Behind the Scenes of Sex Magic

     I’ll be appearing nude on the silver screen in the controversial new Documentary about Baba Dez entitled, “Sex Magic: Manifesting Maya.” Because this film is a brave exploration of sacred sex work, it seems only natural to share my body in the buff...but now that all of my dearest friends, including my mother, agreed to be in the audience, I’m starting to feel a tad vulnerable. Much of the footage was shot in Sedona and Hawaii while I was still nursing, during my sons first year of life.
     My role in the documentary cuts far deeper than physical nakedness. Because Baba Dez is my co-author, friend and lover the story reveals details about my personal life that I hold dear, as well as showing some practices that I don’t necessarily agree with.

     The short summary of the documentary reads: Baba Dez is a polyamorous, sacred sexual healer who’s made love to over a thousand women. When his primary lover (Maya) abandons him due to his “poly” lifestyle, he practices Sex Magic with other women to manifest her back.

     It has recently won the “official selection award” at both Phildelphia and Chicago international film festivals. A reviewer from Philadelphia writes “…Easily the most insane, thought-provoking, balanced, hysterical (although not ALWAYS on purpose) well-crafted doc I’ve seen in years.” Last week on IFC it was ranked # 1 VOD Sales (Video on demand, for documentaries.) Such accolades are unheard of for a documentary that doesn’t revolve around a big name or a current event.

     However, the project has not always been well received. In the 4 years of it’s creation, the doc went through over 15 edits, and unofficial screenings with intense negative reactions.

      I remember when, despite the director’s advice, Dez held a public screening of a rough cut at the Daka-Dakini Conference in Virginia Beach. I am not exaggerating when I say, the audience of 70 sexual healers nearly broke out in a riot! The group pleaded with Dez not to release it. The early versions of this film were criticized for portraying: sex addiction, black magic, rape allegations, breaking traditional family values, objectifying women, and commercializing spiritual work.

      I can only imagine the heat that Dez has taken for making this movie. At recent conferences, I’ve been personally attacked for allowing my son to be shown in an adult content film and had esteemed colleagues judge and condemned me for my decision to collaborate with him.

     I admit, I was not always impressed with the early versions, and I may not agree with all of Dez’s practices, and still may disagree with the some of the director’s choices. However, I maintain unwavering support for innovative art that speaks directly into our cultures darkest taboos. Further, I have witnessed profound growth and healing as a result of this project.

      Last year, I spent the holiday season in Australia with my husband, son, Baba Dez and his lovers Maya and Natasha. We rented a retreat center, worked together, and even took a RV trip through the bush. While down under, we screened a rough-cut of the doc to over 100 people who laughed, cried and had profound revelations. During the various Q & A panel discussions, we deepened our understanding of unconventional family. Maya who's since become like a sister to me, has traveled solo to Bali to continue her deep personal healing and is now writing her own blog and book to release Dez and his enchantment.

      Earlier this year, I held an unofficial screening of a late version of Sex Magic at my home temple with the directors Eric Liebman and Jon Schell. I'm grateful that these sincere documentary-makers gave consideration to the San Diego Tantra community’s feedback before editing the final cut. Just by watching the film, one woman had a full body recall of an early incest experience, and went on to seek peer counseling and expressed deep gratitude to Dez andafterwards.

      As a sexual healer who offers hands-on private sessions, Dez can only touch so many lives. Through writing books and producing movies and traveling internationally, Baba Dez is able to be a more powerful instrument of change on the planet. Dez has also created a broader platform for other sacred sexual healers such as myself, Mare Simone, Kypris Aster Drake, Ariel White, Lawrence Lanoff, Jaiya Ma and Shawn Roop to name just a few in California. I am proud to align with Baba Dez because, though I may not agree with all his teachings, I know he is a powerful visionary who has a clear intention to heal sexual guilt, fear and shame towards sacred sexual liberation on the global level.

I personally can’t wait to see the final cut at the Theaters Dec 3, Dec 4, and Dec 9th at 10pm at the Gaslamp: 701 Fifth Ave.San Diego, CA 92101

If you are not in San Diego you can download it online at:
http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/sex-magic
And tell your friends!

By Kamala Devi, co-author of Sacred Sexual Healing: The Shaman Method of Sex Magic. www.BlissCoach.com

Devin and the Triple Goddess

Devin LOVES growing up in a poly household! And I LOVE being surrounded by my sister-lover-goddess-aunties. Here's Viraja, Cheri, me and Devin after the Poly Potluck with Taj. I'm proud to have made it into two chapters of her new book!
On Page 23 of "Polyamory in the 21st Century" Anapol writes:

"Kamala's been accused of trying to convert others to
nonmonogamy, trying to prove something to the religious right and taking
advantage of the free publicity to market her books and DVDs. Kamala retorts, "I
have no idea what difference it will make in the long run. What I know is that I
love my life." Kamala says she's motivated by a strong desire to be a voice for
freedom and love in the world. I'm willing to be misunderstood, misquoted or
misrepresented, whateve it takes to makes the world a better place."
www.Lovewithoutlimits.com & www.blisscoach.com

Deborah Taj Anapol at our monthly Poly Potluck

With over 50 friends and lovers at at the Emerald Temple, this was our Largest Poly Potluck in over 5 years! Thank you Taj for reading from your new book: Polyamory in the 21st Century. The highlight of the evening was her now famous quote, "Let go of the form, and let love lead." Get your copy of this great new book at: http://lovewithoutlimits.com/

Tierd of Speaking Sweetly by Hafiz

Love wants to reach out and manhandle us,
Break all our teacup talk of God.

