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Lugano and Surrounds
We arrived late afternoon in Lugano after a long but very enjoyable day on the Bernina Express from Chur via Tirano (see previous report https://goo.gl/LTkZjT)
From Lugano Station the super-efficient TPL funicular (photo #1) deposited us in Piazza Cioccaro around 17:45. Negotiating the narrow streets, none of which run in a straight line or at right angles to each other, meant that locating our hotel was more challenging than expected. A glimpse of Lake Lugano set us on the right track.
The Hotel Walter du Lac (photo #2), where we would stay the next five nights, was a welcome sight. The young lady at reception was wonderfully friendly and we were soon armed with a room key and two Ticino Tickets (https://goo.gl/jmkY3S) offering free public transport on buses and trains around most of the region surrounding Lugano.
By the time we had unpacked and freshened up it was time for dinner. We stepped out onto Riva Vincenzo Vela, turned right and immediately took a table at the Walter Snack Bar (photo #3) attached to the hotel. Snack Bar is a bit of a misnomer as they do very nice meals at a reasonable price (though limited pretty much to pasta and pizza). Dinner was followed by our very first authentic passagiata along the waterfront.
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To get back to the main station you can take the funicular, walk up the many steps to the left of the Cathedral or follow the winding lanes to the right (photo #7). We preferred to catch the train up and saunter down the hill.
In such beautifully warm sunny weather the lake is a focal point and a hive of activity (photos #8, #9). The Art and Culture Centre (photo #10) is a fine piece of architecture seamlessly blended in to the older surrounding buildings.
A picnic lunch under a shady tree by the waterfront in Parco Civico was just what the doctor ordered. After lunch we continued our walk along the waterfront and decided we were already so close to Cassarate that we may as well continue on and catch the funicular from there up to Monte Brè.
At the top we set off to explore and I fell over. Too busy gawking at the view, missed a low step and down I went. Luckily just a few cuts and grazes but no major damage. My wife was more shaken than I was as she had visions of me being medivac-ed off the mountain by helicopter. A cold beer at the mountain-top taverna put things to rights but the photos I took turned out too blurry for publication.
The following day we set off for Locarno but decided we may as well go first to Bellinzona to suss out where we would need to go to catch the Gotthard Panorama Express later in the week. The train to Bellinzona was deserted (photo #1) and so was Bellinzona when we arrived (photo #2). We eventually tumbled to the fact it was a public holiday! Anyway Bellinzona was well worth the detour. The town is very pleasing and its three castles splendid (see several photos).
After the calm of Bellinzona, Locarno was another story. The train (photo #10) was packed as every man and his dog (photo #2) seemed intent on going to the beach. We wandered the waterfront (photo #3) and enjoyed the gelato. On another day we may have wandered the old town or ridden the Madonna del Sasso funicular, but it was really too hot for our taste so we headed back to Lugano.
We had heard good things about Ristorante La Tinera in Via dei Gorini but on arrival for dinner found it closed due to the public holiday. Darn! We soon found an alternative and enjoyed a very nice meal. The silver lining to missing out on our preferred venue was that the new restaurant had run out of sangiovese and instead introduced us to a grape variety we had not previously experienced - Primitivo. Hooked would be the best description.
The next day we spent the morning exploring the city and then decided a cruise on the lake was in order. Società Navigazione del Lago di Lugano (SNL) runs numerous ferries and lake cruises (see https://goo.gl/5GTcXq). Regular ferry routes are fully covered by the Swiss Travel Pass or Ticino Ticket holders can purchase a day pass at 25% discount.
We took the Scenic Tour to Porlezza and back. The boat calls in at several villages along the way including Gandria (photo #1) and Osteno (photo #2) before reaching Porlezza (photo #3) at the eastern end of Lake Lugano. You get a chance to go ashore at Porlezza for a short while and confirm you are in Italy (photo #4). On the way back the village of Castello (photo #5) was particularly well lit. Back at Gandria the captain of our boat was cheered on by a gentleman who we took to be the proprietor of the waterfront taverna (photo #6). Or perhaps he was exhorting the captain to look after a couple of his patrons who rolled on board after what had obviously been a long lunch.
On our final day in Lugano we took a train to Ponte Tresa. The train leaves from the Lugano FLP station which is across the road and down a short ramp from the main station. FLP is obviously a happy railway company (photo #1). It was market day in Ponte Tresa but the market was on the Italian side of the border and a fair distance so we just walked the few hundred metres to the ferry jetty on the Swiss side of the border (photos #2, #3) and awaited the boat to take us back to Lugano.
The village of Morcote (photos #4, #5, #6) is very attractive and looks well worth a wander about. We like boats and on Lake Lugano they come in all shapes and sizes including the one we changed to at Melide (photo #8). Between Melide and Paradiso you get a good views of San Salvatore (photo #7) from differing angles.
