Stephen is available for sessions to those on a path of self-awareness and seeking the support offered by a Tantrika.
Sessions work principally with presence and awareness in revealing the unconscious. There is no agenda, no thing that needs to be achieved, no outcome expected and no judgment regarding right, wrong or truth. It is just to be, to experience, to open and to allow – staying present with whatever comes up. Boundaries are pushed but with care and respect, often working more with metaphor and subtle energies. You are encouraged in your own internal knowing and wisdom to reveal itself in its profound and mysterious ways.
Working with Stephen allows for:
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A facilitator, catalyst, guide, confidant, holding hand, coach and mentor.
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A mirror to reflect aspects of yourself concealed in the unconscious.
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Practical Tantra exercises and meditations to unlock, revive and enliven the true self, coming more into the sensual, ecstatic and alive body, and the full emotional range of being.
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A peculiar safety that stretches the comfort of the known in a manner that holds by allowing and giving space to expression without being seduced by the usual mind-games of fear, judgement and projection.
Technologies used include:
- Conversation
- Role play
- Imagination and fantasy
- Touch
- Breath
- Movement and dance
- Meditation
The fee for a session is R450 per hour, structured to make them accessible and flexible with the following options:
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One hour session... an introductory or followup consultation which takes the form of a discussion. Practice is unlikely.
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Two hour session... the standard of sessions for the last three years. The extra hour allows time to do practical and experiential work.
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Three hours and beyond... couple sessions are usually three hours as we engage the realities of the relationship as well as both individuals present. Individual sessions can also go up to three hours or longer and usually happens when deep transformation processes are catalysed.
If Stephen and Shakti are both required in a session the joint fee is R600 per hour. Sessions with both Shakti and Stephen can bring profound release, particularly for women and couples.
Sessions with Stephen can also be a follow-up on sessions with Shakti who first assess what is required.
When choosing to work with Stephen you are encouraged to read:
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Love One, Love All - a poem by Stephen expressing an underlying impetus for doing this work
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Dances with Chaos - an exploration of the nature of shamanic energy underlying this work
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About Totality Therapy - a more detailed description of this work by Stephen's teacher and colleague, Shakti
Please contact Stephen or Shakti to enquire further or make an appointment.
Comments
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Stephen 2010-04-12 05:07:18
Hi Richard, thanks for your question. It is helpful to clarify this and matches my own experience when I began investigating Tantra.
I lived a large portion of my life in my head, operating unconsciously from my fears and suppressed desires. The consequence was that I wasn't fully experiencing my life from my own sense of truth and authenticity. In realising this, a very clear decision I made was "less thinking, more doing". My experience and practice of Tantra supports this with the added element of bringing in presence and awareness.
It is a spiritual path in that the work I do is to support a person in the awakening of their conscious awareness. It works very specifically with sexual energy, connecting it to the heart, through the experience of the body and not the head. Through consciously experiencing our sexuality we are able to confront and challenge the ideas we hold in our head and test whether or not these mental constructs actually serve us in our full expression and potential.
While this could be done by talking and meditating it would take a long time. My approach with Tantra is experiential and direct.
The events page will give you further information about the work I do with Tantra.
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Richard Bacon | One extreme to the other 2010-04-11 22:24:56
Dear Stephen
I have long since been curious about tantra and searched for a genuine experience. I always feared that any practitiioner I found was offering the dreaded massage with extras under the guise of tantra. Now I find your website and discover that all I could expect from you is to talk and meditate for two hours. I guess I was looking for something in between. Have I totally misunderstood the whole thing? Should I not waste any more time looking for the more physical tantric experience because these would indeed be bogus?
Regards
Richard

