Nina Priya Ma David, MA, E-RYT 500 is founder/director of Creative Clinics and known for innovative adaptation and integration of Tantra Yoga science and philosophy in medical treatment and educational curriculum planning,  as well as bringing “Sweetheart Tantra Yoga” to  monastery and ashram retreat settings.

Certified in Ipsalu Tantra, Raja Yoga Education and Therapeutics,  and mentored at IFC Mahavidya Temple & School in South India, Priya Ma addresses sacred sexuality in relation to all phases of life cycle – with special provisions for diverse, under-served, sick and suffering populations and their caregivers.  Over 25 years serving medical, educational and spiritual organizations including Integral Yoga Institute, Satchidananda Ashram, Beth Israel Medical and SUNY Downstate Medical Centers, Lowenstein/Beth Abraham Family Health Services, Visiting Nurses Service of NY, Hospital for Special Surgery, Fordham University, World Council of Churches, National Council on Aging and the International Yoga Therapy Conference.

Presentation: BLISS THERAPY

Bliss is defined as perfect happiness, joy or gladness. It’s the opposite of “burn-out.” By achieving and maintaining true Bliss in our personal lives, we become “fit” for a lifetime of quality service to others.

Those attending this session will:

• Learn some spiritual, historical and clinical background on why Bliss is such a valuable aspect of healing, wellness and effectiveness in life.
• Learn how Bliss is related to Classical Tantra and Sacred Sexuality.
• Personally experience some simple, yet powerful “Bliss formulas” suitable for personal and professional life.

Anita DeFrancesco, M.A.,  Intimacy and Relationship Educator. Her focus and vision have been the evolution of spirituality, sexuality, and teaching others to awaken from separation and suffering and to embrace the modern world with oneness and love.  She helps people to liberate and let go of the grudges. She has been featured on Playboyâ s Sexcetera, Fox and MTV. She maintains residence both in New York and Los Angeles. She is the author of “Live Free” which can be found on amazon.

www.tantrawisdom.com

Presentation:  Tantra Wisdom

In this Tantra Wisdom workshop you will have the opportunity to release and let go of the hate so that your tantra can show up!

You will become more aware of your own presence and life purpose. Emotional disorders disturb the natural breathing patterns causing the body to form armor and defensive behavior. You will learn to have a direct relation between the breath and the feelings resulting in authentic sexual pleasure and love.

Benefits are:

• Express your hidden voice
• Undo defensive character and dissolve body armor
• Expand your breathing ability
• Decrease emotional head noise of anger/jealousy
• Stimulate pelvic energy
• Release bloocked orgasmic response
• Open to a higher sexual energy
• Connect to your primal animal and pleasure zone
• Regain joy and playfulness

Steve Karuna Maitri has been a Zen Buddhist practitioner and meditation teacher in the Washington, DC area for more than a decade. In his practice, he combines mindfulness meditation, deep listening, spanking and massage to help his clients transform their lives and move forward on the path towards being whole. He has worked in partnership with psychotherapists to help clients release blocked emotions and change negative behavior patterns. He also works with couples to understand how spanking can deepen and transform their loving relationships.

Rev. Jenellen Fischer received her seminary and spiritual counseling training at The New Seminary Interfaith Minister Training Program, and One Spirit Interfaith Seminary of NYC where she was ordained in 2007.   She is a Spiritual Counselor, Liturgical Singer, Reiki Master, Intuitive Empath, Energetic Healer, and a Sensual Shaman, utilizing sensual energy for the healing of geographic locations, people, and animals.  She has been facilitating spiritual exploration for adults and children for over 20 years through her educational, meditation, and womenâ s spiritual support groups. As a sacred sexuality practitioner, along with her teaching and spiritual partner Steve Karuna Maitri, she is committed to helping expand peopleâ s awareness of the powerful therapeutic benefits and joys of sacred spanking.

and Rev. Jenellen Fischer offer group workshops, private instruction, and personal sessions in New York City and Washington, DC to individuals and couples who wish to learn more about or experience Sacred Spanking as a modality for stress release, transformational healing, and expanding loving relationships.

Go to www.SpankingForWellness.com for more info!

