Our Faculty
Over the years, thousands of students have worked through our courses and programmes. Many of them, under the personal tutelage of our founder Shakti Malan, have become teachers and practitioners in their own right. We are blessed to have some of these experienced facilitators as members of our faculty team. Below you will find info on our senior facilitators, guest teachers, and affiliates – who are all sharing their unique wisdom and guidance on the various on-line offerings and in-person events available through the Academy.
Teaching Faculty
Rhianne van der Linde
Shakti Shiva Academy Princpal
About Rhianne
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 with Rhianne, you can email her at info@shaktishiva.academy
Dakini Kali Satyagraha
BlissDance Legacy Holder & Senior Faculty
About Kali
Kali is a highly skilled, deeply experienced facilitator & practitioner of BlissDance, Cuddle Parties™, CosmoForm Meditation, & Advait Tantra, whilst also being renowned for the sacred space she holds for the support of women’s sexual & 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.
Kali owns and runs a boutique-style retreat sanctuary in the Klein Karoo, called Santa Fe Soul Sanctuary where she holds bespoke, intimate retreats and plant medicine ceremonies for individuals, couples and groups.
Specialities: BlissDance, Cuddle Parties, Women’s Sexual & Spiritual Awakening, Red Tent, DJ
Learn more about Kali at www.dakinikali.com
To enquire about booking a one-on-one personal session with Kali, you can email her at kaliwidd@gmail.com
Lisa Grace
Senior Faculty
About Lisa
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 (bondage/discipline, dominance/submission, sadism/masochism otherwise known as “kink”), the extreme non-violence of mindfulness based Hakomi Therapy, Advait Tantra (non-duality and the expansive liberation of sexual energy as universal consciousness), and is a Master Practitioner of Transformational NLP (neuro-linguistic programming). Lisa’s work is about getting real with all the internal polarities (such as masculine and feminine identification, desire and fear, guilt and innocence) that motivate pursuits and avoidances, creating grasping, shame, and fear- and finding the full power and authenticity hiding in the shadows. She is especially passionate about furthering conversations around gender and the queering of Tantra.
Specialities: Shadow work, parts integration, Western Sacred Sexuality, Advait Tantra (non-duality), Transformational NeuroLinguistic Programing, mindfulness and guided meditation, somatic education, kink, polyamory, and other alternative forms of relating
Learn more about Lisa at: www.sacredawakening.com
To enquire about booking a one-on-one personal session with Lisa, you can email her at lisa@sacredawakening.com
Claire Rumore
Senior Faculty
About Claire
Claire Rumore is a certified Erotic Blueprint™ coach, an Urban Tantra™ trained sex educator, and a skilled facilitator & coach for the past 20 years.
She became a student of Shakti Malan, founder of the Shakti Shiva Academy, in 2010 and was one of her first North American students. She worked alongside Shakti from 2011 until Shakti’s death in 2017, helping to produce events, trainings, and curriculum, including the original Totality Therapy training curriculum.
In addition to her work in sexuality, Claire has also worked in tech & innovation consulting since 2014 where she learned, amongst other things, how to facilitate ethnographic research and innovation design sprints at large companies globally. She also worked for an organisational development firm in San Francisco, Ca that specialised in facilitated participatory group work. She helped revise their ground-breaking book “Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision Making.” She also became a graphic facilitator in 2015.
Claire has been involved in facilitation work in large and small ways, ranging from groups, conferences, workshops, extended courses and online classes to couples work, private gatherings and 1:1 sessions.
Claire brings ❤️HEART❤️and 🌈PLAY🌈 to her facilitation style as well as a wealth of experience, resources, and insight.
Learn more about Claire at www.ClaireRumore.com
Swami Advait Rahasya
Senior Faculty
About 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 practising of several professions, the learning of an unusual range of skills and the sexual learning available through several relationship styles, including 14 years of monogamy.
He’s the founder of the Advait Tantra School, a school known for producing remarkable teachers (several of his students are now significant tantra teachers in their own right) and author of terribly tempting TANTRA Book.
Rahasya has been teaching tantra since 2002 – he lives and teaches in South Africa and is now mostly teaching the volunteers who’re helping him build Little Tibet, a retreat centre 200km from Cape Town.
