Tantra Retreats For Women

 

 

 

Womens residential retreat for 2012 to be annouced.

“Diane Riley is one of the most knowledgeable voices on sacred female sexuality writing and teaching today.”

Dr Gabrielle Morrissey,  Developed the Human Sexuality
program at Curtin University WA,

 

Candid, insightful and entertaining Diane will share a wealth of practical wisdom and insights honed from 25 years of researching, teaching and coaching in the area of love, relationship and sacred sexuality.

 

Diane draws on modern scientific knowledge, and contemporary applications of Tantra and Taosim to revitalise  and balance your ‘inner goddess’.

 

Tantra Women's Sydney retreat for women.

Discover
- Sacred sexuality and tantra from a female perspective.
- Practices to inspire and nurture your feminine spirit
- The heart of tantra – ways to enhance relationships in your life.  
- Learn tantric tips for a soulful and spicy relationship.

Experience
- Meditations for inner well being.
- Nada yoga as a tool for creative empowerment.
- Flow movement to access feminine nature.
- White Tantra Yoga to enhance beauty, youthfulness and longevity
- Shiastu for PMT and healthy transitions through pregnancy and menopause
Optional – Morning Beach yoga
- Sensational Ayurvedic  food and beautiful natural surrounds!

Women’s Weekend to inspire and relax with a fabulous collective of tantra teachers.

This weekend will be indulgence with wonderful vegetarian food, peaceful surroundings, a perfect place to revitalize body and soul.  We will explore many aspects of ‘the feminine heart of tantra’.  Plus there is time to deeply relax, to restore your vitality, and take peaceful walks in beautiful surrounds.

 

Facilitators
Diane Riley: Director of Australian School of Tantra. Adv Dip Ed BA. Dip Sensuality More Un. Co author  of ‘Sexual Secrets for Men, what every woman will want her man to know’ and author of ‘Sexy and Sacred, for women’ co –creator of DVD ‘Secrets of sacred sex, guide to love and intimacy’. 

Soelae Riley: White tantra yoga teacher (accredited Yoga Alliance 200hr). Her unique style of yoga is an infusion of Tantra, yoga, meditative breath and  transformational work.

Satyo Sullivan: Satyo Cate Sullivan (BCA.,MA (Cat).PACFA reg.) works as a counsellor and creative arts therapist in the Shoalhaven and has specialised in working with women issues for over twenty years.

Lani Nelison: Lani Neilson has been a teacher, body-worker and personal growth counsellor for over two decades specialising in sacred sexuality and tantra for women and enhancing sensuality.

Karen Ganga Ashworth: Having studied many healing modalities including Kinesthetic processes and Nada Yoga, Karen brings a profound understanding of the effect of sound, voice and vibration on the physical and energetic body.

Recognising the interconnectedness between
being sexy and sacred, delivers great soulfulness
to our lives as women.

 

 As a result we open to inner wisdoms
 as well as to our most deeply sensuous
and divine feminine nature.”

 

      From ‘Sexy and Sacred’ Diane Riley

GODDESSES IN HINDUISM; The hindu goddesses appears in many forms, Deva, Shakti, Radha, Parvati, Laskmi, Durga, Kali and many more. Many of these are independent in their own right and many are pivotal ‘just as the moon does not shine without moonlight, so also Shiva does not shine without Shakti'.

The feminine is energy to animate the male principle of consciousness.

GODDESSES IN BUDDHISM. The feminine represents wisdom and the masculine represents compassion. The couple symbolising the ultimate non-duality of all existence.

Article by Diane Riley Extract from her book, "Sexual Secrets for Women' soon to be released in early 2007

'During my investigations into the sacred feminine, I have discovered the rich mythology of the ancient goddesses. This chapter is not about goddess worship; it’s about gaining insight and wisdoms from these goddess stories and applying them to your life today.

I have found personal meaning and inspiration within these myths, which has assisted in my understanding of many aspects of myself as a woman. Knowing about the existence of a goddess of love who was revered for her power, sexuality, and grace, has profoundly supported the integration of my sexuality and spirituality. It has also helped me release certain aspects of my childhood and cultural conditioning to broaden and deepen my sexual life in exciting new ways.

In order to bring more of the goddess of love into your life, it’s invaluable to know a little of goddess mythology.

ancient goddess

The goddess was pivotal to many early, earth-centered civilizations. She was considered the creative source of all life. Female sexuality was honored, not only for reproduction, but also for the way it inspired passion, desire and pleasure.

Archaeologists have unearthed innumerable ancient goddess images. Some date from Palaeolithic times - circa 30,000 BC to 9,000 BC - and often take the form of a woman’s body with large breasts, hips, and vulva. They depict the female body as sacred, and the female genitals as symbols of divine mystery, portals through which all pass into this life, symbols of Life’s cycles and regeneration.

In such early societies, divinity, sexuality and fertility were intertwined and integrated. The pre-Christian cultures of Mesopotamia , Egypt , Greece and Rome worshipped powerful female divinities as well as male ones. These goddesses were personifications of the archetypal feminine energy that exists within all women. (Archetypes are universal ideas, images and patterns of thought that we share in our unconscious). They are powerful forces deep within us that influence how we view the world and what we do. In our lives today, archetypes are reflected in different aspects of ourselves with which we can identify: lover, wife, mother, daughter, nurturer, organizer, protector, destroyer, and seductress. This list, of course, is not exhaustive.

Let’s take a look at a couple of specific examples of these archetypes, one of which is the nurturer and all-giving mother in the Christian tradition, the very familiar Virgin Mary. She has been depicted throughout the ages with the Christ child held adoringly in her arms. In Greek mythology, her equivalent is Demeter, the mother; always putting her children's needs paramount.

We are familiar too with the good wife and homemaker roles that many of our mothers and grandmothers undertook in the 1950s and ‘60s. The goddesses Hera and Hestia from Greek mythology both symbolize a woman devoted to her husband, family and home, one who uses her creativity to make an orderly and nurturing place for those she loves.

The Goddess in contemporary times

In the late 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s, women began to struggle with the limitations of traditional roles. Many women were already venturing beyond the homemaking role into more public arenas such as the professions of law, medicine, economics and politics where the qualities of a woman being objective, impersonal and skilful reflect the aspects of the goddess Athena.

During the ‘80s, interest in physical fitness became fashionable. Madonna, the pop singer and actress, popularized sleek, defined muscles and a strong physical body. At this time, many women became interested in aerobics, going to the gym and bodybuilding. The goddess archetype of physical strength is Artemis. Some women can identify with one or two of these goddesses while others are ignored, passed by or suppressed.

You’ve seen goddesses in parts of your life and in the lives of others; a woman who turns heads whenever she walks into a room, or a friend who always exudes confidence and optimism. Or perhaps a work associate who manages to pull together projects with efficiency and professionalism, or a grandmother who is full of care, warmth and love.

We sometimes admire or are envious of different qualities in other women. The good news is that each of us has the power to bring the inner goddess of our choice to the forefront, whenever we so desire.

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