Mind-Blowing Sex | Dr. Lori Brotto
10% Happier with Dan Harris
10% Media, LLC
4.6 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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What role does mindfulness and meditation play when it comes to sex? It may be the key to alleviating sexual distress in your relationships, and in this episode Dr. Lori Brotto talks about scientific evidence that shows how mindfulness can improve your sex life.
Dr. Lori Brotto is a clinical psychologist, the director of the University of British Columbia's Sexual Health Laboratory, the Canada Research Chair in Women's Sexual Health; the Executive Director of the Women's Health Research Institute; and the author of Better Sex through Mindfulness.
We talk about:
- Mindfulness practices for individuals and couples who want to improve their sex lives
- The number one cause of sexual distress and how it manifests in different genders
- The importance of "interoception" or awareness of our bodily sensations
- Identifying the most common myths about sex
Content Warning: This episode includes conversations about sex.
Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/lori-brotto-435
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 10% happier podcast. |
| 0:06.3 | I'm Dan Harris. |
| 0:08.8 | Okay, we got a, we got a, we got a doozy for you today. |
| 0:16.4 | By way of background, I just want to say something interesting has happened recently in my |
| 0:19.8 | little world. |
| 0:21.4 | Three deeply experienced female meditation teachers and friends have each remarked to me that |
| 0:28.0 | the frontier, the leading edge, the very cusp of their personal meditation practice is |
| 0:34.6 | sex. |
| 0:36.4 | One of them said, and I'm quoting here, I feel pretty strongly that opening to sexual |
| 0:40.6 | slash sensual desire is the next step in the evolution of awakening. |
| 0:46.2 | I'm not going to name all of these teachers because some of them have not yet gone public |
| 0:50.0 | on this extremely personal subject. |
| 0:52.0 | But I will say that one of them is Seven A. Salassi who wrote about this issue in a recent |
| 0:56.1 | edition of her newsletter, which is excellent. |
| 0:58.7 | And you should check it out. |
| 0:59.7 | I'll post a link to the newsletter in the show notes. |
| 1:02.5 | In any event, all of these conversations really got me thinking. |
| 1:06.8 | I can imagine that for many of us, sex is an area of our lives that is so fraught, so |
| 1:11.7 | taboo that it might somehow seem exempt from our meditation or mindfulness practice. |
| 1:17.8 | So we're going to try to change that today with a fantastic guest. |
| 1:23.0 | By the way, this guest was recommended to me by the wife of yet another prominent meditation |
| 1:27.8 | teacher, Jeff Warren, Jeff's wife, whose name is Sarah Barmac is a dedicated practitioner |
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