Tantrafestival Aarhus 2023
Deep Love & Sublime Eros
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Saturday 25 November
Doors open at 10.00
10.45 – 11.15
Opening Ceremony
11.30 – 13.00
Love Hall
Seeing through the eyes of beauty: Test your skills in the tantric art of transfiguration
Ulrik Lyshøj & Iris Smeets
Seeing through the eyes of beauty
Transfiguration: Is an invaluable tantric skill that transforms the way you look at life, love and yourself. When you learn to see through the eyes of beauty, you get a key to release the inner potential in yourself, your own life and the heart and soul of others. It is a way to look and become the best version of you and to rise from a mundane life to a life full of wonder.
In this workshop we will guide you to practice and train your ability for transfiguration. Through playful and deep exercises, you will discover the artwork that others see hidden in your soul, and we will bring these hidden qualities to light and life.
Eros Hall
The dynamics of Eros vs Sex in our lives and love relationships
Arthur Lederer & Minodora Blomgren
The dynamics of Eros vs Sex in our lives and love relationships
Eroticism is an important part of our lives and we all love to have magnificent erotic experiences. Making love is a way we can all enjoy as well as feel connected to our beloved and experience states of overwhelming happiness. Yet it is often the sexual part of our lives that leads to emotional pain and frustration. How do we explain this contradiction?
The answer is as simple as it is unknown to most people today - There is a big difference between loving and having sex!
In fact, there are 2 different energies that correspond to this level of our being - the erotic energy and the sexual energy or Eros and sex. Eros is a conscious attitude that uplifts us, expands us, connects us deeply, enhances love and intimacy, and brings long-lasting joy. Sex is an instinctive attitude that leads to separation, ego and tension.
The key is to choose to cultivate Eros and not Sex in our lives and relationships.
In this lecture we learn basic concepts and practical approaches to distinguish Eros from sex and to cultivate an erotic attitude in our daily lives and in all aspects of our relationships. These concepts will be described in practical terms based on personal experience. We will also experiment with these practical elements and begin to enjoy the sweet nectar of an erotic attitude through an exercise.
13.00 – 14.30
Lunch Break + Dance for Joy
14.30 – 16.00
Love Hall
Deep Dating
Richard Løvlund & Adriana Isvoranu
Deep Dating
Deep Dating is the perfect playground not only to open up to love and deep, intimate relationships, but also to find friends or be part of a loving community. Whether you meet the love of your life at this event or not - the evening will leave you more open, free, heart-connected and ready for love.
During all Deep Dating events, we aim to let go of our judgments, preconceived ideas and superficial ways of dating and instead get to know each other directly from the heart to the heart. While having a lot of fun, with room to laugh and cry!
We guide you through connecting exercises where all men will meet all women in a playful and meaningful way without formal one-on-one conversations, but joyfully guided by tantric principles. You don't need to have any experience with tantra or dating, just to be curious and open to meeting new people in a sincere way.
In this workshop we focus on:
* To awaken our energy, play and sensuality
* Development of intimacy, presence and heart connection
* Explore the power of attraction and deep masculine/feminine connection
* To learn some basic Touch principles for Conscious
* How to make dating as much a spiritual practice as yoga or meditation
There is no sexual contact or nudity in this event.
The event requires an equal number of men and women.
Eros Hall
Temple Time for Lovers (workshop for couples)
Ulrik Lyshøj & Daniela Ananda
Temple Time for Lovers (workshop for couples)
"Once the wheel of love has been set in motion, there is no absolute rule". Kama Sutra
This workshop is for loving couples who want to include tantric practices for nourishing, amplifying and reigniting love.
It is for lovers who wish to say “I love you!” without words. It is for those who just found each other and want to grow the relationship in the best direction from start. It is for longtime mates who wish to reignite the fire.
Together we will create the conditions that encourage expressing love through love, eros and intimacy.
