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"We all carry the potential to realize, in real time, that the vibrant energy we experience
when we feel truly loved, seen and met, is who we actually are." Dawn Cartwright
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Episode 303 . Inhabited Desire
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I'm taking a good look at how often I've set my desires aside in order to focus on staying within the parameters and expectations I encounter all around me.
I think that's the biggest fear I have—of being excluded—because my desires quietly expand beyond those parameters and expectations.
And I also know I'm not alone. Many of us have been—and still are—conditioned to prioritize those parameters and expectations rather than tune-in to our own authentic expression.
My authentic sexual expression doesn't match cultural narratives. Whose does?
There is another way.
This podcast series is profoundly academic—we're digging into history, we're looking at anthropology. The roots and the foundation.
From here we get the full picture. We're able to see where we've been and how far we've come.
Remembering our bodies, our sensations, our hearts.
Inhabiting our innate desire. Once again.
I hope you'll enjoy listening.
Dawn
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"Our most powerful human yearning is for connection, for sex, for love, for all that gives pleasure and meaning to our lives."
— Riane Eisler . Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body—New Paths to Power and Love
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 | Episode 304: Self-Pleasure Practice . Unlocking Ancient Desire
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When we are not compelled by conditioned reflex or the anxious need to produce the expected result, our body knows exactly what it wants.
And it tells us.
Not in language, but in sensation, in direction, in the specific, particular, irreducibly personal, erotic intelligence of our own innate spark.
In this week's practice episode we'll explore a powerful solo practice designed to unlock inhabited desire by tuning into something I call Level 2 Arousal.
Instead of rushing toward a goal, we focused on slowing down, listening deeply to our bodies, and creating the right conditions for genuine pleasure and connection to emerge.
We'll make the shift from performance to presence.
Rediscovering our inhabited desire.
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 | Episode 305: Yuki's Story . The True Nature Of Her Erotic Longing
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Yuki is back!
At 38, Yuki is a graphic designer known for her warmth, presence, and attentiveness to others, yet she quietly grapples with a profound absence during intimate moments, especially on her routine Tuesday nights with her partner.
This week, we dive deep into Yuki’s journey, tracing how her childhood shaped her into someone who effortlessly reads the needs of those around her, often at the expense of her own desires.
Through the transformative “30 Days of No” and the Level 2 Arousal solo practice, Yuki discovers that her authentic desire isn’t fast or urgent, but slow, spacious, and deeply her own.
Before these intrepid explorations, she would have carefully edited (and sometimes avoided) conversations about what she needed, expressions of her own desire, even just a request to change positions. She would've run a quick internal audit. Is this the right moment? Have I been easy enough lately to earn this ask? Have I been good enough this week?
Yuki discovers that staying with her feelings—rather than escaping them—allows her true longing to surface for the first time, offering lessons in presence, self-connection, and the radical act of honoring what we actually want.
Episode 305: Yuki's Story . The True Nature Of Her Erotic Longing
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The Be Fully Alive Podcast . 8-Week Series
We are living in a remarkable moment of convergence.
For centuries, our world has been divided into two perspectives:
The scientific — expressed as formulas, data and peer-reviewed research.
And the intuitive — expressed as oral tradition, poetry and sacred story.
We are now discovering, through neuroscience, somatic research and quantum physics, that the songs and stories of the ancients carried knowledge that no formula or graph could contain.
The practices and the history. The 25,000-year arc that reveals that the sacred erotic was once celebrated, then buried, and is now, in our lifetime, being re-membered.
This is that introduction.
WEEK 1: NEOTANTRA: A NEW INTRODUCTION
The split, the re-membering, and the invitation home.
Episode 285 (Mon): NeoTantra: A New Introduction
The origins of sacred sexuality. Seven thousand years of evidence. Why our relationship with the sacred erotic is an act of cultural reclamation.
Episode 286 (Wed): Sacred Encounter
Arriving in the body temple. Body, breath and energy. A practice in arriving so completely that something long forgotten awakens.
Episode 287 (Fri): Aiden & Zara's Progressive Marriage
They've aced couples therapy. Read every book. Zero sex for three months. What happens when ancient repression unconsciously clouds our own values?
WEEK 2: THE ANCIENT TECHNOLOGIES
The practices ancient cultures lived by — and what neuroscience, somatic research, and physics are finally catching up to.
Episode 288 (Mon): The Forgotten Arts & Eros
Some of us find our way home through devotion. Some through data. NeoTantra embraces both — and in that embrace, something awakens.
Episode 289 (Wed): The Gap: Entering the Still Point
There is a space between thoughts. Between breaths. The mystic's doorway. We'll practice finding the gap - and entering it.
