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lad tidings for 2013! Now that we survived 2012, were o to an

electrifying start. With the prospect of SF teams winning both
the World Series and the Super Bowl in short order, collective
spirits are palpably high. And now, we too are adding to the aggregate
temperature with this, our Love issue.
Love is a complex and far-ranging subject, so rst, I want to thank our
senior editor, Carrie Grossman, who led the charge in skillfully assembling a compelling medley of dierent stories, beginning with our feature
by Reggie Ray about Tantric consorts. That theme is picked up in the
brilliant cover art and pictorial of Radha-Krishna paintings by renowned
devotional artist B. G. Sharma.
After looking at the pictures, we suggest beginning at the beginning,
with Sonia Choquettes piece on the necessity for self-love. Its got to begin there, right? Then you can go o in many directions, such as Llewellyn
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piece, The Power of Attraction: How Great Love Caresses the Unknown,
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On the subject of sex, the Human Awareness Institutes Chas August
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wiggle-wiggle-pop. While Mali Apple and Joe Dunn prompt us to Create the Love of Your Life: Keep the Life in Your Love, Claudia Six encourages us to stop avoiding dicult conversations with our partners.
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s there anything more mysterious or thrilling

than an intimate attraction? An unexpected
moment of fateful recognition, a sense that
every movement of your life has led you here,
to this very place, to this very person?
Our intimate attraction is essentially a divine
one and has a profound purpose. The purpose,
or the pull, to be together in love and intimacy
is a calling, a divine magnet that propels us beyond our individuality into the heart of who we
really are. From the deepest place, true attraction is about the love of God or Source within
each other and in all things. It is utterly sacred
and a place of universal alchemy.
What really is at play in our intimacy, whatever our sexual orientation may be, is the
eternal dance of the Masculine and Feminine
Principles, yin and yang. Pure and unchanging Divine principles that appear as two but in
the deepest place are already one. As men and
women, we are an expression of the Masculine and Feminine Principles, and their eternal
presence weaves our lives and our partnerships
in unfathomable ways.
To engage this eternal dance within your
relationship is to align your intimacy with a
higher purpose. Your sacred union and partnership becomes as true Tantric tradition proposesyour path to self-realization.
Most peoples attraction for each other is
rooted in unconscious conditioning. The current norm is a conditional love that serves the
basic egoic purpose of keeping things as they
are: safe and secure. We have created a culture in which we limit our relationships to the
knownthe profanethrough being familiar
with one another, through keeping consciousness and its forms the same.
We want great love, but will we allow our
lives to change? We seek real union but set
boundaries on how that is to look. We wish for
true, unconditional love, but it has to be on our
terms. We play the game that all our parents
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of our time.
We do know of the depth and magnitude
that lies dormant beneath the shallow waters
of our relating; we hear the divine promise
of loves call but do not come along for fear
of losing the familiar life we know. Everyone
has to go through and live this patterned way
of personal attraction until they come to the
realization that there can be no real fulllment
or meaning in an intimate relationship that is
born of a need to maintain mental, emotional,
and physical security.
Great love does not t the mold. Great love
is ever new, ever now. Great love caresses the
unknown. Great love implies change and transformation. It takes us to the edge of who we
believe ourselves to be and beyond, and beckons us into the endless possibility of what we
can become. That is why it is so thrilling. Your
love and your depth lie in the unfamiliar, in the
meeting of the unknown inside yourself and inside the other. In other words, you will be letting go of the known, the tangible, and reaching
for that which has not been touched, that which
is not tangible. There is just a knowingness.
When we are really attracted, we are ready to
change our lives. We are ready to launch into
the unknown. It is as if the other pulls out in
us an adventure of loving and daring we didnt
even know existed. This creates a re that naturally burns away our limitations, opening a
new horizon of higher levels of masculine and
feminine power. When such a love comes, we
lose our denitions of who we are, how love
looks, and where it is going. All we know is the
roaring power of the true current of our life
we are new, real, and vibrantly alive.
This kind of intimacy will evolve you beyond your wildest imagination; your intimacy
then becomes a dance that reects the immediacy of the love play of the cosmos, a dance
that gives form, here on earth, to the awesome
depth of the masculine and to the endless light
and openness of the feminine.
You will have to take some daring steps.
In real intimacy between man and woman,
a man must learn to master his minds movement, being fully present in this moment, liberating his consciousness from his old habits,
doubts, and fears passed down from his fathers
fathers father. He learns how to fully claim his
woman, his love, reaching into the depth of her
soul with his immovable presence.
In this, the Masculine Principle is a power
that enables a man to fully embrace a woman,
penetrate her with his real loving, invite her
to open as living love. To take a woman on
is to invite her on a journey beyond himself
and herself. He must hold steadfast in his
consciousness as he is challenged by her patterning, her subconscious conditioning, her
darkness. He must allow the challenges that
arise to change him, to turn him into a man
of strength and nobility. As he holds her, she
knows she can trust him, the depth he is entering and integrating.
In a sacred union, a woman must learn how
to trust the calling of her true self as love, to engage the moment in deep and utter surrender.
She must go beyond the guarding of her heart,
to fall wide open as universal love embodied.
She recognizes that the light she sees in him
is the light of her own real consciousness. She
has to trust that he is the masculine half of her
Self, no matter what takes place. She learns to
burn for this love, to keep stepping toward it
no matter how challenging it gets.
A man and woman who are willing to constantly die for great love will change the face
of this earth. Their bond puts their love of a
deeper place, their love of truth or Source,
rst. They journey beyond this earth in their
lovemaking, bringing with them profound love
that truly serves all.
Bernie Prior is a spiritual teacher and evolutionary visionary whose life is devoted to the
awakening of humanity. Bernie speaks of the
divine nature of the Masculine and Feminine
Principles, inviting listeners to explore and realize the higher potential hidden in their dynamic
union as a way to transcend egoity. Originator
of The Form-Reality Practice, evolving the masculine and feminine consciousness to manifest
great love on this earth, Bernie teaches extensively in talks and at retreats worldwide.
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oulmate. Although the word means different things to dierent people, most
of us use it to mean a romantic partner.
Someone we feel profoundly connected to
physically, intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually. Someone who accepts us completely,
loves us unconditionally, and inspires us to be
our very best selves.
We recently spoke with a young woman whod
been searching for her soulmate for seven years.
Sara had done everything she could to attract
him: made a list of all the qualities she desired
him to have, cleared out space in her closet, and
armed to herself daily that he would soon appear. Shed grown frustrated that, after all these
years, he still wasnt showing up.
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shed stopped dating. She couldnt see the
point of going out with someone who didnt
match her list closely enough, who obviously
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dismissed any man who didnt. With that one
desire, we pointed out, shed probably reduced
the possibilities by 90 percent.
Ken, another seeker, had a similar list in mind
for his soulmate, including his background,
body type, and education level. Although he
met great men all the time, they were never a
close enough match to his mental image. When
asked, Ken admitted that the qualities on his list
were unrelated to whether hed be able to connect with someone on a soul level.
Whats important here is this: we cant use
our minds to dene what our souls are searching for. When we make our lists, all too often
what were creating is a list of limitations. With
every item, we may be inadvertently restricting how the universe can
deliver on our desire.
Rather than putting so
much emphasis on nding the one, wed be better
o focusing on being the
one. Being the one simply
means taking steps like
these to make sure youre
truly available for the relationship you desire:
Practice being vulnerable and authentic. Dont
stop dating just because
no one seems to match
your list. Use those opportunities to practice sharing yourself authentically.
If youre hesitant to really
be yourself when you rst
meet someone, take a risk.
Someone who is attracted to the real you is
much more likely to be a possible soulmate.
Seek out ways to accept, appreciate, and
even love every aspect of yourself. Practice
quieting your self-critical voice, seeing yourself without judgment, and recognizing your
gifts. The more love you have for yourself, the
more receptive youll be to receiving someone
elses love.
Open up to soul connections. The universal spiritual truth that we are all one tells us
were all connected on a soul level. Although
you can feel your soul connection to some
people more than others, the more you open
yourself to the soul connections all around
you, the easier it will be to recognize someone
with true soulmate potential.
Stay open to possibilities. More important
than making space in your closet is making
space in your consciousness. Be open to not
knowing what youre looking for.
Once youve found the love of your life, its

