Workshops
at Harbin Hot Springs are facilitated by individuals and institutes
from around the world. Harbin does not process registrations.
To register or receive information on any workshop, please contact
the organizers listed below.
The fees listed
below usually include group lodging or camping,
plus full use of Harbin facilities. (Two week massage intensives
do not include weekend lodging.) Private lodging
before, during or after your workshop may be arranged through
the Harbin reservation office at (707) 987-2477. Meals are not
included unless stated; kitchen facilities are generally available
for your use, and you are welcome to take advantage of Harbin's
many other food options.
If you are
interested in using Harbin's facilities for your next workshop,
class or conference, click on the workshop
leader link, or contact our Workshop Office at (707) 987-0379.
Quick Links:
Ongoing – Minister Training Program
July 3-6 – Healing the Father Wound® for Men
July 4-6 – Introduction to Tantra
July 6-11 – Advanced Healing Dance
July 6-11 – Lomi Lomi Massage
July 11-13 – Embracing the Sacred Feminine
July 11-13 – Awakening the Sacred Masculine
July 11-13 – Love, Intimacy & Sexuality
July 13-18 – Healing Dance
July 18-20 – Spiritual Awakening
July 19-20 – Chair Massage Workshop
July 23-27– Clarity Breathwork Level III
July 24-27 – Healing the Father Wound for Women
July 27 - Aug 1 – Healing Dance: Above and Below
July 27 - Aug 1 – Energy-Active CranioSacral 1
Aug 2-3 – Face & Scalp Massage
Aug 3-8 – Shiatsu 1
Aug 3-8 – Pathology for Bodyworkers
Aug 6-10 – Unconditional Dance Festival
Aug 8-10 – Tantric Massage
Aug 9-10 – Shiatsu - Pain Relief
Aug 10-15 – Energy-Active Craniosacral Work 2
Aug 15-17 – Live, Laugh, Love
Aug 15-17 – Love, Intimacy & Sexuality
Aug 17-22 – Aquatic Energy Work
Aug 18-24 – Love & Orgasm
Aug 24-29 – Energy-Active Craniosacral Work 3
Aug 24-29 – Waterdance 1
Aug 29-31 – Introduction to Tantra
Aug 30-31 – Couples Massage Workshop
Sept 1-11 – Massage Intensive
Sept 2-7 – Freedom, Fulfillment and Fire
Sept 7-12 – Watsu® 3
Sept 12-14 – World Polyamory Conference
Sept 12-14 – Tantric Massage
Sept 12-14 – The Magic of Breath & Ecstasy
Sept 14-16 – Tantsu™: Holding the Core
Sept 14-19 – Waterdance 2
Sept 19-21 – Women's Sacred Embodiment Retreat
Sept 20-21 – Basic Watsu®
Sept 21-26 – Waterdance 3
Sept 21-26 – Advanced Therapeutic Massage
Sept 26-28 – Love, Intimacy & Sexuality
Sep 26-28 – Tantra for Singles
Sept 28 - Oct 3 – Watsu® 1
Sept 29 - Oct 3 – A 5 day hoop-dance jam
Oct 3-5 – Foundations of Yoga
Oct 5-10 – Watsu® 2
Oct 5-10 – Anatomy 1: Bones and Muscles
Oct 10-12 – Bedroom Yoga
Ongoing
Minister Training & Degree Program
Metaphorum Ministries
Developed from the Harbin Minister training program, Metaphorum Ministries offers a correspondence course leading to minister ordination and as well as a Bachelor of Spiritual Arts, Master of Ministry, and Doctor of Divinity. This course guides you to develop your own unique ministry, and gives you valuable ministerial tools. A California non-profit since 1996.
Click here to receive a pdf brochure and application, or email Ann at 
July 3-6
Healing the Father Wound® for Men: 24th Year
Gordon Clay
Through Tantrum Yoga®, movement/breathwork, experiential exercises, and appropriate emotional release, we will work to locate the roots that trap you in an endless repetitive cycle of unconscious behaviors and begin the healing process. Gordon Clay specializes in appropriate anger and rage release processes and has facilitated retreats since 1985.
Fee: $650 includes materials, group lodging, kitchen and use of Harbin's facilities Thu-Sun. Limited to 12 participants, early registration is recommended. Information & Registration: Gordon Clay, P.O. Box 1080-HHS, Brookings, OR 97415, or fatherwound@aol.com
www.fatherwound.com
July 4-6
Ecstatic Living™ presents:
Timeless Loving: A Gentle Introduction to Tantra™
Steve & Lokita Carter
This popular experiential workshop for singles and couples is a fun and safe way to begin your tantric journey, become a better lover and create deeper intimacy and more love in your life. Learn ancient tantric techniques - including ritual, communication, and energy consciousness - to integrate spirituality into your life and lovemaking. Celebrate being fully alive in your body, heart, spirit and mind. In a safe and loving environment, we explore:
· Weaving Spirituality, Love & Intimacy
· Intimate Communication Skills
· Breath: The Key to Expanding Pleasure
· Discover Full-Body Orgasm
· Explore Tantric Waterplay
Take home with you powerful tools that you can use over and over again to live more ecstatically and transform the ordinary into the extraordinary!
