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Advice for Being with Those in Pain
I've come to believe that it's a great act of courage to be with someone who is grieving. It's so easy to feel at a loss in the face of...
Amelia Perkins
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Love Letter from Your Inner Wise Self
For almost 20 years, my friend Jenny Douglas and I have met up to do a practice called Love Letter from Your Inner Wise Self. No matter...
Amelia Perkins
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Temple Time: a practice for lovers
Photo by Nik Nikolia - Unsplash This is a practice for lovers to move into a more tantric, transcendent, transformational -- or just...
Amelia Perkins
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If you find it difficult to receive, here's a secret
People often say to me, “you’re good at receiving”. At first I translated this as “you’re a greedy selfish wench.” But as I felt into it...
Amelia Perkins
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Grief is Wild & Insane
Grief is a wild animal. Here's my first slightly chaotic attempt to track my own grief journey. I was very touched by Rachelle...
Amelia Perkins
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It's not too late... in the Imaginal Realm
Sometimes you can go back and do the thing you most yearn to do.
Amelia Perkins
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Tantra: All of You is Welcome
One thing I love about Tantra is... nothing in you needs to be repressed or denied or left behind… All of you is welcome.
Amelia Perkins
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One Thing I Love About Inner Marriage: Radiance & Safety
One thing I love about inner marriage is when your inner masculine and inner feminine begin to get more oomphy and in relationship, you...
Amelia Perkins
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What is Inner Marriage?
There is the Yang Masculine - the ability to penetrate the world with our ideas and energy. There's the Yin Feminine - our ability to...
Amelia Perkins
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*I Love This* Experiment (My First Video)
A friend and colleague in the tantra world has gifted me a personal assistant to help get my ideas out in the world. How lovely is that?...
Amelia Perkins
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An Experiment: "I Love This"
Here’s an experiment to try. No matter what is happening, whether pleasurable or deeply unpleasurable, pause, breathe, relax and say to...
Amelia Perkins
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Feeling It All At Once
For months people would ask if I was ok and I would reply, “I’m ok not being ok.” But recently something else is happening. There’s a...
Amelia Perkins
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Transformed By Generosity
After this year, I feel transformed by generosity. As some of you know, my husband, Erik, died almost a year ago. And the ride since then...
Amelia Perkins
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An Experiment in Mercy
Grief is a great teacher of radical yin. When our life is shattered or we experience an earth-shaking loss or profound disappointment,...
Amelia Perkins
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The Beloved Body & the Imaginal Realm
I went to Manhattan to see a very beloved Medium. I dressed up. I felt like I was going on a date with my husband, Erik. I knew from one...

Amelia Perkins
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Making Love With Reality
For about two years before Erik died, I’d occasionally hear a voice that said, “When Erik dies, go to ISTA.” This was strange — not so...
Amelia Perkins
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Death, Love & Tantra
Erik and I had been preparing for the day when he would no longer be so embodied. With a 21 year age difference, we knew that someday he...

Amelia Perkins
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Re-imagining the Stages of Grief
Mirabai Starr reimagines Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’s fives stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance) as stations...

Amelia Perkins
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The Face of the Other as Revelation, as Epiphany
The movement to know another is an endless task and an endless work of love. I am thinking of Emmanuel Levinas today, and of Erik, and...
Amelia Perkins
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Loving Each Other in the Cosmic Erotic
I keep thinking of one of the vows Erik and I made when we married that went something like: Let’s love each other in the Cosmic Erotic...
Amelia Perkins
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