On this weeks show we speak with our friend sacred sexuality priestess Inara

Inara de Luna

Founder of the Temple of the Red Lotus, Inara is a Qadishtu priestess who believes in the sacredness of sex and pleasure. Inara describes herself as a bisexual, polyamorous, eclectic pagan. A teacher and lifelong practitioner of yoga, she follows a path of finding enlightenment by healing the mind-body-spirit split that occurs in Western society. Ecstatic dance, drumming, sex, yoga, ritual, energy manipulation and healing, research and reflection are the avenues Inara uses and encourages for spiritual expression and development.

Inara runs an online discussion group on sacred sexuality and offers workshops and classes on yoga, breath work, sacred sexuality, teenage sex education, menstruation reclamation, and Native American drumming/singing. She has been a guest instructor for the Indigo Village Summer Camp, and a guest lecturer at the University of Redlands in California and at St. Patrick’s Cathedral School in Pennsylvania. Additionally, she has performed private yoga demonstrations for select audiences around the country. Inara is a published author, with articles and poetry appearing in The Common People magazine, Atlanta Rising magazine and the Carolina Spirit Quest newsletter.

Inara organizes the Village of Greenwood at Dreaming. She also coordinated the Adult Play area at FireDance 2004 and DayDreaming: Greenwood, a day-long sacred sex intensive. Most recently, Inara presented a three course seminar on sacred sexuality at Bio-Buzz in Albany, GA. She created the Temple of the Red Lotus as an organization devoted to promoting and practicing sacred sexuality and the Qadishtu path.

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Re-posted from the Qadishtu Experience

A few weeks back, we set up our Scarlet Sanctuary at an event and opened the door. The idea of the Scarlet Sanctuary, the way we do it, is simple – we provide loving, compassionate, non threatening sensual touch to anyone that wants to experience it. Everyone, regardless of race or age or size or style, is greeted with Qadishti Eyes of acceptance and that Heinlein sense of “Thou Art God/dess”. They are brought inside and intimately led to receive.

(Receiving, we discovered, is very hard for some people. For lots of people. Just to lay there and allow yourself to just be, just receive erotic touch, and not feel like you are supposed to do anything).

As it happened, “Everyone, regardless of…” was tested for me personally at this event, as I found myself working on a ‘Star’. Now, I do not mean TV Star or a Hollywood Star (although she may be in movies). But in this case, she is a star of the erotic circles. Would you have heard of her? Well, if you run in my circles, then yes, but the fact that I knew who she was, and she was one of the first people I ever saw lecture, was threatening to throw me off balance. Both my own sense of awe at working with her and my own ego (look who I am working on) were observed as possibly causing this to be less than sacred.

Until we got started. Once we got started, it was no longer about her as The Star, nor was it about Me the Qadesh Working with the Star, it was just two people. It just a receiver and a giver. She simply was another human, another person, full of sensual love. I was just a giver, allowing my ego to sleep while I ministered to another of the beutiful beings that inhabit the world.

Beyond that, her response and mine, become a matter like many other sessions, but one too private feeling to post here.

The important thing I took away from this experience is not that everyone is just another person. But instead, something that I was told at the very first sacred sexuality event I ever went to was brought to mind and I am reminded – “Everyone is a star”

Don’t miss Inara de Luna one of the ‘original’ modern Qadishtu

Inara de Luna

Founder of the Temple of the Red Lotus, Inara is a Qadishtu priestess who believes in the sacredness of sex and pleasure. Inara describes herself as a bisexual, polyamorous, eclectic pagan. A teacher and lifelong practitioner of yoga, she follows a path of finding enlightenment by healing the mind-body-spirit split that occurs in Western society. Ecstatic dance, drumming, sex, yoga, ritual, energy manipulation and healing, research and reflection are the avenues Inara uses and encourages for spiritual expression and development.

Inara runs an online discussion group on sacred sexuality and offers workshops and classes on yoga, breath work, sacred sexuality, teenage sex education, menstruation reclamation, and Native American drumming/singing. She has been a guest instructor for the Indigo Village Summer Camp, and a guest lecturer at the University of Redlands in California and at St. Patrick’s Cathedral School in Pennsylvania. Additionally, she has performed private yoga demonstrations for select audiences around the country. Inara is a published author, with articles and poetry appearing in The Common People magazine, Atlanta Rising magazine and the Carolina Spirit Quest newsletter.

Inara organizes the Village of Greenwood at Dreaming. She also coordinated the Adult Play area at FireDance 2004 and DayDreaming: Greenwood, a day-long sacred sex intensive. Most recently, Inara presented a three course seminar on sacred sexuality at Bio-Buzz in Albany, GA. She created the Temple of the Red Lotus as an organization devoted to promoting and practicing sacred sexuality and the Qadishtu path.

Our next POTQ audio gather…

Solo Sacred Sex

by Cheri Michael

How can we be sacred with others until we are sacred with ourselves? Everyone’s sacred sexual path is unique and the tools and information that they use can come from various sources. In this workshop we will explore/discuss various ways and tools of creating the space needed for solo sacred sex. We will use the current knowledge we each possess as a basis for this workshop. Some reflective homework accompanies this lecture .

We just had the level 1 group finish there first class, a gathering that was part introduction and part the words of those who concidure themselves a Qadishti and what it means to them. We had representation from tantrikas, sexual magicians, energy workers, BDSM’ers, and more. A great group to be working with.

Just updated the Path of the Qadishti training course to include Solo Sacred Sex!

Just added another teachers bio to the Teachers list in POTQ!

Just posted the Bio of one of our teachers, Inara de Luna

Best described by the actions, found on the Qadhistu Experience Blog

Path of the Qadishti

Sacred Sexuality for All

Cleveland, OH group now forming

• Who – Anyone interested in a foundation of Sacred Sensuality and Erotic Spirituality

• What – A series of classes and working sessions designed to give participants both understanding of concepts and actual experiences

• How – Live classes (via audio), coursework, and active participation (Gatherings) lead by a variety of instructors*.

We offer a two to three month training program that covers a variety of sacred sexuality and erotic spirituality aspects. Classes are lead by a variety of instructors and training includes coursework and active participation.

More information can be found at our new website at

http://www.bluecatservices.org/home/path-of-the-qadishti/

Questions? Want to sign up? Use the Contact form on the website and we’ll get you started

* when we bring in instructors, we “pass the hat” to generate a donation for them.

** In you are interested in the Columbus group, you should have received an invitation at this point. If not, please use the contact form for more information.