Love at Dancing Leaves: a Tantra Memoir

This is the very personal story of one oddly-matched couple's exploration of the ancient meditation path called Tantra. Contrary to the notion of many in the West, Tantra is not about mysterious ways to scorch the sheets more thoroughly - it is a cool science, practical, sensitive, and deeply respectful of the feminine. It is a way that embraces the heart and indeed makes room for all the levels humans operate on. The word means "technique" - and techniques are there in plenty to un-knot the human psyche and allow the flow of nature, in awareness. But this is not a how-to book - it is just a description of what happened to one woman, and whatever she could figure out might have happened to one man; given that he doesn't talk much. Given that he comes from a conservative Republican world light-years away from her own wild international-gypsy butterfly life. They met on the Internet - he flew across an ocean to take her out to dinner - she didn't take him seriously as a suitor, since he was so much younger - and so it began. The book is rich with anecdote, recipes, poems, cat lore, a drawing or two; and the meditations that recur and develop throughout. It's kind of Kama Sutra meets Shopaholic meets Walt Whitman meets Prairie Home Companion. It's unique and joyful, juicy and delicate. It might even open your eyes to new possibilities for love. "Like sipping nectar from acorn cups." - Dalayna Williams "Full of verve and heart." - Diana Richardson, author, Tantric Orgasm for Women and The Heart of Tantric Sex