Sexual Shadow Integration Work
LEARNING PATH & CERTIFICATION
Turn toward your shadow and meet yourself there
Sexual Shadow Integration Work addresses the dimensions of our sexuality that are held in the unconscious. The shadow is always there; however, it can be easy to ignore and overlook when we’re busily occupied by our daily rhythms and routines. But now those hiding places have been revealed. The tenderness, vulnerability, rawness, realness, and loud antics of the shadow can no longer be ignored…
It’s a vital time to turn toward your shadow and meet yourself there…an amazing, mysterious, and important journey awaits you that is very relevant to this rite of passage we are all currently undergoing!
Explore eros as a pathway into the unconscious and discover why our lovemaking is not yet the ultimate meditation. We’ll learn why we need to spend time at the walls of the outer temple of desire and fantasy before we’re invited to enter into the pure presence of the inner temple. Together, we will discover why the erotic is such a valuable tool for integrating what’s in the unconscious…
“Every aspect of our experience - including our sexuality - can be used as a gateway to the full realization of our spiritual essence.”
~ Shakti Malan
Why focus on Sexuality?
1. Sexuality is a guide to the unconscious
The unconscious is every aspect of our lives that we haven’t fully integrated or felt. Starting with birth and throughout our lives, we have experiences that are overwhelming and too much for us to digest at the time. These often show up later in our sexuality.
2. Sexual energy is life force
While our society has turned sex into a genital affair, Totality Tantra aims to expand your horizons so that you can experience the true nature of sexual energy – as life force itself – the power that animates all of life. This broader understanding of sexual energy requires a re-definition of what we mean by masculinity and femininity, and an inquiry into the nature of attraction – the electrical response which initiates the movement of life force.
3. Sexuality and presence
Presence during lovemaking is likely to be a chance occurrence – until you get initiated into the meditation of lovemaking. A significant aspect of the Totality Tantra is immersion in Tantric lovemaking practices for yourself, with others and with life itself.
"Our capacity to be present with our humanity opens us to an intimate knowledge of life beyond consensual reality – beyond what we can perceive with our five senses."
~ Shakti Malan
Sexual Shadow Integration Work Certification
The full certification takes 3 years to complete
Year 1 for Personal & Practitioner Mastery:
- Have a clear, loving, authentic relationship with your sexual self as well as the sexual selves of others
- Feel confident taking radical responsibility for your life – both socially and sexually?
- Become more of who you are and really love that person fully?
- Live and love fully from the present, no longer repeating -over and over- what you experienced in the past
- Understand why your body and brain react the way they do and feel totally at peace with those reactions, plus know how to pilot new reactions and experiences
Year 2 for Professional Mastery:
- Skilled, effective, safe, small group facilitation
- Discover your own personal facilitation style and genius
- What you are responsible for, and what you are not responsible for
- Practical tools for building emotional safety
- The opportunity to practice – a lot!
- How to roleplay common concerns and how to address them
- How to listen to underlying concerns and how to address them from multiple perspectives
- How to facilitate through common obstacles
- How to get back on track after a derailment
- When to be flexible and when to stick with the program
- How to protect vulnerable students
- Have your own personal integrity statement + building individual and team accountability
- How to plan for successful events
- Bonus masterclasses with world class facilitators
Year 3 for Specialist Mastery:
- We will be systematically exploring all of the main themes that you may encounter in a somatic, therapeutic or spiritual inquiry around sexuality. Please note that this training is not medical/anatomy focused
- Apart from immersion in the materials and therapeutic modalities, you will also be learning how to facilitate the material covered. This will include training to facilitate both one-on-one (or couple’s) sessions as well as the facilitation of group work
Certifcation Overview:
