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Slow Sex

The Path to Fulfilling and Sustainable Sexuality
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Slow Sex by Diana Richardson offers a revolutionary approach to enhance sexuality and consciousness for couples. The book emphasises making sex a conscious decision instead of an accidental encounter, highlighting techniques such as eye contact, subtle sensations, and deep breathing to awaken the body's natural ecstasy. It explores slow sex as a meditative and loving practice that increases sensitivity, vitality, and can be sustained into old age, providing a step-by-step guide to transforming intimacy into a spiritual, harmonious union.
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This book is ideal for committed couples seeking to deepen their intimacy, individuals interested in Tantra and mindful sexuality, and those looking to revitalise or sustain their sex life with consciousness and sensitivity. It suits readers curious about spiritual and meditative approaches to relationships and wellness.

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A revolutionary practice for couples to enhance sexuality and reach higher states of consciousness.

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A revolutionary practice for couples to enhance sexuality and reach higher states of consciousness.

Slow Sex teaches how to make sex a conscious decision, not an accidental encounter. It discusses how slowness increases sensitivity and awakens the body’s innate mechanism for ecstasy. The book reveals how sexuality can be sustainable and enjoyable well into old age.

While fast, hot, orgasm-driven sex can bring momentary satisfaction, in the long run, it can become boring and mechanical, causing many couples to lose interest and stop making time for physical intimacy. Diana Richardson, the author, suggests that the first step to revive a waning sex life or make a healthy one more fulfilling is to make sex a conscious decision rather than an accidental encounter. Focusing on eye contact, subtle sensations, and deep breathing, Diana’s practice of slow sex awakens the body’s innate mechanism for ecstasy, unlocking the door to extraordinary realms of sensitivity, sensuality, and higher consciousness.

Exploring the healing, spiritual power of slow sex, Slow Sex offers a step-by-step guide for committed couples to transform sex into a meditative, loving union of complementary energies. It explains how slow sex increases sensitivity and sexual vitality and how, because it creates and restores love, slow sex is loving sex. With a focus on coolness rather than heat, this practice provides couples with a way to reach a shared meditative state and use it as a vehicle to achieve higher consciousness. Illustrating different positions for eye contact, deep sustained penetration, and soft penetration, this book reveals that sex truly can be sustainable and enjoyable well into old age.

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Praised by Carl Honoré as a perfect antidote to our fast-paced lives, Slow Sex is credited with bringing warmth, wisdom, and deeper connection to readers' sex lives and relationships. Marc David hails it as a masterful, fresh, and accessible guide to Tantra and sensuality, ideal for those new to eastern philosophy or seeking a powerful new perspective on sexuality. Reviews highlight its combination of ancient wisdom and practical advice, making it a transformative experience.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781594773679

Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 January 2011

Country: United States

Imprint: Destiny Books,U.S.

Illustration: 14 b&w illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 295g

Pages: 176

About the Author

Diana Richardson is the author of Tantric Orgasm for Women and The Heart of Tantric Sex and the coauthor of Tantric Sex for Men. A disciple of tantric master Osho, she is a teacher and practitioner of holistic body therapies. Along with her husband, Michael, she has been teaching weeklong “Making Love” Retreats for Couples since 1993. She lives in Switzerland.

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