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TantraPM - Mark & Patricia

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About Me

We are Mark Michaels and Patricia Johnson, co-authors of The Essence of Tantric Sexuality (Llewellyn Worldwide), National Best Books 2007 Awards Award-Winner in the Health: Sexuality category and Award-Winning Finalist in the Religion: Eastern Religions category. We have been teaching Tantra and Kriya yoga together since 1999 and have been featured in many publications, including The Village Voice, Now, Jane, Rockstar, Breathe and Redbook. Dr. Jonn Mumford has named us lineage holders of the OM Kara Kriya® system for the Americas and Europe. We have have also studied Bhakti Yoga with Bhagavan Das, Tantra with Dr. Rudy Ballentine, and have been featured in Dr. Judy Kuriansky’s Complete Idiot’s Guide to Tantric Sex.
follow TantraPM at http://twitter.comOur next book Tantra for Erotic Empowerment: The Key to Enriching Your Sexual Life will be published by Llewellyn Worldwide in April 2008.Our DVDs Tantric Sexual Massage for Lovers and Advanced Tantric Sex Techniques(Alexander Institute) are now available.
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Essence of Tantric Sexuality
By Mark Michaels
and
Patricia Johnson

My Interests

Tantra, human sexuality, sex magic, progressive politics, pleasure positive movement, the environment, building community across boundaries, birds, especially IBWO, Eastern Box Turtles

I'd like to meet:

Anyone interested in Tantra and/or in any aspect of the Pleasure Positive Movement.

Music:

Patricia's a professional opera singer. Mark came of age at CBGBs in the mid-'70s and still loves the artists of that era, and traditional blues.

Books:

It's Here Now, Are You? - Bhagavan Das
Kiss of the Yogini - David Gordon White
Tantra for Erotic Empowerment - Michaels & Johnson

Heroes:

Crazy Horse, Victoria Woodhull, Alfred Kinsey. Our guru Dr. Jonn Mumford (Swami Anandakapila Saraswati) www.jonnmumfordconsult.com, Bhagavan Das, and all the others from whom we've learned.

My Blog

Tantra for Erotic Empowerment Available Now

Copies of Tantra for Erotic Empowerment were waiting for us this week when we returned from a ten day teaching trip. The official publication date is April 1st, but since it is available now, we're ce...
Posted by TantraPM - Mark & Patricia on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:42:00 PST

More Honors

Tantric Sexual Massage for Lovers has been selected for the CineKink 2008 Film Festival -- http://www.cinekink.com/.In March, we'll be attending the Virginia Festival of the Book as participating auth...
Posted by TantraPM - Mark & Patricia on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:29:00 PST

Valentines Day is Coming

Valentine's Day is coming, and we'll be appearing on Playboy Radio's Afternoon Advice on Monday, February 4th at 4 pm est (Sirius Radio, Channel 198). The show has a call-in segment, so if you have an...
Posted by TantraPM - Mark & Patricia on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 02:17:00 PST

Busy, Busy, Busy

Ever since our last blog entry we've been almost completely absorbed in the final stages of editing Tantra for Erotic Empowerment. It was painstaking and very time consuming, but we're very pleased wi...
Posted by TantraPM - Mark & Patricia on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:34:00 PST

Essence: Best Books 2007 Award Winner!

We had a great time in Maryland. Our presentation at Sugar, which is a wonderful store, was very well attended. Thanks to Holly, Owen and Jacq for everything!We returned home to delightful news. The E...
Posted by TantraPM - Mark & Patricia on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:29:00 PST

New Interview, Sydney Star Observer

The Sydney Star Observer is Australia's top selling GLBT weekly. This week's issue features an interview with Mark:"Tantra is an ancient South Asian spiritual tradition that takes many different forms...
Posted by TantraPM - Mark & Patricia on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:10:00 PST

Tantra for Erotic Empowerment

Tantra for Erotic Empowerment is now available for pre-orders on Amazon.
Posted by TantraPM - Mark & Patricia on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:56:00 PST

Home from Dark Odyssey

We spent close to a week at Dark Odyssey; we arrived early to help set up and returned on Monday. We've spent most of this week getting caught up -- on domestic chores, backlogged work and sleep. As a...
Posted by TantraPM - Mark & Patricia on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:22:00 PST

Movie Night

Last night was movie night, and we treated it as something of an anthropological exercise, watching contemporary American sex comedies, which is something we seldom do. We saw Chris Rock's I Think I L...
Posted by TantraPM - Mark & Patricia on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 12:45:00 PST

Tantra for Erotic Empowerment: the Cover is Up!

Amazon.com has just posted the cover of our next book Tantra for Erotic Empowerment. It's sure to be controversial. They're taking pre-orders too....
Posted by TantraPM - Mark & Patricia on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:16:00 PST