Tantric Afternoon (EN)
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GENERAL TEXT TANTRIC MOMENTS ENGLISH EDITIONS:
GUIDELINES
If you join this workshop you agree to respect and uphold the following guidelines:
PRIVACY
We ask you to be mindful about sharing about your experiences with others. You may share about only yourself and your experience and not about others you’ve witnessed in the workshop. Not by name or any other way that others may recognize or infer their identity.
SAFETY & CONSENT
We ask for consent before going into touch or intimate interaction. We respect consent and the fact that anybody can always change their minds.
You take care of your own sense of safety. We will offer different tools to make this easier, like a time-out space where you can always retreat to (you’re still in the workshop space but you can just take a rest or observe) and we have spaceholders that are not facilitating but are there to co-regulate and support you if you need that. We also work with the traffic light system (green= yes, more of this please. Orange= slow down or pause. Red= Stop all contact and wait until there is a new invitation or instruction).
RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOURSELF
Every instruction is a suggestion. You are your own boss and you’re always free to step out or do the practice in a different way that is more in line with your personal boundaries.. You are responsible to be aware of and express your boundaries. You will be invited and reminded to do that but ultimately, you are the one making decisions about what you do and what you allow to happen.
When you are disconnected from your needs and boundaries, you have the option to self-regulate and self-connect in the time-out corner or ask for support from a spaceholder to co-regulate.
You are also not responsible for anybody else. Sometimes participants can get triggered or emotionally moved by what happens in the workshop. They get to ask for support from spaceholders if that is wanted. This can be a very enriching experience. As a participant you do not need to rescue anybody.
FREEDOM
You are on your own journey. We explore and experiment with behaviours and experiences that can be out of our comfort zones or outside the scope of our usual patterns. This can be very vulnerable. So we want to emphasize freedom and invitation to do so. The freedom to try something out without it having a lot of meaning about who you are.
We also want to emphasize that this is not a dating platform. You may have meaningful and intimate connections in the workshop. It can be tempting to add meaning and story around this or to want to follow up outside of the workshop. As if the specialness of the experience is about the other person or your chemistry.We want to invite you to take in the experiences you have as just a part of your own journey.
CLOTHED AND NON-SEXUAL
To create a safe container we hold some clear boundaries. We focus on reflecting on experiences rather than being taken over by them. Sexual energy is strong and has a tendency to take us over quicker. We aim for more awareness. When sexual energy arises in a workshop that has some notes of sensuality, it is welcomed and noticed but never acted on in the workshops. We stay fully clothed. We also want to mention that tantra is often associated with sex in the west. However it is a spiritual path that uses all aspects of life to explore life itself, including sexuality. It is a path that helps you recognize and control different forms of energies, including sexual energy. Only a very small percent of tantric practices are related to sex. We want to offer you a taste of tantra as a spiritual path.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Most of our participants come by themselves. If you are not comfortable working with strangers, you can bring a friend or your partner.
Prior experience is not needed. All genders, orientations and backgrounds are welcome. We aim to be as inclusive as possible. If you have specific access needs, please reach out. If You’re motivated to practice but money is an issue, please reach out.
It can be nice to bring a water bottle and a pen and notebook. Please wear comfortable clothes that you can easily move in.
Price €25,- or €18,-/€35,- depending on income
PRACTICAL INFORMATION TM ENGLISH EDITIONS
SATURDAY 2-6 pm Walk in at 1.30 pm
Please come on time, we start promptly at 2pm.
Please read our guidlines and further information on: www.tantricmoments.com/guidelines
TICKETS
We hand a maximum of 24 participants.
For this reason it is desirable that you buy a ticket in advance.
If the event is not sold out, you can buy tickets at the door.
You do not have to print your ticket as we check your name at the door.
Questions or information
info@tantricmoments.nl