Living Tantra 1
A journey of expansion in heart, body and mind, to claim your natural gifts, resources and joy of life.
Friday 27th September - Friday 4th October 2024
At The EarthSpirit Centre
Led by Ed Rooke & Bethan Evans
This carefully structured week offers an awakening to all aspects of your natural aliveness, to bring greater richness in your relationships, deeper intimacy and more authentic connection with others.
We will be using many tools including guided meditations, explorations in small groups, sharing circles, ceremony and breath work, to explore our emotional landscape and discover the body’s natural sources of energy.
You will be supported to connect with your feelings and discover a way to be that honours all aspects of yourself including your sensitivity, sensuality, sexuality and innocence.
At all times we will encourage you to listen deeply to what is right for you, expressing your boundaries and finding your own way so no explorations are ever too much.
Through your interactions with others in a caring and respectful environment you will discover more about the ways that you love, relate and express. So that you can bring more of yourself into your relationships with ease, delight, playfulness and consciousness.
Living Tantra gives you permission to enjoy pleasure. It also gives you the permission to say 'no'. The workshop invites you to connect with truth and love, to discover and integrate your masculine and feminine selves.
This workshop will bring new experiences, new practices and ideas and a greater clarity of thought to anyone consciously seeing personal growth in this area of the human psyche - sexuality. Allow your spirit to connect with your body, give yourself a truly holistic experience which can set the tone and pace of your future sexual self!
What actually happens on the Living Tantra 1?
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The benefits you can get from this workshop are:
A sense of ease in your body
Increased self-confidence
Renewed vitality
A way of growing and healing your sexuality
A consciousness and connection with spirit
Learning to communicate your boundaries, desires and needs
Moving towards rich, pleasurable relationships and heart-centred sexual relationships
Experiencing yourself as a vibrantly alive man or woman
Learning that you are strong enough to hold all you feel
Allowing yourself to be tender and vulnerable
Living with passion and love
Testimonials
Vic’s Experience
Richie’s Experience
Martin’s Experience
Jason’s Experience
Are you ready to join us?
About Ed
Believe me, I know what it is like to be stuck, numb and without feeling. And I also know just how empowering it is to find healing, connection and freedom. That is why this work is so important to me.
My journey with this work started young; in my early 20’s my emotional blocks led me to be debilitated by a chronic illness. At this age, it seemed like the worst thing; it totally destroyed the life I had. With hindsight, it was the catalyst for transformation into a richness of life I never knew was possible.
As I began to engage on a meditative path, I began to realise that I have a unique sensitivity for tuning into the very subtle on a feeling level. For noticing the places which might otherwise be missed; the lost frozen places within each of us which are ever so faintly crying out for love. And for tuning into the environment and resources that are needed for what has been lost to come home
I have spent many years training extensively with various masters, including Stephen Gilligan, Jan Day and Mateo Tabatabai, as well as more formal training (Doctorate in Psychology, Cert in Hypnotherapy, etc).
My facilitation weaves together aspects of tantra and shadow work to guide people to connect with their natural aliveness and resources, so they can be more fully themselves in all aspects of their life.
About Bethan
During a first career in the helping professions Bethan was drawn to Alexander Technique and later to Shadow Work and Tantra, all of which helped her deal with personal challenges such as bereavement, depression and a sense of not belonging. People appreciate the safety they feel during sessions and workshops, Bethan’s clarity and her ability to ‘meet’ & hold them in all sorts of feeling states.
Over time she has trained and practiced as an Alexander Technique teacher, a Shadow Work coach and with renowned relationship expert Jan Day in her School of Being.
She continues to study with Jan Day and with Joanna Watters (“Supporting a radical acceptance of present moment reality”)
The Venue
Earth Spirit, a beautiful retreat centre in Somerset, just five miles from Glastonbury. The nearest station is Castle Cary, with a direct train connection from London Paddington and a journey time less than two hours. It is situated between two nature reserves.
Accommodation options
Standard accommodation is in dorms, some upgrades are available to twin or single accommodation. A discount is also available for those who wish to stay in a camper van.
Food
We have a fantastic menu of vegetarian meals prepared by our own chef and a buffet breakfast. Where possible our produce is locally sourced and mostly organic.
Gluten free and vegan options are available free of charge, and other supplementary diets can usually be catered for on request.
Fruit, tea and other snacks are available in break times throughout the day.
Practicals
Arrival Time : Friday 27th October at 6pm, staring with dinner at 6.45 pm
Finish Time : Friday 4th October at 2-3 pm
A typical day
8.00 Active Meditation
9.00 Breakfast
10.30 Morning Session
13.00 Lunch Break
15.00 Afternoon Session
18.30 Dinner Break
20.00 Evening Session
22.00 Finish
More testimonials…
Zac’s Experience
Wolfgang’s Experience
Brianne’s Experience
How to Register
Step 1
Pay your a deposit of £300 to reserve your place .
This fee covers your food and accommodation costs.
Step 2
After receiving your deposit we will send you a Confidential Questionnaire which must be completed within 7 days to secure your place.
You will also receive an invoice for the balance which can be paid at anytime between now and 30 days before the workshop.
Step 3
Your place will be confirmed once the Confidential Questionnaire has been received.
In the unlikely event that during the application process, you or we feel the course is not a good match at the moment,, we will refund you in full within 3 days.
Fee
Super Early Bird Price - £870 (Until 7/5/24)
Early Bird Price - £990 (Until 19/8/24)
Full Price - £1180
Price is inclusive of all food & standard accommodation (Room upgrades are available for an additional fee)
FAQs
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I intentionally offer a sliding scale to make my work accessible to all; higher payments subsidise lower payments and concessions. The invitation is to consider your financial circumstances and decide what amount honours you right now.
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Concessionary places are subsidised by men who are able to pay a higher fee on the sliding scale. If you know you want to come on this workshop and the lower tier price is not affordable for you, please send me an email and we can discuss whether there is a way to make this possible.
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There are several times within the programme set aside to do process work in the circle, so if you have a particular issue we will encourage you to bring this. However, we will not be offering a set period of time for each man to work, as we have done on some of our previous workshops.
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For the work we are doing, it is essential that all participants stay on site. This allows the time and space to discover, strengthen and develop your Sovereign Energy, both individually and as a group. We also have a very full programme!
Do you have other questions that aren’t answered here?
Living Tantra
Living Tantra is a series of sexuality and intimacy workshops that begins with Living Tantra 1. Living Tantra was developed by Jan Day. Over recent years some of the workshops have been taught by Ed Rooke, Bethan Evans and Nicola Foster.
The Living Tantra Training offers an opportunity to explore more deeply into the realms of ecstatic loving, sexual intimacy and sacred union so that you can learn to have healthy, satisfying relationships.
Because of the nature of this work, a pre-requisite for the Living Tantra Course is the foundational workshop, Living Tantra 1. When you have completed the full 7 days of Living Tantra 1, you can participate in any of the other Living Tantra workshops (LT2, LT3 & LT4) and you can also join the 18 month Living Tantra Training group if you wish.
For more about Jan Day & Living Tantra