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Testimonials
Thank you John & Tara for an amazing weekend. You are fantastic tantra teachers - the teachings were clear, fun, playful and informative and the ongoing home work has realy helped us grasp sacred sexuality. Only approximatley 1 hour via Stansted Airport! - we will be coming again!
J & H, from Finland.
A beautiful couple that created a safe haven for us to learn tantric sex - the saturday night cocktail party combined with flourescent body painting and flourescent drinks was original great fun and led into more interactive excersises on the Sunday. We were thoroughly pampered by this wonderful tantric couple for the whole weekend and will definatley becoming back for more advanced tantra sessions.
T & H, Surrey, UK
Thank you John for helping me become orgasmic. Approaching my mid 40's without having that exprerience and with your gentle and respectful guidance I have now entered a new chapter of my life.
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Reviews on Tantra Workshops
(photo above - Laurie Handlers, Tantra Teacher from New York, USA pictured at Alto Sax Retreat Centre, Essex, UK)
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“A well constructed workshop held at a beautiful venue with warm and caring hosts.”
G.P. Berkshire, UK.
“A great place to step into the unknown! The informality and
friendliness of both of the instructors and surroundings made it possible for us to engage in such transformational work.”
Paul Davies, North London, UK.
“The experience is therapeutic and awakens the sleeping aspects of our personality.”
S & B, Suffolk, UK.
“Beautiful setting, friendly hosts, good food.”
S & B Suffolk, UK.
“The workshop is challenging, informal and supportive.”
S & B, Suffolk, UK.
“I have attended all of Laurie’s courses in the UK and can recommend her warmly to anyone who wants to open up to allow the energies of the universe to be expressed through their lives. She works with emotional clearing, living in the unknown and specific tantric techniques. My life has changed enormously in the five years I have worked with Laurie.
Alto Sax is a great venue, a great location with lovely hosts and fantastic facilities.”
Stephen, Willesden Green, London, UK.
“Alto Sax is a great retreat and the ‘Sacred Love and Bliss’ was a good first exposure to tantra during which personal space and boundaries were respected.”
M from London, UK.
“Laurie creates a beautiful and supportive space in which I could explore my own sexual energy in a playful and sacred way. I felt held in my process and could thus allow myself to simply stay with, look at and release or embrace what came up. It was a great experience with a gem of a facilitator in a garden of Eden location. Thanks a lot, I’ll be
back.”
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This month (July 2007) I visited the Alto Sax Retreat Centre, a haven of bliss in deepest Essex. John and Tara, both members on this tantra site (tantra link community web site) have created a heavenly sanctuary in a four hundred year old house that boasts a swimming pool, hot tub and a view to die for. John and Tara are warm and welcoming hosts and offer a space for groups as well as bed and breakfast for individuals or couples who wish to chill out and find spiritual nourishment in a relaxing atmosphere. If you like getting naked, you’ll be pleased to hear that it’s also a clothing optional venue. Visit the site on www.alto-sax.co.uk
Kavida and Andrew, owners of Tantralink community, the largest community of Tantrikas in the UK
"Shocking people is fun! After your wedding has been hijacked by bossy relatives and you’ve spent hours sweating over the seating plan after Aunt Maud refused to sit next to Aunt Ethel because "that old bag has no table manners", the honeymoon is your chance to be entirely selfish. If you’ve both always fancied going to the Amazon to help collect poisonous spiders for research or a bit of naked horse-back riding in Alaska, so be it. Here are a few ideas designed to provoke a few clucks of disapproval.
If you can avoid telling your elderly relatives where you’re off to on your honeymoon, or if they’re very open-minded, book into the luxurious Alto-Sax Retreat Centre (www.alto-sax.co.uk) in Essex for a bit of tantric sex. Private lessons can be arranged and newlyweds can stay in a special honeymoon suite, which comes with pampering toiletries and a Thai body massager. The centre is a secluded 16th century farm house with lake views, swimming pool and a hot tub. Practitioners of tantra use sex as a focus for channelling energy to a higher level in order to attain spiritual enlightenment – a bit like a physical mantra. Done properly, it can take sex in a loving relationship to a new deeply satisfying intensity. Owners John and Tara say that improved love lives and orgasms are a bonus side-effect rather than the goal of practising tantra: "It’s a different way of experiencing sexual energy; the goal is to achieve intimacy, love and inner peace." Beginners are welcome to the centre, which has an optional clothing policy – you have been warned!"
Excerpt from Black Meringue magazine on Alternative weddings. On sale Autumn 2007 | | |
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