ADVAIT TANTRA EVENTS

noreply@blogger.com (Shakti) — Thu, 03 May 2012 09:55:00 +0000

Blissdance Intensive

and Facilitators Training

5 – 15 November 2012

Bodhi Khaya, Stanford, South Africa

Intensive

Imagine ten days of immersion in the dance of presence and intimacy, surrounded by beautiful nature and the company of kindred souls. Imagine giving yourself fully to the dance, sharing richly and deeply with other dancers, and between dances - dropping into the stillness of the moment with a cup of tea on the porch, enjoying delicious meals, or floating naked between the lilies. Ten days of bliss awaits you. Come dance, beloveds!

Facilitators training

This event will give you an insider’s experience of how I create BlissDance events and give you the basic skills to facilitate BlissDance processes. The facilitators training will introduce you to the dynamics that makes the dance so blissful, and also to the unique therapeutic modalities that are built into it. Dances will be filmed and participants will be given feedback on their own dances.

Some themes we will cover are:

Balancing and integrating the flow between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system through the dance

Dropping from the mind into the body

Working through associations held in movement in touch

Breathing into movement

Working with weight and suspension

Exploring boundaries and intimacy, space/closeness

Immersing totally in experience while maintaining a witness

Releasing dysfunctional body armoring

Deepening access to feeling/emotions

Dancing shadow states

Practically, the facilitators training aspect of the intensive will give you a good introduction to

How to choose music for the dance

How to create a playlist

Facilitating key BlissDance dances

Guiding dances that can be done on their own for therapeutic purposes

About BlissDance

Bliss

is the balance that happens

When we fully embrace

Both our shadow and our light

And come to rest

In love

When we drop deep into the center of presence, every cell of our bodies gets infused with the eros of life. We smell the ambrosia of being. When we open to the full aliveness of our bodies, stillness arises of itself.

Blissdance is an exploration of intimate presence with ourselves and with others, in movement and in stillness, music and silence. We find the authentic expression that comes from within. From the inside out, we let life dance us. We follow the breath. We follow the heartbeat of the earth pulsing through us. We rest in the amniotic fluid of being. We follow the spark of our bliss.

The dance space cultivates non-dual presence in the movement of our daily lives. It is an active meditation space. We learn to be present in anger as much as peace, jealousy and rage as much as tender love and passionate creativity. We dance our territory, and we dance into melting.

Blissdance has been designed with therapeutic intent as well. The dance wordlessly supports the unraveling and dismantling of patterns that keep us from being deeply present in our bodies. Some examples are:

Body armoring: We hold our bodies rigid in an attempt to protect ourselves from feeling too much - or feeling what we have been suppressing. Sometimes what we resist feeling is intimacy - sometimes it is sadness, fear or anger. All these states are welcome in the dance.

Associations: Over a lifetime of suppressing what we feel, we have started to build up meaning through associations. When someone touches you, what does it mean to you? When you enjoy the touch, what fears come up? Do they relate to past experiences or future projections? In BlissDance, these subconscious processes will become conscious for you. In awareness lies the liberation.

Habits of movement: One of the keys of BlissDance is that the dance moves you out of your habits and stuck ways. We act out some of the dramas of everyday life - like having a couple's fight - but do that in a conscious way, as a celebration of the body, and as an act of freedom. In doing that, something gives way, more space gets created, and we can celebrate our freedom more. Sometimes I use ancient shamanic techniques to help shake up the nervous system so that you can slip into this moment with no mind. Sometimes we dance wild and crazy with little structure and limitation, to let that energy be expressed and accessed in the body. Eventually, as Rumi says:

something opens up

I taste only sacredness

The moment softens. We get to feel everything intimately. We welcome what is, no longer resist, and in that we can meet the beloved, in the dance, in this moment. In the first place, that beloved is my very own being. Then I can meet him/her in the other, the group, my life, existence.

All it takes is a little willingness. The music, the facilitation and the group will carry you along into what you really want: A deep opening into this present precious moment.

Blissdance draws on the wisdom of Biodanza and various other dance, movement and meditation traditions.

Who is the event for?

BlissDance is for those who are yearning for presence, freedom and truth. It is for the brave spiritual warriors who are not scared to dance their ridiculousness and to let their vulnerability be felt in the dance as well. You are welcome to come just for the dance. For those who wish to use BlissDance in their dance or play with others, this training will give you a solid foundation to start using the magic of BlissDance for that purpose.

The venue: Bodhi Khaya

Bodhi Khaya (http://www.bodhi-khaya.co.za) outside Stanford, Western Cape, South Africa, must be one of the most exquisite retreat centers in the world. Nestled amongst mountains, covered in indigenous fynbos and close to the ocean, Bodhi Khaya is a lush nature haven for those who want to go deep within, and rest in the bliss of nature. The retreat center has a beautiful wooden dance hall and accommodation is provided in a variety of shapes and sizes, all in Cape Dutch architecture.

Cost and bookings

Bookings before 21 October: Cost including meals and excluding accommodation is R10 000 for the 10 days. After 22 October R11 000

Bookings and accommodation options with Ahrian: ahriangaia@gmail.com

noreply@blogger.com (Shakti) — Thu, 03 May 2012 09:55:00 +0000

Sexual Awakening for Women

Workshop Intensive and Facilitators Training

Phase 1: 4 - 8 July, Scarborough Cape Town/ 1 - 5 December, Little Karoo

Phase 2: 6 - 10 December, Little Karoo

Workshop Intensive

In this training, Shakti will take women through an intensive experiential journey of opening to the flow of awakened female sexual energy. This happens through the clearing of blocks in the chakras or energy vortexes in the body. The training is based on the material held in Sexual Awakening for Women: A Tantric Workbook. You will have an opportunity to encounter this work through direct transmission by the author.

Clearing blocks in the chakras

Each chakra or energy "hub" in the body holds specific unconscious patterning that needs to be cleared for energy to move freely up the body. This workshop intensive creates an opportunity for the systematic clearing of blocks held in each chakra. Here are some examples

Base chakra (on the perineum): Clearing our love relationship with the body, or relationship with desire, life and death.
Second chakra: Clearing tribal and ancestral blockages to the flow of awakened sexual energy, learning to listen to yoni (vagina) and following the flow of her energy through the body's circuits. Working through the virgin/whore/women's union archetypes in our psyches. Feeling safe to be sexual.
Third chakra: Embracing our power, moving through duality, meeting men and the inner masculine.
Fourth chakra: Loving our breasts, connecting heart and sex, dropping false identities, learning how to process feelings deeply and fully.

Awakening female sexual energy

When sexual energy wakes up in our bodies, it is called Kundalini. Kundalini is like a snake lying at the base of the spine. When it awakens, it starts to move up the body in an undulating, opening, receptive way. When this energy opens fully in us, it takes us into skydancing - the experience of full body orgasm and an ecstatic opening to the unknown, the mystery, the divine. Shakti will guide you into this experience through breathwork, movement and touch.

Two phases

The workshop is presented in two phases. Phase 1 contains most of the material we work with in the first two chakras, and Phase two completes the process with the third and fourth chakras. It is possible to do just phase 1, but not just phase 2. The ideal is to do both. For those who can do the first phase in July, this gives you time to integrate before doing the second phase. For international visitors, it is ideal to do both phases in one go in December.

Facilitation training

The workshop will give women the basic tools, skills and background to be able to facilitate this journey for groups of women. Some of the facilitation skills you will be guided through are:

how to hold a women's circle
deep listening
sexual somatic presencing - feeling what is happening in the bodies of participants, and guiding them deeper.

Methods

Dancing

Story circles

Subtle movement

Breathwork

Deep listening

Artwork and nature installations

Writing

Who is the training for?

The training is for women who have a deep desire to awaken female sexual energy as a spiritual force in their beings. It is possible, and entirely suitable, to do the work just for your own awakening. And the training is also offered for women who would like to facilitate this work for circles of women.

Comments from women who have done women's work with Shakti

"I reached many times the ecstasy I’ve been searching for, through my addictions. I met my power, I held it and I promised never to abandon it, I forgave myself for not being gentle to myself, to the Divine in me. I don’t know how I can ever be grateful enough. Let me be humble, let me surrender all I am to you Divine."

