2 – 7 November 2014
Temenos Retreat Center, Mc Gregor, South Africa
Perhaps the best-kept secret for opening to your sexual essence as woman is this: Our sexuality is cyclical. If you listen to your cycle and live according to its rhythms, your sexuality will open into its true blossoming.
This 5-day retreat offers a small group of women a profound and exclusive space to enter deeper into our sexuality and to tap the wisdom of our cyclical sexual nature under the guidance of two highly experienced facilitators.
As women we are cyclical beings – we wax and wane like the moon, we have high tides and low tides like the sea. The mystery of woman’s sexuality is that it is cyclical in nature and intimately influenced by the ebb and flow of our menstrual cycles.
During each cycle of the moon, our sexual body transforms through 4 different phases. Each of these four phases is a doorway into a deeper communing with our sexuality, with the essence of who we are, and with life.
In order to enter through these doorways, we are invited to listen to the wisdom of our sexual bodies and get in tune with the knowing that each phase brings. The pre-menstrual phase brings the opportunity to clarify our needs and roots us in our intuition. Menstruation is a time for opening, softening and listening, deep into the knowing of our bodies. The follicular and ovulation phases are times to engage in our creativity, feed our imagination and move into the fullest expression of ourselves in the world.
Embracing and engaging our feminine cyclical nature skillfully, empowers us to manage our energy and our daily lives with ease and nourishes our sexual expression with joy and consciousness.
Imagine listening to your sexual cycle as the inner guidance which keeps your life in balance and in harmony with the rhythms of life. Imagine learning the skills of nourishing and restoring yourself during each phase of your cycle. Imagine exploring breath practices that open the sexual body of woman. Imagine experiencing all of this through the rich medium of process art, free writing, dance, storytelling and embodied practices in the beautiful, nurturing setting of the garden of Temenos Retreat Centre. Imagine having two experienced and dedicated guides initiating you into the wisdom of each gateway in your sexual cycle as woman. This is what this retreat offers you.
During the retreat, we will:
Learn about the sexual cycles of women
Understand how to nourish each phase of your cycle
Be guided in subtle movement and breath practices that open the sexual body of woman
Explore our own experience through art, free writing, dance and story telling
Learn from each other’s life experiences through sharing in sisterhood circles
Be nourished by the exquisite garden of Temenos
Q&A about the event:
Will working with my cycle improve my relationship with my sexuality? Most definitely! By starting to live in harmony with your sexual cycles, you will begin to feel your sexual body from the inside out, open to her exquisite flowering, learn to listen to her, and discover the profound wisdom she has to offer you.
I hate menstruating. Why should I put myself through a retreat like this? We understand. Many women feel like you. By bringing consciousness and love to your cycle, you can transform your menstruation into a time of mystical opening and deep self-loving.
What if I am peri-menopausal? Attending the retreat will give you the perfect opportunity to come in harmony with the cycles of your sexual body as they begin to change. This will give you the foundation to enter into the wisdom cycle of menopause, which is its own unique sexual gateway for us as women.
The Presenters
Shakti Malan has a profound passion for the feminine, and she believes that the awakening of female sexual energy is a key to the spiritual awakening of the world in our day. She has been facilitating the discovery of female sexual energy to hundreds of women across the world over the last decade. Her book Sexual Awakening for Women and the courses she teaches based on the book create a space for women to discover the deep feminine and to open to their true magnificence in deep resonance with the masculine. Shakti holds a Ph.D. (UCT) in Social Anthropology.
Keriesa Botha has been one of Shakti’s mentors in the mysteries of the Feminine, and has many years of experience running workshops on the menstrual cycle and menopause. Keriesa has a post-graduate diploma in Psychophonetics Counselling and a Master’s Degree in Leadership and Change Management.
Temenos, the venue
With its cottages and sacred spaces nestled amongst the Gardens of the Beloved, Temenos is the ideal venue for this women’s retreat. See temenos.org.za.
Cost and booking:
R6 000 facilitation fee for bookings before 30 September. R6 800 facilitation fee for bookings after.
Accommodation is R310 pppn (R1550 in Total) sharing and R330 pppn (R1650 in Total) single.
Catering: 3 x simple vegetarian meals per day @ R250/day. Total R1250.
Full payment of accommodation & R1000 deposit is required to reserve your place – Temenos only has accommodation for 17 participants.
For bookings and inquiries contact Rhianne van der Linde – rhiannevdl@gmail.com
For more info: http://www.shaktimalan.com/event/enterin
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