Specialities: Shadow work, erotic work, touch work, fantasy & taboos, polarity processing
Learn more about Rahasya here: www.advaittantra.com
Watch Rahasya on YouTube here
To enquire about booking a one-on-one personal session with Rahasya, you can email him at tantraschool@gmail.com
Rayven Spirit
Senior Faculty
About Rayven
Based currently in Auckland, New Zealand, Rayven has been on an ongoing exploration of self, sexuality and relationship since his quarter-life crisis, questioning and exploding the normative conditioned narratives of his upbringing.
With a focus on collectively beneficial and authentic paths towards empowered self-expression and intimate connection with others, Stephen invites a dance between deep stillness and embodied expression. As a facilitator he draws on storytelling, counselling and somatic experience and is presently studying for a degree in Psychology and Communication.
Specialities: meditation, mindfulness, breath, energy, sound and embodied movement practices; one-on-one counselling, energetic and loving-touch work; group facilitation and dialogue; attachment theory; conscious sexuality and relating; consensual non-monogamy; boundaries and consent; sexual shadow integration.
Learn more about Rayven here: www.danceswithchaos.com
Marcia Baczynski
Senior Faculty
About Marcia B
Marcia Baczynski is an internationally-recognized speaker, writer, coach and expert on sexual communication, relationships and women’s empowerment. Her primary mission is to help women and the people who love them to overcome shame and get in touch with what they truly want — romantically, sexually and relationally — even if it’s off the beaten path.
As co-founder of Cuddle Party, Marcia has helped tens of thousands of people to speak up for the kind of touch they want, say No unapologetically, and foster more connected, affectionate relationships.
Marcia brings wisdom, humour, and creativity to all aspects of her work, and offers a fresh perspective on love, sex and relationships. Each year, she works with a select group of private clients, helping them identify their needs, boundaries and deepest desires. Since 2003, she has helped tens of thousands of people through her private coaching, workshops and group programs.
Marcia is a sought-after presenter and coach, and she has made over 100 magazines, newspapers, TV shows, books and radio appearances, including The Rolling Stone, The Montel Williams Show, Fox News, NPR, the Washington Post, the New York Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, GQ, Marie Claire, People, Newsweek, The Daily Mail, and Penn & Teller’s Bullsh*t, to name just a few. She has been interviewed for, and cited in, a number of books as well. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Learn more about Marcia here: www.askingforwhatyouwant.com
Valentina Leo
Senior Faculty
About Valentina
Based in Cape Town, Valentina Leo (a.k.a. Mrslove) is an Artist, a Lover, a Mother and a Fool. A Tantric Practitioner, teacher of Enlightened Sexuality and an Explorer of the Tantric Realms for over 15 years. Initiated into the embodied wisdom of Human Sexuality by Shakti Malan, Valentina is a Dakini and devoted student of the Traditional Kaula-Tanra lineage of Kashmir Shivaism that recognises the body as Vibration, Space and a Celebration of Cosmic Divinity.
Valentina is known for her unique talent in creating safe and sacred spaces where seekers of all ages can claim their own Spiritual Eroticism. With grace, charm and humour, she has guided and supported many men and women on their sacred journey towards themselves. From this place, ultimate Freedom can be experienced as the True Essence of Love – which is the heart of all Tantric teachings.
Her deepest desire is to birth a generation of TRUE LOVERS to populate our Beautiful Planet. Italian by birth she has been living in Cape Town for over two decades, offering classes, retreats and private sessions.
Specialities: Tantra Yoga, Kashmiri massage, Tandava, Advait Tantra (non-duality), Bliss Dance
Learn more about Valentina here: www.fascinatingwonderment.com
To enquire about booking a one-on-one personal session with Valentina, you can email her at info@fascinatingwonderment.com
Retreat Facilitators
Courtney Ward
Retreat Facilitator
About Courtney
Partially based in Ponta Malongane, where it is said that heaven meets earth; Courtney guided Shakti Malan – founder of the Shakti Shiva Academy on her first life-changing encounter with the in-shore bottlenose dolphins of Malongane, Mozambique.
Essentially a performer in the great arts of the divine, Courtney is a talented artist, actor and musician. She is especially gifted in her spontaneous ability to apply her artistic gifts and musical talents to a group dynamic in aid of personal transformation and creativity. Since 1999 Courtney has worked passionately and intensively with the resident pod of Inshore Bottle Nose dolphins of Southern Mozambique as Halo Gaia’s owner, Ponta Malongane`s Ocean Safari guide, leading Dolphin Swim Facilitator and data collector.
