Amy Palko

The wonderful thing about Rumi was that he knew what it was to be in erotic relationship with the divine. He understood that embodied pleasure was profoundly sacred, and that there was a way to be with God (the Universe, Source, Oneness, the Goddess etc.) through sexual and sensual experiences. For me, this is the bliss body. The delicious sacredness of our flesh, and the gifts that are available to each of us through tender relationship with the body, are all ways in which we can embrace, and be embraced by, the Beloved. But, we get so caught up in our heads – in our shoulds and our shouldn’ts. We…