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Sacred Sexuality . How We Love
"A tremendous change is happening on the planet. 
I have a feeling we are ready, at long last, to truly love."  Dawn Cartwright
The Future of Sex
Video Recording Now Available
 
The Tantric paradigm is coming alive all around us. Radical shifts in connectivity bring intense change to the world, a world that beautifully mirrors the waking intelligence of the human body.
 
Sexuality is revered in many cultures yet there are individuals, I am one, who have sensed for a very long time, sexuality is not what it appears to be. Inclusive of, yet far beyond procreation and pleasure, sexuality contains within it seeds of reality we bring into being every moment. Never has this been more apparent, or our bodies more attuned than now. What an incredible time to be alive.
 
What an incredible time to explore the outermost limitlessness of human experience through the center of the heart, in Tantric practice.
 
Sex Actualization . Begins Tomorrow
Tantra Practice Group . January 16th - February 27th . Marina del Rey
 
We've all experienced it at one time or another, the feeling of dissolving that deep sex brings. A feeling that connects us to life in a way that is both powerful and mystical. Could our sexuality be a means for actualising our human potential? What is true sexual mastery?
 
What is Sex Actualization?
 
We'll learn, practice, question and explore specific practices that cultivate a sexual charge in the pelvis. We'll learn ways of activating the Kundalini and every aspect of who we are during lovemaking. We'll investigate male and female arousal anatomy, taking a close look at regions that have been deleted from modern anatomy books. We'll delve into the what, why, when and how of sexual chemistry, what it is, what it means and how to harness it - in every type of relationship. And, we'll look at the parallels between academic Tantra research and live practice as we form a dynamic 7-week community of inquiry, exploration and sharing.
 
What to expect . . .
  • Learn specific techniques that will allow you to open up your body to experience completely what you are capable of as a sexual and spiritual being.
  • Learn about Tantra as a spiritual pursuit and journey.
  • Learn how to feel the sexual energy in your body and how to exchange it with a partner so that you merge together as one.
  • Learn how to surrender to a full body orgasm - to have access to your orgasm more naturally and easily than you do now.
  • Experience sexual energy moving through your body and learn how to make that happen.
  • Discover new ways of opening your heart and being vulnerable with another person - powered by your sexual energy.
  • Experience surrender and relaxation in high states of arousal.
  • Share your sexual self with your partner without fear - be completely yourself, completely honest, your most authentic self.
  • Discover your own personal Tantric quest, what can you expect to happen on the journey? Where are you going? What is possible for you?
  • Reconnect with your genitals and feel them pulsing with sexual energy and desire - awake to your aliveness.
  • Be completely present in sexual moments with no expectations of yourself or your partner, in joy, in gratitude – in just being - with no judgments.
  • Discover your sexual empowerment, learn how to give of yourself without fear.
  • Experience a heart that has opened, not through trying to be loving, but by allowing aliveness to flow through your body and feel vulnerable and full of love, love you can share with others easily and naturally.
  • Be truly intimate with yourself and others with your sexual energy as an incredible force of awakening and vitality.
  • And - I'll share some of what my journey has been and how it's unfolding. My goals for myself. The techniques I practice.
 
Sex Actualization . Tantra Practice Group . 7-Week Series
Marina del Rey . California
Thursdays . 7:30 - 9:30 pm
$350 series of 7 classes
 
 
*The class Thursday, January 16th is an Open Class, cost $50. You do not have to be enrolled in the 7-week series to attend the Sex Actualization . Open Class, everyone is welcome. Register for Sex Actualization . Open Class.
Be Fully Alive . Level 1 Immersion
January 18th - 19th . Santa Monica . California
  
Your sexual energy is one of the most powerful spiritual awakening forces in your life, yet a great deal of your sexual potential lies untapped, unexplored. Learn ways of accessing this potential, freeing it, as you open your body, heart and soul to the experience of being fully alive. 
 
Using Tantric techniques that incorporate breath, movement and awareness, you will learn how to access the heart of kundalini - your sexual energy.
 
Be Fully Alive . Weekend Tantra Immersion
January 18th - 19th . Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel
10:00 am - 5:00 pm each day
$600 per person . non-residential
 
Ecstasy of the Heart . Level 2
January 25th - 26th . Woodacre 
 
When tantric techniques of meditation and awareness are woven into our experience of lovemaking we open the door to a realm of intimacy that manifests as spiritual ecstasy.
 
