School Journal
28th February 2009
Finally the WORKSHOP SCHEDULE is up and running! It took me a whole year to get this far and now, since the begining of this year it all came together so beautifully.
The first series of retreats taking place in May are the "For Yourself - Sensual Healing Retreats for Women" that I will be facilitating with Nidhana Mai from London. Some of you know her. She is a qualified Tantra coach who did some massaging for me in Cape Town over a year ago. With the work I am doing, I feel these healing retreats for women are much needed here in South Africa and it is our hope that many women will join us in a delightful journey to finding our very own sexual energy. Nidhana has an extensive background in tantra and energy healing and what is more, she is deeply influenced by The Divine Mother Amma, a present day female guru in India who teaches how to open your heart and love and she does this by loving. In fact her name, Nidhana, was given to her by Amma and means "formlessness, deathlessness" - beautiful!
Then in August, Nils Kriedner from Dresden, Germany, a Tantra school director with an extensive martial arts, Zen Meditation, and Yoga background having studied these things in India with great masters as well as a whole lot of other trainings and life experiences before finally coming to Tantra. With him I will be facilitating the Tantric Fire Couple's Retreats. I think he is going to be a real treat for South Africans. The retreats are open to single men and women as well as couples, they will just need to bring an opposite gender partner or friend with them or we will have to see that we have equall numbers of men and women amongst the single people.
Both these facilitators have been to India to learn right at the source of the teachings and it is such a joy that I am able to announce them to you. Then there is Yashordan, a gifted Hindu and very gentle man from Durban who is a true fundus of all the ancient stories and eastern mythology, which he brings to life with such ease. He has a wonderful understanding of Tantra and how it relates today to the ancient original path and he will be assisting me from South Africa with the facilitating of some workshops and retreats.
All this development happened so easily, so simply, so beautifully that I feel blessed with such abundance. Sure, there was a lot of work involved. Telephone calls, Skype-ing, emailing back and forth but it all came to life and fell into place with such ease that there has to be another ONE organizing this. It cannot be me!
So I invite you all to take a look and read about these people as well as the retreats. And when you are doing this, please don't forget to click on the links for the three venues, Highcroft Mystical Retreat and Labyrinth on the KZN south coast, Drakensberg Mountain Retreat at the top of Olifiershoek Pass in the Northern Drakensberg and the third one, Temenos Sanctuary in McGregor, 2 hours outside Cape Town. They are all quite something, each one unique and chosen because of their individual and very special atmosphere. They all make beautiful get-a-ways for a weekend, and you can stay on a night longer at all of them. Temenos in the Western Cape even offers the Sunday night free!
I hope to see many of you at these retreats! I know many of you have been patiently waiting for me to get it off the ground - well I have and I look forward to this work very, very much.
If you want to book, please email me and I'll send you the registration form: info@durgatantraschool.co. za.
Namaste
Leandra