Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome to the course!

    • Introduction to the course - survey

  • 2

    SEPTEMBER

    • Week 1. Introduction: Our Code of Ethics

    • Week 1. Introduction: Note to the exercises in this program

    • Week 1. Introduction: Recommended books

    • Week 1. Introduction: What is Tantra?

    • Week 1. Introduction: What is not Tantra?

    • Week 1. Introduction: The History of Tantra

    • Week 1. Introduction: How do people live Tantra?

    • Week 1. Introduction: Classifications of Tantra

    • Week 1. Introduction: Neo-Tantra, How this world longs for understanding

    • Week 1. Introduction: Black Tantra School

    • Week 1. Introduction: The Practice of “Cleansing”

    • Week 1. Introduction: How do you feel with the people around you?

    • Week 1. Introduction: Quotes

    • Week 1. Atisha's Heart meditation

    • Week 1. Session 1 (Introduction to the program & tantra)

    • Week 1. Introduction to the program and to Tantra (presentation)

    • Week 2. Exercise: What does spirituality mean to you?

    • Week 2. Practice: Listening to your heart

    • Week 2. The power of self-love

    • Week 2. Exercise: Forgive yourself

    • Week 2. Exercise: How to prepare for the practice of Tantra?

    • Week 2. Awaken the 3 centers: The dark mother, the Great Birther

    • Week 2. Awaken the 3 centers: Our bodies wisdom

    • Week 2. Awaken the 3 centers: Poem Hopi Creation Story

    • Week 2. Awaken the 3 centers: Connect to the 3 feminine centers

    • Week 2. Awaken the 3 centers: Listen to your Womb/Hara

    • Week 2. Awaken the 3 centers: Recommended books about Hara Healing & Awakening

    • Week 2. Session 2 (Awaken the 3 centers)

    • Week 2. Awaken the 3 centers (presentation)

    • Week 3. Exercise to manifest the perfect partner

    • Week 3. Chakras: Introduction

    • Week 3. Chakras: What are the Nadis?

    • Week 3. Chakras: Nadis and chakras in the human body

    • Week 3. Chakras: Frequency of the chakras

    • Week 3. Chakras: The polarity of energy

    • Week 3. Chakras: Root chakra

    • Week 3. Chakras: Navel chakra

    • Week 3. Chakras: Sacral chakra

    • Week 3. Chakras: Heart chakra

    • Week 3. Chrakras: Throat chakra

    • Week 3. Chakras: Third Eye chakra

    • Week 3. Chakras: Crown chakra

    • Week 3. Chakras: Meditation to develop the center of energy of will power

    • Week 3. Energy: Feel the energy

    • Week 3. Energy: Breathing exercise for couples

    • Week 3. Energy: Your Life Force Energy

    • Week 3. Energy: Strengthen Your Life Force Energy

    • Week 3. Session 3 (The Feminine Principle in Tantra)

    • Week 3. The Feminine Principle in Tantra (presentation)

    • Week 3. The Feminine Principle: Reflection questions

    • Week 3. The Feminine Principle: The practice of Self Inquiry

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    OCTOBER

    • Week 4. Analysis of the movie Bliss (1997)

    • Week 4. Session 4 (Shadow work)

    • Week 4. Shadow Work (Reflection questions)

    • Week 5. Tantra and breathwork: What is pranayama and why is it needed?

    • Week 5. Tantra and breathwork: Connected breathwork

    • Week 5. Tantra and breathwork: Prāṇacintā instructions

    • Week 5. Tantra and breathwork: Breathing practice to achieve Oneness

    • Week 5. Session 5 (Tantra and breathwork)

    • Week 5. Tantra and breathwork (presentation)

    • Week 5. Tantra and breathwork: Reflection questions

    • Week 6. Shadow Work - Hold Sensations in Awareness

    • Week 6. Tantric Tools & Core principles

    • Week 6. Tantric Tools & Core principles: Reflection questions

    • Week 6. Transfiguration, Polarity & Kundalini Awakening

    • Week 6. Kundalini Awakening: Safety measures to awaken Kundalini

    • Week 6. Kundalini Awakening: Test

    • Week 6. Tools for Tantra: Transfiguration

    • Week 6. Tools for Tantra: Transfiguration exercise for couples

    • Week 6. Tools for Tantra: Other transfiguration practices

    • Week 6. Tools for Tantra: Heart Expansion Practice

    • Week 6. Tools for Tantra: Uniting your Shiva and your Shakti

    • Week 6. Tools for Tantra: Playing with polarity within and in partnership

    • Week 6. Exercise: Preparing our senses

    • Week 6. Tools for Tantra: some tantric practices

    • Week 6. Tools for Tantra: A heart-centered daily practice

    • Week 6. Session 6 (Tools for Tantra)

    • Week 6. Tools for Tantra: Reflection questions 2

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    NOVEMBER

    • Week 7. Tantric metaphysics

    • Week 7. Create a self care ritual

    • Week 7. Why is touch so important?

