Sunday, November 2, 2014

Intimate Communion



Intimate Communion

Greetings Beloveds.  I submitted this article for the on-line magazine On the Path Holiday Edition's November/December 2014 Sex and Sensuality Column.  See it on line here at:  http://joom.ag/LjAb

Over the past 6 years I've learned practices to ignite and enliven my life through my study of Tantra. Tantra is an ancient spiritual practice embracing all of life as Divine unfolding.  It teaches that each element of our lives can be used to awaken to our True Nature.  There seem to be many Tantric paths and traditions stemming from Hindu and Buddhist origins.  All have the primary practice of White Tantra, the meditation practices, as well as Red Tantra, sexual practices, to help us awaken. In both Red and White Tantra conscious breathing and breath practices are central. Many associate Tantra primarily with sexuality due to Hollywood references and some Neo-Tantra traditions developed through a teacher named Osho in the last 30 years.  Red Tantra practices deepen and extend the sexual experience as it raises you into Bliss, opening the door to Enlightenment.  Unlike most spiritual traditions, Tantra fully embraces our sexual natures and uses them to open our bodies and minds to Spirit.  
While Red Tantra practices are just one very small part of the huge body of Tantra, they are often over emphasized  due to our curiosity and preoccupation with sex.  This preoccupation is the result of centuries of societies and religions making sex wrong.  I was part of the sexual revolution of the 1960s/70s and it's refreshing to have a spiritual practice fully embrace sexuality.  Blending my sexual and spiritual nature has been truly liberating for me.  Some of the rituals and practices offered in Tantra transform sex into worship infusing the experience with the sacred.  It also brings consciousness to our erotic and wild animal nature. Most if not all Red Tantra practices can be done solo through self pleasure and/or energy meditations. 
Focusing on the 5th Chakra for this issue, I want to share some Tantric practices related to the voice and throat.  Self expression, communication and creativity are linked to this chakra and all of these qualities relate to a healthy sensual/sexual expression.  Finding and speaking your truth is key to a healthy 5th Chakra and a healthy sex life.  We have to unmask and become vulnerable to experience real intimacy and deep sexual pleasure.  Through speaking the truth of what we need and desire sensually and sexually we not only free ourselves, we free our lovers to do the same. 
So much shame has been built around our sensual and sexual natures that you may need to practice speaking your needs out loud alone first and then share them with your lover(s).  I realized I was so afraid to hear 'no' to my sexual needs that I just never asked.  Obviously my needs never got met. I robbed myself and my partners the opportunity to please me.  After an event where we practiced saying and hearing both 'yes' and 'no' to requests, I was willing and able to ask for what I wanted.  And I was not afraid to hear no...or yes!   Intimate Communication is key to a deep and successful sexual life.  Learning to ask for what you want and describe in detail the kind of touch you like will add to your intimate interaction.  I'm someone who loves my sexual connection to just flow without words but adding clarity through direct, kind and clear communication has deepened my delight and certainly increased my pleasure.
Here's something you can try that's very healing and enlivening.  Tantric practices use sound to stimulate vibration in the body and open the body/mind to deeper consciousness.  Toning and vocalizing your pleasure adds spice and delight to your sexual connection. Experiment with different sounds.  One practice is to tone directly into your partner's Chakras.  Experiment and find out what tone awakens and arouses.  Do try the tone associated with each Chakra. They are, from the 1st to the 7th: Lam, Vam, Ram, Yam, Ham, Sham, Om.  They're pronounced Lum, Vum, Rum, Yum, Hum, Sham, OM.  YouTube has several examples you can listen to.  Have some fun trying new things.  As they say, 'if you always do what you've always done you'll always get what you've always gotten.' 
With all of these practices, using conscious breathing will deepen your presence in the moment.  Experiment with the way you breathe through your intimate encounters and throughout your everyday routines. These Tantric practices are life changing and can lead you to Bliss!   May you enjoy deepening your intimate communion with them. If you intend it, your experiment may open the doors to your True Self.  Much Love to you!  Namaste!


Saturday, September 20, 2014

The Birth of Body Beloved
What happens when you fully love and accept yourself just as you are, no change necessary? I believe it's the birth of real happiness. You begin to fall in love with yourself and open a door to unconditional love for yourself and others.  To really love others without co-dependent need we have to learn to love ourselves unconditionally first.  This doesn't mean you never make healthy changes.  It doesn't mean you don't evolve.  You just love all of you just as you are now, fully accepting your amazing evolving imperfect self.  What has this to do with sex and sensuality?  Everything!

Let me share my own story as the example.  I've gone from defining myself as an overweight, over the hill, lonely divorcee to seeing myself as a large beautiful sexy 63 year old Goddess. Up until 6 years ago I had believed all the social programming that I was too fat to be attractive.  My size 12 body in high school wasn't perfect enough to match Barbie or the 1960's icon Twiggy.  I was surrounded by popular beauty queen/cheer leaders in my family that added to my belief that I and my body were 'not good enough'.  I also believed I was 'nothing without a man' and spent many years desperately and unsuccessfully seeking a partner to fill the 'not enough' emptiness in me.  After my 2nd divorce at the age of 52, I weighed over 270 pounds and believed no one would ever love me or want me again.  Luckily I was wrong, very very wrong!

Had I continued to believe I wasn't good enough and needed a man I'd likely have made that negative belief true.  Happily, that got turned around.  I'd begun a serious healing journey after a deep depression set in the year after both my parents died.  That reignited my spiritual path and led me to the teachings that changed my life.  I learned about Tantra.  Tantra is a spiritual path that sees all of manifestation as the Divine unfolding.  It teaches you to drop shame, let go of right and wrong judgments and accept what is.  It teaches you to question everything and find out for yourself what is truth instead of accepting what you're told.  It's based in the loving heart, the path I've been drawn to all my life.  I found wonderful teachers and healers that helped me love myself, love my own heart and drop the stories that kept me from seeing what a sexy sensual woman I am.  Tantra helped me fully embrace all of me, the light and the dark.  It welcomed my sensual sexual side as natural and taught me it is one doorway into Divine Awakening.   Most religions and governments have made most sex wrong stealing away our most natural form of pleasure and happiness.  Tantra embraces and uses this pleasure to access the Divine that dwells within us.   

So I stopped making myself wrong.  I embraced all of me and this turned my desperate loneliness into enjoyable alone time.   I've drawn amazing, delightful and challenging relationships to me as I allowed my sensuality and sexuality be free to express itself.  I've been told by one young (cougar alert) very sexy Tantric lover that my laughter and lack of pretense makes me a great lover.  It's been such a delight to be able to fully awaken my 'original' loving self; the self that existed before outside judgment imposed stories of limitation.   I've even learned to accept and hold my dark unloving side, my deep and real imperfections. 

Loving and enjoying who you are is one of the sexist things you can do.  It can create a magnetic draw to you.  Once you love yourself and enjoy your own company you turn loneliness into enjoyable aloneness.  When you're no longer desperate for "the other" you start to attract more loving and interesting people into your life.  The amazing thing about becoming desirable to partners was the simplicity of the change.  It only took my dropping the story to change everything.  No matter what age you are you can learn to let go of shame and judgment and begin a journey to open your heart to yourself.  You can choose to embrace and love your body in whatever shape it's in. I even recommend talking to your body as a loving partner, make friends with it!  That open heart and embrace of 'what is' will call in your natural sensual sexual self and, if I am any example, will become a magnet to call in the relationship(s) you long for, the best of which is the one with yourself!

I hope you go ahead and open this door of delight, the delight of being in and accepting your body just as it is.  Sending love to you as you enjoy the journey!

