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BARBARA CARRELLA<\/strong> is an author, artist, innovator, instigator and thought leader in the fields of sex, gender and spirit.<\/p>\n

She is also a sex\/life coach, sex educator, workshop facilitator, university lecturer, motivational speaker and theater artist. She is the author of Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century,\u00a0Ecstasy is Necessary: A Practical Guide to Sex, Relationships and Oh So Much More, and\u00a0Luxurious Loving: Tantric Inspirations for Passion and Pleasure.<\/div>\n
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Barbara currently offers inspiring and life-changing workshops, lectures, and keynotes on a variety of topics to individuals, schools, conferences, businesses, and the arts.<\/div>\n
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\nBarbara is also a Sex\/Life coach, offering her clients sex information and education, emotional and mental rebalancing, intuitive readings, resources and referrals. The essence of her work is the inseparable connection between your sex life and the rest of your life, and the happy integration of body, mind, and spirit.<\/div>\n
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Barbara brings a holistic, metaphysical, practical, humorous, entertaining and gender-fluid approach to conscious sexuality and to all her work. She began her work in metaphysics and conscious sexuality during the AIDS crisis in the late 1980\u2019s\u2014a time when the connections between sex, spirit and healing were at their most strained. Barbara has facilitated countless healing circles and support groups for women, men, trans and non-binary people, artists, people with life-threatening illnesses and people with HIV\/AIDS. For four years she was a facilitator for and on the Board of Directors of the New York Healing Circle, which was founded in response to the AIDS crisis and incorporated the principles of Louise Hay\u2019s work. As her workshops grew in popularity and in attendance, her work expanded to include people from all walks of life and in all stages of sexual evolution.<\/div>\n
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The more Barbara explored sex and consciousness, the more she saw the possibilities for healing and expanded consciousness in all forms of \u201csacred\u201d practices, including Tantra, Tao, Quodoushka, Reiki, breathwork, metaphysics, performance, ritual, herbal medicine, bodywork, erotic massage, commercial sex work and BDSM. Her books and her workshops are an eclectic mix of sexual and spiritual practices designed to encourage readers and participants of all sexual preferences and genders to expand their capacity for both pleasure and spiritual fulfillment.<\/div>\n
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Barbara has lectured at many educational institutions, including Harvard University, Brown University, Vassar College, Barnard College, Sara Lawrence College, Wesleyan University, the Chicago Art Institute and Yale University. She frequently collaborates with her partner, Kate Bornstein, with whom she performs and tours their sex positive, gender-bending lecture\/performance piece\u00a0There And Back Again:\u00a0An Epic Tale of Sex, Death, and Gender<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Barbara is a certified sexologist (ASC, American College of Sexologists) and a member of AASECT (American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists).<\/p>\n

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To see more about her books please click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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