Authentic Relating: Learning How to Cultivate Deeper Intimacy

Join us for an afternoon of cultivating intimacy in your life with Tantra Instructor, Grace Bryant.

Explore Authentic Relating Practices to create more joy, fun, creativity and spontaneity with yourself and othersThis event is designed for both individuals and couples. The event includes a time to get to know each other over a shared meal (soup, salad and bread).

Grace uses fun and experiential practices and games as a way to get curious, listen deeply and cultivate the skills of intimate relating.

You will experience:

  • intimacy through greater body awareness
  • curiosity – how to ask better questions and listen intimately
  • what’s in the way of accessing a deeper intimacy and how to break those barriers
  • mindfulness and meditative practices
  • how taking ownership of your experience leads to more honesty and vulnerability
  • living with an open heart
$45.00 – Price for Singles/Individual Tickets $80.00 – Price for partners Tickets
Presenter: 
Grace Bryant has been a whole life educator for the past 13 years integrating drama, music, movement, meditation, yoga, mindful living, creative play, teamwork, conscious collaboration and leadership. She leads classes, discussion groups, workshops, women’s groups, and retreats in the Pacific Northwest and abroad that deepen consciousness and teach others to live with more awareness, trust, connection and compassion. More information can be found at bewholebehappy.com or sacred-embodiment.org.
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Meet a Practice Partner Date Night

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Come to Meet a Practice Partner Date Night at Seattle Tantra Center! All are welcome, whether you’re looking for someone to meditate with, to breathe with, to practice sensual connection with or for intimate connection. This nonsexual class will help you connect with others looking to meet a Tantric Practice Partner.

Register HERE!

We’ll play together and explore partner-based:
– Breathing & meditation
– Awareness practices
– Sensual connection
– Authentic Relating games
– Fun Speed dating activities

There will be NO sexual or genital touch in this date night. You’ll get to interact with many different people in a variety of practices designed to:
– Discover and share your preferences and desires
– Connect with a variety of people on different levels
– Get to know people below the informational level
– Practice expressing your desire

FAQ’s
What is a practice partner?
A lot of Tantric practices are enhanced when we practice with another human (or more than one!) A Tantric practice partner is someone you can deepen and expand your own practice with. It’s best if you share an intention and aspiration for the practice and have some common reasons why you want to be a Tantric. Note: you must be doing your own practice for this to work! Don’t expect your practice partner to do the work for you.

I’m non-monogamous and I already have partners. Can I come?
If you’re looking for a new person to practice with, then yes! We’ll have a chance to share our desired practice partner structures and our current relationships so people can choose their level of comfort around non-monogamous structures (when applicable). Anyone who is looking for a practice partner is welcome to attend.

I want a practice partner, not a sexual partner
Great! You’ll have a chance to connect with people who have a similar desire.

I do want a sexual partner!
Great! You’ll have a chance to connect with people who have a similar desire.

Will there be sexual touch during our date night?
No. our date night will be fully clothed and nonsexual. We will play with delighting our senses and moving our sexual energy with partners.

I’m looking for a practice partner of my same gender. Is that possible?
Absolutely! There is no hetero-sexual or sexual inclination for this date night. Whoever attends will determine the “pool” of options for this event. Hopefully, this date night will empower you to look outside the class as well and to really start asking for what kind of practice partner you’d like.

Exercises:
– Boundaries and consent
– Intention setting – why do you want a partner?
– Preferred relationship structure for a practice partner
– Desire sharing
– What are you doing yourself?
– What realm do you want to connect? (physical nonsexual, intimate/sexual, energetic, emotional, mental, spiritual)
– Speed dating game from Seeds of Communication
– Sensual play

Cost
A donation of $20-30 is requested for this date night. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. If financial contribution is not an option, please ask Grace or Themis about how else you can support the community and participate.

Register HERE!

The Light and Dark in You: AR Games

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We spend a lot of energy judging which parts of us are light and dark. How do we choose our actions? How do we know what voices inside us to follow?

According to the Tao, we are a constant weaving of dark and light. The intention is not to pick one or to judge what arises in us as good or bad. It’s to find the balance point in each moment with more and more trust in ourselves.

Join this Authentic Relating Games night and play in the darkness and the light in you. Through games and interactive exercises, we’ll look at where we might tend to judge what’s dark and what’s light. And we’ll invite space to look at where guilt or self-criticism may be holding us back from being free to choose in the moment.

** WHAT ARE AUTHENTIC RELATING GAMES? **
AR (Authentic Relating) is about what is real. It’s about what you are feeling and experiencing in the bodily felt sense. It’s about your actual thoughts and emotions in the moment, whether they be frightening, silly, sexy, or questioning. It’s about the nature of connectedness when you look into the eyes of another being.

