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Leah Piper opens this one with the cleanest definition of Tantra I have heard: the yoga of the bedroom. A solo practice for learning your own instrument, and a partnered one for playing with the band. Then she takes apart the three things she sees people do that quietly work against them. Making the orgasm the goal, which turns the whole thing into a test you can fail. Holding your breath right at the edge, which is exactly when the mind muscles back in. And going silent, when sound is one of the few things that carries you further. If you are worried about who might hear you, she has a fix, and it involves a pillow.
Then we go where the real answer usually lives. Leah says the number one thing that shuts intimacy down is not low desire, it is not feeling safe, and she is open about her own history with that. She talks about the pattern where desire is loud when nothing is at stake and goes quiet the moment a relationship starts to matter, and about slowing everything down until the body stops bracing. We also get into responsive desire, which is not a deficiency, it is a different starting line, and the reason recreating what you did while courting each other works so well. My favorite moment is the last one, when I ask her what she does to reconnect to her own hotness, and she tells me about the mirrors in her house and something she calls sparkle plenty. You are not broken, and self-care is not selfish.
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About the Guest:
Leah Piper is a Tantra educator and relationship and intimacy expert who has been studying Tantra since 1997 and teaching it since 2004. She is an Advanced Certified Tantra Educator and the primary female facilitator for the Source School of Tantra Yoga, with additional training in positive psychology and somatic therapies. She is the founder of More Love Works, where she teaches through private sessions, on-demand courses, and live workshops, and she co-hosts the Sex Reimagined podcast with Dr. Willow Brown.
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Website: https://moreloveworks.com
Free Tantric Kissing Training:
https://sexreimagined.com/free-tantric-kissing-training
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