When people hear the term "spiritual sex," a whole gamut of inaccurate notions and associations may leap to mind. Let's look at some of the most common misconceptions:

I'd have to change my religion to practice spiritual sex.

No. You don't even have to think about religion. Spiritual sex...

Communicating with our hands, whether sacredly or profanely, is a human trait. We use our two hands for everything, but most significantly, we use them to gesture. We make all kinds of gestures. For the most part we make them unconsciously and depending on whether we are pissed off or...

My website, tantra.com, contains lots of sacred iconography: pictures of gods and goddesses, candles, and other archetypal imagery. I've had people tell me that they can't relate because they're not Hindu, or they don't like religion. They ask me, what does all this god...

I believe most modern Americans have a very low capacity for pleasure. I don't just mean sex. I mean being tactile, receiving touch, feeling the wind rush past your body, swimming, getting in bed at night and rolling around in your clean sheets for a few minutes. Tactile pleasure makes...

It's a crazy life and you probably don't need to be reminded about it again. The thing is, we get stuck in the rut like hamsters on a wheel, and we can't see clearly enough to get creative about shifting our experiences. How do you integrate everything you want to...

Today's PC muscle exercises, or Kegel exercises, are not the ones your mother might have done. Oh no, they've been upgraded a whole lot so it's surprising that they aren't considered one of the "yogas". The truth is that they are a type of yoga. Mindfulness, along with these physical...

Wild, Wildlife, Wild Nature, Wilderness, Re-Wilding. I like these words. I've been reading about a project in Finland, that has taken the largest tract of land ever designated as 'on purpose' wilderness, and created an 'experiment' with it in re-wilding. The scientists running the project are letting it alone to...

I'm lying on the beach at Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawai'i. This beach and the one just to the South of it, Hapuna, vie for the distinction of being the most beautiful beaches in all of the United States (Conde...

How often does, say, George Clooney show up in my dreams, or for that matter in any woman's dreams? Of course, I'm specifically referring to sexual dreams. Unfortunately we don't have any research that tells us about good old George and thee but we do have some hints about the...

Hidden in the jungle, up on the Western slope of Mauna Loa on the Big Island of Hawaii there's a little cabin that I am living in right now. It's on a piece of rural land that I've had for some 23 years now. I don't get here very often...

You're in it now or in the planning stages. The next few weeks are going to be busy, to say the least. Keeping your sanity might mean taking a bit of time to focus on your relationship. Celebrating yourselves in a new way might make all the difference in great...

President Obama has just officially ordered another 30,000 troops to Afghanistan. We are now fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan and have troops stationed in 147 other countries around the world. The US actually has 1.6 million troops and a little fewer than 300,000 now in the Middle East. Protectionism,...

I once proposed to my husband that we choose 'Devotion' with a big 'D'. I meant that we would be completely devoted to each other 100 percent. Let me define that a little further. That would look like we idolized each other. We would...

Recent scientific research is beginning to investigate the relationships between experience and the memories of experience. Researchers are seeing that certain areas of the brain light up depending on the thoughts, actions and experiences of a person. Detailed maps of the brain now exist for the repeated patterns that we...

You're doing Yoga. You meditate. You try to use your 'giraffe' ears to listen well. You won't say anything un-PC (politically incorrect) for fear your twisted sense of humor won't be understood. You're on the right path, yet one of the most intriguing concepts to come forward in many a...

"Something in the way she moves, attracts me like no other lover"
-George Harrison, for his wife Patti

I went walking with friends yesterday. It was a beautiful fall evening and we walked in our rural neighborhood until dark. When I first started the walk I noticed I felt a bit...

"The single most important key to sex that I've yet discovered is conscious rhythmic breathing; the more you breathe the more you feel and the more you come alive. Many of us breathe only enough to survive but not to live fully. Deep breathing is a door to waking up...

It's Darwin's 200th birthday this year and we'll be hearing a lot about him, I'm sure. I'm looking forward to seeing the new movie Creation, which is about his life and will include a look at his fear of reporting all he understood about evolution. Given the Victorian culture he...

I'm reminded of Witness Consciousness today. The world is changing outside of my window. Fall is splashing her golden hues all over the place and this makes it relatively easy to be hyper-conscious of the beauty and life that is all around me. Forget stress, the economy and my messy...

I went to see Bonnie Raitt and Taj Mahal the other night in Oakland California. The setting was beautiful and the crowd was thrilled with the music and the vibes. Late in the program, as they sang a lusty, bluesy song together Taj began to wave his hands in the...