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Offering Relationship and Intimacy Coaching for Women, Men, and Couples~ Amber's Ecstatic Arts Events- Transformational Group Events
I facilitate educational experiences in Ashland Oregon, at festivals and events, and wherever I travel. For my current schedule of appearances including playshops, prayer-formance, and speaking engagements please see my Events section. You can hire and/or host me to come to your city to facilitate a playshop for you and your community. Below are the playshops and their descriptions that I currently offer. For booking information and to register for the next upcoming playshops please go to my Contact page.
Female Sexual Empowerment Evenings and Playshops Tantric Pujas and Cuddle Parties
Female Sexual Empowerment Evenings and Playshops Are you a woman interested in healing your relationship to your body and sensuality? Are you interested in learning cutting edge evolutionary information and practices for reaching your full potential as an embodied, ecstatic, and fully-orgasmic woman? You are invited to enter into safe, sacred, and sensual space for reclaiming, experiencing, and unfolding your unique female sensual expression.
Female Sensual Empowerment Evenings (I am currently hosting these with Shirley Donnelly In Ashland once a month) These informational evening for women only focus on female sexuality, tantra, and relationship. We will be discussing how to reach your full ecstatic and orgasmic potential. Bring any questions you have and any experiences you would like to share. This is a great way to learn from other woman's experiences as well as experts in the fields of female sexuality and tantra. This is a four part series of classes held over the course of 4 months. These intimate class circles are held once a month and culminate in a weekend playshop. During the classes there will be no nudity or explicit touch although there will be some experiential practices and exercises. Each month we will invoke a unique aspect of feminine sexuality moving through the Maiden, Wild Woman, Mother, and Queen archetypes in relation to feminine rites of passage and sexuality. Research suggests at least a third of women are in-orgasmic and nearly half don't orgasm reliably. Many more than that are unsatisfied with their relationship and or sexual experiences. The lack of knowledge and research available on Female Sexuality means that most women are not even aware of their sexual and orgasmic potential. My background in Woman's Studies, Goddess Spirituality, and Tantra give me a unique perspective into the 3rd wave of feminism and the modern women's movement to reclaim our sensual and sexual selves. My personal journey has been from from being sexually shut down to becoming multi-orgasmic and from being jaded about love and men to having healthy, loving, supportive and sustainable relationships. I can help you reach your relationship and intimacy goals and your full sensual and sexual potential!
Female Sexual Empowerment Workshop (Planned for the Fall of 2010 in Ashland) In this workshop you will have the opportunity to-
(Evenings will be hosted over the summer with Robert Wagner @Hidden Springs in Ashland with a workshop in the fall 1010) Would you like to cultivate conscious relationship as a path of growth and open to the fullness and depth of love? Are you a couple who would like to deepen your love and expand your sexual passion?
Are you interested in learning how to have more effective and loving communication and more successful, enjoyable, and sustainable relationships? Would you like to have an even better sex life and gain ejaculatory mastery and become multi-orgasmic? This workshop for couples and paired singles will give you solid practices and support for taking your relationships and sexuality to the next evolutionary ecstatic level. (Another series is due to start in the fall 2010) Ecstatic Bellydance is a meditative form of bellydance which awakens the bodies natural wisdom and ecstasy. You will learn "The Language of Bellydance" comprised of sacred geometry and natural organic shapes and symbols. In a 6-week series we will explore different chakras or energy centers of our body through dance, breath, sound, and intentionality. Each evening is a combination of Goddess Circle and Belly Dance class where we will have the opportunity to connect with each other and share deeply on multiple levels.
Amber St. Germain is a life long yogini and dancer who has studied diverse forms of dance including Ballet, Modern, African, and Flamenco, in addition to Cabaret and Tribal styles of Bellydance. Her extensive background in dance includes attending college for Modern Dance and dancing professionally with various bellydance troupes. She has been inspired by ecstatic dance journeys with Gabrielle Roth's five rhythms work as well as Ipsalu Tantra and Kashmiri Shiva Dance. Amber weaves her unique background and expertise in traditional dance forms like Bellydance with tantric, ecstatic, and shamanic practices. Dance has always been her personal practice for accessing ecstasy and union with the universe.
