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The Latest Approaches to Mindful Sexuality

Listen to interviews with Maci Daye on awakened intimacy, mindful sex, communication in the bedroom, intimacy, desire, and more.

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Sex, Relationships, Awakened Intimacy

In this deep dive with Eric Haas, the host of the Primal Nature Podcast, Maci shares: 
  • Why her work gives her a sense of belonging.
  • How the skills of Awakened Intimacy transfer to other domains. 
  • How meaning and consciousness can expand our erotic potential, particularly as we age.
  • Why tending our sex life takes courage and the payoff of doing so.
  • Whether to stay or leave an unsatisfying relationship.
  • Why pausing is the only way to have a new experience. 
  • Ways to work with body memories.
  • The difference between sexual scripts and authentic expression.
  • How Awakened Intimacy works in open relationships, and much more.

 

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Unleash Your Pleasure: Learn how to create passion and intimacy in your relationships to increase fulfillment in your sex life.

How can mindfulness help us move out of our stress zone into an open, curious, and pleasure-receptive state?

What does it mean to develop a pleasure-positive mindset?

How can we explore blocks to receiving and find resilience when we lose the erotic thread?

What can we do to create healing opportunities when old wounds surface as triggers during sex?

 

Find out more in my discussion with Sydney Richade at the Unleash Your Pleasure Summit

Jung in the World: Eros and the Archetypal Pursuit of Healing Love with Maci Daye, Certified Sex Therapist

How does the approach we take to love relationships at Passion and Presence™ honor Jung’s work around the unconscious, archetypes, and individuation?

It’s because there’s nothing like the crucible of a love relationship to smoke out our barriers to love.

In my podcast with Patricia Martin, a Jungian-trained cultural analyst, we talked about:

  • When we choose to experience our intimate relationships with curiosity and an open heart in service of healing our eros wounds, we are working with the warrior archetype. It’s the path of the warrior with heart.

  • How when we befriend both the pleasure and the pain of being in a love relationship, we help make our early imprints conscious.

  • How cultivating a conscious relationship allows a healing shift to happen. When we lean into making our unconscious forces conscious, we support the process of individuation.

Find out more in my podcast with Patricia Martin, a Jungian-trained cultural analyst:Jung in the World: Eros and the Archetypal Pursuit of Healing Love 

Sexology: 7 Secrets of Effective Sexual Communication from Sexperts

I was invited back to Dr. Moali’s Sexology podcast as one of her favorite experts on sexuality over the past year.

Mindfulness can be a powerful boost, not only for communicating about sex but also for improving our experience of sex. 

Find out more about how establishing a regular mindfulness practice is great for building a sense of connection, awareness, and growth with your long-term partner. For a practical, easy-to-implement tip that you can use right now, listen in to the 7 Secrets of Effective Sexual Communication from the Sexperts

 

Erotic Transformation: Healing and Growing Through Sex

I feel honored to be selected to contribute to the latest “Wise Brain Bulletin,” published by the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom, a non-profit co-founded by Rick Hanson.

In “Erotic Transformation: Healing and Growing Through Sex,” I show how the “naked path” can heal what I call our “Hidden Factors,” bringing us closer together and more freely expressed. Awakened intimacy requires courage and an agreement to examine ourselves as a mindful team. In doing so, erotic challenges become a catalyst for powerful healing and growth, re-awakening our pleasure, connection, and awe.

To read this excerpt from my book “Passion and Presence: A Couple’s Guide to Awakened Intimacy and Mindful Sex,” click here.

Better Sex Podcast with Maci Daye

In my recent Better Sex podcast with Jessica Zimmerman, find out why:

  • It’s important to know the difference between Mindful Sex and Awakened Intimacy
  • Mindful Sex might not be what you think it is
  • Mindfulness is not just for struggling couples, but for anyone who wants to feel alive
  • We can actually thank the erotic “relics” that inevitably show up

Essential Conversations with Rabbi Rami

  • How is it that we can open to magic when we approach sex with our non-judgmental attention rather than with our intention?
  • What is it about the transformative Hakomi-informed approach that helps us access the wisdom of our bodies?
  •  How can mindfulness open up our entire bodies to becoming one giant erogenous zone again?
  • What can we all learn from the LGBTQIA community about closing the orgasm gap and opening to pleasure?

Click here to listen to my fascinating interview with Rabbi Rami of Spirituality & Health Magazine as we explored these questions and more.

22 Signs You're Falling in Love, According to Therapists

What are some tell-tale signs that you are falling in love? That was the question Serena Coady recently asked me of Glamour. For me, it is first and foremost a sense of intense curiosity about our new beloved. Second is the belief that we can leap tall buildings in a single bound. Thank you, testosterone!

However, we don’t need an expert to tell us what our body knows on the inside. The early relationship “love state” is quite distinct—excitement, novelty, and feel-good chemicals put a cheerful sheen on just about everything. 

