New Year's Retreat: Beginnings, Intention, and Blessings.

This event is limited to 13 participants. Please Note: We will be following Manu Wairua Covid 19 Protocols, including the use of the My Vaccine Pass or a negative Covid 19 test 24 to 48 hours prior to arriving onsite. For more information, please contact Grant directly. 

Welcome to the New Year's Conscious Sexuality Tantra Sweat Lodge Retreat for Men who love Men:  Beginnings, Intention, and Blessings. 

· Do new beginnings excite you?

· Does the mystery and wisdom of Tantra speak to you? 

· Do you want to learn tantric teachings and practices about the power of intention and blessing?

· Would  you like to learn authentic tantric tools and techniques to help you deepen your experience of  intimacy, connection, self-esteem,  and self-acceptance?

In this residential retreat for single and partnered men who love men, you will discover:

· Kundalini, the sacred energy of tantra, and how this energy can deepen your experience of intimacy and natural joy.

· Classical tantric teachings on intention and blessing, which can help you towards your life goals. 

· Authentic and practical tantric practices to work with, both at the retreat and at home, to deepen your experience of  true self-esteem and self-acceptance, powerfully uplifting your life and the lives of those around you. 

Authentic Tantric Teachings:

In this interactive and fun retreat, Conscious Sexuality facilitator Grant Shepherd will guide us in a shared exploration of Beginnings, Intentions, and Blessings and what these things might mean for us as men who love men. Together we’ll explore classical Tantric technology for creating powerful intentions and giving and receiving blessings. These teachings, derived from classical Tantra, are powerful, time-honoured, and effective and can bring many benefits into your life. 

The entire retreat is sacred safe space; all exercises will be clothed,  consent based and respectful at all times. Bring your curiosity, willingness to share, and your sense of fun and play!

The Sweat Lodge:

The retreat will feature a dawn Sweat Lodge ceremony on January 1st, a powerful and beautiful way to bring in the New Year, and an opportunity for us to offer our intentions for 2022. The Sweat Lodge , a ceremony of purification and renewal, brings sacred healing, blessings, and new beginnings into our lives. Our ceremonial facilitators are TeRangimarie and Rob Carter, who spent many years participating and leading purification ceremonies under the guidance of respected elders and teachers from North America, Canada, Alaska, and here in New Zealand.

TeRangimarie and Rob have a personal commitment to honouring their elders and teachers and received blessings from them to offer these ceremonies at Manu Wairua, a nurturing, peaceful place of retreat. TeRangimarie and Rob will skilfully guide us on each step of the sweat lodge journey.

About Manu Wairua Retreat :

TeRangimarie and Rob created their property as a spiritual retreat 22 years ago. The accommodation space is a renovated and comfortable woolshed with fully equipped kitchen, bathroom with shower, outdoor outhouse toilets, and a large outdoor deck with BBQ. It sleeps up to 15 with a combination of beds, couches, and air mattresses on the floor, or you are welcome to bring a tent and camp on the land—please note if camping you will still be charged the accommodation fee.

Things to know:

The property is alcohol and drug free. Please refrain from drugs or alcohol at least 48hrs before and after the retreat and ceremony. This will ensure you mind and body are clear so you can receive maximum benefit from your time on retreat.

What to wear into the lodge:

Our teachings are from traditional ways. Men wear shorts or sarong; a t-shirt is optional. Please refrain from nudity.

What to bring:

· A sacred item for our altar co-creation.

· A white sage bundle for your own personal sweat lodge offering.

· Anything you need for your personal wellbeing: toiletries, medication, earplugs, bug repellent, etc.

· Your own bedding (we supply bottom sheet, pillow with pillowcase.)

· A towel for a shower after the lodge.

· Shared snacks for the time you are here.

Sweat Lodge Tobacco Offering:

Ceremonial medicines:  Tobacco is one of the traditional plant medicines used in the sweat lodge and is traditionally offered to the Elder running the ceremony. The Elder offers it on all our behalf, asking for healing and protection, as an offering to the Creator and the Spirit Helpers. Tobacco holds a spiritual energy and is known by some Native Elders as “The Grandmother who brings ‘the honouring to the ceremony’”. It is customary to gift a pouch of tobacco to the Lodge Elder as an honouring for hosting the ceremony. Grant will offer this on behalf of all attending the retreat.

Registration Fee (all inclusive: accommodation, meals, tuition, tobacco offering, pipe ceremony, and sweat lodge:)

$300.00

Please contact Grant directly for registration payment details.

If you wish to attend, but registration at this time is an issue for you, you are most welcome to contact him directly to discuss other options:

Email: newconsciouspathways@gmail.com

https://www.consciouspathways.net

We warmly invite you to join us on this sacred Tantric journey of Beginnings, Intention, and Blessings.