Urban Tantra, Second Edition: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century

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Perfect for letting go, building trust and learning to ask for what you want. Eroticism at its best’. (John). We promote and practice safer sex. While each individual’s safer sex practices and protocols may vary in private practice, all graduates are trained in and knowledgeable about safer sex. All UTPTP events and workshops follow safer sex protocols. The founder of Tantrapure-international (2004-2018) and Massage for Lovers (2006-15) they have shared the teachings of embodied tantric practice and sensual intimacy with thousands of individuals and couples across the globe. Academic and professional qualifications include Msc Psychosexual & Relationship Counselling, BA(hons) including Diversity, sexuality and Law, Sexuality and Pathology, The ungendered life. Hakomi Body Centred Therapy. Kink as a Lifestyle (1999), Like a Pro Urban tantra training, Wheel of consent, and currently undertaking Trauma-informed training. If you think sexual and spiritual bliss can't be found in today's fast-paced world, you haven't experienced Urban Tantra. We did the first training in New York and it was great. We had professionals from five different countries, and it meant finding parts of practice we had in common, but also ways to bridge cultural differences amongst ourselves and with clients. I developed the program for empowerment. I want colleagues. I want creative, flexible, evolving sex educators on the planet. They’re already out there, but this my nefarious plot to create more. When I developed it I thought of it as a mastery program instead of a certification program. I’m not interested in certifiying people to do things my way. I’m interested in creating a program where people leave feeling that whatever arises in their work they can think in a way that will let them come up with the practice, the solution, the program, the workshop, whatever they need.

Working with people who are doing such different work must be a challenge. What do you tell people to come with to be prepared?Held in loving embrace: A clothed comforting session of warm tender holding and shared intimate connection. An allowance of body softening and moulding together through letting go of expectation, slowing down, breathing deeply and opening to the felt sense of being loved. Essential for maintaining good health and well-being – reducing anxiety, tension, feelings of isolation and loneliness. Co-regulates trauma response and enhances life-affirming safety within. They should bring an open mind and a desire for change; personally, professionally and planetary. A sense of humor. Sex is funny and we need to be able to laugh, not at people, but at ourselves and at the whole gestalt that is sex. They should bring a commitment to expansion of themselves and of their practice and a commitment to working from a heart-centred space. Heart-centered to me means compassion. It describes a softness, a gentleness, a kind of openness that is unguarded but still boundaried. The most effective marketing techniques to connect you with new clients, plus effective screening protocols to ensure that only the perfect clients arrive on your doorstep. Note: All genders, sexual preferences and relationship configurations welcome. No nudity or explicit sexual touch is involved in any of the classes. It’s designed for anyone working with sex and sexuality. You could be a massage provider, a sex therapist, a yoga instructor, you could be a sex worker. You could be any of those things or more. The training is for people who already have a basic confidence in their work or in the work they want to be doing, but they are yearning for something more. Everybody who comes to the course, comes with a struggle or issue where they want to get better at.

Barbara currently offers inspiring and life-changing workshops, lectures, and keynotes on a variety of topics to individuals, schools, conferences, businesses, and the arts. Education – There is so much to learn about how your body, your anatomy for pleasure, desire, arousal, your orgasmic potential, how to move beyond goal based sex and SO much more.Awakening sensual eros – breath and touch-based energy awakening for couples and individuals wanting to awaken and deepen into loving sensual erotic intimacy – with self or other. Another major piece is gender. I think this is quite unique to the Urban Tantra ® trainings, the extent to which we work with gender and help people develop a way of working with people of all genders. A lot of work around sexuality is work around people’s expectations or misinterpretations or confrontations with gender. So we spend a lot of time exploring personal experiences of gender. Working with GLBTQ clients is another big piece. As is working with power and intense sensation, kink, or BDSM. We look at the conscious essence of power exchange and of intense sensation. And again, we do that to take it apart. Barbara Carrellas is an author, educator, performer. Over the years she has developed a particular (I’m going to say – and I mean this in a positive way – peculiar) way of approaching a wide range of work in sexuality, a practice she describes in her most recent book, Urban Tantra ®. Additionally, I have over a decade of Neo-Tantra training and I taught Neo-Tantra for six years, completed four years of intensive training on a Shamanic path with the Deer Tribe, have a decade of studying Taoism with Barry Spendlove of Healing Tao Britain and Minke De Vos, author of Feminine Treasures and a decade working with plant medicines. Just as technique is never enough for great sex, a stellar curriculum isn’t enough to make a great sex educator. It’s hard for people who work in the sexuality helping professions to continue to grow personally and professionally. There’s so much in place that makes it comfortable and convenient to do what we do and give little more than a token gesture to continuing education.

