Introduction to the course - survey
Week 1. Note to the exercises in this program
Week 1. Recommended books
Week 1. What is Tantra?
Week 1. What is not Tantra?
Week 1. How do people live Tantra?
Week 1. The Practice of “Cleansing”
Week 1. Exercise: How do you feel with the people around you?
Week 1. Project Module 1
Week 1. Atisha's Heart meditation
Week 1. Practice: Listening to your heart
Week 1. The History of Tantra
Week 1. Classifcations of Tantra
Week 1. Session 1 (March, 17) - Introduction & What is Tantra - with Alexis
Week 1. Session 1 (presentation)
Week 2. What does spirituality mean to you?
Week 2. The power of self-love
Week 2. Exercise: How to prepare for the practice of Tantra?
Week 2. The dark mother: the Great Birther
Week 2. Our bodies wisdom
Week 2. Poem Hopi Creation Story
Week 2. Exercise: Connect to the 3 feminine centers
Week 2. Listen to your Womb/Hara
Week 2. Recommended books about Womb/Hara Healing & Awakening
Week 2. Session 2 (March, 24) with Marjolein - Awaken the 3 centers
Week 2. Session 2 (presentation)
Week 3. Exercise: Mirror talk
Week 3. Quotes
Week 3. Exercise: Forgive yourself
Week 3. The wheel of consent
Week 3. The wheel of consent (diagram)
Week 3. The 3-Minute Game
Week 3. How to be a good facilitator?
Week 3. Transfiguration
Week 3. Exercise: Partner connection
Week 3. Session 3 (March, 31) - Boundaries and Physical Touch with Alexis
Week 3. Session 3 (presentation)
Week 4. Tantric metaphysics
Week 4. Some tantric practices
Week 4. Exercise: Create a self care ritual
Week 4. What is Brahmacharya?
Week 4. Sublimation
Week 4. Karezza
Week 4. Session 4 (April, 07) with Marjolein - Healing trauma
Week 4. Session 4 (presentation) - Healing trauma
Week 4. Integration after the live session (to watch after the live session)
Week 4. The importance of integration
Week 4. Video: Daily Practice to Listen to our Heart & Womb
Week 5. Exercise to manifest the perfect partner
Week 5. Breathing exercise for couples
Week 5. Exercise: Your Life Force Energy
Week 5. Feel the energy
Week 5. The polarity of energy
Week 5. Strengthen Your Life Force Energy
Week 5. Session 5 (April, 14) with Alexis - Meditation for inner power and tantric tools
Week 5. Session 5 (presentation)
Week 6. Exercise: Preparing our senses
Week 6. Heart Expansion Practice
Week 6. Uniting your Shiva and your Shakti
Week 6. Playing with polarity within and in partnership
Week 6. Transfiguration exercise for couples
Week 6. Other transfiguration practices
Week 6. Meditation to activate the Life force energy
Week 6. Session 6 (April, 21) with Hakima - Healing the inner child
Week 6. Inner Child presentation
Week 6. Inner Child practice
Week 7. Analysis of the movie Bliss (1997)
Week 7. Acknowledging Masculine Trauma through Patriarchy
Week 7. The Well Maidens
Week 7. Inner Smile meditation
Week 7. Exercise: Healing the distorted masculine energy
Week 7. Session 7 (April, 28) with Marjolein - Healing Masculine distorted energies & imprints
Week 7. Healing Masculine distorted energies & imprints (presentation)
Week 8. Loving-Kindness Meditation
Week 8. How consciousness/energy is connected with quantum physics
Week 8. Spiritual bypassing
Week 8. Patterns of Relationships
Week 8. Exercise: Healing shadow desires
Week 8. Session 8 (May, 05) with Hakima - How to host women/men circles
Week 8. How to host a circle (presentation)
Week 8. Guidelines to host a circle
Week 9. Exercise: working with energy
Week 9. What is pranayama and why is it needed?
