Practitioners in Residence
Baba Dez
Baba Dez is a Daka and transformational guide currently living in Sedona and Hawaii. Exploring the sacred inner realms and enjoying the many textures of life, love, and humanity, Baba Dez has studied, assisted, and been blessed with the presence and wisdom of many masters around the world for over 20 years. It is his path and honor to share these gifts and support others on their journey. It is his commitment to help people deepen in their truth and power, find enjoyment in transformation, and bring in grounded results. www.babadez.com
Daka/Dakini Training and Mentoring
Educational Courses for Couples Massage
Nutritional Coaching and Cleanse Support
Shamanic Land Journeys and Healings
Barbara
Having worked in the healing arts for over 19 years, Barbara brings an eclectic variety of modalities to assist you in the cleansing and nurturing of your body. A raw foods chef and educator, Barbara has been assisting people in cleansing the body and making changes in their lifestyle for over 10 years. It is her philosophy that cleansing is not only about the physical body, it is about the emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies as well. How one thinks and feels about food and nutrition has a great impact on the way it is processed by the body. Barbaras expertise lies in helping people to make quantum shifts in the way they approach their bodies, food, and the healing process. Nourishment on all levels, is integral in honoring the body as temple.
Nutritional Coaching and Cleanse Support
Daka/Dakini Training and Mentoring
Barbara and Rasa
Sexy Tantra: Relationship and Intimacy Coaching for Couples with Barbara and Rasa
Intimacy. Bliss. Joy. Sharing. Trust. Communication. Acceptance.
Conscious Relationship: The Path of the Beloved
The path of relationship can be both deeply rewarding and equally challenging. The more awareness and love we bring into our relationships, the more we can benefit from one another and grow together in new and expansive ways. Our modality, Tantric Infusion, weaves ancient tantric techniques and other healing modalities, with a modern practical approach. You will gain more clarity and focus, presence and awareness, passion and desire, to live a more balanced and fulfilled life. We will explore intimacy, communication, trust, and empowerment within the context of conscious relationship. Create a new paradigm with your partner as you deepen your connection to each other and learn new ways of being that bring more grace, ease, joy, bliss, love, and enrichment into your lives.
During our time together, if you desire, you will:
* strengthen your bond
* re-commit to/re-create your relationship
* learn tantric exercises
* explore sacred sexuality
* deepen trust and safety
* release past wounds, resentments
* learn communication tools
Sedona sessions are generally 2 to 3 hours long.
Rates: $250-$375 / hour, sliding scale
Tantric Infusion: Basic Essentials for Juicier Living
These sessions are similar in form to the coaching sessions, however they follow the red path of tantra, and are for couples who wish to have a direct experience with sensual/sexual energy. We will explore tools and techniques which serve to raise the sexual energy, and you will learn new ways of relating with your partner in the bedroom and in all of life.
Sessions may include:
* erotic touch
* sacred spot demonstration and instruction
* sacred sexuality teachings
* intimacy exercises
These sessions are a minimum of 1.5 hours long.
Rates: $400-600 / hour, sliding scale
Crystal Dawn Morriss
Crystal Dawn Morris, the founder of Tantra for Awakening, is a Certified SkyDancing Tantra teacher. Her classes, workshops and private coaching sessions give people practical tools for living an ecstatic life. She is known for her warmth as well as her ability to create a safe, sacred space where magic unfolds. Her Tantra studies began in 1989 and in 2003 she began training with Margot Anand, the author of The Art of Sexual Ecstasy. Crystal is passionate about teaching Tantra, the practice of weaving the Divine into every moment, because it has the power to expand consciousness and awareness of our unity with all-that-is. She draws on a diverse background as an RN, a Certified Nurse-Midwife, Reiki Master, and Shamanic Practitioner. Crystal Dawn has over 20 years experience as a healer and a teacher in a variety of settings. She lives in Sedona, Arizona where she teaches SkyDancing Tantra, practices yoga, meditates and writes. She is committed to creating a world community based on love and acceptance. For more information visit her website at www.TantraForAwakening.com .
