Radio Co-host of Tantra, Love, Sex and Intimacy show and Educator
My mission is to truly find my bliss and employ my innate gifts as a Tantra Educator providing an
illuminated pathway for others to discover their greatest relationships with themselves, their spouses and their
universe. I teach and inspire people to achieve the ecstatic relationships they've only dreamed of.
I am someone who strives to be "a man", to stay in gratitude, wanting to teach others how to be happy and feel
good because that's what I am striving to sustain. I have always been aware of the magic of what happens when
others wake up to their own truths and my goal is to help them get there.
I've always been the person that someone, friend or stranger, could open up to, speak freely, reveal and be
vulnerable and know they were safe and appreciated. Often times I hear, "wow, you were just the person I needed to
speak to today." It's one of my gifts, often times having not only the ear to listen to their heart, but to also
have the words that unbeknown to me, were exactly what they needed to hear.
I don't just wear my heart out there, I strive to live my heart.
Joshua Benjamin Sommer, Born in Wallingford, Connecticut. My Father was a clinical psychologist, who was my best
friend, and I was his partner in crime. He died of Leukemia at 52, when I was 21. Mother is a Docent for the
Chicago Institute of Art. When I was young, she went back to school for her PhD in Architecture, Urban Planning
& Interior Design, when my older brother (my arch nemesis at the time) and I were old enough to go to school
full time. My brother Mike is a full time father and Rabbi; with the stories I know about him, I know that he can
guide people as a spiritual leader and a friend to all. Mom & Mike and his family live in a shared duplex in
Chicago.
My greatest challenges revolved around my undiagnosed dyslexia and being a hyper-sensitive child. Most of my life
I've experiences a foundational level of confusion, compensating with a state of hyper-alertness to avoid missing
critical details for social cues or safety, always feeling like I'm surfing through a dangerous reality by day,
finding brief respite when asleep at night, only to start again in the morning. As much as this created times of
struggle in school and relationships, difficulty communicating my wants and needs, it also was my greatest gift. I
see the world and it's energies and patterns and think deeply. I'm very visual and kinesthetic, thus, when I can
understand how something feels, I can learn and then teach it quickly to help others understand it.
Another of my greatest challenges was my father's illness and death. What I learned in that experience fostered an
even deeper understanding of what we go through emotionally, spiritually and energetically through loss, grief and
rebirth. Grasping every moment and opportunity life offers is how it helped me learn to live.
I am have been a licensed Massage Therapist for the last 8 years. I have BS in Outdoor Recreation Leadership from
Unity College in Unity, Maine. I studied energy healing and personal development at Northwest School of Healing
Arts for four years. After completing college I worked for 3 years for Wilderness Awareness School, learning and
teaching Native Awareness to adults and children. In that experience I had the opportunity to work with Native
Elders and Storytellers and learned a deeper understanding of how different cultures see society and the Earth.
I believe in Tanja Diamond, because of her significant experience with nature as a child. She is carrying a linage
of classical Tantra, that involves a way of living and discovering and mastering one's own purpose. I believe
that her intent and her integrity are of the highest order and an ideal combination to lead the transformation
of humanity at all levels.
I am sure that working with Team Tantra and Learning Tantra.com is my mission as I have always been the
mediator in the relationships of those around me. Assisting those I care about to be able to communicate their
intimacy needs with each other. I believe its time for me to take my teaching and awareness and inspiration for
intimacy from just family and friends to a stage of reaching a broader vision.
I'm drawn to Tantra as it promotes living a fulfilling and inspired life. That my inspiration for intimacy is
matched by the depth of experiences possible with Tantra is expansive and inviting as a life practice.
