The Divine Within Sensuality

Have you ever felt a sacred sexuality while meditating or practicing yoga?

It’s not an easy topic to discuss, because somewhere along the way many of us learned that sexuality and the divine do not exist together.

Yoga Journal produced a Kundalini 101 virtual course with me a few years ago, and I was grateful that they were open to doing a full workshop on sacred sexuality.

I feel that one of the blocks we experience in life is from the lower triangle. Many of us were taught to keep our sexuality secret. Connecting to the divine takes purity, which means cleansing the lower energy centers.

When our energy centers are off balance, they are overactive or underactive. When we close off a part of our body, our nervous system often reacts with a form of self-sabotage.

We all know the people who hide their sacred sexuality behind religion, but act out sexually with deep shame in secrecy. We also know people who experience pain around sexuality. There are autoimmune disorders that stem from shame around sexuality. In body, mind, and energy environments, we have always understood the dis-ease of the body that stems from the lack of ease in the mind. I’m often careful about writing about the body and mind connection, because I do believe there are genetic and environmental factors to illness as well. I also know that many people feel shame around illnesses. When someone tells them to change their mindset to eradicate a thyroid disorder, it can bring up deep shame.

I am an advocate for helping people eliminate shame. I never want any of my clients or students to carry shame.

My point is twofold here. I do believe shame is the lowest frequency of emotion.

Psychiatrists have studied the emotional scales. Some may call it pseudoscience, but I do believe we cannot prove everything through science.

Then again, what about Maslow’s hierarchy? Many of us learned about Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in science and psychology classes in high school. The fear of losing safety because of something that we feel is wrong with us (shame) versus reaching self-actualization by having the self-esteem to know that we are worthy of safety and love.

Also, Erikson revealed his theory that guilt can cause a person to manipulate or push heavily against their environment to get their needs met. Erikson’s virtues were care and wisdom. He believed that when we cared enough for ourselves without guilt, we had the ability to influence the world effortlessly through authenticity, alignment, and internal stability.

It has now been studied with individuals in trauma recovery. For example, Dr. Gabor Maté speaks extensively on shame as a foundational consequence of childhood trauma. He also links illness to the behavioral adaptations born out of that shame: self-silencing, chronic people-pleasing, and the suppression of healthy anger.

I have seen this year after year with clients. I can feel it within myself when I shut down a part of myself in order to create a peaceful environment for others.

Even writing this article here right now. This is not a topic I write about often because I know it can make people feel uncomfortable.

Sexuality can be extremely sacred and deeply divine.

I took a spirituality and sustainability course in Italy once. When we went to Assisi, I felt the absolute sacred love of St. Francis. I also found some texts on St. Clare and St. Francis that fascinated me. Many of those texts are no longer available.

I truly believe Mary Magdalene was the love of Jesus’ life. And at the same time, I love church and the Bible.

I speak of topics many don’t. I am a disruptor. It’s as if the words move through me. I can’t hold them in. Sometimes I feel like it’s the way I can support others.

I don’t mind if people have different opinions. I listen. I actually enjoy hearing other people’s points of view. It helps me make sense of this world at this time.

We long for community so much that we stay in our silo. We are accepted for being part of the same belief system. I’d rather be in alignment with my truth. My own inner truth.

The more I allow myself to be authentically me, the more I accept others.

In life, fear keeps us in the silo. Fear also keeps us stuck. Our minds and hearts become disconnected.

Perhaps healing begins the moment we stop fearing who we are.

When we honor our bodies, our truth, and one another with compassion, we remember that we were never meant to live in shame. We were meant to live fully alive.

Maybe that’s what true freedom is—not the absence of differences, but the courage to live authentically, to love deeply, and to create a world where the next generation never has to confuse shame with holiness.

I think there is something so very sacred about allowing ourselves to feel pleasure. I also truly believe that if we were taught that our sexuality was dangerous before being taught that our bodies were meant to feel ecstasy, the shame will creep in. We might even punish ourselves around it. Our bodies are meant to be full of sensation. Shame comes from the curriculum of what we learned was right and wrong… or how we were never taught to be free in our sacred sexuality.

Join me at Omega in September, where we will move our bodies in sacred dance, Kundalini yoga, and somatic movement.

Some are asking about accommodations….

The rooms are sold out on campus, but there is space in the workshop, and many local hotels have rooms. Come alone or come with a friend. You can eat your meals on campus while sleeping somewhere else.

It will be safe and very cozy.

The best way to find out more is to search Karena Virginia Omega Institute.

We have a special healing retreat coming up in the winter on the beach in Mexico too from January 31-February 6, 2027 ~ Best way to see more is to look up Journey to the Self: 5 levels of healing with Karena Virginia.

The Karena Virginia Podcast is available for you wherever you listen or watch podcasts, and it’s all about expecting the best and getting it. The law of attraction works when we understand the missing link in the “thinking” part.

My brand new book, Breathe With Me, is now available on Amazon or you can order it at your local bookstore.

Remember, angels surround you ALL the time. You are LOVED. Angels accept you fully. All of you.

See you soon.

Love,

Karena