Dr. Gretchen Blycker introduces The Sacred Garden Mandala podcast and an evidence-based miniseries adapted from her doctoral dissertation, The Yoga of Sex: A Mystery, a mindfulness-based, yoga-centered sexual wellness curriculum for young adults.

She frames sexual wellness as multidimensional—woven into body, mind, heart, culture, relationships, and spirit—and emphasizes that education must move beyond information to cultivate compassion, embodiment, consent awareness, communication skills, empathy, relational responsibility, trauma-informed healing, and media literacy amid influences like digital culture and pornography.

The series combines peer-reviewed research, curriculum connections, and reflective practices, includes a listener care note about sensitive topics, and opens Module 1 on why sexual wellness education matters now. She offers a companion guided video on her website and closes with affirmations of wholeness and invitations to subscribe and share.

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The Sacred Garden Mandala for Sexual Wellbeing: Full Audiobook Edition

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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

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00:00 Welcome and Invitation

01:11 Miniseries Overview

04:33 Why This Work Matters

08:55 Module One Begins

11:00 Listener Care Note

12:40 Research Foundation

16:15 AMystery Curriculum

19:07 Guided Reflection

21:23 Next Module Preview

22:59 Companion Resources

24:34 Closing Affirmations