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Pick up Artistry

November 27, 2014 By Annette & Graeme Leave a Comment

Pick up Artistry….

As a man, I was relieved to see the community response to a certain recent “pick up” artist and how he and his product was basically booted out of Australia.

I think this form of manipulation (pick up artistry) is despicable, as not only is it putting woman down as “commodities”, but also lowering men to believing seduction will give them total control over women. Both loose, big time, including the sad lonely men who believe the only way to get what they want is too learn brutish techniques that give them control over women. I feel sickened that some men can prey on the normal feelings of inadequacy that most men feel in their relationships with women. I totally get why women are pissed off that this bullshit is out there. I have 2 adult daughters, and as a dad, I feel sickened by this despicable type of manipulation. Both men and women deserve better, much better than this and I am relieved to see that this person and his product got the response he deserved.

Tantric Sex For Men – taking it to the heart

August 12, 2014 By Graeme Sudholz Leave a Comment

Tantric Sex for Men

Tantric sex is a tool for bringing the life, pleasure and meaning into the bedroom for men, here we tell you why and how to get started. In our modern world of information, technology and numerous other gadgets and toys, it has slipped past most of us that our awareness of our potential capacity for sexual pleasure is declining.tantric sex can help Men (and women) are being slowly conditioned away from their real sexual pleasure. There are a lot of different factors in causing this, but I believe the single and most significant factor is that men (and women) simply have lost awareness of just how much pleasure they are capable of, both sexually and emotionally. Sexual capability simply means our individual capacity to feel full body pleasure. It doesn’t matter how many sexual partners a person has, or how much sex is experienced as this unfortunately is how we experience or measure pleasure from that place of limitation.  The pornography industry has created farcical illusions of what sex looks like, and part of the reason porn has such impact is because real, meaningful sexuality is diminishing, particularly with younger people. From my experience in working with couples and particularly men, I am aware that very few men realise what their sexual capability really is, or in extreme cases, if their capacity for pleasure even exists. Through my work, I firmly believe that most men achieve less than 10% of their capacity to experience their own pleasure during sex.

Understanding is key

Something as simple as separating ejaculation from orgasm for men is real, yet most men don’t realize this is possible for them. Just because both usually happen at the same time (ejaculation being the release and orgasm the pleasurable peak ) men just aren’t aware that they’re separate functions. Most men believe that their experience of ejaculation is their actual orgasmic pleasure. If a man’s focus on ejaculation is his goal then most likely he rarely experiences his orgasm and if he does, it is only at a very small percentage of his true capacity. Ejaculation still does feel pretty damn good and it is a separate experience from orgasm. When a man stops when he Sexual Male“cums” then that is his finish. The actual reality at that point is this is his beginning of feeling his separate orgasmic pleasure. This is an attention grabbing concept even for those who are aware of this potential experience of separation. And even for those who are aware, it can often be a struggle to achieve pleasure from separation as it may feel like giving up something familiar. Yet the potential beyond this point is limitless pleasure and a life changing experience that is well worth the effort of exploration.  As a man, take a moment and imagine your point of no return, your point of ejaculation as a 10 on your scale of orgasmic pleasure. Then, with 1 being the start and 10 being the finish.  Imagine how it would be if you could keep feeling your orgasmic self for as long as you chose. Maybe even hundreds of times, without needing to actually ejaculate or desiring to finish?  Are you, as a man even aware that this is what you are capable of, of being truly multi orgasmic ?

As a man, your real sexual pleasure begins at your current “10”.  Converting your ejaculation intensity into orgasmic energy will keep your orgasm happening.  This will create for you, a whole new world of pleasure each time you achieve your “10” and each time in this place it deepens, past 10 to 11, 12 or more. Your experience of pleasure increases, becomes easier to achieve and stays with you longer. Each time you go into sexual space, your “10” has moved, your pleasure is deeper yet closer to the surface and becomes more accessible as your normal feeling experience. This experience gets better with age and this pleasure is already happening within you. Simply by allowing yourself to experience your sexual potential with out limiting your pleasure sounds easy, BUT there is a condition attached. And it is not negotiable and we’ll get to that, but before we do, a bit more about men’s conditioning away from pleasure.

Male conditioning

Men are conditioned away from experiencing deeper pleasure right from the beginning of their sexual journey. From when they first become sexually active, boys are conditioned into ejaculation. In the early days of self pleasuring (masturbation) the pressure is on to get it up and over and done with before they get found out- stage (1). The next stage (2) is to get it up and over and done with before their girlfriend changes her mind, then (3) before the kids wake up and finally, (4) before they lose their erection. Sadly, at no stage, or very rarely, are boys as they become men, exposed to the real meaning of the sacredness of their sexuality and heart connection and what this means to be a healthy sexual male.

Generally, as a result of this conditioning and lack of awareness of what is possible, men struggle in accepting that there is so much more to their sexual experience. Men become “addicted” to ejaculation as their pinnacle experience. Some men only experience ejaculation and very limited orgasmic pleasure. Even though there is so muchMale Sexuality from the heart more pleasure to experience and it is already available inside them. This disconnection conditioning also encourages a man to focus on pleasing his partner in order to be a “good lover”. This is another potential that may take him further away from this place inside of himself and into a place of “performance”. The pornography industry is more manipulation that specifically targets these areas of masculine desire of performing and visually “coming” which even further separates a man from his heart. When watching porn the screen is where a man’s awareness is focused. When watching porn, the focus is on the screen and in this place pleasure is significantly limited . As a man grows older and his habits become deeper and more entrenched as testosterone fades, his normal type of sex has less feeling and becomes more difficult. This is also a part of male menopause, which is another issue for men (and women).