The Ecstasy of the Heart weekend immersion is built around a core Tantric lovemaking sequence. During this level 2 weekend immersion for singles and couples we'll explore the realm of Tantra as it applies to love, relationship and intimacy.
 
You'll learn Tantric meditations, empowering partner yoga practices, breakthrough communication tools, acupressure to awaken the ecstatic channels – all designed to intensify your experience of intimacy. You'll be introduced to the first stages of a Tantric lovemaking sequence – you'll discover new ways to expand your experience of openness and closeness in lovemaking. You'll discover the ecstasy of your heart.
 
Ecstasy of the Heart . Weekend Tantra immersion
January 25th - 26th
Private Retreat . Woodacre . California
10:00 am - 6:00 pm each day
$750 per person . non-residential
 
Come to Paradise . Maui
Bhakti Ventures . March 12th - 16th 
 
Spend a long weekend in paradise on Maui with Saul David Raye, Dawn Cartwright, Divine Harmony and special guest Ram Dass.
 
ENJOY THE SWEETNESS OF IT ALL: full-body yoga workouts, soothing meditation classes, enlightening tantric workshops, ecstatic nightly kirtan, and interpersonal astrology readings all on the sacred sanctuary of Maui
 
Isn’t it time someone took care of you? How about four of the most progressive teachers in health and wellness? Bhakti Fest invites you to dive deep into the heart this spring with Saul David Raye, Dawn Cartwright, Ram Dass, and Divine Harmony. Whether you're ready to take that romantic island holiday with your loved one or a dream retreat that you know you deserve, Bhakti Fest has just the right vacation for you . . .
 
Come to Paradise . Bhakti Ventures
March 12th - 16th
Hale Akua Garden Farm . Maui
Vegetarian Meals & Lodging Included . Residential Retreat
 
6 Nights of Tantric Bliss . London
Sacred Sexuality . How We Love . May 2nd - 8th 
 
Six radiant days, six luminescent nights in the heart of Northamptonshire, immersed in Tantric meditations, tools, techniques, practices and community.
 
The sessions will be composed of dynamic meditations, Tantric Sutras, bio-energetic practices, relationship building tools, shamanic practices, women's circles, men's circles, Tantric clearing practices, purification rituals, communication techniques, partner yoga, gentle movement exercises, sharing, laughing, celebrating and more - creating a Tantric field of transformation alive with the sensual textures of California, Dawn-style.
 
You may book just the bank holiday weekend, Friday dinner to Monday lunch, or take advantage of the generous discount you'll receive when you book the full 6 nights, Friday dinner to Thursday lunch.
 
Sacred Sexuality . How We Love . 6 Nights of Tantric Bliss
Bank Holiday . May 2nd - 8th . 2014
The Retreat . Northamptonshire . UK
Gourmet Raw Food Meals & Lodging Included
Prices Per Person . Shared Accommodation
 
£330 . Early Bird . Full 6 Nights . Booked before 31st January
3 Payments . January . February . March
 
£185 . Early Bird . 3 Day Weekend Only . Booked before 31st January
3 Payments . January . February . March
 
Receive an ADDITIONAL £25 off the price - FOUR tickets available NOW at special SUPER early bird - booked before 15th January.
 
£1100 . Full 6 Nights of Tantric Bliss . Booked after 31st January
 
£600 . 3 Day Weekend Only . Booked after 31st January
 
Shakti Fest
Celebrating The Divine Mother . May 16th - 18th
 
Shakti Fest is a three-day music festival celebrating the Divine Mother through chanting, yoga, meditation and community. All of our presenters embody the spirit of Bhakti—deep devotion.
 
We gather on 450 acres of inspiring desert land to express our love and devotion as one community through an enchanting array of activities, including:
  • Constant Kirtan Concerts
  • Yoga Classes
  • Private and Group Meditation
  • Vegetarian, Vegan, and Raw Vegan Cuisine
  • Fire Ceremonies (Pujas)
  • Hanuman Chalisas
  • Eco-Friendly Vendor Village
  • Camping, Cottages and Cabin Accommodations
  • Wellness Sanctuary: with massage, reiki, channeling, and other unique healing sessions.
 
A substantial portion of the festival's proceeds are donated to charitable organizations.
 
Fragrance of the Lotus . Year Long
Year Long Tantra Immersion & Teacher Training 2014 - 2015
 
Fragrance of the Lotus is an invitation to a year of living in the Tantric field through direct experience.
 