If you had the courage and
Could give the Beloved His choice, some nights,
He would just drag you around the room
By your hair,
Ripping from your grip all those toys in the world
That bring you no joy.

Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly
And wants to rip to shreds
All your erroneous notions of truth

That make you fight within yourself, dear one,
And with others,

Causing the world to weep
On too many fine days.

God wants to manhandle us,
Lock us inside of a tiny room with Himself
And practice His dropkick.

The Beloved sometimes wants
To do us a great favor:

Hold us upside down
And shake all the nonsense out.

But when we hear
He is in such a “playful drunken mood”
Most everyone I know
Quickly packs their bags and hightails it
Out of town.

~ Hafiz ~
(The Gift – versions of Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky)
Special Thanks to Goddess Maya for introducing me to this one.
In perfect timing, after I got more hate mail. I had to laugh. The religious zealot writes "...and when you die, I hope that God almighty has his way with you..." And I'm thinking... me too. ;)

Sacred Sex Show-n-Tell

TJ Bartel & Kamala Devi , Sacred Sexual Healing

My son will be 4 years old this holiday season. I am not only celebrating his birth, but my own humbling rite of passage into motherhood. As a mom, I'm not supposed to be a highly sexualized being. Somehow, it's socially acceptable for me to talk about whether he's circumcised, how long I nursed and when my period to came back.

But it's NOT acceptable to share that my inner labia ripped during my home-birth, and giving birth changed the size and shape of my yoni, the taste of my fluids, the amount of lubrication I produce, the positions I prefer, how long it takes me to orgasm and the type of orgasms I now enjoy.

During my initial postpartum period, I felt broken. I cried to Michael, my midwife, and my mother about my sexual loss. Most women assured me that these were natural changes and that it's normal to have a decrease in sex drive, and they assured me that motherhood had other rewards.

But when my son was 9 months old, I went to see feminist revolutionary Betty Dodson and realized that the cultural messages about my body were... BULLSHIT! For over 30 years Dodson has been holding women empowerment circles and "Genital Show & Tell"events that heal and transform deep wounding that is maintained by a shroud of sexual taboos.

Soon after meeting Betty, I started offering "genital show and tell" groups to my "Sisters in Truth." In the context of sacred circle, we would not only talk about every sexual taboo, but practice yoni gazing, yoni photography and group masturbation.

Recently, I've had many personal revelations in my naked yoga and Quodoshka practices and I am called to offer a these vulnerable teachings within a circle of mixed gender. There are profound sexual healing benefits when we give eachother permission to show and share about our nakedness.

We recently held a profound healing circle at the Advanced Sacred Sexual Healing workshop last month with TJ Bartel. I look forward to collaborating with him more in the near future, and in the meantime, let me know if you want to join us for the next Gential Show & Tell event. .

Love you,
Kamala Devi
www.BlissCoach.com or call 858-272-2254
Nov. 18 Poly Potluck with Guest Speaker: Deborah Taj Anapol 6:45
Nov. 19 Poly Talk at Phoenix Goddess Temple 7-9pm
Nov. 20-21 Tantra Theater Intensive at Phoenix Goddess Temple
Dec. 4 Sacred Snuggle Party 6:45 (Last event of the year)
Jan. 17 Auditions and Open House for Tantra Theater Troupe 2011
March 4-6 Art of Conscious Loving with Leah Alchin & Charles Muir!

Special Inviation: Tantra Theater at the Phoenix Goddess Temple

Dear Temple Priestess,

"What do you want to be when you grow up?"
When I was little, my answer was 'ballerina' or 'nurse.'
That's because I didn't know 'Dakini' was an option.

Today, when I tell people I'm a "Sacred Sexual healer,"
They stare at me blankly and have no clue what I do.
Sometimes when they ask, "What is Tantra?" I feel sad,
Because I know I can TALK about it until I'm blue in the face...
but unless they're ready to experience it, they'll never understand.

I belong to a special tribe of sexy light workers.
Our calling is to heal the worlds deepest wound,
secretly, for years, we did it one session at a time.
But now our collective consciousness is waking up,
it's time we use the temple arts to teach and inspire.

Spoken word, song, dance, comedy...this is language of the muses.
Whereas written word is a tool from the masculine missionaries.
Tantra Theater is an invitation to put down your books,
get out of your mind, stand up and speak your herstory!
Join me this weekend for a deep journey into your full expression.

Nov. 20-21 Tantra Theater Intensive for Phoenix Goddess Temple.
Kamala Devi is working with the Mystic systers to design tantra theater teachings specifically for the Phoenix Goddess Temple. This weekend workshop is specifically designed for goddess practitioners who want to enhance their transpersonal theater skills such as fantasy role play, embodying the archetypes and erotic improvisation. The workshop is open to the public and no theater experience is necessary.
 
Cost is a reduced price at $220 for the entire 18 hour workshop which culminates in an optional performance at the full moon celebration on the 21st. Location: Temple of 1 Contact: School of 1 at 602-956-0651 http://www.tantratheater.tv/ or call Kamala Devi at 858-272-2254.

