Darshana Avila: When Therapy Isn't Enough-What to Do When You've Done the Work & Still Feel Shut Down | #182
The Sex Reimagined PodcastShow Notes
Send us a text & leave your email address if you want a reply! What If Pleasure Was Never the Problem, You Were Just Never Taught How to Receive It? Most of us learned about sex from silence, shame, or a five-minute health class that left out everything that actually matters. We learned to perform. To go along. To look at the clock. And somewhere in all that conditioning, we stopped trusting our own bodies. Darshana Avila has spent decades helping people find their way back.A trauma-infor...
More from The Sex Reimagined Podcast
Send us a text & leave your email address if you want a reply! What if the sounds you’ve been holding back are the doorway to a full body tantric orgasm? Tantra teacher Mare Simone, a Dakini and Advanced Tantra Educator, joins us for a juicy, practice forward conversation about somatic intimacy and what it really takes to drop out of your head and into your body. Mare tells the story of the night a woman’s roaring orgasm at a San Francisco Tantra party shook the floorboards and awakened h...
Send us a text & leave your email address if you want a reply! What happens when you stop treating jealousy as a problem to fix and start treating it as a teacher? In episode 213, Leah Piper and Dr. Willow Brown sit down with tantra teacher, mystic, muse, and mentor Kamala Devi McClure. They have lived an open polyamorous marriage for 25 years, some of it in front of television cameras. Kamala Devi gets real about what ethical non-monogamy actually asks of you: honesty about your thoughts...
Send us a text & leave your email address if you want a reply! Your Body's in Bed. Where's Your Mind? Ever catch yourself mid lovemaking thinking about the cobweb on the ceiling, an unanswered email, or whether you'll last? In this episode of the Sex Reimagined Podcast, Leah Piper and Dr. Willow Brown get honest about sexual performance anxiety and how to be present during sex when your mind keeps wandering off. They unpack spectatoring, the habit Masters and Johnson identified of watchin...
Send us a text & leave your email address if you want a reply! What Happens When an 83 Year Old Former Nun Joins OnlyFans to Teach Sacred Sexuality? What if porn could actually teach you how to be a better lover? In this episode of Sex Reimagined, Leah Piper and Dr. Willow Brown sit down with Janelle Orion, steward of the Goddess Temple in Denver, and Barbara Penningroth, known to her fans as Gigi, an 83 year old great grandmother and former nun who admits she swings between "I was born f...
Send us a text & leave your email address if you want a reply! Is Porn Rewiring the Male Orgasm? Leah and Willow on Performance Anxiety, Semen Retention, and Getting Out of the Porn Rut. Leah and Willow dig into the male orgasm and why porn has quietly rewritten the rules for so many men, from performance anxiety to porn induced erectile dysfunction to the shame that keeps men stuck in secrecy. They introduce the arousal scale as a way to slow down and actually feel pleasure instead of ra...