Workshops:
1. Dark Eros: transformation of fear, guilt, shame and anger
2. Master Lover Unity - the art of Tantra in intimate relationships
3. Shiva & Ecstatic Kali Dance – winning with the demons of fear and limiting beliefs to live your full potential
4. Master Lover – the art of Tantra Massage
5. Workshop on rules and boundaries during Festival
About the Facilitators
Tantra teacher and trainer with over 15 years of experience, life coach, body&breath worker. Certified facilitator of OSHO meditations, certified profesional tantra masseur. Conducting trainings on relationships and intimate communications, leading tantric workshops, women circles, OSHO meditations, practicing tantric massage therapy, and relationship coaching.
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Having walked on the shamanic path with medicinal plants for several years, she finds cacao as a potent and healing teacher, hence leading Cacao Ceremonies and Ecstatic Dance Evenings where she exercises her passion for shamanic meditation and ecstatic dancing.
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Workshops
1. Dark Eros: transformation of fear, guilt, shame and anger
Dark Eros is a term to describe sexuality which is connected with our first chakra rather than with the second; sexuality that arises from existential issues rather than from pure pleasure, love and contact. The existential themes, whether they are about power (over or under), about anger and revenge, about guilt and shame, or carry issues of self worth and empowerment, colour the sexual energy with a touch of darkness. This is because the issues are usually unconscious, or perhaps obsessive, or have an energy that threatens to break out of our conscious control. This is not the element of ego, of performance or narcissism, but more the dark visceral movements of energy deep in our gut.
This workshop shows how to heal and transform these existential issues through Tantric techniques of releasing and expressing energy, of raising consciousness, creating heartfullness and affirming the life-enhancing nature of pleasure.
The existential issues arise out of the repression of our sexual energy during the pre-genital stages, particularly oral and anal, of our sexual development. When rejected, our excitement becomes collapse and resignation; when controlled it becomes guilt, fear and the feeling of being a bad person, which unconsciously links our excitement with subjection to an authority’s power, to punishment and suffering. This is particularly the case if we have been brought up in a moral or religious environment which is unaccepting of our sexual pleasure, for example the Catholic Church’s attitude to self-pleasuring as ?self-abuse?.
In our relationships we then tend to express power and control by punishing our partner through the withdrawal of our love. This creates a wounding and a fear which will come back to us, as they will at one point do the same to us. This creates a slowly-widening distance between relationship partners which little by little becomes an unhealable split. Dark Eros techniques teach us to keep a relationship energetically healthy and loving by transforming anger and hurt through the conscious giving of ourselves in a physical and energetically intense way, which allows the transformation of anger into erotic contact.
Freya Wolna will introduce a practical and theoretical approach to transform these existential issues back into pure pleasure and life energy with powerful healing and liberating effect.
The steps include:
- Accepting and embracing the dark impulses and energies and see them with a different consciousness.
- Choosing to be in physical contact rather than psychological distance
- Calling in heart energy to reverse the movement towards contactlessness and violence.
- Choosing the pleasure of contact and reconciliation rather than the moral pleasure of being right.
- By choosing the contact and the pleasure creating love and beauty instead of violence and suffering.
- Realizing it is more spiritual to experience intensity in the form of pleasure instead of the form of pain and suffering.
Experiencing the sexual energy as opening the gateway to sacred intimacy
And finally the feeling of arriving, of coming home.
At first it may seem perverse to take pleasure openly in power or in punishment. But the perversion is in the repression and taboo that leads to the original sublimation of sexual excitement into the more socially acceptable energy forms of power or morality. As the pleasure is admitted and allowed, the violence falls away and innocence is regained.
Freya Wolna is the only Tantra Teacher, who has permission from John Hawken to teach Dark Eros workshop.
2. Master Lover Unity - the art of Tantra in intimate relationships
- What are the basic principles of the tantric approach?
- How can we heal our sense of isolation? And find more connection?
- How can I afford to live really, how can I be more and more present?
- Who am I under the surface of learned social masks?
- How to create your reality and how to transform it?
- How to be a spiritual being on the earth, and in a body?
- How to create your reality, to be alive and live fully?
Tantra answers these questions, not by rejecting the body and denying the senses, but by celebrating them. Celebration, pleasure, ecstasy and bliss lead us to a direct experience of the sacredness of the body and of life (Sat Chit Ananda).
During this workshop you will experience tantra in its purest, most basic form. Freya Wolna will guide participants into having a direct experience the tantric way of being and perceiving
Tantra teaches that in this lifetime we are spiritual beings that have chosen to experience aliveness through the medium of a body.
Tantric practices directly address the central dilemma of life: the pain of allowing a deep connection and attachment to something or someone that we may lose. We have different strategies for dealing with this fear of the pain of loss. One strategy is to not commit ourselves, not go deep but stay superficial, create a sense of freedom by always moving on, not allowing ourselves to be really touched by life or by intensity. Another strategy is to cling on, to attempt to possess and control that which we feel dependant on for our aliveness, A third possibility is to embrace pain as a way of life, a fourth to give up on life, either unconsciously as in depression , or consciously in an ascetic life. Deep inside, all of these are driven by fear, the fear of the pain of loss.
