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RED TENT: SACRED PRIESTESS CIRCLE IS BACK to CA!!! Let's honor the Autumn Equinox and reconnect in person and online with our sacred sisters on Friday, September 21, 2023.

On the Fall Equinox, we have an equal balance of day and night. Spiritually, this represents the light and darkness in our lives.

Let's honor the beginning of a new season in our lives as well as ALL aspects of ourselves on Thursday, September 21st  from 7:00 - 11:00 pm PST at The House of Love in Vista, CA.

After a year since we last Circled together, Taina's back in San Diego from Scotland and her world adventures.

Every Red Tent, we witness how much magic happens when women gather and how potent our collective energy is. We've seen sisters manifest dream homes, relationships, businesses... and so much more.

Let us start the new season planting powerful seeds of intention and launch into our most magnificent Self yet!

This all women-identified event is POTLUCK and will include some time after the ceremony for connections and HOT TUB under the stars.

It is a beautiful time to harvest, reset, and honor yourself for all that you have done.

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Together we will:

* Honor our journeys and reap the harvests of the summer 

* Shed what no longer serves

* Connect in deep and meaningful ways with our sisters and ourselves

* Use the power of the collective to manifest our desires and set powerful intentions

* Upgrade our energy to show up more powerfully and positively impact our lives, our communities, and the world

After 7 years doing the California Tantra Festival together, James Stevenson and Eugene Hedlund have amicably split ways as James is creating festivals and trainings all over the world under the Awaken As Love banner.

This CA Tantra Festival 2.0 is set in a new venue! We are very excited to move to Native Springs Oasis - with 160 acres of Sacred Native Land, 2 beautiful workshop spaces, a large Swimming Pool & Deck, Meditation Garden, Reflection & Kayaking Pond, the Oasis Creek, Artesian Spring Drinking Water, Fun Yard Games & a Fire Circle.

With all the old favorites: workshops in Tantra, Biodanza, Meditation, Yoga & Chi Gong, plus special opening/closing Ceremonies and a Sacred Cacao Ceremony, Ecstatic Dance, Live Concerts & DJs, sharing groups and temple evenings will be there.

We have a full line-up of international facilitators to lead you in Tantra workshops that will create a guided experience for the senses and evolution of your consciousness. 

Visit www.california-festival.com/ for more info.

PS: TICKETS WILL BE SOLD IN TIERS - FIRST 50 TICKETS GET BEST PRICE OPTION.

Join founder James Stevesnson, and 3 exquisite goddesses of color: Taina Ixchel, Luna Jae, and Yulia Rose, at Awaken as Love Stage 1: The Initiation for a weeklong mystery school designed to  elevate your life and potential.

Awaken as Love retreats offer maps, tools and experiences from Tantra, Shamanism, Embodiment, and Integral practices to take your life to the next level. 

It has been said that a quantum leap occurs in humans when they realize and embody the most recent unfolding edge of our consciousness named “Integral Consciousness”, and that it takes just 10% of the world population to steady themselves at this level to form a critical mass that will help bring the rest with them. 

These initiations are designed to jump-start your expansion into this level with the mission of helping that 10% emerge. So, do you feel some truth in this – is there some part of your body that says “yes” even if your mind doesn’t understand? If so, then you are aligning to a mission of being an ambassador of planetary change – perhaps as an already existing teacher, guide, or practitioner wanting to expand their influence, or just one who hears the call. 

"Awaken as Love touched my soul. It was the most beautiful experience of tantra and shamanism I could wish for. This week enabled me to make another step in my consciousness development, to let emotions melt in awareness, and to enjoy many new tools and practices. I am grateful that have been surrounded by loving people and great energy. Awaken as Love changed my perspective on myself and the world around me. I feel the power to do what I have been longing for, namely: living my life driven by love instead of by fear." -S.H., The Netherlands

“What a journey with these lovely crowd, I have grow up as a person, I have made new friends and I’ve met cool and inspiring people. By the way, the transformation was such… that I decided to repeat the training and still, I was surprise by the new insights and the fun nights. 

Love 💗” - SF

“ I’ve done different tantric workshops & festivals over recent years, but I don’t think any of them compare to the Awaken As Love training or festival in regards to its depth of emotional, intellectual, spiritual, sensual & sexual profundity 🙏🌷❤️✨” -Dr. Bob, holistic energy physician, Salt Lake City, Utah 

Do Mexico in style in this beautiful villa with Saltwater Hot Tub and Swimming Pool in sunny Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.

