Tantra Love is about expanding and deepening our life. Tantra is deepening connections to love, and our flow of love inwardly and outwardly. Tantra love encourages presence and conscious relating. Tantra love combines soulfulness, relationship and sexuality , and is a guide to live life passionately, with love and with presence.
Living with a tantric intention offers us opportunities to see ourselves, ( as we really are: the good, the bad and the ugly) so we can honour our imperfections, forgive ourselves and others and nurture and expand into our ‘higher Better versions of our selves’.
Australian School of Tantra offers Teacher Training plus Couples and Individual Coaching.
Tantra Goddess for Women
Feminine essence is a potent transformative energy that flows
in a woman when her sexual and spiritual energies connect in a unified way. This is about the Tantra Goddess for women.
This essence has always been repressed and exploited for centuries. We are only aware of
a fraction of its potential.
When awakened, the tantra Goddess for women, it brings out the empowerer, the healer and
the “Goddess of Love” within a woman.
Long ago, ancient feminine wisdoms were passed down from woman to woman.
Do you want to have more Tantra Goddess empowerment in your life?
In certain ancient cultures, when a woman was in such a blissful state,
her sexuality was imbued with spirituality. It was considered a sacred
experience. In these times, feminine wisdom, including sexual knowledge,
was passed down in women’s places of learning, from one wise woman
to another. Until recently, this rich inheritance of knowledge and sexual
practices had been lost and suppressed and the sacred aspect of sex denied.
Read Sexy and Sacred, sexual secrets for women to empower your inner Tantra Goddess.
See these testimonials:
Deva Premal—Pabu Music
“Most of the texts on tantra and Taoist sexology focus on what the man can
do for sexual and spiritual enlightenment not the women! So it is refreshing
to finally have a book on sacred sex for women, what a woman can do to
enhance her sexual aliveness and pleasure on her spiritual path.”
Ellen Ramsdale—Co author ‘Sexual Energy Ecstasy’
“Sexy and sacred’, Diane explores the beauty, magic and sacredness of sex
in from a woman’s perspective. It is as a gift to readers and anyone they
share the knowledge with-their friends, their daughters , and their lovers.”
Jane Manning—Film Director
“Sexy and Sacred offers a unique insight into the world of sexuality and
spirituality and how these two worlds can be woven into our lives. This book
is a perfect companion book for women to ‘Sexual Secrets for Men’. Highly
recommended for anyone who wishes to deepen their path into spirit and sex.”
Moving Menopause: Enhancing the Journey
Through modalities such as naturally expressive movement and dance, pastels, clay-work, writing, body-sense; mindfulness skills and meditation, (no former experience is needed)
with Satyo Cate Sullivan at Leela Cottage, Robertson, Southern Highlands
Menopause is often a taboo topic or something to be dreaded and endured. There is much more to it than that. This workshop is about embracing menopause as a richly meaningful part of our lives, going beyond the myths and exploring its possibilities as a time of transformation. Amidst the sometimes tumultuous changes new potentials can be born. This weekend is for all women – younger women, those approaching, in the midst of, and those moving or who have moved beyond menopause.
About Satyo: Satyo Cate Sullivan (BCA., MA (Cat). PACFA reg.) works as a counsellor, psychotherapist and creative arts therapist in the Shoalhaven and Southern Highlands specialising in working with women.
When: Saturday 28 February, 9.30 – 5pm and Sunday 1 March, 9.30 – 4.30pm.
To Book: Full payment or 50% to C. Sullivan, BSB 062 585 Account no. 0022 1907. Or send cheque to C. Sullivan, PO Box 3381, Robertson, 2577
Price of Workshop: – $220 EARLY BIRD: $190 – received by February 13. Maximum number in workshop – 8 women. There are one or two concession prices.
Enquiries and Bookings: Satyo on 0412 122010.
Email: satyo@shoal.net.au Website: http://satyosullivan.com Or Contact Maya Cowley on 0435 091467.
If accommodation is required please enquire.
~ Living the Dance: using Arts Therapies to Enhance our Lives ~
Next event: Women’s Weekend Workshop
Moving Menopause: Enhancing the Journey
~ An open and heartful enquiry into the passage of menopause ~
Utilising a range of modalities such as naturally expressive movement and dance, pastels, clay, writing, body-sense and mindfulness skills.
Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th October 2015
with Satyo Cate Sullivan at Leela Cottage, Robertson, Southern Highlands
Menopause is often a taboo topic or something to be dreaded and endured. There is much more to it than that. This workshop is about embracing menopause as a richly meaningful part of our lives, going beyond the myths and exploring its possibilities as a time of transformation. Amidst the sometimes tumultuous changes new potentials can be born. This weekend is for all women – younger women, those approaching, in the midst of, and those moving, or who have moved, beyond menopause.
