David Deida - The Enlightened Sex Manual: Sexual Skills for the Superior Lover

Sexual Skills for the Superior Lover

"Quite simply, the best sex manual in print, for the enlightened, the unenlightened, and everybody in between."

- KEN WILBER, author of Integral Spirituality

"In the area of sacred intimacy, David Deida is holding alightning bolt. He sheds an astonishing light."

MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Author of A Return to Love

"David Deida's work is on the forefront of 21st-centuryconscious sexual love. I recommend this book with confidence."

CHARLES MUIR Author of Tantra: The Art of Conscious Loving

"What a treasure! I want to give this book to everyone I know!"

JENNY WADE, PH.D. Author of Transcendent Sex The secret to enlightenment and great sex is revealed to be one and the same in this groundbreaking manual for adventurous lovers. David Deida was trained for decades in the art of spiritual and sexual awakening. Now he presents the ultimate collection of skills for opening to the physical, emotional, and spiritual rewards of intimate embrace.

Provocative and direct, The Enlightened Sex Manual teaches you how to transform simple "skin friction" into the depths and embodiment of ecstasy; how to develop sexual abilities as gifts of heart rapture and bodily surrender; how to achieve the principal types of orgasm - and all their varieties; and much more.

For men and women, singles and couples of every sexual orientation, The Enlightened Sex Manual provides a complete program for sustaining "whole-body recognition of love's light" in the wild play of sexuality.

DAVID DEIDA is renowned for the trainings he offers around the world on spiritual growth and sacred intimacy. He has taught and conducted research at the University of California-San Diego School of Medicine, the University of California-Santa Cruz, Lexington Institute in Boston,

France. His books are published and include The Way of the Sua and Instant Enlightenment.

PRAISE FOR THE WORK OF DAVID DEIDA

"David Deida explains the heart and soul of a woman to men. As a woman,I've never felt so understood and validated. David's work is a key to helping men and women take their relationships one step further. Finally, aclear and brilliant guide to unraveling the mystery of relationships."

MARCI SHIMOFF Co-author of Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul

"David Deida's teachings on this central human concern, sexuality, emanatefrom a deeply trustworthy source. He has undergone his own rigorous training and practice, which manifests in precise, gentle, and thorough teachings.

Many spiritual traditions, including Zen, have excluded or marginalizedthe sexual experience. David's work fills this gap, and gives us a matureapproach for bringing the energetic, emotional, and physical experience ofsex into our life and practice. And like Zen, the fruition of David's work isopenness, compassion, and love."

GENPO ROSHI Author of The Eye Never Sleeps

"Every once in awhile, someone comes along whose work is clearly a nextstep. Their ideas seem to answer some collective question hanging out inthe culture. Their books and seminars become an underground buzz, andwithin a period of time their ideas become part of our cultural vernacular.

David Deida is such a person. In a time not too far off from now, his ideaswill have spread like wildfire."

MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Author of A Return to Love

"There are few categories I know of for an original like David; for histeachings there is no pigeonhole. He is a bridge-builder between East andWest, between ancient and modern wisdom traditions regarding this leastunderstood of all spiritual teachings: the mystery of intimacy as a yogaof transformation, transcendence, and self-realization. David Deida isthe one Western teacher of tantra whose books I read and whom I sendstudents to learn from. The results of true practice, in any tradition, areunmistakable; David Deida demonstrates them."

LAMA SURYA DAS Author of Awakening the Buddha Within

'David Delia brings spirituality down from the clouds and back into ourbodies where it belongs. His no-nonsense approach to refining our spiritualsensibilities comes as a welcome intervention to both New Age and conservative trends in contemporary spirituality. Deida helps us to get REAL in aworld where reality is an increasingly rare commodity."

MARIANA CAPLAN Author of Halfway Up the Mountain:The Error of Premature Claims to Enlightenment

'David Deida's work exposes us to the Truth of Tantra. Deida takes us fardeeper than the genital location, to the fearless state of vulnerability wherewe are penetrated by God in every moment. We are led beyond the illusionof doing self-improvement and Tantric techniques, to the surrendered, unlimited, direct state of being the Ultimate Truth in every moment."

GABRIEL COUSENS, M.D. Author of Spiritual Nutrition and the RainbowDiet, Director of Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center

'Being able to teach and live integrated sex, relationship, and transcendence is no easy task. It requires immense courage, wisdom, and aboveall, fearless loving. In Deida, all this gets included in one radical teaching.

You'll learn how to open your heart and integrate the need to sleep withevery attractive woman you see, deal appropriately with a woman's emotional chaos, give your gift to the world and lover, and finally transcendthe whole lot by including it all."

VIJAY RANA The Watkins Review

"Deida brilliantly lays bare the hidden psychology of feminine and masculine and offers clear instructions for tapping into our deepest core andachieving true harmony through sexual intimacy. I feel that Deida hasreached a new level of poetic genius in his writing, and his understandingof feminine psychology astounds me."

MIRANDA SHAW, PH.D. Author of Passionate Enlightenment:Women in Tantric Buddhism

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Awakening Your Sexual Essence

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