11 to 17 August 2025Module Three:
The Erotic Animal Hiding in the Shadows
Key Focus Points:
Experience the beauty, innocence and intelligence of your erotic nature.
Develop the capacity to speak your mind without guilt and shame, to set clear boundaries, and go for what you want.
Learn to access, feel and express what is in your shadow so it becomes a gift to integrate for you and all around you.
Release the lifeforce power of your animal instincts and develop your personal power, passion, fearlessness and spontaneity.
Become more able to feel and attune to your needs and find more ways to express them
Come alive into your “hell yes” by developing the capacity to set interpersonal boundaries, to say no and to set limits.
Increase your capacity for emotional and relational intelligence
Learn to ride the edge of your “growth zone” by distinguishing when you come from curiosity instead of judgment, compassion instead of impatience, love instead of control, embodied truth instead of strategy, and presence instead of performance.
Update adaptive strategies of relating by relating with others from a regulated nervous system in touch with your wholeness and an embodied trust, honesty and authenticity.
Experience being welcomed and met as you - in the good, the bad and the ugly that you have a hard time accepting about yourself.
Learn understandable, repeatable practices designed to develop the capacity to integrate a loving relationship with a vital sexuality,
Develop the capacity to relate with others with an open heart
Learn the “alchemy of relating,” the practice of embodied transparent self-disclosure that transforms our ancestral and personal traumas and adaptive strategies into presence, attunement, connection, aliveness and creativity.
Learn how to share feedback from your heart in ways that allow others to remain open to receive your honesty and deepen into more authenticity.
Become more comfortable in owning your truth, stand in your power and share your attractions.
Learn how to share your fears, desires and boundaries and how to collaborate to create a meeting point with others.
A Holistic Picture
Now that we have strong foundations of experiencing ourselves as an integral part of an embodied relational culture, how to ride the relational waves between protection to connection and feeling more stable in our personal power, we are ready to shine light into our shadows. It is in the shadows that our raw aliveness and turn on for life have been hiding. Under the trauma based suppressive layers of fear and shame awaits our natural erotic nature and love. Now we’re ready to meet these protective layers and set them free in connection with others.
To embark on this journey into the shadowlands in community requires courage and willingness to open up for support. It takes a warriorship of the heart that is willing to reveal the most uncomfortable truths of oneself and to own one’s projections. Instead of performing love and sex, anxiously trying to be who you think you need to be so you’ll be loved, now you are invited to embody the wild, hungry and sensuous animal that you’ve been hiding. As you transparently reveal your heartfelt truth and own your secret desires – wild, dirty, magical, powerful, free – we all come alive. As more and more of “the truth” that we can all feel in our guts and hearts are owned and shared, all of us are invited into the emerging field of effervescent love, awareness and coherence.
Engaging with each other opens up an electric field of transparency, openness, and vulnerability within the group. We do this knowing that simply the experience of being in touch with these most isolated and denied parts of ourselves, whilst never leaving the strong, loving eyes and arms of our community, can dramatically shift and release old patterns of pain and separation. We learn to love ourselves by allowing others to love what we’ve rejected in ourselves and how to form and deepen true friendships.
Sometimes our erotic and curious animal feels too much or risky to explore within a relationship and gets driven back into the shadows in order to preserve the stability. But in a group, with a wide spectrum of embodied and conscious people that can meet us in multiple and unique ways, our animal nature and its true longings and desires can be shared, explored and met.
We learn to track what is between us and share clear and heartfelt feedback with each other. As we lovingly reclaim our projections, roar from our hearts, wrestle and cuddle with each other, we rewrite the old outdated stories of who we are and what is possibly with new ones - ones where we can be truly ourselves, in all our power and fullness, in our sensitivity and fragility, while truly bond with others at the same time.
From this point we can begin to know and trust our life force, including our erotic nature, that is genuinely grounded and integrated with the core of who we are.
From an embodied self-awareness, abiding in the relational and attuned animal body, we learn to respond and create our lives in touch with what’s real. We can now begin to let go of futile attempts to try to improve, fix or control ourselves. By playing with one foot in the shadows, we intentionally bring in the darker and lighter sides of us that has been deemed as “too much” into connection. By playing on our edges of what has been taboo, we begin to embody the parts of our power that’s been hidden in the darkness, the huge amount of stored energy that was locked up in fear and trauma is now available to form the relationships and lives we have been dreaming.
We do this knowing that despite (and maybe even thanks to) our edges and shadows, we are lovable, we are welcome, and we belong. We feel the relief of not needing to live from a defended place, expecting the worst to happen, again. We learn to rest in an attuned and relational presence, in our bellies and hearts, that have the capacity to hold the welcome, and the unwelcome.
Triambaka Vive will join the facilitation team for this module. She will draw from her extensive training and practice with classical Tantra, shamanism, nondual spirituality, masculine and feminine dynamics, NLP, and body-based modalities including yogic therapy, bodywork.
She believes that sexual energy exists to feed all aspects of our lives. That it is deeply nourishing and here to fuel our vitality, our passion, our joy, and provide an endless stream of creative energy.
“the path to freedom lies within our sacred connection with our sexuality” - Triambaka
The tools, knowledge and practices she shares will help you look at your relationship with yourself as a sexual being, support you in embodying your authentic sexual expression and forming fulfilling relationships.
Triambaka will help you in raising your awareness and gaining mastery in the realms of sexuality, intimacy, your emotional body and your intimate relationships.
Additional Practices:
Mirroring and Feedback Practices (Drawing from our experience of Zegg Forum, Humaniversity Therapy, Embodied Intimacy, Contact Improvisation, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy)
Rewilding Practices (Drawing from our experience of Contact Improvisation, Embodied Intimacy)
Shadow Work (Drawing from our experience of Humaniversity Therapy, Drama Therapy)
Community Building Practices (Drawing from our experience of Theatre Improvisation, Cuddle and Play Structures)
Erotic and Sexual Healing Practices (Drawing from our experience of David Cates, Body Work, Yin based approach to De-armoring, Rebirthing, Tantra, Sexual Shamanism)
Conscious Kink and BDSM (Drawing from our experience of Humaniversity Therapy, David Cates)
Theoretical Context:
Theoretical Context (Drawing from our experience of Tamera Healing Biotope Philosophy, Sacred Sexuality, Conscious Kink)