Dorset, UK
9th-15th May 2025. Gaunts House, Dorset, UK
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.
Afke Reijenga
Instructor
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 she 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: Awaken as Love Tantra, 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.
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Jon Skelton Pearson
Lead Instructor
Jon is an integral tantric magician. Multi-certified as a psychotherapist, supervisor, transformational coach and yoga teacher, he has facilitated workshops and worked with clients from many backgrounds worldwide.
Jon began his journey forty years ago when he walked out of a lucrative corporate career in search of a life of his own choosing. Since then he has trained in tantra, coaching and psychotherapy in four continents.
He received initiation into modern tantra and shamanism through a five year apprenticeship with John Hawken and into classical tantra with Christopher Hareesh Wallis.
Jon is a playful spiral wizard possessed of deep knowledge and mastery of integral theory. He transmits an embodied shamanic tantra with joy and ease and, like all modern elders, loves to tell stories, dance with life and share his wisdom.
He is married to Rose, his tantric consort, and has nest-fled children. He lives in the UK.
Website: https://jonskeltonpearson.com
Laura Walter
Instructor
Laura is a feminine embodiment & tantric intimacy coach. She empowers women who feel pain and numbness during sxx to learn sensual embodiment, emotional release tools and self-yoni massage so that they can have deeper intimacy and more pleasure in their lives.
Being called by the unique fusion of shamanism, tantra, biodanza and integral theory she joined the faculty of Awaken As Love in 2022.
Before AAL she trained with Shashi Solluna and Minke De Vos as a Tantric Facilitator and Qi-Gong Instructor specialising in Sacred Femininity. Her lineage is in the tradition of Osho, Margot Anand, Ma Anand Sarita (Neo-Tantra) and Mantak Chia (Universal Healing Tao). Combined with years of studying Somatic Experiencing she offers a colourful mix of spiritual and psychological tools for personal liberation and an 0rgasmic life.
Her mission is to empower people to increase pleasure in their lives and to grow emotional resilience, so that we all can relate from a place of authenticity, joy and love.
“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
Dates: 9th – 15th May, 2025.
Venue: Gaunts House, Sheila Avenue, Dorset, UK.
All prices include the training fee of £650 plus accommodation – with 3 meals a day. There are options for both residential and non-residential attendance (see below).
It’s also possible to book with £600 deposit right now, and pay up the rest later.
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You can sign up for this training – either paying a deposit or the full amount below.
The Venue – Gaunts House
A large country house from another age, set in extensive, wondrous grounds, peopled by merry, empathetic souls of all ages and backgrounds, offering peace and harmony.
Behind, beneath and all around is found the essence of an inspirational Charter that has guided the fortunes of this unusual mini-hub of creative living. From the front door, one can stroll to the thousand year-old ‘dead and alive’ Chestnut Tree in parkland beyond the lake, down through ancient Ashton Wood to ‘Starhenge’ – a millennial peace garden
The facilities are extensive in this majestic estate, but some of the highlights include An Open-air Swimming pool located near the house close to the Theatre, a Walled Organic Garden, Stables, A Victorian ornamental lake with circular walk, an old earth-roofed Round house and a Fire-pit.
Camping – £1240 Currently just £1040 per person
Bring your own tent and equipment to stay in the beautiful grounds. Includes 3 meals a day
Shared Twin Room – £1564 Currently just £1364 per person
Staying at the Estate House in your own large bed in a twin shared room (same gender). Includes 3 meals a day.
Single Room – £1700 Currently just £1500 per person
Staying inside the Estate House in your own room with King bed. Includes 3 meals a day.
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