One of DharmaSTARS’ main missions is to bring back the true meaning of the Temple Arts, where Priest(esse)s are multi-facetted servants of their communities and the Divine, each with their own specific skills and gifts to bring through.
The Temple Arts
The term Temple Arts has been gaining more and more popularity in recent years and tends to evoke visions of ‘sexy priestesses’, and other limited interpretations for many. One of DharmaSTARS’ main missions is to bring back the true meaning of the Temple Arts, where Priest(esse)s are multi-facetted servants of their communities and the Divine, each with their own specific skills and gifts to bring through.
Includes Teachings on:
· Sacred Lineages and the call for authentic priestesshood and space-holding
· Decolonisation
· Practitioner ethics and basic principles of Dharma and Natural Law
· Subtle bodies and the chakras
· Parts, IFS and trauma-informed communication and self-reflection
· Ancient tantra, sacred sexuality and the Temple Arts
· Holistic Astrology and its importance for budding Sekhem students
Format of the Course
Each recorded session is between 2 and 3 hours long.
Often there will be a main presentation which will be around 90 min long and then subsidiary teachings.
There will also be a real time online seminar on RELATING, APRIL 20, 2024.
(see more details below)
There will also be an assessment to ensure students have processed the material that is compulsory for students wishing to add this to their Masters modules.
DharmaSTARS is committed to bringing High Teachings to our students.
Course Content
This Course contains 7 sections, giving a foundation to different aspects of the Temple Arts
1 – SACRED LINEAGES & THE CALL FOR AUTHENTIC PRIESTESSHOOD AND SPACE-HOLDING
During this resurgence of people calling themselves High Priestesses and holding tenuous links to unproven lineages, how can we cultivate a spirituality and adherence to pure and Universal principles of the Temple Arts? Exploring some Ancient traditions we will look at correlations in their value systems and discuss how we may work with authority, humility and impeccability.
· Sekhem Lineage
· Magdalene, Yeshua, John the Baptist, Essene and Rose Lineages
· Kalachakra – Highest Yoga Tantra and the Golden Age/Shambhala Warrior paradigm
· Indigenous Science and Natural Law and Time
· Shadow principles in Mystery School lineages
· The quest for Truth, authenticity, Authority, skilful means and Mindfulness
2 – DECOLONISATION
Unfortunately people from privileged countries rarely strive to understand the deeper elements of the legacy of colonisation and how it is still perpetuated. If we wish to fully embrace the Healing Arts and to eliminate suffering we need to understand inequality and unconscious colonial programming. In order to release from samsara and to step into a higher spirituality, and to enter true Dharma, decolonisation is vital. What does that mean and how do we go about it?
· The ‘drama triangle’
· The drama triangle in the Healing Arts
· Archetypes that may perpetuate colonial underpinnings
· Unconscious colonial programming and tools and tips to overcome it
· Understanding privilege
· The connection between the ego and the colonial
· Paying privilege forward – the new Priestesshood
· Karma, Dharma and Decolonisation
3 – PRACTITIONER ETHICS
Many energy medicine trainings do not include adequate training in practitioner ethics. As more and more people are drawn to Temple and Healing Arts it is increasingly important to have good ethics and to work with sacred professionalism. Many people think that if they have done Reiki initiations it will be enough to begin a career as a healing practitioner, when in fact it’s normally just the very beginning of such a journey.
When people are offering energy medicine they may encounter clients in vulnerable situations.
Important themes are:
· Working with loved ones
· Sexuality and healing
· Power dynamics in the workplacema
· Control vs Surrender
· Referrals and diagnoses
· General practitioner ethics
· Privacy and Confidentiality
· Disclosure and Safeguarding
· Holding and Containment
· Compassion vs Over-Identification.
· Empathy vs Sympathy
· Transference and Countertransference and some tools to encourage self-reflection and self-enquiry.
· Rescuer/ Missionary and other archetypes at play
4 – SUBTLE BODIES & THE CHAKRAS
Whilst Sekhem does not wholly focus on chakra systems, modalities like Reiki honour the Indian chakra systems. Understanding the energy centres and subtle bodies is vital to being an adept energy medicine and temple arts practitioner.
We will cover:
· Understanding the importance of chakras/energy centres and different systems
· Working with subtle bodies and energies
· Mapping imbalances in clients
· Chakras and death
· Karma and the lower chakras
· The importance of working with the lower triangle to strive for impeccability as a practitioner
5 – PARTS, IFS & TRAUMA-INFORMED COMMUNICATION AND SELF-REFLECTION
As practitioners it’s imperative that we are able to work with our own wounds and not to have them dominating our interactions. Moreover it’s important to hold space for, and understand the afflictions of others in order to compassionately help them move through these. Furthermore, in retreat settings a lot of time is often wasted through interpersonal triggering events and languishing in story. How can we as practitioners striving for impeccability step into self-responsibility and also to be able to communicate and hold space effectively?
· Moving beyond triggered woundedness
· Basic introduction to IFS and parts work
· Parts Mapping
· Learning how to work with our own and other people’s parts
· IFS/NVC – differences, similarities and limitations
· Duality and parts work – the limitations of IFS
· Moving beyond duality
· The importance of self-responsibility as a practitioner
· The Key of Acknowledgement
· Pristine speech
6 – ANCIENT TANTRA, SACRED SEXUALITY AND THE TEMPLE ARTS
For many, ‘Temple Arts’ has connotations of sexy priestesses in orgiastic lavishness. Given that we do not have a direct ‘line in’ to those Ancient times and we have indeed evolved, how can we apply wisdom from this course and from fully preserved Ancient Tantric traditions to cultivate sacred sexuality and to utilise our energetic bodies for the greatest good? Can we set a new paradigm to eliminate toxic femininity and masculinity?