    • Week 7. Session 7 (Physical Touch)

    • Week 7. Boundaries and Physical Touch (presentation)

    • Week 8. Exercise: Mirror talk

    • Week 8. Exercise: Partner connection

    • Week 8. The wheel of consent

    • Week 8. The wheel of consent (diagram)

    • Week 8. The wheel of consent: The 3-Minute Game

    • Week 8. Healing trauma: The importance of integration

    • Week 8. Healing trauma: Daily Practice to Listen to our Heart & Womb

    • Week 8. Session 8 (Healing trauma)

    • Week 8. Healing Trauma (presentation)

    • Week 9. Energy: How consciousness/energy is connected with quantum physics

    • Week 9. Energy: Awakening sexual energy + Shakti meditation

    • Week 9. Energy: working with energy

    • Week 9. Energy: The stages of tantric practices

    • Week 9. Energy: Go with the flow in couple

    • Week 9. Energy: Feel your partner

    • Week 9. Energy: Feel the desires in couple

    • Week 9. Energy: How is your energy?

    • Week 9. Heart coherence meditation

    • Week 9. Inner Smile meditation

    • Week 9. Spiritual bypassing

    • Week 9. Healing sexual energy: 5 days activation

    • Week 9. Healing sexual energy: Healing shadow desires

    • Week 9. Healing sexual energy: Daily Practice to connect with Your Sexual Energy

    • Week 9. Healing sexual energy: How can we work with a person that was sexually abused?

    • Week 9. Healing sexual energy: Sexual healing exercise: Genital revelation

    • Week 9. Healing sexual energy: Genital sun bath

    • Week 9. Session 9 (Healing sexual energy)

    • Week 9. Healing sexual energy (presentation)

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    DECEMBER

    • Week 10. Loving-Kindness Meditation

    • Week 10. Reflection: Death

    • Week 10. Session 10 (Tantra and Death)

    • Week 10. Reflection questions

    • Week 10. Maranasati: Death Awareness Practice

    • Week 11. Session 11 (Tantra and Shamanism)

    • Week 11. Sex magic and divination

    • Week 11. Spiritual practices and the two approaches

    • Week 11. Shamans & Siddhas: Comparing Traditions & Parallel Practices by Isa Gucciardi Ph. D

    • Week 11. Tantra and Shamanism: The Five Elements in Pleasure + Reflection questions

    • Week 11. Tantra and Shamanism: The Nine Purification Breaths

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    JANUARY

    • Week 12. Projects (teacher level)

    • Week 12. Session 12 (Inner child work)

    • Week 12. Inner Child Session (presentation)

    • Week 12. Inner Child Healing - Practice

    • Week 13. Healing Masculine distortions: Acknowledging Masculine Trauma through Patriarchy

    • Week 13. Healing Masculine distortions: The Well Maidens

    • Week 13. Healing Masculine distortions: practice

    • Week 13. Session 13 (Healing Masculine distortions)

    • Week 13. Healing Masculine distortions (presentation)

    • Week 14. Session 14 (Healing Feminine distortions)

    • Week 14. Healing Feminine distortions: Find the Balance

    • Week 14. Healing Feminine distortions: 6 Traits how the feminine distorted energy can play out in our lives

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    FEBRUARY

    • Week 15. Diet in Tantra

    • Week 15. Transpersonal Psychology and Cellular Memory

    • Week 15. Hillman's Archetypal Psychology

    • Week 15. Session 15 ( Freedom from fear, guilt & shame. Grounding practices)

    • Week 15. Freedom from fear, shame and guilt: Fear of intimacy

    • Week 15. Freedom from fear, shame and guilt: The neuroscience of anxiety

    • Week 15. Freedom from fear, shame and guilt: RAIN and guilt

    • Week 15. Freedom from fear, shame and guilt: Breaking free from the voice of shame

    • Week 15. Freedom from fear, shame and guilt: overcoming anxiety and fear with gratitude, service and pleasure

    • How to become a certified Tantra Teacher

    • Week 15. Grounding practices

    • Week 16. Movie: Don Juan de Marco

    • Week 16. Osho active meditations

    • Week 16. Session 16 (Releasing love addiction & love avoidance)

    • Week 16. Releasing love addiction: Love addiction and avoidance - Resources

    • Week 16. Attachment Styles

    • Week 16. Releasing love addiction: How to Overcome Love Addiction

    • Week 16. Releasing love addiction: Feelings and Sensations List

    • Week 16. Heart-centered communication: Hearing vs. Listening

    • Week 16. Releasing love addiction: The science of love-as-addiction

    • Week 16. Heart-centered communication: Why is heart-centered listening so challenging

    • Week 17. Session 17 (Inner marriage)

    • Week 17. Inner Marriage (presentation)

