Come Together Single's Retreat
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Date: 9th - 11th September 2011 *
(together with Tantric Fire Couple's Retreat)
* Please note: due to difficulties with the co-facilitation, the single's retreat (16th - 18th September) has been put together with the Tantric Fire Couple's Retreat from 9th - 11th September.
All singles are invited to attend the Tantric Fire Couple's Retreat also at the Drakensberg Mountain Retreat in the Northern Drakensberg (Olifiershoek Pass). We will see that equal numbers of single men and women attend. For friends booking together the same discount as for couples will apply. The retreat schedule and actual work is the same on both retreats.
The info below still applies. You can also visit the info regarding the Tantric Fire Couple's Retreat by clicking on the link or going to the respective menu page
This retreat offers single men and women an introduction to Tantra and a platform to meet and connect with others. We facilitate various fun exercises that will assist in melting down inhibiting conditioning, enabling you to connect with more inner freedom, more honestly and integrity and more deeply with the opposite gender.
Our human experience should be joyful and secure but so often it is not. We put this down to all sorts of things: unfulfilling relationships, difficult work situations, stressful family life and many, many lacks - lack of money, lack of the right environment, lack of satisfying work, lack of a fulfilling sexuality. Our experience of these various forms of lack, are often the direct result of our limiting conditioning through upbringing, education, culture and religious beliefs. From a psychological perspective, our childhood determines most of this through what our role models for the masculine and feminine were. Early emotional disappointments are saved in our mental and emotional bodies, even in our cells, and we continue to carry these memories within ourselves, often resulting in a disruptive relating of the inner male and inner female in each one of us.
Our external experience of life is representative of our internal experience of self and this affects all our relationships, particularly intimate ones. Same gender friendships are also affected.
How about a deeper way of relating, a better connecting, a conscious way of being with yourself and others, both male and female? Tantra offers tools to learn open-hearted, accepting connections, a more conscious sensuality and a vibrant sexually, resulting in a more fulfilling lifestyle of living in communion and union with ourselves and with others.
This retreat offers a professional, safe, loving and joyful environment to begin, or set forth, your personal healing, and the inner growth to be the man or the woman you are, embracing your opposite, embracing the other in a more whole heartedly way. We work with a variety of experiential exercises and tantric rituals as well as enthralling, ancient stories of Shiva and Shakti and the origins of Tantra. Our emphasis is to create a blissful weekend with lots of laughter and fun.
Costs
The total cost of the retreat is made up of the facilitation fee and the venue (accommodation/meals) costs.
The facilitation fee sliding scale The venue costs are inclusive of shared accommodation and all vegetarian meals. For non-vegetarians, chicken & fish extra can be catered for by special request.
Sponsoring: Single men are invited to sponser a single women by paying a portion of the fee for a single woman, enabling more single women (who often earn less) to attend. This is optional. If you wish to participate, please mention this when you register.
Facilitation Fee Slicing Scale
R 1000 - R 1500 per person
Choose a price on the sliding scale that suits your pocket in relation to what the retreat is worth to you. Please choose honestly and consider what else you spend your money on. Sometimes it is necessary to prioritise and save on something in order to particicipate in a retreat such as this one, which will give you inspiration and ideas to take home with you and which can have a lasting, positive effect on your life and relationships.
Special offer: R100 off your facilitation fee if you register with a friend.
Venue Costs
R 900 per person (2 nights sharing in en-suite rooms)
R 800 per person (2 nights in rooms sharing bathrooms)
(Single room occupancy possible at an additional cost)
Discounts
R 100 for fully paid bookings up to 25th August
R 100 per person for two people booking together
approx. 4 hrs from Durban (via Bergville) and 3 hrs from Johannesburg (via Harrismith) and Bloemfontein (via Clarens)
Drakensberg Mountain Retreat, Olifiershoek Pass, Northern Drakensberg
Drakensberg Mountain Retreat is approx. 4 hrs from Durban (via Bergville) and 3 hrs from Johannesburg (via Harrismith) and Bloemfontein (via Clarens).
It has 5 double en-suite rooms, 4 dorms sharing bathrooms which we will use a double rooms
"The one sacrifice that tantra asks is that we change everything within us that is not in our best interest. We must let go of everything that resists love. Every negative thought about ourselves and every negative feeling we have about the world around us: these must be surrendered."
Valerie Brooks
Facilitators
General info
- 2-night residential retreat begining Friday 7pm with supper, ending Sunday 2pm after lunch
- group size: 10 - 16
- We ensure equal numbers of women and men
- You will work with a variety of partners during the weekend as well as individually
- Nudity is not a requirement in this beginners retreat.
- Personal boundaries are always respected
- This is a retreat for singles: if you are married or in a monogamous relationship, you are not single if you come on your own! The aim of the retreat, apart from the tantric work, is for single men and women to meet and work with each other.
Bookings
Please email and request registration form:
leandra@durgatantraschool.co.za, creativefem@gmx.net, Ma.Anand.Leandra@gmail.com
If you would like a personal chat, please SMS Leandra to arrange time: 0845865361. You can also SMS your email addy and request and we'll send you the registration form with all the details you need.
Retreat Photos
View photos of the last Come Together Single's Retreats on the Retreat Photos page...