Published in September/October On the Path Magazine
http://www.pathways-belair.com/On-The-Path-Magazine.html

Thursday, September 18, 2014

Sharing my Matt Kahn Retreat experience here as I posted on the True Divine Nature Community Facebook page:

My Beloved True Divine Nature Community,
I have a confession, Beloveds.  I had a very hard time at the retreat.  Wednesday night, the first night, I was livid after the "no experience" teaching.  As I drove back to the Hotel with 3 others, who were raving about the teaching, I said from the back seat that if they wanted to hear a dissenting voice I was a F*ck No!  What I heard Matt say again and again was "I felt nothing".  I was furious.  I come into body to feel and to experience.  I have eternities to be dead and out of body.  I feel my place there and have been there so many times.  I remember it and connect with it when I get lost here in the pain and confusion.  Here I want my cake and eat it too.  I want my 'no experience' and I want my wild passionate painful and confusing experience.  I want it all!
 Then the next day Matt taught about feeling more deeply and embracing it all.  He was singing my song.  I was frustrated and confused.  I was also a bit angry that he called 'no experience' a new teaching. This is a comment he made to me before the evening began. It's ancient.  Maybe he was referring to something else but this is how it all went for me.  I wanted to have a knock down drag out fight with Matt. LOL!!!   Beloveds!  This is the last thing I expected!!!  I actually found it all funny as I watched my anger.  I've been raving about Matt for months and months and have felt the precious transmissions of energy and awakening he delivers.  I have felt the immediate elimination of obstacles and penetrating love during personal sessions.  He truly has Ganesha energy!   Oddly when I was near Matt and interacting with him directly I felt great distance, "Emptiness" but no love.  There was certainly an impact from his emptiness but I so wanted to feel and experience the love. 
I hear you in my projections of you( from this 'universe' /My Story)referring to my ego or feeling sorry for me and my little angry girl.  Oh yes, Beloveds.  The ego judging mind serves and hinders me.  It also is of God...all creation is. I liked when Matt said, watch what people do, not what they say.  This is the good judging mind.  I watched Matt be so playful and seemingly intimate with some and so distant with others. This ego sees an ego alive and well in Matt as well as a deep penetrating connection with empty consciousness.   HW Poonjaji, another favorite teacher of mine from the Ramana Maharshi lineage, said he had an ego and she served him well. Being a Tantrica I wish to embrace it all, the dual and non dual.  So curious. I'm sure one of the challenges for me is the hierarchy I saw encouraged in the class.  I have always been uncomfortable with the 'raised above us/ more advanced than us' space but I also understand that hierarchy exists in our world. I understand needing a teacher and a way shower. I struggle with this having seem so many powerful empty beings fall into disgrace from what appear ego antics and abuses.  And yet I know I would fall on my knees before Ramana Maharshi and be enslaved by his love and awakened state. Go figure.
So I am struggling and at rest at the same time.  A few of you know this but I wanted to come clean to this amazing community of souls. In doing so I hope love prevails and there is room to embrace my crazy and amazing experience.
So here is the good news.  Even with my anger, my illness that happily gave me a break on Thursday from what I felt was an uncomfortable workshop,  I have returned with a deeper silence and much more access to dropping the crazy monkey mind.  What a ride!  Thank you Matt and Julie for this amazing uncomfortable and life changing experience.  Thank you for reading this post.  Please forgive me if I misjudged or misunderstood as I stumble on rejoicing and/or bitching as the case may be.  Again, what a ride!
I love you!  I love you!  I love you!  Truly I do!

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

This morning...

Thank you for this moment, Beloved...with the sounds of change breaking the morning quiet, a warm little (Spike) dog on my lap and the tinge of fear hiding deep in my belly.  I love you!  I love this one that smells the lavender brought back from Italy by my Beloved June.

Lavender, crashing sounds of construction, sweet chants to awaken by, the door open to the sun and slight breeze on this perfect late late summer, almost fall, day.  My hands tingle from carpal tunnel or shoulder issues as I write.

This moment is precious...fear and all.  I am more accepting of the changes.  They are, so why fight?  The crashing construction can be sacred drummers - the tingling numbness in my hands - kisses and sparks from God.  I am here now.  These things are mine to feel, see, hear.  Sweet Spike keeps me company as I muse.  Thanks you for this richness!
                                                                      September 16, 2014

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Book Beginnings...

My sweetness longs for You
She waits impatient and aroused
Pulling her up inside me I feel the warm honey of Her Essence
Beloved Shakti
Exploding with joy and celebration
Passion’s breath moving
                             Sounding
                                       Ah
                                          Om
                                             All Love
                                                  All Love
                                                        All Love
Sun  crowns head to heart
Feet soaked in liquid golden mercury
Rising  through my legs
Enveloped
Embodied
I am the golden snake
I am the Beloved
I AM
                           Ecstasy!
                               All Love 
                                   All Love  
                                        All Love



Sunday, August 17, 2014

Our Original Sexual Self

'Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?'

    From The Summer Day by Mary Oliver


Where is our original sensual sexual wild child? The one that laughs and cries without remorse or thought of consequence? The one that is unafraid of those sexy erotic feelings that rise up finding it all so curious, who hasn't learned to condemn.  Where has he or she gone and why did they disappear?  Most live in exile, imprisoned, with some, sadly, acting out violently in rebellion.  It's true, you will be punished if you let him/her out all the time. Society demands a game be played, but can you see the game and drop the pretense to become real again?  Consider the price of keeping the masks.   What will happen if you expose your authentic vulnerable and wild natural self? 

I pray you find a safe haven for this essential part of you even if only in your alone time.  Much of the 'so called' perverse sexual appetites come from the suppression of our wild sexual natures.  Some is born from our amazing creativity but I believe that much of the dark exploitive sex comes from the loss of our natural innocent sensual sexual selves.

So consider taking a dip.  Stick your toe into being natural, unleashed, vulnerable.  You can go back to hiding.  I've done this off and on for years.  Oddly, at some point, a kind of vulnerability starts to feel at home, safe.  It seems it would be the opposite or an oxymoron but it's true for me.  You learn where the boundaries are and when and where to let your true nature flow. Yes, I do still fear being "tarred and feathered", the ugly rejection.  But instead I keep finding more love, more embrace and more joy.  I've allowed myself to fully live instead of just exist.  What a ride!  I'd be lying if I told you it was all fun and easy.  That would be a whooper of a lie!  I can tell you it's all been worth it.  Even in the dark times I felt real, authentic.  The more I choose to be real, the more it becomes just who I am.  What about you?

Wednesday, August 6, 2014


I've noticed that some of my desires for success in the world as a teacher and 'healer' have begun to feel heavy....like a burden. When Matt Kahn told me to drop my spiritual ego and get a job that has nothing to do with my spiritual path I felt a great sense of relief. I had no idea that my own desire for success created the weight I was feeling until I let it go. Wow! I still love teaching and sharing this loving journey but my own desire to be a well know or world teacher and have success through that work became a burden. So I let it go! I continue to follow my heart and offer what is right and timely for me to offer but I let go of my 'big plan'. I remember the wisdom of this quote: 'How do you make God laugh? You tell Her your plans!' LOL! Has anyone else experienced this? Also...still looking for the right job...part time preferably. Sending blessings to you as I continue this amazing journey! I love you!!!

Thursday, July 17, 2014

Barbie and Beyond



Barbie and Beyond

I've been thinking about my Barbie Dolls and the condos my sister and I built for them in the back of my Dad's bar in the basement of our first house on Apple Pie Ridge.  We made an elevator out of a shoe box.  They had all they needed and it was very lush and inviting.  Additions and upgrades were constantly made for 'their' comfort and to maintain their social Barbie and Ken status. 

When I moved into my early teens I drifted away from the Barbie condo and all the amazing environments we had created for them.  My mother would ask me if I'd go and play Barbie Dolls with my sister, who still was enjoying them and missing our fun together.  I occasionally did go but I couldn't enjoy it anymore. The fun was gone for me.  It was like looking at a strange land where I no longer fit.  That which had been so alive for me was now dead, empty.  It had lost its meaning.  This change happened slowly as dolls were replaced by The Beatles, 'The Man From UNCLE' and giggling phone calls with girlfriends. A phase of my life dropped away with little to no regret.

How many changes happen like this in our lives that we don't even notice?  We're filled with desire and then it is filled and quickly we lose interest in whatever it was.  It becomes old or isn't as great as we imagined so desire finds a new target and we move on.  I even noticed this as a child when I saw that I immediately lost interest in the presents I had so wanted.

Sometimes, however, the object of our desire has staying power...like my home.  It becomes a safe haven and statement of my 'being' in the world.  Years of renovating and upgrading deepened the roots I laid here.  When I moved in with my husband years ago I said the only way I would leave is feet first.  Only death do us part.  I thought that would be true of both the husband and this house.  As the husband left 11 years ago I turned to the house as my solace and reward.  Losing it meant I'm a loser, that I'd failed the game of life.

Well, how silly is that?

Here's sillier...I only just realized what kind of commitment I'd made to this external reality when I remembered my Barbie Doll condo.  Even though I'm well versed in many of the spiritual teachings on attachment and letting go and have dared see myself as a spiritual coach or teacher, once again I'm humbled by my own limitations, beliefs and stories.  I see I still need to move beyond the ideas I was fed about what success looks like and what winners and losers look like.  I like to pretend otherwise but I know I have a deeply competitive nature and I like to win!  I wanted to prove to my family I wasn't the poor cousin.  At the same time I'm a big maverick and don't want to play by the rules.  Those of you who know me well are grinning or laughing saying "Well 'duh', Sherry.... no surprise there."  Those choices have created an interesting life.  A life with very little ground or security many have built by this age in life.  I tease that it's very Buddhist of me, very little ground.  Pema Chodren's Comfortable With Uncertainty is beside my bed always!

