The book page for Make Love Every Day, describing a new Tantra for the connected couple that treats sexuality as one part of a complete connection built through trust, safety, grounding, power, compassion, expression, wisdom and transcendence.
A relationship teaching on celebrating a partner’s individuality, quirks and independent interests through joy, awe and gratitude, and on listening without judgement to encourage their strength of self and honest, reciprocal expression of personal truth.
A teaching reflection on letting go, arguing that you do not need to hate or devalue a job, home, or situation in order to release it, and that change rooted in love and gratitude attracts better outcomes than change rooted in dissatisfaction.
An answer to a reader whose partner is uninterested in relationship exercises, advising them to be the partner they want to have by modeling trust-building, sharing needs and fears, and initiating connection around intimacy and finances by example.
An in-depth teaching on trust as the foundation of intimate partnership, examining how trust differs from expectation, whether it can be rebuilt after being broken, and why trust is fundamentally a risk assessment.
An audience-question answer for someone paralyzed by fear of manifesting the wrong thing — reassuring that fear of one’s own power is healthy, and offering best practices: start small, make requests from positive emotion, and ask for what forwards your purpose.
An audience-question answer explaining that maintaining connection to the divine depends on first maintaining every other layer of connection — to experience, body, mind, needs, others, ideology, questioning, and purpose — sustained through daily habits of sleep, exercise, nutrition, meditation, and service.
An audience-question answer to a man who feels below-average in a looks-obsessed dating culture — explaining that attraction merely opens the gate, that criteria for partners vary widely, and that real love becomes possible only once you know, like, and validate yourself.
An audience-question answer distinguishing attachment, conditional love, and divine unconditional love — explaining why we chase love as validation of our worth, and offering a guide to assess another person’s actual capacity to love based on their stage of growth.
A Stage Eight teaching from the Purna Asatti journey on designing your ideal life once your ideology is principle-based and ego has quieted — being specific and honest across every area, researching what each element requires, and manifesting from positive emotion.
A Stage Three exercise for moving beyond one’s own needs by imagining another person’s situation, feeling what they would need in it, and providing even a small part of that to recognize their shared humanity.
A Stage Three teaching on connecting to sexuality through mind, body, and energy — examining beliefs and past experiences, honoring current needs, and using breath and attention to feel and move sexual energy alone or with a partner.
A Stage Two exercise in identifying and honoring personal needs across physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, medical, and purpose-driven categories, with guidance on examining unhealthy needs and revising the list as life and self evolve.
A teaching essay arguing that expectation, of ourselves and others, is a device for validating a constructed sense of self, and that recognizing there is no fixed self can free us from the stress of the whole cycle.
A teaching on the river metaphor for life, blending fate and free will, explaining how flowing toward your purpose makes life easier, and offering an exercise in appreciating and releasing formative experiences to build trust.
A short teaching proposing that attachment is really expectation, that expecting people or things to comfort or complete us leads to disappointment, and that releasing expectation makes room for genuine connection instead.
A teaching drawing a sharp line between connection, being fully present to another’s truth without needing their presence or approval, and attachment, which needs presence and leads to pain, arguing complete connection can even transcend death.
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.
A reflective journal entry recording insights from morning meditation, exploring the paradox that we receive what we want by releasing desire for it, and allowing infinite energy, joy, and love to flow through us with gratitude.
A short essay on releasing worry about one’s children, recognizing that we cannot know another person’s path or future, and that accepting our not-knowing, offering support, and focusing on our own life serves everyone better.
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.
A reflective essay on holding joy while others suffer, drawing on Buddhist and Hindu perspectives to argue that suffering alongside others helps no one, and that embodying peace and joy is what truly lifts them.
A guidance essay on releasing anxiety over grown children, arguing that worrying about their choices is futile once they are adults, and advising disciplined self-focus, selective responsiveness, and accepting a child’s right to walk their own path.