FULL: Ecstatic Massage Training focused on The Queer/Gay Mystic

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• In Person

• Small Group of Nine

• Full-Day Event (with lunch break)

• COVID Protocols Recognized

 

August 7th:  10AM - 5PM

 

 

 

 

In a world filled with walls of separation, gay/queer men will explore this archetype as calling within the tribe.

 

 

Sappho to Whitman, Vergil to Audre Lorde, St Teresa of Avila to Rumi mystics can be found in every spiritual tradition and yet committed to an inclusive spirituality of Oneness beyond their tradition. Seeing the face of the Beloved in all beings and all of creation has been the signature of the mystic.

They were writers, poets, alchemical healers, change agents by their very hunger to connect to the sacred.

Considered "foolish", they were men, women and transgendered people who wouldnot and could not be contained in a box of dogma or tradition.

They too were gatekeepers between the worlds using their bodies to embody the “presence” of the divine. The image of the tree of life from one’s ass to crown of head (roots reaching deep into the wisdom of earth) and branches (drawing on the wisdom of heaven) together joined inside us. All chakras are one and sacred thus using energy to heal, connect to oneself the ancestors,the divine aspects and loving community.

 

This workshop for men who love men will involve guided intentional intimate exercises of ways of touching inside and out:

• Undressing and Pleasuring prayer ritual
• Numerous breath work processes opening to the sense of connection to upper and lower realms
• Ecstatic massage opening root to crown chakra

 

Mystics have often understood the union with the Sacred, God/Goddess, Spirit, Life Force, the Divine, the Beloved and the nameless as the juice that connects us all. Our willingness to release our fear of appearing foolish and live our lives in both longing and passion for those sacred connections is the charge of the mystic.

In Flesh & Spirit Communities we speak of the ecstatic path demonstrated by the archetypes of Peaceful Warriors, Lovers, Sacred Prostitutes and Elders. Mystics embody the qualities of these archetypes in their ecstasy quest to experience the Divine and the Sacred through their bodies. They are people of all genders who listen with their bodies and their hearts. Mystics like these other four archetypes have "been their own authority". How they experienced the Divine was not defined by anyone or any institution. Thus they were described as "foolish", not seeking the approval of others for their experience to be validated. Queer people by their very nature are given this opportunity to live outside the box as the mystics, bridging the worlds of Heaven & Earth, Living & Dead, Groundedness & Ecstacy.

 

 

 

Join Us July 24th for Conversations with the Queer Tribe 

This is a great warm-up call for the workshop. Kirk will muse about Queer Mysticism.  More

 

 

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References for some of the work we will be doing.

These books are direclty related to what we will be exploring:

 

Erotic Body Prayer  by Dr. Kirk Prine	Gay Mystics by Andrew Harvey