For centuries mankind has been struggling with the differential between the spiritual desire for non-attachment and the human desire for building relationships.  Many have felt forced to choose...those who took the spiritual path renounced all worldly desires with celibacy, monkhood and other austere practices, giving up all the basic human desires (at least on the surface, as we now know many failed and just pushed their desires into shadowy behaviours).. Those who chose humanity may have chosen hedonism, bit many fell into attachment, addiction and cycles of emotionality. Author John Amodeo has been exploring for several decades how to reconcile these two aspects. A trained therapist and marriage guidance counselor, he was also a Buddhist and spiritual seeker. Though these two worlds were mostly kept separate, John set out to find out how to find the meeting point....very much the core essence of Tantra. The result is that he has found that relationship CAN be a valid part of our spiritual growth, if we apply the right tools and attitudes. In this podcast episode, he explains what that looks like. This includes: * An explanation of the different needs of our spiritual aspect and our human aspect * Exploring where these two meet * How relationship can become our spiritual vehicle * taking a look "attachment" and what that really means * How to avoid spiritual bypassing, but also not get stuck in the human experience To find out more about John and his work, please refer to: www.johnamodeo.com  

Ma Ananda Sarita is one of the world's leading authorities on Tantra. She lived for 26 years in the Osho community, and 16 years in Osho's presence, receiving teachings and transmissions on the teachings and meditations of Tantra. We chat together about how sex can become a spiritual experience, and how a couple can transform an ordinary relationship into a tantric relationship. At the end of this podcast, Sarita shares step-by-step guidance for a couple's practice in spiritual sex.   In this audio:  * Find out what Osho taught to Sarita about Tantra  * Hear how to unite our hedonistic nature with our spiritual path.  * Learn how a couple can surrender their egos to Love.  * Discover how sex can actually accelerate our enlightenment and awakening.  * Find out how a couple need to integrate meditation into their relationship.  * Hear about "Love Appointments" and how a couple can schedule in their tantric experiences.  * Discover how to recognize good chemistry with a partner.  * Find out some of Sarita's secrets of Tantra!  * Hear a step-by-step practice that you and your partner can try out at home!  To see more videos of Sarita, go to https://livetantra.com/authors/ananda-sarita NB: The music Sarita referred to is Deuter.

How to deal with conflict in your relationship? For many people, arguing takes the fun out of being in a relationship, and can even be the cause for the whole relationship to fail. Marriage Meditator, Max Rivers, explains that although conflict can ruin relationships, it also can actually take your relationship deeper. You simply need to know how to transform it. His explanation is that we argue on one level, but resolve on another. Trying to resolve an issue at the level at which is causes conflict is actually not going to work. Because we need to get underneath into the underlying issues. Once a couple know how to navigate to the underlying layers, then the exact same issue can actually open both of your hearts to deeper levels of compassion and understanding. Together you can start to build trust instead of torment. In this interview, Max shares the steps to take to make this shift. * How arguments can be retreated over and over again because we are at the wrong level for resolving it. * How to access that deeper level and communicate from there. * Non Violent Communication taken a step farther, into understanding the mystery of forbidden needs. * How we attract the very person who can trigger us, and why. How to let those triggers take us deeper into self-understanding. * The secret of how never to be "wrong" in your relationship. * How to build a relationship that fulfills both people. NOTE: There are a couple of small audio delays due to failing internet, however the information is still clear. For more information on Max Rivers and what he offers, please go to http://maxrivers.net/ Download my free guide to building a relationship agreement field together to use together wit this information, and start building the relatonship you want. https://www.shashisolluna.com/tantric-tools.html

Pleasure is something that is so often seen as an enemy of being spiritual. So many religions will teach us that you have to choose between following your pleasure or following God. Yet Tantra says the opposite. Tantra says: let pleasure take you home. Let pleasure awaken you. Let pleasure bring you back to your true self. In this episode, I chat with Tantric Therapist Lin Holmquist, who is passionate about pleasure as a way to awaken back to our true self, our divine nature. We cover questions such as: * How is it that pleasure can be part of our awakening?  * What do we do with the guilt and shame around pleasure?  * How can we heal shame? * How can we awaken our capacity for pleasure? * What is the difference between hedonism and Tantra? * Is the path of pleasure about avoiding pain and negative feelings? * How do we find pleasure in the pain? Plus Lin shares about her own kundalini awakening experience, and how this taught her the pleasure of being in her true self. About Lin Lin is a tantric therapist and facilitator, and produces the Swedish Tantra Festival at Angsbacka. She has been living the tantric life and teaching all over the world in retreats and festivals. Find out more about her on: https://livetantra.com/authors/lin-holmquist

