Sexuality – Somatics – Spirituality

Love, freedom and joy, are altogether more sensual and more mystical than the traditions of western ideology typically allow us to experience of appreciate.

To dance the liveliness of life itself is to embrace fully and fearlessly the deathfulness that is inherent and integral to the process of life itself ― the ecstatic emptiness that pervades all that is.

Breathing and touching are at the essence of spiritual practice … To caress another as one’s Beloved is to know the prayerfulness of being human.

Our sacred sexuality is not limited to this or that mode of expression. Our bodymind is an awesomely sensitive and sensual organism, a testimony to the divine ingenuity for enjoyment. There is something profoundly miraculous about the exuberant and abundant multiplicity of our sexual responsiveness.

Guilt effectively prevents the enjoyment of life, instead strangulating it in a myriad of rules and regulations which we may either follow guiltily, or condemn ourselves to guilt and punishment for not following.

The wisdom of the earth asks that we listen to it ― that we revere life, that we respect belongingness, that we celebrate the sanctity of our passions, that we express our truthfulness, and that we honor the temple of our bodymind, which also implies that we honor the temple of the planet.

There is an inherent connection between sexual health and erotic freedom.

Tantric ― meditative ― practice differs from other esoteric or mystical practices because of its discovery that the universe of esoteric energies can be experienced here‑and‑now within every human’s embodiment.

…awareness of the interiority of our experiential embodiment leads to the awareness of the way in which this experience is cosmically embedded…

The rippling, undulating, vibrating, orgasming dance of energies through the channels of our embodiment is our path of joy, ecstasy and bliss.

Shame effectively prevents the enjoyment of life, instead miring us in feelings of hollow worthlessness.

Tantric ― meditative ― practice must be experienced deeply if it is to be authentically understood, because tantra is essentially the profound and dangerous process by which we invite our mind to dwell in our heart.

Our sexuality is not an obstacle to spiritual life; it is the singular vehicle of Holy Spirit. Our libidinality is the process by which we may come to be truly in the spirit of Love, life and liberty.

The teaching of every authentic spiritual tradition has recognized this interdependence between the interiority of our embodied experience and the divinity of the universe.

We are born polysexual, and sexual‑spiritual practice is available to all of us, whatever the condition of our body or the state of our mind.

The only path out of spiritual starvation is precisely the way of erotic celebration.

Tantric ― meditative ― practice clears our consciousness by quieting our chattering mind, and in this way opens our entire bodymind to the pure light of Love.

Like any authentic spiritual practice, tantric ― meditative ― practice spells disaster for our egotism and will always, sooner or later, be mightily resisted by our egotism.

The act of listening to the voice of our embodied experience overcomes the alienation from our embodiment that is established in the course of our socialization and acculturation. It takes the reified or calcified state of alienation and mobilizes it into a lively dynamic of estrangement that might be called our being‑in‑process.

Tantric ― meditative ― practice involves the conscious discovery, cultivated experiencing, and spiritual awareness, that the human bodymind’s subtle erotic energy is Holy Spirit.

Tantric ― meditative ― practice cultivates our awareness of subtle energies that are inherently erotic, ecstatic, and sacred; in so doing, it frees us from our imprisonment within the egotism of our judgmentally chattering mind.

Spiritual practice means lovemaking. Indeed, there is no genuine spiritual practice that is not a matter of lovemaking.

Our egotism is clever and cunning. Remember: Our egotism chatters fearfully in an incessant effort both to exploit the power of libidinal energy, and to control it, channelize it, build an edifice of beliefs and stories over it, and generally to immobilize its freedom.

Tantric ― meditative ― practice appreciates the deathfulness that inheres to the liveliness of life itself, and in this way embraces the emptiness of all that is and is not, the pure light of Love that suffuses the universe.

…we have to confront the challenge involved in acknowledging that the processes of returning to the awareness of our experiential embodiment are essentially a spiritual practice…

The world of gross reality, and our sense of ‘self’ within it, is constructed to appear as if it were solid and stable by means of the incessant representational or judgmental activity (the positing and repositing of all our identities, positions, and stories) that preoccupies the chattering mind of our egotism.