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
- Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What it Means for Modern Relationships
- Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships
- The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love
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)
Other Integrous and Talented Practitioners
Sacred Eros: Practitioners throughout the U.S. & Europe
Ava Ananda: Boston, California, D.C., Nashville, Philly
Paz: Sensual Guide & Tantric Muse
- Seattle base
- Boston visitations
Charlie: Sex Educator & Practitioner
- Seattle base
- Zoom sessions
Trauma Recovery Therapy
Hands-on work:
Certified Sexological Bodyworkers in Seattle
Certified Sexological Bodyworkers Internationally
Sacred Womb Services – Holistic Pelvic Care (personal recommendation)
Somatic Trauma Therapy Counseling (hands-off):
About Somatic Experiencing
Somatic Experiencing Directory
Snuggly Resources
Snuggly Organizations
- Cuddle Party (international)
- Cuddlist (throughout the U.S.)
Recommended Professional Cuddlers in Seattle (strictly platonic, please read the Cuddlist Code of Conduct prior to booking)
- Anna Joy, Certified Cuddlist