So with joy I tell you that realizing I no longer needed the Barbie Doll Condo made letting go of this beautiful home and this life style easier. I'm letting go of the ground I've been clinging to and it feels so good.  I know many of you find it hard to see me let go of this place.  It's become a spiritual home for us together.  There may still be moments of grief coming but something seems to have deeply shifted.  There's a sweetness and ease returning for me that has been long absent.  I'm so grateful for this!  I'm enjoying my moments here again where before they felt like anguish or stress.  Thank you, Barbie, for helping me out!  Barbie!  She is the perfect example.  I think you understand why without my explaining. Thank you, Universe, in all your wisdom for guiding me to see this.  I am so grateful!  yes, a little embarrassed but very grateful!  I love you Universe and I love you all!!

Thursday, July 3, 2014

Amma silenced me.  One hug and the day was quiet and soft...open.  Driving home from DC there was no tension as the traffic slowed.  I watched almost at a distance but more here and now than I have ever been...or so it seemed yesterday.  Today my monkey mind reappeared and chattered away at me.  My heart still feels velvety soft.  In my ear Amma said, "my daughter, my daughter my daughter."  I wept.  Missing you Mom!  It was so deep and so simple.  Her hug took away desire and gave peace.  I've often been a proponent of desire feeling a bit angry at practices that deny it or make it wrong.  It's clear now that desire is not full of peace.  That is neither wrong or right it just is.  The silence I lived yesterday was not full of desire...just peace.  What an amazing 'let go'.  More please! <3


Monday, June 30, 2014

What a whirlwind of activity recently.  So delighted to have my lower level complete after the sump pump flood on April 30th.  It's been very quiet work wise and I realized that I had not published an add for June on Baltimore Backpage.  Oops!   The basement work made my schedule very sketchy anyway.  I've had the house off the market since 5/1/14 and will be re-listing it this week.  Patti Hawse and I christened the new basement rooms with her Shamanic Journey last Friday and my new class called The Colors of 'I Love You'-Navigating Relationship and Spirit.  6 of us attended and it was a very deep and sweet experience.  Here's the outline of the class:

We are born dependant and need others to care for us so we can survive. Our first bonding to the 'other' begins here. A kind of love is born mixed with dependence and need. Many of us (most?) seek this same kind of nurturing bond in our adult relationships. Can we separate love from need? Can we navigate the bonds we form with others in healthy awareness and grow into deeper intimacy, loving ourselves and the other? On the spiritual path many traditions look at intimate bonding as a stumbling block. Is it or is it the greatest opportunity we have to grow into deeper love and awakening? Let's gather together and share our experience of love, relationship and spirit. We'll look at the many definitions of love and then how each of those touch us personally. I'll offer the All Love meditation to open our hearts along with a safe Tantric exercise to deepen our experience. Come join us and see what unfolds. Together we may find a path to deeper love.

Check out the new look of the basement classroom!  Whoot!
 

The weekend before I was in Blacksburg, Virginia with Patrick Zeigler for his All Love 2 day class.  What a joy to see him again and dive back into such love!  I realized my love for him as a friend, teacher and healer is a big emotional trigger.  The class works to touch the depths of emotion to open the doors to the direct initiation that comes in.  I was surprised to find this trigger point that can easily sent me into deep sobs over fearing losing him.  He has a process where each of us experiences our own deaths and meets the one who greets us on the other side.  I have done this twice and it has both times been Patrick.  I told him he could not die before me!  He said 'no promises'.  Since it is good to find a path to the depths of my emotions I am grateful for this trigger.  If it needs healing it will come.  Here's a sweet picture from the Blacksburg weekend of the mischievous nature of my Beloved Friend Patrick!






I keep learning new things each time I attend a class.  I'll be offering an All Love Weekend here in Towson, MD on July 19th and 20th, 2014 from 10am to 6pm for $275.  Give me a call at 410-598-1010 or email me at sherrytuegel@verizon.net if you'd like to attend.  Check my website at www.body-beloved.com or all-love.com for lots more info on All Love.

Tomorrow I'm heading to DC to get my first hug from Amma.  See amma.org about her amazing life and work. I've wanted to have this sweet connection for a long time and this appears to be the year!  Whoot!  More about that when I get back.

So my Beloveds, I hope you are unfolding in more and more joy each day.  It seems many of us are running through some big roller coasters of emotions and overwhelm.  Treat yourself gently as the summer offers you more opportunities to clear yourself out and be in nature.  Remember to stop and take some deep full breaths while you're outdoors in the lush green spaces!  Sending you my love!  More soon! 

Here is the past blogs from 2009 to 2014.  Enjoy!



I'm Back!  Posted by Sherry Tuegel at 2/24/2014 11:36 AM 
I'm Back!

After hiding out and licking my wounds for a few weeks I'm returning to the real world and to teaching again! I did get the amazing pleasure of teaching at Winter Karmafest Lecture Series and Show on February 8th and 9th. What a joy that was. It was in my Enlightenment Activation Class that I once again touched the deep joy in me. I'm so very grateful to Patti Hawse, KarmaFest originator and owner, for making that possible along with the 20 shining souls that came to share the energy on that reawakening day for me! Thank you all!

It's been interesting to watch myself deal with the quiet that surrounds me these days. I play a lot of Sudoku and Solitaire or get sucked up into Facebook. Those activities are feeling less and less soothing as I realize the quiet is not my enemy but my friend. I've dropped so many of my definitions of myself...many more to go, and this deepens the silence in my life. I teach that we need to make friends with the deep emptiness in us and I'm so much a 'run screaming from it' kind of a girl. LOL! As I say often...I teach what I need to learn! I am starting to move back into a deeper meditation practice. I have been making my daily life my meditation by stopping to breath and become present throughout the day. Sitting for 15 to 60 minutes has been on a back burner for quite a while. I realized I needed this longer sitting again. It's been years since I sat for an hour...starting with 15 to 20 minutes was my goal. It was delightful to watch myself walk into the room with misery moving along with me and the minute I sat down to meditate a smile moved onto my face. And why had I waited so long???? LOL! The 20 minutes disappeared before I knew it with stillness and peace arriving very quickly that day. I still need to get into the daily practice but am delighted to be moving in that direction!
Send love and energy to me to get my ass in gear to finish the book I've begun. I think you'll all find it fun and hopefully heart opening to read. There are juicy tidbits from my Tantric explorations along with highs and lows of my journey toward awakening. Here's a little preview:

~'I listened to the soft regular sound of his breath blending with the quiet chanting, Jai Jai Om Jai! Wrapped gently in the crook of his arm I gazed across his chest watching the multicolored prayer flags flap in the air conditioning. His golden tan made the thick dark hair on his chest stand out in the late afternoon sun. Our time together was ending and he would be off into his own world again and I into mine. The intimacy we shared would dissipate into the next moment of living. Hopefully the bliss of being in each new moment would grow in him and unfold more of his days in joy. ' ~

Whadda ya think???? :O)
I hope you'll come share my next class on the last day of this month. I decided to celebrate my return to joy as we let go of the snow and embrace the nearing of Spring. Here it is:

All Love Enlightenment Activation Class
Friday, February 28, 2014
7:30pm-9:30pm (May run later)
Fee: $35

I'm still creating my March calendar and will be back in touch soon. It's good to be back from hibernating!

Discussing Porn on Facebook  Posted by Sherry Tuegel at 1/22/2014 1:14 PM

Sex is a powerful and confusing thing for our society.  The prohibitions about it are ancient.  Those prohibitions have, in whole or part, created things like porn. We humans exploit ourselves and each other in so many ways.  We're lost in our heads and disconnected from our hearts.  I've been in a sex positive community for several years now.  Most of them don't view porn the same way "polite society" does.  I partially agree.  Anything can be misused and exploited.  Some porn is what I'd call vile while other porn is funny and erotic. There are men and women in the porn industry that are being exploited and some who say they do the work happily.  I don't know what is true and it may change moment to moment.  I work with sacred sexuality, seeing sex as a sacred expression and another way to heal.  Does this mean that some consenting sex is not sacred?  I face my own biases and prejudices with sex as I learn more and more of my limits and my openness to different sexual views.  The porn industry may serve a positive purpose at times...odd as that is to say.  It may be rare but in some instances porn could be less black and white exploitive as it seems.  Feel into what is triggered in you as you look into this sexual issue.  Can you imagine that it is not as clearly wrong as you think?  Can you imagine that some of it could serve a healthy or healing purpose?  Could some of it be art?  Some say any nude painting or picture is porn.  I doubt any of you reading this would agree with that.  I pray that any soul captured in the sex industry unwillingly is set free and that the shadow of the industry is exposed and healed.  I hope our society is healed of its' powerfully negative view and limiting view of sex.  We've made tremendous strides in my life time but we have a long way to go!



