Live Touch for Two Couples Night in Phoenix

Come Join Us For the next Live Touch for Two Couple’s Night

An elegant evening of guided sensuous Touch for couples.

When? August 20th 7:30 - 11 pm

Where? near 40th Street & Shea, Phoenix

Cost? $69 Per Couple

Contact: shyena1@gmail.com

Register now, only a few spaces left.

What is Touch for Two?

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FREE conference call CELEBRATING Quodoushka

You are invited to a FREE conference call
CELEBRATING Quodoushka

Spiritual Sexuality from the Shamanic Traditions

Thursday evening • July 1, 2010 • 7 - 8 pm (Pacific time)
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ALL WELCOME • Q graduates too!

Your hosts are Q facilitators
Amara Charles & Mukee Breezes Love

CLICK HERE for all details about how to join the call
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What is Chuluaqui Quodoushka all about?
How can it make a difference for you in your everyday world?

And for your vitality, your passion and well-being?
Your happiness? Your aliveness and fulfillment in all relationships?

How can you be in daily energy gain rather than energy loss?

What is the difference between Tantra and Quodoushka?

When are the next Q programs available?
Q1 for singles and couples in
San Diego, Quodoushka 1 July 8 - 11,  2010.

Enjoy an informative and fun conversation.
And have your questions answered too!

In beauty, Amara

CALL TIME ZONES for JULY 1
Pacific time: 7 - 8 pm
AZ Mountain time: 7 - 8 pm
Mountain time: 8 - 9 pm
Central time: 9 - 10 pm
Eastern time: 10 - 11 pm

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Quodoushka Spiritual Sexuality Workshop San Diego

QUODOUSHKA
A Shamanic Approach to
Spiritual Sexuality

A transformative workshop of shamanic teachings, guided exercises and ceremonial experiences for singles and couples.

Imagine that sex is natural, sacred and beautiful.

July 8 - 11 for singles & couples
Thursday evening – Sunday evening

Early Registration extended to June 11
Experience how the gift of your sexuality is your most powerful resource for full self expression,
health, hope, happiness, harmony and humor.

The first level of Quodoushka is all about you!  Your own sexuality and how this incredible “catalyst” energy is
actually life itself.  Through the shamanic wisdom of an ancient Matriarchal Medicine Society you will learn about energy
laws that govern everything we do, starting with the beauty and power of your own sexual energy.

Through your understanding that male and female sexual energy is the source of all creation and inspiration, you will learn
how to apply the power of this in your everyday life for gains in your happiness, humor, hope, health and harmony. As you
learn how to raise your sexual energy you’ll discover the gateway to connection and spirit – and even come to understand
that your sexuality can become your natural blissful path towards enlightenment. Illuminated teachings take you on a
journey of discovery of all the levels and elemental types of orgasm. Discover how your inner elemental balance
determines how you experience them. You’ll discover what is your own “genital sense of self” and learn how that
influences your personal experience of pleasure and patterns of living.

Please register me for: Quodoushka 1, July 8 - 11, Q1

o Individual $695         o Paid in full by June 4 $595

o Couple $1300          o Paid in full by June 4 $1150

o  Q1 GRADUATES SPECIAL & SMSD Apprentices: $495 paid in full by June 4  $395.

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Spirit Fire Productions, PO Box 22133, Phoenix, AZ 85028

Make checks payable to Spirit Fire Productions.
Registration is limited and subject to confirmation.
Specific location and all the information you will need to attend will be given upon registration.

CANCELLATION POLICY:
You must notify us 10 days before the event. There is a $100 fee for office expenses.
Within 10 days, it is $250 non-refundable.
$100 nonrefundable when you notify us more than 10 days before the event. Within 10 days it is $250.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
AMARA  602.765.9551 • amaracharles123@gmail.com

YOUR FACILIATORS:

AMARA CHARLES Keeps the Fire has been an apprentice of the Sweet Medicine SunDance Path of
Turtle Island since 1987. She has traveled teaching Quodoushka Sexuality workshops internationally for
over twenty years. Amara is the author of Sexual Agreements, Aching to Open and Erotic Touch for
Two. From 1993-2000 she helped establish the Red Lodge Yearlong shamanic ceremonial program for
the Deer Tribe Métis Medicine Society and has led teen Rites of Passage, Wondercamp and Vision
Quest programs for many years. She is the founder of Nourishing Arts, providing courses in Shamanic
sexuality and Taoist Sexual Arts. www.nourishingarts.com