Daka/Dakini Training and Mentoring
Lakshmi Ma
Lakshmi Ma has had a varied background. She holds a masters degree in Anthropology and Psychology In the past she taught Stress Management to Fortune 500 companies,, and also served as a substance abuse counselor in the late 1970s. During that time she lived in an Ashram for 6 years. There she studied and practiced a form of devotional Kundalini Yoga and Tantric Yoga In 1981 she connected with George Vithoulkas who re- introduced Classical Homeopathy to the US; she has practiced and studied homeopathy for the past 25 years. She currently practices in an integrated medical practice. She has been meditating for over 30 years and has developed the use of her unique essences for both chakra and emotional opening.
Lawrence Lanoff
Lawrence currently devotes his time to writing, yoga, photography, film, and teaching both groups and individuals the work of A Course in Freedom, including creativity, healing, and the expansion of consciousness. He is currently working on a revolutionary new theory of consciousness that includes mythology, evolution, business, money, human awareness,symbolism, metaphor, neurobiology, and their relationship to healing, brain function, human spiritual evolution, and neuro-economics -- the neural pathways that influences our deepest feelings about self worth and money.
Daka/Dakini Training and Mentoring
Rasa
Rasa’s service for the higher realms thru sacred ritual started at the age of ten.
He left Germany at the age of nineteen, to travel, to explore and to find answers to his questions. After a few close calls and a brush with death in a bus crash in Mexico he came to the U.S. During his time in the United States he came upon text and religions he heard of, yet never considered studying before. Shamanism, Vedic and tantric principles caught his attention and answered many unsolved questions. To finance his living he worked in a mineral and fossil store. This added a new layer, as it presented him with information in regards to metaphysical aspects.
After his return to his native roots he learned all aspects of mining and preparing of Minerals, polishing rocks and gems into various shapes and sizes, designing of jewelry and buying as well as selling. This enabled him to travel and to further his studies in the esoteric/metaphysical world. At the age of twenty-two he learned the art of massage and was introduced and instructed in the art of healing with crystals, minerals and other tools. While traveling in the pursuit of Minerals and Fossils he was fortunate to meet many healers and teachers sharing their insights.
At the age of thirty his son was born in Scottsdale, AZ and the following year he moved his family to Sedona, AZ.
In a vision he saw how he would combine his shamanic studies and lifestyle with his creative talents. Creating a continuing series of Dream Warriors he also started guiding visitors around the Sedona area. Thru his loving the land and his desire to share his passion he met Baba Dez, a shamanic/tantric teacher who offered him an apprenticeship as a Daka, teaching him the art of tantra and sacred sexuality. Rasa now offers his services at the Sedona Temple and guides individuals and groups on land journeys throughout the Sedona area. Not in this area, yet have the desire to have Rasa visit you personally? He will travel and visit you in your environment, throughout the continental United States and Hawaii. For availability please call or send an email with a short description regarding your desires and intent for a session with Rasa and he will personally contact you to set up an appointment or to discuss any travel arrangements.
Daka/Dakini Training and Mentoring
Shamanic Land Journeys and Healings
Shannon York
Born in Houston, Shannon York found a copy of the “Joy of Sex” by Alex Comfort and a few Judy Blume novels which tickled her teenage curiosity about sexuality. Later in life she came into contact with Baba Dez and took sessions with him and other practitioners in Sedona. Now living in Sedona and being part of the Sedona Temple is a dream come true for her. Some of her accomplishments and interests include taking the Peak Potentials Courses; the Morehouse Group, and is a frequent cruiser with Mike Dooley, author of “Notes from the Universe.” She is also graduate of the Austin School of Massage Therapy, holds a Bachelors degree of Arts at the University of Texas. As a graduate of the Sedona School of Temple Arts Apprenticeship program her mission is to hold space for her clients, teach Tantra, Abundance Coaching, and further deepen her passion for the mission of the Sedona Temple.