Still, the question led me to think more about why it is crucial to notice and enjoy falling in love. Whether we are looking for love, are currently navigating the exhilarating landscape of newfound love, or have been in a long-term partnership for some time, being head-over-heels in love is undeniably a delicious portal of possibility. 

It’s a beautiful opportunity to notice where we are without judgment, good or bad. Likewise, being mindful can open us up to the possibility of being entirely in the moment—of being genuinely present and feeling our full aliveness.

So, even if being in love feels like a distant memory, feeling alive again is possible when we meet each moment fresh. “Meeting fresh” is one of the cornerstones of the Passion and Presence approach.

Read the article by Serena Coady here.

How can you cultivate your erotic sexuality and Awaken deep intimacy after years of "left-over sex?"

Join me as I explore with Dr. Nazanin Moali ways in which previous emotional wounds can play out in sexuality, how being in a relationship is about being comfortable being seen, and how mindfulness can help to improve your sex life.

Dr. Nazanin Moali is a sex and relationship expert and has helped many individuals and couples improve their sex lives and restore and achieve deep and passionate connections with their partners. She hosts the top-20 rated Sexology podcast.

How does great sex have more to do with the state of our mind than with the function of our body?

How does hidden shame show uo in long-term relationships?

How is the element of play important in mindfully exploring sexuality?

Find out more in my recent interview “Passion and Presence: Aging, Intimacy, and Mindful Sex” with Spiritual and Health Magazine’s Wellbeing Editor, Kathryn Drury Wagner

Can mindfulness make you look forward to having sex with your partner again?

I enjoyed my interview with Kristen Manieri,  host of the podcast “60 Mindful Minutes“, so much.

In our conversation, we discussed:

  • What it means to be goal-oriented in bed
  • The dangers of the “novelty trap”
  • How we can access our Pure Erotic Potential 
  • Why collaborating is key to working with triggers
  • The three stages of conscious erotic coupling

What if your erotic challenges and even conflicts could become a path to transformation?

What is real-life sex and whole-body sex? And how does embracing them help us find greater connection and creativity?

In my interview with Mukara Meredith, we explore how the approach taken by Passion and Presence helps create an integration of body, mind, and spirit. We also discuss how our erotic differences can become doorways to a greater sense of wholeness, authenticity, and aliveness.

BETTER SEX THROUGH MINDFULNESS

Join me for my interview with Dr. Lori Brotto, the author of “Better Sex Through Mindfulness: How Women Can Cultivate Desire,” as we dive into the world of female sexuality. We take a look at why mindfulness is so effective when other interventions have failed to restore genital function and sexual response. Then experience a mindfulness activity that Dr. Brotto guides us through to bring present-moment awareness to your sensations.

Dr. Brotto is the Director of the University of British Columbia’s Sexual Health Laboratory, the Canada Research Chair in Women’s Sexual Health, a Professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, UBC, and the Executive Director of the Women’s Health Research Institute. Since 2002, she has been researching the effect of mindfulness on sexual desire, initially with survivors of gynecological cancers suffering from sexual pain, numbness, and arousal difficulties. Go to the “Debunking Desire” website to learn more.

MINDFULNESS AND SEXUALITY

Listen to a Hakomi Summit interview with Maci Daye, Hakomi faculty and sex therapist about bringing the spark back to your erotic life in a committed relationship.

BRINGING MORE OF OURSELVES TO THE BEDROOM

Listen to Dick Schwartz, founder of Internal Family Systems (family therapy) speak with Maci Daye about transforming the burdened roles of our inner parts, mindfulness, long-term relationships and intimacy.

MOVING FROM PERFORMANCE TO PLEASURE

Listen to Maci Daye, founder of Passion and Presence in an interview with Serge Prengel, host of the Somatics Perspectives on Psychotherapy interview. This series explores balancing the tension between familiarity and excitement, of how sex can get better over time, how to avoid “safe” sex in long-term relationships and the difference between intimacy and eroticism.

KEEPING EROS HAPPY IN YOUR RELATIONSHIP

In this interview with Rev. Beverly Molander, learn about what kids really pick up from porn, how to communicate in a way that generates curiosity rather than defensiveness, and much more.

Maci Daye explains how, with mindfulness, we can:

  • Bridge the busyness and stress of our complicated lives to feel more desire.
  •  Turn our erotic triggers into trailheads to healing.
  • Find the antidote to feelings of shame that so commonly arise in long-lasting relationships.

We can also learn how to befriend the fears that we all have around sex. Get a taste of this in Maci’s compassionate wrap-up meditation. As you tune into the wisdom of your body, what might it be telling you about love, desire, and healing?

Our retreat dates have changed since this interview first aired, but we think our insights still stand!

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