Join Barbara Carrellas, beloved author of The Urban Tantra and Ecstasy is Necessary, to celebrate the launch of her new book, The Book of Ecstasy: Opening Yourself Up to Erotic Energy—In All Its Forms, at the Bureau.

Barbara will be joined by her partner, queer icon Kate Bornstein, for a conversation about our embodied experience of the erotic and ecstatic and offer a fiercely inclusive and radically affirming path to ecstasy—for every body, in every season of life.

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Blending practical tools, spirituality, and decades of embodied experience, The Book of Ecstasy offers a fiercely inclusive and radically affirming path to ecstasy—for every body, in every season of life. Ecstasy is a deeply personal and accessible experience of joy, aliveness, and connection—not something reserved for mystics or perfect bodies, but available to anyone willing to listen to their own truth. This is a book for anyone who has ever felt left out of mainstream conversations about sex, pleasure, or identity—especially those seeking “something more” beyond the norm.

After the conversation there will be time for Barbara to sign copies of The Book of Ecstasy, which will be available for purchase at the Bureau!

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Barbara Carrellas is the founder of Urban Tantra®, an approach to conscious sexuality that adapts and blends a wide variety of sacred sexuality practices from Tantra to BDSM. She is the author of Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-first Century—the world’s first LGBTQ+-inclusive Tantric sex book, Ecstasy is Necessary: A Practical Guide to Sex, Relationships and Oh So Much More, and Luxurious Loving. Her books, workshops, and lectures are an eclectic mix of sexual and spiritual practices designed to encourage readers and participants of all genders and sexual preferences to expand their capacity for both pleasure and spiritual fulfillment. Barbara is a proud graduate of the Coney Island Sideshow School with a double major in fire eating and snake handling.

A celebrated pioneer and advocate for the LGBTQ community, Kate Bornstein is the author of My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely; Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and The Rest of Us; and A Queer and Pleasant Danger: A Memoir. Her plays and performance pieces include Hidden: A Gender, The Opposite Sex Is Neither, and Too Tall Blondes In Love. Bornstein lives in New York City with her partner, Barbara Carrellas.