Dancing the Erotic Sutras of
Ecstatic Love, Life, Sex, Death and Rebirth
Dates: 25 April 2024 – 2 May 2024
Location: Hidden Paradise, near Orgiva, Southern Spain
BlissDance is a Totality Tantra Movement Practice of Awakening. Awakening to more of everything in life:
more love, more pleasure, more you!
BlissDance asks, what do you really, really want out of this beautiful, blessed life? How can you embody your desire, without compulsion or suppression? How can you be the subject of your desire, rather than chasing after objects?
BlissDance also asks, how much bliss can you stand? Bliss is not simply happiness: bliss includes happiness, but bliss is so much more than that! Bliss is really an orientation to the reality of existence, which opens its loving and compassionate heart to all that life brings. The bliss state says, ‘Bring it on!’ It has no preferences or avoidances.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is not. BlissDance as a practice develops in us an ecstatic capacity to be with the actuality of life, like the changing seasons and cycles, including sorrow, joy, pleasure, pain, loss, grief, death, and the unknown.
BlissDance reveals where we may be resisting life, and where we may be limiting ourselves – both in trying to avoid uncomfortable feelings, and also in resisting our joy, spontaneity, creativity, and pleasure.
Ask yourself:
🎔 What’s preventing you from embodying your desire?
🎔 Are you following your bliss?
🎔 Are you aligned with your highest purpose?
"Your beautiful body is a flesh and bone temple, your skin the very fabric of existence. You could say we inhabit sacred skin sanctuaries."
~ Kali Satyagraha
BlissDance is designed to safely support us to shed the layers of illusion obscuring the true-blue view of reality within. As a Tantric practice of Totality, it leaves nothing out. And there is no hierarchy or preference for any condition or experience – everything is welcome in embodied consciousness: a very rare invitation indeed!
When we compassionately unravel the old belief systems and unconscious habits, we can tap into our true nature, and embody the blissful space within which everything already arises and falls away, exactly as it is. This is ecstasy, this is bliss.
Discovering authentic, sustained bliss as a direct experience through embodied consciousness may just be the greatest quality humanity needs to make it through the collapse of the old, polarized paradigm into the next evolution of consciousness: loving unity.
BlissDance invites you to bring your sadness and tears, bring your joy and playfulness, bring your brokenness, and perfect imperfection, bring your shadow, and bring your light – all of you is welcome here.
If movement and music is your medicine, then this retreat might be exactly what you long for right now. And the movement embodiments are yours to practice for life. To keep you true to truth, and in your bliss.
"True blissful awakening is an orientation to life, rather than any emotional state."
~ Kali Satyagraha
Hidden Paradise Retreat Center in Spain
Hidden Paradise is a family run off-grid retreat centre nestled in the foothills of the Alpujarra mountain range in the Granada region of Southern Spain. At over 1000 metres above the Mediterranean Sea, there are fantastic views down to the coast & often as far as Morocco as well as panoramic vistas of the exquisite surrounding mountains…
Hidden Paradise comprises a collection of gorgeous hand-crafted structures – stone and wood buildings, treehouses, cob houses and two gorgeous workshop spaces with spectacular panoramic views across the valley. It’s completely off-grid, with spring water from the mountains – including the showers and two pools!
And, the whole venue will be ours to explore, learn and play in!
All Meals Included
- The food is all fresh, local, seasonal, super nutritious and incredibly delicious! It’s all vegetarian, and Hidden Paradise will cater for your dietary requirements (vegan/gluten-free etc.)
- If you require a vegan diet or have any other special dietary requirements, please write your clear and complete request on the Participant Information & Consent Form here
Additional luxurious nurturing
- Sweat it out in a gorgeous hand built traditional wood-fired sauna, which holds up to eight people.
- Cool off in two swimming pools – both stylishly covered, fed by natural springs and heated by the sun.
- Enjoy a treatment with one of Hidden Paradise’s professional therapists, (Sessions are arranged by Hidden Paradise, with prior notice)
"Bliss is the balance that happens when we fully embrace both our shadow & our light and come to rest as Love"
~ Shakti Malan
Facilitation Team
Kali Satyagraha Widd
Custodian & Lead Teacher
Kali was irresistibly seduced by Totality Tantra well over a decade ago, and so began her BlissDance training with Dr Shakti Malan, who developed this conscious dance modality as a profound Tantric Movement Practice of Awakening.
Kali subsequently held weekly BlissDance classes in Cape Town along with closed groups, workshops and retreats throughout Southern Africa, the UK, and the Netherlands. She is renowned for her warm welcome to dancers to bring all of themselves onto the dance floor without judgement, and for enabling a deep dropping safely within a well-held, sacred container.
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Kali is also a popular DeeJay, respected for her superb music curation specialising in medicine and world music, as well as organic, downtempo dance grooves. Her stage name is DJ Kali ~ the Dancing Dakini.
She dances, and facilitates dance, to keep expanding deeper into truth, love, pleasure, presence, connection and intimacy.
Read more about Kali here
Stephen Tredrea
Support Teacher
A perfectly orchestrated quarter-life ensemble, leading from the turn of the century, introduced Steph to Shakti’s tantric teachings, working with her to become a practitioner and BlissDance facilitator. As an invitation into the fullness of embodiment and present moment awareness, conscious movement forms an essential aspect of his personal journey and offering.
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“When I first danced BlissDance with Shakti I was able to face the discomfort of the stigma I had created. It was a safe container in which to do that and doing so dissolved the stigma.
I stepped through fears and limiting self beliefs to express myself in ways I had never previously imagined. Through the guidance of BlissDance I became more present and my self confidence blossomed.”
