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The Art of Tantric Touch
One Afternoon Sept 18 and also Weekend Retreat Nov 20-22 With Amara Karuna Pahoa, Big Island, Hawaii
Tantric Touch Ritual- Friday 18th
The Practice of Presence
Including Tantric Breathwork
Including Tantric Breathwork
Friday Afternoon -Sept 18th, 2:45-6:00 pm
Closeness, awakening, presence, deep relaxation,
nurturing touch, peace, consent-
rolled all together at once.
Sound good?
How can we stay present, relaxed and connected while we touch others?
How can we open the intuitive senses in our hands?
Can touching others become a devotional art form?
What makes a touch feel really special and satisfying?
Our touching practices will include:
Awareness of how breath activates our connections
Bringing present time awareness to meditative massage,
Cuddles or cradling as the receiver wishes,
Hugging meditations,
Head pampering (hairbrushing, head or face massage, eye gazing),
Other sensory meditations.
We will also practice various partner breath meditations and notice the different effects that each one creates.
We will enjoy a potluck dinner with whoever wishes to stay and socialize after the event.
"I deeply enjoyed this experience. Nice to be with men and women in a softening loving field of energy. I loved tapping into the soul energy transmission of our collective energy body. So deep, healing, and connecting.” Jennifer D, Kona, HI
Including Tantric Breathwork
Including Tantric Breathwork
Including Tantric Breathwork
Learn the Tantric Flow Breath, the partner Breathing Loop, and experiment with Chakra Energy Exchange.
This day is sure to reset and down-regulate your nervous system!
We can do a lot to help each other feel happy and nurtured in this clothed, sensual, yet non-sexual event. (Partial nudity will be optional).
Instruction will be given to help you be clear with what you do and don't want in terms of touch and pampering. We will end with a general cuddle time in one group.
We take time for integration and sharing after each small journey.
Learn tools for using in any relationship to increase intimacy....Come alone, with a partner, or bring your friends!
No need for a partner, however you may attend with one and do all the practices with them if you wish, for a lovely connective date
. Otherwise we will be rotating around to experience different people and connections.
Couples $25 per person sliding scale
Singles $30-60 per person
*For pre-approved Apprentices only: $20 per person
*Apprentice brings a non-apprentice partner for $25 per companion
We will limit the event to 20 people. Some work trade available.
Weekend Tantric Touch Retreat: Nov 20-22
Tantric Touch Ritual
Friday Nov 20 Evening
7:30-10 pm
Closeness, awakening, presence, deep relaxation,
nurturing touch, peace, consent-
rolled all together at once.
Sound good?
How can we stay present, relaxed and connected while we touch others?
How can we open the intuitive senses in our hands?
Can touching others become a devotional art form?
What makes a touch feel really special and satisfying?
Our touching practices will include:
Awareness of how breath activates our connections
Bringing present time awareness to meditative massage,
Cuddles or cradling as the receiver wishes,
Hugging meditations,
Head pampering (hairbrushing, head or face massage, eye gazing),
Other sensory meditations.
We will also practice various partner breath meditations and notice the different effects that each one creates.
You will get a turn asking for the kind of pleasure you want, while at the same time hearing affirmations that you have designed for your partners to repeat to you. This is a clothed, sensual event. (Partial nudity will be optional).
Friday night only:
Singles $30-60 per person
Couples $25 per person sliding scale
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Saturday Nov 21 Day
Heartbeat Nurturing Therapy
Begins at 10 am, ends at 6:00 pm
Returning to the infant state, being cradled in loving arms, letting go and trusting…
(Do you get enough of that?)
Come join us for a powerful and
healing event!
- Create deeper bonding in relationships
- Learn to transform needy childlike feelings
- Trust others more deeply
- Love and accept yourself more
- Hold space for nurturing others
A version of inner child therapy, this process works with accessing the infant self and memories still stored in our deep subconscious and cellular memory.
By using cradling, hypnotic induction, shamanic journeying, touch, sound and spoken words, we open a direct channel back to that time and those experiences around birth and infancy.
This intimate healing practice addresses the pain that many of us experienced as infants in our birth traumas, and the lack of enough skin to skin contact and breast feeding from our mothers after birth.
