Strippers and Sages

 With Appearances at the Bioneers and the IONS conferences, Jewel Love is deeply committed to leading new conversations surrounding healthy manhood and joining ancient conversations about sacred masculinity. As the founder of Black Executive Men and Urban Healers, Jewel specializes in creating prosocial male-identity brands. As a licensed psychotherapist in California, he uses a person-center...

This is part two of my conversation with the illustrious Eve Lady Apples Bradford. Eve discusses the Erotic Basis of Being as a philosophy and sheds historical light on how we arrived at our current state of sexual affairs. It's a conversation not to be missed.   Eve Bradford is an educator, artist and oracular practitioner working at the intersections of art, activism and magic to create wor...

Eve Bradford is an educator, artist and oracular practitioner working at the intersections of art, activism and magic to create work primarily intended to call upon the true capacity of our most authentic selves in service of full-spectrum health, embodiment, expression and ecstasy. Eve has been producing events, curating content, facilitating community ceremony, creating ritual theater and genera...

 Transformational facilitator Gaia Ma pioneered the Tantric Way Process, a world renowned personal and spiritual development practice that helps to shatter programmed patterns of the body mind. A former stripper and exotic dancer, she is the co-founder of InanItah, an earth-based community on the island of Ometepe in Nicaragua, where she teaches permaculture and tantra. When she’s not busy te...

Filmmakers Ian MacKenzie and John Wolfstone discuss their upcoming documentary Love School, which is about the Tamera Institute, a communal research village founded on and dedicated to systems change in love and sexuality as a foundation for planetary healing. Together, Ian and John produce new paradigm films and events through their media collaborative, Re/Culture Media. Ian MacKenzie’s work has...

Award winning adult film director, author, and activist Nenna Joiner is the Owner of Feelmore Adult in Downtown Oakland. Nenna has won two Feminist Porn Awards for the films Hella Brown: real sex in the city and Tight Places: a drop of color, which have screened in countless cities across the globe. Nenna’s first book, Never Let the Odds Stop You, was published in 2015. 9 years of owning Feelmore...

My guest today is a social worker, educator, consultant, and former sex store employee. Her background is in sexual health education, gender-based violence response and organizational responses to trauma. In her current practice, she works with individuals, groups and organizations who want to heal from harm.  In this rich conversation, We talk about the politics of intimacy, the practice of pleas...

Nikesha is an interdisciplinary artist whose work investigates the inter-relationality and resilience of the black and queer body in relationship to power, vulnerability, the sacred, and the ancestral. In this episode, Nikesha talks about Daoist sexology, becoming sensitive to the invisible world through Qigong, decolonizing creativity, coming of age in Portland’s queer rave scene, opening up with...

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