I practiced whirling when I lived in India. Every day at noon, the erotic, evocative music would enliven the meditation...
I’m sure like everyone I had a variety of responses while reading this week’s materials: excitement, disbelief, curiosity, and not-good-enough...
I was really struck this week by the idea that Eastern philosophy treats mind/body unity as an achievement, that it...
This week we examined some very colorful, erotic, fully-embodied traditions more identified with the community and nature than most. Antoinette...
I had the great fortune once to witness a Hopi dance ceremony in person. The authenticity and reverence were awe-inspiring....
Watching the Gurdjieff movement videos, I found them fascinating and strange, and strangely disembodied. The staccato of the movements was...
In the three forms of Buddhism presented this week, both Mahayana and Theravada share a worldview that the body is...
The philosophy and teachings of Kūkai are another tradition that has been identified as sex-positive, although it cannot be said...
There exists a “myth” that the world was originally a matriarchal paradise and therefore was sex-positive, before the conquest of...
My question became: which, if any, of the spiritual traditions of the world understood sex to be a valid path...