Quarterly Temple Weekend (Blue Mist, NC)
We hold hold monthly temple weekends and traditional temples quarterly. Monthly temples are events that have a specific intention and theme and typically are more focused on community and connection and less on transformation. We hold these every Feb, March, April, August, September, November, & December.
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Quarterly temples include ceremony, practices, experiences, and open play and have a stronger emphasis on transformation. Temple refers to the ancient practices of various cultures that utilize spirit, heart, and sexuality to transform. This is an extremely powerful, pleasurable, and impactful weekend experience! These more powerful experiences are held in January, May and October.
Tantra
Tantra is the art and practice of being more present and aligned with all areas of your body, psyche, mind, eros, and heart in order to experience deeper connection with self and others. It involves both sensual and sexual practices.
Kink
Kink has many flavors - for us its celebrating the parts of each of us that feel hidden, repressed, taboo, or shamed and bringing them to life through sensual, sexual, and archetype practices/scenes. We play with polarity and turn-on to enhance experience.
Energy
Energy practice is kind of a buzz word (literally lol) - for us energy is important because it gives us access to deeper, more intimate, more pleasurable layers of our experiences in all areas of life including sensuality and sexuality.
Quarterly Temple
(January 17 - 19):
Temple of the Dark
Quarterly Temple Ceremony & Ritual Event (Jan. 2025)
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Theme: Temple of the Dark
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As we continue to marry the sun and the moon, spirit and body via the heart for full soul expression, we seek wholeness in all three channels. The previous two quarterly temples we activated our power and our wisdom through our inner oracle. This temple we will activate our will through the depths of the dark. The dark is found in all channels, chakras, bodies, and energies. It is the ocean of all things. It holds consciousness, love, spirit, and matter. It holds the light and the shadow. It is the cosmic mother, the abyss, the womb, the cave, the cauldron. It is the monadic. It is life itself. We will experience individual, dyadic, and group ritual, ceremony, and field in order to access the dark in order to fully access our will.
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The will is the part of life that is willing, that wills, that becomes life's will. What does life will of us? What will we will? Only the dark can uncover the deep well of will. We will tap into our power, wisdom, heart and eros as means to reach the will.
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This Temple of the Dark will be a journey. Only come if you feel called.
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Main Temple: January 17th 5pm to January 19th 11am​
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January 17th (Friday):
5:00 - 6:00 pm: Arrivals
6:00 - 7:00 pm: Potluck
7:00 - 9:00 pm: Opening Circle, Tantric/Monadic Puja
9:00 - 12:00 pm: Monadic Temple
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​​January 18th (Saturday):
8 am - 10 am: Breakfast and free time
10 am - 12 pm: Opening Circle Tantric & Dark Practices
12 pm - 2:00pm: Lunch on Own
2:00 - 3:30 pm: Dark Ceremony & Practice
3:30 - 4:30 pm: Break
4:30 - 6:00 pm: Dark Embodiment Ritual
6:00 - 7:30 pm: Potluck,
7:30 - 9:30 pm: Group Field Practices & Latihan
9:30pm - 2 am: Open Temple.
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January 19th (Sunday):
8 - 9:30 am: Breakfast
9:30 am: Closing Circle
Clean up!
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12 pm (Optional): Headed to the Scotsman Pub in Waynesville, NC for some good ole' Celtic music, food, and drinks!
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Income/Donation Considerations:
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Abundant Income: Pay regular price or higher to help those in need. Consider donating more.
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Regular income: Pay what fits within the sliding scale
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Loss of Income: Pay what you feels right; consider work trade or volunteering.
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No Income: We got you, come. Consider offering trade, work, or volunteering if available.
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Physical Donations: If available, we are welcome to accept items like paper products, intimate supplies, cleaning products. And we understand this is a difficult time for many of us, so: if you need it, and we have it: its yours!
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$177 - $277/person ($222 recommended)
$333 - $511/couple ($411 recommended)
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If you have adequate income and abundance consider paying more; if you are struggling, please come and accept the trade options below.
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Work Trade:
$25/person + 5 hours of work or $125/equivalent trade
$50/person + 4 hours of work or $100/equivalent trade
$75/person + 3 hours of work or $75/equivalent trade
$100/person + 2 hours of work or $50/equivalent trade
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**Please, if you are worried about finances, talk to us; we can figure something out if this doesn't work.**
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Accommodations:
Airbnb Rooms: 1 Queen, Private Bathroom $155/room (Upstairs Airbnb); 1 Queen Downstairs, Shared Bathroom, Shared Kitchen $135/room (Downstairs Airbnb). 1 Queen Downstairs, Shared Bathroom, Shared Kitchen $135/room (Downstairs Airbnb).
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Main Home Rooms: 1 Queen, shared bathroom $135, 1 Full, private toilet/shared shower $135; 1 full, private toilet/shared shower $135; 1 Twin Bed in temple space $50; 1 Twin Bed in temple space $50.
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Sleeping on Couches/Floor/etc.: no extra cost, bring your pillows and blankets.
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Bring your own tent or vehicle and camp at no extra cost.
Local hotels are also available in Sylva, Dilsboro, Cherokee, and Bryson City, NC.
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Venmo is @wholeheartawakening
PayPal jared.dupree@gmail.com
Zelle is anna.dupree@gmail.com (the name William will come up)
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Refund policy:
As a small business, we do not issue refunds, but ticket costs may be used toward a future event.
If you booked/paid for a room, we can't offer a refund or future application of the payment. You can find someone to take your room if you desire and have them pay your directly.
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