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The Michaela Boehm Podcast

Listen to international teacher and relationship expert, Michaela Boehm, as she answers questions about intimacy, dating and relationships.

Learn how to create ‘the spark’, and keep it alive, while staying deeply connected to yourself and others in an increasingly busy world.

www.michaelaboehm.com

Michaela Boehm teaches and counsels internationally as an expert in intimacy and relationships. Born and raised in Austria, Michaela combines her training in psychology and extensive clinical counseling experience with her in-depth training in the yogic arts. A gifted speaker and counselor, her unique body of work centers on the intersection of intimacy and embodiment. Known for her work with high-performing individuals, her ongoing private clients include Oscar-winning actors, multiple Grammy-winning musicians, producers, and business pioneers. Michaela is the Author of “The Wild Woman’s Way” and the founder of The Non-Linear Movement Method®, a powerful somatic release modality. Her work has recently been featured in Gwyneth Paltrow”s Netflix Show “Sex, Love & goop” and Will Smith’s bestselling memoir ‘Will’. She lives on an organic farm in California where she rescues and rehabilitates animals.

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Episode #19: Studs, Masochists, and Deep Relaxation Oct 20, 2017

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In this episode, Michaela Boehm and Steve James offer a Q&A from a recent live 5-Day co-ed intensive. Topics include: • When should I leave a difficult relationship and when should I persevere? • Masochistic relationship patterns • Why are you in relationship? • Using relationships for personal growth • Various motivations for personal growth • Choosing a difficult partner • How childhood patterns influence relationship • The cost of difficult relationships on the nervous system • Tension as the cap of depth • What does it mean to accept someone as they really are? • Why you can’t date potential • Changing a habit in relationships • Michaela on the idea of opposites attract • The foundations of a successful long term relationship • What do I do if I don’t like a particular flavor? • What quality can a man provide that will cause most women to overlook all her complaints? • The local neighborhood stud • Resentments, nagging, and sex • Strategies to unravel negative childhood patterns that affect today’s relationships • How cognitive patterns of conditioning operate • Somatic release vs Cognitive Behavioral Therapy • Michaela’s advice on practicing as a single man ... For instant access courses, events, and teacher training: www.michaelaboehm.com To order Michaela's book "The Wild Woman's Way": https://amzn.to/3FJEBEa Music by Steve James: https://www.guruviking.com/

Episode #18: The Shadow, the Tantric Taliban, and Michaela's Personal Practice Jul 14, 2017

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Join Michaela and Steve in this wide-ranging Q&A from a recent live event. Topics include: • Escaping the Taliban of Tantra • Flavors of men • How to develop your range of sexual flavors • How to integrate new flavors to keep the relationship fresh • How to get your partner out of her head and into her body • How to prepare yourself for relationship when you’re not in the mood • Shortcuts to embodiment • How to get feedback in a relationship • Learning how to say an open hearted 'no' • Boredom as a portal • How to work with boredom in practice • How to practice when traveling or sick • Michaela’s commitment to practice • Michaela’s 3 motivations for practice • The shadow defined • How your shadow limits your life • The pros and cons of yoga • How to effectively develop your body • Learning how to set proper boundaries • Why so many women struggle to set boundaries • How to end a relationship with an open heart • Yogic strategies for working with nausea • Energetic circulation practices • Michaela’s opinion on kegels and pelvic floor weakness • Michaela’s #1 pelvic floor exercise for women • Practical hacks to opening your heart • Working with numbness • Sex and the shadow • Freeing shadow energy for creativity and sex ... For instant access courses, events, and teacher training: www.michaelaboehm.com To order Michaela's book "The Wild Woman's Way": https://amzn.to/3FJEBEa Music by Steve James: https://www.guruviking.com/

Episode #17: Freeing Patterns, Energetic Mastery, and the Tantric Wedding Singer Jun 15, 2017

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In this episode, Michaela Boehm and Steve James offer a Q&A from their Lineage and Liberation Workshop. Topics include: • Body-based trauma approaches • Summary of the emergent field of somatic trauma research • The subtleties and pitfalls of releasing trauma in the body • The Grinberg Method • The pitfalls of cathartic release approaches • The Non-Linear Movement Method® as a trauma release approach • How to unlock sensitivity • The paradigm of pain • Working with the stress response • Sensitivity and overwhelm • The importance of learning distinctions • How to improve psycho-sexual reaction time • How to radically increase bodily pleasure • Psychedelics and trauma release • Catharsis and retraumatization • The psychology of addiction • How Michaela teaches people to work with anxiety • The mechanics of a panic attack • Detecting unconscious energy leaks • Escaping energy vampires • Childhood patterns that create vulnerability to exploitation • The different lines of Kashmiri Shaivism and establishing authenticity • Steve on The Tantric Wedding Singer • The root text of Michaela’s lineage • The role of discipline in tantric training • Michaela’s advice to younger women ... For instant access courses, events, and teacher training: www.michaelaboehm.com To order Michaela's book "The Wild Woman's Way": https://amzn.to/3FJEBEa Music by Steve James: https://www.guruviking.com/

