Stage 1 in California
4th-10th October 2024. San Diego, California
Stage 1 – the Initiation
The Awaken as Love Initiation is a journey open to everyone – it begins with a choice to go on an adventure that will expand you beyond the boundaries of your current existence. What will it bring to you? More awareness, more love, more inclusion, more juice to your life and more depth if you allow it.
This first stage is called “Initiation” because if you choose this then all your experiences up til now have led you to this point and you are obviously ready to step into a wider reality – in doing so you enter fresh and new, open to discovering more.
As you step into this journey you will encounter maps that help you understand the larger world and your place in it (this is beyond your imagination), tools which help you to play more fully in this world, embodied experiences which help you to anchor a new reality and finally ongoing resources which help to integrate and incorporate this into your life.
What is this Training?
Your Instructors
During this course you will be held by 3 of the Awaken as Love faculty (and a full team of assistants) – they each come from different backgrounds but all are inspired to facilitate the evolution of humanity.
Cathleene Cienfuegos
Instructor
Awaken As Love Lead Facilitator, Healing Arts Practitioner & Trainer. She brings deep spiritual lineages, as well as contemporary philosophies, cutting edge practices and much humor, compassion and empathy. She creatively weaves ancient and contemporary wisdom streams to create Integral sessions and retreats that inspire and invite Conscious Evolution.
Cathleene spends her time traveling, learning and teaching Awaken As Love, Tantric Healing Arts Practitioner Trainings and her business program Standing in the Fire. She has been a featured teacher and author on Playboy.com and mytinysecrets.com for her groundbreaking work in pleasure and healing with full body orgasm. Find her at www.bliss-life.com and receive your free copy of The Erotic Anatomy Guidebook for Women.
James Stevenson
Founder & Lead Instructor
James’s passion is to help call forth our human potential and our soul. His weave brings together more than 20 years of experience in techniques, practices, and information from the cutting edge of Neuroscience, Tantra, Biodanza, Shamanic & Energy Work, Integral theory, and Taoist practices to create a spirituality that is rooted in the body. His evolutionary approach is to work on all lines, levels, states, and parts of ourselves in bringing forth our fullest potential.
His work in meditation and tantra work draws on many different traditions and paths he has studied from Kashmir Shaivism, Baul mysticism, Advaita Vedanta, Vajrayana Buddhism, Integral systems, and Neo-tantra. His shamanic work includes being Vision Quest rites of passage guide, holding Sweatlodge Ceremonies as well as Sacred Cacao Rituals. He has been dancing Biodanza since 2003 and now works as a teacher and a didactic teacher (qualified to teach other teachers in Biodanza Schools). www.jamesstevenson.life
Taina Ixchel
Instructor
Taina Ixchel, MA, is a Shamanic and Tantric Power Priestess, Facilitator, Coach, and exquisite Latina goddess queen. She helps people become more powerful and magnetic, create deeper connections with themselves and others so that they can have more fulfilling lives. In addition to being a medicine woman, Taina has a Master’s Degree, is a Tantric Counselor, a certified Energetic Relationship Practitioner, Holistic Health and Wellness Coach, and a Theta Healing Practitioner. She’s been practicing Tantra for over 10 years since she was initiated into one-on-one esoteric training with a Master who told her it was her destiny to teach this Love.
For over 4 years, Taina has been teaching Tantra, hosting workshops in San Diego, internationally, and virtually. She also facilitates regular Red Tent: Sacred Priestess Circles for womxn to create community and embody the Divine Feminine. Find out more and book your Discovery Call at www.PowerPriestess.com
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein
In fact it is not the next level of consciousness but the one after that which integrates the previous ones which will facilitate real change.
What will I get from this training?
This certificated course will give you practical tools, maps and experiences to be able to embody a deeper understanding of reality, and how to that to engage more fully and live more of your potential.
Supporting this are presence and insights from international facilitators during the week long process, sharing groups to help you connect and express your experience and a 60-page guidebook that help with your continued unfolding.
Tantra Techniques
How can the energy of the raw animal self be raised into higher consciousness, and how can this consciousness descend into the body and manifest world? Really this is a deep intimacy with yourself, with a partner and even throughout a group.
Embodiment practices
It’s one thing to understand with the mind, and something completely different to have a knowing that comes from a deep experiencing of wisdom through the body. Being able to manifest inate creativity into the reality is a skill.
System Reboot
We will be resetting the experiences and patterns in the nervous system of the body. These have framed your experience of this world since birth. Imagine how your life could be filled with more ease, clarity and pleasure!
Shamanic Initiations
We will be perfoming ceremonies that take you outside of the normal sequence of time and anchor in soul peices that have been waiting for this moment.
