The Yoga of Pleasure and the Path with Heart with Marc Gafni and Sally Kempton

Pleasure as Path to Enlightenment

with Dr. Marc Gafni and Sally Kempton

March 5th – March 7th

Pacific CoastPleasure is our most natural doorway into spirit. By knowing your own pleasure, and how to explore and expand it into its divine source, you can enter directly into the truth. Because so many of us are cut off from the depth of our pleasure, we are also cut off from our own heart, and our own truth.

The tantric traditions understand that all pleasure comes from and leads into a divine source. They unfolded a yoga of pleasure and a path to transformation based on recognizing and entering deeply into subtler and subtler levels of enjoyment. When we learn and practice the the yoga of pleasure, we awaken to the heart of our own joy, we begin to find the real the pleasure that reveals itself in every moment of life–even the tough moments.

We all experience levels of pleasure, and at every level, there is a way to go deeper. From the physical pleasure of eating, dancing, or using your body well, to the subtler joys of love, creativity and service,  to the ultimate pleasure described by the sages, there is always a way to go deeper, to make your pleasure subtler, to engage it as a yoga. When we know this art, it changes our approach to practice, to work, to relationships, and to life itself.

In this workshop you will learn:

• The five  levels of pleasure and their secrets
• The thirteen principles of pleasure 
• How to use each dimension of pleasure as both a way of engaging your life and a doorway into the divine 
• Opening to pleasure in the midst of the pain 
• Meditations on pleasure 
• Finding your own sources of pleasure 
• Keeping your heart open through the hurt until it bursts into pleasure 

Listen to our fre 60-minute audio as our gift to y

Pleasure Reloaded: Part 1 with Dr. Marc Gafni

Dr. Marc Gafni is a rabbi and iconoclastic teacher of Kabbalah and Evolutionary Spirituality. He is a core founder and faculty member of iEvolve Global Practice Community as well as director of the Integral Life Spiritual Center of Integral Life. He has written seven books, including the national bestseller Soul Prints, and The Mystery of Love, a Kabbalistic exploration of the relationship between the sexual, the erotic, and the sacred. Gafni’s teaching is marked by a deep transmission of open heart, love and leading edge provocative wisdom. Gafni’s path of personal evolution, in both the agony and the ecstasy of  what he calls “sacred autobiography,” woven together with profound reverence and reading of sacred texts have formed the context for his personal realization. It is from this place of broken-hearted humility, radical joy and sacred audacity that he teaches.

Sally Kempton, formerly known as Swami Durgananda, is recognized as a powerful meditation guide and as a spiritual teacher who integrates yogic philosophy with daily life. She is the author of The Heart of Meditation, and writes the popular Wisdom column for Yoga Journal. A teacher in the tantric tradition of Kashmir Shaivism Sally conducts conducts workshops and retreats on applied philosophy and meditation. She is also a core founder and faculty of iEvolve: Global Practice Community.