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Tantra Sacred Sexuality and Spiritual Relationship Expert

Al Link and Pala Copeland Quick Facts

Main Areas: Tantra and Taoist Sacred Sexuality, Long Term Committed Relationships
Best Sellers: Soul Sex: Tantra for Two, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Supercharged Kama Sutra, Sensual Love Secrets for Couples: The Four Freedoms of Body, Mind, Heart and Soul, 28 Days to Ecstasy for Couples: Tantra Step by Step
Career Focus: Authors, Sexuality and Relationship Mentors

Al Link and Pala Copeland are relationship and sexuality mentors.

Al and Pala have been practicing Tantra sacred sexuality since 1987. We started on this spiritual path when we had a spontaneous mystical experience during our extended lovemaking. At one point during lovemaking when we had become very still and quiet, an energetic current began to course through our bodies bringing to us a superb and sublime physical pleasure from head to toe. Simultaneous with that ecstatic pleasure was an awareness of no boundaries between our physical bodies. We merged as one. Then our consciousness expanded in an instant out to infinity and we merged with all and everything.

After that experience we began to search for reports by others about similar experiences and discovered Tantric and Taoist sacred sexuality practices dating back thousands of years in India and China. We began to explore the teachings of those spiritual systems and sacred sex became our hobby. After approximately 10 years of continuous practice, we had experienced such a profound spiritual awakening and a flourishing of our love in relationship together, that we decided to share what we had learned with others. We offered our first workshops late in 1997.

Al experienced enlightenment, the culmination of almost 40 years of spiritual seeking, in January 2008, and made a direct transmission to Pala within minutes. This is a demonstration that Tantric sacred sexuality practices are an authentic spiritual path leading to illumination. We refer to our unique spiritual path as Enlightenment for TwoTM.

This spiritual path to enlightenment is unique because two people take the journey together. Enlightenment does not have to be something you do alone.

We host 4 Freedoms Relationship Tantra website where you can find out about our workshops, published books, electronic books and DVDs.

Each month we offer Tantra romance weekends during which couples learn how to create love for a lifetime together.

Al and Pala have co-authored 4 published books on sacred sexuality and spiritual relationship. This is what we do full time, and everything we write or teach is what we actually do to keep our own relationship full of passion and love.

Our published books include these.

1) Soul Sex: Tantra for Two

2) The Complete Idiot's Guide to Supercharged Kama Sutra

3) Sensual Love Secrets for Couples: the Four Freedoms of Body, Mind, Heart and Soul

4) 28 Days to Ecstasy: Tantra Step by Step.

Our work and our passion is to help others learn how to create love for a lifetime together, to create abundance in all areas of their lives, to be happy in the present moment and to use their relationship as a spiritual practice leading to Enlightenment for TwoTM.

Other Programs & Highlights

Visit our 4 Freedoms Relationship Tantra Website

http://www.tantra-sex.com/

Find out about Al and Pala's Tantra Workshops

4 Freedoms Online Guide to Aphrodisiacs for Men and Women

4 Freedoms Relationship Tantra Newsletter

Get a free copy of our eBook Kama Sutra Sex Positions with Liberator Shapes when you subscribe to our newsletter. This eBook regularly sells for $10.

When you subscribe to our Tantra mailing list you'll be informed of new developments at 4 Freedoms Tantra, for example: upcoming workshops, special offers, articles and books published by Pala Copeland and Al Link, and "What's happening in the world of Tantra" on and off the Internet.

Listen to many of Al and Pala's Radio Interviews

Engage Al and Pala to speak at your next annual gathering.

Sacred Sexuality and Spiritual Relationship Personal Coaching and Mentoring

Find out about how Al and Pala can mentor you in the art of sacred sexuality and creating love for a lifetime together.

Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Al Link and Pala Copeland

“Many know that the drop Merges into the ocean, Few know that the ocean Merges into the drop.” Kabir

Arjuna said: "I feel the limbs of my body quivering and my mouth drying up. My whole body is trembling, my hair is standing on end, my bow G?n?d??va is slipping from my hand, and my skin is burning. I am now unable to stand here any longer. I am forgetting myself, and my mind is reeling. I see only causes of misfortune.....Now I am confused about my duty and have lost all composure because of miserly weakness. In this condition I am asking you to tell me for certain what is best for me. Now I am your disciple, and a soul surrendered unto you. Please instruct me. I can find no means to drive away this grief which is drying up my senses. I will not be able to dispel it even if I win a prosperous, unrivaled kingdom on earth with sovereignty like the demigods in heaven."

