Heartmagick

Creating Love

admin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:00:04 +0000

Saturday and Sunday, November 7th and 8th
10 am - 6 pm
at the Yabyummy Temple,
North Park, San Diego

Creating Love: Finding Safety In Relationships is the first step in our True Love workshop series.

It is our experience that these teachings yield extraordinary results in having the love that you want in your life. An intimate weekend workshop designed for women to learn more about themselves, and for men to learn more about women, we offer 16 critical topics accompanied by deeply transformative spiritual practices, to help you not only learn intellectually but integrate a new way of being into your body and your life.

In Our Creating Love: Finding Safety In Relationships workshop you will

First: Center in Yourself

Learn how to feel good everyday
Discover what keeps you from feeling powerful and strong
Release anger and fear from past relationships
Discover your true purpose in life

Next: Demystify Relationships

Learn how to communicate effectively
Understand and love your partner’s needs
Learn to create and respect healthy boundaries
Appreciate your partner for who they are

Finally: Attract What you Want

Choose relationships that are right for you
Create a strong relationship with your inner masculine and feminine

Take the first steps to creating more satisfying relationships in your life, register now.

$445 per person
or 6 monthly payments of $79 each

Dragon Fire: Dance Puja

admin — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:00:22 +0000

Saturday, October 3rd 8-10 PM
at Eveoke Dance Theatre, in North Park, San Diego
Open to all. This is not a gender balanced event.
$20 per person pre-registration required.

“Delicious”, “Hot!”, and “Powerful” are the some of the words our students have used to describe our movement pujas.

We are inviting everyone to come and celebrate “Moving” through dance, play, and guided imagery. This will be an evening of exploring your own inner fire, then either making fiery new connections or rekindling some old ones! The choice is yours! We will take you on a guided dance and movement journey to celebrate the ecstatic dragon fire that lives within you when all of your chakras and all of your body comes alive!

This is a Yabyummy Dance event, so come dressed to express, play and move. We will not be formally rotating this evening you can stay with a partner, rotate, dance with someone of the same gender, or even dance alone. It’s up to you and what Spirit wants!

True Love 101

admin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:30:19 +0000

Wednesday, July 15th 6:30-9:30 PM
at the Yabyummy Temple, North Park, San Diego
Reserve your seat in advance and receive FREE admission – A $45 Value!
Open to Everyone.

We invite you to our new class: True Love 101!!

Three hours to a new experience of Love, and how to find it.
Come join us as we explore the tantric answers to these questions:

How can you invite more love into your life?
What makes relationships more satisfying?
What is the "secret ingredient" to lasting love?
What are the components of "true love"?

In this class we will explore how tantra can help expand your intimacy and connection in relationship.

We invite you to register by filling out the form above. Check the newsletter box to receive Yabyummy mailings and stay informed of other events in our tantra community.

Ecstasy in Motion: Dance Puja

admin — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 04:00:23 +0000

Saturday, July 11th 8-11 PM
at Eveoke Dance Studio, North Park, San Diego
Open to all. This is not a gender balanced event.

"Delicious", "Hot!", and "Powerful Awareness" are the words our students have used to describe our movement pujas.

Kypris likes to say that the "4 M’s" of True Self Love" are these: "Meditate, Masturbate, Move!, and Manifest". We invite you to celebrate "Moving" during an evening of bliss! Through movement, play, and guided imagery, you will experience tantric trance, merging with a partner through movement, and how to add more variety and satisfaction to your sensual and sexual connections. Come with us on a guided dance and movement journey to celebrate the sensuality of Earth, the playfulness of Air, the passion of Fire, and the joy of Water. This event is appropriate for beginning and advanced practioners.

Created by a Mellissa Seaman, a powerful shamanic healer, the 16 elements of ecstasy are a tool for personal and relational transformation, and a key part of the 5th Gateway to Sacred Sexuality: Weaving the Elements. You may sign up for this event as a single or a couple.

This is a Yabyummy Dance event, so come dressed to express, play and move. We will not be formally rotating this evening you can stay with a partner, rotate, dance with someone of the same gender, or even dance alone. It’s up to you and what Spirit wants!

Under the Peruvian Sun

kypris — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:17:00 +0000

I am riding on the back of Inti, a sturdy brown and white mountain pony, across beautiful tan grass plains amongst tall sharp mountain peaks. He is showing me the wonders of the land, and a few other things.

Later that night in the hostel, I am reading my novel to relax and suddenly what I am reading makes me tingle all over: a vampire tells of his human life when his mother was a priestess of INTI, the Sun God, in Cuzco, at the time of the Spanish conquest and invasion. Now in the novel, he acts as the avatar of the Sun for the woman he loves, making love with her to transmit and open her to her full power.

