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Taoist Relating, Sex and Meditation

Over thousands of years China’s Taoist communities developed ways to enable relationships to run more smoothly. In particular, during and after making love they would use their meditation methods to release and clear the subliminal energy between partners to benefit both by:

• Releasing the sexual energetic residue immediately afterward makes their next encounter new and fresh: a wonderful antidote to sexual boredom.
• Diminishing the tendency of the sexual act to afterwards engender excessive and painful emotional attachments such as anger, jealousy, obsessive possessiveness and fear.
• Not carrying the sexual energy of one partner into another’s bed which can be very disconcerting.

About the workshop

Given over three evenings, this workshop will cover several topics:

• The Dissolving method of meditation which done while sitting is the core practice of Lao Tse’s Water Branch of Taoism.
• An introduction to how the interactive practices of Taoism play out in the realm of sexual meditation.
• Time permitting and depending upon interest, answering questions related to sexual qigong and its methods.

The course is only relevant to and will only address issues related to the heterosexual community. It is recommended that participants attend with an opposite sex partner with whom to learn the practices being taught.

Bruce Frantzis is a Lineage Holder in the Water method of Taoist meditation passed down from the teachings of Lao Tse. To employ all of your effort and yet not use force—so that you avoid contravening the actual limits of the body, the mind and the spirit—is the gentle way of Lao Tse, one of Taoism’s greatest sages and author of the Tao Te Ching.

In this evening talk with Veronika we will look at living awake, aware and fully alive in each moment of your life and how we can, naturally and simply, support each other in that. It is an invitation to slow down and be present as well as experiment with expressing yourself more fully and freely.

Being a free and happy human being need not be complicated. It requires openness and a willingness to be uncompromisingly honest. We will be exploring tools for authentic communication and non-dualistic living. In simple exercises you will see and feel the difference between your truth and your story.

This evening is an opportunity to gain valuable insight, new perspectives on life and take away some practical tools that can help create more engaging and fulfilling relationships with the people around you.

The event is organised by Clare Russel, metalife, for the Positive Living Group Bath

“The cell is programmable, and it is programmed by our beliefs. This means you can change your program.[...] We don’t have to wait a thousand years for evolution, evolution can happen this afternoon. [...] We are not victims of anything more than our beliefs.”

Being with the sounds, a melting/dissolving happens. Off in what seems a great distance, the mind enquires: are the sounds outside, or inside?

Staying with the sounds they seem to evolve into a tangible shimmering - inside, and outside - to the point that the inside and the outside are felt as one. It is as though the body and the self are just shimmering mirages, and an equal part of everything. Then it is as though the oneness is realised. Although in varying forms, there is only one. And at one and the same time, we are part of it, and, totally it. No separation.

Then the game is, letting the gentle buzz of realisation be the priority - at all times.

This article was written by Paul Lowe. Almost daily Paul sends emails to his Inspirational Mailing List with information on a wide range of topical subjects as well as comments and reminders about staying aware. If you would like to subscribe to PaulsList please visit his web site www.paullowe.org »

for the past few years Ryan and I have been offering Intro to Lucid Living & Sharing sessions in London and more recently online. Intitially this idea had grown in response to a huge influx of new people that wanted to check out our regular London group. Aside from the excitement stirred in our weekly meetings, it also brought plenty of questions about the background. We soon realised that it was more appropriate for both newcomers and regular sharers to offer two separate sessions.

Our first Intro was in August 2008, 3.5 years ago. Can you believe it! Since then we’ve had over 150 people joining us. Only very few, however, decided to participate regularly in our groups. Does that say a lot about us or the rest of the world…?

Intro to Lucid Living & Sharing – revamped

We feel it’s time for a change of our Intros and this how we envison it: Once a month both our regular groups, London (LSG) and Online (VSG) will be openend up to new people who would like to find out about our groups. It will always be the first meeting of the month.

This way all regular sharers who are present on that day are invited to join Ryan and me for the opportunity to introduce new people to what Lucid Living and Sharing means to them. Having held nearly 45 Intro’s we are familiar with the most common questions, most of them you can find answered online:

• What is Sharing Group & how does it work?
• What is the value of Sharing?
• What is the context of Sharing & what is Lucid Living to you?
• What are the costs, sign up, etc. for London Sharing Group?
• What are the costs, sign up, etc. for Virtual Sharing Group?
• Who is Lucid Living?
• Who and what inspires us?

This is our experience. We’d be curious to hear from our regular particpants how you express in your own words what sharing is to you, either in written word for the website or when you share it with newcomers at our new open Introductory Sharing Groups once a month.

• First open Intro group in London: Thursday, March 1, 8pm
• First open Intro group online: Wednesday, March 7, 8pm GMT / find your local time »

If you are interested in joining us please sign up »

Our intention is to create a large community in which each individual thrives, where we can connect and live with each other in an honest and supportive way. We hope this initiative finds your support. We would love for you to come and introduce your friends to the group, a wonderful opportunity to create deeper and more authentic relationships with them.

With much love,
Veronika & Ryan

P.S. Our Intro session Tuesday February 14 will take place as planned. If you would like to join us for this date please email me. 

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