Through her intimate relations with the dolphins, her love of people and her love of the ocean, Courtney offers an extraordinary Ocean Awareness program and together with Shakti Shiva Academy creates a unique annual dolphin swim retreat.
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Specialities: Wild Dolphin Swim Retreats, Ocean Safari’s, Healing with Music – Medicine Song & Sound Journey’s, Conscious, Respectful & Responsible Eco-Tourism.
Learn more about Courtney here: www.halogaia.com
Lolla Odendaal
Retreat Facilitator
About Lolla
Lolla is a Wilderness Guide who is inspired by her witnessing the simplicity with which nature reveals our true selves. She started her journey as a Nature Conservationist, River Guide, and Mountain Guide, and has been steered on a path deeper into the mysteries of the inter-connectedness of our Human-Nature.
Lolla guides Wilderness Quests, leads sweat lodges and facilitates nature connection. Her exploration of natural landscapes and sacred places focuses on revealing their relevance to modern lives.
Dan Brulé
Retreat Facilitator & Guest Facilitator
About Dan
Dan is a world-renowned pioneer in the field of Breathwork, and leader of the worldwide Spiritual Breathing movement. He is one of the creators of Breath Therapy, and was among the original group of Internationally Certified Rebirthers. He is a master of Prana Yoga (the Hindu Science of Breath) and Chi Kung/Qigong (Chinese Medical Breathing Exercises), and he leads the worldwide Spiritual Breathing Movement.
Since 1970, Dan Brulé has personally trained over 300,000 people in 73 countries to use breath and breathing for self-improvement, self-healing, and spiritual awakening. He has trained Olympic athletes, elite warriors and martial artists. He coaches leading medical experts, corporate executives, and peak performers including Tony Robbins. He is the author of several books including “Just Breathe: Master Breathwork for Success in Life, Love, Business and Beyond.”
Visit: www.breathmastery.com
Andrew Barnes
Retreat Facilitator & Guest Facilitator
About Andrew
Andrew Barnes is an international Tantric facilitator, having run events in 50 countries, and an author known for his unique approach that blends ancient wisdom with modern insights. Holding a Master of Health Science (Sexual Health) and five diplomas in bodywork and energy activation, Andrew has been facilitating sexuality and bodywork seminars, courses, and retreats worldwide since 1998.
Andrew’s work addresses key themes such as sexual energy meditation, orgasmic expansion, vibrational awareness, and pineal gland activation. He is dedicated to supporting individuals in overcoming limiting beliefs and behaviours, fostering deeper connections, and enhancing their life experiences. As an author, his notable works include “Demystifying Female Genitalia,” and “The Relationship Map Guidebook: Greathearted Love.”
With a commitment to trauma-informed care, autonomy, and personal empowerment, Andrew completed an Accountability Process in March 2023. More information can be found here. Andrew is committed to creating nurturing environments that support growth and transformation.
Cora Verkuilen
Retreat Facilitator
About Cora
Cora’s resume is quite extensive with 30+ years of experience. For the past 20 years she has specialized in vitality. Physically, mentally, emotionally and energetically.
Her first mission was to help yoga become mainstream, and so from 2007 she was the owner of Yogatrainer for a total of fifteen years, the yoga and breathing studio in Eindhoven with 4 rooms, classes 365 days a year, 18 trainers and 35 lessons a week. She developed the methods Liquid Yoga®, Liquid Breath®, the model the Wheel of Breath® and ADEMPAUZE – her Relax More Podcast. Recently Cora opened her online Relax More Academy. “One thing I know for sure. You have an unimaginable influence on how good, strong and healthy you feel. And you can experience that NOW.”
Website: www.liquidbreath.com
Karin Ritchie
Retreat Facilitator
About Karin
Based in the Garden Route of South Africa, Karin is a lover of life, a gentle warrior woman, passionate about growth and well-being.
Karin is an Indian trained practising Kundalini yoga teacher and a Trauma Healing Practitioner (SEP), a subtle healing modality that focuses on the science of the nervous system and the unlocking and releasing of trauma held in the body, mind and spirit.
