the LEAP
A yearlong transformational journey of embodied awakening
Next Retreat:
Portals of Healing | October 4-8, 2023
This yearlong journey is Azul’s signature transformational program
designed to take you on a healing journey of self-discovery to access your true essence and support you to align with your highest potential
A powerful program that includes
- Four Immersive 5 Day Retreats
- Monthly Integration Sessions
- Ongoing Support & Community
Embodied Awakening
The LEAP is a yearlong transformational journey for personal healing and embodied awakening.
Embodied awakening is a process of spiritual awakening that involves a deepened awareness of the connection between mind, body and spirit. It is a holistic approach that emphasizes the importance of integrating the body into your spiritual practice and spirituality into your daily life.
It involves a shift in perception, a sense of interconnectedness with all of creation, and the experience of expanded states of consciousness, profound insights and a deep sense of peace and well-being.
It is not a one-time fast track event, but an ongoing process of growth, transformation and practice: an embodied practice that is a powerful tool for personal and spiritual growth and can help you find greater meaning and purpose in your life.
“Awakening happens by going in
and through our humanity and releasing the blocks that hold us back from experiencing our true essence.”
~ Amara Pagano
“Leap and the net will appear.”
~ Julia Cameron
Four Live Online Quarterly Retreats
Healing Masculine
& Feminine
Balance & Connection
This retreat explores how masculine and feminine energies move and express. We will come to understand the origins of these energy patterns in our own personal story. In this process of exploration, we will be able to transform these patterns to establish a more harmonious balance of these energies in all areas of life.
By doing so, we can experience greater pleasure and establish healthier relationships. Additionally, this retreat will open new pathways for both giving and receiving, leading to a more enriching and fulfilling life.
Portals
of Healing
Harmonize with your past
This retreat addresses the three main portals of healing: Mother, Father, and God…exploring these relationships and discovering what our soul is here to learn and grow through. Working through this movement experience gives us access to information stored in our bodies. It allows us to experience our unfelt feelings in a safe container so that we can release them.
It helps us understand our history and clear our emotional body. The dance accesses subtle layers of understanding and awareness, below the mind, directly into what needs to be felt, expressed, and integrated into our life until the portals are clear and all that’s left is our true essence which is love.
Doorways
to Love
Engage in a process of healing
This retreat covers six core values that, when embodied, awaken love and bring greater health, harmony and well being into your life. These values of honesty, self-responsibility, kindness, dedication, beauty and service provide a foundation to engage in a deep process of healing.
Each doorway has a shadow that we can bring into the light of awareness and engage in a process of healing. These shadows express our unconscious No to life and reveal how we sabotage our own happiness. As we are able to shift our No to Yes we create the life we wish to live.
Integrating Higher
& Lower Self
Set Yourself Free
Is a journey through a map of the Self that illustrates and integrates the relationship between our masks, the lower self, our childhood woundings and our higher self. It helps us identify the defense mechanisms we built to protect ourselves, but have inevitably led to suffering.
As we bring into consciousness these parts of ourselves we begin the journey of integration which creates space for the higher self to be felt and experienced. Ultimately allowing us to live from our higher self.
Monthly Integration Sessions
Integration sessions are a powerful way to further integrate and reinforce the healing experience that you gained from our immersive retreats. In these sessions, you will have the opportunity to connect with a community of like-hearted individuals who are also undergoing their own healing journey.
Our online meetings are held monthly and are carefully designed to help you deepen your inquiry and explore the content that you uncovered during the retreat. These sessions are specifically focused on supporting the overall integration of the material into your personal life.
By participating in our integration sessions, you will have the ongoing support that you need to continue your healing journey and create lasting positive changes in your life.
2023-24 Calendar Overview
Portals of Healing | October 4-8, 2023
Monthly Integration Sessions | October – November
Integrating Lower and Higher Self | December 2-6
Monthly Integration Sessions | Janury – February
Doorways to Love | March 2-6
Monthly Integration Sessions | April – May
Portals of Healing | June 1-5
Monthly Integration Sessions | July-August
Healing Masculine and Feminine | September 14-18
Monthly Integration Sessions | October-November
Integrating Lower and Higher Self | Nov 30 – December 4
*All sessions are offered live online
Is it the right program for me?
The LEAP is designed for all people on a path of personal transformation, for movement teachers of all modalities that wish to expand their horizons, for therapists and healers that wish to incorporate movement in their practice and for individuals of all ages and walks of life that wish to live life at their fullest potential.
How will I benefit from attending?
This program will help you remove the blocks that prevent you from experiencing love and living your life at its fullest potential. Healing wounds and accessing new information about your souls journey and what you are here to learn, will provide clarity about your life purpose and open new possibilities for freedom, joy and self expression.
How does it work?
Movement is combined with a psycho-spiritual approach to expand self-knowledge and unravel the knots that prevent us from experiencing love. It is a proven methodology experienced with great success by hundreds of students.
An opportunity for deep inquiry and healing
The LEAP creates an opportunity for deep inquiry and healing. It is designed to support the next steps in your journey of awakening.
