recurring cycles, or uncertainty.

Her work uses the Akashic Records as a modality for insight and alignment, supporting deeper understanding, personal responsibility, and conscious choice rather than prediction or dependence.

Her approach is grounded, respectful, and centered on clarity before action. Through structured pathways of self-inquiry, reflection, and integration, Domeasha helps illuminate the patterns already present so individuals can meet themselves and their lives with greater awareness.

🌹 This October, we begin with the body.
With awareness.
With witness.
With voice.
With protection.
With return.