Embodied Essence Immersion - nondual tantra, yoga and embodiment

Welcome to 3 days of regenerative immersion in the teachings and practice of nondual tantra, embodied yoga and emotional alchemy. This immersion is designed for those who want to deepen their practice, and feel the intuitive pull to explore the so called nondual view on reality. If you feel like on the verge of taking the next step on your awakening journey, the immersion offers various tools and insight to navigate the process, as well as space for authentic sharing with fellow practitioners. This doesn't mean you have to have a practice background. In fact, if this endeavor is something completely new for you to explore, there is the favorable benefit of a fresh beginning. Open mind and curiosity are the only requirements. Wonder is a gateway to grace. We will practice meditation and awareness cultivation from the perspective of the direct way, revealed by the streaming beauty of the rich tantrik tradition. Deliciously empowering embodiment practices - yoga, intuitive movement and sound - are of course included in the program. We will also study the heart-mind realm of emotional alchemy. Emotional Alchemy is a way to integrate and digest experiences in a way that facilitates inner wholeness and empowerment. We will explore the key concepts that are essential in this process, also known as emotional digestion. These include somatic awareness of emotion, and a capacity to drop the mental narratives attached to it so that we can experience all emotion in a raw, unfiltered manner. We will discuss the universal needs of which our emotions often serve as indicators. We will learn to approach our own inner world and experience with radical acceptance, no matter which form it takes. Within the flow there will be moments for the healing power of music and ecstatic dance. This immersion includes: Awareness Cultivation practices Emotional Alchemy Foundations of tantrik nondual view Living Compassion Interrelated inquiry practice (DYAD) Embodied yoga and movement Restorative practices Authentic sharing As facilitators we draw from our background in various forms of yoga, tantra, meditation, inquiry, nondual therapy, dance, movement, somatics, trauma-informed therapy and nonviolent communication (NVC). We are honored to walk this path of supreme nondual reality with all of you - which includes the experience of duality within the endless flow of expansion and contraction, concealment and revelation, creation and dissolution. As you are us, and we are you. Welcome to this immersion to remember, explore and welcome the totality of who you are. 'In our view (of nondual shaiva tantra) the highest power of consciousness is svātantrya: the power of one's innate freedom and autonomy. May this power bless our lives to bloom in boundlessness, gratitude and awe.' TIME: Friday - Sunday 14.10. - 16.10. Fri: 18.00- 20.00 Sat: 10.00 - 17.30 Sun: 10.00 - 16.00 There will be a one hour lunch break on Saturday and Sunday VENUE: Joogakoulu Shanti CONTRIBUTION: Early bird until 1st of Sep: €290€ Regular: 360€ TEACHERS: Viivi Jokela & Gloria Salo On Sat 15.10. There will be also nondual Live Ambient Cacao Cremony and Ecstatic Dance event faclitated by Viivi and Gloria and Elysian Trees. More information here: https://fb.me/e/4G5xYpVXJ Viivi Jokela: Viivi Jokela facilitates embodied awakening in people who are inclined in that way. With direct pointing, she shares timeless universal wisdom of recognizing one’s true nature and the deeper nature of all existence. Her background is in the lineage of nondual shaiva tantra which she first encountered academically (MA) and later on experimentally. She is especially inspired by the aesthetic emphasis on tantrik path. Consciousness has an innate capacity to savor unreserved beauty and wonder which empowers the liberation process. Her own journey to abiding awakeness has brought about experiential insight on various aspects of unfolding as well as potential pitfalls on the path. Teachers that she has studied with during the years include Christopher Hareesh Wallis (nondual shaiva tantra), Adyashanti (nondual zen), Paul Muller Ortega (shaiva tantra), Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche (bön dzogchen), and Rupert Spira (Kashmir shaivism & advaita). Gloria Salo: Gloria has had passion for paths of awakening consciousness since she was a child. She used to study yoga from her mother's books and teach yoga to her classmates at school. She began her serious study of yoga 20 years ago. After she found the esoteric and tantric practices of yoga and meditation, she committed herself to the ancient sacred yogic and tantric traditions. She lived years in an ashram near one of her teachers to deepen her understanding of spirituality, yoga, tantra and self-inquiry. During the years abroad she graduated as a yoga teacher, and concluded a years long tantric education. Gloria has deep interest in human psyche and the different dimensions of consciousness. The quest to understand the hidden potentials within, led her to graduate with Masters of Social Sciences, majoring in Social Psychology. Gloria has written her Master Theses on Mindfulness Meditation and in her academic studies combined psychological studies with her personal experience in meditation. Gloria is a child of not one but many traditions. She has studied with a world famous yogi Gokulchandra Das and has graduated from various Gokul Yoga Teacher Trainings with the emphasize on deep yogic practices and Bhakti - heartful devotion. These days she studies and practices classical nondual tantra from the Trika lineage with Christopher (Hareesh) Wallis. Currently she is training NVC (non-violent communication) and Living Compassion, and is doing her post studies in cognitive therapy. Gloria is continuing to study different forms of human unfoldment and believes that the best teacher is first of all a great student. In addition to yoga and tantra Gloria likes to involve herself in creative and transformative projects. She is a producer of consciousness awakening events, practices dance, has two magical chihuahuas and is an active member in the psychedelic art and music community, teaching tantra in many of the big festivals in Europe."