Passionate Awakenings: Foundations
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Passionate Awakenings is Restructuring!

Passionate Awakenings Updates: Here's the News

I'm hard at work creating the next wave of trainings & services to support you better than ever - getting ready to emerge from my teaching sabbatical. Look for new offerings in the coming months.
Baby Jason was born 1/3/19! He's thriving and growing by leaps and bounds, what an amazing being! We are very blessed...

SESSION WORK

I'm still available for session work as always, in person or over Zoom video conference.
I've been doing this for 30 years, and I'm confident you'll be very happy with the rapid deep results I help folks achieve. You'll get the most out of working within a package of sessions, but you can always sample one...
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ONLINE PROGRAMS

Online Courses are coming! Starting with Empowered Communication and Trigger Happy, these evening workshops will now be multi-session hybrid courses with live and virtual attendees.

EMBRACING THE BELOVED Awakened Relationship Training

I'm super excited to announce that the Core Training is developing into EMBRACING THE BELOVED: a 6 month program with intensive residential weekends, online group & private sessions, membership site, and ongoing community support. I've known for some time that this work needs a deeper container and ongoing learning community to be all it can be, and here it is. We'll have the time to sip the lessons, integrate, and grow together in the group. It will include the content from Self-Sourcing, Erotic Devotion, and Awakening the Constant Heart, expanded and enhanced as a Rigorous Multidimensional Mystery School. Everything you need to master COMMUNICATION, TRIGGERS, and the science of Creating Fulfilling Stable RELATIONSHIPS THAT WORK & UPLIFT. Install a durable foundation for Spiritual Awakening, and re-thread all your relationships to that octave...

ADVANCED TRAININGS

KEYS TO FREEDOM, formerly Level 4 of the Core Training, is being reinvented as a 3 month Advanced Training in Empowerment, Manifestation, and Thriving in Abundance. If Relationship is the can opener that ignites the fires of Awakening and opens our hearts, POWER is the goal posts. It's what there is to do with an open heart, and mastering our Personal Power is the only way to stabilize our Heart Awakening and keep it from frequently crumbling. Prosperity, Power Relations, Intentional Creation, & Fully Embodied Awakening...
The EHA (Erotic Healing Arts) Practitioner Certification is alive & well, and will be offered again in 2020. This extended mentorship will take you deep into the Jedi level skills in releasing trauma into ecstatic pleasure & intimacy - for you and your beloved(s), Tantra buddies, & clients.

Join us and make 2019 your BREAKTHROUGH AWAKENING year!

The Passionate Awakenings Core Training is a Mystery School in 4 trainings, and is a profound initiation into the nitty gritty of

"Tantra as a path of Awakening, from the INside Out"

A Tantra that comes from our hearts and follows the energy of the moment towards authentic Awakening. All the trainings include a balance of exploring Tantric practices & principles ~ dialogue, discussion, & spot coaching ~ and opportunities to dive deep and experiment with what we've learned in exercises of sensual heart connecting.

There are 2 Foundations trainings, Erotic Devotion & Self-Sourcing, and 2 Advanced trainings, Awakening the Constant Heart & Keys to Freedom. Do any one Foundations training first, and you may then do the others in any order.

We are free to practice within our authentic healthy boundaries & sensitivity with everyone in the training, or with just one partner if we prefer.

What is Erotic Devotion really?
How can we experience it, and how is it different from what we usually do in lovemaking or Tantra?
It is said that all our central longings are really the longing for God in disguise. Our erotic and relationship longings are among the most powerful and compelling, and are a guide to our core separation wounds, and to our own road home into a more complete, lasting, and stable heart awakening. This shows up in how we see our partners, and how we hold our own inner experience in intimate encounters. We can welcome and use everything we experience in erotic connecting to further our awakening. This may happen on it’s own for skilled people, but we can learn to shift our attention and expectations to make more space for this awareness, which opens more emotional safety and insights, and allows for more healing and liberation from mild or strong triggered states.
~ We ARE what we Seek ~
That’s at the center. But what do we do?