"To you, Shakti, our amazing leader, and to each of you dear fellow travelers, such gratitude for exquisite times shared, profound lessons learned and in resting together in the simplicity and Okness of Being. The sheer naturalness, openness of those short days will feed my soul forever with the lightness of being. In the nakedness of truth real words are hard to find, yet I need to say how ecstatic I feel in experiencing the depth, strength, love, wisdom and beauty of womanhood expressed in each of you. My heart sings and this means yoni too!
May we continue together as champions of the feminine.

For images and reflections on previous retreats, see http://www.women.shakti.co.za/2009/08/womens-tantra-retreat-images-and.html

The venues:
Scarborough, Cape Town, South Africa
The venue for the first edition of phase 1 (July 2012) is Scarborough, a magnificently beautiful nature spot close to Cape Point in Cape Town. We will be staying and working in a wooden house amongst the indigenous fynbos, and very close to the magnificent ocean where whales frolic this time of the year.

n!au 'ma, Little Karoo, Western Cape, South Africa
The venue for the December events is the farm n'au !ma, which is run in deep respect for nature as a place of retreat and ceremony. It is situated between Montague and Ladysmith, at the foot of the Anysberg. Accommodation is provided in beautiful Karoo style houses with broad verandas, fireplaces, gas stoves and fridges. There is an exquisite kloof on the farm, and some delicious dams. The night sky of the Karoo is something to experience. The farm is about 4 – 5 hours from Cape Town, and 3 hours from George.

Cost
4 - 8 June 2012: R5 800, which includes shared accommodation for four nights
1 - 5 December 2012: R6 750, includes accommodation for seven nights
6 - 10 December 2012: R6 750, includes accommodation for seven nights
1 - 10 December 2012: R12 750 includes accommodation for twelve nights

Please note that the December events are out of Cape Town and so participants are required to come the day before the workshop starts and leave the day after. Workshops will consist of five full days each.

Price includes:
A copy of Sexual Awakening for Women: A Tantric Workbook
Shared accommodation. Single accommodation may be available at additional cost
Full facilitation fees

Price excludes:
Meals, which will be done on a bring and share basis. Each woman will be assigned a partner to prepare some meals with.
Transport to and from the venue. The organizers will assist in the coordination of lifts.

Bookings
Book with Annwen: annwenmazetti@gmail.com

Shakti's international teaching schedule May-June 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Shakti) — Thu, 03 May 2012 09:53:00 +0000

California schedule

May 15 Sexual Awakening for Women Book Signing & Evening Talk, San Francisco, 7 - 9pm

May 17 Bliss Dance, Oakland, 7 - 9pm

May 17 Sexual Awakening for Women: Releasing the Old, Oakland, 10am - 6pm

May 18 Introductory talk on Totality Therapy, Oakland, 7 - 10pm:

May 19 Sexual Awakening for Women: Skydancing Woman, Oakland, 10am - 6pm

May 20 Conscious BDSM, Sharpening the Blade, Oakland, , 2 - 5pm

May 26-27 Totality Therapy Sexual Somatics Presencing Weekend, Oakland, 10am - 6pm both days

June 1 Blissdance, San Rafael, 7-9pm

Full details on sexualsomatics.com

London schedule

Tue Jun 05: BlissDance
Wed Jun 06: Talk and Book Presentation: Sexual Awakening for Women
Fri Jun 08-Sun Jun 10: Sexual Awakening for Women - a Tantric Initiation into the Essence of Female Sexuality
Wed Jun 13: Intimate Presence: A Talk on Deep Meeting in Love and Sex
Fri Jun 15-Sun Jun 17: Man and Woman Awake - Residential Tantra Intensive Retreat

All events and bookings on http://www.tantrawithoutborders.co.uk
Paris schedule

Tuesday 19 June Talk
Wednesday 20 June BlissDance
Saturday 23 June Sexual Awakening for Women workshop
Sunday 24 June Intimate Breath workshop

Information and bookings with Kathy: katowlea@gmail.com

Yogini Adept Training Intensive - Cape - 23-27 Nov 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Rahasya A) — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:42:00 +0000

Yogini Adept Training Intensive
23 -27 Nov. 2012

Venue t.b.a. near Cape Town

A five day practitioner-level training facilitated by Sw. Rahasya and Dakini Wendy, assisted by Yogini Annwen

This is an absolutely practical training. As you learn techniques, you also experience them, and gain the lessons you will hopefully go on to teach. Over 5 days, you will experience and learn fundamental healing modalities and make significant progress on your own journey on this path.

This training is for practitioners and those who feel a calling to this work. Preference will be given to those who are already using tantric, taoist or related techniques and practices in their spiritual and/or healing work.

Methods:

Massage skills and bodywork overview
Working with body armoring and sensuality
Understanding and working with your eroticism
Essential meditation techniques for Tantrikas

Inquiries: Annwen: annwen@tantraschool.co.za
0845887741

More information at the permanent page for Yogini Training.

Tantric Embrace Cape 26, 27 May 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Rahasya A) — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 09:44:00 +0000

Tantric Embrace:
A half day for women with Dakini Wendy
and a half-day for the men with Rahasya,
then a day together, guided by both teachers.
Scarborough (SA) 26 and 27 May 2012

For the women: Jade Egg workshop

Facilitated by Dakini Wendy

The energy in our yoni ripples out into our expression in life.

In this workshop we go through the jade gate which is a sacred passage through the yoni accessing deeper spiritual dimensions. Practices include chi gong, breath work, self love and taoist jade egg practice.

Other benefits of the practice are;

Reconnecting with your life force energy
Removing stagnant energy
Strengthening the pelvic floor
Working with sexual reflexology zones

Cost: R850.00 (includes a jade egg)

Time: 10am-2pm

Date: Saturday 26 May

Venue: Beach Bush House Scarborough

Please wear loose comfortable clothing and bring a sarong and a blanket.

For the men: Vajra energy

Facilitated by Swami Rahasya

A discussion of male sexuality with suggestions and exercises.

Building Vajra which is the masculine principle of the lingham. Vajra can be defined as the 'diamond' or can also mean 'thunderbolt'.

Cost: R500.00

Time: 2:30pm-5;30pm

Date: Saturday 26 May

Venue: Beach Bush House Scarborough

For men and women: Tantric Embrace

Facilitated by Dakini Wendy and Swami Rahasya

An immersion in sacred sexual practices for men and women.

Methods include:

Opening to the natural flow of kundalini energy.
Deepening into presence in tantric meditation.
Discussion and inquiry into conscious sexuality.

Cost: R800.00

Time: 10am-6pm

Date: Sunday 27 May

Venue: Beach Bush House Scarborough

For inquiries about the workshops and sessions with Wendy or Rahasya contact Annwen:

Yogini Annwen

084 588 7741

annwen@tantraschool.co.za

Yogini Adept Training Intensive, Cape Town, 21 -25 March 2012

noreply@blogger.com (annwen mazetti) — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:10:00 +0000

Yogini Adept Training Intensive
21 -25 March 2012

Cape Town

A five day practitioner-level training facilitated by Sw. Rahasya and Dakini Wendy, assisted by Yogini Annwen

This is an absolutely practical training. As you learn techniques, you also experience them, and gain the lessons you will hopefully go on to teach. Over 5 days, you will experience and learn fundamental healing modalities and make significant progress on your own journey on this path. This training is for those intending to work with Tantra.

Following the training, an optional internship leads to practitioner-level certification as a Yogini Adept.

Methods:

Massage skills and bodywork overview
Working with body armoring and sensuality
Understanding and working with eroticism
Essential meditation techniques for Tantrikas

The course will also include attention to your individual personal growth.

We then offer a three month (earning) internship. We mentor you in the practice of three of the techniques you have learned, working supervised and then alone with our students in our sessions rooms.

Successful completion of your internship is acknowledged by us with our Degree and endorsement as a Yogini Adept (guys, Yogi Adept).

Not all our students intend working as practitioners. It is perfectly good (although challenging) to take this training to accelerate your own progress and capabilities.

More information at the permanent page for Yogini Training.

