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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On this weeks show, Francesca Gentillé, Diva of Divine Relationships, award winning co-author of “The Marriage of Sex & Spirit,” reveals savvy tips to becoming a Secret Agent of Sacred Sex.

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Francesca Gentillé is an initiated shaman in 4 traditions, clinical sexologist, empowered aging specialist, and relationship counselor. She is the popular internet radio host of Sex: Tantra & Kama Sutra and co-author of the award-winning sex & relationship book “The Marriage of Sex & Spirit.” Francesca is the co-director of the Integrative Arts Institute, and the founder of The Sacred Courtesan School of Feminine Mystique and Power. She is the creator of the village model of Shamanic Soul Coaching – reclaiming the treasures of spirit lost in the dark of trauma.

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Francesca Gentillé is an initiated shaman in 4 traditions, clinical sexologist, empowered aging specialist, and relationship counselor. She is the popular internet radio host of Sex: Tantra & Kama Sutra and co-author of the award-winning sex & relationship book “The Marriage of Sex & Spirit.” Francesca is the co-director of the Integrative Arts Institute, and the founder of The Sacred Courtesan School of Feminine Mystique and Power. She is the creator of the village model of Shamanic Soul Coaching – reclaiming the treasures of spirit lost in the dark of trauma.

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From: Susan Wright <susanw@ncsfreedom.org>
To: ncsf-announce@serve101.org
Sent: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 3:49 pm
Subject: NCSF Action Alert – Support Winter Wickedness

Action Alert
National Coalition for Sexual Freedom

Support the Holiday Inn Worthington, the Host Hotel for Winter Wickedness

Please make a phone call now to support the Holiday Inn Worthington, the host
hotel for Adventures In
Sexuality's (AIS) Winter Wickedness Event taking place February 6-8th
(www.adventuresinsexuality.org/wicked09.html). The religious extremist group,
Americans for Truth About
Homosexuality, along with a local religious radio station in the Columbus, Ohio,
area are running a
smear campaign against this pansexual BDSM event. 

Peter LaBarbara of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality calls the event "a
freakish sadomasochistic
perversion-fest" and urges people to call the hotel's corporate headquarters to
pressure them into
canceling "for the sake of decency and public health." (www.aftah.org)

Bob Burney, a religious extremist Talk Radio DJ, devoted an entire segment of
his show slamming Winter
Wickedness and attempting to link the event with non-consensual and criminal
activities. He urged his
listeners to call and mount a campaign against the hotel. (Tuesday, Part 3
starting at 10 min 42sec:
http://www.home.wrfd.com/WRFDInsiderPage.htm)

It will only take a minute for you to help! It doesn't matter where you live or
if you're not going to
attend this event. Please call the Intercontinental Hotels Group Corporate
Customer service line at 800-
621-0555, then press option 1, then option 5, and thank them for not
discriminating against groups, and
for being willing to face minor adversity for the sake of our freedom. 

You can also call the Holiday Inn Columbus-Worthington today at 614-436-0700 b
they'll be very glad to
hear a friendly voice to counter the hatred of the religious extremists. 

Suggested points to make:

1. Thank you for upholding the Fair Accommodations Act and choosing not to
discriminate against legal
events.

2. Please don't let a small number of religious extremists manipulate you by
drumming up fear with their
misinformation campaigns.

3. There are over 200 weekend-long BDSM events that take place every year in
America b  we bring in a lot
of revenue in these hard times. We like to stay at hotel chains where we have
been welcomed when we're
traveling on personal or business travel.

4. Organizers of BDSM events such as Winter Wickedness at The Holiday Inn comply
with state and local
laws prohibiting public sexual intercourse and other forms of sexual intimacy.
Demonstrations, lectures
and discussion groups as well as dinners and evening parties compose the variety
of offerings to guests,
nothing different from any of the other hundreds of conventions hosted by your
franchisees on a weekly
basis. 

5. Thank you for standing strong against hate and ignorance.

Please pass this on to your friends to call now!

February 4, 2009

###

The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom is a national organization committed
to creating a political,
legal, and social environment in the United States that advances equal rights of
consenting adults who
practice forms of alternative sexual expression. NCSF is primarily focused on
the rights of consenting
adults in the SM-leather-fetish, swing, and polyamory communities, who often
face discrimination because
of their sexual expression.

National Coalition for Sexual Freedom
822 Guilford Avenue, Box 127
Baltimore, MD 21202-3707
917-848-6544
media@ncsfreedom.org
www.ncsfreedom.org

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

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