Episode 05: Making love as a doorway to higher consciousness. With Diana Richardson.
I feel so grateful to share this episode with you and honoured to have had the so inspiring Diana Richardson as a guest on my podcast. I feel grateful for her immense generosity to share her experiences and the unfolded insights with us - we had such a dynamic, expansive and physical conversation, physical as I could feel how she shared from such an embodied, true and authentic place, wonderful! I felt so inspired, to slow down, sense, listen, and yes allow making love to be a doorway to greater consciousness.
Diana is considered one of today’s leading authorities on human sexuality. She is known as the pioneer of Slow Sex, and is an internationally acclaimed teacher and author in the field of tantric sex and spirituality. Diana has written 8 books on how in practical ways a person can experience a more fulfilling sex and love life. Born in South Africa in 1954, she first qualified as a lawyer (B.A.LLB), and then trained as a massage therapist (ITEC) in the UK. Her interest in the body and healing prompted an intense personal exploration into the union of sex and meditation - the essence of Tantra. Since 1993, together with her partner, Michael, she has been sharing her insights and experiences with couples who travel from many different parts of the world to participate in their informative and life changing ‘Making Love’ workshops in Switzerland.
In this conversation with Diana we talked about …
What Diana means with slow sex and why consciousness during sex inherently unfolds in slowing-down
The potential of sex to be a nurturing and expansive experience and to create a deep connection with oneself and ones` partner
Why sex is about much more than experiencing an orgasm: It is about how we do it; from a place of conscious awareness, in connection with our own body …
… how we can learn and start to transform our sexual practice into a journey that's not about «the peak» - but an invitation to dive deeper into the feeling that you have with and for each other
The importance of curiosity, lightness and playfulness in this process!
How making love invites us to cultivate body perception …
… and therefore experiencing making-love as a place where healing can happen
I hope you feel as energised and inspired as I did after listening to the interview with Diana and I am looking forward reading your thoughts and comments on instagram or facebook.
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Diana is the author of several books:
Tantric Orgasm for women
Tantric Orgasm for men
Slow sex
Tantric Sex and Menopause
The Heart of Tantric Sex
Tantric love: Feeling versus emotion
Tantric love letters
Cool Sex