Bhagavad-gita (1:29-2:8)

“With abundant time and mutual reciprocity the interchange becomes satisfactory and complete without emission or crises. In the course of an hour the physical tension subsides, the spiritual exhilaration increases, and not uncommonly visions of a transcendent life are seen and consciousness of a new power experienced.” Alice Bunker Stockham

"100% of the shots you don't take don't go in." Wayne Gretzky

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." Michael Jordan

"A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song."
Chinese Proverb

"I learned very early in life that: ‘Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain’t got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend - without a song.' So I keep singing a song." Elvis Presley

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.." Pablo Picasso

“Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,

sermons in stones, and good in every thing.”

Shakespeare – As You Like It

"To love is to be vulnerable." C S Lewis

"Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one." John Keats

"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." Neil Armstrong

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter – don’t mind!” -- Dr. Seuss

"There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." -- Leonard Cohen

"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru' chinks of his cavern." William Blake

“The reason opportunity is often missed is that it usually comes disguised as hard work.” Clifford Irving

"The archer strikes the target - partly by pulling; partly by letting go." Unknown

“To be intelligently alive means to cherish what you’ve got, fight for what you want, spurn what you don’t want, and forget about what you can’t have.” Clifford Irving

Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale. Unknown

"If you were arrested for kindness,

would there be enough evidence to convict?"

Unknown

"There is a giggle in the middle of my heart."

MOHAWK

"Life is what happens while you are making other plans." John Lennon

"Nearly all men can stand adversity,

but if you want to test a man's

character, give him power."

--Abraham Lincoln

“God shakes the world so that which is unshakable will be revealed!”

Unknown

"The real happy man is the one who can enjoy the scenery when he has to take a detour." Unknown

"Happiness is like jam - you can't spread even a little without getting

some on yourself." Unknown

"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination
nor both together go to the making of genius.
Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others little by little, our honor becomes greater than our moods.”

Steven Covey

Seven moral problems: Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Knowledge without character Commerce without morality Science without humanity Worship without sacrifice Politics without principle

“I don’t want only to appeal to your heads, I want to appeal to your hearts.” -Gandhi

“Choose a path and follow it with heart.” Don Juan Matis

"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care." Unknown

“Whether you believe you can, or you believe you can’t, you’re right!”

Unknown

"Come to the edge." he said "But we're afraid" they said "Come to the edge" he said “No, we might fall” they said “Come to the edge” he said And they came And he pushed... And they flew... Perth County Conspiracy

"Teamwork divides the task and doubles the success." Unknown

“The leader’s role is to create a vision, not to kick somebody in the ass. The role of the leader is a servant’s role. It’s supporting his people, running interference for them. It’s coming out with an atmosphere of understanding and trust – and love.” Bob Swiggett of Kolmorgen Corporation

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end." Ursula K. Le Guin

“I want…to live ‘in grace’ as much of the time as possible… The complete answer is not to be found on the outside…The final answer, I know, is always inside.”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift From The Sea

A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt about the tragedy. He said, "I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one." The grandson asked him, "Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?" The grandfather answered, "The one I feed."

Unknown

"So I vowed to keep myself alive, but only if I would never use me again for just me - each one of us is born of two, and we really belong to each other. I vowed to do my own thinking, instead of trying to accommodate everyone else' opinion, credo's and theories. I vowed to apply my inventory of experiences to the solving of problems that affect everyone aboard planet Earth." Buckminster Fuller

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." Robert Frost

"Have confidence in the truth, although you may not be able to comprehend it, although you may suppose its sweetness to be bitter, although you may shrink from it at first. Trust in the Truth...Have faith in the Truth and live it." Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The most important human endeavor is striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depends on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to our lives."
Albert Einstein

"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan -- to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations."
Abraham Lincoln, The Gettsyburg Address

"Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one." John Lennon

"The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive at the same destination." Gandhi

"My life is my message." Mahatma Gandhi

"In the beginners mind there are many possibilities, in the experts mind there are few." Shunryu Suzuki

"I am convinced that the Universe is under the control of a loving purpose. Behind the harsh appearances of the world, there is a Divine Power. By reaching into and beyond ourselves and tapping into Love, we shall overcome these evils. Love, Truth, and Courage to do what is right should be our own guideposts on this lifelong journey." Martin Luther King Jr.

