{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthe-heart-of-jacks-podcast.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fa-tantra-primer-with-rick-laska-QlOp6fB_","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"A Tantra Primer with Rick Laska","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/6572e44c-866c-416a-b871-758f0019da36/9ef2aaa6-be2b-4527-836a-0c0923e68f57/hojp-square-icon-20200919.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"Rick Laska is a clinical social worker and certified sex therapist in the Twin Cities Metro Area in Minnesota. He has been involved in the field of sexual health and wellness for over 2 decades. He is passionate about pleasure, intimacy, and connection as well as overcoming the oppressive forces trying to stifle those things. Paul and Rick talk about his path to social work and sex therapy, and dive into the fundamentals of sexual mindfulness and tantra.\n\nBut first, Paul wants to talk to you about your \"Bate/Life Balance,\" how adults who masturbate frequently balance this part of their lives with everything else being a grownup requires of us. It may sound like an odd topic, but the extension of our cultural reticence with regard to masturbation can leave people in a \"denial/release\" cycle of cutting out self-pleasure followed by periods of sacrificing everything else. Paul is looking for guest suggestions to chew on this topic of making healthy self-pleasuring a balanced part of our adult lives."}