Shakti's Tantra Events

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

Cape Town launch of Sexual Awakening for Women

noreply@blogger.com (Shakti) — Thu, 03 May 2012 09:43:00 +0000

Book launch of Sexual Awakening for Women

by Shakti Mari Malan

Kalk Bay, Cape Town

28 June 7 - 9.30 pm

Invitation to the book launch

You are invited to the launch of of Sexual Awakening for Women: A Tantric Workbook by Shakti Mari Malan (Ph.D.)

The book will be for sale at R250 a copy, and the author will be available to sign copies.
Expect not only an introduction to the book by Shakti, but also a beautiful experiential journey into the awakening of female sexual energy.
This event is free and open to men and women.You are however required to RSVP to Ahrian: ahriangaia@gmail.com

About the book

Female sexual energy has a unique quality that is little understood in our world today. In Sexual Awakening for Women: A Tantric Workbook, Shakti shows women how to begin to taste again, and deeply enjoy, the bliss of female sexual energy.

Shakti believes that female sexual energy is a gateway to spiritual awakening. Her work is an initiation into the deep mysteries of female sexuality. Sexual Awakening for Women takes women through an opening process of the first four chakras, or energy centers in the body, to awaken the flow of sexual energy or kundalini, and to connect with the energy of the heart.

The book addresses key concerns that block women from their sexual flowering, and provides ample exercises to assist women in releasing these blockages. Examples are:

▪ How to move beyond a critical relationship with your body to one of deep, poetic appreciation.

▪ Understanding the virgin-whore split in women's psyches, finding the gift in each of these archetypes, and a deep integration.
▪ Listening to our sexual organs, appreciating their stories and finding a deeply loving relationship with them
▪ Moving from a goal-oriented, contractive sexual experience to an open, flowing surrender into bliss.

▪ Bringing the masculine and feminine into dialogue, and finally, deep union with that which is beyond the ego-mind.

noreply@blogger.com (Shakti) — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:50:00 +0000

Man and Woman Awake

Residential Tantra Intensive Retreat

15 - 17 June, Oxfordshire, England

Shakti Malan and Aaron Swanson

This Retreat The meeting and merging of masculine and feminine is a primary objective of Tantric practice. In human evolution, the year 2012 signals the time when the inner marriage between masculine and feminine becomes more available to us - and the imperative is strong for us to use the opportunity. When masculine and feminine merge, we awake to the truth of who we really are - the Beloved as such. On the way there, it is important for Man to open to fully embodying the Masculine, and for Woman to embody the Feminine. Once this has happened, we can open to the other, and start dancing with the Soulmate Within. The feminine, as represented in Tantra by Shakti, is not afraid of the dark underworld. She creates the world of illusions. She is comfortable exploring and integrating what is in the unconscious. She explores dark eros and finds the gifts in those corners of existence that have been shunned. She smells, drinks, feels, hears, tastes. She receives the mystery and opens to that which is beyond the known. The masculine, as represented in Tantra by Shiva, holds one pointed focus and stillness. Shiva sits in deep meditation on Mount Khailash, and is undisturbed by the movement of the elements around him. His quality is presence, and when he acts, he does so with skillful means. His attitude to the feminine is total love and devotion. He is the arrow that enters where the feminine guides and takes the energy upward towards transcendent oneness with all that is. Themes On this retreat, we will explore the following themes: The qualities of the awakened feminine and masculine Awakened female and male sexuality Practices for fully embodying the masculine and the feminine Practices for the meeting of male and female Connecting sex and soul in Tantric lovemaking Exploring both unconscious and conscious aspects of our sexuality Methods The methods we will use are: Body awareness and sensitizing techniques Immersion in deep Tantric meditation Active meditations Blissdance, a tantric free movement form developed by Shakti Enactments and roleplay Guided conversations Who is the retreat for? This retreat is suitable for all sincere seekers of truth of any gender or orientation, single or partnered. You do not need a partner to attend. Watch a video of Shakti talking about Tantra and relationships http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmuuCfODinA&context=C406472eADvjVQa1PpcFNDsepFsxYzer-2iSaMOx8IjXMyKJSnczI= Time: June 15th - 17th 2012 Location: The Abbey, Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 4AF (10 min from the Didcot Parkway train station) Cost: GBP 350 early-bird if booked by 15th May/GBP 390 if booked by 8th June/GBP 450 after 8th June. 20% discount for a couple. To secure your place you can pay a £50 non-refundable deposit as places for this workshop are limited. For more information please contact Meera on 07787950351 or info@onlyforart.com
Shakti Malan and Aaron Swanson
About Shakti Malan (Ph.D) Shakti is a dakini or teacher of the mysteries of Tantra and member of the Advait Tantraschool (tantraschool.co.za). Shakti is based in Cape Town, South Africa but teaches and practices across the world. 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 www.shakti.co.za and www.totalitytherapy.com Shakti's purpose as Tantric dakini is to facilitate your awakening to the essence of who you really are, while remaining fully functional in your body. Many traditions of enlightenment view the body as that which is to be transcended. Tantra sees the body as a vehicle for awakening. The process of dropping through veils of illusion can be very impactful on our nervous system, and every aspect of our physical and energetic bodies. Because Shakti values the body as the vehicle through which you can share your awakening with the world, she aims to ensure that your energetic and physical bodies are fully prepared for the process of waking up. This requires totality of the seeker - the willingness to have every aspect of your energetic and physical reality be purified by the power of truth. As this happens, conversely, the body becomes capable of sensing and experiencing on increasingly subtle and refined levels. Thus, the physical vessel of the body becomes a suitable instrument to transmit the essence of the awakened state. Shakti has 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. She spent many years translating the realities of vulnerable communities to decision makers in government, development organizations and corporates in the fields of poverty management, economic development and environmental management. Shakti’s training as dakini comes through the Advaita tradition and many years of immersion in meditation and conscious body practices. About Aaron Swanson From his early twenties, Aaron's life has been immersed in the study of Tantra and meditation. He has worked with the Tantric teachings of Bernie Prior, Barry Long, Saniel Bonder and David Deida, as well as Ipsalu Tantra, the intimacy practices of the Realization Process created by Judith Blackstone and the Womb Wisdom work of Padma Aon, exploring specifically these aspects of Tantric practice: Resting in Non Dual stillness, being present as Awareness fully in the body, conducting energy or Shakti throughout the body, and opening the heart and body fully to the mystery of Woman. Aaron's exploration of consciousness and meditation practices has been through the work of masters such as Anadi, Adyashanti, John DeRuiter and Leslie Temple Thurston, through whose work he has discovered the ever deepening awakening of Pure Awareness beyond Form and its continuing clarification and evolution in the marriage of Spirit and Form within the Non Dual Ground of Being. Aaron believes that Tantra is a path to embodied wholeness where we have the opportunity to bring the light of Pure Awareness and Divine Love deep into the body where all shadows and incongruencies in ones being must be faced with both the impeccable dedication of Spiritual Warriorship and the Heart of a sensitive Lover. Through the meeting of the Masculine and Feminine we have the opportunity to realize God in the Forms of the World, and support the evolution of our precious World into higher forms of development. It is a path of utter care and devotion that lovingly requires everything.
Venue	The Abbey
Address	Sutton Courtenay Abingdon OX14 4AF, Oxfordshire

Intimate Presence talk London

noreply@blogger.com (Shakti) — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:39:00 +0000

Intimate Presence:

A Talk on Deep Meeting in Love and Sex

Time: June 13th 2012, 7pm - 9pm
Venue: Moving Arts Base, 134 Liverpool Road, Islington, London, N1 1LA

On intimate presence

We live in a society where true intimacy is a rarity, and is feared rather than cultivated. The more we look outside for objects, persons or activities to fulfill us, the more we become estranged from ourselves. Our relationships become superficial. Through developing presence with ourselves, we can become intimate with others and with all of life.
Before developing presence, our attention tends to be diluted through projected needs and fears that leave us always unsatisfied and craving for more, or unconsciously avoiding the intimacy that is right here. On this workshop, we will introduce you to simple ways of building your capacity for presence with yourself, with a partner and with all of life.
When we bring conscious presence to the heart, it enables the heart to truly love. Without such presence, the energy of the heart gets dissipated by emotional undercurrents generated by the subconscious mind.

