Awakening the Ecstatic Body : From Sexual Union to Spiritual Communion

* Explore the masculine and feminine archetypes
* Transform old patterns and heal the shadow
* Embody your inner sage and share deep wisdom
* Practice self-inquiry and open to non-duality
* “Ride the Wave of Bliss”

In this experiential weekend workshop you will learn how to gracefully navigate the dance of polarities, heal the split between the masculine and feminine, practice self-inquiry and melt into ecstasy. Discover how your relationships can become a doorway into communion with the Divine. You will leave this weekend feeling more connected, present and aware with a tool kit for creating bliss in your life and relationships. This event is open to individuals and couples. There is no nudity in this class.

$300 per person / Sliding scale available
Register online at
http://sedonatemple.com/aeb.php or call 928-282-8511

For questions and more information contact Crystal Dawn at 928-282-5483

David Cates will be giving the keynote address. He will discussing how to bring sexual healing into mainstream awareness. You’d think that a culture this obsessed with sex would be jumping all over these practices! How can we free Tantra from its current isolation, and transplant its roots into the mainstream culture?

David Cates has been involved in sparking sexual consciousness for forty years. He helped build the Daka/Dakini Conferences while quietly training and mentoring sexual healers. For the last few years, he’s been applying tantric tools to community-building and men’s work.

This conference attracts those interested in educating and healing themselves and their family, friends, clients, students and seekers. It attracts such diverse people as therapists, body workers, healers, yogis, health educators, sex workers and spiritual seekers of all kinds. I look forward to seeing you there. Come and play, share, learn, grow, laugh, cry, celebrate, network, refresh, love and be loved!

Conference link http://sedonatemple.com/2010-fall-conference.php

Please contact the Sedona Temple if you have any questions that are not answered on the website. Email mail@sedonatemple.com Call 928-282-8511

http://sedonatemple.com/2010-fall-conf-presenters.php

I am very excited about the upcoming Shamanic Breathwork™ Intensive workshop led by Linda Star Wolf and her partner/beloved Brad Collins. They are the founders of the Venus Rising Institute for Shamanic Healing Arts. Many of you may have heard of Star Wolf’s work. She is a well known author; her latest book is Shamanic Breathwork; Journeying beyond the Limits of the Self. She and Brad have an extensive background in various breath work modalities, therapeutic processes as well as Shamanic healing practices. The Shamanic Breathwork™ Intensive is a powerful technique for healing and transformation.

I have used a variety of breath work practices over the years and found the Shamanic Breathwork™ to be a unique approach. I personally had an amazing experience when I attended their one-day event here on June 24^th. My experience was so powerful that I decided I wanted to be trained in facilitating this process for others. I spoke with Brad and Star Wolf after that event and asked them if they would return here and teach the Intensive. I was delighted when they agreed, as the developers of this process they are exceptional teachers and guides.

This event is something you won’t want to miss. Please look at Star Wolf and Brad’s website to learn more about the training, http://shamanicbreathwork.org/index.php . The workshop is from September 10th through the 16^th and will be held at the Sanctuary at Sedona. The link to the flyer is attached below with the details. You can come to the workshop for solely for your own healing experience and/or you can come with the intent to become a certified Shamanic Breathwork facilitator.

The Sanctuary is an ideal place to experience deep transformation. It is a powerful place to reconnect with mother earth and Spirit. There will be meals loaded with pure life force energy cooked by vegetarian chefs with ingredients from the garden. There are limited rooms and other sleeping accommodations available for those who would like to stay at The Sanctuary.

Please register as soon as possible to reserve your space in the workshop.

http://shamanicbreathwork.org/fliers/flyer_view.php?f=SBW-Sedona-091010&t=Shamanic

Dear Friends,
On the occasion of the Sony e-book release of my book, Kama Sutra I would like to share the following insights on sex and spirituality:

1. Sexual energy is the primal and creative energy of the universe. All things that are alive come from sexual energy. In animals and other life forms, sexual energy expresses itself as biological creativity. In humans, sexual energy can be creative at all levels — physical, emotional and spiritual. In any situation — where we feel attraction, arousal, awakening, alertness, passion, interest, inspiration, excitement, creativity, enthusiasm — in each of these situations, sexual energy is at work. Whenever we feel these states of awareness, we must put our attention on the energy that we are experiencing, nourishing it with our attention, experiencing it with joy and keeping it alive in our awareness.