Read more about Stephen here
Rhianne van der Linde
Breathwork Facilitator & Organiser
An avid alchemist and a dedicated dreamer with a depth of knowledge and experience of transforming the mundane into the magical, my personal explorations have led me into working with dreams, as a companion to those busy with their journey of dying, exploring the breath as a thread connecting us directly to source. & processing and ritual with groups in wild nature.
Truth as emptiness and Truth as embodiment – as consciousness expressing in form, in beautiful breathing bodies of love – it is this language of the heart, this feminine language of embodiment & feeling that she is most interested in learning and sharing.
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Rhianne walked alongside Shakti managing all of her in-person workshops and retreats from 2010 until her death in 2017.
Being in Shakti’s flight path has been one of the greatest gifts in my life and as principal and senior faculty at the Shakti Shiva Academy, I remain totally in-service to the co-creation of intimate online and retreat spaces for vulnerable & embodied sharing.
An avid alchemist and a dedicated dreamer with a depth of knowledge and experience of transforming the mundane into the magical, my personal explorations have led me into working with dreams, as a companion to those busy with their journey of dying, exploring the breath as a thread connecting us directly to source & processing and ritual with groups in wild nature.
Truth as emptiness and Truth as embodiment – as consciousness expressing in form, in beautiful breathing bodies of love…it is this language of the heart, this feminine language of embodiment & feeling that I am most interested in learning and sharing.
Specialities: Breathwork, Dreamwork, Shadow Exploration & Integration, Sexual Awakening for Women, Embodiment and Somatic practices, Body De-armouring.
To enquire about booking a one-on-one personal session you can email Rhianne: rhianne@shaktishiva.academy
"May the moment be infinite while it lasts, because you only live once - forever."
~ Kali Satyagraha
Feedback from past students
"Life and death and rebirth are mystical acts of soul consciousness arising out of awareness, happening within awareness, and folding back into awareness. We dance our shadows until they’re all integrated into the light of consciousness. Then we may get to cross the rainbow bridge by consciously dying, with nothing to fear."
~ Kali Satyagraha
Investment
7 Nights / 8 days in beautiful Spanish-style eco-friendly accommodation equipped for your comfort.
~ Prices include all accommodation, meals & facilitation ~
~ Prices are per person (single, sharing or dorm) ~
From: R17,932 / month for 2 months
*Note: Single Accommodation is FULLY BOOKED
If you have any questions, we invite you to schedule a discovery call with us.
"Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed hearts open."
~ Maria Augusta von Trapp
F.A.Q
Who is this retreat for?
The BlissDance Retreat in Spain is designed for open-hearted-and-minded, curious lovers of truth, and lovers of love, for whom music and movement is medicine. It provides an opportunity to deep dive into what it is to be a fully-realised, multi-dimensional, consciously embodied human being, in intimate, authentic relationship with Self, others and the planet.
We explore our true essence, devoid of trauma, social conditioning and unconscious habits of focus, and we become the compassionate space within which every aspect of self is welcomed back home. We learn to work with the nervous system and egoic mind, and we gently de-armour our physical, emotional and spiritual barriers to following our true desire and purpose.
This retreat is particularly valuable to practitioners of somatic modalities such as conscious dance, yoga, body work, family constellations, sexual awakening for men and women, midwifery, breath work, and so on. It provides a rich array of embodied practices, tools and exercises to support clients to harness their erotic consciousness to heal, grow, transform and expand.
Regardless of gender identification, sexual orientation or relationship status, you are welcome. All of you is welcome.
Can I attend alone?
Yes, you’re welcome to participate on your own. Whether you’re single or in partnership / relationship, this retreat is designed as a solo experience alongside and together with others. You will have the opportunity to deepen in intimacy with yourself and with others.
Is it compulsory to complete the participant application & consent form?
Yes, please take your time to complete the application form as it is of great support in enabling us to co-create a powerful and rich experience for all of us. We hugely appreciate your care & consideration with this.
What’s not included in my retreat fees?
- Travel from home country to Spain
- VISA fees
- Gratuities
- Gifts, curio’s & personal items
- Travel to and from Hidden Paradise from either Malaga or Granada (to be arranged by Shakti Shiva Academy)
What’s included in my retreat fees?
- Fully facilitated BlissDance Retreat programme with Kali, Steph and Rhianne; including guided and spontaneous movement meditations and practices, awakened breath work, rites of passage and ceremony
- Accommodation of your choice
- All meals (vegetarian)
Traveling to Hidden Paradise
The two airports to fly into are either Granada or Malaga. Please book to land in whichever airport the flights are cheapest and/ or most convenient for you. (Remember that cheapest isn’t always the most efficient!) Granada is closer but apparently Malaga is often cheaper because the budget airlines fly into Malaga…
Granada, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains is known for its medieval architecture dating to the Moorish occupation, especially the Alhambra. Granada is a wonderful city to spend a few days in as a tourist.
We advise arriving at least 1 day early if possible and overnighting in Granada, fresh and ready for transfer to Hidden Paradise around midday on Thursday 25 April.
Together with Hidden Paradise, we will arrange transport with a shuttle bus and/or smaller vehicles carrying 4 passengers from Malaga & Granada. Please note this cost will be additional to the retreat cost and is entirely dependent on how numbers work out.
What is your cancellation policy?
- * Cancellation up to and inc. 31 January 2024: All payments (less your non-refundable deposit) will be refunded to you
- * Cancellation up to and inc. 29 February 2024: 75% of your payments (less your non-refundable deposit) will be refunded to you
- * Cancellation up to and inc. 31 March 2024: 50% of your payments (less your non-refundable deposit) will be refunded to you
- * Should you cancel after 31 March 2024: no refund will be due to you and you will forfeit any and all payments made.