MUKEE OKAN Breezes Love: aka Your Orgasm’s Best Friend. Originally from Australia, Mukee is a
Quodoushka spiritual sexuality teacher and guide in the Twisted Hairs tradition. Her foundation is in the
essence of Tantra, since initiation in 1984. Mukee is also a surrogate partner therapist in the western
medical model since 1995. She facilitates sexuality programs internationally. She loves to share how
your life-force energy fuels your full self expression of your energy, creativity and abundance. Her
presence inspires you to open to your natural erotic intelligence and surrender to your infinite orgasmic
nature and capacity for pleasure. She is also the founder of Wisdom Women and a tantra artist.
www.spiritfireproductions.com

MICHAEL STEIN Star Mountain, NLP, C. Ht. has been a member of the Quodoushka teaching team for
13 years. He is a Sweet Medicine SunDance Path apprentice. Michael has served as a trainer for the
Men’s Health Teaching Group of the UNC Chapel Hill Medical School and has been a guest presenter
for the American Association of Sexuality Educators Counselors and Therapists. Michael is a Certified
Trainer of NLP, an Ericksonian style hypnotist and a master storyteller. For the past 25 years he has
been facilitating team-building programs for corporations and organizations. He is based in Chapel Hill,
NC.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: AMARA  602 820 4661  • amaracharles123@gmail.com
MUKEE 602.482.9691 • mukee@spiritfireproductions.com
PLAN  TO ATTEND NOW AND SAVE • nonresidential in a private home
Individual $695: paid in full by June 4. $595 • Couple $1300: June 4 .$1150 • Q1 GRADUATES SPECIAL and
SMSD Apprentices: $495 pd in full byJune 4 $395. (Visa/MC/checks to Spirit Fire)

Send payment in full or a deposit of $100 (US) per person to: Spirit Fire, PO Box 22133,  Phoenix, AZ 85028

Free Quodoushka Spiritual Sexuality in San Diego & LA

San Diego & LA FREE INTROS

You and your friends are invited to a

Complimentary introduction to Quodoushka, SPIRITUAL SEXUALITY

with Amara Charles

June 1 San Diego, June 3 Los Angeles

Discover your vibrant erotic nature with an evening’s
introduction to Quodoushka Spiritual Sexuality. These
ancient shamanic teachings will open your mind and awaken
your body & spirit to the natural beauty of sexual intimacy.

For Singles
Please come and join us for an empowering preview into the delicious world of spiritual sexuality.
Bring stimulating ideas to your sex life and experience a more intuitive approach to intimacy and
sex.

For Couples
Come with your partner for an evening that will awaken more passion, playfulness and pleasure in
your relationship. All sexual preferences welcome.

“Brilliant teachings! I wish I knew them 20 years ago. I recommend this workshop to anyone who
wishes to transform his or her sexuality. I’ve gone to a much deeper level of understanding sex
and myself.” Steve Wright, Australia

AMARA CHARLES has been an apprentice of the Sweet Medicine SunDance
Path of Turtle Island since 1987. She has traveled teaching Quodoushka Sexuality
workshops internationally for over twenty years. She helped establish the Red
Lodge Yearlong shamanic ceremonial and teen Rites of Passage programs for the
Deer Tribe Métis Medicine Society. Amara is the author of Sexual Agreements,
Touch for Two & Aching to Open. Her new book Liberating Sexual Pleasure will be
out next year.

