FAQ's about The Journeys in General
This is a guided space where the team intends and desires to support you on your journey with presence and care. We create and hold a safer brave space; key team members are trauma-sensitive-informed. However, the nature and sensitivity of working with Energy and sexuality can bring forward challenges for some individuals. While we take our role as guides with full recognition of our responsibilities, those who join this journey require a degree of self-awareness and self-responsibility.
The team consists of a Lead Facilitator (Elaine Yonge), an Organiser and a team of suitability experienced and skilled Assistants. Some retreats may also have additional Support/Assistants Facilitators or Guest Facilitators.
This container will be supported by a set of group agreements which we will co-create on our first day together. An example of these agreements can be found here. You are welcomed, supported and held in your authentic truth. It is the highest intention of the team to create a space and journey that is inclusive of diversity and capacity, with regards to sexual orientation, age, gender, religion, ethnicity, those with physical impairments and or limitations.
Please be aware that venues where The Journeys take place are not amended specifically for people with physical challenges or mobility issues. If you are in doubt whether your health situation makes this Journey possible for you on this location, please contact the organisers.
Each Journey will include both a consent-boundaries session and an emotional express-release session for all those attending, regardless of your previous training or experience with such skills.
You are free to choose how you engage in this Journey. Please know you will be welcomed, supported and held in your authentic truth throughout this week-long exploration.
We ask that you attend all the sessions unless there is a valid reason you are unable to join a session. The choice to join this journey is a commitment to the process. This is not a retreat where you can pick and choose which sessions you would like to join. The reason for this is that the process is a sequential journey and missing one part may affect your capacity to continue. You are, of course, supported to take care of your own needs. All rituals and practices are an invitation for you and at all times, you are free to find your own way and pace to answer this invitation.
Practices are sufficiently explained in advance by the Facilitator or Assistants, to allow you to consider whether you want to participate and to agree on your boundaries. At the start of every practice, which includes sharing an experience with another person or persons, time will be given to make agreements and discuss boundaries.
We encourage freedom of choice in participation, both at the start of a session and during. If you request support or have questions regarding the experience, we will do our best to support you in deciding whether or not the experience is for you at this time. However we will never push or pressure you to take part in any activity that is a no for you. You are free to step out of an experience at any time. Again; we may offer you support at that moment if you desire it. There will be no explanation required from your part.
You are never required to share a practice with a particular person. At times the group will choose their own partners. At other times the team may create dyads or small groups to share experiences. You are always free to choose not to share experiences with individuals who you not feel aligned with. There will always be a possibility of not participating in the practice in such a case.
You are encouraged to modify exercises if your physical (or other) capabilities require it.
If you do not want to participate in a practice, you are welcome to stay in the room and depending on the nature of the practice, you can do this solo, be in your own space, in meditation or observe the session. If you wish to leave the space, we ask that you check in with or inform a team member before doing so.
A Journey is a deep, intimate and potentially intense week. While you do not need any previous experience with similar retreats or sessions to join this retreat, it may be more challenging if this is your first experience of this nature. Suitability depends on the human being you are. If you are very comfortable jumping into new kinds of experiences, this may be an appropriate opening to your exploration. If you are more of a slow and gradual type of human, you may want to attend some similar evening or day workshops to find out whether you feel like spending an entire week in the kind of space and process. There is no judgement regarding your preferred way to learn and expand. Awareness of what works for you is the key.
While acknowledging the above, please know that all the essential information, skills and knowledge you require will be shared during this week, as we move through the Journey.
Some individuals may join this journey with no previous experience and find themselves fully able to dive into the process and group space. Others may find it challenging to be in a space that dives deeply into sensitive topics and practices with no prior experience in this kind of space. Therefore it can be beneficial to your journey if you have attended other retreats based on meditation, consent and boundaries, sacred/conscious sexuality, tantra or shamanism. This retreat often compliments and deepens those experiences and skills. Don't hesitate to contact us if you need further guidance.