More fully embracing and celebrating this life’s passage:
v Enquire into themes such as: Meaning and significance of this phase of life for you ~~ Completions and Openings ~~ Self-care ~~ The nitty gritty and the good bits ~~ A time in life for YOU ~~ Opportunities to release, renew, bring forth ~~ Sexuality ~~ Fresh beginnings ~~ What is important now? ~~
v Experience: A reshaping of the concept of menopause ~~ A deepening sense of what being in the feminine is about ~~ A weekend of being richly companioned ~~ Creative and rewarding explorations ~~ A gathering of wisdom ~~ Time out and space for you ~~
v Take away with you: A new valuing of this part of your life’s journey ~~ Your own wiser understandings ~~ An enhanced sense of who you are as a woman at this time of life ~~
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“I have been facilitating women’s retreats and courses for 25 years. Words that might describe how they can be are….meaningful, joyous, potent, deep, transformative, nurturing, inspiring, rich, moving, fun, belonging, supportive……Something special happens when a group of women come together in this way to explore a significant theme about our life’s journey. In a deeply respectful space each of us can follow our own individual enquiry while feeling inspired by, and connected with, others. We take away with us more sense of creativity, strength and trust in our own wondrous feminine nature.” (No former experience is needed)
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About Satyo: Satyo Cate Sullivan (BCA., MA (Cat). PACFA reg.) works as a psychotherapist and creative arts/dance therapist in the Shoalhaven and Southern Highlands.
When: Saturday 17th October, 9.30 – 5.30pm and Sunday 18th October, 9.30 – 4.30pm. To Book: Full payment or 50% to C. Sullivan, BSB 062 585 Account no. 0022 1907. Or send cheque to C. Sullivan, PO Box 3381, Robertson, 2577 Maximum number in workshop – 8 women. Price of Workshop: – $230 EARLY BIRD: $200 – received by October 2nd. (One or two concession prices.) Enquiries and Bookings: Satyo on 0412 122010. Email: satyo@shoal.net.au Website: http://satyosullivan.com
See the interview below
What are some causes of poor libido?
Stress, sickness, small children, pregnancy, menopause, tiredness, emotional upset, all sorts of reasons why libido gets out of sync.
How can a partner’s poor libido affect a relationship?
Yes and difference in libido can be challenging for the other partner. Particularly if it is an extended time. Partners can feel pressured for sex and the other can feel neglected or abandoned. Lovers do need other ways of connecting with their partner and to harmonize libido.
How can people remedy a poor libido?
I teach a wonderful practice called ‘daily devotion’, based on an ancient Taoist exercise, where the couples take up to 5 minutes each day to connect in a gentle and loving way. First thing in the morning or last thing at night. they harmonize their breathing, to take then into presence and into the moment where, nothing else exists (- no demands of the day) and remain in an loving gentle embrace for up to 5 minutes, there is no expectation, no talking just being together for 5 mins. This time is for the lovers to take time out for busy life and relax in each other’s arms, harmonizing hearts and having bodies close. Such a practice enriched relationship, deepens trust and intimacy and libido!
To describe it to someone who does not know what it is what is tantric sex?
One of the meanings of Tantra is ‘Expand’ or ‘weave together’. Tantric sex includes expanding the ways you make love; it includes practices for heighten sexual experience , but is also about exploring intimacy creating deeper more intimate connection with you partner and importantly being able to be present, in the moment, not focusing on performance. It is about pleasure, about connection and enriching love.
How can learning tantric sex help a couple experiencing relationship problems?
Tantric lovemaking practices enhances sexual experiences for both partners, physically, emotionally and spiritually. It can be incorporated into anyone’s love life, for the young and and newly in love as well as for partners who need to revitalize their connection and deepen emotional and physical intimacy.
What advice would you give a couple that continually fights?
couples who fight continually perhaps need time out to re access what is important in their life – Ask themselves the question ‘is it more important being right every time there is a fight, Perhaps they could ask themselves to take a step back and really see what is happening here? Many couples are unaware of their habitual bonded patterns of interaction that are laid down over the course of relationship and unfortunately are locked in continual conflict and blame their partner for every perceived difficulty. In sacred sexuality another way is to choose love and to choose to healthy non blame ways to communicate with each other.
What are some tips for achieving good communication?
To improve communication starts by finding things that you appreciate about your own life, your partner and your situation. It can be a shift in perspective and awareness to notice and look for, your partner doing something right and to tell them how much you appreciate them. Couples can improve their relationship by affirming their partners instead of taking them for granted. Often at the beginning of relationships we feel great about our partners and naturally say things like this, but as relationship mature we often start inwardly demanding more and more from them, and some of these demands more about what we want to make ourselves happy, not necessarily what our partners need or want to do, rather than a reasonable request that is for the enhancement of loving relationship.