Watch a video of Shakti talking about Tantra and relationships http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmuuCfODinA&context=C406472eADvjVQa1PpcFNDsepFsxYzer-2iSaMOx8IjXMyKJSnczI=

Price: GBP 15 if paid in advance/ GBP 20 on the door

For more information please contact Meera on 07787950351 or info@onlyforart.com

Shakti Malan and Aaron Swanson

About Shakti Malan (Ph.D)
Shakti is a dakini or teacher of the mysteries of Tantra and member of the Advait Tantraschool (tantraschool.co.za). Shakti is based in Cape Town, South Africa but teaches and practices across the world. 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 www.shakti.co.za and www.totalitytherapy.com
Shakti's purpose as Tantric dakini is to facilitate your awakening to the essence of who you really are, while remaining fully functional in your body. Many traditions of enlightenment view the body as that which is to be transcended. Tantra sees the body as a vehicle for awakening. The process of dropping through veils of illusion can be very impactful on our nervous system, and every aspect of our physical and energetic bodies. Because Shakti values the body as the vehicle through which you can share your awakening with the world, she aims to ensure that your energetic and physical bodies are fully prepared for the process of waking up. This requires totality of the seeker - the willingness to have every aspect of your energetic and physical reality be purified by the power of truth. As this happens, conversely, the body becomes capable of sensing and experiencing on increasingly subtle and refined levels. Thus, the physical vessel of the body becomes a suitable instrument to transmit the essence of the awakened state.
Shakti has 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. She spent many years translating the realities of vulnerable communities to decision makers in government, development organizations and corporates in the fields of poverty management, economic development and environmental management. Shakti’s training as dakini comes through the Advaita tradition and many years of immersion in meditation and conscious body practices.

About Aaron Swanson
From his early twenties, Aaron's life has been immersed in the study of Tantra and meditation. He has worked with the Tantric teachings of Bernie Prior, Barry Long, Saniel Bonder and David Deida, as well as Ipsalu Tantra, the intimacy practices of the Realization Process created by Judith Blackstone and the Womb Wisdom work of Padma Aon, exploring specifically these aspects of Tantric practice: Resting in Non Dual stillness, being present as Awareness fully in the body, conducting energy or Shakti throughout the body, and opening the heart and body fully to the mystery of Woman.
Aaron's exploration of consciousness and meditation practices has been through the work of masters such as Anadi, Adyashanti, John DeRuiter and Leslie Temple Thurston, through whose work he has discovered the ever deepening awakening of Pure Awareness beyond Form and its continuing clarification and evolution in the marriage of Spirit and Form within the Non Dual Ground of Being.
Aaron believes that Tantra is a path to embodied wholeness where we have the opportunity to bring the light of Pure Awareness and Divine Love deep into the body where all shadows and incongruencies in ones being must be faced with both the impeccable dedication of Spiritual Warriorship and the Heart of a sensitive Lover. Through the meeting of the Masculine and Feminine we have the opportunity to realize God in the Forms of the World, and support the evolution of our precious World into higher forms of development. It is a path of utter care and devotion that lovingly requires everything.

Venue

Moving Arts Base

Address

134 Liverpool Road, Islington , London

noreply@blogger.com (Shakti) — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:58:00 +0000

Shakti in California 14 May - 3 June

List of Events

May 15 Sexual Awakening for Women Book Signing & 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

About Shakti Malan (Ph.D.)

Shakti is a dakini or teacher of the mysteries of Tantra. Shakti is based in Cape Town, South Africa but teaches and practices across the world. Her central approach is to enter the totality of experience as a gateway to awakening. For more on her work, see www.shakti.co.za and www.totalitytherapy.com

Shakti's purpose as dakini is to facilitate your awakening to the essence of who you really are, while remaining fully functional in your body. Many traditions of enlightenment view the body as that which is to be transcended. Tantra sees the body as a vehicle for awakening. The process of dropping through veils of illusion can be very impactful on our nervous system, and every aspect of our physical and energetic bodies. Because Shakti values the body as the vehicle through which you can share your awakening with the world, she aims to ensure that your energetic and physical bodies are fully prepared for the process of waking up. This requires totality of the seeker - the willingness to have every aspect of your energetic and physical reality be purified by the power of truth. As this happens, conversely, the body becomes capable of sensing and experiencing on increasingly subtle and refined levels. Thus, the physical vessel of the body becomes a suitable instrument to transmit the essence of the awakened state.

Shakti has 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. She spent many years translating the realities of vulnerable communities to decision makers in government, development organizations and corporates in the fields of poverty management, economic development and environmental management. Shakti’s training as dakini comes through the Advaita tradition and many years of immersion in meditation and conscious body practices.

Sexual Awakening for Women
Talk and book presentation
Oakland, California 15 May 7 - 9pm

In this talk, Shakti will be introducing the work contained in her book Sexual Awakening for Women: A Tantric Workbook.
Female sexual energy has a unique quality that is little understood in our world today. Though this book, and the transmission that Shakti sends in the reading of it, women can begin to taste again, and deeply enjoy, the bliss of female sexual energy. This is a journey within, an opening to embodied bliss from the inside out. That opening ripples through the body as a deep relaxation and an ecstatic aliveness. Shakti believes that female sexual energy is a gateway to spiritual awakening. It is the feminine, though her receptivity, that can lead the masculine into the unknown, the mystery, that which is beyond the ego-mind.

Sexual Awakening for Women

Two one day workshops

17 and 19 May 2012
Oakland, California

Female sexual energy has a unique quality that is little understood in our world today. Though the practices you will work through in these two day workshops, and the transmission that Shakti provides, women can begin to taste again, and deeply enjoy, the bliss of female sexual energy. This is a journey within, an opening to embodied bliss from the inside out. That opening ripples through the body as a deep relaxation and an ecstatic aliveness. Shakti believes that female sexual energy is a gateway to spiritual awakening. It is the feminine, though her receptivity, that can lead the masculine into the unknown, the mystery, that which is beyond the ego-mind.
17 May 2012: Releasing the old
In opening fully to the flow of our sexual energy, we need to let go of old patterns that no longer serve us. Examples are
sexual beliefs and attitudes held in our ancestral lineages
attitudes we carry towards our body and sexuality
the virgin/whore split in women's psyches and
patterns that cause us to suppress the power of our womanness.
Through creative practices, movement and breath work, Shakti will guide the women through the release of what no longer serves us, and an opening to the true power of female sexuality.
19 May: Skydancing Woman
This day is a pure celebration of female sexuality. Through breath work, movement, dance and embodied meditation, we will connect deeply to our female sexual essence and allow that to move through our bodies. Skydancer is the literal translation for dakini, the Tibetan Tantric terms for the feminine principle. When woman's sexual energy wakes up, it dances through our bodies and into the infinite, ecstatic sky.
Cost: $180 for one day, $300 for both days
Conscious BDSM: Sharpening the Blade
20 May 2012 2 - 5pm

The Looking Glass
Oakland, California

Our erotic response is directly connected to the darkly delicious fertile soil of our unconscious. In my work with erotic genres such as BDSM, my aim is to uncover, welcome and integrate as much of the forgotten self into your conscious energetic being as possible. Every time this happens, something in our existing ego structures shatter - and we wake up more to the truth of who we really are, as embodied souls.BDSM as a field of erotic exploration lends itself to profound transformation - if it is approached consciously, and with totality. Totality in this context means not holding back at all in exploring the depth of feelings that is held in the erotic. Such feelings are most often mixed, particularly when there is a desire for domination or submission: the erotic response increases significantly with the presence of seemingly opposite states of feeling present, such as shame, guilt, repulsion and pain. I will explore in this workshop the workings of these parallel, paradoxical states, and why it is important to feel it all.
Totality with BDSM requires a fine scalpel - keen perception from both the sub and the dom in identifying exactly what the desire-fear complex is, and how it is linked to the unconscious. This is not a theoretical exercise. It is felt in the body. So for instance, it is essential to be able to distinguish between eroticism to physical pain, power, mind-emotional complexes (such as guilt or disgust combined with arousal) or surrender. Without identifying the exact focus of the erotic charge, the work simply cannot be total, and cannot go all the way through. And identification means going all the way through - into the depths of the experience.
Finally, this talk will address ways of working with the nervous system responses that occur in the presence of intense sensation. I will address ways of using forms of domination to touch and unwind deep contractions in the nervous system. By creating space for the full experience of the nervous system to be there, we free up the capacity to feel more, and start to experience life with exquisitely fine presence, awe and love.