Episode #16: True Radiance, Beyond Youth, and Healing Heartbreak May 19, 2017

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In this episode, Michaela Boehm offers a women's Q&A, recorded live at a Wild Woman's Way workshop. Topics include: •Strategies for unraveling patterns of sexual shame •Should I quit my job to become more feminine? •Is my career killing my sex-life? •Michaela’s pre-work morning ritual to stimulate creativity and productivity •Strategies for accessing feminine pleasure amidst a stressful working life •Training and conditioning the body for both work and pleasure •Michaela’s strategies for keeping pleasure on tap throughout the work day •What are men are attracted to? •The role of youthful beauty in attracting men •Secrets of how to attract a man when you are no longer physically young •How to cultivate powerful radiance as you age •Superficial radiance and superficial men •Attracting a deep man •Angela Farmer as an example of a woman with a radiant love body in her late 70s •True radiance vs fake radiance •Why typical tantric dogma disempowers women •The magnetism of radiance •How to manage unwanted attention as a radiant woman •How to awaken and enliven the pelvic floor •Learning the different layers of the pelvic floor and vagina •Men’s arousal cycles and how they learn about sex •The links between early sexual trauma and the availability of hardcore pornography •Michaela’s controversial advice about ensuring heart connection in sex with a new partner •Practical advice on healing heartbreak •Why it’s so important to address sexual trauma as soon as possible •How unhealed sexual trauma reappear to haunt you in later life ... For instant access courses, events, and teacher training: www.michaelaboehm.com To order Michaela's book "The Wild Woman's Way": https://amzn.to/3FJEBEa Music by Steve James: https://www.guruviking.com/

Episode #15: The Wild Woman's Way Apr 06, 2017

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In this episode, Michaela Boehm offers an in-depth look at her powerful body of work for women: The Wild Woman's Way®. Recorded live at a workshop in Europe, this episode lays out deep principles of sacred feminine consideration as well as a biographical account of Michaela's history in women's work, her early tantric training, and stories of her original teacher. Topics include: •Michaela’s background in women’s practice •The story of Michaela’s first teacher •What tantra really has to offer the modern woman •The death and lineage transmission of Michaela’s first teacher •Considerations for women in high stress lifestyles •The Origins of the Wild Woman's Way •Women’s unique energetic systems •The importance of embodiment for women •The principles of energetic training •Misconceptions about femininity •Embodiment and feeling •Strategies to avoid feeling •Retraumatization in tantra workshops •Effective strategies to release old pain •Living from the heart •How do you get more pleasure? •The Non-Linear Movement Method® •Widening your repertoire of energetic flavors •Finding and bringing out your own unique flavor and gifts •How to recover from having opened too far in aggressive tantra workshops •The vagus nerve in women •Can I be feminine and still kick ass? •How do I attract a man when I feel shut down? ... For instant access courses, events, and teacher training: www.michaelaboehm.com To order Michaela's book "The Wild Woman's Way": https://amzn.to/3FJEBEa Music by Steve James: https://www.guruviking.com/

Episode #14: The Witch, the Jesuit, and the Tantrika Mar 28, 2017

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In this episode, Michaela Boehm and Steve James share an excerpt from a wide-spanning lecture on the five elements as found in tantric sexual practice, shamanism, and more. Topics include: •Why the five elements are at the core of most esoteric practices •Different ways to think about the elements as a modern person •Michaela’s early training in the five elements •Stories of the herb witch of Michaela’s childhood village •Comparing the use of the five elements in the world’s shamanic tradition •The influence of the shamanistic religion on Bon on Tibetan Buddhism •Lessons to learn from the absorption of Tibetan folk religion into Buddhism •Catholic-Celtic crossovers and Rudolf Steiner in Austria •Tantric terms for the elements •The senses and the elements •The properties of ether •The elements in God sex and advanced tantric practice •The light and dark sides of each element •The elements as a typology system of personality •Further explanation of application of the earth element •Earth and pleasure and sexual practice ... For instant access courses, events, and teacher training: www.michaelaboehm.com To order Michaela's book "The Wild Woman's Way": https://amzn.to/3FJEBEa Music by Steve James: https://www.guruviking.com/

Episode #13: Lineage and Liberation - Healing Family Trauma, Freeing the Line Mar 26, 2017

