Introduction to the course - survey
Week 1. Our Code of Ethics
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. Classifications of Tantra
Week 1. The path of Tantra
Week 1. Session 1 (April, 06) Introduction to 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 (April, 13) - Awaken the 3 centers - with Marjolein
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 (April, 20) - 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, 27) - Healing trauma - with Marjolein
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 (May, 04) - Tantric tools and principles - with Alexis
Week 5. Session 5 (presentation)
Week 5. Reflection questions after the session (Tantric tools and principles)
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 (May, 11) - Sexuality in Tantra - with Alexis
Week 6. Session 6 (presentation)
Week 6. Reflection questions after the session (Sexuality in Tantra)
Week 7. Analysis of the movie Bliss (1997)
Week 7. Acknowledging Masculine Trauma through Patriarchy
Week 7. The Well Maidens
Week 7. Exercise: Healing the distorted masculine energy
Week 7. Inner Smile meditation
Week 7. Session 7 (May, 18) - Healing Masculine distorted energies & imprints
Week 7. Session 7 (presentation)
Week 7. How consciousness/energy is connected with quantum physics
Week 7. Spiritual bypassing
Week 7. Patterns of Relationships
Week 7. Exercise: Healing shadow desires
Week 8. Loving-Kindness Meditation
Week 8. Session 8 (May, 25) - Healing Feminine distortions
Week 8. Exercise: 6 Traits how the feminine distorted energy can play out in our lives
Week 9. Exercise: Find the Balance
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. The practice of Self Inquiry
Week 9. Session 9 (June, 01) - The Feminine Principle in Tantra
Week 9. Session 9 (presentation)
Week 9. Reflection questions after the Feminine Principle class
Week 10. The stages of tantric practices
Week 10. Diet in Tantra
Week 10. Couple exercise: Feel your partner
Week 10. Tantra and connected breathwork
Week 10. Session 10 (June, 08) - Tantra and breathwork
Week 10. Session 10 (presentation)
Week 10. Reflection questions after the Tantra & Breathwork session
Week 10. Prāṇacintā instructions
Week 10. Exercise: Breathing practice to achieve Oneness
Week 11. Exercise: How is your energy?
Week 11. Sexual Energy Exercise: 5 days activation
Week 11. Couple exercise: Feel the desires
Week 11. Essence & intimacy
Week 11. Chakras
Week 11. Nadis and chakras in the human body
Week 11. What are the Nadis?
Week 11. Frequency of the chakras
Week 11. Root chakra
Week 11. Sacral chakra
Week 11. Navel chakra
Week 11. Heart chakra
Week 11. Throat chakra
Week 11. Third Eye chakra
Week 11. Crown chakra
Week 11. Sexual Energy Exercise: Daily Practice to connect with Your Sexual Energy
Week 11. Awakening sexual energy + Shakti meditation
Week 11. Session 11 (June, 15) - Healing sexual energy
Week 11. Session 11 (presentation)
Week 12. A heart-centered daily practice
Week 12. Osho active meditations
Week 12. Hillman's Archetypal Psychology
Week 12. Heart coherence meditation
Week 12. Transpersonal Psychology and Cellular Memory
Week 12. Session 12 (June, 22) - Tools for Tantra
Week 12. Session 12 (presentation)
Week 12. Reflection questions after the session "Tools for Tantra"
Week 13. Session 13 (June, 29) - Sacred boundaries
Week 13. Our Sacred Boundaries
Week 13. How to set boundaries and not let others cross them
Week 13. Exercise: Hara Mandala 1
Week 13. Exercise: Hara Mandala 2
Week 14. Why is touch so important?
Week 14. Safety measures to awaken Kundalini
Week 14. Test: Kundalini Awakening
Week 14. What is trauma? What can be done with trauma? How can we help people with trauma?
Week 14. Trauma and the nervous system
Week 14. Kundalini Awakening
Week 14. The Heart in Holistic Education
Week 14. Exercises: Love exercises to strengthen your relationship with your partner
Week 14. How to hold space (session on July, 06 with Alexis)
Week 14. How to teach and organize events (session on July, 06 with Alexis)
Week 14. How to hold space | How to teach and organize events (presentation)
Week 14. A tantric ritual
Week 14. The Chinese medicine
Week 14. How can we work with a person that was sexually abused?
