2014 Art of Being brochure

Alan’s 2014 Programme
See overleaf for starting times (always 8.30pm unless otherwise stated). For all prices please see Calendar at www.artofbeing.com
Workshops and Courses
with Alan Lowen,
founder of The Art of Being®
The Art of Being®
PROGRAMME 2014
Telephone
Date
Workshop
Location
E-mail
Feb 22 – Mar 8, 2014
High on Life in Brazil
Ciranda, near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
christiane@artofbeing.com
+49 (0)176 477 471 80
March 22 – 23, 2014
Alan at Barbican Tantra Festival
Barbican Centre, London
info@tantrafestivals.co.uk
+44 (0)1304 448 580
Mar 28 – Apr 4, 2014
Body, Heart & Soul 2
Parimal, nr. Kassel, Germany
violetta@artofbeing.com
+49 (0)30 39 03 18 88
Apr 18 – Apr 24, 2014
Body, Heart & Soul 1
Waldhaus Zentrum, Switzerland
waldhaus@waldhaus.ch
+41 (0)34 461 0705
Apr 18 – Apr 21, 2014
Freedom to Feel, Freedom to Love Waldhaus Zentrum, Switzerland
waldhaus@waldhaus.ch
+41 (0)34 461 0705
May 1 – 4, 2014
“I Love You!”
Skalka u Doks, Czech Republic
deepa@artofbeing.com
+420 777 246 812
June 6 – 9, 2014
Mystical Tantra
Schloss Glarisegg, Switzerland
christiane@artofbeing.com
July 2 – 6, 2014
The Art of Being Summer Festival
venue to be announced
contact to be announced
July 14 – 20, 2014
Body, Heart & Soul 1
Earth Spirit Centre, nr. Glastonbury, England
meru.artofbeing@gmail.com
+44 (0)1304 448 580
July 14 – 17, 2014
Freedom to Feel, Freedom to Love Earth Spirit Centre, nr. Glastonbury, England
meru.artofbeing@gmail.com
+44 (0)1304 448 580
August 23 – 30, 2014
From Here to Eternity, Corfu
Corfu Buddha Hall, Greece
office@artofbeing.com
+41 (0)79 389 1493
Sep 26 – 28, 2014
The Universal Experience
Waldhaus Zentrum, Switzerland
waldhaus@waldhaus.ch
+41 (0)34 461 0705
Oct 17 – 24, 2014
Body, Heart & Soul 3
Parimal, nr. Kassel, Germany
christiane@artofbeing.com
Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2014
The Universal Experience
venue to be announced, Czech Republic
deepa@artofbeing.com
Nov 28 – 30, 2014
The Universal Experience
Earth Spirit Centre, nr. Glastonbury, England
meru.artofbeing@gmail.com
+49 (0)176 477 471 80
+49 (0)176 477 471 80
+420 777 246 812
+44 (0)1304 448 580
For session dates and other information about ongoing Trainings (closed to new-comers) go to www.artofbeing.com
For advance information about future Trainings, contact office@artofbeing.com
art of being transformational vacations
workshops and trainings
High on L ife in B ra z il
Bo dy, He a rt & S o u l 1:
Sat 22 Feb (5pm) – Sat 8 Mar (lunchtime)
Ciranda, near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
9 days opening into vibrant presence in Art of Being experiences with Alan, a grandstand seat at the big night of Rio’s
Carnival, and 2 nights with Carioca in his vision-inducing
rituals of songs and silence. See accompanying brochure, or
go to our website for full details.
a liberating journey through sex into tantra
(7 days) and
freedom to feel, freedom to love
(the opening long-weekend)
Fri 18 Apr (Good Friday) 10.30am-Thu 24 Apr Waldhaus
Zentrum, Switzerland
Mon Jul 14, 10.30am - Sun Jul 20 Earth Spirit Centre, UK
(Freedom to Feel, Freedom to Love: 18-21 Apr and 14-17 Jul)
Body, Heart & Soul 1 guides you into living your sexuality
as the exquisite celebration that it really is and that we all
deserve. It takes you deep into your male/female nature
and guides you into restoring fully your connection with
your sex, feelings, body, heart and soul. The final days are
devoted to the intimate rituals that honour and celebrate
you as a sexual being, and that offer you a very real and possibly life-transforming experience of Tantra.
(NB: Part 1 is required before you can participate in Parts 2
to 4 or the Body, Heart & Soul Training).
