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TABLE OF CONTEST

NUNAISI MA ....................................................................................... 03

ANAIYA SOPHIA .................................................................................. 04

AMRITA GRACE .................................................................................... 05

DR. LAUREN BRIM................................................................................ 07

DEVI ERICKSON WARD ..................................................................... 09

DR ELSBETH MEUTH AND FREDDY ZENTAL WEAVER ............ 11

JULIET HAINES ..................................................................................... 14

AMY ELIZABETH GORDON ............................................................... 16

CAROLINE MUIR ................................................................................. 18

MIA SAENZ ............................................................................................ 20

XANET PAILET ...................................................................................... 22

ASHANNA SOLARIS ............................................................................ 24

MICHELLE ALVA .................................................................................. 27

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DR MEGAN FLEMMING ............................................................................... 30

ELISE CARR .................................................................................................... 32

DR ANDREA PENNINGTON ......................................................................... 34

DR TINA SCHERMER SELLERS .................................................................. 36

LEYOLAH ANTARA ....................................................................................... 38

SHERI WINSTON ........................................................................................... 40

DR RAY DOKTOR ......................................................................................... 42

LYNNE FORREST .......................................................................................... 44

RACHEL GRANT ........................................................................................... 47

DR STEPHEN SNYDER ................................................................................ 50

NICOLE POPPERS ........................................................................................ 52

NAMASTE .................................................................................................. 53

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Hey, my name is Nunaisi Ma,

I am a mother of three divine souls, in an intimate relationship for 22 years, I am a

lover and a fool too. I am a Passionate Entrepreneur, Conscious Sexuality expert,
Author, Yoga teacher, Breathwork facilitator, Bodyworker, Holistic Health
Consultant, Reiki master and a Spiritual Intuitive.

This book is my gift to you and based on the I RISE summit.

Why am I passionate about this work of healing?
I went through hell and back so many times in my life that I am familiar with the
roadmap. My childhood was a series of traumatic events.
At six years old I saved my mother's life from a suicide attempt, I was sexually molested
by my stepfather for a few years, abandoned by my mother and moved to live with a
stepmother that didn't want me (and made it very clear). I experienced lots of violence.
At ten years old, I was hospitalized for being severely beaten by a bully boy
(for my fair skin and red hair). I grew up under the constant threat of war and terror attacks.
For most of my life, I felt broken. Unworthy. Unlovable. My sexuality was a mess.
I was dedicated to healing. I wanted to be the heroine of my life and not the victim of
my story. While I have done intense healing work for over two decades, I was always
passionate about helping others and studied dozens of methods and techniques.
I was learning how to transform my pain into Presence, Purpose, Power, and
Pleasure too! I helped hundreds of women to do the same.

This book transmits ageless wisdom through love, sexuality, relationship,joy, and
pleasure and is my gift to you, dear heart! It's my sacred mission to take you on the
journey of healing everything that holds you back,
so that you too, can live the life you deserve,free
from the impact of wounds, in your full power,
blissful and fulfilled no matter what!
matter what! Because you are worthy!
I hope you enjoy the journey.

Xoxo
Nunaisi

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 ANAIYA SOPHIA
Anaiya Sophia is a mystic, storyteller and author of many transformational books,
including Revelatory Wisdom. She teaches workshops throughout the world and is
best known for the creation of Sacred Body Awakening - a practice where women
and men heal together in grace. She carries an oral mystery that stirs the
remembrance of a continuous lineage with the feminine principle.

Anaiya speaks about the importance of releasing trauma and how we can use simple
techniques in order to do this.
“It is not a luxury but a necessity to heal trauma, and the great news is that these
techniques are very simple to take hold and apply.”
Sexual trespass has a huge spectrum and its worth looking at all of these types of
events from our childhood; starting with seemingly minor incidents to more
apparent trespassings.
“We need to ask ourselves very gently, is my body carrying any impression of a trespass?”

The sexual self does not disappear, it is hiding. In the presence of a trusted and sacred
sisterhood, in that feminine field, we can begin to go on an excavation for that sexual
self and our true feminine essence.
“This essence is the spirit of joy, spontaneity, colour, expression, delight.
We can uplift, elevate and expand one another to be that ecstasy.”
Trauma Release Techniques
Shaking is one way to get the trauma out of the body.
1. Relax your body and open your arms to your sides and let your knees fall open
with your feet together on the ground.
2.
Breathe deeply and allow your body to relax.
3.
You will find a certain angle with your knees where you cannot stop shaking.
Shake for 20 - 30 minutes.
“Another important point for women to practice is to unite their Eve and Lilith.
Make it a conscious exercise to bring them back and embrace like sisters in order
to call your true and complete essence back.”
FREE GIFT: Unify your Lilith and Eve - An audio journey to find those two parts of
ourselves and unify them within. FIND IT HERE - www.anaiyasophia.com
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 Amrita Grace
Amrita Grace is an award-winning best-selling author and emerging visionary leader
in the feminine sexual empowerment movement. She’s been committed to guiding
spirit-led women into their authentic embodied personal power since 2000 – inspiring
them to lead fulfilled and abundant lives of their dreams.

Amrita is the co-founder and director of the Sacred Feminine Mystery School® and
author of Reclaiming Aphrodite – The Journey to Sexual Wholeness. She is also a
sponsor of the I Rise Summit and her school is standing behind this production.

After a journey with breast cancer, Amrita received her global vision and spiritual
directive to train and certify empowered feminine leaders to hold safe and sacred
spaces for people of all genders. The journey is to help heal their sexuality so they
can live lives full of abundance and integrity, as well as enjoy fulfilling and
connected relationships.
Amrita believes that the first step is to educate. We have not been taught that our
sexual energy is our life force. We have been taught that it is shameful and wrong.
We need to be taught how to use it to feed ourselves with integrity. It has the power
to heal and create vitality for our passions, relationships and health.
“What if we can pass through trauma without having to untangle it through talking?
We can just breathe, make a sound and release it from our systems? This is what it is
all about.”

Caroline Muir brings the lineage of Tantra Yoga following the feminine path at the
school and together, Amrita and Caroline have created a process for the new
generation with more awareness around gender fluidity, consent and sensitivity.

Students work in groups of three – the facilitator, the receiver and the sacred witness.
In this way, there is no reciprocation imperative and people are empowered to be held,
to fully surrender, and receive without any agenda or sense of obligation.

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 The masculine, feminine and the divine are the holy trinity that is within us, and
when we bring all of those parts of us forward, there is a completion into wholeness.

Steps for Surrendering

1. Create spaces of time to be in one role only - either receiver or giver. Swap

around after the time has elapsed.

2. Allow time to grow into that space. We are hardwired to reciprocate. You

automatically feel an obligation to give something back. Can I simply receive

and feel worthy of receiving?

3. It’s worthwhile to pause and notice how it feels to receive and notice where

you feel the need to reciprocate. Explore how to unravel why you feel this need.

“Sexual healing leads to awakening. This is anti-ageing medicine! We are on the verge

of a tipping point. It is not even possible that this could go in the wrong direction.”

FREE GIFT: Ignite your Sacred Feminine Fire – Simple steps to access your

life force energy. FIND IT HERE - www.sacredfeminineschool.com

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 Dr Lauren Brim
Dr. Lauren Brim is a doctor of human sexuality who is changing the conversations
about sex. She is also an advanced practitioner of the BodyTalk system, a sexual
coach for women, and author of four books: The New Rules of Sex, The New
American Family, The New Rules of Sex Workbook, and Your Boyfriend’s Hooker.

Lauren has worked in the general healing arts for over fourteen years as a practitioner
and teacher across North America, Europe and Africa. She was studying to be a midwife
in 2012 when her own reproductive challenges led her away from midwifery and into
sexual wellness education and coaching. Years later she went on to get her doctorate
in human sexuality from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality
in San Francisco.

“I grew up in a religious home and wrestled a lot with relationships and how to be in the
world. I couldn’t understand why women weren’t talking about their sexuality and
I knew that my mission was to start this conversation. I eventually developed the
“Mind Body Sex Coaching” practice and encourage people to share their stories
around sexuality and sexual trauma.”

Dr. Brim wanted to normalise conversations about sex. With such few safe places to
talk about sex, she wanted to offer a container for people to express themselves fully.

