web01.fireside.fm Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:55:01 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) The Permission Slip - Episodes Tagged with “#Sacredsexuality” https://thepermissionslip.fireside.fm/tags/%23sacredsexuality Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:00:00 -0500 I love everything to do with consciousness - personal growth books, meditation, psychedelics, bodywork, Tantric retreats, chakras, Human Design, channeled works, you name it! For the past fifteen years, I’ve been on a deep healing journey. I regularly engage relative strangers in conversation about topics relating to consciousness, transformation and psychedelics (sometimes to their annoyance). I've been dancing around starting a podcast for a couple years now. My imposter syndrome has kept me thinking I don't have anything worthwhile to share, while I vainly attempt to find a community with whom I resonate. I've been fortunate to work with some really gifted practitioners during my journey. They not only gave me tools to heal, they gave me PERMISSION to heal. My intention in producing and distributing The Permission Slip podcast is to share knowledge of their talents with the rest of the world. Many of us have been programmed to believe that healing only comes from those in the medical profession who have gone through a particular set of training protocols. This is not true. Doctors and therapists and the like are (mostly) well-meaning and very good at what they do. Sometimes, more often than we are maybe lead to believe, what they recommend or do is not what is truly needed for healing. In the spirit of the following passage, I'm committing to a minimum of six podcasts that will be discussions with practitioners and healers from whom I've derived personal benefit. The purpose of this effort is therefore to shed light on the diverse ways of healing as well as moving into right relationship with oneself. Credits Renee LaVallee McKenna for the inspiration to create this in the first place. Abby Bruce (ma soeur) for the encouragement along the way. Damian Wiseman for the audio engineering expertise. en-us episodic You are allowed. Matt Kosterman I love everything to do with consciousness - personal growth books, meditation, psychedelics, bodywork, Tantric retreats, chakras, Human Design, channeled works, you name it! For the past fifteen years, I’ve been on a deep healing journey. I regularly engage relative strangers in conversation about topics relating to consciousness, transformation and psychedelics (sometimes to their annoyance). I've been dancing around starting a podcast for a couple years now. My imposter syndrome has kept me thinking I don't have anything worthwhile to share, while I vainly attempt to find a community with whom I resonate. I've been fortunate to work with some really gifted practitioners during my journey. They not only gave me tools to heal, they gave me PERMISSION to heal. My intention in producing and distributing The Permission Slip podcast is to share knowledge of their talents with the rest of the world. Many of us have been programmed to believe that healing only comes from those in the medical profession who have gone through a particular set of training protocols. This is not true. Doctors and therapists and the like are (mostly) well-meaning and very good at what they do. Sometimes, more often than we are maybe lead to believe, what they recommend or do is not what is truly needed for healing. In the spirit of the following passage, I'm committing to a minimum of six podcasts that will be discussions with practitioners and healers from whom I've derived personal benefit. The purpose of this effort is therefore to shed light on the diverse ways of healing as well as moving into right relationship with oneself. Credits Renee LaVallee McKenna for the inspiration to create this in the first place. Abby Bruce (ma soeur) for the encouragement along the way. Damian Wiseman for the audio engineering expertise. yes Conscious living, Embodiment, Transformation, Inner healing, Trauma release, Psychedelic integration, Energy work, Nervous system regulation, Authentic expression, Conscious relationships, Spiritual awakening, Shadow work, Self-remembrance, Intuitive guidance, Healing trauma, Mind-body connection Matt Kosterman matt@reknowing.com S2 | E3 Christopher Sunyata, Men's Coach, Meditation Teacher & Engineer https://thepermissionslip.fireside.fm/s2e3-sunyata 5ea099c3-48a2-4325-8675-16185c9dcf6b Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:00:00 -0500 Matt Kosterman full 2 Matt Kosterman In this episode, I sit down with Christopher Sunyata—engineer, Buddhist meditation teacher, and men’s coach—to explore what it really means to embody grounded masculine presence. We talk about trauma, breath, kundalini energy, polarity, multi-orgasmic potential for men, and the profound link between sexuality and spiritual awakening. Christopher shares how bullying, a near-death childhood experience, divorce, fatherhood, psychotherapy, psychedelics, and decades of practice shaped the man he is today. This is a conversation about safety in the body, depth in relationship, and reclaiming sexuality as a path of consciousness—not performance. 1:19:21 yes In S2•E3, I speak with Christopher Sunyata, a former medical device engineer turned Buddhist meditation teacher and men’s coach based in Boulder, Colorado . We met at an Osho-inspired Deer Tribe workshop in Cave Creek, Arizona—an intensive container exploring sacred sexuality and polarity work . Christopher shares his origin story: • Raised Catholic in Decatur, Illinois, bullied through childhood  • A sensitive kid who later became a college rugby all-star—yet carried a fractured internal self-image  • A near-death suffocation accident in childhood that left a deep imprint in his nervous system  • Ten years of Jungian analysis, divorce after discovering an affair following a mushroom journey  • Intensive Buddhist practice and eventual immersion in embodied tantric work We explore how women’s somatic intuition became one of his greatest teachers—how feminine bodies read tension, contraction, and presence instantly . We discuss: • Why resting as “open awareness” makes men more trustworthy and attractive  • Breath-rate recovery and training the parasympathetic nervous system  • Why meditation, psychedelics, and sexuality all intersect as portals into death practice and ego dissolution  • His extensive work with plant medicines, including 5-MeO-DMT  • Sexual practice as spiritual practice • The difference between effort-based “techniques” and relaxed energetic openness • How men can access sustained, non-ejaculatory, full-body orgasmic states • Why relational polarity requires stability, not performance • The nervous system as the foundation of spiritual and relational growth Christopher’s central thesis: A man’s depth is revealed in how much intensity he can open through—without collapsing, grasping, or dissociating . We also explore how shame around sexuality has been weaponized socially and spiritually—and what happens when that shame is removed. This conversation bridges: • Trauma work • Buddhist meditation • Tantric polarity • Somatic nervous system regulation • Psychedelic awakening • Masculine leadership It’s an unapologetically honest conversation about embodied masculinity in a time when many men feel disconnected from purpose and presence. Special Guest: Christopher Sunyata. masculine embodiment, tantra, polarity, nervous system regulation, parasympathetic activation, kundalini, breathwork, multi-orgasmic men, sacred sexuality, men’s work, trauma healing, Buddhist meditation, 5-MeO-DMT, relational depth, spiritual awakening In S2•E3, I speak with Christopher Sunyata, a former medical device engineer turned Buddhist meditation teacher and men’s coach based in Boulder, Colorado . We met at an Osho-inspired Deer Tribe workshop in Cave Creek, Arizona—an intensive container exploring sacred sexuality and polarity work .