"The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics." Albert Einstein

"As the Light increases, we see ourselves to be worse than we thought. We are amazed at our former blindness as we see issuing forth from the depths of our heart a whole swarm of shameful feelings, like filthy reptiles crawling from a hidden cave. We never could have believed that we had harbored such things, and stand aghast as we watch them gradually appear. But while our faults diminish, the light by which we see them waxes brighter, and we are filled with horror. Bear in mind for your comfort, that we only perceive our malady when the cure begins." Francois Fenelon 1651-1715

"[Intuition] does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside the province of reason." C. G. Jung

“Sometimes God has to stop a life in order to get into it.” Les Brown

"A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove, but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child...." Kathy Davis

"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."

Mignon McLaughlin

"Moses dragged us through the desert for 40 years to bring us to the one place in the Middle East where there was no oil." Golda Meir

"Getting to the top isn't bad, and it's probably best done as an afterthought." Anne Wilson Schaef

"A good friend never gets in your way unless you're on your way down." Unknown

"A young man who grows up expecting to dominate sexually is bound to be somewhat startled by a young woman who wants sex as much as he does, and multi-orgasmic sex at that." Nora Ephron

"Real satisfaction is not enshrined in a tiny cluster of nerves but in the sexual involvement of the whole person. Women must hold out not just for orgasm but for ecstasy." Germaine Greer

"No woman was happier in her choice, no woman. And after about two months of uninterrupted intercourse, there is still more and more cause for thankfulness; and more and more affection on his side. He loves me better every day, he says. My health improves still, too." Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"And when, throughout all the wild orgasms of love, slowly a gem forms, in the ancient, once-more-molten rocks of two human hearts, two ancient rocks, a man's heart and a woman's, that is the crystal of peace, the slow hard jewel of trust, the sapphire of fidelity."

The gem of mutual peace emerging from the wild chaos of love.

D H Lawrence

“I'm suggesting we call sex something else, and it should include everything from kissing to sitting close together.” Shere Hite

"Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs & flaming hair But desire gratified Plants fruits of life & beauty there." William Blake

"I'm not a good lover, but at least I'm fast." Drew Carey

What do you do when you wife starts smoking?

Slow Down and apply some lubricant.

Gypsy Rose Lee declared, "If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly . . . very slowly."

“One of the most wonderful things about latter life lovemaking is that foreplay can last up to a month.”

Loving Life After 60: Celebrating the Autumn of Your Life by Tom Paugh

"In the beginning of a close relationship, sex is about organs and glands and positions and where to put what because in the early going, love is all about sex. Much later on, sex is all about love."

Loving Life After 60: Celebrating the Autumn of Your Life by Tom Paugh

“Most people never reach their sexual potential--and those who do are generally well into their 40s, 50s, and 60s. This is a pleasant surprise to many people because it’s common to confuse genital prime with sexual prime. In reality, we are more capable of intensely intimate sexual relationships and blatant eroticism as we mature. Most people are much better in bed as they get older. Sexual potential and cellulite are highly correlated!” David Schnarch

"Man is a temple,
Woman a shrine.
Before the temple we discover ourselves, before the shrine we kneel.
In short, man is found where earth finishes,
Woman where heaven begins." Victor Hugo, Man and Woman

"When the gods gave people sex, they gave us a wonderful thing. Sex is food: just as people cannot survive without eating, hunger for sex can cause people to die." Saying of the !Kung (a hunting-gathering people from the Kalahari Desert)

"Sex can be defined fairly adequately in physiological terms as consisting of the building up of bodily tensions and their release. Eros, in contrast, is the experiencing of the personal intentions and meaning of the act. Whereas sex is a rhythm of stimulus and response, eros is a state of being. The pleasure of sex is described by Freud and others as the reduction of tension; in eros, on the contrary, we wish not to be released from the excitement but rather to hang on to it, to bask in it, and even to increase it. The end toward which sex points is gratification and relaxation, whereas eros is a desiring, longing, a forever reaching out, seeking to expand." Rollo May “Eros in Conflict with Sex,” Love and Will

"Breath, thought, and seed are the three components of our divine potential. Therefore, these have to be in harmony and consciously controlled. The Yogi who truly manages to bring these three elements (breath, thought and seed) in union becomes in truth The Indestructible, endowed with transcendental spontaneity." Kalachakra Tantra

"As long as the breath is erratic and moving, the seed (the sperm) is also effervescent and moving. When the breath slows down, the seed rests as well, just as the breath."