Quodoushka Free Preview Evenings:
San Diego, CA.
Tuesday, June 1st Contact: Bonnie bonniez2010@gmail.com (858) 353-4175
Los Angeles, CA.
Thursday, June 3rd Contact: Russ Bryant editor@mainstreamerotica.com (310) 491-8997

Quodoushka 1 Spiritual Sexuality Workshop
July 8-11th San Diego, California amaracharles123@gmail.com

because beauty is a living state of love
www.nourishingarts.com (602) 820-4661

Upcoming

Qoudoushka Spiritual Sexuality Workshop

Register Now for San Diego Q1 July 8-11

San-Diego-Q1 Workshop July 8-11

Too Big To Ignore

Watch out when women get their socks in a twist and decide enough is enough. You can’t help but raise an eyebrow when fifty-nine thousand  Catholic nuns make a Hail Mary pass and directly defy the old boy bishops to endorse the health care bill.

You’d think that as the pews and coffers shrink, and the worldwide cascade of accusations come pouring in, Catholic high ups would calculate the cost of losing the loyalty of their front row nun force who do their bidding and all the work to boot.
Instead, the pope finally lamely admonished flock deviants with predictable pleas to keep the faith calling endemic abuse and corruption ‘grave errors of judgment.’

In what universe is child abuse a grave error of judgment?

Only in the too big to fail church is outright criminal behavior kept in the closet cloaked by the Pope’s choir preaching mercy and forgiveness. I’m a big fan of mercy and forgiveness, but there comes a point when the hypocrisy of an ailing belief system shows its absurdity so clearly it’s too big to ignore.

What would cause a literal slew of priests—globally— to go directly against the decency of their own faith? Why did so many find it impossible to resist having sex with children?

I read the Pope’s letter of apology. His enlightened perspective on the root of this ugly problem? Bad choices of  priests in the first place. Poor training. Too much secularization, meaning not enough church going, and not enough belief in the church. Nary a mention of how church authorities played musical chairs with known criminals, nor the idiocy of transplanting them into virgin territory.

There is only one thing that holds this house-of-cards power structure in place: sexual repression. But to admit this means the fall of the whole thing. Gargantuan organizations cannot examine the very beliefs that keep them big. It’s easier to regroup in Africa, where the number of Catholics is growing exponentially.

Growing up in a Jewish family, the whole idea of sex=sin was just plain weird to me. Everybody eats, sleeps and has sex once in a while. I missed the whole sin part. While most Christians I’ve met swallowed relatively homeopathic doses of the sex=sin pill, the stains on the psyche of millions cannot be underestimated, especially when strains of this virus find their way into every law, school, job and marriage, determining all that is proper.

When will leaders have the courage to face the obvious? Enforced celibacy does not work. Repression creates a breeding ground for perversion and it makes liars out of otherwise good people. All the trials, repentance and forgiveness in the world will never snuff out sexual desire.

Making sexual repression the requisite of spiritual authority is about as intelligent as enforced fasting. Sooner or later you will have to eat, and if you cannot eat openly you will have to lie about eating. I can forgive the abusers because they were asked to do the impossible; turn off sexual love.

Love is existence. And sex is simply one of its expressions. Don’t let any prude tell you otherwise. Even celibacy, when chosen wisely is love. Catholic nuns may not see it this way, but secretly, I’ll bet some do.

Ode to the Elusive, So Called G-Spot

The G-spot ‘doesn’t appear to exist’, say researchers
The King’s College London team believe the G-spot may be a figment of women’s imagination, encouraged by magazines and sex therapists.BBC The Gspot :

Is The G-Spot a fragment of your Imagination?

A Little History of the Wonderful G Spot: (see my comments below)

In the 1950’s German born Jewish gynecologist and scientist named Ernst Gräfenberg became well known for his studies of the role of the woman’s urethra in orgasm.

During the First World War, he was a medical officer, and continued publishing papers, mostly on human female physiology. In 1929 he published his studies of the “Gräfenberg ring”, the first IUD for which there are usage records. When Nazism assumed power in Germany, Gräfenberg, was forced in 1933 to resign as head of the department of gynaecology and obstetrics in the Berlin-Britz municipal hospital. In 1934, Hans Lehfeldt attempted to persuade him to leave Nazi Germany; he refused, believing that since his practice included wives of high Nazi officials, he would be safe. He was wrong, and was arrested in 1937 for having smuggled out a valuable stamp from Germany. Margaret Sanger ransomed him from Nazi prison, and he was finally allowed to leave in 1940, whereupon he went to the U.S. and opened a practice in New York City.

