About this Retreat
Satyama Ratna Lasby is an internationally known and advanced teacher of hatha, vinyasa and tantric yoga classes/retreats and yoga teacher trainings as well as trainings and experiences in the subject of tantra in classical and neo-tantric ways in communities.
Through her extensive studies in India, Central America, Bali, Hawaii and Thailand, she has gained accreditation in the physical therapies of Thai massage, cranial sacral, lomi lomi, Swedish, Chi Nei Tsang, and Tantric massage. She has dedicated herself and teachings to the foundation of meditation, which altered the course of her life in 2005 with vipassana retreats. She has been in 19 silent retreats since and also had a transformed time working in the Osho Meditation commune in 2009.
Satyama has celebrated the publishing of “The Tao of Tantric Yoga,” as a way to describe how the healing modalities of yoga, tantra and meditation fit together.
Open to Bliss formed 15 years ago as the solution for linking Eastern teachings to the Western mind. Founded by Satyama offers yoga classes and intensive trainings in yoga and tantra as well as training in Chi Nei Tsang abdominal massage.
Evolving with energy, curiosity and time, Satyama (Ratna) provides training in developing and using community building tools. Satyama’s work with the communities of Osho, Pachamama, Tamera, Auroville are varied yet extensive, as she weaves people and opportunities together by demonstrating how we can work effectively together through communication techniques, truth and transparency to build understanding, drop judgement and lean into trust.
www.opentobliss.com
Details of this retreat
Use community in the tantric tradition to do this, a private venue in South Portugal with an aqua lake, all meals provided by 8 chefs, an international group, like-minded beings living with curiosity and experience.
Many of us are perceived to have it all – beauty? Money? Friends? family? We tend to shy away from talking about what takes more space in the mind than all of these things. The satisfaction level in our personal love, also sexual life. The stuff that lies in the subconscious. Let’s go there.
The Tantric Yoga Intensive Retreat, led by Satyama Lasby of Open to Bliss is a deep look at the scope of tantra and will experientially deepen your awareness of both the elements in yoga and tantra, including energy sublimation and purification on many levels. The combination of these two disciplines, influenced by Osho’s work, Tantric Yoga principles and also Taoist practices will change your perspective and bring you to a new place in yourself and in relating via heightened consciousness on what is happening for you personally, communally and spiritually.
We look at activating and purifying the chakras so that you can be and remain OPEN to the bliss involved when we practice together, also for your continuation of a path that makes life creative, unique and worth living in your totality. You will experience the beauty of the subtle realms of practices, and also be exposed to tantric massage techniques, emotional release, authentic yoga, tantric meditations and other experiences in the group that bring you to the point. Your point.
First day: Arrival check-in – anytime after 2pm
Official program start: 5pm Opening circle and dinner to meet others
Last day: Ends at 2pm after a ritual which makes the entire retreat come together.
Daily Schedule, subject to change in a moment, it does, depending on what is needed, with the group experience as the priority.
7:30am Tantric Yoga Practice
Tantric Yoga will teach you about classical hatha yoga and also what asana/posture activates and purifies which chakra, how to perform the asanas correctly, and for what amount of time is necessary for deep transformation. This style of yoga can heal every illness, and possibly discrepancy in the mind! and also give enormous breakthroughs in the areas of confidence, ability, charisma, positivity and manifestation alignment and abilities.
9am: Morning breakfast
10am: Exercises that link what we are doing and why, Exercises that work towards the expansion of consciousness, sound and silence. Trust building, team building, truth revealing.
1pm lunch and break
3:30pm Activities like, and always changing as this is a dynamic retreat with change and presence demanded and sought:
• Seva offering – gifting and receiving (a big part of life as a communal and tantric being, the antidote of selfishness and magic in life)
• Activation of selfless principles involved in every successful community. Learn what happens when you give in order to evolve. If you are not a meditator now, learn what meditation can do to make life better than you ever imagined and that how and what you think really matters to outcomes. You will leave the retreat a happier, healthier, satisfied being. This happens in ways you never thought possible. Love underlies all of our activities. Healing spontaneously occurs as does peak moments via practice, stillness, the silence and in our tantric rituals.
• Forum and Sharings – Inspired by Zeeg and Tamera communities, participate in self-exposure in the form of circle share method for healing, alternative and effective therapeutic support, taking responsibility for all that occurs in our life, to see our projections and to understand our wounds and traumas and how they play out in our lives as issues and in our personal patterns. Have a look at blindspots, work on intimacy.
• Tantric touch elements and massage training so that your senses are satisfied and your heart heals and grows. Orgasmic and multi-orgasmic response, an inner dance with you, others, your mind, the breath and its importance
• Communication tools via a tantric lense, asking and negotiating for what you want and truly need, boundary identification, profound depth of presence, tantric massage, orgasmic and multi-orgasmic response
• Dance (inner and outer) with you, others, your mind, the breath and its importance.
7pm dinner
8pm Fantastic Evening events! Intense and full of promise, full of what you put into them! May involve elements of cacao, classical tantric rituals, date night, Temple evening, triplet work. This particular retreat, we will partake in a ritual with 5 MeO DMT with the group to go into high chakric states of awareness and healing. Be surprised and delighted… they have lasting effects as you move in the world, long after the retreat.