Presentation: Sacred Spanking: for Health, Healing & Happiness

For so many of us, spanking can act as a direct gateway to our emotions, sexuality, happiness and well being. Yet this practice has gone unrecognized as the powerful healing modality that it truly is. Steve Karuna Maitri and Rev. Jenellen Fischer, practitioners and innovators in this sacred art, want to show you the limitless possibilities that Sacred Spanking offers for creating deep connection, understanding, emotional health and absolutely transcendent sex. Find out how this practice can help you release blocked emotions, reduce stress and foster a deep and balanced partnership between you and those you love while adding a healthy dose of joy and playfulness to your life.

Scot Vighi: A healthy living yogi and guide for 20 years, Scot helps you to breathe and move and reassess being physically fit using skills from Kundalini yoga and Qi-gong breathing: ancient arts of energy alignment, orientation, and “allowing&learning&remembering.”

Find out more about Scott’s work at scotvighi.com.

Presentation: Healing through understanding: 3 breathing skills for better sex, insight, and attracting wealth

Isis Phoenix is a Sensual Shaman who was initiated into her spiritual path in 2003.  She balances her time as a spiritual performance artist and professional Sensual Shamanic Practitioner.  She is also a Reiki Master and Ordained Minister and Certified Yoga Teacher.

In 2007, after several years of working professionally in the sacred sexual healing arts, she went on to found Naked Yoga NYC an internationally recognized nude yoga movement celebrating the beauty and spiritual freedom and equalizing energy of practicing yoga in the nude.  She has done countless interviews and press articles on the naked yoga movement with Metromix, Timeout, Jane magazine, NY Post, Tantra Café, NY Spirit, Fox News, BBC, Elle Magazine, Marie Claire, Fitness Magazine, MSNBC, Vogue, and Cosmopolitan.

Her current focus in her work is on Shamanism and Sacred Sexuality and unifying the Holy Body and Sensual Spirit in one-ness with all that is.  This fall she will offer an apprenticeship for those interested in pursuing this work personally and professionally.

More at www.sensualshaman.com

Presentation: Sensual Shamanism:  Embodying the Elements

Join Isis Phoenix for this 40-minute presentation and learn how to…

• Create a broader understanding of the range and sexual life force energy within each human being and how it can be influenced, expanded, and intensified by unifying with nature and natureâ s energies
• Identify the sexual element (earth, wind, water, fire) energetic imprint each individual most commonly associates their sexual energy and compatibility with and to explore merging with this element individually and in relationship to another person.
• Expand individual awareness of human’s orgasmic energy in relationship to Earth’s Orgasmic energy

Amy Jo Goddard is a sexuality educator/professor, writer, filmmaker, and activist. Chosen as one of Go! Magazine’s “100 Women We Love” for 2010, she is a sought after speaker and workshop facilitator, traveling to colleges, universities, communities and conferences teaching workshops and speaking about sexuality. This year she launched her intensive program for women in New York City, the Women’s Sexuality Empowerment Apprenticeship.

Amy Jo maintains a private sex coaching practice, is co-author of Lesbian Sex Secrets for Men and is a contributing author of All About Sex: A Family Resource Guide on Sex and Sexuality. Her article about queer performance artists and activism was published in 2007 in the Social Justice Journal and she has been published in numerous other publications including LOFT and Bust Magazine. Amy Jo was host of CherryBomb.com’s web stream program “Fresh Advice’s developing, researching, writing and performing over 60 episodes on women’s sexuality.

A professional trainer of sexuality professionals, medical students, college students and youth for fifteen years, she has taught courses relating to sexuality at the City University of New York and the University of California at Santa Barbara. Amy Jo has taught breast and pelvic exams to medical/nursing students for 8 years and she is director/producer of the forthcoming documentary, At Your Cervix, a film that depicts this dynamic work.
www.amyjogoddard.com
www.atyourcervixmovie.com

