Satisfying Intimacy ~ A show for Love, Sex & Life

If you had to describe - over the phone - your style to someone, how would you do it? We often think of style as how you dress or do your hair, but what about how you move? ~

And what if you had to describe - by text - what your voice sounds like, how you choose to speak, habits you have that you might not even remember where they come from? ~

This episode is here to bet the world wants you as you've always been, as you happen to have become, and as you choose to be from today forward. Professional athletes and Hollywood actors have nothing on you, they don't know you and anyone who is lucky enough to know the real you and your aspirations better celebrate and support you. ~

We all learn by imitation of course, maybe a parent or a teacher or a famous role model, and that's a fair starting point to see and feel and know ourselves. From there, we can express simply, without a lot of money or time, who we are, walk the way that feels good, do what we're here to do, be with who we want to be with, and together inspire the next people what is possible. Thanks for being here and shining your style. ~

Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? Send a message to [email protected] or Instagram @hsrthankyou. Thanks for listening. ~

Thanks to Jette Weiss for the cover art and Youssoupha Sidibe for the music, used under license.

We can reach this place with a partner, in another relationship, even with ourselves in terms of where we're at in life compared to where we feel we're supposed to be. ~

Our ability to think and feel is complex, mixing conscious and unconscious and past, present and future. Driven by impatience, ego, bad teachings, or other things, we can make rash decision that don't serve us. And yet sometimes we do need to make quick and definite choices that are great. ~

This episode is all about options for tuning in and choosing. It suggests that knowing oneself, combined with being open to rediscovering oneself and the other person, gives you much more chance of getting what you want, including awesome connection in love and wellbeing. ~

Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? Send a message to [email protected] or Instagram @hsrthankyou. Thanks for listening. ~

Thanks to Jette Weiss for the cover art and Youssoupha Sidibe for the music, used under license.

Here is a show full of possibilities for men and their beloveds to know big pleasure and health. ~

We start with the questions, do men have cycles somewhat as women do, what low-level and high-level orgasms are available with and without ej*culating, and what to do with all that testosterone? ~

From schools like Mantak Chia's and David Deida's we come back to your own unique body and a bunch of practices for tuning in and seeing what it can do, or really how it can be if you just let it express the powerful flow of nature (chi, prana, and so on). ~

From there it's a question of how can you develop it for your own health, the health of your intimate and other relationships and work, to benefit even much greater than yourself. ~

Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? Send a message to [email protected] or Instagram @hsrthankyou. Thanks for listening. ~

Thanks to Jette Weiss for the cover art and Youssoupha Sidibe for the music, used under license.

How many times have you seen destroyed in a moment something precious that took years to make or tremendous luck to find? ~

This episode says, by accepting anger as a normal part of human experience, we can become truly safe, creative people. Instead of being a risk to blow up at others or let it out sideways through passive aggressiveness, we can actually sit quiet in its presence, learn what it says we want or need, go out and secure that for ourselves, and provide security and abundance for others. ~

If that sounds unbelievable, I hope to hear from you after you listen. Thank you for your trust to explore the dark sides that balance the light we may more readily want to display but is difficult to sustain without whole self-knowledge and full-of-life peace. ~

Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? Send a message to [email protected] or Instagram @hsrthankyou. Thanks for listening. ~

Thanks to Jette Weiss for the cover art and Youssoupha Sidibe for the music, used under license.

Have you heard before of harnessing the power of your lovemaking and orgasms? In this in-depth chat, Sarah Bella presents a whole world of possibilities starting from... seeing the whole world in yourself. ~

With breathing, visualization, and touch among other faculties, we can heal shame and trauma and open ourselves layer by layer to confident self-knowledge and deep, lasting states of pleasure that we then also bring to our relationships and endeavours. ~

More from Sarah's bio: "Sarah Bella is a certified yoga teacher, semi-retired aerialist and professional dancer. She holds her Reiki Master, Tantra Coaching and Family & Systems Constellations Facilitator certificates, Sarah offers her Tantric wisdom, yogic knowledge and witchcraft wellness for people to connection with themselves and their higher selves. People feel a sense of calm, a lightness or emotional release and they often have a feeling of empowerment and self-assuredness after working with her. It is Sarah's pleasure to guide others back to their bodies and souls, integrating all aspects of self to live fully now!" ~

Thank you Sarah for sharing the fruit of your study and practice of what can be a whole new world for many of us. Sarah's Insta channel is @tantramagick. ~

Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? Send a message to [email protected] or Instagram @hsrthankyou. Thanks for listening. ~

Thanks to Jette Weiss for the cover art and Youssoupha Sidibe for the music, used under license.