This gets my attention. I am in Cuzco on vacation preparing to make love to the Sun God through a medicine journey in three days. Not only was my horse named INTI today, but there is the little fact that I recently took vows to open myself to a human partner who will channel the Sun God for me.

When the day for the San Pedro journey arrives, I am a little nervous, but also excited. I ready myself for a sacred medicine journey with San Pedro cactus (known to Peruvians as Huachama). The plant is said to assist in traveling to the upper world of the shaman, the place of the soul’s knowledge, and to heal emotional wounds swiftly and surely.

I am in a magickal garden with San Pedro cactus, flowers, and trees growing, sitting with my group of friends on this trip, drinking the cactus down. It is a little bit scary. The cactus drink is thick and syrupy, like Aloe Vera Gel. And it doesn’t taste good. It’s slimy. And brown. Lesley, our guide for the day, tells us to hold our nose and drink it down in one gulp. And to remember that as we take the cactus in, we are taking light into our bodies. That does it for me. I imagine my body absorbing light into every cell as I drink the cactus, and imagine it is filling me with radiance. I crunch a lemon candy after to take away the aftertaste and it is done! I wait for the cactus to take effect, and wonder what will happen.

San Pedro does contain mescaline, but it’s not much of a hallucinogen, at least not for me. I remain aware of everything all day long, but I also become painfully aware of my body’s energy–where it is open, where it is blocked, where it needs some cleanup. A freight train of sunlight starts to run through me, and I get scared. This is like tantra on steroids! Lesley tells me to breathe into each chakra as it opens, that the cactus is clearing them out, getting rid of the sludge, performing powerful healing.

I breathe and explode into tears. As my heart opens waves and waves of sadness come through me. I let go, totally and completely, of EVERYTHING that I’ve been holding. Mother Earth takes it, every bit of it, and it takes hours, I think. She releases me, tells me to walk in the garden, to smell the flowers, to see the beauty. I feel another pull, to the "Ayhahuasca house", the house of death and rebirth where the Ayhahuasca shamans come to do there work on other days. As I enter a painting of Huascar, the Peruvian Lord of Life and Death, greets me. Oh my God, he is SO beautiful, I want to go into his darkness, to be with him forever. He holds me and I find even more tears, release even more. And I start to wonder if it will ever end! I have asked for this journey to show me how to heal my relationships to human men. To show me how to open my heart even more. Apparently it means dumping gallons of tears!

I am happy, I am with Huascar in the underworld, and this is where I long to stay…with death. And I realize that I am not afraid of the dark at all. I am afraid of the light. I want to stay in the dark, where I feel safe. And he shoves me, tells me to go. He tells me I am in a body to live this life, not to stay in the dark with him.

So I go, grumbling all the way. I go out the gate from the garden and into the Sun on the brown grasses of the rolling hills. Down in the valley the grass is green and water runs. Sheep and Llamas graze on the land. And the grass seems to sparkle. The hills seem to be made of sunlight. It is all so beautiful it is hard to take in. How can I deserve this much beauty?

Spirit sends me a man to practice heart connecting with, a man from these lands, whose ancestors were here before the Inca. And as we wander, our connection deepens, and we move energy between our hearts and our bodies, I practice being with a man with no boundaries and no expectations between us except those I want in the moment.

He calls me a princess, he tells me he loves me, he tells me I am beautiful. The sun shines down on us and through his braids and the feather in his hair. He respects my no and keeps on loving me. He keeps me safe as we wander the hills. And I thank the Sun and the San Pedro for sending him to me to heal my heart with, to practice loving him. To practice being loved by an avatar of the sun.

Back at home, my heart is filled with that sun, and the light is pouring forth from me, with everyone I see and everywhere I go. I feel an excitement, like a kid on Christmas morning, that a new life partner is coming for me, who will dance in this light with me. There is no longing for him, no sadness, just a knowing and an eagerness for when I meet him.

Today I feel the sun on my face and I know that something has shifted in me, that I am different. That the Peruvian sun has changed me forever. And I will return. At night, I still dream of Peru, of a land that has changed me forever. I fly over the landscape like an eagle, I wander the beautiful golden hills touched with sparkling sunlight. I am surrounded by a beauty so immense that my heart must open.

Kypris, Dakini and Shamanic Tantra Teacher holds a master’s degree in Biology, as well as a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology, and is an initiated HeartWisdom Tantric Priestess. She is the author of “Journey to Sexual Wholeness, The Six Gateways to Tantric Sexuality”.

Yabyummy is a teaching temple that provides a tantric path to gain sexual wholeness through breathwork, visualization, and tantric massage. We are committed to unifying sexuality with spirituality and spirituality with sexuality for growth minded men, women and couples.

