Dear Friends,
Every two months we send out a newsletter from the
SkyDancing Tantra Institute to stay in touch with those people
interested in the work and teachings of Margot Anand and her chosen
certified Teachers and Presenters. Over the next year, every newsletter
will contain several articles written by members of the SkyDancing
Tantra teaching sangha to inspire you, and share with you our view and
experience of SkyDancing.
This month Crystal Dawn Morris from
Sedona, AZ, talks about her SkyDancing practice and teaching. Steve
& Lokita Carter start a new series about their favorite SkyDancing
Tantra maxims, and you can read a description of LET Cycle 4 which
Margot Anand is teaching for the first time in the USA in October with
Jelle Bode.
Margot Anand tells us time and again how happy and
fulfilled she is at her new home in Bali, and sends her love and best
wishes. We hope that you will enjoy this newsletter, and wish you a
wonderful summer!
Much love,
 Lokita & Steve Carter Co-Directors of the SkyDancing Tantra Institute |
Congratulations to three new SkyDancing Tantra Teachers
 On behalf of Margot Anand we would like to congratulate Jim DeVore & Beth Thibault and Dan Argraves
for graduating as Certified SkyDancing Tantra Teachers (Level 1)
recently. Their achievement shows their deep commitment and dedication
to the SkyDancing Tantra teachings and their own personal practice. May
your teaching inspire others - and yourselves - to bring more joy and
pleasure into their lives, and walk the path to bliss!
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LET Cycle 4: Unfolding the Soul with Margot Anand & Jelle Bode
A special opportunity for LET graduates to learn powerful new techniques to access higher states
of consciousness, sexual ecstasy and spiritual bliss directly from Margot Anand and her teaching partner Jelle Bode.
In
the first part of the week, Margot and Jelle will guide the group into
Chakra Awakening and exploring our Inner Flute as the connection
between sky and earth, male and female, mother and father, spirit and
body.
 The new insights and
experiences will then be applied to the Advanced Pelvic Healing
Practice as we investigate the phases of our own personal sexual
evolution and move into a new way of sexual being.
Unconscious patterns and
conditioning have created somatic holding in our pelvic area. Letting
go of this holding creates an environment of opening ourselves to new
and more profound sexual experiences, transformation and healing on
many levels. We can enjoy a freer and more integrated sexual life and
a more direct access to the spiritual experience of lovemaking.
In
the latter part of the week we will bring these insights into the
spiritual realm, by physically connecting the sky and the earth in our
own body, and with a partner, through breath, pleasure and pure
awareness, in the Advanced (or Descending) Wave of Bliss.
Throughout
the week we will share tantric rituals, meditations, sacred mantras and
visualizations, and connect to the root gurus of the SkyDancing Tantra
lineage, Padmasambhava and Yeshe Tsogyel.
This
week is a celebration of community with experienced SkyDancers from
many years of Love & Ecstasy Trainings. Exploring and learning
together on this advanced level will be a sacred communion, and the
orgasmic energy of our group will be greater than the sum of its parts!
Read more here.
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Steve & Lokita's favorite SkyDancing Tantra Maxim
 Margot Anand has coined phrases that have become maxims for all SkyDancing Tantra practitioners; for example, "Staying relaxed in high states of arousal."
Usually when we approach the sexual peak, the built-up energy strives
to be released through a genital orgasm. But imagine how delicious it
can be to ride the waves of bliss continuously rather than ending right
there!
Using the Three Keys - movement, breath and sound - we
can circulate the energy through our whole body, play with our orgasmic
triggers and let the sexual passion become spiritual ecstasy. Remember
those 7-hour lovemaking sessions Sting talked about?
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Tantric Practice Happens in Every Momentby Crystal Dawn Morris, certified SkyDancing Tantra Teacher (Level 1)
My daily Tantra practice begins by
connecting to the 7 directions. This reminds me of the sacredness of all life
and that I am not separate from it. I open my "Inner Flute," with breath, sound
and movement to get my energy flowing. Once my body feels open I practice
sitting meditation; allowing everything to be as it is and noticing when
resistance arises. This meditation also involves self-inquiry, asking, "What am
I?" This helps me to discover my true nature, as consciousness.
 In the past, I was more focused on
doing formal practices such as Guru Meditation with visualizations and mantras.
I now find myself drawn to practices I can integrate easily into every moment.
They help to me move out of the belief that I am separate from Source and to
remember I am one-with-all-that-is. I do his micro-practices throughout the
day: tuning into my breath or my senses to allow present moment awareness to
arise frequently throughout the day.
What I love about teaching Tantra
is that it helps me to stay committed to my own practice. I can't teach what I
don't embody. I love the simplicity of Tantra. How breath, sound, and movement
can go from being automatic, to becoming a doorway to the Divine. It is a
blessing to watch people begin to use the Three Keys to awaken the sacred temples
of their bodies and celebrate life. For me, the magic happens when someone
recognizes the Divine in them self or in another. "Eye gazing" practice is a
powerful tool for awakening people to this connection. Tantra helps people to
recognize the illusion of separation and discover that we are all one.
I encourage everyone to develop a
daily practice. Find something that helps you to keep you energy flowing and
your mind open and relaxed. When you bring presence and acceptance into each
moment life naturally flows because there is no resistance.
Crystal
Dawn Morris is Certified SkyDancing Tantra Teacher (Level 1) and the founder of Tantra for Awakening . Her
next series of courses in Phoenix, AZ run from August through November 2009. Read more about Crystal Dawn here.
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Upcoming USA Events
*ONLY A FEW PLACES LEFT!* The Love & Ecstasy Training Cycle 2: Love & Orgasm with Steve & Lokita Carter
Aug 21-28, 2009 at Harbin Hot Springs, CA
Awakening the Ecstatic Body Level 1: Opening the Pathways to Bliss with Crystal Dawn Morris
Aug 29-30, 2009 at Sedona, AZ
Introduction to SkyDancing Tantra for Couples with Holly Rawson & Brian Ahern
Sep 25-27, 2009 at Storrs, CT
Awakening the Ecstatic Body Level 2: The Full-Body Orgasm & Beyond with Crystal Dawn Morris
Sep 26-27, 2009 at Sedona, AZ
The Love & Ecstasy Training Cycle 3: From Sexual Passion to Spiritual Ecstasy taught by Steve & Lokita Carter with Jelle Bode
Oct 19-25, 2009 at Harbin Hot Springs, CA
**FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE USA!** The Love & Ecstasy Training Cycle 4: Unfolding to Soul with Margot Anand & Jelle Bode
Oct 29-Nov 5, 2009 at Harbin Hot Springs, CA
The Love & Ecstasy Weekend: An Introduction to SkyDancing Tantra with Steve & Lokita Carter
Dec 4-6, 2009 at New York Open Center, Manhattan. NY
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A Teaching from Margot Anand
"It is possible, through
meditation and other kinds of practices, to have access to experiences that
are just as ecstatic and fulfilling as the sexual experience.
You can
either start from the root and go to the crown, or you can start from the crown
and come to the root. You thereby manifest the two functions of the human being,
which are to be the one who connects the earth to the sky and the sky to the
earth.
The deeper
levels of the spiritual / mystical experience are just as powerful and as great
as having a sexual orgasm-if not more so."
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