Intimacy 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.

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)

Neo-Tantra

Urban Tantra (book)

Emotional Intimacy

• Relationship Magic
• Belly2Belly
• Holistic Peer Co-counseling

Conscious Communication

• Nonviolent Communication (NVC)
• Conscious Language by Robert Tennyson Stevens

Sex Education

• Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that will Transform Your Sex Life: * (book – audiobook is wonderfully read! – incredibly normalizing of bodies and behavior, & educational re: the building blocks of arousal)
• Women’s Anatomy of Arousal* (book)
• The New Body Electric School (workshops throughout the country)
• Slow Sex: The Path to Fulfilling and Sustainable Sexuality, by Diana Richardson (book about sustainable lovemaking throughout the lifespan)
• Clitoral Revelations (online course for women’s anatomy – link under construction)
• The 5 Erotic Blueprint Types (understanding the core nature of your erotic self – online info, quiz, featured on Netflix Sex, Love & Goop)

*these books are geared towards women AND would HIGHLY benefit anyone who LOVES a woman!  🙂

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 – Taoist wisdom from Mantak Chia

• The Multiorgasmic Man
• The Multiorgasmic Woman
• The Multiorgasmic Couple
• The Alchemy of Sexual Energy

Tantra Festivals

• Oregon Tantra Festival
• Hawaii Tantra Festival

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)

Understanding 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

My Reading List:

Just finished:
Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey

Reading now:
Lighter by yung pueblo

On deck:
Magnificent Sex: Lessons from Extraordinary Lovers by Peggy Kleinplatz

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