Keynote Speakers for the Daka/Dakini Fall Conference - East 2009
Presenters for the Daka/Dakini Fall Conference - East 2009
Presenters
Betty Dodson with Carlin Ross
Presentation: The Maiden & the Crone celebrate Pussy Pride:
Merging the Sacred and Profane
Betty Dodson (the Crone) and Carlin Ross (the Maiden) are two Intergenerational Feminists teaching sexual skills online with their interactive website. www.dodsonandross.com
The presentation begins by showing parts of Betty's original vulva slide show from the 1973 NOW Conference. Then Betty and Carlin share parts of their current Genital Art Gallery that has become Betty's pet research project. They end by showing photos of their own sex organs. "We are putting our vulva's online to prove we walk the talk and to encourage others to join us. Let's remove those damnable fig leaves forever! It's time for our Private Parts to go Public!"
Their dialogue on sexuality and feminism yields a provocative and witty approach that entertains and educates while delving into the Politics of Women¹s Sexuality:
- How denying women reproductive rights, easy access to birth control, restricting sexual choices, maintaining a sexual double standard with the two views of woman: Madonna or Whore, and defining women¹s appropriate sexual response denies women a full life.
Bio: Betty Dodson
Betty Dodson, artist, author, and PhD sexologist has been one of the principal voices for women's sexual pleasure and health for over three decades.
Dodson had the first one-woman show of erotic art in ¹68 in NYC followed by three others. She produced and presented the first feminist slide show of vulvas at the 1973 NOW Sexuality Conference in New York where she introduced the electric vibrator as a pleasure device. For 23 years, she ran Bodysex groups where women learned about their bodies and orgasms through the practice of self-stimulation.
Her first book, Liberating Masturbation: A Meditation on Selflove (¹74) became a feminist classic. Sex for One (¹87) sold over a million copies. Orgasms for Two (¹02) embraces partner sex. She has authored numerous articles on the subject of women¹s sexual pleasure and orgasm. Wrote/produced/directed 5 erotic sex educational videos on her ground breaking hands-on teaching. In 1994, she earned a PhD in clinical sexology. Dodson has presented at conferences for sexual scientists, therapists, and psychologists.
She has been interviewed on prime time cable television shows from the 1970s to present including The History Channel; The O¹Reilly Factor; The View; BET; HBO; Donahue; Sally Jesse Raphael; Geraldo; Joan Rivers; etc.
She has been featured in national publications such as O Magazine, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Vogue, Marie Claire, Playboy; Playgirl, Penthouse, Ms. Magazine, Bust, Time Out NY, LA and Chicago.
Bio: Carlin Ross
Carlin Ross, sex-positive activist and entrepreneur, has transcended her "ESQ" tagline to position herself at the forefront of female sexuality.
Ross worked with the New York State Attorney General's Office in their Internet and Civil Rights Bureaus before going in-house as General Counsel of an ISP which raised $1B on wall street. As General counsel, she created partnership and peering relationships with the telecommunication industry's major players. She also negotiated contracts to build an OC12 fiber optic network stretching from San Jose to London. She left her law career to create a lifestyle brand for women: cherrybomb. The site launch was featured on the front page of the NY Times on February 24, 2004.
She has interviewed sexperts such as Ian Kerner, Helen Fischer, Candida Royalle, Dr. Judy Kuriansky, and Dr. Barbara Bartlik for the Sex Herald.
And she has written/produced/directed several erotic features for Playgirl TV in addition to an original DVD feature.
She has appeared on The Sharon Osbourne Show, CNN, MSNBC, and Dateline and radio shows including Afternoon Advice on Playboy Radio.
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Mistress of Ceremonies:
Barbara Carrellas
Presentation: Gender-free Tantra
What is/are your gender(s)? Your partners' gender(s)? Do you really have to choose only one? We'll look at what gender is and what it isn't, and then find new ways to express it, pervert it and play with it.
You'll learn how to avoid assumptions and disappointments about the roles varyingly (and often confusingly) referred to as male/female, yin/yang, dominant/submissive, top/bottom, butch/femme.
Tantra can be practiced to celebrate all forms of gender presentation, sexual expression and sexual preferences. I'll share with you my journey into gender-free tantra, and show you how gender-flexibility can enhance your personal journey, expand your practice, and open up infinite erotic possibilities for your clients.
Bio:
Barbara Carrellas is an author, sex/life coach, sex educator, university lecturer, workshop facilitator, motivational speaker and theater artist. Her most recent books are Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century and Luxurious Loving: Tantric Inspirations for Passion and Pleasure. Barbara's pioneering Urban Tantra® workshops were named best in New York City by TimeOut/New York magazine. She is also the co-founder of Erotic Awakening, a groundbreaking series of workshops which toured the United States and Australia.
Barbara currently offers inspiring and life-changing workshops, lectures, and keynotes on a variety of topics to individuals, schools, conferences, businesses, and the arts.
