SUCCESSFUL RELATIONSHIPS ARE ABOUT GIVING YOUR PARTNER WHAT THEY NEED, WANT & DESIRE.My personal relationship philosophy is no more complex than the above statement. Give your partner want your partner wants. Contribute to them. Make their life easier. Make their life better. Contribute to their expansion. Two people doing that for each other — that’s the golden state. That’s heaven on earth as far as human relating is concerned.Do whatever works....

10 BDSM Skills That Can Inform All Relationships : 06 - Own Each Other! / Or, How Relationships Die!Owning a human being is a concept that is a bit out of date by normal standards.As with all things in the BDSM realm, distinctions need to be made between the CONSENSUAL and the NON-CONSENSUAL.Consensual Ownership might be an energy that is direly needed in our culture today.My offer is that ownership is at the heart of what makes all relationships work. This certainly applies to romantic...

ANNOUNCING NEW IN-PERSON, 7-DAY RETREAT. IN CYPRUS! FEBRUARY ’25.I’m very excited to be announcing a new Intensive BDSM Retreat that I will be offering, starting in February 2025. The workshop is titled BDSM PRINCIPLES & DOM-SUB EXPLORATION. Over the course of 7days / 6 nights, we will take a deeper dive into the various possible in this realm.Please explore the course page for full details : https://omrupani.org/bdsm-principles-dom-sub-exploration-course— Om Rupan...

TALKING TO MY FRIEND JENELLE - A GRADUATE OF OUR PRIESTESS TRAINING.Janelle came into the Priestess Training with little to no knowledge about BDSM, and with very little connection to her own Dominant or submissive archetypes.It’s been fun to watch her journey and to see her come into her own. These days she considers herself a rather effective advocate for the possibilities that this realm has to offer everyone, including the women she works with as well as couples.We chat about her ar...

DO WOMEN NEED TO BE KEPT IN CHECK?Not all women. But the women who have the desire for being in a hierarchical relationship should understand this point : One of the functions and responsibilities of the person higher in the hierarchy is to keep the people lower in the hierarchy in check.This is a point that even the people who are actively pursuing polarized dynamics are grasping are often failing to grasp.I see a lot of women who are ready to be with men who are strong and dominant an...

MEN - DON’T TRY TO PARTNER WITH A WOMAN WHO DOESN’T NEED YOU!Men need to be needed. Men want to be useful.Men’s esteem is intricately connected to them making themselves into the kind of men who are useful to the people around them. All people — your family, your friends, your bosses and employees, your parents, your brothers, your children, and also your woman.This need is not some kind of a weakness. It is sane and healthy interdependence. It means you belong to your...

Speaking on various topics related to BDSM, eros and man-woman relating.www.OmRupani.org

What is a Reclaimed Woman - with Kelly Brogan MDKelly discusses her new book, The Reclaimed Woman which unpacks bitterness and resentment of the modern day woman through rich narratives and thoughtful critiques. It challenges conventional notions of feminism, exploring how societal influences and expectations shape personal identity and relational dynamics. She exposes layers of societal conditioning, revealing the struggles women face in reclaiming their autonomy and voice, inviting a r...

ASK A PRODOMME!Conversation with Geraecka Lyonns about:The cathartic possibilities in BDSM play.Architecting humiliation play.Releasing shame and guilt through punishment scenes.Pain as a pathway towards rebalancing the psyche.Why powerful men seek out takedown scenes. The importance of Containment.The freedom to explore inside of Containment.The breakdown of Containment in man-woman relating.The fatigue in the modern women due to lack of Containment.The difficulty in the modern woman e...

REGAINING OUR EDGE AS MEN - PODCAST WITH DANIELE WHITEIn this conversation, Daniel and Om Rupani discuss the concept of masculinity and the importance of men finding their edge. They address the false equivalencies and stereotypes surrounding masculinity, such as the idea that being in authority is toxic. They also explore the impact of internalized misandry on men and the need for men to step into their power. Om emphasizes the importance of men leading in their relationships ...

UPCOMING COURSES WITH LEAH PIPER. SACRAMENTO; MAY 10-12.Leah and I discuss the possibilities in both the tantric and BDSM traditions. We will be teaching a new course titled : MAKING SEX DIRTY AGAIN, that will offer the participants an exploration into both the YES as well as the NO elements in our Eros.Friday before the weekend course, I will be doing a BDSM demo and Q&A.Demo Page : https://omrupani.org/courses/om-rupani-talk-on-bdsm-principles-domsub-energetics-live-demoCourse Pag...

GRADUATES OF PRIESTESS TRAINING SHARING ABOUT THIER EXPERIENCE The next run of Priestess Training starts on June 22. Several of our graduates share here about their experience with the course. If you are thinking of joining, please reach out with any questions. COURSE PAGE : https://omrupani.org/practitioner-mastery — Om Rupani www.OmRupani.org

10 BDSM SKILLS THAT CAN INFORM ALL RELATIONSHIPS : 05 - END YOUR SCENE! Long-term couples are often struggling with recapturing the spark they felt with each other during the beginning of their connections. Regular therapists offer their own solutions to what a couple might try to find their way out of the doldrums of an ongoing dynamic that may be prone to falling into domesticity rather than romance and passion. BDSM has it’s own flavor of advice and wisdom:   END YOUR SCENES!...

