I have recently been doing some experiences that have many different elements.
There are elements of pleasure, deep pleasure. Elements of adoration, of puja, of worship. Elements of poetry. Elements of meditation. Elements of intimacy. Elements of creativity. Elements of spirituality. Elements of physicality.
The experiences I’ve been doing I’ve called a Puja, a non-traditional Puja.
In essence a puja is a ritual of showing reverence, honouring, and adoration to the Divine.
I’ve been doing these as rituals of honouring the sacred of the body, and more specifically, Yoni and Lingam.
One of the most amazing, powerful, beautiful, fascinating, exciting things about about Conscious Sexuality, about ritual, is how many elements we’re able to bring into these experiences. How many parts of us can be expressed. How creative these spaces can be. How many parts of us can be touched.
Healing, intimacy, pleasure, expansion, release, opening, feeling, connecting, allowing, transcending…
Experiences like this, and even when we allow ourselves to go beyond the goal-oriented, friction-based, patterned sex we have, and allow a little more creativity, give us so much.
From creating a space with simple elements like candles and music to a deeper expression, they bring us into a space that gives us a deeper experience of ourselves and each other.
Ritual is a powerful way to do this. A way to enhance and deepen the experience of our bodies, hearts, minds, energy.
They become art, living art, vibrant, pulsating art, that we create, that arises from what we feel, what we sense, what we allow. It’s there for the time of our experience, and then it dissolves.
It dissolves into us, leaving us with treasures that touch something inside of us in many ways. Treasures that linger and become a part of who we are.
When I taught in India, and I’d so love to go back there, I had a lesson on a puja, which was a very specific ritual, done in a very specific way.
There’s a part of me that’s very pedantic, very traditional, and there’s a part of me that’s more creative, more about allowing something to arise, emerge, flow.
These experiences have some of both of these, more of the creative.
We begin by creating a space, bringing the symbols together, in a way that they become a temple. And for the body, us, to be part of that temple. Sacred for this time.
Our body being seen as sacred, as Divine, is not only in these moments, it’s all the time. We’re bringing our awareness to it. Our Yoni and Lingam are no more sacred than our eyes and feet. Our sex is no more sacred than eating or peeing.
We’re simply bringing an awareness in this moment to something that for many of us is limited in our understanding and expression.
The elements of connection, conscious connection Acknowledging you, your body, your sex, through words, words of poetry, words of prayer. Through breath, movement and sound. Touch, worshipful touch, pleasure touch. The offering of the elements to you. The different ways we can express and embody these elements.
These, and more, make up the ritual.
We feel, sometimes we laugh, we cry, we rage, we release.
Something within us opens, expands, allows, emerges, transforms.
Awareness opens.
And when we close the ritual, the vibration stays with us.
I’ve been teaching in the fields of Tantra and Conscious Sexuality for 30 yrs.
A big part of this journey has always been, and continues to be, learning, growing, creating new experiences.
In a world of mediocrity, of porn, of so much of our pleasure and intimacy being dumbed-down, controlled, judged, keeping this alive is vital.
It’s an expression, a direct expression of the pulsation of life, of love.
Come and experience, come and learn, come and share, I invite you…