Goraksha Samhita

"You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life." Emo Philips

“LIFE is sexually transmitted.” Unknown

"If God had intended us not to masturbate, He would have made our arms shorter." George Carlin

"The penis mightier than the sword." Mark Twain

“I think I made his back feel better.” Marilyn Monroe, after a private meeting with JFK - From 101 Nights of Grrreat Sex

"The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit."
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, "Part 4: Epigrams and Interludes," 75 (translated by Walter Kaufmann)

Osho says about deep sexual communion: "When in such embrace your senses are shaken as leaves, enter the shaking."

"Therefore, one who desires Buddhahood Should practice what is to be practiced. To renounce the sense objects Is to torture oneself by asceticism-don't do it! When you see form, look! Similarly, listen to sounds, Inhale scents, Taste delicious flavors, Feel textures. Use the objects of the five senses- You will quickly attain supreme Buddhahood." Candamaharosana-Tantra Text

The sex was so good that even the neighbors had a cigarette.

"I used to be Snow White, but then I drifted." Mae West

"When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities." Matt Groening

"It's been so long since I made love, I can't even remember who gets tied up." Joan Rivers

"Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained." William Blake

"You sleep with a guy once and before you know it he wants to take you to dinner." Myers Yori

"There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex... People should draw the line at goats." Elton John

"I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce." J. Edgar Hoover

"Condoms should be marketed in three sizes -- jumbo, colossal and super colossal so that men do not have to go in and ask for the small." Barbara Seaman

"I'm a practicing heterosexual, but bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night." Woody Allen

"Love is the answer; but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions." Woody Allen

"Losing my virginity was a career move." Madonna

"Passion Press erotic audiobooks have changed my life and improved my sex life immensely. Without them, I am nothing!"
President Bill Cinton (Just kidding! - Molly)

"The brain is viewed as an appendage of the genital glands."
Carl Jung, on Freudian theory of sexuality

"...and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes."
James Joyce, from Molly Bloom's soliloquy in Ulysses

"Attention to one's own Self, which is ever shining, the one undivided and pure reality, is the direct, infallible means to realize the unconditioned, absolute being that you really are." Sri Ramana Maharshi

“The Self is ever present. The state of self-realization is not attaining something new or reaching some goal that is far away, but simply being that which you always are and have been, simply being yourself.” Sri Ramana Maharshi

"Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you." Gandhi

"A man does what he must— in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers, and pressures— and that is the basis of all human morality."

John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage (1956)

"I get sometimes, I get lonesome right in the middle of a crowd."

Elvis Presley

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"

Abraham Lincoln

"I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way."

Mark Twain

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."

Mark Twain

"I have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened."

Mark Twain

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read"

Mark Twain

"The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse."

Carlos Castaneda

"How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god?" Alan Watts

"Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it." Niels Bohr

“If we take away the subject (Humans), or even only the subjective constitution of our senses in general, then not only the nature and relations of objects in space and time, but even space and time themselves disappear; and that these, as appearances, cannot exist in themselves, but only in us. What may be the nature of objects considered as things in themselves and without reference to the receptivity of our sensibility is quite unknown to us.” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, 1781

“True religion is that relationship, in accordance with reason and knowledge, which man establishes with the infinite world around him, and which binds his life to that infinity and guides his actions… and leads to the practical rules of the law: do to others as you would have them do unto you.”

Leo Tolstoy, Confessions

Getting Started With Al Link and Pala Copeland

Our purpose in working with you is to help you learn to create love for a lifetime together and realize the relationship happiness that is your birthright. You have only to claiim your 4 freedoms of body, mind, heart and soul in order to be wondrously and joyously happy.

1. Browse through our website.

http://www.tantra-sex.com/

2. Susbrcibe to our free newsletter and get your free copy of our sexy eBook Kama Sutra Sex Positions with Liberator Shapes.

3. Listen to our readio interviews.

4. Read our published books.

5. Attend one of our fabulous romantic Tantra weekends.

Choose a weekend with only 3 couples (Introduction, Intermediate and Advanced) or a private weekend just for the 2 of you (Tantra for Two). We also offer private intensives with up to 6 days of sacred sexuality practice and relationship mentoring. We even offer private sessions for sexual abuse survivors.

6. Engage us for ongoing personal coaching and mentoring.

If you prefer, of course we could explore some personal telephone coaching before you attend a weekend.

all good things,

Al and Pala