Barbara hosts the call-in show Sex...with Barbara Carrellas on HayHouseRadio.com, where she helps people balance their sexual and spiritual lives, and answer callers' questions about love, sex, spirituality and healing.
Barbara brings a holistic, metaphysical, practical, humorous, entertaining and gender-fluid approach to conscious sexuality and to all her work. She began her work in metaphysics and conscious sexuality during the AIDS crisis in the late 1980¹s; a time when the connections between sex, spirit and healing were at their most strained. Barbara has facilitated countless healing circles and support groups for women, men, transgender people, artists, people with life-threatening illnesses and people with HIV/AIDS. For four years she was a facilitator for and on the Board of Directors of the New York Healing Circle, which was founded in response to the AIDS crisis and incorporated the principles of Louise Hay's work. As her workshops grew in popularity and in attendance, her work expanded to include people from all walks of life and in all stages of sexual evolution.
The more Barbara explored sex and consciousness, the more she saw the possibilities for healing and expanded consciousness in all forms of ³sacred² practices, including Tantra, Tao, Quodoushka, Reiki, breathwork, metaphysics, performance, ritual, herbal medicine, bodywork, erotic massage, commercial sex work and BDSM. Her books and her workshops are an eclectic mix of sexual and spiritual practices designed to encourage readers and participants of all sexual preferences and genders to expand their capacity for both pleasure and spiritual fulfillment.
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Master of Ceremonies:
BABA DEZ
Presentation: Holographic Healing
It seems for myself and many I know, it is ever more challenging to relate to Self, fellow humans, and the world as wounded. In our wholeness how do we open to be more full and expressive channels of creation?
How beautiful, magical, abundant, and delicious can life and this Earth be?
Change happens.
In this presentation we will explore the questions of how we dance with Change.
Do we have choice?
And if so, what are the choices that can make a difference?
What is Heaven and Hell?
Mom, Dad ........... Are we there yet?
How do we be an active part of flavoring our individual and collective experience on Earth?
What does Sacred Sexual Healing and The Shaman Method of Sex Magic have to offer?
Bio:
BABA DEZ NICHOLS is a Internationally renowned speaker and teacher, Daka, author, singer-songwriter, and transformational guide, trained in the Sacred Temple Arts to share, inspire, and support others in their integration of the divine masculine and feminine (Shiva/Shakti) energies within.
He is the founder of the Sedona Temple and School of Temple Arts and the Annual Daka-Dakini Conferences for sacred sexual healers, Tantra teachers and practitioners.
He has studied, assisted, and been blessed with the presence and wisdom of many masters around the world for over 30 years. His path is to travel worldwide and help others deepen in their truth and power, find healing & enjoyment in transformation, and manifest grounded results.
He is currently on tour promoting the release of his documentary Sex Magic, his book Sacred Sexual Healing: The Shaman Method of Sex Magic and his music CD Thank the Moon.
Baba Dez's Links:
www.babadez.com (Baba Dez's Home Page)
Daka/Dakini Sessions
Daka/Dakini Training and Mentoring
Couples Relationship Coaching
Educational Courses for Couples Massage
Nutritional Coaching and Cleanse Support
Shamanic Land Journeys and Healings
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 KAMALA DEVI
Presentation: A Taste of Tantra Theater
Have you ever seen a sexy play or movie and thought, "I wish I could be up there sharing my story, but I'm too shy or scared to do anything about it!"?
This is an interactive playshop to introduce the theater technologies necessary to begin scripting your sacred sexual stories.
We create a sacred space to help you write, talk, improvise and share your personal narratives. Tantra Theater is a powerful new medium that uses comedy, drama, and dance to educate, entertain, and enlighten.
Together with Zental of TantraNova institute, Kamala has been working to develop an entire curriculum to help tantrikas breakthrough their full creative expression. This work can be deeply ego confronting but it can help you express yourself fully on stage, on camera, in relationship or in any other circumstance in life.
Benefits:
- Stage presence and confidence
- An expanded sense of intimacy and community
- Ffreedom from your self-limiting stories
For Details, contact
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at 858-272-2254 or www.blisscoach.com
Bio:
Kamala Devi is a down to earth goddess who has been studying and practicing yoga, sacred sexuality, and polyamory during her extensive travels for the past eleven years.
She is the author of Don't Drink the Punch: An Adventure in Tantra, Sacred Sexual Healing with Baba Dez Nichols and Teaching Tantra the EROTIC WAY as well as numerous stage plays.
She specializes in working with artists, healers and visionaries. She lives in San Digo with her life partner Michael and baby Devin.
For more information please visit: www.BlissCoach.com or contact
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 Wayne Clayton
Presentation: Sexual Therapy for Disabling Diseases
A continuation of my presentation in Virginia Beach last year. I will go into greater depth and explain more about the entire process of working with a client like this. The presentation and discussion about using Tantric techniques to treat and reverse mainstream diseases like Parkinson’s disease and MS.
A case study of a Parkinson’s client will be presented along with the methods for treatment of the disease along with her other complications.
