Stage 2 – The Deepening

23rd June – 30th June 2025, Near Warsaw, Poland

Stage 2 – the Deepening

On completing the Initiation stage of this journey you will have downloaded a new operating system into your consciousness. Many of the tools to bring your personal empowerment will be sitting in your pocket. Whether you use them or not is now up to you…

One way to really bring these more to life is through the Deepening process where the knowledge you have gained becomes digested into your being and emerges as your own wisdom, that can be expressed in your own words.

The deepening process takes you beyond the personal realms and into the unknowable as you undertake a shamanic death of all the conditioning that was given to you from outside and a rebirth as the deeper YOU emerges.

“The knowedgeable person lives with a question mark, and the person of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation point.” Osho

Taking off the Mask

Normally humans move through 2 stages of knowing – the first where you do not know but are not aware of it (as a child); and secondly where you still not really know, but collect knowledge in order to believe that you know (our adult life).

Occasionally one will take a quantum leap beyond the norms and enter into a 3rd stage – where you realise that you cannot really know and that the joy is in the mystery. This retreat is for those called to take a leap beyond the ‘safety nets’ of the mind and let the bliss of existence pour into you.

Some of Areas Covered in this Training Are:

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.

Revision of Stage 1 learnings
The importance of healthy Identity
Ego Masks
Psychological aspects and De-conditioning
Shamanic Death
Archetypal Group Rituals
Plant Medicine (Cacao)

Gifts of the Wound
Earth Medicine
The 4 Shields from Native teachings
Solo retreat in Nature
Rebirthing Ritual
Undifferentiated Sexuality
Undifferentiated Trance States

You Guides

You will be guided on this journey by the Founder of Awaken as Love and one of the top Leads from our Faculty – who both have decades of experience in holding groups and trainings.

James Stevenson

James’s passion is to help call forth our human potential and our soul. His weave brings together more than 20 years experience in techniques, practices and information from the cutting edge of Neuroscience, Tantra, Biodanza, Shamanic & Energy Work, Integral theory and Taoist practices to create a spirituality that is rooted in the body. His evolutionary approach is to work on all lines, levels, states and parts of ourselves in bringing forth our fullest potential.

His work in meditation and tantra work draws on many different traditions and paths he has studied from Kashmir Shaivism, Baul mysticism, Advaita Vedanta, Vajrayana Buddhism, Integral systems and Neo-tantra. His shamanic work includes being Vision Quest rites of passage guide, holding Sweatlodge Ceremonies as well as Sacred Cacao Rituals. He has been dancing Biodanza since 2003 and now works as a teacher and a didactic teacher (qualified to teach other teachers in Biodanza Schools). Founder of the Awaken as Love Mystery School www.awakenaslove.com you can read more about him here www.jamesstevenson.life

Monique Darling

Monique Darling – A Lead Facilitator in Awaken As Love, Author of ‘Beyond Cuddle Party’ and workshop facilitator extraordinaire, Monique has led over 3500 workshops and retreats in the past 14 years. She is the founder of Everyday Tantra an organization dedicated to empowering people who are questioning the assumptions of how their life should be and to offering tools for self expression that create trust, inner knowing and wisdom to enjoy the life they have.

Monique has taught at colleges across the US including Yale. She has been featured on TLC and The Dr’s as well as various radio shows, podcasts and magazines across the globe. She specializes in helping others reclaim their power and natural sensuality by transmuting fear and repression into courage, self-love and freedom. Her primary purpose is helping folks bring out their vulnerability, energetic embodiment and fearless relating.

Learn more about Monique by going to www.Everydaytantra.com

Direction Keepers

In addition 4 of our faculty will be the supporting pillars of the training, each holding and embodying a key element of the medicine wheel we will be working with.

Taína Ixchel

aína Ixchel is a powerful catalyst for transformation, a Shamanic and Tantric Power Priestess who awakens authenticity and limitless possibility in every soul she meets. An International Teacher, Holistic Coach, and Awaken As Love Facilitator (awakenaslove.com), Taína is devoted to guiding individuals on profound journeys of self-discovery, inspiring them to deepen connections with themselves and others and live lives thriving with purpose and potential.