Cost: $425 per person includes meals & in/outdoor camping
Registration: Toll-free 877-982-6872 or (707) 987-3456
www.ecstaticliving.com
July 6-11
Advanced Healing Dance
Inika Spence
Advanced Healing Dance builds on the moves and positions learned in Healing Dance adding spirals, new body work, mini sequences and exercises to help students improvise in their work. Prerequisites: Watsu 1, Healing Dance.
School of Shiatsu & Massage, PO Box 889, Middletown, CA 95461 (707) 987-3801; www.learnwatsu.com
July 6-11
Lomi Lomi Massage
Tamara Mondragon
The ancient art of Lomi Lomi is used as a powerful tool for transformation. The strokes are long and flowing, giving the feeling of many hands on the body at once. This is a powerful new tool for your healing practice that will reduce stress, increase circulation, cleanse toxins, and speed up recovery from illness.
School of Shiatsu & Massage, PO Box 889, Middletown, CA 95461 (707) 987-3801; www.learnwatsu.com
July 11-13
7th Annual Embracing the Sacred Feminine
Ashanna Solaris & Dana DeLong
This is a powerful opportunity for women to recognize the Goddess within us and all around us as we embrace the beauty and magnificence of our true nature and release what no longer serves us. Surrounded by the peace and abundance of sacred land and healing waters, we will nurture all aspects of ourselves and allow the Sacred Feminine to rejuvenate us on deep levels. Come, play, share, let go, release fears, forgive, celebrate your true beauty, and express your heart's song in a safe, supportive circle of women. Yoga, Clarity Breathwork, Divine Mother Pujas, Sacred Music, Chanting, Meditation, Movement & Dance, Rituals, and plenty of time in the springs.
Registration: $395 by 6/11; $450 thereafter; includes meals. Deposit of $150 holds early price.
Contact: Clarity Productions toll-free: (866) 340-1008
email: clarity108@aol.com, www.clarity.org OR Solaris Productions (650) 279-9101; email: solaris108@aol.com; www.breatheinlove.com
July 11-13
Awakening the Sacred Masculine
Peter De Long, Richard Bock, Andrzej Skwira & Special Guests!
This gathering is an opportunity for men to come together and experience and awaken deeper levels of authentic masculine energy.
We will be using a dynamic blend of Clarity BreathworkTM, Waterwork, live music, movement, meditation, and sound to create a profound and sacred space for us to truly join. The retreat is a place to share our experiences and our truths, and learn from each other as sons, fathers, partners, and brothers.
Join us for an enriching, fun and empowering gathering of men!CEU's for MFT's & LCSW's Available PCE # 3577
Registration: Early (by 6/15), $345. Thereafter, $395 (Deposit -$100) Retreat includes delicious catered meals.
Contact: Shivashakti Productions; (707) 928-0424 OR (310) 200-0255; awakenmen108@yahoo.com
July 11-13
Love, Intimacy & Sexuality
Human Awareness Institute
Love, intimacy and sexuality are fundamental to being human. However our very notions of these prevent us from fully expressing and receiving love.
The Human Awareness Institute workshops support your infinite capacity to love and be loved and to move through your barriers to love and intimacy. Shed fears, judgments, beliefs and behaviors that keep you separate from others. Explore new ways of relating and communicating. Heal pain from past relationships and learn new ways to build companionship.
Regardless of your relationship status or sexual orientation, the Love, Intimacy and Sexuality workshops are for you! Use what you learn here in every part of your life.
For almost forty years, over 75,000 participants have taken this extraordinary opportunity to enrich their lives and relationships.
Fee: $495 includes food and lodging; Deposit: $195. Scholarships available.
Human Awareness Institute, 700 Widgeon St, Foster City CA 94404 (800) 800-4117, (650) 571-5524; office@hai.org
www.hai.org
July 13-18
Healing Dance: Shape & Space
Inika Spence
Shape and Space consists of a beautiful and exciting moves in an exploration of free flowing improvisation. It is a collection of dives arranged in a viable order, one that could be used in a real session. For those who want to learn to dance with their receivers in the water.
School of Shiatsu & Massage, PO Box 889, Middletown, CA 95461 (707) 987-3801; www.learnwatsu.com
July 18-20
Spiritual Awakening
Peter Rengel
This retreat recognizes that the Western mind has a difficult time just sitting and meditating. So it offers specially designed meditations/exercises to exchange Heart energy with others. Then, sitting in silent meditation and relaxing into your Inner Self, you discover new depths of your Beauty, Strength, Tenderness, Innocence, Joy, Love, and Spirituality. This awakening can change your inner Life forever.
Cost: $350, including meals.Deposit: $175
Peter Rengel, 415-459-3113or peterrengel@comcast.net
July 19-20
Chair Massage Workshop
Diana Lonsdale Haynes
Over 80% of Americans still have never had a massage. Cost, disrobing in front of a stranger, and meeting the practitioner ahead of time are valid objections overcome by chair massage. This course includes choosing the right chair & set up, body mechanics and self care, communication, and the actual techniques used in Chair Massage. No prereq.
School of Shiatsu & Massage, PO Box 889, Middletown, CA 95461 (707) 987-3801; www.learnwatsu.com
July 23 - 27, 2008
Clarity Breathwork Level III: Practitioner's Intensive
with Ashanna Solaris & Dana DeLong
The Practitioner’s Intensive is Level III of our professional training program and is open to graduates of Levels I & II. It is designed for those intending to become Clarity Breathwork practitioners either professionally or informally. Learn skills for intuitively counseling & supporting your clients. Gain extensive practice at both giving and receiving sessions and go to a deeper level of your own healing journey! Cost: $795 by June 15, $850 thereafter. Includes accommodations & meals. Deposit of $150 holds early rate.
Ashanna Solaris 650-279-9101, solaris108@aol.com.
Or Dana Delong, 310-686-3282, clarity108@aol.com.
www.breatheinlove.com, www.clarity.org, www.claritybreathwork.com
July 24-27
24th Year - Healing the Father Wound® for Women
Gordon Clay
Through Tantrum Yoga®, movement/breathwork, experiential exercises, and appropriate emotional release, we will work to locate the roots that trap you in an endless repetitive cycle of unconscious behaviors and begin the healing process. Gordon Clay specializes in appropriate anger and rage release processes and has facilitated retreats since 1986.
Fee: $650 includes materials, group lodging, kitchen and use of Harbin's facilities Thu-Sun. Limited to 12 participants, early registration is recommended. Information & Registration Gordon Clay, P.O. Box 1080-HHS, Brookings, OR 97415, www.fatherwound.com or fatherwound@aol.com
www.fatherwound.com
July 27- August 1
Healing Dance: Above and Below
Inika Spence
This class is designed to bring the principles of Healing Dance into the Waterdance experience. Students will learn to take Watsu and Healing Dance moves underwater. In a Healing Dance Above and Below session the receiver experiences nurturing moves of Healing Dance along with the freedom of the underwater experience.
Check for prerequisites.
School of Shiatsu & Massage, PO Box 889, Middletown, CA 95461 (707) 987-3801; www.learnwatsu.com
July 27 - August 1
Energy-Active CranioSacral 1
Jim Gilkeson
Joining the principles and practices of craniosacral work and energy work is an ideal way to integrate the structure of your body with the energy that enlivens it. This cross-disciplinary course gives students tools and a context for working in a deeply therapeutic way with others, attending to the physical and energetic needs of their client.
Check for prerequisites.
School of Shiatsu & Massage, PO Box 889, Middletown, CA 95461 (707) 987-3801; www.learnwatsu.com
August 2-3
Face & Scalp Massage
Nemea Arborvitae
These massage techniques focus on the Face and Scalp and are becoming more popular with spas and beauty shops because they add that little extra touch of stress relief and relaxation so many clients desire. For massage beginners, or for spa/massage professionals to enhance the knowledge you may already possess. No prereq
School of Shiatsu & Massage, PO Box 889, Middletown, CA 95461 (707) 987-3801; www.learnwatsu.com
August 3-8
Shiatsu 1
Shinzo Fujimaki
Learn a uniquely soothing and meditative whole-body Shiatsu sequence called Co-Centering. Co-Centering takes Zen Shiatsu's traditional point work and meridian stretches and combines them with chakra holds and gentle rocking in an easy-to-learn flowing pattern. Shiatsu stretches, detailed point work, and some Tantsu as well as optional morning Watsu bring added flow to your work.
School of Shiatsu & Massage, PO Box 889, Middletown, CA 95461 (707) 987-3801; www.learnwatsu.com
August 3-8
Pathology for Bodyworkers
Diana Lonsdale Haynes
Knowledge of pathology is vitally important to massage therapists so that they can protect both their clients and themselves. Topics will include: referring a client or modifying a session; definition of pathology; contraindications and cautions; universal precautions; inflammation; fever; infection; circulatory conditions; diabetes; cancer. Learning methods: lecture, discussion, and role play.