We will discuss:
· Fact and myth surrounding the Temple Arts including the fall of Ancient Egypt
· Duality and non-duality
· Sacred sexuality and Ancient Tantra
· Serpent wisdom and esoteric practice
· Golden Age relating and Dharma Dating
7- HOLISTIC ASTROLOGY AND ITS IMPORTANCE FOR BUDDING SEKHEM & TEMPLE ARTS STUDENTS
The celestial bodies and the study of them is one of the oldest of the sciences and played a central role in numerous mystery school traditions such as Kemetic wisdom-keeping. By working with Natural Law and Time we can work through our karma more seamlessly to become emancipated for our Dharma role and to space-hold for others. In this section we will look at:
· The role of astrology in the Temple Arts
· Brief introduction to different systems
· Scientific/esoteric templates to help accuracy with client work
· The significance of Non-Dual Astrology
· Basic overview of planets
· Brief overview of Karma to Dharma in various astrological systems
· The return of Quetzalcoatl- the Venusian paradigm renewed
RELATING
ONLINE DAY RETREAT ON RELATIONSHIPS | 20 APRIL
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Accreditation
[Accredited Certification of this course is available for a further £222]
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Course Co-ordinator
Victoria Sinclair Padma Khandro
Padma Khandro Victoria Sinclair is a Worldwide respected consciousness innovator having facilitated community trainings and events for over 20 years. She is a trauma specialist originally from Belfast, N.Ireland and works bridging realms and modalities in innovation and unique ways for each client or group’s needs.
Padma Khandro is well-known as a culture bridge-maker in her integral work with a broad range of recognised indigenous elders and teachers in S. America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
Her training background includes; Transpersonal Psychology, Epigenetics, Trauma work, Pranayama, Kundalini Yoga, Plant medicines, De-colonisation and Quantum, sound and ancestral practices. She is also a plant communicator and trainer of Sekhem Healing, Serpent Codes, Quantum Consciousness, Fundamental Energetics and Altered States of Consciousness. Her fusion trauma informed approaches bridge shamanism, IFS, CRM, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Quantum Transfiguration and Ancestral work. She has been working as a practitioner in Energy Work and Mental Healthcare settings for 20 years. Over the last 4 years she has become a practitioner of Kalachakra Highest Yoga Tantra, studying with Rime, non-sectarian Master, Khentrul Rinpoche and the Dzokden organisation.
Victoria’s dedication to healing communities has initiated various ground-breaking programs including the Lotus Avatar Earthkeepers Program, Wounded Healer Holistic Series and the Lotus Consciousness Platform – a global hub for conscious education – as well facilitating ceremonial practice with plant teachers, tribal councils and communities and at many international event gatherings. She has also recently launched a new Mystery School – Dharma Sekhem Temple Arts Rejuvenation School.
Maaike de Haan
Maaike de Haan is an art therapist and holistic practitioner with a foundation in energy medicine and teaching background in higher education, who has devoted her life to studying and working within the Healing Arts. She’s a Dharma STARS co-founder, course contributor and senior practitioner for the platform.
Maaike weaves a fusion of modalities, anchoring her natural intuitive, empathic and multidimensional gifts in psychotherapeutic training and initiations into ancient wisdom and energy medicine lineages, resulting in a grounded holistic and trauma-informed approach.
Maaike is a Quantum Transfiguration practitioner (level 2), Reiki Master [Usui/ Tibetan tradition] and Sekhem Master/ Teacher initiate, who has studied specialisms in Energetic Hygiene & Clearings, Spaceholding, Earthkeeping and Death, Dying & Transitions, with her teacher Padma Khandro Victoria Sinclair – who she has been travelling and working with extensively in Mexico, Asia and Europe for the past 4+ years.
Maaike has been initiated into working with several plant teachers/ allies over the years, incl. Blue Lotus and Tobacco. She is trained to do Sananga assisted clearing work also.
Maaike currently works as a resident art therapist with children and teenagers, as part of a multi-disciplinary team at a specialised therapy practice in the North of the Netherlands, in addition to being a Dharma STARS senior practitioner working internationally online and in-person. She is currently developing Quantum Art Therapy as a modality, under the supervision of Victoria Padma Khandro – since 2022.
Maaike is available for (Quantum) Art Therapy, Inner Child and (related) Trauma work, Quantum Transfiguration, Sekhem energy healing and deep Clearing work of people and spaces. Maaike is also able to work remotely.
Madalena Banha
Madalena is an energy medicine practitioner.
Since 2018 she has been on a deep energy medicine journey having been initiated into Reiki and Sekhem lineages, being a Sekhem Advanced practitioner.
She’s trained in Permaculture, Plant Alchemy, Energetic Hygiene, Divination, Brainspotting, Multidimensional Spaceholing and is a trauma-informed practitioner.
Her connection with plants has deepened over the years, working closely with them since 2019 and in 2022 she was initiated into Tobacco – a sacred master plant teacher – by her teacher Victoria Padma Khandro.
She’s been working in pioneer and visionary projects, and intergenerationally for over 5 years, being a co-founder of Dharma STARS. Madalena is a bridge between the youth and the elders