The intelligence of the body gives us information quicker and in a different way than the mind. Through the process of listening into the body, our path is more direct and we find ourselves exactly where we need to be for healing to occur. Utilizing body intelligence with a psycho-spiritual approach, penetrates the deepest layers of our being and dissolves the blocks that keep us from living our life at its fullest potential.
The LEAP works with spiritual reality and helps us understand our experience at the soul level. From this perspective, we can begin to comprehend that we have chosen the experiences that have occurred in our lives to serve our highest purpose. Everything that rises then becomes an opportunity for growth.
The program highlights self-responsibility, recognizing the opportunity to use our human experience to maximize how far we travel through the spiral of awakening consciousness.
“This is the most profound and beneficial…
…work that I’ve been blessed to explore. Absolutely trust the wisdom of the body to reveal and release all that blocks the full expression of our souls mission here in this incarnation. To do this in the company of other souls dancing their own journey we experience the truth of our oneness, as we journey to freedom and the manifestation of love that is our essence.
Carol Tonelli, USA
“After doing work for many years – dance, therapy, meditation and…
…various healing modalities – I had reached a point where I thought I had healed. This work opened me again to my self and to my healing. Through that opening – moving with it under the loving eyes of Amara – I arrived again and again at a dance that felt more alive, more joyful, more present and more fun than my healed self had felt in a long time! This work opened my heart even more!
Sue Usher, USA
the LEAP
Embark on a powerful journey of Embodied Awakening
In this Yearlong Program you will:
Shift old patterns that cause suffering and feel more joy, pleasure and prosperity.
Discover what your soul is here learning and begin to awaken your highest potential.
The LEAP gives you:
- A strong and safe space to experience powerful transformation
- A supportive and loving community of connection
- Four immersive 5-day retreats
- Monthly integration sessions
Joining is Flexible and Easy
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Healing Masculine and Feminine
Re-connect to healthy pleasure!
LIVE ONLINE JUNE 7-11, 2023
Your body is designed to experience pleasure… and your brain is wired to seek it!
We experience pleasure through our senses. However, when pleasure gets connected to unhealthy or unconscious behaviors, it inevitably ends up hurting ourselves and others.
The secret is to re-connect the experience of pleasure to what is nurturing, positive and uplifting to ourselves and others.
Re-connect to healthy pleasure
In order to shift from negative to positive oriented pleasure we need to understand the cause.
This is discovered through inquiring into the way that masculine and feminine aspects of energy move and express in your life. As this comes into clarity it reveals where the patterns come from in your story and allows you to heal and harmonize these energies.
This brings you to a place where you are able to experience positive pleasure and healthy relations in all areas of your life.
Take a major step towards healing!
In this retreat, you will experience how masculine and feminine energies express in your life and how they relate to your areas of struggle. The process is held by a clear map that brings understanding to your souls journey and provides tools that facilitates the healing process.
Two aspects
of one energy
Masculine and feminine energies are not gender related. We all possess and express them both, regardless of our biological or sexual orientation.
They are two aspects of one energy that blend uniquely in each of us as a reflection of our souls journey and lifetime learning.
In Healing Masculine and Feminine you will …
Receive clear reflection of how your masculine and feminine energy express in your life
Gain embodied understanding of how these energies operate and how their shadows affect your relations
Become aware of your unique balance of masculine and feminine that reflects your souls journey
Learn practical tools to increase your ability to sustain positive pleasure
Receive a simple map that will enable you to understand how to engage more directly in healing these energies
Have a direct experience of the positive pleasure of a clear masculine and feminine
Portals of Healing
Harmonize with your past
LIVE ONLINE OCTOBER 4-8, 2023
Inside the portals resides all areas of human conflict and struggle as well as our key to freedom
The Three Portals of Healing: Mother, Father, God, point us back toward our childhood and help us identify a core wound, of which all other wounds are but reflections. Identifying this core wound supports us in understanding what our soul is here to transform and ultimately transcend.
Key to freedom
Focusing our attention on each portal allow us to connect with the source of our pain, understand our biography and clear our emotional body.
This is the process of healing, where we can restore our relationship with trust, our inner guidance and the greater understanding of who and what we are.
If we are able to come to a place where
there is nothing left but love, we are free
In Portals of Healing you will …
Take a step towards healing your relationships and feel more harmony with your past
Move towards freeing yourself from the weight of your biography
Connect to a sense of gratitude for all you have experienced on your path
Gain a greater understanding of what has occurred in your life and its place in serving your soul’s journey
Feel closer to being able to look into the eyes of your mother, father and God with love
Discover your souls purpose in this life and put your gifts and talents into service
Doorways to Love
Engage in a deep process of healing
LIVE ONLINE DECEMBER 2-6, 2023
The dance opens a way for us to feel and encounter the part of us that says “no” to life. This part sabotages our happiness and limits our ability to experience love.
Doorways of Love covers six core values that – when embodied – awaken love and bring greater health, harmony and well being into your life. These values are: honesty, self-responsibility, kindness, dedication, beauty and service.