Please know you will be welcomed, supported and held in your authentic truth throughout this week-long exploration. We ask that you attend all the sessions unless there is a valid reason you are unable to join a session. The choice to join this journey is a commitment to the process. This is not a retreat where you can pick and choose which sessions you would like to join. The reason for this is that the process is a sequential journey and missing one part may affect your capacity to continue. You are, of course, supported to take care of your own needs. All rituals and practices are an invitation for you and at all times, you are free to find your own way and pace to answer this invitation. We encourage freedom of choice in participation, both at the start of a session and during. If you request support or have questions regarding the experience, we will do our best to support you in deciding whether or not the experience is for you at this time. You will never be pushed or pressured to take part in any activity that is a no for you. You are free to step out of an experience at any time. Again we may offer you support at that moment if you desire it; there will be no explanation required from you.
If you do not want to participate in a certain practice, you are welcome to stay in the room and dependent on practice you can do this solo. If you wish to leave the space, we ask that you check in with or inform a team member before doing so. Practices are sufficiently explained in advance by the Facilitators or Assistants, to allow you to consider whether you want to participate and to agree on your boundaries. You are encouraged to modify exercises if your physical (or other) capabilities require it. At the start of every practice that will include sharing an experience with another person/persons, time will be given to make agreements and discuss boundaries.
You are never required to share a practice with a particular person. At times the group will choose their own partners. At other times the team may create dyads or small groups to share experiences. Participants are always free to choose not to share experiences with individuals who do not align with them. There will always be a possibility of not participating in the practice in such a case.
Each Journey has an application proces. Have you read all the FAQ's and do you feel the call to join? Step 1. Pay the deposit of 500,- via this page. Step 2. After receiving your deposit, we will send you the Application Form.
It invites you to reflect on your deeper motivations for participating: You will be asked to answer 7 in-depth questions and upload a short informal video of yourself (max 3 minutes).
Step 3.
After approving your application, you will receive the Welcome Letter with all practical information about The Journey.
In case we feel this Journey is not the right match for you at this moment, we will let you know within one week and return the deposit you have paid.
FAQ's The Shamanic Breathwork Journey
This Journey is for individuals, couples, triads of all genders, sexual orientations and relationship statuses.
You have a desire for more understanding of and connection to your deeper inner wisdom.
You are keen to be part of a group process.
You are comfortable with - or open to exploring - spaces where there may be loud music, voices and expressions, sensitive and powerful emotional shares, possible nudity and sexual expression in a group space.
You are comfortable with - or are open to - exploring a group space that is sex-positive, body positive, welcomes vulnerable shares and gives permission for the expression of emotions.
You want to learn and experience a new practice, deepen your breathwork practice to express, release energies and emotions from your past.
You have a desire to Retrieve, Reclaim & Integrate precious parts of yourself and your soul that you have forgotten or have become disconnected from.
You are a curious adventurer.
Your physical, mental and emotional health are ready for this experience at this time. (Please read our Extended note on Health & Trauma).
You have significant unresolved trauma in your physical, mental or emotional body: The retreat is not designed as an alternative to therapy or medical treatment. This journey can be challenging as well as rewarding. Please read our Extended note on Health & Trauma if any of above are true for you. This should support you to make an informed choice. If you doubt this journey is suitable for you and would like a reflection, please send us an email.
You believe you may need one-to-one breathwork support at this time.
You do not enjoy being part of a group process and are not open to seeing this as a gift.
You are not comfortable with the possibility of nudity in the group space.
You are not comfortable, familiar with- or open to- exploring spaces with optional loud music and/or emotional expression.
Your primary motivation for attending this retreat is to create connections and have experiences with others, rather than focusing on your own experience.
This Journey is suitable for you, whether single or in a relationship, including those of all genders and all sexual orientations. Most people take this Journey as individuals and each group usually has a few couples who join.
A Note for Couples: If both of you wish to attend, you can decide to work with your partner only, or choose to work with others for all or some of the practices. The Energy Journey can be a powerful container for couples to regain their relationship with Energy as individuals and as part of their relationship. Please note if you are attending as a couple, it can be of benefit if you have both undertaken this type of experience or retreat before, separately or together. The reason for this is that when you join as a couple you are not only taking your individual journey; you are taking your relationship on a journey of its own. While being on the journey with your partner brings additional gifts to attending as an individual, it does give you another dimension of experience to hold alongside your own experience. Experience has shown that it can be challenging for both if one member of the couple is attending to please the other. It is essential that you both want to be part of this experience. It is important that you have good communication skills to navigate challenges that may arise.
