Stage 1 in Tulum
17th – 23rd Feb 2025. Tulum, Mexico
Stage 1 – the Initiation
The Awaken as Love Initiation is a journey open to everyone – it begins with a choice to go on an adventure that will expand you beyond the boundaries of your current existence. What will it bring to you? More awareness, more love, more inclusion, more juice to your life and more depth if you allow it.
This first stage is called “Initiation” because if you choose this then all your experiences up til now have led you to this point and you are obviously ready to step into a wider reality – in doing so you enter fresh and new, open to discovering more.
As you step into this journey you will encounter maps that help you understand the larger world and your place in it (this is beyond your imagination), tools which help you to play more fully in this world, embodied experiences which help you to anchor a new reality and finally ongoing resources which help to integrate and incorporate this into your life.
What is this Training?
Your Instructors
During this course you will be held by 3 of the Awaken as Love faculty (and a full team of assistants) – they each come from different backgrounds but all are inspired to facilitate the evolution of humanity.
Laurie Handlers
Lead Instructor
Laurie Handlers, author of International Bestseller Sex & Happiness: The Tantric Laws of Intimacy teaches people ways to increase pleasure and return to love with themselves and their partners. Having done all of the work herself, Laurie is an expert in the field of sexuality, intimacy, and relationships. To Laurie, sexuality is the portal to healing and this work connects us to our creative life force.
As a speaker and facilitator, Laurie has taught transformational workshops since 1978 on topics ranging from releasing past emotional trauma, stopping the aging process, and Tantra (expansion through awareness) impacting tens of thousands of lives. She believes couples are an “endangered species.” Together with her partner she offers relationship coaching and holds workshops on how to be in extraordinary love. Watching people transform brings joy and excitement to Laurie’s life and career. www.lauriehandlers.com
Michael Gibson
Instructor
Michael Gibson is a Certified Sex & Happiness coach, the co-founder of the Academy for Men, and creator of the Extraordinary Lovers Experience; a program that guides couples into long-lasting conscious-relating to deepen intimacy, communication, and connection. His Academy for Men’s Coaching Program trains men in the skills of Presence, Communication, and Exquisite Touch, focusing on intimacy, pleasure, and healing. He and his wife, Laurie Handlers, have also created an online community called Laurie Handlers’ Inner Circle that serves its members through podcast interviews, online courses, and monthly live calls that bring the Inner Circle together for a life that is lived in community.
Michael is also an Awaken as Love Facilitator and AAL Festival Host. With his wife Laurie and brilliant stable of AAL Facilitators, together, they bring together a diverse range of participants to explore and celebrate the transformative power of love and presence.
Cathleene Cienfuegos
Lead Instructor
Awaken As Love Lead Facilitator, Healing Arts Practitioner & Trainer. She brings deep spiritual lineages, as well as contemporary philosophies, cutting edge practices and much humor, compassion and empathy. She creatively weaves ancient and contemporary wisdom streams to create Integral sessions and retreats that inspire and invite Conscious Evolution.
Cathleene spends her time traveling, learning and teaching Awaken As Love, Tantric Healing Arts Practitioner Trainings and her business program Standing in the Fire. She has been a featured teacher and author on Playboy.com and mytinysecrets.com for her groundbreaking work in pleasure and healing with full body orgasm. Find her at www.bliss-life.com and receive your free copy of The Erotic Anatomy Guidebook for Women.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein
In fact it is not the next level of consciousness but the one after that which integrates the previous ones which will facilitate real change.
What will I get from this training?
This certificated course will give you practical tools, maps and experiences to be able to embody a deeper understanding of reality, and how to that to engage more fully and live more of your potential.
Supporting this are presence and insights from international facilitators during the week long process, sharing groups to help you connect and express your experience and a 60-page guidebook that help with your continued unfolding.
Tantra Techniques
How can the energy of the raw animal self be raised into higher consciousness, and how can this consciousness descend into the body and manifest world? Really this is a deep intimacy with yourself, with a partner and even throughout a group.
Embodiment practices
It’s one thing to understand with the mind, and something completely different to have a knowing that comes from a deep experiencing of wisdom through the body. Being able to manifest inate creativity into the reality is a skill.
System Reboot
We will be resetting the experiences and patterns in the nervous system of the body. These have framed your experience of this world since birth. Imagine how your life could be filled with more ease, clarity and pleasure!
