The most sexual experience you will ever have is when you are born. Just think of where you actually were, inside your mother’s skin, where and how you came out. During those formative hours of birth, you experienced massive surges of energy, contraction and releasing, with intense levels of pain and surrender. It is these same rhythms we experience when we are making love and our capacity for pleasure, for sustained orgasmic release is directly related to how much you can let go, on all levels.

If your birth was unhindered by medical interventions, trauma or crisis, you will have also experienced the profound transformation of all that pain into incredible pleasure and bliss as you slid out of your mother’s body into the loving embrace of your new family.

It is this  quintessential initiation that lays down the foundations of your sensual and sexual desires and responses, patterns most people do not know even exist. We know from over 50 years of research that the baby is aware of all that happens during birth but that we go unconscious in the overwhelm. We also know that altered states of consciousness occur in the baby (and often the mother) during this incredibly intense experience. It is the most fundamental initiation of our lives.

These states open us to awareness beyond the body and mind, in the realms of consciousness we call transpersonal, sacred and mystical. When the birth is natural, we struggle, we fight, we surrender and we flow with this vast array of feelings, energies and experiences, ending up resting on our mother’s breast. There,  pleasure suffuses every cell of our body as we suckle and are nourished, where we can rest and integrate all that has happened, stabilizing all the systems within our body. Sensual pleasure then becomes Home. That state of rest allows the sacred to settle consciously within our bodies and hearts.