Southwest Leather Conference will have a variety of ways for you to set your soul on fire and have sizzling hot fun. Share in this unique gathering of over 500 people from around the world in Phoenix, Arizona January 20-22, 2012. Connect with others in a merging of leather, sex, and spirit. Advanced registration at http://www.southwestleather.org is available at a discounted price until December 31st.

Begin the conference by illuminating the Sacred Path. Share in the lighting of the flame and help us spread the light to all areas of the conference and to share our light with each other. To keep your spiritual flame burning, join us in Our Place, a sacred place of peace. Leaders within the local community will lead spiritual activities at scheduled times within Our Place during SWLC. These are not workshops; they are spiritual experiences which individuals can choose to participate in for the enrichment of their spirit and to share their experiences and journeys. The room will also be open for private contemplation and meditation throughout the day and evening during and between scheduled activities.

Heat up you flames and renew your leather spirit at the annual Leather Tribal Revival. If you are in a rut and need to get fired up you’ll find it hard to stay seated as everyone can join in the beat, energy and rhythm of this Sunday morning eye opener.

Spark your passion for shopping. The Leather Mall will be located on the 3rd floor of the hotel, beside the elevators and directly across from workshop rooms…..prime location for a quick shopping trip between classes.The Leather Mall will also feature the popular Silent Auction. While the mall will not have a Spencer’s Gifts or a Food Court there will be plenty of options for shoppers in the individual room boutiques.

Let the embers glow as the weekend closes at the Dance Of Souls. This energy pull and ball dance is not performance art, a competition or a spectacle event. Some people may experience a spiritual awakening. Others may have a fabulous endorphin high. Still others may just enjoy the ritualistic atmosphere. Participation is an additional fee, very limited and attendees must pre-pay when registering for the conference.

Those are just a few of the many activities we have planned that will warm your soul and enflame your senses at Southwest Leather Conference. Light your own fire by registering now on the SWLC Website at http://www.southwestleather.org

Master Dan is an educator with 10 years experience and co-author of two books, Living M/s and Sex, Stories, and Power Exchange. He is also the co-host of the Erotic Awakening internet radio show, an educational podcast that explores “all things erotic”, as well as the producer for three other shows.

Along with his slave and wife dawn, they are the Great Lakes region Master & slave title holders for 2010, creators of the Scarlet Sanctuary and other sacred sexuality training; and leaders of the respected Leather tribe “House Metta”. Dan’s personal philosophy (at least, this week) is ‘you can’t avoid the waves, but you can learn how to surf*’

* credited to Jack Kornfield

Thank you Big Fatty from http://bigfattyonline.com/ for the birtday wishes!

And thank you to dawn for setting this up, I laughed and laughed.

Love you,
Dan

• Dan and dawn interviewed regarding healthy M/s relationships on Libidacoria talk show, July 2 show, 2011
• Dan and dawn interviewed to talk about sex and religion on Reality Radio radio show, 2011
• Dan and dawn join the Deviant Mind Salon to talk about BDSM, Sacred Sex, and more on the Deviant Minds Salon, 2011
• Dan and dawn interviewed for the Voice of the Dragon internet radio show, 2011
• Dan and dawn interviewed for the Dark Side internet radio show (show 51), 2011
• Joined the instructors staff on Creative Sexuality in April of 2011
• Dan and dawn interviewed for the Dark Side internet radio show (show 11), 2010
• Erotic Awakening podcast reviewed by Edgy Podcast Review, 2010
• Featured as guest educator, Kink Academy (www.kinkacademy.com), 2010
• Featured in article Sacred sex and temple prostitutes, 2009

For those that listened to Barak’s quote of Theodore Roosevelt, here it is. I found it very inspiring.

Excerpt from the speech “Citizenship In A Republic”, delivered at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France on 23 April, 1910


“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat”