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The Untamed Erotic 🌿 Rewilding the Erotic Body
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"A tremendous change is happening on the planet.
I have a feeling we are ready, at long last, to truly love." Dawn Cartwright
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Week 7 . Erotic Attentiveness
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It appears at the edge of sleep.
In moments of intense feeling.
In the breathless space when you let go.
The life hidden in this one.
A secret life of astonishing beauty that also experiences us. And responds.
A love affair of cosmic proportions.
The Tantric path, complex and widely varied, opens the space for the experience of this hidden life in everything we do. According to scholar, Robert Brown, “The ideological aspect of the Tantric vision is the cosmos as permeated by power, a vision wherein energy is both cosmic and human and where microcosm and macrocosm correspond and interact.”
It is attentiveness that makes this cosmic love affair apparent. Our ability to see clearly the eternal within the fleeting.
Dawn
Chandra Bindu Tantra Institute
www.chandrabindutantrainstitute.com
310.592.1293
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This week's Be Fully Alive Podcast episodes . . .
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The Untamed Erotic 🌿 Rewilding the Erotic Body
Monday explores the clearing — how a life we love can grow so full that the wild erotic self is lost.
Wednesday we practice What Needs Light?, an invitation to see our own life honestly and let our attention reach what has been forgotten.
Friday we find Vera and Sören sitting beneath the oak in their own backyard, looking at the life they've built. They have everything they wanted and now they are realizing they've lost sight of what is most important to them.
Enjoy listening.
The Untamed Erotic on the Be Fully Alive Podcast
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I'd Like to Introduce . . . The Art of Sexual Ecstasy
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 "This landmark book on human sexuality makes the sacred lovemaking techniques of the East fully comprehensible to Western readers.
Elegantly illustrated, it helps the reader acquire new attitudes and broaden his or her range of experience, to revitalize and strengthen relationships.
This book opens the way to a new stage of fulfillment and bliss, making the sacred lovemaking techniques of the east available to western readers and extending sensual experience for everyone.
Margo Anand is an internationally acclaimed authority on Tantra, best-selling author, and much-beloved teacher and founder of SkyDancing Tantra®. Margo’s books, videos, CDs and DVDs are widely regarded as the seminal teachings for integrating spirituality and sexuality and for cultivating the art of ecstatic living.
Her popular books are available in numerous languages, and include The Art of Sexual Ecstasy and The Art of Sexual Magic."
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Home Practice . Attentiveness
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A practice for entering the life hidden in this one.
Attentiveness Meditation
Invite a friend, lover or family member to join you for this meditation. Find a place where you can sit together comfortably without being disturbed. Allow 20 to 30 minutes for your practice.
Sit facing one another with eyes closed at first. Relax, give yourselves a few minutes to settle in before you begin.
When you both feel ready, open your eyes.
How close do you feel?
Look at one another. Notice the unique color of your partner's eyes, the shape of their face. They'll do the same with you. Give yourselves 5 to 10 minutes to see one another - as if for the very first time.
You may also feel anxious. You may be sceptical.
Can you also be playful? Open? Adventurous? Can you see one another up close without moving closer?
Then, without moving at all, get closer.
Can you feel how that happens inside? What changed in you when you got closer without moving? What opened? What relaxed? What let go?
Once more, get closer. Without moving your body at all.
How is it possible? How could it be so easy?
To enter the life hidden in this one. The love affair of cosmic proportions.
How close do you feel?
Enjoy your practice.
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Valley Orgasm Masterclass
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Tuesday . October 6th . 11:45am–12:45pm PT . Live on Zoom
The Be Fully Alive Masterclass is an experiential advanced training in the fusion of NeoTantric practice and modern-day sexology. The first Tuesday of every month, we bring one of the themes explored here in the newsletter and the podcast into direct experience through guided practice.
This month, we’ll explore Valley Orgasm, relaxing the familiar movement toward a peak and discovering the untamed sensations within our bodies as they rise, recede, change and deepen.
This masterclass is open to everyone for a one-time registration of $75. For those of us who would like an ongoing rhythm of practice, EMBODY and EVOLVE memberships include each monthly masterclass and its recording, along with the opportunity to explore these themes in community throughout the year.