As a life-long student, her studies include sexual trauma, global high, eye of the needle 1 & 2, Authentic Relationships, Conscious Communication, Mind and Meditation and Beyond Addiction. Her extensive travels include assisting in training somatic experiencing practitioners in Hong Kong and assisting a Somatic Experiencing Workshop at Omega Institute in New York with Dr Peter Levine.
In partnership with Shakti Shiva Academy, Karin facilitates an experiential retreat, Freedom & The Nervous System, which is an exploration of safe ways for releasing the memory and response to trauma.
Specialities: Trauma including Sexual Trauma, Authentic Relationships, Conscious Communication, Addictions, Somatic Experiencing.
Learn more about Karin here: www.karinritchie.co.za
Guest Facilitators
Pema Salem
About Pema
Pema Salem, 45 years, living on Møn island, Denmark. Inspirator and guide into union with Reality on all levels of life, love and being – as realisation and full application of the Deepest of Intimacy, Wildest of Wonder and actualisation of the True Human Potential.
Pema Salem was born in Denmark by Danish mother and Egyptian father. She grew up in a smaller town, with parents owning bars and cafe’s. She educated from Copenhagen Business School with a bachelor degree and continued unto IT-University around the same time, where she got married and had a boy child. Which was when the radical journey into Truth began.
At age 22, she started dissolving all which was built up and surrendered fully to the road of Life in Love. A road which expanded her consciousness into cosmic consciousness in 1,5 years. After living as cosmic consciousness for 5 years, teaching around the world, she went into solitary retreat. To later emerge back into context after 2,5 years of immersing herself in and realising beyond the beyond; the Primordial Silence.
The journey went on to re-emergence of landing back into the ground. Embodiment, practicality, healing trauma, uprooting conditioning, ancestral work, womb emergence – human wholeness, purification of sexuality, passion and power. Years which brought Pema into Beauty of marriage, creativity, animals and much more. A journey which keeps on revealing more gifts.
Read more about Pema here
Jeremy de Tolly
About Jeremy
Jeremy de Tolly is a communication coach who helps people overcome fear and anxiety around speaking and singing so that they can express themselves with confidence, clarity, and ease. Through his Radiant Voices Process, he’s helped thousands of people—from CEOs to yoga teachers—show up powerfully as their authentic selves.
He’s trained in multiple modalities, including energy coaching, Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE®), and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). He uses trauma-informed somatic therapies and mindfulness methods to help people overcome their fears of expressing themselves and being heard and seen. In the process he’s been featured in publications such as GQ, Men’s Health, and Rolling Stone.
When he’s not coaching clients, he makes music as a singer, guitarist, pianist, and studio producer. He lives between Toronto, Canada, and a beautiful farm in Elgin, South Africa.
Visit: www.jeremydetolly.com
Anaisa & Denyse (SafeMediation)
About Safe Mediation
Anaisa and Denyse are long-standing leaders in restorative justice and relational repair within embodied and conscious sexuality communities. Drawing on decades of combined experience, Anaisa and Denyse offer a grounded, trauma-informed approach to addressing harm, accountability, and repair in complex relational and professional contexts. Their work integrates restorative justice principles, psychological insight, and practical tools to support safer spaces, ethical leadership, and meaningful dialogue, especially where power, intimacy, and vulnerability are present.
Visit: www.safe-mediation.com
Zahava Griss
About Zahava
Zahava Griss (aka Z, pronouns: they/them) is the founder of Embody More Love, a spiritual kinky dance community for personal & cultural liberation. Since 1999, Z has been facilitating dance, embodiment and eros as a source of healing, creativity, building community, and shifting our culture. Z’s performance rituals, books, coaching, grief rituals, and workshops invite a dismantling of oppression so we can create more truthful, empowering, and meaningful relationships.
Their core offering is Play with Power & Gender through Dance, a 3 month spiritual kinky dance immersion.
Visit: www.embodymorelove.com
Jared Lim
About Jared
Jared Lim is the founder of Entrepreneur Awaken, a coaching company focused on helping conscious entrepreneurs grow profitable, scalable businesses without compromising their wellbeing, freedom, or values. He is also the co-founder of Sacred Ways, a retreat company that offers transformational experiences in Peru and Hawaii for those called to deep inner healing and spiritual deepening.
