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Manfulness Evolution

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Manfulness Evolution

The Journey of the Conscious Man An 18-month path of embodiment and awakening

The first two UOMO workshops constitute the Embodiment and Awakening Phase of the 18-month journey.

Before exploring sexuality, archetypes, relationships, spirituality or advanced energetic practices, the participant learns to inhabit himself.

The body becomes the first teacher.

BODY → SENSATION → PLEASURE → PRESENCE → ENERGY → SENSUALITY → PERCEPTION → IDENTITY

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The Series

📍 Sevilla, Spain · Shendao

Workshop I

November 2026

12 – 15

UOMO

BODY, PLEASURE & CONSCIOUSNESS

Awakening the Experience of Being a Man

Can I inhabit the body of the man I am?

I have a male body, but how consciously do I inhabit it? This first retreat establishes the foundations of the entire UOMO process. Rather than beginning with an intellectual discussion about masculinity, participants encounter it through posture, breath, movement, touch, pleasure, boundaries and presence.

From thinking about being a man → to experiencing being a man.

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📍 Sevilla, Spain · Shendao

Workshop II

January 2027

21 – 24

UOMO

ENERGY, SENSUALITY & SENSING

Awakening the Perception of Who I Am as a Man

Can I perceive the man I am through sensation, energy and relationship?

Building on the foundations of the body, the second workshop continues the journey from presence into energy, sensuality and perception, completing the Embodiment and Awakening Phase of UOMO.

ENERGY → SENSUALITY → PERCEPTION → IDENTITY

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THE 4 DIMENSIONS OF EMBODIMENT

The body is not simply something a man possesses. It is the place through which he experiences existence.

Before there is identity, there is sensation. Before a man says “This is who I am,” there is the more fundamental experience: “I am here.”

Physical Body

Muscles, fascia, bones, posture, movement and breath. What does my body actually feel like from inside?

Sensory Body

Touch, temperature, pressure, smell, sound and internal sensation. How much can I perceive without immediately interpreting?

Emotional Body

Contraction, expansion, trembling, heat, heaviness, softness. Can I feel emotion as bodily experience before creating a story about it?

Energetic Body

Prana, chakras, nadis, central axis, grounding and expansion, explored through traditional yogic and Tantric maps. Can I sense the movement of energy within me?

The objective is self-perception,

not conformity to a masculine ideal.

“Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies.” Ken Wilber

“Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and fervor.” Benjamin Disraeli

PLEASURE & THE MASCULINE BODY

Pleasure is broader than sexuality

A man can experience pleasure through:
• Breath, movement and stretching
• Warmth, water and food
• Music, nature and silence
• Touch, connection and rest

Pleasure ≠ Sex


• Pleasure becomes a capacity for experiencing life
• Strength and surrender as sources of aliveness
• How much sensation can I receive before I need to do something with it?
• A distinction that becomes fundamental to the later work with sexuality

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What makes my body a man’s body for me?

Not “What should a masculine body look like?” but:
• How do I experience strength?
• How do I experience softness?
• How do I occupy space?
• How do I experience my chest, my belly, my pelvis?

Self-perception, not a masculine ideal


• How do I experience my voice and my physical power?
• How do I experience my vulnerability?
• There is no predetermined correct answer
• The objective is self-perception rather than conformity to an ideal

The 6 Principles of UOMO

Every practice, ritual and encounter in UOMO is guided by six simple principles.
They are not rules to follow, but ways of being that allow a man to meet himself with honesty and presence.

Slow Down

Sensory consciousness requires time.

Feel Before Interpreting

Sensation → emotion → interpretation → reaction.

Receive

Many men are comfortable doing, less comfortable receiving. Receiving becomes a practice.

Choose

Every relational exercise involves choice.

Witness

A man learns to experience himself without immediately correcting himself.

Release Performance

Pleasure and presence do not require performance.

WHO CAN EXPERIENCE UOMO?

Men who want to work with other men

Holding space for other men is a journey of self-discovery.

Men who want to shift

For men who want to reframe their lives and unveil their potential.

Masseurs, therapists & workshop leaders

Tantra and other ancestral technologies bring a new practical perspective to enrich your own techniques.

Tantra teachers, coaches & sexologists

Relearn the way you share and embody your professional structure, with a new dimension.

