Alchemy and Intricacy
The Delicate Business of Being Human
October 8th - January 3rd
Student Love
Usa
I went to Laura' course because I was suffering in an unfulfilling relationship and couldn’t manage to get myself out. I had no awareness of what kept me addicted to its painful dynamics. Through Laura’s keen insight and gentle but firm guidance, I was able to finally see my role in all of it and own my responsibility. I left the relationship soon after her workshop and never looked back to that old pattern.
Today I have greater self-trust that manifests in deeply fulfilling relationships. My gratitude is immense - I could have wasted so much more time feeling “stuck” and helpless. If you are ready to move forward with your life and step into a deeper level of trust, intimacy & sexuality… I can’t think of anyone else who will bring more power & insight to your transformation than Laura Carrotti.
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Colombia
- The Mission, The Call:
I wanted to believe in magic, I wanted to live in awe. I wanted mystery. I wanted to kick my life over and live in the mossy brambles of its underbelly. I wanted meaning. I was drawn and quartered between the opposing poles of wanting to melt into wonder, and wanting to understand everything.
And I didn’t want what I had. That is an important piece, that what I had seen, what I had experienced until then, was not it. Happiness and fullness felt out of my reach.
So, I packed my bags, sold my things, extracted myself from my life, and went in search of meaning. I spent the next number of years losing and finding it. Feasting on Southern Asia’s sprawling banquet of spirituality, tried everything I could get my paws on, and slowly, steadily dug my life out of its hole.
What I discovered in these years of sitting in meditation, bending into yoga poses and trying every kind of possible practice placed before me, was that the sexual energy is key. That we can find, in this source of life, all of life's mystery, power, ecstasy, and pain. That the study of this energy is the study of life. That knowing this current is knowing ourselves.
And that only when we know ourselves can we hope to be able to meet another. By meet, I don't mean just bump into. I mean to meet; to see and be seen.
Sex without a meeting brings us only frustration and fleeting pleasure, a meeting is only possible when you can lay yourself bare to the other. You can only lay bare when you have seen and known all of the fragments of yourself, gathered them unapologetically and stated, “Look at this beautiful mess, look at this wild magic!” And you consider that magic to be the most precious of gifts, rather than a burden.
And that is the core of this work; that there is no sense in accruing tools and techniques to make you a better lover, better communicator, or better relator in general, until you can really relax into the person you are.
Until you have known the all the notes on the scale that bridges your sacredness to your profanity, the fullness of your grief and awe, your bird-bone vulnerability and your utmost power, you will not really let anyone close to your heart. As long as you keep secrets from yourself, the intimacy you seek will not be found.
For the last decade I’ve been running intensive courses; cathartic, deep, primal, spaces where we can let go what’s ready to get gone, and call in what’s ready to land. I believe that working in a group calls us into action and allows for the co-regulation hardwired in all mammals. We heal in packs. We thrive in packs. All those oars in the water, bringing us toward a common, and utterly individual place inside of ourselves. This work is meant to be done together. This course is meant to divide our waters; to give us the opportunity to be in our lives, and at the same time in deep inquiry. It is the opposite of the intensive workshops, it's a slow cooker, allowing us time to soften into the work, time to let it happen to us. And we will start where everything starts; with sex. This intricate force within us, that has more to do with our inherent power than with any interlocking of bodies; it is the alchemical element with which we can regain sovereignty over ourselves and regain our wholeness.
What you'll get
25 pre-recorded lessons which systematically bring us into the depths of the intricate workings of our systems. Each week new lessons will be made available for you to watch in your own time.
19 Practice sessions to accompany the lessons. Each theory and concept will be accompanied with a practice; movement, breath, yoga, or meditation designed to allow the information to transform into understanding, and to create a biofeedback loop with the body. These practices will be a tool we can use for the rest of our lives.
Guided self-study. Each lesson will come with an assignment to be done to get very clear where we can find this within our own lives. This is not a theoretical work, you will get in there and apply it!
Weekly live experiential sessions. We will meet live as a group to workshop the themes we opened during the week. Questions will be answered by Laura, and we will move through and integrate the teachings.
Live guest classes. Once a module we’ll have the opportunity to have a class with another teacher, one who works in a similar, yet totally different way. From Tai chi, to dance, to theater, to meditation, these other views will give us a fuller, richer experience.
Vibrant community. We’ll have a community space where we can share, ask questions, and connect. There will be community assignments, and an invitation to create Listening partnerships and Accountability Pods, to help us stay on track and to build connection, which help us understand that we are not alone in this work.