Love,
Kamala Devi

Weekend Overview:
10am-6pm Sat and Sun.
Tantra Theater is a transformative group process where we delve into personal history and have fun re-scripting the sexual and spiritual stories that have been holding us back. The intensive two day journey involves 18 hours of deep personal growth exercises designed to transform sexual guilt shame and fear into art, healing and liberation. We'll begin to re-script you spiritual or sexual awakening "Story" into a performance that will inspire the people to heal. This unique event is an entertaining and enlightening whether it's for the screen, stage or for an audience of one.
Benefits:
**Stage presence and confidence
**Break through whatever holds you back!
**An expanded sense of intimate and meaningful sharing
**A keen ability to impact others
**Enhanced presenter skills
**The experience of freedom and joy in your life

Most of us have an analytical understanding of our story, meaning that we could tell someone our story. However, in the process of using the expressive arts to craft our stories, our paradigm is irrevocably altered. Old suffering is observed and released. Connection is realized. A new consciousness emerges that allows for humorous self-reflection. Ultimately, we experience a greater acceptance of self and a freedom of being. This workshop is especially for you if:

**You have sacred or sexual wounds you'd like to have witnessed and healed.
**You are a teachers or healer in sacred sexuality.
**You want to expess yourself on camera or stage.
**You have ever dreamed about performing a one man/woman show.
**You are ready to re-script your reality & experience more sexual liberation!

During the intensive we will practice: tantric meditation and breathing practices, theater-based technologies, movement and improvisational dance, vocal exercises, group processes and optional live performance.

The Movie "Sex Magic" is Showing at SD Gaslamp on Dec 9th!

Baba Dez is a polyamorous, sacred sexual healer who’s made love to over a thousand women. When his primary lover abandons him due to his “poly” lifestyle, he practices Sex Magic with other women to manifest her back.

A personal note from directors Jonathan Schell & Eric Liebman:

After 4 years, here it is...
We open NYC's IFC Center (the Waverly theater) this weekend! Midnight screenings this Friday and Saturday, and weekday screenings at 4:45.

The film has been rocking festival audiences. Last week in England, they laughed their asses off. 90% LOVED it, 10% hated it, one guy attacked me! They were stealing our posters.

We also just won awards in Chicago and Philadelphia.
Check IFC's website for screening times and trailer, http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/sex-magic
http://www.ifccenter.com/#day_fri
Here's our website for future dates and cities;
SexMagicTheMovie.com

Facebook,
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sex-Magic-Manifesting-Maya/162540689657

And if you can't make the theater, it's now On Demand at IFC.

Sacred Snuggle & Kali Das's Birthday

This picture was taken shortly after Kali Das's Birthday Spanking Ritual and is just a handful of friends and lovers that attended the Nov. Sacred Snuggle. There was a particularly powerful healing vortex at this month's event because it started immediately after the advanced Sexual healing Playshop and Genital Show and Tell with Kamala Devi & TJ Bartel. Next month will be the last Snuggle Party of the year and will have a holiday theme! Look forward to seeing you there.
Kamala Devi www.BlissCoach.com or call 858-272-2254
Nov. 13th Naked Yoga (Intermediate Level) 4:30pm
Nov. 18 Poly Potluck with Guest Speaker: Deborah Taj Anapol 6:45
Nov. 19 Poly Talk at Phoenix Goddess Temple 7-9pm
Nov. 20-21 Tantra Theater Intensive at Phoenix Goddess Temple
Dec. 4 Sacred Snuggle Party 6:45 (Last event of the year)
Jan. 17 Auditions and Open House for Tantra Theater Troupe 2011
March 4-6 Art of Conscious Loving with Leah Alchin & Charles Muir!

Are you Envious?

Overcome your Envy with "Genital Show & Tell" This Saturday!
     My son will be 4 years old this holiday season. I am not only celebrating his birth, but my own humbling rite of passage into motherhood.
As a mom, I'm not supposed to be a highly sexualized being. Somehow, it's socially acceptable for me to talk about whether he's circumcised, how long I nursed and when my period to came back.
But it's NOT acceptable to share that my inner labia ripped during my home-birth, and giving birth changed the size and shape of my yoni, the taste of my fluids, the amount of lubrication I produce, the positions I prefer, how long it takes me to orgasm and the type of orgasms I now enjoy.
      During my initial postpartum period, I felt broken. I cried to Michael, my midwife, and my mother about my sexual loss. Most women assured me that these were natural changes and that it's normal to have a decrease in sex drive, and they assured me that motherhood had other rewards.
But when my son was 9 months old, I went to see feminist revolutionary Betty Dodson and realized that the cultural messages about my body were... BULLSHIT! For over 30 years Dodson has been holding women empowerment circles and "Genital Show & Tell"events that heal and transform deep wounding that is maintained by a shroud of sexual taboos.
     Soon after meeting Betty, I started offering "genital show and tell" groups to my "Sisters in Truth." In the context of sacred circle, we would not only talk about every sexual taboo, but practice yoni gazing, yoni photography and group masturbation.
     Recently, I've had many personal revelations in my naked yoga and Quodoshka practices and I am called to offer a these vulnerable teachings within a circle of mixed gender. There are profound sexual healing benefits when we give eachother permission to show and share about our nakedness.
You'll be suprised by how much there is to learn about yourself in witnessing others if you join me for this sacred sexual ritual this Saturday, Nov. 6th from 10am-6pm at the Advanced Sexual Healing Playshop with guest teacher TJ Bartel. Scroll down for details.
     Love you,
Kamala Devi
www.BlissCoach.com or call 858-272-2254
Nov. 4 Tantra Talk with Guest Speaker: Daka TJ Bartel 6:45
Nov. 6 Advanced Sexual healing and Genital Show and Tell with TJ Bartel 10-6pm
Nov. 6 Sacred Snuggle and Potluck Party 6:45
Nov. 13th Naked Yoga (Intermediate Level) 4:30pm
Nov. 18 Poly Potluck with Guest Speaker: Deborah Taj Anapol 6:45
Nov. 19 Taste of Tantra Theater at Phoenix Goddess Temple 7-9pm
Nov. 20-21 Tantra Theater Intensive at Phoenix Goddess Temple
Dec. 4 Sacred Snuggle Party 6:45 (Last event of the year)
Jan. 17 Auditions and Open House for Tantra Theater Troupe 2011
March 4-6 Art of Conscious Loving with Leah Alchin & Charles Muir!