What is the best way to introduce you by job title/training in the article?
Diane riley director of the Australian School of Tantra and author of the new release ‘Sexy and Sacred, sexual secrets for women’ book and web site is for women of all ages and their lovers who and curious about what tantra, tantric sex, tantra perspectives and the many great traditions of sacred sexuality can offer to add to the quality of their lives and well being.
See below what one of our viewers had to say about “The Secrets of Sacred Sex: A Guide To Intimacy & Loving” Dvd.
I have written to you because after watching your interview on TV with David & Kim, I thought to myself, why not… I really should share something with you both, and that was a poem I was inspired to write back in ’96 after watching the segment on ‘Daily Devotion’ on your VHS tape of Sacred Sex. Just a little bit of information about me very briefly, to put this into some perspective………
I hired a copy of Sacred Sex on VHS back in the early 90’s when I was approx 48, and passionately in love with someone who was not available because he was married. I knew he would choose to leave his marriage one day, but did not realise that he would also leave me and take up with a third person altogether.We often watched your film together and there were times when we were together making love that I felt I had that ecstatic spiritual ‘out-of-body’ experience. I never had that experience before, nor since.
Now almost 20 years later (I am now 68) … I purchased a copy of Sacred Sex on DVD (through your website), and I still aspire to finding someone that I can have that experience with once more… it may or may not happen for me, but I have reached a stage in mu life where I am no longer afraid that it wont happen, and I am happy & at peace with myself. If it does happen, then it will be ‘the icing on the cake’ of my life because, now I am grateful (I now honor myself first and foremost) for what I do have (my family & friends) and the lessons learned along the way.
Here is my inspiration:
The first verse represents the ‘waking’ together and joining in ‘union’ for whatever that is to the couple, holding close or making love whatever the needs.
The second and third verses are about taking a few minutes when apart living a busy day, to connect, morning & afternoon, through minds that are connected.
The last verse is about coming back together again in the evening to lie together at the end of the day, holding close, or making love whatever the needs.
Poem is below, and I thank you for producing that wonderful film and Tantra for ordinary people like me.
DAILY DEVOTION
WARM AS THE SUN
IT’S WHAT TELLS US
OUR DAY
HAS BEGUNDAILY DEVOTION
DEEP AS THE OCEAN
IT’S WHAT KEEPS
OUR LIVES
IN MOTION.DAILY DEVOTION
THE BREATH OF LIFE
IT SHELTERS US
FROM TROUBLE
AND STRIFE.DAILY DEVOTION
SO FULL OF PEACE
IT KEEPS US TOGETEHR
IT HELPS US
TO SLEEP
Marie-Louise Olson (she interviews Diane Riley from the Australian School of Tantra and the director of Sexy and Sacred Workshops for women.) Writes….. In an era of rampant female sexuality it’s ironic that women’s genitalia remains taboo,
The vagina. When was the last time you said the “v” word without snickering?
In an age of skin-baring pop stars, rampant internet porn and the sexualisation of young girls, it seems ironic that this innocent little fleshy bit with its nuances of pink and purple is still considered the most taboo area of human anatomy.
Recently on the Sydney radio show I co-host we had a candid discussion about the names we call our love tunnel.
But as terms like “pussy” and “punani” came out of my mouth and straight into the airwaves, I involuntarily found myself turning a shade of pink and purple as well.
Why is it still so hard for women to talk openly about our cho-chos? Diane Kerry, the director of the Australian School of Tantra, says it is because our society is still inhibited by the past.
“It’s a refection of where we are. We think we’re a really sophisticated society, but as far as sex, we’re not,” she says.
“It’s a real hangover from our grandmothers’ Victorian generation.”
Perhaps we simply need a sexy, but respectable, name for our front bottom … anything but va-gi-na.
Names for the vagina, which directly translated from latin means sheath or scabbard, are continuously changing over time, but probably the most universal nicknames for it are pussy, muff, cootch, twat and c.
Australian feminist and scholar Germaine Greer once said that the latter “is one of the few remaining words in the English language with a genuine power to shock”.
C is a recognised word and can be found in various English-language dictionaries including our own Macquarie dictionary, where it is defined as “the female genitalia” as well as “a contemptible person”.
Kerry likes to use the word “yoni”, which in tantric means sacred place.
“I take my vagina to the gynaecologist, but I use my yani for my sexual being, my sensuality,” she says.
In various indigenous languages it is referred to as “nungle” and “kuckles” (also the name of a Broome-based band).
In French it is called “la chat”, “tarte au poile” (hairy tart) and more politely, “le foufoun”.
The dubious colloquialism “hokey” is used to describe a loose foofa.
According to the urban dictionary, the term is derived from the song The Hokey-Pokey, meaning you can put your left leg in and shake it all about.
