Awakening Your Feminine Sexual Essence
A LIVE, INTERACTIVE 7-WEEK PROGRAM TO INITIATE YOUR SEXUAL AWAKENING
Awakening Your Feminine Sexual Essence
A LIVE, INTERACTIVE 7-WEEK PROGRAM TO INITIATE YOUR SEXUAL AWAKENING
What if the way you felt about yourself, your body, your sexuality wasn’t based on how society or romantic partners viewed you? You could feel yourself from the inside out, rather than in relation to an external other?
What if you could look back on your romantic history with compassion and understanding - even regarding those questionable partners from your younger years?
What if you allowed yourself to truly drop into bliss? Expanding your capacity to deeply experience the spacious pleasure of your beautiful breathing body - no rushing, no shaming, no disconnecting?
What if you had a group of like-minded women, where you could have honest and vulnerable conversations about the reality of being a woman in modern society?
What if you could navigate your daily life with feminine spontaneity, creativity, and intuition - instead of never-ending masculine-style striving and goal-chasing?
This is what happens when you’re in touch with your feminine sexual essence. This is what’s possible.
As a fulltime mother, I never felt I had time for myself … The biggest gift of this training was that I made time for myself and saw that was possible. When I do a weekend workshop, sooner or later it all goes back. This ongoing process really helped me bring the practice into my everyday life.
- Eliza Metere, Riga, Latvia
"As a fulltime mother, I never felt I had time for myself … The biggest gift of this training was that I made time for myself and saw that was possible. When I do a weekend workshop, sooner or later it all goes back. This ongoing process really helped me bring the practice into my everyday life."
- Eliza Metere, Riga, Latvia
Change how you relate to your body + your sexuality from here on out
You can sense that there is bliss that wants to wake up in your body, so much love and aliveness that wants to radiate from and through you.
And you know that sex is more than gratification of your needs or someone else’s.
But as a busy, modern woman, you may have become more focused on achieving — even in the bedroom — than on feeling.
Awakening Your Feminine Sexual Essence is a live, interactive 7-week program that teaches you how to access your sexuality in a healthy way + bring that power to your relationships and your daily life.
Based on Tantra teacher Shakti Malan’s ground-breaking work and led by expert facilitators Rhianne van der Linde and Kali Satyagraha Widd, this interactive program will change how you relate to your body and your sexuality from now on.
You'll learn:
- What Feminine Sexual Essence is + how to live from it
- How to enter into your subtle sexual body as a woman
- Ways to clear up some of the major blocks that dam your sexual flow
- How to allow yourself to experience the radiant, juicy aliveness of your true sexuality
- How to find a balanced relationship with men and the Masculine in your sexuality
- Ways we all benefit from opening into the beautiful body of the pure Feminine
- How to turn your sexuality as a woman into a blessing to yourself and all beings
During these 7 weeks, you will get the opportunity to invite yourself into the deepest relaxation you've possibly ever experienced, feeling totally at home in your body + at peace with your sexuality
Our Awakening Your Feminine Sexual Essence program has been thoughtfully and carefully designed to meet you where you are + guide you on this journey.
As soon as you join us inside Awakening Your Feminine Sexual Essence, you’ll receive an email with all the pertinent details: links, login information, downloads, and more.
Each week, you’ll receive a pdf and audio download of that week’s lesson as well as a 90-minute live teaching + group coaching call via Zoom. We will have ongoing discussions where you can post your contemplations to the homework assignments and receive feedback and reflections from the facilitators in our private Mighty Network group. There is also a private, Whatsapp group (optional) for sharing and support.
What’s included in each of our seven weeks together:
7 Teaching Modules in pdf (reading) and audio format (listening)
1 live 90-minute teaching + Q/A session per module
1 live Bonus Class - Skydancing - The Dance of the Dakini’s Breath with Valentina Leo
Bonus Videos - Shakti Malan created seven 5-30 minute videos to guide you in the key practices of this program.
Bonus Workshop Recordings with Pema (Aisha) Salem & Anaiya Sophia
During these 7 weeks, you will get the opportunity to invite yourself into the deepest relaxation you've possibly ever experienced, feeling totally at home in your body + at peace with your sexuality
Our Awakening Your Feminine Sexual Essence program has been thoughtfully and carefully designed to meet you where you are + guide you on this journey.
As soon as you join us inside Awakening Your Feminine Sexual Essence, you’ll receive an email with all the pertinent details: links, login information, downloads, and more.