Cost: R2800

Applications and Venue details: Annwen: annwenmazetti@gmail.com ~ 0845887741

Into the Depths, Cape, Dec 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Rahasya A) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:02:00 +0000

Into the Depths

8 - 13 December 2011
Gecko Creek, Cederberg
Facilitated by Rahasya and Shakti

A five day intensive course brought to you by two highly experienced Tantrikas. Tantra is a mystery tradition that includes all aspects of our being, also our sexuality, in the quest for awakening. Tantra has traditionally been seen as the fast path, the most direct route to breaking through illusions and waking up to the truth of who we really are. It is a path for spiritual warriors, fools for the divine, tightroap-walkers into the depths of existence.

Want to come play?

The Facilitators: Rahasya and Shakti

Sw Advait Rahasya is the Director of the Advait Tantraschool of South Africa; see tantraschool.co.za. He is one of the rare few living Tantra masters on the planet today. Rahasya's teachings are a unique contemporary interpretation of the ancient Tantric mystery traditions. His touch is extroadinary and his style of teaching incisive, quirky and compassionate. Shakti Malan is a Dakini and member of the Advait Tantraschool. She has a strong practice in Cape Town and has been teaching internationally in the UK and US. For more on her teaching, see shakti.co.za and totalitytherapy.com

A Training Programme

Tantra is a practical path; it is a set of practices rather than a philosophy or a religion. The teaching reveals itself through personal practice. Whether you come to this event as a facilitator of others or purely for your own journey, our focus remains the same: It is through doing your own inner work that you develop the capacity to support others. The deeper you dive into your own psyche, the more of you becomes present to radiate awareness into the world.

Our focus on this training will be on your personal experience. In addition, we will bring in the meta-perspective of the facilitator, helping you to understand and access the techniques and processes we are using to facilitate your journey.

Who is this training for?

This training is for any committed seekers of truth who are asking the big questions:
Who am I (really?)
What is the truth?
How can I live in unconditional love?

The training is structured in a way that it will deeply serve both those who are coming only for their own personal work and those who wish to insert more of the wisdom of Tantra into their professional practice. We welcome practitioners from all walks of life: conscious sexuality, yoga and meditation teachers, healers, medical practitioners, psychologists and sexologists, body workers, sex workers, leaders, teachers. We are expecting participants from all over South Africa and the world. While partners are welcome to join the training together, you are most welcome to join the programme on your own.

Into the Depths

A central approach of Tantra is to open you to the full depths of your experience. We habitually and continually repress and deny much of the feeling, sensation and emotion that is available to us. Our work and play together will help you to access the depths of your experience that has been denied, and thus to open to the heights of sensation you are capable of.

Themes

Our themes for the training are:

A. Embracing desire and fear

Learning to use your erotic impulse as a way to mine what is in the unconscious
Acquiring practices that assist you to stay present in the fire of your deepest fears and desires
Finding ways to distinguish between association and the real of experience
Getting to know how the nervous system responds when what has been repressed gets accessed
Witnessing, experiencing and learning how to facilitate the nervous system and the emotional body through the re-integration of what has been repressed

B. The Soulmate Within

Making conscious your inner masculine and feminine and the relationship between them
Understanding and practicing right relationship between your inner masculine and feminine
Reclaiming aspects of your inner masculine and feminine that have been projected outward on to significant others
Exploring the real of love, fidelity, trust, commitment and other concepts associated with intimate relationship

Methods

enactment
breathwork
Tantric meditations
roleplay
facilitated discussions
conscious touch technique teaching
witnessed individual sessions with participants
opportunities to explore and practice with each other
blissdance and waterbliss, two Tantric movement systems created by Shakti.

Cost

Facilitation fee: R5 500

Food: Each person will be allocated meals to prepare.

Accommodation:

Prices per person sharing for all five nights; single accommodation double the price

Cabin R1080
Tent (beds and bedding provided) R720
Camping R440 (Own tent and bedding)

Booking

Book with Shakti: shakti@shakti.co.za. The venue accommodates a maximum of 18 participants.

Tantra Intensive Cape, Dec. 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Rahasya A) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:53:00 +0000

Tantra Intensive

13 - 16 December 2011

This year's Tantra Training is followed by a Tantra Intensive. This is an advanced retreat for people who have done the Tantra Training last year or this year. The focus of the Intensive will be a deepening of the work done in the Training. The event will also be a celebration, an opportunity to immerse in the bliss of awakening with Rahasya and Shakti.

The place: Gecko Creek, Cederberg

Gecko Creek is an exquisite venue in the Cederberg, remarkably easy to access and only 2 - 3 hours' drive from Cape Town. See geckocreek.com. The Cederberg is an exquisitely beautiful wild area north of Cape Town in the Western Cape. Gecko Creek forms part of the only leopard sanctuary in South Africa. The rocky outcrops are full of San paintings, testifying to the fact that this place has been a sacred site for thousands of years. Cabins and tents all have extraordinary views over the wilderness. One of the reasons why we choose Gecko Creek is because it is a real immersion in nature, and brings us back to the basics of life.

Cost

Facilitation fee for Tantra Intensive: R2 500

Food: Each person will be allocated meals to prepare.

Accommodation:

Prices per person sharing for all five nights; single accommodation double the price

Cabin R1080
Tent (beds and bedding provided) R720
Camping R440 (Own tent and bedding)

Booking

Book with Shakti: shakti@shakti.co.za. The venue accommodates a maximum of 18 participants.

Birth into Being

noreply@blogger.com (Shima) — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:26:00 +0000

I recently met the work of Elena Tonetti, a Russian, who teachers women ecstatic birth and has made an out of this world DVD.

In synchronicity, I asked Sharon Mauldin, a dakini from the United States, to teach in Johannesburg. She has agreed. Her work that we will be exploring is the work she has learnt from Elena.

Now we have the unusual privilege of meeting this work right here in South Africa.

This work invites men and women to revisit their own birth, and meet your birth anew in an extraordinary way.

When traumas and misunderstandings are met and fully felt a huge amount of frozen energy, new trust and freedom are suddenly available to you now.

This radically impacts your current life and opens doorways that you never knew existed.

BIRTH INTO BEING ~ Day Long "Birthshop"
Welcome to Your Life!

26th November - 10:30 till 6pm
Fellside, Johannesburg
R850

“We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars, the stars form a circle and in the centre we dance”

Rumi, 14th Century Mystic

Every moment we are birthing our life. The quality of this life is directly related to how we initially came onto this planet. Most of us had birth experiences that were less than ideal. Our "blueprint" is not supporting us to live our most vibrant, enlivened life.

The Birth Into Being process creates an opportunity to dynamically update that blueprint. It's for anyone who was born in less than blissful circumstances and wants to change the way it's affecting them in the Present.

Through gentle, potent experiences the Birth Into Being process is designed to re-imprint your nervous system with new possibilities of lovingly being welcomed into the world and into your life. This updated blueprint will create a new, healthier foundation that will carry you into your most empowered presence.

Join us for Birth Into Being and ...
Shift patterns rooted in birth trauma
Create new possibilities for manifesting an extraordinary presence
Align with your Soul's intention for your life journey
Empower yourself to fully show up in your life
Connect to and trust your flowering

Limited places .. RSVP shima@shima.co.za or 0845911211

Facilitated by Sharon Mauldin and Dakini Shima

Sharon Mauldin

Sharon Mauldin was trained in the extraordinary Birth Into Being process by Elena Tonetti -Vladimirova ,the founder of Birth Into Being and the creator of the well known DVD, Birth As We Know It. http://www.birthintobeing.com . Sharon is excited and honored to bring Elena’s work to our community.

Sharon combines her experience as Dakini, Certified Tantra Educator, Doula, Birthing From Within Mentor, and bodywork practitioner to offer unique and powerful private sessions, retreats and workshops. With over 25 years of experience in the healing arts she is gifted in holding a clear, loving space for individuals and couples to explore the fullness of their whole-being expression. She passionately embraces the tantric path as a gateway to fully embodying the holy and bringing enlivened presence to every moment.

Her workshops and private work draw from the blessings and lessons of her life experience blended with the skills, knowledge and experience she has gained through a variety of training & personal growth courses. Her mentors include Charles Muir, Caroline Muir, Baba Dez Nichols, David Cates, Jeannie Zandi, Elena Tonetti-Vladimirova and Pam England. She is a certified Tantra Educators through the Source School of Tantra .

