Tantric transformation

"Each person has their dark side inside themselves. When the energy is transformed, that which we considered dark and horrible suddenly becomes the flavouring and the variety of our personality. By adding those ingrediences we become attractive and tasty for ourselves and for others. “

This workshop offers a safe environment, where you can explore the tantric approach and experience how guilt/shame and blame/anger can be transformed through sexual energy and excitement. Desire is the force behind both these feelings. Guilt is driven by the desire to be punished, and blame by the desire to punish. The tantric way of transformation can use techniques which on the surface look like BDSM practices, but energetically it is something completely different and it leads us much further. The desire connected to power and powerlessness is transformed into the desire to live. 

In this workshop we let ourselves be safely carried by the flow of desire, and learn how to allow our power to support our life, rather than turn it against ourselves or others. When we liberate the natural essence from the cage of thoughts, fears and painful experiences, it waits for a conscious invitation into life. When you find a conscious contact to your power you become free and responsible. In the framework of the tantric ritual, the intense healing contact is given in an external form through punishment but much more with the energy of erotic celebrations. The giver emphasises the pleasure from giving the contact and so creates the permission for the receiver to experience their pleasure. The whole system of moral punishment is transformed into an erotic game, with healing, pleasure and erotic confirmation of its real purpose.  We are going to rediscover, heal, nourish and celebrate the contact with our natural power.

Bring comfortable clothes that you feel good in, a Lungi (a large scarf you can wrap around your waist), a blanket or a sheet to mark your space, a cushion or an old blanket for emotional release, any tools you like and would like to use (a whip, a cane, cuffs, ropes, etc.), objects you associate with uncomfortable feelings of helplessness that you would like to transform (wooden spoons). Please, get a cane or a flexible rod from the woods for safe release of aggression. You are not going to use this on one another. You can also bring an old tennis racket, a tube or something similar you no longer need.

Themes we will look at:

• Playing the body with the whip like a musical instrument; the whip as a massage tool to move energy
• Safety and control for the receiver, giving from the heart for the giver.
• Healing shame and letting the body respond.
• Transgression as a step towards becoming your self, healing fear and adaptedness and exploring punishment as affirmation of your own energy.
• Making friends with your anger. Expressing anger through contact rather than through withdrawal.
• Transforming the symbol of the whip from an instrument of punishment and repression to an instrument of liberation.