“When you suppress someone’s sexuality, you suppress their power and voice.
We hold epigenetic memories of fear and shame around the most powerful
and beautiful parts of us.”

She goes on to suggest that we need people to see us as our complete sexual beings.
This will allow us to take back our power and reclaim our wholeness.

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Freedom in your Sexuality

1. Explore yourself. Masturbate. Try to do this without porn and sex toys so that
you can cultivate a practice that is nourishing.
2. Witness all states of your body in pleasure.
3. Slow down and feel everything.
4. Give yourself permission to have every pleasure there is possible in life and

5. Cultivate Self Love - Make peace with your body, it is a vehicle for sexuality.
Do things that make you feel sexy. We have to show up for sex.
6. Get educated. To have a new experience, you cannot use an old operating
manual. Digest as much info out there as possible.
7. Let go of old narratives.

”We have this narrative about men that they want sex all the time and want to
penetrate as many women as possible. Men also want to feel connected and be seen.
Most men get an immense amount of pleasure in seeing their partners in ecstasy.”

“Ideally children are born to sexually awakened parents who are openly sexual.
They have a relationship with sex that is playful and included as a natural part of life.
We need more self-actualised, sexually-conscious adults in the world to guide children.”

FREE GIFT: Intimacy meditation - A journey within to explore your inner relationships.
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 Devi Erickson Ward
Devi Ward Erickson is an internationally recognized tantra expert, sex coach,
certified sexologist, certified tantric healer, certified Reiki practitioner, certified
meditation instructor, and practitioner of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism. She is
an author and the host of the hit podcast “Sex is Medicine with Devi Ward”.

Devi is also the founder of the Institute of Authentic Tantra Education - the first and
only government-accredited school that provides professional training, personal
coaching, and online classes in authentic lineage-based tantric healing methods.

Earth, water, fire, air and space are the 5 elements that make up our physical reality.
When there is dysfunction, it is a result of an imbalance in one or more of these
elements. When we heal and balance these elemental energies within our own bodies,
psyche and emotions, we create an inner harmony that is reflected externally.
Tantra means to weave light and sound with form. Working with these elements gives
us a vehicle to help dissolve toxic emotions that cause chemical imbalances in our
bodies and instead open us up to our true nature - to be joyful and healthy human beings.

Our sexuality is a part of who we are and the pure bliss experienced in orgasms is a
glimpse of our true nature; of our enlightenment. These practices help to extend
that portal from fleeting moments of bliss, to cultivating it to flourish within you and
use it as an energy and expression of your creativity, joy and abundance.

“After cultivating this energy within yourself, one can go back and generate these bliss
chemicals in your own body or share them with a partner. It is regenerative. And then
we can use all that energy and power to operate and bring joy to others in the world.”

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Heal Thyself
1. Yogic breathing methods help to relax the nervous system.
2. Body de-armouring and somatic healing practices release stored
trauma from the body.
3. Self connect through journaling and non-violent communication.
4. Engage in movement practices like dance to release stagnant energy.
5. Practice these skills daily.

“The body is Buddha. All wisdom, power and knowledge is inherent in the physical
form. Get in the body to realize your true nature. We are born buddhas. We just
have obsterations that cloud our perception.”

Integrating our sexuality into this healing process is very important. Tantric
Buddhism believes that you cannot be a fully integrated human being if you have
not cultivated and explored your sexuality.
“Everything we do is an expression of an unmet need or desire to meet a need. And
pain begets pain. People who are seen, heard and celebrated are not going
to cause harm to others.
It is a gift to be human. There is so much beauty, expression and creativity that can
be expressed through each individual. Our perceptions have become distorted
through pain, suffering and trauma. But we can use external resources to bolster
our internal resources. We can access communities and support like this summit to
help us heal and grow back into our natural state of joy and bliss.”

FREE GIFT: Female Pleasure Guide

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connection and pleasure. FIND IT HERE - http://bit.ly/DeviWard

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 Dr Elsbeth Meuth and
Freddy Zental Weaver
Dr. Elsbeth Meuth and Freddy Zental Weaver are the founders and directors of
the TantraNova Institute in Chicago, IL, USA. They are internationally renowned
workshop leaders, relationship and intimacy coaches and certified Tantra Yoga
teachers. They are the producers of the bestselling DVD series “Creating Intimacy
& Love” and were featured on Showtime’s documentary series “Sexual Healing”
and the Emmy award-winning NBC show “Starting Over”. They are also the
best-selling authors of Sexual Enlightenment: How to Create Lasting Fulfillment
in Life, Love and Intimacy.

Conscious breath is the first secret to sexual intimacy. When we learn to breathe
consciously, we connect with our still place inside. We cannot be intimate with a
partner if we are emotionally troubled internally.

“When we come back into connection with self, then it's possible to connect with
our partner.”
Conscious breathwork allows us to cultivate mindfulness. These practices are
resources that can be used as tools to improve our relationships and heal
past trauma and triggers.
Partners can also agree to pause together through a collective practice. They can take
a moment together to touch each others hearts, pause and belly breathe together.

“Sex education at school avoids intimacy education, and then we are surprised when
relationships break up! We are not taught the daily practices of love and intimacy
in relationships.
Love is a practice. Intimacy does not exist only in the bedroom, it can be found cooking
dinner together or talking on the phone; there are tantric practices that can be done
throughout the day.”
Drop into the heartspace. Place one hand on your beloved’s heart to create that direct
connection. Focus on your heart and listen to your inner spirit to raise your frequency.

“When our frequency is low, we become miserable, angry. depressed, aggressive and
filled with self pity. This happens to all of us, but we can choose if we want to hang out
in this frequency or move to higher vibrations.”

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Women are now coming into their power. One of the greatest aspects of that power
is sexual energy. Men have to become more conscious of their own sexual energy.
They have been encouraged to be driven by their genitals, so one of the biggest
lessons for men is to uncouple orgasm from ejaculation. In a relationship, a man may
be asking for more sex, whereas a woman is asking to be kissed from the heart and to
connect more blissfully.

Listen to one another. We need to practice listening and speaking; taking turns in
both giving and receiving. This is a skill that needs to be cultivated.

Connect with your inner masculine and feminine. Both partners need to learn how
to unite these aspects of themselves and intertwine them with one another’s
masculine and feminine sides. This Yin and Yang dynamic creates a polarity that
fuels magnetism.
Sexuality has been so vilified that it is unconscious in our society. Yet in the natural
world, our sexuality is our life force. We may be suppressing and overcompensating
in order to cover it up. It’s important to be conscious about it. We can be leaking
energy if we are not aware of our sexual energetic self and how to use it in our daily lives.
Awareness of our sexual consciousness can be accessed by tapping into the feelings
that we associate with it. Many people have feelings of guilt and shame associated
with sexuality and this needs to be processed. Unless individuals clear this on the
personal level, they will continue to have challenges on a relationship level.
“If you are single and working on your transformation, you will be creating the
beloved of your deepest desire.”
It’s important to work on healing yourself and your past wounding in order to raise
your own frequency to shift the patterns and raise your vibration, so you find a
partner that matches that.
“If you are living in sadness all the time, the heart starts to suffer, the spiritual, the
emotional and the physical heart. When one has support and guidance from other
women without expectation or any agenda, the receiver can move to a place where
she gets clear on what she wants to let go of and what she wants to receive.”

“Men are not brought up to listen and be emotionally cognitive. Workshops for men
help develop a comradery and emotional listening skills through cognitive exercises.
They have to learn to be less guarded and masked and to recognize that vulnerability
is not a weakness.”

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“We are creating a new world every moment. It is possible to create what we want to
manifest. Clear intention with elevated emotional changes matter. There is no doubt
that a critical mass shift of consciousness is taking place. We are fed up with the old
ways and it’s time to change.”

FREE GIFT: Create Intimacy and Love - - Learn tantric intimacy practices to create
lasting love and intimacy in your life. FIND IT HERE - http://bit.ly/ElsbethFreddy

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 Juliet Haines
Juliet Haines is an international teacher and facilitator. She has supported
hundreds of men and women across four continents on this journey of
awakening through the masculine and feminine. Her gift is to guide people
into remembering who they truly are, through relationship and sexuality
practices as a path of transformation.