$75 one-time registration
Included with EMBODY or EVOLVE membership
A recording will be available afterward
Explore EMBODY & EVOLVE Membership
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Explore In Depth . Private Sessions
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If you’d like to explore this work more deeply, you can do that by scheduling a private session with me. I'm available weekdays 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Outcall and Zoom sessions are also possible.
Private Sessions
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Facebook . Endless Love Facebook Group
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I've set up an Endless Love group for us on Facebook. It is a public group, please invite your friends. It's a place where you can share your experiences, ask questions, and get updates on this class. It's becoming a very dynamic group. You can join the group by following the link below.
Endless Love Facebook Group
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Dawn's Spotify Playlist for music to accompany the masterclass. Please click on the image below to access. Playlists will be added each month on Dawn's Spotify dashboard.
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Please send me your questions - what's happening in your life? Thanks to those of you out there in our world-wide community who've reached out.
If you don't see your question here, fear not. All questions submitted will be answered over the coming weeks.
Dear Dawn,
For several months now, I've been aware of a strong sensation in my sacrum. What is this feeling?
Love, Anonymous
Los Angeles . California
Dear Anonymous,
Let's find out.
Create a space and time where you will not be disturbed. Find a position that feels comfortable and suportive. Take a moment to let go of your day.
Then, tune in to the strong sensation in your sacrum. Meet it with attentiveness.
Slowly get closer. Feel the edges. The center. The temperature. The weight of the sensation.
Imagine climbing inside the sensation. Even closer.
Then, if it feels right, begin to soften around the sensation, until your whole body is relaxed.
How does your body feel? How do you feel in general? Scan your body again. What do you notice?
Attentiveness is sometimes a spiral of concentric circles, drawing closer and closer to what is here.
What happens when we feel within the feeling? What happens when we release layers of tension between ourselves and what we feel?
When you are complete, let go of the attentiveness, the focus that has been gently held. Sink into your body and the support underneath you. And then, once again, notice what is here. Give yourself plenty of time to absorb everything you have discovered in your practice.
What did you discover?
Much love, Dawn
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Tips for getting the most out of Be Fully Alive . . .
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• Create a rhythm that works. The podcast offers three chapters each week and the masterclass brings one theme into direct experience each month. Go at your own pace. There’s no such thing as missing out or falling behind.
• Before pressing play, take two minutes to make a transition. Turn off notifications. Let go of the day. Begin the experience inside yourself before the episode even begins.
• Listen with your whole body. Notice your breathing, sensations, emotions, resistance, curiosity and surprise. There is often as much happening beneath the words as there is within them.
• Headphones are recommended. Not everyone in the grocery store, airport lounge or next car over is ready for Valley Orgasm.
• Pause whenever you feel the desire for a little space to digest. There’s no need to hurry toward the end of an episode or practice.
• If you’re listening at 1.5 or 2x speed, uh, yeah, you might want to slow your roll. The mind may enjoy efficiency. The body prefers a slower pace, and co-regulation does too.
• Enjoy the journey. The Monday episode opens the theme. The Wednesday practice brings it into the body. The Friday story offers a reflection, a space to notice what feels familiar and what reveals something new.
• Practice. Listening and understanding are only the beginning. Even five minutes of direct experience can begin to change a familiar pattern.
• Modify every practice in whatever way makes fuller participation possible. If a boundary, physical limitation or strong emotion appears, take time to create the best situation possible.
• Feel free to return to an episode more than once. You’ll hear something different every time.
• Keep a journal nearby. Write down a phrase, sensation, question or discovery. Notice what sticks around in the body and mind after listening.
• Bring the exploration into ordinary life. Into a conversation. A moment of touch. A moment with yourself. A walk. A difficult feeling. The few minutes before sleep.
• Ask questions. (I love questions.)
• Make requests. (I love requests.)
• Send music suggestions. (I love music suggestions.)
• For the monthly masterclass, create privacy, gather all the things you love most for comfort and arrive a few minutes early. Give your body time to land before we begin.
• Treat yourself and every member of this community as someone precious. I can promise you, each one of you is.
• At the end of an episode, practice or masterclass, take a moment to fully savor everything you have experienced and received.
• Allow five to ten minutes each day for your practice.
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