Satisfying Intimacy ~ A show for Love, Sex & Life

Have you ever felt mixed emotions about something really important to you? ~The good news (other than falling in love!) is, you can practice as much as you want sitting with the feelings and choosing your action and communication, no longer dominated by old reflexes. ~ How much do I say to the other person? Who can I confide in to get clear and relieve the pressure? How do I open up to the joy and contentment, and move on, on my path, and on this path with this person, and loving them on their path, to deeper and deeper gift and fulfillment in this world? ~Here are some starting points for you to tap into your internal wisdom... ~If this show makes a difference in your life, your support would mean the world! Come visit www.patreon.com/satisfyingintimacy and join a private online community with group events and personal time and inspiration.Thanks for listening, and to Jhelisa Anderson for the music sample.Comments & suggestions? DM @satisfying.intimacy on Insta. On parle français. Se habla español. Support the show

Pleasure is a gift given to us innately, and it is a practice. Here, come explore how to welcome it into every corner of your physical and psychic being, sex, heart, head, spine, fingers and toes; marvel as you watch and FEEL it spread and dance and stretch and blow you open and contain itself with laser focus in your life and... however you want and need it to act! ~This podcast shares meditations and games for you solo and with partner to get to know your and their capacities. AND, it suggests that as you grow your being, you will have experiences of incomprehendable bliss, homecoming, union, sustenance and inspiration for your body, relationship, life's work and more. ~I am so grateful you are here each episode helping me help the world free itself from shame, loneliness, wasted time and other things taught to us for the profit of someone else... who probably wasn't having a lot of pleasure. Come take this life and radiate your gifts and make love with as many breaths as you wish. ~~If this show makes a difference in your life, your support would mean the world! Come visit www.patreon.com/satisfyingintimacy and join a private online community with group events and personal time and inspiration.Thanks for listening, and to Jhelisa Anderson for the music sample.Comments & suggestions? DM @satisfying.intimacy on Insta. On parle français. Se habla español. Support the show

Who doesn't yearn to go WILD?? The magic is... we already are wild! We are nature, we are animal, if you believe it we are cosmos too. And we have all these social teachings, some with the good intention of harmony, some with the bad intention of domination, that mean at some point in journey to full adulthood we have to figure out how to modulate IT - our primal grab life by the horns and survive impulse. ~This episode is for you to find your own authentic language of the deepest part of you that no one may fully understand but you can share very fulfillingly. As usual here on the podcast there are meditations and games for solo and partner exploration and heaps of motivation. AND a caution that denying that powerful energy can lead to much harm to self and loved ones. ~ We're all trying to figure out how to do it in a good way, more or less civilized animals naked under the clothes we wear. Much love. ~ ~If this show makes a difference in your life, your support would mean the world! Come visit www.patreon.com/satisfyingintimacy and join a private online community with group events and personal time and inspiration.Thanks for listening, and to Jhelisa Anderson for the music sample.Comments & suggestions? DM @satisfying.intimacy on Insta. On parle français. Se habla español. Support the show

Afya Njema (@sexual.reflexology) helps people find their centre in sex, relationships and life, through her work and study as a doula, reflexologist, nutritionist, esthetician and Universal Healing Tao instructor. ~She shares here some of her amazing questions and reflections on you being your full satisfied self, whatever the past has held, focussed on solo time and relating today as you are and wish to be. ~Thank you Afya for sharing the depth of your care, listening, and experience. ~~If this show makes a difference in your life, your support would mean the world! Come visit www.patreon.com/satisfyingintimacy and join a private online community with group events and personal time and inspiration.Thanks for listening, and to Jhelisa Anderson for the music sample.Comments & suggestions? DM @satisfying.intimacy on Insta. On parle français. Se habla español. Have a great day.Support the show

Welcome to the new incarnation of Healthy Sex and Relationships! Thanks for your amazing interest and input through the 1st & 2nd seasons with 80 shows, 1000+ follows & 5000+ listens.Season 3 begins with big questions people are asking me and looking for online... each week for 10 weeks, 1 on Love, 1 on Sex and 1 on Relationships. Then back to interviewing groundbreaking lovemaking people around the world, sharing original juicy meditations for your mind body spirit emotional pleasure, and who knows what other best kinda trouble can be found.Wishing you immediate and lifelong joy, benefit, and inspiration.~ If this show makes a difference in your life, your support would mean the world! Come visit www.patreon.com/satisfyingintimacy and join a private online community with group events and personal time and inspiration.Thanks for listening, and to Jhelisa Anderson for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @satisfying.intimacy on Insta. On parle français. Se habla español. Have a great day.Support the show

Lexi Duquette (@mermaidinthevtmountains, seagoddesshealingarts.com) and her team of healers and visionaries is here to help you last as long in love and relationship as you want to, to keep finding that spark for your own life, attraction to your partner, curiosity for your future together. ~14 years and 3 kids into a marriage that like others neared divorce many times for old resentments, sexual disconnection, hurtful actions and the like, she and her partner went to work hard on themselves to come out of the rough seas refreshed and in love with life. ~Here Lexi also talks about how important it was to have a couple of happy long-time couple role models to shine the light of possibility amid bleak prospects of putting up with each other if not hating each other but sticking it our cause of loneliness, "for the kids" or whatever other reason than happiness, freedom, helping each other become your best selves better than you can do alone. ~Thanks Lexi for all your insight, passion and trail-blazing in the dark! ~~ If this show makes a difference in your life, come support it and enjoy group and 1-on-1 calls at www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships! Thanks for listening and to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @healthy.sex.and.relationships on Insta. Ici on parle français. Se habla español. Have a great day.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