When we connect with Mother Earth, we can begin the process of uniting the divine
masculine and feminine within us. Dropping into the body, we can allow ourselves to
feel the feminine force of creation in each one of our cells. An immense power starts
to rise and the masculine has to come in to bring that silence and holding of space -
when the two come into alignment, we can move about with purpose and love, no
longer needing to search outward, releasing the need for validation and fear
of abandonment.
Our own inner masculine and feminine can make love and heal our internal wounding.
Part of the healing is to be able to embody all aspects of the energies within us.

“The victim and the perpetrator vibrate with the same energy and when we can meet
them both; internally and externally with compassion and love, great shifts start to happen.”
We can alchemize our feelings when we dive deeply into the depths of all that we feel,
without attachment but with a full and open heart. Then a chemical process within us
takes place and we can transform this pain into power.
“Whatever life brings me, I can meet myself more deeply when I inquire into what
it is touching inside of me and showing me. When patterns keep repeating, there is
something there for you to meet and see. Embrace every moment instead of trying
to be somewhere other than exactly where you are right now.”

Uniting the Divine Feminine and Masculine

1. Empty your mind and breathe deeply.
2. Soften and open your heart.
3. Drop into your belly and take the time to really listen and feel everything.

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“By dropping into that softness and receptivity, it creates space for power to rise with
an open heart that is able to receive. We then become more conscious and whole.

In doing so, you will be able to relate and create not from a place of wounding, but from
a place of love and connection.”
Our intimate relationships are the gateway for deep transformation. They can be with
family, friends, or a partner. As the level of intimacy grows, tender layers within get
touched. When we stay present with these feelings and meet them with an open heart,
we can meet the other from a place of vulnerability and truth instead of from a place of
protection and rejection.

“Bring consciousness, dedication and commitment to deeply loving yourself and

humanity. When the united divine feminine and masculine in women radiates with love,
she can create that invitation for men to rise into their divine selves.”

FREE GIFT:GIFT: Meditations to awaken the feminine in union with the masculine.
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 Amy Elizabeth Gordon
Amy Elizabeth Gordon is a master communicator, relationship architect and
compassion activist. She listens deeply. Her embodied presence and unique
techniques help you learn to transform stress, exhaustion, and conflict.

Through power in partnership, Amy has learned to thrive and be a powerful source of
transformation for a united world. She is a transformational trainer and published author.

Amy’s philosophy is to aim high, dive deep and live an extraordinary life. Her journey
to overcoming addiction has lead her to becoming a healer.

“Addiction is an epidemic, but it can be overcome through contemplative practice.”

When we live by polluting our bodies with alcohol and drugs, we also exist by polluting
the environment. Interacting in the sacredness of bringing our best selves forth in
every situation, reigniting our relationship with spirit - this is how we heal our
relationship with the planet.
Self sovereignty is knowing your power and that you can access your power by
clearing what stands in your way. By accepting the guidance to clear our path to
coming back to our true power, we are healing the planet.

When we come to a place of believing that I matter, my relationships matter, that

being here is enough, there is a calming of the soul and a quieting of the hungry
ghost of addiction.

We have to choose what we truly want for ourselves. One cannot blame childhood
experiences for the journey into addiction that we might suffer. Everyone is responsible
for his or her own path. Getting parental approval and blessings can mean the world
when one doesn’t feel fully seen and heard by them. Thank them for doing their best
and rewrite your own story.

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“Metabolize the grief and hurts of our life. Assimilate what we need from it and
eliminate the rest.

We all have our opportunity for taking a shot at reaching the moon in our lives.”

FREE GIFT: Couplehood Mindset Mini Course - Learn tools be your own source
of resilience. FIND IT HERE - http://bit.ly/AmyElisabeth
AND Moonshot Magic Playbook, a guide to my transformational memoir
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 Caroline Muir
Caroline Muir is an author and educator who guides women and couples
to greater love and intimacy and more pleasure so they can have the best
relationships of their lives. Caroline is now in private practice where she
provides her transformational work to women and couples in the form of
3-day private immersions in Panama City, Panama.

She’s the best-selling author of Tantra Goddess, A Memoir of Sexual Awakening and
co-author of Tantra, The Art of Conscious Loving. Caroline founded the Divine Feminine
Institute for Men and Women in 2004 and Divine Feminine Awakening in 2013. Along
with Amrita Grace, Caroline co-founded the Sacred Feminine Mystery School® in 2016
and is a sponsor of the I Rise Summit.
Caroline has been committed to helping women reclaim their sexual sovereignty and
reach the highest altar of who she truly is. Long ago, she recognized that it takes
patience and a letting go of ‘doing’ for a woman to be reawakened.
“A woman’s pleasure is connected to their emotions and spirit. We all (men as well)
have a sexual soul.”

Self pleasuring needs to be an art form and it needs to be taught as such.

“I create a ritual for this practice above and beyond what I create for lovemaking.
That is how I want my sexual energy to fly out into the world and I want it to bless all
the women who are waking up to this reality.”

This information should be available everywhere, along with birth control and the
details of our anatomy and how to navigate these spaces.
“Tantric names for our genitals brings a level of sacredness to them. I refer to what is
labelled as the ‘G-spot’ in mainstream dialogue as the ‘sacred spot’, my clitoris is my
pearl; lingham, yoni - the power of the spoken word has greatly changed my relationship
to my body. That’s the quality of energy I want around my sexuality.

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To meet a man that also carries that level of consciousness for his sexuality and a
woman’s is a man worth knowing.”

Divine Feminine Practices

1. Practice daily loving touch internally and externally to wake up the body.
2. When seeking bodywork, be intuitive in your choices and discuss your intentions
and fears openly.
3. When engaging with a partner, ensure that the giver is connected to your energy
and can hold that space for you when things come up.
4. Women should work with women at first in order to truly heal. The sisterhood is
so powerful.

“Our bodies, and particularly our sacred spot, has the capacity to remember things that
we might have forgotten. There are nerve connections to the brain into the reticular
formation that picks up data from something that left an impression that wasn’t pleasant.
We need to be in spaces where we have the ability to emote and release when something
comes up, only then can we truly open up to our power and pleasure.”

“Take your fear by the hand and keep moving up the mountain even if it is getting colder
and ragged, go forward, the view and clarity is worth the climb. Love and tenderness
is the key and answer.”

FREE GIFT – Reclaiming Feminine Confidence - Create a relationship with yourself

that’s connected, intimate, passionate, and supportive.
FIND IT HERE: www.divine-feminine.com

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 Mia Saenz
Mia Saenz is a love activist. Mia is a self love teacher for anyone who feels alone
and yet dreams of knowing the joy of a love-soaked life. Mia is the founder of
Love Revolution.

Through her work as a love educator of the body, mind, and spirit, Mia has discovered
the depth of love on all levels. Mia is also a media host and founder and editor-in-chief
of BellaMia magazine - a transformational and holistic living well magazine.

Self love is the result of self care. We do things to heal ourselves, to feel more love,
to expand our greatness. We can create the most glorious and even romantic
relationship with ourselves; moments that are amazingly whole and rich.
When we honor everything about ourselves and work on healing and raising our
energy vibration, a great expansiveness comes forward. Play with all the elements of
who you are; feel it, heal it and love it.

‘You are deeply loved. You are not alone. You are a miracle.’

“Do we have to practice love all the time to keep us in harmony? YES! It’s all about
your mindset. From the moment you open your eyes, notice where your thoughts are
going. How are they interacting, are you playing your monkey mind and having
regurgitated conversations with yourself?
Ask yourself if you are speaking out of love. Identify what is loving and what is not and
then shift the energy to how you want to be. Visualize and see where you want to go.
What would love do? How would love handle this moment?”

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Change the Energy of your Story

1. Breathe into your pain, emotion, or trauma.

2. Be very gentle with yourself. Allow for everything and anything to come up.
3. Journal about it.
4. Love and accept yourself. Repeat this every second of every day.
5. Reach out for support.
6. Look at your greatness and the greatness in others.
7. Ask if you are living your full potential within the five main pillars of life: spiritual,
family, body, home, work.
8. Send love to your wounds and to those who inflicted them onto you.