You will explore the Shakta, Shavia and Vaishnavite Tantric lineages. You'll be immersed in sutras from the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, ignited by the beautiful sexual pūjās of the Shakta lineages and wooed by devotional Vaishnuvite bhakti practices. 
 
You'll adventure into the portal of vibratory stillness that exists at the center of orgasm - when orgasm is experienced beyond habitual muscular contraction and sensory exclusion. Entering the realms of magic so apparent in our loving. Bringing into form, over and over and over again, the desireless desire that lives at the center of us all. 
 
You'll come to "see" the true shape of the penis and vagina when limitations of cultural influence are dissolved and true vision returns. Our genitals hold tremendous power. Power that births dreams and desires.The Tantric path is rich with meaning, it is an invitation to discover the  extraordinary secreted away within the ordinary. The macrocosm hidden within the microcosm. 
 
Six years ago, I visited an ashram in Southern India. It was the first time I saw Kamakya, the goddess in the form of the female genitals. What struck me first, was her beauty. Beauty that penetrated my heart before it entered my eye. The next thing I noticed was the head of the penis emerging out of the vulva, rather than penetrating in. Guruji Sri Amritananda explained, "All things come from the Mother." 
 
"It is the place of original magic."  Sheila Chandra 
 
You'll be lovingly invited to explore all aspects of your sexuality and discover who you are, sexually, when all your judgments and fears have been dissolved. You'll awaken the capacity to listen, experiencing sexuality as a song sung throughout your body. 
 
You'll spend over a year in deep ecstatic meditation and go beyond what you have ever imagined, yet have always "known" was possible. You'll discover what it means to live within and contribute to our modern day society without being confined by it.  
 
The Fragrance of the Lotus Year-Long Immersion is a profound commitment to discovery. Through it, you are entering a relationship the most basic alongside the most mystical, you will be drawn into a profound relationship with yourself that will illuminate all your relationships. 
 
"A tremendous change is happening on the planet. I have a feeling we are ready, at long last, to truly love."  Dawn Cartwright 
 
Tantra, by its very nature, transforms all things into their spontaneous natural state, stripping away beliefs and conditionings that have blocked the natural authentic aliveness that exists at the core of each of us.  Fragrance of the Lotus, the Immersion, and the men and women who will travel along with you, represent a tremendous step toward knowing yourself by experiencing Tantra deeply, intimately, with no limits or boundaries.  
 
I invite you to take the leap. 
 
Fragrance of the Lotus . Module 1
Ojai . California 
May 23rd - June 1st . 2014
 
Fragrance of the Lotus . Module 2
Wicklow . Ireland 
October 17th - 26th . 2014
 
Fragrance of the Lotus . Module 3
Pune . India  
June 12th - 21st . Amavasya . 2015
 
Fragrance of the Lotus . Module 4
Ojai . California
October 9th - 18th . Amavasya . 2015
 
Dawn Cartwright
Your Instructor
 
Dawn Cartwright is a Tantric visionary, sacred writer, world traveler, and innovator in bio-energetic Tantra fusion. She discovered the path of Tantra by accident shortly after a period of life-changing mystical experiences in lovemaking more than twenty years ago.   Dawn’s study and research is focused on the ancient and modern forms of Tantra, bio-energetics, and the actualization of human potential through sexuality.  
 
Dawn received her degree in psychology from the University of California, Davis, and has had extensive training in Tantra, Yoga, Sexuality, Bioenergetics, Meditation, and Expressionistic Movement & Art. She has studied many schools of Tantra including Neo-Tantra, Shaktism, Kashmirian Shivaic Tantrism, Vaishnavism, Tantric Buddhism, Tantric Kriya Yoga and the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra. Dawn has had the honor of receiving these transmissions from some of the most acclaimed Tantric masters of modern times, Aditi Devi Ma, Christopher Tompkins, Vajra Ma, Margo Anand, Daniel Odier, Bohdi Avinasha, and Osho.
 
Founder of the Chandra Bindu Tantra Institute in Santa Monica, California. You can also find Dawn on Facebook and Twitter. You can read Dawn’s blog on Elephant Journal. Dawn lives in Santa Monica, California. 
Chandra Bindu Tantra Institute • 2524 5th Street #3 • Santa Monica • CA • 90405
http://www.chandrabindutantrainstitute.com
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