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After graduating in Shiatsu and Osho Divine Healing Arts and Meditation with Prashantam in Portugal started working on the connection and the interaction between the Mind and the Body.

After a long intensive meditation practice, he works as a facilitator at Osho Studio in Berlin, leading regular classes and workshops.

After attending a seven-year Training at SkyDancing Tantra Institute in France with Margot Anand, he became a certified SkyDancing Tantra teacher.

After moving to Berlin, he is inspired by the city to create Dynamic Tantra, a playful, soulful way to practice Tantra in the urban jungle.

Gopal is active in many different creative areas as a musician, promoter, art director, DJ, teacher, and facilitator, constantly experimenting and combining the 3 Tantric Keys, Breath, Movement, and Sound with innovative meditation techniques.

Working and living in Berlin, Gopal facilitates training and workshops worldwide.

The answer is always Love.

• Website: www.gopaltantra.com
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• Instagram: gopal.tantra

 

 

School

• SkyDancing Tantra Institute
• Osho Divine Healing Arts (O.D.H.A.)
• Dynamic Tantra

What is Dynamic Tantra?

Dynamic Tantra is my vision to integrate the ancient Tantric practices in our contemporary life: in a dynamic, playful and soulful way.

Start with the Body

We are so overwhelmed by TV, commercials, social media, working routines, that our minds often struggle to keep up and our natural capacity to connect with our body is simply lost.

However, the body is the natural doorway to the human experience, not the mind.

Because of that, a more dynamic approach to the Tantric techniques is necessary for those that cannot just simply sit up, meditate and connect with their bodies.

A safe, juicy, space

Osho said: “First, be happy”. If we are completely happy, no meditation, no technique is needed to reach your pure, blissful being.

Dynamic Tantra was born with the idea to create an experience that would be easily accessible for all levels, from beginners to advanced meditators, and to have fun with it! Relaxing into it, like going to a party, even if it’s a party of one.

I set myself the task of formulating a structure that would provide a safe environment for people to freely access their own inner space in a playful, funky and dynamic way.

In these collective experiences, we practice together how to:

• Dedramatize sexuality, freeing ourselves from our limiting beliefs.
• Learn to treat our body with respect.
• Bring more awareness to increase our ability to love and to be loved.
• Recognize our body as our true temple.
• Learn the art of letting go through deep relaxation.
• Let our vital energy flow freely.
• Regain confidence in oneself, in others and in life.
• Become familiar with the issues of choice, to become more aware of our limits and to respect ourselves.
• Discover and harmonize our inner male and female polarity.
• Build responsibly our own energy using the three keys: Breath, Movement and Sound

Over the last year, I have created and conceived several Dynamic tantra experiences in Berlin, following closely each of the participants of our workshops to understand and identify the most effective ways to bring people into relaxation, blissfulness and embodiment of their powerful true nature. During this festival, you are invited to experience them all together in one week:

1. Come as you are! - An invitation to discover the sublime combination of aliveness and consciousness which are the essence of Tantra
   
2. he Chakra Spectrum - An inner journey through the technology of the chakras
3. The Loving Touch - A multi sensorial journey through the dimension of Touch
4. Ecstasy Symphony - An invitation to discover your own version of Ecstasy
5. The Secret Temple

SkyDancing Tantra teaches us to choose with awareness what brings us pleasure and joy, thus opening the door to a deeper connection with spirit and a greater sense of aliveness and well-being. The practice of SkyDancing Tantra enables us to overcome feelings of separation and create a sense of union with yourself, others, and the world. The body relaxes, the heart opens and the mind becomes clearer and more focused. When this integration takes place, we are ready for a new sexual and spiritual experience in which physical/sensual pleasure becomes a celebration of the heart and an ecstasy of the spirit. Ultimately, the SkyDancing path provides a model for cultivating the Tantric way of life – helping us awaken to our ecstatic potential, embrace our own vital powers, enliven sensuality, awaken spirituality, and create a more fulfilling love life.

SkyDancing is the ancient metaphor for the ability to achieve ecstatic states. SkyDancing Tantra is the ability to integrate these ecstatic states into our sexuality and into our lives, so that love can be experienced as a flow, a joyful celebration, a healing meditation. SkyDancing Tantra presents the Tantric paradigm through methods accessible to the Western culture and lifestyle.

