Desire, Fear & Taboo

A LIVE, 7-WEEK PROGRAM THAT TEACHES YOU

HOW TO ACCESS THE TRUE POWER OF YOUR SEXUALITY

Starting Tuesday 5 September 2023

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Desire, Fear & Taboo

A LIVE, 7-WEEK PROGRAM THAT TEACHES YOU

HOW TO ACCESS THE TRUE POWER OF YOUR SEXUALITY

Starting Tuesday 5 September 2023

Desire, Fear & Taboo is a live 7-week online program that will help you release sexual shame, learn to trust your body, and step into greater self-understanding

This live, interactive course is your introduction to powerful work that will transform your relationship with your body, your sexuality, and your desires.

Taught on a safe, private platform with content delivered in multiple formats to accommodate every learning style and schedule, this course meets you exactly where you are. 

If you’ve tried other online courses and gotten overwhelmed or been frustrated with unavailable facilitators, you’ll be delighted by how nurturing, supportive, and relatable our teachings and facilitators are.

In 7 weeks, it’s possible for you to:


  • Start letting go of the shame and guilt you’ve been carrying around for too many years to count
  • Tune in to the sensations, experiences, and messages your subconscious has been trying to send you
  • Break painful, unhealthy patterns in your relationships
  • Feel less burdened with associations, unconsciousness, and habitual patterns in your day-to-day life
  • Have a better understanding of why you behave in certain ways in your intimate and sexual relationships

Desire, Fear & Taboo is a live 7-week online program that will help you release sexual shame, learn to trust your body, and step into greater self-understanding

This live, interactive course is your introduction to powerful work that will transform your relationship with your body, your sexuality, and your desires.

Taught on a safe, private platform with content delivered in multiple formats to accommodate every learning style and schedule, this course meets you exactly where you are. 

If you’ve tried other online courses and gotten overwhelmed or been frustrated with unavailable facilitators, you’ll be delighted by how nurturing, supportive, and relatable our teachings and facilitators are.

In 7 weeks, it’s possible for you to:


  • Start letting go of the shame and guilt you’ve been carrying around for too many years to count
  • Tune in to the sensations, experiences, and messages your subconscious has been trying to send you
  • Break painful, unhealthy patterns in your relationships
  • Feel less burdened with associations, unconsciousness, and habitual patterns in your day-to-day life
  • Have a better understanding of why you behave in certain ways in your intimate and sexual relationships

These teachings have allowed me to come home to a place I always knew existed but lacked the capacity to reach on my own. The teachings and subtle body work practices have set in motion the expanding of a sense of reality for me - towards a rich and tapestried life of intimacy of love-making that I could not have imagined before

- Paul Abro, Cape Town, South Africa.

"These teachings have allowed me to come home to a place I always knew existed but lacked the capacity to reach on my own. The teachings and subtle body work practices have set in motion the expanding of a sense of reality for me - towards a rich and tapestried life of intimacy of love-making that I could not have imagined before."

- Paul Abro, Cape Town, South Africa.

For curious and courageous humans who want to untangle the sexual conditioning they grew up with

We’ve worked hard to create an educational experience that fits into any schedule, and because all of our content is downloadable, you can come back to it as many times as you’d like, whenever it’s convenient for you.

Desire, Fear & Taboo includes 90-minute, live teaching calls for each of the 7 weeks we’re working together. Attend the call live and get direct support from your facilitators or listen to the call recordings later.

1.  What is the Sexual Shadow

Tuesday 5 September 2023

Live 90-minute teaching session

7pm SAST • 10am PT • 1pm ET • 6pm UK • 5am NZ

  • Tune into your unconscious mind and witness how it shapes your experiences
  • Discover how your sexuality speaks from and for your unconscious
  • Learn how to meet and embrace your sexual shadow

2.  Eros Running Amok

Tuesday 12 September 2023

Live 90-minute teaching session

7pm SAST • 10am PT • 1pm ET • 6pm UK • 5am NZ

  • Discover the polarities (desire and fear) that comprise your compulsive sexual fantasies
  • Learn how to bring presence and integration to your unconscious polarities and projections
  • Learn the art of slowing the whole show down…

3. Opening to Desire and Exploring your Inner Erotic Landscape

Tuesday 19 September 2023

Live 90-minute teaching session

7pm SAST • 10am PT • 1pm ET • 6pm UK • 5am NZ

  • Learn about desire and allowing yourself to be a “subject” of desire rather than an “object” of desire
  • Dig into referred desire and how it opens the doors to the unconscious
  • Uncover what your deepest desires are

4. Facing Your Fears

Tuesday 26 September 2023

Live 90-minute teaching session

7pm SAST • 10am PT • 1pm ET • 6pm UK • 6am NZ

  • Learn about fears and how they impact your eroticism
  • Identify your biggest fears and learn to “face the tiger”
  • Discover how your biggest desires are linked to your biggest fears