Candice Leigh (@nakedyogatherapy, nakedyogatherapy.com) was years into yoga before the question came, what is the yoga of sex? ~Her teacher didn't have an answer, so she found her way through the forest of tantra, sexological bodywork and somatic experiencing (SE) to create Naked Yoga Therapy in New York, USA. ~As she tells here, most of her solo sessions, couples work and group classes aren't actually naked, though that is an amazing experience that can teach us so much about ourselves, unhelpful messages we got around our bodies and sexuality, even around social interaction; that can remind us to feel the joy of simply existing, moving, with elements all around. ~Rather, naked is about plainly facing oneself and bringing that in to facing another. The idea is, the more self-accepting and self-embracing we are, the more we can really let ourselves connect with others, especially in the intimate places we so crave. In the same way that emotional vulnerability can be even more powerful than nudity, emotional intimacy can be more powerful than sex, although a wonderful conclusion of all this is to bring the two together. ~Thanks Candice for sharing the fruit of your travels and integration in the mind/body/soul, and expressing it so movingly. ~~ If this show makes a difference in your life, come support it and enjoy group and 1-on-1 calls at www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships! Thanks for listening and to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @healthy.sex.and.relationships on Insta. Ici on parle français. Se habla español. Have a great day.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

Amaka Ruth Njoku (@thegriefcircle_naija) has created a space for people to be themselves, with grief, so we can feel more whole, enjoy relationships and life, and help others. ~Amaka lost her mom back in Nigeria while living in Mexico and didn't get to say goodbye, and then had a hard time finding a community anywhere that would welcome and help her understand what she was going through. She created The Grief Circle Naija so others would be able to start that much further ahead. ~She talks her about her experience, social taboos, finding your tribe, having open conversations, new rituals, self-love, and being with friends and partners who are ready to rock a real life with you. She encourages everyone to take as long as it takes and let it come out however it needs to, and not let anyone stop you or push you feel bad about it. ~Thanks Amaka for blazing a path back to ourselves and to the future of new openness. ~~ If this show makes a difference in your life, come support it and enjoy group and 1-on-1 calls at www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships! Thanks for listening and to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @healthy.sex.and.relationships on Insta. Ici on parle français. Se habla español. Have a great day.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

Freya McFarlane (@freya_mcfarlane) is a tantric intimacy teacher who loves ritual... little rituals every day with yourself and your beloved, little or big rituals when the seasons change, or birthdays/holidays/anniversaries, or even the evolving seasons of the relationship itself. ~Based in Edmonton, Canada and coaching online as well, Freya shares here the meaning and adventure we can live with when we have a safe and inviting space together. There are ideas for playing with the elements, sensual exploration, chatting needs and dreams, going out into the world with purpose, celebrating each waking up and going to bed. ~The ritual itself can be much of what builds trust between you and gives your relationship special powers from connection to nature, as our ancestors have done for thousands of years. ~Thank you Freya for sharing such a quality of loving teaching. ~~ If the show makes a difference in your life, come support it and enjoy group and 1-on-1 calls at www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships! Thanks for listening and to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @healthy.sex.and.relationships on Insta. Ici on parle français. Se habla español. Have a great day.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

Marie Thouin (www.loveinsight-dating.com) is a coach helping people meet desire and discovery on dates, based in San Francisco, USA and consulting also online. ~In this show we talk about knowing and caring for yourself before, during and after an encounter all the while really listening, sensing, connecting with the other person. We talk about first dates, getting closer thru many get-togethers, and how to keep a relationship even years-old fresh and exciting in love and curiosity.Rooted in your safety, unashamed to communicate, laughing at so-called mistakes, a world of fun and fulfillment opens up, and so does the clarity to walk away when it's not what you want. Part 1 of 2 of this year's Valentine's Day offering for those who enjoy. ~Thanks Marie for modeling being yourself and so alive in but one conversation, sharing the benefits of your experience. ~~ If the show makes a difference in your life, come support it and enjoy group and 1-on-1 calls at www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships! Thanks for listening and to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @healthy.sex.and.relationships on Insta. Ici on parle français. Se habla español. Have a great day.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

Yet another pair of camps we get divided into and dehumanize each other with is empaths and narcissists. ~Yes any one of us can be empathic (focussed on others) or narcisisstic (focussed on self) in a moment or as a habit. And both can have good reason to exist for survival and co-habitation. However, when the extreme cases that are a minority get focused on, we can think that in our or our partner's mild empathy or narcissism, one is right and one is wrong, one is healthy and one is sick. ~Why would we want to see the world so black and white, threatening each other with physical or moral power-over? ~Who doesn't benefit from us getting along, succeeding in love, working well together, uniting for a better society and relationship with the natural world? ~Here are suggestions to dial in our ability to view self and other as mixes, with room to play and make mistakes, try our best with good intention, and draw a new picture of the world based on our truths. ~~ If the show makes a difference in your life, come support it and enjoy group and 1-on-1 calls at www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships! Thanks for listening and to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @healthy.sex.and.relationships on Insta. Ici on parle français. Se habla español. Have a great day.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