Check for prerequisites.
School of Shiatsu & Massage, PO Box 889, Middletown, CA 95461 (707) 987-3801; www.learnwatsu.com
August 6-10
Summer Unconditional Dance Festival
A New Harbin Tradition!
Friends of Unconditional Dance
Four days of morning meditations, rituals, art, performances, dance classes (Kundalini Dance, Journey through Trance, Contact Improv on land and in the water, Quantum Light Breath, Freefall, Drumming, Belly Dancing, Breath and Movement Exploration, Veil Dancing, Collaborative Dance Improv, and Hoola Hoops), and evening dances. Live music: Stephen Kent, Tasabasaba, and live drumming. DJs: Dragonfly, Omer, RaRa, Sophia, Theo, and Zothea.
Cost, including meals & in/outdoor camping: Wed. – Sun.: $450. Fri. – Sun.: $300.
For more information or to register call Regina at (707) 987-9592, or visit: www.thefud.org
August 8-10
ECSTATIC LIVING™ presents:
Tantric Massage: The Art of Ecstatic Touch
Steve & Lokita Carter
If you are interested in Tantra and massage, you will love this workshop! Ecstatic touch, ritual and communication are the foundation for this delightful weekend. Giving and receiving sensuous, healing and pleasurable full-body massage can open new doors to your heart and enrich your life and loving.
· Integrate spirituality and physical pleasure
· Explore the sharing of giving and receiving
· Allow more pleasure and trust in your life
· Enjoy a very relaxing weekend
No experience with massage or Tantra is necessary. This workshop is open for couples and individuals. Couples work exclusively with each other during the massages unless desired otherwise. We appreciate individuals registering early to keep a gender balance.
Steve & Lokita are renowned for sharing their teachings in a fun, safe, original, effective and heartful way. Expect to be guided with sensitivity and an infectious sense of humor!
Cost: $375 per person includes tuition, meals and in/outdoor camping
Registration: Toll-free 877-982-6872 or (707) 987-3456
www.ecstaticliving.com
August 9 -10
Shiatsu - Pain Relief
Shinzo Fujimaki
In this course, students are introduced to the Japanese art of healing touch, Shiatsu, specifically for pain. They will learn how to release the pain in oneself and others, including headache, through understanding the basic flow of the energy - meridians. Ample time is devoted to demonstration and practice of giving and receiving Shiatsu.
School of Shiatsu & Massage, PO Box 889, Middletown, CA 95461 (707) 987-3801; www.learnwatsu.com
August 10-15
Energy Active Craniosacral Work 2
Jim Gilkeson
Students will continue to work with the structures and energies of the head, hard palate
and face and learn new strategies for unwinding the body, locating and releasing cysts. Personal energy work exploration will provide a means to deepen this work. Prerequisites: Energy-Active Craniosacral 1. Required Reading: Energy Healing: A Pathway to Inner Growth
School of Shiatsu & Massage, PO Box 889, Middletown, CA 95461 (707) 987-3801; www.learnwatsu.com
August 15-17
Live, Laugh, Love: A Community Celebration
with Julia Tindall
A new event...let's gather and share in some summer fun! Julia is hosting a variety of awesome teachers to offer their special gifts; dance, yoga, breath-work, puja; massage, self-inquiry; meditation, kirtan and more. Special appearance by outstanding musician Bodhi!
Main focus is on connection, opening and light-heartedness. Come and enjoy....
Only $295! Deposit: $100 non-refundable. All food included. Indoor/outdoor camping.
Julia Tindall – Author of "Your Presence is Enough" and "20 Questions for Enlightened Living." 530-757-3880; juliatin@aol.com
www.juliatindall.com
August 15-17
Love, Intimacy & Sexuality
Human Awareness Institute
Love, intimacy and sexuality are fundamental to being human. However our very notions of these prevent us from fully expressing and receiving love.
The Human Awareness Institute workshops support your infinite capacity to love and be loved and to move through your barriers to love and intimacy. Shed fears, judgments, beliefs and behaviors that keep you separate from others. Explore new ways of relating and communicating. Heal pain from past relationships and learn new ways to build companionship.
Regardless of your relationship status or sexual orientation, the Love, Intimacy and Sexuality workshops are for you! Use what you learn here in every part of your life.
For almost forty years, over 75,000 participants have taken this extraordinary opportunity to enrich their lives and relationships.
Fee: $495 includes food and lodging
Deposit: $195. Scholarships available.
