Stage 1 in Goa
8th – 14th Feb 2025. Sohum Spiritual Resort, Goa, India
Stage 1 – the Initiation
The Awaken as Love Initiation is a journey open to everyone – it begins with a choice to go on an adventure that will expand you beyond the boundaries of your current existence. What will it bring to you? More awareness, more love, more inclusion, more juice to your life and more depth if you allow it.
This first stage is called “Initiation” because if you choose this then all your experiences up til now have led you to this point and you are obviously ready to step into a wider reality – in doing so you enter fresh and new, open to discovering more.
As you step into this journey you will encounter maps that help you understand the larger world and your place in it (this is beyond your imagination), tools which help you to play more fully in this world, embodied experiences which help you to anchor a new reality and finally ongoing resources which help to integrate and incorporate this into your life.
What is this Training?
Your Instructors
During this course you will be held by 3 of the Awaken as Love faculty (and a full team of assistants) – they each come from different backgrounds but all are inspired to facilitate the evolution of humanity. Click on their image to load their Bio from the Awaken as Love website.
Taina Ixchel
Instructor
Taína Ixchel is a powerful catalyst for transformation, a Shamanic and Tantric Power Priestess who awakens authenticity and limitless possibility in every soul she meets. An International Teacher, Holistic Coach, and Awaken As Love Facilitator (awakenaslove.com), Taína is devoted to guiding individuals on profound journeys of self-discovery, inspiring them to deepen connections with themselves and others and live lives thriving with purpose and potential.
With a Master’s degree and over 18 years of practicing Tantra, Taína is guided by her experience as an International Tantra Teacher and certified Energetic Relationship Practitioner, Holistic Health and Wellness Coach, and Theta Healing Practitioner. Her initiation into esoteric teachings by an Enlightened Master affirmed her destiny: to “teach this Love.”
In addition to teaching and mentoring around the world, Taína offers transformational life coaching virtually, fostering deep healing and empowering clients to claim their fullest selves. www.PowerPriestess.com
James Stevenson
Founder & Lead Instructor
James’s passion is to help call forth our human potential and our soul. His weave brings together more than 20 years of experience in techniques, practices, and information from the cutting edge of Neuroscience, Tantra, Biodanza, Shamanic & Energy Work, Integral theory, and Taoist practices to create a spirituality that is rooted in the body. His evolutionary approach is to work on all lines, levels, states, and parts of ourselves in bringing forth our fullest potential.
His work in meditation and tantra work draws on many different traditions and paths he has studied from Kashmir Shaivism, Baul mysticism, Advaita Vedanta, Vajrayana Buddhism, Integral systems, and Neo-tantra. His shamanic work includes being Vision Quest rites of passage guide, holding Sweatlodge Ceremonies as well as Sacred Cacao Rituals. He has been dancing Biodanza since 2003 and now works as a teacher and a didactic teacher (qualified to teach other teachers in Biodanza Schools). www.jamesstevenson.life
Amerai Carrera
Instructor
Amerai has more than 12 years of recognized experience in Spain, guides her students on a magical and healing journey to the deepest part of the being on the path of self- realisation. Her method offers a combination of Tantra, Neotantra, Shamanism and Personal Growth Psychotherapy accompanying people to feel the opening of their heart, unconditional love, inner movement, kundalini awakening, yoga, meditation, integrating inner child work, and the fusion of sexual energy with spirituality and sexual healing in all its amplitude. She also helps people to transcend the psychological issues which are carried as a result of cultural conditioning and past experiences. It’s an integral and holistic path of metamorphosis in which love and consciousness facilitate a full awakening towards your full potential as a human being.
Amerai has been trained as a Tantra and Neotantra teacher in different schools including Awaken as Love School
What will I get from this training?
This certificated course will give you practical tools, maps and experiences to be able to embody a deeper understanding. These will include:
Tantra Techniques
How can the energy of the raw animal self be raised into higher consciousness, and how can this consciousness descend into the body and manifest world? Really this is a deep intimacy with yourself, with a partner and even throughout a group.
Embodiment practices
It’s one thing to understand with the mind, and something completely different to have a knowing that comes from a deep experiencing of wisdom through the body. Being able to manifest inate creativity into the reality is a skill.
