We
were fortunate to have a wonderful five-day visit with our dear friend
and teacher Margot Anand last week - we enjoyed each others' company,
rested, played, ate fabulous meals, went for walks, and talked about
many different things. Life time is very precious, and what better way
to spend it than with those we love!
We look forward to 2010
being a year on the upswing from 2009 which was challenging for growth
in many ways. Sometimes it takes a downward turn to get new clarity and
bring our priorities into perspective. This allows us to focus our
energy very practically where change can happen. On a personal level,
our focus this year will be on deepening our tantric practice, opening
our hearts more, trusting that everything is perfect the way it is, and
living with more fullness and gratitude. Living our passion can change
us and the world around us, and we are supported by whatever life
presents to us every moment.
NEW & EXCITING at the SkyDancing Tantra Institute is the addition of Cycle 5
to the curriculum of the Love & Ecstasy Training. It will be taught
for the first time in the US by Jelle Bode and Steve & Lokita
Carter on August 20-27, 2010 in Northern California. Also, we are
excited to announce a very special journey in late April 2011 - A Tantric Pilgrimage to Bhutan
- to visit and experience the sacred sites and precious places where
Guru Padmasambhava and his consort Yeshe Tsogyel meditated and taught
so many years ago.
In the meantime we send our love, and wish you a happy Valentine's Day!
Much love,
Lokita & Steve CarterCo-Directors of the SkyDancing Tantra Institute
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SkyDancing Tantra Coaching for Couples
by Holly Rawson & Brian Ahern, certified SkyDancing Tantra Teachers (Level 1)
 As counselors for
over 30 years, we work with couples in a 2 on 2 approach to improve and enhance
loving relationship through an array of excellent modalities. The
practices of SkyDancing Tantra are among our most powerful tools.
Coaching
in the skills of SkyDancing Tantra teaches couples how to quickly and
effectively move into deeper connection with each other. The continuum of
"connection" is what relationship is all about. The degree to which
each partner feels connected in any moment correlates with each partner's sense
of well-being, including feeling honored and loved. Naturally, we each have our
own inner work around feeling love of self, and our skill in self-love
correlates with our ability to receive love from another. SkyDancing Tantra
practices are supportive in growing both aspects: self-love, as well as sharing
and expressing love with a partner.
Throughout the coaching experience, both partners have many
opportunities to
practice new ways of simply relaxing. "Relaxing into" is at the
essence of the SkyDancing Tantra understanding. Thus, the coaching is a
gentle
and safe method that honors the pace of both partners. Through a
variety of
processes and exercises that build one upon the other, we learn to
relax deeply
within ourselves first, and then with our partner. Inherent in the
relaxation process is the foundational need for safety. Thus, fostering
a sense of safety is honored throughout.
As
with any skill, mastery accumulates with practice. Elizabeth was
inspired to check into coaching when she noticed feeling increasingly
disconnected from her husband, Ken. He wanted sexual closeness more
than she felt desire, especially since the birth of their first baby.
She found herself starting to avoid his company for fear that he would
initiate intercourse. ::READ MORE
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SkyDancing Tantra: Celebrating the Heart of
Sexuality
by Glenn Bourdot, Certified SkyDancing Tantra Presenter
 By acknowledging our sexual energy as part and
parcel of the very Energy of life, SkyDancing Tantra is a spiritual path
that calls us to love not just our partners, but ourselves as well... all
of ourselves. My own coming into acceptance and celebration of this fact has
been the most challenging, life-affirming and love-positive practice I've ever
engaged in. And one of the main things I'm continually learning in the process
is the primacy of the heart, and the need to FLOW.
When we practice opening to our feelings, we
quickly become aware that we carry a lot of feelings that don't feel so "good".
For many of us, our sexual history is a minefield of hurts and humiliations
that we'd sooner forget than feel. Intimacy ("into me see") with a partner
requires, first and foremost, that we come to peace with our own physical and
emotional life. To expect our partner to make us feel good under all conditions
is a sure-fire formula for failure.