Practices are the easy part. There’s lots of places you can learn positions, rituals, Hindu words, and theory. I do some of that too, but I find that what people really need to practice Tantra are the insights and skills that can help us to consistently deepen self-connection, authentic contact, and flow with energy. And what I’m most interested in is what interrupts that and sends us into going past what feels good, staying shallow or faking along, or reaching a trigger and bailing. Ouch. Fortunately there are principles and that can help us, and experiences that highlight our own responses to the dynamics of intimate relating. That’s the fast track to more of what we actually want from practicing Tantra, with our partners, ourselves, and the world…

In Erotic Devotion We Explore:

☸ What is Erotic Devotion?
☸ Leading & Following.
☸ Giving & Receiving.
☸ Coming & Going.
☸ What stops the flow?
☸ How are boundaries different in Awakened states?
☸ The important difference between concepts and phenomena.
☸ What exactly is Heart Awakening, and how can we practice it?
☸ What skills and sensibilities do we need to cultivate for a full bodied Tantric approach to life?
☸ Engaging our desires from a more fulfilled place, with more feeling of play, lightness of being, and generous tenderness.
☸ How to create a “container of Sacred Relationship”, where all our dreams and longings for love can actually be fulfilled.

What to expect:

☸ Experiential exercises we do alone & with others.
☸ Raps on topics, group inquiry & dialogue, deep sharing.
☸ A culminating puja celebration.
☸ A Tantric Breathwork journey.
☸ This event is appropriate for all experience levels.
☸ This training is authentic work on Awakening.

Come join us for a deep weekend dive into these mysteries, in a deeply heartfelt space of sacred safety and tribal community, where everyone is respected and at full choice. Includes a beautiful puja celebration of sensual heart connecting…

TESTIMONIES of past attendees:
“I see that you are a real master of love, and that you excel in guiding people into a space of flowing relaxed openness and presence.”
~ Amara Karuna, Tantra Teacher

“Just finished a LUSHous workshop with David Imiri and every cell in my being is radiant with Sutras. If you’re looking for an inspirational, life changing, heart flowering, self pampering, nurturing set of experiences to take with you through life…”
~ Artemis

“Wow! No words. Heart wide, smile bright, energy flowing in deeeeeep appreciation. Receiving and savoring. Grateful. So much appreciation for all the heart, body and spirit wisdom that you bring in each precious unfolding moment.
Thank you David. Your essence brings so much medicine.”
~ Lorina Manzanita, Somatic Relationship Coach and Workshop Leader

“I loved how expansive, articulate, and precise you were about specific aspects of the heart awakening process – the missing piece of Tantra taught elsewhere. If you want advanced guidance for deepening into your heart center, go be in this man’s field – he’s brilliant.”
~ Jill Nagle, founder, Wisdom of The Body

“Take this before signing up for other Tantra workshops – it gives a necessary foundation for working with oneself.”
~ A Workshop Leader

“A lot of the juiciest work with David is subtle and under the surface. Even if it seems slower or less intense than other Tantric workshops, my experience is that this is more sustainable, integratable, enjoyable, and authentic.”
~ A Tantra Teacher, CA

“I have found David to be totally authentic, and a master of his work. When someone has truly mastered his work, the wisdom and clarity just flow. That is the case with David. In every moment, in the group setting, each person got exactly what he/she needed. It’s obvious that David truly loves and cares about the people that show up as his students. He is able to create an incredibly safe space, and a space where people can go very deeply within to parts of themselves that need healing, or need expression.
~ Joyce Gerber, Owner of Health Is An Inside Job

“I felt safe and seen, and the quality of what David shared was high. David comes truly from his heart, things become light around him. David knows how to shift pain to love and acceptance, like no other. A man who knows the heart of women and men who long to turn to love. Your openness and wisdom, your genuine love and interest… Thank you David.”
~ Carolina

About David:

David Imiri: David’s work is about awakening and stabilizing authentic Heart presence, with a focus on sacred intimacy. He brings deep and well-honed abilities of holding space, insight & articulation, intuition & gentle challenge, and nurturing care. Having practiced individual and relationship counseling, bodywork, and led groups for 30 years, David has received initiation in several spiritual traditions and been mentored by a number of eclectic trailblazers. Devotional by nature, his special pleasure is in mentoring clients and beloved friends into greater love, authenticity, self-empowerment, and expansive possibility. David aims to do all things in a relaxed spirit of skillful, creative play and adventure.

David Imiri: David's work is about awakening and stabilizing authentic Heart presence, with a focus on sacred intimacy. David has recently returned to school to pursue his doctorate in psychology. He brings deep and well-honed abilities of holding space, insight & articulation, intuition, gentle challenge, and nurturing care. Having practiced individual and relationship counseling, bodywork, and leading groups for 30 years, David has received initiation in several spiritual traditions and been mentored by a number of eclectic trailblazers. Devotional by nature, his special pleasure is in mentoring clients and beloved friends into greater love, authenticity, self-empowerment, and expansive possibility. David aims to do all things in a relaxed spirit of skillful, creative play and adventure.

About David: