1) How, why and when did you start teaching workshops?

Al and Pala have been practicing Tantra sacred sexuality since 1987. We started on this spiritual path when we had a spontaneous mystical experience during our extended lovemaking. At one point during lovemaking when we had become very still and quiet, an energetic current began to course through our bodies bringing to us a superb and sublime physical pleasure from head to toe. Simultaneous with that ecstatic pleasure was an awareness of no boundaries between our physical bodies. We merged as one. Then our consciousness expanded in an instant out to infinity and we merged with all and everything. After that experience we began to search for reports by others about similar experiences and discovered Tantric and Taoist sacred sexuality practices dating back thousands of years in India and China. We began to explore the teachings of those spiritual systems and sacred sex became our hobby. After approximately 10 years of continuous practice, we had experienced such a profound spiritual awakening and a flourishing of our love in relationship together, that we decided to share what we had learned with others. We offered our first workshops late in 1997.


 
2) What draws you to work in sexual education and health?

Our relationship is our spiritual practice and sacred sexuality is the primary form of that practice. We are relationship mentors and believe that the spiritual path we have created, Enlightenment for Two is a path any couple can follow if they are willing to make the effort to learn how to create love for a lifetime together. Following this path provides couples with many benefits including these:

            Relationship Happiness

            Extraordinary Health - Super Boosted Immune System

            Ecstatic Sexuality

            Graceful Aging

            High Energy

            Super Creativity

            Peak Perfomance

            Abundance

            Love

            One of the shortest quickest paths available leading all the way to Enlightenment for Two

 

3) Can you tell me a bit about why you are passionate about this workshop topic?

We only teach what we actually do to keep our own relationship, hot, sexy, vital, and flourishing. We have been sharing our approach to sacred sexuality and relationship happiness for over a decade with hundreds of couples and virtually all of them have benefited by what they have learned. We have also saved many an marriage with this teaching.

Popularity: 6% [?]

Popularity: 5% [?]

 Pala Copeland and Al Link.Soul Sex: Tantra for Two. ISBN: 1564146642

Our first book exploring relationship as spiritual practice using Tantric and Taoist approaches to sacred sexuality. We help you learn how to create love for a lifetime together.

Margo Anand. The Art of Sexual Ecstasy: The Path of Sacred Sexuality for Western Lovers. ISBN: 0874775817

Popularity: 3% [?]

The Multi-Orgasmic Woman: Discover Your Full Desire, Pleasure, and Vitality. ISBN: 1594860270

This book explores how women can adopt a pleasure orientation with sex rather than seeking orgasm as a goal of lovemaking. Nevertheless, it offers a step-by-step guide for women in becoming multi-orgasmic.

Popularity: 2% [?]

"Sacred Space"

Holy Ground 

What is the difference between “sex” and “sacred sex”? Essentially, the difference is your attitude and intention. It is primarily through ceremony and ritual that we communicate with our souls. Creating a sacred space for loving is one of the best ways of signaling to your deepest / highest consciousness that your intention is to elevate lovemaking to an art and a sacrament. In this way the lovers may graduate from ordinary friction sex (in which bodies rub together for pleasure) to energy sex (in which there is a deep emotional and energetic connection), and ultimately if love is present to the complete union of soul sex.

Popularity: 18% [?]

Tantra Sacred Loving Exercise – Immersion

Immersing Yourself in Experience

One of the core competencies of Tantra is the ability to stay focused and remain fully immersed in the moment. If your attention wanders during sacred lovemaking, the experience of ecstasy will elude you. The following exercise is from Soul Sex: Tantra for Two, Chapter 6, “Be Here Now”

Immersion is something you do, not something that happens to you. Realizing this is a key to opening yourself to experience immersion, which in turn is essential for experiencing ecstasy. Until you understand this, you may be tempted to give credit for the peak experiences you have, to the circumstances of the experience or to the other person(s) involved if there were any. Once you know that immersion is something you do, you can learn exactly how you do it and you can do it more often. With mastery, you can immerse yourself any time, in any experience you want to.

Immersion Exercise

1. Recall a peak experience from any time in your life, one in which you were aware of some, but not necessarily all, of the following emotions and states of being:

o joy  o bliss  o ecstasy  oeuphoria  o happiness  o excitement  o freedom  o sexually turned on 

o intellectually excited  o extreme sensory richness  o pleasure  o trust  o safe  o secure 

o comfortable  o appreciated  o accepted  o loved  o cared for  o beauty  o tenderness

o accomplishment  o creativity  o confidence  o fun  o playfulness  o satisfaction  o relaxation 

o contentment  o peace of mind  o spiritual awakening  o unity  o oneness with all things 

o direct connection with the Divine  o positive hallucinations  o out-of-body experience 

o psychic phenomena such as telepathy, remote viewing, moving objects at a distance, etc.

 2. Describe the details of the experience.

Here are some of the things you can look for when describing the experience.