just as essential to use practices like these to
keep the life in your love:
Create an environment that encourages
real intimacy. A loving, supportive environmentin which you can share your innermost
thoughts, feelings, and desireswill sustain and
even deepen the intimacy in your relationship.
Take responsibility for your relationship
experience. When we try to make our partner
responsible for our own experience, we can end
up facing such relationship challenges as unmet
expectation, disappointment, and resentment.
Stay open to not knowing who your partner is. If youre not paying attention, its all
too easy to start viewing someone through the
ideas youve developed about them.
Recognize that your partners freedom is
not something you grant but something you
honor. Remembering that you are each in this
relationship of your own free will, and honoring
each others unique path, will keep you in a state
of gratitude for having this person in your life.
Create a shared context. Develop a statement of the higher purpose for your relationship. This context will nourish and guide your
relationship as it adapts to changing circumstances and expands in new directions.
Elevate your attitude. By knowing that all
your experiencesfrom the routine to the
challengingcan contribute something positive to your relationship, you turn everything
into opportunities for connection and growth.
Play leapfrog. Leapfrog is the process
through which partners assist each other in
taking the next leap toward their full potential.
Just as players in the childrens game support
one another in moving forward, you can use
leapfrog to help each other release limiting
beliefs, rise above perceived limitations, and
evolve into your very best selves.
Keep the passion alive. Play with sensual
intimacy, both in and out of bed. Almost any
experience can be a catalyst for connection.
Thoroughly enjoying an orange together
peeling the skin, separating the sections, biting
into the juice-lled eshis a very satisfying
sensual experience.
You can use the practices above to bring
more soulmate experience into any relationshipwhether youve been in it for three
months or three decades!
Mali Apple and Joe Dunn are the authors of The
Soulmate Experience: A Practical Guide to Creating Extraordinary Relationships. Their latest
collaboration is the audio release Mantras for
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2012 mile marker, breathing a
collective sigh of relief. The world
did not end, as predicted by some, and we are
now left wondering if this foreboding date was
meant to signal the end of something else. I
cant help but believe that 2012 was meant to
mark the end of a long-suering age of Selfloathing and Self-rejection weve had thrust
upon us by those heavy-handed patriarchal
forces of old. Now we usher in a new era
wherein the healthiest thing we can do for our
world is to nd a deep, heartfelt, lasting love
for Self, unlike ever before.
And rightfully so, dont you think?
After all, looking at the eect that Selfneglect has had over time, both individually
and collectively, its a wonder any of us are alive
at all. Our chronic lack of Self-love has left us
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and, if not more so, threats to ourselves.
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Self-love has not been provoking condemnation, judgment, and attacks on others for withholding what we so desperately long for, it has
been at work waging war on us from within.
This void of Self-love causes extreme stress that
is destructive to the body and Spirit. It threatens
our hearts, raises our blood pressure, taxes our
immune systems, and steals our tranquility. No
matter how we look at it, lack of Self-love is the
deadliest dis-ease on this planet, and one that
we all must resolve to end now.
Lets face itthroughout our lives, few of us
have had any role models or encouragement in
Self-love. Because of this absence, the invitation to love our Self might seem like an elusive
if not overwhelming mission even to accept,
let alone begin. For some, it might seem arrogant or downright wrong to aspire to holding
a loving energy in their hearts for themselves.
These people often confuse Self-love with selfishness. Are you one of them? Whats so wrong
with loving your Self?
As unfamiliar or indulgent as Self-love may
at rst seem, we all know in our heart of hearts
that this love is the right thing to learn.
So where do we begin?
We begin with an accurate understanding
of what we mean by Self. Our true Self is not
the ego, the shielding we have had to develop
in order to survive. Nor is it our experiences,
education, physical appearance, or our accomplishments. Our true Self is the beautiful Spirit
we rst breathed into this body at our birth.
Self is our life force. It is the pure, powerful
essence behind the beating heart, the thinking brain, and the physical body that we own
today. Our true Self is a mysterious, mighty
power, a force of goodness and love and our
only truly renewable resource.
Anyone who has witnessed a babys rst inbreath knows Im not exaggerating. To see that
baby come alive with its rst breath is a miraculous sight to behold.
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One of the most powerful inuences on your
inner being, good or bad, is the sound of your
own voice. Dont berate yourself out of habit.
Dont call yourself stupid, lazy, fat, worthless, or any other name you might be inclined
to use. Flaying your Self with these words
leaves a deep wound on your Spirit that becomes infected over time without the proper
loving care to heal it.
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but it is enough to cure most of what ails you
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Take the mental tigers o your tail by slowing
down and breathing a little more deeply as you
move through your day. Rushing around and
pushing yourself to go faster, do more, and
keep up in the rat race can be self-destructive.
It creates a false state of emergency and perpetual fear in your body. This fear puts enormous stress on your nervous system.
Instead, adopt this Self-loving policy: Breathe
deep, go steady, and take my time. This policy
allows you to respond strategically rather than
to react sporadically to lifes challenges and
opens up the mental space necessary to keep
you from freaking out under duress.
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notion that the only proper use of your time
is for work. Studies show time and time again
that play time is essential to well-being. The
key to this play time is to engage in refreshing
activities without guilt. Guilt is not Self-loving
and serves no useful purpose. In fact, guilt for
enjoying yourself is perhaps the oldest form of
self-sabotage.
Let the guilt go and just play.
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Self, and listening to your authentic Self is honoring yourself at the deepest level. By trusting
your intuition, you remain in integrity with
your true Self. It alerts you when your boundaries are crossed, directs you to positive opportunities, steers you away from danger, and
leads you toward all that is aligned with your
true nature and purpose. Choosing to trust
your intuition puts you in harmony with your
authentic Self, which is the greatest expression
of Self-love there is.
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known for her delightful humor and skill in
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icult conversations are those that

we all put osometimes for a long
time. The conversations wed frankly
rather not have because theyll make the other
person uncomfortable. Truth is, theyll make
us uncomfortable. These are the conversations that we hope we will never need to have
because the problem will magically go away. I
call that waiting for divine interventionand
its not going to happen.
Sometimes married couples who have been
raising young children can nd lots of reasons
to put o talking about why there is distance
between them. Sometimes the kids are grown
and have left the nest, and the parents realize they have nothing left to talk about. We
shouldnt wait that long. Sometimes one or
both partners are angry but conict avoidant,
and things fester. Sometimes people avoid
real conversations because they assume that
the other person will disagree, and theyre not
condent in their conict resolution skills. But
the conversation doesnt have to be a confrontation; it can be a clearing, an inquiry, a curiosity, and the hope of creating a win-win and
reconnecting.
Examples of situations that may lead to difcult conversations include a couple whose
common activities and interests have dwindled
to a point where they do little together except
eat and sleep. It may be a wife who realizes that
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years and not telling him how she
likes to be made love to, she has lost
herself and sold herself short. It may
be someone who wants to try something new with their beloved but is
afraid the other will judge and reject
them. It may be a man who takes on
a lover and realizes that the sex he
has been having with his wife holds
no emotional contact and leaves him
yearning for something deeper. It
may be a man who feels emasculated
because his wife insists on controlling everything around the house. It
may be a woman who feels that she
doesnt have a voice so she abdicates,
leaving her partner feeling unmet or
with the illusion that all is well. Sometimes it
manifests as aairs, lack of intimacy, passiveaggressive behavior. Weve all seen that silent
couple in the restaurant; theyve said all the
easy things, and all thats left to talk about is
the harder stu, so they dont talk. The volume
of the unspoken conversation is louder than
the spoken one.
A note here on the term intimacy: Americans use the term as a euphemism for sex. I
mean it as into-me-you-see, revealing your
vulnerable underbelly, letting yourself be
known, showing up authenticallywhich may
or may not involve sex. Dicult conversations
require intimacy. But intimacy can be daunting, which is why people often avoid it while
claiming to want more of it; humans are ambivalent creatures.
If we want things to be dierent between
us and our partner, we have to show up differently (you know the denition of insanity:
doing the same thing again and again and expecting dierent results). We have to push beyond our comfort zone, go a little beyond what
weve always done, and get out of our own way.
We have to want to be known. And we cant assume that our partner will thank us for sharing.
Our doing things dierently may make them
uncomfortable. But if we lead the level of conversation, we might be surprised by how willing they are to respect us for it and to follow.
It takes two people to keep the status quoit

only takes one person to create change.
So we take a deep breath and ask our partner if this is a good time to talk. If our partner
is male, we follow this request by assuring him
that we are not upset with him. When you ask a
guy to talk, he immediately thinks hes in trouble; reassuring him insures that he is receptive.
We start with a positive, thanking our partner
or appreciating them authentically for something, and then we say whats on our mind. It
is crucial to not make the other person wrong.
That will only make them defensive and push
them away, rendering the conversation unproductive. We must make I statements, express
our feelings, and say what we are struggling
with. What have we noticed, what is troubling
us, and what would we like? It also helps to be
curious about the others experience.
Most of us value comfort over honesty, at
least in our actions, though most of us know
that honesty is the true basis of an intimate relationship. Most of us sacrice real connection
when the conversation becomes dicult.
It is counterintuitive that having dicult
conversations actually has the most potential
to increase intimacy, connection, and eroticism in a relationship. Self-confronting and
saying those things that we thought were the
most risky is what reduces the risk of the relationship deteriorating. It can feel like the beginning of the end, but it is more likely to be
the beginning of a deeper and more satisfying
phase of the relationship. We will feel relieved.
When uncomfortable issues are expressed,
there is more space in the relationship. Shift
happens. Doubt decreases, and the chains
around our unspoken thoughts are released.
If were not in the habit of having dicult
conversations, a place to start might be during daily rituals of connection. We must make
the time for a 15-minute cup of tea together
every day, to have the Honey, how was your
day? conversation, to ask, How are you, really? We must prioritize the relationship, and
if we have to, schedule regular time together.
Celebrating anniversaries with a check-in, a
relationship state of the union, a clearing of
withholds is helpful. We must want more for
ourselves and not let our relationship die a
slow death. And if we need extra support, nding a couples therapist who can help us get our
cards on the table and feel empowered about
tackling issues is an option. Lets not wait until
were in crisis. Im a strong advocate of regular
relationship maintenance.
Claudia Six, PhD, is a Relationship Therapist
in San Rafael who helps people start those difcult conversations. DrSix.net
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is the great mystery of our lives. Two groups, however, suggest very
dierent approaches to sex, and both of them are wrong.
One powerful group of forces is arrayed in culture to prevent us from
getting sex. They tell us that sex is somehow wrong, immoral, or sinful.
Even when we think we have gotten free of them, they pop up again inside our hearts or heads, wagging their ngers disapprovingly. And they
remind us constantly of all the trouble sex has gotten the world into
from the Trojan War to the Clinton/Lewinsky drama. Not to mention the
trouble it has gotten you and me intoemotionally, psychologically, personally, professionally, and physically. You have to admit that the sexual
conservatives have a point. If you want to keep life simple, clean, and
orderly, forgoing or limiting your sexual experience might be an excellent choice. If you like spiritual exercises, take a few minutes to list all the
times sex has gotten you into trouble.
Lots of conventional moralists and organized religion fall into this category. Religion wants to arm love and passion as virtues but to divorce
them entirely from sex. So moralist religion works hard to erect boundaries that will protect us from the pitfalls of sex. Yet while we all know that
sex requires some discipline, and that context and commitment count,
most of us know in our hearts that the moralists are wrong, and that sex
is ultimatelyand overwhelminglygood, and not merely a side benet
of achieving loving relationship.
It was perhaps the 14th-century Zen master Ikkyu who captured this
spiritual sensibility best:
With a young beauty, sporting in deep love play;
We sit in the pavilion, a pleasure girl and this
Zen monk.
Enraptured by hugs and kisses,
I certainly dont feel as if I am burning in hell.
tradition there is a hidden, subversive, mystical teaching. In each of their

traditions they are ignored, killed, crucied, or reinterpreted to avoid
the full implications of their radical and spiritually incorrect teachings.
These teachings understood implicitly that embedded in the sexual, in all
its gorgeous and graphic detail, is all that is holy, all that is wise, all that
is sacred. The masters of the Spiritually Incorrect viewed the sexual
act itself as a great sacred mystery
that reects all the deepest truths
of the spirit.
In a world torn apart by fanatic
fundamentalisms and insipid liberalisms, we need a new teacher all
of us can recognize and take home.
Contrary to conventional religion and much of psychology, the
post-conventional, spiritually incorrect tantric masters insist that
sex is integral to love and Eros.
There is no disconnect. And not
because it is nice, secure, and comfortable if you are able to love the
person you are sleeping with. But
far more powerfully becauseand
this is the secret of it allthe sexual is the ultimate model for Eros
and love. In every ethical sexual
encounter, one can create an energetic container for the sacred, for
opening up fully and absolutely
into the love and grace that is already there. The sexual in all of her
intricate detail is the most potent teacher, ripping us open if we will but
let her, to the radical fullness of the divine who seeks our pleasure and
goodness.
One 13th-century follower of the Kabbalah said it most dramatically:
Whoever has not desired a woman is like an ass and even less than an ass,
for it is from the sexual that one understands divine service. Or in the
language of Zen master Ikkyu:
Rinzais disciples never got the Zen Message,
But I, the blind donkey, know the truth:
Love play can make you immortal.
The autumn breeze of a single night of love is
Better than a hundred thousand years of
Sterile sitting meditation.
Which brings us to the second powerful coalition of forces talking

