Sex Magic: The Law of Attraction In Action In The Bedroom and Beyond!

October 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Workshop #2 with Kamala Devi and Reid Mihalko
Saturday, Oct 29th
2pm-3:30pm
Purchase Tickets HERE

Sex Magic: The Law of Attraction In Action In The Bedroom and Beyond!

Sex Magic can help you supercharge your goals and upgrade your life… But how does this ancient tantric method of Manifestation really work? Can you do this practice solo? Can you do it with a beloved? What about in a group?!

Perhaps you’ve read or seen The Secret and understand the basics of the law of attraction, but did you know that sexual energy, when harnessed and focused correctly can also be the turbo boost to rocket your manifestations foward?

Join us Saturday afternoon for Workshop #2 in our Roundup Workshop Series where Kamala will give you the download on Sex Magic and The SHAMAN Method, and Reid will give your practical tools for getting your intentions in alignment with your self-expression and how to harness the power of Synergy so that your turbo-charged rocket stays on course!

In this information-packed, 90-minute workshop, we will cover:

  • What Sex Magic is, what it’s not, and the basics of Kamala’s SHAMAN Method
  • Instruction for Strategic Goal Setting
  • Reid’s tips on how to tell if your desires are in alignment with your calling and how to bring them more into alignment
  • How you can “turbo-charge” your results with the power of Synergy
  • Tools for stimulating your visualization process
  • Creative Procedures for manifestation
  • Creating a realistic plan to make it work
  • How you can focus your attentions and intentions during love making to bring about your wildest dreams!
  • Where you can go for more resources
  • And more!

Kamala Devi of BlissCoach.com 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 Earning Your BLACKBELT In Relationships: 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.

Kamala 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.

 

Short Presentation: Sacred Sexual Storytelling

Performance art and producing your own one-man or one-woman show is big and scary undertaking which requires creativity, skill and direction. And its one of the most creative/rewarding ways to get your ideas out to the public!  Kamala Devi shares the vulnerable inside details on how to write/direct/produce and get the spotlight focused on you!!! As the director of Tantra Theater, she recently produced her own, “Sacred Slut Show” and knows how to coach you to chose the right material, venue, collaborators, and how to promote and publicize your show!  Come hear about her secret weapon and learn how to use Tanta to transmit quantum inspiration to everyone in the audience. www.tantratheater.tv

Discussion Panelist - Ecstatic Birth, Ecstatic Familes: Raising Children with their Sensual Instincts Intact (Saturday)

Special appearance/performance by Kamala: Kamala will open up Friday night’s Sexual Diversity, Identity and Expression Symposium Discussion Panel  with a short piece from her one woman Sacred Slut show!
Founder and Co-Producer of the Sacred Sexuality Round-Up and founder of ReidAboutSex.com, Reid understands from experience that great relationship communication skills are things that many of us DID NOT inherent from our parents growing up. Whether facilitating a workshop on how to be more romantic, lecturing to a standing-room only college crowd, working on a movie script about sex and relationships, or giving a press interview about safer sex, Reid knows that better relationships are not only possible but probable, and he seeks to share his know-how with the world at large.

Reid’s teaching and speaking events have been attended by close to 30,000 individuals from myriad walks of life, orientations, relationship styles, countries and religions. Known for his charisma, wit and emphasis on integrity, Reid travels the country teaching, coaching, consulting and collaborating on fulfilling his mission: Create more self-esteem, self-confidence and health for adults in and out of the bedroom.

Reid has been a featured speaker at dozens of conferences on relationships and sexuality and is a sought-after presenter and teacher at colleges and sex positive stores across the country.

Reid has been a writer and producer on a number of films and television projects about sex and relationships, and appears regularly in the media. He has also appeared on the Emmy award-winning talk show Montel, Fox News, VH1’s Scott Baio is 45 and Single, Showtime’s Penn & Teller’s Bulls**t!, Canada’s The Sex Files and SexTV, and the short-lived Life & Style, on NPR, Sirius’ Maxim Radio and Cosmo Radio, and in Marie Claire, GQ, Details, People, Newsweek and The National Enquirer, as well as media across the globe in thirteen countries and at least seven languages.

Follow Reid twittering as @ReidAboutSex.

Saturday Discussion Panel #2: Dating the Goddess: Tantrica Tips for Courting Sexually and Spiritually Empowered Women

Short presentation: Tantric Dating: Dos and Don’ts for Courting Gods and Goddesses 

If dating spiritual, heart-opened beings has sometimes left you struggling with the “day to day” necessities of relationships and often has you wanting to throw in the sarong and go back to looking on Match.com or Craigslist… Read more HERE.

 


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Saturday Night – Masquerade Halloween Drumming Party

October 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The Sacred Sexuality Round-Up’s ecstatic Saturday evening event is only two days shy of Halloween… It’s only appropriate that we invite your inner Goddess and Ghoul to join us!