Contact
Who: Jezebel
Phone: 415-261-2058
Email: mail@thelookingglassarts.com
Web: http://www.Sensual-Alchemy.com

Cost:

$20.00 - $35.00

Totality Therapy
Sexual Somatic Presencing

Introductory talk: 18 May 7 - 10pm
Workshop: 26 & 27 May 2012
Shakti Mari Malan assisted by Aaron Swanson
Oakland, California

What is Totality Therapy?
Please read the full description of this method on the website: www.totalitytherapy.com
Totality Therapy is a contemporary, streamlined interpretation of the ancient wisdom of Tantra. It was developed and is taught by Dr Shakti Mari Malan. Totality Therapy uses the method of total immersion in experience while evoking a strong witness presence within. Through experiencing primary polarities such as fear and desire, good and bad, masculine and feminine with intentional depth and thoroughness, we get to break through the polarized gridlocks of our existing ego structure.
Sexual Somatics Presencing
Sexual somatic presencing is the process of becoming deeply present in our bodies through the release and opening of what is held in our sexual energy. Our sexual energy is directly connected to our unconscious - to experiences in our collective or individual histories that are unresolved or suppressed. Sexual Somatics Presencing Training catalyses awareness of what is held in the sexual unconscious, and also provides skills and opportunities for the integration of unconscious materials. This work has a strong focus on nervous system repatterning. The weekend also provides training in developing deep presence in our embodied sexuality, at all times.

This weekend is an introduction to Sexual Somatic work, and will be followed by a Sexual Somatics Facilitators Training in California in May/June 2013.
Who is the course for?
Totality Therapy is for people who are serious about waking up - this lifetime. Awakening happens when we live in the full, embodied realization that there is no separate self and that we are essentially one with all of existence. Some traditions would call this the realization of our essential divinity. In Advaita, the awakened state is seen as that which exists beyond perceptions of duality. This course is suitable for any seeker/student, but is especially designed for practitioners/healers who would like to incorporate this method into their professional practice.
Video footage on Totality Therapy
click on the links
Shakti introducing Totality Therapy
short testimonial by a participant
Cost: $10 for talk. Workshop: $295 earlybird registration (before May 18), $349 regular registration
Registrations for all events

Links for registrations to all events can be found on http://sexualsomatics.com

Intimate Breath Paris June 24

noreply@blogger.com (Shakti) — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:07:00 +0000

Intimate Breath
a Tantric breath workshop for men and women
24 June 2012
with Shakti Mari Malan (Ph.D)

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.

Both Breathwork and Tantra poses this question: How much bliss can you stand? And as we explore this question experientially, we discover something fascinating: Our capacity to feel is our capacity to feel. The more we open to whatever feelings and sensations present themselves in this moment - the more we become willing to dive deep into what is here right now - the higher we can fly into the bliss of undivided presence.

On this workshop, you will discover how to:

breathe more deeply into the 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

follow the thread of the breath to its source

About Shakti Malan (Ph.D.)

Shakti is a dakini or teacher of the mysteries of Tantra. Shakti is based in Cape Town, South Africa but teaches and practices across the world. Her central approach is to enter the totality of experience as a gateway to awakening. For more on her work, see www.shakti.co.za and www.totalitytherapy.com

Shakti's purpose as dakini is to facilitate your awakening to the essence of who you really are, while remaining fully functional in your body. Many traditions of enlightenment view the body as that which is to be transcended. Tantra sees the body as a vehicle for awakening. The process of dropping through veils of illusion can be very impactful on our nervous system, and every aspect of our physical and energetic bodies. Because Shakti values the body as the vehicle through which you can share your awakening with the world, she aims to ensure that your energetic and physical bodies are fully prepared for the process of waking up. This requires totality of the seeker - the willingness to have every aspect of your energetic and physical reality be purified by the power of truth. As this happens, conversely, the body becomes capable of sensing and experiencing on increasingly subtle and refined levels. Thus, the physical vessel of the body becomes a suitable instrument to transmit the essence of the awakened state.

Shakti has 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. She spent many years translating the realities of vulnerable communities to decision makers in government, development organizations and corporates in the fields of poverty management, economic development and environmental management. Shakti’s training as dakini comes through the Advaita tradition and many years of immersion in meditation and conscious body practices.

Bookings with Kathy: katowlea@gmail.com
Cost: 100 Euro

noreply@blogger.com (Shakti) — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:58:00 +0000

Totality Therapy

Sexual Somatic Presencing
26 & 27 May 2012
Shakti Mari Malan assisted by Aaron Swanson
Oakland, California

What is Totality Therapy?

Please read the full description of this method on the website: www.totalitytherapy.com

Totality Therapy is a contemporary, streamlined interpretation of the ancient wisdom of Tantra. It was developed and is taught by Dr Shakti Mari Malan. Totality Therapy uses the method of total immersion in experience while evoking a strong witness presence within. Through experiencing primary polarities such as fear and desire, good and bad, masculine and feminine with intentional depth and thoroughness, we get to break through the polarized gridlocks of our existing ego structure.

Sexual Somatics Presencing

Sexual somatic presencing is the process of becoming deeply present in our bodies through the release and opening of what is held in our sexual energy. Our sexual energy is directly connected to our unconscious - to experiences in our collective or individual histories that are unresolved or suppressed. Sexual Somatics Presencing Training catalyses awareness of what is held in the sexual unconscious, and also provides skills and opportunities for the integration of unconscious materials. This work has a strong focus on nervous system repatterning. The weekend also provides training in developing deep presence in our embodied sexuality, at all times.

This weekend is an introduction to Sexual Somatic work, and will be followed by a Sexual Somatics Facilitators Training in California in May/June 2013.

Who is the course for?

Totality Therapy is for people who are serious about waking up - this lifetime. Awakening happens when we live in the full, embodied realization that there is no separate self and that we are essentially one with all of existence. Some traditions would call this the realization of our essential divinity. In Advaita, the awakened state is seen as that which exists beyond perceptions of duality. This course is suitable for any seeker/student, but is especially designed for practitioners/healers who would like to incorporate this method into their professional practice.

Video footage on Totality Therapy

click on the links

Shakti introducing Totality Therapy

short testimonial by a participant

Course times: 10 am - 6pm daily

Registration & Details

Click here to register: http://totalitytherapy.eventbrite.com/

$295 earlybird registration (before May 18)

$349 regular registration

noreply@blogger.com (Shakti) — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:31:00 +0000

Conscious BDSM: Sharpening the Blade

20 May 2012 2 - 5pm

The Looking Glass
Oakland, California

Workshop Focus:

Our erotic response is directly connected to the darkly delicious fertile soil of our unconscious. In my work with erotic genres such as BDSM, my aim is to uncover, welcome and integrate as much of the forgotten self into your conscious energetic being as possible. Every time this happens, something in our existing ego structures shatter - and we wake up more to the truth of who we really are, as embodied souls.

BDSM as a field of erotic exploration lends itself to profound transformation - if it is approached consciously, and with totality. Totality in this context means not holding back at all in exploring the depth of feelings that is held in the erotic. Such feelings are most often mixed, particularly when there is a desire for domination or submission: the erotic response increases significantly with the presence of seemingly opposite states of feeling present, such as shame, guilt, repulsion and pain. I will explore in this workshop the workings of these parallel, paradoxical states, and why it is important to feel it all.

Totality with BDSM requires a fine scalpel - keen perception from both the sub and the dom in identifying exactly what the desire-fear complex is, and how it is linked to the unconscious. This is not a theoretical exercise. It is felt in the body. So for instance, it is essential to be able to distinguish between eroticism to physical pain, power, mind-emotional complexes (such as guilt or disgust combined with arousal) or surrender. Without identifying the exact focus of the erotic charge, the work simply cannot be total, and cannot go all the way through. And identification means going all the way through - into the depths of the experience.

Finally, this talk will address ways of working with the nervous system responses that occur in the presence of intense sensation. I will address ways of using forms of domination to touch and unwind deep contractions in the nervous system. By creating space for the full experience of the nervous system to be there, we free up the capacity to feel more, and start to experience life with exquisitely fine presence, awe and love.

Contact

Who:	Jezebel
Phone:	415-261-2058
Email:	mail@thelookingglassarts.com
Web:	http://www.Sensual-Alchemy.com

Cost:

$20.00 - $35.00

Tantric Bliss in Morocco 17 - 23 April 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Shakti) — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:35:00 +0000

Tantric Bliss in Morocco
17 - 23 April 2012

Tantra

Tantra is a mystery tradition that uses sexual energy as a force for spiritual awakening. The question that Tantra asks of the seeker is: How much bliss can you stand? Your capacity for bliss increases as your capacity to feel everything else - every sensation and emotion - increases. Come join two experienced Tantrikas for an adventure in exploring your inner wildness - to expand your capacity for feeling all of life. This delightful inner journey will be seamlessly interwoven with an exploration of the outer landscapes of Morocco - land of magic and beauty.

Methods

We will spend four hours every day - two hours at the start of the day and two hours at the end for the day - gently immersing you in the delicious practices of Tantra. Specifically, these will involve
tantric solo and partner meditations using breath, sound and movement
tantric breathwork
introducing masculine and feminine sexual energy
techniques for deep opening and relaxation and
blissdance

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

About BlissDance

Bliss
is the balance that happens
When we fully embrace
Both our shadow and our light
And come to rest
In love

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. The dance is free and not stylized, though guided by me through the progression of a theme. I introduce the dance, show you how I interpret it, and then you find our own response.

