Stage 1 in Tulum

19 – 25th March 2024. Tulum, Mexico

 

Stage 1 – the Initiation

The Awaken as Love Initiation is a journey open to everyone – it begins with a choice to go on an adventure that will expand you beyond the boundaries of your current existence. What will it bring to you? More awareness, more love, more inclusion, more juice to your life and more depth if you allow it.

This first stage is called “Initiation” because if you choose this then all your experiences up til now have led you to this point and you are obviously ready to step into a wider reality – in doing so you enter fresh and new, open to discovering more.

As you step into this journey you will encounter maps that help you understand the larger world and your place in it (this is beyond your imagination), tools which help you to play more fully in this world, embodied experiences which help you to anchor a new reality and finally ongoing resources which help to integrate and incorporate this into your life.

 

What is this Training?

 

Your Instructors

During this course you will be held by 3 of the Awaken as Love faculty (and a full team of assistants) – they each come from different backgrounds but all are inspired to facilitate the evolution of humanity.

Laurie Handlers

Lead Instructor

Laurie Handlers, author of International Bestseller Sex & Happiness: The Tantric Laws of Intimacy teaches people ways to increase pleasure and return to love with themselves and their partners. Having done all of the work herself, Laurie is an expert in the field of sexuality, intimacy, and relationships. To Laurie, sexuality is the portal to healing and this work connects us to our creative life force.

As a speaker and facilitator, Laurie has taught transformational workshops since 1978 on topics ranging from releasing past emotional trauma, stopping the aging process, and Tantra (expansion through awareness) impacting tens of thousands of lives. She believes couples are an “endangered species.” Together with her partner she offers relationship coaching and holds workshops on how to be in extraordinary love. Watching people transform brings joy and excitement to Laurie’s life and career. www.lauriehandlers.com

James Stevenson

Founder & Lead Instructor

James’s passion is to help call forth our human potential and our soul. His weave brings together more than 20 years of experience in techniques, practices, and information from the cutting edge of Neuroscience, Tantra, Biodanza, Shamanic & Energy Work, Integral theory, and Taoist practices to create a spirituality that is rooted in the body. His evolutionary approach is to work on all lines, levels, states, and parts of ourselves in bringing forth our fullest potential.

His work in meditation and tantra work draws on many different traditions and paths he has studied from Kashmir Shaivism, Baul mysticism, Advaita Vedanta, Vajrayana Buddhism, Integral systems, and Neo-tantra. His shamanic work includes being Vision Quest rites of passage guide, holding Sweatlodge Ceremonies as well as Sacred Cacao Rituals. He has been dancing Biodanza since 2003 and now works as a teacher and a didactic teacher (qualified to teach other teachers in Biodanza Schools). www.jamesstevenson.life

Taina Ixchel Jorda-Cid

Instructor

Taina Ixchel, MA, is a Shamanic and Tantric Power Priestess, Facilitator, Coach, and exquisite Latina goddess queen. She helps people become more powerful and magnetic, create deeper connections with themselves and others so that they can have more fulfilling lives. In addition to being a medicine woman, Taina has a Master’s Degree, is a Tantric Counselor, a certified Energetic Relationship Practitioner, Holistic Health and Wellness Coach, and a Theta Healing Practitioner. She’s been practicing Tantra for over 10 years since she was initiated into one-on-one esoteric training with a Master who told her it was her destiny to teach this Love.

For over 4 years, Taina has been teaching Tantra, hosting workshops in San Diego, internationally, and virtually. She also facilitates regular Red Tent: Sacred Priestess Circles for womxn to create community and embody the Divine Feminine. Taina also offers private empowerment life coaching and Tantric or medicine healing sessions. www.PowerPriestess.com

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein

 

In fact it is not the next level of consciousness but the one after that which integrates the previous ones which will facilitate real change.

 

What will I get from this training?

This certificated course will give you practical tools, maps and experiences to be able to embody a deeper understanding of reality, and how to that to engage more fully and live more of your potential.

Supporting this are presence and insights from international facilitators during the week long process, sharing groups to help you connect and express your experience and a 60-page guidebook that help with your continued unfolding.

 

Tantra Techniques

How can the energy of the raw animal self be raised into higher consciousness, and how can this consciousness descend into the body and manifest world? Really this is a deep intimacy with yourself, with a partner and even throughout a group.

Embodiment practices

It’s one thing to understand with the mind, and something completely different to have a knowing that comes from a deep experiencing of wisdom through the body. Being able to manifest inate creativity into the reality is a skill.