There are going to be more than one dark nights of the soul. We cannot experience the
light without the darkness. As you dig deeper into yourself, you will find more calm
and beauty - when you experience life from this place, everything becomes richer
and more delicious. We can reconnect to the roots of our authentic selves.
You can bring more love into your life by choosing the tools that resonate with you.
There are so many to choose from. Go within and listen to what speaks to you.
Connect to your soul and change your inner dialogue.
“Within the first two hours of waking, the average person tells themselves off at least
17 times in a variety of ways. In the morning when you wake up and before your feet
hit the floor, smile!”
When our belief systems are in place, we can manifest all that we desire.
Take responsibility. You get to choose. Identify how you want to be and shift into that.

“The only thing that matters in life is your connection to the divine. And you are that
divinity. We are that powerful.”

FREE GIFT: Make Love Real - Digital Treasure Trove of Processes

FIND IT HERE - www.womenmakingmiracles.com

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 Xanet Pailet
Xanet Pailet is a San Francisco based sex and intimacy educator and coach,
tantra teacher, sexological body worker, holistic pelvic care and trauma
practitioner who has worked in the health care field for over 25 years.
She is the best selling author of Living an Orgasmic Life: Heal Yourself and
Awaken Your Pleasure.

She works with individuals and couples using a variety of modalities to help them
explore different paths of pleasure within the body, increase their libido, and helps
to heal emotional and sexual wounds.
Holistic pelvic care works to help women connect with their pelvic area - pelvis and
pelvic bowl, to move stuck blocks of energy. The pelvic bowl takes so much pressure
and is one of the main places where trauma is stored.

This is the place where our life force energy lives, where we connect with our sexuality
and the centre of our creativity and power. Pelvic care should be a regular part of a
woman’s health routine, like exercising or brushing our teeth; it is so important.
Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a powerful method of overcoming trauma via the mind-
body connection. This could be from long term sexual abuse, or a car accident.
The memory of that incident gets stuck in our bodies. When you start working this
trauma out of your body, you can release unhealthy patterns in your life.

Shame is the most experienced emotion for humans, and shame around sexuality is
prevalent - it shows up in our bodies and prevents us from being able to access our
pleasure - something that is our birthright to experience.

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Shifting Shame

1. Talk about it. This normalizes your experience, and most often, you realize that you
are not alone.
2. Write about it. Journaling about your shame helps dissipate its power over you.
3. Personify and name your shame. This again makes it lose power and allows it to lose
its hold on you.
4. Accept and have empathy for it.

It’s very important that you have a loving, compassionate partner on your journey of
healing. In new relationships, chemical releases override the trauma - physical or
emotional, but inevitably, they will return over time. The more you understand your
triggers, the more you need to communicate them with your partners and this way
they can be a huge part of your healing process.

If you are in a tantric space of healing, ask the teacher if they are trauma and informed
and if they will be able to slow things down or point out if you are dissociating or
disconnecting from you body - this is also very important.

FREE GIFT: Relationship and Intimacy Blueprint - Understanding how you became
a sexual adult.
FIND IT HERE - www.powerofpleasure.com

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 Ashanna Solaris
Ashanna Solaris is a co-founder, practitioner and trainer of Clarity Breathwork™,
which developed out of rebirthing. She is also a somatic experiencing advanced
participant, intuitive counselor, healer, dancer, certified hypnotherapist, light body
teacher, sound healer and Reiki master.

Her education includes numerous trainings and certifications including education at

New York University and the California Institute of Integral Studies, and currently the
Somatic Experiencing Training Program of Dr. Peter Levine. Ashanna is also a student
of sacred embodiment through dance and movement, including 5 Rhythms, Body Tales,
Soul Motion and Authentic Movement.

Somatic Experiencing is the work of Dr. Peter Levine on how to heal the nervous
system of trauma and come out of fight, flight and freeze. It works well with Clarity
Breathwork™ because it is a nurturing feminine approach to breathwork- aiming for
integration and resolution of what has held us back, so that we can most powerfully
move forward in what we are here to do.
“When we unpack trauma through gentle healing practices, we bring a greater
awareness within. When the trauma is transmuted into a gift like gold, it can drive us
to bring the feminine energy into a world that is in great need of healing.”
“We can talk about our trauma through traditional forms of therapy, but research is
showing that we don’t heal through the mind, and the telling and retelling of our
trauma can actually reinforce the identification of victim; keeping us in vibration that
is not true to who we really are.”

Our breath shines a light like a searchlight to the unconscious; uncovering the places
where we are unconsciously holding on. The breath transcends our linear thinking
model and brings us to the intuitive feminine vastness. We can alchemize the trauma
and give it back to the world as a gift.

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“We don’t have to stay stuck in suffering. If we are committed to doing the work that
must be done, stop numbing ourselves and blaming the outside. It’s important to get in
touch with our anger and our rage, but not to stay there.”
It’s the avoidance of pain that causes us to suffer so much, the avoidance of our difficult
emotions that’s causing a global suffering right now.
“The rise of the feminine is one of the greatest evolutionary leaps of consciousness that
we are making right now. It’s not just for women; it’s in men and women, and it's time
for women to step into leadership. But not from a masculine model of leadership, but
from a feminine model, and we are learning what that means.”

“Women are pleasure. As we move forward in leadership, it’s important not to do it from
a place of burden or having to prove ourselves, but to do it from a place of pleasure.
It is our pleasure to give and love and take care of our children and our planet and our
species, and to support our men to rise up and do the right thing. This is the feminine
leadership to me.”

Restore your Self-Protective Boundaries

1. Reclaim your energy field - Release the violations, the programming and conditioning.
2. Take sovereignty - Be the queen in your own hearts, reclaim your own dignity and royalty.
3. Bring in your own sacred masculine.
4. Know that you are worthy to heal.
5. Don’t let the past dictate who you are now.
6. Choose and create your divine happiness.

We have to begin one chakra at a time. When we reawaken and reactivate each chakra,
we call back the goddess in all of our centers of energy and ignite that light body -
we become unstoppable.

When we channel this life force energy together, we have to take responsibility for the
shadow side of jealousy and competitiveness and turn it around. There is great power
in intending good things for each other through group work.

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Grace comes in when we do the work and we start to be guided on the path of
unimaginable happiness.

“It’s difficult to show up and face the grief, despair and fear, yet the other choice is to
suffer, hide and medicate. This is a worse place to be when you have the support
to meet it all.

So if you are listening, it’s by no coincidence. There is a call to birth this new cycle together.”

FREE GIFT: Healing Yourself with Breath - Learn how to use your breath to open
doorways for yourself. FIND IT HERE - http://bit.ly/AshannaSolaris

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 Michelle Alva
Michelle Alva is a licensed physical therapist with over 23 years experience.
She is trained as a tantric practitioner, has a background in hypnosis, NLP,
timeline therapy, healing sexual trauma, integrative yoga therapy, sound
healing, mindfulness based meditation and shamanism.

Michelle developed the Alva Method for empowering couples and individuals to live
consciously and explore sex and sensuality from an intuitive perspective. The method is
about giving power back to the individual and teaching you how to harness your own
healing power. It embraces both modern science and ancient wisdom practices in order
to create major healing with minor effort.
As a teenager, Michelle experienced a traumatic first sexual experience and carried with
her feelings of shame, guilt and unworthiness. Years later, she experienced a life-
changing event through yoga and breathwork. It made her realize how holding on to
emotions and painful memories could manifest into chronic pain. She used her background
in physical therapy and combined it with alternative therapies to create the Alva Method.
“We think suffering is normal, so this is about shifting your life and feel differently.
We have to address the emotion and teach people how to process their own paths. I teach
people how to be their own medicine man or woman – a self empowered transformation.”

Michelle holds an online master class called ‘Conscious Sex 101 – Learn to be sexually
empowered’. The course is for men and women and she eventually hopes to hold courses
on tantra for teens.

“We also need to have more compassion for men. We are not separate. I thought I had
negative emotions toward men when what I really disliked was the masculine energy
within me. What if more women could create that safe space for men to open up more
instead of waiting for men to transform and hold space for us?”

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Chronic pain is when pain is present for more than 3 months in the body. It is usually
a sign that there may be some emotional trauma or past memories that you are holding
onto. When you clear the intensity of the pain spasm in the nervous system, you reset
yourself.