Jared is a Certified Accelerated Evolution Master Coach with over a decade of experience as a founder, coach, and advisor, supporting entrepreneurs by integrating deep inner work with strategic execution.
Visit: www.entrepreneurawaken.com
Marc Peridis
About Marc
Based in a small coastal town outside of Barcelona, Marc is a Canadian-born facilitator who has been working with tantra and spirituality since 2010.
He spends most of his time teaching his own practice, Orgasmic Shamanism, which uses energy work and spontaneous movement to harness the energy of the orgasm for spiritual growth and personal transformation.
His approach is often considered radical and his passion lies in transmuting our deep and most shameful shadows into our highest and most transformative power.
His work of orgasmic shamanism emerged from his years of working with tantra, somatic movement and energy transmission work. 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.
Specialities: Somatic movement, tantra, shamanism, energetic transmission, trauma healing, higher purpose, abundance, sexual shame, sexual dysfunctions etc.
To view more about the work that Marc offers you can view his website and book a session.
Visit: www.marcperidis.com
Joy Taylor
About Joy
Joy has supported hundreds of intuitive entrepreneurs, healers, and creatives to bring structure to their businesses without losing the soul of their work.
She helps clarify vision, organize the moving parts, and refine messaging—so businesses not only grow, but feel natural and aligned as their founders guide and lead others. Her work supports clients to make a meaningful impact with the people they are here to serve, grow income while staying true to their values, and practice ethical, authentic business in a way that feels natural and sustainable. She guides them in developing clear systems, aligned messaging, and supportive client flow, while also empowering them to use technology strategically to free up energy and expand capacity.
Whether refining what is already built or expanding reach and impact, Joy’s coaching and group programs focus on where strategy meets soul—helping businesses grow through genuine, empowering, and collaborative results.
Visit: www.asoulinspiredlife.com
Emmi Mutale
About Emmi
Rhianne van der Linde
PRINCIPAL AND SENIOR FACULTY
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.
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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 with Rhianne, you can email her at rhianne@shaktishiva.academy
Kali Satyagraha Widd
BlissDance Legacy Holder & Senior Faculty
Kali is a highly skilled, deeply experienced facilitator & practitioner of BlissDance, Cuddle Parties™, CosmoForm Meditation, & Advait Tantra, whilst also being renowned for the sacred space she holds for the support of women’s sexual & 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.
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Her deepest love is supporting Lovers of Truth into the discovery of their essential nature – and how to live beautifully with ourselves & others from that knowing, using mindful movement, conscious dance, meditation, ritual, ceremony, & ancestor guidance/channelling.
She counts herself blessed to have been trained & inspired by some of the world’s leading guides in spiritual & sexual embodiment, & devotes her life to the revolution of love that’s needed to re-create the world anew. Anyone with an open mind, playful curiosity & tender heart is welcome to explore & co-create together in the spaces she holds.
Kali trained in Biodanza for 18 months (Personal Development), and with beloved Shakti Malan in BlissDance, qualifying as a facilitator, and has since facilitated several dance forms for 9 years, holding weekly and monthly classes in Cape Town for many years, as well as dance retreats and workshops all over South Africa. She has also taught in the UK and the Netherlands, and has been invited to teach in California, once international travel opens up. She has employed embodied movement therapeutically to support children from very disadvantaged, marginalised communities, as well as recovering heroine addicts.
Kali owns and runs a boutique-style retreat sanctuary in the Klein Karoo, called Santa Fe Soul Sanctuary where she holds bespoke, intimate retreats and plant medicine ceremonies for individuals, couples and groups.
Specialities: BlissDance, Cuddle Parties, Women’s Sexual & Spiritual Awakening, Red Tent, DJ
Learn more about Kali at www.dakinikali.com
To enquire about booking a one-on-one personal session with Kali, you can email her at kaliwidd@gmail.com
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.
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With a degree in Performing Arts and Psychology, she has since traversed BDSM (bondage/discipline, dominance/submission, sadism/masochism otherwise known as “kink”), the extreme non-violence of mindfulness based Hakomi Therapy, Advait Tantra (non-duality and the expansive liberation of sexual energy as universal consciousness), and is a Master Practitioner of Transformational NLP (neuro-linguistic programming). Lisa’s work is about getting real with all the internal polarities (such as masculine and feminine identification, desire and fear, guilt and innocence) that motivate pursuits and avoidances, creating grasping, shame, and fear- and finding the full power and authenticity hiding in the shadows. She is especially passionate about furthering conversations around gender and the queering of Tantra.
