David Deida

Aligning with Love: The Yoga of Sex, Wealth, and Worship
A Weekend Workshop With David Deida, Miami, October 2, 3, 4, 2009

The Sexual Body and the Yoga of Light:
A Weekend Workshop with David Deida, San Diego, November 6, 7, 8, 2009

The Sexual Body and the Yoga of Light:
A 7-Day Training Intensive with David Deida in San Diego, November 6-13, 2009

This 7-Day Intensive is David Deida’s advanced training for men and women ready to illuminate the unseen depths and shadows of their being. Practitioners from all over the world gather with Deida for an unparalleled opportunity to explore every nook and cranny of their psyche and desire. Journeying solo, partnered, and in groups, virtually no stone is left unturned in seven days and nights of investigation, insight, and celebration.

In this 7-Day training we go far beyond the weekend and dive deeply into advanced practices that enhance our heart’s depth and presence, turning lovemaking into whole-body prayer and true spiritual communion as we learn how to create and sustain the authentic yoga of intimacy throughout the days and nights of our years.

What are you really here to do–professionally, intimately, artistically–and how committed are you to doing and living it? To get there, Deida teaches, we need to surrender to the boundless self that we truly are and learn to live in the unbearable pleasure and vulnerability of that exquisite state of openness. And most of us require a dedicated practice, a living yoga, in order to sustain this.

During this training, we engage in practices that focus on where we are most contracted, and “for a lot of people that means sexuality, life-purpose, and intimacy,” says Deida. We spend our time deepening and fine-tuning personal practices, both in and out of the classroom, using traditional means such as breathwork, meditation, yoga, and dance, as well as the custom-designed personal practices for which David Deida is so widely hailed. Working in groups, with partners, and individually, we learn to:

* identify our unique gifts and give them more fully;
* learn when to respect boundaries and when to press through them;
* ease beyond fear into ecstatic surrender;
* open out in connection when all we want to do is close down;
* employ ecstasy to heal past wounds and melt open beyond the self;
* offer our deepest presence and love;
* skillfully navigate the differences between men’s and women’s internal sexual circuitry;
* discover how to access the freedom of consciousness and humor amidst anger, lust, and jealousy;
* design a deeply personal spiritual life; and
* create a daily sexual yoga practice, solo and in partnership, that will continue to grow along with the depth of our heart’s desire to turn our entire life into an artful, whole-body offering of love.

Whereas “healing old wounds” is most fruitful amidst patience and firm boundaries, the yoga of transformation that Deida teaches involves carefully stretching to play at your vulnerable edge and just beyond, including your limits and gifts of body, mind, and emotion. Just as you are, sourced in loving awareness, no subject is taboo. All fixations and unique twists of character are welcomed with compassion and humor. Every struggle and life situation is workable in this teaching. Together with an international gathering of men and women dedicated to authentic spiritual practice, you will have the opportunity to go as deep as you choose:

* explore all of your real desires, dark and light, in a compassionate and skillful setting;
* learn how to create a spiritual portal through the sexual act;
* determine when to heal restfully and when to leap beyond being frozen in terror;
* learn the artful use of natural substances, sex, music, and nature to enliven the creative matrix of your life’s offering;
* investigate your taboos and learn how to offer love’s gift in moments of resistance and closure;
* understand the powerful sexual dynamics of money;
* discover the difference between emotional neediness and devotional yearning;
* illuminate the “cult” blueprint often hidden in teacher/student and lover/beloved intimacies;
* develop your capacity for sustaining radical relationship through heartbreak and comfort;
* uncover your deepest purpose and learn why you haven’t yet fully offered yourself;
* familiarize yourself with the basics of straight and gay sexual yoga (and everything in between); and
* cultivate the true yoga of light, bringing authentic presence and bright love to the places in your life and relationships that many are hesitant to illuminate

Participants should be prepared for explicit use of language and intensive experiential practice. Actual sex and nudity are not involved in this training. Precise rules of relating between all participants creates a safe space for magnifying love’s free flow throughout the training. This 7-Day Intensive and the Weekend Workshop are open to singles and couples of any sexual orientation, with a strong emphasis on personal instruction and one-to-one feedback and refinement. Enrollment in this training is by application only.