Working with sexuality

An international tantric practitioners´ training

With John Hawken

This training is for people who work on a one-to-one or one-to-two basis in the field of sexuality. Whether this work involves healing, therapy, Tantric massage, marriage guidance, sex therapy, surrogacy or sex work, this course offers a context for the work with sexuality that can be inspiring for both practitioner and client. Our intention is to bring bring people together from many areas of this work, in order to share experiences, ideas and themes. We hope to create an interdisciplinary cross-fertilization and a clarification of each person’s own particular angle and speciality.

The themes of the training will include:

How to guard the integrity of your personal space
How to work with mutual respect
Meeting on the higher plane as the God and the Goddess
Consciousness of the roles you are choosing and the unconscious projections that can arise
Dealing creatively with transference
Intimacy, boundaries and freedom
Creating appropriate client expectations
Creating clear contracts
Gaining pleasure and fullfilment from one’s work
Avoiding seduction
The sexuality of the different Reichian character types
The phases of sexuality and their different qualities of pleasure
Needs, wants, desires
Healing shame
Sexual addictions
Sex education for adults
Whole person sexuality: following internal processes, following the energy
Sacred sexuality
Working with sexuality in a ritual context
What makes massage tantric rather than simply erotic
Allowing the work to energize rather than deplete
Difference between tantra and therapy
Teaching pelvis release safely
Sexual surrogates
Teaching orgasmic potency
Healing erectile dysfunction
Teaching ejaculation control

Further content of the training will arise in response to the needs and wishes of participants.

In the course of the training John will work with particpants on how to create individual tantric sessions, using examples drawn from different situations.

This training will count towards the qualification of Certified tantric practitioner, to be awarded on the successful completion of 16 days of training and 10 supervision sessions.

Acceptance on this course is dependent on an appropriate level of experience of tantra and succesful completion of the selection process(usualy the introductory workshop, exceptionally an interview and group assessment by special arrangement) . We accept graduates of the year long training or its equivalent, and those who are about to undertake such a training.

When :

The training consists of an introductory block followed by 4 main blocks.

The second introductory block takes place October 1-4, 2007 in the Field of Dreams, Penzance.The price is ₤270 inclusive of tuition, food and accommodation.

The dates of the main blocks are:

26-29 November 2007

17-20 March 2008

6 – 9 October 2008

23 – 26 March 2009

The price is ₤240 per block inclusive of tuition, food and accommodation.

Each block starts Monday at 7pm and finishes on the Thursday at 5pm.

Where:

The training (except for the introductory block) will take place in the Czech republic. The training is held in English, with Czech translation. Participants will be from UK, Germany, Czech republic, USA. Nowadays it is very cheap to fly to the Czech Republic: www.easyjet.com flies from Stanstead, Bristol, Gatwick, East Midlands, Newcastle, www.bmibaby.com serves Birmingham, Cardiff, Manchester and East Midlands, www.Jet2.com does Leeds Bradford, Edinburgh, Blackpool. www.globespan.com flies Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh – Prague and www.thomsonfly.com does Bournemouth, Luton and Doncaster/Sheffield. Transfers from Prague airport to the centre and return will be taken care of by Czech participants. On Thursdays the group finishes in time to catch the evening flights back to Stanstead or Gatwick, or colleagues will put you up in Prague if you need to také a morning flight.

For more information and bookings contact:

John Hawken, Gabriela Rimska

00441736 788304 or 00447980880825