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

One of the first principles of Tantra is presence – being present in the here and now, in your body, in your senses. Another is the connection between our passion, our sexuality and our hearts. Blissdance is a space where you can come rest into the simple beauty of moving in a body, with other bodies, in the dance of life.

As this happens, you get to experience and confront some of the patterns that keep us from being intimate with life:

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 that is laughter or ecstasy, sometimes that is sadness. fear or anger. All these states are welcome in the dance.

Associations: Over a lifetime of suppessions, 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.

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 drama's 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.

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.

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.

During this workshop we will spend 4 hours a day on practices of Tantra.

In leisure time you can enjoy tourists attractions in Essouira:

- Visit to the hammam (traditional steam bath)
- One-day jeep trip along the coast
- Visit the picturesque surroundings of Essaouira: camel, horse or quad bike.

There is an opportunity to stay on another five days for those who want explore this magical country.

Workshop Costs: 450 €/pps
- 400 €/pps if registration an payment until 9th March 2012

Booking deadline: 17th March 2012

Accommodation
Riad is located in the heart of Essaouira, just a few steps from the harbor and the beach. in the heart of the medina (old city), making it an ideal base to explore Essaouira.

Costs: 400 €/pps
The price includes:
- 6 nights accommodation with full board board: breakfast and dinner, transfer to (17th April) and from (23th April) the airport in Marrakech

Infos/Registration:
Maria Muskat
+48 782 148 813
mariamuskat@gmail.com

Limited number of participants

Essaouira - a former Portuguese fortress and now a beautiful fishing port which
have fascinated artists and surfers for years. Quiet small medina with its narrow, beautiful streets and the countless shops with local products. Impressive coastline. It creates an amazing fairy-tale atmosphere in the city.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwLRR6nAlQY&feature=youtu.be

Intimate Presence

noreply@blogger.com (Shakti) — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:29:00 +0000

INTIMATE PRESENCE

A Tantra Retreat

with Shakti Malan and Aaron Swanson

13 - 15 April 2012

Gecko Creek, Cederberg

Purpose

This retreat addresses the core desire to live in greater intimacy - intimacy with ourselves, our beloveds and the world. Intimacy is an expression of love, embodied. It is like a precious flower that opens in the light of pure presence.

On intimate presence

We live in a society where true intimacy is a rarity, and is feared rather than cultivated. The more we look outside for objects, persons or activities to fulfill us, the more we become estranged from ourselves. Our relationships become superficial. Through developing presence with ourselves, we can become intimate with others and with all of life.

Before developing presence, our attention tends to be diluted through projected needs and fears that leave us always unsatisfied and craving for more, or unconsciously avoiding the intimacy that is right here. On this workshop, we will introduce you to simple ways of building your capacity for presence with yourself, with a partner and with all of life.

When we bring conscious presence to the heart, it enables the heart to truly love. Without such presence, the energy of the heart gets dissipated by emotional undercurrents generated by the subconscious mind.

Through the senses

We will enter presence through the gateway of the senses, starting with increasing your ability to sense and savor your environment, your body and the presence of another. Then we move into a fine sensing of the inner spaces where love dwells, and where sexual energy becomes pure bliss. The way we habitually use the senses causes alienation and separation. But the very same senses can take us into the heart of intimacy, where life becomes a boundary less field of wonder.

What can you expect?

somatic/ body oriented awareness practices
bliss dance, a movement system that opens us to bliss by releasing unconscious emotional blockages held in the body
partner meditations
discussions on the Tantric approach to lovemaking

Who is the retreat for?

This retreat is suitable for beginners in Tantric practice, but will also bring invaluable new dimensions to those who have been doing work with me. The work is as suited to couples as to people coming on their own. What is required is a sincere interest in developing presence and real intimacy with life.

Cost and bookings

Every now and again I offer an event that is super affordable;this is such an event. Facilitation fee R1 800 pp, excluding meals (which we share amongst us) and accommodation according to your choice, from R270 to R110 pppn sharing).

Bookings with Ahrian: ahriangaia@gmail.com

The facilitators

About Shakti Malan (Ph.D)

Shakti is a dakini or teacher of the mysteries of Tantra and member of the Advait Tantraschool (tantraschool.co.za). Shakti is based in Cape Town, South Africa but teaches and practices across the world. 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 www.shakti.co.za and www.totalitytherapy.com

Shakti's purpose as Tantric dakini is to facilitate your awakening to the essence of who you really are, while remaining fully functional in your body. Many traditions of enlightenment view the body as that which is to be transcended. Tantra sees the body as a vehicle for awakening. The process of dropping through veils of illusion can be very impactful on our nervous system, and every aspect of our physical and energetic bodies. Because Shakti values the body as the vehicle through which you can share your awakening with the world, she aims to ensure that your energetic and physical bodies are fully prepared for the process of waking up. This requires totality of the seeker - the willingness to have every aspect of your energetic and physical reality be purified by the power of truth. As this happens, conversely, the body becomes capable of sensing and experiencing on increasingly subtle and refined levels. Thus, the physical vessel of the body becomes a suitable instrument to transmit the essence of the awakened state. Shakti has 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. She spent many years translating the realities of vulnerable communities to decision makers in government, development organizations and corporates in the fields of poverty management, economic development and environmental management. Shakti’s training as dakini comes through the Advaita tradition and many years of immersion in meditation and conscious body practices.

About Aaron Swanson

From his early twenties, Aaron's life has been immersed in the study of Tantra and meditation. He has worked with the Tantric teachings of Bernie Prior, Barry Long, Saniel Bonder and David Deida, as well as Ipsalu Tantra, the intimacy practices of the Realization Process created by Judith Blackstone and the Womb Wisdom work of Padma Aon, exploring specifically these aspects of Tantric practice: Resting in Non Dual stillness, being present as Awareness fully in the body, conducting energy or Shakti throughout the body, and opening the heart and body fully to the mystery of Woman.

Aaron's exploration of consciousness and meditation practices has been through the work of masters such as Anadi, Adyashanti, John DeRuiter and Leslie Temple Thurston, through whose work he has discovered the ever deepening awakening of Pure Awareness beyond Form and its continuing clarification and evolution in the marriage of Spirit and Form within the Non Dual Ground of Being.

Aaron believes that Tantra is a path to embodied wholeness where we have the opportunity to bring the light of Pure Awareness and Divine Love deep into the body where all shadows and incongruencies in ones being must be faced with both the impeccable dedication of Spiritual Warriorship and the Heart of a sensitive Lover. Through the meeting of the Masculine and Feminine we have the opportunity to realize God in the Forms of the World, and support the evolution of our precious World into higher forms of development. It is a path of utter care and devotion that lovingly requires everything.

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.

Water Rebirthing and Waterbliss

noreply@blogger.com (Shakti) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:00:00 +0000

Water Rebirthing and WaterBliss

with Dan Brule and Shakti Malan

4 - 7 May 2012, Bot River

Warm water rebirthing  

Warm water rebirthing is an exploration of rebirthing in warm water. Dan says about this modality:

"After some preparation and processing, you will find yourself floating in warm water, using the connected breathing rhythm while being lovingly supported by two people. The process accesses "womb consciousness" and awakens unity consciousness, restoring direct conscious connection to Source, Essence...  Water rebirthing facilitators accessing memories of being in the womb and the world (sometimes past lives) that we took on as pure innocent open beings... reviewing programs that were downloaded directly into the subconscious mind... recognizing that these early impressions control and limit us from the unconscious level... realizing that what our mother thought and felt, feared and believed, dreamed and desired... these were taken on as "ours"...  The process facilitates the remembering or these early primal impressions and events, re-living them and  re-programming them to empower and liberate us... to more fully embody our divine nature and more fully express our purpose and ultimate potential...  Waterbliss

Waterbliss is an expression of BlissDance, a movement and expression space created by Shakti for the embodied exploration of Tantric principles. WaterBliss takes place in warm water and enhances two elements of BlissDance: the ecstatic playfulness of letting joy be felt in the body, and the deep letting go that the water element facilitates."

Waterbliss

Waterbliss is a dance and movement modality that is about

▪ exploring weight and suspension

▪ trusting and letting go while being held in the collective womb of humanity represented by the group

▪ exploring and finding freedom in movement assisted by your fellow dancers and the effect of the water on suspension of gravity

▪ embodying dolphin energy - the deeply intelligent playfulness of the soul set free from the weight of our stories and identifications

▪ experiencing what it is like to live in a different element - to be surrounded by water rather than air

▪ shapeshifting - the water element supports you in experiencing the shape of your body differently

▪ liquidity and fluidity

▪ the oceanic experience of boundless oneness with all of existence

▪ dissolving body armoring - the historical emotional protections that keep us from feeling

▪ developing kinesthetic intelligence and surrendering into presence

▪ resting in pure love, a deep purification of your being, and a return to innocence

For more information about Dan Brulé visit www.breathmastery.com.

