Happy New Year: Thanks and Blessings

Posted on January 1, 2016 by Kris Deva North

Here from these islands of love and peace where my beloved and I come to refresh, recharge, relax and and revitalise, reflecting on the year that has passed, my mind turned to the many who made 2015 such a good year, supporting and and enabling us to continue the work – and – play to which we have dedicated our lives.

Here we also get inspiration: ideas for the new courses and events to entice you further along the path of doing what you love, with all the benefits that go along with dreams fulfilled.  I have a special message for you who follow the Tao with us, and another for the NLPeople, but first, my thanks:

Above all, to those who gave their time and energy to joining us on our courses, both NLP and Healing Tao.

Congratulations to 2015’s crop of NLP Masters: Adrian Joseph, Alyson Ames and Depika Mistry, and thanks to Alex Reece, Ivana Garcia, Marcus Velden and Rowan Hand for making the time to assist me on  Masters and Practitioner trainings.  Welcome to the Practitioner listings to Ann Ayton and Jason Denman.  Well done to all of the above!

Congratulations too to four outstanding Qigong Practitioners who achieved Advanced Level at Qigong Teacher Training: Alex Reece, Máire Ni Ghiobaláin, Paul (Eddy) Grant and Samara Hawthorn.  Well done too to those who attained the Intermediate Level qualification: Alex Cavey, Chris McDermott, Ciara Mulvey, Conor Kelly, Diana Baynes, Maria-Elena Alvarez, Peter Littlejohn-Cook; and Minerva Gutiérrez who reached Basic.  And special thanks to Peter for hosting a wonderful retreat.

We had a great Tai Chi Camp at the Secret Valley in Wales, hosted by Samara Hawthorn.  The next will be in 2017 because this year, 2016, will see the second Tai Chi Teacher Training in Portugal, with opportunities to train and or upgrade as a Tai Chi Teacher recognised by the Tai Chi Union for Great Britain – overseas members welcome too!

We had a really fantastic response to our Dublin workshops, hosted by Máire Ni Ghiobaláin, running a Step 1 for Women, Step 1 for Men, a combined Step 2, and a wonderful Step 3. WE are both so much looking forward to returning to the warmth and hospitality of the Emerald Isle.

I’d also like to thank Gawain Forster and Alex Boylan for hosting my Step 1 in Manchester, and look forward to returning this year.

I’m sure there are many more I could thank, recognise and acknowledge but, y’know, the Hawaiian sunshine tends to to melt the brain a little.  So before I say Aloha Mahalo, I’d just like to mention something special for the dedicated Taoist:  for some years we have set a high standard for our Taoist Trainer Training (Step 8), including a number of pre-requisites before attending the training.

While maintaining that high standard, we have agreed that those who have completed the Step 5 can attend the Step 8 training: the pre-requisites will now be post-requisites.  In other words, when you’ve done Step 5 you are eligible to attend the next Step 8 training.  You will be awarded the Taoist Trainer Licence on completion of the post-requisites.  We will update the Step 8 web page and write to those eligible with more details soon.

For NLPeople, I’m offering you extra special deals to attend Healing Tao training – meet new people, make new connections, learn some amazing techniques that fit with NLP and increase your resources expo….

Happy New Year – Love and Blessings to you

Kris & Anamarta

 

 

 

 

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Children of the Rainbow

Posted on December 12, 2015 by Kris Deva North

Great Spirit of the Tao and Mother Earth, we trust
The Children of the Rainbow
To keep the sanity of humanity.
Children of the Rainbow we ask
Go past the paralysis of analysis.
Children of the Rainbow we beg
Nurture, preserve and renew
Our Forests, Earth, Mountains and Waters
And let our Air be free so Sun
Can nourish us with Light.
The Children of the Rainbow hear us
For we are they and each of us
Is Mother Earth and Great Spirit of the Tao.
We have one face:
Our Sun.

Returning to Maui after a long long absence – twelve to fifteen years, maybe more – I find what I wrote then even closer to my heart now. I still have faith in the ultimate sanity of our human race although I have to say that faith is tested ever more!

