Devi Ward Feelings and Needs

Published: April 5, 2017, noon

b'Devi is an internationally recognized Tantra Expert, Certified Tantric Healer, Certified Reiki Practitioner, Certified Meditation Instructor, practicing Tibetan Buddhist and one of the first Westerners qualified to teach the Tibetan Five Element Tantric practices as part of a sexual healing modality.\\nShe has been featured as a Tantra and Female Sexuality Expert in countless articles and over 30 different radio and television networks world-wide including Playboy Radio, Men\\u2019s Health Magazine, CBS, NBC and Rogers TV.\\nGuiding Principle, Quote or Mantra\\nThe only thing that\\u2019s ever going on are feelings and needs. If we can understand what the need is that is how we connect with the Divinity and the humanity in all of us.\\nWhen You Tripped Up\\nDevi had a student in one of her classes who was blatantly racist.\\xa0 And as a woman of color, she was really struggling with it.\\xa0 And in a moment of pain she said something quite crass and this student was devastated.\\nThis experience has helped Devi be mindful of what she says, especially in moments of pain.\\nUltimately it ended up being a beautiful healing moment. \\nThe \\u201cDUH\\u201d moment that changed your partnerships forever\\nThere was a woman in Devi\\u2019s world that just rubbed her the wrong way.\\nThis woman reflected to Devi the areas she still needed to love and embrace and accept about herself, because she had a story that this woman was better than her in some way.\\xa0 So this woman triggered the part in Devi that didn\\u2019t feel good enough.\\xa0 And she wanted to make it about this woman.\\nHer \\u201cDUH\\u201d moment was when she realized that she had a need for self worth, self acknowledgement and self-celebration. \\nThis ended up being an opportunity to do the work of healing her own wound as opposed to blaming somebody else for simply showing it to her.\\nHow is Tantra medicine to heal?\\nThe Five Elements Tantric practices are ancient practices.\\xa0 The five elements are \\u2013 earth, water, fire, air and space.\\xa0 And this is what makes up our physical reality.\\nThese elements are considered the antidote to the root poisons of anger, attachment, pride, jealousy and ignorance.\\xa0 These emotions literally are toxic and create disease in the body.\\nBringing the elements into balance are essential to the health of the energy body.\\xa0 And all physical maladies manifest first in the energy body before showing up in the physical body.\\nThese practices literally heal the energy and physical bodies. \\nWhat is the best partnership / relationship advice you have ever received?\\nYou cannot give empathy if you need empathy.\\xa0 If you are in an argument and both parties are in pain, you cannot hear each other.\\nBest Partnership Book\\nThe Center for Nonviolent Communication\\n\\nMeet Me In Hard-to-Love Places: The Heart and Science of Relationship Success\\nA Payoff of Partnership\\nDevi\\u2019s current business partnership has been the most healthy, inspirational, creative and constructive birthing process she has ever been in.\\nThe ease and the flow and the dance and the beauty and the joy of what they are creating together has been orgasmic.\\nThis process has been a huge celebration.\\xa0 Which is unlike her past business partnerships.\\nInterview Links \\u2013\\nDevi\\u2019s website \\u2013 get your weekly Tantra Tip here.'