Tantric practices guide us to the possibility of living without fear, without attachment, yet with commitment and intensity. This is the content of this workshop.
Topics of the workshop include:
ENERGY
- Shakti - the feminine element in us - how to recognize and cultivate it in life and in love
- Relaxing in energy
- A new understanding of relaxation, not as falling into a state of dullness and sleep, or avoiding the effort, which in general leads to even more tension and tiredness but relaxation, understood as a transition from doing to being.
- Releasing muscles so that energy can flow
- Releasing of emotions, forms and attachments
- Accepting pleasure, expansion and pleasure of contraction
- Recognizing what stimulates and nourishes us
- Relieving pain, fear and suffering by freeling and expanding your energy.
AWARENESS
- Shiva - masculine in us - how to recognize and cultivate life and love
- Permeate yourself for being niezrzecznym / ą and rebellious
- Embracing the pleasure of power, then surrendering it to the pleasure of unity
- Experiencing innocence.
- Dissolving the ego
- Learning to give and receive love without "trying" to get it
- Dissolution of worthlessness learning to accept love, freeing the feeling of having to give.
- Experiencing meditation and tantric practices to stop internal dialogue,
Experiencing the feeling of losing self-importance and self-control
3. Shiva & Ecstatic Kali Dance – winning with the demons of fear and limiting beliefs to live your full potential
Do you live you live to the fullest? Do you have the courage to dream and reach for the best? Are you worth it? How many times did you want to change something in your life, you even decided to do it… and then ... "something" became an obstacle and again life went back to the usual ...
Statistics say that 80% of us do not keep our resolutions up to three months.
It is our limitations and beliefs that do not allow us to live as we would like to. If you’ve had enough excuses, if you want to take life in your hands - it's time to take care of the demons in your head telling you that you cannot manage, you do not deserve, you are not wrthy, etc
Shiva and Kali are the great tantric couple. They are the co-rulers of the processes of death, re-birth and transformation that lie at the core of intense powers of creation and destruction. Kali insists that we should embrace our darkness, our depth. And only after that we can let our light shine. Kali is the great warrior goddess, the ultimate lover and a deep, pure expression of the dark mother in all her forms. She is all the faces of the hidden, mysterious, primal lover and mother. In everyday life we fight those aspects of us, we learned to condemn and hide them in our subconscious.
Shiva represents the still vastness of transcendent masculine energy, he omnipresent consciusness and the destroyer of the universe. Shiva’s energy cannot be suppressed, his power is often feared. This can put us in a showdown between our greatest fears of being destroyed, and the pursuit of the deepest longing in our heart. The Ego holds to its defenses, but Shiva urge us to let go, and surrender to become present with what is.
There's an old Sufi saying, "Die many times before you die.” The Shiva & Kali dance is taking you deep to the dark emotions to burn through the flames of energy and be reborn as a new sacred being. You will realise that there is ecstatic life after of ego-death.
This workshop is an invocation and a chance to express these great powers within us. During thins three hour workshop you are invited to awaken the god of consciousness and the wild dark goddess of destruction and allowing them to dance you and to merge with another in an ecstatic blissful wave.
To create we must first destroy, to give space for new we must let go of old.
During this workshop you will discover and experience:
- How to be in total consciousness to meet the wildness
- How to heal our primeval fear of the feminine power
- How to give your existence a clear direction to find strength in sensibility.
- How to use the fierce energy of the first chakra, to open the path to spiritual transformation
- How to get in contact with your heart.
We will meet in circles of men and women in a ritual to heal the wounds to allow us to meet the consciously and step into our emotional world, discover the nature of fear, rage, anger, jealousy, sexual drive, wildness and bliss.
This experiential workshop combines deep, active and silent meditations, ecstatic dance, breathwork, emotional release work and the deep archetypal exploration of these powers within us. Freya will play trans ambient set of shmanic ethno tunes.
4. Master Lover – the art of Tantra Massage
During her individual and group work Freya noticed that people can not touch each other. Most often the touch is chaotic, frantic, too fast, giving the touch is mixed with taking, which often causes frustration and misunderstanding.
During this workshop you will learn how to take your partner to the world of pleasure and sexual happiness through the art of Tantra massage.
During the workshop you will:
- learn the basic elements of a conscious touch,
- learn the basics of the Circle of Consent and learn to distinguish the touch that gives you from the one you take, you will learn to accept and allow to touch
- learn to recognize what kind of touch brings you the most pleasure
- learn to communicate your needs to your partner
- discover the secrets of how a man and woman want to be loved in you
- learn elements of Taoist Erotic massage.
This experimental workshop uses Art of Tantra Massage, Intimate communication and the power of sacred circle. Nakedness is possible but not required.
Please bring sarong, massage sheets and massage oil.