That evening for our final passagiata we strolled the 3km round-trip to Paradiso and back as twilight descended over Lake Lugano (see photos). A fitting end to a great stay in this beautiful city.
Coming up next . . . . To Luzern by Gotthard Panorama Express
For earlier editions of The Reluctant Travellers' Swiss Adventure see
Part 1 - Initial Report (https://goo.gl/8bw51n), Part 2 - Basel to Brig (https://goo.gl/626K1i), Part 3 - The Glacier Express (https://goo.gl/K9hHfR), Part 4 - The Bernina Express (https://goo.gl/LTkZjT)
Bellinzona photos . . . .
Locarno photos . . . .
Lake Lugano Scenic Tour photos . . .
Ponte Tresa trip photos . . .
Passagiata photos . . . . .
Thanks so much Rockoyster for your fabulous reports and photos, we are really enjoying them.
Are looking forward to visiting the Ticino area again in our next trip in September.
Hi Mageo,
Thanks for your kind feedback. I just loved Lugano. Have a good trip.
Thanks. We really enjoyed the contrast of the Ticino area last time we were there. Switzerland certainly has variety, all with great beauty.
Hi rockoyster,
Many thanks for another great report and many beautiful photos. You certainly had a wonderful time in Lugano, with superb weather, and I'm glad you were none the worse for wear after your tumble!
Hi Alpenrose,
Thanks again. My immediate concern after the crash landing was getting some sort of infection. Fortunately we had a small bottle of hand sanitizer in the backpack so that formed the first aid. A bottle of Betadine on the way back to the hotel and all was good.
My husband and I will be in Switzerland in early September this year. Your wonderfully written travelogue is giving me more ideas .... too many options too few days. Thanks Rockoyster!
Hhi Rockoyster
Thank you for another entertaining instalment!
You are confirming my view that we should spend a week in Ticino next year before going on to the Bernese Oberland. Lugano looks like a good option. We have never been there or to Bellinzona. We spent a few hours in Locarno one year on a (long) day trip from Thun when we wanted to travel the Centovalli train route. I am noting some of the things you got up to as a starting point for our planning. Boat trips would probably figure large as I am a huge fan of cruising lazily along admiring the scenery! I have a secret ambition to cruise on all the lakes/rivers it is possible to do!! Doubt whether it is achievable but I can have fun trying!
Best wishes
Hi Julie,
Thanks - you are most welcome. I think there will always be more things to see and do in Switzerland than the time available. We started a bucket list for our next trip while we were still there.
Hi Maggie,
If you like lake cruising you will definately like Lugano. The ferries are great. If we had more time we would have been hopping off along the way to do more exploration of the villages (especially Morcote and Gandria).
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>> If we had more time we would have been hopping off along the way to do more exploration of the villages (especially Morcote and Gandria).
It might be worth mentioning the "Grotto dei Pescatori" (Fishermen's Grotto), which I went to last year. You may already know that a "grotto" is a traditional rustic restaurant in Ticino. This one is on the far side of the lake from Lugano, and can only be reached by (infrequent) boat. So you need to check the timetables carefully to avoid being stranded! They stop serving lunch mid-afternoon. I have attached some pictures from my visit there in September last year.
Thanks for the photos. It was a toss-up between the Classic Tour which called in at the Grotto or the Scenic Tour to Porlezza. Next time. It looks like a good spot.
How lovely. I have just been Googling all these little towns on the lake.... and adding to a future itinerary!
>> It was a toss-up between the Classic Tour which called in at the Grotto or the Scenic Tour to Porlezza. Next time.
And vice versa for me!
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In over 25 years of collecting and restoring HCCT's I have never seen a K.R. Wilson coil tester manual.
All HCCT's were essentially the same.
Ford published a booklet for their HCCT.
Here is a link to the Ford manual.
In over 25 years of collecting and restoring HCCT's I have never seen a K.R. Wilson coil tester manual.
All HCCT's were essentially the same.
Ford published a booklet for their HCCT.
Here is a link to the Ford manual.
Ford Coil Tester Manual
Ron the Coilman
I do have a K R Wilson HCCT.
If I find a good deal on one of those KR Wilson testers, I think my collection will be complete. That is until I find a good deal on an original two meter Allen Electric tester or any oddball brand that comes along. I've only got four of them now and I want to do my best to keep them from the hoarders.
Yep Eric, save em for the scrappers. My boys have already said all my junk is goin there when I kick off! I don't care cause I won't know anything about it any way. KGB
Eric, you have 4 coil testers but you're not a hoarder? I guess if you have one for each coil in the box you can get away with having them. Then again, a dedicated collector can hardly be called a hoarder.
Allan from down under.
If they're serious about that (and they may well be!), you could always have a will that gives it all to your local or regional Model T club. At least there it will go into caring hands. They could auction it off to the members as a fund raiser for the club or some other charity (like the T museum?). Much better than going to the scrapper!