Please be clear this is not a couples retreat or couples therapy journey. If you attend as a couple, we will support you as much as possible, given the group setting, to move through the process with care for your relationship. Extra caution is advised if one member of the couple has a significant history of trauma; the other may feel obliged to focus on supporting their partner rather than focusing on their own Journey.
Shamanic Breathwork involves cyclical breathing, chakra-attuned music, focused energy-work, bodywork, artistic expression and community sharing.
Shamanic Breathwork is a potent modality for clearing, reclamation, healing and letting go of whatever is no longer working in your life. Awakening access to more of your authentic self and your inner wisdom beyond and beneath the ego.
Shamanic Breathwork provides individuals with a lovingly held container where they can experience the healing transformations that unfold during altered states of consciousness.
Shamanic Breathwork is a powerful transformational journey that inspires individuals to Awaken the Shaman within and reconnect with their own inner shaman.
Shamanic Breathwork honours and blends the timeless wisdom of ancient traditions, with the emerging new paradigm methods of healing. It functions as the rainbow bridge between these two worlds, honouring the best of both worlds.
Shamanic Breathwork is highly experiential. The wisdom and healing gained comes from each individual’s inner experience.
Shamanic Breathwork was created by the founder Linda Star Wolf in 1996. To read more about Star Wolf and the evolution of Shamanic Breathwork see the FAQ below or visit www.shamanicbreathwork.org
Shamanic Breathwork allows you to travel deep into your own psyche, witness and heal deep inner wounds, release past trauma, let go of that which no longer serves you and gain inspiration, vision, clarity and guidance as to your true path.
As old wounds and dysfunctional patterns are released and transformed, you begin to regain lost soul parts and remember the magic of who you truly are. Empowerment brings wholeness and healing back into your live, to the lives of those you love and to the world at large.
The gifts of Shamanic Breathwork can manifest and benefit you in general life, in business and relationships, by allowing you to harness a greater connection to your intuition and to ground self-belief and self-confidence.
You may be simply curious about the process, or you may want to expand your awareness and consciousness.
Shamanic breathwork aids transformation in those of us feeling held back in life by anxiety, feeling stuck, depressed, addicted or in overwhelm. It also provides an opportunity to deeply connect with your creative self and to make lasting shifts in the energetic patterns that you became trapped within throughout your live from childhood, working life or relationships. On the question 'Why Shamanic Breathwork?' Elaine has spoke on an online summit. Here's the video about it:
Re-oxygenates your body
Massages your organs through increased diaphragm movement
Stimulates blood flow to all parts of the body
Improves digestion
Detoxifies your body
Boosts your immune system
Activates your parasympathetic nervous system
Can help manage pain
Reduces anxiety and stress
Supports positive mental health
May help with depression
Releases past trauma
Balances your nervous system
Aides your relaxation and restful sleep
Improves your clarity and focus
Releases you from the past
Helps you feel more connected to yourself and others
Connects you to your higher self, wise elder and inner healer
A Shamanic Breathwork ceremony begins by establishing safe and sacred space through various rituals such as smudging with sage, cedar and sweet grass, while offering prayerful invocations. You lie down and focus on surrendering to your Shaman Within, calling upon that which is most sacred and holy to you, such as spirit guides, power animals, and higher powers.
As drumming begins, journeyers are invited to connect with rhythmic breathing and a chakra-attuned music. A journey varying in length typically from one to two hours. As you use the power of deep connected breathing to create a natural altered dreamlike state, the Ego defences are released and the journey unfolds in a variety of magical ways.
As a co-journeyer you will have an opportunity to be a grounding support and witness for another person in their journey. This will always be optional.
The co-journeying experience is at times as powerful as taking your own journey. All individuals in the group will be held in the journey by Certified Shamanic Breathwork Facilitators. You will be in no way responsible for the journey of your co-journeyer. It can be a deep gift to support, witness and hold space for another human in their power and vulnerability.
Each person’s Shamanic Breathwork session is a highly individualised process and no two are ever the same.
Some of the states of consciousness reported range from divine, otherworldly bliss states to the struggle to be released from negative forces in the psyche. Rebirthing is a common occurrence, as is the life review where one relives or observes their lifetime experiences. Old patterns of dysfunction may be brought to the surface. Addictions are sometimes transformed during this process, as feelings such as grief, fear, rage and anxiety are released.