James Thorp (jathorp@bellsouth.net) is an American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology-certified doctor serving women and families in reproductive health for 40+ years. Currently practicing in Gulf Breeze, USA, he's become aware of menstrual cycle, pregnancy, and newborn health problems linked to having received mRNA gene therapy injections in some COVID vaccines. ~He's one of many doctors to have experienced censorship and smearing for speaking up, on the principle that informed consent is necessary to fulfill the doctor's oath to look out for patients' health. ~This interview presents Dr. Thorp's understanding of how the injections can affect a woman's reproductive cycle (pre-puberty and post-menopause uterine bleeding, decidual cast shedding, entry of injected lipid nanoparticles to ovaries/placenta/fetal brain) and the need for careful monitoring. Also presented are examples of approved medicines like DES linked to reproductive health problems, and examples of government medical policy that harmed people and violated the Nuremberg Code so-called "for their own good", as in the forced sterilization of aboriginal women in Canada, the USA, and Australia. ~The question is raised, what is dangerous about people having a variety of information from health care professionals and making up their own minds as to what's best for themselves and their children? ~Thank you Dr. Thorp for making the time to share your insider's experience and current work analyzing documentation on adverse events. ~~ If the show makes a difference in your life, come support it and enjoy group and 1-on-1 calls at www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships! Thanks for listening and to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @healthy.sex.and.relationships on Insta. Ici on parle français. Se habla español. Have a great day.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

Stephen Quaderer (@headeroapp) helped create the Headero app for lovers of oral pleasure and connection, starting in New York, USA and spreading out from there. ~Headero's goal is to make a difference in the world of online dating by uniting people of all genders/orientations, having community standards based on consent/conduct not looks/performance, encouraging oral as anything from appetizer to dinner to dessert, and not playing into the shame game of saying you want dating those times you want sex. ~The team looks at the major apps/sites and our evolving cultural values and is guided by member input, so far 17,000 people 6 months after launching. ~Thanks Stephen for showing another side of that world with your group's vision and passions. ~~ If the show makes a difference in your life, come support it and enjoy group and 1-on-1 calls at www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships! Thanks for listening and to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @healthy.sex.and.relationships on Insta. Ici on parle français. Se habla español. Have a great day.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

Everyone has delightful places on their body and everyone has sweet spots in their ears... I mean, the mind, the feelings, everything. Do you ever talk about it with your beloved? ~What are your absolute favourite things to hear? What's the setting? ~And what are the words you love to say? Is it about their heart, body, ideas, way of being? How about your shared memories and dreams? ~This show is a very simple reminder to enjoy sharing the love language of words. ~~ If the show makes a difference in your life, come support it and enjoy group and 1-on-1 calls at www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships! Thanks for listening and to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @healthy.sex.and.relationships on Insta. Ici on parle français. Se habla español. Have a great day.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

When you're in the middle of a conflict with your beloved, can you remember the purpose of your life and this relationship? ~Do you get lost in reacting, trying to see things their way, insisting on being heard in your feelings and ideas? Does conflict excite you or terrify you or does it not phase you at all because it's just part of life? ~This show talks about how you can use conflict as a golden opportunity to get to know yourself and them even better, sometimes even a sign that you're doing things right and the two of you are ready to open up to the next level of trust, love, passion and purpose. ~~ If the show makes a difference in your life, come support it and enjoy group and 1-on-1 calls at www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships! Thanks for listening and to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @healthy.sex.and.relationships on Insta. Ici on parle français. Se habla español. Have a great day.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

Will Blunderfield (willblunderfield.ca) is a yoga/tantra teacher helping men break down barriers within themselves and between each other, to live relatively free of fear and full of power in authentic relationships and purpose. ~He talks openly here about overcoming drug addiction, feeling lost and disempowered, going natural and wild, simplifying life, balancing self care with service to others. His events bring men together to learn how to be intimate solo and with others, developing body and emotional confidence in a way that puts sexuality in a conscious, not automatic place. ~This show is for men whether gay, straight, bi, trans and for woman wanting to love men better, understanding the pain men face and how to help unlock powerful loving happiness. And it's especially for any human wanting to get past limiting labels and fully realize their nature and opportunities. ~Thanks Will for shaking us up, sharing from your vulnerability and learnings. ~~ If the show makes a difference in your life, come support it and enjoy group and 1-on-1 calls at www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships! Thanks for listening and to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @healthy.sex.and.relationships on Insta. Ici on parle français. Se habla español. Have a great day.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

Supriya Ermione (@supriya.tantrika) is a tantra and kundalini teacher in Koh Phangan, Thailand. A lover of women and men, she shares about opening to new experiences, letting them come true, experiencing so many changes and awarenesses and pleasures. ~This show is for many people, women who've never made love or been intimate partners with a woman, women who have and are curious what else is possible to explore, and men who want to love women in a fuller more satisfying way. ~There's the tantric principle of everyone and everything having feminine and masculine qualities, ideas to support curiosity and exploration, and personal stories of joy and expansion. ~Thanks Supriya for sharing your experiences and reflections. If you read Italian or can auto-translate ebooks, she's got a new book coming out soon. ~~ If the show makes a difference in your life, come support it and enjoy group and 1-on-1 calls at www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships! Thanks for listening and to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @healthy.sex.and.relationships on Insta. Ici on parle français. Se habla español. Have a great day.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

Chloe Lee (@presencecuddletherapy) is a professional cuddler / cuddle therapist in Ottawa, Canada. In this chat she introduces the revolutionary practice of getting a good part of your physical, emotional, and spiritual needs met safely and in a way your partner can embrace too. ~These simple 20 minutes reveal so much about our natural healthy impulses, how we've been boxed into a setup where often we have no one at all or depend on one person to be our intimacy everything, so we don't even know we can ask others without shame to help us meet our needs and this can actually make our primary relationship(s) and community stronger, better mental health, less stress, juicier bodies, all of it. ~ Instead in this new time we can choose touch that is sexual or non-sexual, we can be listened to and held without anyone wanting anything from us, we can trust each other to respect self-boundaries and communicate them and arrive at nourishing ways of meeting, even heal traumas with powerful conscious and unconscious presence, reassurance, acceptance, love, space to self-express. ~Thank you Chloe for sharing your deep reflections and loving skills in blazing this trail. ~~ If the show makes a difference in your life, come support it and enjoy group and 1-on-1 calls at www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships! Thanks for listening and to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @healthy.sex.and.relationships on Insta. Ici on parle français. Se habla español. Have a great day.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

