Cleo is a BDSM coach, ritualist and personal trainer in the kinky arts. She knows consensual erotic power exchanges to be a valid path to self-discovery, intimacy, and healing for those called to explore their kinky desires. She is blessed that her life’s work is now more readily understood.

When willing to bring their kinky desires out of the closet, people forge stronger connections to their partners and find whole new ways to explore and rekindle their sexuality. She is honored to guide couples on their journeys.  She’s brought compassion and intuition to her work, creating safety and trust in every consultation, initiation, and guided play for more than 25 years.  

To further explore Cleo’s offerings around private guidance and ritual, peep here.

For her workshops and immersive experiences in SF for women, men and those interested in Professional Dominance, scope over here.

And pop over to her FB here.

Sha-boom.

In this episode we talk about what BDSM is, BDSM as a space to explore archetypes, the Jungian shadow, how the body is the door to spirit, and so much mo’.

Below is the highlight reel of our conversational journey:
-BDSM as erotic, consensual, negotiated, power exchange
-Using BDSM to understand your inner persona and play with your inner child
-Putting light on the shadow
-The need to surrender
-Energy-running
-Why she’s no longer a professional Mistress
-What is ritual
-Pre-scene negotiations
-Safe, sane, and consensual
-Domineering is not dominance
-The difference between pain and intense sensation
-Clean fire vs dirty fire
-Ayahousca and surrender
-Archetypes
-2 types of trances
-Hook rituals
-BDSM old guard and new guard
-She dated one the Burning Man founders (lol, so cool!)

Ight folks, get in there n’ get dirty. I hope you pick up a couple new flowers to add to the bouquet that is your life-lens.

PS here are some of the resources that came up in our conversation:

The New Topping Book by Dossie Eastern and Janet Hardy
The New Bottoming Book
Leatherfolk by Mark Thompson
Sacred Contracts by Caroline Myss
Archetypes

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Amy is committed to bringing people together through play, connection, self-expression and creativity. Her passion for human connection, growth and community led her to establish and grow The Connection Movement,  a community that comes together and dives into self-discovery, transformation and deep, earnest connection.

Inspired by the practices and teachings of Circling, Authentic Relating, Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory, Mindfulness, Morehouse, Meditation and NonViolent Communication, The Connection Movement offers events, workshops, coaching programs, social experiments and retreats, including Connection Camp – an annual four day, three night adult summer camp.   Amy is proud to have seeded and grown similar communities in Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa as well as Miami, Florida and Charleston, South Carolina.

In this episode we talk about: her journey from emotional-disconnection to connection teacher/facilitator, the nuances of feedback, the loneliness epidemic, and curiosity as a vital skill for connecting.

-Check out theconnectionmovement.com for her workshops in New York.
-Check out connectioncamp.com this summer June 13th-16th outside of NYC. Use the coupon code Mantell to save 40 $mackeroo$.
-And check out humancenteredgroup.com for her work with organizations and teams.

Notes from this episode:
-Her contemplation of belonging
-Inquiring past discomfort to find truth
-Today’s loneliness epidemic
-Finding outlets for belonging
-How society represses us from our full emotional expression
-Developing the skills to help others see more of themselves
-When she does and doesn’t pursue deep connection with others
-Conditioning herself to become curious when discomfort arises in relationship
-How to handle when your partner is less curious than you are and takes up more conversation space (a challenge I often face!)
-How to gracefully give feedback
-Using feedback to see our assumptions
-Her journey from emotional disconnection, to actress, to communication leader

Have a marvel-full time in your listening-adventure my friend!

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Cory is an author, podcast host, meditation teacher, and audio engineer from Austin.

On his podcast The Astral Hustle, he discusses how to live better with leading experts in mindfulness, neuroscience, and philosophy. He believes the more we understand ourselves, the less we suffer.

He recently finished writing a book called Now is the Way. Penguin Random House will publish it in 2019.

Cory decided to share his approach to meditation in an online course called Release Into Now. Since then, he’s taught thousands of people how to meditate with clear and concise methods.

In this podcast episode we discuss his approach to life and intuition, his relationship with Buddhism, the commitment of religion, how he views spirituality, and how the modern world is breaking the intersubjective agreement.

Show Highlights
-Cory’s decision to start a podcast
-The influential power of ideas
-Self-auditing our intentions to make sure we’re making good decisions
-The power of conversation in helping us see our own thinking
-Spirituality as the all-pervading lifeforce
-Balancing the inner spiritual life and the outer spiritual life
-Becoming the negative space and getting clues from life of what to do
-Cory’s relationship with Western philosophy and Buddhism
-Religions as different wallpapers over the same transcendent experience
-Imagining what it’d be like to be a flat-earther
-How viewing life through our phones is affecting reality
-How we’re losing our grasp on truth

Get ready to get your sense-of-wonder rocked into oblivion!

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Founder of Sacred, Justin Patrick Pierce works with select spiritual teachers and coaches to help them master their craft and bring their work to the world.

As an international spiritual intimacy teacher and co-author of The Awakened Women’s Guide to Everlasting Love, Justin offers workshops, talks and private trainings with his intimate partner, Londin Angel Winters.

In this episode we talk about Justin’s spiritual path, the path of Sacred Sexuality, the essence of Alpha and Omega energy (akin to Yang and Yin), the nature of sexual energy, how we’re no longer in the 50’s where only men embody Alpha (Yang) and women embody Omega (Yin), and we also discuss that while that time period was repressive it did leave important clues to the map of polarity.

