written by AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ
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SEXUALITY / RELIGION
“In this inspiring book, Avatar Adi Da Samraj helps the reader understand the need for the integration of body, mind, and spirit to create true and comprehensive intimacy. He reveals, in a captivating and persuasive fashion, how the emotional patterning that hinders healthy sexual relationships can be overcome. This is a book for the many people trying to find a way to make their intimate sexual relationship compatible with a life of real spiritual practice.”
--Birgit Wolz, Ph.D., marriage and family therapist and author ofE-Motion Picture Magic
In all the domains of human life, we now understand the need for an integration of body, mind, and spirit. But despite this comprehension of the holistic nature of existence, much of the teaching offered on sexuality--even sacred sexuality--concentrates on the physical practice, to the detriment of emotional intimacy. Avatar Adi Da Samraj explains that our emotional-sexual life can only be made right through the process of restoring the bipolar balance of the body and by transcending the ego, the illusory sense of separate existence.
He advocates that sexual practice initially become a solitary yogic discipline--embracing and reclaiming of one’s own body--to restore the bipolar integrity that is at the core of every human being. Once this bipolar integrity is established, he shows how a sexual practice of true intimacy--free of clinging attachment--is possible. He also teaches that an unconscious, early childhood reaction to the mother and father governs the emotional-sexual life, a reaction that must be understood and transcended. The emotional-sexual practices taught by Avatar Adi Da are centered in the understanding that love breaks the heart and show that learning how to have intimacy without ego-based attachment is where profound practice begins.
“In this inspiring book, Avatar Adi Da Samraj helps the reader understand the need for the integration of body, mind, and spirit to create true and comprehensive intimacy. He reveals, in a captivating and persuasive fashion, how the emotional patterning that hinders healthy sexual relationships can be overcome. This is a book for the many people trying to find a way to make their intimate sexual relationship compatible with a life of real spiritual practice.”
--Birgit Wolz, Ph.D., marriage and family therapist and author ofE-Motion Picture Magic
In all the domains of human life, we now understand the need for an integration of body, mind, and spirit. But despite this comprehension of the holistic nature of existence, much of the teaching offered on sexuality--even sacred sexuality--concentrates on the physical practice, to the detriment of emotional intimacy. Avatar Adi Da Samraj explains that our emotional-sexual life can only be made right through the process of restoring the bipolar balance of the body and by transcending the ego, the illusory sense of separate existence.
He advocates that sexual practice initially become a solitary yogic discipline--embracing and reclaiming of one’s own body--to restore the bipolar integrity that is at the core of every human being. Once this bipolar integrity is established, he shows how a sexual practice of true intimacy--free of clinging attachment--is possible. He also teaches that an unconscious, early childhood reaction to the mother and father governs the emotional-sexual life, a reaction that must be understood and transcended. The emotional-sexual practices taught by Avatar Adi Da are centered in the understanding that love breaks the heart and show that learning how to have intimacy without ego-based attachment is where profound practice begins.
1 comments:
This sounds like a really interesting book, though I could even argue that merely practicing yoga will help a person extend the "mind-body-spirit" attitude toward sexuality. My sexuality has been pretty screwed up since dealing with my husband's sex addiction (and was probably a little screwed up before that), and I've been finding that ever since I've made my yoga practice a priority, I've been experiencing a lot of clarity when it comes to healing my sexuality and understanding what healthy sexuality entails.
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