She offers workshop and private sessions for individuals and couples
StarDancer Tantra www.stardancertantra.com

Dakini Shima

Dakini Shima is a wisdom dakini of the tantric lineage that originated in India 5000 years ago.

Some of the guides on the way home .. Stephen Norval, Stan Dale, Mordechai Brodie, Isaac Shapiro, Beloved Osho, Swami Rahasya of the Advait Tantra School of South Africa and Dakini Lalla and the spirit energy of the medicine plants.

Her tantra school is devoted to the awakening of seekers to their true nature and spontaneous and authentic response to each moment.

www.openinglotus.com

World renouned Breath Master Dan Brulé and Wisdom Dakini Shima will be offering a day of breath and tantra.

noreply@blogger.com (Shima) — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 10:19:00 +0000

breath energy ecstasy

Friday 21st October

3pm till 10pm

Woodlands, Muldersdrift

In this workshop, we bring awareness to the art of connecting to the authentic self while participating and expressing with others from that authenticity.

How do we immerse in being and participate with others without compromising who we are?

Breath connects us... to our source, to our self, and to others. Conscious breathing brings presence and openness to receive each moment. In this allowing, the core or sexual energy flows in its true nature of innocence.

Here, authenticity expresses without fear, judgement or compromise, connecting deeply to oneself and to others.

When breath and sexual energy are allowed, feelings of separation melt and a real meeting with yourself and others spontaneously arises.

Join us for this amazing taste of breath, energy and ecstasy!

Cost: R780
There are limited places. Please reserve your place with Dakini Shima on 0845911211 or shima@shima.co.za

Dan Brulé

Dan Brulé is a pioneer in the Art and Science of Breathwork. Dan was first among the original group of internationally certified rebirthers. He is one of the originators of Breath Therapy and a recognized leader in the worldwide Conscious Breathing Movement.

He was initiated into Kriya Yoga and given the name
Guchu Ram Singh by the Immortal Yogi Babaji. He learned Qigong with the
legendary Master Hu Bin, at the Academy of Chinese Medicine in Beijing.

He lived in the Osho community in Oregon, and took part in the original Breath
Therapy Program. He learned prana yoga from Swami Rama, and did biofeedback training at the Himalayan Institute. He studied Breathing Coordination with Carl Stough at the Stough Institute; and he learned Holotropic Breathwork from the founder Stan Grof.

In Russia, Dan took part in a ten-year breathing study with members of the Russian Academy of Science. He worked with Olympic world champion Greco-roman wrestler Alexander Karilen, as well as members of the Russian judo, triathlon, tennis, and sailing teams.

Dan has taught more than 60,000 people in over 40 countries to use the breath as a tool for health, growth and change, in spirit, mind and body.

www.breathmastery.com

Dakini Shima

Dakini Shima is a wisdom dakini of the tantric lineage that originated in India 5000 years ago.

Some of the guides on the way home .. Stephen Norval, Stan Dale, Mordechai Brodie, Isaac Shapiro, Beloved Osho, Swami Rahasya, Dakini Lalla and the spirit energy of the medicine plants.

Her tantra school is devoted to the awakening of seekers to their true nature and spontaneous and authentic response to each moment.

www.openinglotus.com

Totality Therapy Training London September

noreply@blogger.com (Shakti) — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 07:22:00 +0000

Totality Therapy Training
by Shakti Malan (Ph.D)
/South Africa/
London, September 23rd - 25th

“Totality Therapy is for people who are serious
about waking up - this Lifetime.”
/Shakti Malan/

Totality Therapy is a training that is teaching how to get total with your sexuality – if you want to reach the fullness of what your sexuality can take you to. This requires that you live every dimension of your life with totality – that you be fully present with every experience.

It takes immense capacity to hold the fullness of what is possible in your sexuality. This capacity is a direct result of our willingness and ability to feel and experience all of what life brings us. Being total with yourself does not mean you have to resign your job and dedicate your life to charity. It means fully occupying your life as it is right now, being willing to go to the depth of experience that this moment offers you. It means taking responsibility for your life.

Read More about the Totality Therapy Training in London, September 23rd-25th.

This intensive long weekend workshop will be followed by 14 month internet based training that is planned to start in February 2012.

Shakti Malan is a professional Dakini based in Cape Town, South Africa. Her work is infused with and inspired by the raw, catalytic potency of Africa. Shakti holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology. The main aim and passion of Shakti's work is to catalyze awakening into full realization through the opening of
(sexual) vital life force. Strong focus areas of Shakti's work are: the releasing of suppressions and repressions, the use of eroticism to integrate what is in the unconscious, the integration of dualities in the psyche, the flowering of female sexuality and merging with the inner soulmate.

Date: Friday, September 23rd - Sunday, September 25th
Time: 10am - 6pm
Location: The Pot, East London, E3 2PD
Cost: £350/£275 if booked before September 1st/£290 if booked at least 7 days before the workshop (£50 deposit to secure your place)

For bookings and more information please see www.tantrawithoutborders.co.uk or contact Meera on 07787950351 or meera@onlyforart.com

Special spring offer with Shekina

noreply@blogger.com (Shekina Moondancer) — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:11:00 +0000

Emergence: Opening into Spring
Everything has cycles, the seasons change, the elements move through and around us. Experience a healing, clearing and awakening EnergyWork session with Shekina as we move into the season of spring.
The session duration is from 1 to 2 hours at R500 or R1000 only for a few days this week, at Shakti Gardens in Franklin Roosevelt Park, Johannesburg. We will use conventional massage techniques, breath, hot stones, sound and tantric touch to remove that which you no longer need, freeing your body, mind and soul. Using the healing and transformative power of universal Qi, we change our vibration and patterns so that we are able to heal, manifest and create the life that we desire.
All of this from one session? Well, perhaps you may decide to come back for more, but this will be a good start!
Call Shekina on 0741345179 to book now!

Emergence: Dare to Be...

noreply@blogger.com (Shekina Moondancer) — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 05:14:00 +0000

Everything has cycles, the seasons change, the elements move through and around us. Take a day or two to open into awareness of the shift into spring, using the energies of the change of season and the full moon. We will be letting go of that which we do not need – southern hemisphere participants will be emerging from the winter cycle – and looking for inspiration for the growing months to come. Participants from the northern hemisphere will be inviting in that which they need in preparation for the autumn months.

With Dakini Shekina this group experience is suitable for individuals and couples of all ages.
Saturday: Exploring the elements, our bodies and connection inwards and outwards through dynamic meditation, breath and movement; Star Gazing evening and dinner.
The programme caters for all levels of tantric and magickal expertise, from entry to master. Each will experience the activities to a depth that they can accommodate, with shifts and unfolding in alignment with their highest good.
Where dragonspace Swartkrans, Cradle of Humankind
When Saturday 10 September 2011
Time 10:00–22:00
How much R750 per person – Booking essential (8 travellers)
Price includes full day programme, lunch, stargazing and dinner
Sunday: enquire about programme, additional costs
Enquiries and Booking SynJyn on 074 173 9137
E-mail livespirit.synergy@gmail.com

Shekina 074 134 5179

Skydancing under the Full Moon 13th August

noreply@blogger.com (Shima) — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:19:00 +0000

This workshop assists women to open more deeply to bliss and the flow of kundalini energy.

Skydancing is an ancient tantric practice which clears energy channels allowing the inner flow of feminine energy to expand into bliss.

Women can practice skydancing alone or with a partner.

No nudity is required.

This practice is an energy transmission of the dakini or Skydancer.

Dakini Shima facilitates this workshop.

Please confirm your booking as this workshop is limited to 10 participants.Dakini Shima 084 591 1211 / shima@shima.co.za

August 13th

Fellside, Johannesburg

4pm to 7:30pm

R400

Let me know if you are coming to dinner at Piccola Prima Donna

TANTRA, THE ART OF AWAKENING,
THE WAY OF THE LOVER

Tantra School Open Day 6th August

noreply@blogger.com (Shima) — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:02:00 +0000

Sharing the path and practice of the tantra teacher followed by a tantric meditation.

