Stage 1 in the Netherlands
August 12-19, 2026. Kasteel de Berckt, Netherlands
Stage 1 / The Initiation
This first stage is called “Initiation” because if you choose this then all your experiences up til now have led you to this point and you are obviously ready to step into a wider reality – in doing so you enter fresh and new, open to discovering more.
As you step into this journey you will encounter maps that help you understand the larger world and your place in it (this is beyond your imagination), tools which help you to play more fully in this world, embodied experiences which help you to anchor a new reality and finally ongoing resources which help to integrate and incorporate this into your life.
What is this Training?
Your Instructors
During this course you will be held by 3 of the Awaken as Love faculty (and a full team of assistants) – they each come from different backgrounds but all are inspired to facilitate the evolution of humanity.
Afke Reijenga
Instructor
Afke is the blueprint for authentic pleasure. She loves to play, flirt and seduce. Wherever she goes she creates a vortex of love, joy, truth and light. Afke is renowned for her vivid and joyful style of yoga. Praised for the way that she brings back sacred sexuality into society. She fuses joy, love and depth. Started her international career as a model, movie-star and muse. Meanwhile, she studied, Taoistic arts, healing love, sexual kung fu and jade egg practice, conscious breath, NLP and hypnosis.
Now works as a sacred sexuality coach, organises wild woman trainings and is a facilitator at yoga and tantra events. Afke loves to empower woman and men to find their own wildness and to guide them to more pleasure and self love. During the last year her work went more online, where she created quite a following and she has been teaching at major festivals like: ISTA, One World Tantra, Shadows and Light festival. Next to love and eros as a healing medicine, she loves to work with plant medicine as a way to connect to love and the divine. Check Afke on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/afkereijenga/
James Stevenson
Founder & Lead Instructor
James’s passion is to help call forth our human potential and our soul. His weave brings together more than 25 years of experience in techniques, practices, and information from the cutting edge of Neuroscience, Tantra, Biodanza, Shamanic & Energy Work, Integral theory, and Taoist practices to create a spirituality that is rooted in the body. His evolutionary approach is to work on all lines, levels, states, and parts of ourselves in bringing forth our fullest potential.
His work in meditation and tantra work draws on many different traditions and paths he has studied from Kashmir Shaivism, Baul mysticism, Advaita Vedanta, Vajrayana Buddhism, Integral systems, and Neo-tantra. His shamanic work includes being Vision Quest rites of passage guide, holding Sweatlodge Ceremonies as well as Sacred Cacao Rituals. He has been dancing Biodanza since 2003 and now works as a teacher and a didactic teacher (qualified to teach other teachers in Biodanza Schools). https://awakenaslove.com
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Taina Ixchel
Instructor
Taína Ixchel is a powerful catalyst for transformation, a Shamanic and Tantric Power Priestess who awakens authenticity and limitless possibility in every soul she meets. An International Teacher, Holistic Coach, and Awaken As Love Facilitator (awakenaslove.com), Taína is devoted to guiding individuals on profound journeys of self-discovery, inspiring them to deepen connections with themselves and others and live lives thriving with purpose and potential.
With a Master’s degree and over 18 years of practicing Tantra, Taína is guided by her experience as an International Tantra Teacher and certified Energetic Relationship Practitioner, Holistic Health and Wellness Coach, and Theta Healing Practitioner. Her initiation into esoteric teachings by an Enlightened Master affirmed her destiny: to “teach this Love.” In addition to teaching and mentoring around the world, Taína offers transformational life coaching virtually, fostering deep healing and empowering clients to claim their fullest selves.
www.PowerPriestess.com
Some of Areas Covered in this Training
- Tantric Bodywork
- Individual Partnered Tantra Meditations
- Archetypal Group Rituals
- Inner Masculine & Inner Feminine Aspects
- Character armour
- De-armouring
- Integral Maps
- The 4 Dimensions of Reality
- States of Consciousness
- Stages of Consciousness
- Lines of Development
- Typological Mapping
- Experience of Theory U
- Shadow & Spiritual Bypassing
- Gifts of the Wound
- Difference between Ego and Identity
- Identity & Regression
- Teachings of the 4 Shields
- Shamanic Medicine Walk
- Mindfullness and Heartfullness
- Satori Experiences
- Group Dynamics
Some of the areas covered in this Training
It is not necessary to already have an understanding of any of the areas mentioned below – you will be guided through each experience. This is simply for those who are curious about the content.