Tantra Theater Weekend at the Phoenix Goddess Temple

    


    











      Teaching Tantra Theater in NYC filled me with a strong sense of Dharma. This photo depicts the divine masculine nature of my hosts Anton Diaz & Reid Mihalko at the Sacred Sex Round up. Michael (AKA Swami G-spot) and I performed to approx. 70 sexy spirits that evening.  We've since inspired a NYC chapter of Tantra Theater.
      Now, I'm inspired to share these transformative theater tools with the mystic sisters at the Phoenix Goddess Temple.  I'm working with Tracy Elise to create a weekend workshop that is specifically designed for goddess practitioners who want to enhance their trans personal theater skills such as fantasy role play, embodying the archetypes and erotic improvisation.  This will be an 18 hour weekend intensive for the School of One practitioners.  It will be held at the Phoenix Goddess Temple and is open to the public.  http://www.phoenixgoddesstemple.org/ No theater experience necessary.

     Friday Nov. 19th- A Taste of Tantra Theater. at Temple Friday Nights Series from 7-9pm, This event is by donations only. You will do guided explorations of  formative sacred sexual experiences with partners and small groups. At the end of the evening, you will have the opportunity, but are not required to "perform" in front of the group. This is a healing practice for both participants and observers.

 
Saturday Nov. 20th & Sunday Nov. 21st   Full day of Tantra Theater Technology from 10am-7pm This event is normally $497, but for the School of one it is being offered at Half price only $247 per person.
 
     Tantra Theater is a tansformative group process where we delve into personal history and have fun re-scripting the sexual and spiritual stories that have been holding us back. The intensive two day journey involves 18 hours of deep personal growth exercises designed to transform sexual guilt shame and fear into art, healing and liberation.  We'll begin to re-script you spiritual or sexual awakening "Story" into a performance that will inspire the people to heal. This unique event is an entertaining and enlightening whether it's for the screen, stage or for an audience of one.
Benefits:

**Stage presence and confidence
**Break through whatever holds you back!
**An expanded sense of intimate and meaningful sharing
**A keen ability to impact others
**Enhanced presenter skills
**The experience of freedom and joy in your life

     Most of us have an analytical understanding of our story, meaning that we could tell someone our story. However, in the process of using the expressive arts to craft our stories, our paradigm is irrevocably altered. Old suffering is observed and released. Connection is realized. A new consciousness emerges that allows for humorous self-reflection. Ultimately, we experience a greater acceptance of self and a freedom of being. This workshop is especially for you if:

**You have sacred or sexual wounds you'd like to have witnessed and healed.
**You are a teachers or healer in sacred sexuality.
**You want to express yourself on camera or stage.
**You have ever dreamed about performing a one man/woman show.
**You are ready to re-script your reality & experience more sexual liberation!

During the intensive we will practice: tantric meditation and breathing practices, theater-based technologies, movement and improvisational dance, vocal exercises, group processes and live performance. http://www.tantratheater.tv/
Kamala Devi is the author of Don't Drink the Punch, Sacred Sexual Healing Coach www.BlissCoach.com

Advanced Sexual Helaing with TJ Bartel & Kamala Devi

 Happy Dia De Los Muertos!

When people hear that Daka TJ is coming to town, they are excited to work with him, but wonder how they can go deeper, if they're not tantra teachers in training...

This morning I woke up with a HOT idea and have been working with TJ bartel to create an exciting NEW Playshop. Join us before the sacred snuggle for....

Advanced Sacred Sexual Healing Techniques
Now Only $129 per person.
INCLUDES ADMISSON TO SACRED SNUGGLE PARTY!

Experience hands on techniques to shift and transform sexual guilt, shame and fear. We will model live session work and teach practices to shift and transform. TJ and Kamala will address your personal questions and each participant will leave with a specific practice designed for increasing your unique sexual expression. Experience the support, inspiration, and wisdom of a master dakini and dakni in a small group setting.

Kamala will be leading a sacred genital show and tell ritual that is safe, and totally life changing! Open to single men, women and couples, no beginners.

WHAT TO BRING:
Wear comfortable clothes, dress in layers.
A sarong, beautiful wrap or robe.
Blanket,
towel,
massage oil.
A Journal and a pen.
Bottled water.
Optional socks or slippers since I have a no shoe policy in my meditation room.
We provide pillows but you are welcome to bring your own or a back-jack for sitting.
Please Bring a vegetarian dish to share with the community at the sacred snuggle party.

Tj Bartel, ACTE, relationship expert, tantra master, and advanced certified tantric educator, has helped thousands of individuals learn sacred sexual healing techniques to become more empowered and alive. Together with renowned neuroscientist Daniel Amen, he is author of the CD set Create More Passion Tonight: Uniting Ancient Wisdom and Modern Brain Science. http://www.dakalove.com/


Space is limited.
Register here or write: tantrikakalidas@gmail.com for details.
Kamala Devi
www.BlissCoach.com or call 858-272-2254
Nov. 4 Tantra Talk with Guest Speaker: Daka TJ Bartel 6:45
Nov. 6 Advanced Sexual Healing Playshop with TJ Bartel 10-6pm
Nov. 6 Sacred Snuggle and Potluck Party 6:45
Nov. 13th Naked Yoga (Intermediate Level) 4:30pm
Nov. 18 Poly Potluck with Guest Speaker: Deborah Taj Anapol 6:45
Dec. 4 Sacred Snuggle Party 6:45 (Last event of the year)
Jan. 17 Auditions and Open House for Tantra Theater Troupe 2011
March 4-6 Art of Conscious Loving with Leah Alchin & Charles Muir!
Weekly blog updates: www.uninhibitedbliss.blogspot.com
www.TantraTheater.TV

I invoked the Goddess, I mean, really...