Isis Duncan is a poet and photographer from Cleveland, USA devoted to young women growing up with healthy attitudes and practices around self and body including menstruation/fertility, self-pleasure, relationships and more. ~

She writes, "I came to my passion of teaching young women about confidence, spirituality and acceptance through my art when I was in high school. I grew up with a lot of abuse, harassment, conflicting sexual feelings and self confidence issues but I always found a passion in helping people so they didn't feel how I felt. That led me to where I am now, showing women the beauty in their natural being no matter if it's in spoken word or tangible photos." ~

In this conversation she models and expresses knowing yourself and your worth and your boundaries, being able to fulfill yourself emotionally and sexually, and from there entering into relationships where you can be yourself and grow and create. Her Insta channel is @sexual_spiritual_natural_ with website on the way. ~

Thank you Isis for speaking from such deep heart, reflections and work for healthy women and society. ~

Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? Send a message to [email protected] or Instagram @hsrthankyou. Thanks for listening. ~

Thanks to Jette Weiss for the cover art and Youssoupha Sidibe for the music, used under license.

Imagine a whole weekend devoted to creating a sensual atmosphere to relax, expand, and connect through music and body arts... The Sacred Sexual Music Festival is a new offering since 2018 by Wendy DeMos and crew, including a live in-person form in Canada and an online form with workshops you can join in anywhere in the world. ~ 
 
The Festival is part of a growing culture of creating diverse sensuality and healing and one of the ideas here is how to find and contribute to the creation of music that moves you in love and life. If you search spa or massage or sex music for example, what comes up often sounds the same. What else is out there and what else is possible? ~ 

The festival's web site is sacredmusicfestival.com and here's a Spotify playlist for everyone around the world to add to open.spotify.com/playlist/6rs9QwCv8xohRYGtDLV21x?si=98ee02ddfe11465b.  ~

Thank you Wendy for creating this amazing Festival and sharing your love of music and holistic health and joy. ~

Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? Send a message to [email protected] or Instagram @hsrthankyou. Thanks for listening. ~

Thanks to Jette Weiss for the cover art and Youssoupha Sidibe for the music, used under license.

Who doesn't want both of these things, and ardently, when yearning for a relationship or being deep into one? ~

This is the first of two episodes in a mini-series on amazing contradictions we can resolve in our own lives and in the life of a relationship. It just takes a little thinking outside the box... when facing big and little decisions about how to be and what to do especially at moments when it seems there is no solution, or what you have to give up is just as big as what you stand to gain. ~ 

Here are abundant ideas and encouragements for how you can hold your purpose to yourself high with your best understanding of the other person's purpose and the purpose of the relationship. I believe you can have it all, if it's done in a mindful way: security that frees you to do everything you want, and a listening to the heart moment-to-moment that leads you to the people and places and activities you want to keep growing with. ~

Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? Send a message to [email protected] or Instagram @hsrthankyou. Thanks for listening. ~ 

Thanks to Jette Weiss for the cover art and Youssoupha Sidibe for the music, used under license.

David Jurasek is a psychotherapist/counselor based in Toronto, Canada who has come up with a 5-elements framework for uniting personal growth with relationship growth. The subtlety and humility of his approach, and his grounding in martial arts, is what drew me to invite David to the show. ~ 

The five elements he distills from 20 years of work supporting people in their relationships are: air (the map that helps us situate ourselves and avoid repeating patterns that don't work), fire (becoming more skillful to let conflict bring you to a new deeper ease), water (evolving with emotion instead of managing or silencing it), earth (developing good habits and making important changes), and metal (knowing when to stay or go, keeping your sense of purpose and not getting caught up in reactions). ~

I hope you'll find in this conversation something useful and really an overall tone of how we can live more centered and exploratory at the same time. Thank you David for sharing the benefit of your work with so many people mixed with your own soul-searching. His web site is powerfulandloving,com. ~

Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? Send a message to [email protected] or Instagram @hsrthankyou. Thanks for listening. ~ 

Thanks to Jette Weiss for the cover art and Youssoupha Sidibe for the music, used under license.

CoreyPine Shane runs the Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine (www.blueridgeschool.org) and Pine's Herbals in Asheville, United States since the 1990s, training hundreds of students and doing consults for hundreds of other people. ~

We talk about plants that really work to improve overall health and therefore sexual vitality, as well as specific sexual tonics for long-term (like the adaptogen ashwagandha from Indian Ayurvedic medicine) and day-of/evening-of use (like the Brazilian "potency wood" muira puama and Mexican damiana). He shares an understanding of how these plants work with the circulatory, hormonal and other systems of our bodies, more safely and sustainably than pills based on chemicals that are either synthetic or taken out of their natural origin and super-concentrated. ~

There's info here on where to find these plants in nature or at the store, how to grow them, and some inspirations for making your own love potions with rose, cacao, cinnamon or other foods and herbs you might already have at home. There are some book resources, including Diana De Luca's Botanica Erotica all about this very topic for you to enjoy. And maybe most importantly, inspiration to craft your own love rituals using delicious and arousing drinks and foods. ~

Thanks CoreyPine for sharing your passion and experience for help us develop whole-body awareness and vibrancy. ~

Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? Send a message to [email protected] or Instagram @hsrthankyou. Thanks for listening. ~

Thanks to Jette Weiss for the cover art and Youssoupha Sidibe for the music, used under license.