Human Awareness Institute, 700 Widgeon St, Foster City CA 94404 (800) 800-4117, (650) 571-5524; office@hai.org
www.hai.org
August 17-22
Aquatic Energy Work
Diane Tegtmeier
The subtle energy system which surrounds and permeates the physical body - on land and in water, students will learn how to locate the energy-active positions on the body, how to be responsibly present with what they sense, and to facilitate the movement or release of energetic constrictions that are ready for change.
School of Shiatsu & Massage, PO Box 889, Middletown, CA 95461 (707) 987-3801; www.learnwatsu.com
Aug 18-24
ECSTATIC LIVING™ presents:
The Love & Ecstasy Training® Cycle 2:
Love & Orgasm
Steve & Lokita Carter
The Love and Ecstasy Training (LET)Ò is the ultimate in-depth course in embodying the skills of tantric loving and living. Love can be an art form, and you can live more creatively when you integrate Margot Anand's renowned SkyDancing™ Tantra, the path of celebration, into your daily life. Cycle 2 awakens your power as a woman and a man, presents the skills to become a better lover, and opens the heart, body and spirit to deeper intimacy.
· Opening the Inner Flute
· The Multi-Orgasmic Response for Men & Women
· The Fire Meditation
· The Three Keys to Sexual Ecstasy
· The Yin Yang Balance
· Healing Rituals
· The Art of SkyDancing Tantra
Steve & Lokita are licensed SkyDancing Tantra Teachers and the directors of the SkyDancing Tantra Institute USA. They are renowned for their popular Timeless Loving™ and Tantric Massage™ workshops and their best-selling DVDs. Prerequisites: Some Tantra workshop experience. The LET is a 3-part course. (Cycle 3 with Margot Anand at Lower Lake, CA on 11/10-16, 2008. Call for CEUs. Couples & singles with Tantra experience welcome.
Registration: Toll-free 877-982-6872 or (707) 987-3456
www.ecstaticliving.com
August 24-29
Energy Active Craniosacral Work 3
Jim Gilkeson
This course gives students an opportunity to take what they've learned in courses 1 & 2 and "put it all together". Participants will learn to work with principles and non-forcing approaches that apply broadly in many bodywork modalities. We will draw on release, subtle energy therapy, energy-active craniosacral work and Zero Balancing (R).
School of Shiatsu & Massage, PO Box 889, Middletown, CA 95461 (707) 987-3801; www.learnwatsu.com
August 24-29
Waterdance 1
Shantam or Richard Bock
In the Waterdance 1 class, you begin by facing any of your own fears about being under water. Then you learn techniques for perceiving and working with your client's breath and Waterdance sequences combining a variety of movements both above and below the water's surface. Prereq: Watsu 1 or previous aquatic bodywork training
School of Shiatsu & Massage, PO Box 889, Middletown, CA 95461 (707) 987-3801; www.learnwatsu.com
Aug 29-31
ECSTATIC LIVING™ presents:
Timeless Loving: A Gentle Introduction to Tantra™
Steve & Lokita Carter
This popular experiential workshop for singles and couples is a fun and safe way to begin your tantric journey, become a better lover and create deeper intimacy and more love in your life. Learn ancient tantric techniques - including ritual, communication, and energy consciousness - to integrate spirituality into your life and lovemaking. Celebrate being fully alive in your body, heart, spirit and mind. In a safe and loving environment, we explore:
· Weaving Spirituality, Love & Intimacy
· Intimate Communication Skills
· Breath: The Key to Expanding Pleasure
· Discover Full-Body Orgasm
· Explore Tantric Waterplay
Take home with you powerful tools that you can use over and over again to live more ecstatically and transform the ordinary into the extraordinary!
Cost: $395 per person includes meals & in/outdoor camping Registration: Toll-free 877-982-6872 or (707) 987-3456
www.ecstaticliving.com
August 30-31
Couples Massage Workshop
Spirit Savage
Couples will learn a variety of techniques taken from modalities such as Swedish, Shiatsu, Acupressure and Reflexology, which can be done anywhere. They will learn techniques including communication, trust, sensitivity exercises, body mechanics, and the overall benefits of massage. No prereq
School of Shiatsu & Massage, PO Box 889, Middletown, CA 95461 (707) 987-3801; www.learnwatsu.com
September 1-11
Massage Intensive
Keesha Standley
For many, touch is natural and even instinctive; but learning to touch therapeutically - with healing intent - is a distinct and sophisticated skill. This intensive will provide students with the confidence, skills, and techniques to become an excellent massage practitioner. Using proper body mechanics so that the student is centered and grounded, they will be able to give massage with effortless power and grace. At the end of this 100-hour intensive, students will have an excellent foundation for a professional career.