Simple Steps to Reset

1. Be willing and open to new possibilities.

2. Acknowledge and thank your pain or dis-ease for the gifts it has given you of
knowing the difference between suffering and freedom, and to explore new paths.
3. a. Sit or lie down and open your body – spread your arms and legs or sit with the
soles of your feet together and knees wide apart.

b. Put your hands where your ribs and abdomen meet – your diaphragm is
the muscle of inspiration. Notice what happens when you inhale slowly
through the nose. Close your eyes. Exhale through the mouth letting out
sound.
4. Inhale 3 quick breaths and then hold. Exhale letting out sound. Repeat
several times, increasing to 6 quick breaths as you inhale, hold and exhale
out.
5. When you notice any areas that feel blocked or tight, bring love and acceptance
and breathe into that area. Expand further into that place and cultivate
space in the body
“When you hold your breath, you are resetting; causing a pause. When you exhale,
your tension may have a sound it wants to create. Express the sound of your pain.
Acknowledge it, witness it, hold space for it, thank it for its gifts then let it go and
flow like a river.

Experience a different way to embody yourself. You are not your past. Envision how
you want to feel and create that experience within yourself. We are causational and
responsible for our own energy fields.”

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 “Cultivate a place of C.A.L.F – Compassion, Acceptance, Love, and Forgiveness. Feel
it in any situation. Express the anger, sadness, and frustration, and then let it go.
Tantra is about embracing it all.
Sexuality matters and is a part of everything you do. It is your natural way of connecting
to love and you are the energy of love.
I rise because I am love. I uplift myself because I am worthy of that. No one can give that
to me because it is already mine.
Are you willing to believe that you are worthy of living an amazing life? Turn your
medicine into your message.”

FREE GIFT – Release and Heal Audio Course - Release resentments in your mind by
reprogramming your subconscious beliefs and aligning your new beliefs in your body.
AND Free 15-minutes clarity calls – 1:1 call with Michelle where you can share and freely
express what is coming up for you.
FIND IT HERE - http://bit.ly/Alvalove

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 Dr Megan Flemming
Dr. Megan Fleming is a nationally recognized certified sex and relationship expert.
She has over 15 years of experience working with individuals and couples to
discover what’s getting in their way and teaches them the skills and strategies to
get the sex and relationships they want. Dr. Fleming is also a clinical instructor at
the Weil Cornell Medical College.

“We are not taught the skills required to navigate relationships and since we are
wired for connection - from the cradle to the grave, it’s important that we learn how
to recognize when we are not moving in the direction that is in alignment with our
calling, our passion and with living our lives to the fullest.”
Most of us are disconnected from our bodies and spend most of the time in our heads.
In order to understand what will bring us into alignment, we need to come from an
embodied perspective and reconnect from our bodies. We are so performance
focused that we lose the capacity to find out what is actually possible and build on
those experiences of pleasure.
Trauma is stuck in our bodies and needs to be metabolized.
“When we are engaging with someone sexually, it’s so important to go slowly and
constantly check in and ask these questions: is my body open and receptive to this?
Is there a trigger? I call it ‘red light, yellow light, green light’. If there is a red light, stop.
And yellow lights need to be met and moved through gently.

We need to meet people where they are and accept where one is at on our journeys.
Triggers are flags that we need to pay attention to. Sometimes we need to go slower
to go faster. There is no going around, only through.”

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Create a Place of Safety
1. Lean into the discomfort.
2. Notice what is going on in the body.
3. Notice what you are thinking and what are the limiting beliefs.
4. Slow everything down.
5. Breathe.
6. Honor what your body is telling you.

The healing journey starts with the self - through self love and self exploration.
Knowing what gives you pleasure or what triggers you, and developing your own
sensual awareness are the foundation from which to grow.
“In long term relationships, constantly revisit and expand your pleasure menu. Growth
is in discomfort, so lean in and see if you can expand your repertoire of what is possible.”
Self care is about resourcing yourself. It is your number one priority and commitment.
The healing process could take years, but we have the capacity for an amazing amount
of pleasure; enjoy the journey along the way. No one is going to save you, we need to
empower ourselves and create the conditions in our lives to be able to do so.

“You are not alone. It takes courage but help is available.”

As women, we owe it to each other to speak about all parts of our lives, not just the
curated moments. Unity and sisterhood have the ability to take us to our higher selves.
Lean into your feminine and go into those softer energies. The time is ripe in our culture
to embrace the feminine and the sisterhood. As we all rise, we can heal generations of
trauma - it is a gift and a responsibility.

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 Elise Carr
Elise Carr is the soul of StellaMuse. As the host of ‘Sacred Guidance with
StellaMuse’ podcast, she also combines the ancient wisdom of raja yoga,
tantra and the esoteric in one on one sessions, workshops,
talks and events worldwide.

The blending of what she offers you is like psychology for the soul in a modern world –
honoring your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual layers; what has brought you
here, where you are now and what needs clearing, healing and guidance to shift from
darkness to light. All in alignment with your soul, for you to know your true self,
to love, live and awaken from this place.
We need to find alignment on physical, emotional and spiritual levels. Elise noticed
that expectations of the ideal body image put a lot of pressure on people. This is an
example of misalignment with the physical.
On an emotional level, trauma can run quite deep. It takes communication with
someone with whom we have a good rapport.
The mind is like the governor - a lot of things happen in our thoughts. We need to have
harmony in our thoughts to grow.
“If these three vehicles are not in equal balance and harmony, we aren’t functioning optimally.”
When we are in alignment, the divine can work through our hearts and souls in an
expression of how you want to show up in the world.

“Once we decide to take the journey, the teacher appears, and all the right events
lead you along the way.”
The heart-mind connection helps us find our way to the right teacher or the right student.
If we can’t find love within ourselves, we find it hard to give to others or to share it

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Self love can lead to relationship love and spiritual love, but we don’t want to only stay in
self love because that can become selfish. We can become cut off from giving and
sharing with humanity.
“Like anything, we have to find a balance. But to start in the place of self love is extremely
important, especially if we have been deprived of love in our lives. We need self love to
create safe spaces and boundaries, and use our discernment to make wise choices to
support that self love. We need to take care of ourselves, physically, emotionally
and mentally.”

Journey to Self Love

1. Go within - We often seek outside ourselves in things like sex, food, shopping,
drugs, alcohol, etc.
2. Rid yourself of negative habits.
3. Seek nourishing relationships.
4. Work through pain and trauma using various holistic tools.
5. Have a non-negotiable daily practice - Mindfulness or meditation practice, breathwork,
taking a walk in nature, etc. Find what works for you and implement it daily.

FREE GIFT: Soul Alignment Meditation - Align and open to connection with the divine.
FIND IT HERE - http://bit.ly/StellaMuse

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 Dr Andrea Pennington
Dr. Andrea Pennington is an integrative medicine doctor, acupuncturist, TEDx
speaker and author of several books including I Love You, Me! and The Orgasm
Prescription for Women. She specializes in self love, mindfulness and authentic
self expression. She is a multi-passionate empower mentor dedicated to raising
the level of consciousness and love on our planet through her personal and
professional development mentoring programs.

Dr. Pennington realized the medical importance of self love when she was doing
acupuncture therapy on crack-cocaine addicts in the 90’s. She noticed that a small
subset of clients didn’t recover, no matter how much therapy they received.

“What I discovered is that if they did not have a fundamental love for themselves, they
wouldn't get better. They would either sabotage their plans, find a new addiction or
drop out of the program. When we investigated, we found a lot of unresolved trauma
as a common factor. This unresolved trauma made it very hard for them to fully love
and accept themselves, and if they couldn’t do that, they couldn’t get better. That’s
what started me on this path of reconnecting with your authentic self.”
Babies are born with a sense of oneness, all of their needs are being met. As soon as
the child starts to recognize that the caregiver and the self are not one and the same,
the ego develops to help us survive. If there are experiences at an early age that lead
the child to conclude that they don’t matter, they adapt by creating a compromised
false self to help them survive.
Aspects of the authentic self are pushed into the shadows. These hidden aspects of
oneself cause unsettled energy and may manifest as anxiety and depression or
chronic physical ailments.

A search for comfort begins, which can lead to various addictions. It may take the form
of binge eating, shopping, alcoholism or drugs, sex addiction etc.

