The urge to merge is a natural desire. We crave bliss and connection and fear isolation. Yet to merge requires letting go, and that requires trust and vulnerability. These qualities are often considered ‘weak’, but in fact they require great strength. Find that inner strength to be vulnerable and then you can actually fulfil your urge to merge...
Imagine letting go and simply allowing what will be to be, without fighting or striving, with a sense of ease and flow. Surrendering... There isn’t really a word in the English language that has a positive sense to letting go of control, just allowing. Which might be one of the reasons why so many people find it hard to do. We spend our lives trying hard, working at things, wanting to achieve goals and success. And then in the down-time doing the opposite, zombying out in front of the television, zoning out with drugs and alcohol. It’s like the switches are set to full on or full off. There’s another way, The Way of Surrender. Think of it as trusting that the Universe is safe, has your best interest at heart, and if you allow it, life will unfold and flow just beautifully...
What is the correct etiquette for sexual interactions? How do you approach an existing or prospective partner? How do you deal with response, positive or negative? How do you conduct the interaction? What do you do if it’s not going the way you’d like? Or if something horribly embarrassing happens?! Find out this week, down, on The Tantric Lounge....
Would you like to be a fly on the wall at one of my women’s retreats? In this episode I go through what happened at a recent retreat, sharing the activities and the insights of the participants. Get a taste of womanly lusciousness, down, on The Tantric Lounge...
Would you like to be a fly on the wall at one of my women’s retreats? In this episode I go through what happened at a recent retreat, sharing the activities and the insights of the participants.
Get a taste of womanly lusciousness, down, on The Tantric Lounge…
We’re getting kinky down on the Lounge this week, talking about the Tantric approach to dominance and submission, pleasure and pain and all those delicious delights on the ‘darker’ side… Is this compatible with spirituality? Absolutely! Find out more on The Tantric Lounge…
Letting go through Tantra and opening up to sexual possibilities can take you to beautiful states of altered consciousness. It can also take you to wild states of primal consciousness - a place where the primitive is unleashed and the wild one enters. This is not civilization, it’s the wilderness - wild and ravishing, a beauty that is savage not tamed. Find out more this week on The Tantric Lounge….
What’s your greatest erogenous zone? Your skin! So any part of your body can be an erogenous zone. We tend to limit sexual attention to only those parts of the body which we believe are ‘erogenous’, and limit is the word because there aren’t too many of them. When you explore ways to turn your whole body into an erogenous zone you open yourself up to a whole swathe of sensual pleasures….
What is a hobby? According to the dictionary it’s “an activity done regularly in one’s leisure time for pleasure.” That sounds like sex to me! We all know that it’s good for couples to have a mutual hobby - cooking, gardening, sport, travel, outdoor recreation, decorating, traveling, study. It gives them something to talk about together, to experiment with and to enjoy together. You’re having sex anyway, so why not give it the same focus and attention that you give any hobby? Join me and my co-host Xavier Waterkeyn to find out more about how to make sex and intimacy your hobby, down on the Tantric Lounge…
So much of sex these days is blatant. There’s no mystery, no mystique. What happens when couples share too much? There’s no room for desire, there’s no wanting to move toward, to discover more. Instead it’s dullness or moving away. How do you maintain the interest, through mystique, in a relationship? How do you ensure there is always more to discover? Find out this week on The Tantric Lounge…
So much of my work is men is about how they can develop themselves sexually and spiritually. As one young man said to me recently, sex without the spiritually is empty. I love it when men come to me to grow in this way. There’s often a feeling that spirituality is somehow soft and unmanly - far from it! The young man just mentioned is a war vet who fought in Afghanistan, there’s nothing unmanly about him. Just as there is nothing unmanly about the tradesmen, truck-drivers, CEOs, doctors, lawyers, etc. who come to me for sexual and spiritual growth. Tantra is all about developing spiritually through the every-day, including through sexual connection. This means men need to grow in both their spiritual understanding and practice and in their sexual understanding and growth. Find out how this can occur in this week’s Tantric Lounge….
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"Thanks so much for a life changing weekend. I honestly mean it! I feel like a completely different person!!!!!"
