4 Freedoms Newsletter
Sacred Sexuality in Conscious Relationship

Volume 11 - Number 1, April 2009
Sacred Loving - Spiritual Sex:
Learning For Lovers - Lovers For Life

Al Link and Pala Copeland

Table of Contents

• New Sexy Spiritual Relationships Membership Site New Launch This Summer
• Tantra Sacred Loving Exercise Sensational Scents
• Workshop Highlights
  • Tantra and Romance 5 Star Weekend
  • New! Tantra Refresher
• Humor
• Quotes
• Heart Talk vBook
• Cool Websites
• Sacred Sexuality News
• Featured Kama Sutra Position Lovemaking Position for Pregnancy
• Workshop Sponsors The Hunger Site
• Tell a Friend About Our Newsletter

Sexy Spiritual Relationships Membership Site

You are not entitled to anything,
but you deserve everything,
and you can have it all.

We now have the Kama Sutra video home study course finished and available to premium members. Soon we will have completed the Tantra video home study course for our new launch this summer.

This multi-media home study program will go far beyond anything currently available anywhere on the Internet. The video instruction will be fully integrated with text instruction from our published book 28 Days to Ecstasy for Couples: Tantra Step by Step, also available as a fully illustrated color photo edition electronic book.

Sacred Loving Exercise

Sensational Scents

Your sense of smell is intricately connected to your brain’s memory function and is a source of great erotic pleasure.

Time for Exercise: one or more hours

Properties Required: private vehicle or public transportation

Steps:

1. Identify the locations you will visit, and map out your travel itinerary around town to visit the stores you have selected. Include stores that offer a selection of essential oils and others that offer a selection of fine perfumes.
2. Visit the stores and sniff the sample bottles of essential oils or perfumes to determine your favorites. Many of the finer stores will give you free single application samples of the scents you prefer.
3. At home, experiment with adding your selections to your bathing, lovemaking, ritual, and ceremonial practices:
   • add a few drops of essential oil to your bath water
   • add a drop or two onto the vacuum filter
   • add a drop or two in an essential oil diffuser (with a tea light or specially designed night light)
   • experiment making your own scented massage oil blends
   • add a drop or two onto a piece of cotton and place it in a drawer
   • lightly perfume between your breasts, around your genitals, anus, feet, etc. (being careful of mucous membranes)

Comments:
With essential oils and perfumes, buy the most expensive you can afford. To distill the essence of a fragrance requires a very large quantity of original plant material, hence the high cost for rare quality scents. If your nose is sensitive to smell, the extra cost for the finest fragrances is well worth it.

Health food stores, New Age stores, and many bookstores carry a selection of essential oils. There are also many online retailers. Do a search for essential oils at Google.com and you will easily find a supplier.

Visit Sexy Spiritual Relationships Membership to read the full article “ Perfume.”
Note: You must take at least free membership to access this article.

What's the science behind a sublime perfume? With charm and precision, biophysicist Luca Turin explains the molecular makeup—and the art—of a scent.

Biophysicist Luca Turin studies the science of smell. He's a leading proponent of the vibrational theory of smell -- the idea that when our noses pick up a scent, we're reacting to the vibrational properties of the molecule we're smelling. (This is in opposition to the shape theory of smell, which imagines smelly molecules fitting into conveniently shaped receptors in our noses.)

The Science of Scent Video (15:53) by Luca Turin. Here is some of Turin’s advice for appreciating a fine perfume.

1. Smell top to bottom
   Perfumes usually unfold in three (often very different) stages: the sparkling first few minutes are the fragrance's top note, followed by its true personality, known as the heart note, and ending with the base note, aka the drydown, hours later. Something you love at the counter you may loathe by the parking lot. We recommend top-to-bottom tests on skin and on paper, since some scents that disappoint on the heat of skin may shine on your shirtsleeve.
2. Write it down
   Bring a pen to write names on paper test strips, so you're not in anguish hours later, trying to recall which is the third scent from the left that transports you to Shangri-La. Keep a cheap, possibly extremely trashy paperback on hand, so you can store strips between pages to keep them separate.
3. Rest your nose
   Noses tune out, which is why you can smell your friends' homes but not your own. Smell no more than five scents per day on paper strips and try on only the best one or two, to keep your nose reliable.
4. Check the radiance
   To get a good sense of how the perfume will smell to other people as you walk past, try spraying a test strip and leaving it in the room while you step out for a bit. Come back fifteen minutes later and breathe in: that's the radiance.

This is the rating scale for perfumes and colognes used by Turin and Sanchez. It is possible to find high 4 and 5 star quality ratings for moderately priced scents.