  • Interested in the spiritual side of sex and intimacy but appreciate folks who don’t take themselves “too seriously?”
  • Perhaps you’re a workshop junkie looking for your next rush of experiential learning and still want to have fun this Halloween?
  • Like to dive deep with people you’ve just met AND have plenty of fun…

Well, look no further ’cause we’ve got juuuuuuust the Trick O’ Treat you’ve been craving!

Trick O’ Treating for the Spiritually-Minded meets old fashioned drumming circle meets raw chocolate and dancing! 

Join us Saturday, October 29th, starting at 8pm for something the likes of which Times Square has NEVER seen!

Whether you’re into Tantra, worshiping the Goddess, aligning your Chakras, or just curious about sacred sexuality, our Masquerade Halloween Drumming Puja is going to uplift your spirits in more ways than one!

Come dressed as your favorite goddess or ghoul or guru while the veils between worlds are at their thinnest! Bring your drums and dancing feet! Get ready for an evening of spirit raising social networking and fantastic fun!

Special Performances…

Prizes for best costumes! Costumes not required, but encouraged!!! Join in the fun and help spread the word!!! And bring your drums if you got ‘em!

Time: 8pm-Midnite
Location: Reflections Yoga
250 west 49th Street
2nd Floor
New York City, NY 10019
Ticket Cost: $25, includes Raw Chocolate Trick O’ Treats while they last!

Buddah O’Lantern wishes you a Happy Halloween!

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Dating the Goddess: Tantrica Tips for Courting Sexually and Spiritually Empowered Women – Saturday Afternoon Discussion Panel #2

October 20, 2011 By 1 Comment


Dating the Goddess: Tantrica Tips for Courting Sexually and Spiritually Empowered Women! 
Discussion Panel

Topics to include: Sacred Sexuality in Dating, Communication, Sexual Self-Confidence, Long Term Relationships, Monogamy vs Spiritual Openness, and Much More!

This special panel, moderated by Sacred Sexuality Roundup creator Reid Mihalko, will consists of some of America’s best Tantricas, each ready and willing to share their most sage relationship and sex advice on the rewarding (and sometimes challenging!) journey of courting sexually and spiritually empowered women! Join us!

Saturday, Oct 29, 2011 – 4pm-5pm
Register HERE!

Moderated by Reid Mihalko

Panelists… 

 

Amy Jo Goddard thrives on creating environments that foster growth and assist people in having the delicious sex and relationships they desire.  She believes that healthy, non-violent, fulfilling relationships are a key to changing the world.  As a sexuality educator, sex & relationship coach, writer, performing artist and activist she has spent 15 years bringing her message to the people using a wide array of tactics.  A professional trainer of sexuality professionals, medical students, college students and youth for over thirteen years now, 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 10 years and she is director/producer of the forthcoming documentary, At Your Cervix, a film that depicts this work (www.atyourcervixmovie.com).  Amy Jo was host of CherryBomb.com’s web stream program “Fresh Advice,” developing, researching, writing and performing over 60 episodes on women’s sexuality.  She 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.  She maintains a private sex & relationship coaching practice and travels to colleges, universities and conferences teaching workshops and speaking about sexuality.  She teaches her Women’s Sexuality Empowerment Apprenticeship in New York City and can be found blogging about all things sexual that make her tingle at www.amyjogoddard.com.

Amy Jo earned a Master’s degree in Human Sexuality and Health Education from New York University and a Bachelor’s degree in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of California at Santa Barbara’s College of Creative Studies. Amy Jo’s work is informed by her international study of human sexuality, her knowledge and experience with ritual and shamanistic work, her connection and service to women’s communities, her own personal journey of sexual empowerment, and her deep work as a sexual being.

Teeni Dakini of www.teenidakini.com has pursued personal growth and emotional release since 1991. In 2005 she launched her sacred sexuality classes, focusing on the healing possibilities through embracing one’s sexual life force energy.

Teeni continues to study with renowned energy teachers and medicine women. She is passionate about masculine/feminine polarities in relationship, healthy communication, and clean energetic interaction as a responsible adult in a world that is moving into a new consciousness. Her energy awareness work brings much-needed skills and boundaries into everyday interactions.

Teeni’s focus is supporting people in being real about who they are and what they need: emotionally, physically, mentally, spiritually and sexually.

Reverend Charmaine of SensuousMystic.com was ordained by the New Seminary, a school of interfaith theology in New York City. She is a Reiki Master, certified hypnotherapist, trained aromatherapist, and tantric energy specialist.

Reverend Charmaine is a member of AASECT (American Association of Sex Educators Counselors and Therapists). She is also a member of ASEP (Association of Sexual Energy Professionals).

She assists organizations such as Alternatives to Domestic Violence; the New York City school system; and the New School for Social Research, where she taught stress relief and chakra balancing, and performed aura readings for students.

