CENTER HERE AND NOW / WORKSHOPS / May 2020 / 19.05.20 - 24.05.20

We invite you to a beautiful and extremely transformative workshop, during which we will learn tantra from the Skydancing Tantra Lineage – founded by the world-famous teacher Margot Anand. We will immerse ourselves in the practices that integrate the ancient spirit of Tantra with the most recent discoveries in clinical sexology, as well as the therapeutic methods of humanistic and transpersonal psychology. For over thirty years, the methods and teachings of this school have been constantly powerful, healing and effective.

SkyDancing Tantra is a combination of ancient secrets and modern techniques. It presents the Tantric paradigm via methods and tools accessible to the Western culture and lifestyle. These methods are inspired by ancient traditions of holistic spirituality and sexuality - Tantric, Yogic, Buddhist, Taoist, Sufi, and Native American, among others. SkyDancing Tantra also blends modern techniques, such as psychology, bioenergetics, neurolinguistic programming (NLP), visualization, and effective communication skills with meditation, sacred ritual, massage, and other practices.

The path of the SkyDancer goes back to 8th century Tibet, when Yeshe Tsogyal, the enlightened consort of Buddha Padmasambhava, was called the "Great Skydancer." Together they developed Tantric Buddhism. "Skydancers" in the Buddhist tradition were people of great passion who were profoundly devoted to spiritual awakening. The path of the SkyDancer is a spiritual path where men and women see each other as equal partners on a quest who integrate ecstatic states into their daily lives.

Workshop will be lead by Laurent Lacoste, co-director of SkyDancing Tantra International, responsible together with his partner Laurence Heitzmann, for supervising Sky Dancing Tantra International, on behalf of its founder, Margot Anand.

This workshop is not a typical Tantric massage training. It is a workshop where we will use massage and touch in order to support our tantric path towards more awareness (Shiva) and more energy (Shakti) in our lives. Massage is an art of living and a way of life. The touch reveals our souls and our essence. When giving or receiving, all facets of our personalities surface.

The philosophy of SkyDancing Tantra provides a gateway into the Tantric way of life by helping you to awaken to your ecstatic potential, embrace your own vital powers, create a more fulfilling love life and enliven your sensuality as well as your spirituality.

Tantra, which has often been called "The Yoga of Love", offers peace of mind while it both relaxes and energizes the body. Tantra enables one to overcome feelings of separation and create a sense of union. When this integration has taken place, you are ready for a new sexual experience in which physical pleasure becomes a delight of the heart and an ecstasy of the spirit. When practiced with a partner, Tantra contributes to healthy, loving relationships.

Tantra, however, is primarily a set of practices that support the development of consciousness. It is a process of personal development, a specific choice of discovering the sciences that life offers us - every event of our life can be a field for us to experience and learn, as soon as we "put" our consciousness in it.

LAURENT LACOSTE  I  LAURENCE HEITZMAN

This workshop is recommended for those, who want to:

• dive into the worldwide renowned lineage of SkyDancing Tantra founded by Margo Anand,
• develop their skills in giving touch to others and learn how to receive it in a more conscious and relaxed way,
• learn to speak out their limits and boundaries and to really ask for what they need,
• deepen their perception of the quality of their touch,
• better understand the essence of Tantric massage which is basically being present to oneself and to the other,
• be initiated to the secrets of the touch and Tantric massage according to the SkyDancing Tantra

You can participate alone or with a partner. We don't practice sexuality during our workshops.

Being a Tantric for Laurent Lacoste means a decision to implement, through consciousness, a lasting, continuous state of joy and inner peace. This state of joy/bliss is manifested in calmness and internal neutrality, so that we can enjoy various life experiences. And through consciousness we can exceed the emotions without running away from them, in order to return to inner unity and joy.

This joy exists, is possible, but that doesn't mean that emotions don't exist. In a state of joy they are also present, revolve around you, you live them, but you do not attach to them.

Laurent Lacoste represents Tantra, where techniques and practices contribute to the development of our consciousness, our understanding and our knowledge, based on direct experience and transformation.

Tantra, that we will experience during the workshop "Touch - A Gateway to Spirituality" is also inspired by the teachings of the ancient tantric text of Vijana BhairavaTantra (with meaningful subtitle "Presentation of techniques for experimental knowledge of absolute reality"). This knowledge will enable us to deepen our understanding, our knowledge and increase the development of our Consciousness.

“The SkyDancing tantra method presented during the workshop is based on the original teachings of Margot Anand. She devoted over thirty years of life to the development and teaching of this ancient science. These practices and techniques give the opportunity to awaken an inner lover. They give a possibility for opening the door to deeper intimacy, greater pleasure, better communication and increased creativity. Discover love as a Holy Event, reviving ancient wisdom, discovering ecstatic potential and celebrating the Divine Union in yourself and with your partner. "

[Laurent Lacoste]

SKYDANCING TANTRA SCHOOL

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.

The history of SkyDancing Tantra:

The path of the SkyDancer goes back to 8th century Tibet, when Yeshe Tsogyal, the enlightened consort of Buddha Padmasambhava, was called the "Great Skydancer." Together they developed Tantric Buddhism. "Skydancers" in the Buddhist tradition were people of great passion who were profoundly devoted to spiritual awakening. The path of the SkyDancer is a spiritual path where men and women see each other as equal partners on a quest who integrate ecstatic states into their daily lives.

The path of SkyDancing Tantra came to Margot as a revelation rather than a tradition. The vast body of knowledge and practices developed by Margot Anand and delineated in her best-selling books, is known as SkyDancing Tantra : The Path to Bliss. A network of Institutes in several countries, all are offering workshops and the beautiful teachings of Margot Anand.

