about

ABOUT IAN

I am a Daka, Tantrika, Erotic Healer, Usui Reiki Master, Shamanic Breathworker, Tantric/Taoist Bodyworker, Sacred Intimate, and a former Coordinator for The Body Electric School. I draw on all of these disciplines to carry the message forth that our Sexual Nature is our Divine Right, that our Erotic Energy is the Life Force, and that Awakening fully to this Erotic Energy in our Bodies can be a pathway to Higher Consciousness.

I have been following the Tantric Path since 2000 and have trained with several organizations and individuals, including The Body Electric School, Bodhi Avinasha and Tantrika International, Rudy Ballentine, Jack Painter, Michael Casteel, Mantak Chia, Margot Anand's Love and Ecstasy Training with the Institute for Tantra and Meditation, and numerous others.  I am a devotee of and grateful for the works of Eckhart Tolle, Andrew Harvey, and OSHO.

After 19 years of working with women as an OB/GYN, I have now devoted my life to working with men who are seeking deep personal transformation and growth.

ABOUT TANTRA

Tantra is an ancient spiritual tradition and way of life that involves among other things Awakening and Living in your Desire, staying fully Present, and experiencing Aliveness, Vitality and Joy in all things.  It is about the weaving of Body, Mind, and Spirit as we embrace and totally accept all things, including all aspects of our sexuality, as Sacred.  It is about discovering our own Divinity as we discover the Divinity in others.  It is about embodying the Balance of Feminine and Masculine, Yin and Yang, Shakti and Shiva, Energy and Consciousness.  It is about Awakening to your Sexual Life Force or Kundalini Energy and using the Body and the Body's Pleasure and Desire as Vehicles to Enlightenment and to a Deeper Connection with the Divine. 

ABOUT MALE SEXUALITY

Sexual life force energy has been known for centuries to be a pathway to Higher Consciousness and to a deeper connection with the Sacredness of all there is.  The path of Tantra involves learning how to transform this primal erotic energy into spiritual energy and bliss, and teaches us to embrace our bodies while breaking through old learned patterns of emotional blocks, taboos, ignorance and shame that limit our access to this ecstatic energy that is our birthright.

For many men, our sexuality has been strongly influenced by a culture that teaches us from a young age that sex is to be hidden, not spoken of, and shameful.  Our bodies take on this conditioning in the form of tensions, sexual dysfunctions, addictions, and intimacy issues.  Our raw, primal, sexual nature is suppressed and replaced with mental noise, and we lose our connection to our original Source. We learn to use sexuality and orgasm for release, to “turn off”, to go to sleep, to avoid feeling feelings. Sex becomes, quick, quiet, tense, and goal-oriented. By bringing awareness to these old traps and reprogramming our bodies, we can awaken to more clarity, insight, creativity, self-esteem, personal growth and spiritual evolution.

ABOUT SHAMANIC BREATHWORK

Most of us learn at an early age that it is easier to NOT feel our feelings than to feel them.  To assist us in pushing our feelings down and repressing them, we learn to hold our breath or breathe in a very shallow manner.  The problem is that unfelt feelings never go away and this results in all types of emotional blocks, sexual dysfunctions, and disease.  Conscious Integrative or Shamanic Breathwork is a type of guided, deeper, fuller, conscious breathing which promotes emotional release and fosters feelings of Self-Love, Gratitude and increased Clarity. When you allow your feelings to be fully felt, you create a place for Deep Healing and experiencing your True Nature.  The process encourages and allows you to feel, express and release anything that is holding you back, keeping you stuck, or preventing you from fully experiencing the deepest, highest, fullest and most expanded expression of your most Authentic Self.

ABOUT SACRED INTIMACY

To fully explore our true Erotic Nature, we must have a container that feels safe, nurturing, supportive, and nonjudgmental.  Sacred Intimacy is about creating that container that allows the client to begin to shed the shame and guilt that has prevented personal transformation.  By creating an atmosphere of trust, safety, and confidentiality, you, the client, are given permission to explore all of the aspects of who you are, including your shadows, your wounds, your fears, your desires, and your fantasies.  You can learn to ask for what you want, to practice new forms of intimacy, to learn new ways of sexual expression, and to heal old wounds.  This Way of Being ultimately can Reconnect us to our Original, Innocent, Authentic Self, which will then allow us to move forward in the world with fresh Insight and Clarity from a place of renewed Personal Power.