A Day In The Life Of A Tantric Shaman

kypris — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:05:54 +0000

(yesterday)

I wake up from a fitful night’s sleep, glad that it is time to get up and begin my day. While still half-awake, I feel into my dreams to see if there is anything important there, but the dreamscape is silent. Over the past few nights I’ve been working a lot in my dreams, getting downloads of unconditional love, so I suppose it’s okay to have a dreamless night! Still, I feel a little disappointment that I have nothing to mull over.

Some mornings I slip right into meditation in my cozy bed, but this morning I remember that my guides have been telling me to meditate outdoors, to get more deeply in touch with nature. I go out to the pomegranate tree and arrange myself on the yoga mat with my blanket and drop in. It feels good to hear the birds singing, and I listen to the hummingbirds chasing each other and drinking their morning nectar for a moment before I start my hour of solo practice. I begin with the breath of fire, waking myself up, and feeding my inner fire with short sharp breaths. As I do the practice, I wake up, and start to feel life force flowing into my body, opening up the same channels that sexual energy flows through. I start to feel warm, and I remove the blanket. As I continue to breath, a smile starts to come to my face, and a happiness fills my belly. Ahhhhh. I feel a deep inner stillness at he center of my belly, surrounded by a gentle warming flame. I feel GOOD.

After the breath of fire, I work with my chakras, breathing into each one and clearing it out. AHHH, this feels good too, like taking my morning shower. my physical and emotional body starts to feel clear and clean and open. I give thanks then, gratitude for everything the day before that gave me joy. And I spend a few more minutes sitting in stillness, listening for what Spirit wants to tell me today. I check in also to see what I need to know for my clients today. What will they need? Usually I get a little taste in my body of one thing that they need most, a guidepost for their healing session.

Now it is time for the day to unfold. I dress and shower, and make my way to the temple. Once there, I prepare the space. This is one of my favorite parts of the day, making the space beautiful, burning incense and sage, lighting candles, playing soft music. I am ready to begin.

My first client arrives and we work on some challenges that are unfolding in her relationships. She wants to learn to center more into herself, to find her power as a woman, and to connect with her own sexual self. I spend an hour listening deeply to her, channeling information from my guides, and teaching her practice. Today we work with movement, because she is ready to RELEASE! We dance and breathe and learn to do a deep clearing of each chakra center with the breath and movement. She lets herself move her body and releases deep sounds of anger that she didn’t even know were store inside of her. Afterward she feels energized and relieved. I send her home with some music to use in her daily practice.

Now it is time for me to attend to business, and I ground myself in the everyday as I answer email, take phone calls, edit the website, and many other mundane tasks. It helps to balance me to spend this time, and rather than feeling resentful about it, I am grateful for the variety in my day.

I take a nice long break at lunch time to care for my body, because for me a large part of the practice of tantra is to care for myself. Today I go to yoga class and eat nourishing food to replenish myself for the afternoon and evening.

Now the day shifts and becomes more intense. I have a RED session today—deep and powerful hands-on work. I will be using my sexual/life force energy (and that of my client) to open, to heal old shame and guilt, to allow more freedom and ecstasy in sexual connection, This work often follows for my clients after an intensive study of breath and meditation and movement practice.

I take an hour to prepare the room, lighting candles and incense. I put sheets on the bed, and call in my animal guide allies to hold the space. As I call in Black Jaguar I hear and feel a loud purrrrrr, and I know that this will be a yummy and powerful session, that there will be deep pleasure and an opening.

Once my client arrives we spend 3 hours experimenting with tantric touch. I begin by listening to him share about how the work has been integrating since our last session, a lingam massage. He is excited about learning to move sexual energy through his whole body and starting to have whole body orgasms in his self pleasure practice. Anchored in himself, he’s eager today to learn more about sharing this larger sexual/heart/spirit energy with a woman.

We begin with meditation, imagining ourselves to be trees, rooted in the Earth and branched into the stars and the sun. Once we are feeling strong and loved by the Divine, we begin intentionally connecting, flowing our roots together and interweaving our branches as trees do in the forest. We see vines growing from our hearts, connecting and entwining us with love that begins to flow back and forth. As we disrobe, we flow into touch and breath and how to work those together, stay present, and bring diversity to the ways we connect and touch. I show him how to create safety with Earth touch, and I drop into feeling him give that to me. He feels the joy of having a woman totally receive him as a man. We move to water, total loving touch, then fire, deep sexual passion, and come up into air, tingling and vibrating from all this blissful energy. We keep experimenting as he finds his way into a giving that is as blissful as receiving. Time seems to dissolve as we both push the envelope of the bliss barrier, seeking the place where we can allow ourselves to be bigger, and finding the obstacles that keep us from receiving pleasure. We feel pleasure deeply in our bodies, and still I hear the voice of Spirit speaking gently and quietly in me, helping me to track his energy and his needs in the moment, helping me to be his guide on this blissful ecstatic journey. My guidance allows me to hold space for him and to give him all the unconditional love in my heart. In the light of that unconditional love, he melts, and his heart opens to a blazing fire, aligned with his body, his lingam, and his Spirit. He tells me that he feels like an eagle, soaring above the earth and seeing all his life and all his relationships in perspective for the first time.