Foundation of healing
Together six core values provide the foundation needed to engage in a deep process of healing. As we work through these doorways and explore the shadow side of each value, we learn a lot about ourselves. It takes us further on a journey towards awakening love.
Movement takes us below the mind and
begins to unravel the blocks that bind us
Touching and releasing the blockages that are stored in the body frees our energy to flow in more harmony with life.
The doorways of honesty, self-responsibility, kindness, dedication, beauty and service eventually become a reference point for us to orient in life.
The application and embodiment of these values creates an opportunity for greater love, within us and in all of our relationships.
As you incorporate these values into your life, great healing, growth and personal transformation will result. Your heart will open.
In Doorways to Love you will …
Explore and integrate the six values that, when embodied, support the awakening of love
Discover a renewed sense of connection to yourself and to life
Acquire tools to support your evolutionary journey
Gain a greater understanding of how to remove the obstacles that limit your happiness and wellbeing
Experience more compassion, more of life and more love in your life
Access the wisdom of your body through dance
Integrating Lower and Higher Self
Set yourself free!
LIVE ONLINE MARCH 9-13, 2024
Integrating our lower and higher self is about understanding how our masks operate and embracing our shadow
Integrating Lower & Higher Self is designed to illustrate our masks and explore the nine matrixes of the lower self: gluttony, greed, sloth, envy, wrath, pride, lust, fear and deceit. And strengthen our connection to our higher self, which is the most awakened part of us that sees everything with love and understanding.
Path to truth
Throughout our lives we have mis-identified ourselves with the lower aspects of our nature, and often denied them altogether. As we begin to identify them, they lose their power.
When we come to understand how the conditioned mind operates through these matrixes, we can unveil the masks that were created to protect us, but inevitably have led to our suffering.
Integrating lower and higher self is about embracing our shadow and our light
Dance strips us of the false self, beliefs, imprints that cover up our true self. The body cannot lie so when we are able to listen through the body we hear truth.
Seeing with the eyes of honesty who we are and how we move lifts the veil of illusion and frees us to live from our higher self, which is our main source of wisdom and inspiration.
As you do this work, you will become aware about the many subtle ways your lower self affects your thoughts and actions in your daily life and will learn how the various masks you wear affect your behavior and relation to the outside world.
Accessing your higher self will result in a deeper connection with your own inner guidance. Your ability to access your personal power will increase.
In Integrating Lower & Higher Self you will …
Become aware of the subtle ways your lower self affects your thoughts and actions in daily life
Learn how the various masks you wear affect your behavior and relation to the outside world
Connect to a sense of gratitude for all you have experienced on your path
Access your higher self and a deeper connection with your own inner guidance, knowing and wisdom
Feel an increased ability to access your personal power
Discover your souls purpose in this life and put your gifts and talents into service
the LEAP
Embark on a powerful journey of Embodied Awakening …
In this Yearlong Program you will:
Shift old patterns that cause suffering and feel more joy, pleasure and prosperity.
Discover what your soul is here learning and begin to awaken your highest potential.
The LEAP gives you:
- A strong container to hold a powerful transformation
- One community journeying together
- Four immersive 5-day retreats
- Monthly integration sessions
Here are some common questions about the THE LEAP
What is the format?
The LEAP online retreats are offered for five consecutive days each.
The Integration sessions are online monthly meetings guided by Amara and other certified Azul teachers.
We strive to create an environment for participants to have a deep personal experience, as well as a group one. To receive the full benefits of the program, we recommend attending all sessions and blocking this time, as if you were at a physical event.
What is the daily program like?
Each Embodied Awakening retreat is articulated into two 3 hour daily sessions, with a 60 min break in between.
Day 1 through 5 (2 sessions)
PDT – West Coast USA 6:00am-1:00pm
EDT – East Coast USA 9:00am-4:00pm
CEST – Central Europe 15:00-22:00
Day 6 (1 sessios)
PDT – West Coast USA 6:00am-9:00am
EDT – East Coast USA 9:00am-12:00pm
CEST – Central Europe 15:00-18:00
Are there any pre-requisites to join?
You will be able to join the LEAP if you meet one or more of these pre-requisites:
- Have danced with Amara in person or online
- Have attended conscious dance workshops and retreats (5Rhythms, Soul Motion or other movement modalities)
- Have experienced other forms of psychological or spiritual healing work
- Are a movement teacher, therapist or healing practitioner
If you do not meet any of the above conditions, please email info@pathofazul.com to discuss your participation
How can I attend the sessions?
Attending the training is vey easy. All sessions will be broadcasted LIVE on the online platform Zoom.
Prior to the beginning of the training we will send you detailed instructions, a link and a password. If you are not familiar with Zoom we will be happy to assist you.
What If I can't attend all integration sessions?
Integration sessions are important part of the process. However we understand that something may happen making it impossible to attend. Sessions will be recorded. If you can’t make it on the day, you will have a possibility to access the video for limited time