Whether you are a tantrika, a pro domme, a daka/dakini, a sex therapist, a sex educator, a companion, or anyone else who uses or wants to use a more conscious approach to sexuality in your practice, this program is for you. How the “dark arts” of BDSM (including fantasy, roleplay, conscious power exchange and intense sensation) can expand your Tantra practice into ecstatic new realms. Consent is the cornerstone of conscious sexuality. Consent, as we understand and practice it, is an ongoing agreement which can be modified or withdrawn at any point throughout our work or play.

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For nearly twenty years, I’ve studied and explored the fields of sex and sexology, intimacy and healing and have over a decade of working with 100s of students and clients. I’ve supported deep transformations for my clients, helping them to move beyond the limits of the goal based pleasure that most of us learn, to discover what lights them up, how to feel their pleasure and sensuality, how to confidently communicate and create healthy intimate relationships.

Feathers Floggers & Fluff: An exploration of all things sensual and ‘kinky’. Suitable for beginners and those wishing to step into a deeper exploration of sensation, surrender, boundaries, erotic expansion, non genital focused pure prolonged pleasure. Barbara has been featured in the videos Selfloving, The Sluts & Goddesses Video Workshop, Annie Sprinkle’s Amazing World of Orgasm, Zen Pussy, in the film Sacred Sex, in the Learning Channel’s Unusual Orgasms segment of the series Strange Sex, in numerous episodes of the HBO television series Real Sex, Australian television’s Sex/Life and on Britain’s Sky Channel as part of the documentary, Sex in America. She collaborated with Annie Sprinkle to present a new/ancient vision of female sexuality in theatrical form in MetamorphoSex, a week-long workshop for women culminating in ritual-performances. She also directed the Australian premiere of Annie’s renowned one-woman show, Post Porn Modernist. Barbara is proud to have enjoyed a long theatrical career as a general manager, producer and theatre manager on Broadway, Off-Broadway and in alternative theatre in New York. She is still active as a performance artist. This training program, and particularly Barbara Carrellas, inspired courage, creativity and confidence not just in my professional life but also personally. What are you waiting for… sign up now! — Rebecca LowrieBarbara brings a holistic, metaphysical, practical, humorous, entertaining and gender-fluid approach to conscious sexuality and to all her work. She began her work in metaphysics and conscious sexuality during the AIDS crisis in the late 1980’s—a time when the connections between sex, spirit and healing were at their most strained. Barbara has facilitated countless healing circles and support groups for women, men, transgender people, artists, people with life-threatening illnesses and people with HIV/AIDS. For four years she was a facilitator for and on the Board of Directors of the New York Healing Circle, which was founded in response to the AIDS crisis and incorporated the principles of Louise Hay’s work. As her workshops grew in popularity and in attendance, her work expanded to include people from all walks of life and in all stages of sexual evolution. Grounded in life itself as their spiritual path their passion is to hold people safely in exploration and expansion of all aspects of erotic expression within consensual and negotiated boundaries. With the intention of inviting you to live totally truthfully passionately from a place of pure prolonged pleasure you are invited to touch your edge of optimum engagement in all things sensual and erotic whilst being held in warm loving embrace. It’s also an opportunity to provide people who work with sex a place to find a common language. Often Tantric practitioners speak in a new age, energy based language that keeps people who would like their services away from them because they’re put off by language. Sex therapists can be too clinical to attract some of the clients that they want to work with. Kink professionals can be a little scary, and not in a good way. So we transform language so that people get to say what they do in a way that will attract the people they really want to work with. Intimate Sexuality and Intimate Relating are my unique systems of practical intimacy and sex coaching and education which have been developed from over a decade of working with clients. These 2 road maps give you the structure and tools to support you to awaken / transform your sex life and intimate relationships, in a way that feels true to you. We do this through a mix of coaching, education and practices: