Living a good life!
Let’s dance and sing,
not to avoid the challenges of life,
but to pass through them beautifully.
This way, we can extract
the wisdom hidden within them.
With this wisdom,
we can live a good life!
In this time of transition from one year to another,
I wish we all transitioned from ignorance to wisdom!
Much love and gratitude,
Pema
Would you like to meet me?
How about a day for you with me?
Here for you, a precious opportunity to meet me and some WildTantra Team members and get to know what WildTantra is all about!
On 24 November at Code 49 – Venwoude, I will present some of our methods and discuss the Path of Awakening program,
the renowned two-year process I have been offering in the Netherlands for 15 years.
What will we do?
We will practice five WildTantra methods, focusing on the breath, life force, desire, and gratitude.
Between practices, I will share the essence of Wild Tantra in a condensed form. I will keep it brief and to the point so we have plenty of time for the practices.
Understanding comes from practising the methods, rather than overloading the mind with concepts!
Places are limited!
Currently, there are only spots available for men (women are fully booked).
Men are warmly welcomed!
Info and Registration
Much love and gratitude,
Pema
Love is Unconditional!
We wish it and dream it, but how can we be unconditional with our love when jealousy, envy, possession, and manipulation rule the expressions of our hearts?
In Tantra, there are no intellectual answers to this; only challenging situations and precise methods can awaken the capacity for unconditional love.
In the tradition of the Kaula Heart of All, unconditional love is to be found in the dynamic of our relationships. The practices from this Tantric tradition are based on exploring awareness in relation to oneself, other people, animals, plants, and the whole of nature. In the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra (VBT), an ancient Shivaist Tantra scripture, unconditional love is explored through methods involving the body, breath, senses, pleasure, and sounds. These traditions emphasise Devotion and Gratitude as the primary keys to unconditional love.
AHAM LOVE Retreat offers precious meditation methods and situations originating in the Tantra Kaula of the Heart of All and the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra (VBT). The practices explore the many facets of the Heart through relating, praying, singing, and body awareness practices. The retreat aims to support you in stepping out of the mind’s mechanical reactions to the Heart’s spontaneous response by uprooting yourself from conditionings that prevent the expression of love.
This profound journey supports transmuting the energy of lower emotions to vibrant emotions such as gratitude and, ultimately, unconditional love. The process offers you the opportunity to discover your capacity for love, silence, transparency, and clarity. It connects you to your blissful being, highly sensitive awareness, and a vibrant heart.
I look forward to sharing those precious diamonds with you this summer from 3 to 10 August in Turkey!
Info and Registration
Much love and gratitude,
Pema
Thank you!
This passing year could be resumed with these simple words,
which we tend to forget:
Thank you!
Thank you, not even for something.
Just Thank you,
Just a burst of gratitude from my heart to yours!
Like a flowing river,
rays of light,
laughter,
silence…
In this time of transition from one year to another,
I wish we all transition from ignorance to wisdom!
I wish you to light up your life with gratitude!
Gratitude is Medicine!
Much love and gratitude,
Pema
What are Desire and Pleasure?
Is it possible to use them as a stepping stone to Consciousness?
Or is all a source of suffering?
Desire and pleasure are part of the journey of life. They motivate our actions, decisions, and relationships. We get some momentary fulfilments from them and some frustrations too! The frustrations lead to more desire for pleasurable moments. It goes on and on. We are prisoners of this loop, which generates much suffering.
Is there a way out of the loop which doesn’t condemn pleasure and desire?
Yes!
Entering the emptiness of the Heart is the essential Step!
RAJA Lovers Retreat explores this step through a Ritual involving the embrace, the caresses, and the kisses between two lovers. All the intimate gestures of the lovers are a means to fuse the body with intense life energy. While channelling this energy to the Heart, we provoke a meeting beyond ego, personality, restricted beliefs, and dreams. A true meeting happens by blending refined physical sensations with high awareness, discipline, and devotion during the Ritual.
The preparation for the Ritual during the retreat invites the lovers to move out of mechanical sex and mind projections and expectations. It is a profound enquiry into the body’s rhythms, breath, mind and the emptiness of the Heart. The retreat supports lovers in awakening their energies and bodies to refined sensitivity and vitality to activate their potential for love and consciousness.
The main areas of exploration:
Learning & practising the Raja Ritual
Practicing the Yoga of Creation
Entering the Great Desire
Centering in the emptiness of the Heart
Reviving Wonder
Opening to the forces of Creation
New Year = New Retreat
Yes!
A new retreat for 2024!
Guess what?
A retreat especially for Lovers!
Over the last 25 years of offering Tantra retreats, I have been profoundly looking at the dynamic Couples/Lovers. It has puzzled me and, from time to time, irritated me a lot! I discovered some essential distinctions between these two dynamics of the relationship between a man and a woman.
Couples dynamic is about manipulation, domination, abuse…
Lovers dynamic is about consciousness, love, peace…
I don’t blame couples!
I have been in that dynamic. I know the hell this can be!
I just like to make a distinction in potential between a man and a woman.
It can turn very destructive or very creative.
These two aspects are the two sides of the same coin: Life Energy.
It is a matter of how we channel it.
The same hand can caress or kill!
The same mouth can kiss or insult!
When couples channel their life energy in harmonious ways, they become lovers. And lovers support the expansion of consciousness, of love.