Each week, you’ll receive a pdf and audio download of that week’s lesson as well as a 90-minute live teaching + group coaching call via Zoom. We will have ongoing discussions where you can post your contemplations to the homework assignments and receive feedback and reflections from the facilitators in our private Mighty Network group. There is also a private, Whatsapp group (optional) for sharing and support.
What’s included in each of our seven weeks together:
7 Teaching Modules in pdf (reading) and audio format (listening)
1 live 90-minute teaching + Q/A session per module
1 live Bonus Class - Skydancing - The Dance of the Dakini’s Breath with Valentina Leo
Bonus Videos - Shakti Malan created seven 5-30 minute videos to guide you in the key practices of this program.
Bonus Workshop Recordings with Pema (Aisha) Salem & Anaiya Sophia
My sexual awakening for women journey with the Shakti Shiva Academy and in particular with the legendary Shakti Malan started in 2014.
At that stage of my life, I was already exploring my sexuality, but I was in a stranglehold from the guilt and shame of that exploration and recognised that I needed to be guided, that I needed a teacher.
Through the online course my relationship to me, my body and my sexuality shifted profoundly, and I was able to meet the Shame and Fear with compassion.
- Ridwana Jooma, Johannesburg, South Africa
"My sexual awakening for women journey with the Shakti Shiva Academy and in particular with the legendary Shakti Malan started in 2014.
At that stage of my life, I was already exploring my sexuality, but I was in a stranglehold from the guilt and shame of that exploration and recognised that I needed to be guided, that I needed a teacher.
Through the online course my relationship to me, my body and my sexuality shifted profoundly, and I was able to meet the Shame and Fear with compassion."
- Ridwana Jooma, Johannesburg, South Africa
Fall in love with and come home to yourself
Over the course of seven sessions, we will teach you visualizations, subtle movement, breathwork, and other practices you can use every day to help you drop deep into your sexual body and discover the sacred essence of the Feminine in you.
1. Dance of Divine Attraction
Live 90-minute teaching session: Tuesday 2 August 2022
You will learn:
- The difference between masculine and man, feminine and woman
- Why + how women have lived their sexuality as an imitation of male sexuality - viewing sex as performance and outcome-based
- How to integrate your own masculine and feminine sides in a healthy way
2. Dropping Deep Into The Body
Live 90-minute teaching session: Tuesday 9 August 2022
You will learn:
- How to relax into your womanly body using the tools of breath, sound, and movement with awareness
- Ways to deeply experience sensation throughout your entire body
- How to visualize your yoni / vagina as a flower that opens and closes
3. Sexuality And Belonging
Live 90-minute teaching session: Tuesday 16 August 2022
You will learn:
- How ancestral and other cultural voices have shaped your perception of yourself + your sexuality
- That you can choose what’s true for you
- A specific creative process called “relationship mapping” that will help you recreate the social landscape within which the flower of your sexuality will thrive
4. Deepening Into Sensation
Live 90-minute teaching session: Tuesday 23 August 2022
You will learn:
- Methods to move deeper into sensation so you can feel ALL of you as a woman
- How to trust, listen to, and communicate with your own body of sensation
- Tools to awaken the heart into feeling everything and loving unconditionally
5. Listening To Your Yoni To Tap Into Your Sexual Muse
Live 90-minute teaching session: Tuesday 30 August 2022
You will learn:
- That your yoni / vagina has a voice
- How to listen to - and truly hear - the wisdom of your yoni
- Why you should let her sing + bring forth a new sexual energy and power in you
6. Transforming The Virgin, The Whore, and The Women’s Union
Live 90-minute teaching session: Tuesday 6 September 2022
You will learn:
- How the virgin/whore split effects women’s sexuality
- How “The Women’s Union” - the collective voice that is viciously critical of the feminine - is expressed through all of us
- How you can use the gem hidden within the shadow archetypes to live your highest dreams
7. Awakening The Beautiful Body
Live 90-minute teaching session: Tuesday 13 September 2022
You will learn:
- How to tune into even the most subtle body sensations
- Ways to experience the connection between sex and heart
- That you are profound Love and Beauty living as the essence of the Feminine
All live teaching sessions will take place on Tuesdays at 10am PST // 1pm EST // 6pm UK // 7pm SAST and will last approximately 90 minutes. Calls will be recorded and uploaded to the course on Mighty Network for those who are not able to attend the live sessions.
Register here for this live, interactive 7-week program
register before 11:59pm PST on 2 August 2022
*Awakening Your Feminine Sexual Essence is open for those with (or who have had) uteruses only*
$490 one time payment, or
$285 x 2 monthly payments
A currency related price of R5145.00 (for one-time payment) is available for South Africans paying by EFT.
