Tantra Workshops
A deep intimacy with the different aspects of your being
Tantra Workshops
During this festival there will be multiple tantra workshops per day with different levels of intimacy and depth to them.
You will be supported and catered for in your growth regardless whether you are arriving as couple wanting to deepen your connection or single and wishing to interact more with other participants. Self regulation and feedback are very much encouraged.
Very often the word “tantra” conjures up a range of ideas and myths that can make one a little nervous (or even put one off entirely) until you actually try it.
Main Principles
We’ve put together a little guide to help create more understanding and ease. Our teachers are very experienced and you can rest assured that you will be held in a safe space where your personal boundaries are respected, thus allowing you to experiment and stretch yourself knowing that you are in good hands.
What exactly is Tantra?
Tantra is a path for people wanting to know themselves, deepen awareness within themselves and celebrate all aspects of life. The word has been used to describe a wide range of practices and traditions from the Kashmir Shaivism and Buddhist Vajrayana to more new age practices that include psychotherapeutic approaches and bioenergetics. It has been translated variously as “the weave”, “method” or “technique”. The essence of the path is that it is not so concerned with philosophies about life as the direct experience of it, itself. It gives us methods to directly experience ourselves and actualize our potential. It is not so much a believer’s world but one of alchemy and a knowing that comes from living.
Polarity is a good thing
The interplay between the masculine and feminine is actually a good thing and gives the passion to life. By skilfully playing out these poles we can energise our practise with enough juice to transcend duality (our own limited point of view). If the polarity is neutralised then its like living with a dead battery. This is relevant as there are many spiritual systems which have actually encouraged us to dampen down our natural polarity, instincts and desires in order to find peace. It is very peaceful being a corpse! These polarities are sometimes represented by Deity’s such as Shiva and Shakti.
Tantra is Inclusive
No Effort?
Not necessarily, some of the techniques can be quite physical, or involve facing fears and becoming more present. It’s not always easy, but they all point you towards your natural self. Rather than trying to add something to you in order to make you “enlightened”, these methods strip away the false ways of being with which we have imprisoned ourselves. Sometimes this can leave us a little shaky as we are accustomed to the comfort of our beliefs – ultimately, however, they leads to a more deeply satisfying and engage way of living.
So is it all about sex?
The act of lovemaking in all its facets (quiet breathing and passionate ravishing of the other) is included in tantra but it is certainly not limited to that! In the classic text the Vigayn Birav Tantra there are 112 methods for awakening, and only 6 of these are directly related to the sexual act.
Having said all that, life is deeply sexual. The whole energy of life can be seen as sexual energy, of creativity, as the interplay of consciouness and love, the dance of masculine and feminine energies. When we expand the limited concepts of sexuality to include all of the interplay of life within that, then we can state that tantra is about “awakening through sexuality”.
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Awaken as Love Tantra Festival & Stage 1 in the Netherlands
Kasteel De Berckt, De Berckt 1, 5991 PD Baarlo, Netherlands