Christopher shares his origin story:
• Raised Catholic in Decatur, Illinois, bullied through childhood 
• A sensitive kid who later became a college rugby all-star—yet carried a fractured internal self-image 
• A near-death suffocation accident in childhood that left a deep imprint in his nervous system 
• Ten years of Jungian analysis, divorce after discovering an affair following a mushroom journey 
• Intensive Buddhist practice and eventual immersion in embodied tantric work

We explore how women’s somatic intuition became one of his greatest teachers—how feminine bodies read tension, contraction, and presence instantly .

We discuss:
• Why resting as “open awareness” makes men more trustworthy and attractive 
• Breath-rate recovery and training the parasympathetic nervous system 
• Why meditation, psychedelics, and sexuality all intersect as portals into death practice and ego dissolution 
• His extensive work with plant medicines, including 5-MeO-DMT 
• Sexual practice as spiritual practice
• The difference between effort-based “techniques” and relaxed energetic openness
• How men can access sustained, non-ejaculatory, full-body orgasmic states
• Why relational polarity requires stability, not performance
• The nervous system as the foundation of spiritual and relational growth

Christopher’s central thesis:

A man’s depth is revealed in how much intensity he can open through—without collapsing, grasping, or dissociating .

We also explore how shame around sexuality has been weaponized socially and spiritually—and what happens when that shame is removed.

This conversation bridges:
• Trauma work
• Buddhist meditation
• Tantric polarity
• Somatic nervous system regulation
• Psychedelic awakening
• Masculine leadership

It’s an unapologetically honest conversation about embodied masculinity in a time when many men feel disconnected from purpose and presence.

Special Guest: Christopher Sunyata.

Support The Permission Slip

]]> In S2•E3, I speak with Christopher Sunyata, a former medical device engineer turned Buddhist meditation teacher and men’s coach based in Boulder, Colorado . We met at an Osho-inspired Deer Tribe workshop in Cave Creek, Arizona—an intensive container exploring sacred sexuality and polarity work .

Christopher shares his origin story:
• Raised Catholic in Decatur, Illinois, bullied through childhood 
• A sensitive kid who later became a college rugby all-star—yet carried a fractured internal self-image 
• A near-death suffocation accident in childhood that left a deep imprint in his nervous system 
• Ten years of Jungian analysis, divorce after discovering an affair following a mushroom journey 
• Intensive Buddhist practice and eventual immersion in embodied tantric work

We explore how women’s somatic intuition became one of his greatest teachers—how feminine bodies read tension, contraction, and presence instantly .