Episode 290 (Fri): Marcus’s Story: The Professor, the Spreadsheet & the Practice That Changed His Mind
A professor. A spreadsheet. The story of Marcus' nervous system activation, the shattering of his concept of who he was - and his integration.
WEEK 3 A LIFE REIMAGINED
What partnership cultures, Maslow, and the neuroscience of flourishing tell us about how we might actually live.
Episode 291 (Mon): Partnership Cultures: The Original Thread
Partnership cultures found power in the body — in pleasure, in desire, in erotic intelligence. Does that thread still exist?
Episode 292 (Wed): The Sacred Life Design Practice
Extraordinary moments hidden in our seemingly ordinary lives. A practical practice for attunement.
Episode 293 (Fri): Kaia's Thread
The sacred thread runs through rushed mornings, full days and moments that feel compressed. This is Kaia's story.
WEEK 4: EROTIC CONNECTION & SACRED UNION
The Sacred Marriage, Buber's I-Thou, and what attachment research is finally confirming about erotic connection.
Episode 294 (Mon): The Authority Of Desire
Not just a concept — a cosmology, a psychology, an archaeology, and a science. How desire was shaped, why it went quiet, and what it takes to hear it again.
Episode 295 (Wed): Practice: Our Body Knows First
A practice for softening the brake, finding the compliance yes and the full-body yes — and learning to trust what we hear in the quiet that follows.
Episode 296 (FRI): Yuki’s Yes
She was extraordinarily good at yes. It took her years to discover she didn’t know what she wanted.
WEEK 5: THE BODY RECLAIMED
Wilhelm Reich, body armor, and what somatic research reveals about blocked energy — and how to release it.
Episode 297 (Mon): The Erotic Intelligence of Two
Freedom as the real longing. The internal dominator. The Copernican shift. Buber's I-Thou, attachment research, polarity — three traditions, one event. Dawn's dream.
Episode 298 (Wed): Eye Gazing Practice
Solo centering → partner gaze → deepening → breath → integration. Solo variation included throughout. New levels of a familiar NeoTantra practice.
Episode 299 (Fri): Chen & Wei's Story: Two Traditions - One Bed
Taoist lineage. Kabbalah. Same longing, different maps. What if their difference is not the obstacle but the practice itself?
WEEK 6: THE BODY REMEMBERS
The breath that dissolves the armor. The body that has been waiting. What becomes possible when the managing mind finally steps back.
Episode 300 (Mon): Wilhelm Reich Upset The Status Quo (And Why That Matters)
A turning point in the history of human sexuality - 1920, Wilhelm Reich’s work revealed that the ungovernable aliveness of the body in genuine relationship with its own vitality cannot be centralized or owned. A fundamental restructuring of how power works.
Episode 301 (Wed): Reichian Breathwork Practice
The seven armor rings, where we learned to contract, brace, disappear. Gentle and thorough. Have a blanket nearby. Allow time afterward.
Episode 302 (Fri): Neve & Beckett: The Practice Opened What Conversation Couldn’t
They practiced side by side - then brought this into their lovemaking - revealing an opening in their bodies. The uncontrolled unknown. Surrender. The sacred space of sex.
WEEK 7: SOLO AS SACRED
The complete path. The neuroscience of authentic desire — and what the body communicates when we finally listen.
Episode 303: (Mon) Inhabited Desire
Our ancestors, the people of the partnership cultures, inhabited desire. A flow of erotic intelligence weaving human beings with the power and beauty of nature.
Episode 304 (Wed): Self-Pleasure . Unlocking Ancient Desire
A self-pleasure practice for finding Level 2 — the space, the place, the sensations where our authentic signal finally becomes audible.
Episode 305 (Fri): Yuki's Story: The True Nature Of Her Erotic Longing
She calibrated her desire externally for forty years. Level 2 practice gave her the quiet she needed to finally listen to the true nature of her own erotic longing.
WEEK 8: LIFE AS PRACTICE: THE INFINITE PATH
Where technique ends and life begins.
Episode 306 (Mon): Beyond Technique: Life as NeoTantra
Flow states, transcendence, the practitioner who has forgotten they are practicing. And why embodied eros is among the most political acts available.
Episode 307 (Wed): The Returning Practice: Coming Home
Not a finale. A homecoming. Body. Breath. Ground. Return here when we forget. We will forget often. That is not failure. That is the path.
Episode 308 (Fri): Silas’s Story: His Workshop Is A Temple
He builds instruments — vessels designed to carry resonance. Silas, 62, never married, has spent forty years in devotion to craft without a name for it. The series doesn’t change his life. It gives him a new lens to see what his life truly means to him.
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