F ro m He re to Et er n it y, Cor f u
a mediterranean tantric holiday
Sat 23 Aug (5.30pm) – Sat 30 Aug (breakfast)
Buddha Hall, Corfu, Greece
We can’t imagine a lovelier way to end the summer holidays. From Here to Eternity is a tantric vacation that
gently and playfully guides you into the celebration of
man, woman, BEING! The body is sensual, the soul is
mystical. Between the two, your magical being awakens!
Corfu Buddha Hall is a stunningly beautiful hilltop venue
surrounded by olive groves, overlooking the ocean and with
its own grand swimming pool. The beaches are just 3 km
away, a short ride with the centre’s shuttle bus service.
At the Easter Body, Heart & Soul 1 workshop (Waldhaus
Centre in Switzerland), you may register for just the first
part (Freedom to Feel, Freedom to Love) that begins Good
Friday morning and ends Easter Monday. If you can, give
yourself the option to then stay till the end for the initiation
rituals (most people want to!).
Bo dy, He a rt & S o u l 2 :
pleasure, surrender and ecstasy
and the new 18-month
body, heart & soul training
Fri 28 Mar – Fri 4 Apr: Body, Heart & Soul 2
Parimal Seminarhaus, Germany
(Fri 4 Apr – Sun 6 Apr: follow-up Training weekend)
In Body, Heart & Soul 2 intimate pleasure becomes a journey of surrender that opens into the ecstatic, the orgasmic
and the boundless. In safe and enjoyable ways, the carefully structured processes guide you through any personal
barriers and fears. The whole experience is designed to
restore full sensuality and the trust through which pleasure
becomes ecstasy.
Part 2 is also the start of the 18-month Body, Heart &
Soul Training (see below) Everyone interested stays on
for the weekend after the workshop so that they can have
an informed sense of the group they will be part of before
making a final commitment.
B o dy, H e art & So ul 3 :
discovering profound intimacy
Fri 17 Oct – Fri 24 Oct, Body, Heart & Soul 3
Parimal Seminarhaus, Germany
(Fri 24 Oct – Fri 26 Oct: : follow-up Training weekend)
Body, Heart & Soul 3 guides you into intimate and deeply
touching encounters – with yourself and others. They are
designed to open you, as man meeting woman, woman
meeting man, to all that being intimate really means. The
entire experience is one of learning how YOU open and
close the doors of intimacy, in yourself and so with another.
It is all so that WHEN YOU CHOOSE, YOU CAN open
yourself to experience profound intimacy! The depth, playfulness, passion, heart, music and meditations that you
know from Body, Heart & Soul 1 are all here playing their
parts in the beauty of the experience. Full details on our
website.
The Body, He a rt & S ou l Tra in in g :
My st i ca l Ta n tra
Mar 28, 2014 – Oct 16, 2015
Parimal Seminarhaus, Germany
the union of sex and soul
This training is for people seeking a holistic and integrative approach that is alive and personal in the field of sex,
love and Tantra. It guides you on an experiential journey
into the body, heart and soul of your sexuality; and the
18 months of deep connection with Alan and the circle of
participants allow for healing and transforming experiences
that awaken and educate your whole being. To join, you
must first complete Body, Heart & Soul 1. Parts 2, 3 & 4
are included in the training, plus a total of 35 days spent
together, additional small-group assignments and a very
lively e-group. Some people are drawn to this training
because it offers the essential foundation for being a good
teacher-guide-healer. Many come because discovering our
own art of being is how we become happy and fulfilled in
living our personal lives.
“I Love You !”
the czech cherry-blossom adventure
Thu 1 May (10.30am) – Sun 4 May
Skalka u Doks, Czech Republic
(NB: English and Czech language only)
This 4-day workshop over the Mayday holiday is for lovers,
for those who wish they were and those who wonder where
it went!
It is one of life’s sweetest treasures to be able to say these
words to someone and mean them. The rich mystery of love
takes us far beyond “I want you!” or “You’re mine!” or “This
is what I’m supposed to say to you, isn’t it?” “I Love You!”
is a workshop to open your feelings and heart, awaken you
to your whole being, and take you deep and high in the
experience of giving and receiving love.
Fri 6 June – Mon 9 June
Schloss Glarisegg, Switzerland
From your primal male-female instinct you are guided into
your desire and passion, your power, your heart with its
love and its longing, your unique and magical being, and
your soul through which all of this becomes one with the
infinite. The rituals lead you into a sublime fusion of nature,
awareness, love and spirit. Whether your personal adventure
is erotic, of the heart, soul-to-soul, or all of these together,
this beautifully crafted journey invites you beyond mind
and knowledge into a truly mystical experience of Tantra.