We will do exercises for synchronizing your centers for erotic, heart and spiritual energy. For awakening passion, love and aspiration. For reuniting your souls.
This workshop is set in beautiful romantic atmosphere and is done in pairs (man/woman). You can join with your beloved or with a person of the opposite sex that you can be intimate with (There will not be nudity and you will do all the exercises with the same person).
“In love one may be spontaneously playful and passionate, the next moment quiet and serene, contemplating.”
16.30 – 18.00
Love Hall
Sacred Heart Cacao Ceremony - Immerse yourself in romantic ecstasy (for everyone)
Sahajananda Porslund & Kamilla Holm
Sacred Heart Cacao Ceremony - Immerse yourself in romantic ecstasy (for everyone)
Our Sacred Heart Cacao Ceremony is one of the experiential highlights with creative and interactive exercises, guided meditations and shared moments that help you awaken your senses, energies and spiritual heart.
Aided by the consumption of a drink (a pure organic and vegan chocolate drink based on beans from the sacred cacao plant), we will open up to the beautiful energies of our souls and explore what it's like to make deep heart connections, even with people you don't know. Join this extraordinary ceremonial experience and learn how to open up to inner states of euphoric joy, heart-based togetherness and romantic love.
NB! This version is for everyone and will involve heartfelt connections with the other participants in the group and is not just for couples.
Eros Hall
Sacred Heart Cacao Ceremony - Immerse yourself in romantic ecstasy (for couples)
Ulrik Lyshøj & Daniela Ananda
Sacred Heart Cacao Ceremony - Immerse yourself in romantic ecstasy (for couples)
Our Sacred Heart Cacao Ceremony is one of the experiential highlights with creative and interactive exercises, guided meditations and shared moments, helping you awaken your senses, energies and spiritual heart. Aided by the consumption of a drink (a pure organic and vegan chocolate drink) based on the beans of the sacred cacao plant, we will explore the romantic lifestyle and the special intimate heart connection you can create in your couple relationship using this special potent cacao and the experiences in the ceremony to deepen the emotional and spiritual connection in your relationship. Join this extraordinary experience.
NB! This version is performed in pairs throughout the ceremony. Arrived at this event as a couple at the reception.
18.30 – 20.00
Dinner + Conscious Cuddling
20.00 – 22.00
Ecstatic Dance Party & Chill-Out Lounge
Sunday 26 November
Doors open at 9.00
9.30 – 11.00
Love Hall
Yoga for Awakening the Heart Chakra
Emmeline Vestergaard
Yoga for Awakening the Heart Chakra
Experience the opening of your heart through hatha yoga practice to awaken and cleanse the heart chakra.
Love is a universal energy that we can always connect to. In this workshop we will immerse ourselves into our heart center in the middle of the chest and feel the loving energies from the universe via the principle of resonance. If we want more love in our lives, we ourselves must love more and make ourselves open and available to feel the love that is already present. In this yoga practice we will dive into the mysteries of love and explore the different nuances of love in our inner universe.
The exercises are not performed in couples. Please wear comfortable loose clothing.
Eros Hall
Love Shiatsu - Loving Stretching Exercises for Couples
Ulrik Lyshøj & Daniela Ananda
Love Shiatsu - Loving Stretching Exercises for Couples
Erotic practices have been studied for centuries in both East and West. Chinese and Japanese traditions combined the study of lovemaking with medicine based upon simulation of certain pressure points.
Shiatsu is a Japanese word meaning "finger push".
In this workshop we will use touch, stretching and pressure into a flow of body postures and gentle movements that aim to help relaxing each other deeply. In the same time you develop a language of feeling each other without words.
If practiced with your lover you will be surprised on the effects on harmonising the relationship in better loving and regeneration in two, and will have countless effects on maintaining of a good erotic health.
It is the best foreplay before the foreplay!
Access to this workshop is only in couples.
There will not be any nudity or explicit erotic practices.