   New Scene from the Sacred Slut Show:

     I was never much of a masterbater. The first time I stuck my fingers up there was to insert a tampon and back then I was quick and lacked curiosity. Later, my friends would tell me what I was missing. They bragged about cucumbers and brush handles and toothbrushes and this was before they vibrated. One girlfriend even offered to show me how she did it with a coke bottle. But I was happy just massaging my lips from the outside. Oh, I enjoyed the occasional hand held shower head, or the vibrating back massager, but never had an overwhelming need for penetration.
      As such, I would never have suspected that my sacred sexual awakening would have started with self pleasuring.
     The first time I invoked the Goddess, I mean, really invoked God into my body, was while masterbating in India.  I, like most young naive tantra teachers went on an obligatory pilgrimage to India in search of my lineage, my roots. I was seeking the source of sacred sex, and ended up in a sex cult.

    I was at that unique point in my spiritual journey when my guru was losing his status as guru in my eyes. He had a powerful message, but clearly the was not fully integrated.

Michael had seen it coming all along.

“He’s not a total quack, his teachings are cool, but he’s constantly contradicting himself.”

The guru didn’t care for Michael either, “I don’t know why you brought him. There is nothing I can teach him." He had an unkept grey beard, bright eyes and always wore the orange swami robes. "Every man must learn from a goddess. That’s why I channel Kali, she talks directly through me. I give you teachings and you pass them along to him.”

Then he proceeded to ignore Michael at satsang and ptuja. He would give me advanced tantric practices about rubbing my breasts or sound healing on my yoni. This involved putting his face in my root chakra and actually blowing sound through my body as if I were a flute. It was powerful, beautiful, but I admit at times I was a little concerned about the hygene of that big unkept beard. And if that wasn't bad enough, sometimes he would give a talk from the toilet in the moring. Sometimes he was verbally abusive towards men, Michael tolerated a fair amount of verbal abuse in the name of crazy wisdom. And sometimes he would flip and say some mysogynistic things to his senior disciple, who happened to be the mother of his child. And then one time she talked back to him, and in broad daylight, he slapped her across the face.

Michael turned to me and said, “We’re leaving.”

I didn’t argue. I packed up my bags, and then I went to tell Swami-Ji

I sat him down and it was hard saying goodbye, it felt like we were breaking up. He gave me a beautiful string of mala-beads and spoke sweet words about my spiritual potential, but I was already deaf to him. I told him we decided to go to Kerala and go see Amma Chi. And then he got upset, he acted like I was cheating on him.

Michael and I left in the night, and after driving for hours we found a cheap hotel to crash in. Michael fell right asleep. But I, I went into a deep meditation.

It was a full moon, and there was a window build high in the cinderblock walls with rebar.  When the moon came through she cast shadows around the room. Her rays made my naked skin glow blue. I gazed at my body, as if another woman with blue complexion had slipped under the sheets with me and Michael. Then she rose up and began a slow melancholy dance. I was being moved by her. I was being danced, I was being breathed, I was being her. My body was her offering. And the goddess was pleased. She ravished my senses and insisted on seeing herself. I found myself infront of a dingy hotel mirror, and was astonished, I couldn’t believe the luminescence beaming back at me. One thought arose in my mind:

“Am I dreaming?”

THIS IS REAL. She answered swiftly her voice filling the room like honey.

Then I relaxed, and she took over. Pressing my body against the walls, until I was held by the right angled corner of the room. Clutching at my thighs and my quivering hips, she cried out from every pore:

TAKE ME.
But when I looked over at Michael’s sleeping body, I already knew that no mortal lover could satisfy her. That’s when my own fingers plunged into my wet depths and I felt as if my pelvis had become a chalice or bowl and as she undulated, my energy sloshed like sacred fluid that up against my edges and sometimes even spilling over. These ecstatic waves continued to surge in waves for hours. And then the sunrise usurped the moon and I was spent, but reluctant to sleep.

I didn’t want her to go away.

I AM ETERNAL. She assured me, and I settled back into my bed, which never felt so soft, I floated down into the pillows and was consumed by the mattress, holding me, surrounding me, dissolving me…

Until I heard the annoying buzz of a cheap travel alarm. Taaa Taaa Taaa Taaa But I had hardly slept. I was tired and groggy.

“C’mon, get dressed, we’re going to get Darshan with Amma today.” Michael says.

