Heart-On Catalyst

Rachel Santos

I am deeply inspired and guided by the 5 Elements. Elemental systems are the foundation of Tantra, Healing Tao, Shamanic and other ancient, ancestral traditions rooted in the great innate wisdom of Nature.

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Hi, I’m Rachel Santos, founder and Chief FunRaiser of Heart-On. I am a devoted explorer of the wondrous landscape we call body.

I offer group and private sessions in QiGong, Tantric and Taoist Sexuality. I am known for being a playful presenter in the conscious intimacy and conscious dance communities. Aquatic bodywork is one of my major passions and I offer sessions whenever possible. I’ve been a frequent presenter (pre-covid) at retreat centers and festivals worldwide, including Kripalu, Menla, Boom Festival, Symbiosis, FIGMENT NYC and many more. 

All Heart-On activations combine the wisdom of ancient wellness embodiment practices with conscious communication, eco-minded-heart-centered artivism, and joyous fun-making. As a professional “FunRaiser” I love to harness the power of music and dance for social justice.

 
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About

Tao Tantra
Healing Arts

Photo: Nolita Ananda

Photo: Nolita Ananda

Journey though the wondrous landscape of your body to reveal the heavenly treasures and exquisite pleasures you are designed to experience! Taoist and Tantric teachings give us techniques and wisdom to live in harmony, in our totality, with supernova heart-ons that radiate joy, vitality and bliss.

Immersive
Performance

"Ask the Oracle Disco Ball" 

"Ask the Oracle Disco Ball" 

Need someone to activate major heart-on the dance floor, fluff the vibe, and make your event unique and unforgettable? Through curated performances, guests interact more deeply with what the event is all about. Invite, inspire, and cultivate connection through comedic cabaret & theatrical antics.

FunRaising
Artivism

Greywater Action Install, LA Ecovillage

Greywater Action Install, LA Ecovillage

Heart-On Artivism supports social and environmental justice causes. Benefit events for NGOs, Restorative Wellness for staff, and site-specific eco-design projects contribute to uplift creativity, vitality, and sustainability at your organization. "FunRaise" your Fundraiser" - serious fun for charitable giving!

 

Tao Tantra Tea TIME

Since 2014, Rachel has been offering this event as a free, fun & informative tea-time conversation about Tao Tantric Arts. We explore the topic of Sacred Sexuality in Taoist and Tantric traditions, and discuss practices such as the Jade Egg, MultiOrgasm, Injaculation, the MicroCosmic Orbit, and more. Curious? Bring your questions for Q&A!

Learn about practices for cosmically expansive love-making - yes, THAT big!!! We are all born with this capacity - in fact, born of it. Sexual energy is the energy that creates life, it is our common language with Divinity. Tao Tantra is a wondrous gateway to:

  • Recognize shame-based social conditioning around sexuality, and how it impacts us

  • Upgrade from patterns of contraction/disassociation to conscious, highly expanded experiences of pleasure

  • Heal from past sexual trauma

  • Gain inner freedom and openness to fully embrace, explore and enjoy our sacred, creative life force energy

Tao Tantra is a treasure chest of tools and techniques to channel sexual energy for vitality, creativity, expanded pleasure and divine bliss. YUM! This is a path for experiencing life in totality - what Tantra is all about.

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Tao Tantra Inner AlchemY 4-part series

Part 1 - Inner Smile

Part 2 - 6 Healing Sounds

Part 3 - Microcosmic Orbit

Part 4 - Jade Egg Initiation for Women/Cultivating Sexual Energy for Men

This series covers the foundational practices that prepare us for sexual energy cultivation. Through Tao Tantra we experience profound healing, increased sensation, immense pleasure, and expanded orgasms. Through this pathway we experience expanded states of consciousness, we recognize and feel connected with all of existence, we awaken to our own divinity - merging sexual with sacred.

Part 1, The Inner Smile: A simple yet powerful meditation for cultivating radiant health and vitality. 

Part 2, The 6 Healing Sounds: An alchemical process that uses sound vibration to clear negative emotions and stress related to each organ system.

Part 3, The Microcosmic Orbit: The primary energy channel in the body through which we circulate, refine and distribute chi.  

Each of these three meditations is a transformative, Inner Alchemy practice. They are a comprehensive self-care system for radiant health, balance and well-being. Through the practices, we develop internal awareness, an essential tool for Tao Tantra. This foundation prepares us to skillfully cultivate, circulate and sublimate sexual energy.

  • Develop a sense of internal awareness in the body

  • Revitalize the internal organs, glands, nervous system and the bones

  • Access the elements of nature to understand human nature

  • Harmonize yin and yang (feminine and masculine) energy

  • Increase capacity to conduct and contain chi

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Part 4 of this series is a Jade Egg Initiation for women. For men, it is a Cultivating Sexual Energy workshop. (These gender classifications are based on physical anatomy, rather than gender identity. Non-binary options are available as well as private Jade Egg Initiations for men. Please inquire for more details.) 

Jade Eggs have been used for thousands of years to channel sexual energy for health, vitality, and blissful, conscious love-making. Please see more about the Jade Egg practices below.

Cultivating Sexual Energy for Men is an introduction to the specific physical and energetic practices for MultiOrgasm. This special workshop covers practices for separating orgasm and ejaculation - the path to expanded, full body orgasms. These techniques were historically guarded as secrets to increase longevity, now recognized as scientifically proven Chinese Medicine methodologies.