In 2011 Lisa met Shakti Malan who quickly became a major influence in her life through her Totality Therapy Training, Soulmate Within, Sexual Awakening for Women, and Somatic Healing for Sexual Trauma courses. Lisa was a Senior Student of Shakti from 2014-2017 and is currently in training with Sacred founders, Justin Patrick Pierce and Londin Angel Winters.
Specialities: Shadow work, parts integration, Western Sacred Sexuality, Advait Tantra (non-duality), Transformational NeuroLinguistic Programing, mindfulness and guided meditation, somatic education, kink, polyamory, and other alternative forms of relating
Learn more about Lisa at: www.sacredawakening.com
To enquire about booking a one-on-one personal session with Lisa, you can email her at lisa@sacredawakening.com
Rayven Spirit
Based currently in Auckland, New Zealand, Rayven has been on an ongoing exploration of self, sexuality and relationship since his quarter-life crisis, questioning and exploding the normative conditioned narratives of his upbringing.
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This has primarily been through a broad lens of Tantra, or sexual awakening, with an intention of being: consciously aware, embodied and participating in life. He worked with Shakti Malan over many years, both as student and co-facilitator, as well as benefiting from the work of many other teachers over his path of unravelling.
With a focus on collectively beneficial and authentic paths towards empowered self-expression and intimate connection with others, Stephen invites a dance between deep stillness and embodied expression. As a facilitator he draws on storytelling, counselling and somatic experience and is presently studying for a degree in Psychology and Communication.
Specialities: meditation, mindfulness, breath, energy, sound and embodied movement practices; one-on-one counselling, energetic and loving-touch work; group facilitation and dialogue; attachment theory; conscious sexuality and relating; consensual non-monogamy; boundaries and consent; sexual shadow integration.
Learn more about Rayven here: www.danceswithchaos.com
To enquire about booking a one-on-one personal session with Rayven, you can email them at stephen.tredrea@gmail.com
Claire Rumore
Claire Rumore is a certified Erotic Blueprint™ coach, an Urban Tantra™ trained sex educator, and a skilled facilitator & coach for the past 20 years.
She became a student of Shakti Malan, founder of the Shakti Shiva Academy, in 2010 and was one of her first North American students. She worked alongside Shakti from 2011 until Shakti’s death in 2017, helping to produce events, trainings, and curriculum, including the original Totality Therapy training curriculum.
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In addition to her work in sexuality, Claire has also worked in tech & innovation consulting since 2014 where she learned, amongst other things, how to facilitate ethnographic research and innovation design sprints at large companies globally. She also worked for an organisational development firm in San Francisco, Ca that specialised in facilitated participatory group work. She helped revise their ground-breaking book “Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision Making.” She also became a graphic facilitator in 2015.
Claire has been involved in facilitation work in large and small ways, ranging from groups, conferences, workshops, extended courses and online classes to couples work, private gatherings and 1:1 sessions.
Claire brings ❤️HEART❤️and 🌈PLAY🌈 to her facilitation style as well as a wealth of experience, resources, and insight.
Learn more about Claire at www.ClaireRumore.com
Marcia Baczynski
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As co-founder of Cuddle Party, Marcia has helped tens of thousands of people to speak up for the kind of touch they want, say No unapologetically, and foster more connected, affectionate relationships.
Marcia brings wisdom, humour, and creativity to all aspects of her work, and offers a fresh perspective on love, sex and relationships. Each year, she works with a select group of private clients, helping them identify their needs, boundaries and deepest desires. Since 2003, she has helped tens of thousands of people through her private coaching, workshops and group programs.
Marcia is a sought-after presenter and coach, and she has made over 100 magazines, newspapers, TV shows, books and radio appearances, including The Rolling Stone, The Montel Williams Show, Fox News, NPR, the Washington Post, the New York Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, GQ, Marie Claire, People, Newsweek, The Daily Mail, and Penn & Teller’s Bullsh*t, to name just a few. She has been interviewed for, and cited in, a number of books as well. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Learn more about Marcia here: www.askingforwhatyouwant.com
Swami Advait Rahasya
SENIOR FACULTY
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.