Following the presentation section, there will be an open discussion where other experiences form the group can be explored as well as questions. If time allows, a live demonstration of some healing points will be included.
One major goal of this work with disabling diseases is to bring Tantric Healing into mainstream medical care.
Bio:
Wayne Clayton is an open-hearted, Tantric Energy Healer and Teacher with over 15 years of experience working with clients to assist them on their spiritual path. He has taught multilevel Tantra courses and intensives along with energetic techniques like Stem Cell Reactivation and others. Clients acknowledge his calming yet powerful ability to hold space, witness and safely guide them on their healing path.
Wayne works on acute and chronic physical and/or emotional problems in addition to wellness care. Some of the tools he uses are essential oils, tuning forks, minerals, touch, and remote healing methods.
Some examples of emotional problems Wayne has worked on are depression, physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, stress, hyper-activity, low self-image, and many more. Some examples of physical problems are TMJ, headaches, stomach problems, nerve damage, skin rashes, digestion, pain management, injuries, and even long-term illnesses, like Cancer, Parkinson’s and MS.
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 REID MIHALKO
Presentation: Transparency and Vulnerability: The New Power Dynamic - Role Modeling "Saying What You're Not Saying" As a Tantric Practice
Bio:
Reid Mihalko helps people create more self-esteem and greater health in their relationship and sex lives, no matter what their self-expression of those happen to be or where their interests lie.
Reid has worked with thousands of individuals from myriad walks of life, orientations, relationship styles, countries and religions. Known for his charisma, wit and emphasis on integrity, Reid travels the country teaching, coaching, consulting and collaborating. He has been a writer and producer on a number of film and television projects about sex and relationships, and appears regularly in the media.
Reid has been a featured speaker at dozens of conferences on relationships and sexuality. He has also appeared on the Emmy award-winning talk show Montel, Fox News, VH1’s Scott Baio is 45 and Single, Showtime’s Penn & Teller’s Bulls**t!, Canada’s The Sex Files and SexTV, and the short-lived Life & Style, on NPR, Sirius’ Maxim Radio and Cosmo Radio, and in Marie Claire, GQ, People, Newsweek and The National Enquirer, as well as media across the globe in thirteen countries and at least seven languages.
Find out more about Reid and his projects by visiting www.ReidAboutSex.com and www.CuddleParty.com
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Richard "Anton" Diaz
Presentation: The Sexual Dynamics of Consciousness
The presentation is based on the premise that we are, first and foremost, infinite beings manifested in a sexual body.
Through sexual energy we are brought into the world as a physical form that is further differentiated into a male or female gender. From that point forward, our sexuality invisibly expresses itself through our consciousness. Beginning with our personal relationship with our body, we knowingly (or unknowingly) connect with the world.
In this presentation I will
- offer a unique approach to sex education based on this paradigm,
- offer an outline for building intimate community, and finally,
- share with you a vision for a new world civilization that embraces our sexuality as a vital component of our wisdom and intelligence.
Bio:
Richard "Anton" Diaz is a former United States Ballroom & Latin-America dance champion. His training in the both the physical and psychological aspects of partnership dancing led him to appreciate the powerful dance between the sexes and the necessary integration of cultivated sexual energy and sensual love through conscious practice in order to achieve greater health, happiness, and longevity.
Anton went on to establish Sexy Spirits in New York City in 1999; a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to creating and implementing a saner and more effective sex-education into our established learning systems.
He is a certified Taoist Instructor under Master Mantak Chia, creator of Orgasmic Providers, Sensual Loving Touch, and of a special sensual massage video entitled Taontric Massage.
www.SexySpirits.com
www.OrgasmicProviders.com
www.SensualLovingTouch.com
www.SexualEnergyCultivation.com
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GODDESS LES
Presentation: The Sacred Body Temple: How Clean & Clear of a Channel Are You?
Tools to take care of the sacred body temple & raise your love~light potential/vibration for you & your clients.
Bio:
Lesli Love is a Master Tantra Teacher, Healer & Coach based in Miami, FL.
She has been in the field of Holistic Health & Healing, Bodywork &
Massage, Energy Medicine, Metaphysics & Spirituality for over 2 decades. She
has a passion for discovering & exploring tools & techniques to clean, clear,
balance, align, tune & raise the vibration of the human instrument/energy
channel. In this presentation, she will share her views, experience,
expertise and current favorite tools to take of the sacred body temple for
both practitioner & client.
Goddess Les
305-751-2777
www.MiamiTantra.com
www.WellnessChoices4Living.com
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 PATRICK RUSSELL
Presentation: Bringing the animal to the surface
The body is the gateway to consciousness. Movement can offer a new window, view, or perspective within. Patrick Russell invites you to experience/participate in this Kikaido exercise of animalistic movement intended to help open within each individual a dialog with the subconscious and new awareness of some of the “unseen” dimensions of our reality.