I have a motor powered cooil tester. K R Wilson without a hand crank. How common are they?
Thinking about my posting, back in January, if you do that, be sure and tell the family you've done so, as sometimes the kids will start throwing stuff the day you pass and not wait for the reading of the will!
James, that is one sharp looking coil tester. Do you use it regularly or is it more for display purposes?
Eric, I've learned that there are two things that separate the collector from the hoarder: organization and theme. As long as you have those two things, it's a collection and not a hoard.
I've always been fascinated by the myriad of coil testing equipment out there. When I started in college I knew just barely enough about electricity to be dangerous. After two semesters of Electrical classes, I know more than I need to know and yet still not enough. I'd love to rebuild a set of coils myself one day, just to say I did.
If anybody comes across an HCCT that doesn't fit in their collection just let me know. I wouldn't mind giving it a good home.
Jared - if you want to drive to Washington State to it pick up, this one could be available - it's Standard Service Equipment model - the tester in the background is my KR Wilson motorized unit - I don't need two !
I guess there's a theme. I think they're cool and ech one has some sort of sentimental angle. I use the Allen Electrc tester in my shop. The SSE tester is one that I bought years ago from Wally Szumowski and gave to my dad. My mother gave it back to me after he died. It sits on my desk in my office. Many years ago, a local club member offer d to sell me a coil tester, but he couldn't remember where he had it stored. Five years later, it was mine. It is a Ford model. My son and I are working on restoring it together when I can pry him away from Jazz Band, sports and video games. The fourth one, is a really unique, early Ford tester that I picked up from Ron the Coilman in Kentucky. I doubt that I'll ever seen another one like it. I'll restore it when my boy and I finish our project.
As long as I'm this far into it, I'll keep my eyes open in hopes of obtaining an example of each of the common variants of testers
"Eric, you have 4 coil testers but you're not a hoarder?"
Here is how I try to see it - Eric is not a hoarder... YET!
One is a conversation piece, two is a pair, three is a collection, four is an obsession, and five is a hoard...
I'm safe too as this can't be applied to hood ornaments for the T since each one is different, that is unless you talk to my wife...
Now I'll have to go see who made my tester - never knew there were that many makers of these things.


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Jun 21 2018
Happy Solstice
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The contrast between the constant stream of hideous news about the actions of the openly hostile, cruel and reactionary American government, and the beauty of New York in June has me thinking about what we humans can learn from simply observing what happens on the Solstices.
Solstices show us that our entire planet is based upon sharing resources—in this case, the sun—and trusting that we will always have enough sunlight, even if temporarily, someone else has more. We share the sun and it's light and energy with everyone else on the planet. Some months, the north gets more and the south less. Then it's the south's turn for heat and light, while the north patiently awaits it next season of warm weather and sunshine. Sharing. Trusting. Knowing that when the sun goes to nourish my friends in the south, there will still be enough for me to thrive throughout the winter. Being assured by experience that in a few months the sun will come back warm and strong to delight me once again.
This Solstice, I'd like us to remember that whether the sun is shining brightly in your life at the moment, or whether life has been pretty dark and cold lately, this too will pass. My invitation to you is to look at someplace in your life where you have an abundance of something—it could be money, food, friends, happiness, love, creativity, time, laughter, hope, health, passion, political power, activist skills or something else entirely—and share some of it with someone whose sun is shining less brightly right now. This does not have to be a huge effort. It can be just reaching out to one person. If we all do this, we can shift global consciousness out of fear, lack and retreat and into trust, abundance and love.
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Happy Solstice.
Apr 18 2018
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I created Urban Tantra to serve a community that was desperately in need. I wanted, or rather needed, to create a safe space for my brothers during the AIDS crisis so that they could, once again, experience an ecstatic expression of life in a safe and supportive container.
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So You Say You Want a Revolution: Introduction to the New Edition of Urban Tantra
As I began the first draft of the first edition of Urban Tantra, I wrote, "I want a revolution!" Not only did I want a revolution in cultural attitudes about sexuality and spirituality, I wanted a revolution in Tantra: the only spiritual practice I'd ever found that welcomed sexuality as a path to spiritual freedom. I wanted that revolution. Then and there.
Now it's eleven years later, and that revolution is well under way. I looked around the graduation circle at my most recent Urban Tantra Professional Training Program, and saw: a transgender professional dominatrix, a cisgender male medical doctor, a gay male sacred intimate, a nurse, an escort, a relationship coach, a social worker working with indigenous peoples, several sex educators, several more Tantra teachers, two yoga instructors, a performance artist, and an ordained minister. One-third of the group were people of color. We ranged in ages from early twenties to late sixties. We loved, cried, howled with laughter, felt deeply, experienced life-changing "ah-hah" moments, and supported and shared love with each other for an entire week. These were beautiful, brave, passionate explorers—and now they were my colleagues and friends. I initially wrote Urban Tantra because it was the book I had always wanted to read but could never find. I knew there were fierce, loving, spiritually minded, erotically focused people in the world who wanted that book, too. I wanted to meet them. To play with them. To work with them. To learn from them. And here they were. I wrote it, and they came. My dream come true.
