During our life we have experienced hurt and therefor coping mechanisms. The mechanism are there to protect you from hurt, but are they still valid? And perhaps these coping mechanism bring you further away from a true connection, most of all with yourself.
Speaking, listening and living from the heart. This sounds lovely. The ‘heart’ has a romantic tone about it, but we forget the polarity of the heart. There is a light side of the heart; empathy, connection,intimacy, worth, trust, sharing, giving, receiving, sensitivity etc. And there is a dark side of the heart; hurt, pain, sorrow, victim stories, desperation, rejection, disconnection, coldness, worthlessness etc.
To be a loving container for what is, for what appears in this moment, we have to embrace the heart in all it’s lightness and darkness. To shed a light on all the dark places (unconscious) will automaticly bring it into consciousness (light).
Love can be experienced even when the heart is full of sorrow because of the ablilty to surrender and courageously accept exactly where you are now. It isn’t even the emotional pain itself that is the painful part of existence. It is in when you resist the pain, that the pain becomes most painful and sometimes even unbearable. To connect fully to the heart is the radical bravery to face every aspect of existence as yourself. Full responsibility as the creator yourself.
In Tantra love is devotion. A huge surrender to your life energy, divine nature, God, Source or higher intelligence. Through devotion love can flow. To align with your Divine nature and feel that your presence, relationships, work is an offering to the Divine. Through meditations practises you can feel the connection to something bigger. The more you open yourself (through meditation practise), the more clarity you will be able to ‘download’. The heart has the power to transform. It takes in and gives back. Everything going through the heart is purified. In Shakti Tantra you start with transforming darkness like judgments, self-hatred, shame, negativity inside of you, and let your heart expand. Expand, expand until you reach existance and beyond the idea of right and wrong. When we ourselves can transform darkness into light we can do the same in the world.
WHY: Everything starts with loving yourself. Being Self Connected in a way that also connects to your Divine nature. What is the state of your heart? Did you compromise too much or please so much that your Self Connection is lost?
HOW: In this course we will take a look at where you sabotage yourself into receiving love. Also how you can reconnect with Self Care. We sometimes value harmony (avoiding confrontation), ‘love&peace” over our true-est expression. This comes at a high cost, you can lose contact with what matters to you most in life. Integrity, authencicity, feelings, needs and self connection. We will look at our shadow-side, our convictions that keep us small. Transform darkness (addictions, dependancies, etc) into conscious light. We will work with the energy of compassion, forgiveness and understanding. Here you will come home to the Sacred Feminine and prepare your body for blissful Shakti Energy. With techniques from Shakti Tantra, Non Violent Communication and Byron Katie we will shed a light on how your vulnerability becomes your strenght. You will learn to create connection through empathy. Through devotion, expanding your heart and let it overflow with love.
THE ELEMENT AIR: Air corresponds with Anahata, the 4th chacra in our energetic body. Love, compassion, empathy, connection, playfullness, lightness, are qualities of the heart. Of the 5 senses, touch is relevant and can function as a door to acces the qualities of this element within you.
ARCHETYPES: Aphrodite, Venus, Parvati, Frigga,
RECEIVE: Learning how to speak from the heart is seeing your vulnerabitily as strenght. Learning how to really listen without assumptions. Speaking your truth in a way that creates connection, even if your message is not very pleasing to the ears, it can be for the heart. You will be handed Non Violent Communication tools to fulfill the highest, most truthful expression of yourself as a human being. In this module we reconnect with the Queen of Love that you really are. Receive insight on (family) patterns through Family Constellations. For women who are ready for courage, understanding, healing, forgiving, mourning and empowering ourselves and our sisters. We will learn to Connect the sex centre with the heart centre; sexual energy with the energy of Love. Understanding the polarities between masculine and feminine and therefor establish a healty relationship with the other sex by connecting with your feelings and needs. The masculine’s giving centre is the first chacra, the feminine’s giving centre is from the heart. Learn how to work with these polarities to create an abundance of loving energy. You will experience masculine energy as Shiva and feminine energy as Shakti. How to play and how to melt into Divine Union. Tantric Meditations accoring to the ancient Tantras. Opening to the infinate energy of the Divine.
Shakti Tantra teaches us that all polarities in life are complementary. Masculine and feminine, anger and compassion, death and birth, love and fear. There are the same force but just the other side of the coin. Shakti Tantra practise is to meet that place where inner and outer meet and surrender to it. Tantra has developed meditation techniques that focus our awareness on all complementary energies/ union of polarities. In this surrender the expansion of consciousness unfolds.
In the last weekend you will learn how to deal with the masculine through meditations with men. You will be able to create safety through awareness and learn how to play with your giving capacity of Love in abundance within your own boundaries.
DATA: Queen of Love, air element drieluik
19 en 20 januari, 9 en 10 februari, 2 en 3 maart
11.00-17.00 uur, Studio Zena, Borneokade 68, Amsterdam Oost`
Vroegboekkorting €466,- voor 1 januari 2019, erna €488,-
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Personal:
I love the archetype of the Queen. It is not that she is above everyone else.. for me it means that she can carry whatever the universe is giving to her. Without preference of good or bad. That she wears her ‘calling’ as a crown and above all is not here to teach but to serve. Ik heb zelf heel lange tijd in overlevings-stand gestaan tot op het punt dat het lichaam het begaf, en nu sinds 4 jaar weer begint te functioneren. In dat destructie-proces heb ik inzichten gekregen dat ik dingen bij elkaar wilde houden (mijn relatie-mijn gezin) die eigenlijk al uit elkaar waren. Ik wilde liefde behouden en vocht ervoor. Alleen zag ik niet dat het geen liefde was, maar wanhoop. Mijn poging was dus gebaseerd op een Disney sprookje en dankzij de afbraak kwam ik tot realisatie dat het niet ‘echt’ was- waar ik in geloofde. Dat was een shock van heb ik jou daar, maar uiteindelijk mijn redding. Het heeft me sterker gemaakt. Ik kan nu ook wel lachen om mijn pogingen een luchtkasteel vast te willen pakken. Die luchtigheid heeft er ook voor gezorgd dat ik mezelf niet te serieus neem de hele tijd. Ik kan zien dat het leven je om de oren slaat met van alles totdat je in contact komt met realiteit, buiten je voorkeuren om. En ik zat ik ook nog gevangen in dader-slachtoffer schap denken. Toen ik dat kon doorzien voor wat het was: onwetenheid, viel er ook een last van mijn schouders en kon ik bij de liefde en compassie komen en hervond ik zo mijn kracht. Die weg naar Self Connection wens ik iedereen.