Please email rhianne@shaktishiva.academy for further details
If you're in need of financial aid, Shakti Shiva Academy invites you to apply for a one time 30% Discount.
Find the application form here.
You have until 11:59pm PST on 31 July 2022 to apply.
F . A . Q
Do I need a partner to do this work?
No, this program is designed to be a personal journey, tapping into your own personal desires, your individual blockages and obstacles and your personal connection with your feminine sexual essence. For those who are in a partnership, you may find that this work will bring a greater dimension to your relating and intimacy with one another. For those who do not currently have a partner, you will find a greater depth of relating to your own inner beloved as you step into who you truly are as SHE, the sacred feminine. You do not need a partner to participate in this course.
Is this program for straight women only?
No, this program is open to all woman-identified beings with (or who have had) a uterus: gay, straight, bi-sexual, fluid - whichever way your sexuality flows. This program is designed to open you to your unique sexual feminine essence so that you can step into who you truly are with utter acceptance and fulfilment.
I'm a male bodied being - can I purchase this program for my partner?
Yes, even though this program is only open to woman-identified beings with (or who have had) a uterus, men are welcome to purchase this program for their beloved - a precious gift to give your lover on the path of intimate relating and awakened sexuality.
Is the program for women of a certain age?
No. Women of all ages and during all stages of their sexual cycle (Maiden, Mother, Crone) have, and do benefit from doing this work, however, as this is an adult course about sexuality, you must be 18 years or older to participate
What if I need more support, are you available for sessions?
If you find you require additional support aside from the group coaching sessions provided with this program, then you are welcome to approach either of the facilitators and book private sessions. These sessions are booked and paid separately and negotiated between you and the facilitator in their private capacity.
Do I have to finish the program in a certain time period?
No. Because you are able to download all the materials, you can work through them at your own pace. You will have lifetime access to the program on our Mighty Network Community Platform so that you can continue to interact and learn with the course participants even after you have completed your sessions.
What physical abilities do I need to have to do the program?
The practices are supremely gentle. No matter what your physical limitations are, they will help you to come home to a deep rest in your body. It is possible that you may even experience less pain and discomfort through participating in these practices.
What about confidentiality?
Your journey remains completely confidential. If you wish to share on the Mighty Network Community Platform, there is a confidentiality agreement in place. Participation in the program WhatsApp group is entirely optional.
Does the program require specific knowledge or experience?
No. In fact, sometimes the less you know, the better it is – this opens you to beginner’s mind and enables you to meet the materials in a fresh way.
Do I need good internet or internet skills to do this Program?
Only for downloading and interaction in the Q&A aspect of the live coaching calls. We will give you all the support we can – and you’ll see that, once you’re in the flow, it’s really easy.
Do you provide refunds?
Withdrawal from the program is only possible during the first week. Should you decide to withdraw, your future payments will be cancelled however no refunds will be provided. After 9 August 2022, de-registration is no longer permitted. If you find yourself unable to keep up with the course then no problem: You will have lifetime access to the program materials and can also retake the program when it is offered in the future at 50% of the fee. All materials are also downloadable for you to work through at your own pace.
What if I want to continue with the 9 month Sexual Awakening for Women course?
As a student of the Awakening Your Feminine Sexual Essence 7-week program, you will automatically receive a discount coupon code qualifying you for a $490 discount (the cost of the program) off the course fee when you sign up for the 9-month Sexual Awakening for Women Intensive course. We look forward to deepening on this journey of sexual awakening with you.
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I feel really beautiful. The transformation inside and outside, I can see it in me and in all of you every time we get together. The lightness of being. It is so profound.
And this is a sacred spiritual path to awakening and exactly where I needed to be.
The layers of subtlety, I’ve never in my life experienced layers of subtlety like that. Your process, the structure of it, the deepening, the consistency that you’ve held us.
You’ve been models of the masculine and feminine and embodied this integration, I’ve felt so safe in this place. …. And to know that I have everything I need to be fully, utterly embodied. That I am absolutely whole.
- Wendy Ward, London, United Kingdom
"I feel really beautiful. The transformation inside and outside, I can see it in me and in all of you every time we get together. The lightness of being. It is so profound.
And this is a sacred spiritual path to awakening and exactly where I needed to be.
The layers of subtlety, I’ve never in my life experienced layers of subtlety like that. Your process, the structure of it, the deepening, the consistency that you’ve held us.
You’ve been models of the masculine and feminine and embodied this integration, I’ve felt so safe in this place. …. And to know that I have everything I need to be fully, utterly embodied. That I am absolutely whole."
