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Women’s Weekend:Embracing Yin and Yang
A workshop exploring and celebrating our female and male energy
using dance/movement, creative arts therapies,
body-sense and awareness skills
in Milton, with Satyo Sullivan
Saturday August 29 and Sunday 30
9.30 – 5.30 pm on Saturday and 9.30am – 5pm on Sunday
Female/male, yin/yang, feminine/masculine…..
As women we have both female and male energy. Some of us are pretty good at embracing our female energy and can find it really rewarding to explore more of our male aspects. Others of us are good at embracing our male energy and can find it really rewarding to more fully explore our female energy. In this workshop we will explore how to dance in life with both these sides of ourselves. Many people find that in exploring the less familiar energy the opposite aspect is also deepened. For others, exploring further the more known aspect is what they need. Exploring them both really adds richness to the way you can live your life. You may surprise and delight yourself more often. This workshop gives you the opportunity to:
- Explore the qualities of both your female and male energy and uncover what each
can offer you
- Find how you might dance with both of them in your life
- Feel more enlivened and empowered from having explored these opposites
- Look at other related polarities such as active/receptive, doing/being…..
- Have more richness, choice and balance in your life
- Feel more supported in your core woman’s essence
- Be immersed in the transformative world of the creative arts such as movement, dance, music, drawing, writing, clay – (no experience needed)
- Be companioned by other women exploring their journey
These Milton weekend workshops have been running over 11 years exploring a variety of themes attracting both new and former participants. They have evolved into a respectful place where each woman can follow her own individual enquiry, self-reflection and personal growth, yet also feel inspired by, and deeply connected with, others. The weekends are potent and transformative while offering a nurturing sense of celebration of our unique qualities as women. Modalities include movement, dance and creative arts therapies, meditation, body sense and awareness skills.
To Book: send full payment or $90 deposit to C. Sullivan, 146 King George Street, Callala Beach, 2540 Early Bird Price: $180 (with full payment or deposit received by August 14). Normal price - $220. (Limited no. of concessions). Book early, workshops tend to fill up.
Enquiries and Bookings: Maya Cowley on 02 445 42989 or Satyo Sullivan on 02 444 64112 and mobile 0412 122010. Email: satyo@shoal.net.au
Accommodation enquiries for those coming from far away: Maya on 02 445 42989.
Satyo Cate Sullivan (BCA., MA (Cat). PACFA reg.) works as a counsellor and creative arts therapist in the Shoalhaven and has specialised in working with women for over twenty years.
Satyo works as a counsellor and creative arts therapist and specialises in working with women. She has years of experience in using arts based and body based therapies, an MA in Experiential and Creative Arts Therapies and is passionate about the healing gifts in each of the arts. Satyo has, over many years, developed a wholistic approach to movement and dance as a way for women to connect to and honour their whole beings – as expression, as a way to body-sense, as meditation, as a way to journey to their depths and claim their wisdom, and as a tonic to the stresses of everyday life. She is a consultant for The Australian School of Tantra and also teaches on Community Services at TAFE. Satyo has explored meditative pathways to living for over thirty years and is especially committed to using body-sense and mindfulness as a way to finding more heartfelt presence in everyday life.
Goddess: Energy Divine
See Article Below
During my investigations into the sacred feminine, I have discovered the rich mythology of the ancient goddesses. This is not about goddess worship; it’s about gaining insight and wisdoms from these goddess stories and applying them to your life today.
GODDESSES IN HINDUISM; The hindu goddesses appears in many forms, Deva, Shakti, Radha, Parvati, Laskmi, Durga, Kali and many more. Many of these are independent in their own right and many are pivotal
‘just as the moon does not shine without moonlight, so also Shiva does not shine without Shakti'.
The feminine is energy to animate the male principle of consciousness.
GODDESSES IN BUDDHISM. The feminine represents wisdom and the masculine represents compassion. The couple symbolising the ultimate non-duality of all existence.
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 'Diane
Riley founder of the Australian School of Tantra,
co presented with Satyo Sullivan 'Discovering the Tantric goddess within' over the last 10 years.
By drawing from her experience of 20 years of transformational
research and study Diane teaches "Discovering
your Aphrodite Tantric Goddess Within,” a workshop
for women.
Together with Satyo Sullivan who founded Natural
Dance in Australia, Diane creates a special place
to pass on Sacred Tantric Women's Traditions.
Originally she trained as a yoga and meditation teacher
with the East West Foundation, then studied Sacred
Sexuality, Tantra, taoism, erotic tantric massage,
tantric mediation, relationship skills and counselling
with authors and teachers Dr Stephen Chang, Moore
University, The Muirs, Larry Collins, David and Ellen
Ramsdale, associated esoteric systems and at Relationships
Australia Institute.