Week 15. Fear of intimacy
Week 15. RAIN and guilt
Week 15. The neuroscience of anxiety
Week 15. Exercise: Breaking free from the voice of shame
Week 15. Grounding practices
Week 15. Audio: overcoming anxiety and fear with gratitude, service and pleasure
Week 15. Session 15 (July, 13) - Freedom from fear, guilt & shame - Grounding practices
Week 16. Attachment Styles
Week 16. Love addiction and avoidance - Resources
Week 16. How to Overcome Love Addiction
Week 16. Feelings and Sensations List
Week 16. The science of love-as-addiction
Week 16. Hearing vs. Listening
Week 16. Why is heart-centered listening so challenging
Week 16. Session 16 (July, 20) - Releasing love addition & love avoidance, Heart-centered listening & communication
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. 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. The tantric man
Week 17. Training towards the tantric orgasm
Week 17. Sex in Tantra (techniques)
Week 17. Sexual healing exercise: Genital revelation
Week 17. Inner Child seminar
Week 17. Inner Child Session (presentation)
Week 17. Inner Child practice
Week 17. Student Presentation - Trauma informed Trauma
Week 17. Students Presentations - July, 27
Week 17. Students Presentations - July, 31
Week 17. Essays
Week 18. Session 18 (presentation)
Week 18. Sex magic and divination
Week 18. Spiritual practices and the two approaches
Week 18. Session 18 (Sep, 14) - Tantra and Shamanism
Week 18. Shamans & Siddhas: Comparing Traditions & Parallel Practices by Isa Gucciardi Ph. D
Week 18. Tantra and Shamanism: The Nine Purification Breaths
Week 18. Tantra and Shamanism : The Five Elements in Pleasure + Reflection questions
Week 19. Fertility
Week 19. Optional exercise for couples: Preparing for tantric love
Week 19. Meditation for self-pleasure
Week 19. Authentic Relating and Conscious Connection workshop
Week 19. Exercise: Authenticity
Week 19. Anchoring love, safety and belonging practice
Week 19. Exercise: Attachment
Week 19. Exercise: Transactional and Transformational Relationships
Week 19. Exercise: Emotional Relationship Rules Practice
Week 19. Session 19 (Sep, 21) - Quality Relationships
Week 19. Quality Relationships (Presentation)
Week 19. The Shiva-Lingam as the representation of the cosmic love
Week 20. Maa Kali Shiva
Week 20. Communication, safety and Tantric Kiss
Week 20. Exercise: Tonglen
Week 20. Exercise: Belly to Belly (couple exercise)
Week 20. Session 20 (Sep, 28) - Inner marriage
Week 20. Inner Marriage (presentation)
Week 20. Inner Marriage - Reflection questions after the live session
Week 20. Exercise: The Inner Lovers Connection
Week 21. Wealth and spiritual growth. Are they connected?
Week 21. The Neuroscience of gratitude: How a “thank you” attitude keeps you healthy
Week 21. Gratitude for Enlightenment
Week 21. Ancestral Money Blocks to Abundance
Week 21. Session 21 (Oct, 05) - Tantra and Death
Week 21. Reflection questions
Week 21. Maranasati: Death Awareness Practice
How to become a certified Tantra Teacher
Week 22. Neo Tantra - How this world longs for understanding
Week 22. Womb Wisdom and Jade Egg Workshop
Week 22. Exercise: Martial Arts
Week 22. Black Tantra School
Week 22. Session 22 (Oct, 12) - Tantric Massage
Week 22. Tantric massage
Week 22. Exercise: Genital sun bath
Week 22. Movie: Don Juan de Marco
Week 23. Tantra and The Dao
Week 23. Tao sexual arts
Week 23. Session 23 (Oct, 19) - Tao Tantra
Week 23. Session 23 (presentation)
Week 23. Reflection questions after the Tao Tantra class
Week 23. Exercise: Activating the Sexual Organ
Week 23. Tantric Candle Gazing Practice
Week 24. Session 24 (Oct, 26) - Tantra and trance states
Week 24. Session 24 (presentation)
Week 24. Reflection questions after the "Tantra and trance states" session
Week 25. Session 25 (Nov, 02) - Shadow work
Week 25. Shadow Work (Reflection questions)
Week 25. Shadow Work - Hold Sensations in Awareness
Week 26. Session 26 (Nov, 09) - Tantra, Physics, Gestalt Therapy and Qigong
Week 27. Session 27 (Nov, 16) - Tantra and Sacred Activism
Week 27. Reflection questions
Week 27. Nature Connection Practice
Week 28. Session 28 (Nov, 23) - Codependency
Week 28. Reflection questions after the "Codependency" session
Week 28. Co-dependency and vampiric bonds
Week 29. Art of teaching
Week 29. How to organize events
Week 29. Organizing your retreat
How to host women/men circles
Week 29. Ideas to support you in creating more clients
Week 29. How to host a circle
Week 29. Template to host a circle
Week 29. What to expect as a tantra teacher
Week 29. What to expect as a tantra teacher (documentation)
Week 29. Your Tantra Workshop / Retreat
Week 29. Your business plan
Week 29. Templates for the organization of events
Week 29. Associations and memberships
Week 29. Facilitator Post-Trip Reflection Questions
Week 29. Session 29 (Nov, 30) - BodyMind integration: The importance of safety and connection
Week 30. Session 30 (Dec, 07) - Students presentations
Week 30. Students essays
Boundaries & Ethics
How did we do it?
The Power of Testimonials
Final assignment: 100 working hours