The Art o f B e i ng Summe r Fe stival 20 14
July 2 – 6, 2014
Czech Republic (venue to be announced)
Having a wonderful team of workshop teachers AND 6
talented musicians from England, Germany, Czech Republic
and Slovakia to bring live concerts and dance nights to the
celebration, we have decided to find a new venue in Czech
Republic or Germany that can accommodate 100-120, and
has all that is needed to host our 4-day festival. We will of
course keep you informed.
T h e Un ive rsa l E x p e ri e n ce
an intimate encounter with your own death
Fri 26 Sep (10.30am) – Sun 28 Sep
Waldhaus Zentrum, Switzerland
Fri 31 Oct (10.30am) – Sun 2 Nov
venue to be announced, Czech Republic
Fri 28 Nov (10.30am) – Sun 30 Nov
EarthSpirit Centre, England
“If somebody could only take part in a single workshop with
me, I would tell them to make it this one!” ~ Alan
The Universal Experience has to be one of the most beautiful
and life-transforming workshops available on the theme of
death, dying, loss and letting go. For over 20 years this 3-day
encounter with death has been
guiding people into a liberating trust and happiness in living their life and in one day leaving it. No dogma, no theory, simply THE EXPERIENCE!
If death is an issue you avoid, that’s a great reason to come
to this workshop! Other reasons? Being unhappy in
your life
because you are holding on to something or someone and
don’t
know how to let go; being afraid of death; wanting to
understand death; needing to deal
with the death of a friend
or loved one; or simply because The Universal Experience
is a wonderful life-changing and soul-awakening experience.
The 4 days of the festival are dedicated to liberating and
awakening our bodies, senses, energies, feelings, hearts and
souls to fly into BEING on the wings of love and awareness.
And if that sounds like just too much, good! Because if life
is not too much, then, as Osho used to say, that is because
it is not enough. You can stay informed of the festival’s
developments at artofbeing.com
a sunday afternoon with alan in london!
Stop-press announcement: Alan will be guiding a 2-hour
event at the weekend Tantra Festival at The Barbican in
central London, March 22-23, 2014. Regular updates at
www.tantrafestivals.co.uk
Our thanks to Jutta Panke for photos: www.juttapanke.de
Alan Lowen ' s let t er
about The Art of B ein g ®
My friends,
For 40 years now The Art of
Being has been growing, from its
seedling beginning into the rich
garden of body-alive, heart-open
and soul-awake presence that it
is today. It seems to become easier
and more beautiful each year for
people to grow out of the fetters in
which they grew up, and learn to
live and celebrate their whole magical being. For me personally
it is deeply affirming to witness how the qualities that we learn
to celebrate within ourselves and with each other become more
and more visible in our everyday lives – qualities like awareness, love, presence, passion, wisdom, compassion, creativity,
playfulness, trust, courage and faithfulness to the spirit that
dances in all of us and all that is!
It gives me deep personal pleasure to be able to send out an annual brochure that feels so rich with invitations. It is no secret
that my passion is to turn the world on to this being that is
inspiration and education for us all.
2014 promises to be an epic year for The Art of Being. The
workshops, the new Training, the new Summer Festival, and
yes, my book! I promise you, in 2014 I can either announce
which publishing house is the chosen one or whether it's the
Art of Being itself who will publish my book – in English, and
with a bit of luck in German and Czech too.
I hope I meet you, whoever you are reading this, in one or other
of all that is offered in this brochure.
With love and aloha, alan
few thank-you’s sent in by workshop
participants this past year:
I came to you with all my doubts and despair about myself.
I left as a woman who feels like a woman again, and can go
happily on her own way.
~ Uschka Straub, Germany
I came because of my fear of change, fear of uncertainty, fear
of letting go… I had some doubts during the workshop. Sometimes I asked myself, why am I doing this? Why am I here,
going through such intense experiences instead of enjoying the
weekend somewhere in nature with my boyfriend…? Now I
know it was the most necessary and precious weekend in my entire life.
~ Markéta, Czech Republic
The Art of Being®
It happened rarely that a course went so deep under my skin,
evoking so many changes in my perceptions and in the way I
experience my daily life.
~ Annemarie, Switzerland
I really don't know what to say other than thank you... I think
you should be declared a 'World Treasure' and be placed on
the UNESCO world heritage listing for what you are doing. I
don't feel that there is anything 'Mystical' about the process. It
is you Alan, and your skills and understanding of your fellow
human beings.... and our/their needs. It is beautiful humanity
in action.
~ Ric Streatfield, UK
I felt wonderful after the first circle and straight away registered
for the whole training. I am proud that I managed to make this
space for myself. It is very liberating.
~ Ingrid, Switzerland
The Art of Being® Office
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+420 777 246 812
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Tel: +41 (0)79 389 14 93
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