What’s a TantraNova Practitioner?

Here is Dr E from TantraNova central. This morning I was sitting at my computer working on putting down on paper particular practices that we teach in our seminars and private session program. Over the past year I have been committed to replicating my coaching skills and the results I produce when coaching students. What I mean by that is that any student who gets trained in our practitioner program can – if they apply themselves – produce the same coaching results as I do with their clients, beloveds or friends.

The purpose of my intention is for TantraNova as an approach to become accessible and teachable independently from me. I am of the conviction that this would be a powerful way of making a difference in the world to create conscious relationship, sexuality and intimacy!

The coaching practices I am talking about are of different nature and one set of them we named “Recall Practice”. A “Recall Practice” allows a student or client to explore what drives their present day behavior, emotions, constraints or struggles as they relate to intimacy, relationship, love, sexuality, womanhood, manhood, the feminine or the masculine, and so forth. Most of what we think about, do or act upon in our present life was learned and appropriated at an early time originating from infancy, childhood or adolescence.

It looks like that: If I find myself over and over again in the same pattern of relational, sexual, intimate or love struggles it’s an indication that “my radio dial” is set at a certain frequency. If I want to change something in my life I need to change the dial setting. First I need to get what my dial is set for – and the “Recall Practice” is a great way to learn about that.

The past generations of our certification graduates have helped and supported me in my own development as an intimacy and relationship coach. Within the next week we’ll have a dedicated page up on www.tantranova.com representing a number of TantraNova practitioners. Please take a look at who they are!

By the way if you’d like to learn more about how to apply and share the “Recall Practice” you may want to look into our Certification Level I & Certification Level II certification programs. The next round starts March 9, 2008.

Write us at tantranova@tantranova.com with further questions or thoughts on your “dial setting” and what you’d like to change in your setting so you can get what you want in your life. http://www.tantranova.com

A Story on Intimacy

Did you, by any chance, listen this past week to Terri Gross’ interview with Peter Sagal, the host of the NPR news quiz Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me? Lately, Peter has spent many an hour going to strip joints, a swingers club, a porn-movie set and casinos — among other dens of what some call iniquity. All research, of course, for his new project, The Book of Vice. He wanted to get a perspective on the indulgences of others, and report back to the rest of us.

The book reminds me of a time in the early days of TantraNova when Freddy Zental and I were contacted by a couple that runs annual swinger conventions serving hundreds of couples from all across the US. We agreed to offer a workshop and thought teaching Tantra to swingers would be a piece of cake because – so we thought – inhibitions, embarrassment or fear regarding one’s body, nudity, etc. were let go of.

Our workshop was attended by some thirty couples and we taught them about the TantraNova basics as well as the healing ritual for the woman. Halfway through the workshop we invited the participants and giving them a choice to do sexual healing work with their partner. Half of the couples stayed on while half of them left.

In the evening, on the way to the dinner ball, a couple came up to us. The woman introduced herself and her husband who had been married for 12 years and swinging for eight. She placed her right hand on Freddy Zental’s arm, looked at us and said: “You two were fabulous. I liked so much what you were doing with us in the workshop. However, I could not stay when you asked us to do sexual healing work with my husband because I was afraid of what I might see if I gazed into his eyes.”

My jaw dropped. It took me a while to compose myself. I looked at her and was wondering about all that sexual freedom and expression she had been involved in though being truly intimate and deeply connected with her husband was something to be afraid of?

Share your experiences and thoughts on the topic of intimacy. Write to us at tantranova@tantranova.com. http://www.tantranova.com