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October 11-13 2024

Dancing Shiva Tantra Monastery

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This is a two-year immersive Tantra training cohort for Women and Genderqueer AFAB folx*,  focused on strengthening our collective and personal capacities to cultivate our clarity, groundedness, access to agency, and embodied aliveness.  

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Starting October 2024, we will meet seasonally for 8 deep-dive weekend retreats, interspersed with a rhythm of group zoom check-ins and personal coaching sessions.  Dancing Shiva Tantra Monastery, outside of Asheville, NC, will be our cohort home-base and where the majority of our in-person retreats will take place. 

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Each of our seasonal explorations will be guided by a specific principle of Tantra, giving us time and space to integrate and develop a personal and group relationship with the teachings of each of these seven principles**.

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We will be exploring breath, meditation, self-connection practices, and rituals that support the integration of our spiritual aliveness and the embodiment of our magical selves into the mundane ordinariness of our daily lives. 

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Together we will be cultivating a culture that expands capacity for radical self-love, enhances an empowering relationship with pleasure, seeks balance and inner union of our Feminine and Masculine energies, and courts a nourishing transformational relationship to Source.

Join us to be part of a supportive community that sustains your soul.

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The length and consistent rhythm of this group container offers an opportunity to really sink into the practice, over time gaining deeper embodied awareness while supporting and witnessing one another’s transformative journey.

Amidst the climate of socio-economic, environmental, and political turmoil we are currently facing, we need each other and these skills more than ever.

 

*For Women & Genderqueer AFAB (Assigned Female at Birth):  If you identify as a woman, have been socialized as a girl/woman, are or have been a womb-carrier, you are welcome to join us. 

 

We are inviting curiosity and exploration around what it means to be socialized as a woman, the diverse experiences we hold, and what it means to explore who we are as distinct from who we have been told we are or should be.​

 

This Living Laboratory, facilitated by Julia Taylor and Mana Vermeulen-McLeod, will be informed by the 7 Principles of Tantra, Somatic Experiencing, and Pleasure Activism. 

 

**7 Principles of Tantra​

Swami Ravi Rudra Bharati

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Everything is an Experiment

As Within, So Without

Tapas and Spanda

Multiple Realities

Inner Marriage

Ascending and Descending energies

The Healing Power of Pleasure

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What to expect?

• 8 in-person weekend training retreats, occurring quarterly over two years; Each weekend will focus on exploring and developing our relationship to one of the 7 Principles of Tantra.

• 8 group check-in zoom meetings and 8 individual coaching/check-in sessions for each participant, in between each retreat to support your personal process and integration of the experience.

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