BUT, for a man to experience what is beyond his so called “normal” is simply realizing there is so much more, and that he can choose to experience and discover this for himself. If you’re a guy, ask yourself what it would be like if you could have your orgasm but not the “down” of ejaculation? Ask yourself what it would be like to get to your point of “no return” and instead of ejaculating choose to have your deeply pleasurable orgasm as many times as you desired?

Man’s ultimate challenge

For a man to move away from performance and go into his deeper full bodied pleasure within himself, is about him opening to and connecting with his own loving heart. For a man to achieve these wonderful things in himself, requires his sexual energy and intensity be totally heart connected and driven. It is a limited and energy draining experience for a man if his heart and sexuality are disconnected.  A man feeling his deeply penetrating loving heart is the fuel for sexual intensity of pleasure in lovemaking with his partner. And, if you’re a woman reading this, how does that feel for you?      (pretty f…g amazing would be my guess…)

For you as a man in achieving your sexual heart connection, a deeply loving relationship container is ideal. This creates your fuel for your open heart, which creates more feeling depth of pleasure. This is what a woman desires most of all from her man, and this is what men are capable of bringing into relationship. This is not about giving your heart away but experiencing your power within yourself as your purveyor of pleasure.

Sexual shame

Most men carry a deep pool of sexual shame, from male conditioning around their identity and their sexuality that interferes with their capability in experiencing more pleasure. This shame is part of the reason why most men find it challenging to accept unlimited pleasure can exist beyond separation of ejaculation and orgasm. Men are conditioned from the beginning of their sexuality, to get it over and done with by ejaculating, resulting in conditioning men into being trigger sensitive, numb or loseWe all carry sexual shame  interest in sex. Ejaculation mostly prevents a man from the best bits. There is also some primal conditioning in this as well, about survival and getting your seed planted before something eats you. The point being, men have a lot of conditioning to undo, and it is why most men are addicted to ejaculation and unknowingly diminishing their capacity for pleasure.  Men have a choice and can choose pleasure, but most simply lack awareness about their true capabilities and sadly remain disconnected from their own pleasure selves.  It is a matter of choice, but most importantly, simply being aware that they do have a choice, and that there is more, much more.

Imagine if you had a choice, how would it be for you in choosing to finish, because you felt totally complete without ejaculation? Imagine what it would be like for you, if each time you went into this place, that your orgasmic energy became deeper and more full bodied, and that it remained with you for days afterwards?

Imagine if this was your natural orgasmic state of aliveness, presence and potently heart connected? How would you feel? How would your partner feel as you shared this deep heart connection with them? How would this impact on those around you, if this place in you became your normal?  This is the state that all men are born with, yet are conditioned out of for a variety of reasons, but mainly through cultural shaming of their sexuality and deep wounds carried from growing up as a boy.

Learning to separate and become full bodied multi orgasmic is not easy, but it is real and does involve having a good time that is all about more pleasure and true sexual fulfillment. And if you’re learning this with your partner, then it is a relationship game changer.

How to get started

A simple process to try during lovemaking, or self pleasuring, is when you start to get close to your point of no return, is to simply stop and take 3 – 4 deep breaths. As you’re breathing deeply, focus on what you’re feeling inside of you, in your genitals. You will notice that your intensity of pleasure has relaxed and moved away from your genitals. This will spread pleasure through your body. Then simply start again and keep repeating, the more you do so the more full bodied your pleasure. The first step is being aware of what you’re feeling inside of you. This will make a difference simply because you’re feeling in yourself and you’re choosing to feel more pleasure.  As you increase your awareness of how your sexual energy moves so will your awareness in the difference between ejaculation and orgasm. Focusing on the difference and choosing to bring the ejaculation intensity forward then stopping and breathing will expand that intensity further into orgasmic pleasure. And, practice practice practice… This is the main difference between the expansion techniques of Tantra and the control techniques of Taoist .

A holistic journey

Also, a preparedness for emotional work, to really connect with and release shame, heal deep seated wounds, be intensely vulnerable and really opening your heart areLoving Sex beginning places. Connecting heart and sexuality is a beginning step, and this one particularly challenges most men to their core, yet is what a woman desires most to feel from her man. From this beginning place, becoming multi orgasmic is a complimentary and continuing journey. Let her know what you are doing and invite her to breathe too!

From my personal experience, (and yes, this place exists) and in my opinion, once a man starts down this pathway not only is there no turning back, but it becomes a limitless, timeless and never ending journey. This place in man, when actively introduced into himself and his relationship will create a depth of heart opening sexual loving that will keep growing and deepening.  And it definitely gets better with age as it is an internal journey rather than purely physical technical journey.

A man can journey as far and as deep as he has the courage to go into himself connecting his heart and sexuality, his power and this grows stronger and deeper with age………This is the place in a man that woman craves for, to feel safe, protected, nurtured and met.

Definitely, a game changer

Both will never be the same again.

Has Monogamy Evolved – Modern Monogamy Explained

July 7, 2014 By Annette & Graeme Leave a Comment

Modern Monogamy

Modern lifestyle complexities have created more opportunities for varied lifestyle choices now more than ever before.

