GRIOTS REPUBLIC - An Urban Black Travel Mag - April 2016

APRIL 2016
anything else that I could find related to tantra
until the day I learned of a tantric massage
course I completed the first module and was
quite impressed. Soon after, while at my shaman
course in Sao Paulo, I met a woman who told
me about the local tantra community. I was so
excited to hear about this community.
They offered many different workshops for
personal healing and growth such as “Journey to
the Heart,” which is a path where friendship, trust
and surrender develop in a profound way. They
work on releasing suppressed emotions thereby
healing phobias, anxieties, fears, obsessions
and depression. They also offer “Melting”, which
is a powerful course in which you die and are
reborn, additional courses in rebirthing and the
tantra therapist course.
Since I was living in Salvador and the community
was in Sao Paulo and expensive for me as I
was only teaching English 15 hours a week for
income, I didn’t know how I could afford to pay for
the courses and workshops. Luckily, the friend
who initially told me of the community shared
that they have a flowing program where you can
live and work in exchange for points to take the
different courses and workshops offered. I knew
right away I would go live there.
I wrote to the community and the coordinator said
I could stay for a week so that both they and I
could evaluate if this was a good fit. I told them
how I lived in Salvador and would need to plan
and that I wanted to stay the maximum threemonth
length of time. After many exchanged
emails, they accepted me and allowed me to stay
beyond the week trial period.
In this community, we practiced yoga at 7am every