For those interested in becoming tantra teachers or wish to bring tantra into their existing healing / teaching practice.
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Please book due to limited space. Dakini Shima 0845911211 / shima@shima.co.za

August 6th

Fellside, Johannesburg

4pm to 6:30pm

Contribution, by heart

TANTRA, THE ART OF AWAKENING,
WAY OF THE LOVER

Tantric Arising 16-19 September 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Rahasya A) — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 08:48:00 +0000

A weekend retreat facilitated by Swami Rahasya and Dakini Wendy near White River.

At this beautiful venue, surrounded by nature, we invite you to immerse in awareness, to connect with the dharma and in this love affair to surrender to what is.

An emphasis on this group is to bring attention to energy and presence in your body with tantric meditations, chi gong, breath work and movement.

These practices guide you into directly experiencing the arising of the moment as such.

By inhabiting your body, here in your actual experience you open deeply into bliss.

This retreat is open to men and women, the venue can accommodate 12 participants.

Venue: Sheldon Guest Farm, White River.

Tuition cost: R2 200 per person

Accommodation and travel costs: On application / TBA

To book, and for more information, contact Rahasya

rahasya@tantraschool.co.za

Woman, Love thyself

noreply@blogger.com (Shima) — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:18:00 +0000

Woman, love thyself

12th - 14th August, Magaliesburg

Deep within every woman is spaciousness where the nectar of joy, creativity and sexual bliss overflows. This spaciousness or womb of Existence is the core of the feminine energy.

In the last several thousand years of patriarchy women have lost the connection to the deep inner flow of the feminine. Through this false learning and conditioning, women refuse the true feminine and supplant the feminine with an ide...a of who they should be. This idea is the anchor of ego and the consequential inner forcing, in lieu of inner flowing.

The feminine is a wild and free river guiding you deeper each moment into the abundant flowering of woman.

This retreat space invites a depth inquiry into your false ideas of the feminine, and in dropping this filter, see her true face.

Fall in love ... with yourself. Into the inner lands, calling the return of sacred sexuality, the river of the feminine, we flow into the forgotten mysteries of the Beloved.

The ancient tantric way will assist you through this unknown terrain, as will the intention and conscious direction of the group energy.

The retreat is for women who have begun the inner journey and are familiar with some practice of yoga, dance, tai chi, tantra, shamanism or other conscious practice.

Facilitator

Shima opening Lotus

Shima has devoted her life to the journey of truth and is intimate with shamanic, advaita and tantric medicines.

In gathering these medicines and understandings she traveled and loved masters in the United States, India and South Africa.

Under the guidance of these deeply aware masters she came to know and dance the Dakini.

Now on the raft of tantra she guides fellow travelers to the shore of the Beloved.

Venue

Melody Hill, Magaliesburg

Date

Friday 18:00 August 12th to Sunday 14:30 August 14th

Cost

Facilitation cost : R1600 to R2200 depending on what you can afford.

Accomodation and meals: R700

RSVP

SHIMA 0845911211 or shima@shima.co.za .. there are limited places .. booking by the 1st of August

Shakti in the UK May - June

noreply@blogger.com (Shakti) — Sat, 07 May 2011 20:16:00 +0000

London, Brighton May 12th - 22nd,
Salisbury May 27 - 29,
Glasgow June 1 - 6

BlissDance

Brighton May 12th/London May 19th/Glasgow June 2nd

BlissDance is an expression of Tantra, the art of integrating the sacred and sexual, and using this as a force for awakening. In a BlissDance session, you explore your inner and outer worlds through movement and stillness, music and silence.

For more information please see http://www.manawa.co.uk/blissdance.html
Cost: GBP 15.00/GBP 10.00 (concessions)

Talk: How the old wounds sing: Releasing sexual trauma and
opening to bliss through Tantric Practice

Brighton May 13th/London May 18th/ Glasgow June 3rd

This talk introduces Shaktis approach to working with sexual trauma and on how she listens to the songs being sung by these old wounds. Is sexual trauma caused only be sexual touch? What about the impact of sexual innuendo and emotional incest? What is the impact of sexual trauma at various stages of our lives?

For more information please see http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=107675049307901
Cost: GBP 9.00/GBP 7.00 (concessions)/GBP 15.00 (on the door)

Sexual Healing Through Tantric Practises - Healing Sexual Trauma
a weekend workshop

London May 21st – May 22nd

In this workshop Shakti will give you an experiential introduction to methods you can use to assist yourself and beloveds in releasing sexual trauma, you will learn the Tantric understanding of sexual trauma and healing it and an appreciation for the release that can be done with the assistance of a Tantrika.

For more information please see http://www.manawa.co.uk/healingSexualTrauma.html
Cost: GBP 240.00/GBP 200.00 (if booked before April 21st)

For for information and bookings please see www.manawa.co.uk or
contact Meera on 07787 950351 or email meera@onlyforart.com.

Sexual energetics - Dragon's Nectar Tantra Retreat

27th - 29th May 2011

Transcendence Tantra Yoga Center, Salisbury, England

Sexual energetics

Sexual energy is the most powerful and transformative form of energy we have got. And yet it is so misunderstood and so under-utilized in our world. This retreat will give you an experiential introduction to the following aspects of sexual energetics:

1. Sex and the unconscious

Our sexual responses is a direct guide to encountering and reclaiming energy that is trapped in the unconscious. Of particular importance here is exploring what comes up in erotic fantasy and noticing what happens at the point when erotic experience becomes unconscious. Our methods here will be:

working with fantasy and eroticism
racking body response to touch

2. Sex and body amoring

Our ability to feel and respond to intimate encounters is strongly affected by what Wilhelm Reich calls our body armoring. Body armoring is the unconscious emotional defenses we carry with us and that affect our openness to kinaesthetic and emotional intimacy.

We explore and release unnecessary body armoring through
tantric partner meditations and
blissdance, a free dance form that I developed for this purpose.

3. Sex and kundalini

Conventional orgasm involves intense involuntary contraction into the genitals. Kundalini orgasm happens when our sexual energy - or kundalini - is allowed and enabled to freely move up through the energy centers or chakras running up along our spines. Kundalini is often depicted as a snake that lies coiled up at the base of the spine. When this energy wakes up, it starts to run up the body, and becomes an immense force for spiritual awakening. The aspects of kundalini that we will be introducing in this retreat are:

ways of awakening kundalini
guiding sexual energy up the chakras
from contractive genital orgasm to kundalini orgasm

4. Sex and the opposite sex

In our essence, we are both masculine and feminine. Our journey as human beings is towards the reintegration of both sexes in ourselves. This dynamic is a core aspect of sexual energetics. In this theme, we will be looking at

projections and mirroring from the opposite sex and

deepening your inner masculine-feminine relationship

Retreat objectives

To release suppressions and open the flow of your vital life force
To integrate unconscious aspects of self through guided exploration of erotic desire
To expand your capacity for living in bliss
To cultivate and refine your sexual energy as a vehicle for awakening
To demonstrate how energy channels can be opened up through loving, awake touch

Who is the retreat for?

Tantra is a path for the bravest warriors of the heart, the most passionate seekers of truth. It is not a mediocre, well-trodden path. It is powerfully transformative. It catalyzes you into realizing and experiencing who you truly are. This retreat is suitable for all seekers who feel this calling strongly in their beings. The retreat is also recommended for teachers who work in the field of awareness. There will be opportunities during the weekend to witness Shakti holding sessions and catalyzing the opening of energy channels in participants.

The presenter, Shakti Malan (Ph.D)

Shakti is a professional Dakini (female Tantric teacher) based in Cape Town, South Africa. Her work is infused with and inspired by the raw, catalytic potency of Africa. She holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology. As anthropologist, she spent many years as social envrionmental specialist mediating between the realities of African communities and those of developers. This immersion has given her invaluable expertise in listening to and interpreting the unique experiences of each participant and group.

Shakti's training as energy catalyst started early on with a growing immersion in meditation, body oriented practices like yoga and tai chi, as well as shamanic work in Native American and African traditions. Through an extroadinary series of events in 2001, she received the calling to become a Dakini. The initiation into this work started with some intensive years in isolation in the desert during which she went through a death process and developed a deep understanding of the body's subtle energetics.