Shamanic Initiations
We will be perfoming ceremonies that take you outside of the normal sequence of time and anchor in soul peices that have been waiting for this moment.
Integral Maps
As we learn these maps – the whole picture is revealed and we suddenly start to understand where pieces that you were partially aware of fit inside a larger picture of reality.
Wisdom Transmission
Through transmission we will be awakening our higher centres of knowing, expanding into a new operating system and accessing novelty from the cosmos.
How can this advance me working in these areas?
There are a few ways in which this training will support you in your journey as a guide, teacher or practitioner. It is an accredited course from Awaken As Love – you will recieve a certificate on completion and you can state that you have completed this training on your personal biographies.
You will also be eligible to attend the next levels – Deepening & Radicalization to eventually become an Awaken as Love Facilitator.
In addition you will be gaining direct tools that you can then use in your own workshops and practices as well as a deeper understanding about how to work with groups – and meeting a larger international network of practitioners and teachers to create and stay in on-going connection. We routinely give opportunities to Awaken as Love graduates to be part of the festivals we create.
Some of Areas Covered in this Training Are:
- Tantric Bodywork
- Individual Partnered Tantra Meditations
- Archetypal Group Rituals
- Inner Masculine & Inner Feminine Aspects
- Character armour.
- De-armouring
- Integral Maps
- The 4 Dimensions of Reality.
- States of Consciousness
- Stages of Consciousness
- Lines of Development
- Typological Mapping
- Experience of Theory U
- Shadow & Spiritual Bypassing
- Gifts of the Wound
- Difference between Ego and Identity
- Identity & Regression.
- Group Dynamics
- Teachings of the 4 Shields
- Shamanic Medicine Walk
- Mindfullness and Heartfullness
- Satori Experiences
Practical Information for Stage 1 – the Initiation
Dates: The training runs from the 17th – 23rd Feb 2025.
Venue: Paledora Eco-Resort, Predio el Venado, MZ50, LT34 Chemuyil, Quintana Roo, 77774, Mexico
Super-Earlybird Training Fee: $1200. (total price is $2000 including the food and accommodation below in a shared triple room).
Accommodation Fee:
Shared Triple Room: $800 (shared with 2 others of the same gender unless specified otherwise)
Shared Twin Room: $1000 (shared with 2 others of the same gender unless specified otherwise)
Single Occupancy Room: $1600 (whole room to yourself!)
All options includes 3 meals a day and snacks in shared 3 person, same gender rooms with en-suite bathrooms. It’s possible to upgrade to a double for couples or to name the people you would like to share with.
Staying in between the Festival and Training: For those joining both the festival and training it is possible to stay at the eco-resort where the training is held for the 2 days in between – we’ve negotiated with Paledora to offer this for $100 per night, including 3 meals a day. Just mention you would like this in the notes when signing up and we will add you to the list ( payable directly with the venue on arrival or before).
Special Offer: Book both this Training and the Awaken as Love Tantra Festival together to get 10% discount off the training!
Ready to Jump?
Sometimes you have to treat yourself to an experience that will expand your word-view, transform your being and foster new friends and allies along the path.
The Venue
The venue for the training is an Eco-Resort called Paladora in the jungle near Tulum, and is part of the same complex as the Tantra Festival beforehand.
It has magical indoor & outdoor spaces to gather that include many natural wonders, such as a private Cenote (natural spring pool) & Temazcal (sweatlodge).
The accommodations are blending luxury with jungle and outside you will find a beautiful swimming pool, a fire pit on the spacious terrace and a wood-fired hot tub and sauna (8 persons). The surrounding nature is part of the course here.
Meals
3 Meals a day are inclusive of the accommodation price and fully vegetarian although we do consume dairy products and eggs. We use organic vegetables, pulses/legumes, grains and oils as often as possible. If you have special dietary needs then please mention this in the additional information area of the booking form so we can accommodate your needs as best as possible. Coffees and teas area available throughout the day.
Accommodation
The apartments here are are stylish and rooms accommodate between 2-3 people. There are Private Bathrooms, AC & Fan in Every Bedroom.
It also includes Toiletries & Beach Essentials, Fully Stocked Kitchens for Casas, Weekly Housekeeping and Great Wifi Throughout the Property. 3 meals a day are included.
Ready to Jump?
Sometimes you have to treat yourself to an experience that will expand your word-view, transform your being and foster new friends and allies along the path.