« Back to Newsletter Home

Riding the Wave of Bliss - Exploring
the Mystical Dimensions of Tantra
(Combines Love & Ecstasy Training Cycle 3
with other advanced teachings & practices)
With Margot Anand & Michael Pooley

When:    April 10th – 17th, 2006
Where:  Harbin Hot Springs, Northern CA
Register: Contact The Institute for Ecstatic Living
at 877-982-6872 or 707-987-3456, email info@ecstaticliving.com, or visit www.ecstaticliving.com.

Join best-selling author and world-renowned Tantra expert Margot Anand and SkyDancing Tantra® teacher Michael Pooley for this powerful and practical weeklong intensive. During this amazing 7-day training, you will explore the art of transforming sexual and orgasmic energy into a blissful meditation — from which you can open energetic and spiritual pathways into higher states of consciousness. Specifically, you will learn the “crown jewel” of the SkyDancing Tantra path, called Riding the Wave of Bliss, which is the core practice in Cycle 3 of Margot Anand’s Love and Ecstasy Training™ (LET). In addition, this week includes teachings on the chakras (your body's energy centers); pranayama (breath control); mantras (sacred words) and sacred sound (chanting, singing, bells, bowls, and more); yantras and mandalas (sacred symbols and visualizations), mudras (hand positions for meditation), nine Tantric deities (buddhas, dakinis, bodhisattvas, and other divine archetypes); yoga asanas (physical postures)... and more.

At this one-of-a-kind training, you will also receive a special energy transmission from Margot to empower your spiritual awakening by activating your sixth and seventh chakras. This transmission is designed to open you to your highest self, so that you can realize and align with your truth, purpose, and capacity to love. In addition, the week includes a very special Saturday evening Puja (sacred ritual) devoted to unifying the divine aspects of the feminine (Goddess) and masculine (God) within yourself and with another.

Some of the specific practices we will explore during this week include:

• The 7 Steps of The Wave of Bliss, which teaches you to harmonize breath, movement, sound, and heart within yourself and with your partner
• Powerful healing mantras to purify your spirit
• The Hindu tantric approach of the Bija mantras, the magic sounds that awaken the radiance of our chakras
• Sacred visualizations of the divine archetypes during tantric practice to enable SkyDancing practitioners to successfully "Ride the Wave of Bliss" together and alone
• A new form of Yoga to open our inner channels and feel vital and powerful
• Exploring lovemaking positions as a form of yoga, understanding each one’s specific powers and qualities

Orginally just for participants of Cycles 1 & 2 of Margot Anand’s Love & Ecstasy Training™, this program is now also open to those who are “ready” to receive such advance teachings, i.e., those who have attended SkyDancing trainings with Margot, Steve & Lokita Carter, Michael Pooley, or Marilynne Chophel (all Certified SkyDancing Tantra® Teachers) and/or those with relevant tantra experience. Call us for more details.

NOTE: Margot has just returned from India where she received initiation and empowerment to transmit the blessings of Amma and Bhagavan, the “two foremost spiritual activists on the planet today,” as she calls them. Margot is excited that Amma and Bhagavan have a plan and are working for planetary awakening by 2012; this plan begins with a special energy transmission, called “Deeksha,” to accelerate awakening. Margot, through her Tantric Energy work using music, mantras, movement and visualization, will help you to receive  this transmission experience at a very deep level. You will be able to see, feel, and experience the Presence of Being and recognize it in everything around you. This is the realm of light and the depth of SkyDancing Tantra!

After you have received this transmission and blessing, it becomes easier to connect deeply with your essence (spaciousness) with a partner, and then you will begin to master what Margot Anand calls "the art of disappearing into each other.’ This is an initiation into the emptiness of pure consciousness, riding on waves of energy as you and your partner move beyond time and space. This is the sacred work that the Tibetans used to practice after years of meditation and purification. We approach this work with deep reverence, for it is truly a mysterious and wondrous gateway to awakening.

Preparing For This Training
In preparation for this training, you will be required to watch “Margot Anand’s Secret Keys to the Ultimate Love Life,” Margot’s new educational DVD that provides a step-by-step progression through the core practices of Margot’s Love & Ecstasy Training. This 3-disk DVD set is currently available online, or by calling 1 800 6171505.

About Margot Anand
Margot Anand is the world's foremost authority on Tantra, best-selling author, and much-beloved teacher and workshop leader. Margot's books, videos, CDs & DVDs are widely regarded as the seminal teachings for integrating spirituality and sexuality and for cultivating the art of ecstatic living. Margot's teaching style is a rare synthesis of French erotic humor, American pragmatism, and Indian mysticism. She is particularly appreciated for her ability to bring healing, lightness, fun, and passion to the workshop experience. Margot is an adjunct faculty member at Dr. Deepak Chopra's institute and has taught at Dr Dean Ornish's annual retreats for heart patients. She recently presented at the weeklong program "Ultimate Passion" taught by Tony and Sage Robbins in Fiji.

About Michael Pooley
Michael Pooley is co-founder of The Art of Ecstatic Love™ and a Certified SkyDancing Tantra Teacher™. He offers fun, practical workshops and classes, tantric pujas and events, and private sessions focused on cultivating ecstatic awakening and conscious relationship, sexual healing and sacred sexuality, and expanding men's and women's orgasmic potential. Michael's work weaves together decades of study and exploration of Tantra, yoga, meditation, breath, psychology, dance & movement, bodywork, music, self discovery, and the creative process. His teachings and insights are a direct transmission of his passion for and experience with applying Tantra in the bedroom, living room, and board room. Michael is licensed and empowered by Margot Anand (world-renowned Tantra master and best-selling author) to facilitate her SkyDancing Tantra® methods and techniques for healing and transformation. Visit Michael's website at www.ecstaticlove.net.

To Register
For more information or the register, call 877-982-6872 or 707-987-3456, email info@ecstaticliving.com, or visit www.ecstaticliving.com.