More student love
Sexuality and the body and were always something that I associated with shame and difficulty. Working with Laura allowed me to have a tangible experience of the source of the wounds and mistaken beliefs that were holding me back from relating in a more natural way -- with myself, my partner and with life. Even more importantly, the gem of Laura's work is finding that going through those uncomfortable spots is precisely the path back to my naturalness, joy, and spontaneity. I feel much more accepting of myself and my sexuality now, and his makes it so much easier to be a human! Laura teaches in a knowledgeable, hilarious, and genuine manner that is a testament to somebody who is sincerely walking their talk. If you are serious about reconnecting with yourself, you need to get to know Laura and her work.
Laura's work is essential in this world, now more than ever. Everyone should do it! In my life there is a very clear before and after her work. Before I often felt imprisoned in my body, a victim of my circumstances and an island disconnected from everybody else. The work gave me such a profound understanding of how I did this to myself and most importantly, helped me to start to shift things on a deep level. I feel so much more joy to be alive and pleasure in my body. I don’t feel like I am a victim of my circumstances, I understand how I created them and therefore that I can create something else. It is empowering in the truest, realist sense, not in a way that you suddenly live happily ever after in a castle with bluebirds and your princess, but in a way that you can finally breathe in your own precious life and share more deeply of yourself with others!
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What you will learn Module 1:
What does sexual energy have to do with it?
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Learn the grounding somatic skill of Orientation
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Master a yoga asana sequence designed to support the inner work
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Understand the role of sexual energy in evolution and happiness
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Learn a powerful tool for sharpening will power
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Create a tangible connection with your joy
What you will learn Module 2:
What is Blockage?
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Open a study of the nature of blockage and find where it resides in your body
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Bonus Tai chi session
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Discover the connection between our blockages and patterns that repeat in our lives
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Movement practice and breathwork designed to reach these blockages
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Get clear on early influences that prevented this energy from flowing freely
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Learn how to de-fragment the energy
What you will learn Module 3:
The Product
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We'll unpack the story you tell yourself about what it is to be a good person
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Get powerful techniques to move the energy to the heart
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Bonus session for integrating the fragmented pieces of ourselves with the whole
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What to do with this feeling of being a fraud
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Find out what you are selling to the other, and who is buying
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Set up a dialogue between your inner masculine and feminine
What you will learn Module 4:
The Shadow
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Understand the actual function of the shadow
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Explore shame as a portal
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Get to know the fragments which act as guardians to our unconscious
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Study the mechanism of numbness
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Create a powerful ritual for integration and re-assimilation of fragmented energy
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Create a connection to our real boundaries
What you will learn Module 5:
Integration; returning whole to joy
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Realign with simplicity
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Open the study of pleasure
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Resting in the space of nothing needs to happen
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Focus on sensitizing and circulating the energy
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We'll use the artifacts we have gathered through the course to create a model of the true self
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Resting in your own heart
Who is this course for?
Who this is for
Who this isn't for
Someone who doesn’t have any problems, or fine-tuning that needs to be done right now. Those who don't have two hours a week to dedicate to this work at this time. Those who don't feel emotionally in a space to dig right now. Those who might be triggered by the idea of using binary terms like masculine and feminine.
Laura Carrotti
The core of Laura’s teaching, and her mission, is to bring people back into their totality, and to help them re-evaluate the relationship they have with their sexuality. Her work blends self-inquiry, dynamic forms of meditation, breath, yoga, and good old honesty. Her specialty is in unraveling the war we are all in with ourselves.
Laura has been leading Tantra groups in Europe, Asia, South America and the U.S. for over a decade and teaching Yoga philosophy and practice for almost two. She is also a trauma informed, Somatic Experiencing practitioner.
And she swears an awful lot, but she’s great fun.
Even More Student Love
Working with Laura has created shifts in all my relationships. In my business when I’m confronted with aggression, I am now able to understand this as being the way the person is protecting themselves, and I can stay relaxed and hold space for them, and work with them, rather than meeting them with aggression and trying to push their fire away. This has completely shifted my work environment, there has been a total change. At home I feel like I really understand my children and what triggers them, and I am able to show them that I see them. I feel like I understand my purpose more clearly, and have a broader view and an ability to shift situations. Romantically I understand more about who I am, and what I am bringing to the relationship. I am managing to be more myself, more real, and this is bringing my relationships to a deeper place and making them more real and honest.
Laura’s work means so much to me. She creates a very clear and practical structure or path that led me to a much deeper understanding of patterns and behaviors that make up my relation to myself, others, and the world. Not only by bringing things to surface in an understanding, insightful way, but by going there and feeling. Her intensive course is the first thing I encountered on my journey that made me go there and feel what needs to be felt!
Her work transformed me in a way that made it possible to be with my beloved, and to manifest all that I am manifesting at this moment!
Thanks again Laura for your wonderful work and the energy you put into it. You give what is so much needed in this world.
I believe in a collaborative economy. I understand
that the assigned value of this course holds a very different financial impact
for each of you. I work with people in different parts of the world, whose
currency holds more or less weight, and folks with very varied financial realities.