So many of my Urban Tantric dreams have come true since 2007. The phrase conscious sexuality is now common. Sacred sex has expanded to embrace all sorts of different beliefs and practices. The field of sexuality education has exploded, providing resources to people of all races, religions, and cultural backgrounds. BDSM was taken off the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders list as of 2013, making it a consensual choice, not a mental illness. Non-monogamous relationships came out of the closet and invited us all to take a fresh look at how we create and maintain relationships. And then there was gender. Oh my! In recent years, the twin explosions of gender identities and trans rights initiatives have changed everything, opening a box of unlimited gender opportunities that can never be closed. Today, Urban Tantra is a global movement. The Urban Tantra Professional Training Program alone has graduated hundreds of practitioners from twenty-six countries, and they, in turn, are taking the practice into corners of the world I'd never dreamed it would go.
I got my revolution. Big time.
Now that we're post-revolution, it's time for Urban Tantra to grow into a new era. I've made revisions, updates, and additions to this edition, not only to bring Urban Tantra up to date, but also to cast my gaze toward the future. I have always regarded Urban Tantra as an ever-evolving practice. Where might we go next? What might Urban Tantra become next? This revised edition is a step into that future.
As often happens in revolutions, when someone raises a flag, everyone else who's been longing for a revolution runs over to introduce themselves and ask how they can help. That's just what happened in 2007, when the first edition of Urban Tantra was published. Everyone who had felt shut out of other schools of Tantra discovered a flag under which they could rally. We first gathered online and then in person—from all around the world.
In this revised edition, I'm extending an invitation to even more inclusivity. I offer practices and suggestions for people in multi-partner relationships. The number of people openly practicing consensual non-monogamy has grown enormously. Over the past decade, I've developed Tantra workshops for triads, quads, and more. In this edition, I suggest ways in which partner Tantra can include more than one partner.
Many schools of Tantra have become more inclusive, and so groups of people with common interests and identities have formed their own Tantric groups or incorporated Tantric principles and practices into existing organizations and schools of thought. Gay Tantra, Dark Tantra, Pagan Tantra, Queer Tantra, and Women's Tantra are just a few of the new flavors of Tantra. I find inspiration in the many creative expressions of Tantra blooming around the planet and I hope this new edition of Urban Tantra can, in turn, inspire them.
I have also been inspired by the rise of the asexuality movement. An asexual is someone who either does not experience sexual attraction, or experiences attraction, but feels no need to act out that attraction sexually. Lack of sexual interest and/or desire is commonly pathologized in our culture. I applaud asexuals and aromantics (people who experience little or no romantic attraction to others) for refusing to be pathologized. And it turns out that an increasing number of asexuals and aromantics are becoming drawn to Tantra. In this edition, I point out practices that allow people with different sexual and romantic affinities to find ways of relating, running energy, and creating connection and intimacy that do not have to include sex and/or romance.
The relationship between Tantra and BDSM—considered radical and heretical when I first wrote about it—is now common practice. The explosion caused by the book Fifty Shades of Grey catapulted BDSM above ground and into the middle class. Those BDSM practitioners who had always played with a Tantric touch now had a name for the energy play they had long enjoyed. Tantrikas who liked things a little more physically or emotionally intense had permission to go there. Some Tantric practitioners are now combining elements of power and intense sensation with traditional Tantra in a variation sometimes referred to as Dark Tantra. Longtime BDSM players are coming out of the closet as spiritual seekers and creating scenes intentionally designed to welcome god/goddess/universe/all-that-is into their dungeons. Communities in which kinky people and Tantrikas meet, mingle, and play together are growing and can now be found all over the world.
Tantric sex and BDSM have much more in common than may seem apparent at first glance. Both are erotic arts of consciousness. Both arts add intensity to life and sex. Both embrace a wide variety of powerful consensual practices. Both Tantric and BDSM rituals are about raising erotic energy. Both practices involve conscious giving and receiving. Both encourage risks—either physical or emotional. Both erotic arts encourage personal freedom, individuality, and imagination. And both produce trance states, and transcendental, transformational experiences. In this edition, I provide a larger toolkit for those who wish to explore this intersection.
Everything about how we look and talk about gender has changed. When I wrote the first edition of Urban Tantra, I wanted to use they instead of he as the gender-neutral pronoun, but my editors (justifiably) felt the general public would find that confusing or grammatically incorrect, so I wrote around the problem by using gender-neutral names instead of pronouns, switching between he and she, and using s/he. During the editing of this revised book, the subject was not even raised. Now most English dictionaries include they as a third-person singular gender-neutral pronoun.