Structure & Progression by Days

Workshop I: Body, Pleasure & Consciousness

DAY 1 – THURSDAY: NOVEMBER 12

Entering the Body

Theme: I Am Here

19:00 Arrival & accommodation
19:00 – 20:00 Dinner
20:30 – 22:00 Opening Initiation

• Crossing the threshold: silent walking meditation
• Men’s circle: “Today, being a man means…”
• Embodiment meditation
• Grounding and silence until morning

DAY 2 – FRIDAY: NOVEMBER 13

The Physical Man

Theme: From Body to Presence

9:00 Morning practice
• Spinal awakening, fascia mobilization, shaking
• Conscious breathing, Nadi Shodhana, standing meditation
10:30 – 13:00 Workshop: The Body I Inhabit
• Embodiment, interoception and masculine identity
• Body mapping: alive, quiet, protected
• Masculine postures
• Witnessing the man
15:00 Bodywork: Receiving the Body
• Introduction to conscious touch and consent
• Structured non-sexual body massage
17:00 – 19:00 Ritual: The Skin
• Meditative self-touch with oil

DAY 3 – SATURDAY: NOVEMBER 14

Pleasure

Theme: I Allow Myself to Feel

09:00 Tantra Kriya Yoga
• Opening the sensory body
10:30 – 13:00 The Anatomy of Pleasure
• Five layers of pleasure
• The sensory laboratory
• Pleasure without performance
15:30 – 17:00 The Pelvis: Root of the Embodied Man
• Pelvic awareness, hip opening, grounding
• Muladhara and Svadhisthana
17:00 – 19:00 Fire Ritual: The Man I Was Taught to Be
• Releasing inherited beliefs

DAY 4 – SUNDAY: NOVEMBER 15

Awakening the Man

Theme: I Inhabit Myself

9:00 Meditation, breath and gentle Kriya
10:00 – 12:00 Integration Experience: Body of a Man
• Alone, with another, with the group
12:00 – 13:00 Personal Integration Plan
14:00 – 16:00 Closing Ritual
• I inhabit my body. I allow myself to feel. I begin discovering the man I am.

Structured and Guided

Anand Rudra

The retreat will be guided by the shamanism and tantra expert – True Tantra school founder, a son of Mexican Shaman and a grandson of Yaqui Medical Woman.

His wisdom links the academic knowledge, practical experience and ancient practices. His rituals include the old tribal traditions of: Olmecs, Aztecs, Balinese, Dravid, Siberians, Filipinos and Mayas. He has been studying shamanism, tantra, symbolism, rituals and Sacred geometry for many years.

Anand was raised in a Shamanic and Mexican esoterical culture by his father (Mexican Spirita and Shaman) and by his grandmother (Yaqui Mexican Medical Woman). Since he was young, he was attracted to the esoterical world. He studied shamanism, tantra, tarot, psychomagic, symbolism, rituals and sacred geometry.

He is an International Relations Lawyer; holds three master degrees in North American Studies; Relations Mexico-USA; Law Economics of European Union. And a Ph.D. in Security Studies of European Union. For the last 15 years, he has been living in Europe where he has designed over 150 different workshops on Tantra Sacred Sexuality. He is known a specialist on Men´s Sacred Sexuality and part of the Faculty of the Connection University in The Netherlands. He is also a Certified Yoga Alliance Teacher, YACEP and Arhanta Yoga School System.

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VENUE

Shendao

Healing Center

When built in the 13th century, the castle and the adjacent farm belonged together. The current owner bought the castle ruin in 2005, and rebuilt it during an 8 year period. After that this ruin was turned into a 13th century medieval gem with 21st century amenities, such as floor heating, double glass and even an elevator! From the outside though it didn’t lose anything of its robust charm. After crossing our moat and passing our gate, you’ll enter our courtyard. The u-shaped castle with 5 different towers gives you immediately a sense of security. Be welcome!

The Conscious Castle and Conscious Farm are quietly located at the end of a dead end dirt road, at the edge of the village Verlaine. Brussels and its airport are 55 minutes west of us, Liége airport 15 min and Liége city 25 min, east of us. Nearest train station is in Waremme, 15 min. north of us. We’re surrounded by nature, which invites you to take a stroll. During either a short nature walk around the castle, or a bit longer along the farmers’ fields, you can mesmerize about life in medieval times.

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The Team

Anand Rudra

@tantra4men @betantric.truetantra

Being raised in a Shamanic culture by father (Mexican spirita and shaman) and by the grandmother ( Yaqui Mexican Medical Woman) Since he was young, he was atracted to the esoterical world. As a hobby he has been studing tarot, psicomagia, symbology, ritualism, tantra, sacred geometry and shamanism.

