Faculty

Dave Allen
is a consultant, educator and Sacred Intimate. His interests include mysticism, Christianity, native spiritual paths and power dynamics. See coach4men.com

Rob Anderson
has an MS in counseling and is trained in Process Oriented Psychology. He is a Kuna Massage Therapist and celebrates life through play, the healing power of touch, living in an intentional community in Australia and honoring the spirituality of nature. Visit bodyelectricoz.org

Rudy Ballentine
physician and psychiatrist, is past president of the Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy. He is the author of Radical Healing and a number of other books on breath, nutrition, meditation and yoga psychology.

John Ballew
is a licensed professional counselor and a massage therapist in private practice in Atlanta. He has an MS in Clinical Psychology and is a member of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. He facilitats workshops in gay spirituality throughout North America, emphasizing the connection between body and soul. His work embraces both Eastern spiritual practices and a sex-positive Christian tradition. See bodymindsoul.org

Collin Bown
graduated from Harvard College and is a California state-certified massage instructor. A member of the Association of Humanistic Psychology, he has trained in Postural Integration, Jin Shin Do, and Amma. His work integrates breath, touch and transpersonal psychology.

Don Clark, Ph.D.
is a writer, teacher, consultant and clinical psychologist who has specialized in group and individual work with gay people since 1968. His writing includes fiction, textbooks, and articles for both professional journals and popular magazines. He is the author of Living Gay, As We Are, and Loving Someone Gay, now in its new 20th anniversary third edition. See donclarkphd.com

Michael Cohen
works as a personal life coach and as a gestalt psychotherapist in New York City. A Body Electric trained Sacred Intimate, his interests also include exploring the healing power of play and helping people create meaningful lives. See lifecoachmichael.com

Jay Craver
is a Sacred Intimate, bringing 25 years experience as a psychotherapist to his understanding and practice of erotic healing and growth. He is a student of tantra and studied with Rudy Ballentine for many years. He now uses this ancient set of body-based principles as a foundation for both his work and personal life.

Emaya Dillon
has been a bodyworker and teacher of conscious touching for thirty years. She wants to co-create a world of erotic enthusiasm combined with kindness and sexual-spiritual knowing. Her private practice ranges from “Experiential Anatomy” classes to therapeutic massage, from meditation to workshops on conscious sexuality for women and men. She makes her home on Gabriola Island in Canada

Mark Fleming
is a Sacred Intimate who weaves tantric principles, energy/bodywork and shamanic practices together to facilitate wellness in body, mind and spirit. He has worked in the fields of sexuality, spirituality and health for 20 years. He is very grateful to Rudolph Ballentine, his tantra teacher.

Alex Jade
is a gender-fluid sex activist, community organizer, shadow explorer and body-based therapist living in Seattle. She uses her training as a massage therapist, movement therapist and masters degree in social work to teach experiential sexual education classes and has a private healing practice.

Isa Magdalena
was the first woman teacher at Body Electric. She teaches at the Institute of Advanced Studies of Human Sexuality in San Francisco, is the author of Libido: Where Sex, Science Spirit Meet (2006), and is a practitioner in Taos, New Mexico. Her website is at xtasia.info

William McMeniman
is a massage therapist and Sacred Intimate with a private practice in the greater Boston area. He has a background in mental health, education and breathwork. He seeks to integrate the ecstatic path into everyday life through his teaching.

Lizz Randall
is a Sacred Intimate, workshop facilitator, erotic educator and mother working in Seattle, WA. She draws on her education and training in tantra, yoga, meditation, shamanism, sexuality and holistic health. The focus of her work is using the body as a gateway to wisdom, healing and transformation.

Steven Schwartzberg
holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and is a practitioner of several healing arts, including psychotherapy, sacred intimacy, and body-oriented approaches to emotional well-being. He is on the attending faculty of Harvard Medical School and has written several books, including A Crisis of Meaning: How Gay Men are Making Sense of AIDS.