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Candlelight Yoga for Couples

Yoga for deeper connection & Intimacy We invite you to a Candlelight Couples Yoga evening! In an intimate atmosphere, discover a yoga practice that deepens the connection between you and your loved one! This unique style of yoga is practiced in pairs and has profound effects compared to individual yoga. It is a fantastic opportunity to spend quality time together, discover each other, and create deep emotional connection. Benefits of Couples Yoga Improved communication: Couples yoga promotes mutual understanding through collaborative yoga postures that facilitate an energetic, mental and emotional connection Increased intimacy: Physical and breathing practices help deepen emotional connections and harmonize certain tensions or conflicts between lovers. Relaxation and stress reduction: Practicing yoga together in a state of empathy and attention enhances well-being, relaxes us, and opens us to each other. Emotional support: By practicing together, the two support one another, strengthening their connection, intimacy and love. Optimism and transformation: By practicing yoga together, we begin to perceive new qualities and extraordinary aspects in our loved ones, discovering beautiful aspects of our relationship. We perceive new nuances of the other one’s personality and way of being and assimilate them in our own being One of the most effective methods for amplifying and rekindling attraction, as well as the blossoming of emotional and spiritual intimacy in our loving relationships. Expansion of consciousness: During the couple asanas, the two practitioners focus, in the beginning phase, on the specific circulation of energies in their own being and then gradually their consciousness expands and includes each other’s being. In individual practice, we only realize our focus on the energies and the subtle energetic centers of our being. Find common aspirations & goals for the relationship outside of the normal routine or comfort zone Learn to understand each other: Couples yoga helps men understand emphatically the mysterious universe of women, and helps women understand emphatically the universe of men Boost your “Happy Hormones” Often referred to as the “love hormone”, Oxytocin plays a significant role in connection, intimacy, and eroticism. When couples engage in physical touch, eye contact, and shared profound experiences, especially if they have a peaceful and conscious space where they both orient their attention towards the practice of couple asanas, oxytocin levels increase, generating intense feelings of love and affection. Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that contributes to feelings of well-being and happiness. Practicing couple yoga helps enhance serotonin levels, improving our general mood and our emotional stability — important factors in an intimate loving relationship. Program Each session will take 1h 30 minutes and will unfold as follows: Short introduction to Couples Yoga & how it worksWarming up exercisesPractice of couple yoga postures (each time we will do 5-7 postures) guided by Erotina and Jean-BernardProfound relaxation techniqueCouple exercises for increasing heart connection and mutual transfiguration No Experience Needed You don’t need to be an expert in yoga or have flexibility; just come with an open mind and a willingness to explore! Wear comfortable clothing and let yourself be carried away by the positive and romantic energy of this practice! Read more here: https://natha.dk/candlelight-c...

Trance Immersion Weekend

Reconnecting to Heart, Wonder and Beneficial States of Trance - A Weekend with Talks, Practical Applications and Experiential Journey with Ceremonial Cacao When did you last allow yourself to fully inhabit a state of pure wonder? To feel the world become vibrant and shimmering with meaning? To immerse yourself in the joy of life so unconditional it needed no cause? These are not mere emotions. They are trance states – natural, available and profoundly nourishing. The capacity to enter them consciously, to remain in them, to deepen them – this is what we will begin to cultivate together. The Living Current Beneath Ordinary Awareness Since the earliest stirrings of human consciousness, cultures across every inhabited continent have known that certain states of deep immersion – states in which the ordinary boundaries of self image dissolve and something sublime moves through us – are not aberrations to be feared but thresholds to be crossed with skill, care and reverence. In many wisdom traditions, the phenomenon we today call ‘trance’ has been the living heartbeat of ceremony, healing, creative vision and communion with the natural world. Something essential was severed. Centuries of institutional suspicion – from organized religion to modern science – systematically pathologized these states, dismissed their wisdom, and stripped ecstatic practice of its rightful place at the center of communal and spiritual life. The consequences have not been neutral. When human beings lose access to their natural capacity for beneficial trance, they seek it elsewhere – in addiction, in numbness, in spectacle, in the kinds of states that diminish rather than ennoble. Now, something is turning. Anthropologists and cognitive scientists alike are beginning to catch up to what initiates have always known: that the human being is, at its core, a ’ceremonial animal’. Sublime trance states – consciously and skillfully induced – serve to reinforce the bonds of community, clarify values, deepen insight into the nature of reality, restore the reciprocal relationship with the living world, and catalyze profound healing. Trance may in fact be among the most natural and direct modes of exploring reality available to us. What remains largely unexplored – at least at any significant scale – is the refined spiritual methodology known within the yogic, tantric and animist traditions: a conscious, sober and systematic approach to accessing the higher, more sublime levels of beneficial trance. Not the trance of chemical shortcut, not the hollow mimicry of ‘party trance’ culture – but the bona fide of the ancestral trance tradition, entered with full awareness and lucidly exited with integrity. Poets like Ralph Waldo Emerson once touched the edges of this territory when they wrote of standing in nature and feeling all smallness fall away – becoming, as Emerson described it, “a transparent eye through which all of existence could see itself”. That quality of luminous immersion is not the exclusive province of poets or mystics. It is a human capacity, latent in each of us, awaiting cultivation. What Awaits You This Weekend This is a weekend of immersion – not theory alone, but lived experience. An invitation to reconnect with yourself and discover the wonders of trance practices through extended exercises, guided ceremony, mapping of the mechanisms and shared exploration. You will be led carefully and skillfully into beneficial states of soft trance using time-honoured methods drawn from yoga, tantra and animist tradition. No illegal substances. No recklessness. A conscious, sober, and deeply yogic approach – because the inner landscape, when approached with the right preparation, yields wonders enough. The weekend is at once a threshold and an invitation – a taste of a vast and largely unexplored domain in our world today, and a gateway into a deeper 12-week course beginning in the autumn of 2026, dedicated entirely to the esoteric understanding and practice of beneficial trance. You can look forward to: Rich, illuminating talks tracing the history, anthropology and spiritual significance of trance across cultures and traditions, including stories drawn from mythology, animism and indigenous wisdom lineages.Practical exercises and somatic techniques – using breath, rhythm, resonance and movement – designed to help you consciously enter and gently deepen specific states of beneficial trance.A longer guided experiential journey using ceremonial cacao and a blend of Ayurvedic herbs, devoted to the experience of a sustained and enlivening state of euphoric romantic trance – the kind of luminous, open-hearted aliveness that ordinary life too rarely offers.Time to socialise, eat together, share what arises and – weather permitting – move and breathe outdoors. What You Will Take With You A foundational understanding of the mechanisms and methodology of consciously induced beneficial tranceA direct taste of beneficial and soft trance experience in a...