Antonio Acebes

@antonioacebes

(Valladolid, Spain), since 2021 trained in Tantra at the Anand Rudra school (be. tantric), with in-person studies and practices in Spain, Mexico and Poland. Specialized in Tantra in altered states of consciousness and Bodywork massage, developing various types of tantric therapies and massages based on ancestral kaula tantra, and recently trained as an ATKY (Ancestral Tantra Kriya Yoga) facilitator. He is also initiated in Reiki or Akashic Records, also offering other spiritual and holistic accompaniment techniques. For a few years now he has been holding sessions, workshops and retreats from «𝐒𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐓» @siente__t, and since the end of 2020 he has been “connecting souls” on social networks from the Instagram channel «𝐋𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐬»@lucesdespiertas, making the world known to different people linked to spirituality or personal growth.

André Kraft

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“Here and now is all we have.” I’m André, born in 1971. My path of working in the field of Bodywork startet 1992. The last years I focused on offering Oriental Bodywork, Tantra massages and Pilates courses. I follow Anand for more than 12 ys.

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Men Who Love Men: Sexuality as an Evolutionary Path

For men who are naturally drawn to other men—emotionally, erotically, or spiritually—tantra offers something profoundly liberating: a way to experience intimacy without fragmentation. In many modern contexts, sexuality between men is either marginalized, politicized, or reduced to identity and behavior. Tantra reframes it as an evolutionary pathway.

When men who are attracted to men engage tantra:

• Sexuality becomes a teacher, not a fixation

• Intimacy becomes a mirror for self-knowledge

• Desire becomes a doorway to the heart and spirit

• Brotherhood replaces isolation

This path allows men to heal internalized shame, dissolve the split between sexuality and spirituality, and step into a more integrated masculine identity. Erotic connection between men, when approached consciously, becomes a laboratory of awareness, where presence, consent, sensitivity, and depth are refined.

In this sense, men who walk this path are not deviating from spirituality they are pioneering it, reclaiming eros as a force of awakening rather than division.

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Shendao

Healing Center

A holistic space where training sessions, workshops, and various activities take place, all aimed at the growth, development, and transformation of the individual. Its name alludes to the PATH OR JOURNEY OF THE SPIRIT, which allows us to CONNECT with the heartbeat of our LIFE PURPOSE. What is yours?

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Terms and Conditions

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Important:‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ After making transfer of deposit (€ 400) please send the copy of transfer to Anand:

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ • WhatsApp: +34 645 19 56 04

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ • Email: tantriko@live.com

Early Bird Price € 1150 (Until April 22)

Normal Price € 1300

Deposit € 400 to secure your spot.

True Tantra Netherlands
Bank: ING
BIC: INGBNL2A
IBAN: NL11 INGB000 6803790

(in case) PAYPAL Payment & Deposit:

https://www.paypal.me/truetantraeu (+5% platform commission)

Email: tantriko@live.com

Accommodation & Meals

• Full stay in shared or private rooms (private rooms available for an additional €30)

• Meals included: Dinner on Day 1 through lunch on the final day

Payment and Cancellation Policy:

1. Payment: The booking is confirmed only once 10% of the full fee has been paid. All payments must be made no later than 30 days before the retreat, by March 10, 2025. Payment can be made via Klarna or direct payment.

2. Cancellation: For cancellations made no later than 30 days (March 10, 2025) or 14 days before the retreat, 50% of the fee will be refunded. No refunds will be issued for later cancellations.

Exceptions: In cases of illness or other unforeseen events, please contact us to discuss rescheduling options

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our Summer Venue

This is the 13th. year that we do it here and we believe that this place has different elements that make it perfect for our activities.

Swimming pool, a nearby river, plenty of nature & wonderful weather. The advantage to be nude and enjoy the freedom to be with other men.

It has a wonderful micro-climate within a very hot summer you can enjoy the breeze and the cooling of the Sierra.

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3 payments of €500

Early Bird Price € 1150 (Until April 22)

Normal Price € 1300

Deposit € 400 to secure your spot.

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Bank ING

BIC: INGBNL2A

IBAN: NL11 INGB000 6803790

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  • Take a screenshot of your payment confirmation.

  • Send the screenshot along with your name & email address. 

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Afterward, you will receive step-by-step instructions via WhatsApp and email to access our platform.
The graduation retreats will take place in two locations: one in Spain and the other in Latin America. The final retreat is not included in this price