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“By connecting with the authentic self - the part of us that is naturally good, whole and
lovable, we can connect with the divine.”

Reconnect with your Authentic Self

1 . Self awareness - Engage in activities that help you re-experience your authentic
self in a safe space.
2 . Dismantle shame - Shame is fear of disconnection. When we become vulnerable and
express ourselves authentically in safe spaces, this allows a rewiring to our true nature.
3 . Surrender and let go to pleasure - Identify your blocks and find out what is hindering
yourself from being fully present.
4 . Practice life writing or narrative therapy - Allow all your emotions to be expressed externally.
5 . Nurture your inner child - Make a promise to your inner child that they will always be heard
and never silenced again.
6 . Recognize patterns and create new boundaries - Whether it is with friends, a beloved or
with family, it’s important to communicate your boundaries and express your authentic voice.

FREE GIFTS: 21-Day Orgasm Prescription - a mindfulness program for heightened pleasure,
deeper intimacy and orgasmic bliss.

And the Real Self Love Handbook - 5-step process to help liberate your authentic self, build
resilience and live an epic life. FIND IT HERE - www.andreapennington.com

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 Dr Tina Schermer Sellers
Tina Schermer Sellers, PhD has had a distinguished career as an educator,
sex therapist, medical family therapist, speaker, author, consultant, and
thought leader.
She reveals how the western conservative church, in collusion with consumer
driven culture and politics has infiltrated our core ability to attach to our
partners, and instruct our children to attach to theirs. She serves as an associate
professor at Seattle Pacific University.

Dr. Schermer defines sexual shame as a visceral feeling of disgust towards one's own body.
This feeling can be internalized, but it also manifests in interpersonal relationships, having
a negative impact on trust, communication and personal intimacy. It leads to a deep-seated
belief that something is wrong with us for being a sexual being and a belief of being abnormal,
inferior and unworthy.
She explains that it is a feedback loop, which reinforces itself as one matures and the inner
critic reinforces the beliefs one has created.

“There is also an uncertainty in regards to one's power or right to make decisions, including
safety decisions related to sexual encounters along with an internalized judgment towards
one's own desires.”

This can play out as self-sabotaging behavior in regards to believing in one's own ability to
keep oneself safe. This damages people's ability to attach and create strong bonds.

Sexual shame is a universal phenomenon that plays out on many levels.

“It stifles all the core creative energy, the core life force energy, and even leads people into
suicide when they feel covered in shame. When they release it, you see them release
themselves into life. And into really being able to honor themselves, and make honoring
choices for themselves in so many areas of their lives. It can be the deciding force in whether
they are living in so many ways, or dying in so many ways.”

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Dismantling this shame is about pragmatically peeling things away, writing a new legacy,
a new future that leaves shame behind. We don’t want to pass this forward anymore; our
children don’t have to inherit it.

“We have to get to the stage where it is so natural that we could be talking about spaghetti.
In order to get to that stage, we have to work it through our body-mind.”

Releasing Shame

1. Bring intention and awareness into lovemaking - with your partner or alone; sacred
touch can heal the deepest wounds.
2. Engage in healthy and sacred sexuality practices.
3. Raise kids shame-free. Talk about sexuality and be open and playful around
sexuality and intimacy.
4. Get comfortable with and know your body.
5. Talk about it with your children, friends, family. Normalize sexuality!

We have to practice from when children are very small. Research has shown that if children
get appropriate sex education from their parents, they will get involved in sexual activity
later than average, make safer, more self-respecting choices. They will have a better sex life
when they are older, and describe themselves as closer to their parents.

“By sharing our stories and inner treasures, we create freedom from shame.”

FREE GIFT: Teach Kids about Sexual Development - a visual resource on parenting
through all stages of sexual development. FIND IT HERE - www.tinaschermersellers.com

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 Leyolah Antara
Leyolah Antara is a lineage keeper of the ancient tantric alchemical healing arts.
She is a master ecstatic alchemist and transformational guide. She has been
teaching kundalini dance alchemical healing practices over the past 30 years.
Leyolah offers priestess initiation training retreats and online programmes in
ecstatic kundalini dance, sacred sexuality, sacred union, Egyptian high tantric
alchemy and shamanic healing arts.

Leyolah offers priestess initiation training retreats and online programmes in ecstatic
kundalini dance, sacred sexuality, sacred union, Egyptian high tantric alchemy and
shamanic healing arts.
The Tantric Priestess Initiation programmes are curriculums designed to initiate women
who are feeling the call to support the rise of feminine consciousness in union with the
divine masculine and express their gifts, as teachers, healers, sacred leaders and creatives
in service to the awakening of humanity.
Connecting with the sacred womb is a key practice in recentering for both men and women
to access sexual energy as a transformational ecstatic river of love and healing current in
the body. The journey of activating our wombs begins by connecting with the womb of
Mother Earth Gaia Sophia. Only then can we have access to fully embodying the creative
principles of life, and when our wombs are healthy, clear and whole, we are able to birth our
creative gifts and sacred purpose into the world.
Our wombs are like sponges and they absorb other people’s energies. We need regular
womb cleansing in order to clear stagnant spaces and past energetic imprints in order to
clear the way to access our life force. Sexual healing is an important foundation before
moving into ecstatic tantric activation of our sexuality. It is a journey of clearing our sexual
organs and past imprints in order to cultivate our shakti energies to move through our
creative centre toward activation of our higher brain functions.

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“The sacred inner union of the divine feminine and masculine in the womb births seeds of our
potential, our passion, creative energy, and enthusiasm. Our vitality for life is stirred and activated.”
Womb Cleanse
1. Sit comfortably and come into a sacred space.
2. Take long deep slow breaths in through the nose and out through the mouth.
3. Close your eyes. Relax your jaw and tongue.
4. Feel the connection between your yoni, hips, pelvis and jaw.
5. Allow your spine to curl and tailbone to tuck under.
6. Relax your yoni, your womb, your belly.
7. Breathe into your pelvis and bring your attention to your pelvic bowl.
8. Call in great Mother Gaia and ask for connection from your womb to hers.
9. Visualize a cylinder of light from your cervix all the way down through your yoni and
connecting you to the golden root core of Gaia.
10. Ask for support for healing and repair of your root, yoni and cervical gateways so
that you may have a clear and direct access to what is holy and sacred.

“Bring your body into a slow circular movement. Use your breath to scan, seal and repair the
walls of your cervical gate. Exhale, allow any threads of past traumatic
experiences and imprints to release. Allow sound and emotions that’s been trapped to release.
Times when you have been silenced, when you silenced yourself, or felt suppressed; let those
threads go. Physically lift those strands of energy away from you.
Shake your body and visualize the wings of Isis overlighting and blessing your womb.”
Reactivate and remember the vibration of your erotic innocence and your sacred sexuality.
Sanctify your womb as a sovereign space of light. Call back your power, your sexual energy and
state - I am sovereign.
“May you find that connection between your awakened sexuality and your unique voice so that
you may fully rise into your authentic self expression in this lifetime.”

FREE GIFT: Tantra Rose Code Mysteries - Womb Cleansing and Inner Flame

Activation Practices. FIND IT HERE - www.leyolahantara.com

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 Sheri Winston
Sheri Winston is a groundbreaking, award-winning author, medical professional,
and holistic sexuality teacher who offers empowering, entertaining erotic
education for everyone. She is the author of Women’s Anatomy of Arousal –
Secret Maps to Buried Pleasure – 2010 winner of the Book of the Year award
with the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors & Therapists (AASECT).

After working for over 25 years as a nurse, midwife, gynecology practitioner and
student of the ancient erotic traditions, Sheri started to discover that what she had
learned in school was incomplete and left out really important parts about women’s
anatomy. She decided to dedicate herself to becoming a midwife to people’s
sexuality and expose the truth about women’s bodies.

Weaving together different strands of history, the study of anatomy was illegal and
when bodies were studied, they were male bodies. Eventually, details about the clitoris
were omitted because it was believed that they were not pertinent for reproduction.

“It is an integrated, overlapping, interlocking system. Evolutionary intelligence created

a system that gives us sexual pleasure, which helps us bond with partners and then make
babies. That same system helps us feed and blissfully bond with our babies. I call it the
‘Babies, Bliss and Bonding’ system. It's all connected.”
Sheri learned that women have a network of erectile components and when the whole
system is activated, the level of pleasure that can be reached is phenomenal.

