This is the Authentic Sex Podcast, Real Life Conversations about sex, pleasure and relationships.

I'm your host, Juliet Allen. Welcome to this episode of the Authentic Sex Podcast.

My name is Juliet.

I am your host today.

I'm a sexologist and tantra practitioner and sex and relationship coach and my mission is to empower as many people as possible to be having absolutely amazing ecstatic connected intimate sex and relationships

so today I'm talking about tantra. It's a huge topic so I'm feeling like there's going to be like part one, part two, etc.

I'm going to freestyle today with what I feel called to share most and that is I want talk about how Tantra has impacted my life as a woman.

I just returned from an eight-day spiritual, sexual shamanic tantra training with the International

School of Temple Arts and completely immersed myself in the world

of tantra and shamanism.

And it was an absolutely amazing experience.

So I'm feeling really inspired to, yeah, to teach more of this work, to serve in this area and impact

more people and change more lives when it comes to tantra.

So a lot of people ask me what is tantra and it's really hard to answer

because I feel like as individuals we all have completely different experiences

of what tantra is and different definitions. One of the first definitions I was told, which always stuck with me, was Tantra is choosing

with awareness what brings us joy.

So Tantra isn't about just having ecstatic sex.

Tantra is about having an ecstatic life and consciously choosing how we live our life and who we make

love to and who we interact with and who we choose to spend our time with and so yeah

creating a magical life and it sounds a little bit cliche I guess the you know creating a magical life but

I can genuinely say that I thought I had a magical life and then I learned about tantra and I really

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