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In this episode, Michaela Boehm shares from her Lineage and Liberation Workshop. Topics include: • Your unique imprint of love • How childhood experiences determine future relationships • How early parental influence affects our strategies for getting love • Why negative relationship dynamics can be interpreted as love by the inner child • Why do we turn our lovers into our parents • Family stories and mottos • The emerging science of epigenetics • The good news about healing trauma • The very surprising methods that actually work to address familial trauma • Ethno-botanicals and shamanism • The key elements of shamanic ritual that heal ancestral wounds • The breaking of taboos in Michaela’s lineage as a shamanistic technique • The benefits of understanding your lineage ... For instant access courses, events, and teacher training: www.michaelaboehm.com To order Michaela's book "The Wild Woman's Way": https://amzn.to/3FJEBEa Music by Steve James: https://www.guruviking.com/

Episode #12: The Art of Touch, Building Shamanic Power, and the Genius of the Heart Feb 17, 2017

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In this episode, Michaela Boehm hosts a lively Q&A from her second session of the Special Instruction Series on sexual yoga. Topics include: •The art of touch •How to develop sensitivity to your partner’s body and tensions •Various theories of the subtle body •How physical tension affects the shape of the subtle body •The halo effect in saints and gurus •How to release and open the subtle body through touch •How to move energy with attention •Higher considerations than masculine and feminine in the subtle body •Shamanic power and the subtle body •The links between classical deity yoga and partner practice •Difference in roles between oneness and polarity •Stickiness and being the shamanic hollow tube •How to clear the subtle body from the daily accumulation of stress and strain •Needy touch vs clean touch •The essential prerequisites of cosmic sex •The effects of porn on sex •The unique sexual conditioning of the younger generation •Addressing erectile dysfunction •The relativity of the heart •Practice and genius •Generosity the greatest gift •Skills vs salvation •The building blocks of relationships •Irreconcilable differences in spiritual orientation •Solving lack of sexual attraction •Applying the weekend’s lesson practically in relationship •What to do if you partner isn’t interested in Tantra ... For instant access courses, events, and teacher training: www.michaelaboehm.com To order Michaela's book "The Wild Woman's Way": https://amzn.to/3FJEBEa Music by Steve James: https://www.guruviking.com/

Episode #11: Pleasure Practice, Breath, and Tantric Freedom Jan 01, 2017

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In this episode, Michaela Boehm and Steve James share two lectures and a Q&A directly from their Teacher Training program. Topics include: • Pleasure practice lecture • Uncovering background pleasure • Bridging the gap from numbness to orgasm • How to not be dependent on a partner for pleasure • Using background pleasure to be a better lover • Finding pleasure • Spreading pleasure through the body • Developing conductivity • Internal vs external stimulation • Yawning and conductivity • The yawngasm • Having options vs chasing • The sensual monk • Throwing off energy vs full expression • Conducting sounds with pleasure • Embodiment lecture • Ambient sensory noise level • Techniques to spiral from the gross to the subtle • Intimacy without imposition • Breathing techniques for the embodiment • Moving what you’re feeling • Non-linear Movement Method® • Movement strategies for the embodiment • True expression vs performance • Working with anger, sadness, and numbness • Moving the mover • The natural momentum of the orgasm • Optimizing conditions • The pleasure-pain calculation • Subterranean conditioning • The influence of music • How to avoid the performance trap • Confusion as openness • The tantric underpinnings of the Non-Linear Movement Method® • Moving as everything • Self-improvement vs self-inquiry • Moving old patterns ... For instant access courses, events, and teacher training: www.michaelaboehm.com To order Michaela's book "The Wild Woman's Way": https://amzn.to/3FJEBEa Music by Steve James: https://www.guruviking.com/

Episode #10: Secrets of the Human Energy System, Unblocking Pleasure, and Whole Body Ecstasy Dec 12, 2016

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In this episode, Michaela Boehm and Steve James share a Q&A excerpt from the first installment of their Sexual Yoga Special Instruction Series. Topics include: •Steve on the relationship between tension, stretching, and mobility •Healing major surgery trauma through movement •The mechanics of acquiring effortless skill •How somatic learning can inform your everyday life •The role of confusion in learning •Michaela on the shock-therapy approach to personal growth •Why sometimes you have to live out your strong attractions •How to make your own distinctions •Leveraging the body for psychological payoffs •Pushing your edge and the self image •The spiritual hamster wheel •Energetic conductivity and resistance •Sensitivity and discrimination •The human energy system and full body orgasms •Identifying resistance in the system •The glass ceiling of tension in sexual yoga •Upping the pleasure threshold •The effect of initial sexual experiences on future pleasure •How to unblock orgasm problems in a woman •Clitoral vs G-spot orgasms •Using the G-spot to unlock whole body pleasure •Relaxed or limp? •The role of tension in pleasure •Working with unconscious relationship dynamics •God sex and co-dependency •Can I be intimate with abandonment issues? •Intimacy and fundamental loss •How can I practice sexual conductivity in the body without a partner? ... For instant access courses, events, and teacher training: www.michaelaboehm.com To order Michaela's book "The Wild Woman's Way": https://amzn.to/3FJEBEa Music by Steve James: https://www.guruviking.com

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