"A massive thank you for all your guidance and wisdom. Your sex therapy played a very significant role in changing our lives forever."
"Your program also seriously helped me understand my own male sexuality so much better. A big thank you for helping me with what I needed to hear! It is so awesome what you do, it is life changing for us on this end, and you are such a natural!"
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"I really enjoyed all the loving energy in the room. I've certainly never experienced anything like it before. "
"I felt so useless and alone after I had my baby, and forcing myself to have sex with my husband made it worse. This book has helped me see in little ways how I can enjoy being a mother and a wife - which means I can enjoy being me! Thank-you."
"I enjoyed doing this course immensely. The content is spot on and you rightly focus on the 'being' rather than the 'doing'. "
"A huge thank you with all my heart for the unique and beautiful experience that you created for all of us on the weekend. It was such a magnificent experience and I am amazed at how much the Luscious Woman weekend boosted my confidence, I feel fantastic. What you give to others is such a beautiful gift you’re an inspiration to everyone around you."
"The couples retreat is something every couple should do if they can. The course is refreshing, inspiring and gave our relationship a fun tool set to set us up for a joyful life together. It’s not just about sex (though that stuff was great), it debunks myths and starts a conversation that changed our relationship - definitely for the better. Jacqueline has a gift to make everyone feel comfortable. Don’t wait until there is a ‘problem’ - all relationships can be improved. Would recommend to all couples!"
"I feel an enormous sense of relief that we have a platform to communicate about intimacy and sex in an open respectful and adult way."
"I have had a really lovely shift and have felt subtle changes in my approach to myself and body. "
"I wish we’d had this book when our first bub was born. But better late than never, it’s been a great help second time around!"
"It was a really powerful, transformative experience. I feel I have reclaimed something precious and essential with the help of a group of loving, supportive women. It made me appreciate how much healing we can do as women when we come together and share our experiences."
"You have such a fabulous gift for taking all the awkwardness out of sexuality and turning it into such a lovely and beautiful thing to embrace. "
"It's been a deep, profound and subtle spiritual liberation. It's given me the freedom and empowerment to open up and allow myself to feel and to express how I feel, in every way. This feeling of liberation and love and power and openness pervades my whole life and how I live now, and I can see the effect it has on others too and how they respond to me. It's very subtle, but soooo powerful and wonderful. It feels like it is radiating out from the very core of my being and is an all encompassing love, so, very much including, but not just about, my sexual being."
"Thank-you for for so skillfully weaving my sexuality and spirituality back together. I now feel the way I’ve always wanted to feel."
"Luscious Woman was so useful and very much applies to the modern lush woman who wants to feel and be even more empowered!"
"I've seen so many therapists but you're amazing! I come out of each session so much more self-aware and enlightened."
"It was all about rediscovering and embracing being a woman, and everything that surrounds that."
"Seeing Jacqueline has been by far one of the best decisions we have made. Before seeking her help I was very sad about our situation. I am so happy to say that as a direct result of her thoughtful guidance we are in such a different and better place in our sex life."
"Thank you for a wonderful retreat. All the things we were worried about turned out to be no concern at all and all the things we were looking forward to turned out to be much better than we dreamed! We are still buzzing from the experience. "
"Since Black Belt my partner has said that our sex life has turned 180 degrees, and that you are a miracle worker !"
"Before meeting Jacqueline we were fumbling around in the dark, I couldn’t go the distance and this left my beloved underwhelmed. We were caught in the daily grind, were sexually frustrated and wanting a more satisfying experience. Since Jacqueline’s sex coaching our lovemaking has become light-hearted, our lives filled with romance, dating, petting, smooches. When we make love the time is intimate, fun, erotic, orgasmic and/or all of the above. We’ve never been happier, whole or as complete – and can’t thank you enough."
"You’ve really helped me tap into something wonderful and powerful. I’ve discovered where I was letting myself down and have been enjoying 'filling in the blanks’."
"Working on the solution instead of the problem has taken me further forward then anything else I have tried."
"Thank you for your warm vibrant energy, enthusiasm and passion. You've given a recently fatigued man the tools to recover his mojo."