Reverend Charmaine has been interviewed on radio station WWRL, Channel 9 News, and has also been profiled for her personal growth in the holistic magazine To Your Health.

She was recently featured on Sirius Radio’s Playboy Channel, where she was interviewed by host Deanna Brooks regarding her book, The Sensuous Mystic: Uniting Sex and Spirit. She later fielded questions from listeners – one of whom enthusiastically called it “an awesome show”!

She has led workshops in the tri-state area since 1992, and is continually increasing her work as a facilitator of personal empowerment through workshops and one-on-one sessions: the individual sessions include sexual counseling, spiritual counseling, tantric energy work, aura readings and cleansings, chakra balancings, and spiritual tarot readings; her workshops include chakra intensives, Goddess rituals, Second Sunday Services and various others that continue to support empowerment for all.

Her unique methods center on our natural ability to evolve by healing ourselves and others. With her guidance and assistance, one is lead through a series of letting-go processes. These experiences enable one to work through and leave behind a lifetime of fears and paralyzing self-doubt, to attain the position of strength and power that is rightfully their own.

In July, 2000, in a primitive and intense ritual, she was initiated into Goddesshood. From this ceremony, she realized that she’d been called to bring forth the unification of Sex and Spirit.

Paula Tursi is the Founder and Director of Reflections Yoga and the Reflections Yoga Teacher Training Program. She has been working with alternative healing practices for over twenty years. She specializes in the combination of yoga, breath therapy and meditation. She uses these techniques in her class and private coaching sessions, giving her students tools to cope with the challenges of daily life. Paula holds yoga retreats and teacher trainings world wide, where she teaching movement awareness techniques mixed with the yoga to create a clear connection of the mind and body.

Paula holds a Masters degree in Psychology from Columbia University and a Masters degree in Education from Hunter College. She did her clinical post-graduate training at the Milton H. Erickson Society for Psychotherapy and Hypnosis. She teaches classes, holds corporate workshops and offers individual instruction in breath awareness, partner yoga and spiritual coaching.

More goddesses to come!

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Super Food Demos & Tantric Tasting Immersions – An Experiential Hands-on Playshop with Imani & Atia

October 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment

woman with dark skin and full lips seductively eating a moist cherryWorkshop #4
Sunday, Oct 30th
2-3:30pm
Purchase Tickets HERE

Embody your most passionate, alive & authentic self and maximize your orgasmic potential! Together we will explore our relationship to food and how it impacts our sexuality. By eating the most nutritious & delicious foods the planet has to offer we can increase our energy, stamina and ability to be fully awakened. By fusing together the worlds of Tantra and living foods we are able to experience abundance in all her magical forms!

Many of us know we are what we eat but often split ourselves from the experience of being in our bodies in all realms. Through simple exercises we will delve into the current role food plays into our lives and how we can become even juicier by indulging in food that is rich in vitamins, minerals and nutrients. Learn what superfoods are good for you, heighten your states of ecstasy, connect with your instinctual and intuitive self, learn simple recipes for a High Vibe life!

Within the ritual space we co-create as community we will discover the tastes & textures of a variety of foods and become inspired to integrate new ways of eating and loving into our lives. Through guided participatory, hands-on exercises we re-unite with our tribe and access heightened states of awareness while embracing the sensual, spiritual role food plays in each of our lives. The result is a deep, soul awakening where our intuitive psyche is re-activated and we are able to imprint the frequency of elevated consciousness into every cell of our being.

MamaLicious Line Featuring: sustainable * sensual * spiritual * superfood

  • Edible Live Love Butters & Yoni Potions
  • Mineral Rich Chocolate Delights
  • High Frequency Flower Essences
  • Nutrient Dense Living Foods
  • Erotic Clothing Line
  • Organic Body Care
  • Detox Boxes

Imani Mamalution of www.mamalution.com is a Sovereign High Vibe Priestess & the Visionary behind the MamaLicious Luscious Live Line & the Super Food Starter Kit. She serves as a Tantrika dedicated to the healing of Mother Earth & her inhabitants. She is a passionate mother of six “free-range” activist kids & dedicated to raising them with their instincts intact. Their all organic café has served as a learning laboratory for both her children & the community for the past decade. Her message is one of RADICAL homesteading, FEMININE sovereignty and food FREEDOM shaped by the power we have as western women to change the course of history simply with the ways we raise our families and do business as the leading consumers on the planet.

She is the author of The Absence of Soil & Recipes for a High Vibe Life: 5 ingredients or Less and offers MamaLicious Demos & Tantric Tastings around the globe to awaken & activate others to their fullest potential. Super Foods for Self-Preservation & Sensual Awakening activate the embodiment of our most passionate, alive & authentic selves! As community we explore the tastes & textures of the most mineral-rich & nutrient-dense foods on the planet and how to blend them into our daily lives. Through guided participatory, hands-on re-unions we experience heightened states of awareness and embrace the sensual, spiritual role food plays in each of our lives. The result is a deep, soul awakening where our intuitive psyche is re-activated and we are able to imprint the frequency of elevated consciousness into every cell of our being.

