Hello, everyone. Welcome to Your SuperPowered Mind. I’m your host, Kristin Maxwell, and in this show, we explore the process of transformation and give you tools and strategies that you can use to transform your own life. Today, I am really excited to be talking to Yuval Mann about conscious sexuality. Yuval Mann is an International Sex Educator, Founder of The Sensual Alchemy School of Integrated Sexuality, and a podcast host. Since his radical transition from Orthodox Judaism to his path as a sex educator, Yuval now helps people bring pure ecstasy into their lives through consciously connected sex and open communication. Yuval, welcome to Your SuperPowered Mind.
Thank you very much. Thank you for having me.
Yes. This is fun because sexuality is such a big part of us and our mind and how we show up in the world, and yet we don’t talk about it that much, at least a lot of us in the regular mainstream world.
Yes. That’s unfortunately the case.
It really is. My first question is always what superpower did you uncover as a result of mastering your mind?
That’s an interesting question. I wouldn’t say I necessarily mastered my mind. I think it’s more of an ongoing process, but love is definitely what comes up for me, and love not in the sense of conditional love that we see in movies of, “You give me, I give you and we rub each other’s egos.” Rather, a deeper sense of oneness and unconditional love for everything, for myself, for people, for everything just as a state of being. I think that’s the superpower that is covered.
Okay, first of all, I love that you pointed out that mastering your mind is an ongoing thing. It is so true. It’s kind of a trick question that I ask, so thank you for calling it out.
I also love what you’re just saying. Oneness and unconditional love, is that something that you were always aware of growing up and as a young man, or is that something that you learned to experience?
I was definitely not aware of that and growing up as I think none of us really is. We don’t live in a culture that prefaces exploring different states of consciousness, at least not in mainstream media or in the way we grow up and being raised. But the more I dove into my own mind both from a spiritual perspective as well as psychedelics, which always been part of my journey, and more and more, I have had glimpses of what it really feels like to be married with the essence of reality, for lack of better terms. Words are limited in explaining things that can only be felt.
I think that’s underlying the story of my ego, which is what I want to have in my life, what I don’t want to have in life, what I think I am based on the story that I was telling myself from growing up, based on my genetics, making and my upbringing and whatever is going on in my life that I’m telling myself is my story. Under all of that, I feel that there is just pure essence and presence of unconditional love and oneness, and which the other people in my life are just a reflection of me and just a part of who I am and have much more compassion towards everything that is around and a desire to serve.Â
That is really quite lovely. And I think that’s what so many of us are seeking to find is that many of us on this journey, that conscious, that connection, and that essence.
And so bringing it around to sexuality, how does sexuality play into all of that? How did you go from being connecting to this essence of reality into, “Hey, I’m going to work with people around sex”?
And I think sexuality came first, actually, since I was most of my life part of a Jewish community, which is very boys-only institutes and you don’t see or speak. Basically, your wife is the first woman that is not your sister or your mom that you ever speak with. Needless to say, not a lot of interaction with other sex growing up as a teenager until I was about 18, and then I went to the Army for three years as a combat soldier, which is obligatory in Israel.
And until I was 21, 22, I didn’t have a chance to even explore my sexuality. I even remember being 14, 15 going through puberty, and being afraid of having these desires, fantasies, and being afraid of masturbating for the fear of what God will do to me, and then having this come out at night as it would. It’s a natural process happening in the body, and then feeling so guilty in the morning and running away, which is a Jewish bathhouse in which you purify yourself and ask for forgiveness and pray and hope that God will not punish me, which drove me later as I left the religion to be extra passionate and curious about discovering what sex is all about or what communication with women is all about.
And I spent the next 10 years from where I was about going out of the Army until now pretty much traveling the world and exploring sexuality, not just as a person in my own experience, but also studying different schools of thoughts and books and learning under different teachers. And it was always there. I realized that the way I express myself sexually in this world has so much to do with how I feel about everything else in my life. It’s such a beautiful meal and a presentation of how I feel about my place in the world and how I’m able to communicate with other people and how I show up.
And just last year, through a very interesting set of coincidences, I started doing that. People just really asked me to help them in their sex life and intimacy and relationships based on our conversations, and then it just started happening.
That’s great. Definitely, you have a more extreme story going from very no contact and no acknowledgment of sexuality into, “The way I express my sexuality is partly who I am or reflects who I am.” We do need to go on a break. When we come back, I want to ask you more about conscious sexuality and how the rest of us living in our world can start to really tune into that. But before we break, where can people find you and learn more about you and what you’re doing?
A few different places. They can go directly to my website, which is yuvalmann.com. Also, my Instagram, which is thecamfraser. Yeah. That’s the best place to reach out to me.
Great. Thank you. And I will, of course, put those in the show notes. Hang on everybody. When we come back, we’ll talk some more about conscious sexuality.
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