4 Freedoms Newsletter ©
Sacred Sexuality in Conscious Relationship

Volume 12 - Number 3, August 2010
Sacred Loving - Spiritual Sex:
Learning For Lovers - Lovers For Life

Al Link and Pala Copeland

Table of Contents

• Workshops
  • Costa Rica 2011 Register by September 15 & save $1000!
  • Couples' Weekends
  • Goddess for Women Registration Deadline August 31
• Al and Pala's Love Nest for Sale
• Humor
• Quotes
• Cool Websites
• Featured Kama Sutra Position "Pressed"
• Featured Exercise "Baby Body"
• Sexy Spiritual Relationships Membership Site
• Workshop Sponsors
• All the Way to Enlightenment for Two™
• Tell a Friend About Our Newsletter

Workshops

Tantra Valentine Retreat in Costa Rica February 12- 19, 2011

Reserve your space by September 15 and Save $1000! Yes, summer is still with us, but it won't be long before the snow flies, so we're encouraging you to look ahead and picture what you'd like to be doing during the heart of the winter. Why not join us in sunny, sexy Costa Rica?

We have booked the 10,000 sq. foot, luxury, ocean-side estate, Palacio Tropical, for eight days and seven nights, February 12-19, 2011 (including Valentine’s Day!).

We have the entire property to ourselves. This will be our most luxurious and sexy Tantra retreat ever. “Palacio Tropical is the most beautiful place we have ever stayed, bar none, and we have been all over the world.” (Guest comment.) Space is limited to only 7 couples (eight couples counting your Tantra guides Pala and Al).

In winter, in February, life is a beach!

Every couple has a spacious en-suite ocean-view room. Just step out of our front door and you are at the beach: private, quiet, an endless expanse of white sand, the sound of the surf, the smell of salt, sun, tropical flowers and fruit, and sunshine every day all day (while it snows back home!).

Reserve by September 15 and save $1,000! Say YES! Now. Plus get a free lifetime Sexy Spiritual Relationships membership – a $700 value!

More Info: http://www.tantra-sex.com/tantraincostarica.html

Register Now! http://www.tantraloving.com/cr-register.html

Awakening Your Goddess: Women's Weekend

Friday, October 1 - Sunday, October 3
at Ecology Retreat Centre, near Toronto

At this weekend retreat for women only you'll have a safe environment in which to learn how to break through your barriers and reclaim your sensual spiritual goddess. Celebrate the awakening of your divine self in this relaxed, informal group. Registration deadline is August 31

Our Love Nest - near Pembroke ON Canada

Couples’ Introduction to Tantra

Workshop Dates:September 24-26, October 22-24, October 29-31, November 5-7, November 26-28, December 3-5, December 10-12

Couples Intermediate Tantra (Weekend 2 of 3) - November 12-14

Visit our workshop registration page to confirm availability and to register for a weekend that you’ll remember for the rest of your lives.

Get details of all our workshops

Al and Pala's Love Nest FOR SALE

So, now is your chance to purchase your own piece of paradise - #59 G Drive! Our beautiful two-story, cedar, waterfront home can be yours. Less than 2 hours from Ottawa, it fronts on a wide sandy beach with sumptuous views across Allumettes Lake (a broad expanse that is part of the Ottawa River).

Whether you're looking for an idyllic retirement setting, or a year-round getaway, you'll find this to be the perfect location.

Take a look at the Virtual Tour

View the full MLS listing.

And, for more information contact our realtor Kathleen Matechuk
by or by phone: 1-819-458-3197

You can also with any questions too!

Humor

There was a perfect man who met a perfect woman. After a perfect courtship,they had a perfect wedding. Their life together was, of course, perfect.

One snowy, stormy Christmas Eve this perfect couple was driving along a winding road when they noticed someone at the roadside in distress. Being the perfect couple, they stopped to help.

There stood Santa Claus with a huge bundle of toys. Not wanting to disappoint any children on the eve of Christmas, the perfect couple loaded Santa and his toys into their vehicle. Soon they were driving along delivering the toys. Unfortunately, the driving conditions deteriorated and the perfect couple and Santa Claus had an accident.