Imani is a super-nutritarian with an intense desire to secure access to mineral & nutrient dense super foods for all. She believes that real food is our birth right and has designed a business model to make it possible for other Mamapreneurs to feed their family real food and support their sustainable super food habits! She promotes peace on the planet through conscious conception, ecstatic birth, open loving, high love real-ationships, sustainable business practices, access to real food, the re-uniting of the High Vibe Tribe & re-membering that we are all One.

Short Presentation:  The Witch’s Pleasure Chest – Herbal Allies for Sexual and Reproductive Health, Safety and Pleasure

Discussion Panelist for Saturday’s Ecstatic Birth, Ecstatic Families: Raising Your Children w Their Sensuality Instincts Intact

Roundup Special: Join Imani Saturday night and her High Vibe Raw Chocolate at the Halloween Costume Puja celebration!!


sex educator Atia Marie Rolfe with a big smile and long brownish blonde hairAtia Marie Rolfe  of SexualAwakeningCentre.com is a Sexual Healer, Reiki Master and Professional Coach. She has dedicated her service to supporting people achieve pleasure filled, balanced living which includes addressing and integrating relationships, sex and sexuality.

Atia offers Sacred Tantra Healing Massage for women, men and partners, as well as the Sacred G-Region Massage that to date has helped 100% of her clients experience and master female ejaculation. She teaches yoga, sacred self exploration, and a myriad of workshops throughout the world. She has supported Rutgers University neuroscience research on the female orgasm and spoken at Universities in Canada on a variety of sexuality topics. Having played professional beach volleyball for Canada, worked as a motivational speaker and workshop leader in the health and wellness field, and coached over 25,000 teachers, adults and youth in sport and in life, she is well acquainted with excellence and the complexity of the human body, and emphasizes the importance of connecting body, mind, soul, and spirit through sex, nutrition, psychology, spiritual practices and ultimately joy, pleasure, play and love.

Short presentation: Exploring Sexual Liberation

Special opportunity with Atia: Reiki and Massage to Restore and Awaken Kundalini

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The Darkside of the Light: BDSM and Kink as Sacred Sexual Practices – Sunday Afternoon Discussion Panel

October 18, 2011 By 2 Comments

The Darkside of the Light: BDSM and Kink as Sacred Sexual Practices
discussion panel

Moderated by Richard Anton Diaz


Topics to include: Where the tantric and the kinky overlap, ecstatic states, the use of ritual space, the movement of sexual and erotic energy, myths about BDSM not being spiiritual vs myths that Tantra can’t be kinky

In the spiritual world where the higher energies, especially around the 6th and 7th Chakras, are celebrated, there can sometimes exists prejudices towards the lower, “more base” Chakras and sexual desires. Similar biases often exist in sacred sexuality communities around whether certain sexual practices are spiritual, or “spiritual enough” to be sacred.

This special panel will consists of amazing individuals who have been exploring and tinkering with the energetics and dynamics of BDSM and Kink as forms of spiritual practice.

Join us for what promises to be an eye-opening and Chakra-opening discussion!

Sunday, Oct 30, 2011 – Noon-1pm
Register HERE!

Moderator:

Co-Producer of the Sacred Sex Round-Up, Richard “Anton” Diaz, is a former Ballroom dance champion. His training in the both the physical and psychological aspects of partnership dancing led him to appreciate the powerful dance between the sexes and the necessary integration of cultivated sexual energy and sensual love through conscious practice in order to achieve greater health, happiness, and longevity. Anton went on to establish Sexy Spirits in New York City in 1999; a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to creating and implementing a saner and more effective education in sexuality, intimacy, relationships, and conscious communities into our established learning systems. He is a certified Taoist Instructor under Master Mantak Chia, creator of Taontric Massage, and offers courses in Sexual energy Cultivation, Becoming Orgasmic Providers, and Sensual Loving Touch.

www.SexySpirits.com www.OrgasmicProviders.com www.MasteringYourOrgasm.com www.HotManWomanGame.com

Panelists:

Mark A. Michaels (Swami Umeshanand Saraswati) and Patricia Johnson (Devi Veenanand), of TantraPM.com, 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.

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 women’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 people’s awareness of the powerful therapeutic benefits and joys of sacred spanking.

Rev. Jenellen Fischer along with Steve 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!

Lee Harrington of www.PassionAndSoul.com is a passionate spiritual and erotic educator, gender explorer, eclectic artist and published author and editor on human sexuality and spiritual experience.  He’s been traveling the globe (from Seattle to Sydney, Berlin to Boston), teaching or talking about sexuality, psychology, kink, faith, magic and desire since 1995, and has no intention of stopping any time soon.  Along his journey he has been a brainy academic, a female adult film performer (under his previous name Bridgett Harrington), a world class sexual adventurer, an outspoken philosopher, a long-time sexuality and spirituality blogger (since 1998), a spirit worker and priest, and an award winning writer and artist.   Overall, Lee is a nice guy with a disarmingly down to earth approach to the fact that we are each beautifully complex ecosystems, and we deserve to examine the human experience from that lens.