The language of gender is changing so rapidly that by the time you read this I'm quite sure it will have evolved to name new aspects, or new understandings, of gender. This necessitates a new mindfulness in using this evolving language of both sex and gender. As I remind people in both my workshops and my books, defining our terms before we speak or write is critical to accurately communicating our feelings, identities, and desires. In that spirit, here are my definitions for the gender-related terms I'll be using:
• Cisgender (or cis) is a person whose gender identity matches up with the sex they were assigned at birth.
• Transgender, at this writing, refers to a man, a woman, a boy, or a girl who has transitioned from another gender. As recently as a few years ago, transgender was a term inclusive of anyone who was messing around with gender. That inclusive term is now trans.
• Trans, at this writing, is an inclusive term for anyone whose gender is in any way at odds with cultural norms for gender. This includes nonbinary, genderqueer, and gender-nonconforming people.
• Nonbinary, genderqueer, and gender-nonconforming refer to people whose gender identities and expressions are neither, both, or other than male or female.
In this edition, I am offering more Tantric erotic possibilities for both transpeople and the people who love them. When I wrote the first edition of Urban Tantra, I titled my Erotic Awakening Massages as being for "People with Pussies" and "People with Penises," instead of for women and men. I wanted people to understand that not all people who identified as women had pussies and not all people who identified as men had penises. Now, as more and more people understand that genitals do not equal gender, it's the perfect time to be more explicitly trans-inclusive by introducing my new chapter, Erotic Awakening Massage for Trans and Gender-Nonconforming People—an erotic/spiritual adventure based on the knowledge that all erotic tissue is simply the same Jell-O poured into different molds.
The word Tantra is, alas, now virtually synonymous with sex in mainstream Western culture. Although I have tried to keep focus on the larger spiritual practice, I want to honor and support people's profound need for a spiritual practice that embraces sexuality. In chapter 1, I take a more nuanced view of the nature and history of Tantra and its evolution into a modern Western sacred sexuality practice.
When Urban Tantra was first published, my primary intention was to create a Tantric practice that welcomed people of all genders, races, abilities, sexual preferences, and spiritual beliefs. I wanted a school of Tantra that was down-to-earth, fun, accessible, and transformative. I also wanted to expand the boundaries of what Tantra was and could be. In the ensuing years, I've watched people experience countless emotional and physical healing miracles through their personal Tantric practices. Today, I'm asking, how can the practice of Urban Tantra heal not only ourselves, but also our world? How can we be of service? What else is possible at the intersection of spirit and sex? How can Tantra—and specifically Urban Tantra—not only inspire people to become their best selves but also to create change in the world for the benefit of others? Part 5 of this new edition, Tantra: The Next Dimension, points us toward that future. I invite us all to use the Tantra-related art of sex magic to create our own personal brand of sexually and spiritually fueled social activism.
Whether you have been on the Urban Tantric path since the first edition of the book was published or you are just beginning your journey with us, welcome. It is my fondest hope that this new edition of Urban Tantra inspires you to create your own flavor of spiritually infused sexuality, and/or erotically infused spirituality. You could call that practice Tantra, sacred sex, conscious sexuality, erotic spirituality, or sacred kink. I call it simply, How I Love.
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Nov 07 2017
Urban Tantra: The New Revised Second Edition Is Here!
Look what just arrived! My advance copy of the revised, expanded, 10th anniversary edition of Urban Tantra! It's available for preorder now and will ship on 21 November—just in time for a sexy long Thanksgiving weekend in the U.S. Check it out: http://amzn.to/2lJWtd8
Aug 02 2017
Change Your Mood? Change Your Breath!
Today, I want to share with you a 5-minute tool that has the power to totally transform your day. You can use it anytime, anywhere, and as much as you want. It's my favorite way to recharge, gain perspective, and build erotic energy. It's Breath!
Breath is powerful. It can produce so much extraordinary pleasure it will amaze you. Once you become familiar with moving erotic energy around on your breath, you'll find all your erotic encounters to be much more fulfilling. Your orgasms will be longer and deeper. Eventually you'll find yourself using breath techniques in non-erotic situations to bring erotic energy to more and more areas of your life.
Let me give you an example of how changing the way you breathe can change the way you feel.
(1) Sit comfortably.
(2) You're going to yawn. A yawn is your body's way of asking for more air. More air means more aliveness. The next time someone yawns while you're talking, don't be offended; thank them. It means that they're trying to be more present and alive for what you are saying.
(3) Yawn. Try it. Let a really big yawn happen to you.
Fake it until you feel it, but do not force it. Come as close as you can to a really big yawn.
(4) Feel how the yawn opens the back of your throat and stretches out your whole mouth and face? That's the feeling of openness you want.
