I am super excited to share this interview with Diana Richardson who is considered one of today’s leading authorities on human sexuality. Diana is known as the pioneer of Slow Sex and has been running ‘making love’ retreats for couples since 1993. She has also written 8 books on how in practical ways a person can experience a more fulfilling sex and love life.
I have every one of Diana’s books and her work has hugely influenced both my personal and professional life so to chat with her is always a treat.
My partner and I are very honoured and excited that we are now authorised teachers of Diana and Michael Richardson’s retreats – The Making Love Retreat® and we will be bringing this to the UK in Autumn 2025. You can find out more via the link below.
This episode is full of really practical info for couples. Diana shares how past emotions affect sex and relationships, how to recognise when you are being emotional, what to do about it and how to bring more harmony and love into intimate relationships.
Diana shares…
- Relationship patterns and dynamics that she has observed over 30+ years of running retreats for couples
- The difference between feelings and emotions
- How emotions are created
- How to know if you are emotional
- How to transform emotions – the 5 steps
- Golden rules for when you are emotional
- What low grade emotionality is
- How to learn to allow feelings
- How emotions affect sex
- Her definition of love
- How emotions are different than love
- Qualities to cultivate to reduce emotions and nourish love
Diana Richardson is considered one of today’s leading authorities on human sexuality, and she is known as the pioneer of Slow Sex. She has written 8 books on how in practical ways a person can experience a more fulfilling sex and love life. Born in South Africa in 1954, she first qualified as a lawyer (B.A.LLB), and then trained as a massage therapist (ITEC) in the UK. Her interest in the body and healing prompted an intense personal exploration into the union of sex and meditation – the essence of Tantra. Since 1993, together with her partner, Michael, she has been sharing her insights and experiences with couples who travel from many different parts of the world to participate in their informative and life changing ‘making love’ workshops in Switzerland.
RESOURCES FROM DIANA
Website: www.livinglove.com
MAKING LOVE RETREATS IN THE UK WITH SARAH ROSE BRIGHT AND GRAEME WATERFIELD
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BOOKS
Tantric Love: Feeling vs Emotion – Golden Rules to Make Love Easy ‘O’ Books UK. with Michael Richardson (Raja)
The Heart of Tantric Sex – ‘O’ Books UK. (first published as The Love Keys )
Tantric Orgasm for Women – Destiny Books USA
Tantric Sex for Men – Making Love a Meditation. Destiny Books USA. with Michael Richardson (Raja)
Slow Sex – Destiny Books USA.
Tantric Love Letters – ‘O’ Books UK.
Tantric Sex & Menopause (with Janet McGeever) Destiny Books USA.
Cool Sex – for young adults – a next generation guide to loving fulfilling sex. (with Wendy Doeleman) UK O-Books 2020
RESOURCES FROM SARAH
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ABOUT YOUR HOST
Your podcast host is Sarah Rose Bright. Sarah Rose Bright is a Love, Sex and Intimacy Coach, authorised teacher of The Making Love Retreat® and a Gene Keys Guide. She helps women and couples to reset their sex and intimate lives away from goal-based sex and to discover deep intimacy, expansive pleasure and profound love making so that they can feel good about who they are and have relationships that are happy, loving, passionate and sustainable.