His books include “Sacred Kink: The Eightfold Paths of BDSM and Beyond,” “Shibari You Can Use: Japanese Rope Bondage and Erotic Macramé,” the “Toybag Guide to Age Play,” and “Shed Skins: Journeying in Self-Portraits.”  He has also worked as an anthology editor on such projects as “Rope, Bondage, and Power” and “Spirit of Desire: Personal Explorations of Sacred Kink,” while contributing actively to other anthologies, magazines, blogs and collaborations.  Check out the trouble Lee has been getting into, as well as his regular podcast, spiritual pondering, tour schedule, free essays, videos and more over at www.PassionAndSoul.com.

Lady G is a former model, sex surrogate, and professional kinkster with more than ten years of experience working with sexuality.  She began her career working with Dr. Micahel Perry of Access Instructional Media, performing in several of his instructional erotica films, and later working under his supervision as a professional sex surrogate.  She is a lifestyle kinkster, and former professional who worked at the Dominion in West Los Angeles while she completed her training in alternative medicine.

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Diving into Tantra’s Kundalini and Goddess Worship

October 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Workshop #3 with Ran Baron
Saturday, Oct 29th
11am-12:30pm
Purchase Tickets HERE

In this mini-version of our weekend workshop, we’ll be delving deeper into the meditations, practices and techniques used by Tantrikas to heighten their awareness and redirect their attention inwards. We’ll be experiencing numerous processes used to connect us to one another, and work with the body towards awakening our dormant Kundalini energy. Kundalini and Tantra go hand in hand, and our practices will cover both. Our Kundalini practice will end with holding a Tantric `Yab-Yum` ceremony or practice, and the workshop will end with an empowerment Puja performed by all Shiva/male attendees, held in recognition and glorification of the divine mother or divine feminine present with us.

Ran Baron, a spiritual seeker and a public speaker in the field of theology, eastern philosophy, and mysticism. Baron has instructed numerous meditation workshops, Yoga retreats and has given hundreds of talks and lectures about the nature of spirituality and self-inquiry. He has lived through many different paths and was ordained as a Hindu priest (Brahmana), was certified as a Yoga Instructor, a Tai Chi instructor and has been studying and practicing Buddhism, Tantra, Zen, Hinduism and Yoga in many of its different flavors, sharing and teaching of his own views and vast experience in his talks. Ran emphasizes a non-dogmatic approach which allows for personal growth and an honest thirst for truth, all through an individual experience, where all spiritual paths are different colors and hues one utilizes to paint their own life’s story.

Short Presentation - Mystical Sex or Why We Do What We Do


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Ecstatic Birth, Ecstatic Families: Raising Children with their Sensual Instincts Intact – Saturday Afternoon Discussion Panel #1

September 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment


Ecstatic Birth, Ecstatic Families: Raising Children with their Sensual Instincts Intact

Discussion panel with Iman, Sheri Winston & Leela Sullivan

Topics to include: Conscious Conception, Ecstatic Birth, Sensuality, Sexuality

This special panel will consists of amazing individuals weaving sacred sexuality through the journeys of conception, pregnancy, birth and child-rearing. Join us!

Saturday, Oct 29, 2011 – Noon-1pm
Register HERE!

 

Moderator…

Imani Mamalution of www.mamalution.com is a Sovereign High Vibe Priestess & the Visionary behind the MamaLicious Luscious Live Line & the Super Food Starter Kit. She serves as a Tantrika dedicated to the healing of Mother Earth & her inhabitants. She is a passionate mother of six “free-range” activist kids & dedicated to raising them with their instincts intact. Their all organic café has served as a learning laboratory for both her children & the community for the past decade. Her message is one of RADICAL homesteading, FEMININE sovereignty and food FREEDOM shaped by the power we have as western women to change the course of history simply with the ways we raise our families and do business as the leading consumers on the planet.

She is the author of The Absence of Soil & Recipes for a High Vibe Life: 5 ingredients or Less and offers MamaLicious Demos & Tantric Tastings around the globe to awaken & activate others to their fullest potential. Super Foods for Self-Preservation & Sensual Awakening activate the embodiment of our most passionate, alive & authentic selves! As community we explore the tastes & textures of the most mineral-rich & nutrient-dense foods on the planet and how to blend them into our daily lives. Through guided participatory, hands-on re-unions we experience heightened states of awareness and embrace the sensual, spiritual role food plays in each of our lives. The result is a deep, soul awakening where our intuitive psyche is re-activated and we are able to imprint the frequency of elevated consciousness into every cell of our being.