Relating Games are a collection of experiences and activities that give participants a hands-on taste of both the joy and skills of genuine interpersonal connection. Game nights provide a lower-stakes venue to feel the power of being vulnerable in community with the aim of bringing more authentic connection into our lives every day.

Authentic Relating is a growing movement with communities around the globe gathering to connect and enrich the human experience. (https://www.authrev.com/worldwide-connection)

** WHAT/WHO IS AUTHENTIC SEATTLE? **
We are a community that is unleashing our aliveness through self-expression, connection, and bearing witness to each other.

Seattle Tantra Center will be hosting monthly Authentic Relating Games nights. All are welcome to join.

Event Details:
– Address: 9414 Roosevelt Way
– Ample street parking and public transit options.
– Please arrive 15-20 minutes early to settle into the space so we can begin at 7pm. We lock the doors at 7:15.
– Cost: Donation basis $10-$40 suggested to support budding Seattle Tantra and Authentic Seattle communities. Cash, check or card accepted at the door. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Your assistance with set-up or clean up would be most appreciated in lieu of financial support.
– Accessibility: Seattle Tantra is an accessible space. However, the bathroom does not accommodate wheelchairs. Please contact us if you have questions about how we can support your abilities.

Additional Considerations:
– Please note that Authentic Relating events are not a therapeutic setting, and the facilitators are not there in the role of counselors. If you have needs that would best be served by a mental health professional, do not consider this practice as a substitute for such care.
– Games & Circling events can facilitate people making deep connections. Not everyone brings that connected experience with them after an event. Please remember to practice everyday politeness if you reach out to someone to connect socially after an event.
– If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to ask any of the Authentic Seattle or Seattle Tantra facilitators.

On Desire: Authentic Relating Games

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On desire: are you in touch with yours? Desire arises naturally within us, we do not make them up. However, we do make up a lot of stories, expectations, and fears around our naturally arising desire. We often confuse desire and need in our minds, creating even more confusion, shutting down and bypassing what often feels like a shadowy part of us- unwelcome, unhealthy, wrong. This separates us from an integral part of ourselves, leading to feelings of unfulfillment, lack of wholeness, and shame.

Tonight, we will use authentic relating games to explore our own personal world of desire, disconnection from it and any shame or fear around our desire…all the while fiercely acknowledging that no one else is expected to fulfill our desires for us.

This is an edgy topic and may be uncomfortable. And while desire is often associated with sex and our sexuality, it is much more than that. Acknowledging that edge, this evening is about getting to know our desires, and not about fulfilling those desires. This evening does not include sexual touch or any expectation that another person should be fulfilling my desires for me.

Facilitated by Grace & Keeley

** WHAT ARE AUTHENTIC RELATING GAMES? **
AR (Authentic Relating) is about what is real. It’s about what you are feeling and experiencing in the bodily felt sense. It’s about your actual thoughts and emotions in the moment, whether they be frightening, silly, sexy, or questioning. It’s about the nature of connectedness when you look into the eyes of another being.

Relating Games are a collection of experiences and activities that give participants a hands-on taste of both the joy and skills of genuine interpersonal connection. Game nights provide a lower-stakes venue to feel the power of being vulnerable in community with the aim of bringing more authentic connection into our lives every day.

Authentic Relating is a growing movement with communities around the globe gathering to connect and enrich the human experience. (https://www.authrev.com/worldwide-connection)

** WHAT/WHO IS AUTHENTIC SEATTLE? **
We are a community that is unleashing our aliveness through self-expression, connection, and bearing witness to each other.

Seattle Tantra Center plans to host monthly Authentic Relating Games nights. All are welcome to join.

Event Details:
– Address: 9414 Roosevelt Way
– Ample street parking and public transit options.
– Please arrive 15-20 minutes early to settle into the space so we can begin at 7pm. We lock the doors at 7:15.
– Cost: Donation basis $10-$40 suggested to support budding Seattle Tantra and Authentic Seattle communities. Cash, check or card accepted at the door. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Your assistance with set-up or clean up would be most appreciated in lieu of financial support.
– Accessibility: Seattle Tantra is an accessible space. However, the bathroom does not accommodate wheelchairs. Please contact us if you have questions about how we can support your abilities.

Additional Considerations:
– Please note that Authentic Relating events are not a therapeutic setting, and the facilitators are not there in the role of counselors. If you have needs that would best be served by a mental health professional, do not consider this practice as a substitute for such care.
– Games & Circling events can facilitate people making deep connections. Not everyone brings that connected experience with them after an event. Please remember to practice everyday politeness if you reach out to someone to connect socially after an event.
– If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to ask any of the Authentic Seattle or Seattle Tantra facilitators.