He became famous for his studies of woman’s genitalia, and human female sexual physiology; published studies include the seminal The Role of Urethra in Female Orgasm in 1950, describing female ejaculation, and an erogenous zone where the urethra is closest to the vaginal wall. In 1981 sexologists John D. Perry and Beverly Whipple named that area the Gräfenberg spot, or G-spot in his honor.

While the medical community has not embraced the whole concept of the “G-Spot”, Dr. Sanger, Dr. Kinsey, and Drs. Masters and Johnson credit his extensive physiological work. (thanks to Wikipedia)

Amara’s Comments

The Secret Fire Trigger

While it’s true Ernst was a pioneer, and some might consider him a hero who brought the insides of women’s vagina into the light of day, the G—Spot is not a new invention. Ancient Chinese Taoists refer to this area as the ‘Lute Strings’ and the Shamanic teachings of Quodoushka calls this region on the upper wall of a woman’s inner cave the ‘Secret Fire Trigger.’

While I think Ernst must have been a great guy, and I love what he dedicated his life to, I personally prefer the more poetic names. If I have to name that confounding place scientists are still pondering (and I say-let them ponder away!), I like the sound of having ‘Lute Strings’ inside me. For one thing, rather than fumbling around looking for a spot, this lovely name might encourage my lover to play gently inside me hoping to make a little music. For another, the name ‘Secret Fire Trigger’ is a lot closer to the idea of what’s inside than a ‘G—Spot’. It’s a whole ganglion of interconnected nerves and vessels—think of the beautiful illuminated branches in Avatar spreading out into a vast network of intelligent feelers. Now that’s what it feels like inside.

While scientists are still trying to figure out what on earth exists in there, (oh, and their marvelous instruments must have such a hard time pinning down what women have been moaning about for centuries,) I say let the mystery continue!

Anyone brave enough to pull my ‘Secret Fire Trigger’ will not be wondering if they have found the Gspot once I have exploded and poured in ecstasy all over the place. We love thinking we have something wonderful, special and fantastic inside, and we do!

Whether it’s somehow connected to the urethra, or called the Female Prostrate Gland (can we have a better name, please) what matters is that we are still looking, still feeling around, and still having lovely orgasms. (and they’re all good).

But really, thank you Ernst. I hope that your clinical studies were not too clinical, and that while you were alive, you smiled at our folly to name the unameable, know the unknowable or ever even slightly corner the market on women’s pleasure.  On the other hand, even if people don’t know where the name G Spot came from, I think it’s a pretty good way to be remembered. There have probably been more than a few screams of orgiastic delight made by women who were glad somebody was looking for something. So viva the Gräfenberg spot!

Illuminated Sex Workshop at Phoenix Tantra Meetup, Dec 8

We shared a beautiful evening about Compassionate sex, with meditation, great discussions and energizing sexual restoration exercises. What a fantastic space and great people! Thank you to the members of Tantra Meetup!

What a beautiful evening!

Shyena and I will be hosting an intro to Quodouskha Preview on Dec 8th at the Center for Divine Awakening.

Click here to check out
The Phoenix Tantra!Dec 8

Illuminated Sex Workshop in San Diego

New Workshop!!

Illuminated Sex

For Singles and Couples

October 23, 24 and 25, 2009

San Diego, CA

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With Amara Charles and Shyena Venice

These world famous teachers will be offering a special loving and beautiful class for two and half days.
Presenting a blend of ancient Shamanic and Taoist practices for experiencing illuminating sexual encounters, this new workshop is for singles and couples who wish to restore their passion for life and reclaim their naturally sexy selves.

For those who want to:

• Bring illumination and light into your sex life
• Learn Shamanic and Taoist Tigress sexual restoration practices
• Experience elemental erotic touch
• Have more deeply intimate sexual experiences

Join us for an amazing opportunity to:

• Strengthen your orgiastic power
• Learn the feminine arts of seduction and the masculine arts of prowess
• Learn Sexual Healing and Restoration practices
• Create loving, endearing kindness in your sexuality

Join us and learn these amazingly wise and healing sexual practices. Experience the true meaning of your sexuality.
For more information on how to register in advance, reserve a place and save now, contact Tom McGrew at:

tomcgbooks@pacbell.net
760-801-3639

Pricing for Workshop

The full price is $348 with lunch is included.