Imani is a super-nutritarian with an intense desire to secure access to mineral & nutrient dense super foods for all. She believes that real food is our birth right and has designed a business model to make it possible for other Mamapreneurs to feed their family real food and support their sustainable super food habits! She promotes peace on the planet through conscious conception, ecstatic birth, open loving, high love real-ationships, sustainable business practices, access to real food, the re-uniting of the High Vibe Tribe & re-membering that we are all One.

Short Presentation:  The Witch’s Pleasure Chest – Herbal Allies for Sexual and Reproductive Health, Safety and Pleasure

SUNDAY WORKSHOP #4:  Super Food Demos & Tantric Tasting Immersions - An Experiential Hands-on Playshop with Imani & Atia

Roundup Special with Imani: Join Imani Saturday night and her High Vibe Raw Chocolate at the Halloween Costume Puja celebration!!

Panelists…

Sheri Winston

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Sheri Winston CNM, RN, BSN, LMT is a celebrated Wholistic Sexuality teacher.  She’s the author of Women’s Anatomy of Arousal – Secret Maps to Buried Pleasure, winner of the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) 2010 Book of the Year Award.   Sheri brings a lively, entertaining style and an integral perspective to her wide and varied curriculum of Intimate Arts & Wholistic Sexuality classes.   She’s the founder and executive director of the Center for the Intimate Arts.   Sheri’s unique and wholistic teachings are informed by her decades of practice as a certified nurse-midwife, gynecology practitioner, registered nurse, holistic healer, childbirth educator and massage therapist.   Sheri delights in presenting enlightening empowering erotic education for men and women and inspiring folks to have a lot more fun and fulfillment!

Short Presentation: Breathe Into Your Bliss

Discover how your breath is the bridge between your conscious and unconscious, the pathway to  altered states – including that of arousal. Breath is one of the foundational tools in your toolbox to enhance your erotic experiences. We’ll play with breath patterns and techniques to explore where the power of breathing can take us.

Discussion Panelist – Ecstatic Birth, Ecstatic Familes: Raising Children with their Sensual Instincts Intact (Saturday)

Kamala Devi

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Kamala Devi of BlissCoach.com 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 Earning Your BLACKBELT In Relationships: 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.

Kamala 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.

Special appearance/performance by Kamala: Kamala will open upFriday night’s Sexual Diversity, Identity and Expression Symposium Discussion Panel  with a short piece from her one woman Sacred Slut show!

Discussion Panelist on Saturday’s Ecstatic Birth, Ecstatic Families: Raising Your Children w Their Sensuality Instincts Intact 

Short Presentation: Sacred Sexual Storytelling

Performance art and producing your own one-man or one-woman show is big and scary undertaking which requires creativity, skill and direction. And its one of the most creative/rewarding ways to get your ideas out to the public!  Kamala Devi shares the vulnerable inside details on how to write/direct/produce and get the spotlight focused on you!!! As the director of Tantra Theater, she recently produced her own, “Sacred Slut Show” and knows how to coach you to chose the right material, venue, collaborators, and how to promote and publicize your show!  Come hear about her secret weapon and learn how to use Tanta to transmit quantum inspiration to everyone in the audience. www.tantratheater.tv


Saturday Afternoon Workshop (Workshop #2): Sex Magic: The Law of Attraction In Action In The Bedroom and Beyond! with Kamala Devi and Reid Mihalko

Sex Magic can help you supercharge your goals and upgrade your life… But how does this ancient tantric method of Manifestation really work? Can you do this practice solo? Can you do it with a beloved? What about in a group?!

Perhaps you’ve read or seen The Secret and understand the basics of the law of attraction, but did you know that sexual energy, when harnessed and focused correctly can also be the turbo boost to rocket your manifestations foward?

View Workshop Entire Description HERE.

 


Leela Sullivan

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Leela Sullivan is a wellness & intimacy coach for individuals, couples and groups. She focuses on how to catalyze our life force energy to manifest a life we haven’t previously dared dream possible!

In March 2001, after 15 years of managing the accounting and finance divisions of various financial institutions, Leela resigned from the corporate world to become a yoga teacher. This led her on a journey in search of a deeper connection to source and sexual health. Her sexual healing journey provided Leela the inspiration, insights and many of the tools she now shares with others.

In addition to reclaiming her sexual health, this journey provided Leela the opportunity to be the Association of Sexual Energy Professionals Founding Treasurer and a dakini at the Phoenix Goddess Temple in 2008-2009. Leela currently serves in an advisory capacity on the Cuddle Party Board of Directors with a focus on creating “Teen Cuddle Party” as a format for sex positive education. Leela is passionate about empowering teens to become conscious, spiritual sexual beings. She is currently working on a book about father/daughter relationships and how to transition this crucial bond through and beyond puberty.

An abbreviated version of her personal journey can be found in the book “Heart of the Flower – The Books of Yonis.” Her website is www.LeelaSullivan.com

Short Presentation:  Where Sacred Sexuality and Sacred Economy Meet – A “Revolution of Love”.

