Michael
Pooley
(also known as Dharma Bodhi) is the founder of The Art of Ecstatic Love™
and a Certified SkyDancing Tantra Teacher®.
He offers fun, practical workshops and classes, sacred pujas and events,
and private sessions focused on cultivating intenton, awareness, and
joy in relationships and in everyday life.
Michael's
work and teachings embody the tantric approach to ecstatic living,
conscious loving, sexual healing, and sacred sexuality. His work integrates
a lifetime of study and exploration of Tantra, yoga, meditation, psychology,
breath and energy work, bodywork, music, movement, self discovery,
and the creative process. His teachings and insights reflect his passion
for and experience with applying tantric principles in the bedroom,
in the living room, and in the board room.
Background
& Expertise
Michael
is certified, licensed, and empowered by Margot
Anand (world-renowned Tantra master and best-selling author) to
teach the SkyDancing Tantra® methods and
techniques for healing and transformation. He has been facilitating
SkyDancing Tantra programs for six years, co-teaches with Margot
across the United States, and co-taught the SkyDancing Tantra Professional
Facilitators Training & Teacher Certification
Program, which concluded in November, 2007.
In
addition to his role as a senior teacher in the SkyDancing Tantra
lineage, Michael's background and training spans two decades working
with with neo-tantra teachers such as Bodhi Avinasha, Maryse Cote,
Robert Frey, Danier Odier, and Charles and Caroline Muir; taoist and
Qi Gong master Mantak Chia; and tantric and buddhist scholars Dr.
John Mumford, Robert Svoboda, and Kenneth Ray Stubbs. His methods
and techniques for sexual healing and conscious relationship have
been further developed through extensive work and studies with Jack
Painter, Ph.D; Dr. Peter Levine; Carlo Pati and Sohini Genevieve;
as well as best-selling authors and relationship experts John and
Jennifer Wellwood, Dr. Terrence Real, and Gay and Kathleen Hendricks.
And his spiritual perspective and meditation practices have been strongly
informed by Osho, Pema Chodren, Thich Nhat Hanh, Lama Yeshe, and H.H.
the 14th Dalai Lama.
Services & Offerings
Michael
offers workshops, classes, pujas, private coaching & counseling
services – all of which are equally appropriate for singles,
couples, and partners. These include:
• Beginning-to-Intermediate Tantra Instruction
• Intermediate-to-Advanced Tantra Instruction
• The Art of Orgasm: Multi-Orgasmic Response for Men, Women,
and Couples
• Pelvic-Heart Integration & Sexual Healing (Identifying,
Healing, and Re-Patterning Sexual Wounds and Behaviors)
• Sexual Education, Intimacy Coaching
• Chakra/Energy Healing Touch
• Reiki Energy Healings and Conscious Touch Bodywork
SkyDancing
Tantra - The Path to Bliss
SkyDancing
Tantra teaches you to choose with awareness what brings pleasure
and joy - a path that opens the door to a deeper connection with spirit
and a greater sense of aliveness and well- being. SkyDancing Tantra
combines ancient secrets and modern techniques to awaken your ecstatic
potential, open your heart, heal and honor your sexuality, and cultivate
love as an art form and a path to spirit.
As
a Certified Teacher and professional facilitator of SkyDancing Tantra,
Michael is committed to Margot Anand's SkyDancing
Tantra Ethical Standards & Guidelines (36K PDF). He and Marilynne
Chophel
helped Margot to develop these guidelines because they share her vision
of preserving and upholding the highest level of integrity for the
teaching and practice of Tantra.