Bio:
Patrick follows the self-developed practice of kikaido. Incorporating physical regimen from Taoism, Buddhism, and Tantra with energetic conceptual foundations from quantum physics kikaido opens a door for the individual to experience and exercise an expanded landscape of perception, energetically and dimentionally. www.kikaido.com
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Amrita Grce
Presentation: Wounded Healer
Many of us carry the wounded healer archetype. In the search for our own cure, we discover how to hold deeply compassionate healing space for others...the obstacles we overcome become a source of wisdom and healing power for others. Jung believed that a malady of the soul could be the best possible training for a healer. As a wounded healer, Amrita has poured her journey out onto the pages of her new book, Reclaiming Aphrodite, The Journey to Sexual Wholeness, as an inspiration to all who are on a soul journey of reclaiming our birthright of sexual wholeness.
Bio:
Amrita Grace is an Ambassador of the Divine Feminine-Awakened Masculine Institute, a Certified Spiritual Sexual Educator, High Priestess, and Intimacy Coach who has recently published her first book entitled Reclaiming Aphrodite, the Journey to Sexual Wholeness.
Amrita assists men, women, and couples in learning how to honor their bodies as sacred temples, so that we may all reclaim our birthright as integrated spiritual sexual beings. She specializes in assisting people in safely integrating shadow aspects, releasing energies that no longer serve them, and consciously creating something new, using breath, sound, and the creative life force energy that we all have access to.
Please visit her at website at www.amritagrace.com
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Carla Tara
Presentation:
Bio:
Carla Tara is an internationally-acclaimed teacher of Tantra. She masterfully integrates a variety of tantric approaches with body-oriented psychotherapy. Her background as a psychotherapist, yoga teacher, and relationship counselor contributes to the strength and creativity of her work.
Carla maintains a successful private practice in NYC and Maui helping individuals and couples to attain their highest potential for intimacy, passion, and spiritual connection. As the host of Tantra Today on Voice America radio network, she presented a series of 20 interviews with major Tantra teachers, including Charles Muir, Lori Grace, Kutira and Raphael. Her most recent achievement is her new book, Lessons from a Tantric Tango Dancer, available NOW at Amazon.com.
To know more about Carla Tara please visit her website: www.1tantra.com
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LAWRENCE LANOFF
Presentation: Sexual energy into creative expression-an experiential meditation
Master Energy Tracker and Daka - Lawrence Lanoff will lead you through a deeply powerful shamanic induction into a true, deep, explosive understanding of sexual power. You will relax and open deeply as this stunning experience will leads you directly into profound states of meditative experience and understanding. As you explore sexuality from the inside out on a shamanic journey, you will recieve a full hour of pure ecstasy and the possibility of the experience of embodied enlightenment.
This incredible erotic opportunity will take you from the beginning of the pleasure centers, open them, and align them, and take them into advanced connections into universal consciousness. This meditation will lead you through a profound level of realization and experience of sexual energy moving through your body in ways that you never even imagined possible.
Lawrence will be working with the crystal magic of the Light Labyrinth - a metaphysical tool of light, color, energy, and crystals that help access magnificently transformative altered states of consciousness.
Bio:
Lawrence currently devotes his time to writing, yoga, photography, film, and teaching both groups and individuals the work of A Course in Freedom, including creativity, healing, and the expansion of consciousness.
He is currently working on a revolutionary new theory of consciousness that includes mythology, evolution, business, money, human awareness,symbolism, metaphor, neurobiology, and their relationship to healing, brain function, human spiritual evolution, and neuro-economics -- the neural pathways that influences our deepest feelings about self worth and money.
Lawrence Lanoff's Links:
Daka/Dakini Sessions
Daka/Dakini Training and Mentoring
Couples Relationship Coaching
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Dr. Betty Martin
Presentation: Gifts of the Geezers
What does age have to do with sexual healers? How does our own affect us? What changes? What new gifts do we bring? Where do we slow down? What happens to our work?
I am a proud and initiated Crone and I can tell ya, honey, there are some things to be learned! This session will be part wisdom-dispensing, part discussion and part experiential play. Crones, pre-crones, Cranks (the now official name for our male counterparts) and pre-cranks are all welcome. Will someone bring me my teeth?
Bio:
Dr. Betty Martin is a 58 year old Sacred Intimate, former Chiropractor, initiated Crone, grandmother and all around old cowgirl.
Her practice includes therapeutic body-mind integration work, surrogacy and old fashioned pleasure goddess.
She mentors and trains professionals who use touch and eroticism, is co-creating (with Andrew Barnes) a two year training in PsychoSexual Somatics, and finishing a book called 'The Lover's Touch'. She hopes to play until she drops. www.EroticEducation.org
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Athena Golden Fire and Mead "Daka" Rose
Presentation: Getting To What's Missing: A Unique Approach To Physical Intimacy
Even with the most Tantric partner there can still be something missing. To address this, Athena Golden Fire and Mead Rose have developed a unique set of practices around enhancing connection between intimates. Rather than focusing on techniques to "do" the other person, they reveal the receiver's natural expressive abilities and subtle sensitivities on the part of the giver. When both partners learn both roles, intimate connection takes on new depth.