about sex. This group tells us that sex is wonderfulif liberated, the panacea of all ills, if repressed, the source of all dysfunction. Freudians, other
Sex stands as the ultimate symbol, both signifying and actually modelschools of modern psychology, sexual revolutionaries, and a host of other ing the sacred wisdom that needs to animate and guide all areas of life.
intelligent folk are working hard to strip sex of anything remotely spiri- The goal of life is to live erotically in all facets of being, and sex is the
tual or even emotional. They want to liberate sex from love, from Eros, model par excellence for sacred erotic living in all of the nonsexual areand from the myriad of existential and emotional complexities.
nas which make up most of our lives.
These two approaches may be spiritually and politically correct,
but they do not address our deepest knowing and yearnings. We all 3`]a3dS`geVS`S
Deep understanding of the sexual is the ultimate guide to accessing the
know that.
So we have to turn to the hidden wisdom. The Wisdom of the Spiritually spirit in every dimension of our reality.
We are not talking about sexual techniqueeven when important, it is
Incorrect. The esoteric traditions of all the great systems of spiritKabbalah in Judaism, Ikkyu in the Zen tradition, the Tantric masters of Hin- technical at best. Sexual technique can never make you a great lover. To
duism and Buddhism, Rumi and Haz of Susm, and Mary Magdalene be a great lover in all facets of your being, you must listen deeply to the
and the heretical Cathars of mystical Christianity. Veiled in every great simple yet elegant spirit whisperings of the sexual. Nietzsche got some 430@C/@G !
thing right when he said, The degree and kind of mans sexuality reaches
up into the topmost summit of his spirit.
Let me give four examples of particular qualities of Eros and essence,
qualities that are the fundamental nature of higher consciousness in all
the nonsexual arenas of our lives. All of these qualities are paradoxically
and subversively modeled by the sexual.
Means and Ends Become One
In the erotic sexual, we need no reason or rationale to reach for summit
of fulllment. We act not to gain some vaunted empty prize. Rather, we
act for its own sake. We act for the very sake of the erotic sexual itself.
There is no distinction in the sexual between means and ends. They collapse into one in the realization that they were never distinct at all. The
path becomes the destination.
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wilderness guide, and agent of cultural
transformation. As founder of Animas Valley
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passages, including a contemporary, Western
adaptation of the pan-cultural vision quest.
Giving and Receiving

In the erotic sexual, giving and receiving are revealed in all their wondrous glory to be one and the same. The mystics sometimes called this
the secret of the kiss, for in the kiss, the false dichotomy between giving
and receivingindeed, between giver and receiveris exploded in the
rapture of ecstatic union. The greatest gift is the fullest openness of receiving. In the erotic sexual, we receive the other so deeply that our heart
is opened to the widest expanse we could ever feel.
Pleasure
In the erotic sexual, we are invited to the sanity of pleasure, to the realization that the world is not indierent to us but actively and even desperately seeks our deepest pleasure. To be sane is to know reality; insanity
is a rupture with reality. The erotic sexual remembers us to the innite
pleasure that is the truth of all that is.
Surrender
It is in the erotic sexual that we not only are aame and alive with love
that is giving, but we also understand that to give, is to give up control. We
loosen the reins we once thought would x everything that is so painfully
broken, as we realize that everything is already xed, that grace is always
alive and available, and that everyone is doing what they need to do.
In the erotic sexual, we do not settle for the paltry comfort of a shivering clitoral orgasm. Rather, we reach for full and radical openness. You
must be willing to open your entire being, to surrender your heart as your
entire soul is given over to be ravished by God.
There is only one thing that a man or woman truly wants, underneath it
all and after all other wants have been lled. The human being wants to
be taken by God. The Hebrew mystics teach that when man and woman merge in the full radical consciousness of total opening to God, they
make love not merely with each other but also experience the ultimate
penetration as well as the innite embrace of the Shechinah. When we
make love we spread our partners heart open to God through the depth
of our own surrender.
Love is the only way to live that is not insane. Everything in your life
will always betray you. The only way through betrayal is to totally surrender to be lived by God as God. It is not enough to be loved by God.
Gods love still leaves us lonely. It is only when we are lived by God that
the crisis of our identity is solved.
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never reached the age of 40, he produced a remarkable legacy in his few productive years.
In voluminous writings, he articulated the essential teachings of Vedanta, the philosophy that
stems primarily from the Bhagavad Gita and
the Upanishads. His slim books on the principal
pathways of yogakarma (seless action), jnana
(intellectual discernment), raja (meditation
and spiritual practice), and bhakti (devotion)
became the authoritative descriptions of those
categories, and to a large extent they remain so
because they set the tone for much of the subsequent commentary on the subject.
Vivekanandas treatise on bhakti is of particular interest because that form of yogic practice
had been a distant cousin to the other three
isitors exiting the Art Institute of Chicago are often perplexed by the street
sign that reads Swami Vivekananda
Way. Who is this swami, and why does he deserve an honorary street name? This year, the
150th anniversary of his birth, millions around
the world are learning why Vivekananda remains a revered gure. Tributes are being held
in India and in the West.
The leading disciple of the legendary 19thcentury saint Sri Ramakrishna, Vivekananda
came to the US in 1893 for the Parliament
of the Worlds Religions. He was an exotic
sight in his orange robes and turban; very few
Americans had even met a Jew or a Muslim at
the time, much less a Hindu monk. Against all
odds, the swami became an instant sensation
as a fresh voice that spoke with authority, in
impeccable English, about his own tradition,
religious harmony, and the universal truths at
the depths of all religions.
He quickly encountered two types of Americans familiar to us today: Christian supremacists who denounced him as a dangerous
heathen preaching false religion, and openminded, rational seekers who found his message and demeanor irresistible. His love of the
Divine was not only palpable to his listeners,
it clearly upheld the qualities of universal love
that their own pastors talked about but did not
necessarily live, and it transcended the boundaries of religious identity and the limitations of
what we in the West call faith.
Through word of mouth and adulatory press
coverage, he became such a superstar that
extra talks were needed to accommodate the
crowds that ooded the building that became
the Art Institutehence the location of Swami
Vivekananda Way. His time in America lasted
more than three years in two separate trips, including a four-month visit to the Bay Area in
1900. He died in India in 1902, and like Mozart,
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notwithstanding). That has changed with the
explosion of kirtanthe communal chanting
of traditional Sanskrit mantrasthroughout
the West, along with Woodstock-like gatherings such as Bhakti Fest.
While Vivekanandas private writings reect
boundless love for Ramakrishna and the masters spiritual wife, Sarada Devi, as well as for
a personal conception of God in both masculine and feminine forms, his teaching centered
mainly on the principles of nondual Vedanta.
This no doubt reected his perception that
Americans of that era would not be receptive
to traditional Indian devotional practices. This
is what Vivekananda wrote about the path of

the heart:
Love is the natural impetus of union in the
human heart; and though itself a great cause
of misery, properly directed towards the proper object, it brings deliverance. The object of
Bhakti is God. Love cannot be without a subject and an object. The object of love again must
be at rst a being who can reciprocate our love.
Therefore the God of love must be in some sense
a human God. He must be a God of love. Aside
from the question of whether such a God exists
or not, it is a fact that to those who have love in
their heart, this Absolute appears as a God of
love, as personal.
The lower forms of worship, which embody
the idea of God as a judge or punisher or someone to be obeyed through fear, do not deserve to
be called love, although they are forms of worship gradually expanding into higher forms. We
pass on to the consideration of love itself. We
will illustrate love by a triangle, of which the
rst angle at the base is fearlessness. So long as
there is fear, it is not love. Love banishes all fear.
A mother with her baby will face a tiger to save
her child. The second angle is that love never
asks, never begs. The third or the apex is that
love loves for the sake of love itself. Even the
idea of object vanishes. Love is the only form in
which love is loved.
In America, Vivekanandas legacy includes
the creation of the Vedanta Society, with centers in most major US cities. One of these is the
gloriously ornate building on Webster and Filbert in San Francisco, which was completed in
1908. Vedanta Society swamis mentored some
of the most prominent intellectuals in American history, including Joseph Campbell, Aldous
Huxley, Huston Smith, and J. D. Salinger. Had
the token Hindu not ignited such a fervent response, the 1893 Parliament might have been
forgotten. Instead, it launched the modern interfaith movement and catalyzed an East-toWest transmission that has reshaped Americas
spiritual landscape. All those who think of themselves as yogis, or as spiritual but not religious,
owe Swami Vivekananda a bow of gratitude.
Philip Goldberg is the author or coauthor of
19 books, including Roadsigns on the Spiritual Path and the award-winning American
Veda: From Emerson and the Beatles to Yoga
and MeditationHow Indian Spirituality Changed the West. A meditation teacher
and spiritual counselor, Phil lectures and
teaches nationally. PhilipGoldberg.com and
AmericanVeda.com.
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attempts to explore BDSM (bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, sadism
and masochism) and other edgy practices in
the highest light of Tantra. Our conversation
picks up on the iconic success of author E.L.
James 50 Shades of Grey trilogy, which has
captured mass interest (65 million copies sold
and a movie in the making) based on a parallel
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part-mythical, part-human helper on the
spiritual path. In neo-Tantra, it generally denotes a woman who is a muse and guide for
people who are interested in rening or transmuting their primal sexual energies into more
subtle and spiritual dimensions.
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model. In a general sense, many erotic professionals, including dakinis, are teachers
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people, especially boys, learn from porn, and

porn is an illusion. In my view, most pornography is a toxic expression borne out of repression. This is why sex educators are becoming
more prevalent and valued in our society.
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steps forward and then many steps backward
when it comes to sex, intimacy, and personal
choice. Theres so much repression and guilt
and shame and judgment. Much of my work
had been to help people normalize and deeply
accept that pleasure is our birthright and that
all forms of sex and intimacy have their place.
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blessed with sex-positive parents.
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secrets and shadows, which create guilt and
shame and more repression. Part of the problem is that we are not taught how to do sex and
intimacy. Unfortunately, many of our young
Google 50 shades of grey to get a sense. The

books characters explore elements of BDSM,
aka kink, erotic power exchange, and pain. Its
a trilogy thats being made into a movieits
themes are rather iconic and far-reaching at
this time.
Besides being titillating and kind of fun, I
think it has to do with the memes of power, authority, control, and the other side of those
submission, surrender, trust, and vulnerability.
Also, there are the archetypes of predator-prey,
master-servant, libertine-innocent, etc., which
for good or ill are part of our sexual expression
at this time in our evolution. These polarities
are present to some degree in all relationships.
With kink, they are amplied and intensied.
So the narratives strike a chord with many
people, but for those of us who actually do this
stu, we were mostly dismissive of the books
because they are full of dysfunction and devoid of spirituality. They paint kinky intimacy
in an unconscious way.
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Kink is a larger umbrella term than BDSM.