Wairimu (@vwairimukaruri) is a sex educator who organizes sex parties and has a budding BDSM practice in Nairobi, Kenya. ~In this very candid chat she shares from her experience with 3somes/4somes going solo or with a partner, and going through those chewy personal reflections and partner and group discussions to create a good setting with full consent and curiosity from all, the good experiences, the bad experiences, what it can teach you about yourself and our society that few other situations can. ~Two particular options she talks about are bringing a 3rd/4th person into your couple, and going to a sex party. Consent and honesty are essential in creating an amazing experience that builds your confidence and the bond between you and your partner whether it's a one-time thing or ongoing. ~Thanks Wairimu, this information is often kept tightly under wraps and to hear you speak freely with experience can give many people a much higher entry point or refinement of their existing practice. ~~ If the show makes a difference in your life, come support it and enjoy group and 1-on-1 calls at www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships! Thanks for listening and to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @healthy.sex.and.relationships on Insta. Ici on parle français. Se habla español. Have a great day.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

Caffyn Jesse (erospirit.ca) has 20+ years experience teaching somatic sex education and sexological bodywork, helping people experience sexual pleasure for the first time and discover how strong and full-bodied their pleasure can be, based in Saltspring, Canada with links to the Institute for the Study of Somatic Sex Education. ~This is a powerful method because it's based in feeling, seeing, accepting yourself first, and from there learning how you became the way you did and how you don't have to follow any old path but rather can - especially with the right support - shift right back to your true self and fullest desire in life. ~With patience and love, Caffyn accompanies people whether healing from trauma or just never having had the kind of experiences they want and know they can. It gives people decades of their life back in super connected sex. ~Thanks Caffyn for making time to share your experience, understanding and ethics. ~~ If the show makes a difference in your life, come support it and enjoy group and 1-on-1 calls at www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships! Thanks for listening and to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @healthy.sex.and.relationships on Insta. Ici on parle français. Se habla español. Have a great day.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

We are born to do this... how to make it about total mutual fulfillment? ~We have every way we can choose, not just speed and depth and sequence but quality of flow, of inhabiting our own being and savouring the inside of them or experiencing them taking you deep. All is a playground of connection, love, lust, stimulation, imagination... raw animalness setting your being on fire or leaving you in effortless bliss. ~For a lifetime of getting to know your body and emotions and opening to new ways of sensing and meeting theirs as it too develops in sensitive powerful capacity, overflowing with energy and love for your life's purpose in the magic of the world. ~~ If the show makes a difference in your life, come support it and enjoy group and 1-on-1 calls at www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships! Thanks for listening and to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @healthy.sex.and.relationships on Insta. Ici on parle français. Se habla español. Have a great day.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

Natural foods and herbs can make your whole body feel amazing. They can make you hornier, more/less sensitive, longer lasting, or of course the opposite. ~But how to make sense of all the recipes and advice out there? This episode teaches a fail-proof method that begins with simplifying your habits and tuning in to yourself, discovering the effects of everything on you and choosing your absolute best. Your lover will feel and taste the difference, and you'll become more deliciously attuned to them. ~You'll be able to sense their state from across the room, like animals do, and naturally when you come together body to body, heightening the pleasure of life and constancy of connection. ~All the scents and fluids of the body are sacred information and stimulating nourishment, and you are a shameless, wild lover and receiver of love, as you are. ~Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? You can email hsrthankyou@gmail.com or Instagram @healthy.sex.and.relationships. Thanks for listening and thanks to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

This is a time of year of plentiful play potential... well, every time is. ~Here in no particular order are some inspirations for you to give the gift of physical love, and enjoy yourself immensely in the process. ~What is your favourite? Let me know in the comments. Thank you and enjoy. ~Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? You can email hsrthankyou@gmail.com or Instagram @healthy.sex.and.relationships. Thanks for listening and thanks to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

These times have been scary to many people, and the antidote to fear is power over self. Whether the basis of that fear is real, imagined, or exaggerated, these 8 minutes I can guarantee you will improve your life forever, without judging, blaming or distancing from anyone, on the contrary, answering the heart's longing and the body's urge to connect in sweet joy. ~Together we create the universe. A universe of expanding freedom and fulfillment for self and others. Not a fear of them, a beating down of their minds, bodies and spirits for profit or to escape punishment. This is a learning to never repeat sudden or daily wars of mass violence and discrimination, robbing people of all genders and sexualities of their birthright of freedom and absolute thriving. ~It's in the interest of society to have people who know how to be well naturally, together, using the best of new technology and thousand-year-old ways. ~Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? You can email hsrthankyou@gmail.com or Instagram @healthy.sex.and.relationships. Thanks for listening and thanks to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

You are invited to hold 2 seeds: one, something you've long known is you that maybe few people really know; one, looking at your life now, who are you, what do you need, who and what needs the unique you? ~How lovely it can be when someone sees something they like in us, real or imagined, from a generous place or a selfish one. And how lovely to not give a f***. Just do what we need to do because it hurts and bores too much to do anything else any longer. ~Here is a space to embrace the constraints everyone's under, the limits of opportunity because of where we came from... and, the absolute importance of you no matter who knows, and to those who will create with you. ~Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? You can email hsrthankyou@gmail.com or Instagram @healthy.sex.and.relationships. Thanks for listening and thanks to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample.Support the show

