Cabot: When we first
came across Tantra, we were still really learning the basics of being better
lovers. Marla has done yoga and ballroom for years, and she managed to convince
me to take classes in both. In addition, we began to get quite serious about
meditation. We worked on it on our own and with a local teacher, and of course
Marla had been doing some basic meditation as part of yoga for years. But then
we invested in a week-long meditation retreat at a Buddhist monastery in 2002,
and I’m really glad we did. Among other things, everything I’ve read and heard
about Tantra indicates that it’s sort of pointless to even try to learn Tantra
if you don’t already have some degree of meditative control or mastery.
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Friday, December 27, 2013
Cabot and Marla: Senior Tantra, Part 2
As we returned to the
study, I asked Cabot & Marla to describe a typical Tantra experience.
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Cabot and Marla: Senior Tantra
Sexuality for seniors seems to be finally coming out from
under the covers. Even ten years ago, this was mostly a subject for crude
jokes, as if there were some kind of taboo on discussing it, but the boomers
are getting up there in age, and as a generation they’re not used to being
quiet about anything. Sex is no exception, and now that they are getting to be
seniors, sex for seniors is suddenly a hot topic!
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Hans & Anna: Young Love
To give you a better sense of how Tantra differs from one
couple to another, I’m going to describe three more couples' experiences. Although
the next two couples do happen to be among the youngest and oldest couples I
interviewed, that’s not the only reason I chose them. As you will see, they are
also different from each other and from Cammie and Don in a number of other
ways.
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Cammie and Don: A Tantric Couple
Starting today and over the next several weeks I'm going to be posting summaries of the interviews I did with four experienced tantric couples. The four couples I chose are alike in how passionately devoted each person is to their partner, and I'll talk more in a later post about why this seems to be true of all 59 of the couples I interviewed. But that's about the only way these couples are alike, and I hope my choices will give you some sense of how diverse this group really is!