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DESCRIPTION:TRANSFORMATIVE TANTRA:Transgressive, Transcendent, and 
 Transgender\n\nFebruary 2nd and 3rd, 2008, 10 AM to 5 PM\nCenter for Sex 
 and Culture, 1519 Mission St., Suite 1, San Francisco\nTo register or for 
 more info contact: mail@sexandculture.org or 415-255-1155.\n\nBarbara 
 Carrellas, author of "Urban Tantra" and Dossie Easton, co-author of 
 "Radical Ecstasy" and "The Ethical Slut", join forces to explode the myths 
 and embrace the power of SM, gender journeying and Tantra.\n\nIf you are 
 curious about the ecstatic possibilities of Tantra and other energy-focused 
 sexual paths, but have felt too queer, too gender-queer, too kinky, too 
 slutty, or too down-to-earth to feel comfortable in traditional Tantra 
 groups, you'll love this weekend—facilitated by two women who have spent 
 their entire adult lives exploring perverted paths to ecstasy. Persons of 
 all genders and lovers of all stripes are welcome.\n\nWhat is/are your 
 gender(s)? Your partners' gender(s)? Do you really have to choose only one? 
 We'll look at what gender is and what it isn't, and then find new ways to 
 express it, pervert it and play with it. Next, we'll explore sexual energy 
 as a physical force that you can activate, build, shape, and ride to 
 amplify all your erotic encounters. We'll end our first day with a shared 
 journey, as we intertwine our experience of masculine and feminine and both 
 and neither into a big ecstatic circle of breath.\n\nOn Sunday, we'll 
 explore the different elements and styles of energy-sharing and power 
 exchange in sexual relationships. Using techniques from Tantra and BDSM, 
 and the occasional bit of rope, we'll experiment with consciously 
 polarizing and uniting opposites: active and receptive, masculine and 
 feminine, power and helplessness. Is it true that the further apart we 
 polarize our roles, the hotter the spark that bridges the gap? Let's find 
 out!\n\nAll genders, sexual preferences and orientations are 
 welcome.\n\nBIOS\n\nDossie Easton, a long time player on the San Francisco 
 S/M scene and well-known killer bottom, is co-author with Janet Hardy of 
 "The Ethical Slut, a guide to infinite sexual possibilities" as well as 
 "The New Bottoming Book", "The New Topping Book", "When Someone You Love Is 
 Kinky", a book designed to give to outsiders to inform them about our 
 lifestyle, and, most recently, "Radical Ecstasy: SM Journeys to 
 Transcendence". She is a licensed psychotherapist working with individuals, 
 couples and more in her private practice, with a particular interest in how 
 SM journeys into Shadow can bring old wounds into the healing light of 
 consciousness and and give them a shot of life force in the form of good 
 hot sex. She makes her home in the mountains north of San Francisco, 
 travels around to teach at conferences all over the world, and spends her 
 nonexistent free time hiking the hills declaiming filthy poetry to the 
 vultures and hosting outrageous pajama parties. You can check out her 
 website at www.dossieeaston.com.\n\nBarbara Carrellas is the author of 
 "Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the Twenty First Century" and "Luxurious 
 Loving: Tantric Inspirations for Passion and Pleasure". She is the founder 
 of Urban Tantra®, an approach to sacred sexuality that adapts and blends 
 conscious sexuality practices from Tantra to S/M, and the co-founder of 
 Erotic Awakening, a pioneering series of workshops focusing on the 
 physical, spiritual and healing powers of sex. Barbara was named Best 
 Tantric Sex Seminar Leader in New York City by Time Out/NY Magazine for her 
 Urban Tantra® workshops. Barbara has been featured in the videos 
 "Selfloving", "The Sluts & Goddesses Video Workshop", "Zen Pussy", "Annie 
 Sprinkle's Amazing World Of Orgasm", in the film "Sacred Sex", and in 
 several episodes of the HBO television special "Real Sex". Barbara 
 frequently lectures, performs and facilitates workshops with her partner, 
 author and gender outlaw, Kate Bornstein. www.barbaracarrellas.com, 
 www.urbantantra.org.\n	\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/07/18470807.php
SUMMARY:Transformative Tantra Workshop with Barbara Carrellas & Dossie Easton
LOCATION:Center for Sex & Culture\n1519 Mission, Suite 1\nSan Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/07/18470807.php
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