Benefits of Ecstatic Bellydance include: -Cultivating sensuality and femininity -Getting a good workout while having fun and feeling good about and in your body! -Expressing your unique dance in a safe and supportive environment -Strengthening the mind body connection and creating new pathways to sensation, awareness, and ecstasy! -and more! This class begins with practices for clearing and opening the energy channels so that Kundalini or sexual life force energy can flow uninhibited throughout the body, resulting in a state of heightened awareness and bliss. I will also share beginning practices for Internal Yogas including the Courtesans ancient art of Pompour or Yin Style Lovemaking using Mula Bandhas or pelvic locks, which are practices for strengthening the mind-body connection to the root and sexual centers. We will use intention, breath, sound and movement to open up to ecstatic oneness with the divine. Prepare to have fun and feel great! All genders and levels welcome. Tantra Yoga can be practiced solo or with a partner. This class will be focused on working with your own sexual energy with clothes on in a safe, sacred, and playful space.
Alchemical Dance Journeys
Amber learned yoga from her father at a young age and studied ballet passionately from adolescence on. She went to school for Modern Dance at UNCG, a liberal arts school well known for it's progressive dance department. She left school to travel and dance professionally with various dance troupes including Domba and Baraka Mundi World Dance and Music Ensembles specializing in traditional Middle-Eastern Dance and American Style Tribal Bellydance. Amber has been a featured performer at numerous events, festivals, and restaurants. Her diverse studies in dance include Ballet, Modern, Jazz, African, Flamenco, in addition to Cabaret and Tribal styles of Bellydance. She has been an active participant in the Techno Tribal Electronic Music and Dance movement for many years. Amber has helped co-create large theatrical ritual prayer-formances and events with spiritual and environmental themes including full moon parties in Hawaii and with The Oracle Gatherings Collective out of the northwest. She has participated in and been inspired by ecstatic dance journeys with five rhythms dance teachers as well as Luna's Ecstasis Dance. Amber weaves her unique background and expertise in traditional dance forms like Bellydance with tantric, ecstatic, and shamanic practices. Dance has always been her personal practice for accessing ecstasy and union with the universe.
Tantric Pujas and Cuddle Parties Tantric Pujas are group ritual practices for experiencing embodied presence and connection to oneself, others, and the divine. Pujas include practices for seeing and honoring the divine in oneself and others, practicing eye gazing, spontaneous expression, non-judgmental witnessing, and intuitive sensing. You can expect to interact and practice with many different people in a sacred clothes on non-sexual space. Tantric Pujas often result in a deep transformational experience of connection and love. This powerful and moving embodied experience can sometimes result in spontaneous expression through tears and or laughter. A Cuddle Party is an event where you will have the opportunity to learn and practice conscious communication and touch as well as receive an introduction to tantric group practice. Cuddle Parties have rules and encourage open communication and consensuality around exploring clothes on non-sexual touch. It is a place for you to explore your boundaries, needs, and desires, and to give and receive nurturing loving connection in a safe space. We will begin with an hour long welcome circle/class where you will have the opportunity to meet everyone and practice skills for communication, boundaries, and touch. The welcome circle will include a few fun Tantric Puja style practices to set a wonderful tone to the evening. Afterwards we will have a couple hours of free form cuddling and socializing. You will not be obligated to touch or be touched and will be welcome to leave after the welcome circle/class or at any time. Cuddling is a great way to meet new people, have fun, and practice life skills for communication, relationships, and touch! To learn more about Cuddle Parties check out www.cuddleparty.com.Amber St. Germain is a certified Cuddle Party Facilitator through Reid and Marsha the creators of Cuddle Party out of NYC. She enjoys creating safe sacred intentional space for people to explore conscious communication and embodied sensuality. |
