Stage 1 in California
1st-7th October 2025. 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
Lead 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.
Peter Petersen
Lead Instructor
Peter Petersen, has been teaching qigong for 16 years and has been a certified Sheng Zhen Qigong instructor for the last 14 years, where he has been facilitating in health clubs, hospitals, retirement villas, Yale University and several different wellness/spa resorts in Mexico and the United States, such as Rancho La Puerta, Mayacamas Ranch, and Present Moment Retreat.
Peter is also a body/energy worker. This energy work Peter does, helps release stuck mental/emotional energy that can cause illness and disease.
Once this stagnate energy can be released, a rejuvenation of mind and body can occur to increase your vitality tremendously.
Find out more: www.awakenbodyandsoul.com
Anna Ceniceros
Instructor
Anna has been on an evolutionary spiritual path for over 30 years. Her unconditional and all inclusive nature has made her open to many teachings and lineages and she shares those with groundedness and much humor.
Anna studied Awaken as Love under it’s creator and founder James Stevenson and several of the lead facilitators like (Cathleene Cienfuegos) and (Monique Darling). She is committed to the process of helping others awaken to their full potential through these transformative processes. She is a welcomed and amazing addition to the Awaken as Love faculty! Through embodied pleasure, spiritual and shamanic practices and higher thinking concepts, she creates a place for you to ask your biggest questions and experience your soul’s desires.
Anna has also been part of a recovery community for over 36 years and continues to support people in their recovery journeys through one on one sponsorship and a support network.
“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 1st -7th October 2025.
Venue: Private Villa in the North of San Diego, CA – Hale Aloha
Early-Bird Prices: Available until the 1st July
Special Offer: Book both this Training and the Awaken as Love Tantra Festival together to get $100 discount off the training!
The Venue
The training is held at beautiful private Villa in the north of San Diego with on-site accommodation in Rooms and Camping, as well as the option to stay off-site.
The venue has fast wifi, multiple bathrooms and a hot tub in the back garden space.
Food & Accommodation Options
Choose your accommodation type below – all options include Breakfast & Lunch – dinner is available in the many amazing restaurants with friends nearby. Right now you have the best Earlybird prices, these will go up on the 1st July!
Off-site $1750 -Sale: $1450 per person
Stay in your own accommodation off-site. Includes Breakfast & Lunch each day and access to hot showers & restrooms.
Community Room – $1750
Sale: $1550 per person
Bring your own sleeping bag and stay in the shared community room.
Includes Breakfast & Lunch each a day and access to hot showers & restrooms.
Camping –
$1950 Sale $1650 per person
Bring your own tent and set up for the week.
Includes Breakfast & Lunch each day and access to hot showers & restrooms.
Meals
Breakfast & Lunch are inclusive of the accommodation price with fully vegetarian or vegan options, plus animal protein for those who want that. 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.