Meet the Shakti Tantra Team
Shakti Tantra was formed in 2001 and offers programmes for women, men and couples and private consultations. The workshops focus on dealing with whatever obstacles keep us from our pleasure and the basis of the workshops is to provide a very safe container in which participants feel able to confront the defences and attitudes that inhibit and restrict the flow of their sexual energy, which is their life energy.
About the Shakti Team, their teachings and experience
The ethos of Shakti Tantra is to provide experiences and teachings that can help us find contentment, inner joy, delight, innocence and aliveness. When our illusions, confusions, doubts, denials and unworthiness are lifted, there lies our ecstatic nature, our essential being.
Our society does not encourage these states of love, beauty, joy & peace. We long for these qualities and out of our grief and longing we armour ourselves and get on with what we are encouraged to do, which is building our materialistic world, as though this itself was compensation for true pleasure.
Our anti ecstatic society promotes states of guilt, shame and judgement in which the split between heart and sex, the lack of honour around our sexuality, means that we become less than whole. Shakti Tantra’s purpose is to help heal the shame and guilt around our sexuality and to help us treat our bodies with love and respect. When we move to a place of seeing our sexuality as sacred, we can touch base with our ecstatic nature that is full of beauty.
The content of the workshops includes movement, active meditations, tantric structures and rituals and shamanic exercises – everything is an invitation.
Back in 2001 Sue Newswome helped for birth Shakti Tantra with Hilly Spenceley. She worked with us for many years and here we pay a little tribute to this amazing woman
Teachers at Shakti Tantra
Hilly Spenceley
Hilly’s approach is very grounded and practical, coming from her deep understanding of family and intimate relationships. She is known for her wisdom, joy, love and total acceptance within her workshops and is very skilled and experienced in running groups of which she has over 30 years practice.
Becky Price
Becky brings this rich experience and wisdom into her teaching. With a compassionate open heart she helps people find their spontaneity, playfulness and joy.
Pauline McCluskey
I came to tantra from a career as a nurse, teacher and facilitator, familiar and comfortable with supporting people during major life changes, all sorts of challenges. As a practitioner I work with people who want to explore new and different ways to feel, experience and express their sexuality.
Annabel Newfield
Annabel is inspiring in her embodiment of tantra. Her deepest intention for the brave souls, with whom she works, as they walk the tantric path is that each and every one of them can find this sense of beloved within themselves.
Upcoming Events
Invitation: Level 1 Womens Programme
Nov 15 @ 6:00 pm - Nov 17 @ 2:00 pm
Couples Level 2 Workshop
Nov 27 @ 4:00 pm - Dec 1 @ 2:00 pmWomens Programme 2020
Jan 1 2020 @ 8:00 am - Dec 31 2020 @ 5:00 pm
Awakening to Sacred Union: Level 1 Mixed Programme
Jan 31 2020 @ 6:00 pm - Feb 2 2020 @ 2:00 pm
The Tantric Fool
Apr 1 2020 @ 6:00 pm - Apr 3 2020 @ 6:00 pm
Latest Posts
Shakti Awakens – Poems by Rowena RobertsMay 4 2019 - 6:02 pm‘We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.’ ― Anais Nin Guest blog by Rowena Roberts, one of the women currently travelling with the amazing group of women on our 2018/19 Shakti Tantra Women’s Programme. After her level 1 workshop, Women’s Invitation, Rowena Roberts wrote some prose and shared it with […]
The gift of stillness – Don’t just do something, sit there!Apr 17 2019 - 7:20 pmIt’s so easy, when we’re madly busy, when there are lots of competing demands on our time, and we are running frantically through items on our to do list, that we lose all sense of ourselves. We pressure ourselves to Get Things Done. We experience the panic that is Don’t Just Sit There, Do Something! […]