Stage 1 in New England

August 8th – 14th 2026. Plainfield, MA USA

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

Your training will be held by 3 Awaken as Love Faculty members, plus a large team of assistants.

Catheleene 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.

Onel

Perez

Instructor

Onel is a Light Worker that has lead a life of inquisition towards source. He has been a warrior in life as a US Marine, a Father of two young adults, and a life long pursuant of harmony with this human experience.

He believes in the attainment of personal evolution to come from keeping a fit physical body, healing the inner aspects of our mind, and this will align us with the Purpose of our Soul in this lifetime. Through Awaken he has been able to heal his inner child and find balance between his feminine and masculine energy.

His initial experience was so profound that he has spent the last year in Awaken as Love Facilitator Training, a Vision Quest, Kundalini Energy Attunement, and is currently developing a community center in Western Massachusetts.

Anna

Ceniceros

Instructor

Anna has been on an evolutionary spiritual path for over 30 years. Her unconditional and all inclusive nature has made her open to many teachings and lineages and she shares those with groundedness and much humor.
Anna studied Awaken as Love under it’s creator and founder James Stevenson and several of the lead facilitators like (Cathleene Cienfuegos) and (Monique Darling). She is committed to the process of helping others awaken to their full potential through these transformative processes. She is a welcomed and amazing addition to the Awaken as Love faculty! Through embodied pleasure, spiritual and shamanic practices and higher thinking concepts, she creates a place for you to ask your biggest questions and experience your soul’s desires.

Anna has also been part of a recovery community for over 36 years and continues to support people in their recovery journeys through one on one sponsorship and a support network.

Some of Areas Covered in this Training

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

Teachings of the 4 Shields
Shamanic Medicine Walk
Mindfullness and Heartfullness
Satori Experiences
Group Dynamics

Some of the areas covered in this Training

It is not necessary to already have an understanding of any of the areas mentioned below – you will be guided through each experience. This is simply for those who are curious about the content.

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
Teachings of the 4 Shields
Shamanic Medicine Walk
Mindfullness and Heartfullness
Satori Experiences
Group Dynamics

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.

This training is designed to jump start your expansion into this level with the mission of helping that 10% to emerge.

So, do you feel some truth in this – is there some part of your body that says yes even if your mind doesn’t understand? If so then you are aligning to a mission of being an ambassador of planetary change – as an already existing teacher, guide or practitioner, or just one who hears the call.

The Venue

Situated amidst the scenic beauty of the Berkshire foothills in western Massachusetts. Explore 100 acres of land, including a garden (supplementing meals seasonally), an apple orchard, and a forest with trails and streams (for camping and exploring) – then relax in the Wood-fired sauna, or the library and living room.