In subsequent years, Shakti worked intensively in her own life with techniques that are focused on processing and integrating what is in the unconscious. These techniques draw strongly from the Advaita tradition and also from the work of Osho. Shakti immersed herself in personal practice of the Taoist Tantric techniques as well as the meditations of Osho. Shakti realized that her primary interest was in the power of sexuality as a gateway for conciousness. Her final initiation into this work came through her teacher Rahasya; see advaittantra.com.

Other influences in Shakti's technique and approach are Arnold Mindel's ProcessWork Psychology, Gestalt Therapy, Wilhelm Reich's work in releasing body armoring, Biodanza (an authentic movement system in which she is trained), somatic experiencing trauma releasw work, the goddess traditions and various forms of energetic bodywork.

For more on Shakti's work and approach, see shakti.co.za and totalitytherapy.com.

Cost:for the Weekend including accommodation and meals £395 per person Bookings only through Transcendence 08453458593 or 07875435104. Email tantra.uk@gmail.com and website http://www.tantra.uk.com/shaktim.html

“Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we will harness for God the energies of love; and then for the second time in the history of the world, men will have discovered fire!” – Theilard de Chardin

Glasgow June 1st - 6th

BlissDance

Glasgow, 2nd June, 7pm

For more information please see www.meetup.com/Sacred-Heart-Tantra/files/
Cost: GBP 10.00/GBP 7.00 (concessions), £15 if paid on the night

Talk: How the old wounds sing: Releasing sexual trauma and opening to bliss through Tantric Practice

Yoga Healing Glasgow, 3rd June, 7pm
This talk introduces Shakti’s approach to working with sexual trauma and on how she listens to the songs being sung by these old wounds. Is sexual trauma caused only by sexual touch? What about the impact of sexual innuendo and emotional incest? What is the impact of sexual trauma at various stages of our lives?

For more information please see www.meetup.com/Sacred-Heart-Tantra/files/
Cost: GBP 10.00/GBP 7.00 (concessions), £15 if paid on the night

Beloved - A Tantric Workshop on the Real of Love and Relationship
a one day workshop

Yoga Healing Glasgow, 4th June, 10am - 5.30pm

In this workshop Shakti will guide us to find our own inner Beloved and to integrate the polarity between the Masculine and the Feminine, exploring our rich diversity in all we really are. As we embrace our inner Soulmate a new fruitfulness becomes possible in our outer relationships.

For more information please see www.meetup.com/Sacred-Heart-Tantra/files/
Cost: GBP 100.00 (or GBP 80.00 if paid before April 30th)

Sexual Healing Through Tantric Practises - Healing Sexual Trauma

a one day workshop

Yoga Healing Glasgow, 5th June, 10am - 5.30pm

For more information please see www.meetup.com/Sacred-Heart-Tantra/files/
Cost: GBP 100.00 (or GBP 80.00 if paid before April 30th)

For for information and all bookings please see www.meetup.com/Sacred-Heart-Tantra/files or contact Gillian on 07913 906 343 or email gillian@health-at-hand.co.uk

Private Sessions

Shakti will be available for private sessions, here are details for different locations. Bookings with Shakti at shakti@shakti.co.za. Details on sessions://shakti.co.za/consult.html

Brighton

Shakti will be available for one-to-one sessions from Wednesday 11th May till Sunday 15th.

Costs of sessions are on a sliding scale of £75-120.

London

Shakti is available for sessions 16 - 20 and 23 - 26 May.

Here's where I am working from: http://sacredpleasures.co.uk/thepot/boudoir/

The nearest stations are Hackney Wick (London Overground, 10 mins) and Pudding Mill Lane (DLR, 20 mins

Sessions are £100 - 150 pounds an hour at your discretion.

Glasgow, Prestwick

Shakti is available for sessions 1 - 3 June

Tantric Meditations @ The Bedroom

noreply@blogger.com (Rahasya A) — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:35:00 +0000

Swami Rahasya and Dakini Wendy invite you to an evening of Tantric Meditation, Breathwork and Discussion at The Bedroom in Parkhurst.

The discussion and meditation technique for this workshop enables awareness of energy presence in the body, an important aspect of Tantric practice.

The Advait Tanta School has been teaching conscious sexuality and meditation since 2002.

Sw. Rahasya, Dakini Wendy and Yogini Brenda are now offering sexual and relationship counseling and tantric massage at The Bedroom.

Venue : The Bedroom Parkhurst
Date : 13 April 2011
Time : 7pm - 10pm
Cost : R550 per person
Dress : Yoga kit or comfortable clothing
Email The Bedroom Parkhurst for booking enquiries.

Breathwork and Tantra Events

noreply@blogger.com (Shakti) — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:09:00 +0000

Breath of Life Breath of Love

Breathwork and Tantra Retreat

Dan Brulé and Shakti Malan

1 - 6 April 2011
Blue Butterfly, Tulbach

The Retreat

There are two energies running through your body that can profoundly transform your access to life and love:

Breath, prana or Chi; and
Kundalini, or sexual energy

Join us in April for an extraordinary opportunity to work with two internationally known teachers, Shakti Malan, dakini or teacher of the art of sacred sexuality, and Dan Brulé, teacher of breathwork

We have put aside five days for you to immerse yourself in the beauty and perfection of your own being, facilitated by the opening of your breath and your sexual energy.

There will be two main components to our work:

1. Releasing and reintegrating energy from the unconscious

From the moment of our conception, human beings can encounter experiences that feel traumatic or overwhelming. As little ones, we simply do not have the capacity to deal with the intensity of some life experiences, and so we suppress what we cannot cope with. Later in life, suppressing, denying and controlling becomes a way of living. We live our lives protected by body armoring that keeps us from feeling the full impact of the moment.

But there comes a time when we are ready live life fully. At this point, it is time to feel what has been suppressed before, and to let what is hidden away in the unconscious be integrated back into the fullness of our energy bodies.

During this retreat, there will be collective and individual opportunities for you to release trauma and integrate experiences that have been suppressed and that inhibit the flow of your life force. Dan and Shakti will guide you through the use of loving, conscious breathwork and facilitated nervous system re-patterning to help you reclaim the life force that is rightfully yours.

2. Immersion in pure presence

When we stop denying and suppressing, there is more space in us for pure awareness and simple presence.

The question that your sexual energy presents is: How much ecstasy or bliss can you tolerate? The question that the breath asks you is: how deeply are you willing to open and feel in this moment?

Are you ready for the ride of your life?
Are you ready to be alive, total and expanded like never before?

Then come, beloveds… Come take this opportunity to open more to the flow of your own pure life force.

Say yes to life
Say yes to love
The breath will help to take you there

About Breathwork

Breathwork is the use of breath awareness and conscious breathing exercises, techniques and meditations meant to clear your head, settle your stomach, calm your nerves, and open your heart. We use the breath as a bridge, a force and a tool for health, growth and change in spirit, mind and body. Our style of breathwork is called Spiritual Breathing. It engages every level of your being in the simple natural moment to moment process of breathing. As you become more conscious of your breathing, you become more conscious in general. As you become more aware of your breath, you become more aware, period. Awareness is the key to liberation!

About Tantra

Tantra is an ancient mystery tradition that regards all aspects of our experience, including our sexuality, as a gateway to our awakening. Only when a meditator or a monk was deemed ready by his master would he be introduced to the secret practices of Tantra. When the celibate monk got introduced to the Dakini, a woman who embodies the sacred power of female sexuality, this confrontation with taboo would instantly shatter his spiritual ego and give him an opportunity right there to wake up. She would then initiate him into the sacred sexual mystery practices.

The world is ready to wake up, and is waiting for seekers like you who are willing to face your deepest desires and fears. As a leader of the Advait Tantra school, Shakti has adapted the mystery practices to be accessible for the modern world. It is possible to encounter the touch of the Dakini without any nakedness or even physical touch being required. As we learn to open to the flow of breath, sensuality and kundalini in our own bodies, this energy starts to emanate from us, to bless, uplift, and awaken whoever we meet.

Breath and Tantra coming together

Imagine taking this beautiful awareness of the breath into your relationships. Imagine consciously breathing with your beloved. Imagine making your sexual intimate life a space for awakening to happen, through the breath. This is what we will be extending the breath work into this time.