Integral Maps
As we learn these maps – the whole picture is revealed and we suddenly start to understand where pieces that you were partially aware of fit inside a larger picture of reality.
Wisdom Transmission
Through transmission we will be awakening our higher centres of knowing, expanding into a new operating system and accessing novelty from the cosmos.
How can this advance me working in these areas?
There are a few ways in which this training will support you in your journey as a guide, teacher or practitioner. It is an accredited course from Awaken As Love – you will recieve a certificate on completion and you can state that you have completed this training on your personal biographies.
You will also be eligible to attend the next levels – Deepening & Radicalization to eventually become an Awaken as Love Facilitator.
In addition you will be gaining direct tools that you can then use in your own workshops and practices as well as a deeper understanding about how to work with groups – and meeting a larger international network of practitioners and teachers to create and stay in on-going connection. We routinely give opportunities to Awaken as Love graduates to be part of the festivals we create.
Some of Areas Covered in this Training Are:
- Tantric Bodywork
- Individual Partnered Tantra Meditations
- Archetypal Group Rituals
- Inner Masculine & Inner Feminine Aspects
- Character armour.
- De-armouring
- Integral Maps
- The 4 Dimensions of Reality.
- States of Consciousness
- Stages of Consciousness
- Lines of Development
- Typological Mapping
- Experience of Theory U
- Shadow & Spiritual Bypassing
- Gifts of the Wound
- Difference between Ego and Identity
- Identity & Regression.
- Group Dynamics
- Teachings of the 4 Shields
- Shamanic Medicine Walk
- Mindfullness and Heartfullness
- Satori Experiences
Ready to Jump?
Sometimes you have to treat yourself to an experience that will expand your word-view, transform your being and foster new friends and allies along the path.
Practical Information for Stage 1 – the Initiation
Dates: The training runs from the 4th -10th October 2024.
Venue: Private Luxury Estate just outside San Diego, California – El Cajon, CA.
Early-Bird Prices: Available until the 15th September
Special Offer: Book both this Training and the Awaken as Love Tantra Festival together to get $120 discount off the training!
The Venue
The training is held at beautiful private Luxury Estate set in Eastern San Diego, El Cajon area. Enjoy the serene mountain views while relaxing in the beautiful salt water pool, always-hot Jacuzzis, game room & animal encounters with our resident mini alpaca, mini donkey, dwarf goats, chickens, and bunnies. Rockin’ View Ranch features three areas for your group to spread out, while still being all together! “The Ranch House” at Rockin’ View Ranch is a large 4200 sq ft 6 bedroom, 3 bath one-story ranch style house. Our peaceful retreat features a mini ranch with a mini barn, complete with a miniature donkey, miniature alpaca, dwarf goats, and lop bunnies.
Enjoy simple ranch pleasures like collecting fresh eggs from our chickens for breakfast. The themed bedrooms feature different farm animals and are all beautifully decorated.
There are plenty of accommodation options for all budgets and it is fully catered to a high vegetarian standard. Make your choice from the selection below.
Food & Accommodation Options
These are the Early-bird prices and will go up on the 15th September!
Camping –
$1700 per person
Bring your own tent and set up for the week.
Includes 3 meals a day and access to hot showers & restrooms.
Motorhome/RV –
$1750 per person
Bring your own RVt and set up for the week.
Includes 3 meals a day and access to hot showers & restrooms. Electric hook-up available at extra charge.
Bunk Beds in Dorm – $1800 per person
Set up in a bunk bed in a shared same-sex room. Includes private bathroom plus, 3 meals a day.
King Bed in Shared Room – $1900 per person
Your own King-bed in a shared room with en-suite bathroom.
Includes 3 meals a day
Private Double Room – $2000 for 1 tickets
Set up in a King or Queen bed with en-suite bathroom. Note: this price is for 2 people – ideal for couples or those okay with sharing a bed. Includes 3 meals a day.
Private Double Room – $3200 for 2 tickets
Set up in a King or Queen bed with en-suite bathroom. Note: this price is for 2 people – ideal for couples or those okay with sharing a bed. Includes 3 meals a day.
Meals
3 Meals a day are inclusive of the accommodation price and fully vegetarian although we do consume dairy products and eggs. We use organic vegetables, pulses/legumes, grains and oils as often as possible. If you have special dietary needs then please mention this in the additional information area of the booking form so we can accommodate your needs as best as possible. Coffees and teas area available throughout the day.
Ready to Jump?
Sometimes you have to treat yourself to an experience that will expand your word-view, transform your being and foster new friends and allies along the path.