Sedona, being the magical, mystical and beautiful place it is, is home to
numerous individuals and organizations that provide guidance and opportunities
for people to better the quality of their lives through meditation, yoga and
other healing practices.
For Crystal Dawn, the path to enlightened and joyful living is “SkyDancing
Tantra,” a method developed by
Margot Anand, an author and teacher of books such as The Art
of Sexual Ecstasy and Sexual Ecstasy: The Art of Orgasm, that
blends ancient Buddhist practices like meditation, sacred ritual,
sexual magic, yoga, and massage with modern techniques such
visualization, bioenergetics, and neurolinguistic programming to
teach men and women how to enter ecstatic
states of awareness and use that awareness to create creative, vital lives.
“Ecstasy does not need to be limited to our love life,” Crystal Dawn said.
“SkyDancing Tantra teaches us how to bring bliss into our everyday life. It
teaches us to awaken our energy body, transforming old patterns, showing us new
ways to communicate our desires clearly, and teaches us techniques for creating
joy and ecstasy in our lives.”
Beginning May 2, Crystal Dawn will be facilitating a seven-week
SkyDancing Tantric course in Sedona every Wednesday evening 7-9 p.m. until June
13.“Do you want to live a more joyful and ecstatic life,” Crystal Dawn asks? “Are
you ready to transform yourself and your relationships? Would you like have
tools that will expand your energy body and create bliss? Do you want to
increase the capacity for joy and intimacy in your life? Would you like to
communicate clearly from the heart? If so, then join us in our SkyDancing Tantric
course where together we will create a community of love, compassion and
acceptance that celebrates life with all its gifts and challenges.”
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Crystal Dawn considers herself a gifted teacher, healer and midwife, committed
to creating an ecstatic world through present moment awareness, love and
orgasmic living.Tantra is a Sanskrit word which means “to weave and expand,” according to
Crystal Dawn. She said it is an ancient practice of expanding
consciousness rooted
in Hinduism that began in India more than 3,000 years ago and is
practiced in both the Hindu and Tibetan Buddhist traditions.
Tantra regards enlightenment as the realization of the
oneness of oneself and the visible world.
"SkyDancing Tantra is not a religion and can be practiced by people of all
faiths,” she said. “Orgasmic living is being fully present in each moment and
feeling a deep connection to the miracle of life, of which we are all a part.
Tantra teaches us to breathe, let go of control and trust the universe. When one
is able to let go and be in the flow, one feels more joy and has more support in
life.”
Like most people who come to Sedona to visit and suddenly find themselves
irresistibly drawn here, hers is the same story.“I had been here in January 1994 and May 2001 and loved the energy of Sedona,”
she said. “In March of 2005 I came to see a friend and as soon as I saw the red
rocks something in my heart broke open and I knew I had to move here. I went
home and spent two months getting my house ready to sell. I put it on the market
in May 2005 and it sold in one week. I packed up and moved here as soon as I
could after that.”
Crystal Dawn worked in women’s healthcare since 1984, first as a labor and
delivery nurse and then as a nurse-midwife.
She became a midwife because when giving birth to her two sons, she entered what
she said was an “ecstatic state of connection to the creative life force of the
universe”
“I wanted to help other women have empowering-positive births,” she said. “Years
later while studying midwifery I had a similar experience while making love. I
felt this energy move up my spine and out my head and I went into the place of
bliss for several minutes. I knew this was a Kundalini experience.”
She said she was living in San Francisco and found a book about Tantra by
Charles and Caroline Muir.
A few years later she began studying Reiki and other forms of healing and opened
a small healing practice.
In 2002 she was invited by a friend to a weekend SkyDancing Tantra workshop.
“From the first day I felt I’d come home,”
she said. “A couple of months later, I attended an eight-day
training course with
Margot Anand and I have been studying with her ever since.”
She said practicing and studying Tantra vastly improved her own life.
“It has taught me how to be more present and connected,” she said. “It has given
me communication tools that are invaluable. It has taught me that I am
responsible for my own pleasure. It has made me a better lover and taught how to
have clear boundaries in my relationships. It has expanded my capacity for joy
and improved my appreciation for life. It has made me a more loving and
compassionate person.”
She believes her SkyDancing Tantra course will do the same for others.
“The course helps provide for a more joyful and ecstatic life; transform one and
their relationships; expand the energetic body and create bliss by giving you
specific tools that you can use to be more present and connected to yourself and
others; by teaching you ways to connect from your heart instead of your head and
by learning how to experience orgasmic energy independent of sex,” she said.
She said age is no barrier for people wishing to take the course.
“I recently taught a Tantra course at a Veteran’s home in California where most
of the people were in their 70’s and 80’s and they loved it,” she said.
For more registration information on the course, please contact Crystal Dawn at
928-282-5483 or e-mail
cdmorris@commspeed.net.
There will be a free introduction to the course May 2, in West Sedona.
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