Stage 1 in Chelem, Mexico
Women only Version!
October 20-26, 2025. Chelem, 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?
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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.
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.
Carol Paysinger
Instructor
Carol is captivated by the intersection of healing and pleasure, and after diving into the Awaken as Love training, she hasn’t looked back. Now an advanced apprentice, she’s grateful to be part of the Awaken as Love vision, feeling truly inspired by its diverse, holistic content and the deep connections it fosters. She brings wisdom, intuition, empathy, and a sense of humor to every setting. Carol is also a proud mother of three adult children, all of whom she would choose to call friends—a cherished accomplishment as a mother
Lourdes Starshower
Instructor
Lourdes Starshower, MA, CCHT, ACTE is an Advanced Certified Tantra Educator, Sacred Sexuality Coach, Relationship Coach, Shamanic Breathwork Practitioner, Clairvoyant Energy Healer, Clinical Hypnotherapist and EMDR Therapist. Lourdes is the Founder / Director of the Ecstatic Tantra Practitioner Certification Program, catalyzing the success of Tantra practitioners around the globe. She’s the author of an online video program titled “Tantra Practices for Divine Ecstasy.” She holds a BA in Psychology and an MA in Wellness.
Lourdes awakens pleasure, and embodiment in women. She supports the healing of erectile and intimacy issues in men. And she counsels, reconnects and ignites emotional intimacy and sexual alchemy in couples. She has helped hundreds of people from all over the world to heal their inner wounding, enhance their intimacy, ignite their passion and expand their joy. www.tantrahealerflorida.com
* In rare unforeseen circumstances the facilitator line-up can change but you will always be provided with an Awaken as Love Lead Facilitator and 2 trained co-facilitators from faculty.
“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 7-day 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 peices 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
Women Only Version: Note, this version of the training is for Women only – it runs the normal Stage 1 curriculum but is suitable for those who would prefer to do it only with other women
Dates: October 20-26th 2025.
Venue: Private Villa in Chelem, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.
Earlybird Training Ticket Price: $900 plus accommodation and food costs (see below). Goes up to $1200 on the 15th September.
This week-long immersive training includes:
- Seven days, six nights of interactive sessions.
- Seventeen meals prepared by a professional chef.
- Lodging of your choice.
- Daily transportation for off-site stays.
Training begins at 3 PM on October 20th. Arriving a day early is recommended. (Flights from the US are currently arriving in Merida in the late afternoon and evening). It may be necessary as well to plan to depart a day later, Oct. 27, as the training ends in the afternoon. We are offering an optional extra night before and/or after in your selected training accommodation for an additional $50 each night. Meals are on your own. There are several restaurants close by. You may choose to stay and explore Merida, arriving at the venue after 1 PM on October 20, and possibly return to Merida at the close of the training on Oct. 26 to be closer to the airport for your departure.
We are happy to arrange for reasonably priced airport/venue transportation and ride sharing. You are able to pay in USD or Pesos. Many places in Merida accept debit and credit cards. Chelem businesses predominantly only accept pesos. Please take this into consideration when planning your trip. You may consider getting some Pesos at your bank before traveling.
It’s also possible to book with $700 deposit right now, and pay up the rest later.
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The Venue – Private Villa
Join us this October in the small fishing village of Chelem, a barrier island nestled by the Gulf of Mexico on the Yucatan Peninsula. Our retreat venue is a beautiful, ashram-like home steps from the Gulf; featuring rooftop terraces, a private swimming pool, an outdoor shower, and ocean breezes.
We are also offering quaint cabana accommodations nearby . Here in Chelem you’ll find a peaceful space to connect, reflect, and grow, surrounded by the natural beauty of this tranquil paradise.
Shared Queen Room with a shared bath, on-site: $1700 Sale: $1,400 per person sharing Queen Bed
Staying on-site at the venue in a room sharing a Queen bed with another (good for couples or friends happy to share a bed). Shared Bathroom. Includes 3 meals a day.
Private Queen Room with a shared bath, on-site: $3100 Sale: $2,800
Staying on-site at the venue in your own private room in a Queen bed. Shared Bathroom. Includes 3 meals a day.
Shared Room (two double beds) and a bath, off-site casita: $1950 Sale: $1,650 per person
Staying off-site in a casita in a 2 person shared room in a Double bed each. Shared Bathroom. Includes 3 meals a day. Note, transportation to and from the venue each day is included in this option.
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You can sign up for this training – either paying a deposit or the full amount below.