“What else but love would motivate any person to abandon the quest to maximize rational self-interest? Love, the felt experience of connection to other beings, contradicts the laws of economics as we know them. A money system aligned with the good in all of us? I will only say that such a shift can only happen atop an even deeper shift, a transformation of human consciousness. Happily, just such a transformation is underway today. We see it in anyone who had dedicated their lives to serving, healing, and protecting other beings: people, cultures, whales, children, ecosystems, the waters, the forests, the planet…In the ecological age, we are beginning to understand that we are connected beings, that the welfare of any species or people is aligned with our own. Our money system is inconsistent with this understanding, which is dawning among all 100 percent of us, each in a different way. I think the ultimate purpose of Occupy Wall Street, or the great archetype it taps into, is the revolution of love.”

The above is quoted from Charles Eisenstein in his article “Occupy Wall Street: No Demand is Big Enough” on the blog Reality Sandwich (read his full article here). As an ex-banker turned dakini, I am in a unique position to discuss the opportunity before us with Occupy Wall Street and the greater focus on sacred sexuality resulting from the Phoenix and Sedona Temple Raids. Join me in what’s sure to be a lively conversation!

Discussion Panelist – Ecstatic Birth, Ecstatic Familes: Raising Children with their Sensual Instincts Intact Saturday, Oct 29, 2011 – Noon-1pm

Robyn Trask

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Robyn Trask is the Executive Director and Editor of Loving More® Non-Profit. She has been openly polyamorous for 23 years and raised three children in a polyamorous family.  Robyn has been running poly support groups, teaching and facilitating relationship and sexuality workshop since 1998. Robyn is one of the leading National Experts on polyamorous relationships, has done numerous interviews on polyamory for radio, television, newspapers and magazines articles, and tours the country speaking and teaching on sex and relatinships.

Robyn began her journey into sacred sexual practices at the age of 18 when she was first introduced to Taoist methods and beliefs of sacred sexuality by a Taoist lover. Prior to her work with Loving More, Robyn worked as a Sacred Sex teacher and empowered people to embrace their sexual energy.

Short Presentation: Sacred Sex Beyond Gender

How is referring to energy as masculine or feminine needed or even helpful in Tantra/Taoist  Sacred Sexuality? In this discussion we will talk about  the polarization of what we commonly call the masculine and feminine energies and the challenges that arise when integrating different types of energy within the individual. We will look at how genderization of emotions or energy such as compassion, aggression, empathy, caring, assertiveness and such into “masculine” and/or “feminine” qualities brings us out of harmony with our internal energy as well as how seeking a balance of energies within ourselves so we can create a harmonious exchange with our lover/s on a deep and satisfying level.

Sunday Morning Workshop (Workshop #3): Group Sexual Energy: Exploring Mandala Sacred Sexuality

Join Robyn Trask as she combines the teachings of Taoist and Tantric Sacred Sexual practices to take you on a journey exploring what is possible when we tap into our most powerful creative energy and share it with others.

The Sacred Sex Mandala is a system of working with kundinlini and chakra energy in a group dynamic. We will explore the amazing energy when we raise Kundalini together with two, three or more people working together. We will explore energy solo, in dyadic partnership, and with multiple partners. This can be a great way to connect and bond within polyamorous or multi-partnered relating. There will be an opportunity to experience and the energy of the Sacred Sex Mandala with a large group of ten or more.

Additional Registration Required HERE.

Discussion Panelist - Ecstatic Birth, Ecstatic Familes: Raising Children with their Sensual Instincts Intact (Saturday)

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Friday Night Symposium Panel- Sexual Diversity, Identity, and Expression

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Friday Night Panel Text

Sexual Diversity, Identity, and Expression – Friday night’s Symposium Discussion Panel

Panel moderator, Barbara Carrellas

Sexual and gender diversity means that no two people experience their gender or their sexuality in exactly the same way. Gender identity and sexual preference have often been mistakenly lumped together in one category. They are actually completely different.

Your gender identity answers the question, “Who am I?” Your sexual preference(s) answers the question, “Who am I attracted to and what do I like to do?”

Both gender identity and sexual preference(s) were once seen as fixed binaries. Today, more and more of us think of gender and sexual preference as a rainbow spectrum along which everyone can find the particular shade of color that looks best on them. It is no longer as simple as man or woman, homosexual or heterosexual, vanilla or kinky, monogamous or polyamorous. Each one of us is in the process of our own, unique, individual, sexual evolution.

Join us for a discussion of the infinite number of erotic and ecstatic possibilities available to us at all points on our journey, how this is impacting today’s world of sex and relationships, and what it might mean to you!

Part of the Great N.E. Sacred Sexuality Round-Up
and
Friday’s panel streamed LIVE for FR*EE on the web via Quest TV!

