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Sydney Morning Herald

Friday November 18, 2005

Vishnu help us if our culture will be judged by what's in NW.

A Horse whisperer can teach you how to have better sex. HUH?

MindBodySpirit Festival

Today-Sunday, 10am-7pm, Sydney Convention Centre, Darling Harbour, $16/$11. Gary Douglas talks today at 2pm.

Gary Douglas may have watched too many episodes of Mr Ed.

"I communicate with horses," he says. "It's an energetic communication. A horse picks up your thoughts just like other animals do. They give you all kinds of information.

"I never know what the horse is going to tell me. Sometimes they tell me, 'I don't like this rider.' Sometimes they'll tell me, 'I'll do anything this rider wants.'"

When the 63-year-old Californian isn't tapping into a horse's inner thoughts or working on his new TV pilot, Conscious Horse, Conscious Rider, he is using his many other skills.

"[I am a] psychic, horse medium, transformational coach, energy worker and about 27 other things," he says.

Douglas is one of the "international experts" giving a seminar at this weekend's MindBodySpirit Festival.

"I'll be talking about sex and how to have sex as a joy in your life," he says, adding that people have forgotten how to have "slow and beautiful and encompassing sex".

"If you can learn the gentleness and the sensualness of sex instead of the friction and forcefulness of sex you can have a far greater orgasm than the friction and the force method most people use."

If it's love you're looking for, check out celebrity psychic Georgina Walker's workshop Hope for Love - You Will Find the Path to Happiness. Of course, you'll also have to be happy parting with $40 to find that path to happiness.

If you're looking for anything, you may just find it here. AwaHoshi Kavan can help find your biological crystal being. Kerrie Edwards-Ticehurst can channel your angel guides. Terry Winchester can help you "enter a deep alpha state of relaxation within seconds" with his trademarked MindFrame Technique. Sadly, there's no workshop to help you find the remote control.

Some of these seminars and therapies may seem far-fetched, but the festival attracts thousands. It has also become a global franchise, with events in Australia, Britain and Panama.

"These kinds of ideas and ways of living have become far more mainstream," says Rachel Hickey, the festival's public relations manager.

"Ten to 15 years ago some people may have considered it quite off-beat but now it's in every women's magazine."

© 2005 Sydney Morning Herald

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