Expect naked hearts rather than naked bodies.

Expect people breathing together in loving support, rather than any overt sexual activity.

Expect a deep embracing of yourself, and a dropping of the false protections that keep us from being able to meet another in truth.

Expect to discover more about your essential impulse rather than pressure to participate in experiences you are not comfortable with.

I have found that many seekers of truth have done deep work in all areas of their lives except their sexuality. And yet our sexuality is such a potent gateway to consciousness!

What if we could use this tremendous power of the breath to break through into deep, unconditional loving?

Retreat Methods

Group and individual breathwork sessions
Group and individual tantric release sessions
Dance, yoga and chi kung
Active meditations using sound, breath and movement
Tantric breath exercises for individuals and couples

Cost: R5 500 pp facilitators fee plus accommodation fee depending on choice of accommodation (from R250pppn)

Breathwork Facilitator's Training
Dan Brulé
8 - 10 April 2011
Erin Hall, Cape Town
Cost R3000

Dan will be presenting a 3 day Breathwork Facilitators' Training in Erin Hall, Cape Town 8 - 10 April 2011. Cost R3000. This is an extraordinary opportunity to learn from a master breath worker. Dan says about the Breathwork Facilitators' Training: " the practitioner training involves deeper work on one's self... as well further theory and practice in the art and science of using breath and breathing as a tool, a force and a bridge for health,growth and change, in spirit, mind and body...ways of cleaning and balancing our energy body... breathwork as a spiritual technology for purification and awakening... prerequisites should be prior experience working with Dan or Shakti... and/or experience in some healing or meditation, yoga, personal growth or counseling practice."

Intimate Breath
Dan Brulé and Shakti Malan
Phakalane, Cape Town
16 and 17 April 2011 9am - 5pm each day Cost R2 100

The breath is the most intimate touch of existence. This first beloved caresses us from the inside, all the time, and yet we hardly notice its presence. Most of us have hardly begun to explore the power of the breath as a tool to deepen our intimacy with ourselves, with another and with existence as such. There is so much more capacity for aliveness in us, right here in our bodies - if we open up more deeply to the breath.

In this workshop, we will bring together the best of two mystery traditions - Tantra and Breathwork - to assist you in opening to the wonder that is right inside you.

On this workshop, you will discover how to

breathe more deeply into different dimensions of your body
open to the sensual, rhythmic flow of the breath
drop beyond the mind, into the mind blowing transformational power of the breath
share breathwork with a partner through tantric meditations
bring the power of the breath more strongly into your moving, dancing active life

Powerful physical, emotional and psychological healing happens spontaneously as a result of spiritual breathing. When we awaken to the energy within us, we merge with the energy around us - and vice versa. When we melt into the energy that surrounds us, we fall into the energy that is at our core...

The surface area of our lungs: if we were to stretch it pout and measure it - it would fill one side of a tennis court! That we means more of the world comes into intimate contact with us
with each breath - more than we could possibly touch with our hands or wrap our arms around.

And when we breathe... the essence of who we are flows out into the world to mix and merge with everyone and everything. It is lovely to hold a philosophy about oneness, connection, etc.
it is quite another to have a direct biological, an unmistakable cellular experience of divine energy!

About Dan Brulé

Dan Brulé is a modern day teacher and healer. He is a world-renown pioneer in the field of Breathwork, and leader of the worldwide Spiritual Breathing movement. Dan is one of the originators of Breath Therapy, and was among the first group of Internationally Certified Rebirthers. He is a master of Prana Yoga (the Hindu Science of Breath), and of Chi Kung/Qigong (Chinese Medical Breathing Exercises). Few people in the world have more hands-on experience in Breathwork. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Business and Education from The University of Massachusetts, and a Masters degree in the Healing Arts from Lesley College in Boston.
Dan studied with Qigong Master Hu Bin at the Academy of Chinese Medicine in Beijing. He lived in the Osho community in Oregon, and took part in the original Breath Therapy Program at the Rajneesh International Meditation University. He learned "Prana Yoga" from Swami Rama and did biofeedback training at the Himalayan Institute in Pennsylvania. He also studied "Breathing Coordination" with Carl Stough at the Stough Institute in New York.

He has studied and traveled extensively with Leonard Orr, the founder of the "Rebirthing" movement; and he has worked with Stan Grof, the founder of "Holotropic Breathwork." In 1980, Dan traveled to India where he was initiated into "Kriya Yoga" and "Kundalini Yoga" and given the name Guchu Ram Singh by the legendary immortal yogi master Babaji (described in Pramahansa Yogananda's book: "Autobiography of a Yogi.").

More than 80,000 people in over 40 countries apply Dan’s breathing exercises and techniques in their work and in their lives. Among them are Olympic athletes and elite martial artists, leading psychotherapists and medical experts, monks, meditators, hospice workers, yoga teachers, performing artists, personal trainers, substance abuse and pastoral counselors, health practitioners, life coaches, and business executives. For more information, visit www.breathmastery.com.

About Shakti Malan

Shakti is a dakini (teacher of the mystery traditions of Tantra) and member of the Advait Tantraschool (tantraschool.co.za). She has a busy practice involving sessions, workshops, courses and retreats. Shakti is based in Cape Town and has been teaching internationally in the UK and the US. Her central approach is to enter the totality of experience as a gateway to awakening. Shakti believes that sexuality is the field which most powerfully directs us to this gateway. For more on her work, see shakti.co.za and totalitytherapy.com

Shakti is a woman who has always had a deep sense of calling, which first she explored in the development field working with township communities all across South Africa. Through this work she attained a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, a discipline that teaches the practitioner to listen to the reality of groups and individuals from an insider perspective, through immersion in the texture of their lives.

Following from many years of devotion to meditation, tai chi, yoga and shamanic work, Shakti had a sudden and profound redirection of her energy into the field of Tantra. This started at the age of 33 with 18 months of death processing in the wilderness, and then a long period of intense work with the Advaita tradition of non-duality, as well as deep personal emotional processing.

Her style of teaching is influenced by Advaita teachings in general and specifically Advait Tantra, shamanism (most poignantly African shamanic traditions), systemic and processwork psychology, her intellectual training as a Social Anthropologist and also her work as a dance and movement teacher.

Bookings

All bookings for all events with Rhianne: rhiannevdl@gmail.com Content inquiries to Shakti: shakti@shakti.co.za
Book early to avoid disappointment as places are limited and these events are bound to be very popular.

Attendance confirmed with R1000 deposit paid by credit card into the following account:

http://breathmastery.com/bookit.htm

Or into the following South African account:

Dr. S. Malan

Standard Bank current account

Thibault Square branch (02-11-09-00)

Account number: 073152811

Dan will also be teaching in Johannesburg 19 - 26 March; details below

Saturday 19 March 14:00 - Introductory talk at Woodlands Spa, Muldersdrift, R50 per person

Sunday 20 March 09:30 for 10:00 until 18:00 - One day, experiental workshop at Woodlands Spa, Muldersdrift, R1 100 per person, excluding lunch (can be ordered at Woodlands Café). Limited space available. Deposit R600 to secure your place.

Saturday 26 March 09:30 for 10:00 until 18:00 - One day, advanced workshop at Woodlands Spa, Muldersdrift, R1 100 per person, excluding lunch (can be ordered at Woodlands Café). Limited space available. Deposit R600 to secure your place.

Dan will also be available for private (one-on-one) breathwork sessions from Monday 21 to Thursday 24 March.

For more information or bookings contact Kobus Burger at kburger@afrihost.co.za or 082 950 7327. Or visit www.breathmastery.com.

Tantric Practice for Women, Johannesburg 6th March 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Dakini Wendy) — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:12:00 +0000

Tantric Practice for Women
First Chakra Workshop: Loving your Body

Facilitated by Dakinis Wendy and Shakti

Date: Sunday 6th March

Time: 6 - 10pm

Cost: R550

Venue: Parktown, Johannesburg

The first chakra opens when we say yes to our bodies. This happens effortlessly when we drop our criticisms. In this workshop you will be guided through beautiful creative exercises that invite you to look in to your relationship with your body. Opening the first chakra guides you to your bliss, which is deeply connected to your sacred sexual energy and power as a woman.

