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Yoga, Body
Yoga, Body
& Spirit
at Shambhala Mountain
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The Sexual Body: The Yoga of Bliss, Emptiness & Compassion with David Deida
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June 9 - 12, 2006
Open yourself to an unadulterated experience of living and loving. In this workshop, you will dive deeply into new ways to live your sexuality as a profound and ecstatic spiritual practice. Discover the art of sexual yoga, which enhances your heart’s depth and presence, turning lovemaking into whole-body prayer and communion. With courage and care, you will learn how to bring light into scary places, opening and healing the body, heart and mind. In the context of relationship, you will discover your inherent awareness and bliss to be portals for spiritual awakening and the expression of love’s resplendence.
In this workshop you will
• Discover how to use the body as a vehicle for ecstatic dissolution
• Understand why your deepest sexual gifts are often capped by your most intense resistance and how to relax through blocks in your sexual artistry
• Navigate the differences between men’s and women’s internal sexual circuitry
• Explore why honest and respectful communication can be very different from heart-awakening sex talk
• Find humor amidst anger, lust and jealousy
• Learn breathing techniques to increase, decrease and circulate sexual energy
• Design a deeply personal sexual yoga practice, both solo and in partnership
• Learn how to create and sustain the yoga of intimacy with the right partner
The workshop does not involve nudity and is open to singles and couples of any sexual orientation. Participants should be prepared for explicit use of language and intensive experiential practice.
David Deida teaches a radically practical spirituality that recognizes the universal desire for love and sexual intimacy as a vehicle for achieving spiritual awakening. He is the author of numerous publications, including the best-selling books The Way of the Superior Man, Intimate Communion, Naked Buddhism and The Enlightened Sex Manual.
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"In the area of sacred intimacy, David Deida is holding a lightning bolt. He sheds an astonishing light."
— Marianne Williamson, author of A Return to Love
"We all taste God, taste Goddess, taste pure Spirit in those moments of sexual rapture, and wise men and women have always used that rapture to reveal Spirit’s innermost secrets. David Deida is such a wise one."
— Ken Wilber, author of Sex, Ecology, Spirituality
"David Deida’s teachings on this central human concern, sexuality, emanate from a deeply trustworthy source. He has undergone his own rigorous training and practice. And like Zen, the fruition of David's work is openness, compassion, and love."
— Genpo Roshi, author of The Eye Never Sleeps
David Deida’s work reveals a depth of loving the human condition and understanding its immanent spirituality I’ve seldom seen, even in a glimmer.
— Jenny Wade, author of Transcendent Sex
The registration date for this program has already passed.
From Finding God Through Sex by David DeidaLearning to surrender to love is often an agonizing process. You will be disillusioned of your dreams of comfort, security, and romance. Every emotion that you have stuffed into your body without feeling fully will emerge for you to re-experience. Years of loneliness and ache will be exposed as your heart unfolds. Yet, when the time comes, you have no choice but to go through this process and learn to surrender as love, receiving and giving the bliss of deep openness with every breath.
This bliss is born of your true nature—an eternal love that cannot be lost. The force of this love cannot be beaten or victimized. This love fills your body and heart with a pleasure so deep that even your own thoughts and emotions cannot sway your fundamental happiness. Your loneliness is filled with bright immensity of joy. This love-energy flows from your heart through your body and out of your feet, hands, and eyes like beams of beauty. You live in love's rapture, even as your day-to-day life continues in the form that you choose.
Sex becomes literally making love, magnifying love, from the boundless depth of your heart through every inch of your body and in merger with your man. You are so full of love and pleasure that it is impossible to give it up in an effort to please your partner. You are so open in bliss that you no longer need to guard your heart for fear of being hurt or taken advantage of. Your love is larger than your partner or yourself. You have nothing to fear or protect. Love has already worked its way through your secret hopes and dreads and opened every speck of you as light.
You are neither possessed by your lover's needs nor by your own. You are love. You live as love. And when you find your heart yearning still, practice surrendering more deeply as love . . .
Finding God Through Sex by David Deida, published by Sounds True, Inc.
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