Barbara currently offers inspiring and life-changing workshops, lectures, and keynotes on a variety of topics to individuals, schools, conferences, businesses, and the arts.

It’s designed for anyone working with sex and sexuality. You could be a massage provider, a sex therapist, a yoga instructor, you could be a sex worker. You could be any of those things or more. The training is for people who already have a basic confidence in their work or in the work they want to be doing, but they are yearning for something more. Everybody who comes to the course, comes with a struggle or issue where they want to get better at.Practices – This is a transformative programme because it is experience based learning meaning, you don’t just sit around and talk about these things, I invite you to practice and embody what we explore and this is what creates lasting change. I operate on mutual respect, which is a key quality for developing healthy relationships. Confidentiality is assured. I see it as my job to give people permission and possibilities. And the course is an invitation to join Urban Tantra ® as a community and ever evolving practice. As opposed to being certified in something that is rooted in a particular time. This is concrete in that we now have a closed Facebook group where we’re sharing successes and failures,

Note: All genders, sexual preferences and relationship configurations welcome. No nudity or explicit sexual touch is involved in any of the classes. What I appreciate about Barbara’s work is more what I appreciate about her as a person than her particular curriculum. It’s her generosity and interest in engaging a range of sexuality professionals. It’s her ability to see connections where many of us don’t, and encourage us to see them in ways that help us learn to do more, and do it better. She’s also funny, without ever being mean or narrow minded, and a great presenter, two rare qualities in any teacher. When I heard that Barbara was doing a training for professionals in San Francisco I wanted to know more. Neither of us had much time, and this interview took place just before Passover, so here are four questions on Urban Tantra ®. Barbara Carrellas is a brilliant writer. She has a unique way of making her readers feel comfortable exploring avenues of sexuality they have longed to know about. To Barbara, being sexual is as normal and comfortable as breathing, and she would like all of us to feel this way.” — Louise Hay, author of Empowering Women and You Can Heal Your Life How to give your client/student what s/he/they want and need without compromising the integrity of your process.Working with people who are doing such different work must be a challenge. What do you tell people to come with to be prepared? The most effective marketing techniques to connect you with new clients, plus effective screening protocols to ensure that only the perfect clients arrive on your doorstep. Education – There is so much to learn about how your body, your anatomy for pleasure, desire, arousal, your orgasmic potential, how to move beyond goal based sex and SO much more. With more than one hundred easy-to-follow techniques for expanded orgasmic states and solo and partner play (as well as more adventurous practices), this in-depth guide reveals the delicious worlds of ecstasy available to all, no matter one's gender, sexual preference, or erotic tastes. Urban Tantra expands the notions of pleasure and opens new heights of intimacy and sexual fulfillment. Intimate Sexuality and Intimate Relating are my unique systems of practical intimacy and sex coaching and education which have been developed from over a decade of working with clients. These 2 road maps give you the structure and tools to support you to awaken / transform your sex life and intimate relationships, in a way that feels true to you. We do this through a mix of coaching, education and practices:

Perfect for letting go, building trust and learning to ask for what you want. Eroticism at its best’. (John). Barbara has written numerous articles about sex, including a wildly popular series of feature articles for the sex magazine Over 40, highlighting the lives and wisdom of the stars of the “golden age” of porn. She has also written and produced The Pleasure Principle, an educational audio series. Barbara Carrellas talks in Urban Tantra about making space for sexual desire, and she recommends a brief meditation. Her book has a number of different suggestions and is definitely worth a read. I do a few breaths to ground myself in my body. You might try some different techniques.When intimacy and sex have been a source of stress or worry, my clients find that the sessions bring fun and lightness to these areas of your life. The programme gives you the focus and the structure for lasting change to happen. It is my calling and passion to open up the portal of our minds and the garden of our bodies so that we may access our true purpose, limitless potential, and radiant bliss. Certified Sexological Bodyworker (CSB) from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco This option is helpful to those who are sexually inexperienced, have disabilities, in transition, suffering from a mental or physical issue such as anxiety, sex abuse or trauma, Erectile Dysfunction (ED), Premature / Rapid Ejaculation, sexual confusion, social or religious persecution, and more.

Please note: To keep this work sustainable for me, I evaluate your desires against my “yes” and work with clients on a case-by-case basis.

If masturbation isn’t working for you, or you’re getting frustrated trying to be sexual, that’s OK. Everyone has a different stress response. We’re all going through a very strange time. We’re going to be feeling off, exasperated, frazzled. You might need a different form of self-care right now. Additionally, I have over a decade of Neo-Tantra training and I taught Neo-Tantra for six years, completed four years of intensive training on a Shamanic path with the Deer Tribe, have a decade of studying Taoism with Barry Spendlove of Healing Tao Britain and Minke De Vos, author of Feminine Treasures and a decade working with plant medicines. Yes, as well as 2x3m for the table, you'll need to supply towels or bedsheets to cover the massage table and yourself. Barbara Carrellas is an author, sex educator, and theater artist. Her pioneering Urban Tantra® workshops were named best in New York City by TimeOut/New York magazine. She is also the cofounder of Erotic Awakening, a groundbreaking series of workshops that toured the United States and Australia. Barbara has been featured in several episodes of HBO’s Real Sex. She is also the author of Luxurious Loving: Tantric Inspirations for Passion and Pleasure, numerous articles and essays, and an audio series, The Pleasure Principle. Barbara lives in New York City with her partner, trailblazing gender theory author Kate Bornstein.