Week 9. Reflection: Death
Week 9. Ecstasy
Week 9. Couple exercise: Go with the flow
Week 9. Session 9 (May, 12) with Sara - SkyDancing teachings
Week 9. Session 9 (presentation)
Week 9. Reflection questions after the Skydancing live class
Week 10. The stages of tantric practices
Week 10. Diet in Tantra
Week 10. Transpersonal Psychology and Cellular Memory
Week 10. Hillman's Archetypal Psychology
Week 10. Couple exercise: Feel your partner
Week 10. Exercise: Find the Balance
Week 10. Exercise: 6 Traits how the feminine distorted energy can play out in our lives
Week 10. Session 10 (May, 19) with Marjolein - Healing Feminine distortions
Week 11. Osho active meditations
Week 11. Couple exercise: Feel the desires
Week 11. Exercise: How is your energy?
Week 11. Exercise: Authenticity
Week 11. Anchoring love, safety and belonging practice
Week 11. Exercise: Attachment
Week 11. Exercise: Transactional and Transformational Relationships
Week 11. Exercise: Emotional Relationship Rules Practice
Week 11. Session 11 (May, 26) with Sara - Quality Relationships
Week 11. Quality Relationships (Presentation)
Week 11. The Shiva-Lingam as the representation of the cosmic love
Week 11. Maa Kali Shiva
Week 11. Sexual Energy Exercise: 5 days activation
Week 11. Communication, safety and Tantric Kiss
Week 11. Exercise: Tonglen
Week 11. Essence & intimacy
Week 12. Chakras
Week 12. Frequency of the chakras
Week 12. What are the Nadis?
Week 12. Nadis and chakras in the human body
Week 12. Root chakra
Week 12. Sacral chakra
Week 12. Navel chakra
Week 12. Heart chakra
Week 12. Throat chakra
Week 12. Third Eye chakra
Week 12. Crown chakra
Week 12. Session 12 (June, 02) with Marjolein - Healing sexual energy
Week 12. Session 12 (presentation)
Week 13. Awakening sexual energy + Shakti meditation
Week 13. Sexual Energy Exercise: Daily Practice to connect with Your Sexual Energy
Week 13. Tantra and connected breathwork
Week 13. Kundalini Awakening
Week 13. Safety measures to awaken Kundalini
Week 13. Test: Kundalini Awakening
Week 13. Why is touch so important?
Week 13. Heart coherence meditation
Week 13. Session 13 (June, 09) with Sara - Tantra and breathwork
Week 13. Tantra and Breathwork (presentation)
Week 13. Reflection questions after the Tantra & Breathwork session
Week 13. Prāṇacintā instructions
Week 13. Exercise: Breathing practice to achieve Oneness
Week 14. The practice of Self Inquiry
Week 14. Exercises: Love exercises to strengthen your relationship with your partner
Week 14. Session 14 (June, 16) with Marjolein - Sacred boundaries
Week 14. Our Sacred Boundaries
Week 14. How to set boundaries and not let others cross them
Week 14. Exercise: Hara Mandala 1
Week 14. Exercise: Hara Mandala 2
Week 15. A heart-centered daily practice
Week 15. Movie: Don Juan de Marco
Week 15. A tantric ritual
Week 15. The Chinese medicine
Week 15. Session 15 (June, 23) with Sara - Tools for Tantra
Week 15. Tools for Tantra (presentation)
Week 15. Reflection questions after the session "Tools for Tantra"
Week 16. How can we work with a person that was sexually abused?
Week 16. Session 16 (June, 30) with Sara - Inner marriage
Week 16. Inner Marriage (presentation)
Week 16. Inner Marriage - Reflection questions after the live session
Week 17. Exercise: The Inner Lovers Connection
Week 17. What is Sexuality?
Week 17. What does Ayurveda say about ojas, the source of the life energy and longevity in the human body?
Week 17. (Western) Tantra's Approach to Sexuality
Week 17. Sexual healing exercise: Genital revelation
Week 17. Curves of pleasure
Week 17. Why is orgasm important in Tantra?
