DARK EROS
DARK EROS
The act of transgression breaks through the barriers of fear and shame,
and that moment of liberation creates a charge of energy on which we can ride to heights of pleasure and ecstatic experience. It also asserts a sense of self as independent of social norms, a sense of individuality
– John Hawken
This part of our journey together reflects upon the essential question:
what is your basic attitude towards your sexuality, and as a result, life in general?
Is it fear or is it excitement?
We can look at fear as 'contracted excitement'... and this existential predicament is the focus of John Hawken's Dark Eros
How to transform and expand states such as 'power over', resistance, guilt, anger and withdrawal
into 'power with', love, surrender, lust and being in contact?
Can you allow yourself to expand the kick from indulging in the 'forbidden' into a whole-body relaxed experience of pleasure?
Or is there a limitation in needing immediate release from this contraction?
Moving away from tension around sex, perversion, power and transgression into a relaxed playfulness and acceptance of all the parts of you so often shunned is key to this part of our journey together
Being able to explore the roles of dominance and submission within a conscious setting such as this has the potential to release us from any unconscious binding to either role in our daily lives
I revel in exploring the depth of the present moment in all it's potential for intensity and truth
Embrace the potency of focused ritual and surrendered states for self-knowledge and understanding,
as I guide and support you to see deeper into yourself
This path allows you to meet face to face with your shadow parts
Those places in you that you avoid, project, hide, reject
Make contact with repressed anger, shame, grief or desire
Dare to enter into those parts of yourself that you fear,
finding freedom within the awareness and release that you so long for
THE BELOW ARE OVERVIEWS OF THE VARIOUS AREAS CONTAINED WITHIN THE DARK EROS TEACHINGS
sessions may contain a blend of the below to suit your personal interest and life themes

EMBODIED CONSENT
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What is consent? Wheel of consent overview
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How to navigate power dynamics and boundaries
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Yes - No - Maybe - Yes, but...
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Recognizing, speaking, embodying your no
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The pleasure of rejection
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Understanding trauma responses and how they show up in you or a play partner
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Practice play exchange using embodied consent
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Reclaiming closed symbols
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Expanding into the pleasure of sensitivity
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Recognising any embedded patterns around responsiveness
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Awakening energy using tools such as the flogger
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Noticing any tension and holding in the body
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bringing awareness to what lies within the unconscious in regards to your capacity to surrender to energy

AWAKENING
THE BODY

RIDING THE WAVE
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Relaxing into the wave of life
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Letting go of control
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If desired, exploring breath control
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Releasing the three segments into a flow state
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Working with breath, movement and sound to create ecstatic energetic states
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Integration massage
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Honouring the body as a sacred vessel for spirit
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Meeting the spiritual through the mundane
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Rosetta Healing
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First chakra meditation - accessing the void
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Finding your yes to anal pleasure
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Transforming punishment

SHIFTING SHAME

POWER DYNAMICS
THE POLARITY OF
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Dominance and submission
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The power of surrender
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Origins of our patterns around pleasing/transgressing
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Somatic exploration of our childhood experience
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Exploring the pleasure of polarity
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Working with the excitement of fear and the power of anger
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The art of erotic tension and role play
DARK EROS TASTER
over three sessions of up to 2,5hrs
750 EUR
DARK EROS WEEKEND
a journey of up to 12hrs
1200 EUR
at my berlin studio
1500 EUR
at a location of your choice
with the additional expense of travel and accommodation
A NOTE ON BOUNDARIES
These sessions are about embracing and releasing the shadow to come further into the light of self-acceptance and self-love
I follow the tantric paradigm where violence, force or pretence have no place
Dark Eros work is structured around fostering consciousness within the shadows of ourselves and is NOT a bdsm session
Appointments will be confirmed after a telephone consultation as to your intention
As your coach and guide I do not undress in sessions
Any touch within intimate areas will be given while wearing nitrile gloves
Session times are from arrival to departure and allow around an hour for an opening discussion and/or extended coaching, showering if desired, explorative bodywork and closing reflections