Back in NYC

Well, I anticipated being back in New York would be a rush and so it is!

Loved every moment of the Sex Educators Round-up last weekend. Saw old friends and met new. Actually met people who've been my friend on one social media or another and finally said hello face to face.

Was particularly heartened by the astounding acceptance people gave towards Emotional Release (ER) techniques. My talk was Working with Powerful Emotions. Maybe it got billed as Intense Emotions. Anyway, I had 40 mintues to convey how important it is to use sex as a portal to work through these emotions because they are bound to come up. They have to. The 1st and 2nd Chakras house all the survival and emotional cellular memories in our lives.

I called someone up to demo a bioenergetic form of ER. After explaining rhe technique and having him do it, I opened for Q & A. People asked to see me do it to make sure to really see what was meant. Loved it!

Then we did Egyptian Cleansing Breath and the Rapture from Yogaboxing. Everyone really liked it. I can remember when I first showed up teaching Tantra in NYC in 1998and people called me a drill sargeant because they preferred only nicey nicey touchy Tantra back then. Boy have we all come a long way! So happy about it!

I feel it is one of the most important keys to sexual health, personal freedom and transformation.

For more info and to puirchase my self-explanatory CD Shamanic Release & Latihan please visit http://www.ButterflyWorkshops.com.

Emotional Release with Shamanic Release & Latihan CD

When I arrived in West Palm Beach, I was very pent up from a lot of pressure over the last four months and not knowing whether the books would arrive in time for the trade show. In addition, the DVD of the Bliss course I was planning to have in my hands had some technical difficulty in being re-produced. I've only been waiting for that for three years!

So, I walked into Randall's home and said, "I need to do emotional release right now. Care to join me?" He responded, "I know a great CD we can do it with." It did not dawn on me that he was going to put in my CD - Shamanic Release & Latihan by Laurie Handlers . Duh!

I laid down and the CD began. I figured, "I don't need this. I just put on any music lay down, hit the floor and clear in 20 minutes. Maybe he needs this direction." Ha ha on me.

But then I listened to the instructions and followed my voice to the letter. What an expereince! See I listened to the recording when I made it in the studio. And I often listen to it when I visit my MySpace profile. But the truth is that I had never done the process to it.

What was I thinking?

It's so great. I had the thought, "Damn this is good. And it's me! Wow!"

Anyway, it was an amazing experience for me to be facilitated by me. I don't know how to describe it, but it got the job done and then some. I had the release of the decade as far as I am concerned. I highly recommend it. Ha ha ha. You knew I would.

But if you are holding out on yourself about doing Emotional Release, why? What are you waiting for? If you cannot do it by yourself, then by all means get the CD. It will change the planet.

One of my students wrote and said this to me about my sharing of this experience: "This seems to me like a great example of making love to yourself. You let the creative powerful Get It Out There, Get It Up, Get It Now God in you make love to the Receptive, Open-hearted, Ever-Waiting Goddess. The Yin + the Yang of you = the release of the decade."

Yeah Baby, that's what I'm talking about!

Love & Gratitude,
L

When I arrived in WPB, I was very pent up from a lot of pressure over

My Book: Sex & Happiness: The Tantric Laws of Intimacy is out!

I am in West Palm Beach - just did two trade shows over the last two weekends and I'm about to do a Bliss course here this Saturday (in case you know anyone who would like to do it). This past weekend my book finally arrived from my publishers in India. I got 50 advance copies and the others are on the way to New York. Should be arriving first week of May. Yee ha!!!

My point is that Sex & Happiness: The Tantric Laws of Intimacy is here in my hand! I am so happy about it I cannot tell you. My life long dream to write a book is fulfilled now as I write.

This weekend at the WPB Body, Mind, Spirit Expo I felt people looked at me differently when they saw the book and then they saw me. Someone told me this would happen, but I did not know how it would feel and it felt slightly different. Books make people instant experts. I could feel it. I am no longer simply a Tantra teacher. I am now an expert. It feels tangible. Of course Michele, my colleague, made it particularly clear to people who visited the booth that this
was THE book and then this was me standing right here where they could touch me - THE author.

I learned a lot in the process both about writing, about trusting, about working with others who say one thing and have a completely different understanding of what needs to be done and then keeping their word or not. In the end of each segment along the way, I had to let go, surrender totally.

I know what to do differently for the next printing and with the next book and I'm sure I'll still learn some things when all is said and done. And surrender is the main lesson.

Isn't that just the cosmic joke over and over again? Surrender is the main lesson. Breathe and squeeze. Oooo and Ahhhhhhhhhhh!

In the advance order I think I mentioned there were fifty books. They are gone now:-) I sold a lot of them at the show and the rest are in the mail going to those people who advance ordered the book over the last year. What a feeling of accomplishment.

FYI you can order the book online at my website www.butterflyworkshops.com. You have the choice of getting the actual book for $19.99 plus S & H or ordering it as an eBook for $14.99.
Hopefully the two versions will serve everyone's tastes. And I ask you to let others know that they can get a hold of it too.

I plan to have a third option which is a combination of the book and the Shamanic Release & Latihan CD as a package for $35 plus S & H as well. They go hand in hand. In the book I talk a lot about Emotional Release and the CD is the tool I created to help you do it.

I recently had the expereince of doing emotional release to my own CD and it was amazing so I will write about it in the next post.

All I can say is that I am thrilled beyond words and looking forward to your feedback about the book.

If you have leads for book signing places and independent bookstores please feel free to follow up with me about that now. I am ready to take this book to Oprah and to the world.

With so much love & gratitude,
L