SkyDancing International is a collective of Institutes and Teachers of Tantra that convey the teaching of the tantric lineage created by Margot Anand. SkyDancing Tantra is a school of Tantra, that is to say it offers people an individual path to transform their vision and approach to life. SkyDancing carries no dogma. Learning is above all experimental. Like any tantric approach, SkyDancing's teaching focuses on awareness and energy (vitality). Interaction between participants, such as sexual energy, is seen as a tool for access to consciousness and vitality and not as an end in itself.

SkyDancing offers tools that allow students to become aware of their conditioning and blockages and to enter into a process of personal evolution and profound transformation. SkyDancing provides a safe and caring environment for everyone to learn and evolve at their own pace. The proposed experiences are original and stimulating: it's the experience of a lifetime. An absolute freedom to enter or not into the practices is left to the students. The pace of each is respected.

• www.skydancingtantra-int.com

 

Workshops

1. A SYNESTHETIC JOURNEY IN THE FLUIDITY OF THE TANTRIC SPACE - L'ASSOLUTO NATURALE

Inspired by the genius and the opera of Italian composer Ennio Morricone, a delicate, exquisite, synesthetic journey into the Tantric dimension with a little Italian vibe.

This workshop will be a full sensorial dive into emotions and feelings of any kind.

The term "synesthesia" refers to those situations in which an auditory, olfactory, tactile, or visual stimulation is perceived as two different but coexisting sensory events.

Synesthesia is a perceptual phenomenon in whichstimulationof one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway.

In the world of art is a well-known experience.

The painter, Vasilij Kandinskij, claimed to hear the voice of colors, which were sounds and living entities, as he explains well in his book The spiritual in art.

More indicative of an actual presence of synaesthesia is the case in which perceiving a stimulus (such as sound), we have a precise and proper reaction of another sense (for example, sight)

The phenomenon is involuntary, but if we pay attention to it, with greater awareness, we can be able to take advantage of this sensorial contamination and move into its space.

After studying the work of the Italian composer Ennio Morricone, I had the idea to create a Tantric workshop around his compositions, universally recognized as some of humanity's most sublime creations and legacy.

And because many of them are soundtracks, they fit the concept of synesthesia very well.

In this workshop, you will see the sounds, hear the colours, touch the space, connect with your body and others in unusual and unexpected forms.

Be prepared to live a cinematic experience, a kaleidoscope of sensations, where all your senses will play the soundtrack of your life.

2. GREEN RIVER – DYNAMIC TANTRA AND THE POETICAL FLOW OF TOUCH.

All of us have been touched before, but how many of us can say that we've actually felt touched?

So often, touch becomes an unconscious reflex.

In sexuality, touch is often used as a strategy to build excitement but not always experienced to increase consciousness and connection.

There's a difference between being aware of the other person's touch and feeling it in your body, with your mind and your heart. Conscious touch is more than skin-on-skin contact; it requires awareness of mind, body, and spirit and an open channel to experience something beyond simple physical stimulation.

Giving massage is more than touching someone deeply; it's about being present in your own body and paying attention to what you're feeling. A tantric massage is a form of meditation; by getting in touch with your hands, you allow them to become receptive conduits.

Connecting with your partner is about connecting with yourself. Your partner will feel far more than massaging fingers: they'll feel that you are entirely present during their experience.

Tantric massage uses conscious touch to connect, heal and deepen relationships. It promotes healing through sexual energy and spiritually connects you with yourself and others. It involves focusing on compassion, love, freedom, and empowerment—all essential elements of any healthy relationship.

Letting go into conscious touch is a great way to bring both partners into harmony and an excellent way to let go of the ego and surrender to pleasure; the flow of energy between you and your partner through touch alone can be very powerful.

Touch has three main aspects: Location, Speed, and Pressure.

Using these three main factors and asking feedback from the receiver, we can build a language that allows the giver and receiver to navigate more freely in the flow of giving and receiving pleasure.

Using this precise language empowers us to ask for exactly what we want. And by being clear, we help the giver relax into their sensations and emotions, confident that they are giving an enjoyable touch.

