Tantra Meets BDSM
Integrating the Light & Dark of our Eros and our being.
During this 3 day journey, Laurie Handlers and Om Rupani will create a permission field in which the participants can discover a greater YES for their being, their desires, their Eros. No aspect of our being has been more shunned by society, more relegated to second class status than our Eros—especially the so-called darker aspects of our Eros.
The art of Dominance & Submission / BDSM expertly plays with the darker side of our Eros. In this journey, we will take the participants through solo practices of release and self-acceptance, as well as partnered exercise and SCENES in which they may give themselves permission for their desires around POWER, DOMINANCE & SUBMISSION, the giving and receiving of CONTROL and the deeper experience of SURRENDER.
We invite you to come explore and deepen your Spiritual and Erotic journey. Integrate the various aspects of your psyche, discover new levels of turn-on in your relating and sexing. Say YES to life, to your desires, and to your BEING.
LAURIE HANDLERS
CO-INSTRUCTOR
Laurie Handlers (LaurieHandlers.com) is a sex and happiness coach. She is an educator, movie producer, radio show host, and author. She holds a Masters in Education and a Bachelor’s in Psychology and Sociology. Her career includes over thirty years as a corporate change consultant, individual empowerment coach and international seminar leader. She’s a dynamic speaker, facilitator and has taught transformational workshops for women, men, couples, singles, parents and teens since 1978. She specializes in communication techniques and secrets that are the basis of healing the body, releasing past emotional trauma, stopping the aging process, and reducing stress. Pod casts from her show Sex and Happiness can be found at WebTalkRadio.net. Laurie stars in a hilarious indie documentary “Tantric Tourists” and a docudrama “Beyond Dinner”. Her book Sex & Happiness: The Tantric Laws of Intimacy and her CD “Shamanic Release & Latihan” are samples of her many offerings. Her next book about life only getting better after 60 will be available soon. Her current passion is Radical Life Extension.
OM RUPANI
CO-INSTRUCTOR
Om has been practising and teaching the D/S arts, Tantra, Man-Woman Relating & Sex Magic for over a decade. He has developed and facilitated curriculum in the arenas of D/S play, sexuality, and masculine/feminine dynamics for various organizations including OneTaste, Dark Odyssey, and Masculine Underground. He teaches his own workshops regularly in NYC, where he lives, as well as across the country and the globe. Take a look at his new book, ‘Prerequisites to Ecstasy’.
Learn more about Om HERE.
LETICIA ARAVENA
ORGANIZER United States and Latin America
Leticia is a modern day Dakini & Temple Priestess, Somatic Erotic Embodiment Guide, Tantra Shamanic Body Worker, Performing Artist, WET mentor for Spanish/English speaking mentees, and ISTA Organizer seeding the landing of the Temple trainings in the USA and Latin America.
She stands for love, freedom, intoxicating self-love & pleasure, which takes embodiment – for the soul and body to integrate congruently, shaking off limiting beliefs that don’t serve us anymore…for reclamation of one’s power.
Leticia is dedicated to helping humanity embody complete soul-alignment, self trust, sovereignty, and sexual liberation.
In her personal offerings and mentoring, she is a guide in several areas in alchemizing: sexual trauma, shame & fear into orgasmic pleasure – disempowerment & shadows into untamed creativity, power, confidence – patterns of disconnection into profound pleasures & intimacy w/ self & others.
Leticia is here to support humanity on how to integrate all the sides of the self: the dark & the light, the feminine & the masculine, the mother & the whore and any other of the many polarities that exist to create one’s specific flavor of fully embodied human.
Leticia is currently enrolled in Laurie Handler’s Sex and Happiness Coaching & Apprentice Program.
MATT MOORE
ORGANIZER
Matt is a sacred sexuality practitioner offering somatic healing and coaching sessions out of Montreal, Canada; graduate of the International School of Temple Arts (ISTA) Practitioner Training, student of Tantra, erotic power exchange, somatic bodywork and orgasmic meditation.
His core values center on presence, providing safety, integrating mind & body, and cultivating reliable personal intuition. Adept of the Wim Hof Method, non-violent communication, and shadow work, he is committed to supporting people to access their life force, manage their emotions, practice mindfulness, free pleasure and increase their overall well-being.
To support his mission of contributing to a world of ease and playfulness, he co-organizes ecstatic dance, emotional release meetups, breathwork sessions and ISTA transformational retreats. To learn more about his private sessions and exciting experiential activities, visit his website matt-moore.ca.
About the Venue
Vision
Hope Springs Institute, a 130-acre Retreat Center in Ohio’s Southern Appalachian foothills, located next to the internationally known National Historic Landmark, Serpent Mound (effigy mound in the shape of a serpent w/curled tail) built by ancient American Indian cultures of Ohio, is a non-profit retreat center in Appalachian Ohio, cultivating peace through empowered leadership, innovative learning, and personal healing.
Their vision is a more peaceful, equitable, and inclusive world and to hold sacred space & transformative programming for growth, leadership, & healing while honoring mind, body, spirit, & earth.
This retreat includes:
- 7 day / 6 night accommodations
- 3 meals per day & snacks
- Full day transformational process and teachings
Note: Airfare and airport transfers are not included.
Tuition:
Full Price: $2360
Repeat Students (Limited Spots): SOLD OUT
Assistants (ISTA Graduates Only – Limited Spots): SOLD OUT
To be considered for this role of assistant, please Register Here
US Camping or RV: $250 discount on the above rates
ISTA partial scholarships are available. (Limited Spots): Application required.
Leah Fund Scholarships Applicants, please follow the process outlined here https://ista.life/projects/leah-fund
World Empowerment Trust (WET) Fund Scholarship Applicants, please follow the process outlined here https://ista.life/projects/world-empowerment-trust
Deadline for full tuition payment is April 23, 2022. If we still have not received your entire balance by then, you run the risk of your spot being filled by someone else.
REGISTER HERE!
To begin your registration process, use the following button to send you non-refundable USD 500 deposit or pay in full.
Terms
A commitment to the Spiritual Sexual Shamanic Experience is a deep commitment to yourself. It is assumed that, if you feel drawn to this training, it is no accident. Should you cancel for any reason:
More than 30 days before the training: Your $500 deposit is not refundable. You will be refunded the rest of any paid tuition minus a $150 administration fee.
Less than 30 but more than 7 days before the training: You will be refunded 50% of any tuition paid beyond the $500 non-refundable deposit.
Less than 7 days before the training: No refund.
CORONAVIRUS EXCEPTION: IF YOU MUST CANCEL BECAUSE OF COVID-19 INFECTION, WE WILL GIVE YOU A FULL REFUND, INCLUDING DEPOSIT.
Please notify us immediately in the event that you find yourself needing additional time to prepare for this unique experience.
* We will issue a relevant health and protocol agreement near the date of the training that may or may not require a covid testing before entering the training.
© Leticia Aravena – Embodied Alchemy