While it includes BDSM, this term also includes any adventurous sex that deviates from
the outdated viewpoint of normal sexuality.
Sacred kink is to kink what sacred sexuality is
to sex. Its bringing perspective and practices
that elevate these expressions of sexuality. So
sacred kink is specically saying, Hey, theres
this shadow side of sex that might be considered, and were going to do it consciously to
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who want to explore and play in these realms,
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classes, and workshops; attendees can expect
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Its mixed. On one hand its o-putting and

scary, and some people in the light dont want
to go there. Judgments arise that it is mysterious or wrong. On the other hand, there are
people wanting to explore dark Tantra, which
incorporates the elements of neo-Tantra with
intense play. Whether one is speaking of classical Tantra, neo-Tantra, or sacred sex in general, one unifying belief is that the divine exists
in all things, especially those that are deemed
unholy or unacceptable, sexuality being just
one of them.
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if we use kink as a way to ll a void by either
numbing or overstimulating the senses, it may
feed new addictions. Then, yes, its a pitfall like
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In a word, intention. Sacred intent plus aligned

action draws us toward experiences that feel
sacred and enrich our spirit. For example, if
my intent is to og you for fun and games, its
creating a chemical cocktail of endorphins and
adrenaline, and really cool, sexy, fun stu can
happen. However, if my intent is to take my
heart love energy and have it go out my hand
into my ogger and into the back of your heart,
and Im seeing you as an energy grid, and we

are raising and circulating energywell, thats
a whole dierent endeavor. Not to discount fun
and games, but were exploring the shadows
with sacred intent, to get the gold from it, the
transformation and growth of soul. As anyone
doing consciousness work knows, growth and
transformation is rooted out from those dark,
mucky sides of ourselves. With sexuality, those
messy sides are even more charged.
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and intensied, and it just keeps growing.
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meditation, and all forms of relationship and
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hroughout much of recorded history,

in the writings and oral traditions of
many diverse cultures, people strongly
believed in an intelligent heart. As a child, I often was told, Go to your heart for the answer
and Listen to your heart. When I did, I often
found insight or clarity about a problem I was
facing. In Sunday school, teachers talked about
the still, small voice in the heart, and it made
sense to me. They never said the still, small
voice in the head, which often for me was a
voice of self-doubt.
As I grew older, I adopted views about intelligence that I learned in school: that the ability
to learn, understand, reason, and apply knowledge was a function of the brain in the head. It
never occurred to me that the intuitive sense
or clarity I gained by listening to my heart had
to do with my physical heart. So when I read
about research into heart intelligence, I was
fascinated.
During the 1960s and 70s, physiologists
John and Beatrice Lacey conducted research
that showed the heart actually communicates
with the brain in ways that greatly aect how
we perceive and react to the world around us.
Today, more than a half century after the Laceys began their research, we know a great deal
more about the intelligent heart:
The heart sends us emotional and intuitive
signals to help govern our lives.
The heart directs and aligns many systems
in the body so they can function in harmony
with one another.
The heart has its own independent, complex
nervous system known as the brain in the
heart.
The hearts independent brain and nervous
system relay information to and from the
brain in the craniuma two-way communication system between heart and brain.
The heart makes many of its own decisions.
The heart starts beating in the unborn fetus
before the brain has been formed.
Human beings form an emotional brain long
before a rational one, and a beating heart before either.
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Researchers at various institutions began showing

in the 1980s and 90s that
success in life depends
more on an individuals
ability to eectively manage emotions than on
intellectual ability. These
ndings naturally resulted in people wanting to
know how to infuse emotions with intelligence.
Weve come a long way
in learning how the heart,
mind, and emotions work.
Science has begun to catch
up in accepting that there
really is something to this
idea of heart intelligence
thats been intuitively understood for millennia.
HeartMath research denes heart intelligence
as the ow of awareness, understanding, and
practical intuition we experience when the
mind and emotions are brought into coherent
alignment with the heart. It can be activated
through self-initiated practice, and the more
we pay attention when we sense the heart is
speaking to us or guiding us, the greater our
ability to access this intelligence and guidance
more frequently. Heart intelligence underlies
cellular organization, guiding and evolving
organisms toward increased order, awareness,
and coherence of their bodies systems.
Today there are dozens of scientic papers
on HeartMaths research in heart intelligence
and dozens of universities studying its applications for emotional self-regulation, health,
academic performance, intuitive development,
and more.
Its one thing to understand the psychophysiology of heart intelligence, but perhaps the
true value of the term is how you apply it to
your own life. When youre listening to someone, are you listening with all of your heart? Do
you communicate from your heartthe deep-
er, genuine part of yourself? Before you make

an important decision, do you contemplate the
options from your heart, feeling how each scenario resonates within? Do you consult your
heart before having a knee-jerk reaction?
Heart intelligence has advanced far beyond
just a metaphor, and these simple questions
can help you to start connecting deeper with
your heart in everyday situations. Each time
you go to your heart, you are tapping into an
incredible guidance and ltering system that
will help you navigate your unique path. Ive
discovered in my own life that heart intelligence is unconditional and innite. How much
and how often we decide to use it is up to each
of us. In my own experience the more I use my
heart intelligence, or my inner guidance system, the easier it is for me to live my life from
my core heart values, such as care, compassion,
gratitude, and love, and the more fullling my
relationships and my life have become.
Try using your heart to establish healthier
attitudes. Heres a simple HeartMath technique you can try:
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The Attitude Breathing Technique is a powerful pretreatment tool. Use this technique to
prepare your attitude before engaging in situations that are likely to cause stress and to trigger an unwanted reaction. You can also use it
if you are feeling o, irritable, or overwhelmed.
Using Attitude Breathing can help you connect
with your heart and nd an attitude that can
foster increased balance.
In Attitude Breathing, you focus on your
heart and solar plexus as you breathe a positive attitude. The heart will automatically harmonize the energy between the heart and solar
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1. Recognize an unwanted feeling or attitude.
This could be anxiety, sadness, self-judgment,
guilt, anger, feeling overwhelmedanything
distressing.
2. Identify and breathe in a replacement attitude. Select a positive attitude and then breathe
in the feeling of that new attitude slowly and
casually through your heart area. Do this for a
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Practice dierent combinations of attitudes
that you want to develop. You can tell yourself,
Breathe genuine, Breathe courage, Breathe
ease, Breathe neutral, or whatever attitude
you need. Even if you cant feel the attitude shift
at rst, making a genuine and earnest eort to
shift will at least help you get to a neutral state.
In neutral, you have more objectivity, and you
save mental and emotional energy.
Sara Childre is president of the Institute of
HeartMath. HeartMath.org
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veryone knows what sex is. Sex is coitus,

from the Latin for sexual intercourse. Sex
is copulation, from the Middle English
for sexual intercourse. Sex is doing it, from
the playground at most middle schools. In high
school biology, they taught us that sex was the
means of reproduction for lots of animals. The
male has a seed, the female has an egg; sex is
the activity that transfers seed to egg. Simply
put, sex is a piece of skin wiggling around in or
on another piece of skin until something goes
pop. Right? Sex = wiggle-wiggle-pop.
Well, there you have it. No need to read any
of the articles in this issue, or attend any of
the classes or trainings. Sex is wiggle-wigglepop, and its purpose is reproduction. Unless.
Unless sex is something more than just reproduction, something more profound than just
wiggle-wiggle-pop.
Take a moment to remember the very rst
time you held hands with someone you felt attracted to, your rst girlfriend or boyfriend.
Can you remember working up the courage,
overcoming the shyness? Can you remember
how it felt to join in your mutual innocence, to
feel the intimate connection? Remember the
rst time you kissed someone you had a crush
on, someone you were crazy about? Can you
remember when kissing was sex for you? Can
you remember how hot it was to make out?
As you compare those memories of what sex
was like when it was new to what your sex life
has become today, do you sometimes wonder
if youre missing something? I did, until my
partner Kat and I tried an exercise that profoundly aected my beliefs about and experience of sex.
After 11 months of living and working practically on top of each other, Kat and I had
developed a relationship rhythma predictable ebb and ow of our togetherness. And it
seemed that our rhythm had a lot to do with
our lovemaking. Wed make love, and for the
next day or two Id feel more emotionally connected, as if we were more in tune with each
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other. Sometimes wed make love two or three

times in a week, and that emotional connection would feel rock steady. Sometimes wed go
a week or more without making love, and Id
feel us drift further apart.
We talked about this relationship rhythm,
and we both recognized that this drifting in
and out of connection might actually be a clever way for our subconscious minds to avoid
deeper intimacy with each other. Perhaps there
was a level of connection, a depth of intimacy
available to us that we were, in fact, avoiding.
So we created an exercise, a course of action
intended to explore that which we might be
avoiding. We agreed to have sex every day for
the month of September. No excuses. No putting it o on Monday with the promise of twice
on Tuesday. No escape clause or backdoor.
We realized that we would need to have
some idea about what having sex meant. We
agreed that sex did not necessarily mean intercourse. And we agreed that we both wanted
something more than wiggle-wiggle-pop. We
were both pretty sure that we would know
something was sex when it was happening,
and we would know if whatever we were doing did not feel like sex. We came to the idea
that, if we both agreed that some activity was
sex, then it was. And we both agreed that hold-
ing hands or staring deeply into your beloveds

