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Seminars for singles and couples.
Tantra
In few short paragraphs, I would like to share with you an overview of what the Tantric Energy Work experience may include, and what we will work toward together.
While intense sexual energy of the Sacral Chakra and the compassionate loving of the Heart Chakra is part of Tantra, the main goal is the inner path work of intimacy with self. As intimacy with self develops so does intimacy with the world, as a whole. I hope you'll understand and internalize the deeper goals of Tantra and allow me to help guide you to a profound awakening of your body, mind and spirit.
During Tantric Energy sessions, an intention will be set for the goals the client/student wants to develop, create, discover or journey into. These may include unrealized dreams or aspirations or delving into emotional behavioral patterns. This is achieved through conversation to ascertain where the breakthrough needs to be targeted or the area in which awareness needs to be brought to facilitate healing and release.
Tantric energy work is in a class of its own, combined with therapeutic techniques, breathing exercises, meditations and acupressure points to release body blockages. The opening and charging of the Chakras to raise the Shiva (male)nadi energy and Shakti (female) nadi energy, will bring alignment and balance back into the physical and subtle bodies.
Tantra is about body awareness; self-intimacy that in turn is a more intimate nature with all and the removal of blockages through breakthrough/break down of old patterns. These blockages can be from past lives, from in the womb, from present day problems/traumas and stress, and even from worries about future problems.
Through this system of healing you become aware of holding patterns and illness causing emotional blockages. These holding patterns/blockages can be caused from anger, fear, stress, abuse, trauma, loss, guilt, abandonment, and many other reasons.
Once these areas are discovered then the client is guided through the release of the physically held blockages and a greater awareness is brought from the body wisdom, thus bringing the mind, body and spirit back into harmony.
These blockages, if not released, can prevent us from living a full and happy life, having a lack of intimacy in our lives; can contribute to relationship issues, and disease caused by the closing off of the Kundalini (Chi) energy flow through our bodies.
Ritual work, and home practice will be taught to the client/student to aid them in raising and sustaining the sexual energy and integrating it with the spiritual energy, necessary for healing. Males will be taught how to separate orgasm from ejaculation and how to release emotional blockages. Females will be taught about their Sacred Spot and releasing emotional blockages. All clients will learn how to cultivate their Heart energy center and sacred sexual center (Sacral Chakra), to improve their health, to generate energetic connectedness of the self, to honor their self-expression and to bring joy and love back into their lives.
Many times in Western culture Tantra is a misunderstood philosophy. The majority of people mistake this philosophy/practice as only focusing on sex. This is very far from the truth of the spiritual philosophy of Tantra yoga. If I may take you on a brief history, Tantra was the first documented (written) philosophy, approximately 5,000 years ago, from that came the alchemy of yoga. Following that came the religions of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jeudo-Christianity. The Tantric inner path work is about incorporating the spiritual, body energy system (Chakras) and the mundane body itself into an awareness of behavioral, emotional patterns and the evolving towards enlightenment of letting go of the expectations that cause suffering,(pain body). Yes, our sexuality is a very important part of Tantric work since it is very powerful creative source. Joining this energy source with compassionate Heart energy we are able to a sacred loving place for our sexuality and ourselves. Our sexuality is an endowment from our Creator that is meant to beautiful and open. To those who are misinformed, the freedom that Tantrika's accept with their own sexuality and that of others, can lead those who are sexually repressed to the belief that those who practice Tantra are sexually licentious. Tantra is a way of life and being which transforms all facets of everyday living into a spiritual experience, thus leading to joy, bliss and serenity. It teaches that all that you have is right NOW and that you live in the present, without expectations. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 21 August 2008 )
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Snapshot of the Priesthood of Sacred Loving
5 Jan 2005
by Kelevh Qadesh
I had gone into Polyamory and other alternative lifestyles innocently, naively, and idealistically only to be disappointed by feet of clay. Some of those clay feet belonged to others. Sometimes my own feet were made of the stuff. They were bound beyond all reason to the sanctity and emotional safety of the familiar.
The Star of Astarte was one of Hope. It beckoned to a new perspective and brighter day. Priestesses and priests of sacred loving or sacred sexuality had been among those who served Her in antiquity. The same was true in the modern world. It was not long before I realized how loaded a term "sacred sexuality" could be.
Some folks thought the priesthood was "all about sex." Others felt it was airy-fairy and "spiritual," but not at all about sex. The two-word phrase "sacred sexuality" seemed a stumbling block, because either the sacred or sexual aspect would be overly or under emphasized or simply omitted.
Others still were swift to equat the practice of the qadishti with tantra (or neo-tantra, if you prefer). There were certainly some crossovers. I am quick to admit all that I owe of my spiritual methodology to Margo Anand the brillian author of The Art of Sexual Ecstasy and The Art of Sexual Magic.
I sensed there were differences. The qadishti path impressed me as being very earthy. It also carried a distinctly Middle Easter flavor. The historical connections explained this to an extent. The priesthood was found in Canaan. Variations were found throughout the Levant and Mesopotamia (Sumer, Akkad, Babylonia, and Assyria). It would also emerge in Greek and Roman areas, including Sicily.
The Sanctuary of Venus Erycina of the Romans had been the Santuary of Aphrodite of Mount Eryx of the Greeks, but began as the Sanctuary of Astarte of the Phoenicians. Part of the Sanctuary is still visible in Erice in Sicily. Much more is apparently buried beneath a castle on the site that dates from the Middle Ages.
The modern priesthood also impressed me as being extremely malleable. It could be whatever we chose to make of it. I chose to use it as a means by which to democratize sacred sexuality, to make the practice available to anyone who wanted to experience it.
I also recognized the potential of such spiritual practices to be more overtly erotic than what I had read in many modern tantric and neo-tantric texts. Its ceremony seemed logically derived from the hieros gamos or sacred marriage rite in which participants "drew down" (channeled or otherwise associated with the energy) of deity and through lovemaking entered into a state of unparalleled Holy Communion.
And so, when asked, I could say of qadishti in all honesty that we facilitate connections with the divine, celebrate life and love, and seek to heal the wounded hearts of individuals and communities. Our gifts include gentle hearts, open ears and minds, the written and spoken words, and healing touches.
Excerpt from Our Haven
The qadishti or "holy ones" the so-called temple prostitutes of antiquity were in all likelihood priestesses and priests whose spiritual practices included the celebration of some form of the hieros gamos or sacred marriage rite. Our spiritual forebears understood that sharing sexual intimacy was a sacrament. Modern qadishti seek to share the gift of sacred loving with intent and renewed purpose.
I was inspired by the possibility of conscious loving. I witnessed it in the Outer Court Ritual of the New Temple of Astarte. The sensation was new and different. Everyone in the circle was equal. No one was excluded. Everyone was cooperative. There was no jealousy, insecurity, instability, or fear. There was peace and love.
Could these experiences transcend the bounds of sacred space or were we merely looking at "shadows of things that might be only?" There is something funny about sacred space. It exists out of time. It exists out of space. Not everything that is possible there can make the jump to the "real" world either, at least not yet. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 19 August 2008 )
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 21 August 2008 )
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Background of color relationships, the aura soma system and a take home pomander, a mini reading and lifetime hand massage with one of the products.
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Includes handmade soap samples to take home, background info on soap, chemistry and suggested references.
Students will get hands on experience.
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