Barbara Carrellas is an author, sex/life coach, sex educator, university lecturer, workshop facilitator, motivational speaker and theater artist. Her most recent books are Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century and Luxurious Loving: Tantric Inspirations for Passion and Pleasure. Barbara's pioneering Urban Tantra® workshops were named best in New York City by TimeOut/New York magazine.

Barbara is a certified sexologist (ASC, American College of Sexologists) and a member of AASECT (American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists). She is a proud graduate of the Coney Island Sideshow School with a double major in fire eating and snake handling.

Barbara brings a holistic, metaphysical, practical, humorous, entertaining and gender-fluid approach to conscious sexuality and to all her work. Barbara has been featured in numerous videos, films, television specials and documentaries. For many years she enjoyed a successful theatrical career as a general manager, producer and theatre manager on Broadway, Off-Broadway and in alternative theatre in New York. She is still active as a performance artist.

Barbara offers inspiring and life-changing workshops, lectures, and keynotes on a variety of topics to individuals, schools, conferences, businesses, and the arts. Her current academic offerings include:

• Living a Sex-Positive Life in a Sex-Negative Culture: An encouraging and empowering evening, suitable for all audiences.
• Enlightened Perverts in Ecstasy: Who gets to decide who is a pervert and who is "normal?"

• How to Have A Gender-Free Orgasm: Barbara’s most popular university workshop.
• Sacred Sex For The 21st Century: How Sex Works and Why It Matters: We deconstruct sex and relearn it from the ground up.

Barbara has lectured at dozens of educational institutions, including Harvard University, Brown University, Vassar College, Barnard College, the Chicago Art Institute and Yale University. She frequently collaborates with her partner, Kate Bornstein, with whom she performs and tours their sex positive, gender-bending lecture/performance piece Kate & Barbara Do Sex, Death & Gender.