The Body, Heart & Soul® Training

A comprehensive 2-year training based on the Body, Heart & Soul® course
Led by Alan Lowen assisted by the Art of Being® teaching team (60 days spread over 2 years)

The next Body, Heart & Soul® training begins with
Body, Heart & Soul Part 2, March 18-25, 2011.
The whole training will take place in Parimal Seminar House, central Germany.

For all training dates and prices see below.

For full information about The Body, Heart & Soul Training please contact The Art of Being® office:
Email: aob.europa@gmail.com
Phone: +41 (0)44 586 15 75


This training was created to give people a way of exploring and learning, over a 2-year period, the path of sexual loving and intimate relating that is taught in the Body, Heart & Soul® course. Please note that to join the training you must first complete Part 1 of Body, Heart & Soul®. Parts 2, 3 & 4 are included in the training together with additional training seminars.

Is this Training for you?
The training provides a holistic and integrative approach that is designed for
  • people seeking a comprehensive training that is alive and personal in the field of intimate loving
  • people who want a safe, long-term context for exploring, healing and reclaiming their sexuality
  • people who are attracted to a course that is grounded in the body and feelings, and has a powerful spiritual dimension too
  • therapists and health professionals who want to incorporate the methods and skills presented in this course into their work.
Its appeal to individuals with a wide variety of interests enriches the whole training group and broadens the learning and healing opportunities for everyone involved.

The 2-year duration, with about 60 days spent together including a 7-10 day participants' vacation and several interim assignments, gives participants the opportunity to explore their sexuality within a very intimate, committed and caring family-community. It also provides them with support for making creative changes in their everyday lives, relationships and work. At the same time that it teaches people who work with people how to bring the principles and the vision of Body, Heart & Soul® into their own work, the training is also a model for people who want to discover a way of relating sexually and intimately that is healthy, healing and loving, and that offers the possibility of creating happy and trusting love-relationships.

The 3x7-day Training seminars between Parts 2, 3 and 4 and at the end of the Training incorporate the main features of the original Art of Being® Training, to ensure that this Body, Heart & Soul® Training gives participants the deepest possible foundation for understanding, practising and living their own Art of Being.

The Structure of the Training
Chronological overview and prices

Year 1
  • Body, Heart & Soul Part 2 (7 days) - March 18-25, 2011
    €595
    and 2-day Training Seminar - March 25-27, 2011
    €165
  • 1st Training seminar (7 days) - June 17-24, 2011
    €574
  • Body, Heart & Soul Part 3 (7 days) - October 21-28, 2011
    €575
    and 2-day Training Seminar - October 28-30, 2011
    €164
Year 2
  • 2nd Training seminar (7 days) - March 16-23, 2012
    €574
  • Trainees' self-organized summer vacation (usually 7-10 days)
  • Body, Heart & Soul Part 4 (7 days) - June 15-22, 2012
    €575
    and 2-day Training Seminar - June 22-24, 2012
    €164
  • 3rd Training seminar (7 days) and graduation - October 12-19, 2012
    €574
  • invited to assist in workshops with Alan and other Art of Being® teachers
Total training price: €3960 + food & accommodation


The Body, Heart & Soul® workshops
Body, Heart & Soul®, the course described earlier in this booklet, provides the experiential education that is the foundation of the training. Its four 7-day work-shops invite the deepest understanding of sexuality, intimacy and Tantric loving through the personal transformation and evolution of your own being.

The Training Seminars
The training seminars provide the circle work where personal themes and explorations can be safely explored at the deepest and most life-transforming level. These naturally include powerful tools of personal growth, healing and awakening that trainees can learn to work with and use to enhance their own teaching practices if they wish.
There is also a weekend follow-up for trainees at the end of each of Parts 2, 3 and 4 of Body, Heart & Soul®. Parts 2, 3 and 4 of Body, Heart & Soul® are workshops that are open to anyone who has completed Part 1, so that during the training the trainees also interact with others who are not in the training. To glean the maximum benefit from these 3 workshops, which always end on Friday at lunchtime, each is followed by a weekend follow-up seminar for the circle trainees.
There is a lot to work with, so as well as practising in the seminars with your fellow-students, Trainees with professional intentions are also given guidance and feedback which is valuable in developing their ability, confidence and enjoyment in teaching.

Some of the themes that receive more in-depth attention during the Training seminars are:
  • sensory awareness and sensitivity training
  • verbal and non-verbal rapport and communication skills
  • the use of dance, trance, movement, ritual and ceremony
  • re-parenting and Inner Child work
  • breathing processes
  • touch and energy-work
  • meditation and spiritual work.
Some of these may already be familiar to you. As in any Art of Being® training however, you are not only learning the content but using the content to deepen your self-awareness, open-heartedness and happiness.

The Art of Being® Circle work of the Training Seminars
This Training is transformational, not just informational. In the circle work with Alan you learn to trust and to work with the natural flow of your energy, and the aliveness and intelligence of your being. You learn the art of being present! This also means learning to know and recognize, in those moments when you lose trust or become afraid, the ways in which you may at times sabotage and undermine yourself and maybe others too. Instead you learn to trust and befriend your inner challenges so that you can play and work creatively with the richness of your own being and with whoever you meet. This work brings valuable gifts to every aspect of your daily life.

Personal Study and Practice
You are encouraged to read selected books, to carry out assignments, and to practise regularly whatever breathing, body- and energy-techniques appeal to you so that you can to discover the effects of these practices for yourself. Reading lists, assignments and practices will be presented during the Training seminars.

Training Assignments and the Transformational Vacation
Occasionally you are encouraged to meet in pairs or in small groups during the months between the group meetings to practise a particular training assignment. You also organize together, usually during the summer of your second year, a transformational vacation that is only for the trainees. Here you can enjoy, in a holiday setting, the circle of friendship that develops during the Training and continue to explore all that you are learning with each other.

Assisting and Helping in Workshops
After the first year of the training, by personal agreement with Alan you have the opportunity to assist him in any workshops in which you have already participated. This is especially valuable for trainees who are interested in eventually becoming teachers - whether with The Art of Being® or on their own. As an assistant you are part of the teaching staff. You may be asked to lead small groups, to counsel or be there for individual participants, to lead a meditation, or simply to help the workshop teachers and the staff of the centre where the workshop is being held with whatever helps the workshop to run smoothly. Sometimes you may be asked to participate in order to even up the numbers when participants are working in small groups. You can continue to assist after your Training has ended. You pay only for your food and accommodation. The opportunity to continue assisting after the training is over gives you practice and support in paving your own professional way and helps you learn the background routines that are necessary to work happily and successfully.

Graduation and Becoming a Licensed Art of Being® teacher
Everyone who completes the Body, Heart & Soul® Training will receive a graduation certificate and is invited to join the Art of Being® Inner Circle that connects all Art of Being® graduates with each other. The Inner Circle has its own e-group and holds its own gatherings. Graduates may apply to become licensed Art of Being® teachers. The essential criterion for becoming an Art of Being® teacher is that you are able to create a space in which people can learn to celebrate the gifts of their own being, realize their untapped potential, and live happy and fulfilling lives. This naturally requires that you yourself have a real and well-integrated understanding of the art of being. The teacher's licence is renewed annually through participation in the annual Teachers' Meeting. This is a weekend for all the teachers, including Alan, to meet as a circle. There is no leader. Being in this gathering each year looks after the teachers' essential connection with The Art of Being®.


Upcoming dates for this workshop:


Body, Heart & Soul Training weekend  Mar 25, 2011-Mar 27, 2011
Body, Heart & Soul Training Seminar  Jun 17, 2011-Jun 24, 2011

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