For more information about Shakti Malan visit www.totalitytherapy.com

Cost: R4 500 pp sharing, includes meals and accommodation.

Bookings: Book with Rhianne van der Linde: Rhiannevdl@gmail.com

noreply@blogger.com (Shakti) — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:50:00 +0000

Man and Woman Awake
Tantra Intensive Retreat
with Shakti Malan and Aaron Swanson
21 (public holiday) - 25 March 2012
Illovo, KZN

This Retreat

The meeting and merging of masculine and feminine is a primary objective of Tantric practice. In human evolution, the year 2012 signals the time when the inner marriage between masculine and feminine becomes more available to us - and the imperative is strong for us to use the opportunity. When masculine and feminine merge, we awake to the truth of who we really are - the Beloved as such. On the way there, it is important for Man to open to fully embodying the Masculine, and for Woman to embody the Feminine. Once this has happened, we can open to the other, and start dancing with the Soulmate Within.

The feminine, as represented in Tantra by Shakti, is not afraid of the dark underworld. She creates the world of illusions. She is comfortable exploring and integrating what is in the unconscious. She explores dark eros and finds the gifts in those corners of existence that have been shunned. She smells, drinks, feels, hears, tastes. She receives the mystery and opens to that which is beyond the known.

The masculine, as represented in Tantra by Shiva, holds one pointed focus and stillness. Shiva sits in deep meditation on Mount Khailash, and is undisturbed by the movement of the elements around him. His quality is presence, and when he acts, he does so with skillful means. His attitude to the feminine is total love and devotion. He is the arrow that enters where the feminine guides and takes the energy upward towards transcendent oneness with all that is.

The Facilitators

You have an opportunity on this retreat to explore the dance of Man and Woman Awakening with two facilitators who have been exploring and living these qualities deeply in their personal Tantric practice.

Shakti is a dakini or teacher of the mysteries of Tantra and member of the Advait Tantraschool (tantraschool.co.za). Shakti is based in Cape Town, South Africa but teaches and practices across the world. 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 www.shakti.co.za and www.totalitytherapy.com

About Shakti Malan (Ph.D)

Shakti's purpose as Tantric dakini is to facilitate your awakening to the essence of who you really are, while remaining fully functional in your body. Many traditions of enlightenment view the body as that which is to be transcended. Tantra sees the body as a vehicle for awakening. The process of dropping through veils of illusion can be very impactful on our nervous system, and every aspect of our physical and energetic bodies. Because Shakti values the body as the vehicle through which you can share your awakening with the world, she aims to ensure that your energetic and physical bodies are fully prepared for the process of waking up. This requires totality of the seeker - the willingness to have every aspect of your energetic and physical reality be purified by the power of truth. As this happens, conversely, the body becomes capable of sensing and experiencing on increasingly subtle and refined levels. Thus, the physical vessel of the body becomes a suitable instrument to transmit the essence of the awakened state.

Shakti has 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. She spent many years translating the realities of vulnerable communities to decision makers in government, development organizations and corporates in the fields of poverty management, economic development and environmental management. Shakti’s training as dakini comes through the Advaita tradition and many years of immersion in meditation and conscious body practices.

About Aaron Swanson

Themes

On this retreat, we will explore the following themes:

The qualities of the awakened feminine and masculine
Awakened female and male sexuality
Practices for fully embodying the masculine and the feminine
Practices for the meeting of male and female
Connecting sex and soul in Tantric lovemaking
Exploring both unconscious and conscious aspects of our sexuality

Methods

The methods we will use are:

body awareness and sensitizing techniques
immersion in deep Tantric meditation
active meditations
blissdance, a tantric free movement form developed by Shakti
enactments and roleplay
guided conversations

Who is the retreat for?

This retreat is suitable for all sincere seekers of truth of any gender or orientation, single or partnered. You do not need a partner to attend.

The venue: Chubby's Bush Camp, Illovo KZN

Chubby's Bush Camp offers guests the ultimate intimate, relaxing bush experience. it is located in a Malaria free environment and easily accessible from both Durban and Pietermaritzburg on good tar roads.

Cost and bookings

Cost: R4 400 includes facilitation and meals
Bookings: Book with Pieta Erasmus: peeb@iafrica.com. Book soon as places are limited.
Full payment to be made into the following account:

Dr. S. Malan

Standard Bank current account

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

Account number: 073152811

noreply@blogger.com (Shakti) — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 09:03:00 +0000

Awakening Female Sexual Energy
A workshop for women
5 December 11 am - 5pm
Fish Hoek, Cape Town

Dakinis Wendy and Shakti
with a guest appearance by Rahasya
tantraschool.co.za

Women's sexual energy is a potent force for spiritual awakening. Patriarchy has left women feeling disconnected from our sexual essence and the beauty of our desire. It is time for us to embrace the power of our sexuality, and to reconnect our sexuality with our spiritual essence. This day offers women an opportunity to undertake this journey under the guidance of two Dakinis - women whose sexuality has been awakened and who teach the mysteries of Tantra. Some themes we will address are:

understanding and experiencing the unique nature of female sexual energy
noticing and clearing blocks in the energy system to enable awakened sexual flow
sexual self loving as passionate meditation
skydancing - waking up women's sexual energy, or kundalini, and guiding that energy
women's sexuality as guide into the mystery

Methods:
breathwork
dialogue
inquiry
subtle movement
dance

No nakedness is required. All sincere seekers of truth are welcome.

Cost: R500
Bookings with Shakti: shakti@shakti.co.za. Book soon as places are limited.

Tantric Dolphin Retreat March 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Shakti) — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:54:00 +0000

www.halogaia.com

Year Schedule

Waking up to Bliss

A Wild Dolphin Retreat with Shakti Malan and Courtney Ward

Thursday 1st - Sunday 4th March 2012

The year 2012 is a time of celebration for those of us who have chosen to dedicate our lives to waking up spiritually. We have been working hard at clearing, and now it is time to surrender into Bliss. Come drop into the joyful support of the dolphins, and open to what they have to share through the wise practices of Tantra. Tantra is an ancient mystery tradition that focuses on awakening, this lifetime, through total immersion in presence in every aspect of our lives, including our sexuality. On this retreat you will • Experience the dropping of body armoring so that you can open to the bliss of this moment • Learn to use the breath as an instrument of deep pleasure and bliss • Come home into your own blissful, sexually ecstatic body • Open to the flow of awakened life force, or kundalini, in your life
*Your facilitators:*
Shakti	Shakti is a Tantra teacher or dakini and member of the Advait Tantraschool (tantraschool.co.za). She does sessions, workshops, courses and retreats in South Africa and across the world. 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 www.shakti.co.za and www.totalitytherapy.com Shakti is well loved as a group work facilitator because of her ability to sense and respond to the spirit of the group. This skill comes from her academic training (Ph.D. in Social Anthropology), her immersion in shamanic psychology (specifically process work psychology) and the somatic/kinaesthetic awareness she has developed as a dakini. Shakti developed a dance form called BlissDance which she uses in her teaching. The awakening of Spirit in the Body in her work happens as we release body armoring and become more and more aware of subtle sensory experience. In her personal journey, Shakti has been profoundly affected by the dolphins, and she works in deep resonance with them.
Courtney Ward	Courtney Ward ‘Essentially a performer in the great arts of the divine’, Courtney is a talented artist, actor and musician. She is especially gifted in her spontaneous ability to apply her artistic gifts and musical talents in a group dynamic in aid of personal transformation and creativity. Courtney has been exploring the powerful use of sound vibration healing for the past 15 years. It has taken her on a journey of shamanic sound discovery that lies within the seed core of us all. For the past 11 years, Courtney has worked intensively with a pod of 200+ dolphins in Southern Mozambique as Halo Gaia’s owner and leading Dolphin Swim Facilitator. Through her intimate relations with the dolphins, her love of people and her exceptional musical skills, Courtney offers an extraordinary Dolphin Swim program. Her playful and spontaneous joy magnetically inspires and enthuse those around her. Please visit www.halogaia.com/dolphinangel.htm for more details..
R4 500.00 Per person sharing Single supplements apply for tent alone Extra nights optional at R200.00 p/p/s

Includes:

4x4 Transfers from the border to camp
Three nights accommodation in safari tents on wooden decking, with mattresses and linen
Communal kitchen and bathroom facilities
Snorkelling course , Code-of-conduct, Boat safety and sharing of delightful Dolphin stories
Three conscious and Respectful Dolphin swims facilitated by Courtney Ward
Shakti`s facilitated program
Sound Journey and Drumming with Courtney
Private gathering space for activities beautifully decorated with lanterns, mats and cushions
Emailed Photographs of your ocean experiences

