Spirit - Sex - Love:
a David Deida and Ken Wilber influenced
Limited Enrollment Workshop
a Fun, Sexy, Transformational experience
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"The feminine grows spiritually
by learning to live as love — rather than by hoping for it.
The masculine grows spiritually
by learning to live as freedom — rather than by struggling for it."
~ David Deida
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We live in a world that sends us very confusing messages about masculinity and femininity.
At WholeBody Wisdom, we believe that all men & women naturally possess both Masculine and Feminine qualities — each person has a unique mix of each. We find that people are most powerful, effective, and free when they can animate both their masculine and feminine from a place of love and openness as opposed to fear and defensiveness.
This workshop helps us find what our intrinsic individual mix is — and experience the strength and freedom inherent in acting from that authentic place. Furthermore, when we learn to express ourselves from our most authentic place — we become more radiant, trustable, and inspiring to others.
This work is not:
- for everyone
- about fixing anything
- therapy
- dating techniques nor sex techniques
This is about getting out of your own way so that your real inner power, energy, and radiance can flow forth and be a gift to the world.
This is about learning that you do not have to wait to fully and consistently live your purpose ... or share your radiance — that by accepting, owning, and having humor around your "kinks" — you can learn how to use them in service of opening those around you deeper and more profoundly than before.
This is about using relationships as vehicles for spiritual / emotional growth.
This is about uncovering your natural sexual essence — and living from that place … instead of unconsciously acting through our old habitual shells and patterns that we mistakenly think are us …
It's about truly getting — on a bodily level — that much of the external "persona" that we are attached to is just an accumulation of old habits and defenses that we no longer need.
This workshop is influenced by the teachings of David Deida and Ken Wilber and taught by Scott Longwell using WholeBody Learning and the embodiment methods of WholeBody Wisdom.
Deida is an author and teacher of a new way of viewing and working with Masculine & Feminine energies.
This work is for people who are interested in leaning into their edge while having humor around noticing as one's buttons get pushed. It's an environment to possibly get triggered and then be supported around finding one's deeper power and staying open in the face of life's challenges.
It's about Radiance & Presence and being at choice around when and how you animate each. It's about fully owning and embodying Leading & Following, Masculinity & Femininity, Control & Surrender, D/S ... from a place of choice, openness and love … instead of being motivated by societal rules and ones own fear.
Where openness, connection, and personal growth
are valued over comfort, conformity, and the illusion of safety.
We'll start off the workshop by watching part of Deida's Spirit - Sex - Love Video.
Then, Scott Longwell will lead us through interactive exercises and practices where we'll gain a deeper understanding, and more importantly — a bodily experience — of how our masculine and feminine essence plays out in relation to others.
We'll be given practices to help us drop our old shells and get in touch with our core essence so that we can access our natural gifts and inner radiance — and then share them authentically & skillfully with those we choose.
You'll have the opportunity to get specific, personalized feedback and support on what you're doing that's working — and what's not.
In this workshop you'll have the opportunity to:
- Learn to love, value, and authentically & effectively express, "dark" emotions — as well as irresistible Feminine Radiance.
- Learn practices that will enable you to create a Masculine container that can confidently embrace the "Feminine Storm" — a Masculine Presence that is consistently open, loving, and deeply trustable.
- Learn (on a bodily level) the vital differences between Leadership & Control and the differences between Surrender & Collapse.
- Learn what's stopping you from attracting into your life Masculine Beings that are consistently present, loving, and grounded — even in the face of your biggests upsets.
- Experience how a polarity of Masculine & Feminine energy can enhance the chemistry & erotic energy between two people.
Bring your curiosity, open-mindedness, and a willingness to lean into your edge!
WholeBodied Learning
This experiential workshop will be taught using WholeBody Learning. In addition to learning concepts in your mental body — you'll also experience them in your physical, emotional, intuitive & spiritual bodies — your "WholeBody." Thus, you'll be better able to fully embody your new-found power & freedom.
Integral Practice / Third-Wave Context
This is an "Integral Practice" workshop. Through talks, Q&A and intensive & extensive experiential practice we'll be expanding our ability to be our most free, powerful, radiant, and fully-expressed selves.
Inclusivity
People of all cultural backgrounds, life situations, sexual orientations & gender identities are encouraged to participate.
As in all WholeBody Wisdom workshops — you must be at least 18 years-old to attend.
When
Saturday, February 25, 2012
11am-6pm
For more information, or to receive a notice about upcoming events, and advance registration discounts, send an email to: Events@WholeBodyWisdom.com
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Tuition
Regular Price: $140 per person
Early Registration tickets may be purchased until Feb, 22th for $95 per person - click Buy Now below to get yours.
Work-trade Scholarships — and Student Discounts
A limited number of Work-trade Scholarships are available.
To find out more, send an email to: Worktrade@WholeBodyWisdom.com
Student Discounts: Also, a limited number of spaces are reserved for full-time students — and are made available at a substantial discount.
To find out more, send an email to: Student@WholeBodyWisdom.com
Where
WholeBody Wisdom Center
Sacramento, California
(apr. 1 hour 40 min from San Francisco, CA)
David Deida Quotes
"Trust, love, what we call sexy, who we trust in a business situation, are all based on how open we are. Openness is bodily openness, muscular relaxation, heart openness as opposed to hiding behind some emotional wall, and spiritual openness, which is actually feeling so fully into the moment that there's no separation between you and the entire moment."
-- From "Opening Spiritually and Sexually," an audiotape by David Deida
"You need to feel your man's trustable presence before you will open your heart and body without guard. It's a step-by-step process of learning. He learns to be more present, you learn to be more open."
--From "Finding God Through Sex," a book by David Deida
"One of the deepest feminine pleasures is when a man stands full, present, and unreactive in the midst of his woman's emotional storms. When he stays present with her, and loves her through the layers of wildness and closure, then she feels his trustability, and she can relax".
-- David Deida
"Spiritual practice is the capacity to offer your love even when you feel hurt, closed down, tense, angry, misunderstood, or hated."
-- David Deida
"One misunderstanding is that if you do the right thing, then life's storms will stop. If you do the right thing, the storms actually get bigger. This is because they know they can't blow you down like they used to, and now it's going to take a lot more energy to find out if you are conscious."
-- From "At Your Edge: Spiritual and Sexual Wisdom for Men," an audiotape by David Deida
"As a body in a world, here is our choice: we can be more loving or less loving. That's it. We can relax as the entire moment's show of love's swirl, feeling open as all — a vicious rainstorm, tweeting birds, our lover's lips, a sense of worthlessness — or we can close to some aspect of experience, pulling away as if we were separate."
-- From "Waiting To Love," a book by David Deida
"Masculine anger is always because you are feeling constrained, trapped by life. Feminine anger is always because you are feeling unloved."
-- David Deida
"Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women."
-- David Deida
"The simplicity of it is this: give everything you have to give in every moment, completely."
--David Deida
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