Visiting Practitioners
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Nationwide Practitioners
Amara (Phoenix)
Amara is an inspirational, loving and gracefully feminine mystical teacher. Trained in the Taoist White Tigress tradition of feminine spiritual practices--Amara is also apprenticed to the Sweet Medicine Sundance Path of Turtle Island and is a Quodoushka spiritual sexuality instructor. She is the founder of Jade Moon Sacred Sexuality Training Programs and has led workshops internationally since 1989. She offers spiritual guidance for men and women to reconnect with their passion, restore the quality of their sexual energy, and deepen their appreciation of life. Amara, an author and poet, currently makes her home in Phoenix, Arizona.
Daka/Dakini Training and Mentoring
Anyaa McAndrews (North Carolina)
Anyaa McAndrew is a shamanic-transpersonal psychotherapist and makes her home in the Smoky Mountains of NC. She is a Shamanic Breathwork practitioner, a Master Shamanic Astrologer, a Bishop in the Madonna Ministry and a Tantric Educator. As a High Priestess she facilitates “Awakening the Shamanic Priestess: Embodying Shakti to Heal Your World”, "The Shamanic Priestess Process", a psyche and spirit empowerment path for women, and the “Magdalene Mysteries” in year-long circles around the US. Anyaa walks the path of the Goddess and is a vehicle for the returning Sacred Feminine at this Turning of the Ages. Her work integrates the Scorpio-Taurus Mysteries of life-force energy with passion, love, safety and depth. Visit www.goddessontheloose.com for articles, interviews and coming events with Anyaa.
Daka/Dakini Training and Mentoring
Amatha Golden Fire (Boulder)
Athena Golden Fire has been featured in the media: Channel 2 (WB 2); in various magazines; in documentary films, such as The Sacred Prostitute, Tantric massage: Femme a Femme etc.
Born and raised in Scandinavia , one of the most sexually liberated places in the world, Tantra / sacred sexuality was a very natural path for her.
Since age 15 she has been on a Devoted Path, and her gifts are now unfolding into its powerful fruition. She takes you on a beautiful sensual and nurturing Synergistic Tantric Somatic Journey, where the entire body connects to the subconscious, whereby tapping into your natural innate powers and pleasures. It will heighten your Tantric experience to new levels you have never thought possible!
* expand your orgasms
* awaken the Kundalini
* expand your consciousness
* resolve issues and in your partnership
* learn about Tantra / sacred sexuality on a deeper and quicker pace
Daka/Dakini Training and Mentoring
Ian Ellington (Atlanta)
Ian is an Erotic Healer, Physician, Usui Reiki Master, Conscious Integrative Breathworker, Tantric/Taoist Bodyworker, Sacred Intimate, and the former Atlanta Coordinator for Body Electric. He draws on all of these disciplines to carry the message forth that our Sexual Nature is our Divine Right, that our Erotic Energy is the Life Force, and that Awakening fully to this Erotic Energy in our Bodies can be a pathway to Higher Consciousness.
Ian has been following the Tantric Path since 2000. He has trained with several organizations and individuals, including The Body Electric School, Bodhi Avinasha and Tantrika International, Rudy Ballentine, Jack Painter, Mantak Chia, Margot Anand’s Love and Ecstacy Training with the Institute for Tantra and Meditation and numerous others. He is a devotee of and grateful for the works of Eckhart Tolle, Andrew Harvey, and OSHO.
After 19 years of working with women as an OB/GYN, Ian has now devoted his life to working with men who are seeking personal transformation and growth. Sexual life force energy has been known for centuries to be a pathway to higher consciousness and to a deeper connection with the sacredness of all there is. Ian works with his clients to transform this primal erotic energy into spiritual energy and bliss and guides them on a journey to embrace the pleasure of their body while breaking through old learned patterns of emotional blocks, taboos, ignorance and shame that limit their access to this ecstatic energy that is our birthright.
For many men, sexuality has been strongly influenced by a culture that teaches us from a young age that sex is to be hidden, not spoken of, and quiet. Our bodies take on this conditioning in the form of tensions, sexual dysfunctions, addictions, and intimacy issues. Our raw, primal, sexual nature is suppressed and replaced with mental noise and we lose our connection to our original Source. By bringing awareness to these old traps and reprogramming our bodies, we can awaken to more clarity, insight, creativity, self-esteem, personal growth and spiritual evolution.
