Take part in Awakened Sensuality: Relationship as a Path of Liberation September 17 to 22, 2010, led by Shiva Rea and Lama Tsultrim Allione at Tara Mandala in Colorado.

The successful bidder will attend this program, designed for singles and couples, featuring the extraordinary partnership of two renowned leaders in contemporary spirituality. Shiva Rea and Lama Tsultrim will teach sacred sensuality through Tantric Yoga and meditation. This retreat explores the union of skillful means, the masculine, and wisdom, the feminine, as the heart of the mandala, inspiring bliss and emptiness, through moving deeper into intimacy by connecting with the subtle body.

Centuries of disconnected sensuality has resulted in sexual experience dominated by habit, desire and fear of deep intimacy. Tantra is continuity of awareness, and works with all the senses to wake up and create a non-dual relationship with the phenomenal world. Whether one is solo or with a partner, Lama Tsultrim will initiate us into the exquisite Yab-Yum mandala through inner consort practice within the matrix of the five Buddha families. Shiva Rea and Demetri Velisakis will offer ways of embodying the primordial union of Yab-Yum in natural and sublime forms of yoga sadhana. Participants will experience an embodied connection to their sexual energy as the creative force of union within themselves, their partner, and the world.

Day two will include the Global Mala Ritual, uniting the global yoga community in a collaborative practice for peace.

Shiva Rea, M.A. is a yogini firekeeper, sacred activist, and leading innovator in the evolution of vinyasa flow yoga integrating the tantric bhakti roots of yoga.

Lama Tsultrim Allione, author and international teacher, founded Tara Mandala in 1994 where she now acts as spiritual director and resident teacher. She was one of the first American women to be ordained as a Tibetan nun in 1970 by the 16th Karmapa. Lama Tsultrim is the author of Women of Wisdom and Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict, (2008, Little Brown & Co.) a system for transforming our inner demons by nurturing rather than fighting them.