MEN SHOULD RESIST THE URGE TO SPEAK & ACT ANONYMOUSLY IN THIS WORLD *************** UPCOMING COURSE FOR MEN —- DISMANTLING THE NICE GUY IDENTITY : https://omrupani.org/#/short-online-courses/ REGAINING OUR EDGE AS MEN : https://omrupani.org/#/short-online-courses/ CREATING THE DOMINANT MAN : https://omrupani.org/creating-the-dominant-man www.OmRupani.org

THE SHADOW SIDE OF NICE GUY IDENTITY *(This is part of the module from the upcoming course DISMANTLING THE NICE GUY IDENTITY) Nice guys aren’t all that nice, it turns out. Nice guys are often holding in a lot of anger.  Sometimes the quantity of this anger can easily qualify as rage. Nice guys are often quite jealous and envious of other men and often act in underhanded way to hurt or sabotage men they are envious off. Nice guys often are full of resentment. Nice guys tend to be...

NEW COURSE ON DARK EROS WITH LEAH PIPER! I’m very excited to be collaborating with Leah Piper for a new course that will allow the participants to investigate the darker, more troublesome and ‘NO’ element of their Eros. We are going to use the BDSM framework of scene play and Dom-sub dynamic to take the participants through a series of investigations into various ‘NO’ aspects, so they may discover where there might be a zone of eros hiding for them. Within the structured container of a...

PODCAST WITH DANIEL COETSEE ABOUT THE NICE GUY IDENTITY A conversation about modern masculinity and the Nice Guy scenario that seems so wide-spread in our culture today. I have 2 upcoming courses for men to address these issues: DISMANTLING THE NICE GUY IDENTITY  2.  REGAINING OUR EDGE AS MEN COURSE INFO : https://omrupani.org/#/short-online-courses/ — Om Rupani www.OmRupani.org

Q&A about upcoming Priestess Training Lauren and I discuss some of the aspects of this in-depth training and take questions from women considering joining us for the next run, which starts in June. COURSE PAGE : https://omrupani.org/practitioner-mastery Please reach out to us with any questions : [email protected] Om Rupani OmRupani.org www.OmRupani.org

RELAUNCHING THE PRIESTESS TRAINING IN JUNE This is the most advanced and in-depth BDSM training I offer for people who want to deepen this exploration for themselves and bring it to others for whom they want to hold space. Lauren and I will be launching the third run of this course in June. We talk a little bit about what we have seen our students get out of this journey. We will be doing a Q&A for people who are curious about joining us for this on Wednesday, 3/27/24. Link for...

CONVERSATION ABOUT UPCOMING CLASSES IN BOULDER I’ll be doing a Demo and Q&A on BDSM this Friday 3/22/24. REGISTRATION PAGE : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/om-rupani-talk-on-bdsm-principles-domsub-energetics-live-demo-tickets-800464820827?aff=erelexpmlt ********************* Next weekend, will be teaching a class in Man-Woman relating.  3/23 - 3/24. REGISTRATION PAGE :...

PODCAST WITH LEAH PIPER & DR. WILLOW BROWN Another lively conversation with these two delightful, amazing women.  We talk about many things having to do with modern man-woman relating and eros. Our conversation around Men’s Hearts and the modern woman’s attitudes towards men’s hearts gets a bit heated and convoluted here.  I think we end up talking past each other at times.  Who knew the issue of Men’s Hearts might end up being the more controversial and triggering topic.  Apparently...

MAN - WOMAN & BDSM CONVERSATION ABOUT UPCOMING CLASSES IN BOULDER I will be doing a talk on BDSM principles along with a live demo in Boulder on Friday, March 22, 2024. Following that, I will be teaching a weekend class there in Man-Woman relating. My dear friend Micaela is hosting these events in Boulder.  She and I discuss here the topics that will be covered during these two events and all related matters. — Om Rupani BDSM demo and...

WHY WOMEN DON’T HAVE AN INNER MASCULINE : IF YOU DID, YOU WOULD HAVE SOME NATIVE UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IT IS TO BE A MAN — WHICH YOU DON’T! The idea that certain energies and activities are masculine or feminine, and therefore when a woman is engaged in those ‘masculine’ energies, she is in her ‘inner masculine’, or when a man is engaged in the ‘feminine’ energies, he’s in his ‘inner feminine’ is not a useful formulation, and it is creating a lot of confusion. Declare certain actives as...

A MAN’S SUGGESTIONS ON HOW WOMEN MAY BE MORE FEMININE: 01 - GIVE UP YOUR INNER MASCULINE More and more women are writing to me these days, asking how they might step more into their feminine. I thought about this and wrote about this and have come up with a few suggestions.  Will make a serious of videos on these. The first suggestion is : Please give up the concept of your inner masculine. You don’t have an inner masculine.  This idea is a figment, and it is creating a lot of...