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Easter Retreat in Algarve, Portugal: The Sacred Dance of Shiva & Shakti with Pete Bampton 28 March - 4th April 2024 | Monte Mariposa Retreat Center, Algarve Portugal Are you intrigued by the concept of masculine and feminine polarity, yet long for something deeper than the watered-down Instagram "polarity trend"? Do you intuit that there is a mystical undercurrent within the play of erotic attraction? Do you long to embody the paradox of your simultaneous unqualified wholeness and distinct individuality? Does the dance between Lover and Beloved makes deep and total sense to you? Then you are ready to play in the realms of yogic intimacy—a practice of experiencing the pulse of One in two... During this 7 day journey you will be immersed in guided meditations and profound explorations into the Art of Sacred Intimacy, a "True Tantra" of Embodied Awakening and Empowered Loving sourced not in pleasure-seeking and self-fulfilment, but in the ego-transcending ecstasy of whole bodily surrender to the Radiant, All-Pervading Consciousness that is the Eternal Matrix, Truth and Destiny of the world. This process of discovery activates the principles of regenerative sexual yoga and the authentic actualisation of the Shiva & Shakti polarity. This retreat also includes morning Qi Gong sessions, Dynamic Meditations, Ecstatic Dance and much more. This will be a deeply vulnerable, experimental and edgy retreat. Only open-minded and adventurous souls need apply! |
28th March - 4th April 2024 Location: Monte Mariposa Retreat Center in Tavira, Algarve Portugal Price: Camping 690€ | 820€ Single bed in 2 person cabin | 850€ double bed cabin |
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Discounts
We offer discounted rates for Portuguese and Spanish to reflect the different economic reality here compared with Northern Europe and America.
We offer a 50 euro discount for those who can help us accommodate more people by bringing their own tent.
Go to Retreat Registration Form
Financial help (limited offer)
If you would like to come to the retreat but can't afford the full price please write to us and tell us why you want to come to the retreat and what you would like to pay. There is a right price for each situation so please look at your situation and don't offer too much but don't offer too little. If we receive more inquiries than available gift spaces then we will select an individual based on the words that inspire us as we believe that giving inspires giving. To apply for financial help, please fill in the form below. Let your heart sing!
We offer discounted rates for Portuguese and Spanish to reflect the different economic reality here compared with Northern Europe and America.
We offer a 50 euro discount for those who can help us accommodate more people by bringing their own tent.
Go to Retreat Registration Form
Financial help (limited offer)
If you would like to come to the retreat but can't afford the full price please write to us and tell us why you want to come to the retreat and what you would like to pay. There is a right price for each situation so please look at your situation and don't offer too much but don't offer too little. If we receive more inquiries than available gift spaces then we will select an individual based on the words that inspire us as we believe that giving inspires giving. To apply for financial help, please fill in the form below. Let your heart sing!
Guided by Pete Bampton Pete is a transformational mentor and author of The Fire of the Heart with over three decades of experience in spiritual practice and community both as student and teacher |
What to expect The true man or woman yields to the process of experience as to a lover. Such a one does not enter into the realms of experience in a defensive manner—cranky, rigid, full of self and knowledge. Rather, such a one enters into the present moment of experience as an act of love. Experience, whether positive or negative, coincides with ecstasy in the case of devotees of the Real. They are sacrificed in any case, spoiled with wounds, and ultimately eaten by a mysterious lover. Lovers do not fear dissolution. Therefore, they are active as submission, feeling, and ecstatic awe. Unlike the knower, who does not make love but at best presumes to love, the devotee of the Real is engaged in the process of ecstasy. The devotee exceeds all knowledge through love and ecstatic self-surrender. For such a one, knowledge is only a convention of ordinary order and thinking, whereas love is the method whereby the secret purposes of the universe are fulfilled. — Da Free John Love of the Two-Armed Form Discover... Opening your sexual circuitry in preparation for deeper lovemaking Learning the distinctions of yogic intimacy that create the free-fall into erotic bliss Letting go of the ways you diminish intimacy by imposing needs on your partner Disciplining the sexual body with yogic breathing Transmuting raw sexual desire into love's deepest communion Why you don't have to be healed to Love fully now The differences between therapeutic and practice-based work Loving through your patterns and triggers to open new possibilities in intimacy Getting out of your relational comfort zone and taking creative risks in love Softening armour around your heart to experience the sacred union you crave Transmuting the personal into transpersonal domains Learn tools to create profound intimacy in any moment—with yourself, with your lover, with life, and with God Transmuting the contraction of neediness into an offering of untethered, full-bodied yearning Yearning as a gateway to deeper eros and ecstasy Embodying the full range of feminine flavors to break free from habitual ways of being and relating Loosening the grip of who you think you are to discover the freedom beyond identity constructs For Shiva - the Masculine: Learn to transmit the forces of love and consciousness in ways that evoke your partner's most playful and ecstatic bliss Learn how to make your partner your ally in your eternal quest for freedom Practice penetrating your relationships and the world from a place of embodied depth and presence. Learn how to cultivate the meditative practice that will allow your nervous system to hold massive amounts of sexual and emotional energy For Shakti - the Feminine: Liberate your deepest devotion in ecstatic communion with your beloved/the divine Artfully reveal the depths of your feminine longing, emotions, and wisdom as invitations to be met fully and deeply in love Open the gateway to your most empowered, alive, and liberated self that is hidden within the ecstatic ache of your longing Relax into your True Nature so deeply that you effortlessly incarnate as Love's fullness, which is inherently magnetic to the depth of consciousness that you yearn to receive from a lover ️Cultivate your ability to feel what is trustable and what is NOT trustable in a man, so you can open your heart fully without betraying your feminine wisdom For Shiva & Shakti: Understand the three stages of spiritual-sexual evolution and how to grow from co-dependent, to independent, to devotionally-in-service-to-each-others-awakening in relationship. Learn to approach your relationship as a spiritual practice - a space to soften the grip of ego and experience your true nature as Love The Dance of Shiva & Shakti is for you if you are:
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The Sacred Dance of Shiva & Shakti
* Meditation * Non-Duality * True Tantra * Dancing Down The Light * Qi Gong * Restorative Yoga *
In this retreat Peter will first lead participants on a journey of Awakening into the Eternal, Transcendent Consciousness, Being or Heart, that is radically Free and untouched by all that arises and passes away.