Class Materials: Introduction to Massage
School of Shiatsu & Massage, PO Box 889, Middletown, CA 95461 (707) 987-3801; www.learnwatsu.com
September 2-7
Freedom, Fulfillment and Fire
Saleem Berryman, founder of Living in Truth
This retreat is offered for those who experience any kind of chronic pain, illness, or limitation who would like to realize greater freedom and fulfillment within the trials and limitations that these conditions impose. Health care professionals & family members are also encouraged to attend to discover a deeper capacity to support others in the midst of the transformational experience of long term pain and limitation. While healing on all levels will be supported during our time together, directly experiencing what is already healthy, whole, and complete within the experience of illness and pain is honored as what is most essential to healing from the inside out.
Saleem Berryman is an experienced guide and educator dedicated to the discovery of unconditional happiness in ordinary life. Seasoned by his personal experience with severe and long-term pain and limitation, his approach to healing is fresh, insightful, and based on the core discovery that happiness and fulfillment is trustworthy.
Fee: $850 before Aug. 2. $950 after Aug. 2. This price includes tuition, indoor/outdoor camping, meals, and full access to Harbin facilities. For more information and registration call
510-725-2132 or visit www.livingintruth.com
September 7-12
Watsu® 3
Harold Dull and Linda De Lehman
Watsu 3 is for those who have given enough Watsu sessions to develop a comfortable intuitive awareness of how to be with another person in the water and who are now ready to explore spontaneously in Free Flow.
Check for prerequisites.
School of Shiatsu & Massage, PO Box 889, Middletown, CA 95461 (707) 987-3801; www.learnwatsu.com
September 12-14
Celebrate Sacred Sexuality & Relationship Choice
World Polyamory Association's Annual Conference
Enjoy the weekend in a private two-pool sanctuary. Hear, discuss and explore, in workshops and on panels: multiple-partnering, pair-dating, triads, pods, communities, networks, jealousy reprogramming and sacred sexuality. Rejoice with tantra rituals, group celebrations and networking opportunities. Camp, get a room or sleep in the group area.
Janet Kira Lessin, (author of Polyamory: The Poly-Tantra Lifestyle), Veronica Monet, Celeste Hirschman, Drs. Sasha Lessin, Dave Doleshal, Gary Schubach, Harold Haridas Kornylak, Danielle Harel and more.
808 244-4103; worldpolyamory@aol.com www.worldpolyamoryassociation.com
September 12-14
ECSTATIC LIVING™ presents:
Multi-Oh Tantric Massage: Riding the Waves of Sexual Ecstasy
Steve & Lokita Carter
Everyone has unlimited potential for infinite pleasure, and in this seminar we experiment with hands-on techniques to expand our capacity for ecstasy and being multi-orgasmic while giving and receiving massage.
· Receive pleasure by giving pleasure
· Transform the sexual spark into a bonfire
· Stay grounded and focused in the waves of ecstasy
· Explore the depth of surrendering into bliss
· Cultivate deeper intimacy and trust with ourselves and our partner
Enter into a safe, sacred and magical realm of deep relaxation, profound pleasure, full presence, and heightened sensation. Learn new ways to extend pleasure and deepen intimacy that can be practiced again and again!
Open to couples and paired singles who work together exclusively. "Paired singles" are those who pair up prior to the workshop for the purpose of taking it together. Tantra experience, preferably in a workshop setting, is required.
Cost: $375 per person includes meals and in/outdoor camping
Registration: Toll-free 877-982-6872 or (707) 987-3456
www.ecstaticliving.com
September 12-14
ECSTATIC LIVING™ presents:
The Magic of Breath & Ecstasy
With Richard Bock
A life-changing and fun-filled workshop to open and expand our ecstatic self!
Learn techniques to enhance confidence and centeredness, and manifest more joy and blissfulness in all aspects of your life.
· Quantum Light Breath
· Express new levels of radiance, freedom and ecstasy
· Learn the art of Breath Inquiry
· Access ecstatic states of consciousness that are healing
and enlightening
· Connect and understand the magic of the breath as a
spiritual practice
We will create a safe space where old patterns can reveal themselves and effortlessly melt and transform into gifts of full aliveness. We unveil our true nature, and express ourselves in a spontaneous moment-to-moment response to life rather than a reaction.
A powerful weekend of breath, inquiry, and ecstatic practices, including live Quantum Light Breath, meditation, ecstatic movement and music.
Richard Bock has spent 30 years teaching meditation, Watsu, Waterdance and Quantum Light Breath, a form of embodied ecstatic breath work.
Cost: $375 per person includes meals and in/outdoor camping Registration: Toll-free 877-982-6872 or (707) 987-3456
www.ecstaticliving.com
September 14-16
Tantsu™: Holding the Core
Harold Dull and Linda De Lehman
Whole body holding supports powerful stretches and leads to a deep level of peace and greater connection. Tantsu was created by Harold Dull to bring back onto land the nurturance of Watsu®. Learn over a weekend a sequence of 4 core holds and how to expand them. (See ad, page 38).
