Women's Sexuality as a Gateway to the Great Mystery, with Shakti Malan PhD

The Embodied Way Podcast

On this episode of the Women's Edition, host Stefana Serafina speaks to Shakti Malan, PhD about sexuality as a vital life force and the need to rediscover and embody its fluid, undirected flow in the female body as way of reconnecting to Earth, rebalancing the feminine principle, and liberating consciousness.

Tune in for a rich conversation on the body as a resource and an ally, the female sexual organs and the nature of sexual energy, Lilith and Eve, releasing sexual trauma and trusting the feminine flow again. Although this episode is under the Women's edition, it is a very educational one that you could share with your men partners, friends, and collaborators as well.

THIS EPISODE's WISDOM QUOTES:

"The feminine principle is the sexual principle, there is no difference really between the feminine and sexuality... A feminine body is a round, fluid, undulating ocean of sexual energy that wants to move in an undirected and explorative way....Female sexuality and our sexual organs are a gateway to our inner mysteries. When we return to the innocence of our bodies and our sexuality and stop using our bodies to please or get something from others, and when we return to a connection between our souls, hearts, and sexuality, then when someone enters into us, that entering is going ti be an entering into the inner mysteries of the Divine Feminine. And with conscious and devotional attitude to the act of lovemaking, the one who enters a woman's temple will knowingly be entering the mysteries of Divine Feminine, and will be transformed by her."

"For us women to really discover our sexuality, it's is a looking inwards. It's a closing of our eyes and imagining that we are looking down in the body. We need to feel ourselves from the inside out, which is the opposite of what most women experience because we are so attuned to our partners, children, and communities, and our sexuality can become so externalized... In the act of making love, for women the natural movement is very much like a river, a fluid, spiraling, circular movement, not at all what we see in the porn movies, which is the back-and-forth, pumping movement, very goal-oriented toward the genital orgasm. In fact, women's bodies want to really deeply relax and go into the soft, fluid unwinding. And that is the gateway."

ABOUT SHAKTI MALAN, PhD

Shakti is an internationally recognized expert in embodied sexuality, sexual healing and utilizing our sexual force for personal and collective awakening. For the last decade she has been teaching men and women across the world to awaken consciousness in our sexuality and our bodies and release sexual trauma and body armoring. Her book Sexual Awakening for Women is a popular tantric workbook for women and a comprehensive manual for healing sexual wounding and restoring the feminine principle in women’s sexuality.

To learn more about Shakti Malans's work and offerings, visit www.shaktimalan.com

To learn more about host Stefana Serafina's embodiment work with women, visit www.intutivedance.org