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Aya Kamanakai
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Hema Latha
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Amara Karuna
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Kim Keller
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Tracy Matfin
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Would you like to join us as a work trader or a presenter? Fill out this application!
Creating Connection
This will be held on a private farm in the rainforest tropical jungle. The center is very private, tucked away in a wet, wild forest and is comfortable with nudity. It offers great food, and a number of private and dorm style rooms, and lots of space for camping.
We will limit the retreat to 70 people including organizers/presenters.
Samples from the Program
We have many wonderful offerings to delight you, presented by our very skilled presenters including:
Ecstatic Dance
(with various facilitators)
Ecstatic dance is tuning into the internal movement of emotions, sensations and our collective energies.
Discover your own way to move in this delightful form that is both playful and loving.
Dance serves as the perfect metaphor to learn about ourselves as we tune into a partner. What your body learns transfers to other relationships.
Honor your desire for social, sensual, sexual and spiritual connection.
Feel your passion burning within and notice how others will gather to warm themselves at your flame.
All levels welcome, no previous dance experience necessary.
Heart Connection Ritual
A Neo Tantra Ritual
Tantric Breathwork
with Amara Karuna
Blissflow Intimate Couples Massage
with Amara Karuna
ZEGG Forum
(with various facilitators)
ZEGG Forum is a group process developed at the German community ZEGG to provide a stage for whatever is happening inside the person: one's true motivations, deep feelings, ideas and emotions. The Forum helps facilitate transparency, sharing and clarifying unsolved situations of daily life, and it can be a catalyst for one's own personal growth.
Authentic Relating Games
(with various facilitators)
Create new and authentic connections by getting to know people in fun and playful ways. Authentic Relating Games creates a safe atmosphere for people to show up, exactly as they are, and connect from this place. The games are aimed at keeping what is present in the moment very alive and exploring it together with child like curiosity. Depending on the group, the games can be light and simple. They can also get edgy pretty quickly. You decide where you want the games to take you! Enjoy the ride!
Energy Ecstacy Neo Tantra Ritual
(with Amara Karuna)
Evening Temple
(with various)
The Facilitators So Far...
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Hema Latha
Hema, the founder of Hema Yoga, is a certified Kripalu yoga teacher and has been teaching yoga for over 6 years. Hema blends mindfulness, meditation and breath into a yoga experience that results in a greater awareness and connection to your body.
Hema is also a gifted energy healer, channeler and psychic. She uses Tantric techniques combined with her spiritual gifts to help individuals release traumas and negative blocks from their mind, body and spirit.
Amara Karuna
In 1989, she developed her own approach to peer counseling, called Holistic Peer Counseling integrating peer counseling with spiritual meditation practices, psychic healing, breath work and body centered techniques.
She began studying Tantra and Sacred Spot work, a method of sexual healing, on Maui in 2003, and has since studied 6 different methods of pelvic bodywork. She has taught Sacred Pelvic Healing Work, and led Tantra Pujas since 2007.
She is the author of the pictoral guide “Sacred Pelvic Healing Massage Practice Manual”, and offers Yoni and Lingam Massage DVDs to students for practicing at home.
Amara developed Heartbeat Nurturing Therapy, a method of healing the inner infant-self using cradling, hypnotic induction and suckling to address emotional issues stemming from lack of breast feeding & loving closeness as an infant. She is the author of “Heartbeat Nurturing Therapy- Healing Our Hearts Together“.
See http://www.amarakaruna.com for counseling, classes, workshops, writings, videos.
Aya Kamānakai
Co-Facilitator, ISTA Faculty
Allured by the wild and beauty within us, Aya Kamānakai calls us to remember the ancient wisdom and awaken the intelligence stored inside our bodies. She passionately calls women to embrace their pleasure and reclaim their sexual energy as a life force to create the life of their dreams.
Combining embodied movement, somatic expression, and vocal empowerment, Aya guides journeys of self exploration designed to connect to our authentic selves, unearth our deepest desires and birth our highest offerings. Aya hosts exotic transformational retreats, womb awakening workshops, online courses and private coaching as a reimagined mystery school where we learn from the wild, the wisdom in our bodies, and the vastness of our inner-knowing.
Aya is faculty with ISTA (International School of Temple Arts), and a Shamanic Womb Apprentice with Janine Ma-ree with the Red Earth Temple. She has also completed an Womb apprenticeship with the Dr Azra and Seren Bertrand of Womb Awakening, and is a VITA certified coach. She is an advocate for all beings reclaiming full creative potential, reviving wild sexuality, passion and rooting us in our sexual sovereignty.
@http://www.instagram/AyaPapayaWear
Kim Keller
Kim Keller is a Certified Tantra Educator and Intimacy Coach, as well as Co-Organizer of Oregon Tantra Festival. Kim lives in Ashland, OR, with her partner, Jimmy Nacey. She specializes in working with women, men and couples looking for more pleasure, joy and intimacy in their sexuality, and utilizing that juicy energy to inspire and enliven their everyday life.
As a on-one-one coach, group facilitator, keynote speaker and workshop presenter, Kim has over 30 years experience as a counselor and coach, and is driven by her strong commitment and passion in the support and service of others as they discover and reclaim their own deep sensual and sexual nature as a critical part of overall health, wellness and vitality.