Fee: $350 single, $650 couple before 9/1; $395 single, $700 couple after. $100 deposit holds early price. Includes meals. Contact Pavana, 707-928-5860 or Pavana@waba.edu
September 14-19
Waterdance 2
Shantam or Richard Bock
This class uses the principles and material you learned in Waterdance 1, and expands on them with a fuller repertoire of underwater moves and techniques. By the end of this class (and with appropriate practice) you have learned enough material to give full Waterdance sessions that are fun, healing, and profound. Prerequisite: Waterdance 1
School of Shiatsu & Massage, PO Box 889, Middletown, CA 95461 (707) 987-3801; www.learnwatsu.com
September 19-21
Women's Sacred Embodiment Retreat
Autumnal Equinox
with Ashanna Solaris & Adya Conte
Join Ashanna & Adya for a transformational weekend of deep exploration of women's mysteries & power. Through Clarity Breathwork, Adya Yoga, meditation, sacred dance, ritual and movement we will restore balance, contact our essence, anchor into our power and move towards passionate liberation. Themes will revolve around healing our bodies & embracing our sexuality, stepping more fully into our power and setting boundaries, embodying Divine Feminine presence in our lives. All in the portal of the Autumnal Equinox! Retreat includes delicious catered meals, full use of springs, indoor/outdoor camping.
Cost: Early by 8/15: $395; Thereafter $450. To register: Send $150 deposit to Ashanna Solaris, 16235 Roberts Rd., Middletown, CA 95461, 707-987-9044. Email: solaris108@aol.com. Visit: www.breatheinlove.com
September 20-21
Basic Watsu®
Alexis Lee
Students learn to support someone and stay grounded in water. Learn the body mechanics that underlie Watsu by first following them as in Tai Chi, then following with a person in their arms. Experience the stillness that is the ground of presence, and incorporate the way the heart and breath connection can be maintained throughout a Watsu.
School of Shiatsu & Massage, PO Box 889, Middletown, CA 95461 (707) 987-3801; www.learnwatsu.com
September 21-26
Waterdance 3
Shantam or Richard Bock
This class expands on the foundation built in Waterdance 1 and 2. In it, you will be supported to create your own vocabulary of underwater moves, and learn to link them in endless new ways. The dance of free flowing experience is emphasized and discovery of your own unique style is encouraged and affirmed.
Prerequisites: Waterdance 1 and 2
School of Shiatsu & Massage, PO Box 889, Middletown, CA 95461 (707) 987-3801; www.learnwatsu.com
September 21-26
Advanced Therapeutic Massage
Carlisle Douglas
Integrate new techniques and learn a side-lying approach, particularly effective for hip, low back, neck and shoulder and for pregnant clients. Integration of myofascial stretching and release, Muscle Energy Technique and PNF stretching will increase effectiveness and palpation sensitivity. Students also receive an introduction to seated massage. Required for Deep Tissue course. Prerequisite: Therapeutic Massage 1 & 2 or Massage Intensive.
School of Shiatsu & Massage, PO Box 889, Middletown, CA 95461 (707) 987-3801; www.learnwatsu.com
September 26-28
Love, Intimacy & Sexuality
Human Awareness Institute
Love, intimacy and sexuality are fundamental to being human. However our very notions of these prevent us from fully expressing and receiving love.
The Human Awareness Institute workshops support your infinite capacity to love and be loved and to move through your barriers to love and intimacy. Shed fears, judgments, beliefs and behaviors that keep you separate from others. Explore new ways of relating and communicating. Heal pain from past relationships and learn new ways to build companionship.
Regardless of your relationship status or sexual orientation, the Love, Intimacy and Sexuality workshops are for you! Use what you learn here in every part of your life.
For almost forty years, over 75,000 participants have taken this extraordinary opportunity to enrich their lives and relationships.
Fee: $495 includes food and lodging
Deposit: $195. Scholarships available.
Human Awareness Institute, 700 Widgeon St, Foster City CA 94404 (800) 800-4117, (650) 571-5524; office@hai.org
www.hai.org
Sep 26-28
ECSTATIC LIVING™ presents:
Tantra for Singles™: A Sacred Space for Heartfelt Connections
Steve & Lokita Carter
Finally, a Tantra workshop designed for singles! Would you like to spend a weekend with like-hearted others to enrich your life with more joy, bliss, ecstasy, tantric practices and new friends? In a sacred and safe environment we meet, play and connect in a fun, juicy and spiritual way. Tantra, a body-based spiritual path, offers powerful ways to love ourselves and others more deeply, create better communication, celebrate life fully, and become a better lover. Exploring ritual, communication, energy awareness and breath, we open ourselves to love and to more meaningful connections with others.
