Tantric intimacy requires slowing down and becoming aware of one's senses to maintain arousal and presence during sexual activity.

“So much of what tantric intimacy is is slowing down, being with the experience. How can you reensitize your body to stay turned on when things are way slower, especially for the man than what they're used to?”

Tantric practice should be seen as a path for the householder that involves embracing the messiness of life as a spiritual practice.

“And the householder path is to be in society, to be in relationships, to have children, to work, to be with life. And there is just a different spiritual path that comes with that, which is to me the path of the feminine. the path to be with all of the things the messiness of life and to see that as”