But that is that and lunch is lunch: a truly grounding exercise and yesterday enjoyed in the delightful and grounding company of my beloved Anamarta and our friends Monika Nataraj and her partner David.  It was for me a privilege to be sharing a table with the two great teachers of feminine empowerment, and to meet a Dharma teacher who shares his tradition across the globe.  And the lunch was delicious and I ate too much – Cafe de Amis in Paia if you happen to be in the neighborhood.

Today is our last in hotel luxury.  Jet-lag over we are away to the beach camp to lie in the sun and dance in the waves, and take time to explore this magical island.

But first – shopping!  So happy our Foodland discount card is till valid 🙂

#Aloha!

btw the expression Children of the Rainbow is how the people describe themselves on their journey through life.  I wrote about their shamanic healing practice in my article  for Positive Health magazine Aloha Mahalo Hawaii Huna Healing after my first visit.

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SINKING FAST IN FLOW

Posted on December 6, 2015 by Kris Deva North

With the idea of sniffing out a new client or two, I’m hanging out at one of those social/professional networking events. I spy a tall man with a Harvey Specter haircut, velvet collared coat worth at least a year’s Living Wage – which for my cousins across the pond is about $15 per hour. Go figure.

We catch each other’s eye, kind of, standing by the coffee table. Turns out he is a materially successful investment banker seeking to spiritualize his mundane existence in a way to fit with commitments of work, family and social agenda. His words. Sounding like a recitation, from lips pasted into professional smile. Eyes darting left and right looking for…someone or something other than what is front of him right now. If you’ve shaken hands with a politician or movie star you’ll know what I mean.
‘So how do you find it?’
The eyes stopped for an instant. ‘What?’
‘The way.’
‘Sorry?’ Eyebrows up.
‘The way to spiritualize the mundane existence,’ careful to avoid pinning said existence on to him personally as he starts the journey of graduation from potential to actual client.
‘Oh.’ I guess he wasn’t used to being listened to. ‘Of course.’

You know how it is: conversations that are in reality competitions for air-time, waiting for you to stop talking so I can start.
‘I just go with the flow.’ Eyes slide away into the tired old mantra alive and well since the Sixties.
‘Down the plug-hole, then,’ I observed.
Eyes front! Mental gear-shift in a moment of interrupted thought. I could almost see the picture on the screen of his mind. Then he said, ‘Well, I’m a surfer, so if I didn’t go with the flow I’d never catch the wave.’ Eyes start their slide to the side.
‘Yeah,’ said I who finally learned to surf standing up aged 68, ‘and if you did go with the flow you’d never get out past the breakers to catch that wave.’
He stared at me.
‘Think salmon,’ I said.

Now we have a relationship.
Just another way to catch a client. We believe we’re doing such great work that the world will beat a path to our door. Let’s show them the door. Even open it for them.
Moral: Pay Attention. Lie in wait. Pay Attention. Pounce. Pay Attention.

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Kris Deva North is a Licensed Trainer working out of London England at the Healing NLP Institute.
Kris will be running NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner Training in March and May 2016.

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Taoist Tantra – Inspiration

Posted on November 29, 2015 by Kris Deva North

Sex, spirituality, exercise, meditation, enlightenment, daily life, work, play and relationships together form that glorious piece of work, the Human. We are always striving to make sense of things, to learn, to teach, to share, but most of all to understand. Why are we here? Are we here, really? And, if we are, why should we not be? And now that we are here, where do we go next?
We separate life into compartments, but life has its own way of catching us having sex at the office, or thinking about the game in church, or what’s for lunch during a boring lecture, or answering work emails at home or textual intercourse at work. Research shows how very much the human brain needs both distraction and focus. We all bring our own issues to the tantric table.

The Taoist Canon, a still largely untranslated body of work said to number between 4,000 and 10,000 volumes, by a multitude of authors, originating between 4,000 and 1200 BCE, interfered with over the millennia by governments and guardians censoring here and repeating there, can be either a minefield or a goldfield for research: a minefield if you seek consistency.

Since the mid-1980s, training with everyone from High Masters to Tantric Frauds, Chinese teachers in Mercedes, Indian gurus in Rolls Royces, Westerners in robes and beads, from those who know to those who say they know, from the genuine to the fake, reading everything from ancient texts to scientific studies, often tempted to dismiss it all as BS, I have learned that when you mine for gold you have to go through a load of dross before getting the nugget.

