Living the Divine Masculine, an Interview with Shantam Nityama, Sexual Healer
I conducted this interview a few years back for What Makes a Man: 22 Writers Imagine the Future where you can listen to the full audio, but it seems relevant for One Big Happy Family, too.
When I did the interview for KPFA in Berkeley, I was exploring the way men can, through supporting women, support a part of themselves. Nityama has taken this to an incredibly dynamic place, and spends his life offering sessions of sexual healing to women
This version is from the site Extatica.
RW: Tell me a little bit about what you do and how you came into this work.
SN: It is sex that brings us onto the planet. We must realize that if we have difficulty with the primal energy that brought us here, then we are going to be mired in self-hatred and be confused about the very thing that has brought us into being.
Comments:
This was absolutely amazing and informative as well as affirming. I literally broke down in tears several times while reading this. I had a strong physical reaction. My breathing elevated and almost left me completely at times. I could not sit still while reading this, my body rocked or swayed. Some of these things I have known/felt my entire life. But I've been told as a man I should not feel this way and these things should be tamped down as if it were gravel to be walked upon for my entire life. For me, these were words of release and acceptance.
Yes, ... Nityama charges bodywork at US$500 an hour, or $1,000 for a 2hr "full body session" ... phone sessions for even his full-group sessions are expensive ($400p/individual for 3-4 hrs, where he virtually just hits "replay") Nityama is just another embodiment of archetypal US Kapitalist-opportunist ... this observation does not dismiss the insight he may have on sex-spirit (they are liberating), but in my value-frame, given the premium to market rate he charges, he is an opportunist whose authenticity is thus thin .. (Germaine Greer, Betty Friedman, Simone de Beauvoir.. they cost as much as their books and were equally liberating at the time)... Nityama's integrity - not a genuine generous consciousness-raising spirit, even if his sexual-insights are advanced...given the mula he demands $$$$ - I have encountered inspiring, dedicated authentic US practitioners (among them: Byron Katie, Wayne Dyer) who share themselves at reasonable market rate!!, ... when I see Nityama's US-Kapitalist style pricing (esp for group settings where he does 'replay'), I do sick-up a bit - so 'Anthony Robbins/John DeMartini'-style, even if I can acknowledge that they/Nityama have some powerful, ground-breaking insights ... they obviously PRIMARILY operate at the material/EGO level, which belies their pronouncements of desiring to ultruistically raise human 'consciousness' ..they limit accessibility to user-pays (ie.they privatise not socialise their message!)... Nityama, no differently, commodifies himself .. strange: the "US prophets" are typically "US profit-eers" ... (with some exceptional exceptions) ..
Yes, ... Nityama charges bodywork at US$500 an hour, or $1,000 for a 2hr "full body session" ... phone sessions for even his full-group sessions are expensive ($400p/individual for 3-4 hrs, where he virtually just hits "replay") Nityama is just another embodiment of archetypal US Kapitalist-opportunist ... this observation does not dismiss the insight he may have on sex-spirit (they are liberating), but in my value-frame, given the premium to market rate he charges, he is an opportunist whose authenticity is thus thin ..
when I see Nityama's US-Kapitalist style pricing, I do sick-up a bit. Very Expensive. But I think Healing of such level deserve this much price.
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