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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 336 . The Atmosphere
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Many of us crave.
Being the center of attention.
Let's admit it.
We are ecstatic when the one we love is absorbed in their experience of us.
And we try really hard to. Make. That happen.
We chase atmosphere. Try to get it right. Candles, music, the right mood, the right words, the right moment — as if being absorbed in one another is something that lives outside us.
Something that must be strategized and won.
The atmosphere that makes lovemaking ceremonial isn't external. It's an inner quality we all have access to through the mapping of our own longing, our own senses, our own capacity to be absorbed.
In extraordinary — and — ordinary moments.
Atmosphere is something that exists.
Within us.
Enjoy listening.
Dawn
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"God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.
These are the words we dimly hear —
You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.
Flare up like flame
and make big shadows I can move in."
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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| Episode 337 . The Atmosphere Practice
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Every ceremony, in every culture, across every era, moves through three stages.
#1. The Separation . We step out of ordinary time and mark this moment as different from the one before it.
#2. The Threshold . We turn toward the longing instead of naming it, solving it, or pushing it away. We enter the liminal space — the place where the old isn't in form and the new isn't in form yet, where our senses open completely and we become absorbed.
#3. The Incorporation . We return, changed, carrying what we found in the threshold back into the world. We see each other, and ourselves, and sex, as if for the first time — not the story of what's here, but what's actually here.
Episode 337 . The Atmosphere Practice
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 | Episode 338 . Selin & Julian's Kitchen Floor
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Selin makes large-scale textile installations about longing, shown in galleries from Istanbul to Berlin — yet had never actually realized the longing woven into her work — is her own.
Julian builds systems for a living. He's brilliant at seeing the structure beneath complexity — and a stranger to his own body, navigating his whole life from his mind down.
They've been married nine years, making love in an architect-designed bedroom, symmetrical down to the lamps. A space neither of them has ever really inhabited.
One hot Tuesday evening, Selin ends up on the kitchen floor — not in distress, just following what her body asked for — something cool, something solid, something that is there for her without asking for anything in return.
Julian comes home from the office. Takes off his shoes and his jacket, and lies down beside her on the old tile.
Twenty minutes.
It's one of the most intimate experiences they've shared in years — not because of what they did or didn't do — because of the atmosphere, within and all around them.
And their willingness to meet it.
Episode 338 . Selin & Julian's Kitchen Floor
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| New 8-Week Series: Ceremonial Lovemaking
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The Be Fully Alive Podcast . 8-Week Series
A living exploration of the ceremony that naturally emerges when we allow ourselves to be fully absorbed in the sensory sunrise that is sex.
Monday we explore the concepts — science, poetry, psychology, and the personal story that connects them.
Wednesday we practice — embodied NeoTantra practices that bring the week's teaching directly into the body.
Friday we meet a real-life character whose inner world carries the week's discovery into lived, recognizable, human experience.
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NEW 8-WEEK SERIES . CEREMONIAL LOVEMAKING
WEEK 1 . THE LONGING — Discovering the secrets of longing
So many of us are waiting. Waiting for the right moment, the right era in our lives. Longing for the time, space, permission to be ourselves. As lovers.
WEEK 2 . THE ATMOSPHERE — Attuning to our needs
We put a lot of pressure on ourselves to be intimate. Without first tuning in to what we need. Down-time. Rest. Space in our busy days. A time to feel ourselves.
WEEK 3 . SENSING & FEELING — Shifting from mind to body
Most of us are accustomed to working hard to get results. Even when it comes to our relationships. What happens when we shift from working hard — to sensing and feeling — who we are as lovers.
WEEK 4 . IN & OUT OF THE BEDROOM — Sex that never ends
Sex doesn't begin or end in the bedroom. Everything we do is an expression of who we are as men and women who crave connection. And pleasure. And closeness.
WEEK 5 . SELF-PRACTICE — Ecstasy drills
Mapping the body for ecstasy and connection is a practice that never ends. Our capacity for intimacy is infinite. And it begins with our relationship with our body. Our pleasure. Our exhaustion. Our stability.
WEEK 6 . ATTRACTION — Torching our preferences
The world tells us that attraction is something we seek — a very draining proposition. What if attraction is something we radiate, instead.
WEEK 7 . THE MEETING — Down-to-earth connecting
There are so many ways to connect, really connect, sexually. Some of those include physical contact. Some of those do not.
WEEK 8 . THE CEREMONY — Life becomes ceremony
Life as a ceremony of meeting and being. Making love from that place of connection that already exists between us. Relaxing into our natural rhythms. Allowing our longing new space to express.
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I look forward to welcoming you into the Be Fully Alive Podcast community. We're diving deep into the elegant systems that transform complex lives into embodied aliveness.
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See you there.
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