“It’s like we’ve been playing the piano with 22 keys and making nice music, but then
suddenly we realize there are 88 keys. And pedals! It’s a profound realization. But it’s
also frustrating. This is the 21st century, this isn’t rocket science or like going to the
moon. Hardly any study has been done, so we still have a way to go, but this is a start.”

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The Path to Orgasmic Mastery
1. Learn about your body - you can access a free intro via Sheri’s website or purchase
the book to gain in depth knowledge.
2. Start developing your toolkit. This can be through the mind, body, heart or spirit –
find the path that resonates with you.
3. Find the things that bring you pleasure, not necessarily sexual, and build on that.
Bring bliss and gratitude into every moment.
4. a. Body – Use breath, sound and touch to develop your skill set physically.
b. Mind – If you connect better mentally, you can use your imagination or focus
of attention.
c. Spirit – Create a ritual or altar and turn your journey into a ceremony.
d. Heart – Your foundational relationship is with yourself. Practice your love skills
by adopting a practice of self care and nurturing from within.

“It takes time and practice, but it doesn’t have to be a struggle. Go within and start with
your own pleasure temple using any one or a combination of the tools that work for you.
It’s like learning to play an instrument. It’s a skill set. You can learn it at any time and at any age.”

Sheri firmly believes that trauma can be completely healed and we can all reprogram and
repattern or unlearn negative behaviours and messages. Our bodies are designed to be
healthy and vibrant and our pleasure is an integral part of this system.
“When you are in that altered state of arousal, you can use this time to manifest what you
want to heal or attract into your life, either by mentally or verbally expressing your desires.
Sexuality is our vital life force. Let pleasure be your guide. It’s our inherent genius.”

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recommended for men as well.
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 Dr Ray Doktor
Ray Doktor is a pioneer in the field of bridging psychology and Eastern philosophies
to technologies, science, and spirituality. He received his doctoral degree in clinical
psychology. He also earned a master’s degree in counseling psychology and an
undergraduate degree in human behaviour.

Dr. Ray has worked as a transformational life coach, workshop facilitator, author,
and accomplished speaker. He takes pride in helping people breakthrough their
limited beliefs and challenges to attain self mastery.
Trauma happens on the periphery, if we heal the trauma and process the feelings that
we held back because we did not feel safe enough to express them at the time, then
we can let trauma leave the body and we can return to wholeness. We cannot heal
through the mind, trauma needs to be dealt with in the body.
Is your sexual attitude connected to pain and shame? You can unwind your story to
create a new narrative, one that you prefer and one that supports your healing. We
can get hurt in relationships or we can get healed in relationships.

Move out of Trauma

1. Ask yourself - How was your trauma integrated? How did you relate to yourself
before and after the event?
2. Process the feelings that you held back because you did not feel safe enough to
express them at the time.
3. Feel the stuck energy move through the body.
4. Write down positive and negative thoughts you have about sexuality.
5. Create a narrative you prefer, one that you would have if you were free in your
body. Does this narrative support how you feel?
6. Bring the aspect of the divine into your body and into lovemaking with yourself
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“If your current narrative has been holding you back in your life, imagine what could
happen when you no longer have those restraints? Your trauma could be your blessing.
It takes energy to keep trauma in the body, choose to move from the shadow into the
light. Your body is your own pharmacy.”

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 Lynne Forrest
Lynne Forrest is a reality guide and personal growth mentor. Lynne was educated
through a lifetime of studying and observing metaphysical life principles taught to
her early in life, and learning how to apply those principles to her own life in
positive ways. She has been sharing her findings with others and watching their
lives transform since the seventies, and has supported herself and her family
through a private practice, which was founded on those principles in 1985.

Lynne started out in the mental health field in the early seventies, hired and trained by
an HMO (health maintenance organization) in social work and mental health. She has
been in the field of personal growth ever since – moving to the addictions field in the
early eighties, where she was one of the pioneers for co-dependency and family of
origin work in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

As a perpetual student of life and consciousness, Lynne has devoted her career to
studying with masters of various disciplines. Family dynamics, Jungian principles;
dreams and shadow work, psychodrama and energy as well as the laws of manifestation,
body oriented practices such as yoga, physical unwinding and qigong.
Through her work with clients, Lynne has developed a unique understanding of how the
mind works and ways to liberate it from the throes of what she calls the ‘victim mind’.
Lynne teaches that we react to life in one of two ways – we’re either reacting out of the
victim mind or we see life through the eyes of the observer self which witnesses
without judgment.

The victim mind is a state of consciousness that prompts us to react as if what we feel,
believe or do is caused by something outside of us. We see ourselves as being at the
mercy of our life circumstances.

The observer mind, on the other hand, understands that there is only one cause of our
unhappiness – it is what’s going on in our own mind.

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Each of us operates from a set of core beliefs, these beliefs become our thoughts and
our behaviors follow suit. We put out an energy in motion that sets a tone and attracts
a mirror image. We get to see an experience of what we believe; a three-dimensional
experience of our thoughts and beliefs because we feel and act as if those beliefs are true.
It isn’t what has happened to you that holds you back - it is the belief you created
around the event, not the actual event.

Lynne’s work is devoted to helping people find and clear the painful beliefs and ideas
that have caused them distress through a process of accessing the observer self.

Breaking Free
1. Recognize – Be willing at some point to put down the pointed finger. Move past blame.
2. Notice the frequency of your thoughts and take responsibility for them.
3. Understand that what we experience is a reflection of some part of our mind and ask:
what am I believing that is attracting this into my life?
4. When you judge another, ask where you are holding that same thought against yourself.
It is not accidental to have such encounters and know that they are showing up so you
can clear the pathway.
5. What world do I want to co-create and what thoughts do I need to shift to create that
world for myself?
6. What is this for me? What is it showing, teaching and guiding me toward? How am I
better for it?

A conscious being actively participates in their expansion and knows they are here to
have this experience. They know they can corroborate and be a part of it and even direct it.

Surrender to the storms and trust that it is there to service you. Let go of the need to
make it a problem. There will be pain and chaos, but everything that expands goes
through these stages of destruction and change before it settles into a new order.
All our pain, trauma, enemies, etc. were all placed for our growth. Our souls only care
about expanding our consciousness. In the Vedas, the masters were the ones who
chose to take on the difficult journeys.

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This is a journey of compassion and patience. It is a spinning wheel and we will keep
going back to the bottom of the wheel, but it’s not about how often we go there,
it’s how long you stay there for. We are constantly learning and refining parts of our
beings. It’s about learning how to move from the brain to our hearts. The heart is the
alchemical kitchen and plays a central role in our growth.

“Our authentic being never forgets who we really are. It knows that everything is
intentional and by design. Pain motivates us to keep seeing the truth. The higher
self knows that we expand through everything we take on – then life becomes a very
different and exciting adventure when we are willing to take the risk and live fully –
expressing all that we are in the world.”

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 Rachel Grant
Rachel Grant is the owner and founder of Rachel Grant Coaching and is a
Sexual Abuse Recovery Coach. She is also the author of Beyond Surviving:
The Final Stage in Recovery from Sexual Abuse.

She brings to the table a passionate belief that her clients do not have to remain trapped
or confronted daily by the thoughts or behaviours that resulted from abuse. Through her
own journey of recovery from sexual abuse, she has gained insight and understanding
about what it takes to overcome abuse. This makes it possible for her to relate to and
appreciate your struggles intimately.
Her program, Beyond Surviving, has been specifically designed to change the way we
think about and heal from abuse. Based on her educational training, study of neuroscience,
and lessons learned from her own journey, she has successfully used this program since
2007 to help her clients break free from the past and move on with their lives.

She holds an M.A. in Counseling Psychology. She provides a compassionate and challenging
approach for her clients while using coaching as opposed to therapeutic models.
“There is an immediate impact on nervous system when we experience trauma; we might
freeze, disassociate, fight either during or at a later stage by acting out or being disruptive
in other parts of our lives. This continuous activation of the nervous system has a profound
effect on our overall wellness.”

