The foundational teaching defining Purna Asatti, or complete connection: connecting fully to self, others, and reality across every aspect of being, mapped to the chakras, and reframing tantra as enlightenment through connection rather than sexuality alone.
A chakra-by-chakra guide to building complete connection with a romantic partner, moving from trust and grounding at the root through sexuality, individuality, love, truth, and intuition to shared transcendence at the crown.
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A personal, reflective essay on experimenting with Tantra, comparing eastern and western approaches, critiquing their individual focus, and proposing a new Tantra centered on complete energetic connection between two partners rather than personal enlightenment alone.
An introductory roadmap to self-development presenting the author’s model of universal stages of human growth, synthesized from Kegan, Fowler, and others, framed as the guide she wished she had when her own journey began at thirty-one.
An essay arguing that people can only love others to the degree they love themselves, explaining why loved ones’ actions may fall short of their claims, and advising readers to assess others’ self-love and examine their own.
A personal essay on how reducing commitments, possessions, and relationships frees up attention, which in turn enables focused intention and creative flow, and on trusting a let-go, unscheduled approach to balancing writing, music, art, and language.
A brief method for focusing effort in difficult moments by asking what one needs to BE rather than what one needs to do, letting the desired way of being reveal the concrete actions to take.
A reflective essay on choosing to love fully despite inevitable pain, the profound peace found in surrendering to love, and whether lasting peace is simply an open heart held within a carefully constructed boundary.
A teaching essay outlining five kinds of peace — financial, physical, emotional, mental and spiritual — arguing that each must be tended, that you must heal yourself before helping others, and describing the marks of peace in each domain.
A spiritual essay exploring the idea that everyone you meet embodies some aspect of yourself, arguing that recognizing those reflections makes unkindness impossible while revealing which parts of yourself still need forgiveness.
A personal essay arguing that initial objectification is a shared biological reality across genders, distinguishing the fleeting first glance from acted-upon disrespect, and reframing the real goal as equality — equal pay, opportunity and unacceptable violation — rather than asking men to stop objectifying entirely.
A personal essay on love and the revelation that home is not a place but a person — reflecting on finding one’s one true love, the safe and nonjudgmental feeling of belonging, and how that feeling is how you recognize it.