2. Sexual desire is sacred and chaste. The suppression of sexual energy is false, ugly and unchaste.

3. During sexual union, there is union between flesh and spirit.

4. Bliss, carefreeness and playfulness are the essence of sex.

5. To improve your sexual experiences, get rid of your expectations. Expectations are primarily in three areas:
1) Performance, exemplified in the question, “How am I doing?”
2) Feeling, exemplified in the question, “How am I feeling?” 3) Security, exemplified in the question, “Do you love me?”

6. In sex, as in all areas of life, resistance is born of fear. All resistance is mental. It implies judgment against what is being felt. Sex becomes a problem when it gets mixed with hidden emotions such as shame, guilt and anger.

7. Sexual intimacy is the road to the taste or experience of true freedom, because it is the one area of life in which we can become completely uninhibited and free.

8. Sexual fulfillment occurs when the experience comes from playfulness instead of need. Frequently people bring their conflicts and needs into the sexual experience. When sex is used to fulfill needs, it leads to addiction. When sex comes from playfulness, the result is ecstasy.

9. All problems related to sex, neurosis, deviancy, sexual misbehavior, violence, abuse, can be traced to resistance, suppression and repression — not to the sexual urges themselves. If we are allowed to discover our urges, desires and emotions, without outside inhibition, they won’t go to extremes. Extremism, in any form, is a reaction to repression, inhibition and suppression. Aggression and violence are the shadow energies of fear and impotence.

10. Sex is a means of escaping our little self or ego. It is many peoples’ only experience of meditation.

11. Meaningful sex has to be value based. Values are personal. Each situation that has sexual energy in it, involves the whole human being and their entire value system. My values may be different from yours, and I have no right to be the moral judge of anyone’s values. It is important, however, to have core values, and respect them. Without values, we become spiritually bankrupt. Sexual experience will never cause problems and will always be joyful, if lovers share the same values.

12. True intimacy is union between flesh and flesh, between subtle body and subtle body, between soul and soul. Sexual energy is sacred energy. When we have restored the sexual experience to the realm of the sacred, our world will be chaste and divine, holy and healed.

Love, Deepak

Sit quietly for a few minutes and completely let go of the notion of “You.” Allow pure awareness to arise, without a self who sees. What do you discover?

On the new moon I went for a late night drive with a friend in his convertible. I wanted to go star gazing. We drove into the country and stopped in a place without ant lights for several miles. The stars were magnetic. I looked up and the stars glowed. My perception shifted and suddenly there was no me. There was only Awareness looking up at the stars. There was so much freedom in letting go of the me. While I have been practicing self-inquiry and meditation for sometime this tasted so pure. Since then I have been practicing letting go of me and just being Awareness. It is a powerful experience of being free.

The Art and Business of Teaching Tantra
Certifying the Next Generation of Tantra Teachers

Sedona, AZ, USA

Next Module August 27-September 2, 2010

This comprehensive training offers a unique blend of knowledge from a number of Tantra and wisdom traditions. It has a flexible structure- join at any time, complete in any order, take all 3 modules to be certified.

Creating successful Tantra teachers and coaches by providing:

* A unique “Mentoring for Success” program
* Skills to sensitively navigate private coaching sessions
* Actual workshop experience as both student and teacher
* The skills to create your own Tantra workshops and events
* A healthy working relationship with your Inner Master Teacher
* Guidance for creating the vision, look and feel of your business
* Marketing ideas to generate income as a Tantra teacher

Taught in three one-week modules this comprehensive training includes training materials, 9 conferences calls and accommodations. The course is limited to 16 people, insuring individual attention. Between modules, you will be required to teach and implement the information covered. This training is taught in a beautiful retreat center in the heart of the red rocks of Sedona that offers lovely amenities including a watsu pool, steam room and swimming pool.