People attending beginning class do not need to come with a partner. It is a wonderful practice for couples to share. We will be trading a number of shorter sessions so we can experience being mothered and fathered.
Prices For Heartbeat Nurturing Training only:
- $110-200 sliding scale
- Bring your own lunch or buy the catered meals
What People Say:
"Amara is one of my absolute most favorite teachers. I went to her Heartbeat Nurturing Therapy class/workshop and I bought the book and the CD there. I don't thing there is even one adult or child that does not crave non-sexual loving/caring/nurturing touch. I learned from Amara that there are two things which can enhance loving/caring/nurturing touch. 1- The sound of your beating heart and the energy that emanates from your heart Chakra when you are a provider of such touch and care... 2- Your calm/relaxed/loving/ caring/nurturing voice as you channel the divine masculine or the divine feminine as you provide such touch. This healing combination is MAGICAL. And it does not even need to be a "Therapy" session.
It also makes for a most wonderful paired meditation." Alex W. LA, CA
"Taking the Heartbeat Nurturing Therapy class was a profound experience in and of itself. It caused such a degree of de-armoring, of "getting real," that it took my whole life and forced the moment to its crisis, so to speak. It laid bare whatever was not working authentically and also what was authentically true about me and my life.
In less than 24 hours my vision, being so cleared, produced the action steps that provide the context for my destiny, if you will.
All the pieces fell into place perfectly and my understanding, too. It was so fast and amazing as to feel miraculous. I feel blessed by your presence and your class."
I. H, Seattle, WA
Pleasure Magic Tantra Ritual - Saturday Nov 21
Saturday Nov 21 Evening
7:30-10 pm
- Stretch Your Capacity to Enjoy and Change!
- Explore and expand your capacity to fully receive pleasure
- Broaden your spectrum of pleasure to be a more full body experience
- Use the entrancing power of pleasure and the transformative power of ritual, affirmations and visualization in a potent combination!
- Create new imprints in your subconscious about connection and abundance
Let's lift up our pleasure ceiling! Working in rotational triads, we will weave a wonderful web of connection, with singing, sounding, movement, conscious touching, snuggle meditations, hair brushing, hand or foot kissing, and massage as possibilities.
You will get a turn asking for the kind of pleasure you want, while at the same time hearing affirmations that you have designed for your partners to repeat to you. This is a fully clothed, sensual event.
Saturday night only:
Singles $30-60 per person
Couples $25 per person sliding scale
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Sunday Nov 22
7 Secrets of Masterful Massage
7 Secrets of Masterful Massage
7 Secrets of Masterful Massage
Why do some people seem to have a golden touch that invites you to melt with pleasure?
What is the essential difference between a massage that feels businesslike or clumsy, and one that is deeply intimate and satisfying?
Learn the art of conscious touch
for the seven layers of the body.
There is so much more to massage, and healing touch than just giving some good rubs.
Our bodies are complex and amazing living systems with so many levels. With a little training, you can greatly upgrade your ability to give amazing touch!
This introduction compresses many years of training in many different types of massage into a sampler, to give you the basic ideas of how to effectively give pleasure and relief from pain to your loved ones. Join us for a powerful exploration of the essentials of aware healing touch. This massage is done partially clothed and is non-sexual.
Your massages will never be the same!
We will exchange a series of small touch trades practicing various intentions and techniques of touch, and then have a longer time for trading healing touch with each other.
7 Secrets of Masterful Massage
7 Secrets of Masterful Massage
Begins at 9:30 am, ends at 5:00 pm
May be taken separately
You will learn:
- To touch another person with deep awareness
- What happens to our chemistry when we are touched lovingly?
- What kind of touch helps a muscle let go?
- What works for unwinding the fascia?
- How can we work with the bones to bring them more aliveness?
- How can we delight the skin and drain lymph?
- How can we feel into the energy body underlying the physical and open the channels?
- How is breath related to healing touch?
- How to be aware of your own body comfort while giving.
- How you can use your own hands as healing magnets for energy balancing
Come with a partner or circulate to practice with several others. We will be working on all genders.
Sunday Day only: $110 low income to $200 per person,
$175 per couple sliding scale.