TV show host Oprah Winfrey even has a name for it – the vajayjay.
Then there’s foofa, box, pink, cock massager, one car garage, sperm dumpster, hoo-ha, axe wound, lady bits, china, vulva, blossomful of nectar, muffin, toolbox, velvety love folds, pastrami meat flaps, pin cushion, catchers mitt, cuckoos nest, the wound that never heals, bearded clam, beef curtains, tunatown, vertical taco, bajango, catpipe, nozzle trap, bushburger, front wedgie, meat hole, fanunu, pecker wetter, dirty south.
Come to think of it, maybe vagina isn’t so bad after all.
The writer co-hosts the womens’ radio show Double X on Sydney’s Radio 2SER
Cosmopolitan Article December 2007
Sydney , Melbourne , Perth , Newcastle
Cosmo ‘tried and tested’ Want your own private or group lesson ?
Tantric sex lessons Cosmo – Samantha Brett December 2007
Extract from Cosmo 2007 Tan
tric Sex Lessons: ‘Rapper Diddy says it gives him 30 hours of pleasure, Sting says it saved his marriage. Scarlet Johansson dabbled with Josh Hernett. Tantra 5000 year old practice improves your sex life.
Australian School of Tantra gives lessons in tantra and tantric massage.’ Michelle gives Samantha lessons on lingum massage to help his lingum feel a metre long. .. If done correctly, multiply orgasms should ensure’. Sensual massage opens up sexual energy… to open up the sex chakras…’ Read more in Cosmo… page 132 Cosmo Decemeber 2007
Tantric Sex Lessons Cosmo Decemeber 2007 reference www.australianschooloftantra.com
Tantric massage for women and Tantric massage for womens partners.
Samantha Brett learned with the Australian School of Tantra
Media items and releases about Kerry and Diane Riley, TantraGoddessOz.com and the AustralianSchoolofTantra.com.au…..
Marie-Louise Olson (she interviews Diane Riley from the Australian School of Tantra and the director of Sexy and Sacred Workshops for women.) Writes….. In an era of rampant female sexuality it’s ironic that women’s genitalia remains taboo,
The vagina. When was the last time you said the “v” word without snickering?
In an age of skin-baring pop stars, rampant internet porn and the sexualisation of young girls, it seems ironic that this innocent little fleshy bit with its nuances of pink and purple is still considered the most taboo area of human anatomy.
Recently on the Sydney radio show I co-host we had a candid discussion about the names we call our love tunnel.
But as terms like “pussy” and “punani” came out of my mouth and straight into the airwaves, I involuntarily found myself turning a shade of pink and purple as well.
Why is it still so hard for women to talk openly about our cho-chos? Diane Kerry, the director of the Australian School of Tantra, says it is because our society is still inhibited by the past.
“It’s a refection of where we are. We think we’re a really sophisticated society, but as far as sex, we’re not,” she says.
“It’s a real hangover from our grandmothers’ Victorian generation.”
Perhaps we simply need a sexy, but respectable, name for our front bottom … anything but va-gi-na.
Names for the vagina, which directly translated from latin means sheath or scabbard, are continuously changing over time, but probably the most universal nicknames for it are pussy, muff, cootch, twat and c.
Australian feminist and scholar Germaine Greer once said that the latter “is one of the few remaining words in the English language with a genuine power to shock”.
C is a recognised word and can be found in various English-language dictionaries including our own Macquarie dictionary, where it is defined as “the female genitalia” as well as “a contemptible person”.
Kerry likes to use the word “yoni”, which in tantric means sacred place.
“I take my vagina to the gynaecologist, but I use my yani for my sexual being, my sensuality,” she says.
In various indigenous languages it is referred to as “nungle” and “kuckles” (also the name of a Broome-based band).
In French it is called “la chat”, “tarte au poile” (hairy tart) and more politely, “le foufoun”.
The dubious colloquialism “hokey” is used to describe a loose foofa.
According to the urban dictionary, the term is derived from the song The Hokey-Pokey, meaning you can put your left leg in and shake it all about.
TV show host Oprah Winfrey even has a name for it – the vajayjay.
Then there’s foofa, box, pink, cock massager, one car garage, sperm dumpster, hoo-ha, axe wound, lady bits, china, vulva, blossomful of nectar, muffin, toolbox, velvety love folds, pastrami meat flaps, pin cushion, catchers mitt, cuckoos nest, the wound that never heals, bearded clam, beef curtains, tunatown, vertical taco, bajango, catpipe, nozzle trap, bushburger, front wedgie, meat hole, fanunu, pecker wetter, dirty south.
Come to think of it, maybe vagina isn’t so bad after all.
The writer co-hosts the womens’ radio show Double X on Sydney’s Radio 2SER