And yet, we have the opportunity with our beloved
to free up the flow of feelings and hurts and discover our open, natural state
of "what is". As Margot Anand says, "Hiding gives strength to negative
feelings; sharing in an atmosphere of sincerity and trust dissipates their
power. Moreover, when you connect with a partner who is truthfully expressing
deep feelings, more energy becomes available as a bond of authenticity develops
between you." ::READ MORE
Glenn
is based in Prescott, AZ. His next event, co-taught with his beloved
Diana Owens, also a certified SkyDancing Tantra Teacher (Level 1), will
be on February 13, 2010.
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Love & Ecstasy Training Cycle 4: Unfolding the Soul
In
late October 2009, Cycle 4 of the Love & Ecstasy Training was
taught for the first time in the USA. Steve and Lokita Carter, Margot
Anand's lineage holders, taught the week together with Jelle Bode, a
leading SkyDancing Tantra teacher from Europe.
The group of 30 seasoned SkyDancers made for a very rich week - it was
an amazing experience of opening, transformation, letting go of old
patterns and mindsets, inviting in the new, meditating, moving the
body, and above all, exploring the healing powers of the tantric
practices.
The next Cycle 4 will be held in April this year, and taught by Steve and Lokita. In
the first part of the week, we will guide the group into
Chakra Awakening and exploring our Inner Flute as the connection
between sky and earth, male and female, spirit and
body, and as a lightning rod that grounds us in our center and brings us back to who we truly are every moment.
 In the Advanced Pelvic Healing
Practice we investigate the phases of our own personal sexual
evolution and unconscious patterns and
conditioning which may 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, and we can enjoy 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 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.
Next Cycle 4: April 16-23, 2010 at Harbin Hot Springs, Nth California. Read more here.
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Upcoming USA Events
Celebrating the Heart of Relationship with Glenn Bourdot & Diana Owens ~ Feb 13, 2010 at Prescott, AZ
Awakening the Ecstatic Body 1: Opening the Pathways to Bliss - Foundations in SkyDancing Tantra with Crystal Dawn Morris ~ Feb 27-28, 2010 at Sedona, AZ
Love & Ecstasy Training Cycle 4: Unfolding of the Soul with Steve & Lokita Carter ~ Apr 16-23, 2010 at Harbin Hot Springs, Nth CA
Timeless Loving: An Intro to SkyDancing Tantra with Steve & Lokita Carter ~ Apr 30-May 2, 2010 at Gabriola Island, BC, CANADA
The Art of Sexual Ecstasy: An Intro to SkyDancing Tantra with Steve & Lokita Carter ~ May 7-9, 2010 at Harbin Hot Springs, Nth California
The Art of Sexual Ecstasy: An Intro to SkyDancing Tantra with Steve & Lokita Carter ~ May 14-16, 2010 at Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY
Awakening the Ecstatic Body 2: The Full Body Orgasm and Beyond with Crystal Dawn Morris ~ May 22-23, 2010 at Sedona, AZ
Love & Ecstasy Training Cycle 1: The Body Ecstatic & Sexual Healing with Steve & Lokita Carter ~ May 28-Jun 4, 2010 at Harbin Hot Springs, Nth CA
Cycle 2: Aug 6-13
Cycle 3: Oct 22-28
**NEW! Love & Ecstasy Training Cycle 5 with Jelle Bode and Steve & Lokita Carter ~ Aug 20-27, 2010 at Harbin Hot Springs, Nth CA
Awakening the Ecstatic Body 3: From Sexual Union to Spiritual Communion with Crystal Dawn Morris ~ Aug 28-29, 2010 at Sedona, AZ
**FOR YOUR 2011 CALENDAR** A Tantric Pilgrimage to Bhutan with Steve & Lokita Carter ~ Apr 22-May 9, 2011
Contact & Calendar
| A Teaching from Margot Anand
"There is a powerfully creative force associated with our sexuality. It
is possible for us to become a magician and use that force to
heal and transform our life--to realize our dreams. All sorts of programming blocks 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." |
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