Where Sex Meets Spirit! (copie)

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Where Sex Meets Spirit! (copie)

Welcome Home to Your Body!

It is said that we are spirits having a human experience, but nothing could be more integral, more visceral, or more paramount to this experience than our sexuality. Nothing could be more informative in our desire to commune closer with Spirit.

We enter the world knowing pleasure, feeling sensations, and open to all the ecstasies being in a body affords. We want to touch, we want to feel (ourselves and others), we desperately yearn to explore what being in a body is all about, and we want to truly connect.

This is before fear, when only love and wonder were our guiding principles. This was before shame, when only inquiry and exploration were our mandates - our mission. This was before guilt, when only pleasure was our goal. We wanted to feel good!

But then we forgot, we were taught to forget. We were conditioned and programmed out of our bodies and the way we feel and into the prisons of our minds and how we think. Our thinking trumped our feelings.

In the beginning it is said that Spirit created humankind fully embodied, true to self, and full of all sensate capacity. And it was good. Our culture has demoted feeling in the interest of mental exaltation and called it better.

A New Landscape (copie)

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A New Landscape (copie)

But are we...better?

Are we more full? Are we more, embodied? Are we more, alive?

As our minds have evolved, our sensate bodies have diminished from the fullness of light and vitality to the depths of darkness and spiritual disembodiment - truly from heaven to hell. We are cut off - from the divine, from each other, from ourselves.

In many traditions, sex and sexuality are the vehicles through which a closer relationship with the divine is achieved. However, within our culture, sex and spirit, much like religion and science, have often been purposefully and diametrically pitted against each other. War ensues, and we, those who truly need healing from our sexual traumas, guilts, shames, and self-debasing conditionings, are kept from truly merging our sexuality and spirituality into a wholesome, life-giving, and embodied existence.

This condition of disembodiment goes beyond any one religion, creed, or way of life. Many of us, perhaps most, suffer from this affliction. We are taught not to feel, not to fully breathe, not to touch and enjoy physical contact, and in the interest of not being unseemly - to be silent. We condition our bodies to live with tension - ignoring pain, regular body signals, and lock our bodies in patterns that create stress, discomfort, and other medical ailments.

Instead of adopting more (w)holistic ways of living, we often default to pharmaceuticals, and pharmaceuticals are far easier to take than changing debilitating habits, right? But at what cost? How many of the ailments we medicate can be alleviated merely by spending time creating healthy habits of embodiment?

But how, you ask, does one cultivate a lifestyle based on genuine embodiment, a spiritually sexy existence, if one is never taught how?