Making Friends with Desire.
Gathering this Sunday. When desire feels dangerous. 1 room left.
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Hello everyone,
We’re in the middle of our Living Tantra class, and each one is a little different based on what’s arising in the field. One discussion that’s come up, in the context of cultural and religious suppression of sexual desire, is that desire can sometimes feel dangerous and bottomless. Do you recognize this? That unmanaged desire can ruin relationships, families, careers? It’s not inherently so, however.
It’s often because we haven’t practiced a framework to investigate it, modulate it, authenticate it, or communicate around desire. Without language, ritual, or relational safety, we might fear, perform, repress or misuse it. This disconnect often leads to confusion, shame, or fragmentation. Our erotic nature may be cast into the shadows, or distorted through unmet needs and unspoken longings.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. When we integrate the wisdom of classical Tantra with the practices of embodied listening, radical sovereignty, and unconditional love, something profound happens: we begin to make friends with desire. We come to know it not as something to suppress or indulge unconsciously, but as a sacred impulse—a current of energy that reveals what is most alive in us. Desire becomes a teacher. A mirror. A compass. A source of vitality and truth.
In this integrated field, we no longer abandon ourselves in order to pursue connection, nor abandon connection to remain in control.
We learn to stand in the fire of longing without collapsing, to communicate our truth without harm, to live from desire’s potency rather than its distortion. It’s a practice of presence and aliveness. Starting with breath, capacity to hold more of our experience and sensation.
If you’ve been in programs before, you can access your course material and all the breathwork and exercises we did in the course portal, and refresh your practice at any time. We start our monthly gatherings with this also, and those are free to join.
Sending much love,
Christine Marie Mason
UPCOMING
April 20: Our next (free) monthly online gathering. For those of you who have joined before, you know how sweet and regrounding the whole thing is. 10 am pacific time. RSVP here to receive the link.
May 14-18: Adam, Viraja and I have 1 room left for our May Retreat in Boone, NC. You’re deeply welcomed for 5 days of being in the body, breathing, yoga, singing, hiking, devotion in the tradition of classical tantra- plus beautiful food and deep rest.
