Led by Caity Flanagan & Matt Sturm
4 Monday evenings: 7 to 10pm
Jan 14th, 21st, 28th, and Feb 4th
Oakland Venue – guests will be emailed
A Powerful Invitation
Come experience sex as a sacred ritual – one that opens us up for both healing and bliss. Step into deeper devotion and intimate connection with your partner. Let your lovemaking become an act of prayer. This is an advanced experiential course to open you to see divine light within each other, to heal the imbalance between masculine and feminine, to come into expanded states of consciousness, and touch into our vast inter-connectedness with all of life.
Rituals provide a path from our mundane world into an experience of the sacred. The sexual energy that we generate during sexual ritual can be harnessed for our awakening or to powerfully manifest our intentions. Group rituals are even stronger because we direct the synchronized, combined group energy for personal transformation.
Expressing sexuality in a sincere and intentional way in the presence of others is a radical act. It can involve intense internal work, as our shame, guilt, and insecurities come up. And these can be profoundly healing and opening. Thus lovemaking rituals carried out together in a group can be especially powerful on many levels, and they are not to be undertaken lightly. If you’re ready, though, the experience can be indescribably blissful.
Over the course of this month, you’ll be learning about Sex Magic, which is the intentional use of sexual energy to empower our prayers.
We’ve customized each of these Rituals to be supportive and celebratory of your partnership. All of the rituals will focus primarily on your connection with your partner. The energy that you two are generating together is then connecting and contributing to the group field.
This 4-week series of Sex-Magic Rituals will be unlike any party or workshop you’ve ever experienced!
Here’s what to expect
* Experience 4 sacred sexual rituals with your partner
* Learn how to bring ritual into your everyday lovemaking for passion, intimacy, and divinely-hot sex
* Manifest your intentions through sex-magic
* Go deep into healing your wounds and move more into sexual wholeness
You must come with a partner or lover for the duration of the course. Held within the ritualistic container, there will be nudity and sex in the space. You will only be engaging sexually with your partner – the focus of each ritual is on the partners’ experience, which then contributes to the group field. With that in mind, we will be sharing a very intimate space within the group.
Rituals gain potency with secrecy. So I’m only posting the first ritual we’ll be doing on this event page. When you sign up, you’ll receive all the info you need. What I can say is these rituals will include chakra empowerment and awakening, sex magic, transfiguration of divine energies, and deep emotional vulnerability and healing. The foundation of the container we’re creating is safety, consent, and mutual respect.
Ritual #1 – Nyasa
“Nyasa can refer to ritual touching of various parts of the body while saying prayers or mantras. In so doing, you are awakening a quality of the divine and assigning or placing it in that area of the body.”
~Loren Roche, Radiance Sutras
The nyasa ritual that we’ll be performing is a beautiful way to open to the divine in ourselves and to experience the divine in our partner. This ritual is a modern adaptation of an ancient Tantric ceremony. The Sanskrit word, Nyasa, means “to place”. In this ritual, one partner will be emissive – Shiva – and will use visualization, energy, touch, and mantra to awaken the chakras of the receptive partner, Shakti. As the energy is placed, we transfigure the Shaktis into manifestations of the goddess, Lalita.
Lalita Tripura Sundari is the goddess of love, desire, and sacred sexuality. She’s the perfect divine energy to initiate our group:
“Lalita Tripura Sundari (“the charming beauty of the three worlds”) is the form of the goddess who most successfully holds together the apparent opposites of executive power and sexuality, and of sexual and spiritual love. Queenly and playful, she represents a most delicious form of the integrated feminine…Lalita is primarily a Tantric goddess – a mediatrix of the inner realms, a guide through the portals of high stages of samadhi. She is the divine beauty (sundari) who permeates the waking, dream, and deep-sleep states – the tripura, or “three worlds” – as well as the physical, subtle, and causal bodies in which we experience those worlds.
Lalita reveals herself as the inner rapture that rolls through the body when kundalini colonizes the topmost chakras, and also in the rapturous union of intimate partnership. The name Lalita refers to her capacity for erotic play – one manifestation of which is the natural universe itself, which to an awakened eye appears as a dance of sensual love play, fueled by desire.”
~Sally Kempton, Awakening Shakti
Through this ritual, you and your partner will step into the divine energies of Shiva worshipping his consort, Lalita. You’ll feel the power of devotion, awaken your desire, and offer you sexual energy as a gift to the universe!
This is only the first of four rituals – they only get deeper and more powerful from here!
Other Details
** Capacity is limited to 10 couples – we expect to sell out so please reserve your space
** You must attend the 1st and the 4th rituals – it is possible, though not recommended, to miss either #2 or #3
** We have some capacity to offer low-income discounts. Please apply here: https://goo.gl/15aWoA
Facilitated by
Caity Flanagan – Co-Founder of Embodied Erotic. Caity bridges the worlds of love and alchemy together through her practices as a modern day medicine woman. Her combination of tantra, somatic, and shamanic practices allows her to move seamlessly between the physical and mystic worlds in service of body,mind, heart and spirit. She deeply believes that everyone can live a fully embodied and purpose driven life.
Matt Sturm – Co-Founder of Embodied Erotic, sex educator, yoga teacher, and sexual healer. I am following a calling to share the gift of sacred relating with the world. My work integrates sexuality, meditation, yoga, and ritual into the path of spiritual growth. I teach hands-on methods for inhabiting our bodies, connecting with the breath, cultivating deep intimacy, and tuning in to the universal love within us all.