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Rahasya has been a lifelong student of tantra. His worldly involvement has included the practising of several professions, the learning of an unusual range of skills and the sexual learning available through several relationship styles, including 14 years of monogamy.
He’s the founder of the Advait Tantra School, a school known for producing remarkable teachers (several of his students are now significant tantra teachers in their own right) and author of The Rocky Horror Tantra Book.
The Rocky Horror Tantra Book is a deep exploration of Tantric practice and has become a standard work for modern students of tantra. It describes the path through stories and discourse. Be warned. This book strongly challenges many popular ideas about love, relationship, spiritual endeavour. It is also powerfully and unashamedly erotic, as is the journey of tantra itself.
“Tantra is the roughest, rockiest and unquestionably the most horrible of spiritual paths. It is not a journey for the faint-hearted, the weak-minded or the emotionally troubled. It presents serious difficulties even to the heroic. It is as harsh as the Truths of Life themselves. Just reading about it though, is probably not all that dangerous …”
Rahasya has been teaching tantra since 2002 – he lives and teaches in South Africa and is now mostly teaching the volunteers who’re helping him build Little Tibet, a retreat centre 200km from Cape Town.
Specialities: Shadow work, erotic work, touch work, fantasy & taboos, polarity processing
Learn more about Rahasya here: www.advaittantra.com
Watch Rahasya on YouTube here
To enquire about booking a one-on-one personal session with Rahasya, you can email him at tantraschool@gmail.com
Valentina Leo
SENIOR FACULTY
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Valentina is known for her unique talent in creating safe and sacred spaces where seekers of all ages can claim their own Spiritual Eroticism. With grace, charm and humour, she has guided and supported many men and women on their sacred journey towards themselves. From this place, ultimate Freedom can be experienced as the True Essence of Love – which is the heart of all Tantric teachings.
Her deepest desire is to birth a generation of TRUE LOVERS to populate our Beautiful Planet. Italian by birth she has been living in Cape Town for over two decades, offering classes, retreats and private sessions.
Specialities: Tantra Yoga, Kashmiri massage, Tandava, Advait Tantra (non-duality), Bliss Dance
Learn more about Valentina here: www.fascinatingwonderment.com
To enquire about booking a one-on-one personal session with Valentina, you can email her at info@fascinatingwonderment.com
Sheena Witter
FACULTY
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Sheena’s passion lies in facilitating the understanding and integration of personal and collective shadow, and the role trauma has in shaping our daily experience, both consciously and unconsciously. Trauma-informed and trained in multiple modalities, Sheena dances, teaches, and coaches at the intersection where soul meets soma and focuses on how we honour and integrate our experiences.
Her students and clients often describe Sheena as half Ring Mystress, half Fairy Godmother. She’s a Certified Existential Kink Shadow Integration Coach, Soul-based Business development strategist, Soul Realignment® Akashic Record practitioner, and Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy coach. She delights in helping you craft your most luscious life.
Through alchemical transformation, soul crafting, shadow integration, and somatic embodiment, Sheena supports you in recognizing and embracing your own greatness and soul’s expression, walking beside you as you do the things that scare you—holding space for you and teaching you to thrive in the uncomfortable space of creation. Encouraging you and helping you find the joy on the journey as you discover and bring your soul’s gifts into your daily lived experience. Through each of us doing this – we change the world.
Specialties: Shadow integration and play, radical approval and polarity integration, creating connections and communities, and infusing daily lived experience with ritual and magic.
Learn more about Sheena here: www.sheenawitter.com
Marc Peridis
FACULTY
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His approach is often considered radical and his passion lies in transmuting our deep and most shameful shadows into our highest and most transformative power.
He is also a mystery school initiate and guide; initiated into the mysteries in 2012 and was initiated as a shaman in 2014.
He has spent the years following his initiation travelling the world leading ceremonies, and workshops at some of the world’s most powerful sacred sites.
He has completed the 20 levels of the path of the sexual shaman training, By Arizona-Based sexual Shaman Kenneth Ray Stubbs who has been his mentor since 2016.
He has taken Buddhist refuge under Tharig Rinpoche in Kathmandu.
In 2013, he completed the Authentic Eros 1-year tantra and sexual explorations training with Kai Erhardt and Volker Moritz in Berlin.
