Essence Drops Weekend Immersion - nondual tantra and embodiment

Essence Drops Immersion 26. - 27.8. Tervetuloa oppimaan energiakehoa (somaattinen psyyke) vahvistavia klassisia tantrisia harjoituksia sekä immersoitumaan heränneen tietoisuuden tanssiin. Kurssilla opitut menetelmät auttavat tietoisessa tunnetyöskentelyssä, ja varhaisten keskenjääneiden tunnejälkien (samskaras) sulattamisessa (emotional digestion). Menetelmät lisäävät kykyä kohdata intensiiviset elämänkokemukset vakaudella. Immersion ohjelma koostuu: * meditatiivisesta kontemplaatiosta (tattva bhavana) * embodied yoga and somatic movement - sessioista * autenttisesta ja syvällisestä tantrisesta opetuksesta * energiakehoa vahvistavista harjoituksista * tunnealkemiasta * autenttisesta jakamisesta ja vuorovaikutteisista harjoituksista AIKA: La- Su 26.8. - 27.8. La: 10.00 - 17.00 Su: 10.00 - 19.00 Molemmat päivät pitävät sisällään tunnin ruokatauon. VENUE: Joogakoulu Shanti HINTA:: Early bird 17.7. saakka €269€ Regular: 339€ SIGN UP: [email protected] Lämpimästi tervetuloa tutustumaan klassisen nondualistisen tantran kauniiseen harjoitusperinteeseen ja yhteisöön! Alla lisätietoja englanniksi. Kurssi järjestetään kuitenkin suomeksi mikäli kaikki osallistujat puhuvat suomea. HUOM! Samana lauantai-iltana järjestämme Shantissa Ecstatic Dance Ritual - tapahtuman, jossa fuusioituu tantrinen rituaali, kaakaoseremonia ja ecstatic dance. Kyseessä on oma erillinen tapahtumansa, joka samalla sopii erinomaisesti immersion kanssa yhteen. LIsätietoja löydät: https://www.facebook.com/events/269295915805115 ***************** Welcome to a transformative weekend immersion on the embodied awakening. This weekend immersion focuses on the practices of tantrik yoga that assist in building a strong energy body (somatic psyche) that can digest any experience. We will dive into the three ‘bindus’ or Essence Drops that constitute the totality of our embodied experience. The practices taught are also useful in emotional digestion, a term referring to the integration of unresolved experiences such as trauma. No previous background in nondual shaiva tantra is required. Meditations are simple yet profound. Practice is weaved together with the exploration of undivided awareness that we call Awakening. Deliciously empowering embodiment practices - restorative yoga and somatic exploration - are included in the program. The program consists of: * meditative contemplation (tattva bhavana) * embodied yoga and somatic movement sessions * deep and nourishing teachings * strengthening the energy body (somatic psyche) * emotional digestion * authentic sharing When we abide in direct experience there is amazing fullness to the reality of our senses. We are in touch with the mysterious aliveness that animates everything and expresses as everything. We connect with others and the world around us with fresh eyes and openness. Instead of interpreting our experience through the mind we taste the astonishing immediacy of That Which Is. However, if we want to access this mode for more than just occasional glimpses, it is useful to have practices that supports this direct immediacy. Nondual shaiva tantra is a path of awakening that recognises aliveness as a doorway to the infinite presence-awareness that is our true nature. Cultivating natural rest as the still spacious core of being, together with absolute intimacy with all our experiences, is what makes this approach so direct and potent. ***************** As facilitators we draw from our background in various forms of yoga, tantra, meditation, inquiry, integrative therapy, dance, movement, somatics, trauma-informed therapy and nonviolent communication (NVC). TIME: Saturday - Sunday 26.8. - 27.8. Sat: 10.00 - 17.00 Sun: 10.00 - 19.00 There will be a one hour lunch break on Saturday and Sunday VENUE: Joogakoulu Shanti CONTRIBUTION: Early bird until 17th of July €269€ Regular: 339€ ***************** IS THIS FOR YOU? This weekend is suited for you if you want to increase your ability to meet everything that life brings without getting overwhelmed. Energy body practices help to strengthen our capacity to deal with intensity of any kind: be it energetic, somatic or emotional. This weekend is good for anyone who is feeling stuck on his/her journey or practice and wish to experience more efficiency, openness and flow. Having genuine curiosity and openness without any previous background is an indication to join this immersion . TANTRIK CEREMONIAL ECSTATIC DANCE: On Sat 26.8. 18.00 - 20.30 There will be an celebrational evening program in the same venue: a beautiful and profound nondual tantrik ceremony that peaks into ceremonial Ecstatic Dance. This is a different event facilitated by Gloria, Viivi and Tuomas Saarela. You can participate to both or just one of the events according to your liking. Link to Ecstatic Dance Ritual: https://www.facebook.com/events/269295915805115 *************** TEACHERS: Viivi Jokela & Gloria Salo 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 a passion to assist the awakening of consciousness and liberation from mind created suffering. She has committed her life to the in-depth study of western psychology and therapy, as well as the ancient eastern traditions of yoga and tantra. She has graduated from various yoga- and tantra teacher trainings and has been working as a yoga and meditation facilitator for the past 15 years. She has also graduated with Masters of Social Sciences from Helsinki University, majoring in Social Psychology. She combined psychological studies with her personal experience, struggles and insights in meditation and wrote her Master Thesis on Mindfulness. She then moved into studying non-violent communication (NVC) and cognitive therapy. Currently she delights in practicing the classical nondual tantra with Christopher Hareesh Wallis, and shares the wisdom of the tradition and her life experience through retreats, courses and therapy work. gloriasalo.fi/about