| Evoking
Divine Passion
Living the Ecstatic Life, Learning the Art of Sacred Love
by LoveJourneyTantra
October 24-26, 2008
Led by
Evalena Rose, with an exquisite team of Assistants
At LoveJourney Temple in beautiful
Sebastopol, California
For Men and Women
This
weekend helps beginners master the basic practices of Tantra
and challenges experienced people to deepen their capacity
to move kundalini and create ecstatic states. Enjoy a wonderful
immersion into the joys of Tantra through healing exchanges
that deepen connection with self, others, and all of life.
Learn to raise your sexual energy – your Kundalini –
and to enhance pleasure through breath, imagery, and undulatory
practices that encourage ecstatic states.
Singles
become their own best beloved and open more deeply to sacred
union. Couples find a safe haven for revitalizing passion
and eroticism and for
finding new levels of connection and communication.
Learn
ancient arts linking spirituality & sexuality
Enhance
your capacity for deeply satisfying intimacy
Learn
breathing that energizes and empowers your life
Access
states of ecstasy and open to full body orgasm
Explore
healthy boundaries and good communication skills
Awaken
your sensual and erotic nature
Experience
the nurturing of a compassionate circle
Connect
heart to heart in safe and sacred Tantric ritual
Gain
role models for sustaining healthy relationships
Tantra,
as a Yogic practice, requires repetition to work its magic
of transformation, so you'll be learning with many who've
studied before, making it easier to learn the practices and
adding to the richness of our Temple community. Those who
have been wounded sexually gain from the support of therapeutically
tranined assistants and the empathetic support of participants
to help release these wounds and their effects. Here, we reclaim
sovereignty for and through our bodies. We seek solid, sustainable
growth made more possible by the influence of an on-going,
ever-growing, community where bonds and trust continue to
deepen.
The
weekend includes healthy, tasty, catered meals and a booklet
of practices. Overnight stay available. Click here for lodging
information.
Held
in Sebastopol, just 15 minutes west of Santa Rosa, CA., (75
miles north of San Francisco) at our lovely retreat center
in a rural setting with
hot tubs and private decks.
WHAT
DO YOU ACTUALLY DO IN AN INTRODUCTORY TANTRA WORKSHOP?
We
explore the spiritual practices of Tantric breath work, learning
how to move Kundalini (sexual energy) through the body in
ways that create ecstatic states. We celebrate ourselves in
song and sacred dance as well as in heart-centered and joyous
ritual. We explore movement and practice meditative work around
eros, which helps participants come to fully live in their
bodies and be more available to pleasure and passion. We thoughtfully
discuss ways to take care of yourself while respecting and
honoring boundaries.
On
Friday evening, we introduce the basics of Tantra and begin
building sacred, safe community. On Saturday, you'll enjoy
sweet, heart-centered ways of connecting and getting to know
other participants through a variety of interactions and exercises.
Through our study of boundaries – both verbal and energetic
– you’ll learn about your current connection patterns
and new options for deeper contact while staying in your own
heart, available to receive.
Assistants
provide you with individual attention as needed to help free
up your body, learn the undulations that move Kundalini, and
work through any emotions ready for release. Orgasm reflex
work (which is not the same as orgasm!) helps retrain your
body to remember these natural movements.
On
Saturday evening, we share the delights of a Puja –
a circle of interactive, heart-centered connections in gentle
ritual space. We consciously prepare for this event so everyone
can fully celebrate their empowered sensuality. It is a delightful
way to practice the skills we have studied, and the Puja provides
opportunities for the sweetest, kindest, most nurturing connections
you could possibly imagine! Each interaction deepens your
connection with yourself and opens possibilities for truly
meeting others Essence to Essence. Participants find themselves
feeling happy, nourished, fed, honored, accepted, and appreciated,
often laughing with delight, sometimes crying out old wounds,
and almost universally ending up feeling satiated and satisfied.
On
Sunday, we do the deep meditative work of reclaiming our sexuality
and our passion and we share from the amazing experiences
of the Puja. We may do sacred or erotic touch or some deeply
healing internal work about coming into a loving relationship
with our own sexual nature. You'll learn erotic communication,
developing ways to ask for what you want so that both people
involved gain what they desire.
We
complete the weekend with one-on-one exchanges that help us
appreciate and honor all we've risked and gained, and end
with a song and spiral dance celebrating our growing community.
WHO
ATTENDS THESE WORKSHOPS?
Participants
include many singles and some couples, most of whom are heterosexual,
although people of all sexual preferences are warmly welcomed.
More singles then couples come, enjoying many delightful partners
within our well-boundaried container. Couples may choose to
do the exercises together all or in part -- all choices are
honored. Your dakini team (temple servants) demonstrate ways
of the doing the work both as couples and as singles learning
to enter Tantric exchanges and sacred touch
As
has been true in temples throughout history, some participants
are people who have studied Tantra for years and return again
and again. People who attend are from the East Bay, San Francisco,
Sacramento, all over Sonoma County, and sometimes from other
states. We try to arrange car pools for those who'd like to
either drive or ride with another.
DO
YOU OFFER SCHOLARSHIPS OR WORK EXCHANGE?
We
have some scholarship monies for those who can demonstrate
financial need, primarily for women. You can also do work
exchange, helping with setup both mornings, take down, logistics,
plus help with gardening or home repair if that is your skill.
We arrange payment plans for up to four months, with you setting
the payment schedule. We may have partial stipends for single
women who are needed for gender balancing. Ultimately, we
get very creative around finances, so talk to us about your
needs!
Click
here to Register Securely.
Click here to learn more about
our Tantra philosophy.
Click here to see other LoveJourney
Temple events for Men and Women.
Click
here to see other LoveJourney Temple events for Women
only.
We
welcome your questions! Please contact us! info@lovejourneytantra.com
or 707.824.1117
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