  • Enhance intimacy and expand pleasure

  • Find deeper soul connection with self and partners

  • Experience transformative healing

  • Develop MultiOrgasmic potential

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Jade Egg & Healing Love

Artwork by Olivia Augusta

Artwork by Olivia Augusta

Tao Tantric Arts bring us into harmony with nature, and our bodies, where sexual energy is recognized as what creates life and revered as sacred. Taoist sexual practices help us to embrace and cultivate life force energy for vitality, creativity and spiritual awakening. This energy that creates life is our common language with Divinity. 

The Jade Egg is a beautiful healing crystal used internally. It was originally taught in ancient China to women in the Imperial court.

Jade Eggs are used to channel sexual energy for health, vitality, creativity, and blissful, conscious love-making. Women experience these benefits and more:

  • Healing from past negative sexual experiences

  • Increased overall vitality, sexual health and sensitivity

  • Expanded pleasure for both partners - increased libido and orgasmic potential 

  • Reduced symptoms of menstruation and menopause 

  • Build a healthy relationship to the body and to sexuality

  • Tones, strengthens and develops refined articulation of the yoni

 
Artwork by Autumn Skye

Artwork by Autumn Skye

Sacred Cacao 5-Element Dance Ceremony

Sacred Cacao Dance Ceremony is a guided 5-Element dance journey of heart-opening. We gather, drink medicinal cacao elixir, and set intentions. Embodying the 5 elements through dance, we celebrate our totality. We open our hearts to heal through creative physical expression. Our cacao-powered intentions and playful dancing feet carry us through the elements of Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Ether, calling in the qualities of each element to nourish and support our transformation and self-realization. 

What people are saying about Cacao Ceremony:

"It was an amazing expression of freedom and release." 
-Gabriela C.

"It was incredibly powerful and beautiful...such a safe space for healing and celebration. Wow wow wow is all I can say and I look forward to many many more!"  
-Sarah W.

"Rachel's Cacao Ceremony was vibrant, deeply spiritual, emotionally alive and peaceful at the same time. I loved how the music flowed through all of us..."  
-Lois T.

 

ALL SENSES DELIGHT PLEASURE PLAYSHOP

We are blessed with Earthly treasures to give and receive Divine pleasure. Engaging the senses brings us into present moment awareness. When the busy mind is quieted, we can expand the subtle, blissful capacities our sensory organs are designed to experience -  from this sublime state, we embody samadhi.

This is an opportunity for exquisite surrender to pleasure, a playful journey of sensorial deliciousness including tantalizing treats, intoxicating aromas, sacred soundscapes, tingles, tickles, and more.

No partner required, all participants explore both giving and receiving an array of delicacies for each of the senses. Experience the distinct pleasures in each role, and the glorious feedback loop where the enjoyment of Delightor and Delighted merge. Leave with creative inspiration, feeling deeply connected and re-sensitized in your miraculous Body of Bliss. Ahhhhhh...

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All participants both give and receive touch in all 5 Elements, increasing fluency in different styles of sacred healing touch.

5-ELEMENT Tantric TOUCH

In classical Tantra, the full spectrum of matter to spirit is explored through the physical body and the senses. 5-Element Tantric Touch covers basic theory and practical techniques in the beautiful, non-verbal language of touch, using 5 types of sacred touch, based on the qualities of each element.

Benefits include:

• Increased vocabulary of touch

• Wider ranges of sensation and pleasure

• Refined communication skills

• Improved relationships through understanding of elemental properties and how they show up in human nature

We practice how to give and receive supportive, evolutionary feedback in a safe space. Ideal for both couples and individuals, no partner required.

Embody and experience each element, from the most dense (Earth), to the most subtle and sublime (Ether). No experience or equipment required, we practice Thai style, on "cozy stations" (yoga mats and blankets), with clothes on.

 

"The massage techniques are playful and enjoyable for both parties. How I feel afterwards is much better than when I started. Transformational."
-Henry L.

"I really enjoyed exploring the qualities of the 5 Elements in new ways. Expanding the vocabulary and sensory experiences for my partner and I gave us an opportunity for deeper intimacy."
-Brynn W.

 
 

Tao Tantra Healing Love: 
Multi-Orgasm & the Microcosmic Orbit

What does it mean to be MultiOrgasmic? Get answers and insights from the ancient wisdom of Taoist Sacred Sexuality. In this experiential workshop, we debunk myths and discover what multi-orgasm means, talk about expanded, wave/valley and full-body orgasms, and open the MicroCosmic Orbit.

This practice is the foundation of all the Tao Healing Love practices. The MicroCosmic Orbit is the primary energy channel for circulating and sublimating sexual energy in the body and into the higher spiritual centers. Based on the teachings of Master Mantak Chia, founder of Universal Healing Tao and author of The MultiOrgasmic Woman, The MultiOrgasmic Man, The MultiOrgasmic Couple.

"Feel My Heart-On" Cuddles and Consent CozyClass

This playshop is for anyone who enjoys cuddles, and wants to practice or refine their consent-oriented communication skills. It is a transformational workshop that gives us tools to operate at "maximum-high-level-pleasure factor" in daily life. 

We hear the phrase "Consent is Sexy" all the time, how do we know if we're really getting it? Come and find out, in this playful exploration to increase comfort and fluency in asking for what we desire. Build the rainbow bridge from understanding "consent" as a concept, into full embodiment and expression.