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...

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...

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...

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,...

Kiya Shanti, filmmaker of "Sex to Spirit" and "Tantra Lovers" and author of soon-to-be-published novel "Tantra Island", is a leading inspiration for men who want to experience full body orgasm and the states of ecstasy that this leads to. In the mainstream world, men are taught that the highlight of their sexual pleasure is to have an ejaculatory orgasm which can be over in seconds and often leaves a man feeling tired or depleted. In the Tantra world we are taught that we can move into...

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...

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...

This is an interview with the academic Stuart Sovatsky, with his astounding 50 years' experience studying Psychology, Counseling and Classical Tantra. An unusual voice in the world of Tantra, Stuart is a great believer in building long-term committed relationships in which to practice Tantra. He also looks at the importance of awareness of fertility at the core of Tantra...the seed of life. And how this awareness can bring a deep profound element to our eroticism. Beyond mere reproduction,...

In this episode I explore the mechanics around using sex and sexual energy to generate spiritual experiences. Topics covered include: - What IS a spiritual experience anyway? - How can our state of contraction or expansion affect our reality? - Why do we seek expansive or spiritual experiences? - What did Tantra and the Taoist Sexual Arts teach us about using sexual energy for spiritual growth? - Can sex lead us to our higher self? - How is orgasm related to generating expanded states...

Shashi interviews Minke de Vos, one of the world's experts in the Tao Tantric Arts (over 30 years' teaching experience). Minke shares the secrets of how you can turn sex from a physical act into a spiritual experience, generating more love and energy. In this podcast: - Hear how Minke had her own spontaneous energy activation. - Learn how the Taoists view sex as an exchange of energy and also a way to generate energy. - Discover how ejaculatory choice (being able not to ejaculate or to...