Uncomfortable dreams last night reflected the complaining place I've been in lately. Years ago I took a gratitude class and we had to go on a complaint fast.  It kicked my ass and also made me conscious how much of our day to day conversation is about complaining.  I want to complain about all the complaining - funny and so mirror reflective.  I spent over a year complaining about my young wild unpredictable lover recently.  When I realized what I'd been doing I was so embarrassed.  Humbled.  In the class I was taught that complaining releases energy without moving or resolving anything.  We stay in the same place while we make someone else wrong.  This complaining place in me needs to be dug into to see what's underneath.  What first comes to mind is fear and anger about my life situation.  My comfort zone is blown.  The walls of my comfortable prison, or quote Mark Nepo: 'fish tank', have dropped and I'm terrified to step out into the unknown.  All my bad habits are confronting me so I want an outside target to blame.  I talked with my dear friend/teacher Patrick Zeigler and he told me I was miserable because I was in judgment.  At first I heard it as judgment of others and then it became clear the one I was judging was myself.  Okay...and everybody else too.  Easier to point the finger at someone else.  So I have not been loving toward myself or others recently.   I've been loosing my sense of humor too.  So it's time to laugh and love more, love all of me and you...not just the easy parts.  I've been telling myself unhappy stories and resisting the truth of my uncertainty, my groundlessness.  Sharing this is helping me embrace it - at least in this moment.  Life seemed easier when I could just blame everybody else.  Rats!   Just kidding.  I love you!  I love me!  And I take a breath and begin again. 

Happy New Year!  Posted by Sherry Tuegel at 12/30/2013 12:03 PM



Breathe in the gifts of 2013,
the broken  and the exalted moments, the turmoil and the peace.
Breathe out the gratitude for this year of change and transformation,
challenge and ease.
Breathe into the Love that is here now
and Always!
Breathe out Love into the world!
May 2014 bring you great peace, ease and delightful awakened moments with each precious breath you take!

Loving you!
Did you get the license plates of the trucks that just ran over me?  I've been less in touch here due to all the changes in my life.  I'm moving in and out of a state of overwhelm as I face this unfolding.   Since July I've let go of my sweet  13 and 19 year old pups, ended my relationship with my lover and now I'm selling my beautiful home.  I'm still reeling with all these changes.  My life is so quiet it has an echo to it.  There are days when I sink into stillness and quiet like a hot tub and other days when I run screaming from the emptiness. 

 I watch myself and this monkey mind trying to figure out how to solve this "problem".  Monkey mind thinks I'm losing at the game of chess.  It keeps looking at all the pieces and can't figure out which move is next.  I had a few sleepless nights when I first realized the choice facing me was sell or not meet my monthly bills.  I know I'm not alone in facing these challenges.  I'd always thought I'd catch up with myself without having to sell but that door seems closed now.   I'm still open for a money miracle so I can stay here and willing to make that miracle through the house sale as well.

I like telling the story that the Universe has better plans for me elsewhere.  I realize those plans are up to me, as is my acceptance or lack acceptance and surrender to whatever comes.  I continue to want to serve Unconditional Love and Spirit as best I can and surrender to that, beyond what I believe or project that means.  I have a sticker on my refrigerator that seems more and more appropriate:
Let Go or Be Dragged

I'm so aware that my resistance to what is and my clinging and attachment are causing my pain.  Part of me says, "Yeah?  So what!  F**k you and your Buddhist ideology!"  Oh, I forgot...that was before I evolved.  Oops. 
Really though, I've always felt we come into this human game to become attached and to dive into the juiciness of our pleasure and pain.  So I've got some real juiciness right now.  In
knowing that attachment is not a bad thing but a healthy human reality I also know there are healthy and unhealthy kinds of attachment. Obviously I seesaw back and forth on this measure.  Being attached also teaches us to let go and accept what is or we'd all be Buddha.  Learning that takes time and a big spoonful of self love through the process!  It's hard right now for me to drop out of the past/future mind game into the present moment.   The contrast of my life and my clinging to past structures and supports as they fall away is kicking my ass.  As I've said time and time again...I teach what I need to learn.  So I've worked not to be a whiney miserable friend while still leaning on my Beloved Others as I move through this scary time.  Thank you all who have been there for me...especially through my miserable whining!

I've been feeling so very vulnerable and at risk, more than I've felt in a very very long time.  I've felt shame about my position, especially with my family.  Me, who teaches to let go of shame.  ACK!  I'm humbled by this turn of events.  Looking at the contrasts and tragedies others suffer, I know how very blessed I am even amid this difficult period.  Knowing that does give me perspective and reminds me to be grateful.  I'm offering grateful for the ease in my life and even these life challenges.   The last time I faced a major shocking upheaval in my life was 10 years ago when my husband left me for another woman.   I didn't know how I would survive.  From here I see it was the turning point that propelled me into great joy and growth beyond anything I could have imagined. 

So I'm curious what The Beloved has in store for me now.  Here is the poem I shared 10 years ago with my friends.

The Guest House by Rumi translated by Coleman Barks

This being human is a guest houses.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
Some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,

who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.


So dear one, I remain curious at what new delight I'm being emptied for.   There's part of me excited about what lies ahead...when I'm not trembling in fear.  I hope you'll stay connected as this venture unfolds.  Hold me in the Light with love and prayers as I also will hold you.

If you or a friend are interested in this beautiful well loved home surrounded by trees please give me a call at 410-598-1010.  I'm asking $449,000 and really wanting tree huggers who will protect and love my 1 1/4 acre full of standing people (trees)! 

Love Musings  Posted by Sherry Tuegel at 8/28/2013 3:03 PM


Can we love so completely, so unconditionally that we fully let go of any clinging and accept any outcome lovingly?  Have you experienced that kind of love, the love that has no need other than to be received? 

I want to learn to love so fully that I can include all outcomes, life or death, loving the dark and the light..Loving it all.  From the seed of God that love is born, the God of unconditional love; so vast...so prevailing...so fine it seems illusive and unattainable.  Unattainable because I want to run from that level of acceptance and love.  My human judgment balks at such ideas.  My humanness runs from a Divine Love that embraces the All, loving all outcomes unconditionally.  That love is so bright it blinds me.  I want to look away, avoiding the very thing I'm truly seeking and longing for.  It's a love that demands dropping all need.  I'm more comfortable with my needy co-dependent love.  It's safer and easier to hold because unconditional love cannot be held.  It's like a wave, a flow of the Divine moving through me, us.  It is the open heart without demand.  I want to risk loving that much!  I want to risk being blinded by the Truth of Unconditional Love.  I believe I'll discover that I've been truly blind living without it.  All Love!

Thanksgiving Musing  Posted by Sherry Tuegel at 12/10/2012 12:01 PM 
This is my November Thanksgiving newsletter post:

'I am delighting in the season today, looking forward to Thanksgiving with friends tomorrow.  Last year I was in a contracted fearful state about finances struggling with the Holidays.  I just wanted to cancel everything and hide.   It's such a gift to be in such a different space now.   Looking back on that time I feel  relief that I survived my own bad attitude. 

So today and for this season I am doing a gratitude practice for all my blessings and all my challenges.  Facing loss and pain has been a big teacher and though I certainly prefer the delightful blessings of love and joy much better, I know the dark colors have painted a picture with depth.  As you sit at your Thanksgiving feast tomorrow consider all the blessings, even the ones that pushed you to grow.

Here's the view from where I sit to write to you.  I'm delighted to my plants indoors for the winter.  They keep getting bigger and bigger and are beginning to be like a little indoor forest.  They are good company for me!  :O)'
-o-

I hope your Thanksgiving was sweet and you're enjoying this Holiday season. 
Many Blessings!

I Finally Got It!  Posted by Sherry Tuegel at 12/9/2012 6:23 PM

I published this in my October 2012 newsletter.  Be sure to go to my Homepage on this website, www.body-beloved.com and click the "Join Now" button if you would like to start receiveing my newsletters with updates and specials.