Once that ground is significantly established, the collective journey will expand to embrace Awakening - as unique gendered individuals - to a Creative Process of Spirit-in-Action. Through Meditation, Dialogue, Qi Gong, Dancing Down the Light and other modalities Peter will facilitate a living exploration of "The Sacred Dance of Shiva & Shakti".
This dynamic potential emerges when men and women discover, surrender to and embody their masculine and feminine poles with a depth that radically transcends all the reactivity and drama of social conditioning, and especially the postmodern 'war of the sexes' and its depolarization of the genders.
There is an increasing interest in alternative spiritual culture in 'Tantra', the 'Divine Feminine' and 'Sacred Masculine', however as broadly positive as these developments may be, it is Peter's conviction that Tantra and an Awakened embodiment of the dynamic polarity of Shiva & Shakti, are rarely understood and actualized with true ego-transcending depth and authenticity in western alternative culture.
Peter's approach to this theme will be not theoretical, but is sourced in the groundbreaking insights, revelations and embodied discoveries of the Awakened Life Men's Collective and the Awakened Life Women's Creative, which he will draw upon to fuel the shared exploration.
As a participant this retreat will demand that you bring an open mind and heart together with a real willingness to be challenged, to take risks and to transform. This retreat will be a shared experiment in the evolution of consciousness and culture, and its transformative impact depends on the commitment and passion of everyone involved.
In this retreat Peter will first lead participants on a journey of Awakening into the Eternal, Transcendent Consciousness, Being or Heart, that is radically Free and untouched by all that arises and passes away.
Once that ground is significantly established, the collective journey will expand to embrace Awakening - as unique gendered individuals - to a Creative Process of Spirit-in-Action. Through Meditation, Dialogue, Qi Gong, Dancing Down the Light and other modalities Peter will facilitate a living exploration of "The Sacred Dance of Shiva & Shakti".
This dynamic potential emerges when men and women discover, surrender to and embody their masculine and feminine poles with a depth that radically transcends all the reactivity and drama of social conditioning, and especially the postmodern 'war of the sexes' and its depolarization of the genders.
There is an increasing interest in alternative spiritual culture in 'Tantra', the 'Divine Feminine' and 'Sacred Masculine', however as broadly positive as these developments may be, it is Peter's conviction that Tantra and an Awakened embodiment of the dynamic polarity of Shiva & Shakti, are rarely understood and actualized with true ego-transcending depth and authenticity in western alternative culture.
Peter's approach to this theme will be not theoretical, but is sourced in the groundbreaking insights, revelations and embodied discoveries of the Awakened Life Men's Collective and the Awakened Life Women's Creative, which he will draw upon to fuel the shared exploration.
As a participant this retreat will demand that you bring an open mind and heart together with a real willingness to be challenged, to take risks and to transform. This retreat will be a shared experiment in the evolution of consciousness and culture, and its transformative impact depends on the commitment and passion of everyone involved.
Where The retreat will be held at Monte Mariposa Retreat Center, a beautiful location near Tavira in Algarve, the south of Portugal. |
On this Retreat
you will explore and experience:
you will explore and experience:
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Guided Meditation and Q&A sessions on Awakening to Transcendent Consciousness here and now
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Exploration through dialogue and practice into Awakened Embodiment and the Actualisation of the Sacred Masculine (Shiva) & Divine Feminine (Shakti)
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Exploration of the principles of ego-transcending regenerative sexual yoga (this doesn't include live sexual practice)
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Qi Gong Sessions
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Ecstatic Dance
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Delicious Vegetarian Meals
Guided Meditation and Q&A sessions on Awakening to Transcendent Consciousness here and now
●
Exploration through dialogue and practice into Awakened Embodiment and the Actualisation of the Sacred Masculine (Shiva) & Divine Feminine (Shakti)
●
Exploration of the principles of ego-transcending regenerative sexual yoga (this doesn't include live sexual practice)
●
Qi Gong Sessions
●
Ecstatic Dance
●
Delicious Vegetarian Meals