Margot, along with her certified SkyDancing Tantra teachers, has taught SkyDancing Tantra to tens of thousands of people worldwide, through several international SkyDancing Institutes since the late 1980′s. SkyDancing functions as a family, a network of teachers grouped around Institutes that support one another.

Over the past 30 years, Margot Anand's SkyDancing Tantra has been among the most researched methods developed in modern Tantra. A scientific study at the University of Hanover in Germany was conducted over a year and a half, following participants of Margot's initial three-weeks Love and Ecstasy Training (LET). The results based on thorough statistical analysis of some 800 medical, psychiatric, and psychological questionnaires, described the benefits of the training as: improved health, increased creativity and concentration, and improved partner communication with increased orgasmic response.

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MARGOT ANAND ABOUT TANTRA AND SKYDANCING

„ Love, Sex & Enlightenment” – Margot Anand's article on tantra.

Many people mistakenly believe that Tantra is a spiritual bastardization of sexual therapy, an excuse to indulge in sexual games or orgies, an addiction to hours of sexual orgasms. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The Tantric path teaches us to embrace and unify the ordinary, the erotic, and the sacred dimensions of life, all of which have their roots in Spirit.

The beauty and wisdom of Tantra is that it enhances sexuality as a doorway to the "ecstatic mind of great bliss". Truly, at the peak of orgasm, we pierce through the illusion of fragmentation and separation, and glimpse the unity and interconnectedness of all beings. And through the other--our partner--we fall in love with life.

Because sex holds this great potential for opening our being to the experience of ecstasy, Tantra has for millennia taught the cultivation of sexual love as an art, as a skilful spiritual practice. Then, as now, Tantra challenges the belief promoted by most spiritual and religious paths that we must suppress or transcend out sexuality to practice meditation or awaken our Spirit.

Tantra arose in rebellion against the repressive orthodoxy of the Hindu priesthood, the Brahmins – especially against the idea that one had to be celibate to gain enlightenment. Tantra acknowledges that sex is at the root of life and that to make human sexuality and erotic union a form or worship and meditation is to practice reverence for life, leading us directly through the pleasure of the sense to spiritual liberation.

Cultivate Ecstasy

As a therapist, I knew that the process of healing emotional wounds by focusing on the past to find their source was limited. Although it can bring about healing, it all too often promotes a fascination with the problematic. Furthermore, when we focus obsessively on our problems and pains, the ecstatic potential in most of life's moments goes unrecognized and unacknowledged, and our lives are emptied of a sacred and joyous dimension. Life appears problematic rather than ecstatic, more a puzzle to be solved than a pleasure to be cultivated.

I realized that existential or psychological pain was actually the absence of ecstasy. It was the outcome of being cut off from the source of one's being, the source of life. On the other hand, cultivating ecstatic states of consciousness and learning how to integrate them into our lives can have profoundly healing effects. I have come to believe that our suffering has its roots in the loss of ecstasy and that reclaiming our natural ecstasy holds the key to our healing and our liberation.

SkyDancing

Over the years, all that I had discovered coalesced within me into a new shape and meaning. I called the body of knowledge and the ritual practices I had developed over many years "SkyDancing Tantra: The Path to Bliss". This path came to me as a revelation rather than a tradition. Yet the path of the SkyDancer is indeed one that goes back to eighth-century Tibet, when Yeshe Sogyel, the consort of Buddha Padma Sambhava, was called the "SkyDancer". Together they developed Tantric Buddhism.

Originally, the SkyDancers were wild, free ecstatic "dakinis", also called feminine buddhas or female awakeners. The word dakini means "woman who dances in space" or "woman who revels in the freedom of emptiness". SkyDancers were, and are, women of passion who were profoundly devoted to spiritual awakening.

The path of the SkyDancer is a path of spiritual partnership that teaches the complete reciprocity of male and female practitioners as they learn the art of integrating ecstatic states and ecstatic practices in their daily life. It reintroduces in our world the understanding that to heal the world, we need to rediscover and respect the fact that women can be and are awakeners and initiators and enlightened teachers.

SkyDancing Tantra is a unique path that weaves together traditional Tantric, Hindu, Buddhist and Taoist teaching with my studies in humanistic and transpersonal psychology, bodywork therapies, sexology, yoga, music, and metaphysics. All of this works with human energy systems through the use of light, music, movement, visualization, and particularly (and primarily) the energy map of the chakras. The tantric chakra system offers a perfect map for the transformation of energy and consciousness, from raw lust to love, a visionary power, and finally to awakening.

SkyDancing Tantra teaches us that when we learn to approach life with a relaxed body, an open heart, and a peaceful mind, we can access ecstatic states and learn to weave them into the daily fabric of our lives.

Sacredness of Sex

It is crucial to understand the sacred dimensions of sex. Sex lies at the root of life, and we can only learn reverence for life when we learn reverence for sex. People in this culture need training in the art of love. They need to understand that sexuality is a very natural instinct, and there is nothing wrong with it. The damage to human society caused by the condemnation of sex is incalculable. Instead of celebrating sex as the creative force it is, we have turned sex into a furtive, guilt-ridden affair. This has misguided and influenced our entire world view. There is a tremendous effort being made to heal the planet, save the rain forests and to bring peace to warring ethnic and religious factions and yet how can any of this happen when the very source of human love is poisoned?

There is a powerfully creative force associated with our sexuality. It is possible for each of us to become a magician and use that force to heal our life and transform our vision--to realize our dreams. We have all sorts of programming blocking the flow of our sexual power. We need to be open to be able to face those demons, to look at the shadow with all honesty, knowing that truth is erotic. The more you can share your truth, the deeper and the more erotic it will become in the long run.

WORKSHOP IS HELD IN ENGLISH & TRANSLATED INTO POLISH!

WORKSHOP TRANSLATED INTO POLISH!

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