Kamala Devi (San Diego)
Kamala Devi, is a Bliss Coach and Dakini who awakened to the sacred sexual arts in Hawaii. She has since traveled Europe, Asia, India, Bali and the South Pacific studying tantra. She specializes in Sex Magic, Channeling Creativity and Self Promotion for Erotic Professionals. Kamala hosts and leads monthly pujas and playshops in San Diego. Kamala is the author of Don't Drink the Punch: An Adventure in Tantra, Teaching Tantra: The Erotic Way, and is currently working with Baba Dez to co-author Sacred Sexual Healing: Tantra for Transformation and Sex Magic for Manifestation. http://www.PartnerPlayshop.com
Daka/Dakini Training and Mentoring
Kypris (San Diego)
Shamanic tantra is a spiritual journey into a passionate creative life that includes a full and rich sexual connection to God. Initiated on this path by a powerful shamanic healer, Kypris has journeyed in search of spiritual wisdom, beauty, and the open heart through many places on Mother Earth: walking the witch-hunting hills of Salem, MA; bathing in the healing waters of Tahiti and Hawaii, and making love to the austere deserts of Sedona and Anza-Borrego. With the roots of her spiritual practice in Wicca, Kypris was led to tantra through visions of Aphrodite and Shiva, and transformed through solo practice of ritual, energy channeling, bellydance, and yoga. Led to her tantric partner by a powerful shamanic dream, Kypris practices tantra today in tandem, and works as a spiritual coach, healer, and teacher. She is the author of the forthcoming book: "Journey to Sexual Wholeness: The Six Gateways to Sacred Sexuality".
Maya (travels nationwide)
Maya is a highly skilled, powerful, and intuitive sacred sexual healer, shamaness and metaphysician. She has dedicated her life to a unique and holistic path of self-awareness, expression, and knowledge, integrating all aspects of Self. Maya lovingly supports the flowering of consciousness, light and compassion into core collective conditionings, addictions, repressions, and distortions of our time. Embody the passionate, creative, free and knowing spirit of divine being! A true student of life, Maya deeply honors and continually strives for enrichment of perspective and insight amassed through a wide range of schools and masters. Yet, it is her deep and rich life experience and discipline that conveys such powerful insight, strong presence and authenticity. Maya travels worldwide, offering workshops, and private sessions to those who seek a higher vibration of being. Enjoy being seen, supported, and celebrated by this beautiful and spirited guide.
Daka/Dakini Training and Mentoring
Mare Simone (travels nationwide)
Certified Tantra Educator TM. Mare Simone is a pioneer in the field of exploring Tantra and enlightened sexual loving. Her Tantra profession began in the mid-80s, after a yearlong teacher training and initiation in Tantra Kriya Yoga, with Sunyata Saraswati and Bodhi Avinasha. Mare is a Certified Sex Surrogate since 1986 during her apprenticeship with Dr. Michael Perry MFCC. She is a featured surrogate in a video with him entitled, "Sexual Secrets, A Surrogates Guide to Great Sex". In 1989, Mare Simone founded Tantra Connections in Los Angeles, to establish a community founded on Tantric skills and principles. During this 5-year period, she had the great fortune to meet, work and study with many of the top Tantra masters in the United States. In 1993, Mare began an extended apprenticeship and practice with Charles and Caroline Muir. As an advanced CTE through their Source School of Tantra, Mare continues to work with them and with their students. A noted television personality as an advocate for the spiritual dimensions of sexuality, Mare Simone has been featured on HBO's, Real Sex, The Playboy Channel, British ITV, and E! Entertainment, she also appears in the popular tantra video, produced by Tantra.com: "Ancient Secrets, for Modern Lovers". And is currently casting for Chakra Contact participants in a DVD/video series. www.tantraheaven.com
Daka/Dakini Training and Mentoring
Patrick Russell (Santa Fe, New York City, UK)
Patrick follows the self-developed practice of kikaido. Incorporating physical regimen from Taoism, Buddhism, and Tantra with energetic conceptual foundations from quantum physics kikaido opens a door for the individual to experience and exercise an expanded landscape of perception, energetically and dimentionally. www.kikaido.com
Daka/Dakini Training and Mentoring
Sharon Mauldin (Southwest Colorado)
Sharon Mauldin combines her experience as Dakini, Certified Tantra Educator tM, Birth & Postpartum Doula, Birthing From Within tM Mentor, Massage Therapist and Somatic Practitioner to offer unique and enlivening private sessions, retreats and workshops. With 25 years of experience in the healing arts she is gifted in holding a clear, loving space for individual and couples to explore the fullness of their whole-being expression. She is passionate about the tantric path as a powerful vehicle for birthing ourselves, our babies, our families and our visions with consciousness and awareness. Sharon lives in Southwest Colorado where she offers Sacred Loving workshops with her husband, Daka extraordinaire, Kenneth Mauldin.