Paid Deposit by September 1s is $298

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The Goddess Way Series - Viva la Velvet Revolution!

Goddess Way
Being the Goddess in Every Way
With Amara Charles
Call the Phoenix Goddess Temple to for info and Directions: 602-956-0600

The Goddess Way Series
We are starting with this series for women. Gentlemen will be invited to the next!

Thursday July 9th Tonight 7-9pm : The Velvet Revolution

Sometimes we forget just how powerful we are. No wonder despots fear the Velvet Revolution (the one with velvet curtains, satin sheets, and a couple of candles…) Make no mistake: Feminine Goddess Beauty, so illusive, mysterious and open, is remarkably powerful- but only if we know how to use it. Find out the seven charms of the Goddess and how you can use them to be vibrantly healthy and irresistibly sexy.
Thursday July 9th 7—9:30pm

In this series, we will explore Goddess ways from ancient Taoist and Shamanic traditions to help bring beauty and grace into our lives. From 7-7:30 we will meet and mingle the way women do. The evenings’ topic will be presented by guest facilitator Amara Charles followed by an open forum of questions about personal practice, sex and intimacy.

Two Confessions… on the making of this video

The first is kind of a cool secret:
I happen to have a masters degree in film and video (which, to my mother’s dismay, I haven’t overtly ‘used’ in about 25 years.) So making video is a total artistic OMG!!!! The technology finally got easy enough even for me. I bought a new camera and then a new Mac, and presto, you pretty much just plug them in together and everything ‘works!’ Combine this with traveling, music, tea, wonderful people and spiritual joy and I’d say a new episode might just be poking through the surface… So stay tuned.

The second confession is a bit more serious and up until now, a bit more more private…
I quit smoking and here’s the how and why it happened:

The first night I am in the monastery, which is virtually a world unto itself -  called the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas - with street names like Compassion and Virtue Way. Everywhere there are devout nuns, monks, and mostly Asian practitioners from around the world. We are all staying in an enormous building that was once - and I am not kidding - an insane asylum. Returning to our room after an entire day of recitation I am dying for a cigarette. Of course there is no smoking permitted within the place, so I must go outside to sneak one. This is day one of seven. I’m thinking, God, this is awful. Ridiculous. I can’t do this here.

Then, I imagine one of the Buddhist nuns, with shaven head, lighting up. That is it! It’s just so funny, and so sad an image I say to myself, That’s it! I am quitting. So, in addition to meditating and chanting for seven days, I am privately going through severe nicotine withdrawal.

Now, for those of you who know… the Nicotine Demons get furious when you don’t feed them. They start crawling through your skin and putting fog into your brain, or maybe it’s some of that smoke you’ve been breathing for years. I read in one of Venerable Master Hsuan Hua’s dharma talks that the celestial beings stay away from those who smoke because they dislike the smell.

Now there’s an argument for quitting that I haven’t heard. Even the Gods won’t come near you… It all seems so incongruous here, smoking; such a strange, yet gripping habit.

Quitting at the monastery turns out to be easier than trying at home because it is simply absurd there. And I am quite preoccupied each day from 3 am ’til 10 pm. The real trick is now that I am back in my cozy home, all alone, with only me to know what’s up, the Nicotine Demons are racing back, more furious than ever over my refusal to submit to their cravings.

What is truly a private victory for me encapsulated in the making of this video is… it’s 100% smoke free! You see, my habit of artistically creating something while smoking goes back to my teenage rebellion years. Now, I am rebelling against my own fabrications and delusions. Instead of breaking away from others, going off to smoke while I create something personal and beautiful (the two have a long romance together in my mind), I am staying up ’til 5 am making this video, and well… just ‘forgetting’ to smoke. I take a deep breath over that.

It has been 2 weeks as of this writing. One day, one breath at a time. Wish me good fortune.

p.s. About the peacocks: They roam freely all around the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas and you can hear the cackles of their cries each afternoon while you meditate.

Quehestemehah
You Dance In My Heart

In Beauty, Amara

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