"The Tantric Lounge has surpassed any expectations I had of attending such an event and I find myself feeling exhilarated from the experience to a whole new degree after each session."
"Love your work. You’re speaking the language and have a super in-depth understanding which I respect!"
"It's not a course, it's an awakening. It opens your eyes to what's possible as a couple."
"You've changed the whole way I look at sex, now I feel so much more positive and free and empowered!"
"This course has, after 29yrs of adolescent masturbatory style sex, been HUGE with some major penny-drops. I love your approach!"
"What do I say to you for taking me on a magical adventure of discovery yet again? My most heartfelt thanks for an incredible Saturday night at The Tantric Lounge."
"Your workshops are so fun, connective and amazing, just a joy to participate in. You definitely have great skills in putting together a very cool experience for people."
"My sessions with Jacqueline were like a great conversation with a very wise sister/friend. She helped me through the end of my 25 year marriage with compassion and insight, giving me perspective, coping skills and a gentle push where required. I’m so grateful to have had her wise counsel."
"This weekend has been so much more than we expected. Solidifying in a way we didn’t anticipate. It has opened our eyes to even more possibilities."
"The opening up to my own sexuality and what it means for us as a couple has been way beyond my expectations. I’ve felt safe and loved the sense of playfulness and the choices we’ve had whether or how to participate. I go away hugely enriched."
"Thank you for the wonderful Tantric Lounge session, we really enjoyed it. You are a very good facilitator, and an absolute expert in this area of life and love."
"This book has changed our lives. It’s all good practical common-sense - and it works!"
"I just am finishing the Luscious Woman course. It has been such an inspiring course and you have such a fabulous gift for taking all the awkwardness out of sexuality and turning it into such a lovely and beautiful thing to embrace. My husband is the doing the black belt in the bedroom course as well and its been so amazing watching him develop into the soft, loving and passionate man I knew he could be. We are so grateful for your course, your passion and wish everyone who wants to expand their sexual understand could know about this course. "
"Your book made me realise not only what I’d lost, but how to regain it. I’m loving getting in touch with the goddesses in all parts of my life - including sexually!"
"This book is beautifully clear and succinct, a real treasure."
"Jacqueline, you are so extraordinarily professional. I’ve done a lot of courses in this area and yours are so far above the rest in terms of content and presentation."
"We used to fight constantly about sex, I never thought we'd find a way out. Then we found you and that's all changed. You're awesome!"
"Thank you for the weekend retreat - I greatly enjoyed and learned a lot at it. Your combination of spirituality and philosophy meeting is an inspiration."
"Luscious Woman has truly shifted my thinking, my life and me, in a wonderful direction. Thank you so much Jacqueline."
"I've just read your new book and I just want to say it is FABULOUS!! I'm so glad you wrote it and it is such a special and beautiful work I can't put it down!"
"It’s been so good to find a book that tells us how to look after ourselves - not only how to look after the baby."
"Your Tantra workshops are fundamental to the health and sustainability of all relationships, regardless. In this faster than ever paced world, over stimulated and titillated, and where choice and everything-can-be-had as a retail experience is omnipresent, your guidance is like a light through the darkness..."
"Sex was just off the agenda and we’d lost connection. We couldn’t recommend this book more. It really will help"
"I'm so happy with ME, where I am and where we are as a couple. This is where I've been trying to get for so long and now I'm here! Thanks - you're the best!"
"A really powerful, transformative experience. I feel I have reclaimed something precious and essential."
"We have noticed a real shift in our energies towards each other since seeing you, almost like switching from AM to FM radio, the difference is that noticeable."
"We really love coming to see you, as you offer us such support and have made a huge difference to our lives."
"We've just spent a wonderful weekend with Jacqueline. Her workshops are fun, informative, sensual, and in many ways deeply profound - the weekend brought us closer in ways we could never have imagined. Thank-you for filling up our love bank!"
"I am personally so grateful for participating in Saturday's Tantric Lounge, connecting with a group of people with beautiful, fertile rich energy."
"I never thought I’d lose my libido - but I did! Who’d have thought one little baby could be so exhausting! Your book made so much sense - it explained why I was feeling this way, why my partner was feeling this way, and what we could do about it."