System Reboot
We will be resetting the experiences and patterns in the nervous system of the body. These have framed your experience of this world since birth. Imagine how your life could be filled with more ease, clarity and pleasure!
Shamanic Initiations
We will be perfoming ceremonies that take you outside of the normal sequence of time and anchor in soul peices that have been waiting for this moment.
Integral Maps
As we learn these maps – the whole picture is revealed and we suddenly start to understand where peices that you were partially aware of fit inside a larger picture of reality.
Wisdom Transmission
Through transmission we will be awakening our higher centres of knowing, expanding into a new operating system and accessing novelty from the cosmos.
How can this advance me working in these areas?
There are a few ways in which this training will support you in your journey as a guide, teacher or practitioner. It is an accredited course from Awaken As Love – you will recieve a certificate on completion and you can state that you have completed this training on your personal biographies.
You will also be eligible to attend the next levels – Deepening & Radicalization to eventually become an Awaken as Love Facilitator.
In addition you will be gaining direct tools that you can then use in your own workshops and practices as well as a deeper understanding about how to work with groups – and meeting a larger international network of practitioners and teachers to create and stay in on-going connection. We routinely give opportunities to Awaken as Love graduates to be part of the festivals we create.
Some of Areas Covered in this Training Are:
- Tantric Bodywork
- Individual Partnered Tantra Meditations
- Archetypal Group Rituals
- Inner Masculine & Inner Feminine Aspects
- Character armour.
- De-armouring
- Integral Maps
- The 4 Dimensions of Reality.
- States of Consciousness
- Stages of Consciousness
- Lines of Development
- Typological Mapping
- Experience of Theory U
- Shadow & Spiritual Bypassing
- Gifts of the Wound
- Difference between Ego and Identity
- Identity & Regression.
- Group Dynamics
- Teachings of the 4 Shields
- Shamanic Medicine Walk
- Mindfullness and Heartfullness
- Satori Experiences
Practical Information for Stage 1 – the Initiation
Dates: The training runs from the 8 -14th Feb 2025
Venue: Sohum, Pernem Road, Korgaon, Goa 403524, India
Training Cost: Super Earlybird price of just €800, Normal price is €1000 (excluding Food & Accommodation)
Special Offer: Book both this Training and the Awaken as Love Tantra Festival at the same time to get 10% discount off the training!
Are you ready?
Sometimes people just jump and discover something amazing waiting for their lives.
The Venue – Sohum Spiritual Resort
Sohum offers a haven of peace, not through opulent luxury, but through thoughtfully designed rooms that foster a sense of calm and connection with the surrounding forest. Unwind in our elegantly simple accommodations. Each room is a haven of tranquillity, featuring natural light streaming through windows and locally-sourced wood furnishings that create a warm and inviting atmosphere. Step onto your private balcony and breathe in the fresh air, letting the sights and sounds of the flourishing forest envelop you..
Room Facilites Include, King-size beds, air-conditioning, en-suite bathrooms and free wifi. Guest have access to the Yoga Shalas, Exercise equipment and a beautiful swimming pool.
Accommodation Information & Costs
Single Non- Residential ticket €1250 Sale €980
Price for a single non-residential ticket for the training for locals- you will need to stay close to Sohum – we start early in the morning and have a full schedule until late most days. Includes breakfast & dinner each day at the training.
Single ticket in Shared Twin Room (same Gender) €1550 Sale €1300
Price for a single ticket in a shared Cottage, includes 2 meals a day plus all training fees. Cottage has en-suite bathroom, air-conditioning, balcony and Wifi.
Two tickets in King Room €3000 Sale €2500
Price for two tickets in a luxury room with Kingbed, includes 2 meals a day plus all training fees. Cottage has en-suite bathroom, air-conditioning, balcony and Wifi
Meals
Breakfast and Dinner are inclusive of the accommodation price and fully vegetarian although we do consume dairy products and eggs. There is a great selection of Indian, Continental, Chinese, Italian and Mexican cuisines. We use organic vegetables, pulses/legumes, grains and oils as often as possible.
There is a long lunch break in the training which gives you time to explore the surrounding area, sunbathe and visit the different restaurants on the beach.
If you have special dietary needs then please mention this in the additional information area of the booking form so we can accommodate your needs as best as possible
Are you ready?
Sometimes people just jump and discover something amazing waiting for their lives.