Dive deeper into the mysteries of shamanism, tantra, biodanza, and integral theory through an elegantly designed journey of conscious evolution. 

Are you ready to let go of unhelpful programming, old behavior patterns, outdated ideas, and playing small? 

This extensive, profoundly transformative experience is for you if you are willing to put in the effort, dig deeply into your mind without resistance, and master the art of letting go. 

The 8-day program is meticulously planned to achieve the greatest amount of transformation and connection. We promise that you will leave our training with new insights, a clearer sense of direction, and an entirely different outlook on life.

Get ready for Life 2.0!

Beach view Accommodations, saltwater pool and hot tub, plus a rooftop with stunning 360 view! 

This facilitator training is 7 days, with 9 extraordinary facilitators, and we are opening registration for just 18 attendees. Every year we have sold out!!!

“A priestess is a woman who lives in two worlds at once, who perceives life on earth against the backdrop of a vast, timeless reality. Whether or not she is mated to a human partner, she is a woman in love, wedded to being, to life, to love it self. Having offered herself, body and soul, in service of spirit, she mediates between matter and spirit, between human and divine realms. She may or may not be sexually active, but she will always honor sexual energy as a link to the source of life itself.” — Jalajah Bonheim 

Spiritual, sensual, and adventurous Sister, you are cordially invited to attend a one-of-a-kind womxn only retreat designed to unleash your inner vixen and sacred priestess: PRIESTESS TITILATION!

Inside every womxn, there is a force of nature so powerful it can create worlds. 

Shakti, the Divine Feminie, means power, force, energy. She is life itself, the Hindu goddess responsible for creation and all dynamic forces in the universe. 

This power resides within each of us. This retreat is designed to help you tap into, embody and untether this primordial force that is your birthright.

During this weeklong intensive, you will be guided and encouraged using 

• Tantric practices 
• Shamanic journeying
• Yoni healing 
• Sacred sisterhood 
• Sensuality 
• Sxxual initiations (meeting your own energetic lingam) 😉
• Playing with polarity
• Energy play
• Sxx magic
• Pleasure as power 
• Ritual and initiations 
• And so much more! 

Get ready to fall deeper in love with yourself, get intimately connected to your life force, channel your energy for the greater good, and unleash the Goddess within at PRIESTESS TITILLATION!!! ❤️‍🔥

“What a trip! I've had some of the most profound, magickal, healing and life changing experiences so far at the Priestess training.” -Soriya Case

My heart is full of Love and Gratitude to have shared sacred space with all these majestic beings of the Divine. It is always an honor for me to be in service to my soul and the holy sisterhood. It was a gift for me to be seen and to receive a tremendous amount of love and adoration from my fellow Priestesses. I love you all! 

I am especially grateful to Monique Darling, Taina Ixchel Jorda-Cid, Taylor Valdez for your trust in me to assist for the Priestess Initiation Embodying your Power through Ritual, Water Dance & Yoni Awakening. What a profound and magickal experience. I truly appreciate the safe space you All hold for me. I love you dearly 🌈💖🙏. -Penny Iloa 

The Awaken as Love Initiation is a journey open to everyone – it begins with a choice to go on an adventure that will expand you beyond the boundaries of your current existence. 

What will it bring to you? 

More awareness, more love, more inclusion, more juice to your life and more depth if you allow it.

This first stage is called “Initiation” because if you choose this then all your experiences up til now have led you to this point and you are obviously ready to step into a wider reality – in doing so you enter fresh and new, open to discovering more.

As you step into this journey, you will encounter maps that help you understand the larger world and your place in it (this is beyond your imagination), tools which help you to play more fully in this world, embodied experiences which help you to anchor a new reality and finally ongoing resources which help to integrate and incorporate this into your life.

"Awaken as Love touched my soul. It was the most beautiful experience of tantra and shamanism I could wish for. This week enabled me to make another step in my consciousness development, to let emotions melt in awareness, and to enjoy many new tools and practices. I am grateful that have been surrounded by loving people and great energy. Awaken as Love changed my perspective on myself and the world around me. I feel the power to do what I have been longing for, namely: living my life driven by love instead of by fear." -S.H., The Netherlands

“What a journey with these lovely crowd, I have grow up as a person, I have made new friends and I’ve met cool and inspiring people. By the way, the transformation was such… that I decided to repeat the training and still, I was surprise by the new insights and the fun nights. 