Excludes:

Transport to the Mozambique border
Parking at the border at R40 per day
All meals; There is a restaurant to enjoy meals out & a self-catering facility available
All Drinks … please bring a 5L water per person
Snorkeling equipment @ R75 per day
Visa (ONLY for non-South African passport holders)

FOR BOOKINGS & FURTHER ENQUIRIES CONTACT:
Halo Gaia Holistic Travel
Kate Ballenden Tel: +27 (0)11 447 8121 / Cell: +27 (0)82 307 0424 / info@halogaia.com

Halo Gaia Holistic Tourism legally operates all Dolphin Scenic Tours under the "Transporte Maritimo Commercial de Trafego local de Passageiros" license issued to Malongane for commercialdolphin launches in Southern Mozambique

Tel: +27 (0)11 447 8121 Email: info@halogaia.com

www.halogaia.com

Year Schedule

Tel: +27 (0)11 447 8121 Email: info@halogaia.com

|| UNSUBSCRIBE ||

noreply@blogger.com (Shakti) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:36:00 +0000

Eros and Enlightenment
A Talk and Mini-Workshop
with Rahasya, Shakti and Wendy
Advait Tantraschool
Monday 5 December 7 - 11pm
Fish Hoek, Cape Town

Plato said: Eros leads to Gnosis (higher truth). Very few traditions in the world understand the mystery behind this statement. The Advait Tantraschool of South Africa has a unique way of working with Eroticism and fantasy as a gateway to Awakening of higher knowing. Eroticism and fantasy is directly linked to the unconscious - to that in us which is suppressed. That which is suppressed creates filters in our ability to be deeply present, in life and in love. By consciously exploring eros, we can integrate deeply unconscious aspects of our psyches, move through dualities that pull us out of alignment and come to rest in the truth of who we really are.

In this mini-workshop, we will explore

The nature of eroticism and fantasy
How to work with eroticism and fantasy
How to use eros as a gateway to awakening

The presenters

Rahasya

Rahasya Advait is the Director of the Advait Tantraschool (tantraschool.co.za and advaittantra.com).

He started his exploration of tantra and related teachings in 1983. Most of his practical training was from Osho’s community of tantra teachers. From 2002, since his own completion of the path, he has been teaching tantra. His primary work is to guide a few exceptional women to their flowering as Dakinis truly worthy of the title. He teaches groups and workshops, intensive retreats and in private individuals and couples sessions.

Wendy

"I am one of Rahasya's first students and have been initiated by him into the lineage of the Dakini. In Tibet, a female practitioner of Tantra is called a Dakini, a sky dancer. Skydancing is what happens when a woman's sexual energy starts to move up her body, through her heart and comes showering out the crown of her head .A Dakini is a woman who embodies the sacred power of female sexuality. This power has a peaceful side, a sense of stillness and silence in which nothing stirs and also a wrathful side which is fierce and annihilating in the service of truth".

Shakti

Shakti is a dakini or teacher of the mysteries of Tantra and member of the Advait Tantraschool (tantraschool.co.za). Shakti is based in Cape Town, South Africa but teaches and practices across the world. 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 www.shakti.co.za and www.totalitytherapy.com

Shakti's purpose as Tantric dakini is to facilitate your awakening to the essence of who you really are, while remaining fully functional in your body. Shakti has 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. She spent many years translating the realities of vulnerable communities to decision makers in government, development organizations and corporates in the fields of poverty management, economic development and environmental management. Shakti’s training as dakini comes through the Advaita tradition and many years of immersion in meditation and conscious body practices.

Bookings

Book with Shakti: shakti@shakti.co.za. Cost R400 pp. Further details upon registration. Limited space available.

Totality Therapy Talk 3 November Oakland, CA

noreply@blogger.com (Shakti) — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:04:00 +0000

Get total with your life
Get total with your sexuality

A mini-workshop with South Africa's Shakti Malan (Ph.D.)
on TOTALITY THERAPY
www.TotalityTherapy.com
Oakland, CA
3 November 2011
6.30pm - 10pm

Getting Total

"Totality Therapy" is for you if you want 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.

This event

This mini-workshop is an opportunity to get immersed in the wisdom of Totality Therapy. For those of you who have met Shakti before, it offers a space to engage with your experiences since and to get her input. The evening will be structured to also give a good introduction to those who are new to Shakti's work. At this event, Shakti will be giving details of the 14 month online training course which she will be starting in February/March 2012.

The elements of Totality Therapy are:

Lifting taboos and suppressions (facing fears) through

• Exploring your own sexual boundaries

• Touching cellular memories

2. Embracing fantasies and desires through

• Articulating fantasies and desires

• Experiencing what has been desired

3. Integrating polarities through

• Processing polarized ego states

• Developing a witness

4. Expanding heart capacity through

• Experiencing and venting emotions

• Opening the heart

5. Developing presence in the body through

• Breath awareness

• Sensory awareness

• Nervous system re-patterning

6. Male-female integration through

• Identifying the inner relationship

• Clearing external relationships

7. Meditation in the moment through

• Tantric meditation practice

• Sexual experience

About Shakti Malan (Ph.D.)

Shakti is a dakini and member of the Advait Tantraschool (tantraschool.co.za). Shakti is based in Cape Town, South Africa and teaches internationally. 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 www.shakti.co.za and www.totalitytherapy.com

Shakti is a woman who has always had a deep sense of calling, which she first 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 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.

You can pre-RSVP with Claire Rumore: clairerumore@yahoo.com Another email with specific location will be sent soon.

noreply@blogger.com (Shakti) — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 18:22:00 +0000

Emotional and Sexual Body De-armouring and Body Intelligence Development
18 - 20 November
Noordhoek, Cape Town

Shakti Malan and Andrew Barnes

Andrew Barnes is an Australian based sex coach and body worker who does beautiful work with sexual trauma release and emotional body de-armoring.
Together, Andrew and I can cook up a storm. These are the themes we have identified for this workshop:

Releasing holding patterns in the body
Releasing suppressed emotions relating to holding patterns
Completing the sympathetic and para-sympathetic nervous system response to trauma
De-constructing belief systems of the mind
Kinaesthetic experience of ones own body armouring that is associated to memory (dance, energy movement & bodywork)
Experiencing presence without armouring
Felt sense or body intelligence development (breath work)
Pineal gland activation
Physical cleansing with food

Times: 9am to 6pm daily
Cost: R3 500 includes lunch
Bookings and Inquiries: Annwen annwenmazetti@gmail.com

Totailty Therapy Training London

noreply@blogger.com (Shakti) — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 07:21:00 +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

noreply@blogger.com (Shakti) — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 12:58:00 +0000

Tantric Meditation Retreat

Lotus Garden Retreat Centre, Knysna
28 - 31 October

There are two levels of Tantric work in my practice; the aspects that focus on clearing and integrating the unconscious (such as erotic work) and the aspects that have to do with pure immersion in presence. Our sexual energy can take us to a deeply meditative presence if we are ready and open. This retreat focuses on the latter - the blissful meditation of Tantra.

Those of you who have known me for a while know that I have a deep love for the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra. This is a short delicious text inspired by Devi, who asks her beloved Shiva the deep questions of life. He answers by giving 112 meditations, which he presents as the summary of all meditations. Practicing any one of these meditations can be enough to take the meditator to full awakening. I have long had a dream of running a retreat just on these meditations - and the time has come.

So come join me for a long weekend of deep immersion on active meditations. These meditations capture the essence of Tantric meditation practice. Here are some examples:

10. " While being caressed, sweet princess, enter the caress as everlasting life".

16. "Blessed One, as senses are absorbed in the Heart, reach the center of the lotus".

57. " In moods of extreme desire be undisturbed".

Who is this retreat for?

This retreat is suitable for all sincere seekers of truth. You can come on your own or as a couple.

The venue

The Osho Neo Monastery is a unique forest venue constructed and managed by people who glow with the light of awareness. Accommodation is provided in A-frame wooden huts lovingly made by the owner. The gathering hall rises up out of the forest and opens up to it on all sides. This is a back-to-nature weekend, the best way to get back into our natural sexuality - with manually heated showers, candles and fires. Food is vegetarian and always exquisite.