    • Week 17. Inner Marriage: Reflection questions

    • Week 17. Inner Marriage: The Inner Lovers Connection

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    MARCH

    • Week 18. Tao Tantra: Tantra and The Dao

    • Week 18. Tao Tantra: Tao sexual arts

    • Week 18. Tao Tantra: Belly to Belly (couple exercise)

    • Week 18. Session 18 (Tao Tantra)

    • Week 18. Tao Tantra (presentation)

    • Week 18. Tao Tantra: Reflection questions

    • Week 18. Tao Tantra: Activating the Sexual Organ

    • Week 19. Quality Relationships: Essence & intimacy

    • Week 19. Quality Relationships: Patterns of Relationships

    • Week 19. Quality Relationships: Authenticity

    • Week 19. Quality Relationships: Anchoring love, safety and belonging practice

    • Week 19. Quality Relationships: Attachment

    • Week 19. Quality Relationships: Transactional and Transformational Relationships

    • Week 19. Quality Relationships: Emotional Relationship Rules Practice

    • Week 19. Quality Relationships: The Shiva-Lingam as the representation of the cosmic love

    • Week 19. Quality Relationships: Maa Kali Shiva

    • Week 19. Quality Relationships: Communication, safety and Tantric Kiss

    • Week 19. Session 19 (Quality Relationships)

    • Week 19. Quality Relationships (Presentation)

    • Week 19. Quality Relationships: Tonglen

    • Week 19. Quality Relationships: Authentic Relating and Conscious Connection workshop

    • Week 20. How to hold space: What is trauma? What can be done with trauma? How can we help people with trauma?

    • Week 20. How to hold space: Trauma and the nervous system

    • Week 20. How to hold space: The Heart in Holistic Education

    • Week 20. How to hold space

    • Week 20. Art of teaching

    • Week 20. How to hold space (presentation)

    • Week 20. Session 20 (What you need to know before offering your 1/1 sessions)

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    APRIL

    • Week 21. How to be a good facilitator?

    • Week 21. Tantra Business: Ideas to support you in creating more clients

    • Week 21. How to organize events

    • Week 21. Tantra Business: Organizing your retreat

    • Week 21. Tantra Business: Your business plan

    • Week 21. Tantra Business: Your Tantra Workshop / Retreat

    • Week 21. What to expect as a tantra teacher (documentation)

    • Week 21. Tantra Business: Templates for the organization of events

    • Week 21. Tantra Business: Facilitator Post-Trip Reflection Questions

    • Week 21. Tantra Business: Associations and memberships

    • Week 21. What to expect as a tantra teacher

    • Week 22. Students presentations

    • Week 22. Students essays

    • Week 23. Sacred boundaries

    • Week 23. Sacred boundaries: Introduction

    • Week 23. Sacred boundaries: How to set boundaries and not let others cross them

    • Week 23. Sacred boundaries: Hara Mandala 1

    • Week 23. Sacred boundaries: Hara Mandala 2

    • Week 23. Sacred boundaries: Reflection questions

    • Week 23. Tantra and trance states: A tantric ritual

    • Week 23. Tantra and trance states: Ecstasy

    • Week 23. Tantra and trance states: Tantric Candle Gazing Practice

    • Week 24. How to present a tantra festival

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    MAY

    • Week 25. Sexuality: What is Sexuality?

    • Week 25. Sexuality: (Western) Tantra's Approach to Sexuality

    • Week 25. Sexuality: What is Brahmacharya?

    • Week 25. Sexuality: Sublimation

    • Week 25. Sexuality: Karezza

    • Week 25. Sexuality: Preparing for tantric love

    • Week 25. Sexuality: Meditation for self-pleasure

    • Week 25. Sexuality: Fertility

    • Week 25. Sexuality: What does Ayurveda say about ojas, the source of the life energy and longevity in the human body?

    • Week 25. Sexuality: Curves of pleasure

    • Week 25. Sexuality: Why is orgasm important in Tantra?

    • Week 25. Sexuality: How to keep your ojas (for women)

    • Week 25. Sexuality: The tantric woman

    • Week 25. Sexuality: The Pelvic Floor

    • Week 25. Sexuality: Training towards the tantric orgasm

    • Week 25. Sexuality: The tantric man

    • Week 25. Sexuality: Sex in Tantra (techniques)

    • Week 25. Tantric sexuality

    • Week 26. What is a Healing circle

    • Week 26. Recommendations for your Healing circle

    • Week 26. How to host a women/men circle with Hakima

    • Week 26. How to host a circle (presentation)

    • Week 26. How to Host a circle (guidelines)

    • Week 26. How to host a circle: assignment 1

    • Week 26. How to host a circle: assignment 2

    • Week 27. Codependency: Co-dependency and vampiric bonds

    • Week 27. Codependency: Reflection questions

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    JUNE

    • Week 29. Tantric massage

    • Week 30. Boundaries & Ethics

    • Week 30. The Power of Testimonials

    • How did we do it?

    • Week 30. Final assignment: 100 working hours

    • Affiliate program