About Quantified Tantra
Athena and Mead share an interest in distinguishing the scientific basis of Tantra and related transformative practices. They have been working together since 2007 to comprehensively research and document specific effects of traditional practices such as breathing, sound and visualization as well as formulating new approaches based on what they have discovered in the course of their research.
To learn more about Quantified Tantra visit the web site www.quantifiedtantra.com
Bio: Athena Golden Fire
Athena was born and raised in Norway, a country known for sexual liberation. Sexual Tantra and sacred sexuality was a very natural path and it became a passion for her to teach others how to feel more natural and have more delight with one's body and sexuality. She has been involved in holistic healing since 1987, studied the white Tantric Path for 15 years and the Red (sexual) for a decade and has worked with over two thousand clients and students. She is the founder of BlissBreath and Quantified Tantra with Mead Rose. She also has background in NLP, Wellness and Health Coaching, Meditation Guidance, Optimal Breathing, Emotional Release techniques, Jack Painter body work and Aquatic body work. She is an avid practitioner of the Quodoshka (shamanic sacred sexuality) as well as Taoist sexual practices. She specializes working with women and couples, but also loves to work with men.
Bio: Mead "Daka" Rose
Mead Rose began Zen and Kung Fu practice in Hawaii in 1971 and broadened to Qigong and Taiji by 1978. He was trained as a Tantra teacher in the Ipsalu school of Tantra. He is a master bodyworker trained in Neuromuscular Therapy, Acupressure, Rolfing, Polarity and Triggerpoint, supplemented with the deep pelvic work of Jack Painter and sexual healing work taught by Charles and Caroline Muir. He has extensive understanding of both physical anatomy and the energetic body as well as male/female dynamics. He has taught traditional methods with Jan Robinson as well as developing and teaching original curricula with Carolena Fleishman and Athena Golden Fire.
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Scot Vighi
Presentation: Qi-gong Breathing Class
Qi-gong breathing class is a study of the breathing technique used to draw up prana that prepares the way for Kundalini. Combine an opera singers' technique for holding one note, and the deerga breathing of Kundalini yoga, and rouse up in your actual body the fear that is out of breath, expired, dehydrated, tired, very volatile, and growing.
This class creates a safe space for that part of you to be found, aroused, discussed and awakened, and the information and connection necessary to root and process the reactions of your fearful ego mind: and IT WILL REACT!
This is a class to discover a path. In the tradition called " rousing the dragon." It speaks to the statement attributed to Jesus: "If you bring forth what is inside you, what is inside you will set you free; If you do not bring forth what is inside you, what is inside you will lead you down" This class is a life-preserver.
Because what is between you and practical access to increasing Light energy being produced by this planet (to heal herself) is a habituated pattern of disbelief and layered fear. A kind of fear like the very first time you were afraid.
This class is a semi-hostile takeover of your own mind.
Bio:
Scot Vighi is a Holistic healer, Kripalu yoga leader, Reiki-Qi gong master, Ericsonian hypnotherapist, physical fitness trainer, Shakespearean actor and voice coach, with domestic & international clients. This is his 19th year in this practice.
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Goddess Grace
Presentation: Bringing the Unconscious to Light - 4 Key Transformational Tools to Ongoing Tantric Practice
- Breath as a Portal, dyads to practice optimal breathing practices for optimal experience
- Sound as Vibrational Pulse or Fuel, om, mantras, chants, yantras and power of sounding
- Movement as a Vehicle, Undulation~opening the 2 love pumps of the body
- Intention as the steering direction, assisting clients to clarify intention during initial call or email
- How to Deepen & Widen Clients' and your own Ongoing Energy Exploration
- Practical Simple Exercises to Broaden your base of clients with Sensual concerns during Therapeutic Healing Practice~ From Screening Savvy to Structuring Sessions~
- Sensual or Therapeutic.~What's the Distinction~ - Where are the Boundaries Best Set for Optimal Coaching & Healing Transformation?
- Expanding Prosperity And Moving Beyond Release Focused Sessions- Hands Off or Hands On?
- How to Practically let go of the one time wonders and transition into enrolling more and more clients for 3, 5, 10 hour series.
- An Educational Model Approach to Tantra and integrating healing modalities confidentally to your Sensual Work
Bio:
Goddess Grace's life purpose is to share her Divine gifts of Beauty, Compassion, Creativity, Divine Connection or Grace, Playful Joy, Sensitivity, Simplicity, and Wisdom of the Moment; to creatively and playfully allow the revelation of the truth of our being in the present moment; and to share Darshan of Divine Love, the power of Goddess Love.
Systems Studied and Teachers....