Mistress of Ceremonies: Barbara Carrellas
Date: Friday, October 28, 2011
Time: 7pm-11pm, doors open at 6:30
Location: Reflections Yoga Studios
250 West 49th Street, 2nd Floor

Special performances by Kamala Devi and Kiela Cabaret will kick-off the evening’s discourse!

Buy your tickets for this event here to be with us in person!

Moderator…

Barbara Carrellas, of UrbanTantra.org and BarbaraCarrellas.com, is the author of Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the Twenty First Century and Luxurious Loving: Tantric Inspirations for Passion and Pleasure.

She is the founder of Urban Tantra®, an approach to sacred sexuality that adapts and blends conscious sexuality practices from Tantra to BDSM, and the co-founder of Erotic Awakening, a pioneering series of workshops focusing on the physical, spiritual and healing powers of sex. Barbara was named Best Tantric Sex Seminar Leader in New York City by Time Out/NY Magazine for her Urban Tantra® workshops. Barbara is a proud graduate of the Coney Island Sideshow School with a double major in fire eating and snake handling.

Panelists…

Celebrated transsexual trailblazer Kate Bornstein has been traveling around the world for over 15 years, with performances and talks designed to encourage audiences to give themselves permission to unleash their hearts’ harmless desires.Tenderly intimate and unapologetically edgy, Kate is the radical role model, the affectionate best friend, and the guiding mentor all in one. With more humor and spunk than any other, she has ushered us into a world of limitless possibility through a daring re-envisionment of the gender system as we know it.

A celebrated pioneer for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex (LGBTQI) community, Kate is the author of two classic books on gender and sexuality: My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely and Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and The Rest of Us. Kate’s most recent book is Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws, a one-of-a-kind guide to staying alive outside the box, Hello,Cruel World is a much-needed unconventional approach to life for those who want to stay on the edge, but alive. Follow her writing and adventures at Kate Bornstein’s Blog for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws.

Ignacio Rivera, aka Papí Coxxx, identifies as a Queer, gender-fluid, polyamorous, kinky, Black-Boricua. Ignacio, who prefers the gender-neutral pronoun “they,” is a lecturer, activist, sex worker, sex educator, and performance artist, sharing spoken word, one-person shows, and storytelling internationally. Ignacio’s body of work has focused on gender and sexuality; specifically on queer, trans, kink and sexual liberation issues within a race/class dynamic.

They are the creator of Poly Patao Productions (P3). Poly Patao Productions is dedicated to producing sex-positive workshops, performance pieces, play parties, panel discussions, teach-ins, social/political groups and educational opportunities that are specially geared toward queer women, transgender, multi-gender, genderqueer, gender non-conforming and gender variant folx of color.

Ignacio is also one of the founding board member of Queers for Economic Justice; a progressive non-profit organization committed to promoting economic justice in a context of sexual and gender liberation.

Follow Ignacio on Twitter at @Ignacio_Rivera

Sebastien is a gender-fucked stone butch top, half-breed Lakota, paramedic, pervert and blue collar activist who came out in the San Francisco leather community in 1999 and currently resides in New York City. He has been facilitating workshops for the past eight years and when he’s not teaching across the country, he’s probably surfing.

Angel has been a professional pervert since 1993. He came out as a leather dyke in San Francisco and is now a trans, femme, daddy living in NYC. He is an activist both in and out of the leather and kink communities. As a queer person of mixed race, indigenous origins and complicated ability status, he prizes inclusion in all of our communities.

sex and relationship blogger Brandon B shirtless, chest tatoos showing, with his right hand touching his heartBrandon B. is a sex educator, writer, and performer living in Brooklyn, New York. He conducts workshops out of various venues including the famous Pleasure Chest in the West Village where he is the manager. In 2009 he created TheINQUEERY.com, a sex toy and product review site for gay men which attempts to make safer sex sexy for the community. In 2010, he began reading erotic pieces from his personal mini-art zine at various venues including a 12-month residency at The Bowery Poetry Club for the burlesque, queer, performance art show Auralfixia. In 2011, he was a model for the New York Sex Blogger Calendar and presented at the MOMENTUM conference in Washington DC. Currently he is the manager, writer, and model for DarlingHouse.net and is working with Guiding Proud as an LGBTQ youth mentor in New York City.

Stay up to date with Brandon via Twitter at @mebrandonb

Jazz Goldman is an actor, singer/songwriter and social justice advocate and activist. She is a graduate of The New School where she received her degree in Liberal Arts with a concentration in the social sciences and gender studies. Recent performances include a lead role in the acclaimed Hidden: A Gender by Kate Bornstein. And she was a participant in a panel discussion led by Barbara Carrellas at the Open Center called: Explorations in Modern Love: Part I-The Art of Open Relationships.

Jazz currently works as a Sex Educator/Sales Associate for the feminist adult toystore Babeland.

Follow Jazz on Twitter: @GoldmanTouch

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