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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 306 . Beyond Technique: Life as NeoTantra
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We are living descendants of both partnership and dominator cultures.
Survivors and thrivers.
In this, our final week of this 8-week series, we’ll trace the arc from Neolithic goddess cultures through Freud's recognition that sexual repression creates neurosis, to Reich's discovery of body armor, to the 1960s reclamation of pleasure as sovereignty.
Rediscovering the aliveness, the arousal and the love made apparent when we tend, rather than pursue, desire.
We'll make the Copernican shift from who we think we should be—to who we actually are.
As men.
As women.
As lovers.
I hope you'll enjoy listening.
Dawn
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"Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality."
— Sigmund Freud
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 | Episode 307 . The Returning Practice
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It is said that, in some Tantric traditions, a practitioner receives the sexual teachings only when they have transcended desire. When desire is fully inhabited it no longer seeks anything beyond itself.
These Tantric adepts, the stories tell us, have reached that place within themselves where they have realized that the true essence of sex can only be reached when desire is something we tend, rather than pursue.
In this episode, we’ll practice tending.
Tending the moment. Tending the breath. Tending desire.
We’ll move toward full sexual embodiment.
We’ll experience the same body our sexually aware Neolithic ancestors inhabited during a time when sex, desire and mystery were all a part of a life-giving arc connecting us to one another and the wisdom that constructs our reality.
Returning home.
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 | Episode 308 . Silas’s Story
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For forty years, Silas has built string instruments in a converted Vermont barn. Each morning before dawn, he stands quietly with his coffee, allowing his body and mind to settle before touching any tool. This conscious transition from thought to embodied presence forms the foundation of his craft.
There's something ancient in this ritual of arrival. The way Silas honors both the old-growth spruce and maple he works with, and the decades of experience that have seasoned his own hands.
Like the violins he creates, human capacity for resonance deepens with time.
In this episode we explore the sacred geometry that connects a violin's scroll to the spiral of our inner ear. The Fibonacci pattern is a "homecoming" between instrument and listener. A fractal that appears in galaxies and sunflowers. Revealing a resonance between maker and music.
Silas's life is a meditation on embodied wisdom.
Standing in his barn at dawn, Silas embodies what it means to arrive fully in our lives, ready to create from a place of tending to what is most alive in us, rather than the pursuit of some ideal.
Episode 308 . Silas’s Story
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 | NeoTantra: A New Introduction
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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
Coming home. Just one minute. Then, 2 minutes. Then, 3. A lifetime of moments spent tending desire.
Episode 308 (Fri): Silas’s Story: His Workshop Is A Temple
The violin scroll is a Fibonacci spiral. The cochlea is a Fibonacci spiral. Silas has been building the resonance his whole life. He just didn't have the language.
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