System Reboot

We will be resetting the experiences and patterns in the nervous system of the body. These have framed your experience of this world since birth. Imagine how your life could be filled with more ease, clarity and pleasure!

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Shamanic Initiations

We will be perfoming ceremonies that take you outside of the normal sequence of time and anchor in soul peices that have been waiting for this moment.

Integral Maps

As we learn these maps –  the whole picture is revealed and we suddenly start to understand where pieces that you were partially aware of fit inside a larger picture of reality.

Wisdom Transmission

Through transmission we will be awakening our higher centres of knowing, expanding into a new operating system and accessing novelty from the cosmos.

 

How can this advance me working in these areas?

 

There are a few ways in which this training will support you in your journey as a guide, teacher or practitioner. It is an accredited course from Awaken As Love – you will recieve a certificate on completion and you can state that you have completed this training on your personal biographies.

You will also be eligible to attend the next levels – Deepening & Radicalization to eventually become an Awaken as Love Facilitator.

In addition you will be gaining direct tools that you can then use in your own workshops and practices as well as a deeper understanding about how to work with groups – and meeting a larger international network of practitioners and teachers to create and stay in on-going connection. We routinely give opportunities to Awaken as Love graduates to be part of the festivals we create.

 

 

Some of Areas Covered in this Training Are:

  • Tantric Bodywork
  • Individual Partnered Tantra Meditations
  • Archetypal Group Rituals
  • Inner Masculine & Inner Feminine Aspects
  • Character armour.
  • De-armouring
  • Integral Maps
  • The 4 Dimensions of Reality.
  • States of Consciousness
  • Stages of Consciousness
  • Lines of Development
  • Typological Mapping
  • Experience of Theory U
  • Shadow & Spiritual Bypassing
  • Gifts of the Wound
  • Difference between Ego and Identity
  • Identity & Regression.
  • Group Dynamics
  • Teachings of the 4 Shields
  • Shamanic Medicine Walk
  • Mindfullness and Heartfullness
  • Satori Experiences

 

Practical Information for Stage 1 – the Initiation

Dates: The training runs from the 19 – 25nd March 2024.

Venue: Paledora Eco-Resort, Predio el Venado, MZ50, LT34 Chemuyil, Quintana Roo, 77774, Mexico

Super- Earlybird Training Fee: $1200. (total price is $2000 including the food and accommodation below in a shared triple room).

Accommodation Fee:

Shared Triple Room: $800 (shared with 2 others of the same gender unless specified otherwise)

Shared Twin Room: $1100 (shared with 2 others of the same gender unless specified otherwise)

Single  Occupancy Room: $1400 (whole room to yourself!)

All options includes 3 meals a day and snacks in shared 3 person, same gender rooms with en-suite bathrooms. It’s possible to upgrade to a double for couples or to name the people you would like to share with.

Staying in between the Festival and Training: For those joining both the festival and training it is possible to stay at the eco-resort where the training is held for the 2 days in between – we’ve negotiated with Paledora to offer this for $100 per night, including 3 meals a day. Just mention you would like this in the notes when signing up and we will add you to the list ( payable directly with the venue on arrival or before).

 

Special Offer: Book both this Training and the Awaken as Love Tantra Festival together to get 10% discount off the training!

Ready to Jump?

Sometimes you have to treat yourself to an experience that will expand your word-view, transform your being and foster new friends and allies along the path.

The Venue

The venue for the training is an Eco-Resort called Paladora in the jungle near Tulum, and is part of the same complex as the Tantra Festival beforehand.

It has magical indoor & outdoor spaces to gather that include many natural wonders, such as a private Cenote (natural spring pool) & Temazcal (sweatlodge). 

The accommodations are blending luxury with jungle and outside you will find a beautiful swimming pool, a fire pit on the spacious terrace and a wood-fired hot tub and sauna (8 persons). The surrounding nature is part of the course here.

 

Meals

3 Meals a day are inclusive of the accommodation price and fully vegetarian although we do consume dairy products and eggs. We use organic vegetables, pulses/legumes, grains and oils as often as possible. If you have special dietary needs then please mention this in the additional information area of the booking form so we can accommodate your needs as best as possible. Coffees and teas area available throughout the day.

 

Accommodation

The apartments here are are stylish and rooms accommodate between 2-3 people. There are Private Bathrooms, AC & Fan in Every Bedroom.

It also includes Toiletries & Beach Essentials, Fully Stocked Kitchens for Casas, Weekly Housekeeping and Great Wifi Throughout the Property. 3 meals a day are included.

Ready to Jump?

Sometimes you have to treat yourself to an experience that will expand your word-view, transform your being and foster new friends and allies along the path.

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