With a Master’s degree and over 18 years of practicing Tantra, Taína is guided by her experience as an International Tantra Teacher and certified Energetic Relationship Practitioner, Holistic Health and Wellness Coach, and Theta Healing Practitioner. Her initiation into esoteric teachings by an Enlightened Master affirmed her destiny: to “teach this Love.”

www.PowerPriestess.com

Peter Petersen

Peter Petersen, has been teaching qigong for 16 years and has been a certified Sheng Zhen Qigong instructor for the last 14 years, where he has been facilitating in health clubs, hospitals, retirement villas, Yale University and several different wellness/spa resorts in Mexico and the United States, such as Rancho La Puerta, Mayacamas Ranch, and Present Moment Retreat.

Peter is also a body/energy worker. This energy work Peter does, helps release stuck mental/emotional energy that can cause illness and disease. Once this stagnate energy can be released,a rejuvenation of mind and body can occur to increase your vitality tremendously. www.awakenbodyandsoul.com

Afke Reijenga

Afke is the blueprint for authentic pleasure. She loves to play, flirt and seduce. Wherever she goes she creates a vortex of love, joy, truth and light. Afke is renowned for her vivid and joyful style of yoga. Praised for the way that she brings back sacred sexuality into society. She fuses joy, love and depth. Started her international career as a model, movie-star and muse. Meanwhile, she studied, Taoistic arts, healing love, sexual kung fu and jade egg practice, conscious breath, NLP and hypnosis. Now works as a sacred sexuality coach, organises wild woman trainings and is a facilitator at yoga and tantra events.

Afke loves to empower woman and men to find their own wildness and to guide them to more pleasure and self love. During the last year her work went more online, where she created quite a following and she has been teaching at major festivals like: ISTA, One World Tantra, Shadows and Light festival.

Next to love and eros as a healing medicine, she loves to work with plant medicine as a way to connect to love and the divine. After more then 25 years of hands on experience she started two years ago with guiding psilocybine ceremonies in her tipi in The Netherlands.

Check Afke on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/afkereijenga

Amerai Carrera

Amerai has more than 12 years of recognized experience in Spain, guides her students on a magical and healing journey to the deepest part of the being on the path of self realisation. Her method offers a combination of Tantra, Neotantra, Shamanism and Personal Growth Psychotherapy accompanying people to feel the opening of their heart, unconditional love, inner movement, kundalini awakening, yoga, meditation, integrating innerchild work, and the fusion of sexual energy with spirituality and sexual healing in all its amplitude. She also helps people to transcend the psychological issues which are carried as a result of cultural conditioning and past experiences.

Amerai has been trained as a Tantra and Neotantra teacher in different internationally recognized schools, such as: Awaken as Love School with James Stevenson, with Margot Anand at Skydancing School in France, with Diana and Michael Richardson: Neotantra for couples in Switzerland, with Charles Muir at Source School of Tantra Yoga in California, with Saul Martinez: Traditional Tantra and Yoga in Spain, and with Carlos de Leon: Traditional Tantra and Love, couple and Liberation modules in Mexico. As a yoga teacher with Sivananda Yoga at the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat, Paradise Island (Bahamas). Certified therapist of Codependency and Inner Child Healing at Learning Love Institute by Krishnananda and Amana. https://tantraesenciadevida.com/equipo-tantra-esencia

Practical Information for the Stage 2 Training

Dates: 23rd – 30th June 2025.

Venue: Oddechowo Retreat Center, near Warsaw, Poland

Training Cost: Earlybird price of just €1600 Normal price is €1800 (including Food & Accommodation)

Registration Requirements: You need to have previously completed the stage 1 training to attend this course – if you have not done so already you can view the upcoming stage 1’s here

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You can register for the event by paying the €700 deposit now – this is a jump into the rest of your life!

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The Venue

The training is held at Oddechowo – A beautiful retreat centre in nature, 1 hour away from Warsaw in the village of Urle which lies among the pine forests, which create a specific microclimate. The climatic values of Urla were to be discovered by doctors to be particularly special and physicians encouraged people with upper respiratory tract diseases to spend their holidays here .

We have a fully equipped group room for our needs with modern underfloor heating, as well as yurts and outside land for our meetings.

Accommodation

Accommodation is in (2-3 person shared rooms) apartments which are completely autonomous. On the ground floor you will find a fully equipped kitchenette, a living room with a cozy fireplace and a clean modern bathrooms. * (In a few houses we also have bathtubs! 🙂

In addition there is a SPA equipped with a Finnish Sauna, a and wet sauna, and an infrared sauna. Here you can cool down in a bath tub with cold water or wrap freshly made ice. It is also equipped with various relaxation spaces including recliners with special collagen lamps – which stimulate collagen production, a solar meadow lamps that stimulates the production of vitamin D.

High quality, healthy vegetarian food is provided for 3 meals a day.