Venus Rising and the Shamanic Breathwork Process was created by Linda Star Wolf in 1996. For more than 30 years Star Wolf has continued to study the lineages of: Integrative Breathwork, created by Jacquelyn Small Holotropic Breathwork, created by Stanislav Grof Rebirthing Breathwork, created by Leonard Orr along with many other forms of altered states breathing/healing techniques. Star Wolf also received a variety of teachings and transmissions of Wolf Clan Wisdom Teachings directly from Yeh-Weh-Node, Twylah Nitsch, her adopted Wolf Clan Grandmother. The Shamanic Breathwork Process draws upon each of these lineages, as well as other Ancient Shamanic Mystery School teachings.
Star Wolf 's personal and professional experience in the fields of psychological counselling and addictions for more than 30 years, created a solid foundation and safe container for the integration of Shamanic Breathwork and Shamanic Psycho-Spiritual principles.
To read more about Starwolf, Shamanic Breathwork and Venus Rising: https://www.shamanicbreathwork.org
Venus Rising’s Shamanic Breathwork Facilitators have undergone this process many times in the course of their training and are loving guides for the participant’s journey. The process may require the Shamanic Breathwork Facilitator’s skills and attention; a variety of Shamanic-Psycho-Spiritual tools may be employed to assist the participant. Some of the most commonly used methods are Bodywork, Shamanic Reiki (energy work), Soul Return, and Extractions.
The most powerful healing tool our SBW Facilitators bring to the person breathing is their open, loving hearts and minds, with a willingness to support and travel with the journeyer wherever they may need to go. This is the essence of what Shamanic Breathwork is all about. Describing the process really does not do it justice. One must experience this powerful shamanic journey and its transformation directly.
FAQ's about Master Your Pleasure
Master Your Pleasure welcomes individuals, couples and triads of all genders, sexual orientations and relationship statuses.
You have a desire for more Pleasure in your life.
You may find it difficult or impossible to experience Pleasure without some external stimulus, another person, toys or imagery.
You may be missing Pleasure in certain parts of your life. For example; your mind may be a place with plenty of Pleasure, but you may be lacking it in your body or vice versa.
You are aware of addictive patterns around how you experience Pleasure.
You have a sense that you do not allow yourself to experience Pleasure.
You have a sense that there is more Pleasure possible.
You have access to a good level of Pleasure, but you want to experience the maximum Pleasure possible for yourself in this life, in this body.
You are afraid of Pleasure, or you feel guilty about experiencing Pleasure.
You may be skilled at supporting others to experience Pleasure but struggle to allow yourself to receive Pleasure fully.
You are a curious adventurer.
You have a pattern of putting the needs of others above your own needs.
You may have healed and moved on from many of your life challenges and you are no longer in pain or suffering, but you sense that you are still disconnected on some level from your full Pleasure capacity. Expansive, ecstatic bliss remains elusive for you.
You are trapped in pain or suffering and learning to experience Pleasure could be healing for you.
You LOVE newer, different subtleties of Pleasure.
You are keen to be part of a group process.
You are comfortable with - or open to exploring spaces where there may be loud music, voices and expressions, sensitive and powerful emotional shares, possible nudity and sexual expression in a group space.
You are open to sharing experiences with others as part of this Journey if that feels right for you. However, you clearly understand the purpose and that connection with others is not the primary focus of this Journey.
You are comfortable with - or are open to exploring a group space that is sex-positive, body positive, welcomes vulnerable shares and gives permission for the expression of emotions.
You have significant unresolved trauma in your physical, mental or emotional body:
The training is not designed as an alternative to therapy or medical treatment. This Journey can be challenging as well as rewarding. Please read our Extended Note on (Mental-) Health & Trauma, if any of above are true for you. This should support you to make an informed choice.
You believe you may need one-to-one support with your Pleasure at this time.
You do not enjoy being part of a group process and are not open to seeing this as a gift.
You are not comfortable, familiar with - or open to exploring spaces with loud music, noise and/or emotional expression.
Your primary motivation for attending this retreat is to create connections and have experiences with others rather than explore your own body and Pleasure.
This Journey is suitable for you, whether single or in a relationship, including those of all genders and all sexual orientations. Most people take this Journey as individuals and each group usually has a few couples who join.