I finally got it!

You know I'm a work in progress and usually teach the very thing I need to learn.  Once again life has poked me with a stick to show me where changes need to be made. 

I was sitting at one of my favorite lunch spots, Italian Garden, and found a letter from the Director of Finance in my bag I hadn't opened.  I opened it and my hands began to shake as sweat broke out on my forehead.  I was staring dumbstruck at an $800+ over due tax bill.  Fear and overwhelm rocketed through me.  I was fully in panic mode trying to figure out how this could be right.  Why had they disallowed all my deductions?

Then it happened... I asked myself what the hell was I doing.
"It's only m..m..m..money" I heard from the movie 'Scrooged'. 
My account was already getting lower than my comfort zone but I did have the money to pay the bill if I had to.

In that moment I realized I was telling myself the story of doom.  All that had happened was I got a letter that might mean I owe more money than I thought.  Scenes of fighting on the phone with bored unhelpful government employees danced in my head,  (I think I'd prefer sugar plums), along with a cascade of financial ruin that could follow.  I chose to stop myself from panicking, stop my shaking and resolve that it was indeed only money and I would handle it not matter what.  I knew reacting in panic wasn't going to fix anything and it could make things much worse.  If I go in and act like an angry victim on the phone I'm lots less likely to get the help I need in resolving my problem.  I also watched the sickness in my body that the panic brought in.   I knew it was the 'stories' in my head about the future 'what ifs' triggering me.  I had seen how these stories made me sick in the past and I was going to choose a different experience this time.  And I did!  I chose to have a nice lunch and get over it.  I knew I would handle it! 

I actually ended up weeping with gratitude for the lesson and that I could stop my panic and choose another way.  Delightedly my one call to the State immediately resolved the issue and they are correcting the tax return.  No more $800 tax bill but a giant lesson in return. 

I still watch myself create scenarios of disaster in my head, especially about finances.  When I catch myself living in ugly future stories I stop and take a breath.  I feel my body.  I feel the air around me and I come into the present moment.  This moment with all its' juicy 'now'ness has more sweetness than all the stories in my head.  Now is not always fun or easy but it gets lots easier without the ugly stories I tell myself. 

So...I finally got it!  Hopefully I'll remember it!!!!

The rest of the story...

Since I wrote and published this article I had the delight of receiving a check in excess of $700 from the State.  They recalculated and realized I actually overpaid them.  Whoot!  So since the day I stopped my panic and decided I would handle whatever came up I've repeatedly had financial windfalls and increasingly good income.   It's amazing what a change of attitude can make.  May we all find ways to let go of our fears and live in the love that just waits for us.  Love to All!
A Cowboy Named Misery  Posted by Sherry Tuegel at 8/26/2012 12:39 PM
I’ve recently had a rather big turn around that both amuses and at some level aggravates me.  The aggravations and amusement come from the fact that I often teach this and I “should know better!”   To be dramatic or poetic…. I had a cowboy named ‘Misery’ riding me hard with his spurs cutting deep into my sides.  I was bruised and bleeding out my vitality from this savage ride.  I finally threw him off my back and promised to stomp him if he came back!

Why did the cowboy get on?  I created him with the stories I was telling myself.  I’ve been exhausted and having more body pain in the last few months with seemingly increasing body challenges.   I realized I was telling myself it was all downhill from now on.  I created the story that my life would only be filled with more of what was occurring now.  This increased the pain and discomfort that was usually fleeting into a self fulfilling deepening tragedy.   With that story playing in my head I was trapped on this self imposed miserable ride.

It was amazing how quickly my energy and joy came back when I realized with chagrin what I had been creating for myself.  Doing a sitting with Saniel Bonder and his process, Waking Down in Mutuality (WDM), recently helped shine the light onto what was happening.  Saniel teaches that we have a core wound in our limitations as a finite being in a body.  We are vulnerable and accepting that reality  does not keep us from pain.  Pain and vulnerability are part of this experience.  The trick, he points out, is to not compound it.  I was compounding the real pain with a story about what is happening or will happen.  I dug a deeper hole to live in.  

I have become a fan of WDM in their full embrace of this world and beyond. They seem to fully embrace Oneness and Non Duality while embracing duality and ego as a part of the play of our embodied reality.  That is what I understand is the Tantric path although they do not call it that.  http://www.wakingdown.org/   They brought to my attention how, at some level, I was denying the darkness and ‘core wound’ this life presents.  I can fall into the “airy fairy” new age ‘it’s all good’ philosophy that seems to deny the reality of pain and suffering that exists in this mortal life.   In looking at this now, I think it was my over reaction.  I was working to not be lost and over whelmed by the truth of pain and suffering that exists in my life and in the world.  It helped me stop the stories of dread and disaster that would rise up in me but used the same misguided technique of telling a story to stop that process.  The honesty and rawness of just being in the moment with whatever is unfolding was missed.  Every moment is new.  My stories have kept me from that truth.  I teach breathing into the moment.  Too bad I don’t live there more!

I still am a bit devoted to some of my stories.  I’d like to think only the happy pretty ones but I know better.  I continue to peel away the dross and work to stay more and more present.  I don’t know what it’s like to live without a story.  Maybe that’s what ego is all about, My Story.  Oddly and delightedly WDM embraces the ego.  They encourage healing and maturing the ego.   So what does that mean?  To me, it means catching the stories and being able to enjoy them at some level while also knowing how to let them go or have them in perspective.  This is a truth I’ve lived with for some time before finding WDM.  I may be projecting that view onto them.  We shall see as I spend more time in their “mutuality”.  :O)

Several teachers have put it this way.  When you go to a movie you know it’s just light projected on a screen.  It isn’t real.  It’s a story.  But my Beloved teacher Arjuna Ardagh points out, why would you pay your money and not enjoy the experience?    So, can I get fully involved in My Story while still remembering it’s a story I mostly made up?  That’s tricky and surprisingly challenging on a moment to moment basis!  I also can see that these stories truly do create our lives and our experience.  As Mike Dooley says; “Thoughts become things.  Choose good ones!”   As I get up once again from the floor where I have thrown myself, I wonder what stories I’ll dance or fall with today?   I continue to be amused and aggravated that I get thrown by the very things I teach others.  

Just call me Sherry Chagrin.    

Excavating the Heart  Posted by Sherry Tuegel at 4/14/2012 10:13 AM
Beloved XTC encouraged me to begin to share the dark path I have walked and get more honest about the ongoing struggles I face each day as I stumble on rejoicing or bitching as the case may be.  And so I begin...


on February 23, 2012:

Writing through my heartbreak and longing, I see the words fall in raw sweetness on the page.  They start to chisel an opening through my pain. The sharpness of the pain is my real beginning.  I'm so hardened over and protected.  Breaking through the concrete of my defense is jarring.
                                                           
The pain falls off in chunks spraying the dust of the past in the air to choke me.  I can barely breathe as more and more debris fills the air.  Gray and uncertain I lose myself in my imagined fog.

Under all that concrete my vulnerable open heart sits waiting to be free again, waiting to expand wider than the Universe.  Inside that vulnerability is a fearless loving consciousness at ease with what is, patiently waiting to be discovered again and again as I get lost in my concrete, my stories...even my excavation.

This excavation distracts me, becoming just one more story in a long line of tales, both real and imagined.  Needs and wants unfulfilled become new wounds, pouring fresh thick grayness to enclose my already captured heart.              

I suffocate in my rigidity.  I choke in my way, my wants, my demands.
                                                                                               I want to die...
                                                                                                                  to escape.

Spewing my 'adult' temper tantrum;
                                                           Why be human?!?
                                                                                    Why be in a body?!?
                                                                                                          WHY?!?!

My loneliness and fear turns into my raging angry child.
                           Dreams of screaming at others to "get out!" begin.

         I am raging inside and pretending all is OK outside.

My pretense is a thin veneer covering my neediness, my chaos, and my terrifying fear.

And then there's this other space inside me, always watching; seemingly at rest, empty, and wide open.

I don't really want the story of this life to be over.  Just as I don't want the story of my intimacy with XTC to be over.  I don't want this lifetime to end...not yet.
                                                                                                            More please!
I continue to excavate my heart and hopefully not get so lost doing so.  

                                                                             So where is my jackhammer?  

