Tantra Made Easy

This episode is exploring the field of Conscious BDSM, renamed BDSI (bondage, domination, submission and impact) by Jonathan Beger. This field of exploration is becoming increasingly popular, even in mainstream society, and yet still the depths of which are often misunderstood or indeed misused. Several facilitators have been creating a new field, they call Tantric BDSM/BDSI, which works with trauma healing, shadow work, energy awareness and cultivating higher states of consciousness. I chat with Jonathan to find out more about it. Find Jonathan at www.consensual.eu.

https://live-tantra-academy.teachable.com/p/tantric-massage-for-couples

Tantric Massage is a way for couples to enter into deep intimacy and union together, as well as a way to totally transform their love life.

I chat with Maria Sky about how a couple can use Tantric Massage, what it is, the difference between healing and pleasure, the triggers that can arise and how they can enter this world together.

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Both classical tantra and neo tantra have always been known as being controversial paths, diving shamelessly into shadows such as desire, lust and longing. Recently there has been a growing awareness around trauma, and participants are often looking to Tantra as a place to heal traumas. Others report that the Tantra field re-traumatized them with its confrontational practices, or questionable boundaries between facilitators and students (most schools do not allow this, but a few believe it should be allowed). Today I talk to Buster Radvik, who is both a Tantra facilitator and a professional psychotherapist, and we explore the question: can we heal trauma with Tantra?

Tantra is sometimes seen as a pretty heteronormative field, with its teachings on masculine and feminine energy. But once you start to dive into it, it becomes clear that these terms are about how energy flows, and is not limited to the physical body or gender. In fact, we could rename masculine and feminine energy as "Yang" and "Yin", or as penetrative energy and receptive energy. What we can see then, is that the way we channel energy can be a choice. A choice that is open to everyone, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation or preference. I chat with Kamela Love about Queer Tantra, and the experiences available. In this conversation, we explore how it is for same-sex couples to explore Tantra. But also beyond even that...Tantric practices can give us all the opportunity to step out of the box. We chat about the new term: "pansexual" and how many individuals find that there is a meeting point beyond identification...an experience of letting sexual energy flow that is not limited by who we think we are or who we think we are relating with. ***** Kamela Love (you'll find her on facebook as Kamela Peace) is a lifelong student of mysticism & Sufism, a devoted sacred sexuality practitioner and EFT/tapping practitioner, a Senior Love Coach, a skilled facilitator of sex-positive workshops and play spaces, a community harmonizer through family mediation and restorative justice work… she/they particularly love curating spaces for the queer community! Kamela is on a mission to open hearts, bodies, and minds deeply to healing powers within sexual expression and to empowerment through aligning our sexual energy with the Sacred. www.TransformIntoLove.com

Margot Anand was very much at the beginnings of Neo Tantra, as she was asked to teacher Tantra by the mystic Osho. She has been a huge part of the development of the modern Tantra scene.

In this interview she chats about the changes she has seen in this scene and the future of Tantra in the world.

Hear her juicy stories and an incredible perspective on the evolution of Neo Tantra.

For the training she refers to: CLICK HERE.

We are drawn to relating so that we can enjoy giving and receiving...the very foundation of what makes a relationship. And yet, these are areas that we are not taught about in our education, and indeed there is a lot of confusion about it all.

One of the leading voices on this topic is Betty Martin, who created the Wheel of Consent. This is a practice and a model for exploring the intricacies of true giving receiving, both as the "doer" and being "done to". Once we start to takes these pieces a apart, only then can we begin to understand all of these dynamics.

