Evoking Divine Passion
A weekend workshop for beginners and those who practice Tantra.
by LoveJourneyTantra
October 22 - 24, 2010

Led by Evalena Rose, with an exquisite team of Assistants
At LoveJourney Temple in beautiful Sebastopol, California
For Men and Women

Living the Ecstatic Life, Learning the Art of Sacred Love

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!

$255 per person if paid in full by 10/12, $295 thereafter
$450 per couple if paid in full by 10/12, $490 thereafter
$75 deposit, non-refundable after 10/12

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We welcome your questions! Please contact us! info@lovejourneytantra.com or 707.824.1117