The “traditional” monogamous relationship container has definitely served its purpose, but is it relevant today, or even keeping pace with change ? You have no doubt heard ‘ the only thing “normal” in relationships is the setting on the washing machine’, and probably have a wry smile with that phrase. Yet, even though the traditional monogamous relationship model that has been accepted throughout much of history, its strength of consistency is finally starting to crumble under the face of change. So many people have chosen a monogamous lifestyle, only to have their dreams dashed, and is this their fault for believing it still is possible?

Supported Monogamy

Have they even received advice flexibly supporting them in creating their choice ? Are “we” doing enough to support not only younger people, but everyone who wants to be in relationship? The average modern relationship must adapt to become more varied in keeping with the growing freedom of choice that is available.
To do this, in spite of huge cultural conditioning, will challenge any newcomer, especially if they are unsupported. Modern lifestyle has placed more stress on the traditional ideal ‘couple’ yet we still regard monogamy as the ideal model for our relationship needs. And, with little consideration given to what exactly monogamy requires. As we are all living longer, our romance, friendship, financial, marital, intimate, emotional and sexual needs have become more complex with more options.


We enjoy better health with more productive and complex lifestyles.
Never before has the image of the romantic couple relationship been under so much pressure to perform, deliver and adapt, but do we have the skills to achieve this? This is also creating a whole new meaning to “life partner”, someone who can grow with you and not get in the way of your choices.

My question is are we failing monogamy by simply being too limited and inflexible in how varied this relationship dynamic can be? How many monogamous relationships receive effective support and encouragement? Especially of a standard that will ensure personal growth, depth of connection and longevity in the face of change? Can the widespread perception of how monogamy should look, change, and change in that most challenging of places- that of lovingly intimate and heart connected sexuality? We believe that the most important aspect of your relationship dynamic, whatever it is, is one of shared conscious choice from a place of open hearted intimate connection and vulnerability.

Fidelity and Monogamy

Confronting the shame, fear and control that comes up around intimate sexual boundaries in your relationship and having a conversation about it is vital to validate a healthy part of being human. Given the amazing power of sexual energy, the challenges that arise from sexual desire exist, whether it is spoken or not. Many relationships do fail simply because one or both fall into shame about desire, and give up, simply because open discussion is too challenging. Further, there is much armchair judgment offered when a committed couple consciously choose from inside their monogamous relationship to explore their sexuality, particularly when it is known about, which most often it’s not.Talking about sex

Why is this so challenging for some of us? And, is it any of our business? Being in a monogamous relationship in a sex negative culture is hugely challenging, as any expression of sexual desire outside the relationship is seen as a “deadly sin”. Men struggle to understand their sexual desire, the primal urges that when shut down usually leak out some how, such as watching porn, domestic anger and frustration. Women also carry intense shame around their own sexuality, body shape and simply just being woman. When these shame pieces collide, many relationships collapse under the weight of shame, guilt or simply from lack of support.

Monogamy is an Ideal Relationship Container

Yet, monogamous relationships are by far the ideal container for bringing these issues out into the open and healing them with loving fun. There is no “one size fits all” cure. But when a couple consciously choose to explore these and other boundaries, with honesty, intimacy and vulnerability inside their relationship, wonders are created. Our belief in Oztantra based on our own experience and what we see in others, is that the ultimate experience in relationship starts with one person first, yourself. When that happens and is grounded in each individual self, then simple and open communication can be a very powerful experience that transforms into the relationship.

Creating Safety in Intimacy
It is usually not intimacy or sexual excitement that is lacking, but a desire to move towards something greater, which is usually held back by simple, yet unconscious fear. The skills in meeting, holding and growing in this place are a beginning in achieving more modern version of monogamy. Successful relationships do expand, deepen, thrive and develop longevity by having highly developed communication skills.
Real and open relating takes practice and highly developed emotional skills, but most importantly, communication that is clear, embodied and consistent. This is the hardest type of relating to achieve, and from our experience in supporting couples, is the most rewarding. This type of relating or communication will take many forms, but most importantly, it just needs to happen. Regardless of the outcome. In this place, the expansion, deepening of love, connection and intimacy can be beyond words, remembering that the challenges are mostly only minor speed bumps, even though they may initially appear like Mt Everest…..

Monogamy and Sexuality

In conclusion, when those powerful sexual desires or primal urges become toxic is when they are suppressed or not talked about. This simple lack of communication eventually creates feelings of betrayal and rejection followed by closing down and becoming emotionally distant. And it is the feelings of betrayal, breach of trust, hurt and rejection that create the deepest cuts Relationshipsand are hardest to heal. It takes courage, skill and trust in your relationship container to talk about these potentially big unmentionables. Communicating from a place of loving trust and vulnerability, sharing your secret desires and fantasies can be incredibly freeing (and fun..!!).

It takes a lot of courage and skill to really show up at this depth, as it directly challenges any unresolved inner child wounds.
In this place, the level of intimacy and vulnerability is intensely magnified and if experienced, will create a genuine expansion of trust, depth and open hearted connection.

Regardless of the outcome, simply having courage to have these conversations will make a difference.
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Survival Strategy: Men living with a woman in menopause

May 27, 2014 By Graeme Sudholz Leave a Comment

Relationship Survival Strategy: For men living with a woman in menopause:

Menopause can cause many frustration

Is this the end of my sex life?? This is a realistic fear for a man in relationship with a woman who is experiencing the wavering libido of menopause and “not tonight” is the most common response to his expressed desire for sex. What can he do?  There are no simple answers…but if this is you and you’re willing to get on the program and stay with it you have a high chance of maintaining a sexual connection with your woman, and even having the best sex of your life as you get older.

