The Love & Ecstasy Training: An Intensive Course in SkyDancing Tantra
Review of Cycle 1: The Body Ecstatic & Sexual Healing
From Diego W., a passionate, professional actor and body worker who completed Cycle 1 in May 2008, from an e-mail to his friends:
As I just returned from my "Love & Ecstasy Training" at Harbin Hot Springs, my body, mind and spirit are still in the process of absorbing the enormous gifts I received during the past week that I can hardly think clearly yet about the mundane issues in life let alone formulate normal coherent sentences... I'm sure this will come back to normal within just but a few days...
This workshop was very different from my experience last year of a weekend workshop at the Tantra Center in Berlin - not only due to the fact that it was three times longer and therefore much richer in it's offerings through the slow and steady build-up of the practices... What I lived this week has touched me deeply on many levels and I have a new appreciation for the spiritual aspect of Tantra which helps elevate the experiences practically to a level of divine sacredness...
I am especially amazed by the fact that it was possible to create such profound levels of intimacy during the various workshop rituals, ceremonies and assignments even with complete strangers - more amazing of course the experience of observing the intense transformations (also within myself) I witnessed in couples and individuals throughout the week...
I feel so blessed that I myself had the opportunity of receiving potent healing on many levels while becoming a member of this tantric family which by the way is composed of a bunch of very lovely "normal" individuals and couples who have surely changed me and my life forever. It impressed me that the people who showed up were literally from all walks of life: doctors, lawyers, artists, therapists, body workers, CEOs, accountants, contractors, designers... which shows me clearly: I am not alone in the journey of discovery to help make life a better experience...
Also contributing to the richness of the experiences were the surroundings of Harbin Hot Springs - a serene setting in nature, forests and the pools to soak in, watsu-dance and meditate in... varying in temperatures from natural hot springs accessible 24 hours a day (coed and swim wear was optional) which created a feeling of being sent into a different land and time zone.
This in addition to fabulous, healthy catered food and absolutely phenomenal workshop facilitators Steve and Lokita Carter who run the Institute for Ecstatic Living... Every day started with getting up at about 6am and hiking down to the hot pools, after an active one hour long morning meditation at 8am (Quantum Light Breath), breakfast, various exercises, circle sharing, group and partnered rituals and practices, lunch and deep healing sessions through various levels of touch until about 10pm/10:30pm - making every day a very fulfilling event.
It is clear to me that I will keep going back there and I look forward to integrating the experiences into my daily life with more ease... for continued personal growth and healing and to be able to pass this on to fellow human beings by naturally letting it gently flow into my work...
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