Love, Sex & Freedom Podcast

Can you let yourself be nourished by life — without needing to earn it? In this replay of the Nectar of Tantra Masterclass, Chantelle and Tara invite us into the art of receiving — of softening control, dissolving effort, and allowing life to move through us. So many of us have learned to give more than we receive. To measure our worth through doing. But what happens when your soul asks you to stop striving and start listening? When pleasure becomes not something you chase, but something you remember? This conversation explores what it truly means to rest in your body, trust your timing, and open to the beauty that wants to meet you. It’s a transmission for anyone learning that ease isn’t weakness, that rest isn’t avoidance, and that the body’s joy is not separate from awakening — it is awakening. Whether you’re a practitioner, partner, parent, or leader — this episode invites you to return to the simplicity of presence and the deep intelligence of pleasure. Inside This Episode: • How to shift from overgiving to overflow • Why rest is the foundation of creation • The nervous system’s role in receiving pleasure • How to recognise when service becomes self-abandonment • The link between the caretaker wound and self-worth • Why pleasure is the pathway to spiritual power There’s something sacred that happens when you stop performing love and start feeling it. When you stop trying to be the light, and realise you already are. This is Tantra as nectar — the sweetness that arrives when you finally let yourself be filled. Top Quotes: “Pleasure is your body’s way of saying: you’re safe to receive.” “Ease is not the absence of devotion — it’s the presence of trust.” “You don’t magnetise through effort. You magnetise through openness.” And when you’re ready to walk deeper, come find us: at the retreats, the trainings, the spaces where pleasure becomes prayer. Resources + Links: Sign up for the waitlist for the 18-month Tantra Practitioner Program: https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/tantra-practitioner-training/ [https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/tantra-practitioner-training/] Check out our Self-Paced Program here: https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/self-paced-tantra-practitioner-training/ [https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/self-paced-tantra-practitioner-training/] Follow us on Instagram: @embodiedawakeningacademy

Can you let yourself feel good? Like, really good... in your body, in your life, in your truth? In this live recording from the Body Transformation Retreat in Bali, Chantelle Raven invites us into a deeper reckoning with what it truly means to expand our capacity for pleasure. So often on the healing path we focus on pain, shadows, trauma, but what happens when life offers you joy, love, beauty, and Eros? Can your nervous system hold that too? This isn’t just about bliss. It’s about reparenting your body to trust the goodness. It’s about staying present when shame rises. And it’s about recognizing that our ability to hold others: clients, children, lovers, is always mirrored by how gently, how powerfully, we’re holding ourselves. If you’re a practitioner, coach, parent, or partner… this is the episode that will open you to a new depth. Inside This Episode: * Why pleasure is just as transformational as pain * The real reason shame is the gatekeeper emotion * How your inner parent shows up in your space-holding * What most people misunderstand about Eros and embodiment * Why deep presence matters more than any technique * How to be with a loved one or client’s breakdown without rescuing or retreating There’s something sacred that happens when we stop trying to fix and start choosing to feel. When we stop holding back our pleasure or running from our shame. This is what it means to live and lead from the body.  To guide not from perfection, but from presence. If this episode touched something in you, let it take root.  And when you're ready to walk deeper, come find us: at the retreats, the trainings, the moments that change everything. Top Quotes: “Pleasure can burn you into truth just as deeply as pain.”  “Shame is the guardian of every other emotion. If you can’t feel it, you’ll keep denying the rest.”  “Don’t expect your clients to go anywhere you haven’t gone yourself.” Resources + Links: Sign up for the waitlist for the 18-month Tantra Practitioner Program: https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/tantra-practitioner-training/ [https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/tantra-practitioner-training/] Check out our Self-Paced Program here: https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/self-paced-tantra-practitioner-training/ [https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/self-paced-tantra-practitioner-training/] Follow us on Instagram: @embodiedawakeningacademy