- Tong Ren Chigong Practice with Shaw Sprague, PhD in Cape Elizabeth (07)
- Tantric mysticism and shamanic path, House of Ten Goddesses, Nandu Menon (02-05)
- Conscious Loving Levels I and II with C & C Muir, Maui, Hawaii (02-03)
- Temple of the Goddess Training with Dr. Corynna Clark (00) San Francisco
- Tantric Apprenticeship with groups, Jordan MacKenzie, Beloveds in Bed (94-98)
- Chigong, Shen qi with Master Aiping Wang, Jane and Jan Brooks (96-02)
- Yogic Chanting and Meditation, Shaktipat with Siddha tradition (98-04)
- Holographic Repatterning (unconscious patterns of behavior, relationships, chakra, meridian vision repatterning) Chloe Wordsworth, MA and cert. 5 element accupunturist (95-97)
- Twelve-Stage Healing Trng. and Transformational Gates , Don Epstein, DC(94-01)
- Holotrophic Breathwork with Stan Groff, PhD.(84) Ann Armstrong, Angeles Arian (83-84)
- Reichian Breathwork with Michael Smith (86-88)
- Breathing Tantric Stars with Danile Hirtz (82-04) www.breatheforpeace.com
- Mystic Experiences with nature on Navajo and Hopiland Reservations while working for BIA as guidance and family therapist (85-92)
- Mind/Body/Spirit Integrative Healing with Mark Mc Feely(92-95)
- Consciousness Village, Certified Conscious Connected Breath, Leonard Orr (87-04)
- J.Krishnamurt, the last two years of his life under the Oak trees in Ojai and for my master's thesis (81,82)
- Ram Das, Victor Frankel
Certifications and Schools of Training:
- AASECT cert. Sex Counselor, Educator, and Therapist (04)
- School of Source Tantra, L 1 and L 2 (02-03)
- Temple of the Goddess (00)
- Prescott College Mentoring and Graduate Advising, Hopiland & Phoenix (85-02)
- Breathwork Institutes: Consciousness Village Certif.L.Orr (86-04)
- Art Therapy Institute: Dr. M. Ficsher and J. Sutcliff (88-92)
- Gestalt Institute: Phase I and II Therapy and Trng., S. Hendrickson, B. Mosby(84-85)
- Group Systems (ASU) , G.Cuddeby, PhD., N. Wiener, PhD. (82-85)
- ASU, MEd (84), M.C. (85) 60 hr. program, K. Yamamoto, PhD.
- M.U., BS (73) Education
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Saraswati
Presentation: Men of Crazy Wisdom, Mysteries of Tantric Buddhism
"Stop talking, stop thinking and there is nothing you will not understand" - Sent-ts'an
Is there a spiritual song more beautiful, more passionate, more daring and more mysterious than Tantric Buddhism?
One thinks of a calm peaceful Buddha with a nice grounded belly when they think of Buddhism. Tantric Buddha is a wrathful Buddha - a hero of transcedental space who is constantly transforming his pride into compassion, burning his self-cherishing, his preconceptions, his projections, his grasping and his fear - on the fire of absolute freedom.
He perceives reality so straightforwardly that it is almost frightening to ordinary beings - there is nothing to hold on to. Crazy tantric wisdom, vajrayana does not know curves or bends of this or that, beliefs, ideas, habits. Tantric Buddha is a naked samurai holding a lazer beam of his consciousness instead of a sword cutting off his ego. Beyond good and bad, emptiness and form, pleasure and pain, male and female, samsara and nirvana, transcending duality - he dives through the quanta of the present moment right into eternity.
During the presentation we will cover the following:
- What is the method of Tantric Buddhism?
- What is Vajra?
- What is Diamond Mind?
- What is Bodhichitta?
- What is Emptiness?
- What is Tibetan Book of the Dead and how it relates to your life?
- Teaching of several Tantric Buddhist meditations for your practice and for your clients' practice
At which point does tantric energy of absolute truth turn into a usual sexual energy of selfish desire? How far did we go with our ambition and our experiment of tantra? How happy are we, how stable are we, how much clarity do we have? In tantric buddhism to qualify to practice tantra you must have an unbearable compassion for others; saving all sentient being is automatic. It is a prerequisite for a tantric adept. Are we ready? What are the lessons that we have learned on our Daka Dakini path? What are we to do to cut off our attachments, insecurities and fears, what are we to practice?
Silence or eternity is permanent, it is real
Silence is pregnant with the ocean of the phenomenological existence
Each wave in the ocean is impermanent, but the continuity of the ocean is real
I do not choose the silence or the ocean
I swallow them both, void and water
I wear existence on my right shoulder and non-existance on my left
Giant crazy tantrika walking the skies without her head
Fire in my HEART, feet kissing the earth
What is this sound?
Wrathful Buddah is laughing.
Bio:
Saraswati (Luba Evans)'s qualities encompass a lifetime of experience with a wisdom and compassion that goes beyond solitary mortal incarnations, in a style that combines many ancient teachings and genuinely new insights into a synthesis that is uniquely her own. Students say that her mesmerizing voice, her exotic accent, "immediately places them into primordial states of consciousness".
Saraswati is an artist, a weaver, a yogini, an authentic tantrika, an exquisitely powerful woman that radiates her creative shakti throughout the world.
