Our Mission and Intentions
Connection, Community, and Fun
We base our connection and community around the joy of creative expression, the importance of silent contemplation, and knowledge of the inherent wisdom of our bodies. We also recognize the importance of play, silliness, and fun for people of all ages.
Healing from shame and repression
We use creative expression and bonding practices to heal from the repression and shame often instituted by rigid doctrines and ideology that have led us away from our intuition and inner wisdom.
The Connection of Sacredness and Sensuality, Learning Healthy Boundaries
We educate about the connection of sacredness and sensuality and teach a healthy integration of the two through the use of scents, touch, crystals, and more. We explore our senses so we are not dominated by them, and remain rooted in the tradition of yoga philosophy. We teach how to understand our desires, not be ruled by them, and communicate in healthy ways with regard to intimacy to prevent abuse and damaging relationships. This education helps us live in better relationship to others and ourselves.
Respect for Mother Nature
We honor Mother Earth and her bounty in the digital age, so that we may recognize the vastness and beauty all around us. We do not limit ourselves with screens to determine the reality of our world.
Use of Technology as a Tool and Weapon for Positive Change
We use technology in a wise way that helps us learn, explore, and experiment, as well as educate others about social justice, equality, spirituality, and the dignity of human beings that goes beneath the surface of image.
Books by Jana Rose (Madame and Mother)
Letters to a Young Woman: Lessons on Life and Love, from Paris (©2020)
Letters to a Young Man, from Philadelphia: Lessons on Faith in Challenging Times (©2020)
Letters to a Young Man, from Philadelphia: Lessons on Faith in Challenging Times (©2020)
Written in one week in January 2020, Letters to a Young Woman shares Jana's vision of the future for young women, as well as her own personal story.
Letters to a Young Man, from Philadelphia: Lessons on Faith in Challenging Times (©2020)
Letters to a Young Man, from Philadelphia: Lessons on Faith in Challenging Times (©2020)
Letters to a Young Man, from Philadelphia: Lessons on Faith in Challenging Times (©2020)
Written during the summer of 2020, during the Covid19 crisis and the Black Lives Matter Protests, Letters to a Young Man helps men uncover the lies in the way Christian scripture has been taught, and how to live in closer alignment to love, relationships, and faithfulness for a modern age.
Founder, Jana Rose
Jana's Story
Thank you so much for visiting Madame Rose.
I am a certified high school teacher who has taught English, yoga, meditation, film, to both high schools and a range of colleges, universities, and organizations. I am also certified in reiki healing and do ongoing shamanic work. I have worked at nonprofits in communications departments, am a published author of fiction and nonfiction, and have written two books of letters.
I began envisioning Madame Rose in 2020, amidst the Covid pandemic when I was trying to pursue my calling. I knew I was meant to help people with relationships as well as healing, because I had overcome abuse, trauma, and the mental health challenges that result as a survivor of abuse. I was experiencing much peace through my meditation practice and the channels of art and creativity that were opening up for me, but I was still facing outside challenges in life that seemed to want to keep me down rather than help me thrive. Not only did I feel that the spark inside me was ready to come forth, I also wanted to give my children hope and a model of happiness so that they could find it in their own lives as they grew. However, I saw that our systems were often set up to minimize us and limit our potential to create change, and we needed a space that would envelop us and support us.
I have always been passionate about supporting women to thrive. This is not because I think women are better than men, but because I think our culture has not done enough to support women's challenges as the givers of life. We take our mothers for granted, and the role of mother in our society. While we have made some great strides, we do not have a culture that easily allows women to bond in sisterhood and find healthy relationships with men. As women and mothers who love unconditionally, who nurture, we fall victim to narcissists and abusers, and we give up our own dreams so that everyone around us may thrive. Our culture expects the world of mothers, but doesn't provide for us and our children adequately, or educate us about our bodies. As women and mothers, then, we suffer mental health challenges and unhealed wounds that we pass along to our children. Madame Rose is a path to help us learn how to nurture and love ourselves, and teach that to our children. Simultaneously, we can help men by exhibiting this leadership of self-care, right attitude, and strength.
Madame Rose helps us grow and heal through mindful meditation practices, art, movement, community and expression. It is a space to combat institutions that disrespect feminine energy, by showing the power of feminine energy, in both women and men. Plenty of women adopt misogynist practices as a way to identify their sense of self-worth, and plenty of men are more embracing and nurturing of a feminine divine than women are. It is not our gender that is paramount--it is our respect and honor for the whole person who is able to stay strong and lift up our children to make a better world. On this, most of us can agree.
Please subscribe to the site to stay informed, donate to support, or get in touch with me for coffee and conversation: madamerosearts@gmail.com . I live in a quiet little community near San Luis Obispo, California--a little slice of heaven on earth.
Contemplation, Solitude, and Connection through Nature
Madame Rose Center knows the importance of contemplation, solitude, and time spent in nature to create art that heals and live more peacefully. We teach about meditation, observation practices, breath and energy movement, natural elements like crystals, and the transformative power of art for uncovering the mysteries of the universe and within ourselves. We also communicate through oral storytelling and encourage natural settings for our practices whenever possible.
Our purpose is to help mothers and children of all ages bond and overcome painful histories of personal, societal, or systemic abuse. We can celebrate the power of feminine energy alongside masculine energy (not beneath!), renewal, and the abundance inside us all. We seek to defy categories and labels and live as fully embodied human beings, acknowledging the strength of our mothers and our Earth Mother. While we pay special focus to women and mothers, we also empower men by helping them tap into creative expression, healthy masculinity, fluidity and flow, and take time away from technology to help engage the soul.
Jana Rose, M.A. RYT, founder and educator, is a teacher, energy healer, meditation and yoga coach and well as a writer. You can learn more about her at www.janamarierose.com or get in touch through madamerosearts@gmail.com to learn more about energy healing, coaching and mentorship, workshop facilitation, or ongoing classes. She can be reached directly at janamarierose79@gmail.com