Living from the Mystery - 1 Day Taster Switzerland (Lutry & Zurich)
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LIVING FROM THE MYSTERY
1 Day Taster
This one-day experience is an introduction to the practices and essence of the Living from the Mystery retreat — an exploration designed to explore presence, embodiment, non-duality, and deep somatic awareness through experiential practices.
“I had to get out of my own way over and over to drop deeper and deeper into layers of intimacy I didn’t even know existed (...) it was terrifying and blissful all together”
– Judy Blair, Lake Hawea, NZ
“This is the only workshop that has been able to give me a glimpse of no mind and refine my quality of presence. Complete letting go and acceptance of all that is.”
– Stephanie, Melbourne, AU
What this day offers:
On this one-day taster you will be introduced to core elements that support the emergence of a deeper, embodied awareness of life beyond thought, including:
Introductory embodied movement (Tandava):A slow, non-linear somatic movement practice that invites participants to feel into the body’s natural intelligence and non-dual awareness. This movement is offered without goal or intention to open a direct experience of presence in the moment.
Introductory somatic touch (Yoga of Touch / meditative Kashmiri Massage): A form of meditational presence and touch that invites cultivation of trust, receptive attention, and heart-centered listening as a gateway into deeper somatic states.
Who this day is for:
This introductory day is designed for people who are:
Curious about deeper somatic and presence-based practices.
Interested in non-dual embodied movement, mindfulness, and conscious touch.
Exploring ways to notice habitual patterns and increase inner spaciousness.
It does not require prior experience in tantric, somatic, or retreat practices.
The focus is on introduction and taste, not full immersion.
Purpose of the day
Rather than reproduce the full retreat experience, this taster introduces the quality and intention of Living from the Mystery: noticing the movement of life moment-to-moment, engaging the body as a gateway to awareness, and opening to experiences that are not directed by planning or analysis.
Practices:
TANDAVA
Non-linear movement practice
Often depicted in the traditional iconography of northern India, Kashmir and Tibet, Tandava is an extremely slow, mystical dance and non-linear movement practice.
Through its refrain from intentions, one can create an expansion of the body into space, an experience of absence of limits that leads to a non-dual awareness and absorption of the Self-undistinguished from the Cosmos, the Void, the Dark.
The seemingly empty space around us becomes our dance partner as we slowly allow the waves of life to move our body and merge with the universe around us as a mystical union of totality.
This hybrid practice connects body, heart and spirit as one and is designed to remember our infinite free and unconditioned nature.
“When I first received Laura’s transmission of Tandava I felt like I finally had a part of me receive what it was looking for, a deeper layer of intimacy, without even knowing it or how to attain or find it.”
– Kaya, Wanaka, New Zealand
YOGA OF TOUCH
Kashmiri massage
When one becomes Tandava, its touch carries spirit and devotion and seals it into matter. Touch becomes a spiritual practice and a form of refined art.
Yoga of Touch is a form of non-dual meditative touch that unites masculine, feminine, inner child, spirit and matter.
Through loving attention, presence and unintentional touch a space of trust is created in which deep allowing and letting go is possible.
This ritual of presence beyond time, space and duality, allows an inner meditative journey and can lift giver and receiver, that ultimately become one, into unknown levels of consciousness.
This spaciousness and intentionlessness nourishes our core and deep need for unconditional acceptance and love, in which our body carries its eternal remembrance.
This devotion turns touch into art.
Meet your guide
LAURA DEVA
Laura has been a mystic over life times. Her devotion to formlessness has made her from a very young age grieve a quality of purity in singularity, encapsulating in her heart a secret and long misunderstood longing for death as liberation from forms.
As a surreptitious devotee of Thanatos, she was faced with multiple experiences of radical disruptions followed by times of profound dissolution, which made her acquire a unique breadth of wisdom.
Developing an intimate relationship with core aloneness, Laura learned to take refuge in an inner world of emptiness as an escape from the erratic human experience.
What made her inadequate to a world that is in constant denial of a fundamental dark truth, made her simultaneously uniquely suited to see beyond forms with clarity and compassion enabling breaches for core emergence in others.
When she was first introduced to the practices of Tandava and of Yoga of touch, she recognised instantly the refined quality revealed through them as being her core, making her land and rest at ‘home’. She was extremely moved to find practices that could translate her most precious and guarded place of aloneness that would help bridge, expose, invite and guide others into wordless singularity.
Laura has been supporting groups through transformation for a decade. She is dedicated to collective change and genuinly cares about the emergence of a new civilization based on freedom from conditioning and awakening of human’s hearts.
Laura is a living dark seed that serves the emergence of the Temples that hold emptiness at the centre.
She is part of the teaching faculty at Highden Temple and at The International School of Temple Arts (ISTA).
She also offers online courses, online mentorships and local (Geneva, Switzerland) in person events and psychology practice.
“Laura’s ability to speak the dark truth and then laugh like a child in the same sentence is a gift. The freedom she has in her body is inspiring”
- Karl, Melbourne, AU
“Laura is a powerful transmitter of the quality of approaching life as it emerges. Her embodied wisdom of what she teaches is what allowed this experience to run so profoundly while she held space listening to the group and in a feminine/masculine integrated way leading us with care and professionalism.”
- Kaya Levin, Wanaka, NZ
“I’m so grateful to have learnt from a true master of the art of devotion to the mystery”
– Rebecca, Melbourne, AU
Locations & registration
Lutry, Switzerland
(en français)
April 12th
Zürich, Switzerland
(in english)
April 18th