Week 17. How to keep your ojas (for women)
Week 17. The tantric woman
Week 17. The Pelvic Floor
Week 17. Training towards the tantric orgasm
Week 17. The tantric man
Week 17. Sex in Tantra (techniques)
Week 17. Fertility
Week 17. Optional exercise for couples: Preparing for tantric love
Week 17. Meditation for self-pleasure
Week 17. Exercise: Genital sun bath
Week 17. Session 17 (July, 07) with Marten - Tantric sexuality
Week 18. Tantra and The Dao
Week 18. Tao sexual arts
Week 18. Session 18 (July, 14) with Sara - Tao Tantra
Week 18. Tao Tantra (presentation)
Week 18. Reflection questions after the Tao Tantra class
Week 19. Exercise: Activating the Sexual Organ
Week 19. Session 19 (July, 21) with Sara - Tantra and trance states
Week 19. Reflection questions after the "Tantra and trance states" session
Week 20. Students presentations - July, 28
Week 20. Students presentations - July, 31
Week 20. Essays
Week 21. Session 21 (tantric massage)
Week 21. Tantric massage
Week 21. Authentic Relating and Conscious Connection workshop
Week 21. Womb Wisdom and Jade Egg Workshop
Week 21. Exercise: Martial Arts
Week 21. Exercise: Belly to Belly (couple exercise)
Week 21. Tantric Candle Gazing Practice
Week 21. Black Tantra School
Week 21. Neo Tantra - How this world longs for understanding
Week 22. Session 22 (Tantra and Death)
Week 22. Reflection questions
Week 22. Maranasati: Death Awareness Practice
Week 23. Week 21. Fear of intimacy
Week 23. RAIN and guilt
Week 23. The neuroscience of anxiety
Week 23. Exercise: Breaking free from the voice of shame
Week 23. Grounding practices
Week 23. Audio: overcoming anxiety and fear with gratitude, service and pleasure
Week 23. Session 23 (Freedom from fear, guilt & shame; Grounding practices)
How to become a certified Tantra Teacher
Week 24. Session 24 (Tantra and Shamanism)
Week 24. Session 24 (presentation)
Week 24. Sex magic and divination
Week 24. Spiritual practices and the two approaches
Week 24. Shamans & Siddhas: Comparing Traditions & Parallel Practices by Isa Gucciardi Ph. D
Week 24. Tantra and Shamanism: The Five Elements in Pleasure + Reflection questions
Week 24. Tantra and Shamanism: The Nine Purification Breaths
Week 25. Attachment Styles
Week 25. Love addiction and avoidance - Resources
Week 25. How to Overcome Love Addiction
Week 25. Feelings and Sensations List
Week 25. The science of love-as-addiction
Week 25. Session 25 (Releasing love addition & love avoidance)
Week 25. Releasing love addiction & love avoidance (presentation)
Week 25. Hearing vs. Listening
Week 25. Why is heart-centered listening so challenging
Week 26. What is trauma? What can be done with trauma? How can we help people with trauma?
Week 26. Trauma and the nervous system
Week 26. The Heart in Holistic Education
Week 26. Holding space
Week 26. Art of teaching
Week 26. Holding Space in Tantra (presentation)
Week 26. What to expect as a tantra teacher
Week 26. What to expect as a tantra teacher (documentation)
Week 27. Wealth and spiritual growth. Are they connected?
Week 27. The Neuroscience of gratitude: How a “thank you” attitude keeps you healthy
Week 27. Gratitude for Enlightenment
Week 27. Ancestral Money Blocks to Abundance
Week 27. Clearing money blocks with tantra. Practicing tantric gratitude
Week 28. Codependency
Week 28. Co-dependency and vampiric bonds
Week 28. Reflection questions after the "Codependency" session
Week 29. BodyMind integration: The importance of safety and connection
Week 29. How to organize events
Week 29. Organizing your retreat
Week 29. Ideas to support you in creating more clients
Week 29. Your business plan
Week 29. Your Tantra Workshop / Retreat
Week 29. Templates for the organization of events
Week 29. Facilitator Post-Trip Reflection Questions
Week 29. Associations and memberships
Wwek 30. Students presentations Part I
Week 30. Students presentation Part II
Students essays
Week 30. Boundaries & Ethics
Week 30. The Power of Testimonials
How did we do it?
Week 30. Final assignment: 100 working hours