Some work trade available
The Facilitator
Amara Karuna
In 1989, she developed her own approach to peer counseling, called Holistic Peer Counseling integrating peer counseling with spiritual meditation practices, psychic healing, breath work and body centered techniques.
Amara developed Heartbeat Nurturing Therapy, a method of healing the inner infant-self using cradling, hypnotic induction and suckling to address emotional issues stemming from lack of breast feeding & loving closeness as an infant. She is the author of “Heartbeat Nurturing Therapy- Healing Our Hearts Together“.
The Venue:
Puna Rainforest
Puna Rainforest
A lovely small retreat center in Pahoa, Hawaii, Surrounded by rainforest, with natural warm pool tubs!
Puna Rainforest
Puna Rainforest
Puna Rainforest
Come enjoy the beauty of the rainforest! The venue is beautiful and luxurious. There is lots of space for RVs.
Housing Options
Payment and Logistics
Payment and Logistics
Above image: Cottage in our BnB venue.
You may either stay at the venue overnight if you take the weekend training, or go home if you live locally.
There will be extra programming in the evenings and early mornings for those who stay overnight.
You may choose to rent a cottage or a room on site with a queen bed or single to stay overnight.
Or bring your RV, or stay in a cabin that is a mile away on a different property.
- Off site cabin 1 mile away, $50-65 per night extra, These have electric but outhouses only, 1-2 people, please inquire
- Residential shared room/cottage, with bedding: luxury Bnb twin bed, $86 per night
- Residential shared room/cottage, with bedding: luxury Bnb queen bed, $110 per night
- Luxury Bnb private Cottage/room queen- $190 per night, 1 or 2 people
- Residential -you stay in your RV $50 per night
Payment and Logistics
Payment and Logistics
Payment and Logistics
Above image: offsite cabin one mile away.
Airfare and airport transfers to the venue are not included. You can sign up on our ride form to share a ride or hire a driver. The site is 45 minutes drive south east from the Hilo, HI airport. Do not fly in to Kona, which is 2.5 hours away.he sliding scale enable us to hold this retreat in a spirit of generosity and inclusiveness.
To reserve your spot: Fill out the Application Form, then after you get the welcome letter, send the payment.
We will be catering all meals with delicious healthy food. If you live nearby you may choose to provide your own food.
Airfare and airport transfers to the venue are not included. You can sign up on our ride form to share a ride or hire a driver. The site is 45 minutes drive south east from the Hilo, HI airport. Do not fly in to Kona, which is 2.5 hours away.
Pre-Event Health Agreements
We will be taking steps to insure all of our health, including:
*avoiding anyone who is sick before the retreat,
*We will not ask you to do a rapid testing.
*If you have any symptoms of illness, please do not come to the retreat. If you need to cancel in the 7 days before the event because of becoming ill, we will refund all of your money if we can fill your spot, or half the money if we can't.
Our Cancellation Policy:
Substitutions of attendees may be made at any time. Attendees must cancel by midnight, Pacific time, one month before the start date to receive a full refund minus $50 cancellation fee per person. Cancellation requests received after one month in advance or failure to appear for the event will result in forfeiture of the entire course program fee, unless we can fill your spot. In which case you will get all but $50 back. Payments for housing are not refundable unless we can sell your spot.
Illness Policy
The exception to this is the illness refund policy, which states if you cancel in the last week because of an illness, you can get all your program money back if we can fill your spot, or half if we can't.
Cancellation requests
Cancellation requests must be received by email to Amara at amara@mindspring.com. You are responsible for ensuring that we receive your written request. We will reply by email with a written acknowledgement. Cancellation refunds will be completed via check or venmo.
If we need to cancel
Amara reserves the right to cancel or reschedule events at any time. This is very unlikely to happen. If Amara cancels or reschedules the event due to low enrollment, weather, or unforeseen circumstances beyond the control of Amara, you are entitled to a full refund, but Amara is not responsible for travel arrangements, travel fees, or any expenses incurred by you as a result of such cancellation.
If Amara cancels an event is which you have registered, you will be contacted at the email address you provide when registering, so please be sure to provide a valid email address.
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