A Note for Couples: If both of you wish to attend, you can decide to work with your partner only, or choose to work with others for all or some of the practices. Master Your Pleasure can be a powerful container for couples to regain their relationship with Pleasure as individuals and as part of their relationship. Please note if you are attending as a couple, it can be of benefit if you have both undertaken this type of experience or retreat before, separately or together. The reason for this is that when you join as a couple you are not only taking your individual journey, you are taking your relationship on a journey of its own. While being on the journey with your partner brings additional gifts to attending as an individual, it does give you another dimension of experience to hold alongside your own experience. Experience has shown that it can be challenging for both if one member of the couple is attending to please the other. It is essential that you both want to be part of this experience. It is important that you have good communication skills to navigate challenges that may arise.
Please be clear; this is not a couples retreat or couples therapy journey. If you attend as a couple, we will support you as much as possible, given the group setting, to move through the process with care for your relationship. Extra caution is advised if one member of the couple has a significant history of Trauma; the other may feel obliged to focus on supporting their partner rather than focusing on their own Journey.
There will be group sessions in the morning, afternoon and most evenings. The offerings will include small groups, larger sharing circles, a series of written and verbal inquiries to track your patterns, a few educational sessions, movement and dancing, individual and group rituals and meditations. The traditions and practices draw from some modern-day specialities like sexological bodywork, conscious communication and consent. Alongside this, we will explore some ancient wise temple arts, including Tantra, Meditation and Shamanism.
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· At the end of this Journey, based on the experience of many beings that went before you, your idea of - and relationship to Pleasure - as well as your capacity to experience Pleasure, will be clearer, deeper, wider, reformed and/or reconnected.
· The week will invite you to expand your current pleasure limit or pleasure ceiling.
· The offerings will support you in learning how to develop your capacity to hold more Pleasure in all its forms and to do this for a longer time.
· You will have gained skills to reconnect to Pleasure when you move away from Pleasure, when something external in life takes you out of it, when you forget, when you shut down or feel fear.
· Our desire for you at the end of this journey is that you take this new reality back into your everyday life, with a more profound reference point in your being and body as to what Pleasure is for you.
· You will understand and appreciate how crucial Pleasure is to your well-being, and therefore you will give it attention and priority.
· You will be more aware of - and may shift entirely - some of your barriers to Pleasure that have limited you in the past. You may discover new pleasures you didn't know you were missing in your life.
· You will be more confident in understanding and speaking out your boundaries, and therefore, you will be more willing to welcome and allow Pleasure to arise.​
An opportunity to fully immerse yourself and be held and guided in a strong, consensual, brave container for 7 days. This container is created with love and care at its core, inviting you to a safer space to feel and transform. This is also a brave space, one that invites to tap into your courage and intention to meet all that may arise.
There will be an invitation to explore many different forms and intensities of Pleasure so that your mind, body and soul can reset, rewire, learn or relearn what Pleasure is for you and how it feels.
In this Journey, your relationship to Pleasure will be explored, questioned and challenged to call in a reset for an expanded capacity on a neurological, cellular, somatic and subconscious level.
This week is intended to support you in increasing your personal pleasure limit or pleasure ceiling. We all have a limit or ceiling, whether we are aware of it or not. The limit is the amount of Pleasure we feel safe to open, receive, hold in our bodies and or we may believe we deserve.
We are born with a wonderfully natural sense of innocence and Pleasure. For many of us, sadly, the experiences we have in life move us away from Pleasure. We may judge Pleasure as wrong, we may be afraid of Pleasure, we may fear, or we may have experienced others judging or disapproving of us when we express Pleasure. Often religion, our family or our culture has imprinted a belief that Pleasure is somehow selfish, indulgent or perhaps even sinful.
Many of us have been punished or shamed for feeling Pleasure. We may even have been trained or have trained ourselves to disconnect from or block out Pleasure entirely from our lives to keep ourselves safe.
We, therefore, need to learn or relearn how to allow, invite, and welcome Pleasure back into our life.
FAQ's about The Energy Journey
The Energy Journey welcomes individuals, couples, and triads of all genders, sexual orientations and relationship statuses.
You wish to be more aware and understand the health &vibrancy of your energy systems.
You desire more understanding of - and access to - your internal energy system and your external field.
