I'm Gwyneth Paltrow and you're listening to the Goop Podcast.

Thanks for joining us.

If this is your first time, here's what you can expect.

Every Thursday and a bunch of Tuesdays coming up, Goop editors will be sitting down with

thought leaders who are pushing boundaries in their fields.

We'll talk to doctors, creatives, CEOs, and relationship experts.

You'll hear me interviewing some of the people I admire most in this world, and you'll

also hear a lot from my chief content officer at Goop Elise Loonon.

I love listening to Elise's interviews because she asks the smartest questions and really

just listens.

Today's guest is the very magnetic Nicole Daydone.

She's a long time proponent and teacher of a practice called, or GASMIC Meditation,

which has been called the Yoga of Sex.

It's probably not what you think.

Nicole is also the author of Slow Sex, which is a book I often recommend to women who are

looking for more desire in their relationships.

To me, climax is like sugar.

It just, it hijacks your hunger for the real thing that you're looking for, and I think

we're looking for this deeper state.

And so we only have this one thing, so we just keep pressing the climax lever.

We just keep pressing it, but there's this entirely different world.

Nicole sat down with our chief content officer, Elise Loonon, to talk about barriers to intimacy

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