We live in a time of rising debt, and that's not just financial but health-wise, energetic, and spiritual. Even in wealthy countries, people seem to have ever less time and money, though spending their time trying to get money. ~The damage to self and relationships is well documented. More anxiety, depression, conflict, and breakup that only further profits the pharmaceutical, medical, legal and self-help industries that also profited from the decay of self and society. ~So how do we fight back, or simply ease back into security and no longer getting distracted from our true purpose, which includes enjoying all life has to offer and sharing our gift with others and the planet? ~This episode does touch on things like living simpler so you can simply live, without claiming financial advice, but rather understanding how in all areas of your life, learning to say a clear no to what robs you and yes to what feeds you and others is a wonderful thing that can start in the home and the bedroom. Because your sex drive is your drive for life, and you deserve complete fulfillment and growth. ~Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? You can email hsrthankyou@gmail.com or Instagram @healthy.sex.and.relationships. Thanks for listening and thanks to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample.Support the show

Imagine taking a walk in the forest, a safe sunny forest carpeted in snow beneath the blue skies. It's so cold you can see your breath, and the steam coming off your skin when you first undress. You've got a thermos of hot tea, and warm fuzzy boots you get to keep. Feel the breeze on your skin as you walk, hear the spacious silence when you pause. ~What a wonder to be this animal near the top of the food chain, able to play in sensual vulnerability. ~The adventure continues from there... and there is also tale of fun things you can do in the sauna, slipping between cool sheets, and as far as your imagination will take you. ~Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? You can email hsrthankyou@gmail.com or Instagram @healthy.sex.and.relationships. Thanks for listening and thanks to Kaytranada for the music sample.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

Jada Monet (@shhh.sex) of Los Angeles, USA is one of the most refreshing sex-positive bloggers. She's got no special system, just a full-on love of pleasure and a simple way of inspiring others. ~In this candid chat she talks about her why's and how's, making people so comfortable and excited for every body connection from oral to anal. It's all about what's authentic for you, your faves and the dares you've wanted to try - playing with them solo and with a partner. She talks about how to communicate when the two of you have similar desires and when you don't, how to find sometimes even more powerful connection. ~ Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy and thanks Jada for bringing your magic outlook and expression. ~Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? You can email hsrthankyou@gmail.com or Instagram @healthy.sex.and.relationships. Thanks for listening and thanks to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

What does trust mean to you? Maybe it's easier to figure that out in a non-intimate relationship where the stakes aren't so high, or maybe it's in intimacy that you really have to admit to yourself who you are and what you want. ~ We've talked about the importance of consent - having clear yes's and no's with your beloved - to really be able to play and and discover and grow and work together. Now what if you were next-level bold to reveal yourself and see them, with absolute devotion?  ~ This show shares ways of exploring your feelings, emotions, body, spirit, mind, all,  to know what you're capable of, choose, and communicate, to renew your aliveness and excitement for life and each other, get through hard times, and never be stuck doing something you don't want to do. ~Your unique being is a playground in the image of the world. ~Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? You can email hsrthankyou@gmail.com or Instagram @healthy.sex.and.relationships. Thanks for listening, and thanks to Kaytranada for the music sample.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

Dulce Lopez of @iktanbirth in Vancouver, Canada has been supporting women for 15 years through pregnancy and the early months of their children's lives as a doula, as people have done all over the world for thousands of years. ~ From her own experience having two kids as well, one via C-section in a hospital, one as a homebirth in water, Dulce shares how it is that women and their partners can be relaxedly confident in their bodies' ability to do it all - have healthy ecstatic sex, carry a child, give birth, nourish and care for their baby, and on into the next years of life. ~ She brings the wisdom and joy of human accomplishment back, showing how amazing it is that it could ever have been forgotten and power transferred to a small group, largely of men, even for profit - and how to give yourself all the options, traditional and medical, because here as everywhere else in life and in love you know best the needs of your body and spirit. ~So this show is not only for women or people around the time of conception, but also for their partners and for anyone wanting to fill in this part of the human experience of complete joyous healthy sex and relationships. Thank you Dulce for sharing your rich experience and integrative insights. ~ Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? You can email hsrthankyou@gmail.com or Instagram @healthy.sex.and.relationships. Thanks for listening and thanks to Kaytranada for the music sample.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

I hope you enjoy as we go deeper into the jungle of our desires and practices... ~What do joy, worship and addiction mean to you, in general and in sex? Though they may have a positive or negative feel to you, might they have many sides, hard to define, even sparking your curiosity to explore the nether reaches? ~Here is a sweet meditation on that, to support you knowing and discovering and expressing who you are, in connection with who someone else is, with a lustre that never leaves your relationship whatever it may be. ~Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? You can email hsrthankyou@gmail.com or Instagram @healthy.sex.and.relationships. Thanks for listening and thanks to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

We've started the conversation about jealousy and manipulativeness, so what about cheating? ~ Everyone's definition is personal. Just asking the question opens up assumptions about whole ways we live our lives that may be very uncomfortable, or liberate us to fulfill our deepest desires because we're not limiting ourselves by our fears.  ~Sexual intimacy outside a couple - whether in a one-on-one or polyamorous way of living - can destroy it or feed into its vitality. The possibility of pregnancy has huge effects and may be part of why our cultures have defined fidelity in terms of sex. However there is much more - emotional intimacy, commitment to be there for each other, spiritual bonds, family and community ties. Which of these is most sacred to you in your primary relationship? How do you communicate with your partner before, during and after exploring? What does it mean if you need to lie or hide? Can the relationship recover from outside intimacy with or without deception? ~ Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? You can email hsrthankyou@gmail.com or Instagram @healthy.sex.and.relationships. Thanks for listening and thanks to Kaytranada for the music sample.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