In my research I developed a fascination for Su Nu, the Plain Girl advisor to the Yellow Emperor. You meet her in the first and last chapters. How could an innocent Chinese girl from an ordinary family gather the knowledge and experience to gain the ear, and more, of the Son of Heaven, the Emperor of China, in the days when one false step could bring death.
For now, her knowledge, experience and wisdom, her blend of humanity and sensuality, are the inspiration for me writing this book, in the hope that I can make sense of these ancient esoteric practices that even today can so enhance our life, love, and relationships. And, who knows, find a way to return to the source, Union with the Divine.

Look Inside http://www.amazon.com/dp/B016R3U67A

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Taoist Tantra Positions

Posted on November 25, 2015 by Kris Deva North

Swallows with Hearts United, or Flying Dragon
White Tiger Pounces
Monkey’s Attack, or Roc Soars over Sea
Clinging Crickets
Turtle Rising, or Twisting Dragon
Phoenix Soaring
Rabbit Licking Fur
Fishes Touching
Silkworms Entwined
Fishes Eye-to-Eye
Barbarian Squat
Soaring Seagulls
Goat faces Tree
Donkeys in Spring
Dogs in Autumn
Beating the Bamboo, Strumming the Lute Strings

Browse Before You Buy

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Taoist Tantra – What’s It All About

Posted on November 14, 2015 by Kris Deva North

Let’s follow the first review10 with a peek inside to see what Chapters we can start reading on Tuesday:

Table of Contents
1 THE SEDUCTION OF SU NU
2 TAOIST TANTRA
3 TANTRIC ROOTS
4 TAOIST TANTRIC PRACTICE
5 DUAL CULTIVATION
6 SOLO CULTIVATION
7 EIGHT FORMULAS FOR WOMEN
8 FIVE FORMULAS FOR MEN
9 TURNING THE WHEEL OF LOVE
10 SACRED SEX, ALCHEMY, MAGIC AND VAMPIRISM
11 YIN YANG AND THE TAO
12 HOW IT ALL BEGAN
13 TAOIST MASTERS, SCHOOLS AND DYNASTIES
14 INNER ALCHEMY
15 QUESTIONS OF TAOIST TANTRA
16 FROM REALIZATION TO ENLIGHTENMENT
17 MESSAGE FROM KRIS
18 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
19 INTERVIEW WITH MANTAK CHIA
20 INTERVIEW WITH KRIS DEVA NORTH
21 AUTHOR
22 REFERENCES AND RESOURCES
23 GLOSSARY
24 PREVIEW KRIS’ NEXT BOOK
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Taoist Tantra – the First Review

Posted on November 13, 2015 by Kris Deva North

taoisttantra_cover_A4This book is a pleasure to read and a pleasure to put into practice. It is a helpful guide to exploring Taoist Tantra, whether for the first time or as a way of deepening your practice, with storytelling to draw you in. Kris gives clear explanations of how to cultivate and use sexual energy, solo or with a partner, which are accompanied by photographs to illustrate and inspire.

The distinctions between different Tantric traditions are illuminating. These distinctions help dispel the confusion that surrounds Tantra; confusion which can make it harder for people to find a tradition or teacher that they can flourish with. This section of the book reminded me what I have learnt from different teachers and why I continue to find Taoist Tantra so rewarding.

Why explore sexual energy cultivation? The benefits that this and other Taoist practices can have in our daily lives are written about with great warmth and encouragement. Kris also emphasises the importance of mindful and grounded practice, preferably with the guidance of a teacher. He also includes questions he has been asked, with answers that help us understand Taoist Tantra in the context of our everyday lives.  Miss L. K. London

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Taoist Tantra Sexual Secrets for Love Click Here for Release 17th November

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Taoist Tantra Sexual Secrets of Love – Releasing November 17th

Posted on October 17, 2015 by Kris Deva North

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Is it disgusting, boring, worthy and dangerous, or can Tantra offer self-realisation by having a good time?
The Tao is the One, the source; Tantra is to expand and to liberate. Both see the world ‘not as a vale of tears, of sorrow or of suffering, but of subjective and objective beauty, a world of reality, neither an illusion nor an evil…the path is smooth and straight’. The aim is enlightenment: Union with the Divine, the means, sexual ecstasy. The practices are lofty and profound, sacred and profane, barring nothing except harming another.