5. Breaking free from the Victim-Rescuer-Persecutor Triangle

Tuesday 3 October 2023

Live 90-minute teaching session

7pm SAST • 10am PT • 1pm ET • 6pm UK • 6am NZ

  • Learn about the victim-rescuer-persecutor drama triangle and its impact in your life
  • Identify your familiar roles and how you take or give away power 
  • Break free from habitual patterns and learn who you are without your story

6. Frozen in the Act

Tuesday 10 October 2023

Live 90-minute teaching session

7pm SAST • 10am PT • 1pm ET • 6pm UK • 6am NZ

  • Understand trauma’s role in erotic response and why it can become frustratingly frozen
  • Examine the role and wisdom of the nervous system in this response
  • Explore simple strategies for thawing the freeze and recovering the life force within you that longs to be expressed as your integrated sexuality

7. The Wise Erotic Body

Tuesday 17 October 2023

Live 90-minute teaching session

7pm SAST • 10am PT • 1pm ET • 6pm UK • 6am NZ

  • Discover how to understand and make friends with your body’s subtle and overt wisdom
  • Learn about the impact of neurochemistry on your choices
  • How to move from sexual habituation to sexual integration in your personal sexual expression

This course opened up my heart and body to deeper levels of love, intimacy, and awareness. I learned how to be with my fears, emotions, and desires in a grounding and empowering way. I appreciate how much love and support was offered as I explored my sexuality with the facilitators and the container itself.

- Jennifer Foltz, Sebastopol, California

"This course opened up my heart and body to deeper levels of love, intimacy, and awareness. I learned how to be with my fears, emotions, and desires in a grounding and empowering way. I appreciate how much love and support was offered as I explored my sexuality with the facilitators and the container itself."

- Jennifer Foltz, Sebastopol, California

YOUR FACILITATORS:

Lisa Grace

Based in the Bay Area, California, Lisa has spent the last two decades gathering tools to support humans in being fully embodied, expressed, and able to stay present with the truth of What Is.
With a degree in Performing Arts and Psychology, she has since traversed BDSM (otherwise known as "kink"), the extreme non-violence of mindfulness based Hakomi Therapy, Advait Tantra.

Read more here >

Sw. Rahasya

Swami Rahasya is as much a rascally trickster as he is a serious pundit of Tantric Spirituality. He uses tongue-and-cheek, irony, and colourful stories (personal, archetypal, and beyond) to share the high teachings of the Tantric adepts of old. Rahasya has been a lifelong student of tantra. His worldly involvement has included the practicing of several professions and the learning of an unusual range of skills.

Read more here >

Shakti Shiva Academy creates a beautiful, loving space where, as a group, we explore our shadows around sexuality. Because there is so much taboo around our sexual desires, this is such important work for opening up to the totality of who we are and learning how to fully live from this place. 

- Tara Rose, Scarborough, Cape Town

"Shakti Shiva Academy creates a beautiful, loving space where, as a group, we explore our shadows around sexuality. Because there is so much taboo around our sexual desires, this is such important work for opening up to the totality of who we are and learning how to fully live from this place."

- Tara Rose, Scarborough, Cape Town

Create a healthier relationship with your body and sexuality, starting now.

Worried this will be another online course you sign up for and then don’t use?

We’ve built accountability and support into our teaching model. We’ll send you email reminders so you don’t forget about the live calls and to keep you on track. All the live teaching sessions are recorded so you can listen to them as many times as you’d like and our lessons are available in multiple formats. 

Have you tried to get past these issues before without seeing any progress?

Our programs are built on decades of experience and have helped thousands of people, from all over the world. You won’t be doing this work alone or just occasionally with one expert. You’ll have access to two trained facilitators and a supportive cohort of people working through similar challenges. Live coaching will keep you on track and answer questions about your specific situation and there are also assignment questions prompting contemplation and encouraging your honest and vulnerable sharing.


Concerned about sharing the inner workings of your intimate life and relationships with strangers on the internet?

We’ve found that it’s often easier to have these conversations with “strangers on the internet,” rather than your sister or friend. Our work tends to attract exceptionally open-minded humans, so any community we create will be an amazingly supportive space to share your story.

We also took privacy into consideration when we opted to host our community on Mighty Networks. It is much more secure than Facebook, Slack, or Google Meet.

Concerned you don’t have enough time to give this course your all?

All the content we share in this course is downloadable. So even if this is a busy season in your life, you can download the modules, the audio lessons, and the recordings of our teaching sessions, and reference them any time you’d like. 

INVESTMENT

EARLY BIRD

until midnight PT 31 July 2023

Onetime Payment: $375

2 x monthly: $215 per month

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ZAR Onetime Payment Only: ZAR 5,115

* For ZAR payments, email info@shaktishiva.academy for EFT details

** For PayPal payments, email info@shaktishiva.academy for PayPal.Me link

FULL PRICE

from 1 August 2023

Onetime Payment: $450

2 x monthly: $250 per month

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ZAR Onetime Payment Only: ZAR 6,145

* For ZAR payments, email info@shaktishiva.academy for EFT details

** For PayPal payments, email info@shaktishiva.academy for PayPal.Me link

BONUSES:

Bonus Call with Guest Teacher Marc Peridis

Marc Peridis has been working in the world of conscious sexuality for decades. He has trained under sexual shaman Kenneth Ray Stubbs, Buddhist guru Tharig Rinpoche, and sexual exploration experts Kai Erhardt and Volker Moritz.


