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Catherine Auman LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist) is the author of the bestselling The Tantric Mastery Series, as well as other books for personal and spiritual growth, relationships, and sacred sexuality. Her books have won the Nautilus and National Indie Book awards, and her book Tantric Dating was named one of the Best Dating Books of All Time by BookAuthority.

Catherine is a spiritual psychotherapist and the Director of The Transpersonal Center in Los Angeles, California. She has advanced training in traditional psychology as well as the wisdom traditions. Catherine lived for a year at the Osho ashram in India – a full-time immersion in tantra and meditation – and she has studied and practiced tantra, love, sex, intimacy, an
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Joy is Always a Non-Thought Away

I often tell my clients and the participants in my workshops about Osho’s technique of envisioning ourselves as headless people. It always makes me laugh:

“Just drop it, be headless. Try it as a meditation. It is one of the most beautiful Tantra meditations. Walk, and think that the head is no longer there, just the body. Sit, and think that the head is no longer there, just the body. Continuously

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