· Blend Spirituality, Love & Intimacy
· The Keys to Expanding Pleasure
· A fun Tantric Dating Ritual
· Discover Full Body Orgasm
· Ecstatic Connecting from the Heart, Body & Spirit
Take home with you powerful tools that you can use over and over again to spice up your life and to live more ecstatically in and out of the bedroom.
Cost: $375 per person includes meals & in/outdoor camping Registration: Toll-free 877-982-6872 or (707) 987-3456
www.ecstaticliving.com
Sept 28 - October 3
Watsu® 1
Theri Thomas
You will learn Watsu's Basic Moves and how, staying grounded and connected with the breath, you can let the water do the work. You learn to connect these basic moves with graceful transitions and to support and move each person as effortlessly as possible in the water. An intro to Tantsu included.
School of Shiatsu & Massage, PO Box 889, Middletown, CA 95461 (707) 987-3801; www.learnwatsu.com
September 29 – October 3rd
A 5 day hoop-dance jam “ Oroborous at play”
Merlin and Nayeli
Feeling the power of our personal practice in a collective exploration of flow… the r-evolutionary art form that is hoopdance:
How can we inspire each other in this supportive space?
We explore how deep the spiral takes us, as community emerges through this magic circle…
30 participants only…
prerequisites: 500+ hours flight time, select quiver of hoops.
$450 includes all meals & in/outdoor camping
boogie3@adelphia.net; www.playahoop.com
October 3-5
Foundations of Yoga
Rainah
Increasing awareness through deep inquiry into the basic support elements of breath, alignment and movement. Strengthening and fortifying your practice. Especially good for injury rehabilitation and addressing chronic limitation. For all levels.
Fee: HARBIN, 3 days. $345. rainahhh@earthlink.net
October 5-10
Watsu® 2
Alexis Lee
In Watsu 2 you learn additional moves and bodywork and how to incorporate them and other moves, as needed. You learn about the meridians and points in Watsu and explore following the client's tendency to move, while exploring your own movements. Helps develop the ability to explore and play with energy. Prerequisite: Watsu 1
School of Shiatsu & Massage, PO Box 889, Middletown, CA 95461 (707) 987-3801; www.learnwatsu.com
October 5-10
Anatomy 1 - Bones and Muscles
Ed Lark
This class is designed to give students in-depth knowledge and understanding of the musculoskeletal system. Students learn the fundamentals of anatomy and human kinesiology. Teaching methods are a combination hands-on and lecture so you can have a true understanding of how the body moves and lives. Check for prerequisites.
School of Shiatsu & Massage, PO Box 889, Middletown, CA 95461 (707) 987-3801; www.learnwatsu.com
Oct 10-12
ECSTATIC LIVING™ presents:
Bedroom Yoga
With Puja Shannon
Bedroom Yoga is designed to enhance our lovemaking by cultivating sexual energy through creative yoga, ecstatic dance, and tantric breathing tools. Learn yoga sequences that are simple, nurturing, and effortless yet leave you feeling profoundly centered, energetic and peaceful.
· Learn Yoga techniques to enhance lovemaking.
· Enliven and expand the flow of life force energy in your body.
· Open the hips, inner thighs and lower back for more flexibility in love.
· Use breath to build erotic energy in the body.
· Extent pleasure into every cell of your body, until we
overflow with ecstasy.
Experience how effortless it is to feel pleasure, joy and bliss when your energy body expands and you are fully alive and present!
Puja Shannon has been teaching and studying Yoga and dance for 15 years internationally. In her classes and workshops, she shares her passion for life and a playful depth that incorporates deep relaxation, Yoga, Tantra, Kundalini dance, contact improvisation and sound healing.
Cost: $375 per person includes meals & in/outdoor camping Registration: Toll-free 877-982-6872 or (707) 987-3456
www.ecstaticliving.com
October 17-19
The Goddess Weekend
Lokita Carter
www.ecstaticliving.com
October 17-19
Tantric Pulsation
Aneesha Dillon
www.oshopulsation.com
October 19-24
Lymphatic Massage
Diana Lonsdale Haynes
www.learnwatsu.com
October 24-26
Booty Boogie
Luna Baron
www.lunabaron.com
October 26-31
Anatomy Body Systems
Venus Elyse
www.learnwatsu.com
October 31 -November 2
Love, Intimacy & Sexuality
Human Awareness Institute
www.hai.org
October 31 - November 2
Timeless Loving
Steve & Lokita Carter
www.ecstaticliving.com
Look for
the next workshop listing update in September.
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