He is passionate about providing a radical and integrated approach that supports clients and workshop participants in their journey to empowerment, higher purpose and limitless creativity.

More about Marc >

Live 90-minute teaching session

Thursday 5 October 2023

7pm SAST • 10am PT • 1pm ET • 6pm UK • 6am NZ

Exploring our most shameful sexual fantasies can often lead to a process of radical transformation. What gets us wet, hard, and excited, will inevitably offer us a valuable insight into who we are and the type of nourishment we are seeking.

Marc will create a safe space for fantasies to be observed, held, and explored. You will also gain the tools and insights needed to continue this rich exploration on your own.


Additional Support - Office Hours with Lisa Grace

Mondays on Zoom - Event Listings in our Circle of Fire

7pm SAST • 10am PT • 1pm ET • 6pm UK • 6am NZ

A regular ongoing opportunity for connection, inquiry & sharing.


Receive additional support from your facilitator Lisa Grace as you move through the course materials.

You’re invited to use this open door time for check-ins, sharing, inquiry and conversation.
The time together will be led by the desires of the group.
These hours are for whomever shows up and will not be recorded.
Think of this intimate hour as a free coaching session with Lisa!

Office Hours with Lisa Grace

Bonus eBook:

Desire, Fear & Taboo by Shakti Malan, founder of the Shakti Shiva Academy

Learn the fundamentals of working with your sexual unconscious and all the desires, fears, projections, taboos, repeated patterns, and shame that it can generate.  This book will give you the basic tools to begin working with your own sexual shadows. 

This is a wonderful resource to help you diminish sexual body shame, increase self-acceptance, deepen your relationship with Higher Self, and awaken the divine essence of your sexuality. 


Bonus Recording:

Conscious BDSM - A Tantra Talk by Shakti Malan, founder of the Shakti Shiva Academy

Listen to this previously unreleased recording of some of Shakti’s advanced teachings. This workshop is focused on BDSM (Bondage/Discipline + Domination/Submission + Sadism/Masochism) as an exploration of our relationship to power.

This 140-minute recording covers:

  • How desires and attractions like those brought forth in BDSM are fueled by associations that show up in our eroticism
  • The dynamic between arousal and fear that can help liberate us from compulsions
  • The relationship between the inner feminine and inner masculine
  • The dynamic of the ‘junior male’ and the ‘senior male,’ in which the patriarchy conditions us to see power as a very specific masculine phenomenon
  • The Drama Triangle of victim-rescuer-persecutor
  • How to work with the nervous system in the context of BDSM sessions and play

This course allowed me to better understand myself  in terms of my sexual orientation. We all have areas that we fail to see within, whether in our sexuality or in other aspects of self and this course provided an objective mirror which enabled me to dive deeply into myself and move through those some of those ‘blind spots’.

- Zakir Mahomedy (KZN, South Africa)

"This course allowed me to better understand myself  in terms of my sexual orientation. We all have areas that we fail to see within, whether in our sexuality or in other aspects of self and this course provided an objective mirror which enabled me to dive deeply into myself and move through those some of those ‘blind spots’."

- Zakir Mahomedy, KZN, South Africa

F . A . Q

Who is this course for and do I need a partner to do this work?
This course is for all sincere seekers of truth of any gender or orientation, single or partnered, gay, straight, bi-sexual, fluid - whichever way your sexuality flows. You do not need a partner to participate. This course is designed to be a personal journey, tapping into your own personal desires, fantasies and inner discoveries. For those who are in partnerships, you may find that this will bring a greater dimension to your relating and intimacy with one another. 

Do you provide refunds?

Withdrawal from the course is only possible during the first week of Module 1. Should you decide to withdraw, your future payments will be cancelled however no refunds will be provided. If you find yourself unable to keep up with the course then no problem: You will have lifetime access to the course portal and can also retake the course when it is offered in the future at 50% of the course fee. All materials are also downloadable for you to work through at your own pace.

What if I need more support?

If you find you require additional support aside from the group coaching sessions provided with this course, 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 course 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 course materials & community website so that you can continue to interact and learn with the course participants even after you have completed your sessions. 

What about confidentiality?

Your journey remains completely confidential. If you wish to share on the community website, there is a confidentiality agreement in place. Participation in the course WhatsApp group is entirely optional.

Does the course 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 to meeting the material in a fresh way.

I can't attend the coaching sessions live - what now?

Not a problem – sessions are recorded and will be available within 24 hours so you can download and listen to them at your own convenience. 

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.

Terms & Conditions

You can read our full terms & conditions here.

"With each exercise in this course, I feel less of the gnawing, because I am being present to myself in the way I’ve always wanted others to be."


- Meghna Majmudar, Berkeley, California

With each exercise in this course, I feel less of the gnawing, because I am being present to myself in the way I’ve always wanted others to be. 


- Meghna Majmudar, Berkeley, California