Praise and Blame  Posted by Sherry Tuegel at 12/3/2011 11:41 AM
When do we start living what we speak, teach or know.  I have known for years not to take things personally and I’ve been unable to live that knowledge in tough moments.  I certainly love to take compliments personally but in doing so I invite in scorn and blame.  The Tao says in creating beauty we create ugliness.  So it is with praise and blame.  This is the realm of opposites and everything in between.  I’m hoping I’ve moved a little further away from the extreme opposites with praise and blame, neither craving one nor collapsing with the other.  This weekend I was once again challenged with taking someone’s actions as a personal insult or letting them go as just their actions and having nothing to do with me.  A few moments were spent brooding with the pain of the actions and how they affected my life.  Then I was pleased to see an opening and lifting of the hurt.  I knew I was projecting a story onto his actions that had nothing to do with me.  Inconvenient as his behavior may have been to my projected plans I was able to know I was taking it personally and pull back from anger and negative reactions.  Wow!  Now what will happen next time.  It almost feels like a switch has gone off.  I like that story!  We shall see when once again I am disappointed or blamed….or praised.  One day at a time!  And so it goes!


Dancing With The Lost Child  Posted by Sherry Tuegel at 9/15/2011 8:47 AM
The reflection of my own fear and pain sat in his eyes.  I was torn open and tendrils attached to my heart. The illusionist in him opened the doors to show me exactly what he needed me to see.  I was swept into Neverland, my own lost child running and playing with his.  What an amazing ride!  I was never much of a camper so I did not choose to make Neverland my home.  I longed for civilization and the comfort of the familiar.  Still there are days I long for the excitement and uncertainty of my Beloved Pan, never knowing what Peter, Tink or Captain Hook will do next.  He became them all and more.

His dark eyes and mischievous smile enchanted me but his warm inviting sensual embrace remains unforgettable.  There are those who can embrace you with their bodies and some who embrace you with their whole beings.  Pan was one of those amazing creatures.  His embrace was not only of the body but of the soul.  Union was a familiar and hungered for dance in him.  He reflected my own hunger for that sweet merging, beyond one, beyond two, fully into All. 

I was not his only Wendy.  He has many.  It seems only right to share the joy and pain.  And there was much pain.  As the delightful illusion wore off, the reality of illness and lostness became more and more apparent in both of us.  He mirrored all my childish lost demands and desires.  It was time for Wendy to grow up even if Pan could not.  I left him in Neverland hoping he would someday come join me in the real world.  I continue to hope he comes to find me here, for the loss of the Union is an ache in me I struggle to fill today.  In my solitary oneness I can allow merging with All and it is Complete, beyond sweet.  Yet in my duality, the longing for the dance with the Beloved Other into Union calls me back to Neverland.


 If only I could fly once again in the illusion Pan so masterfully wove.  Fly safe Beloved and if you ever become grounded in Truth, if you ever leave the illusion of Neverland, please come find me. I love you, Pan.  I always will. 
 
Posted by Sherry Tuegel at 9/15/2011 8:47 AM

The Beloved Other  Posted by Sherry Tuegel at 8/4/2011 9:54 PM
What we say about others is more descriptive of who we are than who they are.   As I write the stories of my life I recognize again and again how I am projecting a “story” about the characters there.  Certainly recently I have been immersed in the story of XTC.   Wild and unpredictable is the first brush stroke I would use on my painting of him, inadequate as that may be.  Learning to live with uncertainty and longing colors much of my experience during our time of relating.  I continue to both long for him and fear him now.  The stories I tell myself and others of the dance between us out-pictures who I am and may or may not reflect any real glimpse of the truth of who he actually is.  I cannot help but hear Byron Katie in my head, “I am whoever you project me to be.”

This falling in love thing is a real bitch and one of the most powerful roller-coasters we can ride in this embodiment.   I fell for XTC hard and am still “in need” of him.  In love is in need, no getting around it.  The bonding and attachment is powerful and uncontrollable, which makes it so exciting and so exasperating.  The intensity of my feelings for him kept me off my feet for the 8 or so months I was on again-off again with him. Yes, the off the feet, feet in the air part was seriously fun!  It is now off and may or may not remain so.  Everyday I consider contacting him in one way or another.  We are so different yet somewhere I project complimentary.  The sex was some of the most intimate and the most transcendent of my life.  Only my first husband could meet the depth of union I experienced from this self described Tantrika.  This part of the story keeps me linked and somewhat addicted to XTC, my projection of him.  Who was he really?  Who is he now?  We never really stay static…but do seem to get in ruts when we work at it.  I have been a master at recreating the same negative loops in my life.  I do worry that reconnection with Beloved XTC would recreate such a loop.

Greetings Again Beloveds,
This posting is more sexually explicit than those before so be forewarned if you do not wish to read such things.  I have a new friend and playmate that has rocked my world.  I’ll call him XTC here.  I met XTC at a party in May and was enchanted by his wild Mohawk do and sparking diamond earring set against his smooth ebony skin. I walked over to meet him and he purred up against me embracing and encircling me under his arm as “formal” greetings commenced.  His hand began to firmly caress my back as we stood comfortably entwined.  My knees went weak.   “The Goddess is pleased.” I cooed surprised at the hot rush of passion I felt pouring through me.  I would have thrown him on the floor then and there but it wasn’t that kind of party.  Before long he walked through my door for the first time.  I never thought a man could outlast me but this beautiful 35 year old has proven me wrong.  After 3 hours of unbelievable pounding sex I cried “uncle”!  I am someone who can spend hours in bed making love but I have never had a lover who can go on with such wild abandon for so long!  Afterwards I took two wrong turns trying to find the Towson Diner for our late dinner together.  The Diner is just around the corner from me!!!  XTC has mastered the ability of having orgasms without ejaculating and can stay hard for hours. My God, I have met Sting!   :O)    But that is not the part that really ignites me.  OK, yes, it has a big effect since I can barely walk or see straight afterwards but these delicious pleasures take a back seat to Presence. 

 XTC practices Yoga and meditates daily.  He understands that we are spirits in bodies and he understands deep silence.  In our first half hour of play and discovery we started breathing deeply in unison pulsing in rhythm with the penetration.  The intensity built with the breath and movement. Oneness blew us both wide open.  Boundaries dissolved, time dissolved, thought disappeared and Being emerged.  As I type this a silence of Being peaks through in this moment.  At dinner XTC looked at me with his coyly curious eyes and asked, “What was your favorite part?”  My first response was, “The moment when your heart opened and I could feel our hearts connect.” then, “Oh!  And that amazing blowing into Oneness with our breath!”  He had to prompt me to ask him his favorite moment since my marbles were still not back together.  He beamed and described the feeling of boundaries dissolving dropping us into Everything.  I praise this new Shiva that has entered my life.  I am honored and grateful to share this human experience with XTC for whatever time is ours to share.  Om Namah Shivah!  I praise the God within! 

XTC has given me the gift of experiencing fully what I guide my clients toward in my Tantra sessions, expanding beyond the consciousness of separation and merging into the Great Union.  You merge with Divine Being and see it reflected in your lover’s eyes.  Tan means expanded awareness and Tra is technique or tool.  Tantra as one word means ‘weave’, the weave of all life.   Many have wondered how I move through a session with my clients and it is time to share that here. 

You enter the Temple of the Goddess when you come for a Tantra session.  My home is Her Sanctuary.  I pray to the Divine Mother to guide me through each session and to attune it to your specific needs.  After you arrive we get to know each other a little and we discuss and clarify boundaries.  The Goddess donation covers the teaching shared and any sensual or sexual touch is between consenting adults.   You let me know your intention for the session, any special issues you wish to work on or clear.  I then guide you in a meditation to take you more deeply into your heart and body.  The mediation is profoundly relaxing and brings you into a state of peace and presence.  Many clients are amazed at the depth of well being they achieve in this short meditation.  We then do some gazing into each others eyes to connect at a heart and soul level, to see the Divine within the other.  After gazing and connecting I teach you ways to move energy in your body with breath, sound and movement that will expand the orgasmic experience beyond what is often called the ‘pelvic sneeze’.  Through using these techniques you can experience a full body orgasm and, as with XTC, blow into union with All!  

Then you move to the massage table to open your body to deeper pleasure with sensual touch.  All of the work is guided by your comfort level and the boundaries that are established at the beginning of the session.  I have had the delight of seeing one of my clients have a 15 minute orgasm because he watched his breath through the whole session.  It actually could have gone on longer but our time had sadly run out.  Breath is the key.  Try to experiment with it at home or work with a Tantrica to find out what you may have been missing.  Our bodies have so much more capacity than we could ever imagine.  It would be an honor to work with you in your explorations.  My Temple awaits.  Love and Blessings to All!

