About Us – Spirited Loving.com


About Us
Welcome to Spirited Loving! On this site you will find educational information and resources to help you experience and appreciate the miracle of your sexuality in many and profound ways – to enhance and prolong your pleasure and enjoyment of sexuality – to discover new depths of intimate connection – and to help you experience the transcendence of the connection between Sex and Spirit. Spirited Loving may be practiced with yourself or with a partner. Solo Spirited Loving brings richness and resonance to your experience of your sexuality. If you are in relationship with a Beloved partner, you have much to explore together!
	David Yarian, Ph.D. and Sandi Anders, M.Div., R.Y.T. offer Spirited Loving Tantric sexuality workshops, private Tantric coaching for couples and individuals, and custom-designed educational presentations on Positive Sexuality and improving intimate relationships. We teach workshops on sexual healing, relationship enhancement, and sexuality and spirituality. We also maintain private consulting practices.
We are married life partners, together since 1992. The Tantric path has been deeply meaningful to us and has profoundly enhanced and nurtured our intimate relationship. We enthusiastically bring our personal experience with the practice of Spirited Loving, as well as hard-won knowledge about the challenges along the way. We are currently writing a book on Spirited Loving, focusing on the efficacy of Tantric approaches to sexuality and loving relationships in mid-life and beyond.
David Yarian, Ph.D. David is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in private practice in Nashville, TN since 1980. He has extensive postgraduate training in marital and family therapy and specializes in working with couples. He has advanced training in sex therapy with Dr. David Schnarch (author of Passionate Marriage), Dr. Marty Klein, Dr. Pat Carnes (author Out of the Shadows), and the Masters and Johnson Institute. He is a Certified Sex Therapist (AASECT) and an elected member of the American Family Therapy Academy. He has been practicing Tantra for more than ten years and has studied intensively with Margo Anand and Charles and Caroline Muir. Click on David Yarian to visit his professional website. David’s work with couples focuses on enhancing their communication process and helping them to perfect the dance between connection and individuality that challenges every couple. He sees sexuality as the most intimate form of communication within the relationship, and he engages couples in the challenging quest of seeking their highest and best way of being, with themselves and with their intimate partner. He has a great deal of clinical experience in working with survivors of childhood sexual abuse who may experience lifelong complications which impact their ability to comfortably be intimate with their partner. David is Adjunct professor of Psychology at Vanderbilt University and provides supervision and training to Psychology pre-doctoral Interns and post-doctoral Fellows at the Vanderbilt University Counseling Center. He has created The Guide to Self-Help Books, an annotated guide to the best in self-help, personal growth and self-improvement books. He has organized the Tantra portion of the AASECT national conference in 2005.
Sandi Anders, M.Div., R.Y.T. Sandi is a body-mind psychotherapist, yoga teacher, stress reduction specialist, musician and Life Coach. In her private therapeutic work with individuals and groups she uses movement, breath work, mindfulness meditation, creative visualization and music to create a healing environment. Her work enables people to encounter and embrace their deepest selves, heal old wounds and learn self-nurture and self-care. Sandi facilitates the connection of body, mind, heart and spirit into an integrated whole; grounding emotion, thought and action within the body. She too has practiced Tantra for more than ten years, studying with Margo Anand and Charles and Caroline Muir. Click here to visit her professional website. Sandi has extensive training in Iyengar Yoga with a range of internationally-known teachers, including Rodney Yee, Ramanand Patel, Gabriella Guibilaro, Felicity Green and John Schumacher. She has studied mindfulness-based approaches to stress reduction with Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Full Catastrophe Living. Her advanced Life Coach training was done with the Coaches Training Institute, using the Co-Active Coaching model. Sandi is a gifted musician and actor and has performed opera and musical theater professionally, written songs in Nashville, and performed as a solo artist. Click on Sandi Anders to visit her professional website. Sandi’s relaxation and guided meditation 2-CD set, The Alchemy of Peace and Love: Magical Meditations to Calm Your Mind and Lift Your Spirit, was released in 2005. It combines evocative words and images with original music to create unique and powerful meditations upon Inner Peace and Perfect Love. To read more about Alchemy, and to listen to samples, please click on Imagery4Relaxation.com.
Testimonials Sandi and David are seasoned practitioners and workshop leaders who bring their compassionate spirit, enthusiasm, and dedication to personal growth to their work. They offer an exciting and challenging integration of didactic presentation, experiential work, and take-home skills and practices. Participants in previous workshops have praised their gentle style which mixes warm acceptance, humor and deep presence in the moment to create a safe atmosphere for learning and growth.