Embodied Awakening: 5 Day Non Residential Retreat
Grounding in Your Being & Anchoring Your Felt Sense Of Connection
20 - 24th January 2025
Gaia Space de Luz, Gaia, Porto, Portugal
(The Venue is 30 mins from Porto Airport)
Enrol now - From Є450
Price does no include food or accommodation
Teacher: Julian Marcus
5 Day Program
Day 1 - Monday 20th - Grounding in Being
Silence & Meditation - Discovering your inherent peace, clarity and fullness
Daily Practices of:
Vocal Tai Chi
Guided Meditations
Chi Gong
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Day 2 - Tuesday 21st - The Sacred Dance of Polarity
Presentation & Contemplations
Consent, embodiment and confidentiality
Evening Circles of mental, emotional and physical exploration of feminine and masculine
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Day 3 - Wednesday 22nd Exploring Being-Centred Relating
4 Stages of Relating & Transformation Through Intimacy
Me-centred, We-centred codependent & co-independent, Being-centred
The Bliss/Pleasure Triangle
Evening: Wheel of consent games
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Day 4 - Thursday 23rd Erotic Embodiment
Making Love With Life & Sexual yoga
Healing love practices, ovarian, testicular breathing and sexual alchemy
Active Receiving Touch
3 Circles Ritual
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Day 5 - Friday 24th Integration Day
Harvesting Experience + Integration & Installation
Day 1 - Monday 20th - Grounding in Being
Silence & Meditation - Discovering your inherent peace, clarity and fullness
Daily Practices of:
Vocal Tai Chi
Guided Meditations
Chi Gong
________
Day 2 - Tuesday 21st - The Sacred Dance of Polarity
Presentation & Contemplations
Consent, embodiment and confidentiality
Evening Circles of mental, emotional and physical exploration of feminine and masculine
_________
Day 3 - Wednesday 22nd Exploring Being-Centred Relating
4 Stages of Relating & Transformation Through Intimacy
Me-centred, We-centred codependent & co-independent, Being-centred
The Bliss/Pleasure Triangle
Evening: Wheel of consent games
__________
Day 4 - Thursday 23rd Erotic Embodiment
Making Love With Life & Sexual yoga
Healing love practices, ovarian, testicular breathing and sexual alchemy
Active Receiving Touch
3 Circles Ritual
___________
Day 5 - Friday 24th Integration Day
Harvesting Experience + Integration & Installation
Location Details For the retreat
Our home for the 5 days includes:
- Group Retreat Space
- 9 wooden cabins with 2 single beds
- 2 wooden cabins with kitchenette, double bed, bathroom
- 1 wooden cabins with 1 double and 1 single bed
- 1 tipi (2 single beds)
- Kitchen with dining area
- 2 shower buildings with toilets (6 showers, 5 wc)
- Outdoor Qi Gong / Yoga Decks
- Temple of the Trees (approx. 18 m²)
- Outdoor Swimming pool
- Space for camping
Details & Inclusive Prices for the retreat
From €1050 per person, early bird price, for the 5 days, including cabin accommodation, full retreat program and food.
This is also the price for Portuguese wage earners.
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT before Feb 10th:
Camping / Camper van €1150
Single bed in 2 person cabin €1250
Friends / Couple in double or twin bed cabin €1500
A further €25 discount per person for 2+ reservations
Price Distribution:
Venue: Monte Mariposa €70 per day per person in cabins / €45 per person camping or camper van
Tuition: €100 per day divided 50 and 50 between Pete and Julian
This is also the price for Portuguese wage earners.
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT before Feb 10th:
Camping / Camper van €1150
Single bed in 2 person cabin €1250
Friends / Couple in double or twin bed cabin €1500
A further €25 discount per person for 2+ reservations
Price Distribution:
Venue: Monte Mariposa €70 per day per person in cabins / €45 per person camping or camper van
Tuition: €100 per day divided 50 and 50 between Pete and Julian
- Please pay your non-refundable deposit of €250 per person to secure your place here with reference "Easter Retreat"
Our retreat program will include:
- Foundations of silence and reflection - first day plus morning and evenings
- Community Body Poem™ somatic circle time with body focusing, clean language and waking lucid dream work for group cohesion, container making and intention setting
- Beautiful boundaries - an interoceptive journey into the heart of service and pleasure, rotating embodiment triads of 3 working as witness, receiver and doer.
- Unlocking the hidden power of shame & revealing our greatest gifts with group circle sharing and embodiment triads again.
- Identifying and working with Core erotic theme as the governor of all our relationships
- Touching Wellness - a practical biodaynamic craniosacral touch for healing and deep resource in pairs. Surrendering into the mastery of touch - the principles of "feel and follow".