(5) Now, breathe. Let your mouth fall open slightly. Relax your jaw and face, open the back of your throat and breathe in through your mouth, gently but fully.
(6) Exhale. Don't push the breath out; just let it fall out with a gentle little sigh, ahhh.
(7) Take in a much air as you can, as effortlessly as you can, then let it go.
(8) Keep breathing. Continue for three minutes.
(9) Notice how you are feeling.
Do you feel any different from when you started?
Are you a little dizzy now? Lightheaded? Spacey? Relaxed? Weird?
Do you feel good? Or not?
If the breath made you a little lightheaded, did that worry you? There's no need for concern. Couldn't you benefit from being a little lighter in the head? I know I could.
Changing the way you breathe produces a perceptible change in consciousness. It's a physical reality. So, changing the way you breathe changes the way you feel. Sometimes it makes you feel out of control. Most of us walk around in this world trying to maintain total control over our bodies, to the extent that we have reduced our breathing to a level just deep enough to keep us going. It's not just an individual choice—it's cultural. Imagine this: You're going to work one morning and just like always, you step into the crowded elevator. The door closes. But this morning someone in the rear of the car takes a huge deep breath and exhales with a loud AHHH! What do you think? What might everyone else think? Would that breath seem strange and out of place? Why? In response to a sex-negative, body-shy culture, we have reduced our breathing to a survival level. We take in just enough air to stay alive.
We unconsciously hold our breath many times each day. In fact, holding our breath is usually the first thing we do when we don't want to lose control of some situation. It's part of a reflex we all seem to have that causes us to tense up and "get through this." Unfortunately, it's also the technique most of us use when we "try" to have an orgasm. We bear down, hold our breath, and try to "make" ourselves come. Sure, you can have an orgasm that way. Most of us have. But deep, full, extended orgasms happen more easily and naturally as a result of the dance between tension and release, contraction and expansion.
When used consciously, both tensing up and holding your breath can lead to a mind-blowing orgasm after the body has been charged up with lots of breath. Energy pathways will open up, and the orgasmic energy can travel where we direct it. There's a difference between the kind of orgasm you have after a five-minute masturbation quickie under the covers when you're trying not to make any noise and after a loud, passionate, energetic romp with a hot lover. In the former instance, the orgasm is primarily happening in and around your genitals. That's as far as the orgasmic energy can travel in a short time with minimal breath. In the latter instance, the orgasm may feel like it is happening all over your body and shooting out the top of your head. That's what happens when your energy pathways have been opened up and you have expanded to allow more energy.
The amount of breath involved is not the only reason for the difference between these two orgasms. In the second example we also added the energy-building elements of movement, sound, and a partner. However, when we move, make sounds, and relate with another person, we also breathe more, exponentially increasing the energizing effects.
Changing the way you breathe will sometimes produce an extreme change of consciousness, so it pays to discover which kinds of breathing will produce which kinds of changes of consciousness.
Do you want to explore the potential of breath more deeply?
Join me in New York City for my most popular one day workshop:
Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the 21st Century
Saturday, September 10th
10am – 5:30pm
Urban Tantra® is a radically updated Tantra practice for modern sexual/spiritual explorers that can be used by everyone. Tantra is not only a sexual practice; it is a way of life and a path to spiritual growth. On the Tantric path, pleasure, vision and ecstasy are celebrated and can be found in both everyday life and in peak sexual experiences. Develop deep, heart-centered connections (with a partner or within ourselves), and explore the bliss that comes when our spiritual and sexual paths are one.
Note: This workshop does not include nudity or explicit sexual touch. All genders, sexual preferences, and relationship structures welcome.
Apr 01 2017
5 Reasons Why the Urban Tantra Professional Training Program is the Professional Retreat We All Need Right Now
Let me guess…you're a giver.
You're the practitioner who gives every single client 100%…
You're the therapist who schedules one more session so you can help one more person…
You're the involved parent, or the nurturing caregiver that keeps your family going strong…
You're the compassionate healer who holds space for everyone's growth…
You're the driven entrepreneur who's innovations shift perspectives…
You're the engaged activist who fights for the whole community…
…and you're exhausted, depleted, and perhaps even completely overwhelmed.
I know you, because I am you. I've held every one of these roles at some point in my life, and I know the pitfalls and challenges that arise when you give all of yourself to your work.
During my more than 25 years in the field, I've seen powerhouse practitioners, compassionate councilors, and excited educators burn themselves out trying to make it all work.
That's why I created the Urban Tantra Professional Training Program—to share valuable tools that make this work more worth doing, for everyone!
Here are 5 Reasons Why the Urban Tantra Professional Training Program is the Professional Retreat We All Need Right Now:
1.) Mind/Body/Spirit Healing
I've created a nourishing immersive experience that will gently carry your whole person through a 6-day transformative journey. Breathwork sessions to invigorate your soul, massage to ease your body, expertly facilitated intellectual discussions to tease your mind, and plenty of time for integration, journaling, and making new friends. Also worth mentioning, we have a great deal of fun, frolic, and play during this training.