2011 Dates

Module 1: January 28-February 3
Module 2: May 27- June 2
Module 3: September 30-October 6

After completing this training you will:
1. Be able to teach evening, one-day and two-day Tantra events.
2. Coach individuals and couples.
3. Know 4 ways to grow your Tantra community.
4. Begin writing a blog that can attract new students and clients.
5. Learn 3 ways your website can generate income.
6. Receive phone and email support to help you succeed as a Tantra Teacher.
7. Have a vision of how you will successfully teach Tantra in your community.

Cost $5995.00 Payment plans are available.

Each module begins by attending a different Awakening the Ecstatic Body weekend workshop. This gives you an opportunity to experience the work as a student, observe the group process, and practice the exercises in a workshop context. Following the weekend, we will spend time examining the content, dynamics and flow of the workshop. Informed by this knowledge, you will practice teaching what we have learned within a supportive environment and will give feedback to other students. Each day, time will be spent on the Art, Business and Inner Work of teaching Tantra, planting the seeds for creating success as professional Tantra teachers.

Module 1- Stepping onto the Path

• Attend Awakening the Ecstatic Body: Opening the Path to Bliss
• Teach the practices covered in the weekend workshop.
• Do a self assessment to evaluate your strengths and weakness.
• Meet your “Inner Master Teacher.”
• Create a personal mission statement.
• Identify who you will be teaching when you return home.
• Guidance will be provided around launching your new businesses.

Module 2- Building Skills and Community

• Attend Awakening the Ecstatic Body: Full Body Orgasm and Beyond
• Teach the practices covered in the weekend workshop.
• Do a self assessment using a Life Wheel.
• Begin to define your niche and create your brand.
• Create your WordPress blog or continue to build your online presence.
• Building your email list and growing your Tantra community.
• The importance of audio and video in your marketing

Module 3- Spiritual Connection, Coaching and Ethics

• Attend Awakening the Ecstatic Body: Sexual Union to Spiritual Communion
• Teach the practices covered in the weekend workshop.
• Learn how to facilitate a coaching session.
• Begin writing Tantra articles online.
• Expand your WordPress blog into a website.
• Creating products to market your classes and create income.
• Ethics and professional boundaries will also be explored.

Email:Crystal@tantraforawakening.com

Call: 928-282-5483 Cell: 928-862-0762

“If you want to learn something, read about it. If you want to understand something, write about it. If you want to master something, teach it.” Yogi Bhajan

Here are the 7 insights he describes to wake up from the dream called life:

1-Life is a mystery.

2-Now is all you know.

3-You are not a person.

4-The world exists in you.

5-All is One.

6-You are a paradox.

7- Being one is loving all.

Today recognize that life is a dream and you are the dreamer. You are both in the dream and dreaming it at the same time. Everyone in the dream is the dreamer too.

Lucid living is whole heatedly engaging with ordinary life as an epic adventure of awakening. Enjoy life, it is a gift.

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As many of you know I am associated with the Sedona Temple and School of Temple Arts. Below are a list of several upcoming Temple events. Please check them out.

Would you help me spread the word about these events by telling your friends or people you know who are interested in Tantra, healing, or sacred sexuality? Thank you so much.

July 5-18, 2010 Hawaii Baba Dez Offers Private Sessions
http://sedonatemple.com/2010-north-america.php

July 8-12, 2010 Santa Cruz CA Triambika: Dakini Mentorship
http://sedonatemple.com/dakini-mentorship.php

July 16-18, 2010 Sedona AZ Lawrence Lanoff and Cheryl Good S.T.I.R.
http://sedonatemple.com/2010-stir.php

July 23-25, 2010 Sedona AZ Lawrence Lanoff Advanced Intensive
http://sedonatemple.com/advanced-intensive-with-lawrence-lanoff.php

Aug 5-8, 2010 Bliss Beginners Tantra with Laurie Handlers
http://sedonatemple.com/bliss-beginners-tantra.php

Aug 28-29, 2010 Sedona AZ Crystal Dawn: Awakening the Ecstatic Body-From Sexual Union to Spiritual Communion
http://sedonatemple.com/aeb.php

Aug 27-Sep 2, 2010 Sedona AZ Crystal Dawn: The Art & Business of Teaching Tantra
http://www.sedonatemple.com/crystaldawn.php

If you are interested in teaching a workshop or training at the Sedona Temple or know of other teachers, who have a following, who would, please inquire at 928.282.8511

Have a wonderful Day!