I didn’t care. It could’ve been high tea with the Dali Lama, there’s no Darshan greater than letting the goddess borrow your body for an evening.

~~~~~~
All Rights reserved by Kamala Devi. This is an exceprt of an early draft of Kamala's one goddess show. It is a work in progress tennatively titled: The Sacred Slut Project. For details go to: http://www.tantratheater.tv/ or  http://www.blisscoach.com/   P.S. The photo is of the aftermath of her Great Rite Maithuna ritual performed at her open marriage honeymoon in Costa Rica.

Radical Transparency

This group Shot is from October's Poly Potluck, the topic was: Radical Transparency.We had approximately 25 people, including 6 first newbies and after we shared delicious spread of vegetarian food, we created a sacred circle to explore and experience the topic of Transparency. It's interesting to find that definitions of transparency vary depending on the field in which it is applied. We had fun stretching the relevance of these definitions to polyamory. Here are some quick definitions we harvested from Google:
***In economics a market is transparent if much is known by many.
***In politics, transparency allows citizens have accessibility,usability,understandability and audibility of information.
***In telecommunications, transparency can refer to the property of an entity that allows another entity to pass thorough it without altering either of the entities.
***In data compression, if a lossily compressed result is perceptually indistinguishable from the uncompressed input, then the compression can be declared to be transparent.
***In the field of optics, transparency is the physical property of light to pass through.
In my 15 years of practicing spiritual poly, I've come to believe the most simple and direct route to enlightened relationship is to speak the truth as it arises. I'm grateful to have so many friends and lovers on the same path who keep showing up and letting their light shine through!
Our next Tantra Talk will be Nov. 4th with Guest Speaker Daka TJ Bartel, Certified Tantric Educator. http://www.blisscoach.com/

Radical Transparency on Thurs. & Goddess Puja on Sat.

I'm back from the eco-sexual symposium in Los Angeles.
I'm excited to share my vulnerable thoughts and practices with you this THURSDAY at the polypotluck, the topic of: RADICAL TRANSPARENCY. If I am going to walk-my-talk then I will take a moment to share with you what's been going on for me:

After our fabulously sweet, sensual & successful weekend at Tantra-Palooza, I've been wrestling with a flu-turned-cough and my body has been telling me to SLOW Down but like most people, I resist listening to my body when my heart and head are having sooo much fun. I feel I have so many lovers, friends, projects and some part of me belies that I am super-woman and can do everything, all the time. Does any of this sound familiar?

Fortunately for me, the next two events that I'm hosting are simple and actually NURTURE me. So I hope you'll join me for the casual and fun Poly Potluck on THURSDAY at 6:45pm. And all Goddesses are invited to join me for a Women's Puja on Saturday at 6:45pm (must RSVP with tantrikakalidas@gmail.com) Here's the scoop...

Halloween is Witche's new year, what better way to celebrate than Sex magic with your sisters! We'll start with some fun icebreakers, invoke Divine Guidance and share prayer, dancing, meditation, sensual touch, breath and energy within a sweet, sober and safe environment. The focus this evening is to do Sex magic to super-charge a goal for the new year.

We will be gathering at the Emerald Temple beginning at 6:45 pm. We will cast a circle by 7:30pm please do not come late. Women who arrive after 7:30 will not be admitted.

How to prepare:

Bring an Intention
One hand picked flower from your garden (or your neighbors)
Wear comfortable clothes that make you feel beautiful.
Eat a light meal before arriving, this is NOT a potluck.
Bring an open mind and heart!
There is no charge, but donations are graciously accepted to help pay for Kamala's time and space.
Love,
Kamala Devi
http://www.blisscoach.com/
Oct. 28th Poly Potluck: Radical Transparency.
Oct. 30th Goddess Puja: Sex Magic for Witches New Years!
Nov. 4 Tantra Talk with Guest Speaker: Daka TJ Bartel 6:45
Nov. 6 Advanced Training for Sacred Sexual practitioners with TJ Bartel 1-6pm
Nov. 6 Sacred Snuggle and Potluck Party 6:45
Nov. 18 Poly Potluck with Guest Speaker: Deborah Taj Anapol 6:45
Dec. 4 Sacred Snuggle Party 6:45 (Last event of the year)
Jan. 17 Auditions and Open House for Tantra Theater Troupe 2011
March 4-6 Art of Conscious Loving with Leah Alchin & Charles Muir!

Who is Annie Sprinkle?

     You may have heard me bragging about how Tantra Theater will be performing at the ECO-SEX SYMPOSIUM HONEYMOON after ANNIE SPRINKLE'S PURPLE WEDDING TO THE MOON this weekend.  And if your not a huge sex ed, or performance art or sex geek, you may be wondering...uh, who's Annie M. Sprinkle??
     She's one of my personal artistic inspirations. As a student of feminism and performance art, there were times in college, after one of my experimental plays would get bad reviews and I would suffer the post-play depression and want to drop out of school, out of art, off the planet...but then I'd think about Ms. Sprinkle and the massive affect she's having on mainstream opinion about sex and spirituality. On more than one occasion I felt that if she could go from being a prostitute and porn star into a sex educator and artist, then I could push on because my path as a tantra teacher was already paved.
      Annie Sprinkle describes herself as an artist, sexologist, eco-sexual, author, lecturer, educator and thespian. "I’ve also been a sex worker of all sorts, a pioneering adult film director/performer and a professional photographer. I’m the first porn star to have earned a Ph.D., my work is studied in major universities internationally, I’ve shown at the best museums and galleries-- and I’m still going strong!"
      One of her better known theater and performance art piece is her Public Cervix Announcement, in which she invites the audience to "celebrate the female body" by viewing her cervix with a speculum and flashlight.
She also performed The Legend of the Ancient Sacred Prostitute, in which she did a "sex magic" masturbation ritual on stage.