Ryan Thomas is a sex/relationship coach with a difference: guiding men to be loving beasts. ~ Where men have often been trained to be unemotional and tough, and, in reaction to that, oversensitive and lacking ambition or direction, Ryan helps people find a way to be simply, clearly, relaxedly, confidently themselves and responsive to their partners and community. ~ He shares here not just his vision but vulnerable experience healing quick ejaculation, difficulty getting aroused, porn addiction, trauma and more, to live truly fulfilled while fulfilling others. You can find out more through his Insta page @ryanthomastil.  ~Thanks Ryan for sharing so completely with us. ~  Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? You can email hsrthankyou@gmail.com or Instagram @healthy.sex.and.relationships. Thanks for listening and thanks to Kaytranada for the music sample.

Has it ever seemed weird to you that a couple European dudes get to name all genders' body parts and experiences after themselves or in a sterile language spoken mostly in church? ~ From the G-for-Gräfenberg spot to peenis to herm@phrodite and more, our vocabulary awaits a true sexual revolution where we define ourselves subtly, sensually, accurately. ~ The world needs you! What are your fave terms? - not including words like d*ck/c*nt that are triggering for some & will be deleted. Here's the rest of the words begging for satisfaction thru your comment. Good luck and thanks for playing... ~ 0rgasm  V@gina  Scr0tum  Bre@sts  Cerv1x  A-sp0t  Pr0state  Per1neumComments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? You can email hsrthankyou@gmail.com or Instagram @healthy.sex.and.relationships. Thanks for listening and thanks to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

In the great spectrum from excited activity to peaceful meditation, where is your habit, what can you practice more? ~This episode is for those times when you find your body mind spirit running around more than you'd like. When you slow down, there can be a direct good feeling, but also presence with fears that drive us to do things we may not actually be aware of or want. We can then get comfortable with the uncomfortable, and discover new ways of being. ~ In relationship this might mean being less reactive, more curious and patient with our beloved, get to the source of the conflict that often, like the rushing, is a habit coming from a pain from before, belonging to neither person nor the relationship, ready to let go. ~In lovemaking, slowing down and listening to those authentic impulses can replace scripts and worries, and bring deep fun connection, a lively dance in the moment with attunement to self and other and your magic chemistry and dreams. ~Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? You can email hsrthankyou@gmail.com or Instagram @healthy.sex.and.relationships. Thanks for listening and thanks to Kaytranada for the music sample.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

Have you ever loved someone so much you're unafraid if they get sick and at the same time confident they'll get better? Or yourself... ~ I believe we're here in part for love and love is in part an evolutionary impulse to learn from and help each other evolve past certain things we can't easily do solo. In this episode I share personal experience having to go it alone and finding a way, and, in relationship, going into my worst fears and reactions and wondering instead what the useful and good information the other person is trying to tell my by the behaviour I find so hard. ~What are some of your experiences so far? What intuitions do you have of what you may be able to experience? ~Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? You can email hsrthankyou@gmail.com or Instagram @healthy.sex.and.relationships. Thanks for listening and thanks to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

This is one of the most special things I can think of sharing with you. ~ In a world of wonderfully growing interest in all kinds of orgasms - cervical, g-spot, prostate and many more - there is a special place for the heart. It can vibrate like any organ, and of course it also refers to a centre of emotion taking shape in your body. ~ This episode shares a practice of feeling those pulses wherever they are in us, and especially connection them to the sex, or genitals as some say, in any waking moment and of course when making love. And a special place for placing or receiving a hand on your or their heart while you breathe and touch, and while you come, being your whole big self and embracing them. Try it! and see what you find... ~ Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? You can email hsrthankyou@gmail.com or Instagram @healthy.sex.and.relationships. Thanks for listening and thanks to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample.

Kamela Love (transformintolove.com) is a sacred sexuality practitioner and transformational relationship coach in San Diego, USA, devoted to and wonderfully articulate about being ourselves and being satisfied in love and sex, overcoming bad messages, images and experiences we may have received. ~ In this open conversation for people of all genders and sexualities around the world, we explore safe containers and beautiful settings for exploring yourself and with one or more partners. Consent, permission, invitation, and daring are all here, releasing expectation, living freely in the moment, able to care for trauma and above all liberate your gifts expressed through your desires. ~ Thank you Kamela for bringing your experience and insights to us in such a moving way. ~ Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? You can email hsrthankyou@gmail.com or Instagram @healthy.sex.and.relationships. Thanks for listening and thanks to Kaytranada for the music sample.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

Welcome to the start of season 2 of Healthy Sex and Relationships! ~ I've recently been reminded that the immensity of my sexual desire and my interest in life is an expression of a hunger for the wild. And, that relationship exists most meaningfully and sustainably not in a vacuum but in community. ~  Rewilding is a popular movement, what does that look like in sex and relationships? Is it sweat-drenched lovemaking, polyamory, extreme sports, wilderness travel? What else is and could be there? And what about the role of tribe, drawing on and feeding into a bigger energy than us, connected to a greater purpose? ~ As always there are some ideas and meditation/games for you here, and above all the space for you to come up with your own. Thanks for being a part of Year 1's 50+ episodes, 300+ followers, and 2000+ downloads and spreading the movement for freedom, pleasure, safety and equality around the world. ~   Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? You can email hsrthankyou@gmail.com or Instagram @healthy.sex.and.relationships. Thanks for listening and thanks to Kaytranada for the music sample.

