The Science of Sacred Sexuality Interview
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Francesca Gentille: (See her podcast on www.personallifemedia.com) Welcome to sex: Tantra and Kama Sutra, I’m your host Francesca Gentille, bringing you the soul of sex. And on today’s show we have Suzie Heumann. Suzie is the founder of Tantra.com, she’s an author, a film maker, an educator, an author of several amazing books like “The Everything Great Sex” book, “The Everything Kama Sutra” book and “The Rules of Love: The 64 Arts of the Kama Sutra” which is coming out this fall. One of Suzie’s specialties is the science of sacred sexuality and how it actually works in the body. Suzie, welcome. Suzie Heumann: Hello, Francesca, it’s nice to be here. Francesca Gentille: I wanted to just jump in right away with a little bit of the science of sacred sexuality. I love it that there can be a science behind it. What is one of your favorite things that you have learned about the science of sacred sexuality? Suzie Heumann: Well, I feel like I am just in the discovery process. I was trained in college as a biologist and I have followed the works of Dr. Beverly Whipple who wrote the first G-Spot book. She’s still doing research and it’s very productive and primarily on women’s sexuality and neurobiology research. I’m interested in Dr. Candace Pert who is a neurobiologist and the two of them are fueling an interest of mine because of my background in Tantra. My own personal work in Tantra, and what I have watched over the years in workshops and my understanding of it, is there is this sense of this coming together for me of understanding the background of why somatic exercises in the sexual psychosomatic Tantra world work. So I am investigating the background of the new discoveries in neurosciences of what causes those things so I can better understand and build upon my own practices, write more about the practices that work for people and give substance to why this is all working - why it’s worked for thousands of years. So for me, having this cognitive level of understanding, along with the fact that I am a very somatic person… Francesca Gentille: What does somatic mean? What do we mean by somatic. Suzie Heumann: Somatic means ‘in your body’, you learn in your body, you’re action orientated, you’re touch oriented, you’re often sexually orientated, you do things a lot with your intuitive body vs. say maybe an intellectual... Suzie Heumann: Somatic means ‘in your body’, you learn in your body, you’re action orientated, you’re touch oriented, you’re often sexually orientated, you do things a lot with your intuitive body vs. say maybe an intellectual. The easiest analogy is, say, an ...
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