One of the main ways you can ease the menopausal path for both of you is to have some understanding of what is happening, and of how your responses has a major impact on the end result. Because negative judgement of her at this sensitive time will have a psychological and even physical impact on the experience for both of you. It is vital you develop trust in the process and trust in your woman as she basically redefines who she is. Maintaining a grounded perspective and a sense of humour is a great help too!

Menopause happens around the age of 51, but can start as early as 30. a woman is considered to have reached menopause when she has been period free for 1 year. Menopause is not only the time when a woman stops ovulating and having her period. The immense upheaval of her hormonal system reorienting itself to not having babies produces a range of physical effects such as hot flushes and sweats- especially at night, mental fogginess, mood swings, depression, decreases in libido, vaginal dryness and thinning of the vaginal walls which can make sex painful. To add insult to injury she may also be subjected to a higher level of vaginal infections such as thrush for a while. Eventually the hormones sort themselves out and she returns to a more even keel, after 5-10yrs. Menopause is different for each woman, for some it’s barely noticeable, for others it impacts on every area of her life even into her 70’s.

There are huge range of treatments available that can support a women through the physical symptoms but none that will “fix” it for each person. It can be a frustrating time for her of finding what works.

At a big picture level there is also a shift in how a woman sees herself

Empowered older womanShe is no longer the mother as she once was (menopause often occurs as kids have left home), her body is forcing her to face the fact of getting older, even of death. She too, like you, may have fears around her sexuality, she faces a a great deal of social conditioning around older women not being seen as sexual beings or having a place in the world, although this is very slowly starting to change.

Her body is not forcing her to nurture others as it once did with so now there is more room for herself and her female psyche will challenge her to question who she is, which can bring either anxiety or freedom. It can be a time of great unknown and uncertainty. Sometimes a woman will move straight from motherhood to grandmotherhood, giving her a renewed sense of self without her having to confront the question of ‘who is she if she is not a mother?’ She will often look to try new things for herself, make changes, seek to “sort things out”. If you’re not good with change this can make her very challenging to live with.

As well as these personal issues menopause often causes a woman to reassess her relationship, as with the children gone there is less room to hide what is or is not working between you. It doesn’t mean she doesn’t love you, it means she wants the best possible for herself. When sex is less frequent it can be difficult to want to stay close and intimate to this forgetful, emotional, sweaty, and lowered libido woman, but it is what she most needs to help her stay grounded and connected to you and her sexuality as she becomes more connected with herself.

Heart to Heart communication

As a result of all this, coming through menopause will end with a woman feeling more comfortable with who she is and where she is going. Sex becomes less about creating babies or providing pleasure for the man and more about self pleasure, sharing pleasure, fun, love and spiritual connection.

How you can help:

Physically: look after your own health ie. eat well, keep active, minimize stress, so you are in the best place to have sex when it is available.
Support her with any medical or other specialists she chooses to see. Understand this process can take time to get right.

Emotionally: Listen if she needs to share, know you don’t need to fix anything, just hear her. Also encourage her to share with her female friends for support.
Be willing to sort through things with her that apply to you.
Also be willing to set your boundaries if her emotionality is crossing yours.

Sexually: Don’t take it personally: If she has less overall interest in sex and takes longer to become aroused, produces less vaginal lubrication and  has less intense orgasms don’t assume it is about not desiring you.
Remind her that having sex promotes elasticity in the vaginal tissues so having sensitive sex can help the symptoms reduce.
Know too that for a woman, desire doesn’t necessarily come before arousal, so encourage sex from an openhearted place, and remind her that desire may come once you start.
Also know that a daily 10 min attention to her gspot can help keep her connected to herself and her sexuality (without using it as foreplay, making it her time).

Respect yourself and don’t give up on your sexuality by shutting it down, emotionally withdrawing totally into porn, or going outside the relationship to get your needs met, at least without having tried these suggestions and having an agreement in place.
Let go of any agenda to manipulate her into bed, no wheedling, sulking or blaming, don’t make every touch an attempt to stimulate her. This will only push her away.
Do talk about how important sex is for you, what it brings you, let her feel your vulnerability in this; discuss your fears, concerns, especially about your fears of hurting her whilst sex is painful. Discuss what other options you can try, be willing to cooperate, be creative.
Respect her No’s and be willing do more self pleasuring.

Intimacy can continue

Learn to last longer in sex so you will still be there when her arousal kicks in.

Learn to focus more on being in the moment in sex, going slow, conscious breathing, make connection rather than orgasms the focus.
Make the shift from merely having sex to get off, performing in bed and start learning to make love. This is what the mature woman will be looking for, she wants a man who will meet her there. Learn to bring your heart into your sexuality, penetrating her heart as much as her yoni. There is as much for you in this as there is for her- it will take your pleasure to a whole new level as you learn to make love as a man, rather than just getting off from your boy.

Know too that often she is not going to be “in her body” at this time with so much happening for her, so include plenty of loving touch (without sexual agenda) in your connection with her ie. sharing a hug, sitting together in the couch, holding hands, touching her on the body with the whole of your hand and holding it still for a moment, massaging her neck or feet. This helps her get grounded.

As you can see there is a lot going on at this time and the main tool is to start and keep communicating, attempt to understand, learn, connect and grow with her and the blessings will be many as you get to know this brand new, sexual, powerful woman!

