In this episode we reflect on the chapter called  - Rupture - Not there - and spaces of fragility and loss with Levitie. I recorded this at the closing of another season of community life on Samothraki, an island of savage windblown beauty. By then Levitie and I had shared 8 months there, living in one communal room, caring for temple spaces or hibernating in a vast home with 8 other people. We talk about the portal of grief, as individuals and community, and how we coax each other back into the home of our bodies. We talk of who were our teachers in love, in the sweetness and the poison, and the rituals that helped us return from the edge of pain and loss. “[my parents’ love taught me] an ability to go through the rupture and repair cycle”

In this episode we reflect on the chapter called - Initiation - with Ashisha, who facilitates the Temple Initiations in Samothraki. We reflect on how initiation is an invitation of love to step into the unknown. Of the precious intimacy felt in these spaces of dissolving. We talk of the balance of discipline and wildness required to face initiation, and of our own explorations between the dervish life and structure.

 “We need to reach the nothing to create something which is a true expression of our divinity”

This podcast features conversations loosely based on the chapters of Joy’s upcoming book of poetry, I Will Come For You.In this episode we reflect on the chapter called - Dakini - Coming home through er.tic worship - with Mandy Rose, a close ally and colleague during my time as a Tantric Bodyworker. We speak of the scope of experiences people experience in a tantric session, the bond of trust between practitioner and client, and how this work has touched our own intimate life. We share on themes of feeling humbled, intimacy through dancing contact improv, the interconnectedness of presence in our practices and in the day to day. “I use the services of escortsas a reflection of high highly I value myself”