This is an experiential process, I vary learning styles and subjects daily. We'll have dance breaks, moments of meditation, deep discussions, sacred experiences, peaceful moments, and more than a few good belly laughs.
2.) Professional-to-Professional Love…there's nothing quite like it.
An amazing thing happens when you get a room full of practitioners together. There is a mutual respect, a deep witnessing, and expert skill sharing that never ceases to amaze me.
I created this program out of the need for this type of connection. There isn't another pace quite like it out there. When you step into the program, you're met with a community of practitioners, teachers and healers. You're encouraged to bring your uniqueness to the circle, and we're all better off because you did.
It may sound like a short amount of time, but we pack a lot of connectedness into these 6-days. You'll walk away with lifelong relationships.
3.) Sweden at Midsummer
The Urban Tantra Professional Training Program is taking place at my absolute favorite Swedish retreat center, Skeppsudden, during the Midsummer Holiday!
We'll be utilizing the fertile energy of the longest days of the year to bring even more life, creativity, and depth to this generation of the program.
In addition to the usual 6 days of advanced, experiential Urban Tantra technique and training, there will be at least one brand new ritual experience to capitalize on the supple joy and exuberance of the Midsummer Festival.
You'll enjoy looooong warm days and bright sunny evenings in the quintessentially Swedish woods and on the water. It is the perfect place, at the perfect time to dig into your desire for more, to deepen your connection to your purpose and vision, to learn how to create delicious experiences for yourself and/or your clients.
Did I mention that Skeppsudden has one of Sweden's most luscious saunas?
4.) Business Skills, Boundaries, and Best Practices
You're committed to your practice, your vision, your business, and I'm committed to teaching you the practical skills that will keep you loving your work.
You may come in feeling overwhelmed, but you'll leave with:
◦ clarity around your target market, marketing language, and your mission, so you'll attract more of the people that you want to be working with and less of the ones you don't;
◦ marketing knowhow to further your reach, increase your prospects, and create a whole new set of potential income streams;
◦ a new skill-set and practice around setting healthy boundaries that will keep you grounded in yourself, weed out energy vampires, and help you maintain a healthy work/life balance;
◦ easily integrated embodied practices that leave you feeling nourished, connected and energized so that you can show up more powerfully in your work and in your life.
5.) Inspiration
The individuals that show up for this work are incredibly unique folks from all over the world. We will sit in circle for 6 magical days, sharing experiences and wisdom with hearts open. During this time, new Ideas take shape and perspectives begin to shift.
You'll get to explore your edges. I'll encourage you to try something new, to take that risk, to ask that question, to peruse that taboo. My hope and deepest desire is that this exploration ignites your passion and creativity.
There is no "right way" to use this work. Yes of course there are standards and ethics, but I encourage you to season what you learn at the Urban Tantra Professional Training Program with your own flavor. Evolve it, explore it's power, and use it to create more ecstasy!
I am a giver, I'm enthusiastically engaged with my community, and I care about every single person who finds their way to my work.
So if you're ready to join me for 6-days of sacred soul journeying, community connection, and nourishing inspiration, email email@example.com
The Urban Tantra Professional Training Program
20-25 Jun 2017
Norrköping, Sweden
Yours in ecstasy,
Jan 06 2017
Love and Endarkenment: My Thoughts on Entering 2017
2017 is happening… like it or not. For the first time I can remember I have received more New Year's messages expressing helplessness and hopelessness than hopefulness and anticipation. Wow.
Welcome to the land of Endarkenment. A couple of years ago I began exploring the nature of endarkenment. Embracing endarkenment means accepting that necessary transformation will happen through radical disruption if we haven't been able to find it through the more peaceful process of Enlightenment. Remember, enlightenment and endarkenment are not goals—they are processes… paths. Transformation is the outcome of both. Sometimes it takes the collective head-bashing of a period of endarkenment to get us to the transformation our higher selves want and deserve.
The practice of Tantra has taught me that love is always a disturbing presence. Love and Endarkenment are perfectly compatible—they have a wonderful relationship. Now, in these times, it's up to us to find that same relationship within ourselves. How much self-love and world-love can we bring to our periods of endarkenment?
How are you going to embrace, embody and express Love this year?
That's a question I'll be asking and answering—in my writing, my online events and my in-person workshops. The answer to this question will only come with the participation of all of us in the international Urban Tantra community. Please join us.
Below is my schedule for the next few months. I'll be teaching on 3 continents, bringing collaboration, inclusion, accessibility, and gratitude to each of these events. Join me for magic, healing, connection, playfulness, and transformation.