Belief Versus Knowing  Posted by Sherry Tuegel at 5/6/2010 8:31 PM

A dear new friend asked me recently what do I believe.  Here is my somewhat edited answer:
‘You asked me last night what I believe in.  I am letting go of belief moving into Knowing.   Belief comes from what others have told you; from socialization or indoctrination.  I Know I have a choice about how I will react to the world around me and whether I live being in my body and heart or in the constantly chattering monkey mind.  I Know wide open unending Consciousness.   I Know the power and full embrace of Unconditional Love.  I Know Loving Ones both in body and in spirit draw close to support me/us in this earthly journey.   If I have a religion it is Unconditional Love and Loving Kindness.  Thank you for asking.’    

Truthfully I am still full of belief but I’m working on letting go of those that limit or do not serve me.  I am grateful for the teaching of no right and wrong, it just is.  Accepting what is certainly takes a lot less energy than resisting it; good old Buddhist/Taoist no resistance, no clinging.  I know that there is something to the Buddhist teaching of ‘right action’.  One action will bring more heaviness and tension into your life while another will bring lightness, ease, an uplifting feeling inside.   I think Abraham Hicks talked about it as not paddling up stream. 

I see as I get older that I become more and more uncertain of anything.  Instead of this upsetting me it feels like a kind of freedom.  I depend more on the moment and less on planning and calculating.  I am learning to let go into the moment more and finding myself falling more into joy….when I ‘m not calculating and planning of course.  :O)

It is interesting to look at what I Know/believe now, although challenging.  My new friend who questioned me comes from a very traditional southern Christian upbringing.  He has witnessed demons being cast
out in church and speaks about people having “the anointing”.   He seems very devout in many ways along with being very untraditional.  He has said to me that if the Truth is something other than what he has believed he wants to learn and grow into that.  It is a joy and a challenge getting to know him since his belief structure triggers many of my old ways of thinking/believing. These old beliefs come with a “gonna get ya” attached, a wrathful God.  Fear based beliefs are the opposite of where my heart takes me.

I began with a rather open Quaker upbringing, drifted into a ‘Bible beating' stage where I would recommit myself to Jesus on every other Sunday at the Baptist church across from our Quaker Meeting.  I was one of the leaders of a small ecumenical Christian group and would preach from the pulpit there.   I had a very personal relationship with Christ and would allow the words I spoke from the pulpit to channel through me.  Although most of the other leaders would speak of right and wrong, heaven and hell, my messages always spoke of God’s love.  I never dealt with evil or the wrath of God.  I feared it existed as I feared many things then.  Even back then fear seemed the wrong direction and certainly never arose during the channeling that came through me.  Only the promise of God’s love and forgiveness or the plea to love one another rang through.  As I remember the times I channeled God’s message I would often feel a rising up of love that almost overpowered me.  It echoes some of the Tantra and Kundalini experiences I have felt recently.   

I am delighted to say I have discarded most of the fear based beliefs and enjoy being constantly curious at what is unfolding before me.  What I Know remains in the background.    I watch my monkey mind and then drop into my heart and feel Unconditional Love, abundance and loving kindness!   That is where I want to live.  


More Musings  Posted by Sherry Tuegel at 3/15/2010 6:11 PM
Greetings once again Beloveds.  I have been thinking of writing for a while and finally feel inspired to share a few stories with you.  Over the last 3 or 4 years I have heard from several intuitives that a book is on the horizon for me.  I like writing when I have a drive and passion behind my work.  I wrote one erotic story years ago as if I could not stop the flow onto the page.  It just had to come out of me. I think it was a good amusing story as well as erotic.  Much of it was taken from my actual experience including my first spontaneous orgasm in the middle of a popular chain restaurant.  That was a surprise!  These days I would not be so surprised, delighted yes…surprised no.
Recently I realized I was waiting to start because I did not have the end of the story.   Since I was going to once again use my life experience to base the work on I thought how funny that is.  I keep waiting to feel complete and accomplished…done.  LOL!    I wonder if even death affords us that kind of completion.  Since it is a bit hard to write a book after I’m dead I think I may try to start with what I have.  Otherwise I will have to be one more channeling spirit from the “other side”. 
This blog is providing me with a small beginning.  I also journal almost daily and have captured my many ups and downs as I stumble along rejoicing and/or bitching as the case may be.  My intention for a book is to let others know how powerfully rewarding and at times difficult or frightening the journey to the heart can be.  I hope to provide a story that opens the heart bringing the reader into the present moment...a place I have visited occasionally.  Maybe that is what I keep waiting for, a firmer foundation in the present moment.  This is a great excuse to keep me from writing but I think I am figuring out my undermining strategy.  
On other fronts, recently I had a client come see me that said he felt stuck.  He hoped working with me and learning some Tantra would open him up.  When I asked him how he described himself he didn’t know how to answer me.   I found this delightful.  He did not see himself as his name, his gender or his profession.  He was truly at a loss and I was very excited for him.  He sounded more unstuck than most folks I know, he just hadn’t seen it yet.  We talked about how one of the ancient roads to Enlightenment is the question, “Who am I? Who is asking that question?”, etc.    Although he did not have a solid definition of himself to entangle him, he did have stress built up from his work life.  Happily by the end of our session he told me he felt completely empty in a good way and deeply at ease.   Through the guided meditation, energy connection and sensual touch we both enjoyed spending time in the present moment.  I encouraged him to return and I watched myself almost clinging to this wonderful and successful session.  I saw my desire rise up to work with him again.  In a flash I was back in the past/future mind game.  I had to laugh at myself.  It is such a pleasure for me when someone comes looking for freedom, looking for a deepening in spirit.  I am happy and comfortable with those who come out of curiosity and/or pleasure alone but those who want to find a deepening in and through themselves really light up my world.  I am feeling gratitude warm my heart as I write this.  Thank You!
Lastly, I want everyone to know I recently found my soul mate.  It’s me.  Who knew?  I am not always the best company but I do have everything in common with me.  :O)   Most of the time I am easy to get along with.  Being polyamorous I’m still looking for friends to share experiences with and to share my life but I am working on developing the primary relationship, a more loving forgiving relationship with me.  
And so it goes for now.  Your thoughts and reactions are always welcome! 
Namaste’
November 2009 Reflections  Posted by Sherry Tuegel at 11/30/2009 10:14 PM

Watching the tide of thought and emotion as I play “Hide and Go Seek” with my True Self each day.  I’m reading Busting Loose From the Money Game by Robert Scheinfeld.  He has echoed so much of what I know/feel about this life game we all play.  He uses an Easter egg hunt as one of his allegories of the game.  I am not quite half way through it but I like the direction he is heading. 

It is fascinating to watch where I am now in contrast to the past.  Dancing with the sacred sexual has completely changed my life.  I feel more whole and grounded, more at ease with who I am even in the face of living so outside the box of society.   I did something very unlike me recently.  I said no to a charming sexy young man who wanted to date me.  He found me through my website and contacted me first to set up an appointment and then asked if I would consider meeting him and getting to know him personally. I met him for a lunch after a phone call or two.  I could feel his attraction to me and his caring interest but I could also see how we are too different.  I am not looking for a clone of myself but I am looking for a soul who has traveled the spiritual/energy transformational path and can share that journey with me.  I felt I would be in the role of the teacher and if that is the case he is welcome to see me professionally and then maybe a friendship can bloom.  I could hear and feel his disappointment and it was very hard having been in his position so many times myself. 

This is one of the first times I have said no to such interest having dated very little in the past.   I know this was the right decision but I have never liked or wanted to be saying no. I certainly have not liked hearing it regarding sexual emotional issues.  It was at a Tantra class that I realized I feared hearing no from men so much that I did not ask for what I wanted.  Something to definitely get over since there are many times when no is more kind and more appropriate than yes whether directed at me or another.  Also if you don’t ask for what you want you will be sure not to get it!  I have stopped playing it so safe that I went through life more dead than alive.  I truly have started living fully at the ripe age of 58!

I watch myself already missing this new fellow’s attention.  Interesting.  There is also the joy of getting to know someone new.  I brought a halt to that as well.  Even with my regrets I know it was the best thing for both of us.  He did remind me of my ex-husband.  My Ex is also a Virgo and a charming attractive younger man.  They are even close to the same age and have some of the same ethnic background. He was a wonderful partner in many ways through a tough time in my life but I never felt well matched to him.   Osho says you are always alone even when you are in a relationship.  My last marriage (I have had two) spoke volumes on that.  I never felt a good balance with him although he could be good company.  I now see myself looking for more of a shared experience.  I am also comfortable with not being in relationship.  My work gives me wonderful loving connections with good boundaries, odd as that may seem to some, that fills some of the drive I have had for relationship.  I like the ease this has created in me.      

