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Tantra Dance Facilitators Training
Know that all of Nature is but a magic theater, 
that the great Mother is the master magician,
and that this whole world is peopled by her many parts. ~ Upanishads ~ The Tantric Dance cultivates Presence between partners, presence imbued with mutual respect and humility, in a context of devotion to the Great Mother. The Dance gives the couple a vehicle through which they may refine their spiritual, emotional and physical relationship. It produces a mirror of the relationship on all levels--spiritual, mental, emotional and physical. The Dance reveals the dynamics in the relationship that need adjusting or refining and the dynamics that are already good and desireable in their relationship.  Equally, it provides an exquisite vehicle through which they can then adjust, refine, amplify and cultivate those dynamics. Some of the exercises in the workshop are done individually and some in tandem between the partners. Contact is through the resonance of the subtle bodies and the auric fields. The subtle sensate awareness and refined movement generated through The Tantric Dance does transfer naturally and directly into more refined, deeply felt love-making, but exploring this in physical union is a private practice for the couple in their own time and place. Each partner, individually and in tandem, has the opportuniy to cultivate presence and subtle body resonance between them, in the context of devotional intention. It is the quality of consciousness that determines the quality of physical union. Conscsiouness determines whether physical union is a spiritual experience. The Dance is a moving meditation that cultivates, circulates and integrates the sexual and heart fires. As these two alchemically mingle, the power of the sexual fire fuels the heart while the power of the heart refines and raises the frequencies of the sexual fire. In the Dance we approach all the body's energies with humility and reverence. We develop the skill to hold this high voltage mix with increasing subtlety. The exquisite interplay between the stimulus of subtle sensation and the response of refined movement creates deeper and deeper states of pleasure. As this interplay becomes more and more subtle and as the pleasure is offered from the heart in devotion, power condenses, the bodily frequencies heighten and the innate spiritual knowledge of the body awakens. We have direct epiphanies of the Goddess in Her many forms and powers. The Tantric Dance is a yogic practice of the Knowledge, Beauty and Power of the Great Goddess. You do not need to be a dancer of any skill. But you must be ready for accelerated growth to participate in this workshop. Working at this level will influence every facet of your life; shed a light onto your fears and shadows; reveal imbalances in body, mind and relationships that may need healing; create opportunities for your gifts to unfold into the world and challenge you to seize these opportunities. "If we enter into the spherical universe, into the marvelous sinuousness of the total being of woman, we regain the suppleness of the newborn, joyous spontaneity, unprogrammed pleasure, slowness, the dawning of life in our organs, our skin, our gaze, our movements, our loving acts."Daniel Odier in Desire
| The Tantric Dance is a devotional subtle body practice. It is a keenly focused, self-referred moving meditation that circulates the life force throughout the nadis (subtle energy channels of the body) and weaves the energies of the Womb, Heart and Third Eye. It is a spontaneous practice that is experienced only by direct, subtle communion with the innate intelligence and powers of the body. Spontaneity manifests a precision and profundity of experience that far surpasses that of technique, especially when rooted in subtle energetic awareness and devotional intention. The Dance is based in profound Pleasure. Though trivialized, distorted and profaned in the modern world, in reality Pleasure is a central mystery of authentic power and spiritual knowedge. It is inseparable from Shakti, the Cosmic Feminine Creative Force. Pleasure is a sacred gift from the Divine Mother. The Tantric Dance is a continual moving stream of asanas imbued with knowledge, pleasure and power; a flowing infinity of shapes, subtle sensations, feelings, emotions and movement. In the Dance our full-body, multivalent, spherical awareness unfolds naturally. A river does not think where it will go, it feels what is present--rocks, earth, soil, cliffs, valleys, plants and trees…and moves responsively. We dance the river of our devotion and desire. It flows through us until we become the very Ocean of Bliss. This practice is not neo-tantra.It has no affinity with neo-tantra’s focus on sexual techniques. The Tantric Dance is a devotional practice danced for the benefit of self and all beings. It is approached in utter surrender, humility and reverence. Its affinity is with the inner source of tantric mysticism, the female wisdom that shaped the original, authentic practices of Tantra. Though called "dance", The Tantric Dance is not just dance. It moves fluidly--just as Woman’s spherical consciousness does--across the artificial divisions between dance, movement, meditation and yoga. Between stillness and motion. Between bhakti, deity, jnana and hatha yoga. It is yoga, dance, prayer, worship, a healing modality, moving meditation and the essence of still meditation. It is tantric yoga and contains the yoga of emotion. It manifests magical workings, shamanic journeying, karmic unfoldings, animal powers, the opening of the Heart, healing transmissions and spiritual empowerments. The highest wisdom teachings come through The Dance. It has revealed itself as an authentic Dakini practice: |
| Through The Tantric Dance, the dancer increases her sensitivity to subtle energies, learns how to absorb them as they intensify, rather than dissipate them, leading to an ever increasing capacity to receive, generate and absorb higher frequencies in the body. "Frequency" is no poetic expression but a concrete, tangible phenomenon. At the higher frequencies, The Tantric Dance is the literal living embodiment of deity. The Tantric Dance is danced for the benefit of self, witness and all beings. |
| It connects us with the source of yoga: the dance of the Dakinis, the carriers and catalysts of wisdom and enlightenment. It has revealed itself to be an authentic yoga, a spiritual treasure that has emerged from the inherent intelligence and power of woman’s body. Over the years it has proven to be a vehicle par excellence of woman’s empowerment and awakening. The spontaneity of this practice demands a mental focus, sensate awareness and emotional courage far beyond the requirements of codified steps and technique. The results, likewise, far surpass those gained by technique. This is the Yoga of Shakti, a spontaneous, feminine moving yoga that can only be discovered by direct communion with the deep, innate intelligence of one’s own body. It avails us of an unusually rapid path of personal evolution. What you can learn in a single Dance experience might take weeks, months or even years of study without the Dance. |
| With this rapidity and depth comes great challenge. You must be ready to hold power and bear the responsibility that comes with it. |
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