The key as givers is to attune ourselves to the other person and develop our intuition to give them the most pleasurable touch possible. And doing this without attachment to the effect is essential to staying present.

But touch is not only the way we connect to each other.

Breathing is the way the air touches our bodies.

Sight is the way we touch the world.

Gravity is the way the Earth touches us.

Touch is a precious gift whose mystery and potential sometimes we are not fully aware of. Touch can be an immense source of pleasure and discovery and a powerful tool to transmit presence.

This dynamic tantric journey will open our senses and awareness to the whole experience of the flow of touch.

In a safe and playful space, we will explore the conscious touch, poetic touch, loving touch, and universal touch and eventually understand that WE ARE LOVE, expanding the Range of Sensation and Emotion.

"The body is a mystery in the whole of existence; this mystery needs to be loved." (OSHO)

3. ROBOT JOX. RESER AUTOMATIC PATTERNS WITH DYNAMIC TANTRA

Sometimes we live our life on a two-dimensional level.

We may often become a little robotic and automatic in our interactions during our everyday life and routine.

The root causes can be many. Stressful working habits, relationship issues, unhealthy behaviors that in the long run can determine a chronic, automatic attitude to the way we respond in life.

We will examine, process, and release many of these inner and outer movements with the practice of tantric techniques in a playful, dynamic, and easy-going attitude.

The word Tantra stems from the root "tan," meaning to stretch, as a piece of fabric does when woven into cloth. As such, Tantra can expand your mind and make you more aware of how your mind operates on an unconscious level and stop unconsciously repeating automatic patterns of thinking, feeling, or behaving.

Tantric exercise can rewire your mind by introducing new ways of seeing yourself and others around you, reshaping neural pathways more quickly than simply sitting still. And once you experience how beneficial these methods truly are – you'll never want to stop!

Through meditation, Tantra teaches consciously disengage from harmful, negative thought patterns. Tantric meditation methods teach us how to watch and not react to thoughts as they arise. The ability to do so helps us free ourselves from habits of negatively rehashing life events over and over again in our minds and consequently in our actions and bodies: ruminating about problems that have happened or worrying about things that haven't yet happened; berating ourselves; dwelling on fears; engaging in fantasy; getting caught up in memories of past pleasures or future worries.

The key to understanding Tantra as dynamic therapy lies in realizing that, far from being static, it's a dynamic, living process. It's unceasing and (you might say) ever-changing. And because of that dynamism, it offers us something powerful: the chance to consciously transform ourselves into more joyful beings, awakening our sensual potentiality.

When we start to bring the conscious into the unconscious, transformation begins.

In this Dynamic Tantra experience, we will practice together how to:

• Dedramatize sexuality, freeing ourselves from our limiting beliefs.
• Learn to treat our bodies with respect.
• Bring more awareness to increase our ability to love and be loved.
• Recognize our body as our true temple.
• Learn the art of letting go through deep relaxation.
• Let our vital energy flow freely.
• Regain confidence in oneself, in others, and life.
• Become familiar with the issues of choice, become more aware of our limits, and respect ourselves.
• Discover and harmonize our inner male and female polarity.
• Build our energy responsibly using the three keys: Breath, Movement, and Sound

Once you have experienced stepping out of the robotic mind, always there judging and complaining, you will be finally in charge, as the true pilot of yourself, bringing awareness, understanding, and presence into your everyday mindset.

This workshop is for everybody, singles, couples, beginners, and advanced. It features different approaches from Tantra, Meditation, and Body-based therapy that will help you see clearly through your recurring actions and eventually release, on a body-mind level, tensions that are no longer serving you in your evolution.

This workshop is not about technology and electronic gadgets but about enjoying humanity at its fullest.

If you have never practiced Tantra, it could also be your first step into a new world.

4. THE INNER MYSTIQUE. A PSYCHODELIC JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE BODY

The Universe is full of energy fields beyond what we can perceive. If we tap into those energy fields, we may alter our consciousness and enter an altered state.

This sonic tantric psychedelic workshop is designed to transport you on a fantastic trip through the centre of your body. This journey is about who you are and how you will transform yourself in the Tantric process.