And remember expert help from outside can smooth the pathways so don’t be afraid to ask for support. See some of the things we can offer you here:

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Sacred Intimate Relationship: 7 Signs You’re There

April 10, 2014 By Annette & Graeme Leave a Comment

Sacred intimate relationship brings meaning to life

Sacred meaning: connected with God or a higher purpose, deserving of respect.

We mostly start off in intimate relationship believing that what we have discovered is something so unique and special. How do we keep this wonder alive over the years? By understanding the potential of believing that intimate relationship is a sacred act. For the one that we choose to be in intimate relationship is not because we must through birth or other obligation, they are the ones we actively choose to make a major part of our lives. So it makes sense that we honour both the person and that choice consciously and respectfully.

Grace is divine

7 signs that you are doing so are:

1. You see there are 3 different aspects to your relationship- there is you, your partner and the relationship itself. All of these three have their own separate structures and individual needs, the highest of which is seen to be the relationship. When there is conflict it is the needs of the relationship that become paramount. This is not to say that the relationship should be used to limit the individual from a place of fear or control, rather the reverse. It can be a barometer because what is truly valuable for the individual can be measured by its impact on the relationship.

2. You are seeking relationship with the person they actually are being right now, rather than the one you first met, the one you assume they are from your past experiences of them or the one you think they should be to meet your needs. It is very easy to see the other through the mask of our perceptions, especially when in the busyness of everyday life we get

From boy to man

lazy about looking. We are constantly changing complex beings and to assume we know where a person is coming from is at best impractical, at worst shaming.

3. You see constantly assessing how you are being and where you are coming from in your words and actions, and how they are being received and adjusting them as you see fit as an act of love rather than a neurosis. You use the wisdom of your observing mind, body and feelings as well as the power of your intellect to do so.

Differences attract rather than repel

4. You’re able to tolerate the uncertainty of the other being different to you, having different interests, desires, needs and beliefs. Although it is crucial to have shared common values in intimate relationship- values that will proved the glue when all else is being challenged, your differences are seen to add flavour rather than cause fracture.

5. You value your relationship more than protecting your Ego. You’re willing to allow yourself to be seen in your truth, vulnerability and imperfections. To let down your own mask and honour the other by being real, which is what creates true intimacy. And you’re willing to own who you are, the choices you make and take responsibility for your actions. Especially when these have a negative impact on the relationship, as you value the relationship more than being right.

6. You respect your sexuality as a powerful pathway of creating love, connection, nurturing and pleasure rather than using it as a tool for physical or emotional release. You take the time to sort issues out separately from lovemaking, instead coming to make love from a place of open hearted connection with yourself that you then share with the other. This creates a sacredness, ease and connection that flows into the rest of your relationship and reinforces the desire to seek love rather than self.

Happiness in relationship

7. You see the relationship as a place to grow yourself. You cultivate courage and taking risks. Risks in trusting yourself, the other, the relationship and love itself by trusting your heart. For our hearts are not flimsy things that need protection they are stronger and have more to offer than we can ever have thought possible. So you do not try to limit the other but see where their needs or desires challenge your own limitations. In our experience our intimate partners primal needs challenge us to grow in the areas where we are most resistant to go into, just as our challenge theirs. That is where the deepest growth comes.

Tantra: Whats in it for me as a man….?

April 10, 2014 By Graeme Sudholz Leave a Comment

End your frustration

Most men ask this question and how I choose to answer is from my perspective as a man and a Tantra practitioner.

Firstly, my belief is tantra was created for men to meet, match and soar with the awesome feminine sexual intensity. Unfortunately, very few men (and women) experience tantra in its full power, yet it is so worth the journey.

Tantra for men is an awesome experience that is not just in the bedroom, it is not just about sex but about nearly every aspect of life. Tantra is about experiencing what IS, to its fullest extent, whether it is making love or walking along a beach, kicking a goal or clinching that important contract. It is about being fully alive from top to bottom and feeling in as many moments of life as possible.

This may sound easy, simple and straight forward, but the reality for most of us is that it is a lot more challenging.

Yet imagine how you would be living your life where feeling your open heart and being grounded in the power of your balls is the norm and not a occasional experience?

Imagine making love with your partner from a place in you where your heart is so open and

Reunite sex with heart

vulnerable that she just surrenders like she never has before?  Where you are capable of endless pleasure?

How would that feel living and loving from this place?

If you want a second opinion on this, try asking your partner how she would feel about you if this was your normal?

The most important aspect of yourself as a man that you can bring into your relationship, is your open heart that is connected to your balls. In a committed relationship, man brings his open heart and woman brings her sexuality. (If you doubt this, ask what happens if she says “no” ……). For a man to be truly connected with his heart, he also needs to feel his masculine self, or his warrior self aka his balls. So doing Tantra does not mean losing your masculinity and trying to become something else, something foreign, it is becoming more fully who you already are.

Bring out your intimate warrior to get the most out of tantra

The conscious warrior aspect of man is pure heart, and man needs to feel his warrior strongly, yes, even in this day and age, probably more than ever. For in relationship the warrior holds a man safe as he connects his heart and sexuality, it allows him to feel safe to fully feel. Bringing himself out of shame and shadow into the light of heart connected sex. This is a truly magical experience for a man to feel and, I believe, is connecting him to his true spiritual self.

This is Tantra and what it means to me.