      She has toured one-woman shows internationally for 17 years, some of which were are titled Post Porn Modernist, Annie Sprinkle's Herstory of Porn, Hardcore from the Heart, and, currently, Exposed; Experiments in Love, Sex, Death and Art.
      Sprinkle, who is bisexual,[1] married her long-time partner, Beth Stephens, in Canada on January 14, 2007. In December 2005, she committed to doing seven years of art projects about love with her wife and art collaborator, Beth Stephens. They call this their Love Art Laboratory. Part of their project is to do an experimental art wedding each year, and each year has a different theme and color corresponding to the seven chakras.
   I hope this inspires you to join us for this historic performance art event on Sat. Oct 23 in Los Angeles, CA
at Farnsworth Park Amphitheater. The Purple Wedding to the Moon will be Officiated by Reverend Billy with the Church of Life After Shopping Choir. Featuring many performers, artists, and amazing guests.
Gather: 6:00 PM Ceremony: 6:30-8:00 Reception: 8:00-9:00

     We will make our vows to love, honor and cherish the Moon & Mountains until death brings us closer together forever. You are invited to join us in these vows, or simply come bear witness. We ask for no gifts but welcome collaboration on the creation of the wedding. See more info at LoveArtLab.

     Oct 24 Santa Monica, CA Highways Performance Space Ecosex Symposium HoneyMOON Moderator: Veronica Hart. Panel: Ecosex Community Leaders, artists, teachers, thinkers including Tim Miller, Carol Queen, Deborah Taj Anapol and others to be announced. Ecosexuals unite! What’s an ecosexual? Find out with a panel of esteemed sex-ecologists; the movers and shakers of this satisfying new sexual identity and cutting edge pollen-amourous community. Find your e-spot. 3:00- 6pm Panel, presentations and discussion. And Schmooze with the Ecosexuals, Moon Pies and ecosexy treats will be served.
     For Details go to: http://www.loveartlab.org/.  If you want to caravan up with San Diego Tantra Theater, please write: tantrikakalidas@gmail.com

Naked Tantra Theater at Tantra Palooza 10-10-10

One of the unexpected highlights of Tantra-Palooza 10-10-10 is that Tantra Theater spontaneously performed in the BUFF!

 The show started off fully clothed with scripted pieces. Shawn Roop played the Emcee and performed his personal narrative about how he overcame Jealousy at a 3 day love-in! This Beautiful outdoor stage provided a healing atmosphere for our sex-positive message. (The running joke is that it looks like we're performing at Summer Stock.)

Goddess Brande Faris opened the show with her sultry voice and original song, "Hello & Welcome to Tantra." Rita Mooney did her Monogamy monologue. Michael kept us laughing with his Eco-Elf comedy routine about vegetarianism and Keith Davis and Viraja PreMa closed the show with their Tantric Journey Rap.

 

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Then we opened the stage to improvise personal narratives from the audience. And that's when Bodhi challenged Shawn with a story about when he was at a hedonistic nudist retreat. Rita and Kamala Devi are playing Canadian tantra teachers at club hedonism...

 Michael and Shawn are gay lovers while Kamala Devi  is being the temptress...

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And of course every one's favorite Naked Oracle..."Oh, Great Oracle tell me why I can't concentrate when people around me are taking off their clothes..."

As usual, we close with an interactive Q & A from the Cast...The director's low light was concern for the safety of her performers as they were performing on a precarious stage, only slightly safer than performing on a picnic table above a pit of snakes. The highlight was having such a fun, open minded audience and performing in the context of a deep three day retreat.

For Hot Streaming video clips go to: http://www.tantratheater.tv/ 

The End.

P.S. Photos by Julie Kondor.

World's first Eco-Sex Symposium

ECOSEXUALS UNITE
LOS ANGELES, CA.—What’s an ecosexual? Why are skinny-dipping, mysophilia and arboreal frottage so pleasurable? Where is the e-spot? Can the budding ecosexual movement help save the world? These are some of the questions that will be discussed at an Ecosex Symposium; a public forum where art meets theory meets sex education meets practice. The organizers of this first of its kind event are Annie Sprinkle, Ph.D., a feminist-porn-star and artist, turned “sexecologist,” and Elizabeth Stephens, a UCSC art professor and environmental activist. The two women explain, “As a strategy to create a more mutual and sustainable relationship with our abused and exploited planet, we are switching the metaphor from the Earth as mother, to Earth as lover.” The Symposium will be on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 24th, at the cutting-edge art hotbed, Highways Performance Space, in Santa Monica. A diverse panel of artists, academics, sex educators, and environmental activists will take turns presenting, performing, showing and telling.

Ecosex relationship coach, and author of Polyamory in the 20th Century, Debora Taj Anapol, Ph.D. will give an overview of what ecosex is all about-- clinically, spiritually and socio-politically. Eocsexual theorist and author of seminal text, Gaia and the New Politics of Love, Serena Anderlini, Ph.D. is flying in from University of Puerto Rico to present her views about “how the Earth stores and runs the energy of love.” Good Vibration’s resident sexologist, Carol Queen, Ph.D., will be discussing ecorotic issues in the sex toy industry. Kamala Devi and the Tantra Theater will act out the audience’s ecosex fantasies. Dr. Robert Lawrence, Ph.D., will cover ecosex fetishes. The panels will be moderated by TV and film actor, Veronica Hart, who will also offer an animal rights perspective. Award winning porn stars Jiz Lee and April Flores, and porn director Carlos Batts will discuss green porn and present a waterfall scene from their film, Dangerous Curves. Tania Hammidi will do a dance piece about conflict, genocide and olive trees. Comedic relief will come from EcoElf. The editor of the highbrow art magazine, Ms. Use, will attend from Israel to show off her ecosex themed issue. Other artists collaborating are C. Finley, Spyce Spycey, Luna Bella, Joegh Bullock, Lady Monster, Cindy Baker, Megan Morman, HB3, Dylan Bowls, Jayme Waxman and others.