- Wendy Ward, London, United Kingdom
BONUSES:
Bonus videos from Shakti Malan herself
Shakti Malan, the founder of the Shakti Shiva Academy, created seven 5-10 minute videos to guide you in the key practices of this program. These video clips give simple, clear guidelines and also carry a transmission of the energy of the Feminine that flows through women’s bodies.
You’ll see how awakened feminine sexual energy moves through Shakti’s body — and how it touches the women who are practicing with her on the recordings.
Bonus lesson:
Skydancing - The Dance of the Dakini’s Breath with Valentina Leo
Knowing how to be intimate with the erotic flow of pleasure in your body will bring you confidence, purpose, and a sense of deep belonging. When the body relaxes in its divine emptiness, naked as the darkest night and aware of its intrinsic brilliancy, it becomes a portal for Endless Cosmic Orgasm - the essence of Reality and your true nature.
In this bonus call, Valentina will share a traditional tantric practice for women called Skydancing: the dance of the Dakini’s breath. You are invited to explore the meaning of Spiritual Eroticism through breath, undulating movements, silence, and erotic companionship with your divine self.
Bonus audio workshop #1:
Accessing Your Deepest Resources And Truth As An Awakening Woman with Pema (Aisha) Salem
This audio workshop is an opportunity to learn what it takes to fully and passionately live the path of Truth and Love as an awakening woman.
Bonus audio workshop #2:
Who Shaped Your Sexual Self-Image with Anaiya Sophia
Shakti Malan talks with Anaiya about releasing old sexual patterning, coming home to your body of bliss, and living your full power as an embodiment of the Feminine.
1-year access to:
Fire Starters on Mighty Network
(Value $49/month or $490/year)
What you get:
- All the Benefits of Circle of Fire +
- Monthly Salon Class - Unpacking the month's theme (value $10/month)
- Monthly Faculty Open Studio Class - Come to watch, learn, inquire and possibly even experience (value 15/month)
- Monthly BlissDance Movement Class (value $20/month)
- A curated "Sexuality & Spirituality" Resource Library
- A masterclass recording library/archive
- 10% discount on premium courses (You'll need to remain a monthly member for the duration of the course that you purchase)
BONUSES:
Bonus videos from Shakti Malan herself
Shakti Malan, the founder of the Shakti Shiva Academy, created seven 5-10 minute videos to guide you in the key practices of this program. These video clips give simple, clear guidelines and also carry a transmission of the energy of the Feminine that flows through women’s bodies.
You’ll see how awakened feminine sexual energy moves through Shakti’s body — and how it touches the women who are practicing with her on the recordings.
Bonus lesson:
Skydancing - The Dance of the Dakini’s Breath with Valentina Leo
Knowing how to be intimate with the erotic flow of pleasure in your body will bring you confidence, purpose, and a sense of deep belonging. When the body relaxes in its divine emptiness, naked as the darkest night and aware of its intrinsic brilliancy, it becomes a portal for Endless Cosmic Orgasm - the essence of Reality and your true nature.
In this bonus call, Valentina will share a traditional tantric practice for women called Skydancing:
the dance of the Dakini’s breath. You are invited to explore the meaning of Spiritual Eroticism through breath, undulating movements, silence, and erotic companionship with your divine self.
Bonus audio workshop #1:
Accessing Your Deepest Resources And Truth As An Awakening Woman with Pema (Aisha) Salem
This audio workshop is an opportunity to learn what it takes to fully and passionately live the path of Truth and Love as an awakening woman.
Bonus audio workshop #2:
Who Shaped Your Sexual Self-Image with Anaiya Sophia
Shakti Malan talks with Anaiya about releasing old sexual patterning, coming home to your body of bliss, and living your full power as an embodiment of the Feminine.
1-year access to:
Fire Starters on Mighty Network
(Value $49/month or $490/year)
What you get:
- All the Benefits of Circle of Fire +
- Monthly Salon Class - Unpacking the month's theme (value $10/month)
- Monthly Faculty Open Studio Class - Come to watch, learn, inquire and possibly even experience (value 15/month)
- Monthly BlissDance Movement Class (value $20/month)
- A curated "Sexuality & Spirituality" Resource Library
- A masterclass recording library/archive
- 10% discount on premium courses (You'll need to remain a monthly member for the duration of the course that you purchase)
…what I found was a new way of being, of relating to myself, to my body and to other women. I found a new way of thriving in this world. What I found was a kind of sexuality I never dreamed of… Empowered, Present, Incarnated, mine, mine, MINE.
- Paula González Collado, Santiago, Chile
“…what I found was a new way of being, of relating to myself, to my body and to other women. I found a new way of thriving in this world. What I found was a kind of sexuality I never dreamed of… Empowered, Present, Incarnated, mine, mine, MINE”
- Paula González Collado, Santiago, Chile
YOUR FACILITATORS:
Rhianne van der Linde
Rhianne’s introduction to this work began in 2007 when her life imploded with a layoff and a breakup. She saw a tiny advertisement in the back of a wellness publication: “Uncoiling The Snake: A women’s retreat with Shakti Malan,” and her life changed forever. Rhianne managed all of Shakti’s in-person workshops and retreats from 2010 until her death in 2017. She is trained in breathwork, dreamwork, embodiment and somatic practices.
Kali Satyagraha Widd
Kali is a highly skilled, deeply experienced facilitator and practitioner of BlissDance, Cuddle Parties™, CosmoForm Meditation, and Advait Tantra. She is also renowned for the sacred space she holds for the support of women’s sexual and spiritual awakening through Red Tents (The RED Retreat, AfrikaBurn, SpiritFest, Learning Man, Retreat Yourself), as well as for spinning hot tunes, DJ-ing organic world & downtempo dance music at private & public events.
Shakti Malan’s dream essence is alive in this program. It’s as if she's helping us breathe life back into ourselves. In this academy, the type of change I experienced was not from pushing myself into being someone I wished I was or thought I needed to be. The changes that arose in my life were based on a slow burn, an exploration of the subtle sexual energy body and an opening that gave me more access to not only myself but every bit of the magical seen and unseen world. The word that best describes this feeling is home. It’s been a coming home and each woman gets to find out what home is for her along the way.
- Rachel Shafer
"Shakti Malan’s dream essence is alive in this program. It’s as if she's helping us breathe life back into ourselves. In this academy, the type of change I experienced was not from pushing myself into being someone I wished I was or thought I needed to be. The changes that arose in my life were based on a slow burn, an exploration of the subtle sexual energy body and an opening that gave me more access to not only myself but every bit of the magical seen and unseen world. The word that best describes this feeling is home. It’s been a coming home and each woman gets to find out what home is for her along the way."
- Rachel Shafer
About Shakti Malan, the creator of this course and the founder of Shakti Shiva Academy
Shakti grew up in apartheid South Africa with parents who were intellectuals and questioned the regime. In her twenties, she was driven by the desire to change the state of her country, and attempted to do so through working in the fields of poverty and environmental management.
By the time she was 28 she had a Ph.D. AND Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. This, together with the end of a significant relationship, took her into a depression and deep questioning of everything in her life - a dark night of the soul. It was a breakdown that led her to beginner’s mind, into deep meditation and a committed desire for spiritual awakening. Alongside this was an arising desire to discover what the feminine was for her.
What followed was a decade of deep initiation into the feminine, the path of awakening and Tantra, the art of sacred sexuality. At age 33, she (Liezl Malan) went through a ceremony in the wilderness where she was given the name Shakti, which means Feminine Sexual Power or Energy. She was told that her name signified that her work in the world was about what it means to be a woman.
Shakti lived alone in the wilderness for 18 months. She worked with profound teachers and awakened masters, which allowed her life to unravel and open into a new place of deep inner knowing.
Her great wisdom culminated with the seminal workbook Sexual Awakening for Women. Though Shakti passed in 2017, her work continues to catalyze women around the world to rediscover the feminine principle in human sexuality as a vital, undirected life force energy, connecting us to the Earth and liberating consciousness.
Shakti came to see that the quest she'd had in her twenties required a true awakening of the masculine and the feminine. For us as women to open to a deeper level of the feminine and a more profound opening to the masculine.
You can read more about Shakti Malan and her work in the world here.
Discover how to release your old sexual patterning, come home to your body of bliss and live your full power as an embodiment of the Feminine.
Join us for the 9-month Sexual Awakening for Women online course beginning in 2023
After the Awakening Your Feminine Sexual Essence live program ends, the Shakti Shiva Academy will be offering a 9-month course called Sexual Awakening for Women (starting 2023) that will provide a deeper dive into the same themes as well as introducing some new ones.
As a student of the Awakening Your Feminine Sexual Essence 7-week program, if you sign up for the 9-month Sexual Awakening for Women Intensive course, you will automatically receive a coupon code qualifying you for a discount of $490 (the cost of the program) off the course fees.
We look forward to sharing this journey of sexual awakening with you!
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