Dr. Sovatsky is a long-time psychotherapist and expert on kundalini yogi, who codirected the Ram Dass Prison Ashram Project in 1977 and received the first federal grants to use yoga with incarcerated youth and the homeless mentally ill in 1978. The former president of the US Association for Transpersonal Psychology and a faculty member at the California Institute of Integral Studies, he is the author of Eros, Consciousness & Kundalini, Words from the Soul and Advanced Spiritual Intimacy. We spoke about his varied work at the intersection of tantra, yoga and psychology, about kundalini, and about spiritual development in the context of family life.