The Symposium is also a “honeymoon” for organizers, Elizabeth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle. The day before the symposium, they will have an ecosexual Purple Wedding to the Moon. http://loveartlab.org/ Their aim, they say is “to inspire others to make the environmental movement a little more sexy, fun and diverse.”

Event sponsors are Good Vibrations, the Center For Sex and Culture, Femina Potens Gallery, Luna Pads, Monterey Bay’s kinky B+B Ahintofleather.com, 3 Way Kiss, Bondassage.com and Aki’s Cup Cakes. The organizers are looking for a few more eco-minded sponsors. They also invite individuals to get involved by contributing as backers through the Kickstarter fundraising platform. In exchange, backers get their names in the program, moon-shaped tit prints, and Beth Stephens’ sculptures of Annie Sprinkle’s bronzed panties! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/152588950/purple-wedding-to-the-moon-and-ecosex-honeymoon-sy

Ecosex Symposium Honeymoon
October 24th.
3:00-6:00
Highways Performance Space, 1651 18th Street,
LA, Ca., 90404
http://www.highwaysperformance.org/
Everyone over 18 is invited to attend.
Please wear purple.

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Purple Wedding to the Moon

Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens are preparing to marry the moon next Saturday on October 23rd, in their purple themed performance art party in Los Angeles. Afterwards there will be an "Eco Sex Symposium" where Tantra Theater and Eco-Elf will make an appearance on Sunday.
     Someone read about the wedding on the Altadena Blog and complained, which resulted in the LAPD declaring that the wedding "posed a threat to public safety." This led the Parks Department to illegally cancel our venue contract at the last minute. Due to the generosity and great connections of Reverend Billy and his partner Savatri D. we were able to enlist a wonderful first amendment lawyer, Terry Gross, who stepped in and heroically helped us get us our venue back.

    Their production costs have increased due to the controversy around the park contact. In addition to the guards we had already hired we have to hire 2 more guards, get extra insurance, possibly buy fire permits (for flaming pasties for christ's sake) and rent more space at the park. Anyhow we are complying with these demands as we love the park and because we are lovers, not fighters-except in cases where injustice and discrimination are clearly present.

     This is why they're asking you to consider become a Kickstarter backer of our Purple Wedding to the Moon and the first ever EcoSex Symposium Honeymoon at Highways Performance space next weekend. You can help make the environmental movement more sexy, fun and diverse with us.

Click this link for details. http://tinyurl.com/3ayxmbf

    Watch this short (2 min.) film. These weddings are not only about us but about issues that are way bigger than any two people will ever be. We are helping create a new ecosexual revolution which we believe will garner more love for the earth and possibly slow down the destruction of our planet by those who do not respect most forms of life; queer or otherwise, as the last few weeks of depressing news has made clear again and again.

     For more information on the Purple Wedding to the Moon and then in November our Purple Wedding to the Appalachian Mountains see http://www.loveartlab.org Click the "Now Appearing" button.
Much Love,
Beth and Annie

Longing for the Beloved...

My beloved offers to kiss my yoni goodbye.
We only have a couple hours before he leaves on a trip oversees.
Tenderly, I admit that I can't enjoy the oral sex,
I'm too eager to feel him inside, and beg him to enter me.
Happy to oblige, he fills me with his light and devotion.
His ascending love ignites my raw hunger,
like a feline in heat

I rub against him,
pressing,
hissing
and squeezing
until I lose myself
in a ferocious explosion.
Afterwards, I float back down to the bed sheets,
I burry my face in his chest, hiding my self judgment.
He listens in silence, like Shiva, as I confess:

"I want to love you the way God loves...
But when my body is around your body,
something happens in my chemistry and
I am possessed with this animal desire."

To which he smiles and asks:
"And who, my dear, do you think created animal desire?"

Now I'm missing my oversees lover.
I burn for his body and shameless wisdom.
I am perpetually longing for my beloved,
the way God yearns for her reflection.

Kamala Devi 10. 2010
http://www.blisscoach.com/

Tantra-Palooza Decompression Party

     This picture shows about a third of the Tantra-Palooza participants who gathered for the Tantra-Palooza decompression talk. We started the evening by sharing our highlights which include: first kisses, energy orgasms, naked yoga, whole body orgasms, meditating, sensual encounters in the woods, tantric tthreesomes, voyeurism/exhibitionism, and permission to be our wild free authentic selves. 

     Afterwards we passed the talking stick and held the same sacred non-judgemental space for each persons low lights which include: Not asking for what we want, not getting enough sleep, not having enough time to connect with everyone. Next year's Tantra-Palooza 11-11-11 will be a week long, Bodhi suggested it be a whole year!  Francoise, Shawn Roop, Guru Kirin showed up to share their love and invite the community to continue to connect by becoming a (free) member of  http://www.sandiegotantraconnection.com/.

     We then officially over heated our projector by watching a HOT slide show of photos taken by Goddess Julie Kondor. Julie (pictured Above) is a gifted professional photography who now specializes in tantric images. I'll be posting her (non-nude) photos on the Facebook Group: Tantra-Palooza 12-12-12. If you attended TP and took photos please post them there.

Our next Tantra Talk will be featuring Guest Speaker: Daka TJ Bartel, so mark your calendar for Nov. 4 Tantra Talk at 6:45.  Followed by these exciting events:

Nov. 6 Advanced Training for Sacred Sexual practitioners with TJ Bartel 1-6pm
Nov. 6 Sacred Snuggle and Potluck Party 6:45
Nov. 18 Poly Potluck with Guest Speaker: Deborah Taj Anapol 6:45
Nov. 30th Goddess Puja: Sex Magic for Witches New Years!
Dec. 4 Sacred Snuggle Party 6:45 (Last event of the year)
Jan. 17 Auditions and Open House for Tantra Theater Troupe 2011
March 4-6 Charles Muir's Art of Conscious Loving Weekend Level 1