Cost and bookings

Cost, including meals and accommodation, is R3 100 pp.
Book with Shakti: shakti@shakti.co.za
Book if you are interested; the venue is cozy and small.

noreply@blogger.com (Shakti) — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:28:00 +0000

Breathwork & Tantra Retreat

Diving Deep - Flying High

Dan Brulé & Shakti Malan

7 - 9/11 October 2011
Bodhi Khaya, Stanford

Both Breathwork and Tantra poses this question: How much bliss can you stand? And as we explore this question experientially, we discover something fascinating: Our capacity to feel is our capacity to feel. The more we open to whatever feelings and sensations present themselves in this moment - the more we become willing to dive deep into what is here right now - the higher we can fly into the bliss of undivided presence. We will be using these two threads (tantra and breathwork) to more freely express our essential nature and to more fully embody our higher self.

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

We have prepared four delicious days at Bhodi Khaya - a sanctuary in the spectacular Overberg region of the Western Cape, only a 2 hour drive out of Cape Town, for you to come and immerse yourself in the beauty and perfection of your own being.

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 the 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

follow the thread of the breath to its source

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 out and measure it - it would fill one side of a tennis court! That 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!

"The breath is like a thread... and you can follow that thread to your source."

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 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.

We 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?

For more information about Dan Brulé visit www.breathmastery.com.

For more information about Shakti Malan visit www.totalitytherapy.com

Cost
Facilitation Fee is R4500

Food - 3 x fully catered vegetarian meals per day - R480
Accommodation between R600 & R1200 depending on sharing option selected

Weekend only option: R2 800 facilitation fee
Venue
Bodhi Khaya Retreat
www.bodhi-khaya.co.za

Dates
7 - 10th October 2011

Bookings
For bookings and all enquiries, contact Rhianne on 0836791297 or rhiannevdl@gmail.com

noreply@blogger.com (Shakti) — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 07:05:00 +0000

The Rippling Blue Flame

Introducing the Yoga of Advait Tantra
Santa Cruz
June 30
8.15 - 10.3pm
Divinitree Art Studio
www.divinitree.com

"At the start of lovemaking
Stay with the fires in the beginning
And in so doing
Avoid the embers at the end"

- Shiva in the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra

This talk is an introduction to some of the basic principles of Tantric Yoga. Tantric Yoga is a path to spiritual liberation that employs yogic understandings of the subtle body to all areas of life, including our sexuality. The focus in this workshop will be on the yogic approach to cultivating sexual fire.

Our sexual energy, when it is uncultivated, comes out as a red flame that burns with the excitement of genital orgasm, but the flame also dies with orgasm. But it is possible to cultivate this flame through awareness. Then it becomes a rippling blue flame that courses through your whole body and over your skin. This experience is what I call kundalini orgasm, the subtle but continuous awakening of your vital life force.

Some themes that will be addressed in this talk are:

how to open the flow of sexual energy
creating a connection between heart and sex
the subtle energy flows of sexual energy up the body
what is kundalini orgasm and how it awakens

how to cultivate sexual energy using

subtle movement,
relaxation,
breath and
awareness

About Shakti Malan (Ph.D.)

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 www.shakti.co.za and www.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.

Shakti in California June 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Shakti) — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:16:00 +0000

Dear friends,

I am visiting California this year June - July and look forward to seeing you during that time. My full programme can be found on erotic-spirituality.com. You will see that I have several shorter events - some for free or at minimal cost. I am also available for private sessions on specific days. My time in California culminates in a three day Totality Therapy Training programme for practitioners and serious students of consciousness. Here is a summary of what is available. Follow the links below for more details and to register.

The Subtle Energy of Eros

Oakland; 6/18/11

3.30 - 6 pm (- FREE !)

Eros (our erotic impulse) is a guide to Gnosis (deeper wisdom or realization), said Plato. This talk and mini-workshop is an exploration of:

* what eros and how it is accessed with awareness
* how awakened eros functions to integrate unconscious material and
* how eros catalyzes the subtle energetics of the body.

RSVP by sending an email to Claire@SoulFireLife.com

Conscious BDSM

Sunday June 19 2pm-5pm The Looking Glass Oakland
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/179121

Location: The Looking Glass This event is for those who are interested in the awakening of consciousness through sexuality, and especially for healers and facilitators working with sexuality or in related fields. Using case studies from her practice and drawing on the experiences of participants, Shakti explains aspects of the body’s sexual bio-energetics.

Our existing ego structure - that which binds us to the perception of who we think we are - consists of polarities. Freedom comes through integrating these polarities. One extreme, but highly effective way of catalyzing this integration is through full immersion in one or the other side of a polarity.

Sky Dancing for Women

June 20 / 10am-6pm / Oakland (RSVP required) Cost $160
http://womenskydancing.eventbrite.com/

Skydancing is what happens when a woman drops into the full bliss of her sexual womanhood. Women's sexuality is a powerful gateway to liberation, and yet on that is not much understood in our world. Our sexuality has been conditioned to be masculine rather than feminine. Not that men want it so. In fact, man's deepest yearning is for woman to step into the fullness of her feminine sexuality.

Skydancing is an essential expression of the wild woman in all of us. When our energy is freed up, it awakens in the yoni (vagina) and spirals up through the body, taking us into an ecstatic dance of letting-go. This teaching from woman to woman takes some doing in our current western mindset. Women have been brought up to believe that most or all of their sexual expression is wrong and must only be presented in an acceptable way according to the culture.

The purpose of this workshop is to guide women into the opening, release and receptivity that turns our sexuality into a force of awakening. Some themes that may be covered in this workshop (depending on the requirements of the group):

* Awakening sexual energy
* Opening to desire
* Directing sexual energy
* The essential qualities of the feminine
* Sexuality, belonging and relationships
* Virgin, whore, women’s union
* Listening to yoni
* Connecting heart and sex

The methods we use are breathwork, subtle movement, dancing, conversation and enactment. As this energy is very alive in my body, I am able to transmit it to the women in the group. This transmission is one of the key methods that makes this workshop so powerful.

No nakedness is required and no direct sexual contact with others. It is entirely possible to wake up the beauty and power of your own sexuality through dropping into the bliss of your own experience - which is what we will be doing on this workshop.

BLISS DANCE

Monday June 20th (Oakland) and Friday June 24th (Fairfax) / 7pm-10pm / $10 advance, $15 at door

http://blissdanceoakland.eventbrite.com/
http://blissdance.eventbrite.com/

About BlissDance

Bliss
is the balance that happens
When we fully embrace
Both our shadow and our light
And come to rest
In love

something opens up
I taste only sacredness

BELOVED: a Tantric workshop on The Reality of Love and Relationship

Saturday June 25 10am-8pm
Open Secrets Bookstore San Rafael, Ca
http://belovedshakti.eventbrite.com/

Workshop objective

In our collective psyches the dream of finding the Soulmate moves strongly - that 'other' who will meet and fulfill me completely. And yes, there is a real soulmate for each one of us. But that person is inside. Inside ourselves we are both masculine and feminine. The lovers and loved ones that cross our paths are our mirrors for where we are in the inner relationship between male and female. They can also be a rich fulfillment - and embodiment - of our inner Soulmate.

The split between masculine and feminine in us is a primary polarity. A central aim of Tantra is the integration of this polarity. With that comes an experience of who you really are, in all your rich diversity. Paradoxically, as we embrace our inner Soulmate, a new fruitfulness becomes possible in our outer relationships.

Aims of meeting the Beloved within

It is possible to get intimately acquainted with your inner beloved. In this workshop we will do so through

Guided drum journey
Gestalt role-play
Breathwork and
BlissDance - awakening the senses within your own body

Tantric Orgasm: Building Sexual Energy

Sunday June 26th, 10am to 6pm Fairfax cost $95 to $125
http://tantricorgasm.eventbrite.com/

Orgasm - that great moment when we all let go into infinite space and into the warmth of the open heart. Sadly, for most men on the face of the earth, orgasm is a very short-lived affair, and for many women, an elusive experience. This workshop is an opportunity to radically change your perception of what orgasm is, and to open to a whole new relationship to it.

Through discussion, breathwork and movement, I will introduce you to Tantric orgasm: a full-body awakening of orgasmic energy rippling up through your body that takes you way beyond your limited perception of self. This experience, which is also known as kundalini orgasm, is like riding the waves of pleasure, and it can continue for 8 hours - or 3 days.

The question is: How much bliss can you stand?

This workshop is an introduction to the sexual meditation of Tantra. Tantric practitioners are interested in building sexual energy and supporting the flow of this energy through the whole body as a force for awakening and pure, blissful presence. The workshop will give you a taste of some of the basic techniques and approaches we use. Some themes to be covered:

Genital sex versus spiritual sex
Sex up the chakras
Techniques for raising sexual energy
Clearing blocks in the flow of sexual energy

Totality Therapy Facilitator's Training

17 - 19 July, Oakland

$295 in advance // $349 after July 1
http://totalitytherapytraining.eventbrite.com/

What is Totality Therapy?

