This story begins with a black woman in London, an essential worker, a mother, a wife, a friend, a sister… She’s one of the hundreds of thousands of people who have died of Covid-19. If it weren’t for this new disease, she would likely still be alive. And possibly, if she wasn’t a black woman, …
Reflections on Being Sick, and Practicing Anyway
I’m sick. It started on Sunday morning with a sore throat. By Monday afternoon my nose was a little sniffly. Tuesday morning, the sore throat was gone which felt like a good sign… but over the day, my nose got worse, and worse, and worse. Now, on Wednesday morning, it’s blocked, and running, all at …
Five Steps for Dealing with the Fear and Uncertainty of Covid-19
It’s Wednesday August 12th. New Zealand just found four cases of community transmission after 100+ days with none. Auckland is going into Level 3 Lockdown. The rest of the country is in Level 2 Lockdown. Those four cases are all within one family, traced to a man in his fifties. But it’s not yet known …
Podcast Interview • What’s the Difference between Traditional Tantra and Neo-Tantra?
Traditional Tantra versus Neo-Tantra: is there a difference? Well yeah! A huge difference! And it was such a delight to speak to Nikki Rhodes about this difference in an interview on her podcast The Secrets of Spiritual Sex. She calls me ‘a lifelong student of non-dualistic Tantra’, which isn’t exactly true. I only committed to …
Todd Muller, Panic Attacks and the Shame of Mental Illness
The front page article of the Herald on Saturday was a sympathetic interview with Todd Muller, he who was National leader for 53 days, and his wife Michelle. ‘I had anxiety. I experienced that quite severely and I had panic attacks,’ says Muller in the article. This is a man who has been involved in …
Podcast Interview • Authentic Connection
Listen to this podcast where Laura and I talk about all things Tantra, Awakening and Liberation, including how I used Lockdown as an opportunity to deepen into practice.