Saraswati runs regular drop-in classes in New York and New England, together with intensives and residential retreats for open and ongoing groups. She also teaches in Europe and India, serving a growing global community of students.
To learn more about Saraswati's work, see her workshop schedule on www.ashramplus.com
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Tracy Elise
Presentation: Temple of 1 * Spirit * Body * Mind * UNION
The United States was founded by those who sought genuine religious freedom and true separation of church and state.
Join Mystic Sisters Tracy Elise and Radha Ka of the Phoenix Goddess Temple as they share their adventures in opening sacred space in one of the country's most conservative cities.
Learn how to declare your legal status and protect your precious right to practice hands-on, full-body-contact sexual healing without fear of losing your personal freedom. Dealing with the press, government entities and serving the community at large will be addressed.
BONUS: The Sedona Temple and Phoenix Goddess Temple will offer a FREE sample Temple of 1 manual to all attendees at this conference. East Coast conference attendees may choose to participate as Charter Delegates in the launch of the new Temple of 1.
Watch for more detail as the conference approaches, we will unite in '09 and make religious history!
Bio:
Mystic Sister Tracy Elise has been holding sacred space for group practice since 2001, with over 40,000 seekers and initiates receiving guidance and healing. Her Mystic Healing Arts Center, Light Body Temple, School of 1 and Goddess Temples in Seattle and Phoenix, have boldly assisted over 300 practitioners in finding safe and strong work practices in the new (and ancient) paradigm of temple life.
Many who have worked with Tracy have since gone forward to open their own successful solo or group practices in Seattle and Phoenix. She is the proud mother of three adult temple kids, author of the online Adult Dictionary.com and a genuine mystic who ardently seeks the true nature of reality.
Tracy is currently "In Her service" as the Mother Priestess of the Phoenix Goddess Temple, where she is Center Holder for one of the largest sacred sex temples in the United States. www.PhoenixGoddessTemple.org
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Kyle Applegate
Presentation: Gender in the 21st Century and beyond: One size does NOT fit all...
Many of us have either lived through the feminist movement or studied it in school. It seems the battle of the sexes wages on in tons of relationship books and across headlines of our most popular media.
The dialog surrounding sexuality continues to forge ahead in the frontiers of orientation and identity, are we as sacred sexual healers ‘keeping up with the times’ when it comes to gender? Tantric history is steeped in tradition and lineages based on incorporating male and female energies. But even these two boxes do not fit all.
Who are Two-spirit people? What does gender identity really mean?
As body workers, are we incorporating our client’s whole self, or are we inflicting on them what was passed on to us, or has work for us before?
Are we leaving our orientation at the door when we work with clients or incorporating it respectfully?
Come hear, first hand, of how the assumptions of ‘well meaning’ people can hinder and further traumatize a person seeking healing and safe space.
Gender will be illuminated in a new seldom talked about way. This class is a rare witness to the sacred path less traveled.
Bio:
Kyle Applegate, is a certified Tantric coach, and gender exploration specialist. A public speaker for over 12 years, he specializes in topics of gender, identity exploration, orientation, and diversity awareness. He serves on the Community advisory board for Callen-Lorde health clinic (The only one specializing in LGBTQQ care in the NYC area). He is also an active board member of the national and NYC Polyamory leadership teams and their communities.
His mission is to empower people from marginalized communities, and educate against discrimination. Drawing from his varied knowledge base, he continues to share his passions for those on a healing path.
He is based in NYC and can be contacted through his site www.sacredjourneyhealing.com
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Sheri Winston
Presentation: Women’s Anatomy of Arousal: Secret Maps to Buried Pleasure
Did you know that:
- Women have as much erectile equipment as men?
- Most women aren’t having as much pleasure as they could because they aren’t using their entire “instrument?”
- The whole truth about women’s genital anatomy is incomplete and misunderstood, even by professionals?
There’s more to the clitoris then meets the eye, and more to women’s arousal than the clitoris. We’re not just talking about the G-Spot here. An interconnected set of structures is responsible for arousal and orgasm, much of which is absent or misunderstood in both how-to sex books and medical textbooks!
When you come to the mini-version of this fascinating class, you’ll find out what’s really down there!
You’ll discover the largely unknown Female Erectile Network, a crucial part of an entire integrated system that’s responsible for arousal and orgasm. Whether you’re a woman or a lover of women, this invaluable information will transform your sex life—because knowing what’s actually there enables you to reach your full pleasure potential (or help your partner do so). Empowered sexuality, easier arousal, orgasmic abundance (easier, bigger, better, longer, more …), the secrets of female ejaculation, the joy of knowing you’re helping your partner achieve extraordinary ecstasy – all this and more awaits you once you know the secret maps of Women’s Anatomy of Arousal!
Bio:
Sheri Winston (CNM, RN, BSN, LMT) is a sex teacher whose classes and workshops for men and women are celebrated for their humor, comfort and superb content. She is the author of Women’s Anatomy of Arousal: Secret Maps to Buried Pleasure, which sexuality educator Patricia Taylor has called a “one-of-a-kind revolutionary new book that should be required reading for every woman (and her partner).”