Why is embodied truth more magnetic than any strategy? Here’s the truth no one tells you: people aren’t responding to your content. They’re responding to your frequency. In this no-filter episode from our Body Transformation Retreat in Bali, Chantelle Raven calls out the spiritual performance trap and reminds us what really creates impact. Highlights: * Why your body is more powerful than your branding * The unseen reason your posts aren’t landing * What not to do with sexuality in content creation * How embodiment creates real resonance * The one thing she’s doing now that created more ease, money, and alignment than ever If you’re tired of trying to “get it right” and ready to lead from truth instead, this episode is for you. Let it strip away what doesn’t belong. Let it remind you why you’re here.  Because this path isn’t about being seen… it’s about being real. 🎧 Listen now on Spotify, Apple, or anywhere you get your podcasts. Quotes from this Episode: “People don’t respond to your content. They respond to your frequency.” “Don’t speak about the fire. Be the fire.” “When pleasure is truly running through your body, the last thing you're going to want to do is hold up a phone.” Resources + Links: Sign up for the waitlist for the 18-month Tantra Practitioner Program: https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/tantra-practitioner-training/ [https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/tantra-practitioner-training/] Check out our Self-Paced Program here: https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/self-paced-tantra-practitioner-training/ [https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/self-paced-tantra-practitioner-training/] Follow us on Instagram: @embodiedawakeningacademy

What happens when the body begins to unravel... not in theory, but in real time? In this unfiltered moment from the Body Transformation Retreat, Chantelle Raven invites you into a deeply personal process. What began as physical pain became a gateway into grief, trauma, and the kind of somatic release most practitioners only read about. You’ll hear what it looks like to stay present through discomfort, how collapse can become a sacred opening, and why healing isn’t always neat or graceful. It's messy, real, and often arrives through sensation not strategy. This is a powerful teaching moment for anyone who holds space for others… or is learning how to hold space for themselves. --- What’s inside:  • When physical symptoms are portals, not problems • Why rage is often a familiar cover for grief • The healing power of letting yourself collapse • How trauma releases when we stop managing it • Why true safety in the body is the foundation of real transformation • The somatic difference between retraumatizing and integrating • The role of parents, pain, and returning what’s not ours • The sacred gold found in what feels most uncomfortable If you're a practitioner, coach, or facilitator or simply someone learning to stay with the uncomfortable, this episode will meet you at your edges. --- Memorable quotes from this episode: “It’s the layers underneath the reaction that hold the root cause.” “The fear of re-traumatization comes from not understanding the power of integration.” “Where you feel most uncomfortable — that’s where the gold is.” --- Resources + Links: Sign up for the waitlist for the 18-month Tantra Practitioner Program: https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/tantra-practitioner-training/ [https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/tantra-practitioner-training/] Check out our Self-Paced Program here: https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/self-paced-tantra-practitioner-training/ [https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/self-paced-tantra-practitioner-training/] Follow us on Instagram: @embodiedawakeningacademy

When you step onto the path of service as a healer, space holder, or practitioner, there’s one truth that always returns: You cannot hold others until you’ve learned to hold yourself. This episode was recorded live at our Body Transformation Retreat in Bali, an integral part of the Tantra Practitioner Training. Inside this space, we don’t just teach tools. We break open. We feel. We remember. Because real service begins with what we are willing to face within ourselves. In this intimate clip, Chantelle Raven shares her own unraveling. A lived experience of chronic inflammation, stored rage, dissociation, and trauma. She speaks to the parts of the healing journey that are rarely named. The ones that don’t look good on paper. The ones that bring us to our knees so we can finally stop performing and start embodying what we teach. This is not about getting it all right.  It’s about getting real.  About learning to stay present in the discomfort you used to run from.  About trusting your body enough to let it lead. In this episode: * How symptoms become teachers when we stop labeling them as blocks * What it actually means to serve from soul instead of strategy * Why spiritual tools can become bypass when truth is avoided * Understanding the role of freeze, collapse, and dissociation * The body as a temple of unresolved grief, ancestral rage, and power * Gut and liver as storage sites for truth that never had permission * Why being embodied is not a performance but a felt experience * What qualifies someone to serve others from integrity, not image This is for the woman who knows she’s here to guide others but still feels there’s something unfinished within her.  For the practitioner who no longer wants to serve from performance but from presence.  For the soul who is ready to let go of image and remember that the real work begins inside. > “You don’t get to bypass the parts of you you’re afraid to feel. Not if you want to hold others in theirs.” > > “The body knows when you’re performing safety. The body knows when you’re faking presence.” > > “You want to be of service? Start by feeling the thing you keep skipping.” Resources + Links: Sign up for the waitlist for the 18-month Tantra Practitioner Program: https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/tantra-practitioner-training/ [https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/tantra-practitioner-training/] Check out our Self-Paced Program here: https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/self-paced-tantra-practitioner-training/ [https://embodiedawakeningacademy.com/self-paced-tantra-practitioner-training/] Follow us on Instagram: @embodiedawakeningacademy