So we just did a show on pleasure products, celebrating the physical especially. ~  Now, what about emotion? How much and what kind is necessary for your body pleasure and happiness? In what ways are we able to experience it all in even a one-time moment with someone, and what does the arc of relationship or at least relationship-curiosity add? ~ There's no recipe, only what's right for you now, and that can change. ~ So here is a guided meditation to heighten your excitement in the entire arc of an encounter and a relationship - the no-mind state, anticipation, pleasure of connecting, dreaming of more, tension before, whole-body-emotion-connection, extended timelessness, lingering glow, separation and dreaming, reunion, open space. ~ You can actually thrill all over just from that. ~  Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? Send a message to hsrthankyou@gmail.com or Instagram @hsrthankyou. Thanks for listening. ~Thanks to Jette Weiss for the cover art and Youssoupha Sidibe for the music, used under license.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

Amanda Vee curates the pleasure product/sex toy reviews for Sex Coach U where she is also a coach in training, and she has a YouTube channel called Sex Talks With Amanda. ~ Here for your enjoyment is a whole world of options, starting with the perhaps more familiar dildos, vibrators, butt plugs/beads, and cock rings and expanding out into the realms of air-pulse clit stimulation and remote-controlled male and female sex strokers for solo or partner fun. We talk about creating settings for self-play, pleasure based on the experience as well as orgasm, and chatting with your beloved about bringing sensation enhancers into your lovemaking. ~Thanks Amanda for coming on the show and sharing your passion and experience supporting people finding ways to enhance their pleasure and sex lives. ~ Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? Send a message to hsrthankyou@gmail.com or Instagram @hsrthankyou. Thanks for listening. ~Thanks to Jette Weiss for the cover art and Youssoupha Sidibe for the music, used under license.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

You and your beloved each have a body and a palpable energetic field, and between you near and far is electric chemistry. It's part of what makes us and you so special, a hint of the hugeness you are here to enjoy and give back to. ~ What is it? How do we refine it and stay in it from lovemaking to daily activities, across the ups and downs of relationship and self-emotion? Here are not answers but practical exercises, wild imaginings, and a little sharing of experiences of some ways that can be. It's for you - and your beloved, now or to be - to discover what else is possible in feeling the trance flow of nature within and between you. ~ Wishing you much joy, pleasure, sweetness, calm, fire... all of it. ~Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? Send a message to hsrthankyou@gmail.com or Instagram @hsrthankyou. Thanks for listening. ~Thanks to Jette Weiss for the cover art and Youssoupha Sidibe for the music, used under license.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

Ariana Cuan is a Miami Beach, USA-based coach who helps people get out of their own way and have successful relationships, professional lives, and more. ~ Self-sabotage can look like many things - getting carried away making stories based on assumptions about someone in an intimate relationship, hounding or avoiding people to deal with fears or insecurities, mismanaging money, alienating workmates, and so on. Like many things it's just a habit, sometimes from early in life, sometimes from adult relationships experiences or whatever, that can be stopped and healed, and from there prevented from being a habit going forward. Skills can be taught to adults and kids so we all have the environment to be ourselves and express ourselves without shame and get our needs met. ~ Her site is store.healingselfsabotage.com. Thanks Ariana for giving us the insights from your compassion and experience, especially that great message to give it the time it needs. ~ Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? Send a message to hsrthankyou@gmail.com or Instagram @hsrthankyou. Thanks for listening. ~Thanks to Jette Weiss for the cover art and Youssoupha Sidibe for the music, used under license.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

Welcome to #2 in our 3-part series on devotion to the body solo and together. In this meditative space, you are invited, first alone, to see and feel and hear everything you love about your beloved, throughout the day and when making love. And then... to continue the meditation with them right there, being still together, then perhaps attending to every wish of their body for an hour or two while they relax, then coming into moving together... and another time, to receive their full attention, and relax, and come to move together. ~There is room for all the things you like, curiosities as-yet unexplored, challenges and difficulties, all of it. The more you see and embrace them, the more they can give you the greatest of their gifts, not just the sexual intimacy which is worthy of honour, but the simple true flavour of who they are, the chance to be loved exactly as you are, so much sexier, more heart- and spirit-nourishing than any previous lover any media image we've seen, any limited thing we've been taught about what is possible and even who this person is. ~Wishing you the deepest open embrace. ~Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? Send a message to hsrthankyou@gmail.com or Instagram @hsrthankyou. Thanks for listening. ~Thanks to Jette Weiss for the cover art and Youssoupha Sidibe for the music, used under license.

Here is a meditation for you, to enjoy some time alone really appreciating yourself, all the senses, the places you are used to feeling good, the places less well known or liked, all together. ~Total simplicity, all sensations, all images welcome. ~See what you discover. ~Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? Send a message to hsrthankyou@gmail.com or Instagram @hsrthankyou. Thanks for listening. ~Thanks to Jette Weiss for the cover art and Youssoupha Sidibe for the music, used under license.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

Have you ever been judged for being something you are, or are not? ~ Whether it hurts or you have a thick skin, you can take the experience to become richer and stronger. They don't like your skin colour or sexual orientation? You can be friends with and learn from more people than them. They threaten social exclusion or violence? You can be so fearless and have so many allies you're safer and more confident than them. ~ And in the context of intimate relationship, the prizes are many - choosing people who are worth it to be and grow with, staying true through conflict where others bail, keeping the fire of love and purpose young and steady, and discovering new worlds of what can be created and savoured in this life. ~ Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? Send a message to hsrthankyou@gmail.com or Instagram @hsrthankyou. Thanks for listening. ~Thanks to Jette Weiss for the cover art and Youssoupha Sidibe for the music, used under license.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

