GROUND OF BEING

50hr IMMERSION INTO TANTRIC PHILOSOPHY AND PRACTICE

For yoga teachers, practitioners and facilitators. De-mystify tantric philosophy & explore practice through the lens of somatics, traditional hatha yoga and embodied ritual.

28th June-November 2025

Just beneath the surface,
Sits a trembling voice of Truth.

The nudges of Soul;
The urge to change to move, to grow your branches THAT way, instead of where you were told the light was.

At the bottom of exhales,
In between thoughts
Before the gasp of revelation is dragged in,
There lies a place that remains unchanged by the churnings of thought.

Just beneath the surface of these practices that deal with body, with shape, structure and outer form - lies a whole world of unexplored potential, wisdom, and gnosis.

When approached in this way, each breath in every practice becomes an opportunity to come into relationship with the deepest part of your awareness - the part that is steady, unwavering, and deeply, deeply rooted.

The Ground of Being.

This Ground is where we offer the gift of our attention - again and again, as many times as it takes. This is where we can begin to anchor and alchemize our practices into the body; into tangible, lived, felt, breathed experiences, rather than conceptual or theoretical knowledge.

As Douglas Brooks says in his commentary on the Bhagavad Gita;

“Imminence has touched transcendence; the ordinary world is the place where Dharma, the most poignant and subtle truths of reality must face off”. (Touched By Grace, Ch. 1, p.19)

Join me for 5 months of embodied practice, inquiry and study, drawing upon the frameworks of the non-dual teachings of Srī Vidya Tantra & Kashmir Shaivism, but deeply rooted in the fertile grounds and weavings of your own body and lived experiences.

Over 5 months, from June-November 2025, we’ll engage in practice, study & enquiry together to unpack and embody more of what these traditions of Yoga, Tantra & non-dual teachings have to offer us.

This course is less of a ‘training’, and more of an immersive experience - an opportunity to fill in the blanks in your yoga education, to anchor the teachings more into a lived, felt and sensed experience and to explore how you might continue to integrate them into your worldview and daily lived relationships with the world.

See it an opportunity to locate yourself within the architecture of your body, mind, and eco-system, applying the frameworks of ancient wisdom to a modern-day life.

The practices we’ll engage with are based in both traditional tantric hatha yoga and somatic experiencing, which together combine to provide both structure, and the freedom to dance within that structure - along with the discernment to know which to lean on and when.

To understand body as earth, and earth as body, we need to develop modes of perception that help us come into Direct Relationship with the needs of the ever-unfolding, ever-changing moment.

Both yogic & tantric philosophy provide flexible roadmaps for us to do this.

“The task is to learn to listen to the intelligence of our home.
When we value what the body has to tell us, we create a dialogue with our senses. The same is true for the earth. The task is to develop a relationship with the details and cycles of life around us. In this way, we are participants in a larger story.
Control limits possibilities;
Dialogue invites surprise".”
- Andrea Olsen - Body & Earth

This immersion might be for you, if:

If you’ve ever felt that your teaching/practice lacked context, or asked questions like; ‘Why do we ‘practice’? What is sadhana? What’s the point of it all, and what’s my WHY for offering it back?’'
If you’ve longed for a way to interpret and understand the often cryptic teachings of both classical yoga philosophy and traditional tantric philosophy
If you long to be held as you uncover what sits just beneath the surface of your yoga, meditation or mantra practice, and cultivate a relationship with the natural intelligence that lives through, between, within and around all things (including within you).
If you feel your spiritual/yoga practices are disembodied, or purely ‘mind-based’, in that you understand the concepts logically but may need support integrating & embodying them

Course Aims:

To offer a contextual framework through which to view, apply and integrate tantric and yogic philosophy to your existing practices (and teaching/spaceholding).
To enter into dialogue and build a relationship with the subtle ground of awareness that lives at the core of who we are, which informs and determines the lens through which we view & experience life (and which offers us invaluable insight into our own innate longings, desires and purpose).
To explore different modes of perception through which we can view our practices and philosophical inquiries.
To invite participants into conversation with their own living, breathing, ever-fluctuating body and immediate environment, so as to anchor these teachings into something solid, tangible and imminent.
To begin to see the body as a conduit for ancient wisdom, landscape, and creative expression through which our lived experience in this moment can continually be created anew.
To work with the teachings & practices of classical yoga, traditional tantra, and somatic experiencing as methods of inquiry that lead us back to the same source understanding of ourselves as inseparable from the natural world we live in.

Course Dates & Times:

We’ll meet weekly on Mondays for practice, from 7-9pm, and every second Saturday 10am-12pm.

Opening Calls: Saturday June 28th, 10am-12pm
Monday June 30th 7-9pm

July: 7th, 12th, 14th,21st, 26th, 28th
August: 9th, 11th, 16th, 18th, 25th, 30th
BREAK IN EARLY SEPT
September: 13th, 15th, 20th, 22nd
October: 4th, 6th, 13th, 18th,20th
November: 3rd, 8th

Course Fees:

Full price of the training is €850, which includes a non-refundable deposit of €150. Once your deposit is paid you may choose to complete payments in installments or pay in full.

Suggested installment options:
- €140 per month for 5 months
- €100 per month for 7 months

If another form or format of payment is required, please reach out and we can absolutely discuss options.

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Ground of Being - 50 hr Immersion into Tantric Philosophy & Practice

Ground of Being - 50 hr Immersion into Tantric Philosophy & Practice

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“The body is continuously moved by the original seamless energy of the world passing through it - whether we notice it or not. When we sensitize ourselves to the coursing of the world’s energy, we come to know things directly though the body’s resonance, by feeling them” - Philip Shephard, Radical Wholeness

FAQS

Will the live sessions be recorded? Yes, all live sessions will be recorded and made available within 24 hours of the session.
Do I have to be a yoga teacher to join? No, you don’t have to have a yoga teaching certification to join - if you hold space in any capacity or offer other kinds of group practice or inquiry, this immersion will support in the development of this and your own personal practices/inner work.
If I do teach, do these hours count towards my certification? If you DO teach yoga and hold a current 200hr certification with Yoga Alliance, these 50 hours can be added to your existing certification and count as YACEP training hours.
How long will I have access to the content? You will have access to all content for one year from the start date of the training (28th June 2025).
Can I pay in installments? Yes, installments are welcome. If the options suggested in the payment section above don’t suit, please reach out so we can find something that works for you.
What is the expected workload/attendance? To recieve certification you must attend at least 80% of online calls live, and engage with the tasks set each month. There will be small written ‘tasks’ to complete each module, as well as monthly practices to do in your own time as daily sadhana. There will also be in-call practice teaching and sharing with other participants, so live attendance as much as possible is preferred.

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