While the Tao is Harmony, Tantra ‘challenges practitioners immediately to see all things and all experiences as intrinsically pure and innately perfect…. including situations meant to shock, repulse or terrify … heart and mind will be illuminated’. Courting the disapproval of society, Tantra bashes down boundaries, barriers and taboos, prescribing ‘forbidden acts’, opening windows to spiritual independence, creating opportunities for grasping the moment, shoving you along the ‘short path’ to ultimate peace, the indescribable experience of subtle clear light.

Flavoured by its roots, Hindu ritual is based on surrender, eating forbidden meat and drinking forbidden alcohol. Women practitioners (personifying the goddess Shakti) are seated either Right or Left of their male (Shiva) partners in the tantric circle. In the Right-Hand Ritual members enjoy sex with their own partner, in the Left-Hand Ritual with others, of any or no caste and regardless of sexual appeal. Rituals culminate in orgasm, with Shiva ejaculating in ecstatic surrender to the power of Shakti, the divine.

The mechanistic nature of the rituals and unofficial use of drugs help participants overcome apprehension, inhibitions and aversion to such practices as breaking caste taboos, ingrained over lifetimes in the Hindu consciousness. Liberation from conditioning of caste, taboo and convention leads to a freedom from fear possibly comparable with that of a committed Christian or Jew discovering that sin has been abolished.

For many this is enlightenment enough. Others continue to surrender: possessions, dwelling, family, becoming Saddhu, beyond ritual. Beyond the beyond, the Aghora sect live tantra ‘at the Left Hand of God’, frequenting cremation-grounds, eating human flesh and excrement, having sex with the dead, surrendering all attachment, hoping to shorten their chosen path by many incarnations.

The Tao is the way of harmony, Tantra expands and liberates. Without gender discrimination, rules, hierarchy or clergy, requiring no conversion or belief system, offering guidance rather than dogma, the Tao of Tantra is a short sweet path to spiritual independence, or your own conception of self-realisation or enlightenment. These words of the Dalai Lama capture the essence: ‘if the meditator applies certain meditative techniques it is possible to create opportunities for grasping the moment and consciously generating the experience of subtle clear light…during the time of death, of deep sleep, and sexual climax.’ If His Holiness were a woman, he might have included the moment of childbirth!

Taoist Tantra teaches ‘sex without energy loss’ for both women and men and shows how to begin the Tantric ‘short path’ to enlightenment, through pleasure as a way to bliss, the gate to ecstasy. By channeling through the Small Heavenly Cycle for control and safety, the Taoist tradition provides a safe foundation for awakening the Kundalini.
The sages of ancient China said everyone is entitled to a hundred years of healthy life. They passed their secrets of sexy longevity down the generations through an unbroken line of Taoist Masters. The Living Master Mantak Chia shared these secrets with Kris Deva North who brings these ancient practices to life, following his previous book Taoist Foreplay, Volume One of the Tao of Tantra series. Taoist Tantra Sexual Secrets of Love escorts the reader through the positions and practices of Taoist Tantric Love

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Eleven Moments that Took My Breath Away

Posted on September 19, 2015 by Kris Deva North

Standing in the Peace Garden in Central Park and seeing the tears of people reading ‘Imagine.’

Sunrise over the Taj Mahal, Agra.

Feeling my own tears at the Vietnam Memorial in Washington DC.

Watching Anapurna blush pink at sunrise.

Inscription on the tomb of the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral.

Sunset at Leela Beach, Kho Pha Ngan

The chapel of the Black Madonna in Barcelona.

First sight of the Himalaya from a plane.

The burning ghat at Varanasi.

Prayer for Whirled Peas at the 20th Gathering of the Rainbow Family of Living Light.

The Fire in your Eyes, the Light in your Face.

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Love To Die For: The Erotic Adventures of Captain Harry West

Posted on August 27, 2015 by Kris Deva North

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Love To Die For: The Erotic Adventures of Captain Harry West.  Look inside and buy now with a click!

Coming Soon: Taoist Tantra, Sexual Secrets of Love

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