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Cultivating Inner Harmony: The Mandala as a Map
Dr. Gretchen Blycker introduces Episode 2 of The Sacred Garden Mandala, framing sexual well-being as something cultivated with compassion, curiosity, and embodied awareness rather than fixed through performance.
She offers the mandala and garden as organizing metaphors and presents “two views of the mountain” (developmental skill-building and discovery/remembering) to avoid either endless self-improvement or bypassing wounds. Using four lenses—mindful sexual health, phenomenological/non-dual language, optimal intimacy research (Kleinplatz and Ménard), and Vajrayana mandala/five elements—she…
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