Barnaby Barratt Ph.D.
Although no teaching about this path can substitute for our immediate
experience in its practice, there is a role for tantric facilitators,
who are neither priests nor professors, but individuals who can share
some “pointers” derived from the practices of their own enlightening.
Drawing upon the wisdom of many tantric facilitators, here are thirteen
interrelated pointers. They are all different ways of expressing the
same three principles of method. May they be helpful for our
mindfulness as we dance into our spiritual practice.
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Jamie Platt
As fun as a healthy sex life is, it's still important to
pleasure yourself. After all, only you know exactly how fast and how firm for
the best sensation. Women have vibrators and men have their sex toys too.
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Joseph Kramer Ph.D.
Orgasmic Yoga is a form of erotic yoga that involves pleasurable, intimate, and transformative practices that individuals, couples, and groups can do while sexually aroused. Orgasmic Yoga is a mindfulness practice. This means we place part of our attention on our practice and part on our intention to practice. Intention is a bridge from the present moment to the next moment. Awareness of intention during repeated practice sessions benefits the areas of the brain we associate with well-being.
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Joseph Kramer Ph.D.
There are a number of reasons for repeating a practice over time. Repeated stroking fosters awareness in the places being touched. We become painfully aware of our challenges in maintaining our attention during sex. Over time, we practice placing and stabilizing our attention. We can track the increase in our capacity. Eventually, we learn how to place our attention within our body at will, thus finding freedom of choice.
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Barbara Carrellas
Sex, whether Tantric or not, involves touch. Lots of touch. Traditional
sex guides usually discuss which body parts to touch, when to touch it,
and how fast to touch it. This is great, as far as it goes. But in
Tantra, we want to go a step further. We want to become the touch. In
order to do that, we need to find the narrow realm of touch that lies
between too much pressure and too little. When you touch a body, you
want to touch deeply enough that the body pushes back just a little. If
a muscle becomes rigid under your touch, you've gone too far. If the
muscle feels flaccid, you haven't gone far enough.
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Barnaby Barratt Ph.D.
Pernicious religious doctrines, political legislation, social
convention., cultural mores and folkloric dogma all focus on our
genitals in an adverse manner. “Masturbation” and “fornication”, both
heterosexual and homosexual are usually designated the paramount “sins”
against which all sorts of moralizing ideologies are promulgated.
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Joseph Kramer
We at The Orgasmic Yoga Institute invites you to experience how
humans learn sex. Profound embodied learning takes place when we repeat
a practice mindfully over time. Erotic practice is
fun, rewarding and transformational when we use this conscious, focused
yoga model of education. Our classes are based on this type of learning.
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Staci Haines
Steps to Healing Sexually: Starting Your Sexual Recovery
By Staci Haines
Sex is simple and incredibly complex all at the same time. Sex is filled with contradictions, pleasure, pains, satisfaction, confusion, desire, and a wide variety of emotions. Sex is a natural and fundamental part of humans. Even those who decide to be celibate have had to decide how to express their sexuality.
Sex is also used for contradictory purposes. It can be used for pleasurable and life-giving ends or misused and abused to hurt others. The contradictions in sex are especially apparent for the many women and men who have experienced some form of non-consensual sex or sexual trauma and abuse. Sex can get mixed with abuse for survivors and become very difficult to untwine later. Sexual healing can also be one of the most powerful aspects of recovery after sexual trauma and reap the greatest rewards.
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Margaret Wade and Suzanne Blackburn
It’s been an amazing journey, really. The erotic exploration I
started doing first came from my body, but I would also say that there
were strands in the cosmic field that were helping me. When I think
back, my mind immediately starts to see how those strands converged,
leading me to integrate sex and spirit. I seem to have this particular
path of stumbling along, picking pieces from here and pieces from there
– pieces from various traditions. But ultimately, the way I work is not
traditional. Perhaps not having a teacher or a guru gives my
discoveries a fresh innocence.
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Margaret Wade and Suzanne Blackburn
I grew up in a Catholic family that was very service oriented, very
“other” conscious. My father was a lawyer who gave half of his time
providing free service for the unprivileged and folks in trouble, so
early on, I got this idea of service and connectedness to others. I was
a very religious, I would say ecstatic, boy. Something my father and my
grandmother instilled in me was a sense of awe and a love of nature.
Even in my suburban neighborhood, I tried to get away and spend time in
some little field or wooded area. As I got older, I channeled that
sense of awe and wonder into mystical Christianity.
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