Intimacy, Touch, Sex Ed, & Mindfulness Resources

***For all of these: take what is useful; leave the rest! Follow your intuition about what might speak to & serve you at this time.

Emotional Intimacy

Conscious Communication

Sex Education

Women’s Anatomy of Arousal (book)
The New Body Electric School (workshops)
Slow Sex (book)
Clitoral Revelations (online course for women’s anatomy – link under construction)

Sensual/Sex Education & Events in Seattle

The Pan Eros Foundation (Calendar)

Sensual Touch

Sacred Pelvic Healing Massage (step-by-step guidebook with pictures. Accompanying video available if you take Amara Karuna‘s Sacred Pelvic Healing Massage class in person)
Eroticmassage.com (educational videos, associated with the monumental Sex Educator Joseph Kramer)
Fire on the Mountain (video – cheesy as hell & great for working with lingams – let me know if you can find a copy!)
G Marks the Spot (video – for working with yonis)

Mastering Your Erotic Energy

Neo-Tantra

Urban Tantra (book)

Traditional Tantra

Tantra Illuminated (book), by Christopher Wallace
The Radiance Sutras (book), edited by Lorin Roche
Buddhist Tantra (audio set), by Dr. Reginald A. Ray (also available at the Seattle Public Library on CD)

Tantra Festivals

Consent and Boundaries

The Wheel of Consent (videos and lessons)
Cuddle Party (great for intro boundary-setting and speaking desires)
The Art of Receiving and Giving (book)

Polyamory/Ethical Nonmonogamy

Conscious Creation

Conversations with God (book), by Neale Donald Walsh
What the Bleep Do We Know? (movie)
Conscious Language (book), by Robert Tennyson Stevens

Manifesting a Partner

My Divine Partner Now (video)
The Law of Attraction (book), by Jerry and Esther Hicks
Existential Kink (book)

Healing Trauma

Waking the Tiger (book), by Peter Levine
The Body Keeps the Score (book), by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.

Mindfulness (to develop a calmer mind at all times, including the intimate ones)

The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself (book), by Michael Singer
How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind (book), by Pema Chodron
Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom (book), by Rick Hanson

What I’m Reading Now

Existential Kink (a Left-Handed Tantric approach to manifestation by reveling in our shadow’s desires)
Already Free (Buddhism Meets Psychotherapy on the Path of Liberation)

Required Reading for my Relationship Mastery Course

Wired for Love (a recipe for creating secure attachment in partnership)