"It is beautiful how each activity builds on the previous one like blocks, so that by the end of the evening we are engaging in the most divine magical experiences that we could never have got to otherwise!"
"Thank-you for so deliciously weaving my sexually and spiritually together again, I now feel the way I’ve always wanted and known I could feel."
"We will always remember the weekend, we discovered so much together and shall keep learning with each other with the skills gained for a long time to come. Thank you for such a great experience."
"We loved that this book is about simple fundamentals, not superficial tips and tricks."
"The videos were beautifully engaging. You've condensed the essence of being a lover from the male perspective into an easy to follow course and I can only wish I had discovered this course ages ago and saved myself 15 years of trial & error with my wife! "
"I thought this retreat would expand our sex life, but it didn’t so much expand as turn our sex life upside down! I’m now seeing the world with a new, exciting, slightly bewildering new light!"
"We weren’t in a very good place. Reading Jacqueline’s book together made the world of difference and we’re stronger for it"
"It feels like I am taking possession of my 'goddesshood'! As a consequence I find that I am now confident and settled and calm with my husband and I can move between the goddesses, giving and receiving as the dance feels right. It's quite glorious, we're loving it. There is so much more I could say - I am so grateful and joyous! Thank you so much for your dedication, commitment, honesty and love."
"We LOVED the retreat. You created a safe, adult, sexy space where we could be honest and open, exploring ourselves and the connection that exists in really different ways than we've ever been able to in the past. Your rich and sensitive holding of the spiritual side, and ease of its emergence as sexual energy - an energy to draw the other in and connect with - was really a gift and a beautiful model to offer. "
"It’s made us realise how important it is to always be there for each other, to prioritise us, even though it’s so easy to be distracted."
"I have to tell you that this experience has been life changing for me, and your wonderful loving work in helping us let go and come into ourselves made this life change such a warm comfortable natural process, that I can hardly remember what it was like before."
"I never expected the Luscious Woman Workshop to have such a dramatic change on how I view myself and how I now feel sexy, feminine and graceful. I've never said those words about myself before!"
"Taking Black Belt completely revolutionized my thinking about sex and has had a long lasting positive influence on my sex life."
"Thanks so much for a life changing five days! We were truly impacted and challenged beyond our expectations so thank you."
"I don't think it is over-stating to say that I would call the course 'life changing'. In essence I believe it has been a major catalyst in deep healing, a fundamental shift in personal and spiritual growth, and lasting and evolving change in self confidence, body awareness, self acceptance and ongoing sexual exploration."
"I feel far more comfortable with myself and have a willingness to explore and grow in this rather new area of my life - how exciting."
"Thank you for teaching me how to treat my wife (with numerous chronic illnesses) in a spirit of compassion while opening up a multitude of possibilities for both of us to experience giving and receiving."
"Now we understand why you wanted us to attend one of your retreats. We learnt so much from you in private sessions, but doing your couples retreat has really taken us so much further and deeper. It’s been absolutely wonderful, far more transformative than we could ever have imagined."
"We want to thank you so very much for the most wonderful week in paradise, both literally and metaphorically. Having been to your workshops previously we knew for sure that we were in for a week of lusciousness, but our week with you in Bali was more gloriously luscious and inspiring than we could have imagined."
"I really got what it means to come into my masculine sexual energy, with strength and confidence and no macho or aggression. Feels great! (And my wife is beaming!)"
"Thank-you for creating a safe space for us all to learn, grow and share. Absolutely essential for all women who want to thrive, not just survive."
"We had a fabulous time at the retreat. The surroundings, the people, and the teachings were all a blessing. It has taught us to explore new horizons in our love relationship and has brought our connection closer. We will be using all the techniques in the time to come as our sex life develops and improves. In fact, the results have been almost instantaneous!"
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"Thanks again for your brilliant life-changing support. "
"You’re the first of many counsellors who really feels comfortable and is coming from a practical, understandable place. You've helped us find the key and it's really quite simple."
"Thanks so much for a life changing 5 days! We were truly impacted and challenged beyond our expectations so thank you."