We discuss:
• Why resting as “open awareness” makes men more trustworthy and attractive 
• Breath-rate recovery and training the parasympathetic nervous system 
• Why meditation, psychedelics, and sexuality all intersect as portals into death practice and ego dissolution 
• His extensive work with plant medicines, including 5-MeO-DMT 
• Sexual practice as spiritual practice
• The difference between effort-based “techniques” and relaxed energetic openness
• How men can access sustained, non-ejaculatory, full-body orgasmic states
• Why relational polarity requires stability, not performance
• The nervous system as the foundation of spiritual and relational growth

Christopher’s central thesis:

A man’s depth is revealed in how much intensity he can open through—without collapsing, grasping, or dissociating .

We also explore how shame around sexuality has been weaponized socially and spiritually—and what happens when that shame is removed.

This conversation bridges:
• Trauma work
• Buddhist meditation
• Tantric polarity
• Somatic nervous system regulation
• Psychedelic awakening
• Masculine leadership

It’s an unapologetically honest conversation about embodied masculinity in a time when many men feel disconnected from purpose and presence.

Special Guest: Christopher Sunyata.

Support The Permission Slip

]]> S1 | E10 Rich Priddis - Conscious Connection and Intimacy Guide https://thepermissionslip.fireside.fm/s1e10-priddis 6a272be0-401e-40d2-a7d5-b0b02e7e18bc Mon, 03 Nov 2025 11:30:00 -0600 Matt Kosterman full 1 Matt Kosterman Rich Priddis opens up about breaking free from religious conditioning to embrace conscious sexuality, embodiment, and deep healing. A powerful story of courage, consent, and coming home to the body. 1:09:41 yes CONTENT WARNING - in this episode there is some graphic sexual language that may be triggering. In this intimate and eye-opening conversation, I sit down with Rich Priddis, a Conscious Connection and Intimacy Guide and long-time ISTA (International School of Temple Arts) facilitator. Rich shares his remarkable journey from a strict Mormon upbringing—steeped in sexual shame and repression—to becoming a global teacher of sacred sexuality and embodied healing. I met Rich in the summer of 2023 where he was a lead facilitator of an ISTA retreat I attended in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. It was one of the more powerful and healing experiences I've had in my life. We explore how early religious conditioning shaped his relationship with his body, the liberation that came through tantra, cuddle parties, and sex-positive communities, and the transformative power of consent, communication, and embodiment. Rich explains concepts like the Wheel of Consent, the Body SMART model for conscious relating, and how sexual energy can be used for healing, self-acceptance, and creative awakening. We discuss shadow work, shame release, and reclaiming authentic connection to self and others through presence, truth, and love. Rich's website - https://www.richpriddis.com Special Guest: Rich Priddis. Rich Priddis, conscious intimacy, sexual healing, tantra, ISTA, embodiment, consent, shame release, shadow work, sacred sexuality, Mormon deconstruction, permission to feel, body awareness, self-love, energetic healing CONTENT WARNING - in this episode there is some graphic sexual language that may be triggering.

In this intimate and eye-opening conversation, I sit down with Rich Priddis, a Conscious Connection and Intimacy Guide and long-time ISTA (International School of Temple Arts) facilitator. Rich shares his remarkable journey from a strict Mormon upbringing—steeped in sexual shame and repression—to becoming a global teacher of sacred sexuality and embodied healing. I met Rich in the summer of 2023 where he was a lead facilitator of an ISTA retreat I attended in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. It was one of the more powerful and healing experiences I've had in my life.
We explore how early religious conditioning shaped his relationship with his body, the liberation that came through tantra, cuddle parties, and sex-positive communities, and the transformative power of consent, communication, and embodiment. Rich explains concepts like the Wheel of Consent, the Body SMART model for conscious relating, and how sexual energy can be used for healing, self-acceptance, and creative awakening. We discuss shadow work, shame release, and reclaiming authentic connection to self and others through presence, truth, and love.

Rich's website - https://www.richpriddis.com

Special Guest: Rich Priddis.

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Links:

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In this intimate and eye-opening conversation, I sit down with Rich Priddis, a Conscious Connection and Intimacy Guide and long-time ISTA (International School of Temple Arts) facilitator. Rich shares his remarkable journey from a strict Mormon upbringing—steeped in sexual shame and repression—to becoming a global teacher of sacred sexuality and embodied healing. I met Rich in the summer of 2023 where he was a lead facilitator of an ISTA retreat I attended in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. It was one of the more powerful and healing experiences I've had in my life.
We explore how early religious conditioning shaped his relationship with his body, the liberation that came through tantra, cuddle parties, and sex-positive communities, and the transformative power of consent, communication, and embodiment. Rich explains concepts like the Wheel of Consent, the Body SMART model for conscious relating, and how sexual energy can be used for healing, self-acceptance, and creative awakening. We discuss shadow work, shame release, and reclaiming authentic connection to self and others through presence, truth, and love.

Rich's website - https://www.richpriddis.com

Special Guest: Rich Priddis.

Support The Permission Slip

Links:

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