Presentation: The Ritual of Sex

Sex, at its best, is a ritual. Sometimes when people’s sex lives become tedious, monotonous, or boring, they disengage or think something is wrong with their relationship or with their own sexuality. In actuality, identifying this pattern can indicate that one’s sex life needs a jolt of creativity! In this workshop, we’ll identify some red flags and explore ways to get creative about sexuality, honor it as a ritual and make it something that excites and/or reinvigorates us! We’ll share ideas for ritualizing our erotic lives and participants will be inspired to develop a sexy ritual they can try alone, with a partner or in a group setting.

is a down to earth goddess who teaches, Tantra yoga, sacred sexuality, and polyamory. She is the author of Don’t Drink the Punch: An Adventure in Tantra, Sacred Sexual Healing with Baba Dez Nichols as well as numerous stage plays. She recently released an instructional DVD entitled Ethics for Non-Monogamous Ninjas with REiD Mihalko and appeared on the Tyra Banks Show, Discovery Channel, Morning Show Live, Inside Edition, MTV s True Life. She is the founder of SD Tantra Theater and has written and produced numerous professional plays, screenplays, articles and appeared in a handful of documentaries, all about relationship and sexuality. She specializes in working with artists, healers and visionaries. She’s been navigating an open Tantric marriage for the last 7 years and currently lives in San Diego with her husband, Michael. www.BlissCoach.com

Short Presentation: A Taste of Tantra Theater (40-minutes)

Most of us have an analytical understanding of our story, meaning that we could tell someone our story.  However, in the process of using the expressive arts to craft our stories, our paradigm is irrevocably altered. Old suffering is observed and released. Connection is realized. A new consciousness emerges that allows for humorous self-reflection. Ultimately, we experience a greater acceptance of self and a freedom of being. As a community we will be able to witness and share our sories!

Special appearance/performance: Swami Maha Lingam-Ji by Michael McClure! Michael uses comedy and magic to procure a tantric master with one of the worlds most talented penisis!

ROUNDUP EXCLUSIVE: Kamla Devi Workshop (2-hrs, $25 per person)

Your Own Tantra Theater Experience!

Have you ever seen a sexy play or movie and thought, I wish I could be up there sharing my story, but you were too shy or scared to do anything about it?

Let this year’s Sacred Sexuality Round-Up transform that!

This is an interactive playshop which introduces the theater technologies necessary to foster stage confidence and start your process of scripting your sacred sexual stories. All experience levels welcome and encouraged! Never been on stage? No worries! Already an actor? Take your craft a few notches deeper by freeing-up and integrating your personal, sexual journey into your work!

In this 2-hour playshop we will create a sacred space to help you write, talk, improvise and share your personal narratives. Tantra Theater is a powerful new medium that uses comedy, drama, and dance to educate, entertain, and enlighten. This work can be deeply ego confronting but it can help you express yourself fully on stage, on camera, in relationship or in any other circumstance in life.

Benefits from experiencing the Tantra Theater workshop:

• Stage presence and confidence
• An expanded sense of intimacy and community
• Freedom from your self-limiting stories

Date: Sunday, Sept 26th
Time: 2-4pm
Cost: $25 per person

Purchase tickets HERE.

More RoundUp workshops HERE.

Shanti & Arjuna are married to each other and married to the ideals of The Transformational Warriors. They believe firmly that great relationships require great risk for transformation to take place. We need to risk our vulnerability and ego by exposing our soft underbellies to go deeper. THIS is where the seeds of FUN are planted! And the Transformational Warriors are all about FUN, their tag line “Saving the Planet from Boring Relationships!” Ecstatic relationships die when the FUN dies, plain and simple. Come discover how to have more FUN in your lives!

Go to the Transformational Warriors website!

Presentation: Conscious Loving Couples Panel

Lisa is a coach and creator of the Loving Your Love Life approach. Loving Your Love Life facilitates our movement into the state of natural connection and pleasure through open-hearted awareness. We move beyond our limits of how we think life and relating should work into the creative unknown and expand our capacity for pleasure.

Whether we are practicing greater presence in our lives or are expanding our sensual relating, we often run into the limitations of our capacity for feeling good. Our growth then is furthered by expanding our capacity for pleasure.

Without expanding our capacity for pleasure, old habits of defense, self-protection, judgment, expectation, and evaluation will kick in and stop us from experiencing the rewards of greater presence or expansive sensuality.

