Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome to the course!

    • Introduction to the course - survey

  • 2

    Module 1 (March, 17 - July, 28)

    • 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

  • 3

    September

    • 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)

  • 4

    October

    • 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

  • 5

    November

    • 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