So if you are a man and your lover is nagging you about looking into Tantra acknowledge your fears, of having to give up what you’ve had, fears of having to become “soft”, or feeling shame about not being good enough. See it instead as a boys own adventure into something new and exciting where fortune favours the brave, blazing a trail you can make your own and where you as the hero gets the gold!

Desire mismatch & the Pursuer/Avoider Cycle

February 3, 2014 By Annette & Graeme Leave a Comment

What if My Partner Wants More Sex than Me?

There’s a very common cycle that develops when there are differing levels of desire for sex in a relationship, and many painful ways the cycle plays out.

It’s called The Pursuer/Avoider cycle.

Do any of these this sound familiar?

For Pursuers:

  • Doing everything right simply with the hope of getting a ‘yes’ to sex.
  • Feeling your partner cringe instead of respond to your advances.
  • Giving your lover a massage with the hope of stimulating a sexual response.
  • Saying “yes” to sex in the hope of receiving some intimacy.
  • Continuing to have sex even though it hurts to see your partner is uninterested.
  • Withholding emotional intimacy as payback for a lack of sex.
  • Fearfully suggesting sex, then slinking into a corner to lick your wounds of rejection.
  • Feeling somehow invalidated to your core.Man frustrated in bed
  • After being rejected too many times, giving up mentioning sex at all.

For Avoiders:

  • Feeling like your partner selfishly wants to use you for their needs.
  • Avoiding offering affection in case it’s mistaken as a sexual advance.
  • Going to bed early before your partner arrives home or staying up later than them.
  • Finding important work that you suddenly have to finish if your partner wants sex.
  • Keeping extra busy with your kids in the hopes of avoiding being asked.
  • Offering ‘sympathy’ sex to temporarily relieve the tension between you.
  • Finding yourself starting an argument before bed to reduce the chances of intimacy.
  • Feeling unseen and unlovable.
  • Finding that you want sex less and less.

If this is you, you’re not alone. These and many similar scenarios are being acted out in homes across the world.

Relationships are energy cycles, and wherever there’s an action, there will be a corresponding reaction. It’s common for partners to have differing sexual needs (or at least appear to on the surface). How these needs are negotiated is one of the key markers for relationship success.

For the PursuerNo oral sex orgasm

The cycle begins when the partner with the higher level of sexual desire finds their sexual needs unmet, so they start pursuing the less interested partner. The more the pursuer chases, the more the other partner starts to avoid them, becoming more and more emotionally and sexually unavailable.

This results in the pursuer becoming more needy, unhappy and focussed on getting what they want. They manipulate every situation into a potential ploy for sex, and act out their anger and frustration in covert ways that make to them unattractive their partner.

So however much sex they get, it’s never enough. This frustration makes them grumpy, irritable, emotionally closed and critical of their avoidant partner, whom they make wrong for not wanting sex. Being repeatedly rejected sexually by the person who’s supposed to love and desire them results in a lowered sense of self-esteem and self-worth.

For the Avoider

The avoidant partner will either do anything to avoid having sex, or finds that saying ‘no’ to sex makes them feel guilty. They circumvent their need to reject sex by avoiding any type of physical touch or affection, often keeping themselves too busy to be approached, commonly focussing on the either children or work as a distraction.

Couples need relationship trainingThis creates physical distance between themselves and their more highly sexed partner. They also make the other person wrong for their desires, shaming them as being too sexual. They see the pursuer as focussed only on sex, and find it easy to blame them for the lack of intimacy that they may long for deep down, but avoid in case it leads to potential sex. Or they try to create it separate from sex.

When the repercussions for avoiding sex get too high, they offer palliative sex to soothe their partner’s pain and get them off their back – but they offer it with resentment and a lack of joy.

If you see this dynamic is happening in your relationship, try these suggestions:

  1. Agree to communicate about your situation, whilst acknowledging the challenge and vulnerability in doing so. For this cycle to end, BOTH of you need to drop the victim stance and be willing to change. Remember that the goal here isn’t to get more/less sex but to get onto the same team.
  2. Each person needs to STOP making both the other and themselves wrong for wanting or not wanting sex. This allows you each to listen non-judgementally to how it is for the other one and develop some compassion. Remember that you’re both looking for the same thing: to love and feel loved in return.
  3. Know that you’re NOT responsible for each other’s desires. You’re only responsible for finding a workable solution.
  4. Recognise that this is a behaviour cycle. And it’s one that’s likely to make any underlying mismatch in desire more pronounced than it actually is.
  5. Recognize that an extreme desire for sex or to avoid it likely comes from disconnection with your selves. Using your ABC practice to get back into connection with your selves is your most important port of call in this situation.
  6. Acknowledge that sex is an important human desire. Realise that it’s a unique part of an intimate relationship, a potential source of connection, pleasure and contentment, and a special activity you share with no one else that has many health benefits.
  7. Give up palliative sex. It’s soul-destroying for both of you over time.
  8. Understand that you’re not entitled to sex in your relationship. And, in the same way, you’re not entitled to intimacy when and how you want it either. In the West particularly, we can take our entitlement for granted. Sex and intimacy both come from a place of mutual understanding, connection and desire that you’re each responsible for, rather than being about entitlement and obligation.
  9. Mark on a mutual calendar when sex happens. This will help you both to be clear on what you’re dealing with.
  10. It’s OK for anyone to say NO to sex without having to feel guilty. What’s NOT reasonable is to do so repeatedly Heart Connectionwithout discussion or consideration of the other person, given that you both entered the relationship with sex being an accepted part of it.
  11. We find honest, vulnerable communication helps enormously here. As does approaching sex from the many understandings and practices in this book helping people to get into both their bodies and their hearts. For when this happens desire is a natural outcome and lovemaking becomes incredibly satisfying so frequency is less important.

