![]() ![]() While dancing around in a purple dinosaur costume for a decade seems like a career path that couldn’t be further from his current line of work, Joyner said, “A lot of the elements of Barney were a lot of the things I was training with in tantra. However, none of the clients Vice talked to said they felt pressured or coerced into sex, and one said Joyner wears protection when she insists. However, California defense attorney Jonathan Kelman told Vice that isn’t actually a loophole, and if a client were to reach out to authorities, he could potentially be charged with prostitution. Rose feels that in a tantric healing session, intercourse is “almost always never needed-particularly for healing purposes.” And Yin questioned Joyner’s belief that condoms “block energy.” She called this “shady” and “ridiculous,” adding, “Having sex with clients in the world of tantra is more of an anomaly than the norm.”Īs far as the legality of his practice goes, Joyner told Vice that he’s OK as long as he doesn’t charge clients for their first session. When Vice spoke to Moksha Tantra Center founder Matthias Rose and tantra life coach Kaya Kwan Yin, both seemed less than OK with Joyner’s methods. The man who wore the Barney costume, David Joyner, has the tantric sex business. Joyner told the site that the best way to arrive at a “higher and more blissful state of awareness” is to engage in penetrative, unprotected sex. Though the clients Vice spoke to seemed into Joyner's healing practices, his methodology is not exactly everyone’s cup of tea. Also on the menu: cosmic, mind-blowing orgasms.” Joyner explained to Vice, “When the lingam and the yoni meet, there’s a certain energy that takes place that hands on the body alone cannot create.”ĭoes this mean intercourse can be part of the session if the client is on board? To quote one of the songs in Barney's repertoire, B-I-N-G-O. The cost includes “a ritual bath, chakra balancing, and a massage. Now, it's no accident that I've been spreading ‘I love you’ all around the world.”įor $350, a client gets a session with Joyner that lasts three to four hours, Vice reports. Because tantra deals with loving energy, life force energy, and energy that rises through your system. He told the site, “And a lot of times when people think about tantra they think it's all about sex. In a 2017 interview with Business Insider, Joyner mentioned that he's been studying tantra since he was 19 years old. As Vice reported, he's had his practice since 2004, and his tantra journey began many years before that. Joyner has been following this tradition of spiritual intimacy for a long time. The man inside the Barney costume is David Joyner. In a new profile by Vice, the former star of Barney & Friends talks about the tantric sex practice he runs, and uh, needless to say, this job is vastly different from the one he had at PBS. And now, the man who played Barney is a tantra massage specialist and spiritual healer. and of course Barney's head doesn't turn because it's all once piece so you have to portray emotion coming from this character as you're talking and then also wanting to show different gestures and mannerisms that's not gonna take the character out of character, because Barney still has certain nuances.ĭespite these conditions, he explained that he did enjoy playing Barney.From 1991 to 2001, David Joyner was arguably the most famous purple dinosaur since Dino on The Flintstones. So you can't be walking through the set destroying things. Lion Stalkin Moose Shootin Bear Huntin These completed in turn led to: A Hunter at Heart Scout It Out These completed opened up That Guy in the Costume. Temperatures in the suit would get as high as 48 degrees Celsius, and the entire six foot costume weighed 70 pounds. Comment by idrainu Pre-requisites to That Guy in the Costume. On top of that there's kids, there's lighting. He added that on top of providing a first class performance, Barney is performed under some extremely testing conditions. Inside I'm nodding up and down, it's hot, I'm sweating, but I've got props and then on top of that, the voice is talking so I have to make sure my nod and my mannerisms are going with the voice.īarney was voiced by Bob West, so Joyner had to time his movements with the voice work. On Monday the Mail Online revealed the worst parts of the role.Īccording to Joyner, he was the second choice for the role, after the actor before him pulled out, saying she was unable to cope with the pressures of the role. He has subsequently had roles in TV shows such as Shameless US, Veep, and ER. The man who played Barney the Dinosaur for over 10 years has revealed the worst part of donning the purple suit.Īctor David Joyner first played Barney in 1990, and made his last TV appearance as the dinosaur in 2003.
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