Breathing and movement in the pelvic area help to ignite the spark of our real aliveness.

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Tantric Practice for Women

Tantra, the art of conscious sexuality, is a practice that has since ancient times been led by women. What has been a secret and mystical practice has now become accessible to seekers who are exploring awareness. It is a special calling in our lives as Dakinis to support women into the full flowering of where our sexuality can take us. The main elements of this workshop are:

• Discovering the unique qualities of female sexuality
• Opening to the flow of sexual energy/kundalini through meditation, dance and breath work
• Unblocking and integrating what prevents energy flow through us

Working with the chakras

Chakras are points of consciousness along the central energy channel in our bodies. We can experience the flow of energy with presence when the chakras open. With Tantric awareness, our sexual vitality starts to move up our bodies like a snake uncoiling, originating with the first chakra, and culminating in full body bliss six chakras later. For more on the unique qualities of each chakra, see http://shakti.co.za/blog/2008/04/tantra-and-chakras_14.html

Growing with other women

Attending women's Tantra workshops creates a space for fluid community and support amongst women. We learn from each other and share in our experiences. The unfolding of our personal awareness can be deepened significantly through regular practice in a conscious group context.

Method

The focus is on the movement of sexual energy in your own body; on getting to know your own body, and becoming attuned to how energy moves through you. The kinds of methods we use are:

Breath work
Guided meditations
Group discussions and sharing
Shamanic journeywork

Collaging, journaling and other creative expressions
Movement and dance

For booking contact Dakini Wendy on 082 369 5437

Reclaiming Sexual Energy

noreply@blogger.com (Shima) — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:08:00 +0000

Human beings have become overly civilised and sexuality is not born in civilisation. We have become attached and emphasised in civility.

Long ago you were a free and wild being who belonged to this earth and the earth to you. No -one was your keeper. You have become tamed cultured civilised. You have traded your being for predictability and safety. You have forgotten the soft beast your body.

If you wish to experience your free sexuality you must be willing to drop your expectation of cultured order and predictability. Be willing to risk a little exposure allowing freedom in yourself and others.

Most people are trying to get something from each other as opposed to share their profound and full nature. If you remain in the former you will always be short changed and hungry.

Come to know your own nature, your own sexual energy and then your meetings with others radically transform into wild untamed encounters in bed and outside of it.

I offer you a key but you need to step up to the door and beyond ..

In this workshop;

I will explore the ways that masculine and feminine sexuality differ and how we can again come to the real expression of our sexuality. This exploration will be followed by a physical meditation that calls the sexual energy powerfully and intentionally.

This is a group meditation and the energy created within the group supports this process and deepens the possibilities, but the majority of the evening will be a solo exploration. First you meet your energy before you can share it with another.

The details;

16th February

Wednesday 7:30pm till 10pm

Fellside, Johannesburg ( a few minutes from Norwood )

R280

The venue has limited space so it is on a first come first serve basis. Please contact me on shima@shima.co.za or 0845911211 to confirm your place.

Tantric Touch Groups, Johannesburg 16 Feb to 9 Apr

noreply@blogger.com (Rahasya A) — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 08:09:00 +0000

Lost in the wilderness between true awareness and the senses,
I suddenly woke inside myself like a lotus opening in waterweeds.

~Lalla

Guided by Wendy and Rahasya, this 9-week course is an exploration of Tantric Practice, with an emphasis on body work and practical techniques.

Time:

Beginners: Wednesdays 7pm-10pm
Intermediate and Advanced: Saturdays 7pm-10pm

Beginner Cost: R1 100. Venue: Parktown

Intermediate Cost: R1 100.Venue: Parktown

Advanced Cost: R1 600 Venue: Good Vibrations, Rivonia

Contact: Wendy

wendy@tantraschool.co.za

0823695437

BEGINNER: Getting In Touch

16 February, 23 February, 2 March

Welcoming, introduction to the purpose and methods of Tantra, history of Tantric traditions across the world.
Discovering your masculine and feminine aspects.
Opening to the mystery of blessing another.
Sensing the chakras: The main centers along the pathways of sexual energy.
Revealing the hidden truth behind eroticism and fantasy.
Releasing old habits and resolving difficulties around your own sexuality.
Calling in the aliveness of your energy.

INTERMEDIATE: The Naked Truth

5 March, 12 March, 19 March

Requirements: Either the beginner group or equivalent work with us. Interview.

Exploring your own visual eroticism, facing taboos around nakedness,deconditioning visual eroticism.
Touch as meditation, learning attunement and sensitivity in touch.
Understanding more about the energies of giving and receiving.
Meeting your body on the level of it's subtle energies, breathing and chi gong.
Clearing false associations relating to issues around touch, love and sex. Skills for opening to unconditional love.

ADVANCED: Embodied Understanding

26 March, 2 April, 9 April

Requirements: Either the intermediate group or equivalent work with us. Interview.

The kundalini energy, nervous system and meditation.
Receiving a chakra massage and be guided in giving this massage to another.
Learning presence and connection in this Tantric touch technique.
The philosophy and secret teachings of Tantra.
Introducing sex as meditation, the transition from the erotic to the transcendent.

Permanent page for this group: http://advaittantra.com/touch-group.html

Yogini Adept Training Johannesburg Feb 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Rahasya A) — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:19:00 +0000

An 8-week practitioner-level training, limited to 6 participants.

This training is a deep immersion in authentic tantric technique and practice. Over 8 weeks, you will experience and learn fundamental healing modalities and make significant progress on your own journey on this path. This training is for those intending to work with Tantra.

Following the training, an optional internship leads to practitioner-level certification as a Yogini Adept.

Massage skills and bodywork overview
Working with body armoring and sensuality
Understanding and working with eroticism
Essential meditation techniques for Tantrikas

Format: 24 hours Group training (3 hrs/weekly on Sunday evenings) and 12 hours private tuition (90min/week) alternately with Wendy and Rahasya.

Starting in Johannesburg, 30 January to 20 March 2011
Cost: R5 500.00

Please contact Wendy for further details.
wendy@tantraschool.co.za
0823695437
Or Rahasya
rahasya@tantraschool.co.za
0837744504
More information at the permanent page for Yogini Training.

Tantric Lovemaking

noreply@blogger.com (Shima) — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 08:13:00 +0000

On Saturday November 6th I will be offering a workshop on Tantric Lovemaking.

For more information on this class and on private tantra love sessions please contact Shima on 0845911211 or shima@shima.co.za.

ADVAIT TANTRA EVENTS

Shakti's international teaching schedule May-June 2012

Yogini Adept Training Intensive - Cape - 23-27 Nov 2012

Tantric Embrace Cape 26, 27 May 2012

Tantric Embrace:A half day for women with Dakini Wendyand a half-day for the men with Rahasya,then a day together, guided by both teachers.Scarborough (SA) 26 and 27 May 2012

For the women: Jade Egg workshop

For the men: Vajra energy

For men and women: Tantric Embrace

Yogini Adept Training Intensive, Cape Town, 21 -25 March 2012

Into the Depths, Cape, Dec 2011

Tantra Intensive Cape, Dec. 2011

Birth into Being

World renouned Breath Master Dan Brulé and Wisdom Dakini Shima will be offering a day of breath and tantra.

Totality Therapy Training London September

Special spring offer with Shekina

Emergence: Dare to Be...

Skydancing under the Full Moon 13th August

Tantra School Open Day 6th August

Tantric Arising 16-19 September 2011

Woman, Love thyself

Shakti in the UK May - June

Sexual energetics - Dragon's Nectar Tantra Retreat

27th - 29th May 2011

Tantric Meditations @ The Bedroom

Breathwork and Tantra Events

Tantric Practice for Women, Johannesburg 6th March 2011

Reclaiming Sexual Energy

Tantric Touch Groups, Johannesburg 16 Feb to 9 Apr

16 February, 23 February, 2 March

5 March, 12 March, 19 March

26 March, 2 April, 9 April

Yogini Adept Training Johannesburg Feb 2011

Tantric Lovemaking

Tantric Embrace:
A half day for women with Dakini Wendy
and a half-day for the men with Rahasya,
then a day together, guided by both teachers.
Scarborough (SA) 26 and 27 May 2012