Stage 2 – the Deepening
On completing the Initiation stage of this journey you will have downloaded a new operating system into your consciousness. Many of the tools to bring your personal empowerment will be sitting in your pocket. Whether you use them or not is now up to you…
One way to really bring these more to life is through the Deepening process where the knowledge you have gained becomes digested into your being and emerges as your own wisdom, that can be expressed in your own words.
The deepening process takes you beyond the personal realms and into the unknowable as you undertake a shamanic death of all the conditioning that was given to you from outside and a rebirth as the deeper YOU emerges.
Normally humans move through 2 stages of knowing – the first where you do not know but are not aware of it (as a child); and secondly where you still not really know, but collect knowledge in order to believe that you know (our adult life).
Occasionally one will take a quantum leap beyond the norms and enter into a 3rd stage – where you realise that you cannot really know and that the joy is in the mystery. This retreat is for those called to take a leap beyond the ‘safety nets’ of the mind and let the bliss of existence pour into you.
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Some of Areas Covered in this Training Are:
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Revision of Stage 1 learnings
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The importance of healthy Identity
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Ego Masks
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Psychological aspects and De-conditioning
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Shamanic Death
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Archetypal Group Rituals
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Plant Medicine (Cacao)
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Gifts of the Wound
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Earth Medicine
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The 4 Shields from Native teachings
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Solo retreat in Nature
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Rebirthing Ritual
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Undifferentiated Sexuality
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Undifferentiated Trance States
Practical Information for the Stage 2 Training
Dates: 23rd – 30th June 2025.
Venue: Oddechowo Retreat Center, near Warsaw, Poland
Training Cost: Earlybird price of just €1600 Normal price is €1800 (including Food & Accommodation)
Registration Requirements: You need to have previously completed the stage 1 training to attend this course –
Your Guides
You will be guided on this journey by the Founder of Awaken as Love and one of the top Leads from our Faculty – who both have decades of experience in holding groups and trainings.
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JAMES STEVENSON
James’s passion is to help call forth our human potential and our soul. His weave brings together more than 20 years experience in techniques, practices and information from the cutting edge of Neuroscience, Tantra, Biodanza, Shamanic & Energy Work, Integral theory and Taoist practices to create a spirituality that is rooted in the body. His evolutionary approach is to work on all lines, levels, states and parts of ourselves in bringing forth our fullest potential.
His work in meditation and tantra work draws on many different traditions and paths he has studied from Kashmir Shaivism, Baul mysticism, Advaita Vedanta, Vajrayana Buddhism, Integral systems and Neo-tantra. His shamanic work includes being Vision Quest rites of passage guide, holding Sweatlodge Ceremonies as well as Sacred Cacao Rituals. He has been dancing Biodanza since 2003 and now works as a teacher and a didactic teacher (qualified to teach other teachers in Biodanza Schools). Founder of the Awaken as Love Mystery School www.awakenaslove.com you can read more about him here www.jamesstevenson.life
MONIQUE DARLING
Monique Darling – A Lead Facilitator in Awaken As Love, Author of ‘Beyond Cuddle Party’ and workshop facilitator extraordinaire, Monique has led over 3500 workshops and retreats in the past 14 years. She is the founder of Everyday Tantra an organization dedicated to empowering people who are questioning the assumptions of how their life should be and to offering tools for self expression that create trust, inner knowing and wisdom to enjoy the life they have.
Monique has taught at colleges across the US including Yale. She has been featured on TLC and The Dr’s as well as various radio shows, podcasts and magazines across the globe. She specializes in helping others reclaim their power and natural sensuality by transmuting fear and repression into courage, self-love and freedom. Her primary purpose is helping folks bring out their vulnerability, energetic embodiment and fearless relating.
Learn more about Monique by going to www.Everydaytantra.com
Direction Keepers
In addition 6 of our faculty will be the supporting pillars of the training, each holding and embodying a key element of the medicine wheel we will be working with.
TAÍNA IXCHEL
Peter Petersen
AFKE REIJENGA
AMERAI CARRERA
Cathleene Cienfuegos
Jim Gardner