Lisa guides people into softly opening to the here and now. From a place of open-hearted connection, people learn to tap into the natural flow of life and pleasure in their bodies. Reaching for greater pleasure sets up a positive feedback loop for opening into presence and for expanding sensually and for authentic relating. Along the way, she guides people in unraveling their old defensive and judgmental habits.

How good can YOU have it?

Lisa’s daily training ground is her relationship with Park, her fiance. They are exploring how happy two people can be together and keep reaching beyond what they previously thought was possible. Starting from a rigid moralistic background, she has been led by a continually expansive thread throughout her life. From a beginning M.S. in engineering and MBA, she added graduate studies in theology and psychology and has been guided through sensual expansion with Lafayette Morehouse and the Welcomed Consensus. Experiences of expansion of consciousness have been profoundly influenced by Byron Katie, Adyashanti, Eckhart Tolle, and A.H. Almaas.

Presentation: Sex Here Now: Softy Opening to What IS

Our bodies are naturally set up for pleasure. When we savor each sensation, surrendering to the pleasure of this moment, our bodies open up and the natural connection moves sensation through our touch. Pleasure is discovered in a fresh exploration through each new interaction.

Deep gratification is available as we authentically and open-heartedly share together. From this place, our need to protect and guard ourselves drops away. Our inner critic and endless barrage of expectations drop into the background. What is here, what is real between us, feeds the building pleasure.

We learn to expand our capacity for pleasure, escaping less frequently into our old habits of defense, self-protection, judgment, and evaluation. We relish our whole body experience.

Whether you are a single or couple wanting to increase pleasure in your life or are new to bringing present-moment awareness to your sexuality or are masters of intimacy, this discussion will facilitate your movement into the next level of deepening presence, openness, and pleasure.

Lisa will lead an interactive discussion on how we tap into our body’s natural state of pleasure and let go of the defenses and judgments and limitations so that we can expand our capacity for pleasure.

Mark A. Michaels (Swami Umeshanand Saraswati) and Patricia Johnson (Devi Veenanand) are a devoted married couple and have been teaching Tantra together since 1999. Their approach combines traditional lineage-based Tantra with the best contemporary methods so that students can bring heightened awareness and an expanded capacity for pleasure into all aspects of everyday life. Michaels and Johnson are the authors of The Essence of Tantric Sexuality (Llewellyn, 2006), which won the USA Book News National Best Books 2007 Award in Health: Sexuality. Their second book, Tantra for Erotic Empowerment: The Key to Enriching Your Sexual Life (Llewellyn 2008) won the 2008 USA Book News Award, also in Health: Sexuality, was selected as an Indie Excellence Awards finalist in New Age Non-Fiction, and was a ForeWord Magazine Books of the Year Award finalist in the Body, Mind and Spirit category.

The couple has taught throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, the Caribbean, Europe, and Australia, combining a traditional lineage-based tantric approach with the best contemporary methods so that students can bring heightened awareness and an expanded capacity for pleasure into all aspects of everyday life. They are senior students of Tantric pioneer Dr. Jonn Mumford (Swami Anandakapila Saraswati). Dr. Mumford has named them his lineage holders for the Americas and Europe, and Sunyata co-author of The Jewel in the Lotus has also named Michaels his successor. In addition, they have studied Bhakti Yoga with Bhagavan Das and Tantra with Dr. Rudolph Ballentine.

Michaels and Johnson are co-founders of the Pleasure Salon, a monthly gathering in New York City that brings together sex-positive people and pleasure activists from a variety of communities.

Presentation: Extreme Tantra: Walking Into the Fear with Aghora Tantra

“By that which one falls, by that shall one rise.”

Aghora means “without fear.” In this workshop we will discuss some of the more extreme Tantric practices in which social and personal boundaries are consciously crossed for the purpose of spiritual evolution. Tantra recognizes that one pathway to opening up higher consciousness is through shocking the system. Practices such as piercing, meditation in cremation grounds, and imbibing of mind altering substances are traditionally practiced.

Along with these traditional rituals, we will discuss ways in which the Aghoric approach can adapted and employed in modern, Western society. We will also discuss the often misunderstood fierce aspects of the deities, Kali and Shiva