In an effort to encourage a different way of contributing I will let each of
you choose your price tier, there is no proof needed, just choose whichever one
feels best for you. The higher price bracket will both allow this work to
flourish and continue as well as to fund scholarships and discounts for those who
need them. It’s the Economic Circle of Life! There are scholarships available for BIPOC, please reach out to learn more.
Discount codes are given below, copy them down, and when you go through the check out and are asked if you have a coupon just put the code that corresponds with the payment that suits you. Easy!
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GUEST STARS
Nitya is the co-founder of Yeshe School of Self-Knowledge, an
online school focused on the process of Emotional Maturation, and the founder
of Feel, a methodology focused on the simple and inspiring theme of
re-connecting with the life-force inside of us. He has spent the last 15 years discovering
ways to enjoy life more intensely, suffer less, and reconnect directly with the
vibrant essence of our Being. His work offers tricks and techniques to bring us
in contact with the body, emotions, and present moment.
Tanja is a dancer, Gaga teacher and yoga practitioner. The heart of her artistic practice is an ongoing research of the moving body-a space of experience, expression, and personal expansion in the unfolding of physical intelligence and the sensory body. She is currently developing a platform for co-creative, immersive dance experiences that oscillate between club culture, performance and embodied practices
Meditation gives joy and meaning to Gayana and Avinash’s life. They believe this to be the foundation of personal development and for a healthy and fulfilling life. The work that they have developed, called Tantra Heart, is an invitation to access sexuality from the space of the heart. They believe that the heart is the base which creates the security that allows us to become more receptive toward ourselves, life and the other, and to be able to move toward transformation.
Frequently asked questions
How many hours will we need to commit per week?
We will be offering auxiliary practices and possibilities for whoever feels that they want to go deeper, but 2-3 hours a week will be enough to complete all the lessons and practice in each section.
When will the live classes be?
9:00 Hawaii (UTC - 10)
11:00 Los Angeles (UTC -8)
2:00 p.m. New York (UTC-5)
3:00 p.m. Brasilia (UTC-3)
7:00 p.m. London (UTC +0)
8:00 p.m. Berlin (UTC +1)
9:00 p.m. Jerusalem (UTC+2)
2:00 a.m. Bali (UTC+8)
5:00 a.m. Melbourne (UTC+11)
We will have class every Wednesday except two pauses, where we will have empty weeks to rest and catch up!
What if I can't make it to a live class?
All live classes will be recorded, and you will have access to them as soon they are uploaded. You will be able to watch them in your own time. If you miss a session, It’s recommend that you check and see if there is anyone else in the group who missed it and see if it is possible for you to watch together. Having an accountability buddy will help keep the energy of the sessions high. If you know that for some reason you won’t be able to make any of the live sessions (for example, you work at that time) try to see if there is anyone in the same situation and team up to see if there is another time that you can schedule to do the class together weekly.
I have already done the Intensive course with Laura, is this the same thing?
Though this course touches on some of the same themes, this is a completely different course. We are working now with much more space to unravel the themes that open in the Intensive, they are meant to be complementary workshops. Alchemy can be the lead in to the Intensive, or it can be a follow-up to go deeper.
Are we going to be learning sexual techniques in the course?
We are going to study our sexual energy as a current of vital force that animates and impels us. We will unravel the blockages, examine the beliefs and conditioning, and allow the sexuality to unravel in its natural glory rather than imagining we can teach it how to be better at being itself before we even know what it is.
I saw something about the masculine and feminine, is this course only for heterosexual and Cisgender folks?
Whenever we refer to the masculine and feminine in this work we are talking about internal forces and the way they play out inside of us. Masculine and Feminine in these terms don’t refer to genital assignments, or hetero-normative labeling or relating, but rather an internal relationship we have with different energies within us. Everyone has a masculine and feminine, it has nothing to do with who we choose to relate with or our genitals.
How long will I have to finish the course?
Is this course for single people or people in relationships?
I am injured/differently abled, will I be able to do the physical portion of the course?
I have trauma and feel afraid at the prospect of getting re-triggered
Last of the student love for now
Laura’s work is intense. Intense in a way that she offers a space to dive into deeper levels of your own story, connecting the dots that might not make sense on the surface and enables you to get in touch with yourself, your body and life itself. She is ready to answer questions in a profound way and offers support wherever it's needed. Watching her working is very inspiring. She is a compassionate and profound teacher.
I came to this work to learn more about how I show up in relationships, especially romantic ones, which often left me unfulfilled. I was able to see the resentments I carried toward the opposite sex, and toward my own sex. I could see that I had a lot of pain, which was causing tension and conflict in my relationships. At one point I understood that I can choose how I react. I received a lot of tools to help me to integrate everything that I experienced in this work into my daily life.
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