eyes might be someones idea of sex, but it
wasnt ours. We didnt need to dene sex. We
were pretty condent wed know it when we
were doing it.
The universe gave us a bit of encouragementit was actually possible for us to be together every day for the next 30 days. So we
began.
For a day or two it was fun and exciting. Wed
wait until the kids were at school, then take a
break from our work and have sweet, languorous lovemaking. Then the weekend came. No
school. Now we had to wait for the kids to be in
bed, asleep. You might think this was not a big
deal, but Kats very curious son had sleep issues and was often awake way into the night.
And after four or ve daily sex episodes, trying
to maintain desire, late at night, when we were
both tired, was denitely an act of will. And we
willed it.
By week three it was denitely getting challenging. It was hard to nd time, every day,
for intimate touch. We were busy, tired, overwhelmed. We would lie in bed, late at night,
talking about our resistance, our fatigue, our
lack of interest. We would discuss whether or
not to just stop, quit, give up.
Then we would put our naked bodies togeth-
er and, often to our surprise, our bodies would

respond. It was as if our bodies hungered for
the physical intimacy whether our minds knew
it or not. Our lovemaking got softer, quieter,
meditative. Instead of having sex in order to
come, I was having sex in order to be joined.
Sometimes coming was involved, sometimes
not. It felt as if I was learning how to have sex
be about us, our team, our two-ness, instead of
it being about me and my experience and her
and her experience. Its hard to nd the right
words to describe this. I felt we were moving
from pseudo-connection into a more genuine
connection.
In the nal days we missed a day, then another. Then a month was over.
We had had sex 28 out of 30 days. I had
learned more about what I wanted, what I
needed, what I expected, what I was willing
to give. Our bond felt deeper. I felt more connected to my partner and more at home in my
body. I felt sexy. Sex hadnt become routine or
boring. I learned that even when I thought I
wasnt in the mood, once my body was aroused,
the mood followed. I began to see value in resisting my resistance. I was happy and more at
peace with everything. It felt like I had done a
major piece of therapy but without all the processing and analyzing. I felt like I was living at
or near my potential, not as a peak experience,
but rather as a way of life.
The exercise showed me that sex is intertwined with intimacy and love in complex and
ever-changing ways that are dierent at dierent times of day, dierent as we age, dierent
in each new moment. Sex is not so much an
act or event but a language, a language spoken in looks and touch, in breathing and sighing. This language is spoken through a shared
experience of vulnerability and strength, a
shared experience of giving and receiving, a
shared experience of humanness and divinity. Sometimes this language can be spoken in
the instant it takes for our eyes to meet, and
sometimes one can spend a lifetime learning
this language, embodying it.
What is sex for you?
Chas August is a workshop leader and personal
coach who helps people to experience growth in
intimacy and sexuality, and to discover passion, heal anger, and improve communication
skills. Currently, Chas is director of marketing
for HAI Global, NorCal (hai.org). Chas sees
clients in the Bay Area and elsewhere via phone
or videoconference, oering coaching and counseling to individuals, couples, and families.
ChasAugust.com
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n a recent conversation for Super Soul Sunday,

when Oprah described to me how so often in
her conversations and interviews, people tell
her they just want to be happy, I found myself
responding, I think they want to be loved.
All of us want, or need, to be loved. The need
for love is one of the most basic human impulses. We may cover this need with patterns
of self-protection or images of self-reliance.
Or we may openly acknowledge this need to
ourselves or to others. But whether hidden or
visible, it is always present. Usually, we seek
for love in human relationships, projecting our
need onto parents, partners, friends, lovers.
Our lack or denial of love often causes wounds
that we carry with us. This unmet need haunts
us, sometimes driving us into addictions or
other self-destructive patterns. If our need for
love is met, we feel nourished in the depths of
our being.
Love calls to us in many dierent ways. Yet
while most people seek for love in the tangle
of human relationships, the mystic is drawn
deeper under the surfacein Rumis words,
Return to the root of the root of your own being. Here we discover one of the greatest human secrets: that the source and answer to this
primal need is not separate from us, but part
of our own essential nature, our own true being. Again, to quote Rumi:
The minute I heard my rst love story
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers dont nally meet somewhere.
Theyre in each other all along.
he mystical truth of the oneness of love

is something both simple and essential:
the real nature of the love that we all
seek is not other than us. I remember my rst
direct experience of this love. I was in my late
20s when one afternoon, while I was in medi-
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tation, I felt what I can only describe as buttery wings touching the edge of my heart. And
in that instant my whole being and body were
lled with a love I had hardly known existed.
Every cell of my body was loved, gently and
completely. Love was present in all of me. And
this love came from within me, from my own
heart. There was no other.
More experiences of the oneness of mystical love have followeddeeper, more ecstatic,
more blissful. But that rst direct experience
carried the sweetness of a rst love. From that
moment I knew that I was loved completely,
and it changed everything because it gave me
a security I had longed forthe security that
only love can give.
In every other relationship, even in the most
deeply passionate love aair, there are twous
and the one we love. We may long to get closer
and closer to our lover, and when we make
love there is a momentary taste of union on a
physical level. But then again we become two,
we are separate. Mystical love may begin with
the illusion of separation, that we are separate
from God, that we long for our Beloved. But
the journey takes us back to our own heart and
the truth of union: that lover and Beloved are
one and were always united. And in this union
there is a passion and depth of belonging that
can only be dreamed of in human relationships. As I discovered in that rst experience,
just one touch of this love nourishes every cell
in the body, meets every need in ways I could
never have imagined.
And the deeper truth is that this love is not
just within the heart, but underlies the whole
of creation. It is said that in the whole of the
universe there is only lover and Beloved. God
loves the creation and the creation loves God.
This is the mystical secret of all of life. What is
discovered within the heart belongs to everything. And the oneness of this love embraces
everything. When I
physically felt how love
touched every cell of
my body, and how I was
nourished by this love,
I was also experiencing
what belongs to all of
creation. The love that
belongs to God is not
limited and does not
discriminate. It is present within everything.
Yet like a sh in the
ocean looking for water, we seek what is all
around us.
It is a longing for this
love that draws the mystic on the journey of the soul. The mystic is one
who is not satised with the surface drama of
love, with the give-and-take of human relationships, but is called to go deeper. It is a dangerous and demanding journey into the depths of
the heart, into the sorrow and endless love that
one nds there. Here there are few signposts
but the primal vulnerability of the soul and the
seemingly endless longing for love. In an outer,
human relationship one can protect oneself,
create barriers against ones vulnerability and
wounds. In a relationship that is born on the
inside of the heart, in which there is no other,
it is much more dicult. It is ones own deepest love that calls: the Beloved is within ones
own soul. The vulnerability of oneness is both
painful and intoxicating.
But what is revealed within the heart of the
mystic, of the one who has given himself or
herself to love, is the great secret of creation:
that love is always present. Love is present
within our own heart, within every breath,
within every cell of our body and the whole of
creation. There is nothing other than love, and
the whole of creation is a continual outpouring of divine love. The great mystery is then
not that this love is always present, but that it
is hidden from ordinary everyday human perceptionthat we do not know how much we
are lovedhow we are made of love. That we
are love seeking love.
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, PhD, is a Su teacher
and author of a number of books, including The
Return of the Feminine and the World Soul. In
recent years the focus of his writing and teaching
has been on spiritual responsibility in our time
of transition and the emerging global consciousness of oneness, and on spiritual ecology. He
founded the Golden Su Center. His most recent
book is Prayer of the Heart in Christian and Su
Mysticism. WorkingWithOneness.org
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and unexpectedly passed away, my heart
was broken by some jerkface Peter Pan,
and two of my best friends (one of whom I
lived with) led me to lose my job, my home, my
savings, and what was left of my dignity.
A practicing yogi in the bhakti tradition, Ive
always tried to let my heart lead the way. However, it wasnt until this heartbreak hat trick
of grief, romantic rejection, and total betrayal
that I had no choice in the matter. My heart
hurt with each beat, which meant I actually
had to pay attention to it. Like when you break
a toe and suddenly discover how important
that little digit is.
I went into the inquiry, learning everything
I possibly could about the heart from cardiologists, thoracic surgeons, renown yoga teachers, revered kirtan artists, bhakti scholars,
Buddhist caregivers to the dying, toddlers,
Holocaust survivors, lm and television stars,
and just about anyone I crossed paths with.
My conclusion: everyone from every socioeconomic class, from every part of the world, has
experienced heartbreak. The average adult has
endured three major romantic heartbreaks in
their lifetime. The question Have you ever had
your heart broken? was almost immediately
answered with Of course! and a groan. The
heart can be broken by loss of a loved one, a
job, a home, the crumbling of an industry, and
a multitude of other disappointments. However, these anecdotes of emotional agony were
always followed by a story of triumph, the rise
greater than the fall.
It occurred to me that if everyone shares this
very human experience, it stands to reason we
could benet from accepting these trials as
part of life, and accept, rather than reject, the
pain. The ancient Vedic Sanskrit term yoga
translates as to yoke or to join. In the practice of yoga asana, we are yoking and joining
breath with movement, the higher self with the
human self, the pleasure with the pain. It is a
practice of melting the hard edges and looking
within to nd the greater consciousness buried beneath.
Meditation for a Heart of Peace

Come into a comfortable cross-legged seated position (Sukhasana or Padmasana) or sit upright in a
chair with your feet on the floor.
Set your alarm for 5, 10, 20, or 30 minutes.
Place your palms facing up on your knees (or thighs)
in Jnana mudra (wisdom seal, thumb and index finger touching in the okay symbol). Jnana mudra is
also known as a sign language to the godsa direct
message requesting universal knowledge. When we
are in it, we are asking for wisdom or guidance.
Root your sit bones into the ground, be sure your
spine is aligned, and let your chin drop slightly, allowing your neck to lengthen.
Beginning at the crown of your head, scan your body
for any tension you can let go of.
Bring your awareness to the heart center.
Breathe into the heart center
Ask your heart Is there anything I need to know? Is
there anything you want to teach me? Is there anything
I can let go of? Is there anything Im holding in my heart
I dont need to carry anymore?
Sit silently and wait for the answers to reveal themselves. It may be today, it may tomorrow, it may be
next week or next month, but if you stay quiet, you
will get answers. Continue this practice for as long
as you like.
At the conclusion of this practice, be sure to thank
your inner guidance, the guidance from within,
above, or wherever you feel it comes from.
You may want to seal the practice with an Aum or
Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu, or simply bow
your head in gratitude.
Heartbreak Yoga is the yoking of heartbreak