-          What were you actually doing: making love, dancing, singing, meditating, creating your art, competing, working, etc?

-          Were you alone or with someone (a man or woman or many people)? Was it a stranger or someone you knew?

-          Was the situation planned or spontaneous, involving surprise and/or mystery?

-          Describe the location: Were you inside or outside? Was it hot or cold? Were you in or near water, in the countryside, in a city?

-          What did you see: colors, textures, motion, places, people, objects, animals, scenery, movies, theatre, etc?

-          What did you hear: sounds of nature, sounds of bodies, words, music (live or recorded), machinery, etc?

-          What did you taste: food, drinks, bodies, semen, etc?

-          What did you smell: bodies, scents, perfumes, flowers, air, etc?

-          What did you touch: textures, bodies, materials, wet, dry, hot, cold, rough, smooth, soft, hard, etc?

-          Were you talking and sharing interesting ideas?

-          Were you being watched?

-          Was fantasy involved in the experience?

-          Was what you were doing forbidden, taboo, “bad”, exotic, etc?

-          Was there danger or violence?

-          Were you in control or did you surrender, or both?

-          Were you rescuing someone or being rescued?

-          Were you using alcohol, marijuana, or any mind altering substance?

-          What emotions, feelings and states of being did you experience? Check the ones that apply.

o joy  o bliss  o ecstasy  oeuphoria  o happiness  o excitement  o freedom  o sexually turned on 

o intellectually excited  o extreme sensory richness  o pleasure  o trust  o safe  o secure 

o comfortable  o appreciated  o accepted  o loved  o cared for  o beauty  o tenderness

o accomplishment  o creativity  o confidence  o fun  o playfulness  o satisfaction  o relaxation 

o contentment  o peace of mind  o spiritual awakening  o unity  o oneness with all things 

o direct connection with the Divine  o positive hallucinations  o out-of-body experience 

o psychic phenomena such as telepathy, remote viewing, moving objects at a distance, etc.

3.  As you recall the experience, notice the part you played in it. Look for the ways that you were responsible for it, how you created the experience or allowed it to happen. No peak experience just happens to you. You are always an active participant in any experience of joy, bliss, ecstasy and happiness. For example, ask yourself:

-          “How did I choose to open myself to this experience?”

-          “What did I do to help create my own joy?”

-          “How did I put myself into the experience?”

-          “How did I allow myself to go deeper into the experience?”

 
4. Recall a second peak experience and describe this experience as you did the first one.

5. Look for similarities and patterns in the two experiences. These similarities and patterns are your keys for allowing yourself to be immersed in ecstatic experience. Later, on your own, you can recall other peak experiences and get a more complete and clear picture of your “immersion pattern” (how you do immersion). Remember it is not the circumstances themselves, but how you responded to them. Here is the checklist for identifying the similarities and patterns. Mark only the items that show up in both experiences. Naturally you can add other things to the list.

-          What were you actually doing: making love, dancing, singing, meditating, creating your art, competing, working, etc?

-          Were you alone or with someone (a man or woman or many people)? Was it a stranger or someone you knew?

-          Was the situation planned or spontaneous, involving surprise and/or mystery?

-          Describe the location: Were you inside or outside? Was it hot or cold? Were you in or near water, in the countryside, in a city?

-          What did you see: colors, textures, motion, places, people, objects, animals, scenery, movies, theatre, etc?

-          What did you hear: sounds of nature, sounds of bodies, words, music (live or recorded), machinery, etc?

-          What did you taste: food, drinks, bodies, semen, etc?

-          What did you smell: bodies, scents, perfumes, flowers, air, etc?

-          What did you touch: textures, bodies, materials, wet, dry, hot, cold, rough, smooth, soft, hard, etc?

-          Were you talking and sharing interesting ideas?

-          Were you being watched?

-          Was fantasy involved in the experience?

-          Was what you were doing forbidden, taboo, “bad”, exotic, etc?

-          Was there danger or violence?

-          Were you in control or did you surrender, or both?

-          Were you rescuing someone or being rescued?

-          Were you using alcohol, marijuana, or any mind altering substance?

-          What emotions, feelings and states of being did you experience? Check the ones that apply.

o joy  o bliss  o ecstasy  oeuphoria  o happiness  o excitement  o freedom  o sexually turned on 

o intellectually excited  o extreme sensory richness  o pleasure  o trust  o safe  o secure 

o comfortable  o appreciated  o accepted  o loved  o cared for  o beauty  o tenderness

o accomplishment  o creativity  o confidence  o fun  o playfulness  o satisfaction  o relaxation 

o contentment  o peace of mind  o spiritual awakening  o unity  o oneness with all things 

o direct connection with the Divine  o positive hallucinations  o out-of-body experience 

o psychic phenomena such as telepathy, remote viewing, moving objects at a distance, etc.

All Good Things,

Al Link and Pala Copeland

4 Freedoms Relationship Tantra

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