Love 💗” - SF

“ I’ve done different tantric workshops & festivals over recent years, but I don’t think any of them compare to the Awaken As Love training or festival in regards to its depth of emotional, intellectual, spiritual, sensual & sexual profundity 🙏🌷❤️✨” -Dr. Bob, holistic energy physician, Salt Lake City, Utah 

For the first time in 3 years, Awaken As Love Stage 2 - The Deepening is happening! 

On completing the Initiation stage of this journey you will have downloaded a new operating system into your consciousness. 

Many of the tools to bring your personal empowerment will be sitting in your pocket. Whether you use them or not is now up to you…

One way to really bring these more to life is through the Deepening process where the knowledge you have gained becomes digested into your being and emerges as your own wisdom, that can be expressed in your own words.

The deepening process takes you beyond the personal realms and into the unknowable as you undertake a shamanic death of all the conditioning that was given to you from outside and a rebirth as the deeper YOU emerges.

Thrilled to join an ALL-STAR team of facilitators in an incredible venue with caves, cenotes, and magic in ancient Mayan land! 

Imagine a group of wonderful people in a place surrounded by beautiful nature, tasty organic food and some of the best international & national facilitators who would be there to support you to join a 5 day experience in creating more intimacy in yourself, with life and in your relationships. 

Having a more vibrant and exciting life away from the normal constraints of our lives and minds. 

Meaningful and truthful, loving and blissful.

This is an English speaking Festival with a workshop quality, going on a deep journey together, and celebrate! Imagine being held in this field of experiences in the festival, supporting each other and getting tools to take it back into your lives so the changes remain.

On-site tickets have now SOLD OUT, but we have more accommodations reserved nearby. Get your tickets fast as this extraordinary Tantra Festival will likely completely sell out soon. DM me if interested in volunteer opportunities as I'm the Festival Coordinator for this one. Only a few spots left for volunteers at a discounted price!

“A Priestess is a woman who helps others connect to the divine so they can heal and/or actualize their souls path.” - Dara McKinley

Join Monique Darling, Taina Ixchel, and Taylor Valdez as we bring you 5 days of magic, of ritual, priestess initiation, Aquahara(water massage) surrender, empowerment and reclamation of your body, your voice, your sxxuality, your unique gifts, and your birthright of sisterhood! 

(This retreat is for female identifying folk) Join us and your fellow sisters 

TOGETHER lets:

 -embark on a life-transforming journey to empower yourself and unleash your Priestess potential -heal the shame, guilt and fear around your sxxuality and sensuality 

-bring more pleasure and beneficial intimate connections into your life 

-take your current practices to the next level, at this incredibly safe and sacred space for hands-on experiences of energy, direct transmissions of priestess downloads, and authentic connection-time with other female identified humans. 

This 5 day intensive includes powerful ceremonial practices, exercises with sisters to help us to bond, heal past traumas, practice surrender and play like children. 

“What a trip! I've had some of the most profound, magickal, healing and life changing experiences so far at the Priestess training.” -Soriya Case

My heart is full of Love and Gratitude to have shared sacred space with all these majestic beings of the Divine. It is always an honor for me to be in service to my soul and the holy sisterhood. It was a gift for me to be seen and to receive a tremendous amount of love and adoration from my fellow Priestesses. I love you all! 

I am especially grateful to Monique Darling, Taina Ixchel Jorda-Cid, Taylor Valdez for your trust in me to assist for the Priestess Initiation Embodying your Power through Ritual, Water Dance & Yoni Awakening. What a profound and magickal experience. I truly appreciate the safe space you All hold for me. I love you dearly 🌈💖🙏. -Penny Iloa 

Awaken as Love retreats offer maps, tools, and experiences from Tantra, Shamanism, Embodiment, and Integral practices to take your life to the next level.

It has been said that a quantum leap occurs in humans when they realize and embody the most recent unfolding edge of our consciousness named “Integral Consciousness”, and that it takes just 10% of the world population to steady themselves at this level to form a critical mass that will help bring the rest with them. And that the solutions to most of the world’s problems today reveal themselves. These initiations are designed to jump-start your expansion into this level with the mission of helping that 10% emerge.

Join us in sunny San Diego this October 17-24, 2022, for transformational and next-level training as we awaken as Love.