FWD: Transformative Tantra (Transgressive, Transcendent, Transgender)
Francesca Gentille
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From: Carol Queen
Sent: Jan 19, 2008 4:49 PM
To: Francesca Gentille
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Any other suggestions re: getting the word out will also be welcomed; one of the teachers is coming all the way from NYC to do the classes. Details below, and thanks in advance if you can help spread the word!
xox--CQ
Carol Queen
ca...@sexandculture.org
This is what Annie Sprinkle has to say about the Center for Sex & Culture's upcoming (2/1-3) Transformative Tantra (Transgressive, Transcendent, and Transgender) weekend:
"Everyone is welcome, no matter what their orientations. You don't have to be 'transgender' to come. Or 'queer.' If you are a monogamous heterosexual married couple, you'll fit right in. If you are a single new age bisexual transvestite with a balloon fetish, you'll fit right in. If you are a tired old whore who has done it all and is burnt out sexually, you'll fit right in -- and can really use this! If you haven't had sex in ten years, or are just through cancer treatments, you'll fit in. If you've been interested in tantra, but find it too woo-woo or New Agey, then this is the Tantra workshop for you. Everyone can be their devilish dark humored selves, and all of their alter egos too."
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Friday, February 1, 7-10 pm: TRANSFORMATIVE TANTRA INTRODUCTORY EVENING
Transformative Tantra Introductory Evening
Friday, February 1, 2008
7 - 10 PM at the Center for Sex and Culture, 1519 Mission near 11th St.
$25 per person; waived for those who are taking the full weekend workshop
Meet the authors Barbara Carrellas and Dossie Easton for an evening of chat and some experimental journeys in breath and consciousness. Get a taste of the weekend to come, satisfy your curiosity about Tantra and other energy-focused sexual paths, and discover how Tantra can help you unleash some unique abilities within yourself. Persons who have no experience in Tantra who intend to attend the full weekend are particularly encouraged to attend this evening, but all are welcome to join us for a taste of Tantra.
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Saturday and Sunday, February 2nd and 3rd, 2008, 10 AM to 5 PM -- TRANSFORMATIVE TANTRA: Transgressive, Transcendent, and Transgender
At the Center for Sex and Culture, San Francisco -- 1519 Mission near 11th St.
Barbara Carrellas, author of Urban Tantra and Dossie Easton, co-author of Radical Ecstasy and The Ethical Slut, join forces to explode the myths and embrace the power of SM, gender journeying and Tantra.
If you are curious about the ecstatic possibilities of Tantra and other energy-focused sexual paths, but have felt too queer, too gender-queer, too kinky, too slutty, or too down-to-earth to feel comfortable in traditional Tantra groups, you'll love this weekend-facilitated by two women who have spent their entire adult lives exploring perverted paths to ecstasy. Persons of all genders and lovers of all stripes are welcome.
What is/are your gender(s)? Your partners' gender(s)? Do you really have to choose only one? We'll look at what gender is and what it isn't, and then find new ways to express it, pervert it and play with it. Next, we'll explore sexual energy as a physical force that you can activate, build, shape, and ride to amplify all your erotic encounters. We'll end our first day with a shared journey, as we intertwine our experience of masculine and feminine and both and neither into a big ecstatic circle of breath.
On Sunday, we'll explore the different elements and styles of energy-sharing and power exchange in sexual relationships. Using techniques from Tantra and BDSM, and the occasional bit of rope, we'll experiment with consciously polarizing and uniting opposites: active and receptive, masculine and feminine, power and helplessness. Is it true that the further apart we polarize our roles, the hotter the spark that bridges the gap? Let's find out!
All genders, sexual preferences and orientations are welcome.
To register or for more info contact ma...@sexandculture.org or 415-255-1155. The full weekend workshop is available for $395 per person. CSC can take Visa, MasterCArd and Discover.
BIOS:
Dossie Easton, a long time player on the San Francisco S/M scene and well-known killer bottom, is co-author with Janet Hardy of The Ethical Slut, a guide to infinite sexual possibilities as well as The New Bottoming Book and The New Topping Book, When Someone You Love Is Kinky, a book designed to give to outsiders to inform them about our lifestyle, and most recently, Radical Ecstasy: SM Journeys to Transcendence. She is a licensed psychotherapist working with individuals, couples and more in her private practice, with a particular interest in how SM journeys into Shadow can bring old wounds into the healing light of consciousness and and give them a shot of life force in the form of good hot sex. You can check out her website at www.dossieeaston.com.
Barbara Carrellas is the author of Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century and Luxurious Loving: Tantric Inspirations for Passion and Pleasure. She is the founder of Urban Tantra, an approach to sacred sexuality that adapts and blends conscious sexuality practices from Tantra to S/M, and the cofounder of Erotic Awakening, a pioneering series of workshops focusing on the physical, spiritual and healing powers of sex. Barbara was named Best Tantric Sex Seminar Leader in New York City by Time Out/NY Magazine for her Urban Tantra workshops. Barbara has been featured in the videos Selfloving, The Sluts & Goddesses Video Video Workshop, Zen Pussy, Annie Sprinkle's Amazing World of Orgasm, in the film Sacred Sex and in several episodes of the HBO television special Real Sex. Barbara frequently lectures, performs and facilitates workshops with her partner, author and gender outlaw , Kate Bornstein. www.barbaracarrellas.com, www.urbantantra.org.
M. Francesca Gentille - Diva of Divine Relationships
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