The modules - detailed program description
YEAR 1
Module 1: GROUND
- Setting the structure and agreements for the training
- Base Inventory: Where am I at this point in my life?
- Clear Communication
- Developing spiritual practice as the basic context for our journey: meditation, body awareness, breath and voice, self-love, sex-ritual
OUTCOME: I am able to engage in a daily spiritual practice that connects sex and spirit.
Module 2: SEX
- Sex: profane, lost, mystical? Where do you want to take it?
- exploring the sexual body and the erotic mind
- learning sexual-spiritual techniques: self love, full-body orgasm, sex magic
OUTCOME: I dare to go for lust and pleasure with my heart wide open and conscious.
Module 3: FAMILY
- The story of my life…
- ancestry and family of choice
- relationships and loneliness
- what binds me and what frees me?
OUTCOME: I am aware of my patterns. My relationships are clear, fulfilling and honest.
Module 4: NATURE
(9 day retreat in the beauty and serenity of nature)
- Connecting with the forces of nature
- cleansing the internal and external body
- raw instincts: wild animals unleashed
- earth sex rituals
- trance & transcendental experiences
OUTCOME: Here I am! Not doubting but being.
YEAR 2
Module 5: FE-MALE
- polarity, duality, unity
- What is my relationship towards men and women?
- Men that rape and vaginas with teeth: Investigating male force and female power
- getting intimate with the female body
- my role as a gay/bisexual man in the "war of the sexes
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OUTCOME: My view on gender issues is broadened. A whole new set of possibilities arises. I am self-confident as a man. In the face of conflict creativity can emerge.
Module 6: EXTREMES
- stretching the limits
- permitting convention-stripped creativity
- how can I handle extreme situations?
- learning to create your own rituals
- open space to play with your extreme edge
OUTCOME: By delving into my fears and limitations, I get access to the hidden power behind them. Thus, my consciousness expands.
Module 7: DEATH
- face to face with aging, suffering and dying
- what’s the worst that can happen?
- death wish
and fear of death
- learning to die in order to live, surrender in sex
OUTCOME: I am grateful for life and ready to die any moment.
Module 8: SACRED INTIMATES
(11 day intensive retreat)
This final retreat is designed to deepen and integrate the tools and outcomes received in module 1-7. In addition we will practice being Sacred Intimates. That means being fully present and loving with whatever is needed, anywhere within the realms of sex to spirit.
Sacred Intimate Initiation Ritual. Love.
1st year
Module 1 Ground 23.-26.10.2009
Module 2 Sex 31.12.2009-03.01.2010
Module 3 Family 31.03.-05.04. 2010
Module 4 Nature 10.07.-18.07.2010
2nd year
Module 5 Fe-male 22.10-25.10.2010
Module 6 Extremes 14.01.-17.01.2011
Module 7 Death 25.03.-28.03. 2011
Module 8 Sacred Intimates 02.06.-12. 06. 2011
Each module starts at 9 am on the first day and ends at 5.30 pm on the last day.
The retreats in nature end at 2 pm.
Tune-In: We suggest you arrive for all modules in Berlin the night before the module starts. You may have dinner with your trainee colleagues share about your experiences and settle in. For the retreats in nature arriving one night before is requested.
Place: Berlin (Module 1-3 and 5-7)
Beautiful natural surrounding: (Module 4 and 8)