He is also a trained facilitator in theta-healing, emotional freedom technique, and Reiki as well as a somatic movement facilitator.
His work of orgasmic shamanism emerged from his years of working with tantra, somatic movement and energy transmission work. 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.
Specialities: Somatic movement, tantra, shamanism, energetic transmission, trauma healing, higher purpose, abundance, sexual shame, sexual dysfunctions etc.
Learn more about Marc here: https: www.orgasmicshaman.com
To enquire about booking a one-on-one personal session with Marc, you can email him at marc@marcperidis.com
Paul Abro
FACULTY
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Tiffany Stone
FACULTY
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Karin Ritchie
RETREAT FACILITATOR
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Drawing on her journey of transformation from a traumatic life to one of grace, she seeks to create a conscious authentic life for herself and her clients. She embraces freedom from past patterns that no longer serve. Through gratitude, presence, curiosity and compassion, she witnesses and celebrates the miracles of healing.
Karin is an Indian trained practising Kundalini yoga teacher and a Trauma Healing Practitioner (SEP), a subtle healing modality that focuses on the science of the nervous system and the unlocking and releasing of trauma held in the body, mind and spirit.
As a life-long student, her studies include sexual trauma, global high, eye of the needle 1 & 2, Authentic Relationships, Conscious Communication, Mind and Meditation and Beyond Addiction. Her extensive travels include assisting in training somatic experiencing practitioners in Hong Kong and assisting a Somatic Experiencing Workshop at Omega Institute in New York with Dr Peter Levine.
In partnership with Shakti Shiva Academy, Karin facilitates an experiential retreat, Freedom & The Nervous System, which is an exploration of safe ways for releasing the memory and response to trauma.
Specialities: Trauma including Sexual Trauma, Authentic Relationships, Conscious Communication, Addictions, Somatic Experiencing.
Learn more about Karin here: www.karinritchie.co.za
To enquire about booking a one-on-one personal session with Karin, you can email her at karinritchie.sep@gmail.com
Andrew Barnes
RETREAT FACILITATOR
Andrew Barnes is an internationally acclaimed Tantric sex, relationship, and orgasm coach, sexologist, speaker, master bodyworker, and author of Demystifying Female Genitalia. Andrew is the developer of Tantric Body De-armouring, and over the last several years he has been running courses worldwide in this ever-popular modality.
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Andrew Barnes underwent an Accountability Process from December 2021 until April 2023. If you would like to know more about this please go to this link.
Courtney Ward
RETREAT FACILITATOR
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Essentially a performer in the great arts of the divine, Courtney is a talented artist, actor and musician. She is especially gifted in her spontaneous ability to apply her artistic gifts and musical talents to a group dynamic in aid of personal transformation and creativity. Since 1999 Courtney has worked passionately and intensively with the resident pod of Inshore Bottle Nose dolphins of Southern Mozambique as Halo Gaia’s owner, Ponta Malongane`s Ocean Safari guide, leading Dolphin Swim Facilitator and data collector.
Through her intimate relations with the dolphins, her love of people and her love of the ocean, Courtney offers an extraordinary Ocean Awareness program and together with Shakti Shiva Academy creates a unique annual dolphin swim retreat.
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Specialities: Wild Dolphin Swim Retreats, Ocean Safari’s, Healing with Music – Medicine Song & Sound Journey’s, Conscious, Respectful & Responsible Eco-Tourism.
Learn more about Courtney here: www.halogaia.com
Cora Verkuilen
RETREAT FACILITATOR
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Betty Martin
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Patricia Albere
Patricia Albere is at ground zero of an evolutionary stream of spiritual awakening. Just as meditation can be an opening to an individual awakening, Albere originated the Mutual Awakening Practice – a 21st century spiritual practice that empowers us to enter into new dimensions of relating and expanding consciousness together. One in which we learn to go beyond individual psychology and transformation into a new space of mutual awakening or ‘inter-being’ or ‘we-mysticism’.
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Pri Bertucci
Originally from São Paulo, Brazil, Pri Bertucci (pronouns he/him, they/them) is a widely acclaimed non-binary social artist, author, lecturer and consultant known fondly as “The Queer Prophet.” Pri creates programs and resources that focus on diversity, equality, intersectionality and inclusion.