with the innate knowledge that is already inside
youthe part of your heart that knows what to
be with, what to grieve, what to be relieved by,
what to release, and what to love more. It is the
practice of accepting the impermanence of all
things, the realization that pain is part of life,
and being brave enough to be present to it all,
on and o the mat.
Bhakti Fest producer, author, and yogini Amy
V. Dewhursts book, Heartbreak Yoga, is now
available for preorder on Amazon.com.
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during Sukhdevs pregnancy, this album is
lled with creative energy, whether mellow or
rhythmic, meditative
or danceable. Sukhdevs voice is like
honey, and Akahdahmahs drumming
is the heartbeat. The
instrumentation, including slide, electric
guitar and bass, and
the many instruments of Hans Christian, adds
depth. There are two 11-minute meditations
on the album. The rst, Wahe Guru, begins
like a lullaby, with gentle guitar, until halfway
through, when they kick up the energy to add a
healthy dose of fun.
Snatam Kaur says, Akahdahmah and Sukhdev deliver a message of hope with their music
and chanting in a pure, courageous, and joylled way.
A favorite track, Be the Light, is inspired
by Yogi Bhajan. I Love You, I Thank You is
a testament to the love between Sukhdev and
Akahdahmah, a sweet track and reminder to
let the people you love know how much they
mean to you. Light of My Soul is a lovely
combination of Kundalini and Naam yoga
mantras and prayers, a gentle track ideal for
Savasana. Funky Divinity is a groovy take
on the mantra Ang Sang Wahe Guru. A high
point, Akahdahmah shines here, both with incredible percussion and the message he gives
to listeners. Mantra Mala is a beautiful oering of the conscious music and uplifting spirit
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ithin many of the worlds religions,

desire, passion, and love are regarded as somewhat dangerous at
best. Particularly in Buddhism, there has been a
whole tradition of turning away from the world,
removing oneself from situations that tend to
provoke desire or wanting or passion by going
into retreat or entering a monastic tradition.
The interesting dierence with Tantric Buddhism,
and it really is an incredibly dramatic contrast, is that
in the Tantric tradition, love comes very close to being
the ultimate state of mind. In fact, loveif you experience it with a completely open state of awarenessis
the ultimate state of mind. From this perspective, when
we are in a state of great love, we are experiencing the
awakened state in its most complete and powerful form.
In all the other dimensions of yearning and wanting as
wellthe baby that wants to be held, the infant that
wants to suck at the mothers nipple, the young child
who wants to be loved, people throughout their whole
lives who are looking for lovesomehow theres something very deeply sacred there. The insight that love is
ultimately the most sacred reality there is, that it comes
very close to being the essence of the universe itself, is
at the core of the tradition of Tantric Buddhism.
For this reason, consort practice with a human
partnertaking intimate relationship as ones spiritual
pathwas at the center of the Indian Vajrayana Buddhist tradition, which ourished between 500 and 1200
CE. This passed on to Tibet hundreds of years after it
had developed in India, and for most of its history it
was a lineage held by families and lay people. What
happens in a consort relationship is that over time, we
begin to realize that reality shows up in its fullest form
in the body and the face and the eyes of the beloved.
As my Tibetan teacher Chgyam Trungpa Rinpoche
used to say, the consort is the representative of the
phenomenal world. What does that mean? In conventional relationships, the relationality often becomes a
way of defending ourselves against the dicult parts of
existence. We nd ourselves hiding out in the relationship, making it into a kind of you-and-me-against-theworld approach. There is a sense of a common story
that we share as partners, a common kind of image that
we have of our relationshipwhat we might call a joint
relationship ego. Often, our behaviors are codependent
and narcissistic, and were very self-involved; at that
point, the other person becomes an essential part of
our ego maintenance, support, and security. We may
feel wonderful when they tell us how great we are, and
we might become self-righteously upset or angry when
they reect back something about us we dont want to
know about. More generally, we might tend to go for
the attractive side, to try to be positive and build that
up, avoiding all the negativity and the cutting truthfulness of the relationship. On the other hand, we can
get locked into a kind of negativity where suddenly we
dont even know why were with this person, and all we
see is the negative side of it. A lot of the trouble we get
into in relationships comes from this tendency to xate
on one side or the other and to try to use the relationship for ego ends.
In the Vajrayana tradition, the dierence with the
consort relationship is that you take on the fullness of
the communication from your consort, without trying
to manipulate, lter, or control what the mirror reects.
With the consort, were not only not hiding out, we are
actually dismantling our defenses so that we are able to
meet him or her face-to-face in the most naked, direct,
and complete way. When you see your partner in this
way, you become very aware that this is not a situation
you can control, yet youre willing to relate to the call,
the invitation to open and surrender. Youre willing to
open yourself to the reality of what another person sees
and reveals about you. Trungpa Rinpoche used to say
that when your consort communicates with you, theres
always something there for you; if you can manage to
not push it away, it becomes a gateway. In that moment
of opening, we touch our most fundamental self, unlock the well-springs of seless compassion within us,
and render ourselves naked before the deepest mysteries of the cosmos. It is strange, but that is what happens
through the unfettered and unbounded love of the consort, once it is set free.
We deeply love this other person, and the intensity of
that love thus becomes a gate for us into a much vaster
way of being. We want to be closer, ever closerbut
what is that wild urge? The Tantric insight is that ultimately, our love is the love of the universe; it is the
universes love . . . for what? For everything that is, for
all the beings in all of the worlds. It is boundless and
utterly seless. When we realize that fullythat love
is the nal realitythere is no longer any room for a
small, self-involved ego, and when we release that small
self, we are suddenly free and love is no longer something we feel or do, but is ultimately what we are. And
it is the consort alone who can help us give birth to this
realization.
This raises the important question of just how we
ourselves can enter fully and wholeheartedly into that
kind of relationship with our partner. One thing is
certain: you cant just wake up one morning and begin doing it. The ego is not going to give up that easily.
The Vajrayana, in fact, suggests there are three things
needed: the right aspiration, genuine commitment, and
spiritual practice.
First, we need to have the aspiration to not use the
relationship purely for narcissistic, ego ends, to aspire
that the relationship be a vehicle of spiritual opening,
growth, and realization for your partner and yourself.
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This is no simple thing, for it involves letting go of many

of the reasons people get into relationships in the rst
place: to fulll immature emotional needs, to increase
self-esteem, to nd comfort and security, to build a
dike against the pains and frustrations of life, to insulate oneself from the suering world, etc. In contrast,
here our aspiration is that the relationship will become
a way for us to open more fully to life and to reality.
Second, there needs to be a commitment to the spiritual journey: the maturation and development of both
of you. This means, for one thing, that we must have
an unwavering dedication to the spiritual journey and
welfare of our partner no matter what the cost to ourselves. This requires, at times, what in Christianity is
called self-abnegation. We may want our consort to
be a certain way to make us feel more comfortable or
secure, and maybe it is really the wrong thing for him
or her. At that point, we have to have the clarity and
the discipline to say no to our ego and to say yes to our
partners well-being. We all begin at the beginning, and
making that journey takes a great deal of blood, sweat,
and tears. We have to be willing to do the work and go
through that.
Third, according to the Vajrayana, the consort relationship is only really possible within the framework
and context of larger spiritual practice, and this means
meditation practice. Meditation has two aspects, purifying and empowering. First, the practice helps us
identify and let go of the myriad ways in which we armor ourselves and hide out from other people and the
world. To be in a consort relationship, we need to render ourselves empty, open, and undefended. We have
to receive our consort, whether doing so is pleasurable
or painful. Second, meditation empowers our deepest
intelligence, insight, and intuition. We need these to be
able to rest deeply within ourselves with integrity, as we
make the consort journey. And it is these gifts, oered
with clarity and seless warmth, that our consort needs
to make his or her journey. In short, as we engage in the
intensity of the consort relationship, we need always to
come from the place of meditation.
Thus it is that through our aspiration, dedication, and
practice, the consort is able to become the spokesperson
of reality. The consort becomes the teacher. This doesnt
mean that you and your consort are giving each other
lectures; it is the very being of the partner, the nakedness
of the relationship, and the unavoidability of the truth
and reality being shown to you that become the qualities of the guru. These are what we receive from a human teacher, and they are also what we experience in the
consort relationship. Because of your practice, you are
able to open to it and receive it. In this way, the consort
becomes the arena within which we meet the world in
the strongest and most direct possible way.
The power of the consort relationship is in the relationship itself, and also in the fact that its the place that
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and maturity. Through learning to relate to this other

person, and through the practices that are given in the
tradition, we begin to develop a dierent relationship
with the totality, and a dierent relationship with ourselves. We nd that we need the consort in order to
transform in our relationships to ourselves, our families, our friends, the world, and the universe. Through
the transformative crucible of the consort relationship,
we become dierent people.
As I see it, the consort relationship is appropriate
for anyone in any situation, because its fundamentally
about being human. Whatever our life situation, sexual
orientation, age, gender, or cultural background, its
about the way in which human relationality and human
love open the way to a deeper experience of our own
human journeyto openness and genuine seless love
for the world. Its already in us at our deepest level
this is simply who we are as people.
Fundamentally, whether or not youre in relationship
doesnt matter, because these teachings are really about
our own humanness. If youre not in relationship now,
you once were, and in a way that relationship will always be with you. The journey is always there, even if
were talking about the earliest years with our mother
or our father. Or we may not be in relationship with
an intimate partner now, but we will in the future. For
us, intimacythe need and desire for intimacyis our
deepest human quality, and the intimacy is not only
with our intimate partner, although thats where we
may learn it. The intimacy that we long for is intimacy
with everything, everywhere.
We can walk into a grocery store and stand in front
of the cashier, and we can be so present and so open
that we look into that persons face and we see them.
And for a moment, theres no separation. In a sense,
we can feel an incredible appreciation of their situation and experience from the inside of their own life,
and we can love them. And so it can be with animals,
with trees, with rivers, with mountains, with stars. We
have within us the capacity to experience things with
no interposing veils or lters, and beyond simply that
capacity, we have an inborn imperative to experience
the world in a way that is absolutely open and naked.
But how are we going to arrive there? According to the
Vajrayana tradition, it is through the consort relationship that we can best make the journey.
Dr. Reginald Reggie Ray, with four decades of intensive Tibetan Buddhist meditation practice and study,
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Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences

1601 Clay St.
Oakland, CA. 94612
Phone: 510.763.7787
Fax: 510.834.8646
Website: www.acchs.edu
E-mail: info@acchs.edu
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AMERICAN COLLEGE OF TRADITIONAL
CHINESE MEDICINE - ACTCM
The #1 college for acupuncture is in San
Francisco! Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine is one of the fastest growing
medical professions in the US today. ACTCM
is nationally accredited; Financial Aid available. For more information, contact us for our
FREE catalog & view book.
Rolling Admissions. Visit www.actcm.edu for information about how to become

an acupuncturist with our MSTCM program, earn an advanced DAOM degree, enroll
in the Tui Na and Shiatsu certificate program, enroll in public classes, and learn how
to earn CEUs!
Make an appointment at our Acupuncture and Herbal Clinic. Ask about our Morning Special to receive a discounted treatment.
Contact Us:
455 Arkansas Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 (college)
450 Connecticut Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 (clinic)
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Herbalism
CALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF
HERBAL STUDIES
Founded in 1978 by Rosemary Gladstar,
CSHS is one of Americas oldest centers for
herbal education. Our goal is to empower individuals with the skills, spirit and experience
needed to be capable community herbalists.
CSHS is located on 80 acres in Forestville, CA,
including a medicinal garden with over 250
species of medicinal plants. Classes from one day to our 8-month intensive.
What is growing in the garden will guide each class as we focus on the medicinal
plants that are ready to harvest and utilize this season. Our exploration will span from
the medicinal to the magical, and the cultural to the culinary. Each session is a blend
of lecture and hands-on time in the garden and lab.
Upcoming classes
* Handcrafted Herbalism (9-month weekend course) March 16-Nov. 10, 2013
*Body Systems & Herbal Wellness (9-month weekend course) March 23-Nov. 17
*Spring Herbal Essentials (Five Monday afternoons) April 29-June 17
Cert. Natural Chef, Nutrition Consultant

BAUMAN COLLEGE
Turn your passion for nutrition into a career!
Bauman College offers certificate programs
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Study at one of our four locations, or complete our Nutrition Consultant Program
from home with our flexible yet structured Distance Learning Program.
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for Everyone, which teaches the core concepts of holistic nutrition and wellness.
Hypnosis Certification
HYPNOTHERAPY TRAINING INSTITUTE
AT HYPNOTHERAPY.COM
Hypnotherapy is transforming many aspects of the health and counseling professions. We have a major role, leading the way
for 35 years by teaching powerful, innovative therapy methods of ourselves and others
to thousands of graduates from 45 countries,
including many leaders in the field.
In an intimate supportive setting, we teach transformational hypnotherapy as a career and for expanding the skills of professionals throughout the health and counseling professions. The comprehensive experiential programs have all major approvals,
including California state licensure and diplomas, ACHE Certification, and BBS and
BRN approved CEUs.
The Teacher of the Teachers

Randal Churchill is past President of the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners and author of the award-winning classics Regression Hypnotherapy, Become the
Dream, and the acclaimed Catharsis in Regression Hypnotherapy.
Cheryl Canfield is author of the award-winning book, Profound Healing, which has
received rave reviews from Wayne Dyer, Caroline Myss, Joseph Chilton Pierce and
Gerald Jampolsky.
Hypnotherapy Certification Program begins March 2: see website for details.
Next Free introductory evening meetings: February 13 and March 21.
Visit our comprehensive website, and download or call or email for our free brochure.
Hypnotherapy Training Institute: classes in Corte Madera, ten minutes drive from
the Golden Gate Bridge or six minutes from the Richmond Bridge.
welcome@hypnotherapy.com
Phone: 800-256-6448
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end class, or immerse yourself in professional week-long intensives.

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for personal growth, youll be impressed with our caring instructors and magnificent
location at Harbin Hot Springs.
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Massage and Watsu Training

SCHOOL OF SHIATSU & MASSAGE
At Harbin Hot Springs
Discover our world-renown aquatic and
land-based learning center for the healing
arts, located just north of the Napa Valley.
Courses include Watsu, Massage, Shiatsu, Deep Tissue, Waterdance, Craniosacral,
Thai, Reflexology, Anatomy, and more. Introduce yourself to modalities with a week-
See our website for class details.

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MAUI SCHOOL OF
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Become a Licensed Massage Therapist
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Our 650-hour professional program is one of
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for a richly rewarding career. $5,500 tuition
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encourage inner harmony, deep relaxation and support of ones healing process. Curriculum includes: Anatomy & Kinesiology, Swedish, Hawaiian Lomilomi, Hydrotherapy
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every September and March. Maui School of Therapeutic Massage is licensed by the
HI Department of Education and is approved for VA benefits. Graduates are eligible
for licensure in most states and countries. Student visas are available. We also offer
programs for transfer students to receive their Hawaii license. For more information
and catalogue:
Waldorf Teacher Training

RUDOLF STEINER COLLEGE
A Center for Transformative Education
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medicine, and care of the disabled, in addition to education.
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Learn the ancient and modern traditions
of herbal medicine. Gathering Thyme offers
a year-long herbal program, Explorations
in Western Herbalism, open to anyone with
an interest in learning the craft of herbalism
to care for your health, and the health of your
community. This class blends the scientific
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MAUI SCHOOL OF THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE

P.O. Box 1891, Makawao, HI 96768
808-572-1888
www.massagemaui.com, info@massagemaui.com
Register for Autumn Workshops and Events in Fair Oaks:

www.steinercollege.edu/registration
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Conferences, Workshops & Classes Womens Reichian Group
EMBODYING THE TRUE
NATURE OF OURSELVES
What gets in the way of your living most
deeply? Come join a group of women ready
to create powerful shifts. Using a combination of somatic practice, breath work, shared
and individual workthis group is intended
to help each participant find deeper embodiment and healthier boundaries that will
affect your life in tangible ways. We will respectfully delve into areas of desired shift,
explore unresolved shadow held by habit in the bodymind, and expand comfort
with your strength, boundaries, and vulnerability. Begins 1/13.
Christine Waddell, founder of Fluid Wisdom, drawing on 30 years of skillful
Reichian practice, has guided groups of women into deeper, more fulfilled living
and self-acceptance. Suzan Goodman MD, a family physician working in womens
health and mind-body medicine, draws on decades of experience with her familys
dedication to living and teaching Reichian principles.
Conferences, Workshops & Classes Movement Arts

ATTENTION: MOVEMENT ARTS
PROFESSIONALS, HEALERS,
HUMANS OF ALL KINDS WHEN
YOU CHANGE THE MAP, YOU CHANGE
THE DIRECTION OF YOUR LIFE.
H.U.M.A.N. is a revolutionary course integrating functional anatomy, somatic
awareness,
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Jobs Body: A Handbook for Bodywork. Nicole Becker, yoga therapist & massage therapist is owner of Ojas Yoga Center, El Cerrito, CA.
For more information contact: christine@fluidwisdom.com

and suzangoodman@gmail.com, or call 510-655-3828
8 weekends over 10 months. Jan-Nov. 2013

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THE CENTER FOR SENSORIAL
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Sensorial Re-Education: Classes &
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Sensorial Re-education is a somatic movement practice from the Danis Bois Method
(DBM). It evolved in France in the 1980s
from Dr. Bois osteopathy teaching and his
research on perception transformation and
transpersonal experience. Sensorial Re-education introduces students to slow,
gentle movement sequences that explore how the body moves through space in
the execution of ordinary gestures. The aim is to bring awareness to how sensory
perception of pre-gestural movement can transform biomechanical function.
This level of perception draws our attention to movement habits that cause tension, pain and fatigue, as well as block our sense of balance, timing, orientation,
etc. Each class explores the learning potential in ordinary gestures the coordination and expression of amplitude, rhythm, velocity, trajectory, and more. We experience connections among movement, Self-discovery, community, and reciprocity. We
learn not what it means to do movement but to become movement.
WEEKLY MOVEMENT CLASSES Kesha Fikes, Ph.D., Certified DBM Practitioner,
kefikes@gmail.com / 2050 4th Street, Berkeley / Fridays, March 29 to May 17, 12pm to
1:15pm
3-DAY WORKSHOP INTENSIVE April 27-29 with DBM Master Teachers Gitte Moller &
Frederic Pancaldi a rare workshop opportunity. Hidden Villa, Los Altos Hills, CA
INFO: THECSBMT.COM & CERAP.ORG
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and mind with exciting results. I am committed to creating a safe place where issues
can be worked through with respect and gentleness.
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Healing Music
DEEP ALPHA: BRAINWAVE
ENTRAINMENT MUSIC BY
STEVEN HALPERN
From the first notes of Deep Alpha that
entrain your brain to the key 8 Hz alpha
brainwave frequency, you begin making
conscious contact with your Higher Power
and Universal Intelligence.
Halperns exquisite music is enhanced with
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this the industrial strength and more functional version of his renowned healing
compositions. Deep Alpha features Grammy winners Paul McCandless and Michael
Manring. Compared to other brainwave CDs on the market, this album is musically
and sonically in a class by itself. (Leading Edge Review) Listen and compare. Ideal
for meditation, healing, Tantra and massage. DEEP ALPHA debuted at #7 on the
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Steven Halpern is a founding father of New Age music and modern sound healing.
A visionary composer, keyboardist, producer and researcher, Stevens music is
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Somatic Inquiry
SOMATIC INQUIRY SESSIONS
Much of our history, conditioning and beliefs are stored not in our minds but in our
body. Somatic Inquiry practice focuses on
and strengthens the bodys intelligence,
while quieting and focusing the mind
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body that limit our capacity to realize our full
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released. Be prepared for lasting, transformative results. Somatic Inquiry is performed in a comfortable sitting or lying position while fully clothed, and is suitable
for all ages and cultural backgrounds. If you are tired of not getting results from talk
therapy and/or massage give Somatic Inquiry a try.
Zoe Fry CMT has 25 years of practice as a Bodyworker, Meditator and Somatic
Processor. Her passion for Gift Consciousness is expressed through Service to
her community. You will receive all sessions as a Gift. Donations will be happily received at the level of value of your personal experience.
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David Shevick, L.Ac., uses a blend of acupuncture and Chinese herbs to support and
restore the fundamental energies of the body, as well as provide relief of immediate
symptoms, setting up the pathway for deep healing.
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Home visits are available for severe handicap and terminal illness
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Reiki (rei soul, spirit + ki vital energy) is an
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Vedic Astrology
VEDIC ASTROLOGY
Vedic Astrology (Jyotisha) was developed
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human existence: Dharma (Life Purpose),
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its spiritual depth, predictive accuracy, and
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Since 1972, Stephen Quong (Umananda) has travelled extensively throughout India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, meeting and studying with many of the greatest masters of
Vedic Astrology and Palmistry. In addition, he has been closely associated with Shree
Anandamayi Ma and other highly respected spiritual teachers, whose guidance, blessings and personal example have been a major influence in his life and work.
Stephen is one of a very few Americans honored by the Indian Council on Astrological Sciences with the titles of Jyotisha Kovida, Jyotisha Vachaspati, and Life Fellow,
and is respected by astrologers and clients around the world for his expertise in Vedic
Astrology. Upon meeting him in 1993, K.N. Rao, then director of the largest astrology
school in India, told a client, Go see Stephen Quong. He is the best Vedic Astrologer in
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A personal consultation with Stephen will include helpful, practical advice offered
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future. Business, legal and financial issues can be discussed. All consultations are private, confidential, and tape-recorded for your convenience.
Stephens international clientele includes prominent spiritual teachers, healers, political leaders, business executives, portfolio managers, attorneys, scientists, doctors,
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as clients.
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to schedule a personal consultation, please call:
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Massage & Bodywork

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NECESSITY IS STILL THE
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This is how the SACRO WEDGY back pain
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Hellerwork
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Massage & Bodywork
Bowen Technique
BOWEN TECHNIQUE
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his hand to isolate, cradle and elevated only the sacrum. Relax the piriformis to release
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movement. Hellerwork can also be experienced in non-series tune-up sessions.