You want to learn and practise new skills-techniques to improve, nourish, vitalise and expand your experience of your Energy.
You have a desire and curiosity to explore your Energy, including how your energy meets and interacts with the Energy of others.
You long to feel and experience more sensation in your physical body.
You have a good connection to your energy body and some or a lot of experience in exploring Energy, yet you feel there is more to discover and master.
You are keen to be part of a group process.
You are comfortable with - or open to - exploring spaces where there may be loud music, voices, expressions, sensitive, powerful emotional shares.
You are open to share experiences with others as part of this journey if that feels right for you. However, you clearly understand that connection with others is not the primary focus of this Journey.
You are comfortable with - or are open to - exploring a group space that is sex-positive, body positive, that welcomes individuals to share vulnerably and gives permission for the expression of emotions.
You have significant unresolved trauma in your physical, mental or emotional body:
(The retreat is not designed as an alternative to therapy or medical treatment. This journey can be challenging as well as rewarding. Please read our Extended note on (Mental-) Health&Trauma, if the above is true for you. This should support you to make an informed choice.)
You believe you may need one-to-one support with your Energy at this time.
You do not enjoy being part of a group process and are not open to seeing this as a gift.
You are not comfortable, familiar with or open to exploring spaces with optional loud music/noise and emotional expression.
Your primary motivation for attending this retreat is to create connections and have experiences with others rather than explore your own Energy.
You have significant fears or concerns regarding consciously and intentionally harnessing the power of your own Energy and/or that of others.
You have concerns that other people's negative' Energy can affect and potentially harm you.
This Journey is suitable for you, whether single or in a relationship, including those of all genders and all sexual orientations. Most people take this Journey as individuals and each group usually has a few couples who join.
A Note for Couples: If both of you wish to attend, you can decide to work with your partner only, or choose to work with others for all or some of the practices. The Energy Journey can be a powerful container for couples to regain their relationship with Energy as individuals and as part of their relationship. Please note if you are attending as a couple, it can be of benefit if you have both undertaken this type of experience or retreat before, separately or together. The reason for this is that when you join as a couple you are not only taking your individual journey; you are taking your relationship on a journey of its own. While being on the journey with your partner brings additional gifts to attending as an individual, it does give you another dimension of experience to hold alongside your own experience. Experience has shown that it can be challenging for both if one member of the couple is attending to please the other. It is essential that you both want to be part of this experience. It is important that you have good communication skills to navigate challenges that may arise.
Please be clear this is not a couples retreat or couples therapy journey. If you attend as a couple, we will support you as much as possible, given the group setting, to move through the process with care for your relationship. Extra caution is advised if one member of the couple has a significant history of trauma; the other may feel obliged to focus on supporting their partner rather than focusing on their own Journey.
Chi, which flows through the internal and external energy channels and fields is a key component to many aspects of our health and well-being. They may also influence a sense of safety in the human body, connectedness to others to our environment and provide a sense of flow, combat stagnation in the physical body, thought forms etc.
Often in modern life, we expend and waste vast amounts of our precious Energy without awareness or acknowledgement that we are doing so. We often run low on energy fuel and we do not often fill up with the equivalent, balancing amount. Therefore many of us as human beings exist in an energy deficit.
In addition; when life challenges us this can create restrictions to flow through and to the interconnectedness of our energy channels. As a result, there can be a lack of awareness that we are living with a disjointed or disconnected energy body. Another crucial piece to this energy-body-awareness puzzle is the presence or absence of interconnectedness, integration, interdependence, and cohesiveness between the parts of us that are consciousness, spirit, matter and Energy.
In more traditional ancient methodologies, our Energy's health and vibrancy are often considered even more vital than our physical body. Ultimately, the quality and vibration of the Energy is believed to influence and affect the state of the matter strongly.
Therefore taking action to clear, activate, reset and rewire our energy system itself, building a stronger connection to our physical-spiritual bodies, is such an empowering action to choose - as it is often ignored, neglected, forgotten or is outside of our awareness.
For the purpose of our Journey, Energy is Life Force - Chi
"Chi/Qi/Ki" can be described as Universal Energy, vital life force energy or simply Energy. Everything in creation consists of Energy vibrating at different frequencies. In living beings, Energy flows not only from physical nourishment but through the body in pathways known as meridians and in energy centres called chakras.