It is strange, however, to have been so close to someone and have them drop entirely out of my life without the involuntary means of death.  So it is with my Ex and now my young lover (YL).  There are three women in this category also with two having been my choice to sever the connection.  I do have a “That’s Enough” button.  Once it is pushed I seldom look back.  It is hard for me to accept this complete ending with YL since I had always known it would end as a romance but thought the friendship would last a lifetime.  So much for my forecasting ability!  This is an echo of the hardest thing about my Ex leaving me for another woman; that I did not see it coming.  I lost faith in myself for a while after that.  There are those blinders in that game of life again.  That devastating time at the end of my second marriage opened the doors for the deep transformative work and the amazing joy I have experienced since.  It opened the doors to my delightful  Tantric journey.   Although I still grieve the empty space where YL used to be I also have such gratitude that it is empty.  That emptiness leaves room for other joys to come in and for me to go deeper into comfort with my aloneness, something I had fought tooth and nail in the past.  Thanks Osho and YL for guiding me to the Truth of what can be the delight of being alone.

So what has changed recently or what do I see differently?   I am indeed more comfortable with my aloneness and even my increasing isolation from society.  When I have a day with no friends in it I can accept the time alone with more grace. I am one of those people who both crave being with others and then craves alone time.  Both are a must for me.   Working with the Sacred Sexual I find myself very fulfilled sexually and more at ease with my totality, enjoying my self pleasuring and the attention given to me from my clients.  I no longer think they are lying to me when they tell me how beautiful I am. 

At the recent family gathering I watched myself go into self loathing again about not being the right size to be acceptable.  I grew up with beauty queens and cheerleaders.  My body type never fit that style.  I am here to say you do not have to fit that style to be adored by men.  The one likely pre-requisite is to adore yourself first.  Standing in my power and channeling the Divine Mother has opened this self love and the adoration I receive from others.  I bask in this loving worship but am careful not to take all the credit.  I am a mirror to their own delight, their own beauty, their own joy…as they are to me.

I remember how angry and hurt I was when I was praising my Reiki Master and he would deflect my adoration.  I am lovingly accepting their love and worship while watching that I do not take their power from them or try to elevate myself above them.  Some Goddesses do have “slaves” and I find that the opposite of what Tantra is about.  It is a dance of equals, a dance of the God and Goddess.  A few have raised me up into an elevated position and those who do seem to need a placeholder until they can see they are strong enough to become “That” themselves.   I will be their placeholder until they can see that what they are projecting on me is in their own hearts,  is indeed their True Self.  We are all Gods here playing “Hide and Go Seek” with ourselves.  I am honored to play in this game and to dance with others as they play along.
And so it is.
Just Today  Posted by Sherry Tuegel at 11/4/2009 10:26 PM
Greetings Beloveds,
I am sitting in my big gold chair in my living room after a lovely day at home.  I have had one wonderful client come by today.  It is a joy to meet new people and share the healing of this work with them.  I put my Real Estate license in referral in September and have had an abundant practice since.  Adding Tantra and the Sacred Sexual into the work I do with clients has deepened and expanded the sessions I provide and the joy I feel in my work.  My returning clients give me great joy as I see them dive deeper into themselves and the delight of being alive in a body.  I am humbled to be a part of their transformational journey.  In the future I will tell some stories that may or may not have anything to do with reality.  This will keep everyone's confidentiality and allow me to share healing transformations here. 
On a person note, as the weather gets darker I find myself wanting to retreat and hibernate, as one friend put it.  I ended my relationship with my young lover in October and am adjusting to the single life again.  I do have occassional playmates but he held the relationship space.  Even though he was in NYC he was a constant part of my day by phone, someone to always check in with.  That emptiness has been difficult and good.  As my dear friend and spiritual adviser Sherrie Dillard (www.sherriedillard.com) said; grieve and thrive.  I am doing just that.  I accept the dips of grief and allow the up swing of love that pours in when I go into stillness.  A trip south would be nice and I am thinking of a small vacation maybe over Christmas if not before.  In the meantime I vacation in my heart...dropping down into the Bliss of Being that resides there always.  May your Fall be Blissful!  Enjoy the silences that arise.
All Love!

All Love Reflection  Posted by Sherry Tuegel at 7/15/2009 10:02 PM
I am reeling from the heart opening experience with my Beloved teacher and friend Patrick Zeigler.  His weekend class here at my house turned into a 4 day class, adding 2 days of teaching for those who plan to teach this powerful work.  There was so much transformation, so much Divine energy that broke the shell off my heart.  I felt blocked in the lower body again and again I cried and wailed as the source ot the pain emerged to tear me wide open.  I write this with a vulnerable and open heart, feeling the support of the community of love that aways exists and was reflected in the amazing souls that dove into the weekend with me.  Thank you my Beloveds, Thank you Beloved!  All Love!

Getting Excited  Posted by Sherry Tuegel at 7/2/2009 5:19 PM
Delighted that Natalie and Donna have commented on my blog!  Now to figure how to get those comments posted.  :O)  It has been a good day so far.  I finally got back to the pool and walked and swam for 45 minutes.  The work feels good in my body and other than the smell of chlorine it is a delightful sensual experience.  Getting excited that Patrick will be here soon and I have begun to get ready for the July 10-13th class. There is still lots of room for those interested!  :O)  As I get more and more comfortable with the new work i am doing I will write more about it here.  Working with the Sacred Sexual can be challenging as well as delighful!  I do look forward to the day when selling Real Estate is a thng of the past.  Now to figure out how to create a paid link to my writings about my Tantra experieinces.  Some day there may be a book.  And so it goes...


Nudes - An Act in Self Love  Posted by Sherry Tuegel at 7/1/2009 8:41 PM
I am happy to say that after many years of therapy and spiritual work I am moving fully into loving myself.  My work is not done, however.  I still have areas where I resist loving myself completely and unconditionally, like the way I have rejected my body.  I want to love and accept her just as she is, even as she inevitably changes.  I am challenged by her size and shape and the sagging reality of aging after years of trying to escape life using food and neglect.   Losing almost 30 pounds in 2008 has been a major step toward loving this body and taking better care of her.   Continuing this care is an evolving story that I do not know the ending to….beyond that it inevitably ends.  I intend that the story unfold full of unconditional love and joy.  I want that to radiate through me and to do that I continue to clean house.    In 2007 I did a workshop with Arjuna Ardagh at Omega Institute where he had us sit beside a pillow and place our animal bodies on the pillow to speak to us from its innate wisdom.  We would switch places as we assumed the role of our natural animal bodies and then our regular consciousness.  My body’s first statement to me was, “You tried to kill me.”  My response was, “I know, I am sorry.”  My second statement from my body was, “I am here for you no matter what.”  I wept.
I know my body deserves better from me than I have often given her.  I must fully love her as she is and take the steps to care and tend her with love and acceptance.  It is time to transform.  So I begin and continue in stops and starts.   I wish to give myself the gift of health and body ease while not rejecting the largeness of me, while not falling into the right/wrong of social conditioning that says I have to look a certain way to be acceptable.  The Universe has given me such gifts as I take this journey.  I have found an amazing young lover who sees me and accepts me as I am completely.  He does not look to change anything about me and in his love of my uniqueness I learn to give that to myself as well.  In intending more love for myself and taking actions toward that intention the Universe has given me a living example of unconditional love.  His care and delight for this body opens doors in my soul to let the light of more self acceptance in.   
When my friend told me of Susan Singer’s work I quickly accepted the chance to be photographed nude.  A little over a year ago I would have refused and avoided the truthful lens.    As I review the amazing pictures Susan has taken I revel in my enjoyment of this body I see so fully exposed.  She generously shared all of the pictures with me on disks so I can see each and every angle.  Some shots are certainly more becoming than others.  The hardest ones for me to see are of me standing where the realities of gravity decorate my body with sags and ripples.  I am still working on fully loving the sagging.  As I continue loosing weight the sagging will likely become more exaggerated.  Sometimes I see the fat laughing Buddha and smile thinking, I am that.  What Buddha will emerge next?  The roundness that I find becoming will diminish and I will need more acceptance of whatever emerges.  I work to accept what I am in each moment.   Susan’s camera gave me the opportunity to continue my journey of self love and acceptance. Her tender professionalism made the shoot easy and delightful. I am so grateful for this amazing experience.  Thank You and Bless You Susan!  
-February 2009