We come back to earth at the end with berries, chocolate, cheese, and crackers, and bask in what feels like the afterglow of sex, even though we haven’t actually made love. I feel into how big my energy body feels, and look to see how much his face and eyes have changed from when he came in. He tells me how profoundly the session has changed his perception, and promises to check in a week from now by phone to share how it is integrating into his life.

I say goodbye to my client and turn my mind once again to self care. I have learned that this work requires a lot of that! I shower to ground myself, I sage to bless the space and the work. I go out and walk, I eat. I give thanks for the beauty and healing power of this work and notice how connected I feel to the trees and the birds in the park. Life is good and my heart is full of love and bliss.

Namaste,

Kypris

FREE Peace, Love, and Passion Potluck

admin — Fri, 22 May 2009 03:00:49 +0000

Thursday, May 21st, 7-9 PM
at the Yabyummy Temple, North Park, San Diego
Free
Open to Everyone, Pre-registration is required.

You are invited to join us for our monthly community Peace, Love, and Passion shamanic tantra experience. This event is absolutely free and open to everyone. This is great a great way to learn more about shamanic tantra and the six gateways path in a safe and loving environment. Please come with your friends and join us for socializing with the yabyummy community, followed by some time to ask questions and experience some solo and partnered exercises. This event is a potluck, so please bring something healthy and delicious to share.

We welcome you to come as often as you would like. Each Peace, Love, and Passion Potluck will focus on a different topic so you will always be learning something new. If you can, please bring someone new along so that our community can continue to grow.

We invite you to register by filling out the form above. Check the newsletter box to receive Yabyummy mailings and stay informed of other events in our tantra community.

Kissing: Art of the Tantric Kiss

admin — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:54:31 +0000

Saturday, April 25th 8-11 PM
at the Yabyummy Temple, North Park, San Diego
Open to all. This is not a gender balanced event.
Current Registration: 4 Women, 7 men, 4 couples
Single men please contact us before registering.

Have you ever heard the story about the princess who kissed the frog? Come join us for a very special YabYummy event where we will explore the mythic journey of the frog prince and princess, as it relates to the tantric art of kissing.

Join us in a safe and playful space in which you can be a teenager again, exploring those first kisses, but with your own inner wisdom to guide you, as well as a tantric teacher who will help you explore the different types of kissing.

We will begin with some solo practices to get your inner awareness online, then move into connecting practices with a partner. In every exercise you will have the option to kiss where and how it feels safe to you, lips, cheek, hand, whatever! You will learn to be more aware, more tantric, with your kisses. We’ll end with a kissing game for the whole group.

By the end of the puja each Kiss will feel like your first, but with the experience of a lifetime! This event is not gender balanced. You can choose to stay with your partner or rotate. Those who are rotating will be in groups of twos and threes so that everyone will have a kissing partner. Women may get to have two men kissing them, or men may have two women! Only Spirit knows.

Kissing: Art of the Tantric Kiss

admin — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:54:31 +0000

Saturday, April 25th 8-11 PM
at the Yabyummy Temple, North Park, San Diego
$29 per person, pre-registration required.
Open to all. This is not a gender balanced event.

Kissing, Kissing, Kissing. From a quick peck on the cheek to an electrifying experience that makes your toes tingle. We use kissing to express so many different feelings but how tantric are you with each of those kisses? Kissing can be one of the most challenging forms of intimate expression to stay present with, and to really experience. Thankfully, practice is a whole lot of fun! Let’s get together and practice our Tantric Kisses…

Tantra through Movement

admin — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 03:00:36 +0000

Friday, April 24th 7-9 PM
Tree of Life Bookstore
4870 Santa Monica Ave, San Diego 92107
Includes Free copy of Journey to Sexual Wholeness
List Price: $30 per person
Without Book: $20 per person
Open to all.

Click here to register

In this class, you will learn to wake up the sexual and sensual energy of your body by learning eight basic movments that you can use as a foundation for a daily tantric movement practice. These movements help to open and balance your chakras, leaving you feeling energized, sensual, and serene. Movement is a powerful way to explore both your sensuality and your sacred soul. Your body will discover new ways to awaken and move the sexual energy and to use that energy in any way you choose to create a passionate and deeply centered life.