Daka/Dakini Training and Mentoring
Shawn Roop (San Diego)
Shawn Roop is facilitator in San Diego. His foundation is Tantric, using the ancient teachings from India merged with modern teachings; he explores the interpersonal relationship with the seven main energy points in the body, the chakras. He supports transformation at whatever speed that maintains safety and rapport, while offering a enormous level of presence and awareness. All areas of life can be addressed in your sessions. Shawn also draws upon on 18 years of Huna (the Hawaiian Shamanic path), also know as Ho’omana, to support immense change and over all wellness in each session. The interlacing of Huna and Tantric wisdom presents a gentle complexity and total approach to all aspect of the mind, body and soul. Free your limitations and dive into life with grace and ease. Reclaim sexual empowerment and remember keys to unlock your dynamic life fully. Each session is uniquely designed based on what your intention is. All sessions with Shawn have the possibility for wonderful life change; how much is based on your willingness to accept growth in life. Shawn is a magnificent communicator with sharp intuition, that helps creates fast results and massive movement towards want you want. Let Shawn take you on a journey of a life well lived today... www.TantraQuest.com
Daka/Dakini Training and Mentoring
Shivakti Shaktiva (San Francisco)
Shivakti Shaktiva is the creator of the San Francisco Bay Area healing collective, "Temple of Bliss," founded in 1994. She is a facilitator of shamanic "journey" circles and has founded a non-profit church, "Fountains of Bliss." Shivakti has trained in the sacred temple arts for the past 15+ years. Her studies/practices have interwoven shamanism, yoga, bodywork & tantra. Her intention is to assist others in awakening to their divine magic, birthright and power, to facilitate kundalini activation and soul-remembrance of Cosmic Union, "Beloved Holy Love." Shivakti works with individuals, couples and groups in a variety of formats, offering an experiential body-based relationship to the information she shares. She affirms, "We ALL hold the keys to unlock our treasure chest of the Universe's Sacred mysteries!" For more information on Temple of Bliss and Fountains of Bliss, please see: www.templeofbliss.com
Daka/Dakini Training and Mentoring
Triambika (San Francisco)
Triambika is a professional intimacy coach and international tantric educator. Having spent the last fourteen years diving deep into eastern studies, Triambika has devoted much of her adult life to the study and practice of Tantra yoga and the union of Spirit and sex.
Her education of conscious sexuality comes from a variety of sources including certification as an advanced Tantric Educator through Charles Muir's Source School of Tantra, Erotic Spirituality Educators training with Taj Anapol, Sexual Chi Gung, Body Electric, Level I Quadoshka , San Francisco Sex Information (SFSI) training, and various other classes, resources joined with an abundance of life experience as a sexual healer and coach.
Triambika is a yogini at heart. In 2002 she took initiation into a Kashmir Shaivist Tantric lineage, where she received numerous experiential, verbal and non-verbal teachings of thispowerful non-dual ancient tradition. Owing much of her training in classical tantra to her beloved gurus of the Sarasvati lineage as well as Kali Ma of Mahasiddha Dharma, Triambika is well versed in yogic and tantric philosophy in addition to being an adept practitioner.
Her presence is open & compassionate and her work is deep & nurturing. With focused intention, intuition and acceptance, She invites her companions to fully blossom to their greatest ecstatic potential.
Triambika is available for private coaching, phone counseling, lectures and classes upon request.