Wear comfortable stretchy clothing.
11.30 – 13.00
Love Hall
Feel the Nuances of Love
Richard Løvlund & Adriana Isvoranu
Feel the Nuances of Love
Would you like for your lover to be better, at knowing what makes you happy and feel loved?
And would you like to know more precisely, what you should do, to make your lover feel loved and appreciated so you both will enjoy even more happiness together? Then this lecture could be for you…
We will address the different ways people communicate (OR NOT) their needs for love and how that sometimes gets the relationship into questions such as: “why does he/she not appreciate all the efforts I make?” and “why doesn’t he/she not know what I need to feel loved?”.
The answer lies in taking time for understanding the habits of one self and also one’s lover so that we can develop new habits, which makes us able to express those needs clearly and also being able to see clearly what the other one needs to feel loved.
We will be talking about love languages, and developing attention to the real needs of the other one and not giving what we think the other one needs.
Join us and discover the ways in which you and your lover feel the most loved. Through what actions and gestures, so you can communicate clearly what makes you feel most loved and that your gestures towards your lover is most effective in making him/her feeling loved.
Eros Hall
Your Erotic Persona
Angela Østergaard
Your Erotic Persona
Learning to fully awaken the ability to be erotically ecstatic: A practical journey into the land of extraordinary pleasures.
The process of preparation for erotic extraordinary intensity seems unnecessary or even strange to many.
Experiencing joy and especially amorous pleasure seems to be something we all have to some degree... And then we don't talk about it, nor do we need to learn more or train. But this is the terrible flaw that keeps so many people today either anorgasmic or very little potent.
Even when we discover that pleasure and erotic fulfillment can be much more than what we learn from friends or "adult movies", we still need to know how.
This journey begins from the discovery of our own erotic ways, the process of shedding light on the desires/desires and deep ambitions that we always have inside when it comes to erotic intimacy.
By knowing how to look and where to look, we can reveal one of the deepest faces of our personality: the EROTIC PERSONA.
The effects of bringing this long lost but deeply missed part of our soul to light are surprising to the one who takes the leap. With the right knowledge and a guided beginning, anyone can bring their erotic persona to light and enjoy an amazing experience of self-discovery that helps remove even the deepest inner blocks and inhibitions regarding intimacy. The sense of inner freedom that appears when we awaken this awareness of our erotic persona brings us to a much higher level of experiencing fulfillment and pleasure in intimacy.
With the discovery of our erotic persona, we become experts in our own happiness and fulfillment in intimacy. Lovers can share their amorous ambitions and make each other happy when both parties are familiar with their erotic persona. Being fully aware of what makes you happy and fulfilled is the first step in learning how to make your loved one happy and fulfilled.
We invite you to a relaxed and meaningful journey into these secrets known only to lovers and initiates.
13.00 – 14.30
Lunch Break + Dance for Joy
14.30 – 16.00
Love Hall
Demonstration: Tantra Massage
Ulrik Lyshøj & Daniela Ananda & Iris Smeets
Demonstration: Tantra Massage
Come and join the live demonstration where you will learn the approach and attitude of a real tantra masseuse, you will see a live demonstration of Tantra Massage and if you are lucky and open to it, you can even get a direct experience of Tantra Massage on yourself.
Tantra Massage is a deeply connecting and intimate form of massage that touches people deeply, both in body and soul. It can heal tension and trauma, awaken all our energy centers and help us align our sexuality with our love and our spirituality.
Tantra Massage is a wonderful tool for self-discovery, as when we get in touch with our inner core, we discover the shortest path to true self-love, which radiates in our immediate surroundings.
Some of the topics we will cover:
• Why do people come to Tantra Massage and what are the experiences and tools for inner growth that they get here?
• How is the massage for women?
• How is the massage for men?
• How can tantric massage help us release problems and blockages and take our potentials and strengths to heights we had not imagined before?
