WORLD POLYAMORY
ASSOCIATION'S FACULTY MEMBERS
(IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)
Teachers, Healers, Presenters & Workshop Leaders Click on the links below to learn more about our
Presenters.
(Example: for Presenters whose last names begin with A, B, C
or D click on
A , B, C, D
below)
Dossie
Easton
Dossie Easton is co-author with Janet Hardy of
The Ethical Slut, a guide to infinite sexual
possibilities as well as The Bottoming Book
and The Topping Book, When Someone You
Love Is Kinky, and most recently, Radical
Ecstasy: SM Journeys to Transcendence. She is
a licensed psychotherapist working with
individuals, couples and more in her private
practice, and has more than fifteen years experience
working with people struggling with poly issues.
An active sex radical since 1961, Dossie became a
volunteer with San Francisco Sex Information, and
subsequently served on their trainings staff,
offered a sex talk radio show for three years, and
earned a bachelor's degree in Human Sexuality. She
trained as a therapist in a variety of environments,
including ten years as a therapist in a psychiatric
halfway house with a specialty working with abuse
survivors. Currently she serves the poly community
as a therapist in her private practice, and by
supervising interns in training and offering
trainings to professionals in how to work with the
issues that may come up in poly families. She makes
her home in the mountains north of San Francisco,
travels around to teach at conferences all over the
world, and spends her nonexistent free time hiking
the hills declaiming filthy poetry to the vultures
and hosting outrageous pajama parties.
He has presented workshops at Bi-Sexual Conferences, at the
California Men's Gathering, and at Men's Retreats at Kalani
Honua on Big Island.
He has had both long-term and short-term relationships with
men and women, separately and together.
Dr. Elkin is a divorced father of a 31 year old daughter,
maintains a friendship with his ex-wife and is currently
living with his significant other near Hana on Maui.
Francoise
(tantra.francoise@gmail.com)
received her doctorate from the University
of Paris, where she worked as a woman's
counselor in sexology. She has been leading
puja rituals ongoingly for different
organizations since 1994. Francoise offers
private consultations for women and men
Darci is a
seasoned yoga teacher and Ayurveda
practitioner. She conducts year round
Pancha Karma cleansing and rejuvenation
retreats for individuals, couples and groups
at her center,
Hanalei Day Spa/TheAyurveda
Center of Hawaii on Kauai
and also conducts various workshops on
Ayurveda massage and Spa therapies,
self/partner massage/yoga to spas and
yoga studios around the world. Darci Frankel
has about 15 years experience as a yoga
instructress, Massage Therapist and Ayurveda
Practitioner. Darci enthusiastically guides
people toward their highest potential using
her skill, humor and intuition.
Tana Gallante
is a spiritual healer, a personal and career
coach, and a
student of psychology. She works with individual
clients and small groups teaching advanced
communication and relationship enhancing tools.
Pictured
Tana &
Cougar Brenneman
Tana has studied metaphysics intensively since the age
of 15. She recently
completed a year-long Spirit of Life Institute program
teaching in-depth
relationship concepts, with a goal to become a licensed
minister through the
Association for the Integration of the Whole Person.
Polyamorous her whole life, Tana is a life partner with
Cougar, with a goal
of wholeness, safety, and stability in multiple
committed relationships.
Drs. Steven Vogue and Anastas Harris have been Tantra
teachers for 10 years and have had a Tantric, polyamorous
relationship for 19 years. They belong to a poly family of
beloveds, of about 26 individuals, who they meet with for
an extended weekend approximately every three months, usually at
their home. They present workshops on Tantra and Polyamory and
do private Tantric coaching with couples and singles.
Anastas and Steven teach the art of super-conscious, sacred sex,
by creating a Tantric relationship with their clients, and, if
they are a couple, bring them into Tantric relationship with
each other. They teach Tantric skills and awareness, including
Ejaculation Mastery, Full Body Orgasm and a sex that is based on
creating a union of the sexual and spiritual energies.
Their clients learn the art of running and transmitting life
force sexual energy, in the context of the Sacred Heart Space,
rather than friction sex. They assist their clients to
overcome their sexual challenges and experience extended bliss
in love-making. They are co-authoring a book on female orgasm.
Steven and Anastas teach out of their coastal, north San Diego,
California home where they have a Tantric bed and breakfast.
Couples who wish to do so can enjoy the Tantric bed and
breakfast service while taking a Tantric training. They are well
known for their Tantric workshop “The Intimacy Oil Experience”
and invite you to be on their mailing list for this and other
events. Anastas is also a psychological therapist
and Steven, a chiropractor and naturopath.
Steven Vogue and Anastas Harris presented the Laguna Beach, 2004
Post-Conference, October 24, 2005:
Dr. Danielle Harel
is a
clinical sexologist and a pleasure activist who has
devoted the last thirteen years to counseling and
empowering couples, women, men, and groups. She
graduated with a Ph.D and a Doctor of Human Sexuality
(DHS) degree from the Institute for Advanced
Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco.
Danielle has a graduate degree in Clinical Social Work (MSW)
and a Bachelors (BA) degree in Psychology and
Educational Counseling.
Danielle brings her passion,
depth, intuition and magnetizing personality to her
coaching sessions and workshops. Harnessing her
extensive training as a sexologist and her background in
psychology and body-based modalities, she leads people
into the depth of their desires to support them in
reaching their fullest sexual potential. She is
particularly talented in helping her clients release
shame and accept themselves fully. Danielle offers her
clients a unique, experiential and exciting process to
transform their relationships, create intense and loving
connections and live their lives passionately.
Celeste Hirschman
has made a lifelong study of sexuality,
intimacy and relationships both inside and
outside of the classroom. She received an MA
in Human Sexuality Studies from San
Francisco State University where she
researched young people's sexuality
development.
She draws on multiple perspectives, including sexual
healing, celebrating eroticism, Tantra, and BDSM, to
help her clients realize their full potential and deepen
their experiences of pleasure and embodiment.
Celeste brings her
unconditional love, presence, erotic energy and
spirituality to her coaching and workshops in order to
create an open, safe and exciting container where her
clients can explore every aspect of themselves without
guilt or shame. She uses her training in psychology,
role-play, and body-based modalities to create real-time
experiences where people learn to transform old patterns
and incorporate new passions and possibilities into
every aspect of their lives, including their loving and
intimate relationships.
We're very proud of our Faculty: talented, educated,
professional and experienced in their field.
Faculty Members must be registered as a
World Polyamory
Association Member in good standing in order to be
featured on the World Polyamory Association web site. If
you wish to be considered to be a member of our faculty,
please fill out this form:
Presenter/Workshop Facilitator Application
World Polyamory Association 