- Tantric Bodywork
- Individual Partnered Tantra Meditations
- Archetypal Group Rituals
- Inner Masculine & Inner Feminine Aspects
- Character armour
- De-armouring
- Integral Maps
- The 4 Dimensions of Reality
- States of Consciousness
- Stages of Consciousness
- Lines of Development
- Typological Mapping
- Experience of Theory U
- Shadow & Spiritual Bypassing
- Gifts of the Wound
- Difference between Ego and Identity
- Identity & Regression
- Teachings of the 4 Shields
- Shamanic Medicine Walk
- Mindfullness and Heartfullness
- Satori Experiences
- Group Dynamics
How can this advance me working in these areas?
There are a few ways in which this training will support you in your journey as a guide, teacher or practitioner. It is an accredited course from Awaken As Love – you will recieve a certificate on completion and you can state that you have completed this training on your personal biographies.
You will also be eligible to attend the next levels – Deepening & Radicalization to eventually become an Awaken as Love Facilitator.
In addition you will be gaining direct tools that you can then use in your own workshops and practices as well as a deeper understanding about how to work with groups – and meeting a larger international network of practitioners and teachers to create and stay in on-going connection. We routinely give opportunities to Awaken as Love graduates to be part of the festivals we create.
This training is designed to jump start your expansion into this level with the mission of helping that 10% to emerge.
So, do you feel some truth in this – is there some part of your body that says yes even if your mind doesn’t understand? If so then you are aligning to a mission of being an ambassador of planetary change – as an already existing teacher, guide or practitioner, or just one who hears the call.
The Venue
Practical Information
Dates
The training runs from the 12th – 19th August 2026.
Venue
Kasteel de berckt, De Berckt 1, 5991 PD Baarlo, Netherlands.
Ticket Price
Super-Earlybird price of just €1000, Normal price is €1300 – This does not include the Food & Accommodation, and the full price depends on the option you choose (see below).
• Special Offer •
Book both this Training and the Awaken as Love Tantra Festival together to get 10% discount off the training!
Choose your accommodation
No accommodation
€1500 Sale €1200 per person
For those staying nearby we have a ticket without accommodation but including 3 meals a day. Agreement is to arrive in morning in time.
Camping
€1780 Sale €1480 per person
Sleep out under the stars in your own tent in the beautiful landscapes of Kasteel de Berckt Bring your own camping gear & bedding with access to hot showers and toilets, wifi and 3 meals a day.
Camper Van/Motorhome
€1820 Sale €1520 per person
Sleep out under the stars in your own campervan on the beautiful landscapes of Kasteel de Berckt. Bring your own Campervan & bedding with access to hot showers and toilets, wifi and 3 meals a day.
Shared Room
€1850 Sale €1550 per person
Make life easy with an inside shared room in the Castle – shared with 2-3 others of the same gender in single beds, no need to bring anything, all bedding provided with access to hot showers and toilets, wifi and 3 meals a day.
Double Room
€2100 Sale €1800 per person
Make life easy with an inside double room in the Castle – shared with one others of the same gender in single beds, or as a couple in a King Bed – no need to bring anything, all bedding provided with access to hot showers and toilets, wifi and 3 meals a day.
Single Room
€2300 Sale €2000 per person
Make life easy with an inside room – take the last double room as a couple or 2 friends sharing, the price is for 2 tickets – these are our larger deluxe double rooms now. No need to bring anything, all bedding provided with access to hot showers and toilets, wifi and 3 meals a day.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created.
Albert Einstein
In fact it is not the next level of consciousness but the one after that which integrates the previous ones which will facilitate real change.
Awaken as Love Tantra Festival & Stage 1 in the Netherlands
Kasteel De Berckt, De Berckt 1, 5991 PD Baarlo, Netherlands