First, it is better to leave the old behind so that something new can occupy the body.

Then, an essential requirement for transformation is Relaxation.

We will practice some techniques that will open up with fluidity areas of the body that generally are not enough considered and restore the normal energy flow through the healing practice of Breath, Movement, and Sound.

Tantra means expansion (of consciousness) and is often intended as working with energy to expand into new modes of awareness and connection.

Because Tantra is also a practice where you see yourself as a mirror reflected image, we will experiment and enhance this vision through different perspectives and interactions.

It is not the seeking of the extraordinary but the discovery of the simplicity and the ordinary that allows you to express yourself to have your creativity in small things, in what is already part of your life.

And it is the joy coming out that makes things different, takes a new quality, and makes precious everything you do, making you discover that this is at the origin of everything, that Inner Mystique where everything comes from.

In other words, if you learn how to harness those energies and concentrate them in a specific area, then you could use that energy to expand your mental capacity and enter another dimension.

With a playful, creative, and soulful approach, I invite you to flower in the space of Meditation to enjoy the natural, free flow of Energy and Awareness in your body, to ultimately discover your Fullness and the explosive Vitality that resides in the core of your being.

And finally, discover your Inner Mystique.

EVENING RITUAL

ELECTRIC LATIHAN. A THEREMIN GUIDED SPACE RITUAL.

"When you come to zero, when you come to nothingness, at that moment there is a vibration" (Bapak Subuh)

Latihan is a profound healing practice. It consists of finding the spontaneous movement of the body when it is not guided by will.

This practice aims at harmonizing the different aspects of our Being: body, emotions, mind, and soul. It creates a space where the mind no longer controls the body.

This elementary practice of non-action opens a direct channel between the body and deeper and deeper levels or quality of consciousness, a link between body and spirituality.

In this workshop, we will experience the traditional form of Latihan combined with a more interactive and modern technique improved with the use of the Theremin, a musical instrument played without physical contact, all cast into the frame of a cosmic space ritual.

What is Latihan

Latihan means "spiritual exercise" or "training of the spirit."

It originated in Indonesia by Bapak Muhammad Subuh, the founder of Subud, and then spread in the West by Georgy Gurdjieff.

It must be practiced without expectations or logical thoughts; let the body become an empty vessel, a hollow bamboo.

Latihan is a form of active meditation adopted by Osho too.

It is a powerful healing practice that improves concentration and releases suppressed emotions, opening your heart and allowing the flow of life force (prana) through the whole body to remove all energy blocks.

It can also be supportive in managing depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, and addiction.

Latihan heals you mentally and physically. It is a training of the spirit, surrendering to a higher source. This complete surrender is the key to enhancing your inner force, so you may start making better decisions, improving control over emotions, and reducing pain and suffering all over your daily life.

You have not to do anything; be there and wait for something to happen and if your body starts moving, let it move with fluidity; let this movement expand outside and inside, feeling yourself pulsating with the universe.

When in Latihan, you enter a space of nothingness, which helps you drop the ego and sense of identity and become present in the now.

Just surrender to existence, and when the universal spirit inspires you to move, release self-control and enjoy your natural ability of well-being.

Surrender to the Universal Spirit, and let it inspire you to move spontaneously, remain a witness and let your body be an instrument in the Electric Latihan.

What is Theremin

Theremin, also called Etherophone, is an electronic musical instrument invented in 1920 in the Soviet Union by Leon Theremin.

It consists of a box with radio tubes producing oscillations at two sound-wave frequencies above the range of hearing; together, they create a lower audible frequency equal to the difference in their rates of vibration.

Pitch is controlled by moving the hand toward or away from an antenna at the right rear of the box. This movement alters one of the inaudible frequencies. Harmonics, or component tones, of the sound can be filtered out, allowing the production of several tone colors over a range of six octaves.

The American composer Henry Cowell and the French American composer Edgard Varèse have written for the Theremin. The instrument was used in recordings by the American rock group the Beach Boys and in the soundtracks of several science fiction films

I will combine these two elements in this event, creating a new concept of Tantric meditation where each participant will have their individual experience and will be able, at some point, to interact and connect with others.

With the help of technology, you will experience a different form of Latihan.

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