As the Pursuer, you can:

  • Validate your desire for sex as a beautiful and loving part of yourself, and not as something dirty or selfish. Be real about sharing with your partner how much not having sex hurts. The more you get real, the more your partner can hear you and be motivated to do something about it.
  • Don’t get sucked in by sympathy sex and let it placate you for a while. It isn’t addressing the issue, and it lets your partner think they’re fixing the problem when they aren’t.
  • Recognise that your high drive for sex may come from not being fully satisfied by the sex you’re having. Seek greater connection with yourself, rather than just seeking it through your partner. Learn self-pleasuring techniques that circulate your sexual energy and deepen your connection to yourself, rather than building up frustration that seeks release in masturbation. This will make getting a ‘no’ slightly less painful. Reducing your frustration, neediness and manipulations to create sex will paradoxically make you more attractive.
  • Be clear and upfront when you do ask for sex. Make the asking about YOU wanting to share something rather than them needing to give it to you. Hard as it may be, let go of any attachment to getting you want, as this gets rid of any unconscious manipulation. This creates space for your partner to potentially feel their own desire and move towards you.
  • Rebuild a safe physical intimacy between you. Offer unconditional nurturing touch outside of sex, such as a slow hug or foot massage. Also try sensual touch, such as brushing your fingers across your partner’s shoulders or resting your hand on their waist for a moment. However, if no change occurs over time, give yourself permission to drop it.Man facing forward
  • Assess the kind of sex you’re offering. If you’re only focussed on performance and a release of tension with limited connection and pleasure for your partner, you can hardly expect them to keep coming back for it, or you. Are you willing to explore heart-connected, intimate, nurturing yet potent lovemaking? This is not about having to be the world’s greatest lover – it’s just about approaching sex from a bigger perspective and being open to learning. This is what seeking a more Tantric approach to sex can offer you. Graeme and I find that couples make the biggest shift in their libido discrepancies here.
  • Look for the simple solutions too. Could you benefit from getting fitter, helping around the house, having fresh breath and generally making more of an effort to be attractive if you haven’t been?
  • Make a genuine effort to compliment your partner about things that are unrelated to sex. However, also compliment them when they show any sex-positive behaviours, especially if they lack sexual confidence.
  • Drop any behaviours that are a covert manipulation to get sex. Your partner can feel this, and it only pushes them further away.
  • If you do get rejected, don’t just sit on the couch and suffer. Move through the feeling with your ABC, then get up and do something good for yourself.
  • Ask your partner about having sex with a definite timeline, eg. in a couple of hours or the next night, rather than wanting it immediately. Ask them if there’s anything you can do to help them get into the space for lovemaking. This can allow them to feel less pressured.
  • Ask yourself whether your need is actually for intimacy. If so, can you create this another way? Try a hug, sharing an embodied conversation, a drink or movie together, or lying together just holding each other.
  • As painful as it may sound, consider taking a break from sex. Being denied sex immediately makes you want it more than you otherwise might. Focus your energy away from your partner into something else like getting fit, a new hobby, or time out to just chill. This nurtures you and can give your partner a chance to miss and desire you again.
  • If you’re looking for a more direct approach, find a good sexual counsellor. They can help you to discover what might be going on beneath the surface of your relationship.
  • Be prepared to ask some hard questions here. You have every right to understand what’s happening for your partner, and not being willing to at least talk about the situation is not OK. Try a Speaking The Unspoken If you get a complete and permanent no-go zone here, ask yourself what other options you have to deal with your situation, rather than shutting down.

If you’re the Avoider, you can:

  • Acknowledge that underneath your partner’s desire for sex IS a desire to connect with you in a place of love and pleasure. It’s not about wanting to ‘take’ anything from you.
  • Be real about not wanting sex. Don’t just make excuses, as this blurs the picture.
  • Make an effort to re-establish emotional closeness if this has deteriorated. Spend time with your partner sharing mutual interests, even if it’s just a cup of coffee – but remember this is not a replacement for sex.
  • Explore whether your lack of desire for sex is truly a lack of desire. It might just be slow arousal, where it just takes you longer to get into sex. Explore taking your time and using a variety of approaches to see if this makes a difference to your overall desire.
  • Woman being self awareLook at ways that sex might be of value to you. It could be a way of nurturing and connecting with yourself, rather than something you have to ‘give’, which could help you to develop a pro-sex attitude.
  • See what might be limiting your desire that you can change. Is your lack of desire due to something about your partner that they may be willing to change? Is there something in you that you could address in you, eg. your stress and energy levels, protection around your heart, or feelings of inadequacy or resentment? All of these will impact your libido.
  • Take a look back through the chapters on sex (Chapters 7 and this current one). Especially check through Identifying Your Unique Blocks to Pleasure.
  • As you learn to rediscover this part of you, be willing to negotiate levels of sexual participation. For example, you could be with your partner whilst they self-pleasure, or being willing to go into sex without needing the desire to be there upfront, as often desire for sex can come after arousal. This is NOT about forcing yourself to have sex you don’t want, but instead creating an openness to the possibilities within it.
  • Meet your partner in the emotional vulnerability of connecting sex to the heart, rediscovering making love, rather than just having sex. The more you show up, the more they will be invited to and vice versa. Start with talking about it.
  • If none of these things are possible, least negotiate a way for the Pursuer to get their needs met outside the relationship without shame or judgement. Being denied sex (especially without really knowing why) is a very lonely and painful place to be that can damage their self-worth, and at the very least leave them irritable and dead inside.