People can be with one or more lovers and sex can be one of many forms of intimacy. Your life is yours to craft based on your needs and how that communicates with other people's. There is a huge array of possibilities, and focusing on where you shine and grow best is powerful. ~ This show takes the question, am I into monogamy (literally, one wife) or polyamory (many loves) and asks, who are you? who are they? how do you let yourself live fully and be a means for other people to live fully? It suggests a new language based on love, communication, diversity, commitment, pleasure and more that you are a part of inventing or in some cases re-finding, uniting mind-body-spirit-feeling needs and abilities. ~ Beyond looking within and out with the people in your life, some books and shows a lot of people have read and listened to are Opening Up(Tristan Taormino), More Than Two (Franklin Veaux & Eve Rickert), The Ethical Slut (Janet Hardy & Dossie Easton), Polyamory Weekly, Loving Without Boundaries, Amory, and there are many more. ~Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? Send a message to hsrthankyou@gmail.com or Instagram @hsrthankyou. Thanks for listening. ~Thanks to Jette Weiss for the cover art and Youssoupha Sidibe for the music, used under license.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

We have an amazing capacity to experience on many levels simultaneously, from heart to spirit to sex and beyond, not only in our lovemaking but in every breath of life. ~ This episode gives you a practice for feeling into some of these sensations at your pace, choosing to focus on one or another through a given experience, and over time developing all your abilities to enjoy life and meet another person. ~ We can unlearn cultural teachings for example to deny the body or be addicted to sensation, and instead be relaxed and free in love and life, deepening the pleasure and gratitude of the moment, of meeting another, of growing. ~ Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? Send a message to hsrthankyou@gmail.com or Instagram @hsrthankyou. Thanks for listening. ~Thanks to Jette Weiss for the cover art and Youssoupha Sidibe for the music, used under license.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

Every year worldwide, millions of girls and boys are forced to marry and therefore have sex against their will, instead of having the freedom to choose love and personal development for greater contribution to society. Those who try to choose freedom can be beaten or killed for so-called family "honour". ~  In India, since 2010, the Love Commandos organization (www.lovecommandos.org), has ferried 70,000 young couples to safety and freedom. In this interview Sanjoy Sachdev speaks of healthy cultural traditions and modernizing influences that together can move society away from fundamentalism, arranged marriages and violence around relationship choice. ~ As Nelson Mandela said, "to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others." ~ This is part of our series and love and sex around the world - check out past shows on Brazil, Indonesia, China, and Kenya - to promote safety, equality, freedom and of course pleasure for all. Thanks for being a part of this movement, and thank you Mr. Sachdev for taking the time to speak with us. ~Love Commandos can be supported through the website listed above. ~  Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? Send a message to hsrthankyou@gmail.com or Instagram @hsrthankyou. Thanks for listening. ~Thanks to Jette Weiss for the cover art and Youssoupha Sidibe for the music, used under license.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

Is commitment a happy or heavy word to you... or both? In a lot of the world it was just assumed for a long time that if you were of this gender or that social or ethnic group, you had to such and such in life whether you liked it or not. Marriage is just one example, but it's an explosively important one - a good relationship can make your life so much better, and being locked into a bad one can ruin it. You only get one life, and it's yours, and if a relationship is good it shouldn't need to lock you into anything because you're always choosing to be there... right? ~This episode says, the spirit in which a commitment is made and kept is important, and it can change in a way that supports the growth of each person and of the relationship. One of the problems with rigid expectations is that they are rarely mutual, as the experience of men owning women through marriage has shown - unequal safety and freedom, so many people sworn to fidelity having secret affairs, the majority ending in divorce, and a huge chunk of those that stay together being profoundly damaging to one or both people. ~But is there a way being adaptable - which is one of the things humans are among the best animals at - can actually allow us to enter into and keep commitments that are good for us, the other person, and society? For however long that commitment is good to last, and however exclusive or overlapping you want it to be, assuming good communication of course. And true freedom from coercion means everyone giving their gift to the highest to human evolution, and any couples and groups can synergistically create certain things that no individual can. ~Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? Send a message to hsrthankyou@gmail.com or Instagram @hsrthankyou. Thanks for listening. ~Thanks to Jette Weiss for the cover art and Youssoupha Sidibe for the music, used under license.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)

If you had to describe - over the phone - your style to someone, how would you do it? We often think of style as how you dress or do your hair, but what about how you move? ~And what if you had to describe - by text - what your voice sounds like, how you choose to speak, habits you have that you might not even remember where they come from? ~This episode is here to bet the world wants you as you've always been, as you happen to have become, and as you choose to be from today forward. Professional athletes and Hollywood actors have nothing on you, they don't know you and anyone who is lucky enough to know the real you and your aspirations better celebrate and support you. ~We all learn by imitation of course, maybe a parent or a teacher or a famous role model, and that's a fair starting point to see and feel and know ourselves. From there, we can express simply, without a lot of money or time, who we are, walk the way that feels good, do what we're here to do, be with who we want to be with, and together inspire the next people what is possible. Thanks for being here and shining your style. ~Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? Send a message to hsrthankyou@gmail.com or Instagram @hsrthankyou. Thanks for listening. ~Thanks to Jette Weiss for the cover art and Youssoupha Sidibe for the music, used under license.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships)