But you'll begin to savor the taste of real freedom: as we actually start feeling that we are okay as we are, we realize that nothing more is needed. It is all here and we are already whole. Job done, now let's just live life (yippee!).

This is why you won't be just any other bitch or bastard, but you'll be an enlightened one: not harsh for the sake of it, simply a free and clear human being… With no tight rules about what is acceptable, but open to all ways of being.

And this freedom, however irritating it may be at times to others (it may elicit, momentarily, the moniker 'Bitch/Bastard '), will in the end only inspire everyone: the freedom you are expressing can only, inevitably, spread to them too in the end.

After the success of last year, Gaia will be teaching this fun, revelatory and touching week with Jane Okondo.

During this week you'll learn to judge yourself less and to listen to yourself more, allowing yourself to be whatever feels right at each moment: may it be being kind and loving as much as being clear, direct or selfish (what others may call 'a bitch' or 'a bastard').

You'll open to the possibility that you are okay as you are and that there is no need to limit yourself in order to be loved or accepted (children know this at the beginning, then they learn otherwise!)

You'll start to notice when and how you hold back (even if you'd rather not) and you'll be able to experience the positive effects and the power of allowing the whole range of emotions that you are made of.

You'll start to notice how everyone benefits when you are real, even if that requires being more direct than people may like, or even if you have take more risks than you normally would.