Diane and her partner Kerry were responsible for
the introduction of the philosophy of Sacred Sexuality
to Australia. They established ‘ Loveworks’ in 1993
now incorporated in the Australian School of Tantra,
Sydney, Australia. Their contribution to Tantra, Sacred
Sexuality and Relationships has been recognized internationally
with the success of the video "The Secrets of
Sacred Sex", which features practices for singles
and couples wanting to include and explore the extraordinary
in the physical, emotional and spiritual expression
of their love. She co-authored the book "Sexual
Secrets for Men, what every woman would want her man
to know," which has sold over 20,000 in Australia,
and published in the Us as “Tantric Secrets for Men”
and is now awaiting the publication of her second
book.
Diane has been interviewed numerous times for the
TV 'Sex Life" for which she was a consultant
. She has been a popular presenter at the Mind, Body,
Spirit Festival in Sydney and Melbourne, the Pittwatter
and the Go-Girl women's festivals plus a regular speaker
for Mother Inc. and has presented "Tantric Goddess"
to hundreds of women. Diane also sees women on an
individual basis to assist them to discover the true
potential of their tantric goddess within.
Soelae Riley works as a self - development facilitator and certified
by ASOT. She specialises in using dance and movement
to assist women of all ages to feel more at home in
and celebrate their bodies and themselves.
Her work assists each woman's journey of self-discovery,
personal healing and creative expression.
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Article by Diane Riley Extract from her book, "Sexual Secrets for Women' soon to be released in early 2007
'During my investigations into the sacred feminine, I have discovered the rich mythology of the ancient goddesses. This chapter is not about goddess worship; it’s about gaining insight and wisdoms from these goddess stories and applying them to your life today.
I have found personal meaning and inspiration within these myths, which has assisted in my understanding of many aspects of myself as a woman. Knowing about the existence of a goddess of love who was revered for her power, sexuality, and grace, has profoundly supported the integration of my sexuality and spirituality. It has also helped me release certain aspects of my childhood and cultural conditioning to broaden and deepen my sexual life in exciting new ways.
In order to bring more of the goddess of love into your life, it’s invaluable to know a little of goddess mythology.
The goddess was pivotal to many early, earth-centered civilizations. She was considered the creative source of all life. Female sexuality was honored, not only for reproduction, but also for the way it inspired passion, desire and pleasure.
Archaeologists have unearthed innumerable ancient goddess images. Some date from Palaeolithic times - circa 30,000 BC to 9,000 BC - and often take the form of a woman’s body with large breasts, hips, and vulva. They depict the female body as sacred, and the female genitals as symbols of divine mystery, portals through which all pass into this life, symbols of Life’s cycles and regeneration.
In such early societies, divinity, sexuality and fertility were intertwined and integrated. The pre-Christian cultures of Mesopotamia , Egypt , Greece and Rome worshipped powerful female divinities as well as male ones. These goddesses were personifications of the archetypal feminine energy that exists within all women. (Archetypes are universal ideas, images and patterns of thought that we share in our unconscious). They are powerful forces deep within us that influence how we view the world and what we do. In our lives today, archetypes are reflected in different aspects of ourselves with which we can identify: lover, wife, mother, daughter, nurturer, organizer, protector, destroyer, and seductress. This list, of course, is not exhaustive.
Let’s take a look at a couple of specific examples of these archetypes, one of which is the nurturer and all-giving mother in the Christian tradition, the very familiar Virgin Mary. She has been depicted throughout the ages with the Christ child held adoringly in her arms. In Greek mythology, her equivalent is Demeter, the mother; always putting her children's needs paramount.
We are familiar too with the good wife and homemaker roles that many of our mothers and grandmothers undertook in the 1950s and ‘60s. The goddesses Hera and Hestia from Greek mythology both symbolize a woman devoted to her husband, family and home, one who uses her creativity to make an orderly and nurturing place for those she loves.
The Goddess in contemporary times
In the late 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s, women began to struggle with the limitations of traditional roles. Many women were already venturing beyond the homemaking role into more public arenas such as the professions of law, medicine, economics and politics where the qualities of a woman being objective, impersonal and skilful reflect the aspects of the goddess Athena.
During the ‘80s, interest in physical fitness became fashionable. Madonna, the pop singer and actress, popularized sleek, defined muscles and a strong physical body. At this time, many women became interested in aerobics, going to the gym and bodybuilding. The goddess archetype of physical strength is Artemis. Some women can identify with one or two of these goddesses while others are ignored, passed by or suppressed.
You’ve seen goddesses in parts of your life and in the lives of others; a woman who turns heads whenever she walks into a room, or a friend who always exudes confidence and optimism. Or perhaps a work associate who manages to pull together projects with efficiency and professionalism, or a grandmother who is full of care, warmth and love.
We sometimes admire or are envious of different qualities in other women. The good news is that each of us has the power to bring the inner goddess of our choice to the forefront, whenever we so desire.
Copyright Spectra 2000 P/L
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