Journey into the Sacred Garden Mandala: Compassionate Healing and Sexuality
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Dr. Gretchen Blycker introduces The Sacred Garden Mandala podcast as an invitation to cultivate holistic sexual wellbeing through compassion, curiosity, and embodied awareness of body, energy, and mind, joined this season by co-producer Dee Daniels and a range of guests.
Drawing from Tibetan lineages and Sol Rigpa teachings, Blycker connects ancient practices with modern neurobiology, including polyvagal theory, emphasizing personal inquiry, inner wisdom, and non-hierarchical learning. She shares her background in sexual trauma advocacy, massage therapy, holistic counseling, and clinical work with sexual trauma, compulsive sexual behaviors, and problematic pornography use, and explains how trauma can disrupt safety and pleasure through nervous system threat responses.
Using the mandala garden metaphor—rooting, tending, blossoming, harvesting, composting—she outlines a structure of sacred center, inner ring, and outer ring, guides a brief grounding and element-based practice, and emphasizes safety as foundational for healing and transformation.
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MEET DR. GRETCHEN BLYCKER
MINDFULNESS-BASED PSYCHOTHERAPY
AWAKENING APHRODITE AND ADONIS: THE ART, SCIENCE, AND SOUL OF LOVE, SEX AND RELATIONSHIPS
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CONTACT DR. GRETCHEN BLYCKER
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MEET THE PRODUCTION TEAM: DEE DANIELS MEDIA
FIND A FAVORITE SPOT IN THIS EPISODE:
00:00 Welcome and Invitation
01:52 Meet Dee and the Mission
03:39 Roots of the Mandala Garden
11:51 Dee’s Story and Podcast Intimacy
14:13 Gretchen’s Path to Sexology
20:26 Trauma Safety and Pleasure
27:16 Masculine Feminine Wisdom
33:24 Why the Garden Metaphor
38:38 Guided Mandala Practice
47:10 Closing Reflections and Next Steps