Only one of them survived the accident. Who was the survivor?

The perfect woman.

She's the only one that really existed in the first place. Everyone knows there is no Santa Claus and there is no such thing as a perfect man..

* A Male's Response *

So, if there is no perfect man and no Santa Claus, the perfect woman must have been driving. This explains why there was a car accident.

Quotes

"We are already one. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are."
Thomas Merton

"The greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being."
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."
Leo Buscaglia

Cool Websites

The Onion.

Featured Kama Sutra Position

Pressed

She has to be fairly flexible for the Pressed position. Her legs are pulled up tight to her body and her feet rest flat against his chest. She can’t move much in Pressed, but she can influence his thrusting rhythm by pushing with her feet.

Some women are really turned on by the sense of containment the Pressed position brings. They love the feeling of utter surrender to their masterful lover. But for many others that thrill of captivity needs to be tempered with the knowledge that they’re safe and respected. So, focus your attention on your feelings for her, not just your physical sensations, and let your reverence show in your eyes. Softly speak her name and tell her how magnificent she is.

Excerpted from our Kama Sutra Super Sex eBook
byAl Link and Pala Copeland

Baby Body

Safety, security, acceptance, and belonging are universal human needs. The Baby Body exercise offers these things as unconditional gifts of love.

Time for Exercise: 5 minutes

Steps:
One of you holds the other with unimaginable tenderness, as if you were holding a trembling infant. Gently rock and caress your lover as you whisper words of comfort, safety, acceptance, and caring.

Comments:
This is not intended as a sexual activity. It is very important to offer this as an unconditional gift of love and caring. No performance of any kind is required from the one receiving this gift. Don’t let the utter simplicity of this activity fool you; it is immensely powerful and effective. Do this exercise once a week for each other. You can also offer it to your children, your parents, your brothers and sisters, and your friends.

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Enlightenment for Two: Finding the Holy Grail
by Al Link

The Holy Grail

I held the Holy Grail for approximately one hour. This was an experience of enlightenment (Mahamudra in Shivaic Tantrism and Tibetan Buddhism). I was able to partially transmit the experience to Pala within minutes by touching our bodies together; hence we refer to our spiritual path as Enlightenment for Two. The illumination receded over succeeding weeks restoring the more familiar ego centered consciousness, much to my chagrin. Receding of the expanded consciousness is not uncommon according to many other enlightened authors, e.g., David Hawkins:

   Advanced spiritual seekers often fluctuate in and out of this ‘presence of the Beloved’ as they approach enlightenment; this loss of the higher state and descent to a lower one is identified in both Eastern and Western literature as an ‘anguish of the soul.’

Tantric and Ch’an master Daniel Odier recounts an exchange with his guru Lalita Devi.

   Daniel Odier: ‘Is awakening subject to transformation?’

   Lalita Devi: ‘All nature is subject to transformation. An awakening that isn’t in accord with the deep nature of things gradually becomes diluted. One morning, you open your eyes but you’re no longer awake. A Ch’an master speaks of the slow polishing of the awakening. That’s it. It’s not enough to find a raw nugget. It’s necessary to let life run over it until the gold dazzles the entire universe.’

From the experience I will draw conclusions and make interpretations of meaning, but I am doing so from memory, albeit memory profoundly affected by the illumination. There may be errors in my accounting of the experience and the conclusions I draw from it, but this in no way detracts from the truth of the experience or its ultimate value. As you read books about enlightenment, something to note is if there is reference to actual personal experience or merely conjecture, ideas and concepts.

As Paul Tillich says: “I started with the experiences of the holy and advanced to the idea of God and not the reverse way.” It makes no difference whether you start from an idea or an experience, but understand that the experience is what really matters, not the idea or concept. Don’t make the mistake of confusing the words for the experience; don’t be like the man who goes into the restaurant and eats the menu instead of the meal.

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