• What does it take to become a true Tantra masseuse?
We at the Tantra Temple have chosen the tantric path as a way of life, and each of us trains many hours a day, practicing yoga, meditation, tantric techniques and active love, in order to be ready and qualified to guide people with the transformation they long for after.
Eros Hall
The Erogenous Zones - Explore the body's hidden treasures
Sahajananda Porslund & Angela Østergaard
The Erogenous Zones - Explore the body's hidden treasures
Knowing the hidden treasures on your own body and on the body of your loved one is essential to lift the erotic experience to higher levels.
In this workshop you will be guided through different erogenous zones, both in theory and in practice, to learn how you can create a deep erotic awakening. Erotic arousal is not comparable to sexual arousal. Typically it goes slower and is more playful and exploratory - to awaken both body and soul on a deeper level, so that you get ready for a true erotic fusion.
To participate, you must come to the workshop in pairs, man/woman. You don't have to pair up on a daily basis, but be open to touching each other in a sensual way. All the exercises take place together with the partner you have chosen.
In this workshop, you are welcome to take off as much clothing as you like, or to keep it all on.
16.30 – 18.00
Love Hall
Debate: Dialogue with Tantric Women
Daniela Ananda & Iris Smeets & Emmeline Vestergaard & Adriana Isvoranu
Debate: Dialogue with Tantric Women
“How is the woman perceived on the tantric path?” “What is her role?” “How can she fulfill her mission in this life as a woman, a lover, an initiator or a mother?” “How can a woman grow her femininity and become more happy and free according to the tantric tradition?” “What are the secrets of feminine erotic fulfillment?”
In order to answer these questions and many others, we have invited 5 experienced tantric women for a panel discussion that will offer the wise perspective of the ancient tantric practice to you; explaining the tantric viewpoint on womanhood through their knowledge and edifying personal experiences.
In this open and exciting forum for women we will embark together on an empowering quest, discovering how tantra can help us to embrace our own eroticism, discover the elevated pleasures of life and enhance the unique feminine qualities that are given to each one of us. Bring your meaningful questions and join us on a journey of self-discovery!
Eros Hall
The Awakened Man - Conscious Men's Circle
Sahajananda Porslund & Ulrik Lyshøj & Richard Løvlund
The Awakened Man - Conscious Men's Circle
This workshop deals with the pillar of a man's life and everything that surrounds it.
The pillar is your relationship with your own essence, your true nature. How can you as a modern man learn to live from your masculine core? We will train how you, as a man, can take responsibility for yourself and your mission in life.
All that encircles the pillar is your relationship with the universe and of course, women. In tantra, women are considered a symbol of the universe and the way you treat women reflects your relationship with life. We will train how you, as a man, can learn to pay tribute to the woman as a divine force, without losing focus on your life's mission. What does it mean to be masculine and what is the man's role in tantra, are some of the topics that will be touched upon.
18.15 – 19.00
Bringing it home: Closing ceremony
Tickets
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Full Weekend
Single Ticket
1200 kr
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- Entry on Saturday & Sunday for ONE person
- Access to all lectures, workshops, morning yoga, and festival activities
Access to cacao ceremony and ecstatic dance party (including performances, cuddling and chill-out)
Full Weekend
Couple Ticket
2000 kr
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- Entry on Saturday & Sunday for TWO people
- Access to all lectures, workshops, morning yoga, and festival activities
Access to cacao ceremony and ecstatic dance party (including performances, cuddling and chill-out)
Saturday Only
Single Ticket
800 kr
SOLD OUT
- Entry on Saturday for ONE person
- Access to all lectures, workshops, morning yoga, and festival activities
Access to cacao ceremony and ecstatic dance party (including performances, cuddling and chill-out)
Sunday Only
Single Ticket
800 kr
SOLD OUT
- Entry on Sunday for ONE person
- Access to all lectures, workshops, and festival activities
Access to morning yoga