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“We have learned so much about us as a couple in only a few days. It has brought a new depth to our relationship. The workshop was full of excellent demonstrations and time given to practice. One insightful practice was of ‘non-doing’ – this has been most helpful in integrating our connection with spirit during love-making by allowing spirit to flow through us…..bliss! Love Making now is so natural and very precious, more intimate and passionate. We have learned how to expand our sensuality and connection with each other and now cherish the relationship that we have. John & Gabi created a loving and safe environment for beautiful experiences to manifest. John’s knowledge, wisdom and teaching style are truly amazing.” Peter & Sue, Doctor, Devon

“Transforming! A wonderful, joyous, empowering training which brought about deep healing and at times challenging experiences. The whole training was a very positive experience helping me to develop a healthy relationship with my sexuality and finding peace in my body. This helped in my process of knowing myself, accepting and loving myself and others more fully. In-depth group sharings created an atmosphere of honesty and openness. John is a brilliant teacher who has a style of delivering this incredible subject in a way which is easy to understand sharing his personal experiences.” Alison, Teacher, Glasgow

“John’s shamanic healing helped me to get insights into the depth of my being which allowed me to realise my deepest longing. This facilitated an acceptance on a level never achieved before….never allowed. I experienced a freedom to be profoundly vulnerable and yet completely safe. I feel more true and real as a consequence.

The Tantric sexual healing allowed me to experience pain-free lovemaking for the first time in my life. Exploring the shadow allowed me to be total in that I accepted as aspects of myself elements I’d previously projected onto others. Hence I no longer demonised those aspects but realised they were parts of me to be healed….furthermore I was able to do this in a joyful and playful way as I was healing the guilt and shame relating to them. I became a truly creative force in my healing as I took responsibility for my whole experience without blame.

I’ve learnt tools which are proven to continue taking me further towards more and more pleasure…. greater freedom to discover what it is I truly desire.
Whenever something is bothering me I recognise the mechanism by which it is created, how I am attached to its existence and can take steps to discontinue giving it energy to continue. In other words I have the ability to choose whether to stay with this experience or move on to something more rewarding and pleasurable.

My mind has been broadened by the experience of working with John that equates to a paradigm shift in raised awareness. I found a sense of myself arriving home at long last. The training brought together aspects of self which everywhere else in life had ignored, denigrated or been in denial of its existence." Grace

"Over many years working with John I find his approach is always in a spirit of exploration and adventure. I feel he's a fellow-traveller as well as teacher and guide in the quest for deeper understanding of energy and consciousness, through Tantra and shamanism." Tilly, potter, Devon

Tantra with John has helped me in ways I had never imagined, when I started out.  I have more 'self understanding' and have been able to grow as a person.  I am looking forward to my next training! Clive, London

SEX MAGIC Alchemy of the Transformation, New Year Celebration with Jon, Rose, Christine, Bernard, Jitka Mandalam, Honza and Maruška

Imagine…

• Journeying to the depths of Southern Bohemia in the Czech Republic.
• Arriving at the amazing Centre of Transformation in Cernivsko on December 29th where you are warmly greeted by one or more members of the Transformation Team.
• Meeting other fellow adventurers who have arrived from Europe: maybe some old friends, maybe an opportunity to meet and bond with new friends:  like-minded individuals who also invest in their personal growth and who relate to you with kindness and respect.
• Taking time to explore the grounds with its stone circle, lake and deep forests…
• Being nourished with excellent vegetarian/vegan cuisine.
• Entering the Centre’s Main Hall and feeling the powerful vibrations of a room which has hosted transformative workshops for thirty years.
• Sitting in a circle in which we introduce ourselves - and the journey begins…  

At the end of this challenging year, we are going to take you on a journey of transformation like no other.

New Year is the perfect time for evaluating what worked and what did not in 2021, then wiring the found wisdom into the circuitry of your plans for 2022. We offer you five days of opportunity to help you shed everything which no longer serves your life, and open your heart and mind to a new reality, one which is created by you – because only you know what is best for you.

On this journey, you are going to your edge because the edge is where you feel most fully alive, and where transformation runs deep and lasts for the rest of your life.

We invite you to;

• Sit alone, in the winter crisp of a Bohemian forest, space in nature for contemplating what it is you really want in life.
• Purify in the heat and smoke of a ritually-constructed Sweat Lodge – and maybe cool off in an ice-cold lake -  if you are up for that challenge.
• Dance ecstatically with fellow adventurers to amazing music, then relaxing, feeling your body glow with health whilst your mind dwells in love.
• Participate in powerful group rituals designed to raise energy.
• Learn potent tools for growth and transformation which will remain with you for the rest of your life.

The thread running through these five days is the practice of Sigil Magick. A sigil is a symbol of intent and we guide you through the process of

• Formulating your intent for 2022 and focusing this into an embodied sigil. We guide you into the deeper desires of your soul rather than your ego. As a result, you will formulate realistic and growth-affirming intentions which are more likely to manifest lasting happiness than merely wishing for,say,a new car. Satisfying the desires of your soul will bring you much more fulfillment.
• Embodying your sigil according to the centuries-old Tantrik practice of nyasa.
• Projecting your sigil into 2022 so that your intention manifests as reality. We do this as a tribe in a group ritual and invite you to bond into a tribe for the evening of 31^st and work your amazing magic with like-minded souls. 
• According to the Western Hermetic Traditions, this ritual is more powerful still when participants forget what they have wished for. So we invite you to a post-ritual Forgetting, aided and abetted by a glass of fizz and some of our mince pies. After this we will celebrate the new year (and the new you) with dancing and liveliness in the temple.

You will be held by an international team of experts qualified in the fields of tantra, shamanism, bioenergetics, yoga, psychotherapy and dance. Your guides are seven members of the Paths of Transformation Teaching Faculty. We have trained extensively with its founder, John Hawken, a world leader in the field of personal transformation, and Alchemy of Transformation is an expression of his teachings.  

Jon is based in the UK and has studied with John Hawken since 2016. In addition to being a Paths of Transformation Teaching Faculty member, he is a psychotherapist, transformational coach and yoga teacher. He currently co-teaches the year-long Tantric Lovemaking for Couples training in the Czech Republic and the UK with his wife, Rose. He brings deep learning, vibrant warmth and impish humour to his teaching.

Rose has been involved with the modern Tantra movement for 15 years and is a Paths of Transformation Teaching Faculty member. She is a skilled bodyworker, trained in Lomi Lomi, Arvigo and Tranformational Tantra massage. She also teaches Heart-In-Motion Dance, a form of Biodanza and Shamanic Trance Dance. She lives in the UK with her husband Jon and co-teaches the year-long Tantric Lovemaking for Couples training in the Czech Republic and the UK. 

Christina has, all her life, been fascinated by sexual energy, this powerful life force and its multiple expressions. She is a psychotherapist working with a holistic approach and a member of the `paths of Transformation Teaching Faculty. She is German, and lives and works in France.

Bernard, a psychoanalyst and sex therapist, is an Adventurer of Love and Libido. He is committed to creating and embodying a space of security and freedom in which Energy and Consciousness can meet, mirror and intertwine through ever-renewed experience. His meeting with John Hawken was a revelation of the potential we have in using our Sexual Life Energy as the golden path to maturation and healing.

Jitka is teaching the year-long Medicine Path shamanic training and the Sacred Body Passionate Spirit tantric training in the Czech Republic. She is an experienced Master of Ceremonies, chiefly the Stone People (Sweat Lodge) Ceremony (which she will facilitate in this New Year gathering) and Tantra/Shamanic weddings. She is a master of Tuina, Reflexology and Tantra Massage therapy.