- Daily Meditation & Chi Kung practice varying styles from internal sexual alchemy to standing and dynamic forms
- Co-listening Practice + Discussion Groups and talks on the themes at play
This is a 5 day deep dive immersion beginning with a day of deep meditation, breath and bodywork with qi gong to relax, ground and open the body-mind to the inherent peace, clarity and radiance of your being.
Then we'll enter into an exploration of the Art of Sacred Intimacy, a "True Tantra" of Embodied practices and empowered living sourced not in the ego's search for self-fulfilment, but in the authenticity of whole bodily surrender to the our unfolding self-organising principle guiding our life through both poles of suffering or bliss.
Living in tune with our naturalness is the way of this retreat. We'll call forth our full spiritual essence and power to invoke and embrace the Dance of Shiva and Shakti within and between us. In this dynamic wholeness we'll birth together a crucible of radical acceptance and honesty, in which you are invited, welcomed and supported into your sovereign feeling of wholeness through practices, meditation, silence and self-inquiry. Connect with your full spectrum self and be humbled by the love and authenticity of others.
Then we'll enter into an exploration of the Art of Sacred Intimacy, a "True Tantra" of Embodied practices and empowered living sourced not in the ego's search for self-fulfilment, but in the authenticity of whole bodily surrender to the our unfolding self-organising principle guiding our life through both poles of suffering or bliss.
Living in tune with our naturalness is the way of this retreat. We'll call forth our full spiritual essence and power to invoke and embrace the Dance of Shiva and Shakti within and between us. In this dynamic wholeness we'll birth together a crucible of radical acceptance and honesty, in which you are invited, welcomed and supported into your sovereign feeling of wholeness through practices, meditation, silence and self-inquiry. Connect with your full spectrum self and be humbled by the love and authenticity of others.
Do you long to transform your emotional-sexual relationship into an alchemical crucible for spiritual growth - a space to soften the grip of ego and experience your true nature as a continuum of Love?
Are you weary of the postmodern merging of the potency of fully embodied and expressed masculine and feminine? We are not talking about male / female here but the deeper living expression of universal principles of polarity.
Do you long to awaken, recover, reconfigure and embody your full potential as Shiva (the masculine) or as Shakti (the feminine) such that you can access the full spectrum of human intelligence and capacity?
Do you intuit that there is a mystical undercurrent within the play of erotic attraction that transcends (and includes) both the biological urge of procreation and the pleasure-seeking of endless desire?
If you say yes then we invite you to come and relax, release and play in the realms of yogic intimacy. We'll provide a safe container of loving awareness to explore and embrace the heart-opening and heartbreaking practice of dissolving the conditioned patterning that binds and limits our expression of natural ecstasy.
Are you weary of the postmodern merging of the potency of fully embodied and expressed masculine and feminine? We are not talking about male / female here but the deeper living expression of universal principles of polarity.
Do you long to awaken, recover, reconfigure and embody your full potential as Shiva (the masculine) or as Shakti (the feminine) such that you can access the full spectrum of human intelligence and capacity?
Do you intuit that there is a mystical undercurrent within the play of erotic attraction that transcends (and includes) both the biological urge of procreation and the pleasure-seeking of endless desire?
If you say yes then we invite you to come and relax, release and play in the realms of yogic intimacy. We'll provide a safe container of loving awareness to explore and embrace the heart-opening and heartbreaking practice of dissolving the conditioned patterning that binds and limits our expression of natural ecstasy.
Retreat Team
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Peter Bampton
Retreat Leader, Mentor, Meditation & Qi Gong Teacher
Peter has lived 4 decades of deep meditation, penetrating inquiry and innovative, trailblazing spiritual community with meditation, self-enquiry and deep devotional practice. His passion and focus is the individual and collective remembrance and embodiment of the sacred fire of the human heart.
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Julian Marcus
Retreat Leader, Relational Bodywork Educator, Mentor, Qi Gong Teacher
As a passionate and enthusiastic proponent of human evolution and integration he brings two decades of training and teaching experience of both traditional practices and modern day health sciences. In this retreat Julian will bring an series embodied explorations on the theme of divine polarity to serve you to harness and harvest their fruits in service of a more fulfilling life.
Book Your Place
7 days of deep relaxation, re-set, renewal and deeply soulful growth
We bring you a container of silence, community, meditation, embodied breath and relaxation practice, together with somatics, touch and Body Poem.
Optional massage, one to one yoga, sound journeys or embodiment coaching available upon request at the time of booking.