Winston’s unique approach, which she calls Wholistic Sexuality™, is derived from decades of experience as a certified nurse-midwife, gynecology practitioner, registered nurse, holistic healer, childbirth educator, massage therapist and student of the esoteric erotic arts. She is the executive director of The Center for the Intimate Arts (IntimateArtsCenter.com) and the sexuality educator for Athena’s Home Products (Athenashn.com). Her weekly internet radio show, “Juicy Pleasures with Sheri Winston,” can be heard at VoiceAmerica.com.
Sheri Winston’s Center for the Intimate Arts is dedicated to providing empowering, enriching and entertaining erotic education. The Center is premised on the vision of a world where sex is understood, honored and free from shame, where our bodies’ ecstatic potential is explored and celebrated, and relationships are based on integrity, compassion and love. The Center offers a curriculum of over 45 intimate arts classes, available as in-person classes and workshops in the US and beyond. An increasing number are also available online.
Other sexual education products from The Center for the Intimate Arts include e-books, online classes, sexual health products and more. A companion DVD to Women’s Anatomy of Arousal will soon be available. Services include phone and in-person private consultations and counseling.
For more information, please visit our website: www.IntimateArtsCenter.com
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Deb Guisti
Presentation: Sensual Dancing From Source
In this interactive workshop we will explore and experience dancing from our deep energetic, tantric, hot, and very sexy, beautiful selves. Utilizing many forms of dance and movement techniques, and varieties of music to open up our energy fields and activate our chakras.
We'll explore moving and erotically expressing in ways that allow us to let the flow of our fully charged divine juice express itself artistically through movement. We'll explore what is means to be sexy, how to ooze your erotic flow into your movement, and sexually express yourself in a way that feels natural and very fun. We'll practice letting go of inhibitions and fears, and tap into free flow, so your hot self, your juicy self, can be fully expressed.
After we have cultivated expressing the erotic flow within ourselves, we'll explore sharing that beautiful sexy flow by dancing with others. Your Tantric practices can be incorporated into full body, movement expression, and dance connection. We'll share the turn-on that we have created within ourselves with others, and light others up with our infectious sexy charge. We'll dance with our energy body, and connect with others within deep presence and hot electricity. We'll let the love and sexiness flow to each other and have a whole lot of fun.
Bio:
Debra Giusti has had a successful 30 year career as an entrepreneur, event/festival producer (Founder of Harmony Festival), dancer/dance teacher, spiritual adventurer, and is currently releasing a multi-media eBook - Transforming Through 2012.
She has also been involved in expanded Sensuality, Tantra and has hosted Sensual Parties for the last ten years. One of Debra's primary passions is dance which she started studying at 5 years old. Her experience includes Jazz, Modern, Ballet, Belly Dance, African, Samba, Salsa, Bollywood, Ball Room Dance, Sacred Dance, Erotic Dance, Improvisation and healing movement disciplines such as Yoga, Pilates, Gyrotonics, Super Slow Weight Lifting, Continiuum, NIA, Passion Dance, Trance Dance, Kundalini Dance, Soul Motion, Tantra, Tai Chi, Qi Gong, etc.
One of her missions is to share dance as a creative, healing and joyous, spiritual art form. She creates and performs a Goddess Dance Revue at the Harmony Festival each year with 15 other dynamic women.
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Anita DeFrancesco
Presentation: Invite Him In
This presentation will focus on how to love your man and save your relationship. When men and women work together and are in a congruent nature miracles happen. All a man really wants is love but women lack the tools that embrace the man at the heart. Learn what a man values in a relationship, and abandon the gain and control that keep you in suffering.
Men change when we give them the attention and love they deserve, when you let them know how wonderful they are doing. You will know what it is that you need from him, once you learn to invite him in.
Men are just waiting for you, the essential woman to love, to teach him, to practice these skills.
- Get him to share his feelings more
- Teach him how to be a spiritual lover and take his time
- Teach him to respect your space
- Learn to think like a man
Bio:
Anita DeFrancesco, M.A., Intimacy and relationship specialist. Her focus and vision have been the evolution of spirituality, sexuality, and teaching others to awaken from separation and suffering and to embrace the modern world with oneness and love. She helps people to liberate and let go of the grudges.
Anita holds a private practice in New Jersey and Los Angeles where she integrates sex therapy, body oriented Reichian psychotherapy, and dance movement techniques. She is the author of Live Free: Your Journey to a Liberated Life. She holds a masters degree in psychology and writes a weekly column titled “Love Buzz” for century city news in Los Angeles. Anita has been featured and interviewed on Playboys Sexcetera, MTV, TV Guide, Shape and First magazines, Blind Date and Fox TV in Brazil. Anita is the founder of Kinepathics, Tantra Wisdom and Feminine Evolution.
Visit: www.tantrawisdom.com
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