Diana Richardson - Tantric Love Letters

My warm hearted thanks to the many people that have written to me over the years. I have enjoyed and valued the personal connection, as well as your questions, observations, experiences and insights. My special thanks to those of you who have contributed the letters selected for this book, and for allowing me to publish them. All the names and identifying details have been changed so as to ensure your personal privacy. To Ela and Simone, my appreciation for your kindness and generosity in helping me sort and select the letters. To Anna, thank you so much for your beautiful heart art that appears on the cover. To Raja, my eternal gratitude to you for your profound part in the work, for your inspiration, and for your love and lightness of being.

1. The combination of love and spirituality is really fulfilling p.14
   
2. Shown me a way of light through life p.15
   
3. I am tantra! p.16
   
4. Experiencing the intelligence of my penis p.16
   
5. Changing our approach to sex has changed our lives p.17
   
6. Our bodies started with tantra by themselves p.19
   
7. Transformative aspect of this form of lovemaking p.22
   
8. The heavenly effect of relaxing my vagina p.22
   
9. The most valuable help in my over 80 years of life p.25
   
10. Learned and experienced things that saved our love p.29
    
11. Old pains in the vagina dissolved within two weeks p.30
    
12. A refinement on all levels p.32
    
13. Awakening of my breasts and connecting to the earth p.33
    
14. Sexual healing for my arthritis p.33
    
15. Sex with no excitement is deeper than any excitement p.37
    

1. My addiction to hard sex is much stronger than his p.39
   
2. My partner is not used to giving to a woman p.42
   
3. My husband has fallen in love with someone else p.47
   
4. New love and a new chance p.51
   
5. I want to explore sex more than my husband p.55
   
6. My girlfriend moved out and will not talk to me p.58
   
7. We both want something better than we have p.62
   
8. Can tantric sex help me reconnect with my girlfriend? p.64
   
9. It is clear for me that I must separate p.70
   
10. After some time of marriage, sex got unbearable p.72
    
11. Shes the woman I want to love and cherish with all my being p.77
    
12. My girlfriend is afraid of trying a new way of making love p.78
    
13. My wife has lost interest in sex since birth of our son p.81
    
14. I do not feel like being intimate with my husband p.84
    
15. Our personal discoveries based on your books p.86
    

1. I have the impression that I am constantly emotional p.91
   
2. Positive resources lying in past that do not classify as emotions p.93
   
3. A load of feelings and emotions p.95
   
4. Becoming aware of my low-grade emotions p.97
   
5. Noticing negative after-effects of ejaculation p.99
   
6. Experiencing that my fear is healed by love p.102
   
7. I get closed because I think my partner doesnt love me p.103
   
8. I am desperate and I question my whole being as a man p.105
   
9. Sex is difficult for me because of high expectations and baby wish p.110
   
10. Experiencing deep sadness and lethargy p.115
    
11. Feeling more often frustration and boredom p.120
    
12. I really have no clue how to deal with my blocks p.124
    
13. These old emotions are somehow sitting on my sexuality p.128
    
14. Our journey with love and letting go of emotions p.129
    

1. No feeling and a loss of energy p.135
   
2. Dealing with moments of nothingness p.138
   
3. Valuing my vagina over clitoral stimulation p.139
   
4. Thinking about intimacy and a lot of anger and disgust comes up p.140
   
5. Different wishes regarding stimulation and oral sex p.142
   
6. Helping erection to grow p.146
   
7. I have completely lost my interest in sex p.147
   
8. Pain in the testicles after not ejaculating p.149
   
9. G-spot and female ejaculation p.152
   
10. Techniques to build up energy p.154
    
11. Balancing negative effects of peak orgasm p.155
    
12. I have never had an orgasm p.157
    
13. Pulsating, hot, wonderful breasts, my own power plant p.159
    
14. I asked my lover to withdraw his penis a fraction p.161
    
15. Advice for our tantric exploration p.162
    
16. Combining tantric sex with conventional sex p.167
    

1. Healing the physical pains in my vagina p.170
   
2. How to get pregnant when there is reduced ejaculation? p.175
   
3. Absence of breasts due to surgery p.177
   
4. No information on the chakra system p.178
   
5. Can tantra have a therapeutic influence on massage? p.180
   
6. Accepting and loving my body p.182
   
7. I am missing my ecstasy p.184
   
8. Making rules and concepts out of tantra p.186
   
9. My fiance is like a virgin, her vagina is very tight p.187
   
10. Less erection due to prostate disturbance p.189
    
11. Sexual satisfaction in spite of prostate tumor p.191
    
12. Your tantric perspective is different p.193
    
13. Relaxation and menstrual purification p.197
    
14. Tantra without a partner p.199
    
15. Healing the pain and shame of sexual abuse p.200
    
16. I would like to educate and show others p.205
    
17. Love is a by-product of a rising consciousness p.207
    

Richardson, Diana. The Heart of Tantric Sex. O Books, 2002 (First edition published as The Love Keys The Art of Ecstatic Sex, 1999).

Richardson, Diana. Tantric Orgasm for Women. Destiny Books, 2004.

Richardson, Diana & Michael. Tantric Sex for Men Making Love a Meditation. Destiny Books, 2010.

Richardson, Diana & Michael. Tantric Love Feeling vs. Emotion: Golden Rules to Make Love Easy. O Books, 2010.

Richardson, Diana. Slow Sex The Path to Fulfilling and Sustainable Sexuality. Destiny Books, 2011.

Osho. From Sex to Super-Consciousness. New York, St Martins Press, 2003. Osho. Tantra: The Supreme Understanding. India, The Rebel Publishing House, 1998.

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Long, Barry. Raising Children in Love, Justice and Truth. Barry Long Books, 1998.

Long, Barry. Making Love: Sexual Love the Divine Way. Barry Long Books, CD.

Long, Barry. Love Brings All to Life. Barry Long Books, CD.

Robinson, Marnia. Cupids Poisoned Arrow: From Habit to Harmony in Sexual Relationships. North Atlantic Books, 2009.

Rosenberg, Marshall. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life. Puddle Dancer, 2003.

Richardson, Diana & Michael. MaLua Light Meditation for Women Innenwelt Verlag, Cologne, 2008. CD (Guided breast meditation with music).

Richardson, Diana with Michael. Time for Touch Massage, Awareness, Relaxation. Innenwelt Verlag, Cologne, 2010. DVD. (Instructions for full body massage).

Richardson, Diana. Making LoveWhat you always should have known about Sex. Innenwelt Verlag, Germany, 2010. DVD Live Public Talk.