Masterpiece
Recommended
Good
Not Recommended
Avoid

Price
$$$$ Over $200
$$$ From $101 to $200
$$ From $51 to $100
$ From $1 to $50

Masterpiece Perfumes
Boucheron (Boucheron) - massive floral $$
Knize Ten (Knize)  - amber leather $$
Insolence EdP (Guerlain) - Godzilla floral $$$
Homage (Amouage) - incense rose $$$$

Workshop Highlights

Tantra and Romance 5 Star Weekend for Couples

We have scheduled another sexy retreat at the luxury 5 Star Couples Resort, Algonquin Park, Ontario, November 27-29, 2009.

New! Tantra Refresher for Couples

Couples Weekends at Pala & Al's Love Nest

Introduction to Tantra (Weekend 1 of 3): April 24-26 (one space left); May 22-24; June 5-7; June 26-28 (one space left); July 17-19; July 24-26; August 21-23; September 18-20

Intermediate Weekend (Weekend 2 of 3): August 14-16

Evening Introduction in Toronto

Evening Introduction for singles and couples at Good For Her, in Toronto.
Thursday, June 18, 7-10 pm.

Get details of all our workshops

Humor

Flat Tire

Yesterday I had a flat tire on the interstate. So I eased my car over to the shoulder of the road, carefully got out of the car and opened the trunk.

I took out 2 cardboard men, unfolded them and stood them at the rear of my car facing oncoming traffic. They look so lifelike you wouldn't believe! They are in trench coats, exposing their nude bodies and private parts to the approaching drivers.

I started to change my tire, and to my surprise, cars started slowing down looking at my lifelike men. And of course, traffic started backing up. Everybody was tooting their horns and waving like crazy.

It wasn't long before a state trooper pulled up behind me. He got out of his car and started walking towards me. I could tell he was not a happy camper!

"My car has a flat tire," I said calmly.

"Well, what are those obscene cardboard men doing here by the road?"

I couldn't believe that he didn't know. So I told him, "Hello-o-o-o-o-o, those are my emergency flashers!"

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Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a distinct slowdown in the overall performance, particularly in the flower and jewelry applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0. In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5 and then installed undesirable programs such as NFL 5.0, NHL 4.3, MLB 3.0, and NBA 3.6. Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and Housecleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system. I’ve tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, to no avail. What can I do?

Signed,
Desperate Corey

Dear Desperate Corey,

First keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package, while Husband 1.0 is an Operating System. Try to enter the command: C:/ITHOUGHTYOULOVEDME to download Tears 6.2, which should automatically install Guilt 3.0. If that application works as designed, Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the applications Jewelry 2.0 and Flowers 3.5. But remember, overuse of the above application can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Grumpy Silence 2.5, Happy Hour 7.0 or Beer 6.1. WARNING: Beer 6.1 is a very nasty program that will create Snoring Loudly. CAUTION: Whatever you do, DO NOT install Mother-in-Law 1.0 or reinstall another Boyfriend program. These are not supported applications and will crash Husband 1.0. In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have limited memory and crashes easily. You might consider buying additional software to improve memory and performance. I personally recommend Hot Food 3.0 and Lingerie 7.7.

Good Luck,
Tech Support

Quotes

"They said to him, ‘Shall we then, being children, enter the Kingdom?’ Jesus said to them, ‘When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female into a single One... Then you shall enter the Kingdom.” — The Gospel of Thomas

"Great is the road I climb, but the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering." Sextus Propertius (50BC-16AD) Roman Poet

“Many know that the drop
Merges into the ocean,
Few know that the ocean
Merges into the drop.”
Kabir

The Heart Talk vBook

• 67 pages of text
• 36 minutes of embedded instructional video
• 7 video segments
• Al and Pala demonstrate live exactly how to do a Heart Talk
• The Heart Talk only takes a few minutes to do; 15 minutes is a really long Heart Talk

Cool Websites

Worth 1000

Some awesome photos, slideshows, animations, and contests. Enjoy!

Sacred Sexuality News

This scholarly journal includes unpublished articles, abstracts, reviews, and news on the study of Tantras.

Featured Kama Sutra Position

Lovemaking During Pregnancy

From our eBook, Tantra and Kama Sutra Sex Positions, by Al Link and Pala Copeland.

Lovemaking is perfectly normal, and in fact highly desirable during pregnancy, but as the pregnancy enters the last trimester, special care must be taken to avoid pressing weight upon the mother’s belly.

“Lying on her side, facing away, the fawn-eyed girl offers you her buttocks and your penis penetrates the house of love.” Love Teachings of Kama Sutra, by Vatsyayana, translated by Indra Sinha

“My darling, this loving energy we create will nourish the new being growing so securely in your womb of life. Dear God and Goddess, as we honor Thee, please bless our child."

Workshop Sponsors

The Hunger Site

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Warm Love to all of you and thank you for your continued support.
Al and Pala