Here are links to:
Justin’s book The Awakened Woman’s Guide to Everlasting Love
Justin’s Website
Justin’s Facebook page

Also, here are links to two teachers Justin mentions in this episode:
David Deida
Mantak Chia

I hope this episode delivers you an epic mindgasm.

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As founder of The Forcing Function, Chris is the right-hand man to dozens of successful entrepreneurs, giving them the systems they need to multiply their productivity and maximize their effectiveness.  After years of deconstructing and distilling the habits of top performers, Chris wrote Inflection Point, his guide to generating a complete shift in life trajectory.  In his days as a professional poker player, Chris was ranked one of the top 20 online poker players in the world.

In this episode we talk about creating a scaffolding of habits that make life better, building instrumental skills that help with any life direction, where productivity and spirituality meet, 30-day life cycles, finding your passion, integrating our darker motivations, and treating life as an experiment.

I hope this conversation is as much a doozy for you as it was for me.

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Derek Loudermilk is a Professional Adventurer, Bestselling Author, Speaker, Digital Nomad, Business Coach, Father, founder of AdventureQuest Travel, and Host of The Art of Adventure Podcast. He’s committed to helping people make their lives the most amazing adventure possible!

Check out his website, his book Superconductors: Revolutionize Your Career and Make Big Things Happen, and the Art of Adventure Podcast.

In this episode we talk about what it means to be a thoughtleader, the beauty of travel interactions, listening skills, mastery, and charisma as an instrument of power.

I hope this conversation kablasts you with new ideas and perspectives

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Arielle Brown is a coach and facilitator with a focus on embodied intelligence and transparent communication skills. She helps people to connect with their authentic desires and boundaries so they can build relationships and realities that support their vision, that foster their self-actualization. She offers comprehensive experiential learning through immersive private coaching, online courses, and in-person workshops focused on evolved relating practices, the energetics of intimacy, and emergent leadership.

Arielle’s credentials include: B.A. in Clinical Counseling Psychology from Washington College. Certified as Eating Psychology Coach from The Institute for the Psychology of Eating. Certified as Orgasmic Meditation Coach from One Taste. Certified in Transformational Leadership from the Sacred Future School for the Transformation of Consciousness and Culture. Graduate from The School of Mystic Arts.

In this episode we talk about the illusion of romance, relationships as a practice, what boundaries are and why they’re important, what most men don’t know about women, and how to find your own unique message.

I hope you leave this episode ablaze with inspiration.

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Ernest Morrow is a catalyst. His medicine is to support, provoke, love, tease, hold, guide, and do whatever else it takes for you to open your heart and receive the blessing of your own life. His love is fierce and tender and his teachings are sacred and irreverent. He does not intend to get you anywhere because he knows that you just need to learn to relax into exactly where you are. He has guided and held space for hundreds of students over the years and looks forward to meeting you if you want to be fully alive.

In this episode we talk about what it means to be human, how to orient yourself towards life after leaving the matrix, living unafraid of heartbreak, my falling in love, as well as other beautiful and poetical musings on life.

I hope this episode tickles a fancy that does not oft get tickled.

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Archan Nair is a self- taught visual artist, illustrator and Digital Artist, specialising in mixed media, illustration, and digital art based out of Berlin, Germany. His visual expressions are part of a journey which is really influenced by the mysteries of our existence and how every action, emotion, and our interconnectedness in a universal scale sets of a chain of reactions.. which we experience from the micro to the macro scale.

Formerly a fashion major and entrepreneur, Archan started painting in 2006 at the age of 24 and made the shift as an independent artist in 2007 with his cultural roots from India. Since then he has embarked on an exhilarating and inspirational journey, collaborating with various companies and individuals such as Nike, RedBull, Canon, Infiniti, Sony etc.

Archan has been featured in various publications and has achieved recognition from music artists like Kanye West along with collaborations with Chris Brown and Lindsay Lohan. Archan’s passion and love for the creative process and expressing himself has opened a whole new journey, where he is exploring the beautiful essence of life.

Check him out:
archann.net
facebook.com/ArchanNair
instagram.com/archannair

In this episode we talk about art as the ability to channel from the Source, the creative process as a surrender to presence, how Archan found his unique style, and when you reach a point in the life journey when you stop looking only inward and start giving back.

I hope this episode blasts open your mindhole.

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Shasta Nelson, M.Div., is a leading friendship expert who is regularly quoted by the media for her leading thoughts on healthy relationships, including  The Today Show, The New York Times, Business Insider, and Real Simple.  She’s the author of two books on healthy relationships: Friendships Don’t Just Happen which is focused on making new friends, and  Frientimacy: How to Deepen Friendships for Lifelong Health and Happiness which focuses on deeper intimacy in our friendships. But her greatest passion is on stage as a professional speaker where she gets to teach and inspire organizations and conferences that want their people to feel more connected in our increasingly disconnected world.

Find her at shastanelson.com/presskit

In this episode we talk about the difference between a calling and a vehicle for a calling, weightlifting as a metaphor for spiritual growth, belonging as a fundamental need, fear of rejection, and how to cultivate a strong and intimate network of friendships.

I hope your listening experience is a notable one.

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