10 – 12 February 2017
Interfusion Festival
Alexandria, VA
I'll be offering two workshops (Breath and Energygasms and Tantric Power Exchange) at the Interfusion Festival—a 3 Day Celebration of the Human Spirit. Interfusion is largest Art Fusion Festival on the East Coast.
Find out more here.
18 February 2017
Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the 21st Century
New York Open Center, NYC
My most popular workshop is back! Join me for a full day of Urban Tantra practices, tips, and techniques during this one-day intensive. Perfect for Tantra newcomers, and a nourishing refresher for those with an established practice—this workshop has something for everyone!
Join me to develop deep, heart-centered connections (with a partner or within ourselves), and explore the bliss that comes when our spiritual and sexual paths are one.
Note: This workshop is for both couples, singles, and alternative relationship structures. It does not include nudity or explicit sexual touch. All genders and sexual preferences welcome.
Find out more here.
28 – 30 April 2017
Urban Tantra Experience: Breath, Sensation and Power
Sydney, Australia
The Urban Tantra Experience is an intensive weekend for spiritual seekers and erotic explorers who know that there is "something more" to sex and spirit than they have experienced and who long for the space, time, and permission to find it. The Urban Tantra Experience will take you on a journey into your own unique sexual and spiritual fulfillment.
During this ecstatic weekend event you'll learn:
- the orgasmic and metaphysical possibilities of your breath;
- the secrets for giving and receiving many different types of conscious touch—from the sensual to the erotic;
- how conscious breath and energy work can transform all types of touch into a deeply intimate ecstatic encounter;
- how adding intense sensation and power dynamics can produce altered states of consciousness and reveal new layers of passion and possibilities in all your erotic encounters.
This workshop is for couples, singles, and other relationship configurations. All genders and sexual preferences are welcome. For partner practices, singles will be partnered, with consent. To be assured of working with the partner of your choice, come with a friend.
Find out more and register here.
9 – 14 May 2017
Urban Tantra® Professional Training Program
Sydney, Australia
Urban Tantra® is a radically updated conscious sexuality/sacred sex practice for modern sexual and spiritual explorers. This intensive workshop is designed especially for—but is not limited to—people who work with sex and sexuality. The Urban Tantra® Professional Training Program will give you the skills to take your practice to the next level—both personally and professionally. Whether you are a tantrika, a pro domme, a daka/dakini, a sex therapist, a sex educator, a companion, or anyone else who uses or wants to use a more conscious approach to sexuality in your practice, this program is for you. Urban Tantra modernizes, revels in, teases, and plays with traditional Tantra, all while honoring Tantra's rich spiritual tradition of connection. As a professional, you want to teach what is closest to your heart, while also maintaining a successful business. You'll learn how easily accessible language and simple techniques can help you share your powerful message in today's, fast-paced, goal-oriented, pleasure-starved world. Barbara will help you create the ultimate path of pleasure for your clients/students, allowing them to access their most divine selves. You'll be able to offer your clients/students immediate results and the promise of more bliss to come. With Urban Tantra, the world is your client.
Find out more here.
20 – 25 June 2017
Urban Tantra® Professional Training Program – Special Midsummer's Event
Norrköping, Sweden
Join me, and my brilliant international team, for an Urban Tantra Professional Training Program like no other! I'll be hosting my transformational training program at the Skeppsudden Retreat Center in Norrköping, Sweden on Summer Solstice. We'll be utilizing in the fertile energy of midsummer to bring more life, creativity, and depth to this generation of the program.
In addition to the usual 6 days of advanced, experiential Urban Tantra technique and training, we'll have a brand new ritual experience to capitalize on the supple joy and exuberance of Midsummer. The bounty of the Swedish landscape will be yours to play in for evening excursions and delectable downtime during this residential experience. This is my absolutely favorite venue in Sweden.
It is the perfect place, at the perfect time to dig into your desire for more, to deepen your connection to your purpose and vision, to learn how to create delicious experiences for yourself and/or your clients.
Are you intrigued?
This is my only European training program in 2017. So don't miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to journey with me in the land of the midnight sun on the longest day of the year!
Find out more about the program here.
I hope to see you in 2017.
Jan 06 2017
On 14 November I received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Sexual Freedom Awards in London. Here's my acceptance speech: https://youtu.be/9UNC-T-CAEM
Congratulations to all the nominees and winners, especially family members Joseph Kramer, Rowan Bombadil, Jason Tantra, Deej Juventin, and Laura-Doe Harris.


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(January 2003)
On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 10:34 PM, Omar Thameen wrote:
Out of curiosity, which ISPs are blocking based on this header?
I use precedence headers extensively in the email I manage. Basically, nobody blocks on this header these days. There might be a few personal domains that do something this stupid, but then, I know some personal domains that block stuff Bcc;ed to them, too.
it's frankly not a significant problem. the precedence header is in pretty much endemic use.
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