April 4th and 5th Path of Tantra will be at Casa do Sol for a two-day Immersion. This weekend exploration aims to de-mystify the wildly misunderstood topic of Tantra from one specific angle, to put it in context, and create a safe container for questions, answers and exercises that help us to land in the body and the present moment experience. We will mix theory with a heavy dose of practice that respects boundaries. There will be no nudity and nothing sexually explicit. Instead we will focus on understanding this current of aliveness that inhabits us, and on ways of freeing the system from contractions and mechanisms of control that inhibit the natural flow of this aliveness. This workshop is a doorway into the body of work offered by Path of Tantra and its founder Laura.

We will begin on Saturday evening at 18:00 with some introductory concepts, space for questions and an active meditation. We will end at 21:00 and there will be simple, shared accommodation. Sunday morning, we will have some space to integrate and then begin again at 10:00. Sunday will be a day of exploring different practices that help us to circulate vital energy. Breakfast and lunch will be included in the accommodation price. We will end around 18:00, those wishing can also have dinner with us. The price for the weekend with three meals, accommodation and the course is 140 euro.

About the facilitator: Laura Carrotti has been helping people to redefine their relationship with sexuality for the last decade. She has spent the last sixteen years in intense study and practice in India, focused on various schools traditional Tantra. Her work combines these ancient teachings with psycho-spiritual inquiry, meditation, breathwork, and somatic experiencing, making them accessible and applicable for the Western mind.

Tantra offers us a way to connect more deeply with our essence, with who we really are, and with the unique energy that expresses through us. It uses sex as a portal to enter into our unconscious depths, and to connect to the source of our energy, understand its blockages and distortions, and bring that current back to the light. It is the ever-so-sought after bridge between sex and spirit. The Nature of Tantra is a three-hour exploration of the conditionings that keep us from being free.

Sometimes we forget about our nature…how it’s free, how it’s itself. How it is completely unpredictable and unlike any other thing.

Sexuality is an intrinsic part of our nature, and our nature is part of nature, there is no difference between MY nature and THE nature. And just like our nature, our sexuality is nothing like anyone has ever seen before or will ever see again. It is absolutely unique and alive.

Often Tantra is sold as some kind of doing, some kind of perfect adjusting of the energy, some kind of spectacular breathing, all crystals and sublimation and retention. In truth, part of it is learning how to stop, to stop trying to make something happen, to stop trying to be a certain way, to stop running toward a certain outcome, to stop bargaining with the moment and letting the moment be what it is. To feel. To allow yourself to bear witness to what is.

In order to get back to our naturalness, to our supreme birthright to breathe in the moment, we need to recognize how far we have come from it. How much more we are pulled by the outside than responding to the inside. How much we have bought into the ideas that have been sold to us about how we should be, about how we should look, about how sex is.

And the weirdest part of all of it is how far the sex that we are shown has gotten from nature. We have unconsciously subscribed to a cult of the unnatural. What we culturally find sexy is not alive. We are, apparently, turned on by bodies that do not age, defy gravity, and do not feel.

We obsess over adjusting the nature of our bodies so that they fit into some standard of beauty inspired by cartoons, not life. We forget to breathe. We have managed to create the need for a multi-bazillion dollar industry that satisfies our need for sex that we can see, but not feel, for sex that somehow involves bodies, but not humans.

And it does not make us happy. And it will never make us happy.