We end up with a narrative that we construct to try to make sense of our experience and
figure out how to soothe ourselves and survive. The effects of that are profound, causing us
to possibly not have boundaries, leads to deep depression, and affects how we connect
with others.

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There are three main stages that one goes through, and although it isn’t linear, we are
generally in one stage at a time:

1. Victim - In denial and not ready to face the experience. It is running in the
background and influencing our lives, but cannot acknowledge the event.
2. Survivor - Ready to acknowledge and talk about the experiences. We start to draw
connections of how the event is impacting our lives.
3. Beyond Survivor - You’re fed up about the trauma and its impacts. You’re ready to
do something about it. How do I resolve this? What do I need to do? You have a
distance between yourself and the past.

Your story of trauma becomes a story of healing. When we think about this experience
of trauma, it holds the same energy as other things in our lives.
“I’m in the present, I’m owning my life, I have the tools and skills to navigate life. I
choose to live from an empowered place, a place of choice. I’m in the present and not
disempowered or reactive.”

The Beyond Survivor program begins with a boot camp for the brain; a relearning and
unwiring. Since the nervous system is the first thing that is impacted and the way the
brain processes info, in order to heal, we need to lay the foundation with tools and
skills to help deal with, and eventually eliminate, triggers.
The next part is to shift past shame. When we claim that shame, it opens up a pathway
to reclaiming our worthiness, and rights to our needs and desires.

We sometimes blame ourselves for feeling pleasure; sexual trauma doesn’t always feel
bad. The relationship with the abuser is complex with duality. Make peace with and hold
onto that duality in a powerful way.
We must deal with the shame first before anger. If you are shame-based, you turn that
anger onto yourself. Shift the blame first.

Finally, compassion and forgiveness are a big part of the journey, but it's a step-by- step
process and cannot be rushed.

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We first need to see ourselves as a whole and direct forgiveness and compassion within first.

“We are now living in a time and place where we have many more interventions and social
awareness. This is hopeful because it allows us more opportunities to break the patterns
of trauma.”

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 Dr Stephen Snyder
Dr. Stephen Snyder is one of today’s leading voices in the field of sexual psychology.
He is a psychiatrist, sex therapist and writer. He writes blogs for SexualityResource.
com and PsychologyToday.com. Dr. Snyder has been a guest on major media networks
such as NBC’s ‘Today’, CBS ‘This Morning’ with Oprah Winfrey, is a contributor to the
Huffington Post, and author of one of the most acclaimed sex and relationship books
of our time – Love Worth Making: How to Have Ridiculously Great Sex in a
Long-Lasting Relationship.

Dr. Snyder noticed that there wasn’t any information written about how emotions
affect our lovemaking and healing processes. There was research on the physical
aspects of sexual arousal, but not an emotional look at what it feels like to be sexually
aroused. He decided to conduct his own research study and after decades of talking
to people about it, he narrowed it down to three common answers:
Absorption – He found that some people described feeling completely absorbed in the
experience. He noticed that this was more challenging and less common for some women,
but that most people found that they could focus their attention and become completely
absorbed in the feelings of bliss during lovemaking.
Childlike – Albeit a bit controversial, Dr. Snyder recognized that sex for most people
was conducted in a very childlike way.
“We don’t really have much tolerance when we are sexually aroused. We want to keep
things very simple, not be bothered too much, we want our partners to make nice
noises and tell us we are wonderful. It’s a very childlike selfish state of mind.
Psychologically, we call it a regression to a simpler state of mind.”

Validation – The third commonality was that we use sex as a sense of validation.
He describes that when some people become very sexually aroused, they have a
feeling of coming home and that the sensations embody their essence and being.

“One of my pet theories about eroticism is that it’s a reawakening of emotions that go
all the way back to infancy. Our interactions in infancy are emotional and physical and
are simultaneously selfish and connected; much like lovemaking.

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Intimate relating with our partners evokes the early mother-infant bonding with eye
gazing and pleasurable sensations, yet with an air of seriousness about it.

Dr. Snyder explains how manhood and masculinity have gone through much iteration
over the last century. From a basic understanding of women’s bodies and believing that
women were for pleasure and reproduction, to men wanting to be providers and make
their partner have multiple orgasmic experiences.
“However, passion lives when there is a selfish connection with your partner. We all want
a partner who is so absorbed in being with you that they are momentarily lost in the
experience and let go of everything else during lovemaking.”
He describes sex like a nuclear power – it has tremendous potential for good and bad.
If you engage with someone with whom you feel safe, the power can be transformative.
“The sexual mind does not understand goals. It just wants to have fun like a child.
People tend to get very binary when talking about sexual negotiations. Sexual flow can
come and go. One can get aroused and not have sex.”

Inspiration for Long-Lasting Relationships

1. Simmering is a technique whereby you engage with your partner very intimately,
but not sexually. You can kiss each other and breathe together, become aroused
and then walk away. Keep that excitement going throughout the day.
2. Get naked and lay in bed together. Do absolutely nothing sexual. Get back into your
body. Breathe. Detach from any emotions claiming your attention and only then do
you turn to your partner once the channels are open.
3. You cannot cultivate desire into a long-lasting relationship. The novelty has worn off.
Instead quiet down and cultivate inspiration through connection instead.
4. Enjoy ‘lazy sex’ – for some reason, long term couples think sex has to be mutual and
that they cannot touch themselves when with their partner. Give yourself an orgasm
while your partner is keeping you company instead of feeling frustrated if they are
not in the same state as you in that moment.

“At the end of the day, be with someone who can hold space and a safe container for you.
They must respect where you are in this moment.”

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 Nicole Poppers
Nicole Poppers is an international womb mentor and teacher, a priestess of
love and spirit keeper of the womb. She has been initiated into ancient wisdom,
sexual mysteries and the wisdom in nature. She is devoted to the reconciliation
of the shadow and light, merging the heart and the womb by integrating the
feminine and masculine split.

“Womb work is returning back to the sacred place of our womb consciousness; the
doorway where spirit becomes matter. I support women to remember and awaken
the wisdom that is already there, to reconnect to their innate power of our sacred space.”
A pilgrimage into the womb involves connecting with different jades, releasing
emotions and frequencies, memories from this life and other lives. It’s about
awakening the bliss instinct that connects us with the cosmic womb and womb of Gaia.
Everything can be reborn and transformed. It is a creative space, not only to create babies,
but birth anything you want into reality. Energy is not flowing down because we are
constantly connected to the mind. While we need to connect with the cosmos, we also
need to connect to our bodies and Mother Earth.
“It is remembering that we are sacred, our menstrual blood is sacred, pleasure is sacred.”

In order for us to heal the wasteland of sexual distortion, we must return to our wombs
and yonis, befriend them, practice yoni gazing. The moment we drop down and build a
relationship with our sacred womb, our awareness changes and our wombs will
magnetise what we need in life.

Create a Womb Connection

1. Close your eyes.
2. Take a few deep breaths.
3. Breathe into your belly and connect with your hands.
4. Connect with your yoni through exploration or simply holding and breathing into the space.
5. Connect to your yoni and womb with devotion.

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Our wombs are also connected to one another through the womb field.
Every time a woman connects with her womb, we are reweaving the threads of
women into the fabric of reality.

Our moon cycle is when we have the opportunity to release and let die the parts of
us - emotions and frequencies that are no longer in alignment with who we are
becoming. It’s important to pay attention to your ebb and flow during this cycle.
When you notice the times in your cycle where you are energetic, you can use those
moments to create, when you notice you are feeling calm and introverted, you can
create space for this within your cycle instead of going against your natural flow.

Conscious menstruating is another big part of our healing and empowerment.

At some point, we turned against our blood and it was given a distorted image of
something dirty and unclean. Remember the sacredness of your cycle and blood,
relearn ancient practices - our first period should be an initiation into womanhood
and we need to create safe containers for this process.

Right now Gaia is supporting us to remember our soft power of the womb.
As we go into this journey, our wombs are setting frequencies for others to do the
same, whether it is understood consciously or not. Each woman will embrace and
remember our ancient wisdom in their own divine timing.

“When we are sitting in the womb and connected to the heart and soft power of the
womb, we are able to identify predators and situations that could lead to sexual
wounding. It can and will transform our wounds going forward.”

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Namaste ~ Dear Heart
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