If you have difficulties in exploring this territory, you’re not alone. Looking at the ideas above is a great start. The many understandings and practices in this book will also help to bring your sexual desires into greater balance.Bali Couples Retreat

Graeme and I have seen many high-desire partner find that their sexual desire changes from quantity to quality, and low-desire partners find their fires kindled in ways they might never have imagined. They may even on occasion find themselves in the high-desire position! Getting onto the same team here will support you in finding a way out of the maze and into a new place of self awareness, understanding, pleasure and connection.

If you have difficulties in exploring the above territory, you’re not alone. Don’t be afraid – or ashamed – to seek outside professional help to guide and support you in f and into a new place of self-awareness, loving understanding, connection and pleasure.

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Why do people get in to Tantra?

September 23, 2013 By admin Leave a Comment

People get into Tantra for many and varied reasons:

As you can see Tantra is multi-dimensional and has much to offer those seeking healing in their relationships, intimacy and sexuality. Some of the reasons people choose Tantra are:People get into tantra to heal sexual shame

To acknowledge our sexuality

This may be as simple as giving ourselves permission to have sexual feelings without making them wrong, allowing ourselves to experience total, blissful happiness, with fully alive bodies. This allows us to reclaim a part of ourselves which we may have kept hidden in ignorance, fear, guilt, shame or in the need to perform.

Many people describe the experience of bringing their sexuality out of the closet as a coming home to who they really are, of becoming ‘whole’.

To enhance lovemaking

Understand sex good for you as it reduces tension and stress, produces chemicals that enhance bonding and wellbeing, boosts immunity, keeps you fit, stimulates hormonal balance, with pleasure reducing chronic inflammation- the source of many disease processes. But it takes a minimum of 30mins for us to get the full benefits of these hormonal shifts so become a master of your sexuality rather than a slave. In learning the ‘secrets’ of tantric sex, including the Cosmic Cobra Breath, participants learn to make love for longer through a combination of relaxation and arousal rather than just stimulation, allowing greater pleasure, intimacy and heart connection. Stop performing and start enjoying.

Men learn to slow down, eliminating performance anxiety, whilst containing their energy and building to a greater level of intensity and pleasure. Women learn to relax and open, taking the time to let go of their social conditioning not to feel sexual, and enjoying their innate capacity for ecstasy. Sex at this level is healing for the body, mind and soul.

To heal relationship problems

Tantra involves learning skills in trust and intimacy, to allow ourselves to be really seen by our partner. It involves being fully present with them, communicating with our hearts open, our egos dissolved, and seeing them as an aspect of the Divine. Couples learn how to be real with each other and find the magic in this, rather than looking for the unsustainable Hollywood fantasy. We also look at integrating our masculine and feminine aspects and as we consciously play with these polarities our capacity for love and pleasure is deepened. We believe this is one reason to seek and maintain a conscious, committed relationship both with ourselves and our partner. Our couples only Ecstasy and Intimacy Retreat supports couples to experience greater levels of connection, joy, love and pleasure.

For Personal Growth

Tantra begins with love of the self. Any doubts, fears, guilt or shame we may have about ourselves manifest in the body as emotional energy blocks.

These blocks include our core issues – our childhood wounds and limiting behaviour patterns.

Intimate relationship and sexuality are both powerful pathways to our wounded Inner Child who unconsciously controls our adult selves, keeping us in fear and contraction, limiting our capacity to relate in a healthy manner. When we heal our Inner Child they can be a never ending source of spontaneity and fun, a real bonus to creating lively relationship and rewarding sex!

In Tantra we work with clearing the emotional energy pathways of the body by bringing awareness to these issues and allowing them to heal. This practice enhances our capacity for self acceptance and love and opens us to more opportunities to experience bliss.

For Spiritual Growth

As it becomes more apparent that the satisfaction of our material desires does not bring us more peace, love and true contentment, more and more people are seeking to experience that which is beyond the material.

Practicing the four principles of Tantra:

  • coming into the present moment
  • opening our hearts
  • dissolving our attachment to our ego and
  • merging with the Divine within

This allows us to have a direct experience of our spirituality, opening us to love, happiness, gratitude, intuition and wisdom. We feel the magic of our life force energy more readily, creating opportunities for bliss – both in lovemaking and in life.

Regular experiences of bliss allow us to approach life with gratitude and enthusiasm, motivated by love rather than fear. Our Weekend Workshops [insert link] assist with more awareness and skills for Tantric lovemaking.

For improved Health and Wellbeing

Tantra takes a holistic approach, encouraging deep breathing, relaxation, meditation and clearing of emotional energy blocks in the body. The result is decreased stress levels and consequently the decrease of many stress related illnesses. Making love on a regular basis is widely believed to have significant health benefits.

More effective communication and intimacy skills result in more resilience in relationships. Improved self esteem results in a greater level of self efficacy. Living in the present moment where life actually happens makes life more vibrant and facilitates the making of conscious choices.

More experiences of happiness and gratitude allow us to become more accepting of ourselves and others.

There is much to be gained in a closer look at your sexuality. It is a lifelong love affair.

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