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Success Stories. Well, for starters, it's not what you saw in the movie American Pie! Tantra is thousands of years old of Hindu and Buddhist tradition and has become a buzzword which unfortunately has some misleading definitions. Translated from Sanskrit, it means "weaving," which we have come to understand as oneness. Bringing oneness to yourself and consciousness to what you do.
Exercises involving breathing and meditation are a part of Tantra and are designed to bring you into a state of being more present. And who doesn't want to be more present in their relationships? A Puja is an intentional ceremony. Translated from Sanskrit it means reverence, an offering. It is a ritual designed to open our hearts and allow us to see the inner beauty within ourselves and all beings. It invites us into the elegant dance of masculine and feminine in a warm space of oneness and connection--what a great way to start your first date!
Participants form two circles facing each other. The men form the outside circle and the women form the inside, with each woman facing a man. Each pair then share a meaningful exchange through a directed exercise a Puja "station" , which can be for a few seconds or a few minutes. Then they put their hands together in 'Namaste', thank each other and--like a speed date--rotate to the next person. The ceremony ends when everyone has rotated a full circle.
The exercises are non-romantic, based in human connection: verbal exercises, light partner yoga, dance, breathing and meditation, eye-gazing, conscious touch holding hands, hands on heart What's unique is that each exercise has a kernel of positive relating skill. So you're practicing helpful relationship skills while you're having fun!
Thanks for asking! If you find an exercise that doesn't work for you, then--just like in yoga--you have the option to modify, or completely opt out. Everyone is encouraged to participate at their own comfort level, and our facilitators demonstrate what that looks like, so everyone is clear before we begin.
What makes this a "date" is that you get to choose who you enjoyed interacting with, and we'll put you in touch after the event.
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We like to let the women choose. The women will get to sense each man's personality and presence and decide who they may want to get to know better. Men will be instructed on how to be grounded and open-hearted so they can be felt. We find when we trust the wisdom of the feminine somehow it all works out. Doors open at the published start time.
That's when we check you in and give you your dating materials everyone must check in to participate. You also receive a playing card for our IceBreaker game. You'll have until the ceremony begins to play the game. Anyone that hasn't checked in before this time will not be able to participate. You'll want to look good, yet also be comfortable enough to stand, move, and sit cross-legged. There isn't a tremendous amount of movement; we've had folks show up after work in suits and they've managed okay, but you want to be comfortable to move.
Don't worry about shoes, we'll take those off before we start. And remember, you're going on a date. So do make sure to groom yourself and have good hygiene appropriate to interact with potential dates. There is no food or drink provided at the event unless it's a special occasion. It's a good idea to bring a bottle of water. You could bring a snack for before or after note that some venues may not allow food. However, you will have only a short moment with each date, so you probably won't want to eat during the ceremony.
We do our best to aim for an equal gender balance at each event. So far just about every event has been sold out, and since we have an equal number of tickets per gender, we've had a near-perfect gender balance at each event. We also use door sales to balance out gender. Some events have a suggested age range noted in the title and description and some are open to all ages. Yes, you can discuss to what extent they are an approximation, what are their limits of validity, do they take into account such niceties as quantum entanglement or unified field theory of course they don't.
Everything is very open with a really clear explanation of the issues. The bias takes the form of skepticism that we can fix the leaky pipes and machines; that task is portrayed as too difficult, and would require trust. Little change came from the vote which saw the PP claw back a handful of seats to reach a total of deputies, still far short of a majority. Simply wish to say your article is as surprising. There isn't a tremendous amount of movement; we've had folks show up after work in suits and they've managed okay, but you want to be comfortable to move. Maybe you could write subsequent articles regarding this article. Arvinas, Inc.
But the most basic scientific concept that is clearly and disturbingly missing from today's social and political discourse is the concept that some questions have correct and clear answers. Such questions can be called "scientific" and their answers represent truth. Scientific questions are not easy to ask. Their answers can be verified by experiment or observation, and they can be used to improve your life, create jobs and technologies, save the planet.
You don't need pollsters or randomized trials to determine if a parachute works. You need an understanding of the facts of aerodynamics and the methodology to do experiments. Science's main goal is to find the answers to questions. And the rate of advance of science is determined by how well we can ask sharp, scientific questions, not by the rate at which we answer them.
In the field of science with which I identify, condensed matter physics, important new discoveries and new questions arise on the scale of about once every five years. They are mostly answered and worked through on a time scale much less than that. Science is also driven by luck and serendipitous discovery. That can also be amplified by asking good questions. For example, the evolutionary biologist Carl Woese discovered a third domain of life by asking how to map out the history of life using molecular sequences of RNA rather than fossils and superficial appearances of organisms. The widely publicized ennui of fundamental physics is a result of the failure to find a sharp scientific question.
It ought to be more widely known that the truth is indeed out there, but only if one knows how to ask sharp and good questions. This is the unifying aspect of the scientific method and perhaps its most enduring contribution.
Earlier thinkers, from Lucretius to Patrick Matthew, had grasped that there was something inevitably true in the idea of Natural Selection. Had neither Darwin or Wallace existed, someone else would have come up with a similar theory; many practical people, whether pigeon fanciers or dog breeders, had already grasped the practical principles quite well. But, for its time, sexual selection was a truly extraordinary, out-of-the-box idea. It still is. From the existence of Veblen Goods such as caviar to more mundane absurdities such as the typewriter.
For almost a century during which few men knew how to type, the typewriter must have damaged business productivity to an astounding degree; it meant that every single business and government communication had to be written twice: once by the originator in longhand and then once again by the typist or typing pool. A series of simple amends could delay a letter or memo by a week. But the ownership and use of a typewriter was a necessary expense to signal that you were a serious business.
Any provincial solicitor who persisted in writing letters by hand became a tailless peacock. But, take note, I have committed the same offense which everyone else does when writing about sexual selection. I have confined my examples of sexual selection to those occasions where it runs out of control and leads to costly inefficiencies. Elks will make an appearance any moment now, you expect. But this is unfair. You may have noticed that there are very few famous Belgians.
This is because when you are a famous Belgian Magritte, Simenon, Brel everyone assumes you are French.
In the same way, there are few commonly cited examples of successful sexual selection because, when sexual selection succeeds, people casually attribute the success to natural selection. But the tension between sexual and natural selection — and the interplay between the two divergent forces — may be the really big story here. So might it be the same in nature?
So the sexual fitness advantages of displaying ever more plumage on the sides of a bird rather than, like the peacock, senselessly overinvesting in the rear spoiler may have made it possible for birds to fly. But most people will avoid giving credit to sexual selection where they possibly can. When it works, sexual selection is called natural selection.
Why is this?