So many religions have told us that we have to overcome desire in order to become spiritual. Desire is basically a hindrance to spiritual awakening, they say... Yet, we are all born with desire. We desire breath, then breast milk and warm loving arms. Desire helps us choose life. How can something so fundamental to humanity be against our awakening? I ask these questions to my friend, Dr. Saida Desilets. Dr. Saida Desilets is a phenomenal teacher of Sacred Sexuality. She was brought into the field through her own personal tragedy, and yet defied all of the odds to heal and recover herself, and not only survive, but THRIVE. After many years studying Tantra and Taoist Sexual Arts, Saida went on to complete a PhD in female sexuality in Transpersonal Psychology, making her one of the world's leading authorities in the Tao Tantric Arts for women. Her latest book, Desire, explores the juicy topic of desire...including how we can resolve our desires whilst following a spiritual path. She brilliantly breaks down desire into different categories to help us understand it better. She also looks at sexual desire evolving, so that we can understand shifts in our desire over our lifetime. Watch Saida interview me (!), and find out more about the rest of her work: http://SaidaDesilets.com/shashi  also check out: www.dareyourdesire.com www.desirethebook.club (Linked to the book, "Desire"... on this website you will find a playbook, 4.5 hours of videos and an audio meditation)

Eyal Matsliah from Intimate Power, author of Orgasm Unleashed, shares with me some of his secrets on how to pleasure a woman. Eyal has over a decade of rich Tantric wisdom...but as well as learning all the "techniques", he has uncovered some of the deeper mysteries. In fact, he concludes that techniques don't really work, at least not on their own. It is about finding a deep communion with the feminine (including one's own inner feminine). In this interview he shares some absolute nuggets of wisdom that every man should know...the sexual education you never got at school! It is also interesting for women to listen to, to learn more about their own pleasure and also to communicate better with their partners. - how to make connection to a woman. - the art of communicating about sexual pleasure. - "Hinting": the conscious form of teasing. - The difference between men and women in sex. - The rhythm that leads to the greatest pleasure. - How to enter a flow state together in love-making. - The divine experience of sex. And in case you are thinking "this is all just about sex...where's the spirituality?!", let me just say that Eyal is one of those who says never mind if yu come toTantra for sex, it can awaken you anyway! He says: "I came to Tantra for the sex, and I found God." Thanks, Eyal. Ready to delve into the whole online course? "How to Please a Woman" online course: https://learn.intimatepower.com/p/awakening?affcode=25691_9zokenck The course that teaches you how to give her the best orgasms of her life!

Courtney Davis, creatrix of the Viva la Vagina online training, had an awakening through looking at her own vagina.  She had thought she was fully sexually empowered because she was able to "Fu*k like a man", i.e. she could have non-emotional sexual encounters without attachment to the other person. However, one day when she was invited to gaze at her "yoni" (tantric word for the vagina), all of that changed.  She realized that she had been modeling an externally-generated empowerment, a style she had learned from society, and actually been completely overriding the wisdom of her own body. In this podcast, Courtney will share with you: ~ The difference between external sexual empowerment and internal sexual empowerment. ~ How yoni gazing can shift your sexuality. ~ How self-pleasure can become a path of self-knowledge and self-growth. ~ Why it is important for us to learn about our own sexuality before we seek out partners. ~ The difference between clitoral orgasms, and deeper more energetic orgasms. ~ How internal energy orgasms can lead to emotional release. ~ How your sexual empowerment can alter limiting beliefs in the rest of your life. ~ Why this shift in sexuality can take sex from the physical realm to a more spiritual and profound realm. And I would like to add that this podcast episode is not only for women! It is also great for men to hear about how a woman can deepen her sexual experience, and learn more about the female sexual mysteries! Find out more about Courtney at: https://livetantra.com/authors/courtney-davis

Filmmaker Kiya Shanti discusses how men can achieve full body orgasm and ecstasy, shifting from traditional peak orgasms to Tantra practices. Topics include differences between ejaculatory and full body orgasm, energy paths, breathwork, emotional connection to orgasm, and gender dynamics in Tantra.

These days if you venture into the field of Tantra, you often find the trend of "polyamory" entwined with it. Polyamory means "many loves" and is a way to try to deal with the fact that we have many connections with different people, even if we are in a committed relationship with one person.  "Poly" can mean anything from having multiple lovers at a time, sharing energy and touch with many people but sex with one, or have a primary relationship in which there is an openness about attraction to others. It has sometimes been used to deepen trust, honesty and connection in a relationship. But it has also been used to try to "have it all", and can become an excuse to take what you want, no matter whom that hurts. As a group of Tantric professionals, we entered discussion about this. Is this actually a path for growth and expansion, or it is causing us unnecessary pain? Join us on our red table discussion on the topic... More videos and podcasts on www.livetantra.com With (in order of appearance): Shashi Solluna (host): shashisolluna.com Kalindi Jordan: www.kalindijordan.com Hajnalka Makk: www.hajnalkamakk.com Maria Fazzingo: www.energyoflove-tantra.com

Today I chat with Kalindi Jordan, a teacher or Tantra, Tao and Sexual Healing based in the UK. Her work really specializes in the healing that is required before we can have the sexual experiences we desire...and even the sexual experiences we haven't yet even dreamed of! Often we get so focused on trying to attain the expansive experience or pleasure we long for, that we don't realize that healing in our body and also our mind are actually essential steps before that can happen. Past traumas can shut us down in various ways. But also our thought patterns can deeply affect our sexual capacity. Kalindi has worked so deeply with women on these areas that she has developed a very profound understanding of how thoughts affect the body, and blocks are created. In this podcast, we chat about her findings and how women and couples can move through blockages. As she also works with teens, we chat about how to work with the next generation. Find out more about her work at https://www.kalindijordan.com/