In this interview, you will learn:

• * Why doing and giving are not synonymous
• * Why being done to and receiving are not synonymous
• * Understand more about how to take pleasure
• * Why receiving is so challenging
• * How to learn what you really desire
• * How to activate your senses to really take pleasure from touch
• * Why even long term couples can benefit from consent and agreements

Find out more about Betty here: https://bettymartin.org/ and her book here: https://wheelofconsentbook.com/

Tibetan Tantra is probably the path least known by Westerners. Most of us in the modern Western world follow NeoTantra and dive into Taoist Sexual Arts and some classical Indian Tantra. This might be partly due to the fact that Tibetan Tantra is much a monastic path, practised largely by monks. This may be one of the reasons it is not so seen in Western culture. Also many of the teachings are secret and not revealed until the practitioner has attained a certain level of personal achievement.

Today Shashi Solluna chats with Jampa Stewart, who has dived deep into Tibetan Tantra as well as the Tao Tantric Arts. The intention is to explore what are the difference and similarities of the different paths.

https://valleyspiritcoop.com/jampa-stewart/

What is the connection between kundalini rising, the energy body, energetic sex and astral sex?

Perhaps one of the few people on this planet who can talk with confidence on these topics is Michael Winn, founder of Healing Tao USA, who has been facilitating the Taoist Sexual Arts and Inner Alchemy for over 40 years.

Following on from his class in the LiveTantra Kundalini Symposium, I chat with Michael about his own first experiences with astral sex and what he learned from it. 

In this juicy and alive conversation you will discover:

• The difference between raising sexual energy up to the heavens, and circulating it in the body.
• All about energy orgasm and spiritual orgasm
• Detailed descriptions of astral sex
• Micheal shares his first experience of being "sexually taken" by a woman in the astral plane!
• He talks about learning how to work with energy more consciously and deliberately.
• Michael will share about the profound energetic connection he has with his wife of 25 years, and how they even transcended life and had energetic sex after she had passed away (get a box of tissues ready for this story, as it is very touching)
• All about porn and how it operates on the astral plane

Yes, this interview is far out there and yet somehow also down to earth.

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Dating is something that is constantly evolving. It used to be picking her up and taking her for dinner. Over the last decades we have seen online dating simply soar in popularity, and speed dating and other such live events to facilitate connections.  But what about in the world of Tantra? Surely a field so focused on sex, love and connection should be full of dating options. And how do facilitators merge tantric practices together with dating? Plus, with recent lockdowns, how can Tantra teach us to create the experiences that fulfill us? Today I chat with Eleanor Rutman who runs her own Sensual Speed Dating night in Switzerland. She is a trained tantra facilitator and merges tantra with dating! (Plus, she tells me, had a lot of personal experience with dating in her time!). We talk about what Tantra can bring to dating, plus how we can carry it into meaningful online experiences. *********** Join Eleanor on a live online Tantric Speed Dating event on community.LiveTantra.com *********** Eleanor Rutman is a Tao Tantric Arts trained facilitator and teaching assistant. She is the founder of Sensual Speed Dating, based in Switzerland. She has led over 190 dating events, both live and online. She fuses dating with tantric tools for intimacy, opening up the heart and meaningful connection. More info http://eleanorrutman.ch

This is an unusual episode, because I am interviewing my own partner! I wanted him to share how he chose me. Because this man has impressed me deeply since I met him, and the process of being "wooed" by him was extraordinary. 

I know that I can be intimidating to men, purely because I am a well-known Tantra teacher. That in itself can be enticing, but also intimidating. In the past I had men approach me to get something from me, or there was a power struggle there. But with Shahid, he stood solidly in his own power, in his own center, whilst choosing me fully.

In this chat, we talk about our story. How a garden designer from North Netherlands came about choosing a powerful tantrika who lived in Asia. How he overcame his fears. How he moved from polyamory to going deep with one, and why. The journey from the first kiss to a full surrender of the heart.

We made this to inspire others. Our path is not for everyone. But we hope that there is something there for others like us, who wish to find  way to be empowered and yet in love.

Find us together at www.thetantriccouple.com where we run retreats for couples.

For women: joi us this weekend for the Call in Your King Symposium https://livetantra.kartra.com/page/callinyourking