Totality Therapy is a contemporary, streamlined interpretation of the ancient wisdom of Advait Tantra. Totality Therapy uses the method of total immersion in experience while evoking a strong witness. Through deeply experiencing primary polarities such as fear and desire, good and bad, masculine and feminine, you get to break through the polarized gridlocks of your existing ego structure. Totality Therapy are for people who are serious about waking up – this lifetime. This workshop is suitable for any seeker, but particularly also for practitioners who would like to be exposed to this method. For full details see totalitytherapy.com

How does it work?

Totality Therapy works as follows:

· The aim is greater awareness and presence, even if the road seems to go into unhappiness, disintegration and apparent madness.

· No expression of the person’s being is excluded – mental, emotional, physical, sexual, subtle energetic and spiritual facets are met directly as they present themselves.

· The practitioner is involved with her whole being while maintaining a state of heightened awareness. Thus no boundaries are needed and the client is encouraged to embody his/her life with totality.

Workshop aim

The aim of this workshop is to give you an experiential introduction to the seven basic methods of Totality Therapy:

1. Lifting taboos and suppressions (facing fears)
2. Embracing fantasies and desires
3. Integrating polarities
4. Expanding heart capacity
5. Developing presence in the body
6. Male-female integration
7. Meditation in the moment

Private sessions

Shakti is available for private sessions in Oakland:
(Sat) June 18: 10am - 4pm
(Tues-Thurs) June 21-23: 10am-6pm
(Thurs) July 14: 10am-6pm
(Mon) July 18: 10am - 6pm

Shakti is available for private sessions in Fairfax, Ca:
(Fri) June 24: 10am-4pm

About Shakti Malan (Ph.D.)

noreply@blogger.com (Shakti) — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 07:40:00 +0000

Erotic and Beyond
Tantra Foundation Course
Eight evenings September - November 2011
7 - 11pm Fish Hoek Cape Town

Course objective

This course is a first and powerful step towards the freedom that Tantra offers as a practice. It requires of you to embrace both your fears and your desires in the realm of the erotic, and to feel the feelings that emerge from here. You will be taught techniques to process the emotional and mental patters that arise from the practice. The course can offer powerful release and healing from old experiences and expectations around sexuality. Expert facilitation will ensure that the course meets each individual where they are at.

This course is a prerequisite for the level 3 Tantra course that will follow after Erotic and Beyond; see below.

Aims of the Tantra Foundation Course

Aim 1: Lifting taboos and suppression

In the days when Tantra was only practiced as a secret mystery tradition, one of the first steps that a new initiate had to take was to break their cultural taboos. If you were raised a Jain Hindu, you would be asked to eat meat and drink alcohol – both of which are highly taboo in that culture. Breaking your personal or cultural taboos asks of you to face your biggest fears. In this course, we will engage our personal and collective taboos in a fun but challenging way.

Suppressions are all experiences that have become unconscious in you. Most often, these were experiences that were unpleasant or frightening to you in the past – emotionally, physically or spiritually. What we are not able or willing to feel completely in the moment, becomes trapped in the body as unconscious patterns that influence everything – especially our sexuality. We will work gently at touching these places and allowing full consciousness to return.

Aim 2: Embracing fantasies and desires

By paying attention to what you desires and fantasies are, you can integrate unconscious or hidden aspects of your being. Whereas lifting taboos and suppressions is about facing your fears, this aim is about saying yes to your desires. One of our dictums in Tantra is: How much bliss can you stand? Since many of us have been raised in traditions of religious austerity, it takes some individuation to embrace pleasure as a gateway to higher understanding.

We will encourage this individuation by exploring your fantasies and desires and giving space for them to be expressed in appropriate ways.

Aim 3: Integrating polarities

One main reason why we stay stuck in limited beliefs about ourselves is that our ego structures are bound up in polarity. Polarities split experience into opposites – what is desired and what is feared, what attracts us and what we are repulsed by, what we see as good and what as evil. These polarities are mostly unconscious in us, and as with fears and desires, they govern and direct our lives.

To go deeper in awareness of who we really are, it is important to find ways of processing these polarities. On this course, you will be taught tools to identify and integrate the polarities that limit your sense of yourself. In the process, you will develop a witness – the ability to observe the story of your life without taking it so seriously.

Who is the course for?

This course for people who are on a committed quest for greater awareness and presence in their lives, and who want to include their sexuality in this journey. Some previous introductory work with me is recommended. You are also welcome to do the course a second time as most certainly new material will be revealed to you. Please note that place is limited to ten participants, so book soon.

Feedback from participants on previous Erotic and Beyond course

"The Erotic and Beyond Workshop was maximum growth over a short period of time...Shakti is an incredible facilitator...I felt extremely held and supported...her insight is invaluable and so accurate...I would highly recommend trusting the process."

"I don't think anything in adult life has shaken me up more than this course. It forced me to look at stuff that had lived under the carpet for much of my post -pubescent life (and even some stuff from before, if the truth be told).The ongoing effects are still bubbling up in the form of realisations (both minor and major), that are changing and stabilising the way I act, think and feel.That's the serious bit: on the other hand it was more fun than is normally legal...

Be brave: do it!"

"I had an opportunity to recover and experience previously incompletely felt feelings at the core of my life. In the space Shakti creates, of loving awareness and acceptance, I felt it possible to embrace these feelings, feel them fully without shirking from them, and love them back into my whole life, warming them with the fire of my presence, and letting them melt away, leaving me stronger and open and clear. Before the course, difficult feelings would often block me and make me withdraw. Now I sense a greater capacity for feeling, for being with difficult feelings, of experiencing them fully and moving beyond them into new possibilities."

Course fee: R2 800

Bookings and inquiries: Shakti@shakti.co.za

noreply@blogger.com (Shakti) — Tue, 31 May 2011 22:52:00 +0000

Tantric Training:
Into the Depths

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

Tantra Intensive
13 - 16 December 211

Into the Depths is 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

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

Cost

Facilitation fee for Tantra Training: R5 500 if paid fully before 15 November
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. Book early to avoid disappointment. The training will be limited to 18 participants.

noreply@blogger.com (Shakti) — Sun, 15 May 2011 06:21:00 +0000

Skydancing for Women

18 June 2011 10 am - 10 pm
Oakland, San Francisco

Skydancing is a essential expression of the wild woman in all of us. This teaching from woman to woman takes some doing in our current western mindset. Women have been brought up to believe that most or all of their sexual expression is wrong and must only be presented in an acceptable way according to the culture. Skydancing is a return to our authentic sexual power as women. Energetically, it is what happens when a woman's sexual energy starts to move up her body, though her heart and comes showering out the crown of her head. The whole body goes into an exquisite dance that happens in receptivity and relaxation. The purpose of this workshop is to guide women into the opening, release and receptivity that turns our sexuality into a force of awakening. Some themes that may covered in this workshop (depending on the requirements of the group):

Awakening sexual energy
Opening to desire
Directing sexual energy
The essential qualities of the feminine
Sexuality, belonging and relationships
Virgin, whore, women’s union
Listening to yoni
Connecting heart and sex

The methods we use are breathwork, subtle movement, dancing, conversation and enactment.

Cost: $160
Book with Claire: Claire@Soullifefire.com

Shakti's Tantra Events

Shakti's international teaching schedule May - June 2012

Cape Town launch of Sexual Awakening for Women

Intimate Presence talk London

Intimate Presence:

A Talk on Deep Meeting in Love and Sex

Conscious BDSM: Sharpening the Blade

20 May 2012 2 - 5pm

The Looking Glass

Oakland, California

Intimate Breath Paris June 24

Conscious BDSM: Sharpening the Blade

20 May 2012 2 - 5pm

The Looking GlassOakland, California

Tantric Bliss in Morocco 17 - 23 April 2012

Intimate Presence

Water Rebirthing and Waterbliss

Tantric Dolphin Retreat March 2012

Totality Therapy Talk 3 November Oakland, CA

Get total with your lifeGet total with your sexuality

This event

About Shakti Malan (Ph.D.)

Totailty Therapy Training London

About Shakti Malan (Ph.D.)

Shakti in California June 2011

The Subtle Energy of Eros

Oakland; 6/18/11

3.30 - 6 pm (- FREE !)

Conscious BDSM

Sky Dancing for Women

BLISS DANCE

Monday June 20th (Oakland) and Friday June 24th (Fairfax) / 7pm-10pm / $10 advance, $15 at door

BELOVED: a Tantric workshop on The Reality of Love and Relationship

Tantric Orgasm: Building Sexual Energy

Totality Therapy Facilitator's Training

About Shakti Malan (Ph.D.)

Skydancing for Women

The Looking Glass
Oakland, California

Get total with your life
Get total with your sexuality