Life Force (Chi) & Sexual Energy
Are they the same or different channels? Depending on who you ask, the answer will undoubtedly vary. We will explore this for ourselves in our time together.
Excerpt From The Science of Human Energy Fields
Energetics Institute, Richard Boyd, 2023
"The concept of the existence of a human energy field and energy medicine can be found in eastern cultures such as Indian Vedic scripts, Tibetan Buddhist, and Chinese medical systems, in varying forms, stemming back thousands of years.
In the West, there is evidence from archaeologists, sociologists, psychologists such as Carl Jung, and researchers of mythology such as Joseph Campbell, and Eirec Mirce, that all traditional cultures had a belief in the role of Energy as part of their universe or cosmology. There is a relationship that can be observed between emotion and Energy, and this is looked at through The Science of Human Energy Fields."
If you would like to read some articles on the Energy Body or Human Energy Field?
https://www.energeticsinstitute.com.au/articles/science-of-human-energy-fields/
Richard Boyd 2023
https://scientificandmedical.net/the-human-energy-field/
Richard Irwin 2016
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095754818300358
Journal of Traditional Chinese Medical Sciences Tianjun Liu 2018
Some of the forms of Energy/Life force The Energy Journey will be exploring:
Thermal Energy
Chemical and Bio-Chemical Energy
Bioelectrical Energy (body electric energy)
Nervous System Activation
Brain Cell & Brain Function
Organ Energy
Organ Interaction heart-brain-gut-genital Energy
Aura Layers
Sensual and Sexual Energy
Instinctual Defensive & Fear Energy
Expansion & Contraction Energy
There will be group sessions in the morning, afternoon and most evenings. The offerings will include small groups, larger sharing circles, a series of written and verbal inquiries to track your patterns, a few educational sessions, movement and dancing, individual practices, group rituals and meditations. The traditions and practices draw from traditional and alternative approaches to humans as Energy fields. We will consider the views of mainstream science and medicine alongside the ancient temple arts, including Chinese Medicine, Taoist knowledge, Tantra, Meditation and Shamanic transmissions on the human energy systems.
An opportunity to fully immerse yourself and be held and guided in a strong, consensual, brave container for 7 days. This container is created with love and care at its core, inviting you to a safer space to feel and transform. This is a brave space; one that invites you to tap into your courage and intention to meet all that may arise.
There will be an invitation to explore many different forms and intensities of Energy, so that your internal energy channels and an external energy field are in greater connection to your awareness, your physical body and your intention. This can support an energy reset, rewire expansion and integration.
In this journey, your relationship to your own Energy and the Energy of others will be explored, questioned and challenged, to call in a reset for an expanded capacity within your neurological, cellular, somatic, soul and brain systems.
At its most simple explanation, we have lost touch with this part of ourselves in the developed world. There remains a greater connection to our human energy systems in more indigenous cultures and communities than in modern mainstream society. These cultures often have a greater awareness of and connectedness to your intuition. Which is in some ways, another energetic function and pathway closely related to the human potential of psychic Energy and capabilities. Many overt and covert messages have taught many of us not to value or trust the part of us that is energetic; giving more weight and validity to the physical and mental aspects of ourselves.
There can also be some fear around our own Energy and the Energy of others. 'Hocus Pocus and Magic’ have been brought into the realms of the fairytale, or are perceived as potentially sinful, perhaps dangerous elements of life to engage with.
The thread of how humans are disempowered by disconnecting them from their personal and collective power, is not only seen in the attitude to humans as energy beings: It is very apparent in how society, some organisations and individuals view sexual Energy, which is another of human superpower.
Some would say the systems that desire us to be obedient and competent citizens in the large cog of the working wheel of the world, deliberately and systematically have disconnected humans from the knowledge, understanding and trust of our energy and sexual energy practices. There has been distrust, shaming, wronging, hiding and exploiting these very natural aspects of being a human being.
Much of our energetic interaction, connections and exchanges are not within our conscious awareness and are therefore often - and sadly non-consensual - both in terms of our own boundaries and those of others. Until that is, we choose to shine the light of awareness and intention, onto the behaviour and actions of our energy body and develop skills, to consciously engage our energy from a place of intention and choice.