Guru Rasa and Her DEVOTEES

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Rasa has also further expanded upon her new matriarchal religion for women, writing the book Woman, Thou Art God: The New Religion for Women in 2019-2020, and is currently working on several other books from 2021–2024.

Amazing stories of spiritual awakening and quickening abound here; disciples become ecstatic with bliss, joy and love. Tell us why you liked or disliked the book; using examples and comparisons is a great way to do this. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.Her Lithuanian parents, Stasys and Regina Jakstas, had fled from Lithuania (then part of the Soviet Union) under Stalin. As a result of her influence, Werder has made numerous appearances in numerous forms of magazine prints, [9] including The New York Post (1974), [9] D-Cup (1989), [37] The Examiner, [38] The Sun (1998) [39] and has frequently been portrayed on Playboy.

She first appeared as Miss Nude Universe, hers was the first female body builder as "Humping Iron", May 1977, predating Lisa Lyon's appearance by three years.

It was after her promotion, Esquire 6 page layout in July 1975 and then being on " To Tell the Truth", as well as the Mike Douglas Show and The Stanley Siegel Show, and subsequently getting female body building into Playboy, May 1977 (Humping Iron) that anyone began to hold serious female fitness and body building contests. Because when they prayed to her (often building altars) things happened - and here are their accounts, with many more to come in future. She promoted the idea to get it accepted, and from 1975 to 1977 she was the only one notably promoting it. She lived in Santa Monica next to the pier, where she married Stanley Everts in 1963 and had a daughter, also named Kellie. Her father, a professor, created a Lithuanian school in the Church’s auditorium, on the heels of founding the first State Teacher's College in Kaunas, Lithuania.

A month after finishing high school she ran away with the famous photographer of Marilyn Monroe, to Hollywood, CA, where she began her career in show business. Rasa Von Werder (also known as Kellie Everts; born Rasa Sofija Jakstas, July 16, 1945) is a German author, former stripper, female bodybuilder, photographer, evangelist, mystic, contemplative, and founder of a church.Everts was effectively the founder of female bodybuilding; prior to her it was extremely rare for women to do so. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. On February 2, 2007, the World Bodybuilding Guild (WBBG) awarded her "Progenitor" of Female Bodybuilding and in August 2007 inducted her into their Hall of Fame. These include further volumes in her autobiographical I Strip For God book series, as well as books containing all the guidelines, directions, doctrine, and suggestions for her Sisterhood and "New Religion for Women" that she founded.