Somatic Meditation Retreat & Optional Teacher Training
Teacher: Mia Lehndal
Price: 15 000 SEK (+ VAT for companies)
“I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways
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About the event
THE ART OF SURRENDER EMBODIED
Somatic & Tantric Meditation Retreat
You can join the retreat only for yourself to deepen your own meditation. You can also join if you want to learn how to teach Somatic & Tantric meditation. There will be elements of teaching skills included in the retreat. They can also be very helpful for your own meditation even if you don't aim to teach. If you want to teach you get some tasks to complete after the training to get your diploma. The primary element in the tasks is self-practice.
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This retreat is based on ancient non dual wisdom that guides you into being intimate with life as it is. Seeing, or rather feeling, beyond the projections of the mind, resting into reality and life as it is moment by moment. Within this practice you will get a deeper connection to your body and its inherent wisdom. Including the flow of life force energy, kundalini and your sexual energy. Allowing for the mind to realize its oneness with the body will diminish internal conflict and invite you to feel more at peace with what is.
Neither mind nor sexuality need to repressed during meditation. In this retreat you will learn how to befriend your mind, body and sexuality as having the functions that they are meant to have in your life so that they contribute to your meditative experience and your life experience rather than creating problems.
Everything is approached by the method of self inquiry for discovering who and what we are in our depth as human beings. You will be invited to explore your capacity and willingness to feel more deeply.
Content:
- Most of the mediation is done in silence, but there will be some elements of verbal communication within the mediation. This will be done as somatic communication, a way of communicating with each other from the wisdom of the body, which is a very powerful and transformational way of communicating in any relationship, not least the one you have with yourself.
- We will inquire into how to relate to and position your body in different kinds of meditation and common challenges for meditators and how to deal with them.
- We will also adress how to deal with the powerful kundalini energy in meditation situations, in sensual and sexual situations and in life as whole. And from there also touch upon the intimately connected subject of life purpose and what we are here to give. How does life want to serve through us?
- Elements of conscious touch and ”touch without touch” will be included. You will never need to touch anyone without your full consent and part of the purpose is to create clarity on your boundaries in interactions with others.
- Both somatic and tantric meditation will be done alone, in pairs and in groups of different sizes. We will also explore the difference of meditation in stillness and in movement.
Depending on how integrated you are in your own experience this retreat can give you the tools to facilitate:
- Somatic Meditation
- Tantric Meditation
- Somatic Self Inquiry
- Somatic Communication
- Conscious Touch
- Boundaries & Consent
- Meditation in Movement
- Meditation alone, in pairs & groups of different sizes
TANTRIC MEDITATION & TEACHING SKILLS
The heart of tantra is not sex, but meditation. However, the deep power of sexual energy must be integrated consciously to be able to support you in your life rather than doing the opposite.
To be able to teach tantric meditation we first need to learn the basics of somatic meditation. Even thought the essence of tantra is not sex but meditation we still need to take into account our sexual nature. We will move from the basis of somatic meditation into more sensual and sexual aspects of meditation. During the retreat you will be guided in the difference between these elements.
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This training will be given in English unless all participants happen to be Swedish. The instructions you need to teach will be given in both English and Swedish.