Sacred Erotic:
Self-Guided OfferingÂ
with Lama Rod Owens
Now Available
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Sexuality, eroticism, and pleasure are often treated as taboo, or set apart from spiritual life. In this self-guided offering, Lama Rod Owens draws on his multiple lineages such as Tibetan Buddhism and Black prophetic tradition to invite a different relationship with the sacred erotic. Rather than repressing or feeling shame around these topics, you can reclaim pleasure, desire, and the body as pathways to healing and freedom.
Through talks, readings, and practices, you'll decolonize how you choose to show up in your sexuality, relationships, pleasure, and your body. You’ll develop greater resourcing on how to be with these aspects with more compassion, paving the way to greater spaciousness, deeper intimacy, and healing.
This is how spiritual abolition meets sacred erotic in practice— transforming the external and internal patterns that keep us from being resourced and free.
Move through the Sacred Erotic Self Guided Offering at your own pace, anywhere and anytime!
The Sacred Erotic Self-Guided Offering includes:
- A 4-Part Journey on sexuality, eroticism, and pleasure as pathways to healing liberation
- Written transcripts of the recorded talk & practice
- Excerpts from Lama Rod’s books, Love and Rage, and The New Saints
- Guided practices that bring you from contemplation to embodiment of the teachings
- Deeper, expansive connection to your body, ancestors, and the earth
- Freedom to embrace the sacred erotic and pleasure while rooted in your values and ethics
- Self-acceptance and deeper intimacy with yourself and others, nourished by spaciousness, joy, and compassion
This 4-Part Self-Guided Offering explores:
Part 1: Let's Talk About Sex takes on the taboo, exploring Tantric Buddhism, self-love, and how to bring your politics and ethics into your relationships.
Part 2: Embodied Liberation frames pleasure and joy as strategies for justice, and explores reclaiming the body through safety, agency, self-consent.
Part 3: Spiritual Abolition & Pleasure looks at pleasure as a collective, ancestral practice, and unravels how the external and internal expressions of the carceral state show up in our bodies and relationship to the erotic.
Part 4: Four Sweet Liberations introduces you to a new way of practicing with leisure, beauty, opulence, and pleasure, and invites you to discover your own “style” of liberation.
Registration Options
Select the tuition below that best matches your ability to pay.
Payment plans are available; select the payment options for more info.
Members of Lama Rod's Learning & Practice Community receive 20% off ALL self-guided offerings. Click here to join and receive the discount code!
Course FAQs:Â
Is there a refund policy?Â
Refunds are available less a $20 admin fee within 14 days of your purchase.
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Is there financial assistance available?Â
Through the support of those who give at the Pay it Forward level, we have a limited amount of scholarships available. Email [email protected] if you are in need of financial assistance. If you are able to contribute to our ability to offer scholarships, your generosity by choosing the Pay it Forward supports our ability to offer more financial support.
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What does the registration fee support?
Registration fees support Lama Rod and his team for the extensive labor, seen and unseen, and spiritual devotion that allows his work to remain accessible and sustainable. These resources help cover ongoing operational costs, such as the online platforms and services that are used to offer digital programs, team compensation, and the legal and accounting requirements of the United States, as well as physical spaces, materials, and nourishment for events when applicable.
As Lama Rod writes in The New Saints, he seeks to make the tradition of the Buddha relevant to our experiences in the present moment. This means inviting offerings and exchanges that honor the material needs of his energetic presence and livelihood — not in a conditional nor transactional way, but reflecting a tradition of reciprocity and universal balance similar to how you might leave food upon an altar for an ancestor. Giving and receiving are practices that embody the ethic of care that grounds Lama Rod’s work.
Therefore, your registration fees are one of the ways that Lama Rod is sustained so that he can continue his free and by-donation offerings such as Free Radicals, Medicine Buddha, and partnerships with organizations and schools to support their efforts. These offerings reflect our team’s commitment that no one be excluded from the teachings based upon their financial means. Those who register at the Pay-It-Forward price further increase accessibility by making financial assistance possible for those who need scholarships. Barter offerings and work exchanges are also welcome in some instances. Lama Rod believes that we can be well resourced while practicing an anti-capitalist ethic and is deeply grateful to be in a reciprocal relationship with you.
Is this course open to all?
Yes, this course is open to all levels of experience. Those who have experienced Lama Rod's teachings in the past may find it easier to sink into the dialogue, but everyone is welcome to engage with a trust that they will get what they need as integration and understanding comes over time for all of us.
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How long will the course materials be available once I register?Â
All course modules will be available indefinitely.
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Email [email protected] and we're happy to help.Â
Registration Options
Select the tuition below that best matches your ability to pay.
Payment plans are available; select the payment options for more info.
Members of Lama Rod's Learning & Practice Community receive 20% off ALL self-guided offerings. Click here to join and receive the discount code!
About the Teacher
Lama Rod Owens is a Black Buddhist Southern Queen. An international influencer with a Master of Divinity degree in Buddhist Studies from Harvard Divinity School. Author of The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors and Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger, and co-author of Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation, his teachings center on freedom, self-expression, and radical self-care.
A leading voice in a new generation of Buddhist teachers with over 11 years of experience, Lama Rod activates the intersections of his identity to create a platform that’s very natural, engaging, and inclusive. Applauded for his mastery in balancing weighty topics with a sense of lightness, the Queen has been featured by various national and international news outlets.Â
Highly sought after for talks, retreats, and workshops, his mission is showing you how to heal and free yourself.
