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In URBAN TANTRA, acclaimed sex educator Barbara Carrellas radically updates Tantric sex practices for modern sexual explorers seeking ecstasy that lingers longer than orgasm. With a juicy mix of erotic how-to and inspired, pleasure-centered spiritual wisdom, Barbara guides readers ... read more
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“Gender is not two bins into one of which everyone must be dumped”
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“primarily concerned with inner mystical experiences, not relationships”
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Stay in the present moment. Don’t try so hard. Stay in the present moment. Drop your expectations and your judgments. Stay in the present moment. Surrender. Stay in the present moment. Be more conscious. Stay in the present moment. Learn how to do all of this in sex … … in the present moment.
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Conscious receiving is about staying awake and completely present in the moment, asking for what you want, and giving your partner feedback along the way.
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When you’re receiving, go totally into receiving. Receive it all. When you’re giving, go totally into giving. Give everything.
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One of the easiest ways to connect with someone else is by matching your breathing to theirs.
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Any time you want to be in an empathetic relationship with someone, simply match your breathing to theirs, and you will begin to have a pretty good sense of how they are feeling.
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three of the easiest and most powerful paths to pleasure: breath, meditation, and silliness.
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Remember: All consciousness really means is that you are in a relaxed state of awareness with a quiet mind able to focus gently and easily on what’s going on at the present moment.
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Repeat often: I make no judgments, I make no comparisons, and I delete my need to understand.
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You cannot focus on receiving if you are trying to give. Nor can you go totally into giving to your partner if you are trying to receive at the same time. In the totality of your receiving, you may give your partner a lot of pleasure. In the process of giving, you may get a lot of pleasure. But sex is a lot more satisfying when your intention—either to give or to receive—is clear.
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Mouth breathing charges the body. When you breathe through your nose, air goes to the lower lobes of your lungs and stimulates the vagus nerve, part of the parasympathetic nervous system: the body’s rest-and-restore system. The parasympathetic nervous system lowers heart rate and blood pressure, and sets in motion other calming measures to allow the body to rest, recover, and gain new energy.
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It is no surprise that one of the most popular recreational drugs is named for-and induces feelings described as-ecstasy.
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- Barbara Carrellas (Author)
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- Dewey: 306.77
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