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available at a reduced rate.
House calls available
Roy Strassman, M.S. has been practicing Hellerwork for 28 years and is one
of founder Joseph Hellers original students. He currently practices in the Bay Area
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Roy works with his hands, but feels with his heart. When he works on you he weaves
decades of experience, a lifetime on the spiritual path, and years of direct study with his
teacher into a tapestry of healing that has to be experienced to be believed. Just give him
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Come alive to your sexuality and joy of
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Reichian Therapy is a non-verbal breathing therapy. Whereas talk is a great way to
avoid what youre feeling, there is no way to
avoid your feelings while lying there breathing in a Reichian session. Over time, chronically stiff and hard muscles blocking sensation and energy flow will soften. Eventually, the rage we hold in our muscles will
surface, giving way to more feelings of pleasure, freeing blocked energy and sexual
dysfunction.
We spend an enormous part of our energy holding back basic needs and feelings
which weve learned were not OK. An effective way to free these blocked energies, release anger and reawaken to your natural vitality and pleasure is through the breathing, movement and sounds of Reichian sessions.
Michele T. Newmark, M.S., D.D., has been involved in the study of human sexuality for over 30 years. The basis for her work is grounded in Reichian Therapy. Michele
has an ongoing private practice in Santa Rosa and in San Francisco at the Center for
Healing and Expression. She also holds classes on Tantra, Yoga and Breath, an Exploration of Sexual Energy and The Tantric Art of Self-Pleasuring for women.
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GETTING TO THE HEART OF INTIMACY.
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I invite you to call for a free 15 minute consultation.
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Join me and other women who are changing the world from the inside out:
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TO THE CALL OF THEIR SOUL
Walking the path of the Soul's call asks
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THE JOURNEY HOME: COMPASSIONATE
IN-DEPTH PSYCHOTHERAPY
There are two systems in conflict.
The true self we are born with that strives to
realize itself, and the survival self created
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at odds with each other, leading to fixed
patterns. My work identifies and differentiates these two selves so they can begin to work together, instead of against
each otherand continue the journey to the home of the true self.
Though I work with various types of people and issues, my specialty is therapy
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challenged. My style is collaborative and engaged, experiential and verbal, weaving
therapy with real life into a transformative loop. My core foundations are in Gestalt,
Object Relations, Family Systems, and Spiritual Practices. 37 years experience,
include being a former therapist and consultant for the staffs at Esalen Institute
and Spirit Rock.
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Psychology, Counseling & Therapy Spirit-led Counseling

CAIR COUNSELING
Come sit with me in the garden and let us
feel into these things that have troubled you.
What has blocked your light from freely expressing itself in this world? What is needed
now for you to move past inner obstacles?
Journey with me as we tap into the wisdom
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Medicine Buddha tradition), guided meditation and skillful inquiry, we will work together to genuinely transform your life into the manifestation of your soul purpose.
CAIR = Center, Accelerate, Integrate and Reveal your true self within all aspects
of your life.
Indigo Ocean, MA is the author of Being Bliss and the founder of the Phone Buddies Peer Counseling Community. Over the last 16 years, she has helped hundreds of
clients from NY to Hawaii, including work with teens and older children, and is newly
offering sessions in the East Bay. Call if you are ready to let go of your story of me and
open to a new way of being.
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NOURISHING YOUR TRUE SELF
What is your deepest desire? I can help
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us back are unacknowledged competing values. Through deep inquiry, body awareness
and present-moment attention, I help honor
where you are now, as well as open up to the
richness that lays dormant within you.
Humanistic-existential and transpersonal modalities inform my work. I also am
trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing). When we have

sustained traumabe it physical, sexual or emotionalour traumatized parts lag
behind what our adult selves know intellectually about the present moment. EMDR
is an evidence-based modality that is highly effective for integrating our scarred and
limited parts with our wisest and most grounded selves.
With warmth, compassion and sensitivity, I help you let go of old patterns that no
longer serve you and embrace your strengths and inner wisdomso you can live in
a more soulful and authentic way.
Psychology, Counseling & Therapy A Joyful Loving Therapy

RE-MOTHERING
UNDERMOTHERED WOMEN
Many of us undermothered women
have a deep vision of who we could be,
an undeniable longing for the life we are
meant to live. Yet we are afraid to act on the
dreams and aspirations embedded in our
souls code, for fear of not being loved.
The pain of not living out our truths mani-
fests in many symptoms: depression, anxiety, loneliness, eating disorders, etc.

I have 34 years of experience guiding undermothered women of all life styles to feel
loved and cared for. It can be such a wonderful, nourishing experience to have
your emotionality, sensitivity, and spirituality embraced by an attuned mothering figure. When you learn to re-connect with your deep feminine wisdom, you
can soulfully manifest your lifes work and create loving relationships that your heart
and body are hungering for.
You are very welcome to call me for a free phone interview.
Soonja Kim, LCSW (License # : 10157)
510.558.0410
www.motheringwomen.com
Suzanne Berens, MFT

Conveniently located next to Rockridge BART in Oakland.
(510) 541-8868. www.TherapistBayArea.com
Spas, Retreats & Travel

Guest Houses
COMMONWEAL
Commonweal, a nonprofit institute with
service and research programs in environmental health, is located on a beautiful 60acre site overlooking the Pacific in the Point
Reyes National Seashore, near the small town
of Bolinas, about one hours drive from San
Francisco.
Our three furnished guest houses are
available to small groups for retreats, workshops, conferences, and similar uses which
are compatible with Commonweals nonprofit purposes and with the peaceful, iso-
lated rural environment.

Pacific House is a historic, 12-bedroom building with a stone fireplace in the large
living room and a fully equipped kitchen. Bothin House and Kohler House are
smaller guest houses nearby, with two and three bedrooms, respectively, and with
fireplaces.
Because the houses are often booked well in advance, early reservations are recommended.
For additional information, please visit our website:
www.commonweal.org
COMMONWEAL, P.O. Box 316,
Bolinas, CA 94924
415.868.0970
Hawaii Retreat
KALANI OCEANSIDE RETREAT
Revel in the spirit of aloha in our secluded retreat on the lush southeast coast of
the Big Island of Hawaii.
Kalani celebrates nature, culture and wellness on our 120 coastal acres of botanical
splendor along black sand beaches, near
the worlds most active volcano, where we
invite you to meditate, sunbathe, play with
dolphins, practice in our daily yoga classes, dance, discover hidden waterfalls, and
more. Enjoy our comfortable accommodations, delicious healthful cuisine, massage
therapies; relax by our Olympic-size pool; or just lay back in Hawaii!
Kalani is one of the most potent and nurturing retreat centers in the world Shiva
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Come to vacation, to attend a workshop, or bring your own group to this corner
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Hobbit? Dwarf? Elf? Wizard? What is
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experience Tolkiens masterpieces. See the sacred Mavora Lakes (were souls journey); climb Edoras (Capital of Rohan); experience the charm of Hobbiton. And
along the way, see volcanic Rotorua, Pandora like Fiordland, the remarkable Remarkables and the spectacular Southern Alps.
Since 2001, we have been escorting travelers thru these enchanted lands on an adventure that will transform and elevate. Now featuring 12-day winter tours (escape
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ISIS OASIS SANCTUARY. HOME OF ISIS
Isis Oasis is a magical Temple Sanctuary with
an ancient Egyptian aura. Lodge with a dozen
rooms dedicated to 12 Egyptian Goddesses. Safari lounge, enormous dorm with meeting area,
fireplaces, pool, spa & sauna within a secluded
garden. Turn of the century retreat house with
spa & rooms designed to please the Queens of
Egypt, for intimate gatherings.
A 600-year-old heritage tree is the centerpiece of our 10-acre retreat, which boasts
a 100-seat redwood theatre with hardwood floors, dressing room, massage area, &
tomb room. Visit our Animal Sanctuary, Gallery & Isis Bazaar. Permaculture garden with food prepared by Mummys Kitchen on our dining pavilion or cook your
own. A special spiritual place to hold your wedding, workshop, or private retreat.
75 miles North of the Golden Gate Bridge, off Hwy. 101 in wine country.
www.kalani.com
kalani@kalani.com
800.800.6886 or 808.965.7828
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HARBIN HOT SPRINGS
Whether you are visiting for the first time
or returning after many years, now is a great
time to experience Harbin Hot Springs, our
non-profit retreat center located in the wine
region north of Calistoga.
Hike 1700 acres of wilderness soak in
natural hot, warm and cold spring pools...
warm yourself in the sauna or on one of the
clothing-optional sun decks... then schedule a nurturing massage, Watsu or pampering spa treatment. Our restaurant serves breakfast and dinner daily, or prepare your
own vegetarian meals in the guest kitchen. Be sure to visit our garden, market, book
store and cafs.
Free guest events include daily yoga and weekly dances. Weekend workshops and
massage classes are held throughout the year. Secluded conference facilities for
groups up to 300 are available. We also have openings for residential employment.
Call or visit our web site for more details on any of these offerings.
Stop by for a day visit, or choose camping, dorms, private rooms or cottages for overnight stays. Room reservations are recommended. Ask about reduced weekday rates.
Reservations:
(707) 987-2477 (10am to 5pm)
CA toll-free 1-800-622-2477
Middletown, CA 95461
www.harbin.org/cg
Join us Feb 1517 for a Valentine weekend of music and poetry as pioneer in sound
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Join us in the simple joys of self renewal
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Step out of the busy-ness of daily life into the
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Book a retreat for your group: Dylan Schneider, dschneider@noetic.org.

Take a Conscious Living Workshop: workshops@noetic.org
EarthRise Retreat Center at IONS, 101 San Antonio Rd, Petaluma CA 94952
www.EarthRiseIONS.org, 707 781 7401
Founders Ruth and Bruce Davis, Ph.D. were awarded as one of the top ten
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