Lovers are very creative and transformative.
They can extract diamonds of bliss from the raw life force.
This year, I decided to support the diamonds between a man and a woman!
RAJA Lovers Retreat is the setting, the temple, for such support.
Much love and gratitude,
Pema
28 November 2023
19:00 to 22:00
Vondelkerk
Vondelstraat 120, 1054 GS Amsterdam
Book Launch & Celebration of Pema Gitama’s new book:
Tantra Vol III, The Path of Awakening
Pema will present her new book in a celebration evening. She will share the sources of inspiration of her book, read some parts of it and sign it. The evening will be filled with Medicine Songs with Styrmir Jósúa Gunnarsson, blissful dance with DJ Dariya Mirjam van Hasselt (5 Rhythms) and meetings with many beautiful friends.
What the book is about:
Tantra, Path of Awakening is a follow-up to Tantra Vol II, The Hidden Mysteries (2017). The author shares the wisdom of various Tantric Masters through the telling of an audacious journey undertaken by a young Tibetan woman named Pema. Her adventures take her and her dear friends into the remotest mountains of Tibet. Here, they encounter Masters of an ancient Tantric lineage who guard hidden sacred sites and teach them secret initiations, healing methods and energy practices which open their perception of reality into totally new dimensions.
This truly unexpected and original story offers profound understandings from a lineage unrevealed until now. It shatters preconceived notions of Tantra and transmits meditation practices and healing methods for those who wish to explore the Path of Tantra.
Illustrations include the outstanding photography by Arjun Roodink, the graceful artwork by Tashi Mannox and the precious drawings by Taki Runa.
The book contains three parts:
– The breath-taking story of Initiations to an ancient secret Tantra lineage
– A guide to Tantric meditation practices and healing methods illustrated with full-page colour photos
– Photographs, artwork and surprises…
Specification:
17 x 2,8 x 24 cm
480 pages
1100 grams
ISBN 978-2-9545846-6-9
English language
Published by Kaula Heart of All 2023
Read the second part in Tantra Vol II, The Hidden Mysteries (2010)
From the same author:
Tantra Vol I, The Whispering Transmission (2010),
Tantra Sarpá-vid, The Snake Charmer Initiation (2012, Book and CD)
VBT 16, Glory of the Lotus (2014, Book and CD)
Tantra Vol II, The Hidden Mysteries (2017)
Tantra Vol III, The Path of Awakening (November 2023)
Please bring something like a pillow or yoga mat to sit comfortably…
Where is Here & Now?
Weird question isn’t it!
The intellectual answer is easy: Here and now is in the present moment!
But we cannot fool ourselves too long with intellectual gibberish!
We are honest enough to admit that we know where is the here and now but oddly enough we can’t find it.
How interesting and funny is this!
I guess all the ones that did and do find it are compassionately laughing loud at our ignorance!
Hopefully you can laugh too!
Let’s not make a drama of our situation. Better find the most beautiful way to finally rest into the Here and Now.
I did try many ways coming from various traditions.
I found Tantra to be the most straight forward invitation into the Here and Now.
But we cannot fool ourselves too long with intellectual gibberish!
We are honest enough to admit that we know where is the here and now but oddly enough we can’t find it.
How interesting and funny is this!
I guess all the ones that did and do find it are compassionately laughing loud at our ignorance!
Hopefully you can laugh too!
Let’s not make a drama of our situation. Better find the most beautiful way to finally rest into the Here and Now.
I did try many ways coming from various traditions.
I found Tantra to be the most straight forward invitation into the Here and Now.
Tantra doesn’t use doctrine, dogma, nor condemnation or priesting, not even teaching.
Tantra invites through sharing crazy wisdom!
It seduces us gently, lovingly, gracefully into the Here and Now
through meditation methods centering us to our closest reality which is our body.
The magic trick here is: the body cannot be in the future neither in the past.
It can only be Here and Now!
If we fully center ourselves into the body we finally land into Here & Now.
New dimensions of reality open up.
Dimensions that are no more ruled by past and future, which means not ruled by mind, by division.
We enter our everlasting presence, our eternal being right there at the center of the Heart!
Tantra has very clear steps! It doesn’t go round with complicated ways. It jumps straight into the essential!
The body is the stepping “stone” for entering the Heart of the Here & Now!
Tantra invites through sharing crazy wisdom!
It seduces us gently, lovingly, gracefully into the Here and Now
through meditation methods centering us to our closest reality which is our body.
The magic trick here is: the body cannot be in the future neither in the past.
It can only be Here and Now!
If we fully center ourselves into the body we finally land into Here & Now.
New dimensions of reality open up.
Dimensions that are no more ruled by past and future, which means not ruled by mind, by division.
We enter our everlasting presence, our eternal being right there at the center of the Heart!
Tantra has very clear steps! It doesn’t go round with complicated ways. It jumps straight into the essential!
The body is the stepping “stone” for entering the Heart of the Here & Now!
Would you like to take the jump?
Would you like to enter the Here & Now? Your presence, your essence, your home…
Hmmm… I take your silence as a Yes!!!
Join us this year for some graceful adventures into the Here & Now!
We still have some places available for the Silent Orgasm Retreat starting end of March and two places for our precious Couple retreat in May, and for daring women, we have the Matka retreat in September.
Check our program here!
See you soon in the Here & Now!
With love and gratitude,
Pema
